9X01: NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY (PART 1) 9ABX01 Originally aired: 11/11/2001 WRITTEN BY CHRIS CARTER & FRANK SPOTNITZ DIRECTED BY KIM MANNERS ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== The X-files and all its characters and episodes are owned by FOX, Chris Carter, and Ten Thirteen Productions. This transcript was made without their permission and it is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain. Please let me know if you catch any inaccuracies. If you would like to use this transcript on your site, please let me know so I can visit the site! I do ask that the transcript and all names and disclaimers be left intact. Believe it or not, this is hard work both for the transcriptor and his/her VCR. Feel free to add on your own disclaimer for your particular site. For corrections / inaccuracies contact: steph@philedom2k.com ========================== 9X01: NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY (PART 1) ========================== "Due to some violent content, Parent discretion is advised." < TEASER > SCENE #01: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 9:27 PM (WORMUS is sitting at the bar having a drink. He takes out the ice from his drink with his fingers. He looks over and notices a woman in a black halter dress walk into the bar and sit down alone across from him.) McMAHON (to BARTENDER): Vodka rocks, please. (WOMUS walks over and sits next to her.) WORMUS: Hi, how are you? McMAHON: Thirsty. WORMUS: (to BARTENDER) Uh, straight up, and no ice this time. (to McMAHON) I tell this guy about the ice, and then he pours me a scotch rocks. McMAHON: "About the ice"? WORMUS: The water, actually, in the ice. I'm kind of an expert on it. McMAHON: Well, what's wrong with it? WORMUS: No big secret. It's been in the news. A government additive. Something they call chloramine. McMAHON: Yeah, they said it's good for us. It's like fluoride or something. McMAHON: Well, that's what they say. Look, um ... I didn't sit down here to scare you. On the contrary. McMAHON: Would you like to get some air? (WORMUS and McMAHON are in his convertible. WORMUS is driving.) WORMUS (in car): A long way to go for a drink, huh? Do you like living out here? How much farther? McMAHON: Just over the bridge. (The bridge alarm bell rings and buzzes. The bridge gates close. As WOMUS' car approaches the bridge, McMAHON places her hand on his thigh and pushes his leg down on the gas pedal. She takes control of the steering. The car engine revs.) WORMUS: what the hell you doing? (The car speeds forward.) WORMUS: Let go! You're going to kill us! (The car crashes through the closed bridge gate, into the water and sinks slowly to the bottom. WORMUS struggles to free himself from his seatbelt while McMAHON sits still in the seat next to him. WOMUS successfully frees himself and proceeds to swim toward the surface when McMAHON reaches up, catches his leg and prevents him from saving himself.) < /TEASER > << NEW TITLE CREDITS !!! >> [Captioning sponsored by fox broadcasting company Twentieth Century Fox Television and Toyota. Get the feeling.] Tag Line: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE (COMMERCIAL SET 1) << FLASHBACKS >> Last season: [ROHRER talking to DOGGETT (*Existence) ] ROHRER: There was a rumored program out of the cold war -- a plan to create a super soldier. [BILLY MILES swinging his hand and BUDDY HASKELL'S head flying (*Essence)] DOGGETT: I didn't want to believe it. It said Agent Scully's a part of that program, too. [DR. PARENTI LOOKING AT fetus (Per Manum) and SCULLY being monitored (Per Manum)] [KRYCEK to SCULLY (*Essence) and MULDER watching the exchange.] KRYCEK: Your baby was a miracle. SCULLY: My baby is normal. KRYCEK: She may never make it out of this building. [SKINNER firing a gun and KRYCEK being shot between the eyes (*Existence) [CRANE breaking car window glass to get to DOGGETT. The car is moving. SKINNER is driving the moving car with CRANE hanging onto the side door.] SKINNER: Get him off! [ROHRER driving car into the pillar and car bursting into flames.] [SCULLY giving birth and pleading with REYES. BILLY MILES and other replicants stand around watching the birth. REYES is assisting SCULLY.] SCULLY: This is my baby! Please don't let them take her! REYES: You got to push, Dana. [KERSH listening to DOGGETT.] [Scene of ROHRER and CRANE coming out of elevator.] [DOGGETT and REYES in KERSH's office, the new partnership in the X-Files.] DOGGETT: This office is under investigation for a late-night meeting between you and an intelligence operative named Knowle Rohrer. KERSH: You investigate what I tell you. DOGGETT: And you put me on the x-files. [MULDER (to SCULLY) holding WILLIAM.] MULDER: