The X-Files s02e22 Episode Script
F. Emasculata
Get away! Shoo! Get away.
Shoo.
R.
B.
P.
To field base, come in.
Field base, come in, please.
This is Dr.
Robert Torrence with the Bio Diversity Project requesting immediate evacuation from Sector Z15.
This is a medical emergency.
Please respond.
I repeat.
Dr.
Robert Torrence.
Bio Diversity Project.
Immediate evacuation from Sector Z15.
Hey, Bobby, you got some mail.
Don't waste my time.
Both of us know I ain't got nobody.
Could be those Baptists from Annandale.
I hear they've been sendin' fruitcake.
Ugh! Hey, Winston, you think this is funny? What kind of crap you trying to pull here? Get this thing out of my crib! Winston! Winston! Winston! Winston! - When was he exposed? - Eighteen hours ago.
I've never heard of anything incubating so quickly.
Where's the prison doc? I wanna see the prison doc.
We're specialists, Mr.
Torrence.
What's wrong with me? - Five centimeters.
They appear fairly uniform.
- Basal temperature? Oxygen saturation, 81 º/º.
- What's wrong with me? - Try and relax, Mr.
Torrence.
We're here to help you.
Put the sheets in the cart.
Make sure and get all them pillows too.
I'll be back in five minutes.
We'll be here.
See that? Like he couldn't clear out of here fast enough.
The whole cell block's empty.
And McGuire says they're full up at the infirmary.
Bringin' in more beds.
Yeah, well, it's probably something going around.
Maybe.
What, you know something? I know those sheets ain't going to the laundry.
McGuire says they're going to some kind of incinerator.
But the laundry pickup's still happenin'.
According to my briefing, the prisoners escaped by hiding in a laundry cart.
I don't think the guards are watching enough prison movies.
And they're both serving life terms.
Murder convictions.
Everybody's here.
I thought this was about escaped prisoners.
It is.
Then who are the men in the funny suits? I don't know.
It looks like some kind of decon situation.
F.
B.
I.
Run out of crooked politicians to sting? Excuse me? Mulder and, uh, Scully? We have orders to work with the federal marshals on this manhunt.
- Either you two ever run an escaped convict operation? - No.
Well, then you'd be a real big help if you just tried to stay out of the way.
We'd be happy to, as soon as we can talk to someone who's in charge.
I'm in charge here.
Apparently not, or you'd know why our involvement was requested.
We don't know why we've been sent here.
Maybe if we talked to the warden or someone Well, no one's here.
The prison's been taken over by the National Guard.
They've closed off most of the facility.
- Why? - I don't know why.
Federal marshal's business isn't in here.
It's out there, trying to catch those two convicts.
Where did this case originate, Scully? Came out of Skinner's office.
Did he say why he gave it to us? No.
Why? Well, this isn't the type of thing the F.
B.
I.
Normally gets called in on.
I got a feeling we're not being told the entire story here.
I've got the same feeling, Mulder.
You think you can get in there and find out what's going on? I can try.
Where are you going? See if I can get in the way.
Hey, you girls go with Mom.
I'll see you in a minute.
Robert? Robert! Robert! - Hey! - Whoo-hoo! - Robert! - Whoo-woo-woo! Hey! - I'm sorry.
This is a restricted area.
- Who are you? Dr.
Osborne.
- Are you the prison doctor? - No.
- Who do you work for? - The C.
D.
C.
You work for the Centers for Disease Control? What are you doing here? Sir, I'm a medical doctor! I wanna know what's going on here! Sir, if you don't let me in, a lot of people in Washington are gonna find out that you're conducting a secret quarantine in here.
- I'm under strict orders.
- So am I.
All I can tell you is that there is a flu-like illness spreading among some of the prisoners.
- How many people are infected? - Fourteen men so far.
- Any deaths? - Ten of the fourteen.
What are the chances the men who escaped are infected? They just took off.
Mulder.
Mulder, it's me.
I'm starting to get a picture of what's going on here.
- What did you find? - There seems to be some kind of deadly contagion sweeping the lockdown population.
Deadly? How deadly? Well, from what I've seen so far, deadly.
Is there a chance any of the escaped men were infected? The exact nature of this thing or how it is spread is unclear.
So is their exposure to it and any danger they might pose.
I'd say these guys are a danger in any event.
- Let's get this guy.
- Call me as soon as you know anything.
I don't care who you are or what your business is.
- I want you out of here right now.
- Not until I get some answers.
- You're in violation of federal statutes.
- I'm a federal agent, sir.
- Who were you on the phone to? - To my partner, who needs to know if the men he's pursuing are infected.
