X Files: Savior.

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EXT. - MAXWELL home, backyard, night

"Location tag" on bottom left of screen:
Outside.

PAN camera from treehouse down tree and to back of house, up to second story bedroom window. WILLIAM appears at window and opens it. WILLIAM reaches down and puts on jean jacket, then a backpack. He then climbs out window and down trelis. DONNIE, a boy a head shorter than WILLIAM, steps out of the shadows.

DONNIE: (lowers hood to reveal a face like VINCENT's) If you were going to sneak out, you could have at least told me. We could'a planned a raid, or, or...

WILLIAM: You're here now, aren't you?

WILLIAM brushes past DONNIE towards the back fence.

DONNIE: Where are you going?

WILLIAM: A kid at the synagogue was telling a story. I wanted to see if it was true. Coming?

DONNIE: (face lights up) Really? I can come?

WILLIAM shrugs and reaches the back fence. He pushes one of the boards aside and looks back at DONNIE. FOLLOW BOTH through the fence to ABANDONED LOT. WILLIAM starts to walk toward the other side of the lot, pulling a flashlight from his jacket and turns it on; DONNIE follows hesitantly. FOLLOW BOYS halfway across lot, then WATCH as the disappear into the darkness, flashlight bobbing. NOISE (OFF CAMERA/BEHIND). ROTATE camera around (so its facing towards fence/MAXWELL house) to REVEAL MULDER watching the boys leave.



INT. - DA JOE MAXWELL's office, day

"Location tag" on bottom left of screen:
2 days later.

JOE: Usually I'm the one telling others that _I'm_ doing the best I can, to sit back and let the system work. But damn it, Cath, my kid...

CATHERINE: Our kids, Joe. Our kids are out there, and I just keep thinking...

JOE pulls his jacket off the coat rack, almost toppling it in the process.

JOE: Damn it, I have to help. Police combing Above, helper and the Tunnel community Below. I just can't sit here and...

FOLLOW JOE out of the office into the bullpen. CATHERINE follows.

CATHERINE: Joe, wait.



EXT. - Establishing shot, J Edgar Hoover Building, Washington D.C.

"Location tag" on bottom left of screen:
Washington D.C.

INT. - X Files basement office.

AGENT DOGGETT works at his desk. AGENT REYES enters, looking grim. She's holding a piece of paper.

DOGGETT: Three forms, filed in triplicate, just so I can get reimbursed for all those lousy cheeseburgers on that stake out last week. So much for your paperless....

DOGGETT looks up and sees REYES' expression.

DOGGETT: What's wrong?

REYES: You know all that anonymity Dana wanted for her kid? I may not have been enough. Either way, it was just blown to whoever remembers what she looks like.

REYES puts the paper on DOGGETT's desk. It's a missing persons poster - for WILLIAM.



INT. - Below, FATHER's chamber

"Location tag" on bottom left of screen:
Meeting Chamber (Father's old chamber)
Below

PEOPLE have clustered here, mostly around the center table, gesturing over maps.

LUKE: No, No. We've already searched there. We should concentrate here. (gesturing)

LENA: You know how the boys loved trains. We should concentrate on the around the subway stations.

JAMIE: Maybe, but it also exposes the entrances here (pointing at map) and here (pointing). We should also check with...Has anyone seen Vincent?

FADE TO EXT. - Central Park wooded area, night

CLOSE-UP of VINCENT's face. PULL out to see that he's squatting, looking down at the ground. VINCENT picks up a flashlight and turns it to reveal a name in permanent marker - Billy Maxwell.