SCENE 1 NEAR ELLENS AIR BASE SOUTHWEST IDAHO
(Several
military police surround what looks to be a normal house)
COMMANDING
OFFICER: As soon as we're in position, we'll be on a count of
five.
(A woman
comes up to a police barrier)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Excuse me, that's my house.
MILITARY
POLICE OFFICER: Ok, let her through.
(The woman
runs up to the commanding officer)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: What's going on?
COMMANDING
OFFICER: Standby. Mrs. Budahas?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Yeah.
COMMANDING
OFFICER: Your husband has violated basic security procedure.
He's commandeered a military vehicle that's believed to be armed.
LEAD
OFFICER: Keep on moving in.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Oh God!
(The MP's
cover the entrance of the house, while two others get ready to use a battering
ram to break open the front door. The Lead Officer signals the officers to
begin with a countdown from five, on his fingers. The door is broke open and
the MP's move in, securing each room)
VOICE:
We have access..
ANITA
BUDAHAS: You've got to let me talk to him.
(The MP's
secure the upstairs, room by room. Finally kicking in a door finding their
target)
LEAD
OFFICER: What the hell. We got him but he's gonna need a
doctor.. or something.
(We see a
man, wearing only his underwear, sitting trembling in a corner of the room. His
skin looks like it has been burned and blistered)
SCENE 2
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(The camera
pans down a aerial shot of a road. Next we see the inside of a bar, a waiter is
making and serving drinks. We see Scully, sitting at the bar, she checks her
watch before continuing to work at a file. Mulder appears)
SCULLY:
Hi. I got your message.
MULDER:
Sorry for the run around. Can I buy you a drink?
SCULLY:
It's two-o-clock in the afternoon Agent Mulder.
MULDER:
It's not stopping the rest of these people. I got
something to show you.
SCULLY:
Something you couldn't show me at work.
MULDER:
Let's get a table. (Mulder and Scully make their way
through the crowded bar. We see many people sitting at the bar, but one
particular man seems to be watching Mulder and Scully. Scully is looking
through a file, we see a photo of a man, the same man we saw trembling in his
home at the start, in a military uniform) That's Colonel Robert Budahas. That
photo was taken last year when he was a test pilot for the military, stationed
at Ellens Air Base in Southwest Idaho. Four months ago, Colonel Budahas
experienced a psychotic episode and barricaded himself in his home. Military
police were called in. Budahas was removed and apparently hospitalised with
treatment of his condition.
SCULLY:
Which was what, exactly?
MULDER:
The military will not comment on the cause, nature or
status. In fact, the military will not comment on Colonel Budahas at all.
SCULLY:
What do you mean?
MULDER:
Mrs. Budahas has neither seen nor heard from her
husband in over four months. Her inquiries to the military have gone
unanswered. Last month, she contacted the FBI and reported it as a kidnapping.
SCULLY:
What reason would the military have to kidnap one of
their own pilots?
MULDER:
That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question,
Scully. (Mulder passes Scully some new information, a thick pile of papers)
Since 1963, six pilots have been listed as missing in action, from Ellens Air
Base. The military will say only that these pilots accepted the risks of flying
experimental aircraft.
SCULLY:
Yeah, there were rumours those pilots were shot down
at high altitudes, while they were routinely penetrating Russian air space.
MULDER:
There were other rumours too. I've been tracking this
case since it came through the Boise regional office last month. Last week, for
reasons I can't figure out, it was deprioritised. They shelved this case
without an investigation, Scully.
SCULLY:
So?
MULDER:
So, you and I, are going to the spud state to
investigate a little kidnapping.
SCULLY:
I don't get it Mulder. Does this have something to do
with an X-File? I thought you only liked those, er, paranormal type cases. Am I
missing something here?
MULDER:
Let's just say, this case has a, distinct smell to it,
a certain, paranormal bouquet. Excuse me.
(Mulder
gets up and goes to the restroom)
SCENE 3
(Mulder walks from a urinal to the sink and washes his hands. Another man
leaves the restroom. Mulder bends down and rinses his face then gets up and
dries it. He sees, in the mirror, a man standing behind him, the same man that
was watching him from the bar. Mulder turns to face him)
DEEP
THROAT: Leave this case alone Agent Mulder.
MULDER:
What?
DEEP
THROAT: The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.
MULDER:
Who are you?
DEEP
THROAT: I, er, can be of help to you. I've had a certain
interest in your work.
(There is a
knock on the door, we see that it has been bolted from the inside)
VOICE:
Sorry.
MULDER:
How do you know about my work?
DEEP
THROAT: Well, let's just say that I'm in a position to know
quite alot of things, er, things about our government.
MULDER:
Who are you? Who do you work for?
DEEP
THROAT: It's unimportant, I came here to give you some
valuable advice. You are exposing yourself and Agent Scully to unnecessary
risk, I advise you to drop the case.
