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For corrections / inaccuracies contact: steph@philedom2k.com Transcriptor: intrepid (intrepidly001@yahoo.com) Downloaded from The X Net - http://www.txf.net/ ========================== < TEASER > SCENE 1: GALPEX-ORPHEUS PLATFORM GULF OF MEXICO 158 MILES OFF THE COAST OF TEXAS (Inside the mess hall, the crewmen are shouting boisterously while watching hockey game on television. The sportscast continues in the background. The camera pans around the room capturing the various rig workers as it passes them by. Two rig workers muttering softly one of them is TAYLOR.) MAN 1: Let's go! MAN 2: Let's go. MAN 3: All right.... (GARZA in standing in line for food, he turns and looks at DE LA CRUZ who is sitting alone at his table quietly eating, turns and continues to walk up for his food. The crewmen groans when television blanks out. TAYLOR walks up to television and gives it a good hit. Television program continues. The men cheer. TAYLOR chuckles.) TAYLOR: You boys eat your vegetables or I'll do the same to you. (All laughing) (GARZA walks up to the meat table) MAN CUTTING MEAT: Hot meat, seņor... ANNOUNCER: He knocked the goal-tender down. Can you believe that...? (CHEF hears the announcer, puts the knife securely in the meat and walks away. GARZA eyes the knife, turns to look at DE LA CRUZ who nods. Sportscast continues in background ) (DE LA CRUZ walking down the stairs outside the mess hall across the catwalk and towards the Communications Room.) (Inside the Communications Room there is radio static as the Communications Officer ED DELL works on the radio. DE LA CRUZ walks in to the Comm Room. ED DELL notices DE LA CRUZ.) (garbled radio transmission ) ED DELL: Hey, amigo. ( American accent ): Que paso esta noche? How's the roast beef? Uh, como esta el carne? Bueno? ... (DELA CRUZ is holding the meat carving knife) ED DELL: ...o malo? (DELA CRUZ stabs ED DELL in the abdomen.) (Back in the mess hall, the Crewmen cheer to the hockey game. The television fizzes out and the crewmen groan.) MEN: come on! What is this?! (TAYLOR once again walks up to the television set and hits it like he did before. Only this time, the television remains fuzzy.) TAYLOR: Where's our illustrious communications officer? (TAYLOR walks out of the mess hall and makes his way to the Comm Room) TAYLOR: Hey, Ed! What gives with the... (TAYLOR sees DELA CRUZ smashing the radio) TAYLOR: what the hell are you doing?! That's enough! (DE LA CRUZ sees TAYLOR, stops destroying the radio and tries to get away. TAYLOR looks down and sees ED DELL dead on the floor with the bloodied meat carving knife next to him) TAYLOR: Ed... (TAYLOR reaches down and turns ED DELL over. We see the black oil worms traveling across his face under his skin to ED's eyes.) TAYLOR: Oh, man... (TAYLOR looks at DELA CRUZ who watches ED DELL in horror.) TAYLOR: Now you've gone and done it. (DELA CRUZ tries to run. TAYLOR grabs DELA CRUZ in a choke hold and throws him down on the floor next to ED DELL. DELA CRUZ turns to look at TAYLOR. TAYLOR's eyes begin to glow. DELA CRUZ is scared. TAYLOR's entire body begins to glow.) DELA CRUZ: !dejame! !dejame! no, no, no...! No, no, no, no! (Screaming) < /TEASER > << TITLE CREDITS >> [Captioning sponsored by fox broadcasting company twentieth century fox television and "toyota. More choices. Better selection. Experience toyota today."] Tag Line: The Truth is Out There (COMMERCIAL SET 1) SCENE 2: FBI HEADQUARTERS 8:57 AM (Camera is on DOGGETT'S feet as he walks throw the corridor to the x-files office. He's reading the SPORT's paper ... something about a "Referee's Call". He reaches for the office door only to find it locked. He unlocks it to find MULDER going through the files.) DOGGETT: Am I interrupting anything, Agent Mulder? MULDER: Nothing you'd be too terribly interested in, Agent Doggett. (DOGGETT closes door behind him and drops his keys on table ) DOGGETT: Agent Mulder, what are you doing down here? MULDER: I'm looking into the recent death of an oil worker. DOGGETT: Yeah, I got a heads-up on it from you a couple of days ago. MULDER: That's what I'm doing here. DOGGETT: Agent Mulder, I understand that you had more than just a proprietary interest in these cases, but I can't help it if you're not assigned to this unit anymore. I didn't see any reason to pursue this oil worker case. MULDER: Oh, well, maybe you missed the fact that this victim's corpse washed ashore at Port Aransas, Texas. Massive flashburns on 90 percent of his body. DOGGETT: I read the report, Agent Mulder, if you're insinuating I didn't. MULDER: Then you must also know that this man was not the only man to disappear from the Galpex-Orpheus platform that night but one of two men. The communications officer is also missing. DOGGETT: The company attributes that to an explosion on the rig--a "blowout"--which is what they say caused Simon De La Cruz's burns. MULDER: ... burns the M.E. Said in his report