I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know. [MULDER kissing SCULLY with WILLIAM between them.] << /END OF FLASHBACK >> SCENE #02: WASHINGTON, D.C. 48 HOURS LATER (MULDER at SCULLY's taking a shower. The bathroom door is open. WILLIAM is crying. SCULLY closes the bathroom door and picks WILLIAM up.) SCULLY: It's okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. (SCULLY carries WILLIAM to the living room where we see 5-6 luggages packed.) SCENE #03: [DOGGETT'S RESIDENCE] (Alarm clock buzzing. DOGGETT is sleeping. He rolls over and groans as the bruises from the last couple days makes themselves felt.) SCENE #04: [REYES' RESIDENCE] (Reyes is sleeping. The phone rings and wakes her up. ) REYES: Hello? FOLLMER: Monica, it's me. Did I wake you? REYES: Brad? Um, n-no. No, I'm awake. FOLLMER: You're in town. REYES: Yeah, I-I came in on short notice. FOLLMER: Listen, if you're coming to the Hoover building can you stop by my office on your way in? REYES: Yeah. Sure. I can do that. FOLLMER: Good. Looking forward to it. SCENE #05: [DOGGETT'S RESIDENCE] (Tea kettle whistling. Doggett pours the water from the kettle into his cup, gives his cup a stir, grabs the pop tart out of the toaster and walks out of the kitchen and into the living room past the television set with the following news report:) WOMAN ( over tv ): And now a story that may have long-term effects here in Washington. Metro police are investigating the bizarre death of a government employee last night. The body of 38-year-old CARL WORMUS, a deputy administrator for the environmental protection agency was pulled from the potomac by rescue divers this morning. SCENE #06: [A.D. BRAD FOLLMER'S OFFICE] WOMAN (over tv): It appears WORMUS drove his car through a barricade and off a drawbridge into the river. A police spokesperson says it appears he was alone in the car and... (FOLLMER is watching the news report when he hears something from his outer office and opens his door to look. FOLLMER sees MONICA with a pen in her hand over his assistant's desk.) FOLLMER: Monica? REYES: Hi. FOLLMER: What are you doing? REYES: I was leaving you a note. Your assistant was out, and I didn't want to knock. FOLLMER: I was going to call you... (FOLLMER smiles as MONICA rambles. MONICA stops and offers him her hand.) REYES: Hi, brad. FOLLMER: Come on in. (MONICA walks into FOLLMER's office. He closes the door behind them. When MONICA turns around, FOLLMER surprises her and kisses her. MONICA doesn't respond.) FOLLMER: What? REYES: We're at work. FOLLMER: You used to ask me to close the door at work back in New York. REYES: Is that all you called me here for Assistant Director? FOLLMER: I probably shouldn't tell you how hot you look, either 'cause you do. How long has it been? T-two years? REYES: Yeah. FOLLMER: Yeah. REYES: We should catch up, Brad, really. I've got to get downstairs. FOLLMER: I have got something for you. (FOLLMER pulls out two video tapes from the bottom of his desk drawer.) Forgive me, but, uh... it didn't take a whole lot of digging to figure out why you're here in D.C., Monica. REYES: What are those? FOLLMER: Something you're going to see, but I wanted to show you first. They were taken from the security cameras in the FBI parking garage. One of them shows you arrive in a cab meeting John Doggett. REYES: Yeah, I'm working with him. He called me up here on a case. FOLLMER: I heard, believe me. This whole thing about a chase and a crash and a fire ... and now Doggett's internal investigation of Deputy Director Kersh. It's big news. REYES: What's so important to show me? What's on the other tape? SCENE #07: [FBI ELEVATOR] (Elevator bell rings. DOGGETT is standing in the elevator, he looks up and sees KERSH standing outside. KERSH gets into the elevator. It is just the two men alone in the elevator. The door closes. An uncomfortable situation.) KERSH: How's your investigation going, John? Have you turned up any incriminating evidence on me yet? DOGGETT: It's only Monday morning, sir. It's nothing personal, Deputy Director. I hope you know that. KERSH: No, John. I think we've pretty much always seen eye-to-eye. (The elevator door opens as it arrives on KERSH's floor.) KERSH: I'm sure if you can't find anything on me, John, nobody can. (KERSH exits the elevator.) SCENE #08: [BASEMENT OFFICE] (REYES is watching something with her glasses on. DOGGETT enters the office. He's not happy.) REYES: Hi. How you doing? (DOGGETT silently glares at her.) That good. (REYES removes her glasses. DOGGETT removes his jacket and rolls his sleeves up one by one.) DOGGETT: I didn't ask to be put down in the x-files. Deputy Director Kersh put me down here. I'm just doing my job. What did he think? That I'd be thankful? That