THE X FILES
"Things Are Looking Up"
ACT I
FADE IN:
CAR RIDE, NORTH DAKOTA - AUGUST 14 - 4:37 P.M.
Mulder and Scully are driving along the highway trying to reach Canada. They look at one another.
"So, what's going to happen after we reach Canada, Mulder?"
"I..." Mulder pauses. "I don't know. Probably, I'll stay there, you'll probably go back to D.C. and live your life."
Scully pulls the car over.
"No, I'll stay with you." Scully replied.
She put her hand ontop of Mulder's.
(CREDITS PLAY)
FBI HEADQUARTERS, D.D. KERSH'S OFFICE - AUGUST 14 - 4:44 P.M.
Kersh is sitting at his desk debating with people about Mulder when Doggett and Reyes enter.
The men debating to Kersh turn around to look at Doggett and Reyes.
"Agent Doggett...Agent Reyes..." Kersh responded after complete silence of their arrival.
"Sir, we'd like to talk to you about Agent Mulder..." Doggett replied.
"It's Mister Mulder. Mulder does not work here any more." Kersh corrected.
"Like I was saying, Agent Reyes and I would like to talk to you about MISTER Mulder."
"Well, Agent Doggett. Agent Reyes. Why don't both of you take a seat. We were just about to discuss Mister Mulder's whereabouts."
Doggett and Reyes took a seat.
"We have just issued an APB out on Mister Mulder. We think that he may be headed for Canada. We are also going to issue an APB for Miss Scully as well." Kersh told the gentlemen sitting at his desk.
"AGENT Scully, sir." Doggett corrected Kersh.
Kersh then just stared at Doggett.
"Do you have anything else to throw at me, Agent Doggett?"
"We would like for you to tell us why the X-Files division has been shut down." Reyes responded.
Kersh was getting pissed at both Doggett and Reyes.
"Gentlemen, would you excuse us." Kersh told the men in suits.
The five men then got up out of their seats and exited the room.
Silence filled the air, no one moved or said a word. You could tell that Kersh was quickly thinking up what to blast out at Doggett and Reyes.
The silence was finally broken by Kersh.
"What the hell are you two trying to pull?" Kersh yelled.
"What are you trying to pull, sir?" Doggett quickly responded.
"I'm not trying to pull anything. AGENT Doggett."
"Then why did you shut down the X Files?" Reyes asked.
"And are trying to find Agent Mulder?" Doggett also added.
Kersh looked at the two of them.
"It's Mister Mulder, Agent Doggett."
"Why are you trying to capture Mulder?" Doggett questioned.
"It's my job, Agent Doggett. It's my job to find Mister Mulder as it is your job to follow orders."
"And what orders are those?" Agent Reyes asked.
"To mind your own damn business. Mister Mulder is not your problem anymore."
"It is the day you assigned us to the X Files." Doggett replied.
"There is no more X-Files. That is the past, this is the present. From now on, the X files does not exist. It never had, either. Is that clear?"
"Why did you shut it down?" Agent Reyes queried.
"Is that clear? The X Files is no more." Kersh yelled.
Silence.
"LOUD and clear, sir." Doggett replied.
"Good, here are your new assignments." Kersh told them. He then handed Doggett and Reyes two envelopes.
Doggett and Reyes then left the room.
FBI HEADQUARTERS, A.D. SKINNER'S OFFICE - AUGUST 14 - 5:06 P.M.
Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes stormed into A.D. Skinner's office, side by side.
Skinner quickly stood up.
"Do you know what's going on here?" Doggett quickly spoke out before Skinner had a chance to speak.
"Yes I do." Skinner replied.
"They've shut down..." Agent Reyes started.
"I know what happened, they've shut down the X Files. I've been reassigned to a different section. I'm not your Assistant Director anymore."
"What about Agent Mulder?" Doggett asked.
"I'm not allowed to discuss, go near, or have anything to do with Agent Mulder or Agent Scully. If I do, then I'll lose my job...and will be prosecuted."
"This is absurd, sir! They can't do this!" Agent Doggett replied.
"They can, they have, and they've done it before. Now take my advice, forget about them, forget about the X-Files, forget about all of that if you want to keep your job."
"But..."
"I have work to do. Please leave." Skinner told Reyes and Doggett.
