X-Files Logo 'Nothing Important Happened Today II'

Story Code '#9X02'
by Chris Carter
and Frank Spotnitz
X-Files Cast

SCENE 1 - COMPUTER TERMINAL

(Someone is pressing numbers on a keypad. It is a password for the computer. A message appears saying:

‘Passcode Authorisation Complete, Passcode Accepted, Proceed to palm scan’

(The hand is scanned on the screen, we see the hand outline and another message:

‘Palm scan complete, 236 unique match points, Positive match confirmed’

(After a brief pause:

‘Permission Log Written, proceed to retinal scan’)


SCENE 2 - CORRIDOR

(The man at the scanner is the CAPTAIN - a man in his 50s with white hair and a naval uniform.. He walks to the retinal scanner and the red beam scans his eye. The image appears on screen. The CAPTAIN turns a key into a lock and then turns the handle of a large pressurised door. It opens and the man goes down some stairs where he arrives at another door, being guarded by a NAVY SEAL)

CAPTAIN:
I have an urgent communication to deliver to Doctor Nordlinger.

NAVY SEAL:
I can deliver the communication.

CAPTAIN:
I was asked to confirm and verify he received the communiqué and report back...

NAVY SEAL:
(Interrupting) That's not proper procedure.

CAPTAIN:
Report back Doctor Nordlinger's acknowledgement of the communiqué.

(The door opens and an elderly man, DR NORDLINGER enters. Behind him is a large monitor with information on the ova experiments and several other scientists hard at work)

DOCTOR NORDLINGER:
What's going on here?

NAVY SEAL:
There's some confusion as to the proper procedure Doctor Nordlinger.

(DOCTOR NORDLINGER closes the door behind him)

CAPTAIN:
I have a communication for you.

(He hands an envelope to DR NORDLINGER, which the doctor rips opens. It is a message in code, with the cipher text and then the plain writing underneath: ‘EMERGENCY STOP, RETURN TO OPERATIONS BASE DIRECTLY STOP’)

(After reading it, DR NORDLINGER looks at the CAPTAIN)

DOCTOR NORDLINGER:
Communication acknowledged and confirmed Captain. We're returning to base.

(The CAPTAIN walks away to an area with ‘Hazardous Material’ signs on the wall)


SCENE 3 - HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AREA

(He enters an area lit with red lighting. He calls for another officer)

CAPTAIN:
Bamford?

BAMFORD:
Captain?

CAPTAIN:
Prepare to transmit to Operations Command.

BAMFORD:
Transmit what sir?

(The CAPTAIN turns and moves over towards a terminal)

BAMFORD:
Sir, what is the communication?

CAPTAIN:
We're coming in.

(The CAPTAIN walks over to the ship's wheel and starts to steer the ship back towards Operations Command. The camera pans away from the CAPTAIN. The camera zooms back out of the ship, through a portal until we can see a large vessel, perhaps a WWII vessel - the Valor Victor)


OPENING TITLES


SCENE 4 - WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY

(We are where we left off in the previous episode. FOLLMER looks at the water tank)

FOLLMER:
(Shouting) DOGGETT!

(DOGGETT is being pulled down further by SHANNON. He tries to break free. FOLLMER doesn't think anyone is in the tank, so he turns away followed by the agents. As he does, the bubbles from DOGGETT rise to the surface. DOGGETT sinks down, motionless and SHANNON pulls him closer and breathes into his mouth to keep him alive)


SCENE 5 - FOLLMER'S OFFICE

(FOLLMER is pacing the floor with a file in his hands. SKINNER is sitting and REYES enters)

REYES:
Sorry I'm late.

FOLLMER:
Have a seat Agent Reyes.

(She sits down next to SKINNER)

FOLLMER:
Agent Reyes, I thought we might have a little chat. Mister Skinner here, has been helping me put together the pieces of your X-Files investigation.

REYES:
Can we cut the crap, Brad?

FOLLMER:
I don't know. Can we? There's a lot of crap to cut through.

SKINNER:
Agent Reyes. You probably want to zip it and try to co-operate.

FOLLMER:
Like it or not, I'm charged with the task of bringing you in.

REYES:
Bringing us in? For what?

FOLLMER:
Two unauthorised autopsies. Breaking and entering a state water facility. Wilful misuse of your positions.

REYES:
I don't want to go into any of this without my partner here.