MULDER:
I can't do that.
DEEP
THROAT: You have much work to do Agent Mulder, (The man
unlocks the door) don't jeopardise the future of your own efforts.
(The man
leaves and as Mulder rushes out after him, he is obstructed by another man
trying to come into the restroom. Mulder pushes passed the man, and moves out
into the bar. When he looks around he sees no sign of the man, he was talking
to. Scully notices Mulder's curious look and approaches)
SCENE 4
SCULLY:
You ok Mulder?
MULDER:
Yeah, I'm fine.
SCENE 5 FBI
HEADQUARTERS
(Scully is
sitting at a large microfiche film reader screen, reading through information
on Ellens Air Base and it's association with UFO buffs. One phrase that Scully
seems to focus on reads, `...technology with stealth weaponry...')
(We see
Mulder standing in his kitchen, his phone rings)
MULDER:
Hello.
SCULLY:
Mulder?
MULDER:
Yeah.
SCULLY:
I checked on that file you gave me.
MULDER:
Uh-huh.
SCULLY:
You failed to tell me a few things. (Mulder hears
clicking noises coming from his phone, he takes the phone away from his ear)
This isn't some UFO goose chase, you're leading me on, is it? (Mulder listens
into the phone again) Are you there Mulder?
MULDER:
Yeah.
(Mulder
walks towards his window and looks through some of the blinds, he sees a van
parked across the road, outside his apartment)
SCULLY:
Did you hear what I said, because the bureau has it
out for us already and it would make us appear pretty stupid if my field
report, read like some tabloid story.
MULDER:
Er, listen, I don't want to talk about it on this
line. I'll, I'll talk to you about it, on the flight out, OK?
(Mulder
hangs up)
SCENE 6
MARRIETTE FIELD SOUTHWEST IDAHO
(Mulder
knocks on the door of the house belonging to the woman we saw at the start. An
aircraft flies passed and Mulder and Scully both turn around to try and see it.
The door opens)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Hello?
(Mulder and
Scully turn back around to face the Mrs. Budahas)
MULDER:
Mrs. Budahas?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Yes.
(Mulder
takes out his id and shows it to Mrs. Budahas)
MULDER:
We're from the FBI.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Oh, yes, please, come in. (Mulder and Scully, enter
the house, we see a picture of Lt. Col. Budahas hanging on the wall) I started
noticing it about two years ago, m, Bob developed this rash under his arms.
We'd been doing some renovations on the house, so that, we thought it was a
reaction to the paint stripper. But then everything just, went crazy.
SCULLY:
How do you mean?
(Mulder is
looking at the photos of Lt. Col. Budahas)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Bob's whole personality, it was so unpredictable. He
started, doing things.
MULDER:
What kinds of things?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: It was kind of embarassing at first, we were having
this dinner party once, and, erm, he sprinkled tetra-meal D all other his food.
(Scully, looks confused as she doesn't know what tetra-meal D is) That's
fishfood flakes.
SCULLY:
Did you ever talk to him about this?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: I tried, i, it was extemely difficult, Bob would get
so angry, he'd, yell at the kids for no reason, and, and then, and then he
would shake, like he was having a, a seizure.
MULDER:
Did he ever talk about his work?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: It was never discussed, e, even before the problems.
Oh, I knew that he worked on top secret projects, word gets around, but, Bob
was always a patriot first. He took, loyalty to his country as an oath, and,
and now they treat us like strangers. I just want my husband back.
SCULLY:
You know that the government is not above the law.
They cannot withhold information.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Th, then I think, what if he's... (Mrs. Budahas starts
to cry a little) How would I support the family?
MULDER:
Eeh, you said word gets around, I'm sorry, erm, have
you ever heard of this, happening to anyone else?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Erm, yeah. Verla McLennen's husband, he went kinda
crazy, but it's, it's not like he didn't get to come home.
SCENE 7
VERLA McLENNEN'S HOUSE
(We see the
apparatus for preparing hooks for flyfishing being used. We then see a man,
pull a small hair from his closely shaven head, he checks the hair and uses it
on his hook)
SCULLY:
How long has he been...
VERLA
MCLENNEN: Almost two years, the flyfishing idea was his brother
Hank's. I was upset at first, but when you're the wife of a test pilot, you
thank God just to have him home alive.
MULDER:
Mrs. McLennen, has anyone ever offered to explain what
caused this?
VERLA
MCLENNEN: Stress, I guess. You have to understand, the military
deals with things in a certain way. They've given him plenty of therapy, and
treatment, and I'm grateful for that. They've taken good care of us. And you
know they do volunteer for their jobs. (Mrs. McLennen stands beside Mrs.
Budahas) Really Anita, bringing the FBI to my house.
(We see the
man, Mr. McLennen, he is still making his hooks)
(Back
outside Mrs. Budahas' house. Mrs. Budahas gives a piece of paper to Scully)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Here, I've, erm, I've called all the numbers about a
thousand times, please, let me know what you find out.
