3X09 Nisei

Mulder: Come on in.

Scully: What are you watching?

Mulder: Something that just came in the mail.

Scully: That's not your usual brand of entertainment... What is it?

Mulder: According to the magazine ad I answered, it's an alien autopsy. Guaranteed authentic.

Scully: You spent money for this?

Mulder: $29.95... plus shipping.

Scully: Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox network, you can't even see what they're operating on!

Mulder: But it does look authentic, I mean the settings, the procedures. I mean it does look as if an actual autopsy is being prepared, doesn't it?

Scully: Well technically, I don't know why they would be wearing gas masks.

Mulder: Well maybe it's because of this green substance they seem to be extracting from the subject. Can you identify that?

Scully: Olive oil? Snake oil? I suppose you think it's alien blood?

Mulder: It's widely held that aliens don't have blood, Scully.

Scully: I guess this begs the question; if this is an alien autopsy —

Mulder: — where's the alien. But what so intriguing to me is the striking lack of detail here.

Scully: Well what do you expect for $29.95?

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Scully: Front door's boarded up.

Mulder: Back door's been busted open. Hope nobody let the rat out. [Indicating mail box with the label: RAT TAIL PRODUCTIONS]

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[Mulder loses his gun in a scuffle, but pulls a second from an ankle holster]

Mulder: I get tired of losing my gun.

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Mulder: Ah, look at this. A beacon in the night.

[Scully turns to see Skinner entering the Allentown Police Station]

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Skinner: I'm afraid you're going to have to release him.

Mulder: What are you talking about?

Skinner: According to the Japanese diplomatic corp, the man you arrested is a high ranking diplomat.

Mulder: This man sitting in here?

Skinner: If that's Kasuo Sakurai.

Mulder: Well, I didn't get his name. I was too busy getting my ass kicked.

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Skinner: I suggest you keep your nose clean and head back to Washington, Agent Mulder. Before someone takes another swipe at it.

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Scully: I don't know, Mulder, it just doesn't track. What would a Japanese diplomat be doing in that house, with a dead man, with his head stuffed in a pillow case?

Mulder: Obviously not strengthening international relations.

Scully: Well what do you want to do now? Drop it?

Mulder: I've paid my $29.95, Scully. I think I'm entitled to a few more answers. Don't you think so?

Scully: What are you doing?

Mulder: I just remembered a piece of evidence from the crime scene that I 'forgot' to turn in.

Scully: What are those?

Mulder: Look like satellite photos. What would he be doing with these?

Scully: What would he be doing with a list of Mutual UFO Network members in the greater Allentown area, with the name Betsy Hagopian circled?

Mulder: Maybe he's going to fit her for a pillow case too.

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[Examining satellite photographs]

Langly: Just got to love them German optics.

Mulder: So you're saying that's from a German satellite?

Byers: No. The optics are German. The technology is probably ours, but the satellite is most likely Japanese.

Frohike: Launched from South America.

Mulder: Got to love that global economy, huh?

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Scully: Hi. Betsy Hagopian?

Lottie Holloway: No. I'm sorry. Betsy not in right now.

Scully: Is there some way that I can get in touch with her? I'm sorry, my name's Dana Scully.

Lottie Holloway: I know you.

Scully: No, I think you must be mistaken.

Lottie Holloway: We saw you. Penny. Penny, come here.

Scully: I'm afraid I'm not who you think I am.

Penny Northern: Oh my god. She's one.

Scully: One what?

Lottie Holloway: One of us.

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[Mulder finds his apartment door open and enters, gun drawn, to find it trashed. Skinner is waiting inside in the dark]

Skinner: Think they found what they were looking for?

Mulder: I don't remember giving you a key.

Skinner: I came to see you. Obviously I was late for the party.

Mulder: Yeah, I guess I should really fire my maid, shouldn't I?

Skinner: Put the gun down, Mulder. Somebody else might get hurt.

Mulder: What are you talking about?

Skinner: Kazuo Sakurai, the diplomat that you detained yesterday...

Mulder: A murder suspect.

Skinner: He didn't make his flight last night. This morning his body was found floating face down in the C & O canal. I think we can assume he wasn't diving for pearls.

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Skinner: Because whatever you stepped in on this case is being tracked into my office, and I don't like the smell of it.

Mulder: Mind if I tidy up in here a bit first?

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Scully: I went to go see those MUFON members to find out about that woman, Betsy Hagopian.

Mulder: And what did you find?

Scully: I found out that she's dying. Along with a lot of other women who claim to be dying too. All of them who say that they've had these implanted in them. It's the same thing that I had removed from my own neck.

Mulder: But you're fine aren't you, Scully?

Scully: Am I? I don't know, Mulder. They said that they know me. That they've seen me before. It was freaky. They know things about me, about my disappearance.

Mulder: That is disturbing. But I don't think you should freak out until we find out what this thing is.

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Mulder: Scully, after all you've seen. After all you've told me you've seen. A tunnel filled with medical files, the beings moving past you, the implant in your neck. Why do you refuse to believe?

Scully: Believing's the easy part, Mulder. I just need more than you. I need proof.

Mulder: You think that believing is easy?

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Scully: So you're saying that this [implant] is man made.

Agent Pendrell: What else would it be?

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Scully: Let it go.

Mulder: I can't.