Far Out
Reyes starts to wake up. "Monica. Can you hear me, Monica?" Reyes opens her eyes and tries to focus on the face that is leaning near. She realizes that it is Dana. She tries to talk but her throat is parched and burning. Dana slips an arm behind Reyes' head and pulls her head up off of the pillow and puts a glass of water to her lips. Reyes manages to gulp some of the water down. She can feel a bandage on her back where she was shot by the clone. Scully says, "Welcome to Alcatraz."
Monica's consciousness expands and she realizes that Mulder and the Lone Gunmen are in the room. She croaks out, "The gang's all here."
Mulder comes over with big goofy grin on his face. "You're crashin' the party, Agent Reyes."
Reyes says to Mulder, "As soon as I have the strength to shout, I'm going to make your dumbass ears ring." Mulder shrugs and raises his hands in mock surrender.
Scully lets Reyes' head sink back into the pillow. Reyes realizes that it is a very comfortable room, not just hospital functional. It feels like she is floating on the very soft bed. She asks, "Where are we?"
Mulder asks, "Did you ever want to be an astronaut?"
Reyes realizes that it is not just that the bed is soft. She lifts an arm and feels it seem to float above her. Dana says, "Gravity is one sixth Earth's. We must be on the Moon."
Reyes looks at every face in the room and nobody is laughing. "How long?"
Dana explains. "I've been here since Sunday. The Knights in shining armor," She nods towards the others, "Got here yesterday." She looks at her watch. "Its now about daybreak Tuesday in Washington. They brought you in about half an hour ago."
Reyes asks, "Who are 'they'?"
Byers says, "By a vote of 4 to 1 we've been leaning towards aliens, but Scully is still holding out hope for a black government operation."
Langly says, "Earth to Moon in a few hours? No human government is capable of that."
Frohike suggests, "Maybe its alien tech in the hands of humans."
Scully crosses her arms and assumes her best school marm pose, "We've certainly seen no aliens and everything here seems like conventional Earth technology."
"Except for the clones," Remarks Langly.
Scully says, "We do not know that they are clones."
Mulder nods and dead-pans, "They might be a set of secretive quintuplets with very privacy-minded parents."
The Lone Gunmen launch into a Scully attack. Byers says, "And a summer cottage on the Moon."
Langly adds, "And a two door space garage with fusion powered space Beemers."
Frohike starts to add a comment but Scully stares him down. Since his mouth is still open he takes the opportunity to say, "So how do we bust out of this joint?"
Reyes is feeling stronger and sits up. "Have our hosts told you anything at all?"
Dana gives Monica quick summary. "We've all been questioned about our knowledge of the branched DNA. It seems like they just want to find everyone who knows that the branched DNA came from a virus-infected human subject."
Reyes gasps, "Dr. Westlake, Doggett and Skinner also know!"
Dana asks, "How did you figure it out?"
Reyes explains, "I got some help from Karen and Westlake knows."
Mulder says, "But it is not just a matter of knowing the source of the DNA. Westlake does not know about Scully's previous abduction does he?"
Reyes replies, "I didn't tell him about that, but he knows about the medical facts of Dana's brain cancer."
"So it may be that Westlake is safe," Scully concludes, "But we have to assume that Doggett and Skinner are at risk."
