08x20 - Essence

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You know, it'd be a lot easier for everyone if you would just tell us the sex, Dana.

Did you hear me? Yes, I heard you, Mom.

For the thousandth time, you can wait.

Didn't you have to wait with us?

I know it's a boy. I can 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? It's the least you can tell me, considering everything you're keeping secret.

We told people noon, right?

Hi. Your mom said to cover all the bases.

I'm Lizzy Gill. Let me give you a hand with that.

I asked Lizzy to help out today. Oh. Hi.

These are gonna need some water. Congratulations, by the way.

Mom...

What do we need help with? I don't know. It's just...

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.

Aw!

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? She works for the FBI.

Oh, dear! 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 Janet! 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...

The last person I'd expect to see on a Saturday morning. Agent Mulder.

You can drop the Agent, Agent Doggett. It's just plain Fox Mulder now.

Right.

You want to come in. Fox? I'm just watching a race.

That's what I was doing. A slightly different race, though.

..a medical research clinic in Germantown, Maryland, which b*rned down last night, in what firefighters characterize as an accelerated blaze.

Accelerated because of the intensity of the fire, which officials say is a definite case of arson.

Zeus Genetics. That ring a bell? Yeah.

Scully believed they were putting alien babies in women against their will.

Wasn't ever completely explained.

Looks like an attempt to make sure it never will be.

That's more than an attempt. There's going to be nothing left.

I think that's the idea, to cover up the research going on there.

That's why I came to talk to you.

What do you want from me? How about a ride?

Hey, Gene.

Not the way I want to spend my Saturday. I had to leave my kid's ball game.

Sorry. I didn't say you had to come.

Fire Marshall thought I was kidding when I asked 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? You don't have to answer to him. He's out of the Bureau.

He thinks something's here. There is.

Just nothing the FBI needs to be looking for.

Agent Doggett?

I hope you don't mind me dropping your name with the local PD.

They've contacted everyone at Zeus Genetics except for one man, a Dr Lev.

A founder, and head of clinical research. You think we'll find him here in the ashes?

That would stand to reason.

What is it we're looking for, being I'm starting to piss a lot of people off, Mr Mulder?

Pissing people off comes with the territory. It's part of working on the X-Files.

At the risk of pissing you off, I've wasted enough of my weekend.

I told you Dr Lev was a founder of the clinic. Want to know who his co-founder was?

Dr Parenti. Agent Scully's obstetrician through the first two-thirds of her pregnancy.

He b*rned down the clinic? 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.

Knock! Knock!

We get caught, what 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. What do you think you're doing in this office?

I'm with an FBI agent who'd like to ask you the same question. Dr Parenti, isn't it?

I'm in the middle of a delicate procedure.

Whatever you want, you can't barge 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?

You have no right to be here. I want you to leave.

What is this? Some kind of showroom?

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 to prevent: children with non-survivable birth defects.

Including experiments with alien embryos? Work you'd destroy to hide such allegations?

Where do you get these ideas? From a former patient of yours. Dana Scully.

If I'm such a Dr Frankenstein, how is it that Ms Scully is carrying a 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?

Sorry.

Horse pills.

I'm about to leave. Your dinners in the oven.

I just wanted to say that I hope this is working out. It's important to your mom.

It is. And I appreciate your help.

I didn't quite realize how much I needed it.

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. Anything else?

Unidentifiable biological material fused with laboratory-grade silica.

I know. A lot here is unidentifiable. Doesn't mean it's alien, Let's ask Dr Parenti, if it's OK 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?

Mulder!

Mulder, better come see this.

Mulder?

Right there! Don't move! Stop!

Stop there!

Stop there or I'll sh**t!

Hold still, Mulder. This should just about do it.

Scully! Sorry.

I see why you gave up a career in medicine for the FBI. 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. Whatever it was, he was feeling no pain.

Ask me, the kid isn't a kid. Don't tell me he's an alien.

He is a type of alien.