FOLLMER:
Your partner. Your so called partner, who's running this circus, is right now nowhere to be found.

REYES:
What are you doing Brad?

FOLLMER:
Giving you and Mister Skinner an opportunity to put a nice spin on this mess that Doggett's making

SKINNER:
Agent Reyes If you're not going to zip it, at least recognise that he's trying to help you

REYES:
We were given a tip we believes lead us to a larger conspiracy.

FOLLMER:
Conspiracy? Involving the FBI?

REYES:
John Doggett and I are running a legitimate investigation into the FBI. Neither one of us feels...

FOLLMER:
Agent Reyes, I'm trying to help you keep your job. But that's not going to happen if you insist on chasing shadows, chasing conspiracies.

REYES:
How do you know there isn't one?

FOLLMER:
You're taking on the entire FBI here, Monica. This witch hunt, isn't going to expose anything but you, unless you distance yourself from John Doggett.

(REYES gets up to leave)

FOLLMER:
What are you doing?

REYES:
I'm distancing myself Brad, from you, from your political games. You just want to get John Doggett.

FOLLMER:
You're making a big mistake here.

REYES:
Yeah, I seem to make one every single time I walk in your door.

(REYES leaves, closing the door behind her)


SCENE 6 - DOGGETT'S APARTMENT

(DOGGETT wakes up, with a cough. SHANNON is there)

SHANNON:
Lie back John, it's OK.

DOGGETT:
What the hell's this?

SHANNON:
It's Shannon, Shannon McMahon. We were together in Bravo Company, USMC. You tried to contact me.

DOGGETT:
What the hell are you doing here now?

SHANNON:
Your lungs are full of water.

DOGGETT:
You pulled me under.

SHANNON:
I did what I had to.

DOGGETT:
You held me down, I remember.

SHANNON:
They would have caught you, they would have figured it out - what you've started to figure out.

DOGGETT:
What are you?

SHANNON:
You know what I am. I'm the product of fifty years of military science, the program your old friend Knowle Rohrer told you about. I'm a bio-engineered combat unit. I have no weaknesses - I don't sleep, I can breathe under water. That's how I saved your life John.

DOGGETT:
How do you know what I know - what Knowle Rohrer told me?

SHANNON:
Knowle Rohrer and I were drafted right out of Bravo Company together. We were... Adam and Eve, the program's first. There are many more now.

DOGGETT:
Knowle Rohrer is dead.

SHANNON:
They can't kill us. We can't be killed. Knowle Rohrer and I are alike in almost every way. The difference is I hate what I am.

DOGGETT:
Why are you here telling me this?

SHANNON:
The program's expanding in ways no-one ever dreamed of. I need your help to stop it, John.

DOGGETT:
You need my help? What can I do?

SHANNON:
Expose the deaths of those two men I killed. What they were doing.

DOGGETT:
What were they doing?

SHANNON:
Preparing the water supply.

DOGGETT:
Preparing it for what?


SCENE 7 - BALTIMORE PORT

(The ship has docked. The CAPTAIN is putting on his jacket)

BAMFORD:
What are you doing Captain? Where are you going? We're under strict orders not to leave the ship.

CAPTAIN:
Look at us. They've got us tied up in a civilian dock in Baltimore. Why? I think they may be on to us.

BAMFORD:
You're only drawing suspicion if they're not. You can't leave this ship.

CAPTAIN:
We can't risk waiting. We can't risk not making contact now. I'll be back.


SCENE 8 - SCULLY'S APARTMENT

(SCULLY puts WILLIAM in his cot and then heads to the door and opens it. SKINNER enters)

SKINNER:
Hi. Sorry about the hour.

SCULLY:
I've just put him down.

SKINNER:
I couldn't talk on the phone.

SCULLY:
What is it?

SKINNER:
I was told to leave this alone. You and Mulder asked me to leave it be. To let Mulder disappear. We were concerned for the safety of the baby and for Mulder. Why am I risking that now? Why are you? Why are you getting mixed up with Doggett's investigation?

SCULLY:
(Looking away) Something happened, with my baby.

SKINNER:
What?

SCULLY:
I can't explain it. It's er, it's unexplainable, it's not normal

SKINNER:
Whatever it is, I think you've made a terrible mistake. Letting Doggett pull you into this. He's hell bent. And Agent Reyes is following right in his tracks.

SCULLY:
I need answers. I need to know. I can't just sit around wondering...