were not inconsistent to exposure to high levels of radiation. DOGGETT: "Not inconsistent." That's not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement. MULDER: These files include the same kind of radiation phenomena. Tissue destroyed by exposure to... DOGGETT: ... black oil. (MULDER nods his head clearly surprised. He remains silent and waits for DOGGETT to continue.) DOGGETT: Five years ago you and Agent Scully investigated a case of a world war II plane salvaged from the bottom of the pacific ocean where a substance was brought to the surface which you describe as a highly contagious virus of extraterrestrial origin that has radioactive properties and can take over a man's body and is part of an alien conspiracy to colonize the planet, if I'm not mistaken. MULDER: And you'd love to help, but you left your light saber at home. How'd you get stuck down here, Agent Doggett? Kersh catch you peeing in his corn flakes? (Phone rings. Both men reach for the phone. Eyes locked on each other clearly each trying to establish their position in the office. MULDER picks up the phone and hands it to DOGGETT.) DOGGETT: John Doggett. SCULLY: The deputy director is waiting, Agent Doggett. DOGGETT: Yeah, I was just on my way up. SCULLY (in KERSH's office): Why didn't you tell me that you were pursuing this texas oil worker case? DOGGETT: Because I'm not. SCULLY: Well, there's an exec here from the oil company who says that he was contacted by a man in our office. DOGGETT (looking at Mulder): No, that'd be Agent Mulder. SCULLY: What are you talking about? DOGGETT: I'm going to let him answer that. SCENE 3: [KERSH'S OFFICE] (MULDER walks in followed by DOGGETT) MULDER: Just like old times. KERSH: Now it's all making sense. MULDER: Tough crowd. KERSH: Mr. Ortega, this is special agent Fox Mulder ... the person you spoke to on the phone, I believe. Mr. Ortega is vice president of operations for Galpex Petroleum out of Galveston, Texas. MULDER: I believe we did speak, yeah. KERSH: There's also confusion about who spoke to certain government officials who seem to think the FBI is running an investigation into the accident. MULDER: That would've been me as well... sir... and that was in the best interests of the FBI and Mr. Ortega, I believe. KERSH: Mr. Ortega would beg to differ. As would I. ORTEGA: You've complicated an already sensitive situation, Agent Mulder. Galpex Petroleum has discovered what we think may be a massive new oil province beneath the Gulf of Mexico--one that would give a huge advantage financially and politically to whoever gets to drill it. SCULLY: Who else are we talking about? ORTEGA: U.S. Territorial waters cover the northern half of the gulf. Our wells are on our side but the field may spread well to the south. The government of Mexico could claim it's theirs. MULDER: This incident has nothing to do with that whatsoever. It's about the unexplained death of Simon De La Cruz. ORTEGA: Simon De La Cruz was a Mexican national killed in a U.S. Business enterprise. They'd like nothing better than to use his death to get us to abandon the Orpheus rig so they can be the first to drill the province. KERSH: Leaving me no choice now but to conduct a criminal investigation quickly and quietly to take away any legal position that would affect American interests. MULDER: A criminal investigation is not going to clear up anything. KERSH: You've done more than enough, Agent Mulder, thank you. MULDER: I don't think you know exactly what you're dealing with here, sir. KERSH: No, I think I do, agent. MULDER: This is an x-file. KERSH: And I'm sending someone from the x-files to investigate. MULDER: You're talking about an oil rig that's 150 miles out at sea. You can't send a pregnant woman. KERSH: I'm not sending Agent Scully. (MULDER turns to look at DOGGETT.) SCENE 4: GULF OF MEXICO 26 HOURS LATER (Helicopter traveling over the Gulf of Mexico to the Galpex-Orpheus Oil Rig. The helicopter lands and DOGGETT comes out with YURI VOLKOFF to meet with SAKSA.) YURI: Yuri Volkoff, your new communications specialist. SAKSA: You bring your new gear? YURI: Yes, it's in there. DOGGETT: John Doggett, Special Agent. SAKSA: Who? DOGGETT: From the bureau. SAKSA: FBI, you say? DOGGETT: Yeah. Someone told you I was coming, I hope. SAKSA: No, just the new comm equipment. DOGGETT: You got radio problems? No one told you about me coming? SAKSA: Still got ship to shore. But when they gave us the message it said just one agent was coming. DOGGETT: Right I'm the one agent. SAKSA: Well, then, who's the guy that got here this morning? The one in talking with our crew chief right now? SCENE 5: [INTERVIEW ROOM] (DOGGETT enters the room and finds MULDER with TAYLOR sitting around a table.) DOGGETT: Agent Mulder, can I have a word with you? MULDER: Will you give me a minute? I'm just getting filled in on the details of this investigation. Why don't you pull up a seat and introduce yourself and Mr. Taylor won't have to repeat