The X-Files Page #9

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Mulder stares at Kurtzweil for a moment.

MULDER:

Michaud was a twenty-two year veteran

of the bureau --

KURTZWEIL:

Michaud was a patriot. The men he's

loyal to know their way around Dallas.

They blew that building to hide

something. Maybe something even they

couldn't predict.

MULDER:

You're saying they destroyed an entire

building to hide the bodies of three

firemen...?

KURTZWEIL:

And one little boy.

Mulder gets in the cab, closes the door. Rolls down the

window.

MULDER:

I think you're full of sh*t.

KURTZWEIL:

Do you?

Kurtzweil raps the top of the roof and steps away from

the car. As the taxi takes off. WE STAY WITH KURTZWEIL,

watching Mulder's cab speed away. (NOTE: This should

also be covered from inside the cab with Mulder, to play

the scene out on him.)

CUT TO:

INT. AGENT SCULLY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Scully is in bed, lying awake. Staring at the ceiling.

When she reacts to a POUNDING AT HER DOOR.

CUT TO:

INT. SCULLY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

CLOSE ON THE FRONT DOOR. Scully peeks in the peephole.

Then she removes the safety chain, opening the door.

MULDER:

(strangely intense)

I wake you?

SCULLY:

No.

MULDER:

Why not? It's three AM.

Scully gets a whiff of his breath. As he moves past her

into the apartment. Radiating a kind of manic

intensity.

SCULLY:

Are you drunk, Mulder?

MULDER:

I was until about an hour ago.

SCULLY:

Is that before or after you got the

idea to come here?

Mulder looks at her curiously.

MULDER:

What are you implying, Scully?

SCULLY:

(frowning)

I thought you may have gotten drunk

and decided to come here to talk me

out of quitting.

MULDER:

Is that what you'd like me to do?

Scully hesitates. Long enough to indicate her own

wavering heart.

SCULLY:

Go home, Mulder. It's late.

MULDER:

Get dressed, Scully.

SCULLY:

Mulder -- what are you doing?

MULDER:

Just get dressed. I'll explain on the

way.

CUT TO:

EXT. TEXAS FLATLAND - NIGHT

The moon is rising over the horizon, across the

curvilinear distance of endless scrub and sagebrush.

When FLYING OBJECTS cross between it and us, their forms

unidentifiable in the rising heat waves off the earth.

But they are moving towards us, SILHOUETTES in the

background of the moon.

They move silently, their size INCREASING as they move

closer. And then we hear them, moments before they

arrive at our position, UNMARKED HELICOPTERS just

overhead. Hugging the ground as they blast across the

dark Texas night.

INT. UNMARKED BLACK HELICOPTERS - NIGHT

Flying at dangerously low altitude over the almost

featureless night landscape. Heading for something that

we see ahead in the distance. What looks like a LARGE

GLOWING DOME surrounded by the lights of a residential

area we've already seen, on the edge of suburban Dallas

sprawl.

CUT TO:

EXT. SMALL DIRT FIELD - CENTRAL TEXAS - NIGHT

The field where the kids had been digging has been

transformed into some kind of worksite.

A LARGE WHITE DOMED TENT has been erected over almost

the entire patch of ground, surrounded by the CARGO

TRUCKS that we saw earlier, and more unmarked vans and

trucks. There are men in black fatigues moving about,

and scientists in haz-mat suits.

As the UNMARKED BLACK HELICOPTERS bank overhead. Coming

in for a landing in the glow cast from the tents. CAMERA

MOVING TOWARD one of the helicopters as it lightly

touches down and its black door swings open. A man

stepping out, and as CAMERA PUSHES UP INTO HIS FACE we

recognize him as The Cigarette Smoking Man.

The figure that we've come to know as an assassin and a

model of modern self-interest and amorality. One of the

central protagonists in the conspiracy to keep the truth

from the American people about the existence of

extraterrestrial life.

Something known only as: "The Project."

He walks out from under the whirring prop, just far

enough to get a flame from his lighter, to get a

cigarette lit. As we:

CUT TO:

INT. LARGE WHITE TENT - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS

A SCIENTIST in a haz-mat suit is moving through the maze

of clear plastic tubing that divides work areas within

the tent. Areas where scientists are working at tables

doing what appears to be some kind of high-tech

archeological work. It is a hive of activity within, as

the Scientist leads us past the REFRIGERATION UNITS to

the earthen hole where Dr. Bronschweig (we've met him

earlier, coming out of a med-evac chopper that landed

when the tent city was erected) appears out of the

earthen hole, which is reason for all this excitement.

Climbing out A CLEAR HATCH which has been fashioned to

cover the hole. Seeing:

THE CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN

Now suited up himself. Bronschweig approaches him.

CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN

You've got something to show me.

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

(nervous excitement)

Yes.

CUT TO:

INT. ICE CAVE - CONTINUOUS

What we originally established as icy, and what later

became the unfrozen Texas field where the boys

discovered the human skull, has been turned to its

previously icy state. Thanks to two large vents that Dr.

Bronschweig is pointing at:

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

We brought the atmosphere back down to

freezing in order to control the

development, which is nothing like

we've ever seen.

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