The X-Files Page #20

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REVERSE ON CHOPPERS

Traversing the field, then doing sharp banking turns and

swooping back over the field now in low drifting hovers.

The wash from the blades knocking the corn stalks down

so as to reveal anything hidden within.

The bright spots making sure that nothing might escape

detection.

LOW ANGLE - CAMERA SEARCHING AND FINDING SCULLY

as she runs up INTO FRAME. She's lost sight of:

SCULLY:

Mulder?!

ANGLE ELSEWHERE ON MULDER

As he too runs to a stop. Hearing his name.

MULDER:

Scully?!

RESUME SCULLY:

Reacting to the sound of her name, but there's no time

to find her bearings on Mulder. Not before she has to

take flight again. As one of the choppers appears

overhead, hovering into view. Knocking the corn down in

a path moving straight toward her.

CAMERA LEADING HER as she runs from the oncoming craft.

PASSING CAMERA to the left, as the chopper passes CAMERA

RIGHT.

CUT TO:

TRACKING FAST WITH MULDER

Beating his way through the corn like Bomba through the

jungle.

Matching this action, as Mulder runs toward us. When one

of the unmarked helicopters BREAKS INTO FRAME in an

intersecting path, its BEAM passing right over Mulder

and ILLUMINATING HIM. But while it doesn't slow Mulder

down, the helicopter maneuvers into a hard banking turn,

sweeping over the far end of the corn field and heading

RIGHT BACK AT MULDER - AT US.

CUT TO:

NEW LOW ANGLE ON EDGE OF CORN FIELD

Where Mulder bursts out of the perimeter, turning on a

quick dime and running an out pattern, just before the

chopper BURSTS into frame overhead, its search beam

narrowly missing Mulder.

NEW ANGLE ON MULDER

Running the corner of the field, looking frantically

down each corn row until he comes to a stop. No sign

of:

MULDER:

Scully?!

Mulder reacting to the sound of her response:

SCULLY:

(distant o.s.)

Mulder!

NEW ANGLE ON SCULLY

She's exiting the field behind him. Running toward him,

and when she gets to him they both break into a run

across the desert. CAMERA FOLLOWING THEM as they sprint

away.

FOLLOWING THEM until they both start to slow. Slowing to

a stop in the darkness. Turning to see:

THEIR POV:

The helicopters have disappeared.

RESUME MULDER AND SCULLY

Reacting to this.

SCULLY:

Where'd they go?

MULDER:

I don't know.

Then they both turn again and continue running. As fast

as their feet will take them. Back towards the bluff

where their car is parked.

EXT. BLUFF OVERLOOKING CORN FIELDS - NIGHT

Where Mulder and Scully's car is parked. Stillness,

until Mulder and Scully's heads appear as they climb up

from the direction of the corn fields. They get in their

car and start it quickly. Mulder turns the ignition, but

the car doesn't start immediately. He turns it over and

over but it won't kick.

As he does this, unbeknownst to the agents ONE OF THE

BLACK HELICOPTERS rises up from below the bluff,

appearing in their rear windshield. Hovering just behind

the car like a giant bumblebee. Just as...

...Mulder gets the car started, throwing the

transmission in gear and spinning the tires. As they

head off back in the direction they came, without their

lights on. As they do this, the black chopper continues

to hover for a moment, then BANKS OFF AND AWAY. Into the

night.

Mulder and Scully speed off in the opposite direction.

As we:

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. FBI OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL REVIEW - DAY

CLOSE ON A FILE:

Being leafed through by a woman's hands. CAMERA TILTING

UP to Special Agent Cassidy, the woman we met earlier

running the OPR hearing. She takes a quick glance at her

watch, looking up when:

THE DOOR TO THE ROOM

opens. A beat, then Skinner enters with a wearied look.

SKINNER:

She's coming in.

Skinner ducks his head back out to look at:

INTERCUT WITH:

INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE OPR HEARING ROOM - DAY

Where Scully stands looking into the glass of a display

case, trying to put her hair and clothes and person

together. She's still in the same clothes we saw her in.

Seeing Skinner now moving toward him.

RESUME OPR HEARING ROOM

Scully enters past Skinner. Though she has straightened

them, and her hair, there is no mistaking that she's

been to the dust bowl and back to get here. Her manner

is chastened.

Scully tries to keep her eyes on the table where she'll

be sitting. Venturing only a brief, polite look to:

ANGLE TO INCLUDE CASSIDY AND THE OTHER PANEL MEMBERS

They reshuffle their papers, pulling up their chairs.

Ready to get down to business now.

CASSIDY:

Special Agent Scully --

SCULLY:

I apologize for making you wait --

I've brought some new evidence with me

--

CASSIDY:

Evidence of what?

CLOSE PROFILE ON SCULLY

Reaching into her satchel, pulling out an evidence bag.

Whatever she's reaching for she's reluctant to present

with confidence.

SCULLY:

These are fossilized bone fragments

I've been able to study, gathered from

the bomb site in Dallas...

As Scully speaks we see A BEE crawl out from under the

collar of her suit jacket, crawling toward the back of

her neck. Crawling slowly, as if stretching its legs

from its long journey. CAMERA DOLLYING around Scully as

the bee does, moving into an OVER to:

CASSIDY:

You've been back to Dallas?

SCULLY:

Yes.

CASSIDY:

Are you going to let us in on what

exactly you're trying to prove --

SCULLY:

That the bombing in Dallas may have

been to destroy the bodies of those

firemen, so their deaths and the

reason for them wouldn't have to be

explained --

CASSIDY:

(challenging)

-- those are very serious allegations,

Agent Scully --

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