himself. TAYLOR: Bo Taylor. I was on deck watch the night this thing went down. DOGGETT: Go on, Mr. Taylor. TAYLOR: Men can go off the deep end out here. It's like a cabin fever of sorts. They're hundreds of miles away from their family and their friends six weeks at a stretch. Some of them might just as well be doing hard time. DOGGETT: So how's that figure with the victim, Simon De la Cruz? TAYLOR: Well, mestizos are usually the most reliable men I know on the drill floor. But Simon just lost his nut, I guess. It's the only good explanation. DOGGETT: Simon De La Cruz's body was found with flash burns. What's that got to do with him going off the deep end? TAYLOR: Well, hell, he tried to blow the whole damn rig. I mean, it was sabotage pure and simple. He knocked the cock off a gas valve and he must've sparked it because it went faster than a friday paycheck. DOGGETT: What about the second victim? MULDER: Communications chief, wasn't he? TAYLOR: Probably never knew what hit him. DOGGETT: What's the communications chief doing on the drilling floor? TAYLOR: A man can die out here, sir, just going for a walk. Probably what happened when it blew. Nobody even knew he was gone till the shift change. MULDER: Well, I guess that's it -- in a nutshell. Thank you, Mr. Taylor. (Mulder walks out) DOGGETT: Agent Mulder. (Doggett walks out. TAYLOR is left sitting at the table staring at the two of them leaving. His eyes fill with Black Oil.) SCENE 6: [OUTSIDE RIG] DOGGETT: Agent Mulder! Don't walk away when I'm talking to you! Like it or not, I've been assigned this case. One call to the deputy director and you're canned for insubordination. MULDER: How're you going to call when the radio's broken? DOGGETT: Hey, don't push me, Agent Mulder. MULDER: You won't do it. DOGGETT: You think? MULDER: We're both in the same boat, Agent Doggett we're just paddling in different directions. DOGGETT: No, we're not going in different directions here we're going in one direction: My direction. MULDER: I don't think Kersh expects you to come back empty-handed on this one. And since you've already told me what you think about this case in so many words I don't see you coming back with anything that's going to protect anybody's business interests let alone your own ass. DOGGETT: Wow, you really got me pegged. Anything that doesn't fit in my narrow field of vision might as well not exist, is that right, Agent Mulder? So why is this man Taylor lying? You do know he's lying? MULDER: I think he knows the truth about what happened. And he may not be the only one. DOGGETT: I never would've believed it, these stories about you. MULDER: Really? What stories are those? DOGGETT: That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic. MULDER: What church? (Mulder walks away. Underneath the grid the men are standing on, GARZA watches them.) SCENE 7: [AUTOPSY BAY] (Door opens ) SKINNER: Scully? SCULLY: Close the door and lock it. SKINNER: What's going on? You said you wanted to see me right away. SCULLY: I didn't know who else to talk to and I haven't been able to reach Agent Mulder. SKINNER: About what? SCULLY: About what I found in my autopsy of the oil rig accident victim Simon De La Cruz. SKINNER: Agent Scully, this man's body was supposed to be transported back to Mexico completely intact. SCULLY: I found it by accident in the third ventricle of his brain. (Scully inserts an apparatus into the corpse's cranium and Black Oil spills out onto the bay table. Skinner steps up toward Scully in alarm.) SKINNER: Agent Scully ... SCULLY: No, it's okay, it's all right. SKINNER: What do you mean? I was under the impression this stuff could literally jump into a man's body. SCULLY: No, it can and I've seen that happen, but that's the thing. I mean, this man was clearly infected by the alien virus. It entered his system and it was massing in the pineal gland. But it's dead. SKINNER: What killed it? SCULLY: Well, intuitively, you would say the same thing that killed him: Exposure to high levels of radiation. But it makes no sense because the virus itself has radioactive properties. SKINNER: Somebody needs to tell Agent Doggett that. He needs to have some kind of an idea of what he's dealing with. SCULLY: No, you need to tell Deputy Director Kersh that he has to order a controlled evacuation of that rig, right now. SKINNER: Don't ask me to go to Kersh with this evidence telling him to order an evacuation for something you can't even explain. SCULLY: If the virus is loose Agent Doggett's life is in danger. SKINNER: We don't know that for sure. There are nearly two dozen men on that rig and not one other case. Why? (SCULLY's at a loss to explain it) SCENE 8: [OIL RIG COMM ROOM] (High-pitched static. YURI's working on the radio. TAYLOR walks in.) TAYLOR: Hey, Yuri. Heard you had some problems with the radio. YURI: New gear's all on-line, working fine. Only there's some sort of high-frequency interference that I have no idea how to get rid of. Hear