I'd do anything less? REYES: It's not going to be easy, John. DOGGETT: Hell, no, it isn't. We're going after a Deputy Director. One man removed from the head of the FBI. REYES: No, I mean, it may be impossible. (REYES's words finally sink in to DOGGETT. He slowly walks over to see what she's working on.) DOGGETT: What's this? (Both DOGGETT and REYES look at the video tape 4:35 am.) REYES: A security tape, two nights ago, from the FBI garage. You're not on it. DOGGETT: What are you talking about? (DOGGETT fast fowards through the tape.) No. This is the wrong damn tape. REYES: I've been backwards and forwards on it. There's nothing there. DOGGETT: We were chased. A.D. Skinner and I were attacked and chased. This man Knowle Rohrer drove his car into the garage wall. It blew up in a ball of flames. REYES: Not on this tape. (DOGGETT stops the tape and removes it from the VCR.) DOGGETT: Where'd you get this? REYES: From someone who wanted to give me a heads up. DOGGETT: They can't just make this all go away. There's evidence down in that parking garage. There were victims. REYES: I went down to that garage, John. Whatever happened, they've had 48 hours now to clean it up. DOGGETT: There were witnesses. REYES: Witnesses who are going to stand up to this tape? (As her words sink in, DOGGETT grabs his jacket and walks out of the basement office.) SCENE #09: [MULDER'S APARTMENT] (Knocking on door. Door squeaks open. DOGGETT enters.) DOGGETT: Mulder! Mulder, are you here? (Door opens, DOGGETT walks in. The camera pans around as we note that MULDER's apartment is cleaned bare. DOGGETT walks out; the door closing behind him.) SCENE #10: GREATER MARYLAND WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY (The water tanks. A plant worker makes his way around the water tanks. McMAHON surfaces from within one of the water tanks. She swims out of the camera range. The Man picks up one of the phones and makes a telephone call. He's holding a paper with an article on it. "EPA Deputy Director Dies in Car Accident". The phone rings as he waits for someone to answer.) VOICE: Naval telecommunications command. MAN: Yeah, I need to make a shore to ship call to the S.S. Valor Victor ... (The man notices a naked McMAHON emerge from the water tank. He drops the phone to check it out.) VOICE: Sir? Sir, are you still there? SCENE #11: [SCULLY'S APARTMENT] (Knocking on door. Scully opens it to see DOGGETT standing there.) SCULLY: What? What's the matter? DOGGETT: What's the matter?! I've been trying to call you. SCULLY: Yeah, but... the phone's off the hook because of the baby. DOGGETT: Well, I got panicked you weren't going to be here. That you left, too. SCULLY: Come in. DOGGETT: I went looking for Mulder. I went to his apartment. SCULLY (nods her head at his words): I know. DOGGETT: Where did he go? Dana ... Where did he go? SCULLY: He's gone. He's just gone. SCENE #12: [MEANWHILE ... BACK AT THE WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY] (The MAN is looking for McMAHON. He turns around and she's suddenly standing there where she wasn't before. Both of them fall into the water tank while McMAHON drags the Man down to his death.) << COMMERCIAL SET #2 >> SCENE #13: [SKINNER'S OFFICE] (SKINNER's sitting at his desk talking to REYES.) SKINNER: I don't know where Mulder is. (SKINNER pulls off his glasses.) I don't know that I'd tell you if I did. (Door opens. REYES turns around and speaks to DOGGETT.) REYES: I checked with movers, air, car rental agencies. No Mulder. DOGGETT: Somebody get to him? That it? Doesn't seem possible, does it? Okay, so where does that leave us? It's just me and you. Our word against Kersh and the FBI. REYES: You better sit down, John. It's more complicated than that. DOGGETT: What's more complicated? REYES: This investigation. DOGGETT: What about it? SKINNER: I want to ask you to drop it. DOGGETT: No. Not from you. Not from you. Not-not after what we've been through. I mean, we barely escaped with our lives. SKINNER: That's something worth thinking about. DOGGETT: I'm sorry, you're not that reasonable. What, did they get to you, too? SKINNER: No one got to me, John. They didn't have to. That's the point. DOGGETT: You're afraid of them. SKINNER: I'm not afraid of them. DOGGETT: Well, you're afraid of something. What? The real tape showing up, them calling you a killer for you having to shoot Alex Krycek? SKINNER: No, I'll stand by my actions, Agent Doggett, but I won't stand by yours if you're going to continue to push and push until you get somebody killed. You want to know what I fear? I fear for Mulder and Scully. I fear for the life of that child if you don't stop pushing, John. DOGGETT: You don't think I fear for those things, same as you? SKINNER: If