Episode Summary
A diplomatic courier carrying deadly cargo involves Agents Mulder and Scully in a dangerous web of intrigue.
Part one of two
Episode Details
- Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
- Director: Kim Manners
- Original Broadcast: AU: 09.04.1997 US: 24.11.1996
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Detective David Abbott
- Prisoner Stefan Arngrim
- Agent Pendrell Brendan Beiser
- Stressed Diplomatic Courier David Bloom
- Smoking Man William B Davis
- Russian Guard Raoul Ganeev
- Marita Covarrubias Laurie Holden
- Russian Truck Driver Vitaliy Kravchenko
- Senator Romine Campbell Lane
- Alex Krycek Nicholas Lea
- Well-Manicured Man John Neville
- Assistant Director Walter Skinner Mitch Pileggi
- Glasses Man Anatol Rezmeritsa
- Vassily Peskow Jan Rubes
- Swarthy Diplomatic Courier Lee Serpa
- Terry Edward Mayhew Brent Stait
- Dr Sacks Malcolm Stewart
- Senator Albert Sorenson Fritz Weaver
Quotes
Krycek: I handed this bust to you, Mulder.
Mulder: Oh come on, Krycek.
Krycek: Who do you think sent you those receipts?
Scully: How'd you get involved with these men?
[Terrorists]
Krycek: They found me in North Dakota. They liberated me on a salvage hunt. Hey, you go underground, you got to learn to live with the rats.
Mulder: I'm sure you had no trouble adapting.
Krycek: These men are pathetic revolutionaries, who kill innocent Americans in the name of bonehead ideologies.
Mulder: You're full of crap, Krycek. You're an invertebrate scum sucker whose moral dipstick's about two drops short of bone dry.
Krycek: I love this country!
Scully: What do you want, Krycek?
Krycek: Same thing you do. To find the man who tried to kill me.
[to Mulder] The same man that's esponsible for your father's death...
[to Scully] your sister's.
Scully: You want this man brought to justice?
Krycek: You can't bring these men to justice. They're protected. The laws of this country protect these men under the name of National Security. They know no law.
Mulder: They why don't you put a bullet in his head like you did that man out there?
Krycek: These men, they fear one thing — exposure. You expose him, expose his crimes, you destroy the destroyer's ability to destroy.
Mulder: The only thing that will destroy this man is the truth.
Krycek: The truth, the truth... There is no truth. These men just make it up as they go along. They're the engineers of the future. They're the real revolutionaries. I can get them for you too.
Mulder: We can't help you, Krycek.
Krycek: Mulder, this is just one bomb I'm sitting on. You didn't ask me how many more I know about.
Scully: I s this some kind of a joke?
Krycek: What?
Mulder: Show him.
Krycek: What is it?
Mulder: Expose it for him, Scully.
[Scully shows Krycek the contents of the diplomatic pouch — a rock] What did you get for Halloween, Charlie Brown?
[Mulder drags a handcuffed Krycek to Skinner's apartment]
Mulder: This man has information about extreme right militia, that could save the lives of innocent Americans.
Skinner: He'll be safe here.
[Skinner punches Krycek in the stomach] Relatively safe.
[Skinner handcuffs Krycek to his balcony handrail]
Krycek: You can't leave me out here. I'm going to freeze to death.
Skinner: Just think warm thoughts.
Scully: What I'm worried about is you, Mulder. How far you'll go. And how far I can follow you.
[Mulder pulls into to he long-term airport parking lot and gets out of the car]
Krycek: Mulder, you're not...
Mulder: I'm leaving the window rolled down. If I'm not back in a week I'll call Agent Scully and to come bring you a bowl of water.
[Mulder returns to the car to find out what Krycek is yelling]
Mulder: What did you say to me?
Krycek: What?
Mulder: You called me a bad name.
[Krycek swears at Mulder in Russian] You speak Russian, Krycek?
Krycek: My parents were Cold War immigrants. What's it to you?