3.16 Apocrypha
US Airdate: February 16, 1996
writers: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter
director: Kim Manners
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner... Mitch Pileggi
Agent Pendrell ...... Brenden Beiser
Frohike ..... Tom Braidwood
Hispanic Man aka Luis Cardinal ..... Lenno Britos
First Government Man ..... Dmitry Chepovetsky
Armed Man ....... Jeff Chivers
Cancer Man ..... William B. Davis
Major Domo ...... Martin Evans
Nurse ...... Frances Flanagan
Langly ..... Dean Haglund
Byers ...... Bruce Harwood
Alex Krycek ...... Nicholas Lea
Navy Doctor ...... Barry Levy
Agent Caleca ....... Sue Mathew
Agent Fuller ..... Kevin McNulty
Well-Manicured Man ....... John Neville
Sick Crewman ....... Peter Scoular
Elder #1 ...... Don S. Williams
MULDER PURSUES AN ALIEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS SHIP, WHILE SCULLY INVESTIGATES THE SHOOTING OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER.
Assistant Director Walter Skinner warns Scully as he is wheeled into surgery that he recognized the man who shot him.Although the Bureau is ready to write the incident off as a random shooting, Scully presses the investigation and discovers that the man who shot Skinner. Luis Cardinal, is the same one who shot her sister. Mulder, meanwhile, is unknowingly escorting an alien life form into the United States, one which is "hiding" inside Alex Krycek. When the pair is run off the road into a ditch by agents of the Cigarette-Smoking Man, Mulder is too dazed to see Krycek kill their assailants by irradiation. Although Krycek flees, Mulder still has the key to Krycek's locker. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, he recovers--an empty digital tape box. But he discovers a phone number on the package: the phone number of the Well-Manicured Man. Scully meanwhile fears for Skinner's life; she foils an attempt on his life by Luis Cardinal. Mulder, meanwhile, has learned that the cargo salvaged from the sea floor by the "Piper Maru" is being stored in a missile silo in North Dakota; he and Scully arrive and find dead, irradiated soldiers. Knowing Krycek (and the alien inside him) is in the silo, they stalk him through the darkened halls, but are ambushed by the Cigarette-Smoking Man's agents and hustled away. As they are driven off, Krycek kneels on top of a UFO, the alien entity pouring from his eyes and mouth, re-entering its craft. Krycek, still alive, beats on the locked doors in terror, begging to be released.
Notes
The Apocrypha is the collective name given to the books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible with the exception of the Gospels (ie those set after the time of Jesus Christ).
The number on the silo door where Krycek and the alien craft are being held is 1013 (Chris Carter's birthday).
Quotes
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Crewman: "That thing ...is still down there! The Navy'll deny it, but you've got to make sure the truth gets out. I can trust you to do that, can't I Mr. Mulder?"
Young Bill Mulder: (Mulder looks left, middle man looks left, left man lights up)
Young Cancer Man: "You can trust all of us... "
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Skinner: (whispering to Scully from hospital gurney) "I've seen him before... the man who shot me."
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Fuller: "How's he doing?"
Scully: "He's on steady Demerol, he's in and out. I thought I asked for guards to be posted outside."
Caleca: "We put in a request with the DC police."
Scully: "This wasn't a random shooting. I want guards posted here and I want them here now!"
Fuller: "I think it's a matter of pulling men on something else."
Scully: "I've heard the excuses. I don't care if you and agent Caleca have to stand in the hallway yourself. This man has to be protected. Okay?!" (she walks away)
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Cancer Man: "What's the prognosis?"
Doc: "It's just a matter of time. This kind of absorption will have a rapid effect on cellular activity, giving rise to the onset of massive and malignant cancers." (Cancer Man lights his cigarette)
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Cancer Man "Have the bodies destroyed."
Doc: "But sir, these men aren't dead yet!"
Cancer Man: "Isn't that the prognosis?"
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Mulder: (wakes up to Scully's smiling face) "Guess I'm not dead."
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Scully: "Hi. How are you feeling?"
Skinner: "Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating."
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Scully: "You're saying, that they closed down my sister's case not because of lack of evidence but because they didn't want us to catch the killer."
Skinner: "You should be very careful about the accusations that you make."
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Skinner: "Listen to me, anger is a luxury that you cannot afford right now. If you're angry you're gonna make a mistake, and these people will take advantage of that, you've seen how they operate."
Scully: "I'll be ok." (walking out)
Skinner: "Scully.. if you can't keep your head.. it's all right to step away."
Scully: "It's exactly what they want." (leaves)
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Scully: (comes into Mulder's office and notices NewtSuit)
Mulder: "It looked great on me in the store..."
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Mulder: "This just wasn't ordinary diesel oil, I think it's um....I think it's a medium, a medium being used by some kind of alien creature that uses it to .. body jump."
Scully: "So you're saying that this stuff has intelligence."
Mulder: "I think that it came off of whatever they pulled from the bottom of the Pacific ocean, it's been waiting 50 years down there for another host, another body to bring it up to the surface."
Scully: "Waiting to jump into the diver and then into the diver's wife..."
Mulder: "And then into Krycek."
Scully: "Krycek?"
Mulder: "I think that Mrs Gauthier went to Hong Kong under the control of this thing (Scully laughs) to find Krycek. I know, I know how it sounds."
