The X-Files s08e20 Episode Script

We call it the miracle of life.
Conception: a union of perfect opposites-- Essence transforming into existence-- An act without which mankind would not exist and humanity cease to exist.
Or is this just nostalgia now? An act of biology commandeered by modern science and technology? Godlike, we extract, implant, inseminate and we clone.
But has our ingenuity rendered the miracle into a simple trick? In the artifice of replicating life can we become the creator? Then what of the soul? Can it, too, be replicated? Does it live in this matter we call DNA? Or is its placement the opposite of artifice capable only by God.
How did this child come to be? What set its heart beating? Is it the product of a union? Or the work of a divine hand? An answered prayer? A true miracle? Or is it a wonder of technology-- The intervention of other hands? What do I tell this child about to be born? What do I tell Scully? And what do I tell myself.
You know, it would be a whole lot easier for everyone if you would just tell us the sex, Dana.
Did you hear me? Yes, I heard you, Mom-- For about the thousandth time-- You can wait.
Didn't you have to wait with us? Well, I know it's a boy.
I can just tell by the way you're carrying.
It's a boy.
You obviously don't need me to tell you because you already know.
Then it's a boy? Oh, it's the least you could tell your mother considering everything else you're keeping secret.
We told people noon, right? Hi.
Your mom said to cover all the bases.
I'm Lizzy Gill.
Hi, Lizzy.
Let me give you a hand with that.
I asked Lizzy to help out today.
Hi.
These are going to need some water.
Congratulations, by the way.
Mom What do we need help with? I don't know.
It's just, well you shouldn't have to worry.
You have to let people do for you.
She's a very highly recommended baby nurse, by the way.
Oh, Mom.
This has got to be a conspiracy.
Maybe it'll be twins.
Thank you, but I would settle for one very healthy boy.
Or girl.
So many secrets, Margaret.
What do you expect? My daughter works for the FBI.
I got it.
Here.
Moving in the white tornado.
Thank you, Lizzy.
No problem.
Just think about it.
Excuse me? Can I help you? Dr.
Lev, isn't it? I'm sorry.
I don't know who you are or how you got in here but we don't allow visitors.
I won't be visiting long.
I've just come to verify it's true.
Verify that what's true? That your work's been fruitful.
I can see that it has by the abomination you're holding in your hands.
You'll have to leave now.
Your work here is done.
Dale Jarrett right in the pack battling hard against Ricky Craven for seventh place.
Jeff? Yeah, Mike, I was down in the 88 car pit when Dale Jarrett came in.
His car was just a little bit on the tight side still.
Steve Allen, the gas man, took one round out of the left rear.
They said if they can get the car to free up a little bit more The last person I'd expect to see knocking on my door on a Saturday morning-- Agent Mulder.
You can drop the "Agent", Agent Doggett.
It's just plain old Fox Mulder now.
Right.
You want to come in, Fox? - I was just watching a race.
- That's what I was doing.
Slightly different race, though.
- from sixth place on back.
- Boy, that 32 car is really exclusive footage of a medical research clinic in Germantown, Maryland, which burned down last night in what firefighters called an accelerated blaze.
Accelerated because of the white-hot intensity of the fire, which officials are now calling a definite case of arson.
Zeus Genetics.
That ring a bell? Yeah.
That's where Scully believed they were doing tests on women-- putting alien babies in them or something like that-- against their will.
Wasn't ever completely explained.
Looks like somebody's attempt to make sure it never will be.
I'd say that's more than an attempt.
Looks like there's going to be nothing left.
I think that's the idea-- To cover up the kind of research that was going on there.
That's why I came to talk to you.
What do you want from me? How about a ride? FBI EVIDENCE ANALYSIS CENTER Hey, Gene.
Not the way I want to be spending my Saturday afternoon, John.
I had to leave my kid's ball game.
Sorry about that.
I didn't say you had to come do it yourself.
Fire Marshall thought I was kidding when I told him I wanted to sift all this.
Seeing it, I thought I was kidding, too.
He put you on to this, didn't he? What the hell are you doing, John? You don't have to answer to him.
He's out of the Bureau.
Well, he thinks there's something here.
I'm certain there is.
Just not anything the FBI needs to be looking for.
Agent Doggett? Hey, I hope you don't mind me dropping your name with the local PD.
They just told me that they contacted everyone at Zeus Genetics except for one man-- a Dr.