- That information is unavailable.
- Then I want to see charts, and I want access to the infirmary.
You see what I let you see.
Hello.
I'm free, baby.
- Paul? Where are you? - Listen, I'm gonna I'm comin' home.
- What are you talkin' about? - I'm comin' to get ya.
What? What? Yo! Anybody in here? Hello! Hey, man, you okay? You look messed up.
- You can't be down here! - I need to know what these men are dying from.
You said this was some kind of a flu-like illness.
- Please! These bodies should not be exposed! - What are these? Do all of the victims have these boils? You're burning the bodies.
Why? Dr.
Osborne, wait! Freeze! Hands in the air! Freeze! Freeze! Clear.
We got a man down! He's alive.
Attendant's name is Angelo Garza.
He took a nice crack to the head, but he's talking.
Yeah, well, lucky they didn't kill him.
Kid's got a lot of hair.
Probably absorbed the blow.
He found one of the men in pain on the bathroom floor with a large boil on his face.
There's a contagion at the prison.
These men could be infected.
Get on the horn.
See what anybody knows about that.
All right, they took the kid's keys, and they got in the safe.
They got money, the kid's car, possibly a firearm, and they got a big head start.
- Any idea where they're headed? - Got 23 possible roads and thoroughfares.
Either of these guys got a girlfriend? I wish I could tell you, but those records are locked up in the prison.
Till we can access them, this is Smokey and the Bandit.
If they had girlfriends, they probably tried to call them.
Did you think of that? This is the operator.
How may I help you? I'm a federal agent assisting in a manhunt for two escaped prisoners.
My badge number is JTTO47101111.
I need to know the last call made from this booth.
All right, sir.
One moment, please.
That number, 555 Can you repeat that, please? 555 All right, thank you.
We didn't hear anything! What's going on here? Hey, what are you guys doing here? What the hell's going on here? Who authorized this? - I didn't do anything! - Hey, did you guys know anything about this? Hey, what's going on here? What's going on? Where are they taking me? Who are you? - Hey, did you order this? - No! - Then who the hell did? - I don't know.
But there was a call made from that phone booth about two hours ago.
I got an address and phone number from Dinwiddie County.
Wait here, sweetie.
I'll be right back.
Thought you were "B.
S.
Ing" me! I'm gone, sweet thing.
- They ain't never taking me back.
- I ain't gonna let them.
Mommy! Mommy! I'm comin', sweetie! Daddy's home.
Come on.
- I got somebody with me.
- What? What's wrong with him? What's wrong with him? I don't know.
He's out of it.
Hell, he's burnin' up.
We gotta get him in the house.
Yes, I'm trying to trace the origin of a package that was sent to a Robert Torrence at the Cumberland State Correctional Facility in Virginia.
Yeah, the package I.
D.
Number is DDP112148.
Sure, I'll hold.
Yeah.
The package was sent from Wichita, Kansas? Did you record the name of the sender? Could you check that again, please? - Yes, ma'am, that's what it says.
- Thank you.
Yeah.
What do you know about Pinck Pharmaceuticals? Uh, it's one of, if not the biggest manufacturer of drugs in America.
Why? They sent a package to a prisoner here who may have been the first victim of the contagion.
Any idea what was in the package? No.
It's empty.
Scully, from the description we got, one of the prisoners had a large, purplish inflammation on his face.
That sounds like what I'm finding on all the victims in here.
Do you know what that means, Mulder? Yeah.
It could spread.
I need to know more about it, how it's transmitted.
I'm on it.
Gotta go.
Gotta keep movin'.
Paul? Paul, he's awake.
Paul, come here.
You gotta help me.
I'm burnin' up here.
Please.
Paul! Paul! Paul! Down, down, down! F.
B.
I.
! We got one prisoner dead in the bedroom.
The other one's gone.
Charlie, why don't you get the boy? Come with me.
- Why? What's going on? - Just come with me.
What the hell is going on? I've been infected.
And they're not letting me out.
- Entire prison's been quarantined.
- By who, the C.
D.
C.
? C.
D.
C.
Has nothing to do with it.
It's the company.
They're behind everything.
Pinck Pharmaceuticals.
You work for Pinck Pharmaceuticals? How did this happen? We finance exploration of new species from the rain forest with potential drug applications.
Three months ago, a field entomologist disappeared in Costa Rica.
- Disappeared how? - We're not sure.
He just sent us some samples of an insect.
Like this? I found this buried in one of the dead prisoners.
Faciphaga Emasculata.
We were interested in it because of a dilating enzyme it secretes.
- Is this what caused the outbreak? - No.