that? That's a signal that's coming in and filtering in across a large range of channels. You know, I don't think I have any choice but to power down and restart. (TAYLOR grabs YURI's shoulder as YURI reaches for the power switch. YURI stops and looks down at TAYLOR's hand.) TAYLOR: No. You can't do that. YURI: I hate to argue with you. (TAYLOR grabs YURI and throws him to the nearest wall and pushes him to the floor. The Black Oil fills and overflows from TAYLOR to YURI ... infecting him.) << COMMERCIAL SET #2 >> SCENE 09: [OIL RIG COMM ROOM] RADIO: This is the marine operator for Galpex-Orpheus. Come in, Orpheus. Galpex-Orpheus, I have a priority transmission. Repeat, this is a priority transmission. YURI: This is Orpheus, go ahead. SCULLY (at the Autopsy Bay): Orpheus? I've been trying to reach you for hours. This is Special Agent Dana Scully. I have an urgent message for an investigative agent on board an Agent John Doggett. YURI: I'm ready to take that message. SCULLY: No, I'm sorry. I need to speak with Agent Doggett directly. MULDER (to YURI): I got it. (YURI leaves.) MULDER (to SCULLY): I'm sorry, Agent Doggett's gone fishing. Can I take a message, please? SCULLY: Mulder? MULDER: I was just in the neighborhood. SCULLY: Mulder, you can't just flout orders like this. It's not like old times. Kersh isn't going to tolerate this. MULDER: Kersh doesn't need to know. SCULLY: Mulder ... MULDER: You need me out here, scully. You know that better than anyone. SCULLY: Well, I hate to say as of this morning, I'd have to agree. MULDER: Who's flouting orders? You found something, didn't you, in that victim's body? The virus? SCULLY: Yes, I did, and it's dead, Mulder. MULDER: Dead? What killed it? SCULLY: Possibly radiation. MULDER: No, that's not possible... SCULLY: I know, I know, and this could be an isolated event but that he's infected at all means that everybody out there could be at risk and that means you and Agent Doggett MULDER: We've got to quarantine this rig. SCULLY: No, Mulder, we've got to get you off the rig. Have Agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when you get back here. MULDER: Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want them is on shore where they can infect other people. You're sitting on the answer right there, Scully. The body-- you find the virus you can find what knocks it out. You can find what kills it. SCULLY: And what if I can't MULDER: Well... when he gets old enough, you tell the kid I went down swinging. SCULLY: Let me talk to Agent Doggett. MULDER: Agent Doggett's not here right now. DOGGETT (from the Comm Room doorway): Yes, I am. Who's on the radio? (MULDER abruptly takes off the head gear and walks past DOGGETT out of the COMM ROOM gesturing to the radio behind him.) DOGGETT: Who're you talking to? Hey! MULDER: That was Agent Scully. DOGGETT: What did she say? MULDER: She said it was lucky that I'm out here. DOGGETT: No, you're lucky I'm letting you stay. If you've got information important to this investigation I damn well better know about it. I'm in charge out here, Agent Mulder. MULDER: All right, then go ahead and take charge. Only you might not like what it means in this case. What you're going to have to do with that information that you're so anxious to have. SCENE 10: [OIL RIG MESS HALL] SAKSA: All right, listen up! I'll make this brief. We've been given an order to quarantine the rig. (Startled murmuring) SAKSA: As of 1400 hours we're officially shut down and locked down. We're going to be stuck here a while. All flights in and out have been suspended. (Men shouting and muttering.) SAKSA: I know, I know. We've been asked to cooperate until the FBI is certain everything is shipshape. Now, for everybody's protection we need to all of us cooperate fully. TAYLOR: Oh, man! Protection from what? DOGGETT: From a possible contagion. TAYLOR: Anybody here feel sick? MAN NEXT TO TAYLOR: No! SAKSA: All right, all right, knock it off! I need everybody to check their water consumption. And we'll be cutting back to half-rations. (Men murmuring and groaning.) MULDER: I've been going over the crew manifest, Mr. Saksa, and there seems to be a problem. SAKSA: A problem with what? MULDER: According to the manifest there's supposed to be 18 men on board. I count only 17, including you. SACKS: This is my whole crew in here. (Mulder looks down at the manifest in his hands. The following names are on the list: " ... THOMAS / DE LA CURZ, SIMON / DELL, ED / GARZA, DIEGO / GORDON, MAC / HARBOUR, ROBERT / HOXWORTH, JACK ...") MULDER: um, Diego Garza ... Where's he? DOGGETT: Who? SAKSA: A deckhand. Friend of Simon De La Cruz, the man who tried to sabotage the rig. (SAKSA walks into the crowd to look for GARZA and can't find him.) SAKSA: Well, I'll be damned... DOGGETT: What, he's not here? (SAKSA shakes his head.) MULDER: Any idea where he might be? SAKSA: Well, he didn't leave the rig. Not by any means I know of. MULDER (to DOGGETT): what do you say we