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PULASKI, VIRGINIA
JUNE 3, 1985
In a suburban home, Duane Barry lies asleep on his bed, his dog at his
feet, while an old movie plays on the television. Suddenly, the TV picture
turns to static. The dog whines. Outside the bedroom wall, an open wall
covered with construction plastic, a number of shadowed figures can be
seen. Duane Barry wakes up in a panic. "Oh, no, not again," he cries out.
Outside the house, a brightly lit craft is hovering above. Duane Barry
screams.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
DAVIS CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT CENTER
MARION, VIRGINIA
PRESENT DAY
Duane Barry is brought in to see his psychiatrist, Dr. Hakkie. Barry's
wrists are bound with plastic cuffs. The doctor is concerned that Barry's
been refusing his medicine. Barry insists "they" are coming to take him
again. Dr. Hakkie wants to give him a sedative, but while he goes to get
the shot, Barry hurries out of the room, attacks a guard and steals his
gun. He takes the doctor hostage and escapes.
WASHINGTON, DC
AUGUST 7, 1994
At an indoor swimming pool, Mulder is swimming laps when Krycek comes
in to tell Mulder that there's a situation going down, and Mulder is wanted
out there right away. It's a hostage situation, which surprises Mulder
- why do they want him? A man has escaped a mental institution and is
holding four people hostage at gunpoint in an office building, Krycek
tells him. The man claims he is being controlled by aliens.
DOWNTOWN RICHMOND, VA
AUGUST 7, 1994
Mulder and Krycek arrive on the scene of the hostage situation, and are
greeted by the agent in charge, Lucy Kazdin. Mulder introduces Krycek,
whom she completely ignores. She explains to Mulder that Duane Barry is
holding his psychiatrist and three other people hostage in a travel agency.
He wants to take the doctor to an alien abduction site, but he can't quite
remember where it is, so he stopped at a travel agency to get directions.
He's lucid, but he's off his medication, so he's manic. Mulder asks for
information about Barry's abduction experiences; Kazdin regards him skeptically.
"Do you really believe in this stuff, Agent Mulder?" Mulder replies, "Is
that a problem?"
Inside the travel agency, Duane Barry is agitated. He hits the man from
the travel agency when he complains about having to sit in the floor.
The two women are frightened; the doctor begs Barry not to hurt anyone.
Mulder calls Duane Barry from inside the situtation room in the building
across the courtyard. He reads from the standard FBI hostage negotiation
script. Barry's not impressed. He quotes back from the negotiation guidelines
to Mulder. Mulder realizes Barry's FBI; Kazdin is holding out on him.
Kazdin says Barry's been out of the Bureau since 1982, when he was injured
in the line of duty - shot in the head, after which he's been in and out
of mental institutions for more than a decade. Mulder is frustrated and
angry: "If you just wanted somebody to come down and read the script,
you didn't need me." He tries to tell Kazdin about the experiences of
abductees; she doesn't want to hear it. Mulder walks away, brushing past
Krycek as he leaves.
Krycek goes up to Kazdin and asks, is there anything I can do? "Yeah.
Got your notepad?" Krycek nods and takes out his pad. "Grande, two percent
cappucino with vanilla. Agent Rich?" Rich shakes his head. Krycek grimaces
and shoves his notepad back in his pocket.
Mulder calls Scully. She's been watching the story of the hostage situation
on the news. He tells her what he knows about Duane Barry and asks her
to find out anything she can about him.
Suddenly, the lights go out in the situation room and at the travel agency.
Then, a bright light blinds them. Barry panics and begins to shoot wildly.
Kazdin learns that an electrical substation blew. When Mulder calls Barry
on his cell phone, Barry tells him that one of the hostages has been shot.
Mulder prepares to go in to the travel agency, disguised as a medic,
along with the agent who is the real medic. He's provided with a small
radio receiver in his ear, and his bullet-proof vest is wired. Barry allows
them to enter. While the medic attends to the wounded man, Mulder talks
to Barry about alien abductions. While he describes what he knows about
abductees, Barry remembers his own experiences in flashbacks. Mulder says
he believes Barry - while Kazdin, listening to the conversation over the
wire, urges Mulder not to buy in to Barry's story.