SKINNER:
If you can't tell me, tell Mulder. Tell him what happened.

SCULLY:
Mulder can't know. He can't be brought back into this. He can't be brought back into the FBI. It's just too dangerous for him right now.

SKINNER:
It's too dangerous for everyone.

(SKINNER leaves and shuts the door behind him. SCULLY looks fearful - this is not going well)


SCENE 9 - BALTIMORE PORT

(The CAPTAIN is at a payphone)

AUTOMATED VOICE:
The EPA employee you are trying to reach - Carl Wormus - is not available. If you want to leave a voicemail, stay on the line.

(The CAPTAIN angrily heads back to the ship. Once back on the ship, he goes back to the ship's bridge, where he thinks BAMFORD is)

CAPTAIN:
(Entering the bridge) Something's wrong. Very wrong.

KNOWLE ROHRER O.O.V.:
Sir?

(It is not BAMFORD. It is KNOWLE ROHRER)

CAPTAIN:
What is this?

KNOWLE ROHRER:
Chief Petty Officer Bamford has been released from his post, Sir. I'm your new second in command.


SCENE 10 - SCULLY'S APARTMENT

(The next day has dawned. SCULLY is sitting with WILLIAM, patting him on the back. She picks up the phone)

SCULLY:
Hello?

REYES:
Dana, I'm sorry if I woke you. It's Monica Reyes. Dana, there's something I think you really need to be aware of. Something you need to hear. Something I'm not sure I believe.

SCULLY:
I'm listening

REYES:
It's not me you need to hear it from...

(REYES passes her cell phone to DOGGETT, who's standing next to her)

DOGGETT:
Agent Scully, we may have same answers for you, about your baby.


SCENE 11 - DOGGETT'S APARTMENT

(SCULLY enters. REYES and SHANNON are also in the room)

REYES:
Dana, this is Shannon McMahon.

SHANNON:
Hi.

(SCULLY sits)

SCULLY:
Let's start with the water.

SHANNON:
Well, you're a scientist, you'll appreciate the science involved. A new additive is being put in the water supply. It's called chloramine, it's not news, well let me say that it's been reported but no-one's asking questions yet.

SCULLY:
And what should they be asking?

SHANNON:
If you want to deliver something to everyone's home in America, what better way than through what's most taken for granted - water.

SCULLY:
Look, I've had my fair share of outrageous conspiracy theories okay, so cut the mystery crap and get to the science. Chloramine is just a substitute for chlorine, you can drink it and it's harmless.

SHANNON:
Unless someone were to quietly go and change its molecular make-up.

SCULLY:
Who and how?

SHANNON:
I think you'd be more interested in why.

SCULLY:
Alright then, why?

SHANNON:
To prime a population to breed a generation of Super Soldiers.

SCULLY:
By adding something to our water?

SHANNON:
Something which promotes the mutation of offspring. And fertilisation. And pregnancy.

(SCULLY laughs nervously)

SCULLY:
That's not true!

SHANNON:
Is it? It's no more absurd than I am. I am a first generation prototype. Now there seven stages advanced in the stages of science that created me, to the point where now they have successfully given birth to a Super Soldier from a mutated egg.

SCULLY:
How can we trust any of this? Or you. What you say you are?

SHANNON:
We all have a standard mutation...

(SHANNON stands up and turns so that her back is to SCULLY. She pulls her hair away from the back of her neck to reveal a pointed lump on the back of her neck. We've all seen that before)


SCENE 12 - THE SHIP

(KNOWLE is looking through papers)

CAPTAIN:
What are you looking at?

KNOWLE ROHRER:
Ship's logs.

CAPTAIN:
Those logs are classified.

KNOWLE ROHRER:
I'm second in command. I'm supposed to know the ship Sir. In case something should happen to you. What is the greater mission of this ship, if I may ask? Sir?

CAPTAIN:
I don't ask. We don't ask.

(An alarm starts to ring elsewhere on the ship. The CAPTAIN leaves quickly to investigate. He sees another crew member)

CAPTAIN:
What's going on?

(Several crewmembers, including the CAPTAIN, watch two divers jump into the water. They swim over to a body. It is BAMFORD. A small vehicle arrives to get the body. The CAPTAIN sees this and turns to see KNOWLE watching him not far away)


SCENE 13 - DOGGETT'S HOUSE

(SCULLY is about to listen to SHANNON's heart. DOGGETT goes into the living room where REYES is waiting)

REYES:
It doesn't make any sense.