Lev-- A founder, and head of clinical research.
And what? You think we're going to find his body here in the ashes? That would probably stand to reason.
What is it exactly we're looking for being I'm starting to piss a lot of people off, Mr.
Mulder? Pissing people off comes with the territory, Agent Doggett.
It's part of working on the X-Files.
Well, at the risk of pissing you off I think I've wasted about enough of my weekend.
Hey, I told you Dr.
Lev was a founder of the clinic.
Would you like to know who his cofounder was? Dr.
Parenti.
Agent Scully's obstetrician through the first two-thirds of her pregnancy.
And you think he burned down this clinic? I don't know, but if I'm the agent assigned to the X-Files I sure as hell would want to ask him.
Worst it could do is piss him off.
Right.
We get caught in here what are you going to say then? I'll just say I'm with you, Agent Doggett.
It's Saturday anyway, right? We're just having a look around.
Hey, Mulder.
Who are you? - Me? - Yes, you, sir.
What do you think you're doing in this office? I'm with an FBI agent who would like to ask you the exact same question.
Dr.
Parenti, isn't it? I'm in the middle of a very delicate medical procedure.
Whatever you want you don't just come barging in here.
- I don't care who you are.
- This medical procedure It have anything to do with this? Please Why don't you tell us what we're looking at here, Dr.
Parenti? You people have no right to be here.
I want you to leave.
What is this? Some kind of showroom? Do you know what I've been through in the past 24 hours? Close friend and colleague is missing.
Much of my life's work has been destroyed.
How about you explain what you are doing? What these things are.
They are what we are all working so hard to prevent-- Children with non-survivable birth defects.
Does that work include experimentation with alien embryos? Work that you would destroy to cover up such allegations? - Where do you get these ideas? - From a friend of mine-- A former patient of yours-- Dana Scully.
If I'm such a Dr.
Frankenstein, how is it that Ms.
Scully is carrying a perfectly healthy child? In her own medical opinion.
Is she? I'd say this man's suitably pissed off.
Why don't we let him get back to work.
- Let's go, Mulder.
- Thank you.
Dana? Oh, sorry.
Horse pills.
I'm about to leave.
Your dinner's in the oven.
And I just wanted to say that I hope this is working out.
I know it's important to your mom.
It is.
And, uh I appreciate your help.
I didn't quite realize, uh how much I needed it.
Well, I'll see you.
How's it going? You look unsure.
No.
I think she trusts me.
Good.
We're almost at the end.
You found something, didn't you? You still answering to him? We found teeth and a porcelain bridge.
We're waiting on Dr.
Lev's dental records to make positive ID.
- Anything else? - Unidentifiable biological material fused with laboratory- grade silica.
I know what you're thinking.
But there's lots here that's unidentifiable.
Doesn't mean it's alien.
Let's ask Dr.
Parenti, if it's okay with Agent Crane.
Hello? Hello? - Packing, Dr.
Parenti? - I'm sorry.
This office is closed.
Yes, it is.
The man loves his work.
Dr.
Parenti? Agent Doggett.
Look at this.
Dr.
Parenti.
Dr.
Parenti.
What the hell is that? Hey, Mulder.
Mulder, better come see this.
Mulder? Right there! Don't move! Stop! Stop there! Stop there or I'll shoot! Hold still, Mulder.
This should just about do it.
- Ahh! Scully.
- Sorry.
I see why you gave up a career in medicine for the FBI, Scully.
You've got manos de piedra.
Sorry.
Imagine if he'd really connected.
Who? Billy Miles.
Billy Miles? He did this? Ask Agent Doggett.
He saw him.
If you ask me, the kid was whacked out on something.
Whatever it was, he was feeling no pain.
- Ask me, the kid isn't a kid.
- Oh, don't tell me he's an alien.
He is a type of alien.
A human replacement.
One who looks human.
Look at his strength.
The way he took those slugs.
I've seen plenty of guys whacked out on chemicals, keep on coming.
Well, then, you're ignoring who Billy Miles is.
You, of all people, Agent Doggett who's supposedly running the X-Files.
You're ignoring the fact that he bled red blood.
Now, every single X-File I read-- and I read them all, Mulder-- what you call "aliens" bleed green, right? Well, Billy Miles is a whole new deal.
He's an alien abductee who was returned after hideous procedures were performed on him.
