The X-Files Page #28

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Mulder begins to creep down TOWARD CAMERA, picking his

way around the empty cryopods.

REVERSE ANGLE ON MULDER

Creeping away from us. Heading toward:

INT. LOWER CRYOPOD CORRIDOR

Where Mulder pops out at the lower tube terminus. Which

leads into this bulwarked corridor at the base of the

large stadium structure. Where:

REVERSE ON THIS CORRIDOR

Where Mulder is walking past frozen CRYOPODS hanging on

a track. Each icy pod containing a HUMAN BODY frozen

within. Partially visible behind clear blue ice. But

these are modern men, and women. Their expressions a

confused horror, as if they have been somehow frozen

alive. They are slowly tracking.

Walking along the slowly moving carousel of frozen

humanity. Stopping, turning, almost as if having

sensed:

NEW ANGLE OVER OPPOSITE CRYOPOD

PUSHING IN ON MULDER'S FACE. Recording the horror and

fear he's experiencing, on seeing:

CAMERA RISING UP A FROSTY WALL OF BLUE ICE

Where a woman's body is encased, its naked features

hidden behind the opacity of the newly frozen blue

crust. But whose face is unmistakable as that of Agent

Scully's. Frozen in a similar expression of far-away

horror, her eyes cast slightly heavenward.

MULDER:

hurries to get his jacket unzipped. Removing the FELT

ENVELOPE, removing the syringe body, the needle and the

AMPULE.

Hastily putting the syringe together, getting the needle

poked into the soft rubber cap of the ampule. Bleeding

the syringe now, the substance inside squirting out of

the end of the needle onto the floor of the ship.

And the moment it does, the whole floor SIZZLES like

water being dropped onto a hot skillet. Spreading out

from Mulder in every direction. A VIOLENT CHEMICAL

REACTION, as predicted by the man who gave him this

substance. A moment later the entire structure Mulder is

in SHUNTS. Shuddering violently and setting up a low-end

RUMBLE. Causing Mulder to accidentally drop the

syringe.

LOW CLOSE ANGLE:

on the floor, where the syringe hits and bounces, but

does not break or leak. Mulder scrambling into frame to

re-collect it. Seeing the floor where the liquid from

the syringe hit -- where it has been ETCHED AWAY by the

substance.

EXT. HULL OF SPACESHIP/ICY BUBBLE - CONTINUOUS

Where Mulder crawled into the duct. Condensed air is

streaming out of all the ducts now. The ice and snow

above beginning to melt from the force and heat of the

blasting all.

CUT BACK TO:

EXT. ICE STATION - CONTINUOUS

We can hear low end rumble and vibration. TWO DOZEN MEN

are streaming out of the dome tents. Moving to their

carious snow tractors and starting the vehicles.

A small exodus, the tractors pulling out of camp in a

rush. Heading off in various directions.

CAMERA FINDING THE CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN moving to his

tractor, with THE MAN WHO SHOT MULDER. Taking the last

drag of his cigarette before throwing it into the snow.

He stares down at it a moment, as if caught in the grip

of some emotion conflicting with duty.

The Man who shot Mulder inside the tractor now, throwing

open the door for the CSM.

MAN WHO SHOT MULDER

C'mon. It's all going to hell.

He climbs up onto the vehicle, gets in and closes the

door. And the vehicle pulls away as we:

CUT BACK TO:

INT. LOWER RIBBED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS - AGENT MULDER

Back on his feet, SMASHING now at the crust of brittle

blue-ice that encases Scully. BASHING, SMASHING and then

finally breaking through the hard outer later, its inner

slushy contents spilling out of the puncture that

exposes Scully's face and shoulder. Watery aqua-tinted

liquid drains from her mouth and nose. But Scully is not

conscious, and there is no indication she is even alive,

her face frozen in a blank, almost beatific expression.

OVER MULDER TO SCULLY

As he plunges the needle into Scully's arm at the front

of her shoulder. To which there is an immediate reaction

-- as if given a shot of adrenalin. Her eyes blinking

away the cold moisture.

MULDER:

Scully --

Scully's lips move goldfish-like as she tries to suck in

air, an almost fearful expression overcoming her like a

swimmer who's been held under too long. But no words are

coming out yet.

MULDER:

Breathe -- can you breathe?!

Scully is straining to do just that -- when liquid

suddenly SPEWS from Scully's mouth. And she begins to

cough and gag -- taking big gulps of air as her eyes

focus on Mulder as if on a phantom, or a miracle.

Finally faint words ushering forth, whispering breaths

that Mulder cannot discern.

MULDER:

What?

CLOSE ON MULDER AND SCULLY

As he leans into her, putting his ear up to her mouth.

As the softest sound comes out in Scully's frosty

breath.

SCULLY:

Cold...

MULDER:

Hang on. I'm going to get you out of

here.

As she continues to suck air.

CUT TO:

EXT. HULL OF SPACESHIP/ICE BUBBLE - CONTINUOUS

The hot air blasting from the ducts is causing the ice

pack above to melt and collapse.

CUT TO:

EXT. ICE STATION - CONTINUOUS - WIDE

As the ice tractors head away in all directions from the

domed structures. A misty fog now emanating from the

seams of the domes. Heat and condensation.

CUT BACK TO:

INT. UPPER RIBBED CORRIDORS - CONTINUOUS

Filling with misty condensation, too. The small beams of

light that lighted Mulder's way earlier are now small

shafts piercing the gathering interior cloud.

Illuminating:

THE PREHISTORIC MAN

Frozen in his icy pod, the hard semi-translucent surface

of which is now etched with small streams of water

running to the floor. Everything is melting and in

motion.

Including the CREATURE which is vaguely visible inside

the frozen man. It TURNS slightly inside the body, like

an animal in utero. Its eyes now looking at us,

blinking. As it presses against its own fleshy

container, the body of its human host.

CUT BACK TO:

INT. LOWER RIBBED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

It, too, is filling with misty condensation.

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