No, not precisely.
F.
Emasculata is a parasitoid, a bug that carries the parasite.
In this case, a deadly parasite that attacks the immune system.
The pustules are part of the natural reproductive cycle.
They're full of the larvae that you see there on the scope.
So the contagion only spreads when the pustules erupt.
And the larvae that are expelled burrow into the new host.
Agent Scully You were there when the pustule erupted on me, which means you may also be infected.
Come in.
Thank you for seeing me at this late hour, sir.
- What is it, Agent Mulder? - This case we've been assigned, I believe we've been misled.
- Possibly deceived.
- Deceived? By whom? Whoever originated the case.
What is the accusation, Agent Mulder? That Agent Scully and I were sent on this manhunt without knowledge of the existence or nature of a contagion.
What is the exact nature of the contagion? It's deadly.
It kills within 36 hours.
One escaped convict was infected.
He's dead now.
The other man may be infected, and he's on the loose.
Does anyone know how it's communicated, whether it's a virus or bacteria? We just know that over a dozen men have died from it, and it appears to be highly contagious.
- Then you don't know much, Agent Mulder.
- Why weren't we told the truth? We didn't know the truth.
What we knew would only have slowed you down.
But innocent people could be infected! - What you knew could've prevented that.
- How? In 1988, there was an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Sacramento, California.
The truth would've caused panic.
Panic would've cost lives.
We controlled the disease by controlling the information.
You can't protect the public by lying to them.
- It's done every day.
- I won't be a party to it.
How about you? You're a party to it already.
How many people are being infected while you stand here not doing your job? Ten, twenty? What's the truth, Agent Mulder? Mulder.
- Mulder, they're enforcing a full quarantine.
- What? - Mulder, they're enforcing a full quarantine.
- What? One of the epidemiologists who claimed to be with the C.
D.
C told me that this was no accident.
Pinck Pharmaceutical is here trying to clean it up quietly.
And the government would have to know about it.
- Do you have proof of that? - Why else would the National Guard be here? They're protecting Pinck Pharmaceutical.
Hey, listen, Scully, I need to know how this happened.
I want you to start documenting everything you can get your hands on.
- People have to know about the cover-up.
- The public? - It's a public health crisis.
- Mulder, we can't leak this.
Not until we know more.
The fugitive that you're looking for, he might not even be infected.
- Yeah, but what if he is? - If this gets out prematurely, the panic is gonna spread faster than the contagion.
Mulder, we can't let this be known.
What if someone dies because we withheld what we knew? What if someone dies because we didn't? There'll be a time for the truth, Mulder, but this isn't it.
Are you okay in there, Scully? Yeah, I'm okay.
All I want you to worry about is capturing that fugitive.
Take care of yourself, Mulder.
If you're not infected, you should leave immediately.
And if I am? The parasite is undetectable in the bloodstream.
This is the only way to test whether or not you've been infected.
These uninfected insects act as incubators.
The insect's bite won't infect you.
The contagion can only be contracted through exposure to the larvae.
How long will this take? Thirty minutes.
Then another two hours before the parasite reproduces enough for us to see it.
Elizabeth? My name is Fox Mulder.
I'm with the F.
B.
I.
Where did Paul go, Elizabeth? I don't know.
I think you do know.
And I think you know why you're in here.
- How are you feeling? - I'm fine.
Steve felt fine too.
Didn't take long for that to change.
You're just trying to scare me.
You should be scared.
If I were you, I'd be scared.
- You're lyin'! - No.
Paul is the one who's lying.
And if he's infected, a lot of people are gonna die.
If that's true, how come it's not on TV? How come they're not tellin' everybody? That's not my decision.
Well, whose decision is it? You knew about it, and you didn't say anything.
Why should I tell the truth if you won't? Elizabeth, Paul is out there somewhere.
I have to find him.
Now, you can help me.
Or not.
He's on a 10:00 bus to Toronto.
She was supposed to be with him.
That bus depot's over a half-hour from here, even doing 90.
- Get the local P.
D.
I want every man they got! - No! No.
They don't know what they're dealing with.
If he's infected, he could spread it.
What we need now is control.
Toronto, one way? Yeah.
- Ow.
- Now, once we harvest the blood from the insect The toxins.
They're moving into my brain just like it did on the prisoners.
I don't have much longer.
I need you to help me.
What do you want me to do? Go on.
You have to complete the test.
Why did you confide in me? It's not a secret I feel like taking to the grave.
People have a right to know the danger we've put them in.
If your test comes back negative, you have to tell them.
How can I prove it? I don't know.
But if you don't, it'll just happen again.