And who miraculously returns to so-called perfect health when his body completely sheds its skin.
Same thing happened to you.
Same thing would've happened to me if I'd been left alone.
If Scully hadn't treated me.
What I want to know is what Billy Miles was doing - at that medical office.
- Same as when he torched Zeus Genetics and destroyed their experiments with alien biology and the doctors performing them.
And what were you doing there, Mulder? Looking for answers.
To what? One of those doctors was your doctor.
- Mulder - Listen, I'm sorry, but I just need to know this baby of yours is going to be all right.
My baby is fine, Mulder.
I've had it checked over and over again with my new doctor that I trust implicitly.
Oh, I'm sorry, Dana.
I didn't Come on in, Lizzy.
It's all right.
We just need some space to talk.
It's okay.
I've got plenty to do.
Excuse me.
It's okay.
She's just helping me out here at my mother's insistence.
That's That's all I'm trying to do.
Just make sure nothing happens to you; that this baby you're carrying is born without any surprises.
Hi.
It's me.
We've got trouble.
- Where are you? - I'm at her apartment.
She's with her two partners.
They're asking all the right questions.
Lizzy, listen to me.
She trusts you.
You've got to play to that.
You have to keep a cool head.
Who are you? Assistant Director.
Heads have been rolling, Agent Doggett, all in your direction.
PD got the call.
Passerby saw the door of the building wide open.
Name of the victim flagged a previous FBI investigation.
- Duffy Haskell.
- Yeah.
Came to see you and Scully on a case involving pregnant women carrying alien babies.
Coroner says that the way his neck is severed defies logic and use of any conventional-type weapon.
What is this place? An illegal medical facility for the purpose of human cloning.
It goes on from here.
In fact, it occupies the entire warehouse.
You read about these things but you don't imagine they exist.
Yeah, just like aliens.
Come on, what are you saying? That that's what was going on here? - That they're making alien babies? - No, nobody's saying that, Agent Doggett.
At least not yet.
But what I do have to tell you is not going to put your mind any more at ease.
We found prenatal records here.
A Dr.
Lev and a Dr.
Parenti working with this Duffy Haskell monitoring Scully's pregnancy.
This Dr.
Parenti, it's true he's one of Scully's doctors but from everything I know, Scully's checked out fine.
You seem to be missing the point.
And what point would that be? What? Talk to you a minute? - You said there'd been a murder.
- Yeah, we'll get there.
Some business we need to clear up.
Personal business.
About Scully's baby, about who the father is.
Yeah, I hear there's a pool running down at the FBI, placing bets.
I've had my suspicions.
That is, until I found out that you had questions.
Questions about Scully's pregnancy itself.
You want to know who the father is that's Scully's business.
But if you're asking me how a woman who was diagnosed as barren and unable to conceive is about to give birth in a couple days that's an answer I can't honestly give.
Well, I need answers.
In light of what we found in there and in light of Scully's due date I need good, hard answers.
- Fast.
- Sir, just Let me.
Lizzy, are you going to get that? Lizzy? Hello? Hey, Scully, it's me.
Are you all right? Yeah.
I just ran from the shower.
I need to see you.
I've got Skinner with me.
It's not something - that can really wait.
- What? It's about your pregnancy.
Skinner's got some questions based on some new information.
What? Mulder, what are you talking about? Evidence of interference by someone.
What are you doing? What do you think you're doing with these? Who are you? Who are you?! I want you to know you can stop worrying, Dana.
Your baby is fine.
Everything is absolutely as it should be, 100%.
The pills you were worried about were just vitamin supplements.
Nothing harmful.
Nothing you'd be afraid to give any expectant mother.
I know it doesn't make sense but it's a relief, I'm sure.
I am so sorry, Dana.
I brought Lizzy into your home.
This is all my fault.
You know I'd never let anything happen to you.
I'd never knowingly let anybody hurt you.
I know, Mom.
I'm so worried about you.
You keep everything so bottled up.
Mulder! How is she? She's fine, according to her doctor.
Apparently, it was a false alarm.
Whatever this woman was up to Well, we won't be able to hold the woman based on those findings.
But Agent Doggett's been talking to her.
I think you ought to hear what she has to say.
I knew people would kill for what I know but not like this.
Not going to let that happen.
Just what you told me and Agent Crane.
