3.10 731
US Airdate: December 1, 1995
writer: Frank Spotnitz
director: Rob Bowman
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Agent Pendrell ..... Brenden Beiser
Escalante ..... Colin Cunningham
Cancer Man ..... William B. Davis
Dr. Shiro Zama aka Dr. Takeo Ishimaru ..... Robert Ito
Red-Haired Man ..... Stephen McHattie
Conductor .... Michael Puttonen
Elder ..... Don S. Williams
Mr. X ..... Steven Williams
MULDER BOARDS A TRAIN CARRYING A BOMB AND A MYSTERIOUS QUARANTINE SUBJECT AS SCULLY LEARNS MORE DETAILS OF HER ABDUCTION.
At a remote leper colony in West Virginia, leprosy victims watch in hiding as other patients are rounded up by a death squad and systematically murdered. Aboard a speeding train, Mulder searches for the Japanese doctor in charge of the mysterious being he saw loaded on a quarantine car -- a doctor whom Scully identifies from photographs as having been present during her abduction. When Mulder finds the man garroted in a bathroom, he goes in search of the killer still on the train. Scully links the Japanese doctor to a West Virginia leper colony, and discovers a mysterious informant with a tale of human medical experimentation dating back to World War II. Mulder's belief in alien hybridization experiments is tested against Scully's conviction that the evidence points to extensive medical atrocities. Only Scully's memories and cryptic messages from X can save Mulder who is trapped in a sealed train car with a bomb, a cold-blooded killer, and an occupant who may or may not be a human/alien hybrid.
Part 2 of 2.
Notes
Title refers to the military unit number of the group of scientists who were conducting the experiments.
The combination Scully gives Mulder to free him from the boxcar is #101331 (the 10/31 is Chris Carter's birthday)
Tagline: Apology Is Policy
Quotes
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Scully: "They put something on that train in West Virginia. Something living!"
Mr. X: "What more is there to know?"
Scully: "What the Japanese have to do with it? How a man named Ishimaru is involved?"
Mr. X: "That I don't know."
Scully: "Don't tell me you don't know you smug....(pulls out gun, grabs him and points it at him) son of a b...!!!!!"
Mr. X: "There are limits to my knowledge."
Scully: "I don't have time for your convenient ignorance!"
Mr. X: "What are you gonna do? Shoot me? Just like the men that shot your sister?"
Scully: "You know them too?"
Mr. X: "You wanna know what's on that train? Who killed your sister? You find out what they put in your neck."
Scully: "The implant."
Mr.X: "It holds more than I could ever tell you. Maybe everything you need to know."
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Mulder: (the journals are in Japanese) "Why did I study French in high school?"
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Mulder: "Have you ever used a gun before?"
Conductor: "No." (eyes wide with fright)
Mulder: "I just want you to point it at him. (clicks empty gun) Don't pull the trigger. That'll kinda give away the game."
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Scully: "Well done, Agent Pendrell. Keep up the good work."
Pendrell: "Hey, thanks. Keep it up yourself!... (Scully leaves) ... Keep it up yourself... what a goof..."
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Woman: "Ooh, god. He's dead!"
Mulder: "Sshh! He's just got a little motion sickness. I'm gonna go find a doctor. Why don't you and your young man just find another bathroom?"
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Mulder: "The NSA? Since when did they start issuing you guys piano wire instead of guns?"
Red Haired Man: "Since we learned there's a bomb on this train."
Mulder: "There's something on this train but it's not a bomb."
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Elder: "The ruler of the world is no longer the country with the greatest soldiers, but the greatest scientists."
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Scully: (on phone to Mulder) "Mulder we've gotten involved with something, but it's not at all what you think."
Mulder: "What are you talking about?"
Scully: "Whatever is on that train is not alien."
Mulder: "You're wrong Scully."
Scully: "Mulder, Ishimaru-Zama he was experimenting on innocent human subjects. He'd been doing it for years operating out of a leper colony."
Mulder: "Whatever his name was Scully, he's dead. I don't think this has anything to do with lepers."
Scully: "The leper colony was just a front. The tests weren't just on lepers, they were on the homeless, on the insane. They were brought here and they were subjected to diseases and radiation tests."
Mulder: "Who told you this?"
Scully: "The man who handed me the phone."
Mulder: "And why do you believe him?"
Scully: "Because of what he's shown me."
Mulder: "What? (pause) What's he shown you?"
Scully: "Mulder I am standing in a train car just like the one on your alien autopsy video. Only I realize that I've been here before."
Mulder: "What are talking about Scully?"
Scully: "This is where they brought me Mulder! This is where they put the implant in my neck, in one of these cars!"
Mulder: "Scully...."
Scully: "It all makes sense Mulder! Ishimaru-Zama he was using the secret railroad to conduct his tests across the country. The women in Allentown, they all remember these cars...." (phone connection starts breaking up)
Mulder: "Scully? Scully ?!"
Scully: "Can you hear me?"
Mulder: "Yeah. So what are you saying that Zama's the one who abducted these women?"
Scully: "What I am saying Mulder is that there is no such thing as alien abduction. It is just a smoke-screen happily created by our government to cover up the biggest lie of all."
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Elder: "What's the next stop?"
Scully: "It's not on the map."
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Mulder: "What about that thing locked back there? What provisions were made for saving its life?"
Red-Haired Man: "I don't know. I wasn't expected to fail."
Mulder: "You know what it is don't you? You're gonna die for that thing, is it important enough to die for? What is it a plague carrier? A leper?! (no answer as Mulder walks towards him, still bound on the floor) We're both gonna die in here, the difference is I'm gonna die quickly. (cocks trigger on gun aimed at Red-Haired Man) As an employee of the National Security Agency you should know that a gunshot wound to the stomach is probably the most painful and the slowest way to die. But I'm not a very good shot. And when I miss... I tend to miss low..."
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Mulder: "What are you watching?"
Scully: "Your alien autopsy video."
Mulder: "You mean I might get my $29.95's worth after all?"
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Scully: "Don't you see Mulder? You're doing their work for them.You're chasing aliens that aren't there, helping them to create a story to cover the shameful truth. And what they can't cover they apologize for. Apology has become policy."
Mulder: "I don't need an apology for the lies. I don't care about the fictions they create to cover their crimes. I want them held accountable for what DID happen. I want an apology for the truth."
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