SCULLY:
We'll be staying at the Beech Grove Motel if you
anything, ok?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Thanks. (Mrs. Budahas walks towards her house, while
Mulder and Scully walk away) C'mon kids.
MULDER:
So what did you make of Uncle Fester down the block?
SCULLY:
Mmm, it's called sterioptathy, it's a syndrome
produced by extreme stress. POWs have been known to suffer from it, they've
studied it in zoo animals.
MULDER:
Yeah, but these guys aren't zoo animals, they're test
pilots. They're not supposed to fold under pressure, they're supposed to thrive
on it.
(Mulder and
Scully are standing beside their car)
SCULLY:
Ever hear of something called The Aurora Project?
(Mulder
takes off his jacket and puts it in the car)
MULDER:
Yeah, that's the, er, unacknowledged codename for some
new kind of defence department, surveillance project.
SCULLY:
The Pentagon has all but admitted, they've been
testing a secret class of sub-orbital spy craft over the western US. Maybe,
these guys are flying those planes. Maybe, these guys are the washouts.
MULDER:
You saw the photos on the wall in there. This guy
Budahas received a presidential commodation, he's never washed out of anything
in his life.
(Mulder
gets in the car, after a brief hesitation, Scully moves to the other side of
the car)
SCENE 8
BEECH GROVE MOTEL SCULLY'S ROOM
(We see
Scully hang up the telephone, Mulder comes in holding up his cellular phone and
sits on the bed)
MULDER:
I've been on hold with the base director of
communications for fourty-five minutes, how about you?
SCULLY:
Yeah, somebody named Colonel Kissel will meet with us,
a week from Friday.
MULDER:
Yeah, right. (Mulder lifts up a telephone directory)
Did you say Kissel?
SCENE 9 (We
see a car drive down a road and into a driveway. Mulder and Scully are sitting
in their car opposite the house in which the car just pulled into. They get out
of the car and walk towards the man who just got out of the car)
MULDER:
Colonel Kissel?
COLONEL
KISSEL: Yes.
MULDER:
Can I talk with you? Special Agent Mulder, FBI.
COLONEL
KISSEL: I've got nothing to say. Please, this is an invasion
of my privacy.
MULDER:
Why don't you talk to us about Colonel Budahas?
COLONEL
KISSEL: Why don't you get the hell out of my yard.
(Colonel
Kissel enters his house and shuts the door)
SCULLY:
Good thing we still kept that appointment.
(Mulder and
Scully turn around when they hear a man greeting them and walking up the
driveway towards them)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Hi. Are you the FBI agents? I'm Paul Mossinger, I, er,
work for the local paper. We live a few houses down from Verla McLennen, she
said you guys are out here looking into this Budahas thing.
MULDER:
We're just looking around.
(Mulder
and Scully, walk out of the drive, away from the man)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Aah, gotcha, right. Lot of people around here just
looking around, UFO nuts mostly, but it's not everyday we get FBI. (Another
aircraft flies overhead and they all stop to look) By the time you hear them,
they're already gone. So this Budahas thing, are you getting anywhere?
MULDER:
We're not at liberty to comment.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Well...
MULDER:
Paul? Right? You've lived in this area a while, you
ever seen a UFO?
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Never, bunch of hoo-ey if you ask me. People see what
they wanna see.
MULDER:
But, if I wanted to talk to those UFO nuts, that you
refered to earlier, where would I go?
SCENE 10
FLYING SAUCER DINER
(Another
aircraft flies overhead, the glasses on the shelves of the diner all shake)
ZOE:
F-15 Eagle pulling about four g's. Those boys think
they are such hotshots. Get a few drinks in `em, you'd think it was them up
there flapping their wings.
(Mulder
laughs)
MULDER:
Who's the photographer?
(Mulder is
refering to several photos atached to the shelves, photos of UFOs)
ZOE:
Various and sundry. I took the one on the end there.
(The photo
is of a large triangular shaped craft in the air)
MULDER:
You're kidding, where?
ZOE:
Out on the back porch, taking out the garbage, and
there it was, just hovering. (Zoe takes the photo down and shows it to Mulder)
Quiet like a hummingbird. For a minute there, I thought it was gonna land in
the parking lot and I was gonna have to serve `em lunch. (Scully takes the
photo from Mulder and looks at it) I'm selling limited edition prints, twenty
dollars. Down to my last five, if you're interested.
MULDER:
Put it on my tab.
(Scully
leans over to Mulder)
SCULLY:
Sucker.
MULDER:
What would the chances be, of someone like me, seeing
a UFO?
SCULLY:
Catch ye outside.
(Outside
the diner, Scully is looking at a map, Mulder comes out)
SCULLY:
Wanna see something weird, Mulder? Ellens Air Base
isn't even on my US GS quadrant map.