"But, sir!" Doggett pushed.
"Agents! I am not your Assistant Director anymore. If you'd like to talk to your Assistant Director, then phone directory and they'll give you the number. Now, please leave or I'll call security."
Doggett and Reyes start to walk out the door.
"Sir, one last thing. These are your friends, your colleagues...people you have worked with for some time, are you really just going to forget about it all?" Doggett asked Skinner. Then the two of them walked out of Skinner's office.
PUEBLOS, MIDDLE OF NEW MEXICO - AUGUST 14 - 5:15 P.M.
Government teams stormed the area searching for life, and for Mulder. They came across a man half burnt, lying in a wheelchair. He was still alive.
The search team also came across another body. The team threw it into a body bag, and sent it to the morgue.
"Mulder was here! But is long gone! We have word that an Agent Scully checked into a motel room in Roswell..." A man with a high pitched voice told another man.
"Let's go!" That man yelled out to the search crew.
AUTOPSY ROOM, ALBERQUEQUE, NEW MEXICO - AUGUST 14 - 6:10 P.M.
A woman, the coroner, slapped on a pair of exam gloves and started to talk into a tape recorder.
"Tall male. Six foot, four inches. No marking or abrasions on him so far. External examination looks normal, preparing to start internal examination." She stopped when she saw something on the back of the man's neck.
"Large, bumps? On the back of his neck." The coroner felt the bumps.
"They feel odd. Nothing like them I have ever seen."
The coroner took a scalpel and was about to cut around the bumps when the man's hand started to fidget. He then grabbed the coroner and slammed her against the medical cabinet.
The man got up, and put on his clothes. He then went over to the coroner.
"Where's Mulder?" He asked her.
"Who?" The Coroner asked.
"Mulder!"
"I don't know of a..."
The man snapped the coroner's neck. Took the scalpel and walked out of the room.
MONTANA MOTEL ROOM - AUGUST 14 - 7:33 P.M.
Mulder and Scully made it to Montana. They decided to spend the night at a motel room.
Mulder and Scully walked to the office. The motel owner came over.
"We'd like a room please." Mulder told the owner.
"Just the two of you?" The owner asked.
"Yes." Mulder replied.
The owner wrote down the order on a receipt.
"That'll be forty-five dollars." The owner said.
Scully handed the owner the money in exchange for a room key.
MOTEL ROOM # 4, MONTANA - AUGUST 14 - 7:39 P.M.
Mulder and Scully walked into the motel room with nothing in their hands. The only thing they had was the clothes they were wearing at that moment.
Mulder sat down on the bed, and pulled out of his pocket a handful of sunflower seeds. He started chomping down on them.
Scully took off her jacket and looked around the room.
"I'm going to take a shower." Scully told Mulder moments later.
"Okay." Mulder replied.
Scully went into the bathroom.
Mulder went over to Scully's purse and took out her spare gun. He then took the chair, sunflower seeds, and the gun and went over to the window. He sat down and peered out. He was on guard for the night.
MOTEL ROOM # 4, MONTANA - AUGUST 15 - 6:21 A.M.
The sun was rising, Scully was still sleeping. She quickly awoke finding Mulder not in the motel room. She then saw that the door was unlocked.
Scully quickly got dressed and ran outside. The car was missing. Scully went back inside, locked the door and waited for Mulder's return.
MOTEL ROOM # 4, MONTANA - AUGUST 15 - 6:34 A.M.
The motel room door budged. A knock was then heard.
Scully took her gun out of her holster and wen over to the door.
"Who is it?" Scully asked.
"The one and only Jay Leno." Mulder responded.
Scully opened the door to find Mulder, holding four cups of coffee, and a bag of doughnuts.
"It's not a myth. Cops do eat doughnuts." Mulder handed the bag to Scully.
"Why four cups?" Scully asked.
"Two now, two for the road." Mulder replied.
Mulder entered the room, Scully closed the door.
"I was worried Mulder."
"About what? Thought that I had left you?"
Scully smiled.
"Never mind." Scully replied.
Scully then looked at Mulder, his eyes sagged.
"Did you sleep at all, last night?" She asked.
"No, I was on guard all night. You know, just incase the bogeyman wanted to ambush us."