DOGGETT:
Yeah, only it doesn't look like there's any harm in it either does it?

REYES:
She drowned that man from the EPA. She's drowned 2 men.

DOGGETT:
She says they were part of the program - two guys working to spike the water of the state of Maryland's water supply.

REYES:
So she killed them as a way of contacting you, you believe that?

DOGGETT:
You saw that thing on her back. You said you saw it before. I think we're on to something here Monica, it's freaky, it's mind-blowing. You gotta admit that, come on.

REYES:
I'm not doubting what she is, only what she says she's doing.

(SCULLY enters)

DOGGETT:
What did you find?

SCULLY:
Nothing, nothing more than a small deformity of the spine. Physically, she seems absolutely normal, as normal as you or I.

DOGGETT:
I don't believe this.

SCULLY:
What don't you believe Agent Doggett? I just examined her.

DOGGETT:
That I'm standing here with both of you telling me that you don't see what's right in front us. She's the key to everything in this case, right to the FBI.

SCULLY:
Well for your sake, I hope so, but I hope not for mine.

(DOGGETT's cell phone rings. He answers it)

DOGGETT:
John Doggett.

SKINNER:
(On phone) Agent Doggett, I really don't want to be making this call, I really don't, I've been forced to.

DOGGETT:
(On phone)What are you talking about?


SCENE 14 - KERSH'S OFFICE

(DOGGETT walks in angrily)

DOGGET:
You want to turf me now? You want to take my badge and gun?

KERSH:
Agent Doggett, you can't just burst in here.

DOGGETT:
How's it going to look Deputy Director, you suspending me right before I nail you up against a wall as a co-conspirator.

(Another voice interrupts - FOLLMER)

FOLLMER:
Glad you could drop in, Mister Doggett Assistant Director Follmer.

DOGGET:
You're Brad Follmer.

FOLLMER:
I was just explaining to the Deputy Director the reasons why you are being suspended, but I think your actions here speak for themselves.

DOGGETT:
I see what this is, this is just a little bureaucratic paint job.

KERSH:
I'd watch your mouth John.

FOLLMER:
What this is, is a testament to your gross subordination and reckless disregard for the FBI.

DOGGETT:
You wanna start hearing what's coming of your wishy-washy mouth.

FOLLMER:
Paranoia must go with the job. You're starting to sound just like Fox Mulder, Mister Doggett.

DOGGETT:
Now don't you Mister Doggett me. I don't answer to you, I answer to A.D. Skinner.

FOLLMER:
The job suspension stands, Mister Doggett.

DOGGETT:
Try and stop me.

(DOGGETT stomps out)


SCENE 15 - X-FILES OFFICE

(AGENT REYES is looking at information on SHANNON on the computer. Not much so far. The LONE GUNMEN knock on the door and come in)

FROHIKE:
You just never know who's gonna come a knockin' do ya?

REYES:
How'd you get in here?

LANGLY:
Through the front door with the big happy dude, how'd you get in?

(LANGLY sits down and pulls out a laptop, placing it on the desk)

REYES:
Through a security checkpoint.

(FROHIKE pulls his leather jacket open slightly to reveal a phoney FBI ID)

FROHIKE:
Kid's stuff!

REYES:
What are you doing here?

FROHIKE:
You sent us packing on this investigation of yours, only we had a small funding fiasco.

LANGLY:
They cut our internet service.

REYES:
Don't tell me you breached FBI security just to log on?

BYERS:
I think you want to see this.

(REYES gets up and walks over to LANGLY's laptop)

LANGLY:
Arghhh!

(The computer screen shows a girl in a bikini)

LANGLY:
Not this!

(The right information comes on the screen)

FROHIKE:
This is what we meant to show you. We are live in the EPA phone system. The numbers in red are calls to deputy administrator after he drowned.

REYES:
Who'd be calling him at work after the front page news that he's dead?

LANGLY:
Someone who doesn't know it.

(Suddenly, a phone is heard ringing on the PC monitoring system. An ‘incoming call intercept’ message appears on the screen)

BYERS:
Whoever it is is calling him again as we speak. Langly! Hook up a patch cord! Hurry!

(LANGLY quickly fixes things up and connects things so the office phone rings)

LANGLY:
Pick up the phone!