you did, you'd let it go. DOGGETT: So what I'm hearing is ... if I don't drop it, I'm alone on this. (SKINNER doesn't answer. DOGGETT sighs. He turns to consider REYES, then turns to leave. REYES stops him.) REYES: John ... you're not. (REYES looks at SKINNER. REYES stands and follows DOGGETT out of SKINNER's office. Door shuts behind them.) SCENE #14: [BAR] (FOLLMER is sitting at the bar while two drinks are being poured in front of him. REYES walks in and removes her jacket.) FOLLMER: Hi. I hope it wasn't presumptuous of me. I ordered you a martini. REYES: No, the presumption's all mine. Anyway, I called and asked you out, didn't I? FOLLMER: You, uh, actually had me confused a little this morning in my office. I had this crazy notion that, uh, you were avoiding me. REYES: Maybe I was trying to avoid myself. And those tapes you pulled out of your desk drawer weren't exactly Pamela and Tommy Lee, now, were they? (Chuckles) FOLLMER: And I'd heard that, uh, that you and John Doggett were tight. REYES: You make it sound like I go home from work with post-its on my ass. It's nothing like that. FOLLMER: Then I don't get it. Why risk your name and your career getting caught up in this ... rabid investigation of his? REYES: There isn't going to be an investigation. Not anymore. FOLLMER: I wouldn't have thought Agent Doggett would be thrown off so easy. Not what I've heard about him. REYES: Whatever you may think about him, Brad, he's not a fool, you know. FOLLMER: Now you're pissed off at me. REYES: No, I'm pissed off because this means I'll be shipping back to the New Orleans field office. FOLLMER: What are you talking about? The way I heard it, you're with the X- Files. REYES: This investigation drops they're going to drop the X-Files right along with it. You know me where my interest lie. This was my dream assignment. Not to mention how excited I was to be up here in D.C. FOLLMER: But you just got here. REYES: Yeah, I know. SCENE #15: [SCULLY'S APARTMENT] (Knocking ) DOGGETT: I'm really sorry. I ... Dana, I need your help. SCULLY: I don't how to find him. DOGGETT: It just doesn't make any sense. Mulder leaving you here all alone. Just walking out on you? Not telling you where and why? SCULLY: It makes sense in its own way. That's all I can tell you. DOGGETT: Then tell me why you can't trust me. Everything I did to try to protect you when you thought your baby was in danger ... what changed? Why is it suddenly I'm now the enemy? SCULLY: Let it go, John. Drop it. Please. DOGGETT: These people tried to kill me. They tried to kill A.D. Skinner. They would have killed Mulder, too. They're still out there, Dana. SCULLY: Exactly right. And they are unstoppable. And they are inside the fbi. DOGGETT: You know something you're not telling me. Mulder knows something. How long can you hide from it? Knowle Rohrer -- this old military buddy of mine he told me your pregnancy was a result of a government cloning experiment to try and create what he called the "super soldier." SCULLY: I don't want to hear this. Look, there is nothing to any of this. DOGGETT: Knowle Rohrer -- my buddy -- was one of the men that tried to kill us in the FBI garage. SCULLY: My baby ... my son ... is fine. DOGGETT: I hope to God that's true. I just don't want to pretend. SCULLY: I'm going to ask you to leave. I'm going to ask you to leave and not come back here. (DOGGETT quietly leaves without looking back, shutting the door behind him.) SCENE #16: [DOGGETT'S RESIDENCE] (DOGGETT'S at home. He reaches over his mantle and pulls down a framed group picture of himself with others during his service days. The camera closes in on the name of one of the men in the photogrpah.) OPERATOR: Directory assistance, may I help you? DOGGETT: Let's try, uh, Maryland or Virginia. OPERATOR: What listing, please? DOGGETT: The number for a Ryan Bracker. B-R-A-C-K-E-R. (DOGGETT has a list of five names in front of him. The first two names are crossed off. The final three names are: Roger Erickson, Steve Maeda, and Shannon McMahon.) DOGGETT: Yeah, hi, I was given this number for a Roger Erickson formerly of the U.S. Marine corps. ROGER ERICKSON: Yeah, speaking. DOGGETT: Roger? Hey, it's John Doggett, Bravo Company. ROGER: Hey, man, how you doing? DOGGETT: I'm good. It's good to hear you. Listen, you remember Knowle Rohrer? ROGER ERICKSON: Yeah, sure I remember him. DOGGETT: What's the story with him? Didn't he get involved in something when we got back stateside -- special ops? ROGER ERICKSON: I have no idea, man. I never heard from Knowle after we got back. Hey, we should get together, catch up. DOGGETT: Yeah, let's, um, let's catch a beer sometime. (DOGGETT hangs up.) MACHINE: This is Shannon. Leave a message and I'll return it