MULDER:
I know. Let's go.
SCULLY:
You know. Where are we going?
MULDER:
We got our own map, sucker.
(Mulder
gives Scully a piece of paper with a roughly drawn map on it)
SCENE 11
OUTSIDE ELLENS AIR BASE 6:04 p.m.
(Mulder and
Scully, drive off the main road and up a hill. At The bottom of the hill is a
sign saying:
WARNING:
THIS AREA IS A RESTRICTED MILITARY INSTALLATION TO THE WEST.
At the top
of the sign is a symbol indicating no cameras. Mulder stops the car further up
the road beside a fence. He gets out goes to the boot and gets a pair of
binoculars)
SCULLY:
What do you honestly hope to see?
MULDER:
I don't know, maybe nothing.
SCULLY:
Is this why we came out here, Mulder? To look for
UFOs. (Mulder is walking up a grassy embankment) Yea, this is gonna look real
good on my field report.
(It is
night time and Scully is sleeping in the car. Suddenly the car starts shaking,
Scully begins to rouse and is shocked awake by the sound of the rear window
shattering)
SCULLY:
Aaaaaah!
(Mulder
comes running down the embankment)
MULDER:
Scully, wake up. You've gotta see this.
(Mulder
opens the car door and pulls Scully up the embankment)
SCULLY:
Unnh!
9:13 p.m.
(Mulder and
Scully see two small lights flying through the sky in the distance)
SCULLY:
What are they?
MULDER:
I don't know, just keep watching it's unbelievable.
SCULLY:
That's unreal. I've never seen anything like it.
MULDER:
They've been going at it like that for almost half an
hour.
SCULLY:
Well, it can't be aircraft. Aircraft can't manoeuvre
like that.
MULDER:
What else could they be?
SCULLY:
I don't know, lasers maybe. Being shot from the
ground, reflecting up off the clouds. (The two lights fly up through the clouds
and disappear. Scully turns to face
Mulder, her expression is one of amazement) Oh my God.
(Another bright
light appears in the distance)
MULDER:
Here comes another one.
SCULLY:
That's not a plane, that's a helicopter.
(Mulder and
Scully hear noises from the botton of the embankment, we see a guy and a girl
coming through the fence and past a bush)
MULDER:
Hey.
EMIL:
Let's get outta here. (The young couple run off,
Mulder and Scully chase after them across a field. Mulder draws his gun, the
guy notices it and both he and the girl stop and raise their hands) Ok, don't
shoot.
MULDER:
Stay right there.
LADONNA:
We didn't do anything.
(They all
look up at the helicopter as it's search light gets closer to them)
MULDER:
Come on.
(They all
hide under the cover of a tree)
EMIL:
Heh, heh, That was extreme.
MULDER:
Let's go, you're coming with us.
EMIL:
What?
SCENE 12
5:02 a.m.
(Inside
another diner, the two kids are sitting eating away, while Mulder and Scully
are sitting on the other side of the table)
SCULLY:
So, what exactly were you guys doing in there?
EMIL:
We were, erm, we're...
(Emil and
the Ladonna laugh)
LADONNA:
We kinda have this spot.
EMIL:
You know, we go, we kinda, kick back and listen to
some tunes and, er, watch the air show.
MULDER:
Were you ever chased out before?
EMIL:
No, first time right. Our friend showed us a hole in
the fence about a year ago.
LADONNA:
Oh, one time they dropped these bombs, wooah!
EMIL:
Yeah, it was kinda heavy. (he laughs) Oh, ar, there's
this place, ar, called the Yellow Base, right, where they're supposed to store
all this stuff. And my friend said that, there's landmines all around it and
junk like that.
(Outside
the diner, a car pulls up and stops when the driver, Paul Mossinger, has Mulder
and Scully in sight. He talks into a walkie-talkie)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: I've got a twenty, over.
WALKIE-TALKIE:
Roger, Redbird, assume fall back position, we're
opening the gate.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Redbird out.
(Back
inside the diner, Emil is demostrating, with a hamburger, how the lights
sometimes fly)
EMIL:
Sometimes they come in real low, and just put on the
scares right, it's like eeoou-ra and then they just hang there, and hover
without making a sound. And you just think, you know, who turned down the
volume right.
MULDER:
What do you think they are?
EMIL:
Ok, everybody thinks that they're like UFOs, but I
think it's some kinda, star wars cyber- tech new fangled hardware right, they
probably roll it out for, desert storm II or something like that. Cruise right
over Saddam's house, you know, it'll be like, what.
(He laughs.
Then Mulder pulls out the photo, of the UFO, he bought at the Flying Saucer
diner)
MULDER:
Do they look anything like this?
EMIL:
No, (Mulder's expression saddens a little) they look
exactly like that.
(Mulder
lifts Emil's mo-ped out of the trunk of his car and puts in on the ground)
EMIL:
Thanks.