Don't believe for a second that this is an isolated incident.
Your attention, please.
Bus number 953, bus number 953 - Will you wait a second? - I don't wanna miss the bus.
You see that? They're still loading your luggage.
You're not missing anything.
You have enough time to give your mother a kiss good-bye.
Wait.
Ticket.
Be careful.
Say hi to UncleJay.
Hey! What's the time? Twenty to 10:00.
What are you doing? This material has been confiscated and will be destroyed according to standard C.
D.
C.
Procedure.
You don't work for the C.
D.
C.
Where's Dr.
Osborne? He told me what happened here.
What happened here was unavoidable.
Well, we'll leave that up to others to decide.
Dr.
Osborne is dead.
No one in this room will corroborate your story.
Just be glad this thing is under control.
He's here.
Bought a ticket to Toronto.
- Son of a bitch.
- And he's infected.
Mulder.
Mulder, I think everything here is under control.
You okay, Scully? Yeah.
Have you found the second prisoner? Yeah.
He's headed to Toronto.
He's alive? Mulder, listen to me.
Everything here has been destroyed.
Any evidence whatsoever of a cover-up has been incinerated.
That prisoner is the last man who could possibly connect conspirators.
But he's infected.
He's gonna die.
If you want the truth, Mulder, he's gonna have to make a statement.
Quick.
No Talking.
Hold your men back.
- What? - I'm gettin' on the bus.
We've got the situation controlled.
That bus isn't going anywhere.
There are other passengers.
The prisoner sees a uniform, he could panic.
He panics and innocent people die.
What do you wanna do? I get on the bus, I take the seat directly behind the prisoner, I put my gun to his head, I make an announcement to clear the bus.
Thank you.
Uh, can you take your seat, sir? Yeah, there's supposed to be a man on the bus.
Sir, I've got a schedule to keep.
Now, please, take your seat, or I'm gonna have to ask you to get off.
Take the key out of the ignition and turn around slowly.
What is this? I'm with the F.
B.
I.
I need to know if this man has boarded the bus.
Yeah.
That's him.
Right back there.
Federal agent! Drop your weapon! Plan "A" has gone to hell.
Get ready to move, people.
- Let the boy go! - Move the damn bus! You got over two dozen U.
S.
Marshals out there, Paul.
How far you gonna get? I'm dying, ain't I? The question is, how many people are you gonna take with you? - What is this thing? - You were infected in prison.
What Bobby Torrence had.
And your girlfriend Elizabeth and possibly your son.
How many more people do you wanna expose? It came from that package in Bobby's cell, didn't it? You saw a package? What the hell was it? All right, everybody off the bus.
Just keep going.
Just go.
Just go.
Keep moving.
All right, come on out.
It's okay.
Come on, just slide out.
I'm here for you.
Easy.
Come here.
All right.
Go.
Go on.
All right, Paul, what was in that package? Paul, what was in that package? Apharmaceutical company was using you as a guinea pig.
If you tell me what was in that package, I'll make sure they don't get away with it.
Come on, Paul, you remember.
Tell me! Get him off the bus! Get him out of there! Keep your distance! Make sure he's down! You have to get out.
Let's go.
Get out.
Robert Torrence was patient zero, the first prisoner to contract the disease.
Just before being admitted to the infirmary, he received a package from Pinck Pharmaceuticals.
They orchestrated this entire thing to circumvent years of F.
D.
A.
Trials in order to get their drug on the market.
- Why are you telling me this? - I wanted you to hear it before you read it in the papers.
I'd seriously reconsider bringing this to the media, if that's your intention.
The public has a right to know so it doesn't happen again.
And you're gonna prove this elaborate conspiracy with an empty package and a dead insect? Leave it alone, Agent Mulder.
The epidemic was contained.
Eighteen people are dead.
If you're helping them cover the truth behind those deaths, then you're just as guilty as they are.
You really have no idea who you're dealing with, do you? I thought I was dealing with you.
We can't prove a thing, Mulder.
- They've made sure of it.
- What are you talking about? The Costa Rican government just faxed me the report on the missing scientist.
His name was Robert Torrence, the same as our prisoner.
It was their fail-safe in case it ever came to this so they can blame it on a simple postal error.
A mistake.
That's why we were given this assignment, right? They knew all along so that even if we succeeded in finding the truth, we'd be discredited as part of it.
Am I right? - Am I right? - You never had a chance, Agent Mulder.
For every step you take, they're three steps ahead.
What about you? Where do you stand? I stand right on the line that you keep crossing.
Come on, let's go.
Agent Mulder I'm saying this as a friend.