as soon as I can. DOGGETT: Yeah, hi, this is John Doggett. I'm trying to reach a Shannon Mcmahon who was with Bravo Company, USMC. If this is she, could you please contact me through the FBI in Washington, D.C., as soon as possible? SCENE #17: [FBI BUILDING] (Elevator bell dings. REYES walks into the elevator and notices McMAHON walk out of the elevator and down the hall. She's never seen her before.) SCENE #18: [SCULLY'S APARTMENT] (Scully walks a sleeping William to his bassinet.) SCULLY: Sleepy time, sweet William. I'll see you in a couple hours. (Scully climbs into bed and sleeps. The mobile hanging over William's bassinet is squeaking as it turns slowly and steadily. ) << COMMERCIAL SET #3 >> SCENE #19: [FBI BASEMENT OFFICE] (Monica is writing something when her pencil tip breaks. She sighs. She searches the drawers for another pencil unable to find one. She glances up and sees the pencils stuck in the ceiling. She takes her shoes off and climbs on the desk to retrieve a pencil. While standing on the desk, she hears heavy footsteps in the corridor outside her open door approaching. The footsteps stop.) REYES: Hello? (Instead of making themselves known, the unknown person/s walks away. REYES scrambles off of the desk and out the corridor too late to stop the elevator doors from closing. She notices an envelope on the floor containing a newspaper clipping. "Obituaries / Funerals" Along with a picture of CARL WORMUS, it reads: "CARL WORMUS was found dead at the age of 45. Carl as a resident of Maryland and respected Deputy Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. He apparently drove through a barricade off a bridge and drowned two nights ago. He is survived by his wife and two children. Services will be held Tuesday at W?? Memorial Park. A reception will be held immediately following the service in the auditorium ..." ) SCENE #20: [SCULLY'S APARTMENT] (WILLIAM is crying. The mobile is still squeaking and turning. SCULLY is slowing waking up from her nap. She looks over to WILLIAM and notices the mobile moving. She slowly stands and approaches the bassinet and stops the mobile from moving. WILLIAM stops crying. The mobile starts moving again. William starts crying again. SCULLY doesn't look happy.) SCENE #21: [FBI BASEMENT OFFICE] (The phone rings and REYES answers.) REYES: Monica Reyes. SCULLY: Uh, yeah, it's, uh ... it's Scully. REYES: Dana? What's wrong, are you all right? SCULLY: Is Agent Doggett there? REYES: Yeah, he's right here with me. DOGGETT: Dana? Is something wrong? SCULLY: Yeah ... yeah, something. Um... I think I might have been wrong ... telling you to drop your investigation. DOGGETT: No, I didn't drop it. As a matter of fact, we found something. I'm not sure how it fits, but we're working on it. SCULLY: What is it? DOGGETT: A body. SCENE #22: FBI TRAINING ACADEMY QUANTICO, VIRGINIA 6:28 PM (Scully enters the autopsy bay area. DOGGETT and REYES are there waiting for her with a sheet-covered cadaver.) DOGGETT: Thanks for coming. The deceased's name is CARL WORMUS -- deputy administrator for the environmental protection agency. REYES: He drove through a barricade and off a bridge two nights ago. SCULLY: And? DOGGETT: And somebody at the FBI thought it was important enough to stick his obituary under our noses. SCULLY: Who? Reyes: We don't know. SCULLY: Well, his blood alcohol level was upwards of 2.5%. He was drunk, he... crashed and drowned. DOGGETT: There's got to be something more. ( Cell phone rings ) DOGGETT: John Doggett. SKINNER (from his office): What the hell are you doing? DOGGETT: Excuse me? SKINNER: Do you know how many people are just waiting to see you screw up? To see you make a mistake like this? DOGGETT: I didn't know I made a mistake. SKINNER: This EPA guy that you checked out of the county morgue in Maryland -- without any jurisdiction -- oh, come on. All your friends, John. All your former buddies at the FBI ... DOGGETT: What are you talking about? SKINNER: They're not your pals anymore. Not since this investigation of yours. Since you've launched an attack on one of your own. Just watch your back, John. ( Slams receiver down ) DOGGETT: Definitive answer on how this guy died. What would that take? SCULLY: A careful autopsy. DOGGETT: How fast can you do it? SCULLY: That's not what I'm saying. DOGGETT: I'd understand if you don't want to do this, Dana, but you're the only person we can trust. SCENE #23: [DOGGETT'S RESIDENCE] (Doorbell rings ) FROHIKE: Collecting for the needy and unemployed. Open the door. DOGGETT: Thanks for doing this, guys. BYERS: Yeah, like we've got anything better to be doing these days. FROHIKE: Just to let you know we may need to hit you up for some coin. DOGGETT: Why? What happened to you