MULDER:
Later Dude!
(Emil
laughs and he and Ladonna walk up a driveway pushing the mo-ped. Mulder gets
back into the car and takes a tape out of his shirt pocket)
SCENE 13
SCULLY:
What's that?
MULDER:
Evidence. (Mulder puts the tape in the stereo and the
sound of heavy metal guitar music fills the car. Scully turns it off) Kids
today, huh.
SCULLY:
You believe it all, don't you?
MULDER:
Why wouldn't I?
(Scully has
a great big smile across her face, almost laughing)
SCULLY:
Mulder, did you see their eyes? If I were that stoned
I...
MULDER:
Ho-hoo. If you were that stoned, what.
SCULLY:
Mulder, you could have shown that kid a picture of a
flying hamburger and he would have told you that's exactly what he saw.
MULDER:
Alright, I wanna show you something. (Mulder reaches
into the back seat of the car and lifts a folder, he opens it and takes out a
photo, which he gives to Scully) This is a photo, of a UFO that reportedly
crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Now I know, you
don't believe that story but just hear me out. Now, Ellens Air Base, the
same base that we're at right now, the same base, that for some strange reason,
doesn't appear on your US government map, is supposedly, one of the six sites
where parts from the wreckage were shipped.
SCULLY:
Mulder, are you suggesting that the military is flying
UFOs.
MULDER:
No, planes built, using UFO technology.
(Scully
smiles again at Mulder's total belief in UFOs, which she does not believe at
all. Mulder gives Scully the photo from the diner)
SCULLY:
Mulder, c'mon. You've got two blurry photos, one of
them taken almost fifty years ago, and another one, you purchased today in a
roadside diner. You're going out on a pretty big limb.
MULDER:
Tell me, there isn't a remarkable resemblance.
SCULLY:
Tell me, one good reason why either of these photos is
authentic.
MULDER:
You saw exactly what I saw in the sky tonight. What do
you think they were?
SCULLY:
Just because I can't explain it, doesn't mean I'm
gonna believe they were UFOs.
MULDER:
Unidentified Flying Objects, I think that fits the
description pretty well. Tell me I'm crazy.
SCULLY:
Mulder, you're crazy. (Mulder chuckles) And it still
doesn't explain to me, what happened to Colonel Budahas.
SCENE 14
BEECH GROVE MOTEL
(We see the
reception office of the Beech Grove Motel, Scully is standing in it)
SCULLY:
Thanks.
WOMAN:
You're welcome.
(Scully
comes running from the reception to Mulder's room. Mulder sees her running
towards his room and gets up opens the door)
MULDER:
You didn't come to raid my mini-bar, did ye?
SCULLY:
You ready for this.
MULDER:
What?
SCULLY:
We got a message from Mrs. Budahas, her husband came
home last night.
SCENE 15 (Mulder
and Scully drive to Mrs. Budahas' home. Mrs. Budahas opens the door)
SCULLY:
We got your message.
(Mrs.
Budahas is crying)
MULDER:
Mrs. Budahas, are you ok?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: C,come inside.
SCULLY:
What is it?
MULDER:
What? What's wrong?
(We see a
man, who looks like Lt. Col. Robert Budahas, painting a model of an airplane)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: That, is not my husband.
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Honey, who are these people?
(Mulder
looks at the photo of Lt. Col. Budahas, on the wall)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: That is not him. That is not my husband. They've done
something to him.
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: What are you talking about?
MULDER:
It's ok, it's ok, just relax, wel, I'm Special Agent
Mulder, from the FBI. We're out here investigating your disappearance Colonel
Budahas. Wondering if you have any explanation of your whereabouts over the
past four months.
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: I was in the hospital.
MULDER:
Here, on base?
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: I think so.
MULDER:
Colonel Budahas, do you mind if I ask you your
birthdate?
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: November 21st, 1948.
(Mulder
looks at Mrs. Budahas for confirmation, she nods her head)
MULDER:
And the names of your kids?
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Josh and Lesley, they're right there.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Yeah.
(Mulder
notices the shirt Col. Budahas is wearing says Green Bay)
MULDER:
Green Bay fan.
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Yes sir.
MULDER:
Bet you remember the Superbowl of 68, huh? Don
Shandler.
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Kicked four field goals, Lombardy's last game. Why do
I have to answer these questions?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: It's not him.
MULDER:
Colonel, Colonel Budahas, you're a, a pilot, isn't
that right?
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Yes sir.
MULDER:
Bet you've flown just about everything with two wings.
I got this hotshot pilot friend, who said that he could do Immelmann at a
sustained eight g's, huh, is that possible?
LT.
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: I, I don't... I can't... Anita, I can't remember.
(Col.
Budahas gets up to go to Mrs. Budahas, but she backs off, scared and crying)
ANITA
BUDAHAS: No.
(Mulder and
Scully leave the house)
SCENE 16
SCULLY:
Mulder, would you explain to me what's going on.