Watch your back.
This is just the beginning.
Shoo.
R.
B.
P.
To field base, come in.
Field base, come in, please.
This is Dr.
Robert Torrence with the Bio Diversity Project requesting immediate evacuation from Sector Z15.
This is a medical emergency.
Please respond.
I repeat.
Dr.
Robert Torrence.
Bio Diversity Project.
Immediate evacuation from Sector Z15.
Hey, Bobby, you got some mail.
Don't waste my time.
Both of us know I ain't got nobody.
Could be those Baptists from Annandale.
I hear they've been sendin' fruitcake.
Ugh! Hey, Winston, you think this is funny? What kind of crap you trying to pull here? Get this thing out of my crib! Winston! Winston! Winston! Winston! - When was he exposed? - Eighteen hours ago.
I've never heard of anything incubating so quickly.
Where's the prison doc? I wanna see the prison doc.
We're specialists, Mr.
Torrence.
What's wrong with me? - Five centimeters.
They appear fairly uniform.
- Basal temperature? Oxygen saturation, 81 º/º.
- What's wrong with me? - Try and relax, Mr.
Torrence.
We're here to help you.
Put the sheets in the cart.
Make sure and get all them pillows too.
I'll be back in five minutes.
We'll be here.
See that? Like he couldn't clear out of here fast enough.
The whole cell block's empty.
And McGuire says they're full up at the infirmary.
Bringin' in more beds.
Yeah, well, it's probably something going around.
Maybe.
What, you know something? I know those sheets ain't going to the laundry.
McGuire says they're going to some kind of incinerator.
But the laundry pickup's still happenin'.
According to my briefing, the prisoners escaped by hiding in a laundry cart.
I don't think the guards are watching enough prison movies.
And they're both serving life terms.
Murder convictions.
Everybody's here.
I thought this was about escaped prisoners.
It is.
Then who are the men in the funny suits? I don't know.
It looks like some kind of decon situation.
F.
B.
I.
Run out of crooked politicians to sting? Excuse me? Mulder and, uh, Scully? We have orders to work with the federal marshals on this manhunt.
- Either you two ever run an escaped convict operation? - No.
Well, then you'd be a real big help if you just tried to stay out of the way.
We'd be happy to, as soon as we can talk to someone who's in charge.
I'm in charge here.
Apparently not, or you'd know why our involvement was requested.
We don't know why we've been sent here.
Maybe if we talked to the warden or someone Well, no one's here.
The prison's been taken over by the National Guard.
They've closed off most of the facility.
- Why? - I don't know why.
Federal marshal's business isn't in here.
It's out there, trying to catch those two convicts.
Where did this case originate, Scully? Came out of Skinner's office.
Did he say why he gave it to us? No.
Why? Well, this isn't the type of thing the F.
B.
I.
Normally gets called in on.
I got a feeling we're not being told the entire story here.
I've got the same feeling, Mulder.
You think you can get in there and find out what's going on? I can try.
Where are you going? See if I can get in the way.
Hey, you girls go with Mom.
I'll see you in a minute.
Robert? Robert! Robert! - Hey! - Whoo-hoo! - Robert! - Whoo-woo-woo! Hey! - I'm sorry.
This is a restricted area.
- Who are you? Dr.
Osborne.
- Are you the prison doctor? - No.
- Who do you work for? - The C.
D.
C.
You work for the Centers for Disease Control? What are you doing here? Sir, I'm a medical doctor! I wanna know what's going on here! Sir, if you don't let me in, a lot of people in Washington are gonna find out that you're conducting a secret quarantine in here.
- I'm under strict orders.
- So am I.
All I can tell you is that there is a flu-like illness spreading among some of the prisoners.
- How many people are infected? - Fourteen men so far.
- Any deaths? - Ten of the fourteen.
What are the chances the men who escaped are infected? They just took off.
Mulder.
Mulder, it's me.
I'm starting to get a picture of what's going on here.
- What did you find? - There seems to be some kind of deadly contagion sweeping the lockdown population.
Deadly? How deadly? Well, from what I've seen so far, deadly.
Is there a chance any of the escaped men were infected? The exact nature of this thing or how it is spread is unclear.
So is their exposure to it and any danger they might pose.
I'd say these guys are a danger in any event.
- Let's get this guy.
- Call me as soon as you know anything.
I don't care who you are or what your business is.
- I want you out of here right now.
- Not until I get some answers.
- You're in violation of federal statutes.
- I'm a federal agent, sir.
- Who were you on the phone to? - To my partner, who needs to know if the men he's pursuing are infected.
- That information is unavailable.
