The X-files
Colony (Part 1 of 2)
Episode: 2X16
First aired:02/10/95
Written by: Chris Carter and David Duchovny
Directed by: Nick Marck
One of the most
famous episodes, and one of my favorites.
We see Mulder being rushed into an emergency room ruffering fro extreme hypothermia. We hear Mulder in a voice over he tells us that he has proven that there are extraterrestrials, that they're amoung us. Scully rushes in the hospital and demands to see Mulder. The doctors have him in a warm tub and Scully tells them to get him out. As she does this, Mulder's heart line flattens.....
Two weeks ago:
In the
Artic Circle, a research vessel rescues a
Russian pilot who has crashed.
At an
abortion clinic, a
doctor gets scared at the news of the Russian pilot (he sees the face). He runs into the hallway and is stopped by the pilot. The pilot kills the doctor with a
gimlet, a small
metalic tube that contains a sharp,
deadly point. The doctor dies as
green blood oozes from the
wound.
Mulder has been sent three
obituaries, which he shows Scully. These are of the doctor who died, and two others who also worked in abortion clinics. They are
identical in every respect but there is no record of blood connection or the births of any of them and that none of the bodies were found.
The
federal marshal has arrested
Reverand Sistrunk who would have the motive to kill abortion doctors, but Mulder and Scully don't think he did it.
They realize that the killer is following a
geographic pattern and locates another doctor in
Syracuse. Mulder sends an
agent to check it out. The agent sees the pilot kill the doctor. He shots the pilot, but green blood starts to ooze out and the agent falls down as if
poisened. Mulder and Scully reach the house and are met by 'the agent'. As they walk around the house to take a look, the agent goes to his car and
morphs into the pilot, now known as the Alien
Bounty Hunter. We see the body of the real agent in the trunk. When they return to
Washington, Mulder and Scully are shocked to learn that the agent was found dead in Syracuse.
Scully tells Mulder that she recieved an email showing another doctor that lives in
Washington D.C. When he reaches Scully's
apartment, there is a man waiting
outside. This man, Abrose Chapel, a
CIA agent tells them that the doctors are
Soviet clones known as Gregor, and that they are being killed under a
secret agreement.
Mulder, Scully, and Chapel go to see the doctor in Washington. They try to get him to let them in his apartment but the doctor runs away and jumps out the
window, about 6 stories up. Scully calls the
paramedics, but amazingly the doctor gets up and starts to run again. Mulder and Chapel follow, closely followed by Scully. Running accross a street, Mulder is hit by a
car but Scully continues the chase. She finds Chapel who tells her that the doctor escaped. She looks to where he points and notices a green
goo under her feet.
Scully is uncertain about Chapel and warns Mulder not to trust him. She shows Mulder her shoe, which now has a clear whole in it from what she stepped on. She says she got the shoes a couple of weeks ago.
Scully does an
autopsy of the agent killed in Syracuse since the cause of death can not be determined. Mulder is called into
Skinner's office. Skinner tells him that Mulder's familiy has been trying to reach him, that there is a family
emergency.
Scully, with a clue, finds a
warehouse full of weird looking green bags, with something alive in them. She sees Chapel, now seen as the bounty hunter, in the main room stepping on these bags. He sees her Scully drives away just in time.
Mulder reaches home and sees his mom talking to a young woman. His dad tells him that it is his sister,
Samantha. Samantha tells Mulder that after she was
abducted,s he was
adopted by a
family and that she did not recal anything from before. She says she needs his help, that her parents are aliens and the bounty hunter has come to kill them. And she is in danger because she knows how to kill the bounty hunter, that she can recognize him, even though he can take different forms.
Scully finds the rest of the Gregor clones and places them in
protective custody. The bounty hunter, however, kiills them when he posses as a gaurd. Mulder, realizing that Scully could be in danger, rushes to D.C with Samantha.
Scully, thinking she is in danger, rents a motel room and tells Mulder (on his machine) where she is. At night, Scully is in her room. Mulder knocks on the door and she lets him in. Just as they start to talk, she gets a
phone call on her cellular...it's Mulder on the line. She looks at the Mulder standing in the
doorway....
To be continued...
Important Quotes:
Mulder (overvoice) -- "I have lived with a
fragile faith built on the
ether of
vague memories from an experience that I can neither prove nor explain. When I was twelve, my sister was taken from me, taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial. This belief sustained me, fueling a quest for truths that were as
elusive as the
memory itself. To believe as
passionately as I did was not without
sacrifice, but I always accepted the risks... to my
career, my
reputation, my
relationships... to life itself... What happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief. If I should die now, it would be with the certainty that my faith has been
righteous. And if, through death, larger mysteries are revealed, I will have already learned the answer to the question that has driven me here... that there is intelligent life in the
universe other than our own... that they are here among us... and that they have begun to
colonize."
Scully -- "I''ve got a bad feeling about this case, Mulder."
Mulder -- "What do you mean?"
Scully -- "Well, nothing about it makes sense. We've got three deaths of
identical victims, no
bodies, a virtual non-suspect..."
Mulder -- "Sounds just like an
X-File."
Scully -- "How are you feeling?"
Mulder -- "Like I should've used the
crosswalk. A lot better than my phone."
Scully -- "Our friend from the
C.I.A. is about as unbelievable as his story... as is everything about this case. I mean, whatever happened to "
trust no one," Mulder?"
Mulder -- "Oh, I changed it to "trust everyone." I didn't tell you?"
Scully -- "You'll pursue a case at the expense of everything, to the point of
insanity, and expect me to follow you. There has to be somewhere to draw the line."
Mulder -- "Three identical men are dead. A fourth identical man is alive and on the lam. If the pursuit of this case seems like
insanity to you, feel free to step away from it."
Scully -- "An
F.B.I. agent died because of our pursuit of this case."
Mulder -- "Those are the risks we take. You either accept them or you don't. We all draw our own lines."
Samantha -- "Is it too late for a game of
Stratego?"
Mulder -- "It's twenty-two years
too late."
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