go find him? SCENE 11: [AUTOPSY BAY] SCULLY: This man was exposed to a virus. ORTEGA: And... why do I need to see this? SCULLY: To understand what your crew may be infected with--what they risk spreading on or off that rig. ORTEGA: You understand Galpex is eager to cooperate but shutting down a producing rig costs in the neighborhood of $150,000 a day. And according to my OIM, no one on that rig is sick. They're just hungry and tired. SKINNER: You don't know that for sure. ORTEGA: ... what symptoms would they be showing? What would we see? SCULLY: Unexplained behavior. Possible detection in the eyes. ORTEGA: We've seen none of that. SKINNER: You're relying on suspect data. ORTEGA: I'm relying on medical reports. And unless you give me more than this I'm calling that Orpheus crew back in. Bringing them home and rotating a fresh crew onto that rig. SCULLY (whispers): Oh, my god. (Door opens and closes as ORTEGA leaves the AUTOPSY BAY) SCENE 12: [OIL RIG OUTSIDE] DOGGETT: So what are you hoping to find, Agent Mulder, honestly? MULDER: I'm hoping to find Diego Garza. DOGGETT: Slim chance of that, if you ask me. The crew boss said it--a man could disappear off this platform and no one would even notice. MULDER: Did you see that the crew manifest listed Diego Garza as Mestizo--of mixed Mexican descent just like his friend who died? DOGGETT: Yeah, so what? MULDER: Well, the crew chief said these Mestizo were particularly good workers. Now we've got one dead trying to sabotage the rig and another one who's missing. One of their best workers-you'd think somebody would notice them missing. DOGGETT: Yeah, so, maybe he's still here. Maybe he's just waiting to finish the job that killed his friend ... to protect Mexican Oil interests. MULDER: These men are hiding something but that's not it. DOGGETT: You know, I quarantine a whole damn oil rig without any evidence to support what you're saying--not one damn thing. But you still have yet to give me a straight answer as to what you think is going on out here. Now, if these men are hiding something ... if they're protecting something then what the hell is it? MULDER: I don't know yet. DOGGETT: Well, when you do let me know 'cause I've got to get on the radio and justify this action. (DOGGETT turns and walks away from MULDER. MULDER walks after DOGGETT.) MULDER: Agent Doggett ... I didn't come out here just to bust your ass. I'm telling you, I've seen this substance. I've seen how it can take over a man's body. This crew could be infected and not even know it. They may have no idea they're being controlled. (DOGGETT reaches to the nearest pipe and rubs some oil onto his fingers.) DOGGETT: This? This is what you're saying is going to take over my body? Well, when's it going to kick in? MULDER: That's not how it works. It body jumps from man to man. And I'm not sure that it's in all oil. DOGGETT: Well, that's a relief because only 90% of the planet is dependent on the stuff. (MULDER realizes something as he takes in DOGGETT's words.) MULDER: The man from Galpex Oil lied. DOGGETT: What? He's infected, too? MULDER: No, that new oil province that he wants to protect--it's already in production. It's being pumped and drilled by this rig. That's how this crew got infected. DOGGETT: You're reaching, Agent Mulder. MULDER: Billions and billions of barrels lying right underneath us waiting to be produced. Waiting to infect that 90% of the planet you talked about DOGGETT: These men are hiding something? That'd sure be something to hide. MULDER: But, Agent Doggett, what if that's why this man is in hiding ... Diego Garza. Because he knows what they're up to and he knows what they're up to because he's the only one who's not infected with this alien virus. DOGGETT: All right, he knows. Then why doesn't he just come down and tell us? (The Rig's Emergency alarm buzzs throughout the rig. MULDER and DOGGETT run toward the commotion.) MAN: It's the radio room! (MULDER grabs the nearest fire extinguisher.) DOGGETT: I'll find another one. (DOGGETT finds another fire extinguisher and gets knocked out by DIEGO GARZA.) << COMMERCIAL SET #3 >> SCENE 13: [AUTOPSY BAY] (Scully walks into the Autopsy Bay to continue her work.) KERSH: Agent Scully. SCULLY: Sir. KERSH: You're in a hurry. To do what? SCULLY: To continue with my work, sir. KERSH: I'm not privy to this ... "work." I thought this body would've been well on its way back to Mexico. (Door opens and SKINNER walks in) KERSH: I obviously haven't been able to rely on those whose job it is to keep me apprised and informed I have to rely on phone calls. Like the call I received from Martin Ortega. Why doesn't somebody make me privy to who the hell gave the order to shut down that rig? SKINNER: I did. KERSH: Well, I'm giving the order this quarantine is lifted. SCULLY: We could do that, sir, but all radio contact's been cut off. KERSH: As soon as it's reestablished, I want that rig up and running and the entire crew choppered off the