Mulder and Krycek First Meet...

KRYCEK: Agent Mulder?

MULDER: Yeah.

KRYCEK: It’s your 302. Assistant Director Skinner just approved it.

MULDER: There’s a mistake here. There’s been another agent assigned
to the case.

KRYCEK: That would be me. Krycek, Alex Krycek.

MULDER: Skinner didn’t say anything about taking on a new partner.

KRYCEK: It wasn’t Skinner. Actually, I opened the file 2 Hours
before your request so technically, it’s my case.

MULDER: And you already talked to the police?

KRYCEK: Yeah, just hung up on the officer in charge a few minutes
ago. A detective named Whorton. Turns out Grissom called 911 to
report a fire.

MULDER: I heard the tape.

KRYCEK: Did you hear that forensics found a spent fire extinguisher
on the floor? Grissom’s prints were all over it. The walls and floor
in his living room were covered with ammonium phosphate.

MULDER: But no trace of a fire.

KRYCEK: Not even a burnt match.

MULDER: That all you know?

KRYCEK: So far. What do you think it means?

MULDER: Listen, I appreciate the show and tell, and I don’t want
you to take this personally, but I work alone. I’ll straighten things
out with Skinner.

KRYCEK: It’s my case, Agent Mulder. Look, I may be---green,
but I had the case first and I’m not going to give it away so quickly.

MULDER: All right, I’ll tell you what, I got a little work to finish
up around here. Why don’t you go down to the motor pool and
requisition us a car and I’ll meet you down there.

KRYCEK: That’s all? I mean you don’t have a problem with us
working together?

MULDER: It’s your party.

KRYCEK: Well, um, I’ll get the car.

A Bad Date...

KRYCEK: I paid off your cab. Hey, I don’t appreciate being ditched
like someone’s bad date

MULDER: I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings.

KRYCEK: Where do you get off copping this attitude?
You don’t even know the first thing about me.

MULDER: Exactly.

KRYCEK: You know, back at the academy, some of the guys
used to make fun of you.

MULDER: Oh stop it, or you’ll hurt my feelings.

KRYCEK: But there were some of us who followed your work.
Believed what you were doing because we knew that there was
more out there than they were telling us.

(Mulder’s cell phone rings.)

MULDER: Yeah.

SCULLY: Grissom didn’t die from cardiac arrest.

MULDER: What is it?

SCULLY: I think you should come down and take a look for yourself.
I haven’t even started on the chest and abdomen yet and I’ll have a lot
more to tell you then.

MULDER: I can make it in two hours.

(Mulder reaches for the door. Krycek holds up the keys.)

KRYCEK: Where are we going?

And Scully Makes Three...

(Scene flashes to Scully’s autopsy bay. She places a large organ on
the scale.)

MULDER: Spleen or pancreas?

SCULLY: Stomach. I was just about to start on it.

MULDER: This is Alex Krycek. We’re, uh, working the case together.

SCULLY: Good to meet you.

KRYCEK: You, too.

(He holds out his hand, she walks right by it.)

SCULLY: Notice the pugilistic attitude of the corpse.

(Krycek coughs into fist, loudly.)

SCULLY: This condition generally occurs several hours after death.
It’s caused by a coagulation of muscle proteins when the body is
exposed to extremely high temperatures.

MULDER: Like fire?

SCULLY: This degree of limb flexion is observed exclusively in
burn-related victims.

KRYCEK: But there was no fire.

SCULLY: And no epidermal burns to indicate as much but when I
opened up the skull, I found external hemorrhages, which can only
be caused by intense heat. Somehow, this man suffered all of the
secondary, but none of the primary physiological signs of being in a fire.

MULDER: Any theories?

SCULLY: I couldn’t even begin to explain what could have caused this.
It’s almost as if. . .

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: It’s almost as if his body believed that it was burning.

Discussing the Case...

(The scene goes to the FBI headquarters. Mulder and Krycek look at
photos of a murdered man posted on a bulletin board.)

KRYCEK: The victim’s name was Henry Willig. Unemployed and lived
on disability. Police found no indication of force entry of struggle, no
abrasions or contusions on the body and cause of death is being listed
as a burst aneurysm.

MULDER: So, why did your friend from homicide call us?

KRYCEK: Because the medical examiner called him. The autopsy
revealed forty-three small internal hemorrhages and skeletal fragments
which doesn’t just happen spontaneously. Not without some
corresponding external trauma.