MULDER:
I think they re-wired that man's brain. Some kind of
selective memory drain.
SCULLY:
The brain doesn't work like that, Mulder. You can't
just go in and erase certain files.
MULDER:
Then you explain it to me.
SCULLY:
There are types of amnesia th..
MULDER:
This is not amnesia, I think it's something far more
deliberate and insidious.
SCULLY:
All I'm saying, is that the science or medical
technology to do what you are suggesting, does not exist.
MULDER:
And neither does the technology to fly the aircraft we
saw last night. Listen to me Scully, they can do this. That man, he should have
known the answer to the question, it just wasn't in his head anymore.
(Mulder and
Scully are driving along a road)
SCULLY:
Even if they could, why would they do such a thing?
MULDER:
To control information. I think that after his
psychotic episode, Colonel Budahas became a security risk.
SCULLY:
It couldn't just be that he had a nervous breakdown
with a concomitant memory lapse?
MULDER:
No, I think that men like Colonel Budahas are
physiologically incapable of dealing with the stress of flying the aircraft we
saw. Or doing those manoeuvres, at those speeds. I mean we're talking about a
technology that is so sensitive and advanced, that it's taken almost fifty
years to make it work. UFO technology, Scully.
(Scully
smiles again, but this time she also gives a little laugh. Ahead two cars are
approaching fast, the two cars cover both sides of the road, one slightly
infront of the other)
SCULLY:
What the hell is th..
MULDER:
Hold on.
(Mulder
slams on the brakes. The other two cars turn and stop sideways, blocking the
road infront and behind Mulder and Scully. Groups of men wearing suits get out
of both cars. One man approaches Mulder's side of the car and knocks on the
window)
MAN:
Please, step out of the car.
MULDER:
You think if maybe we ignore him, he'll go away?
(The man
knocks on the window again)
MAN:
Please, step out of the car.
MULDER:
Guess not. (Mulder gets out of the car) Special Agent
Mulder, FBI.
(As he
reaches for his id, another man pushes him up against the car and searches him.
Scully gets out of the car)
SCULLY:
Federal Agents.
(Scully is
also searched, as is the car. The glove compartment is checked and Mulder's
file containing the photos from Roswell. The magazine in Mulder's gun is
removed and the gun is put on top of the car. The same is done with Scully's
gun. One of the men opens the trunk and gets Mulder's camera, he opens it and
pulls out the film, exposing it all to the light. Scully's briefcase is emptied
of it's contents)
MULDER:
You wanna tell me what this is about.
(A man
punches Mulder in the ribs)
MAN:
National security. Now get in your car. You'll be
escorted back to your motel. You will pack and leave town immediately, or assume
the consequences of intense indiscretion.
SCENE 17
(Back at their motel, Scully is walking round her room, talking on the phone)
SCULLY:
Nothing under Idaho plate CC1356, no plate registered
under that number. Thanks Gayle, no no no, I'm sure the other one's bogus too,
bye. (Mulder is lying on the bed) So who were those guys?
MULDER:
I don't think it was those kids they were chasing away
from the base last night, I think it was us. They knew we were coming before we
ever arrived. And they returned Colonel Budahas as a decoy. There's something I
didn't tell you, Scully.
SCULLY:
Something else.
MULDER:
I was approached by a man in D.C. who warned me to
stay away from this case, he didn't give me his name, and my phone was being
tapped.
SCULLY:
What!
MULDER:
Why would they go to all this trouble? Out of a need
for security. Security of what? I think there's a huge conspiracy here Scully.
They've got a UFO here, I'm sure of it. And they'll do anything to keep it a
secret, including sacrificing lives and minds of those pilots, because what if
that secret got out.
SCULLY:
If, if that were true, it would be a national scandal.
MULDER:
No no, you're not thinking big enough, if it were
true, it would be confirmation of the existence of extra terrestrial life.
SCULLY:
Did you ever stop to think that what we saw was simply
an experimental plane. Like the stealth bomber or, this Aurora Project. Doesn't
the government have a right and a responsibility, to protect it's secrets?
MULDER:
Yes, but at what cost, when does the human cost become
too high for the building of a better machine?
SCULLY:
Look, these are questions we have no business asking.
Our kidnap victim is no longer outstanding. Let's get out of here Mulder, while
you still have a job.
(Mulder picks
up the photo from the diner and holds it in front of Scully)
MULDER:
Aren't you even curious? (Scully takes the photo from
Mulder and sits down) Aaerm, I gonna shower, I'll pack and then, we'll get
outta here.
(Mulder
leaves the room, Scully is pleased that Mulder is agreeing with her to leave.
Scully gets up and walks towards the bathroom, from outside she hears the sound
of their car starting. She runs outside)
SCULLY:
Mulder, where are you going?
(Mulder
drives off)
SCENE 18
(Emil and
Ladonna show Mulder the hole in the fence at the air base)
EMIL:
Right here.