Scully: "Is anybody NOT looking for Krycek?"
Mulder: "No but I think that the 64 thousand dollar question is what is this thing looking for? And now that it's in Krycek, what does it want?"
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Frohike: "Nothin' to it."
Byers: "You should call upon our services more often."
Langly: "We show talent for these G-MAN activities."
Mulder: "You mean if I want somebody whacked on the knee with a lead pipe?"
Frohike: "Only if you want it done right."
Mulder: (opens case, no tape) "It's gone."
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Well-Manicured Man: "...we'd like an explanation about this business with the assistant director of the Bureau, Skinner."
Cancer Man: "Random shooting for all I know."
Well-Manicured Man: "They have a waitress, who has given a description of the shooter, they released a composite of his face to the press...(hands him a newspaper, it's the face of the Hispanic-Man)....one of yours, isn't he?"
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Frohike: (wearing special glasses) "I've got something here.. writing somebody wrote on top of the package and left an impression."
Mulder: "Let me see that."
Byers: "Your guys at the FBI turned a major serial murderer with a vestigial pen impression."
Mulder: "Hand me a pencil." (starts rubbing on paper)
Langly: "Your sci-crime guys at the Bureau have a laser there that can measure any change in a surface down to a few nanometers."
Byers: "Actually they can lift perfect impression using magnetic toner and a sheet of mylar an electrostatic device is applied to the specimen, and renders the information, by drawing the toner from the indentation to the mylar surface."
Frohike: "Actually.."
Mulder: "Actually, it's a phone number, New York City area code (212), 555 1012. Now don't drop that (giving the pencil to Frohike) that's a finely calibrated piece of investigative equipment. I gotta make a phone call." (Frohike is puzzled)
Frohike: (looking at pencil) "I'll be damned."
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Well-Manicured Man: "Who gave you this number?"
Mulder: "You probably know. A man named Krycek."
Well-Manicured Man: "Alex Krycek?"
Mulder: "Yeah nice guy, killed my father, you wouldn't happen to know where he is, do you?"
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Fuller: "His name is Luis Cardinal (The Hispanic Man) , native of Nicaragua, school of the America's alumni, career mercenary, apparently impressed a lot of people with his marksmanship during the Iran contra deal."
Scully: "I'll bet."
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Scully: "Keep looking for him."
Fuller: "We.. pretty much exhausted our avenues."
Scully: "What's it gonna take?"
Caleca: "At this point? Other than a sign from god?"
Scully: "I've seen stranger things, believe me."
Man: "I believe she has."
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The Well-Manicured Man: "I trust we're all alone."
Mulder: "We're all alone in New York City, sir."
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The Well-Manicured Man: "I'm curious, if you've encountered Krycek, why didn't you kill him then?"
Mulder: "Cause he has the tape."
The Well-Manicured Man: "Ahh yes, the tape ."
Mulder: "The tape he's been selling those secrets off. (The Well-Manicured Man is surprised) You don't know where he is either, do you? (the Well-Manicured Man smiles) you're looking for
him too."
The Well-Manicured Man: "Mr Mulder, everyone can be gotten to, certainly, you've no doubt of that...(Mulder walks away) Mr Mulder?"
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Scully: "Federal agent! Stop right there! Are you Luis Cardinal?!! Are you Luis Cardinal?!!"
Cardinale: "Please..."
Scully: "Are you the man that shot my sister?!!! YOU SHOT MY SISTER!!!!"
Cardinale: "Please don't kill me! I can tell you..."
Scully: "TELL ME!!!"
Cardinale: "I can tell you what you want. You want Krycek! I can tell you where he is. Please--please don't shoot me."
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Scully: "There must be 200 silos out here. And if I'm correct they were all filled with concrete in accord with the disarmament treaty when the base was decommissioned."
Mulder: (pulling out gun) "I didn't sign any disarmament treaty.."
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Scully: (in silo) "Where's the concrete?"
Mulder: "Apparently nobody else signed that treaty either."
Scully: "One down, 199 silos to go."
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Scully: "We saw bodies in there! (she's taken away) Men with radiation burns!"
Cancer Man: "You saw nothing." (enters the silo)
Mulder: "You won't get away with this! You can't bury the truth!"
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Mulder: "Actually I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to... thank you for everything you did."
Skinner: "You mean me getting shot in the gut?"
Mulder: "You got a shot because you stood up to these people"
Skinner: "I think you're perceiving from a mistaken impression, what I did, I did it because it's my job."
Mulder: "From what I understand, you put your job and your life on the line for Scully."
Skinner: "This isn't my crusade agent Mulder. A woman was murdered, I mistakenly thought that we could bring the man who committed that crime to justice."
Mulder: "What do you mean mistakenly?"
Skinner: "This is what I need to talk to Scully about."
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(at her sister's grave, with Mulder)
Scully: "I was just thinking about something that a man said to me. That the dead speak to us from beyond the grave, that that what's conscience is."
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(after finding out Luis Cardinal's dead, a supposed suicide)
Scully: "And what about Krycek?"
Mulder: "Oh he was there. I know that."
Scully: "You think they got to him too."
Mulder: "I don't know, but if they haven't they will. I doubt it'll weight on their consciences though."
Scully: "I think the dead are speaking to us Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. Maybe we bury the dead alive."
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