MULDER: So what does the ME have to say about it?

KRYCEK: He said if he didn’t know otherwise, he would swear they
were gunshot wounds.

MULDER: What’s this scar right here?

KRYCEK: According to his medical history, the only surgery he
ever had was an appendectomy.

MULDER: Well, unless they got to his appendix through his neck.

KRYCEK: Maybe it happened during Vietnam. Willig did a tour with
the Marines in 1970, and I’m sure they didn’t keep the best of records.

MULDER: Willig was a Marine? So where do all Marines receive basic
training on the East coast?

KRYCEK: Parris Island.

MULDER: Where Grissom was stationed from 1968 to 1971.

KRYCEK: Which means that he and Willig were there at the same time,
24 years ago.

MULDER: Here we go. Willig was assigned to Special Forces on Re-con
squad J-7. Of thirteen original members, he’s one of two survivors.

KRYCEK: Until yesterday.

MULDER: This leaves us with one person who can tell us what
happened on Parris Island.

Keeping Tabs on Him, Krycek?

(Mulder waits in the car and pushes his newly acquired envelope
under the car seat.)

KRYCEK: Where were ya? Someone matching Cole’s description
just robbed a drugstore in Queens and the place is located under a
motel just around the corner.

MULDER: Is he alive?

KRYCEK: He was when the night man just saw him. So where were ya?

Mulder's Seeing Things...

(Mulder and Krycek arrive at the station. They acquire the photograph
and run to find him.)

MULDER: Stay here, I’ll cover you on the side.

(Mulder thinks he sees Gerardi)

MULDER: Federal Agent! Drop your weapon.

(Mulder fires four shots.)

(Krycek runs towards him.)

KRYCEK: Mulder.

MULDER: Gerardi! Where is he?

KRYCEK: Gerardi’s not here.

MULDER: I saw him.

KRYCEK: Mulder! You were shouting and waving your gun around,
but Gerardi never showed.

MULDER: No, Gerardi was here, and so was Cole.
We just missed them.

KRYCEK: Mulder, if they had been here, I would have seen it.
I’m telling you Mulder, they weren’t here.

Krycek Needs a Place to Start...

(Mulder and Krycek go to the security office at the station.)

MULDER: Okay, there’s nothing here. Start with a small window of
time, say 19:35 to 19:45. If you don’t find anything in that time frame,
then open it up one minute at a time. With all these cameras, we
should be able to see something.

KRYCEK: Can we talk for a second?

MULDER: What’s the problem?

KRYCEK: You still haven’t answered my question.
What happened?

MULDER: I told you, I thought I saw Gerardi.

KRYCEK: Come on, you just about killed somebody back there.
We both know I’m covering for you by keeping it between us.

MULDER: All right, what do you want to know?

KRYCEK: What’s the truth? There are things you’re not telling
me that I need to know.

MULDER: It’s just that my ideas usually aren’t very popular.

KRYCEK: I told you, I want to believe. But I need a place to start.

MULDER: I think that Cole possesses the psychic ability to manipulate
sounds and images to generate illusions that are so convincing they
can kill. How’s that for a theory?

KRYCEK: Puts a whole new spin on virtual reality but at least it
begins to explain some things.

Krycek Saves Mulder's Life...

MULDER: Step away from the edge. Corporal Cole, I’m a federal agent,
now please, step back.

COLE: Go ahead, shoot me.

MULDER: That’s not why I’m here. I’m putting down my gun.
I just want to talk to you for a few minutes, after that, you’re free
to do whatever you want.

COLE: I’m tired.

MULDER: I know.

COLE: Naw, man, you don’t know. You have no idea.

MULDER: One minute is all I’m asking.

COLE: One minute is more than I can give. My blood’s boilin’ in my
veins. I can feel the air stingin’ on my skin.

MULDER: What the military did to you was wrong, but your testimony
can help.

COLE: They cut out a part of my brain. They made me into somebody
else. I can never get back what they took away from me, and I’m gonna
stop them from taking anything more.

(Krycek walks into the room and extends his weapon.)

MULDER: Krycek, put down the gun and get out of here.
Krycek, I said put down the gun and get out of here!

(Krycek sees Cole raising a gun. When Mulder looks over,
he sees Cole raising his bible.)

MULDER: NO!!!!!!

(Krycek fires his gun twice, killing Cole.)

COLE: Good-night.

KRYCEK: He had a gun. He was gonna shoot you.

MULDER: You did the right thing.

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