(Mulder
climbs through the hole)
MULDER:
Hey, aren't you guys coming?
EMIL:
No, we're, you know, we've only gone in at night.
MULDER:
Ok, this spot you told me about where you watch the
air show, how far is it?
EMIL:
Fourty-five minutes.
MULDER:
Will I be able to find it?
LADONNA:
Just stay on the path.
MULDER:
And what about this other place you told me about,
Yellow Base, where they hangar them.
EMIL:
Don't, don't even, it's like ten miles, nobody's ever,
nobody's ever been that far.
LADONNA:
Hey, don't go past the edge of the tall weeds.
EMIL:
Oh man, did we tell him about the, landmines and junk?
HEY!
(Mulder
walks to the edge of the tall weeds, he checks his watch and sits and waits
until nightfall. He then leaves the tall weeds and walks towards Yellow Base.
As he stands on the concrete ground, he notices a single light coming towards
him. It is a triangular shaped aircraft, with lights at every point, which
hovers above him. Several lights, on the underside of the aricraft, flicker on
Mulder and he has to hold his hand in front of his eyes as the light becomes a
beam surrounding him. After a few seconds, the light around Mulder disappears
and the aircraft flies off at a great speed)
SCENE 19
(Behind
Mulder, two vehicles approach, Mulder turns and sees them coming and starts
running along the road. One vehicle stops in front of Mulder and the other
behind him, several military officers jump out of the vehicles and tackle
Mulder to the ground. Mulder is then lifted onto a stretcher and strapped down
and put inside one of the vehicles)
VOICE:
Go, go.
(Inside the
van, Mulder is held down and he sees someone holding up a syringe and testing
the contains are getting through the needle on the end)
MULDER:
Nooo.
(Mulder
is injected with the substance of the syringe)
VOICE:
C'mon. Hold `im. Oxygen.
(An oxygen
mask is put over Mulder's face)
SCENE 20
6:30 a.m.
(Scully is
talking on the phone in her room at the Beech Grove motel)
SCULLY:
Yeah, I'm, I'm trying to make a call to Washington
D.C. an, and I can't seem to get a long distance line. (Her phone suddenly goes
dead) Hello? Hello? (Scully puts the phone down beside her holstered gun and
goes over to the motel reception office) Excuse me. Erm, my phone's not
working, can I use yours to make a credit card call, please?
MOTEL
MANAGER: Sure thing.
SCULLY:
This one's not working either.
MOTEL
MANAGER: Phones are pretty undependable around here. People say
it's the military interference, but, they say that about everything.
SCULLY:
Thanks.
SCENE 21
(We see two hangar doors open and the van Mulder is in reverses in. The van
comes to a stop and Mulder is taken out, still strapped to the stretcher.
Mulder is barely conscious and sees the lights above him. As he looks around
him , he sees men in white coats everywhere on one side of him and, some sort
of aircraft behind a plastic curtain, on the other side)
SCENE 22
(Scully is walking back to her room when she notices Paul Mossinger coming out
of her room, she reaches behind her for her gun, but it's still in her room)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Hi, I was just looking for you. I knocked, but I saw the
door was open.
SCULLY:
I was in the lobby trying to make a call.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Phones down again.
SCULLY:
Yeah.
WALKIE-TALKIE:
Base to redbird, can you give us your position, over?
(Scully looks over at Paul's car as she hears the walkie-talkie, she looks back
at Paul and smiles before running and getting into his car and locking the
doors) Redbird do you copy?
PAUL
MOSSINGER: What are you doing? (Scully reaches for the ignition
but finds no key, she looks under the sun visors but finds nothing. Paul taps
the window with the car key)
Excuse me. (Scully reaches for the glove compartment) There's nothing in
there.
(As she
opens it, she finds a gun and Paul's ID: Airbase Security. Paul smashes the
passenger's window with a fire extinguisher and Scully drops the gun while
covering herself from the glass. Paul reaches in for Scully but she manages to
push her thumb in his eye. He then goes around to the driver's door but Scully
gets out and holds the gun to his face)
SCULLY:
Get on the car. Hands on the car, do it.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Put the gun down, and we'll talk about it.
(Emil and
Ladonna come riding up on the mo-ped. Scully pushes Paul to the car and holds
the gun at his back)
SCULLY:
I said, hands against the car. Who are you?
PAUL
MOSSINGER: You're a long way from home, Dr. Scully. Nobody wants
this to come to violence now.
SCULLY:
Where's Mulder?
EMIL:
We took `im to the base.
LADONNA:
We waited for `im.
SCULLY:
I want you to get on that walkie-talkie and find out
where Mulder is.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: I don't think I can do that.
SCULLY:
I think you can, or I'm gonna have every newspaper in
America out here, writing about your experimental aircraft.