guys? LANGLY: Don't ask. BYERS: We were able to hack into the Department of Interior's mainframe and get the EPA files you wanted on this man CARL WORMUS. DOGGETT: And? FROHIKE: Hey. What are we, mind-readers? That's all you asked us to do. BYERS: What exactly was it you were looking for, if we may ask? DOGGETT: I don't know, I was hoping you'd find something. LANGLY: Well, if he had any secrets, he took them to his grave. Nothing hinky in his files except some kind of rabid obsession with water. DOGGETT: Water? ... SCENE #24: [BACK AT THE AUTOPSY BAY] SCULLY (to REYES): ... Water. Asphyxiation induced by the inhalation of water. There are contusions on the forehead and on the chest but the impact isn't what killed him. This man drowned. You're looking at me like you hope that there's something more but there isn't. REYES: I'm sorry, that's not it. I'm just impressed that you can do this. SCULLY: This is what I do, Agent Reyes. REYES: But you're here doing it now. Something did happen, didn't it? (SCULLY looks away. She walks away.) I know what you're afraid of. That there's something wrong with your baby. SCULLY (turns around and faces REYES): We can let our fears get the better of us. We can, uh... imagine things, make connections with things that aren't there. Like with this man. REYES: If you ever feel the need to talk to someone, Dana, I'm here. I'd never betray a confidence. SCULLY: There is something. REYES: What? SCULLY: Right here on the ankle. REYES: Are those .. fingerprints? SCULLY: Yeah, that's what they look like. from someone holding him down? SCULLY: I don't know how or who. SCENE #25: [KERSH'S OFFICE] FOLLMER: I don't know if you're aware of where Agent Scully is. She's at Quantico. Called in by John Doggett to autopsy a body he's got no authority to touch. (FOLLMER hands KERSH a police report ... well, it looks like a police report from Maryland.) If I may be blunt, sir, Doggett's put his tit in the wringer. KERSH: Maybe. So what? FOLLMER: A lot of us think that he's lost all judgment. And one man's actions should not affect the entire FBI. We feel he should be called out for this. KERSH: Punished. FOLLMER: Yes, sir. KERSH: Thank you, Assistant Director. FOLLMER: It's a difficult situation to be in. KERSH: I appreciate you doing this. FOLLMER: It was the right thing to do. KERSH: Let me know how it goes. (KERSH hands the report back to FOLLMER.) FOLLMER: Me? Oh, no, I-I can't, sir. There-there's a conflict. I-I can't do this myself. KERSH: I can't very well do it. How would it look? I'm under investigation by Agent Doggett. You have no personal ax to grind. SCENE #26: [SCULLY'S APARTMENT] (MRS. SCULLY puts WILLIAM in his bassinet. The doorbell rings. She leaves him to check the door.) MRS. SCULLY: Hello, can I help you? McMAHON: Hi, I'm looking for Dana Scully. MRS. SCULLY: I'm sorry. She's not here right now. Can I tell her who's calling? McMAHON: We work together. Do you know where I can find her? MRS. SCULLY: No. Um... would you like to leave a message? (Doorknob squeaks as the doorknob slowly turns. MRS. SCULLY sees this.) McMAHON: I'll leave her a note if you wouldn't mind opening the door. MRS. SCULLY: Why don't you just leave your name and I'll have Dana call you. (There's no response. MRS. SCULLY looks through the peep hole and sees nothing. She opens the door and looks outside the hallway. There's no one there.) << COMMERCIAL SET #4 >> SCENE #27: [BACK AT QUANTICO] SCULLY: Throw the body into refrigeration if you're going to preserve him as evidence. Whatever he's evidence of. REYES: Whatever it is, I can't reach John to even tell him about it. SCULLY: Monica, I don't know what to say, but good luck. I've got to go. I've got to get home. (The two leave the room. REYES notices McMAHON round the corner and slowly approach them.) SCULLY: Third floor, they have a cooler for the teaching cadavers. You might temporarily put him up there. REYES: Behind us. Just keep walking. (SCULLY glances behind and sees McMAHON following them slowly.) SCULLY: Who is she? REYES: I've never seen her before this morning. Now I've seen her twice. (The two round the corner and stop in front of the elevator. They turn around expecting to see McMAHON follow, but there's no one there. The elevator bell rings, the doors open and FOLLMER with his back up is there. ) FOLLMER: Excuse us. (He moves forward and gets ahold of REYES as he passes her, turns her around and they all proceed back to the Autopsy Room.) FOLLMER: Where's Agent Doggett? REYES: What are you doing, Brad? FOLLMER: What am I doing? I'm doing my best to cover your ass. REYES: What are you talking about? FOLLMER: This, this. I'm talking about these. REYES: Let go of me. SCULLY: What's going on here? (They all