- Then I want to see charts, and I want access to the infirmary.
You see what I let you see.
Hello.
I'm free, baby.
- Paul? Where are you? - Listen, I'm gonna I'm comin' home.
- What are you talkin' about? - I'm comin' to get ya.
What? What? Yo! Anybody in here? Hello! Hey, man, you okay? You look messed up.
- You can't be down here! - I need to know what these men are dying from.
You said this was some kind of a flu-like illness.
- Please! These bodies should not be exposed! - What are these? Do all of the victims have these boils? You're burning the bodies.
Why? Dr.
Osborne, wait! Freeze! Hands in the air! Freeze! Freeze! Clear.
We got a man down! He's alive.
Attendant's name is Angelo Garza.
He took a nice crack to the head, but he's talking.
Yeah, well, lucky they didn't kill him.
Kid's got a lot of hair.
Probably absorbed the blow.
He found one of the men in pain on the bathroom floor with a large boil on his face.
There's a contagion at the prison.
These men could be infected.
Get on the horn.
See what anybody knows about that.
All right, they took the kid's keys, and they got in the safe.
They got money, the kid's car, possibly a firearm, and they got a big head start.
- Any idea where they're headed? - Got 23 possible roads and thoroughfares.
Either of these guys got a girlfriend? I wish I could tell you, but those records are locked up in the prison.
Till we can access them, this is Smokey and the Bandit.
If they had girlfriends, they probably tried to call them.
Did you think of that? This is the operator.
How may I help you? I'm a federal agent assisting in a manhunt for two escaped prisoners.
My badge number is JTTO47101111.
I need to know the last call made from this booth.
All right, sir.
One moment, please.
That number, 555 Can you repeat that, please? 555 All right, thank you.
We didn't hear anything! What's going on here? Hey, what are you guys doing here? What the hell's going on here? Who authorized this? - I didn't do anything! - Hey, did you guys know anything about this? Hey, what's going on here? What's going on? Where are they taking me? Who are you? - Hey, did you order this? - No! - Then who the hell did? - I don't know.
But there was a call made from that phone booth about two hours ago.
I got an address and phone number from Dinwiddie County.
Wait here, sweetie.
I'll be right back.
Thought you were "B.
S.
Ing" me! I'm gone, sweet thing.
- They ain't never taking me back.
- I ain't gonna let them.
Mommy! Mommy! I'm comin', sweetie! Daddy's home.
Come on.
- I got somebody with me.
- What? What's wrong with him? What's wrong with him? I don't know.
He's out of it.
Hell, he's burnin' up.
We gotta get him in the house.
Yes, I'm trying to trace the origin of a package that was sent to a Robert Torrence at the Cumberland State Correctional Facility in Virginia.
Yeah, the package I.
D.
Number is DDP112148.
Sure, I'll hold.
Yeah.
The package was sent from Wichita, Kansas? Did you record the name of the sender? Could you check that again, please? - Yes, ma'am, that's what it says.
- Thank you.
Yeah.
What do you know about Pinck Pharmaceuticals? Uh, it's one of, if not the biggest manufacturer of drugs in America.
Why? They sent a package to a prisoner here who may have been the first victim of the contagion.
Any idea what was in the package? No.
It's empty.
Scully, from the description we got, one of the prisoners had a large, purplish inflammation on his face.
That sounds like what I'm finding on all the victims in here.
Do you know what that means, Mulder? Yeah.
It could spread.
I need to know more about it, how it's transmitted.
I'm on it.
Gotta go.
Gotta keep movin'.
Paul? Paul, he's awake.
Paul, come here.
You gotta help me.
I'm burnin' up here.
Please.
Paul! Paul! Paul! Down, down, down! F.
B.
I.
! We got one prisoner dead in the bedroom.
The other one's gone.
Charlie, why don't you get the boy? Come with me.
- Why? What's going on? - Just come with me.
What the hell is going on? I've been infected.
And they're not letting me out.
- Entire prison's been quarantined.
- By who, the C.
D.
C.
? C.
D.
C.
Has nothing to do with it.
It's the company.
They're behind everything.
Pinck Pharmaceuticals.
You work for Pinck Pharmaceuticals? How did this happen? We finance exploration of new species from the rain forest with potential drug applications.
Three months ago, a field entomologist disappeared in Costa Rica.
- Disappeared how? - We're not sure.
He just sent us some samples of an insect.
Like this? I found this buried in one of the dead prisoners.
Faciphaga Emasculata.
We were interested in it because of a dilating enzyme it secretes.
- Is this what caused the outbreak? - No.
No, not precisely.
F.