(A light is
turned on, which shines brightly. We see a doctor come into view below the
light, he looks into Mulder's eye. Mulder in strapped down to a medical table
now, and Mulder looks around, but without moving his head. Another oxygen mask
is put over Mulder's face and the doctor puts drops into Mulder's eyes)
(Paul
Mossinger is driving his car, Scully is in the back holding the gun at him)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: There are other ways to go about this.
SCULLY:
Yeah, I've already seen where you get with tears and a
sad story.
(The car
approaches the gates to Yellow Base and stops, Paul turns off the engine. One
of the guards on the gate is listening to a walkie- talkie)
WALKIE-TALKIE:
Your target is arriving 12.
GUARD:
Roger.
SCULLY:
What are we doing?
PAUL
MOSSINGER: Waiting.
SCULLY:
I want the car running. I said start the car. (Paul
starts the car) And put your hands on the wheel, where I can see them.
PAUL
MOSSINGER: You do anything stupid, and this situation could get
big in a hurry.
SCULLY:
Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that.
WALKIE-TALKIE:
Intruder arriving.
GUARD:
Copy.
(A jeep is
approaching the gate from the inside of the base, the guards open the gate. The
jeep comes to a stop as it reaches the gate. Mulder steps out and walks towards
the other
car)
SCULLY:
I want you to keep the car running, and step out of
the car. (Both Paul and Scully get out of the car, Scully keeps the gun pointed
at Paul as she moves around the car and behind him) Get in the car Mulder. Get
in the car.
(Mulder
walks, very slowly towards the car, Paul walks towards the jeep. As they pass,
Paul stops and turns to Mulder)
PAUL
MOSSINGER: I just wanna say, everything you've seen here is equal
to the protection we give it. It's you who have acted inappropriately.
(Both men
continue to walk towards the vehicle in front of them. Scully gets in the car,
followed by Mulder. As soon as Mulder is in, Scully drives off, quickly)
(Scully is
driving the car back to town)
SCULLY:
You ok Mulder?
MULDER:
I think so. Scully I...
SCULLY:
What?
MULDER:
How did I get here?
SCENE 23
(Mrs. Budahas opens the door to her house, but only enough so that she can
stand in facing Mulder and Scully)
MULDER:
Hi.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Hello.
MULDER:
We came by to see how your husband was doing.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Oooh, he's fine, he's getting much better now.
MULDER:
Do you think, maybe, we could see him.
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Aaerm, wel, well he's resting now.
LT
COLONEL ROBERT BUDAHAS: Who is it now?
ANITA
BUDAHAS: Thank you for your concern.
(She closes
the door)
MULDER:
They got to her Scully. They were here, they must have
threatened her and Budahas..
SCULLY:
That's enough Mulder. We don't know anything. Anything
more than when we got here, and that's what I gonna write in my field report.
Let's get outta here Mulder, as fast as we can.
SCENE 24
FBI HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON D.C. ONE WEEK LATER
(Scully
is typing up her field report, we hear the words as Scully types them)
Lt Colonel
Robert Budahas, was returned to his home, although his own knowledge of his
disappearance and whereabouts is vague and inconclusive. Special Agent Mulder's
insistence that Budahas may have been a test pilot, on a top secret project
involving aircraft using recovered UFO technology, and may have suffered severe
stress related trauma by flying these aircraft, is also inconclusive. Though,
this Agent can collaborate Agent Mulder's eye-witness account of two
unidentified flying objects, in the northern sky over Ellens Air Base, their
exact nature or design could not be determined. Barring further authorised
inquiry, this case - filed `DF101364' - is closed .
(Scully
lifts up the photo of the UFO that Mulder bought at the diner and sits looking
at it)
SCENE 25
(Mulder is running around a sports track, he stops and takes a rest before
noticing Deep Throat approaching. Mulder walks towards him, meeting him halfway
across the field)
DEEP
THROAT: Your lives, may be in danger.
MULDER:
Why?
DEEP
THROAT: Mmm, you've seen things that weren't to be seen. Care
and discretion, are now imperative.
MULDER:
I saw something I...
DEEP
THROAT: As I said, I can provide you with information, but
only so long as it's in my best interest to do so.
MULDER:
What is your interest?
DEEP
THROAT: The truth.
MULDER:
I did see something, but it's gone, they took it from
me, they erased it. You
have to tell me what it was.
DEEP
THROAT: A military UFO? Mr. Mulder, why are those like
yourself, who believe in the existence of extra terrestrial life on this earth,
not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?
MULDER:
Because, all the evidence to the contrary, is not
entirely dissuasive.
DEEP
THROAT: Precisely.
(Deep
Throat walks away)
MULDER:
They're here, aren't they?
(Deep
Throat stops and turns to face Mulder)
DEEP
THROAT: Mr. Mulder, they've been here for a long long time.
(Deep
Throat continues to walk away, leaving Mulder standing by himself)
[THE
END]