Mulder then started to eat.
FBI HEADQUARTERS, JOHN DOGGETT'S DESK - AUGUST 15 - 9:38 A.M.
Doggett was assigned to a new division in the FBI. He was assigned to the Fraud Team. They help catch con artists and frauds.
For some reason, Doggett actually missed The X Files.
Doggett's phone rang.
"Agent Doggett, here." Doggett answered.
"Agent Doggett, meet me with Agent Reyes in my office ASAP." Skinner responded.
"Yes, sir." Doggett replied.
Doggett hung up the phone and called Reyes.
"Skinner wants us to meet him in his office ASAP. Don't know why." Doggett told Reyes.
FBI HEADQUARTERS, A.D. SKINNER'S OFFICE - AUGUST 15 10:01 A.M.
Doggett and Reyes rushed into Skinner's office.
"You wanted to see us, sir?" Doggett asked.
"Close the door." Skinner replied.
Reyes closed the door. They both then waited for Skinner.
"I just got some news today, which I shouldn't have gotten. The search teams had found two bodies at the pueblos. One was in a wheelchair, half burnt. He's still alive. The other one was DOA. The body was taken to the Alberqueque Morgue. The body was then resurrected somehow. Listen to this."
Skinner plays a tape.
"Where's Mulder?"
"Who?"
"Mulder!"
"I don't know of a..."
A snapping sound is heard.
"That's Knowle Rohrer." Doggett quickly added.
"I know. He killed the coroner, took her car, and is now missing." Skinner replied.
"I thought he died at the pueblos." Reyes said.
"He did." Doggett replied.
"Not anymore, he's now looking for Mulder as everyone else is too." Skinner responded.
"Mulder sure has pissed off a ton of people. I can tell you that." Doggett remarked.
Skinner stared at Doggett.
"You two need to find Mulder and Scully before anyone else does. You also need to make sure that this Knowle Rohrer does not get near Mulder at all."
"What about what you said?" Doggett asked Skinner.
"Just get Mulder. If we can get him alive, with the surveillance of the autopsy room and the tape recorder, we can prove Mulder's innocence."
"Yes sir. We're right on it." Doggett replied.
"And one other thing. Make sure no one else knows about what is going on. Otherwise we're all going to be up the creek without a paddle."
"Yes, sir." Doggett responded.
Doggett and Reyes quickly exited the office.
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO - AUGUST 15 - 7:07 A.M.
Search teams scoured Roswell looking for Mulder and Scully. They drove to the motel room where Mulder and Scully stayed. The team went up to the owner.
"Did you have a Mulder and Scully stay with you on the night of August 12?" The man in the black suit asked the motel owner.
"Um...yes, actually, I did. They stayed for one night then left early dawn."
"Do you know which way they left?"
"Yes, actually, I do. They started to drive northeast on the highway just out here." The owner pointed to the highway.
"That's all?"
"Um...yes. They did leave their room really clean. The maid never had to clean it."
"Thank you." The man in the black suit told the owner.
The search crew then headed north.
U.S./CANADIAN BORDER - AUGUST 15 - 8:43 A.M.
Mulder and Scully pulled up at the toll booth. A security guard was there to greet them.
"Passports please." The security guard asked for.
Scully gave the guard the passports.
"Are you here for business or pleasure?" The guard asked while he typed the passport numbers into the computer.
"Business." Scully replied.
"FBI..." The guard murmured.
A warning sign flashed on the computer screen. 'Wanted for arrest, do not let go'.
The security guard started to type slowly, turning his head to look at Mulder and Scully. He then picked up the phone.
"Punch it Scully." Mulder commanded.
"No!" Scully replied.
"Do it, Scully. We're here. Just drive through."
Security guard then started to walk toward the car.
"Scully! Floor it!"
The security gate started to close.
"Scully!" Mulder yelled.
Mulder put his foot onto the accelerator. The car's wheels screeched as they turned. The car started to move. Security spike strips launched on the road as the car moved. The tires popped and Scully lost control of the wheel. The car came to a stand point.
Guards surrounded the car with their guns.
"Get out of the car slowly!" One of the guards ordered.
Mulder looked at Scully.
"Get out of the car or we will shoot!" The guard ordered.
TO BE CONTINUED...
FADE OUT