Galpex-Orpheus and debriefed. SCULLY: Sir, I think that would be a mistake ... KERSH: I think it'd be a mistake not to, Agent Scully. And you're running out of mistakes -- both you and the Assistant Director. (KERSH turns to leave. At the door, he turns.) If I didn't know better, I'd say this was a Mulder stunt. (KERSH exits the room.) SCENE 14: [OIL RIG COMM ROOM] (SAKSA and MULDER are looking at the fire damage to the Communications Equipment.) SAKSA: This stuff was all brand new. MULDER: What is it about this room that inspires men to violence? SAKSA: You think this fire was set? (MULDER picks up something off of the floor and smells it.) MULDER: Molotov cocktail, anyone? (SAKSA sniffs the item.) MULDER: Can I borrow your radio, Mr. Saksa? Agent Doggett, you there? Agent Doggett? Pick up, Agent Doggett. You copy? (DOGGETT on the floor groaning softly. His radio on the floor near him.) MULDER: Agent Doggett? Come in, Agent Doggett. (DOGGETT reaches for the radio.) Where the hell are you? (GARZA kicks it away. Out from DOGGETT's reach.) GARZA (in Spanish): *Red Blood.* DOGGETT: Yeah, my blood is red! GARZA (in Spanish): *They killed Simon. If they find me, they'll kill me, too.* DOGGETT: Tranquillo. I don't speak very good spanish. Diego? Tu eres Diego Garza? DIEGO (in Spanish): *They wanted the radio. That's why I started the fire.* DOGGETT: You're going too fast. Are you saying you set the fire? What are you afraid of? DIEGO (in Spanish): *We have to stop them before it's too late. They're coming.* Ya vienen. DOGGETT: Vienen. Vienen. They're coming? Who? Who's coming? DIEGO (in Spanish): *The ships. The flying ships. Los Platillos.* SCENE 15: [AUTOPSY ROOM] SCULLY: I think I've got something. SKINNER: What? SCULLY: This is an SEM image pulled at random from anonymous donors. Blood ... more specifically, normal t-cell antibodies. By comparison ... these are from the blood of the oil rig worker. T-cells in impossible numbers. In layman's terms this victim was a virus-fighting machine. SKINNER: How do you explain that? SCULLY: Well, there are isolated cultures--northern Italy for one--where people are immune to certain diseases--heart disease in that case--through a genetic mutation. SKINNER: So this man had what? A kind of genetic immunity to alien virus? SCULLY: Well his employment records list Mr. Simon De La Cruz as of mixed Mexican ancestry when, in fact, he is Huecha Indian. The Huecha are an indigenous Mexican culture that has a rare, undiluted gene pool. Now, these genes may have an innate immunity to infection. SKINNER: Okay, so he was immune to the virus. That's still not what killed him. He died from being burned. SCULLY: No, not burned-irradiated. Because the virus had no effect on him and the crew members who were infected by the virus couldn't control him. So they killed him by irradiating him. SKINNER: Then why not kill Mulder? Or Agent Doggett? Why kill only this man? SCULLY: This man must've been a threat because of something he knew. SKINNER: what? SCULLY: That I don't know. SKINNER: So even if we did know and were able to get word to them, it would put Mulder and Agent Doggett in danger, too ... wouldn't it? SCENE 16: [OIL RIG] (Close up of a picture of woman and two children.) DOGGETT: Su familia? Por fotografia? Your family? You want to get back to them? I can help you. DOGGETT: Senor ... Confia en mia. GARZA: Yo no confio en nadien. DOGGETT: Great. Trust no one. DOGGETT: But if you stay here they will find you, just like your friend. You let me go and we'll get you back home. You have my word. Mi promesa. (DOGGETT makes his way through the pipes.) TAYLOR (to DOGGETT): Where's Garza? Where is he? (TAYLOR moves in closer to DOGGETT. DOGGETT watches TAYLOR closely.) DOGGETT: I'm going to go get Agent Mulder. (DOGGETT turns to walk away. TAYLOR grabs DOGGETT's neck and forces him to the floor. DOGGETT watches in horror as TAYLOR's eyes fill with black oil. TAYLOR is knocked down as MULDER knocks him out with a metal pipe or something.) MULDER: Get up, Agent Doggett ... There's more where that came from. (Both agents run to the Radio room and quickly secure themselves within.) MULDER: You know anything about radios, Agent Doggett? DOGGETT: Yeah, I know a little. MULDER: Well, see if what little you know can get that ship-to-shore working. DOGGETT: To call who? MULDER: Anybody who can get us off here before ... (MULDER stops as someone on the other side of the door is trying to break it down.) Get to work! (Banging continues. SAKSA's trying to get the door down while the other Black Oil filled workers watch including YURI VOLKOLF. Words on door reads: Wipe Your Boots Off! Sign on the door reads: "Notice: Keep this Door Closed".) << COMMERCIAL SET #4 >> SCENE 17: [COMMUNICATIONS ROOM] MULDER: Agent Doggett! DOGGETT: I'm working on it! MULDER: I don't think this door can hold much longer. ( Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" playing ) MULDER: Wagner? DOGGETT: What