The X-files
731 (Part 2 of 2)
Episode: 3X10
First aired:12/1/95
Written by: Fank Spotnitz
Directed by: Rob Bowman
From the previous epiosde, Nisei:
Mulder has boarded a train he believes to be carrying an alien life form. He has lost contact with Scully who is investigating an alien autopsy and her finding out more about her own abduction.
Troops push many stange looking humanoid creatures to a site labled
Hansen's Disease Research Facility. One of the creatures watches as others are gunned down in front of a mass grave.
While Mulder clings to the top of the train, Scully questions
X angrily asking how she can help Mulder. X tells her that if she wants to find out more about the
train and who killed her
sister to find out what they put in the back of her neck.
Mulder makes it into the train. He tells the
conductor that he is looking for access to the compartment of the
Japanese scientist he's pursuing, Dr. Zama. He finds the compartment empty except for some
meticulous journals written in Japanese.
Scully talks to
Agent Pendrall, who has helped her last episode. He says the chip that was found inside her seems to replicate the
brain's
memory function and duplicate mental processes and that one could know a person's every thought. Scully thinks that the
chip is Japanese and Pendrall has traced a shipment from the maker to Dr. Zama at a
disease research facitliy in
West Virginia.
The Red-Haired Man kills Dr. Zama in the lavatory and Mulder later finds the body. Mulder warns and arms the conductor as he leaves to look for the
killer. Scully goes to the facility and finds the deformed creatures in the
darkness. They ask her not to hurt them and saying that
death squads have been coming since the
medical staff left, killing hundreds of them. They're lepers. One man brings Scully to the
mass grave.
Helicopters come and soldiers arrive, capturing Scully.
Mulder goes to the end of the train to find the
quarantine car. He peers through the pinhole and sees an alien-looking form in the darkness. He is attacked by the Red-Haired Man. The conductor arrives and locks them in. Mulder pulls his own gun. The attacker says he is with the
National Security Agency and there's a
bomb on the train.
At the facility, Scully is met by the First Elder, a member of the
Syndicate, who says the creatures were victims of an inhuman project. On the train, the Red-Haird Man's
cellphone rings and it's for Mulder. It's Scully calling him with the First Elder. She tells him that whatever is on the train is not
alien. She tells him about Zama and his
experiments and that the abduction is just a
smokescrean.
Mulder finds the bomb, which has just over 100 minutes till it explodes. Scully tells him that thousands will die if it does. Mulder tells the conductor to
reroute the train to a place far away from a populated area where they unhook the car.
The Red-Haired Man says that the creature is a weapon. Mulder surmises that Zama came up with an immunity to
biological weapons, the
government didn't want to share the science and thre creature is an
alien-human hybrid.
Scully tries to contact Senetor Matheson but contacts X. She calls Mulder with just over 6 mins left. From watching a video, she has figured out the code to the door, which Mulder punches in. As the door opens, The Red-Haired Man attacks Mulder who is knocked
unconscious. He exits but is shot by X. X carries a
bloodied Mulder over his shoulder to saftey as the car and its contents explode.
A week later, Mulder is trying to get information about the car and Senator Matheson wont return his calls.
Fustrated, he tells Scully that they are getting away with it. Scully says that they have gotten away with it and that
apolgy has become policy. Elsewhere, we see the
Cigarette-Smoking Man watching over the translation of Zama's journals.
Important Quotes:
X -- "You want to know what's on that train? Who killed your sister? You find out what they put in your neck."
Scully -- "The
implant."
X -- "It holds more than I could ever tell you. Maybe everything you need to know."
Mulder -- "Why did I study
French in
high school?"
Scully --"Well done, Agent Pendrell. Keep up the good work."
Pendrell -- "Hey, thanks. Keep it up yourself." Scully leaves. ""Keep it up yourself." What a
doof."
1st Elder -- "The ruler of the world is no longer the country with the bravest
soldiers, but the greatest scientists."
Scully -- "Mulder, I'm standing in a train car just like the one in your alien autopsy video... only I realize that I've been here
before."
Mulder -- "What are you talking about, Scully?"
Scully -- "This is where they brought me, Mulder. This is where they put the implant in my neck, in one of these cars."
Mulder -- "Scully..."
Scully -- "It all makes sense, Mulder. Ishimaru Zama, he was using the
secret railroad...to conduct his tests across the country. The
women in Allentown, they all remember these cars."
Red-Haired Man -- "You're going to die, you know that?"
Mulder -- "What do you care? You were trying to kill me anyway."
Mulder -- "Scully, let me tell you, you haven't seen
America till you've seen it from a train."
Scully -- "Damn it, Mulder, what happened?"
Mulder -- "They're getting away with it, Scully."
Scully -- "They've gotten away with it, Mulder."
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