(FROHIKE answers it)

FROHIKE:
C-Carl Wormus -

(We hear the CAPTAIN's voice on the phone)

CAPTAIN:
They're trying to reach you. They ordered us to port. One of my men is dead.

FROHIKE:
R-right... What's it you need from us, er, me, on this end?

CAPTAIN:
Just what we talked about. Call the FBI.

FROHIKE:
Right.

CAPTAIN:
You've gotta get to the FBI.

(KNOWLE ROHRER is watching the CAPTAIN and using his hearing to listen in)

CAPTAIN:
Tell them about the lab they've got on board. About the horrors and the inhumanity. To expose these people for what they really are.


SCENE 16 - F.B.I HEADQUARTERS

(REYES enters FOLLMER'S office)

REYES:
I need to talk to you.

(FOLLMER and his SECRETARY are looking through files)

FOLLMER:
I have an appointment.

REYES:
Don't do this to me Brad.

FOLLMER:
(To his secretary) Give me two minutes.

(They exit into another room)

FOLLMER:
Here you are again Monica, walking through my door.

REYES:
I need your help.

FOLLMER:
I tried to help you before.

REYES:
I'm asking you again.

FOLLMER:
OK, I'm listening.

REYES:
There's a woman working at the department of justice, Shannon McMahon. I need her case files.

FOLLMER:
You say that like it's something I can just do. It's not.

REYES:
It's important to me.

FOLLMER:
Important to you and to Agent Doggett in other words?

REYES:
You're on the wrong side of the tracks on this one, trust me.

FOLLMER:
Explained to me by Mister Doggett himself in the Deputy Directors office today.

REYES:
Would you listen to me. Peoples lives are in danger here. He's been set up. We're being set up.

FOLLMER:
By who? The Justice Department?

REYES:
That's why I need those files. I'd ask you to do this for me, but he's a good man.

FOLLMER:
He believe he's in the right?

REYES:
And you, you always are?


SCENE 17 - STREET

(REYES walks quickly and a car pulls up next to her. DOGGETT and SCULLY are inside)

REYES:
Where's Shannon McMahon?

DOGGETT:
She's in my house. Why? What's this about?

REYES:
She's lying to you, she's not who you think.

DOGGETT:
Where you getting this?

REYES:
Everywhere I look. She works for the Department of Justice, did you know that? I got a peak at her case files. Those two men she killed, they'd contacted her at the DOJ as whistleblowers.

DOGGETT:
She said they conspired with the Government. They were part of the program -

REYES:
They were killed because they wanted to expose the program.

DOGGETT:
Then why's she lying? Why come to me?

REYES:
Because there's one man she still can't pinpoint, and she wants you to lead her to him.

DOGGETT:
How? I wouldn't even know who the hell you're talking about.

REYES:
He's the Captain of a Navy ship that spends twelve months of the year at sea. He had been in guarded contact with both dead men about a secret lab on that ship.

DOGGETT:
Right now Shannon McMahon is the only sure thing we have in this investigation. If we cut out on her and go to this ship of yours, we risk coming out with both hands empty.

SCULLY:
If this is true about this ship and this lab, there may be answers there I can't risk not knowing.

(DOGGETT realises he has no choice. REYES gets in the back and the car drives off)


SCENE 18 - DR NORDLINGER'S LABORATORY

(On a monitor we can see more ova manipulation. There are several monitors in the laboratory. DR NORDLINGER is also inside)

VOICE ON INTERCOM:
Doctor Nordlinger, a message for you Sir.

(DR NORDLINGER looks up at the security monitor which shows the NAVY SEAL standing impatiently outside. NORDLINGER opens the door and the NAVY SEAL enters. The CAPTAIN jumps around with a gun at the SEAL's neck)

CAPTAIN:
I want every hard drive. All the data you've got on this butcher shop you're running here.

(No-one says or does anything. Behind the CAPTAIN, KNOWLE ROHRER is standing)


SCENE 19 - THE PORT

(DOGGETT'S car pulls up. REYES and DOGGETT run out quickly followed by SCULLY)

DOGGETT:
Where's this Captain supposed to be?

REYES:
We're supposed to meet him in a phone booth at 1:00 AM. It's ten-to

SCULLY:
Somebody's already there.

DOGGETT:
Is he tall or medium?

REYES:
I don't know, it wasn't clear.

SCULLY:
Sees us

(The figure starts to walk towards them)

DOGGETT:
Hold up there!

(The figure continues to walk towards them)

DOGGETT:
I said hold up there!