do you want? MULDER: I take it back. It's perfect. DOGGETT (to MULDER): Hold this. Hold it. (DOGGETT digs through the damaged equipment looking for the radio mike.) FEMALE OPERATOR: ...This is the marine operator. I repeat, this is an emergency priority transmission for the Galpex-Orpheus. DOGGETT: Yeah, you got John Doggett on board the Galpex-Orpheus. Come in. This is John Doggett ... SCULLY: Agent Doggett? DOGGETT: Agent Scully, yeah, I'm right here. SCULLY (in the Autopsy Bay): Can you hear me? DOGGETT: Yes! SCULLY: What was that? MULDER: That's someone knocking on the door. SCULLY: Mulder, listen to me. I think I know why they killed this man if not how they killed him. MULDER: Right now we got bigger problems. DOGGETT: We need a chopper. SCULLY: We've got choppers on the way. MULDER: Tell her all the men here are infected. She's got to get the word to the choppers not to land on the platform. DOGGETT: Well, how are they supposed to get us? MULDER: Well, that issue is rapidly becoming moot! DOGGETT: Agent Scully, listen. There are three men on board here that are not infected -- me, Mulder and a man named Diego Garza, who may be mentally unstable. Could be why he tried to wreck this radio equipment just like his friend Simon de la Cruz. He may resist rescue attempt because he believes there are men in flying saucers who are coming to get him. Agent Scully, did you get that? Agent Scully? You're breaking up, Agent ... ! DOGGETT: What the hell are you doing? MULDER: Destroying their ability to transmit just like Diego and Simon De La Cruz. DOGGETT: What are you talking about? MULDER: I'm talking about contact. DOGGETT: Contact with who? The mothership? MULLDER: Agent Doggett, listen. (MULDER automatically reaches out a hand to silence DOGGETT. DOGGETT knocks MULDER's hand away.) DOGGETT: Now, you just back off. MULDER: No, no, no ... Listen... (MULDER opens the door. No one's there.) DOGGETT: Where'd they go? MULDER: I don't know but I don't what to stick around to find out. Let's go Agent Doggett. (MULDER moves leaving DOGGETT standing by the door wondering what's going on. The two men rapidly make their way through the rig. DOGGETT chases after MULDER.) DOGGETT: Agent Mulder, I can't leave him. MULDER: Who? DOGGETT: Diego Garza. (DOGGETT turns from MULDER and runs to locate DIEGO GARZA. MULDER follows.) MULDER: Agent Doggett! (DOGGETT crawls between the pipes to GARZA.) DOGGETT: Diego? Die ... donde estas? Diego. Diego, get up. Come on, let's go... (DIEGO's dead. Irradiated like his friend, SIMON.) MULDER: Is he coming? DOGGETT. No. (Sounds of the helicopter approaching can be heard.) CHOPPER: Galpex-Orpheus, this is alpha-baker-x-ray 46 requesting permission to land. Come in Galpex-Orpheus. MULDER: Agent Doggett, I think I know why the let us go. DOGGETT: What? Agent Mulder, what are you talking about? What's going on? MULDER: They're going to blow the rig. DOGGETT: Who? (The oil rig workers slowly appear one by one as they block the men's immediate exits to the rig.) MULDER: Let's go. (The two men begin running and are blocked by fire and spewing water and steam. More fire block their way as they make their way through the rig. Various explosions burst out on the rig. More oil workers appear and block their paths to the nearest exits. MULDER and DOGGETT search for exits out of the rig. They finally stop as the cat walk comes to an abrupt end outside the rig. The helicopter appears in front of them.) CHOPPER: Abandon ship. DOGGETT (to MULDER): What's he saying? (MULDER makes hand signals to the helicopter driver in an attempt to communicate.) (Garbled P.A. Broadcast) MULDER: I think he wants us to jump. (Both men look down at the long fall below.) DOGGETT: All right, wait a minute, Agent Mulder. I'm in charge here. On a two count. MULDER: How about a 20 count? DOGGETT: One ... two! (Both men yell as they fall to the murky waters below. The rig around them explodes.) SCENE 18: [BASEMENT OFFICE] (DOGGETT's feet as he walks the corridor to the basement office. He's in a hurry. He bursts into the basement office and picks up a box. MULDER is there sitting leisurely in a chair in SCULLY's portion of the office just past the glass divider.) MULDER: Where's the fire, Agent Doggett? DOGGETT: I've been called up to see Deputy Director Kersh as have Agent Scully and A.D. Skinner. I think it's all hitting the fan. MULDER: You mean with Galpex Oil? DOGGETT: Word came down that Galpex has lost the right to drill that entire Texas oil province. MULDER: That oil should stay right where it is. And you should do everything within your power to make sure that it does. DOGGETT: Me? (Phone ringing) MULDER: That is the Deputy Director calling to tell you there's no need to see you-that the blame has been properly assigned for what happened out on that platform. I'm out. I'm eighty-sixed, Agent Doggett. DOGGETT: What do you mean? You're out of the FBI? MULDER: Kersh could barely contain his happiness when he ... stuck it to me. DOGGETT: So you're taking the fall. Not for me. MULDER: For you, for the x-files. You're all the credibility this office has left. You have Kersh's ear and you've seen it now ... out on that platform. You saw it for yourself. (phone ringing) MULDER: Answer the phone, Agent Doggett. You're in charge here now. (MULDER and DOGGETT shake hands. MULDER leaves the office. DOGGETT turns to look at the ringing phone.) [Captioning sponsored by fox broadcasting company twentieth century fox television and "toyota. Experience toyota today." The Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation] ========================== THE END ========================== For corrections / inaccuracies contact: steph@philedom2k.com Transcriptor: intrepid (intrepidly001@yahoo.com) ========================== OS SITE CAST INFORMATION ========================== VIENEN #8ABX16 ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/29/2001 WRITTEN BY STEVEN MAEDA DIRECTED BY ROD HARDY STARRING: DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully ROBERT PATRICK as Special Agent John Doggett Also Starring: Mitch Pileggi as A.D. Walter Skinner Miguel Sandoval as Martin Ortega Casy Biggs as Saksa Gregory Norman Cruz as Diego Garza James Pickens, Jr. As Deputy Director Kersh M.C. Gainey as Bo Taylor Lee Reheman as Yuri Luis Villalta as Simon De La Cruz Kevin C. Loomis as Chef Steve Wilcox as Ed Dell Rich Marotta as Hockey Announcer ========================== TELEVISION BEGINNING CREDITS ========================== TITLE CREDITS: DAVID DUCHOVNY GILLIAN ANDERSON ROBERT PATRICK Created by: CHRIS CARTER Also Starring: Mitch Pileggi Miguel Sandoval Casey Biggs Gregory Norman Cruz James Pickens, Jr. M.C. Gainey Lee Reherman Music by: Mark Snow Editor: Lynn Willingham, A.C.E. Production Designer: Corey Kaplan Director of Photography: Bill Roe Producer: David Amann Producer: Harry V. Bring Producer: Paul Rabwin Co-Executive Producer: John Shiban Co-Executive Producer: Kim Manners Co-Executive Producer: Michelle MacLaren Executive Producer: Vince Gilligan Executive Producer: Frank Spotnitz Written by Steven Maeda Directed by Rod Hardy ========================== TELEVISION END CREDITS: ========================== TEN THIRTEEN PRODUCTSION (in association with) 20TH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION: a NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY Associate Producer: Suzanne Welke Executive Story Editor: Jeffrey Bell Executive Story Editor: Greg Walker Story Editor: Steven Maeda Co-Starring: LUIS VILLALTA as Simon de la Cruz KEVIN C. LOOMIS as Chef STEVEN WILCOX as Ed Dell RICH MAROTTA as Hockey Announcer Casting by Rick Millikan, C.S.A. Unit Production Manager: Time Silver First Assistant Director: Michael Klick Second Assistant Director: Nina Jack Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck Set Decorator: Tim Stepeck Assistant Set Decorator: Ron Franco Art Direction: Sandy Getzler / Phil Dagort Script Supervisor: Carol Banker Gaffer: Juno Kouzouyam Key Grip: Tom Doherty Special Effects: Kelly Kerby Stunt Coordinator: Danny Weselis Visual Effects Supervisor: John Wash Make-up Department Head and Special Make-up: Cheri Montesanto-Medcalf Special Make-up: Matthew W. Mungle Hair Department Head: Dena Green Make-up for Mr. Duchovny and Ms. Anderson: Laverne Munroe Costumer for Mr. Duchovny and Ms. Anderson: Nancy Collini Costume Supervisors: Robert Jacobs / Jennifer Soulages Property Marlas?: TOM DAY Camera Operator: JIM ETHERIDGE Steadicam Opeaator: STEPHEN COLLINS Location Managers: ILT JONES / Mac GORDON Transportation Coordinator: STEVEN DUNCAN Construction Coordinator: DUKE TOMASICK Sound Mixer: STEVE CANTAMESSA Production Accountant: NANCI ETCHELLS Production Coordinator: jason a. Schomas Script Coordinator: KURT A. LANGENHAHN Researcher: KATRINA CABRERA ORTEGA Writers' Assistant: art pickering Post Production Coordinator: Jason B. Harkins Original Casting by RANDY STONE, C.S.A. Casting Associate KIMBERLY NORDLINGER Casting Assistant ELISHA GRULTA Extra Casting: CENTRAL CASTING & CENEX Second Unit Directors of Photography: BOB LA BONGE Aeriel Coordinator: STEVE STAFFORD First Assistant Director: VENITA OZOIS-GRAHAM Second Assistant Director: XOCHI BLYMYER Gaffer: DON BIXBY Key Grip: JOEY KRAFT Sound Mixer: RON COGSWELL Assistant Editors: MARILYN R. MOORE / JEFF CAHN Scoring Mixer: LAROLD REBHUN Music Editor: JEFF CHARBONNEAU DaVinci Colorist: ANTHONY R. SMITH Dallies Colorist: JEFF ARDEN On-line Editors: KIP GIBSON / MARTY ROSENSTOCK Post Production Sound: WEST PRODUCTIONS, INC. Sound Design: HARRY ANDRONIS / DAVE WEST Re-Recording Mixers: DAVE WEST / DAVID DONDORF / ERIC CLOPEIN Vice President, Ten Thirteen: MARY ASTADOURIAN Office Manager, Ten Thirteen: JANA FAIM Assistant to Chris Carter: BRAD FOLLMER Assistant to the Producers: SANDRA TRIPICCHIO / GENNIFER HUTCHISON / JULI WILBURN / GINGER WADLEY / STEPHANIE M. 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