Emasculata is a parasitoid, a bug that carries the parasite.
In this case, a deadly parasite that attacks the immune system.
The pustules are part of the natural reproductive cycle.
They're full of the larvae that you see there on the scope.
So the contagion only spreads when the pustules erupt.
And the larvae that are expelled burrow into the new host.
Agent Scully You were there when the pustule erupted on me, which means you may also be infected.
Come in.
Thank you for seeing me at this late hour, sir.
- What is it, Agent Mulder? - This case we've been assigned, I believe we've been misled.
- Possibly deceived.
- Deceived? By whom? Whoever originated the case.
What is the accusation, Agent Mulder? That Agent Scully and I were sent on this manhunt without knowledge of the existence or nature of a contagion.
What is the exact nature of the contagion? It's deadly.
It kills within 36 hours.
One escaped convict was infected.
He's dead now.
The other man may be infected, and he's on the loose.
Does anyone know how it's communicated, whether it's a virus or bacteria? We just know that over a dozen men have died from it, and it appears to be highly contagious.
- Then you don't know much, Agent Mulder.
- Why weren't we told the truth? We didn't know the truth.
What we knew would only have slowed you down.
But innocent people could be infected! - What you knew could've prevented that.
- How? In 1988, there was an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Sacramento, California.
The truth would've caused panic.
Panic would've cost lives.
We controlled the disease by controlling the information.
You can't protect the public by lying to them.
- It's done every day.
- I won't be a party to it.
How about you? You're a party to it already.
How many people are being infected while you stand here not doing your job? Ten, twenty? What's the truth, Agent Mulder? Mulder.
- Mulder, they're enforcing a full quarantine.
- What? - Mulder, they're enforcing a full quarantine.
- What? One of the epidemiologists who claimed to be with the C.
D.
C told me that this was no accident.
Pinck Pharmaceutical is here trying to clean it up quietly.
And the government would have to know about it.
- Do you have proof of that? - Why else would the National Guard be here? They're protecting Pinck Pharmaceutical.
Hey, listen, Scully, I need to know how this happened.
I want you to start documenting everything you can get your hands on.
- People have to know about the cover-up.
- The public? - It's a public health crisis.
- Mulder, we can't leak this.
Not until we know more.
The fugitive that you're looking for, he might not even be infected.
- Yeah, but what if he is? - If this gets out prematurely, the panic is gonna spread faster than the contagion.
Mulder, we can't let this be known.
What if someone dies because we withheld what we knew? What if someone dies because we didn't? There'll be a time for the truth, Mulder, but this isn't it.
Are you okay in there, Scully? Yeah, I'm okay.
All I want you to worry about is capturing that fugitive.
Take care of yourself, Mulder.
If you're not infected, you should leave immediately.
And if I am? The parasite is undetectable in the bloodstream.
This is the only way to test whether or not you've been infected.
These uninfected insects act as incubators.
The insect's bite won't infect you.
The contagion can only be contracted through exposure to the larvae.
How long will this take? Thirty minutes.
Then another two hours before the parasite reproduces enough for us to see it.
Elizabeth? My name is Fox Mulder.
I'm with the F.
B.
I.
Where did Paul go, Elizabeth? I don't know.
I think you do know.
And I think you know why you're in here.
- How are you feeling? - I'm fine.
Steve felt fine too.
Didn't take long for that to change.
You're just trying to scare me.
You should be scared.
If I were you, I'd be scared.
- You're lyin'! - No.
Paul is the one who's lying.
And if he's infected, a lot of people are gonna die.
If that's true, how come it's not on TV? How come they're not tellin' everybody? That's not my decision.
Well, whose decision is it? You knew about it, and you didn't say anything.
Why should I tell the truth if you won't? Elizabeth, Paul is out there somewhere.
I have to find him.
Now, you can help me.
Or not.
He's on a 10:00 bus to Toronto.
She was supposed to be with him.
That bus depot's over a half-hour from here, even doing 90.
- Get the local P.
D.
I want every man they got! - No! No.
They don't know what they're dealing with.
If he's infected, he could spread it.
What we need now is control.
Toronto, one way? Yeah.
- Ow.
- Now, once we harvest the blood from the insect The toxins.
They're moving into my brain just like it did on the prisoners.
I don't have much longer.
I need you to help me.
What do you want me to do? Go on.
You have to complete the test.
Why did you confide in me? It's not a secret I feel like taking to the grave.
People have a right to know the danger we've put them in.
If your test comes back negative, you have to tell them.
How can I prove it? I don't know.
But if you don't, it'll just happen again.
Don't believe for a second that this is an isolated incident.