(DOGGETT recognises the figure)

DOGGETT:
This ain't no Captain...

(KNOWLE ROHRER comes closer, DOGGETT pulls out his gun)

SCULLY:
Who is it?

DOGGETT:
Knowle Rohrer. Run! now!

(REYES and SCULLY run for cover. DOGGETT holds his aim directly at ROHRER)

DOGGETT:
Freeze FBI!

(DOGGETT shoots several times but to no avail. He looks around for another option and then prepares to hit ROHRER with his gun. ROHRER blocks him however and punches him, causing DOGGETT to fall. RORHRER picks up DOGGETT and throws him into a wooden crate. ROHRER picks him up again and throws him into a metal drum. An then a crate. ROHRER starts to crush DOGGETT's head in and soon blood is oozing from the agent's nose. A bone cracks when suddenly there is a noise and ROHRER's head falls off. DOGGETT looks up to see SHANNON MCMAHON standing behind the body of his nemesis)

SHANNON:
You didn't trust me.

(She helps DOGGETT to his feet. A bloodied hand suddenly bursts through her stomach and blood runs from her mouth. She looks down in shock as the body of KNOWLE ROHRER punches through. The two super soldiers fall off the edge and into the water. DOGGETT looks down but there is nothing)


SCENE 20 - EXT. SHIP

(The agents now walk up to the ship. DOGGETT and REYES have their weapons. DOGGETT moves up a flight of stairs. There is no-one)

DOGGETT:
You see anybody?

REYES:
Nobody.

SCULLY:
This can't be right.

REYES:
What happened to the Captain?

(REYES and SCULLY walk further into a corridor where they find a head)

SCULLY:
I think we found the Captain.

(They walk further along the walkway and find the rest of the CAPTAIN. Meanwhile, in another room, DOGGETT is exploring. There are papers all over the floor and a beeping noise from one corner. DOGGETT finds a bomb, not well made, connected to a timer. There are only two minutes and seven seconds left until it detonates)

DOGGETT:
They're scuttling the ship AGENT SCULLY! AGENT REYES!

(The door opens to NORDLINGER's lab and SCULLY and REYES enter)

REYES:
This must be it.

(DOGGETT continues to run around the ship but he can't find them)

DOGGETT:
MONICA! DANA!

(REYES is in the doorway of the lab. SCULLY is walking around looking in horror at the screens)

DOGGETT:
AGENT SCULLY! AGENT REYES!

REYES:
In here -

DOGGETT:
Move out, we gotta get outta here.

REYES:
You see what this is?

DOGGETT:
Agent Scully we've got to go. The ship's gonna blow, Agent Scully.

SCULLY:
They're manipulating ova. Female eggs for transplantation.

(There are only '51' seconds left on the timer)

SCULLY:
Look at these names. These are test subjects.

DOGGETT:
Grab them Monica, we've got less than a minute to get out of here.

SCULLY:
Just give me a second.

DOGGETT:
WE GOT NO TIME!

SCULLY:
No let go, let me do this. I have to see if I'm here. My name, my baby's name -

(The digital timer reads ‘34’ seconds)

DOGGETT:


(Grabbing SCULLY) You want to see your baby again? We got no time Dana. We'll find another way.

(They all race out of the lab, SCULLY somewhat unwillingly. There are thirteen seconds left. As they frantically run we see the timer tick down to five seconds. They get off the ship and run for some shelter as the timer reaches ‘0’. The bomb explodes and the three agents run towards the car but the shockwave blasts the car's windows. More explosions happen as the ship falls apart. The agents shelter behind their car, watching the explosions)


SCENE 21 - KERSH'S OFFICE. 48 HOURS LATER

(DOGGETT knocks on the door and enters)

DOGGETT:
Deputy Director?

KERSH:
My sources tell me you've wrapped up your investigation John.

DOGGETT:
I have my report ready Sir, yes.

KERSH:
How do I come out?

(DOGGETT hands over the report which KERSH looks through)

KERSH:
Super Soldiers, a Navy ship, a woman at the Department Of Justice who drowned two men, all disappeared now, but which constitute a conspiracy like a cancer in the US Government. Not a mention of my name John?

DOGGETT:
No Sir, I found nothing on you, nothing damning I can honestly include in my report, let me say. And cause I got nothing to lose, let me say that I know that your hands are dirty on this thing Sir, filthy.