Barry allows the injured man to be taken out, but keeps Mulder hostage
in exchange, tying Mulder to a chair, as he has done to the psychiatrist,
Dr. Hakkie. They continue to talk about Barry's abduction. Barry is skeptical;
thinks Mulder is just humoring him, but Mulder says he believes because
it happened to his sister. Barry continues to have flashbacks to his own
abductions, then finally begins to trust Mulder, and describes his experiences
to him.
In the situation room, a phone rings. Krycek is in the background, serving
coffee to the other agents. Agent Rich announces, "Who here can talk to
an Agent Scully?" Krycek answers the phone, tells Scully that Mulder has
traded himself for one of the hostages and is in with Duane Barry. Scully
insists - You have to get him out of there right now, or he's going to
be killed! Duane Barry is not what Mulder thinks he is.
Mulder asks Duane Barry whether he ever sees young children being abducted.
Barry says yes, the aliens sometimes take young girls. They do tests on
them. Sometimes it hurts real bad. Mulder says, let the others go and
take me. But Barry laughs and says, I wouldn't do that to you.
Scully arrives from Washington, DC, and tries to get someone to listen
to her. Krycek tells her to calm down. "Don't tell me to calm down! I'm
not going to calm down until I can find someone who will listen to what
I'm saying!" Finally, Kazdin comes to hear Scully's story.
Scully describes Barry's medical history. He was shot in the bilateral
frontal lobe of his brain. She tells of a similar case, a man named Phineas
Gage, whose brain was pierced by a steel rod in the same area. He survived,
but his personality changed, becoming violent and delusional.
Barry tells Mulder that the government is in on it, working with the
aliens. Mulder asks how the aliens find him each time, and Barry says
he has implants in his sinus cavities, gums, and belly button. Scully
contacts Mulder via the radio receiver in his ear, telling him that Duane
Barry is a brain-damaged psychopath, urging him to resolve the situation.
She says that HRT is moving in and will execute a tactical plan soon unless
he frees the hostages. Mulder asks Barry to let the women go, and Barry
agrees.
Then Mulder asks Barry if he is making any of this up. Barry is furious
with Mulder, suddenly seems on the verge of violence. Mulder, frightened,
tells Barry that he forgot to lock the door after the women left. "Go
lock the door, Duane. Go lock it."
Barry goes to the door. The sharpshooter shoots him in the chest.
As paramedics load Barry into an ambulance, Scully reassures Mulder,
tells him he did the right thing. "I believed him."
JEFFERSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
RICHMOND, VA
Mulder meets Kazdin at the hospital where Barry is being treated. She
thanks him for putting it on the line. He laughs - "I thought you called
me down here to chew me out." Kazdin tells Mulder that x-rays showed metal
in Duane Barry's sinuses, gums, and abdomen, and that they found tiny
drill holes in his teeth that could not have been made by current dental
equipment.
FBI HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, DC
Back at Scully's office, Mulder has given her the implant that was removed
from Barry's abdomen. She thinks it's probably shrapnel - Barry did a
tour in Viet Nam - but she'll take it to ballistics and have it checked
out.
Scully and another agent study the implant under a microscope. They see
tiny etchings in the metal, like a bar code.
Scully is at the grocery store, buying ice cream. After taking Scully's
check, the checker takes her cash drawer and leaves the checkstand. Scully
runs the implant across the scanner, and the register goes nuts. Scully
grabs her groceries and leaves.
Duane Barry wakes up in the hospital. Through the curtain around his
bed, he sees shadowy figures surrounding him. Frightened, he jumps up
and runs out of the room. He knocks out a security guard with a fire extinguisher
and escapes from the hospital.
At home, Scully calls Mulder and leaves a message on his machine. She
tells him about what happened with the implant. "What is this thing, Mulder?
It's almost as if someone was using it to catalog him." She hears a noise
- sees Duane Barry lurking outside her apartment, looking in her window.
He breaks in. Mulder's answering machine continues to record Scully's
struggles. "Mulder!" she screams, "I need your help! Mulder!"
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