2.5 Duane Barry
US
Airdate: October 14, 1994
writer: Chris Carter
director: Chris Carter
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian
Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea
Agent Lucy Kazdin .............. CCH Pounder
Duane Barry .................... Steve Railsback
Dr. Del Hakkie ................. Frank C. Turner
A FORMER FBI AGENT CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, AND THE BUREAU SENDS MULDER TO INVESTIGATE. BUT HE UNCOVERS MORE THAN THEY SUSPECTED, TO SCULLY'S DETRIMENT.
In this first of a three-part story arc, a mental patient who claims voices in his head are the result of alien abduction escapes from a psychiatric institution, taking hostages, including his doctor. Mulder is called in to negotiate in the resulting standoff, where he discovers that the mental patient, Duane Barry, is a former FBI agent whose UFO abduction stories ring eerily true. Mulder exchanges himself for one of the hostages, but Scully discovers evidence in Barry's medical records that all is not as it seems. Resolution of the hostage crisis poses even more questions, as medical evidence may bear out Barry's claims. But before Mulder can investigate further, Duane Barry kidnaps Scully.
Notes
In my personal opinion, this episode is the beginning of the finest three hours on TV, period. The hostage situation scenes with Mulder and Duane are heart-stopping. The last scene, where we hear only Scully's anguished cries for help, then that frustrating "To Be Continued", argghhh! It was a killer at the time.
Contains the infamous Mulder Red Speedo scene!
Scully buys pickles and ice cream at the grocery store, a reference to her ongoing pregnancy in real life.
Part two of this story arc is "Ascension", part three is "One Breath".
Quotes
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Official: "Mulder, why are you so paranoid?"
Mulder: "It's not paranoia when you're right."
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Kazdan: "He's bent on taking the doctor with him to an alien abduction site,
only he can't quite remember where the site is so he stopped at a travel agency."
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Kazdan: "...so whatever crap you gotta make up about spacemen or UFOs, just keep him on the phone."
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(Mulder on the phone)
Mulder: "Duane?"
Duane: "Yeah?"
Mulder: "This is Special Agent Fox Mulder. Look I want to try to help you."
Duane: "Yeah? Well, we're just sitting here waiting for, uh, travel plans."
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Kazdan: "They would like it done as neatly and cleanly as possible."
Mulder: "Well you're getting off to a hell of a start."
Rich: "Negotiation IS a process, Agent Mulder."
Mulder: "Well if you just wanted somebody to come down and read the script you didn't have to bring me out..."
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(after detailing some of the medical experiment horror stories people have told re: aliens)
Mulder: "Would you like to know what they do to a woman's ovaries?"
Kazdan: "Not particularly."
Mulder: "Well then understand that you might have to alter your approach a little here."
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Krycek: "Is there anything I can do?"
Kazdan: "Yeah. What's your name again?"
Krycek: "Krycek."
Kazdan: "Krycek. Have you got a notepad?"
Krycek: "Yeah..." (starts to pull it from his jacket pocket)
Kazdan: "Grande, 2% cappuccino with vanilla. Agent Rich?"
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Duane: "How old was your sister when they took her?"
Mulder: "8."
Duane: "I seen girls there sometimes."
Mulder: "What are they doing to them?"
Duane: "Oh you know, testing 'em, just testing."
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Duane: "It's like living with a gun in your head. And never knowing when it's gonna go off..."
Mulder: "You can let the others go, Duane...Let the others go and take me."
Duane: "Aw, they heard you talk like that, they gonna have your ass!" *laughs*
Mulder: "I don't care about that, Duane."
Duane: "No. I wouldn't do that to you. Besides, Doc 'n I got an appointment. Ain't that right, Doc?"
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Krycek: "Calm down, Scully."
Scully: "Don't tell me to calm down. I'm not going to calm down until I can talk to someone who will listen to what I'm saying!"
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Kimberley:(a hostage, to Duane, as she's let go) "I just want to say that I believe you."
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Scully: "Sometimes whenever you want to believe in something, you end up looking too hard."
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(Scully on the phone):
"Mulder, it's me. I just had something incredibly strange happen. This piece of metal that they took out of Duane Barry, it has some kind of code on it. I ran it through a scanner, and some kind of serial number came up. What the hell is this thing, Mulder? It's almost... it's almost as if somebody was using it to catalog him... (breaking glass, scuffling) Mulder! Mulder! I need your help!...MULDER!"
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