KERSH:
That's why you're here? Take a last wild push before the bell.

DOGGETT:
There's one thing I can't figure, and then I'll be on my way. Is why you slipped that obituary under my door?

KERSH:
You think I did that?

DOGGETT:
Over and over in my mind, it had to be you. You're the only one that had a reason.

KERSH:
What's my reason?

DOGGETT:
You tell me. Are you looking to get me fired or get me killed?

(DOGGETT throws his badge and gun down on KERSH's desk. He turns and heads for the door)

KERSH:
You ever hear of King George the Third?

DOGGETT:
(Turning back toward KERSH) You answer my question!

KERSH:
He was King of England when America declared Independence in 1776. King George the Third kept a diary. On July 4th 1776, he made an entry in it: ‘Nothing Important Happened Today’.

DOGGETT:
What the hell has that got to do with me?

KERSH:
Revolutions start, things that change the world forever, and even Kings can miss them if they're not paying attention.

DOGGETT:
Are you saying that you left that obituary to help me? To help me find the things that I found? Nah, why would I believe that you'd help me?

KERSH:
Agent Mulder believed me.

DOGGETT:
Mulder? What the hell are you talking about? Mulder's long gone.

KERSH:
Say I told Mulder that he would be killed if he stayed. The same people who threatened to kill me if I didn't go along. Would you believe that John?

DOGGETT:
No. Mulder wouldn't hear it, not from you, not from anybody.

KERSH:
I said I told him to go. I didn't say I persuaded him.

DOGGETT:
Oh my God. It was Scully. Scully made him go. That's it isn't it?

(DOGGETT stands, realising it is true)


SCENE 22 - F.B.I HEADQUARTERS

(DOGGETT puts his badge back into his jacket and presses the button on the elevator. The doors open and DOGGETT steps in, FOLLMER is already inside. He smirks)

FOLLMER:
You want the basement? I heard you got a stay of execution. Congratulations.

DOGGETT:
I'm sure you mean that.

FOLLMER:
No, I'm sure not. The Deputy Director has you just where he wants you. Don't get me wrong, I'm a friend to The X-Files. Kind of a comfort having you down there, Mister Doggett.

(The door opens and FOLLMER exits, REYES passes him on the way in)

REYES:
Hi

(FOLLMER smiles at REYES as she passes him)

DOGGETT:
Just so long as you know where to reach us, Mister Follmer.

(FOLLMER stops and acknowledges this. The door closes)


SCENE 23 - SEA

(Under the sea, the bodies of KNOWLE ROHRER and SHANNON MCMAHON lie amidst everything else. We move in on SHANNON's face and her eyes burst open)


SCENE 24 - SCULLY'S APARTMENT

(SCULLY wakes up. WILLIAM is stirring. She gets up an goes to him)

SCULLY:
Everything's going to be okay. Go back to sleep.

(She turns off the light and lies back down. WILLIAM looks up towards the mobile and he reaches his tiny arm up toward it. We fade to black and then hear the mobile as it starts to turn once more…)

[THE END]

In loving memory of Chad Keller
October 8, 1971 - September 11, 2001



Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), Robert Patrick (Special Agent John Doggett), Mitch Pileggi (A.D Skinner), Annabeth Gish (Special Agent Monica Reyes), Adam Baldwin (Knowle Rohrer), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Cary Elwes (A.D. Follmer), Dean Haglund (Langly), Bruce Harwood (Byers), James Pickens (D.D Kersh), Jeff Austin (Dr. Nordinger), Ryan Cutrona (Captain), Victoria Gallegos (Secretary), Lucy Lawless (Shannon McMahon), Ben Reed (Young Officer), James & Travis Riker (William Scully), Kevin West (Navy Seal)

Directed by Kim Manners

TX:
US TX - 18th November 2001

Notes:
*Featuring Special Special Agent Dana Scully, Special Agent John Doggett, Special Agent Monica Reyes, A.D. Walter Skinner and the Lone Gunmen

*During the credits sequence there is a flash-frame of a document containing the names of many online X-Philes and some anagrams of ‘X-Files’ characters (e.g. ‘Deform Lux’ is Fox Mulder) under the heading ‘FBI Contacts, Witnesses and Contributors’:




*The episode is dedicated to the memory of Chad Keller, who was killed in the September 11th tragedy

*The tag line is changed from ‘The Truth Is Out There’ to ‘Nothing Important Happened Today’