Your attention, please.
Bus number 953, bus number 953 - Will you wait a second? - I don't wanna miss the bus.
You see that? They're still loading your luggage.
You're not missing anything.
You have enough time to give your mother a kiss good-bye.
Wait.
Ticket.
Be careful.
Say hi to UncleJay.
Hey! What's the time? Twenty to 10:00.
What are you doing? This material has been confiscated and will be destroyed according to standard C.
D.
C.
Procedure.
You don't work for the C.
D.
C.
Where's Dr.
Osborne? He told me what happened here.
What happened here was unavoidable.
Well, we'll leave that up to others to decide.
Dr.
Osborne is dead.
No one in this room will corroborate your story.
Just be glad this thing is under control.
He's here.
Bought a ticket to Toronto.
- Son of a bitch.
- And he's infected.
Mulder.
Mulder, I think everything here is under control.
You okay, Scully? Yeah.
Have you found the second prisoner? Yeah.
He's headed to Toronto.
He's alive? Mulder, listen to me.
Everything here has been destroyed.
Any evidence whatsoever of a cover-up has been incinerated.
That prisoner is the last man who could possibly connect conspirators.
But he's infected.
He's gonna die.
If you want the truth, Mulder, he's gonna have to make a statement.
Quick.
No Talking.
Hold your men back.
- What? - I'm gettin' on the bus.
We've got the situation controlled.
That bus isn't going anywhere.
There are other passengers.
The prisoner sees a uniform, he could panic.
He panics and innocent people die.
What do you wanna do? I get on the bus, I take the seat directly behind the prisoner, I put my gun to his head, I make an announcement to clear the bus.
Thank you.
Uh, can you take your seat, sir? Yeah, there's supposed to be a man on the bus.
Sir, I've got a schedule to keep.
Now, please, take your seat, or I'm gonna have to ask you to get off.
Take the key out of the ignition and turn around slowly.
What is this? I'm with the F.
B.
I.
I need to know if this man has boarded the bus.
Yeah.
That's him.
Right back there.
Federal agent! Drop your weapon! Plan "A" has gone to hell.
Get ready to move, people.
- Let the boy go! - Move the damn bus! You got over two dozen U.
S.
Marshals out there, Paul.
How far you gonna get? I'm dying, ain't I? The question is, how many people are you gonna take with you? - What is this thing? - You were infected in prison.
What Bobby Torrence had.
And your girlfriend Elizabeth and possibly your son.
How many more people do you wanna expose? It came from that package in Bobby's cell, didn't it? You saw a package? What the hell was it? All right, everybody off the bus.
Just keep going.
Just go.
Just go.
Keep moving.
All right, come on out.
It's okay.
Come on, just slide out.
I'm here for you.
Easy.
Come here.
All right.
Go.
Go on.
All right, Paul, what was in that package? Paul, what was in that package? Apharmaceutical company was using you as a guinea pig.
If you tell me what was in that package, I'll make sure they don't get away with it.
Come on, Paul, you remember.
Tell me! Get him off the bus! Get him out of there! Keep your distance! Make sure he's down! You have to get out.
Let's go.
Get out.
Robert Torrence was patient zero, the first prisoner to contract the disease.
Just before being admitted to the infirmary, he received a package from Pinck Pharmaceuticals.
They orchestrated this entire thing to circumvent years of F.
D.
A.
Trials in order to get their drug on the market.
- Why are you telling me this? - I wanted you to hear it before you read it in the papers.
I'd seriously reconsider bringing this to the media, if that's your intention.
The public has a right to know so it doesn't happen again.
And you're gonna prove this elaborate conspiracy with an empty package and a dead insect? Leave it alone, Agent Mulder.
The epidemic was contained.
Eighteen people are dead.
If you're helping them cover the truth behind those deaths, then you're just as guilty as they are.
You really have no idea who you're dealing with, do you? I thought I was dealing with you.
We can't prove a thing, Mulder.
- They've made sure of it.
- What are you talking about? The Costa Rican government just faxed me the report on the missing scientist.
His name was Robert Torrence, the same as our prisoner.
It was their fail-safe in case it ever came to this so they can blame it on a simple postal error.
A mistake.
That's why we were given this assignment, right? They knew all along so that even if we succeeded in finding the truth, we'd be discredited as part of it.
Am I right? - Am I right? - You never had a chance, Agent Mulder.
For every step you take, they're three steps ahead.
What about you? Where do you stand? I stand right on the line that you keep crossing.
Come on, let's go.
Agent Mulder I'm saying this as a friend.
Watch your back.
This is just the beginning.