Episode Summary
Scully fights to protect a small girl from the men responsible for her adoptive parent's deaths, while Mulder's investigation into where the girl came from draws him into a deadly confrontation.
Part two of two
Episode Details
- Writers: Vince Gilligan and John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
- Director: Kim Manners
- Original Broadcast: AU: 25.03.1998 US: 14.12.1997
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Judge Maibaum David Abbott
- Frohike Tom Braidwood
- First Dark Suited Man Eric Breker
- Susan Chambliss Patricia Dahlquist
- Emily Christine Sim Lauren Diewold
- Medical Technician Tanya Huse
- Margaret Scully Sheila Larken
- Second Dark Suited Man Stephen Mendel
- Dr Vinet Bob Morrisey
- Anna Fugazzi Sheila Paterson
- Dr Calderon Gerard Plunkett
- Detective John Kresge John Pyper-Ferguson
- William Scully Jr Pat Skipper
- Tara Scully Karri Turner
Quotes
Scully: [voiceover] It begins where it ends... in nothingness. A nightmare borne from deepest fears, coming to the unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held. On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me. Until at last I reached the end. Facing a truth I could no longer deny. Alone, as ever.
Mulder: What are you colouring?
Emily Sim: A potato.
Mulder: Have you ever seen Mr Potato-head?
[Emily nods] He looks like this...
[Mulder blows his cheeks out and crosses his eyes] Doesn't he?
Mulder: I found Emily's surrogate mother. I had Frohike hack into the California Social Services adoption database.
Scully: You got a name?
Mulder: Yeah. Her mother of record is one Anna Fugazzi.
Scully: Fugazzi?
Mulder: Yeah, as in slang term for
fake
.
Scully: I don't understand. Why create a false record?
Mulder: Because there are no true records. Emily didn't come into this world through any system that keeps them.
Scully: Well how did she come into this world?
Mulder: Have you asked yourself that?
Mulder: No matter how much you love this little girl, she is a miracle that was never meant to be, Scully.
Judge Maibaum: Agent Mulder, help me out here. Does FBI stand for
Federal Bureau of Imagination
? Am I to understand that your partner, along with a dozen other women in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was abducted by employees of our federal government?
Mulder: She was missing for four weeks. That's documented in the file.
Judge Maibaum: And you found evidence that, during this time, she was subjected to a series of experiments where — you say — they extracted her ova.
Mulder: Yes. All of them.
Judge Maibaum: Can that be done?
Mulder: I believe it can. And was. And that Emily Sim was conceived as a result of those experiments.
Judge Maibaum: And that can be done as well?
Mulder: I don't know how else to explain it. A medical exam of Miss Scully would show that she hasn't given birth.
Judge Maibaum: You know, under normal circumstances this petition would be fairly simple. But I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around this... Michael Crichton bit.
Mulder: I included this information in anticipation of you reaction and how it might look if you received this information without any explanation.
Judge Maibaum: Can you give me an explanation? Why anyone would kidnap Miss Scully to... to conceive this child, then put it up for adoption,
Mulder: No. But the fact remains that Miss Scully is the mother of this child.
Judge Maibaum: Not in any legal definition.
Mulder: Well if you can show me a legal precedent for this case I'd like to see it.
Scully: Takes two of us just to get my sister-in-law into bed these days.
Mulder: When's she due?
Scully: Two weeks ago.
Mulder: So I'm... wasting your time. This is not worth the life of a three year old girl.
Dr Calderon: I wouldn't frame it like that — that's not it at all. Look, I'm... I'm truly sorry, but there's really nothing I can do. However, uh... I do wish you... the very best.
Mulder: [taking Dr Calderon's hand to shake] Okay, then.
[Throws Dr Calderon onto the table, yanks him up, slapping him hard on the face] How you feeling now?
[Slap] Little more helpful?
[Slaps Dr Calderon again and throws him to the ground] Condescending little liar!
[Kicks Dr Calderon in the back]
Dr Calderon: Help!
Mulder: Why don't you tell me what your company is really in business for?
[Throws Dr Calderon against a bookshelf] Huh? Abducting women and stealing their unborn children! Medical rapists, that's all you are! Now, are you gonna let that little girl die? She's just a lab rat to you!
[Holds gun in Dr Calderon's face] Why don't you tell me who's life is worth saving, yours or hers? I want everything to help that little girl!
[Guards appear at office door, Mulder throws Dr Calderon to the ground] I'll be back.
Scully: Detective...
Detective Kresge: Happy New Year...
Scully: Thanks for coming down.
Detective Kresge: I'm posting two cops outside her room.
Scully: That may not be necessary.
Detective Kresge: What if this guy Calderon is thinking about coming back?
Scully: Well there seems to be some indication that he came here to help her.
Detective Kresge: I don't understand. You said on the phone that he was some how connected to the death of Emily's parents.
Scully: Because Emily's mother wanted to stop the tests, just like I did. Because as much as they'll do anything to remove that gets in their way, it seems that they need Emily to continue the tests.
Anna Fugazzi: Hello.
Mulder: Anna Fugazzi?
Anna Fugazzi: Yes.
Mulder: Your name is Anna Fugazzi?
Anna Fugazzi: Yes. Are you the new doctor?
Mulder: No. No I'm not. Is that your real name?
Anna Fugazzi: Yes. For the last 71 years. Were you looking for me?
Mulder: Not until now.
Mulder: That makes eight for eight.
Frohike: Are you in adoption services, Mulder?
Mulder: No, I'm at the maternity ward.
Frohike: Any... fetching young mothers in there?
Mulder: Yeah, I think you might have a shot here, Frohike. You know anything about pharmaceuticals?
Frohike: Medicinal or... recreational?
[Mulder asks about Dr Calderon]
Anna Fugazzi: He's supposed to be here. I was going to start my beauty sleep.
Mulder: Your beauty sleep? What is that?
Anna Fugazzi: He says it's taken years off of my appearance.
Scully: I'm okay, Mulder. It's what's meant to be.
Mulder: But if you could treat her?
Scully: I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it to her.
Mulder: Are you sure?
Scully: Mulder, whoever brought this child into this world... didn't intend to love her.
Mulder: I think she was... she was born to serve an agenda.
Scully: I have a chance to stop that. You were right. This child was not meant to be.
Scully: Who were the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?
Mulder: I don't know... but that you found her. And you had a chance to love her. Maybe she was meant for that too.
Scully: She found me.
Mulder: So you could save her.