burst through the double doors back into the autopsy bay where there it is revealed that the body that was once there is now gone. FOLLMER doesn't look happy.) FOLLMER: Okay, where'd he go? REYES: Who? Where'd who go? FOLLMER: Where did Doggett take the body? REYES: You're not making any sense, Brad. Agent Doggett didn't take any body anywhere. What, you're looking at me like you don't believe me. Ask Agent Scully. SCULLY: I'm going to go now. I've got a child at home. (SCULLY leaves.) FOLLMER: Body or no body, you were here doing an autopsy. Doggett was here... without authorization. REYES: Without authorization? FOLLMER: He's out of control, you know, Monica. Forget the X-Files. He'll take you down with him. (REYES looks at FOLLMER realizing something. She gets angry.) REYES: This was you, wasn't it? You floated that obituary to me to set Agent Doggett up. Using me? FOLLMER: What obituary? I don't know what you're talking about. You came to me for help, remember? I'm only trying to help you help yourself. REYES: I know exactly what you're doing, Brad. Don't forget to piss on all the corners before you leave. FOLLMER: I didn't float any obituary. What the hell is she talking about? SCENE #28: [DOGGETT'S RESIDENCE] (Doorbell rings. FROHIKE is stretching up to see through the peep hole ... only, he can't because he's just too short. In frustration, he reaches for the doorknob anyway.) FROHIKE: son of A... yeah. (FROHIKE sees REYES.) Oh, hello. REYES: Considering the recent violence attempted on Agent Doggett you might want to know who's at the door before you actually open it. FROHIKE: Next time I'll get a chair. BYERS: Agent Doggett's gone. REYES: What do you mean gone? LANGLY: He and Assistant Director Skinner split for Maryland together. FROHIKE: Show her what we found before she makes any nasty remarks. BYERS: It took some real hacking but CARL WORMUS, the man from the environmental protection agency who drowned in his car... he'd been receiving encrypted e-mail data from a water reclamation plant in Maryland. From a worker there named ROLAND McFARLAND. REYES: Encrypted data on what? LANGLY: Don't know. But whatever it is, may have gotten both these men killed. (Obit from the on-line Baltimore Chronicle: "Worker's Death Ruled Accidental Drowning". SCENE #29: [WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY] SKINNER: There are no nameplates. DOGGETT: Yeah, I see that. SKINNER: This is madness. Even if you're right and this guy connects to your investigation we don't know we're in the right area. DOGGETT: This has got to be McFarland's area. (DOGGETT prys open a locked desk drawer. SKINNER looks through the papers on a different desk and finds a slip of paper with "cwormus@epa.gov".) SKINNER: This might be his desk. (SKINNER hands DOGGETT the paper and DOGGETT prys open the locked desk drawer.) SKINNER: Let's just grab the computer hard drive and get out of here. We're not sure if it's his. Somebody's going to come walking through one of these doors any minute and it's not going to matter. DOGGETT: Just keep an eye out. (DOGGETT goes through the files in the desk.) What's chloramine? SKINNER: What? Why are you asking me about chloramine? DOGGETT: Because this is McFarland's desk and he's got tons of files on chloramine in it. (one file reads: CHLORAMINE BASE T-4) I'm betting it figures in to all this somehow. (SKINNER sees FOLLMER approaching with backup.) SKINNER: Agent Doggett. Grab the files and go. (Both men make their way out the back door making enough racket to wake the dead. FOLLMER hears something.) FOLLMER: Shh. (FOLLMER hears the dead waking and heads out the back door after SKINNER & DOGGETT. The two men make their way through the various catwalks. SKINNER hurts himself and falls behind DOGGETT.) FOLLMER: Assistant Director! Looks like you and I are chasing the same man. (FOLLMER walks past SKINNER calmly.) FOLLMER (yelling): Agent Doggett ! (He walks right up to a water tank and peers in. Just what is he hoping to find? DOGGETT is under the water desperately holding his breath and hanging on to one of the pipes. The files free float near him. FOLLMER is still above him peering into the water tank. McMAHON appears suddenly and pulls DOGGETT down into the water tanks depths as she did with the others.) ========================== TO BE CONTINUED ... ========================== For corrections / inaccuracies contact: steph@philedom2k.com Transcriptors: intrepid (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) ========================== TV BEGINNING CREDITS & OS SITE CAST INFORMATION (where available) ========================== 9X01: NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY (PART 1) #9ABX01 ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/11/2001 