For the past ten years I've been working as a research scientist trying to produce human clones-- Long before the media circus with sheep and cows.
The work was painstaking, largely unsuccessful but there was a lot of interest and a lot of money.
Money from who? Orders came from government men.
But they're all dead now.
But the work continued.
We were surprisingly successful with a clone from a human egg and alien DNA.
DNA that the government had since 1947.
What do you mean by success? Alien babies.
Birthed by human mothers desperate to conceive.
They didn't live more than a couple of days, but tissue and stem cells is what we were after for other experiments.
What other experiments? I don't know anything about that.
But I know it was something good.
What did you do to Scully? - We were trying to protect her.
- What did you do to her?! - No, you don't understand.
- Tell me what's wrong with her! Tell me what's wrong with her baby! Listen to her.
What she's saying.
There's nothing wrong with her.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
The child she is carrying is very special.
One could only hope to create that in a lab.
A perfect human child but with no human frailties.
Mulder! Agent Doggett! I got something, John.
This guy Billy Miles called in from a Dr.
Parenti's office.
He wants to give himself up.
All right, let's get over there.
Yes? It's me.
- What's wrong? - You here alone? Yes.
My mom just went to the-- Whatever you can't get elsewhere, just throw it together.
Mulder, to go where? No, just stop! Can you tell me what's wrong? - Is it something to do with my baby? - No, your baby is fine.
It's you who's in danger now, Scully.
From who? - Mulder, from what? - I don't know, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure about anything.
I just know I got to get you out of here.
Mulder, look, I can't take this! I can't live like this-- as the object of some unending X-File.
This isn't about the X-Files, Scully.
It is only about you.
Now, you are going to have this baby and I'm going to do everything I can to protect it.
I just can't do that here.
Billy Miles! Billy Billy Miles.
Agent Doggett.
Anything? Mulder.
It's John Doggett.
I'm at Dr.
Parenti's office.
Billy Miles called us looking to turn himself in - only he ain't here.
- Agent Doggett I know.
Something's wrong.
Something doesn't make any sense.
Leave the suitcase.
Get in, go around.
Mulder, lock your door.
I don't think that matters much, Scully.
We haven't got much time.
Get in.
Mulder? Let's go! You should all know exactly what it is you're up against what Agent Scully's up against.
You realize you're all listening to someone who tried to kill me.
He left you for dead.
Tell us about Billy Miles.
There are others just like him.
You can call them what you want they're human replacements, alien replicants.
They're virtually unstoppable.
What do they want? They want to knock out any and all attempts by us to survive the final days-- When they come back to retake the planet.
So, what, they're wandering around among us looking for trouble? Some kind of alien lawmen? You saw what they did to those doctors.
They're fearless.
And they answer to no one except their own biological imperative to survive.
What about Scully? What do they want with her? They want my baby.
Why? They didn't even know about it.
I don't know exactly how they could have found out just how how important it is how special.
My baby is normal.
Your baby was a miracle.
Born of a barren mother's barren womb.
Are you saying that they're afraid of it? They're afraid of its implications.
That it could somehow be greater than them.
Something more human than human.
I don't believe this.
You wanted to destroy her child.
I wanted to destroy the truth before they learn the truth.
That there's a God a higher power.
I don't believe this crap; I don't believe you're all sitting around here listening to it when you know this man's a liar.
Worse than that.
You can believe what you want but I don't think you can take the chance that I'm wrong.
There isn't a hospital that's safe enough.
She may never even make it out of this building.
- Why don't you just shut up? - Agent Doggett.
Get on the phone.
If we're going to get Scully out of here we're going to need some help.
Agent Doggett? Agent Doggett, can you hear me? I'm in the cab on my way from the airport.
I'll meet you down in the parking garage.
I have a car there waiting for you.
- Where are we going? - I'll tell you when you get here.
If I'm so full of crap, why all the precautions? Precisely because you are so full of crap, Krycek.
Your ass stays here.
- Agent Doggett, where are you? - Coming around to you.
Stop the car.
Go.
Get out of here.
I'm guessing I don't have time to go to the little girls' room? Okay, bring her down.
Mulder, Skinner, he's in the garage! Go back! Go back! Get back in the elevator! He's on the stairs coming up.
- Hey, look who's back.
- He's in the building.
- What do you want me to do? - You're going to protect her.
Drive safely.
Go! Go! TO BE CONTINUED