A human replacement. Look at his strength, the way he took those slugs.

I've seen plenty of guys on chemicals keep on coming.

You're ignoring who he is. You, of all people, who's supposedly running the X-Files.

You're ignoring the fact he bled red blood.

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 sheds its skin.

Same thing happened to you. Would've happened if I'd been left alone.

If Scully hadn't treated me.

What was Billy Miles doing at that medical office?

Same as when he torched Zeus Genetics and destroyed their experiments with aliens 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...

I need to know that 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. I didn't...

Come on in, Lizzy. It's all right. We just need some space to talk.

It's OK. I've got plenty to do. Excuse me.

It's OK. 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?

At her apartment. She's with her partners. They're asking the right questions.

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.

Things have been rolling, Agent Doggett, all in your direction.

PD got the call. Passer-by saw the door of the building open.

Name of the victim flagged a previous FBI investigation.

Duffy Haskell. Yeah.

Saw you and Scully on a case involving pregnant women carrying alien babies.

Coroner says the way his neck is severed defies logic and the use of any conventional-type w*apon.

What is this place?

An illegal medical facility for the purpose of human cloning.

It goes on from here. It occupies the entire warehouse.

You read about these things but don't imagine they exist.

Just like aliens.

What? Are you saying that here they're making alien babies?

Nobody's saying that. At least not yet.

But what I do have to tell you won't put your mind at ease. We found prenatal records here.

A Dr Lev and a Dr Parenti, working with this Duffy Haskell, monitoring Scully's pregnancy.

Dr Parenti is one of Scully's doctors but Scully's checked out fine.

You seem to be missing the point. And what point would that be?

What? Talk to you a minute?

There's been a m*rder. We'll get there.

Some business we need to clear up about Scully's baby, about who the father is.

Ahh.

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 about Scully's pregnancy itself.

Who the father is, that's Scully's business.

If you're asking me how a woman who was diagnosed as barren is about to give birth, 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 hard answers.

Fast. Sir, just...

Let me.

Lizzy, are you going to get that?

Lizzy?

Hello? 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 wait. What?

It's about your pregnancy. Skinners got some questions based on new information.

What are you talking about? Evidence of interference by someone.

What are you doing? What are you 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 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 would 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? Fine.

According to her doctor, it was a false alarm. Whatever this woman was up to...

We won't be able to hold her 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 k*ll for what I know but not like this.

We're not gonna let that happen. Just what you told me and Agent Crane.

For 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 protecting her. What did you do?

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.

Nothing's wrong. 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. Billy Miles called 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 alone?

Yes. My mom just went to... Just throw it together.

To go where? No, just stop!

What's wrong? Is it something to do with my baby?

Your baby is fine. It's you who's in danger now.

From who? From what?

I'm not sure. I just know I got to get you out of here.

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. It is only about you.

You are going to have this baby and I'll 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 Doggett. I'm at Dr Parenti's office.

Billy Miles called us 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.

Lock your door. Don't think that matters much.

We haven't got much time. Get in.

Mulder?

Let's go!

You should all know what it is you're up against, what Agent Scully is up against.

You're all listening to someone who tried to k*ll me. He left you for dead.

Tell us about Billy Miles.

There are others just like him.

You can call them what you want: 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 to retake the planet.

So they're wandering among us looking for trouble? Some kind of alien Iawmen?

You saw what they did to those doctors. They're fearless.

And they answer to no one, except their own biological imperative to survive.

And Scully? What do they want with her? They want my baby.

Why? They didn't even know about it.

I don't know how they could have found out just 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 learned the truth.

That there's a God, a higher power.

I don't believe this crap. I don't believe you're listening to it. You know this man's a liar.

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 make it out of this building. Just shut up.

Agent Doggett.

Get on the phone. If we're going to get Scully out of here we'll need some help.

Agent Doggett? Agent Doggett, can you hear me?

I'm on my way from the airport. I'm in the garage. I've a car 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?

OK, 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!

I made this!