WRITTEN BY: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz DIRECTED BY: Kim Manners Starring: GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully ROBERT PATRICK as Special Agent John Doggett ANNABETH GISH as Special Agent Monica Reyes MITCH PILEGGI as A.D. Walter Skinner Created by: Chris Carter Also starring: Cary Elwes as A.D. Brad Follmer James Pickens, Jr. as Deputy Director Kersh Lucy Lawless as Shannon McMahon Nicholas Walker as Carl Wormus Sheila Larken as Mrs. Scully Bruce Harwood as Byers Tom Braidwood as Frohike Dean Haglund as Langly John Casino as Roland McFarland Jane Yamamoto as News Anchor Travis Riker as Baby William James Riker as Baby William Rikki Held as Baby William Rowdy Held as Baby William Music by: Mark Snow Editor: Lynne Williamham, A.C.E. Production Designer: Corey Kaplan Director of Photography: Bill Roe, A.S.C. Producer: Tony Wharmby Producer: Harry V. Bring Supervising Producer: David Amann Supervising Producer: Paul Rabwin Co-Executive Producer: Kim Manners Co-Executive Producer: Michelle MacLaren Executive Producer: John Shiban Executive Producer: Vince Gilligan Executive Producer: Frank Spotnitz Written by: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by: Kim Manners ========================== TELEVISION ENDING CREDITS ========================== Executive Producer: Chris Carter Ten Thirteen Productions (in association with) 20th Century Fox Television (a news corporation company) Associate Producer: Denise Pleune Executive Story Editor: Steven Maeda Story Editor: Thoams Schnauz Co-Starring Carl Wormus: Roland McFarland News Anchor: Jane Yamamoto Baby William: Travis Riker / James Riker Baby William: Ashley Knutson Baby William: Rikki Held / Rowdy Held Casting by: Rick Millikan, C.S.A. Unit Production Manager Co-Producer: Tim Silver Field Assistant Director: Barry K. Thomas Second Assistant Director: Nina Jack Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck Art Director: Sandy Getzler Set Decorator: Tim Stepeck Assistant Set Decorator: Ron Franco Leadman: Dave Napoli Script Supervisor: Carol Banker Gaffer: Jono Kouzouyan Key Grip: Tom Doherty Special Effects: Bob Calvery Stunt Coordinator: Danny Weselis Visual Effects Supervisor: John Wash Make-up Department Head: Cheri Montesanto-Medcalf Special Make-up: Matthew W. Mungle Hair Department Head: Dena Green Make-up for Ms. Anderson: Laverne Munroe Costumer for Ms. Anderson: Nadine Haders Costume Designer: Luellyn Harper-Thomas Costume Supervisors: Robert Jacobs / Jennifer Soulages Property Master: Tom Day Camera Operator: Jim Etheridge Steadicam Operator: Ron Cogswell Location Managers: Ilt Jones / Mac Gordon / Michelle Latham Transportation Coordinator: Steve Duncan Construction Coordinator: Duke Tomasick Sound Mixer: Ron Cogswell Production Assistant: Nanci Ethcells Production Coordinator: Jason A. Schomas Script Coordinator: Mike Dalley Researcher: Katrina Cabrera Ortega Writers' Assistant: Gabe Rotter Post Production Coordinator: Jason Harkins Original Casting by Randy Stone, C.S.A. Casting Associate: Kimberly Nordlinger Casting assistant: Elisha Gruer Extras Casting: Central Casting & Cenex Second Unit Director of Photography: Bob Labonge First Assistant Director: Xochi Blymyer Second Assistant Director: Cheri Bradford Gaffer: Don Bixby Key Grip: Joey Kraft Sound Mixer: Gary Thomas Underwater Photography: Buzz Feitshans Marine Coordinator: Ransom Walrod Assistant Editors: Jeff Cahn / Deborah Chalew Scoring Mixer: Larold Rebhun Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau DaVinci Colorist: Anthony R. Smith Dallies Colorist: Peter Ritter On-Line Editors: Kip Gibson / Marty Rosenstock Post Production Sound: West Productions, Inc. Sound Supervisors: Harry Andronis / Joe Johnston Re-Recording Mixers: Dave West / Harry Andronis / Sam Black Vice President Ten Thirteen: Mary Astadourian Office Manager, Ten Thirteen: Jana Fain Assistant to Chris Carter: Brad Follmer Assistants to the Producers: Sandra Tripicchio / Gennifer Hutchison Assistants to the Producers: Blake McCormick / Ginger Wadley Assistants to the Producers: Stephanie M. Herrera Main Title Design by Imaginary Forces Original Main Title Concept by Castle / Bryant / Johnsen Processing by Deluxe Labs Telecine & Electronic Assembly by HJollywood Digital Presented in DOLBY SURROUND where available Camera Systems by PANAVISION This production has not been approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copyright (c) 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All rights reserved #9ABX01 The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity in actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. 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