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THE X-FILES "S.R. 819" #6X10 (DW NOTE: This time it's my birthdate, Chris! The episode starts with a doctor meeting with another doctor, Dr. Cabrera.) Man: Dr. Cabrera. Dr. Cabrera: Where is he? Man: He's down in Trauma. Dr. Cabrera: Who transferred him from ICU? Man: I did. He was scheduled for...therapeutic plasmapheresis. They were prepping him. He went into shock. Dr. Cabrera: What are his vitals? Man: Not good. Pulse is 40. Blood pressure 80/50. His GCS is 6. Dr. Cabrera: OK. Get on the phone to the FBI. There's an agent Scully that should be notified. Man: FBI? Dr. Cabrera: This man is an FBI agent. Man: What's wrong with him? Dr. Cabrera: What's wrong with him is, he's going to die. Can you hear me? (The head doctor leans down as the patient whispers a name in her ear.) Mr. Skinner? I'm not understanding. Can you speak up? Man: What'd he say? Dr. Cabrera: A name. (The camera pans to show Skinner in a bed in a hospital room. His skin is completely covered with large, pulsing, bluish purple veins. Skinner goes into cardiac arrest and the doctors go to save him.) Man: He's coding on us. Clear. Dr. Cabrera, clear. Dr. Cabrera! Dr. Cabrera: Let him go. (Skinner's eyes turn lifeless - as the screen fades to...) [opening credits] THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE Skinner [voiceover]: Every minute of every day, we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side, or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is, and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. So death chose for me. (Skinner is in the ring of a boxing match and is winning. Suddenly his eyes lose focus and he stumbles. The other man punches him and he falls backwards onto the mat. The referee stands over him asking if he's all right, but Skinner doesn't answer.) Trainer: Go easy on him, slugger. I need him to lock up for me tonight, OK? Don't telegraph that left, Dre. Stevie Wonder would see that one coming. You're fighting the FBI now, Dre. Fight smart. Go! Hey, slugger. You OK? Slugger, can you hear me? Talk to me. Are you all right? Slugger. (JR NOTE: The bearded man is in this scene.) (Skinner wakes up in a hospital room.) Nurse: Mr. Skinner. Mr. Skinner. Hi. You going to stick with us now? Do you remember what happened? Skinner: I was boxing. I must've gotten tagged. Nurse: Yes, you did. At least you didn't get your ear bit off. That's something, right? Dr. Plant will be with you in a minute. (She leaves the room. He sits up looking a little disoriented. Suddenly his cell phone rings. It is a computerized voice that tells him) Skinner: Yeah. Skinner. Hello. Voice: Walter...Skinner. Skinner: Who is this? Voice: Have...you heard...the news? It's...in...you. Skinner: What is this? Voice: You...have...24 hours...to go. Skinner: What is this? What do you want? Voice: You...are...already dead. (The doctor comes into the room.) Dr. Plant: Mr. Skinner. Didn't expect to see you up and around. You must be feeling better. Can you take a seat on that table for me, please? I'm Dr. Plant. I was here with you before. You probably don't remember. Skinner: No. Dr. Plant: Well, the good news is...your dilation is back to normal. Plus, you still have both your ears. Skinner: I heard that one. Dr. Plant: I'm going to release you. But I suggest that you rethink the boxing. You're not 20 anymore. Skinner: There's nothing wrong with me? Dr. Plant: Well, you got your bell rung. Other than that, I think you're fine. Might want to ice that bruise. Skinner: What bruise? Dr. Plant: Right here. Skinner: How the hell did I get that? Dr. Plant: Must've taken a hard one to the ribs. But there's nothing broken. No internal bleeding. Like I said...you'll live. Skinner: At least. (At the bureau, Mulder is sitting at his desk throwing pencils at the ceiling. (JR NOTE: Remember, this is NOT just Mulder's office!) Mulder sees Skinner walking past him with obvious discomfort. He follows him into his office to find out what's wrong. Skinner is lying on the couch in his office looking very sick.) Skinner: What is it, agent Mulder? Mulder: I just, uh...I thought I'd poke my head in and say hey. Skinner: Hey. Mulder: What, are you sleeping one off? Skinner: No, I was having trouble seeing. I just didn't think I should drive. Scully: You going to be all right, sir? (Scully walks in.) Mulder: He's going to tell you he's all right. Skinner: That's because there's nothing wrong with me. Scully: Not that I could tell if there was. Why are all the lights out? Mulder: He's having trouble with his eyes. He's also got a nasty bruise on his ribcage. (She takes a look at Skinner's bruise.) Scully: What did you do? Skinner: It's nothing. Scully: Says who? Skinner: Says the doctor who released me from the hospital. Mulder: That was the second opinion. The first was unsolicited. A phone call at the hospital. A scrambled voice telling him he had 24 hours to live. Skinner: That was somebody yanking my chain. Look, I got a clean bill of health. Scully: In the last 48 hours, did you eat or drink anything that tasted metallic or otherwise odd? Skinner: Oh, come on. Are you thinking that I'm poisoned? Scully: Did the doctor take your blood? Skinner: Yes. It checked out. Scully: Well, if you were poisoned, it could have been overlooked. Skinner: If it did, why call and tell me at the hospital? Mulder: To scare you, see what you'd do. Who you'd turn to. Skinner: Oh. This is about you. Mulder: Or about the X-files. Skinner: You are so paranoid, Mulder. You're not even on the X-files anymore. Scully: I know, but you (meaning Skinner) are. You still supervise them. Mulder: What happened today? Anything out of the ordinary? Skinner: I'm not going to play this game. Scully: Look, it could've been anything. It could have been the slightest touch, or a handshake. Mulder: This morning, you woke up... Skinner: I woke up. Mulder: Alone? Skinner: Yes. Alone. Mulder: And how'd you get to the office? Skinner: The same way that I always do--I drove. Scully: And then, what? Skinner: Then, nothing. I had meetings, I just went to the gym, to the hospital, and now I'm here. Mulder: Just slow down. One step at a time. How'd you get from the parking garage to your office? Skinner: The elevator. Mulder: And then, what? Skinner: I walked up the hallway. I passed the same dozen people that I pass every morning. I went to my office. I said good morning to my secretary. She said good morning to me. I returned calls, I did paperwork I was here for the rest of the day. Mulder: Now, think. There's gotta be something. Skinner: In the hallway, there was a man. He stopped me. He wanted to know the time. Mulder: Did he touch you? Skinner: He grabbed me. On my right wrist. Scully: It wouldn't necessarily leave a mark. Some poisons are absorbed through the skin. Mulder: What time was it? (They go to look at the bureau surveillance tape. They see the man.) Mulder: There you are. Skinner: That's him. Right there. Scully: Wait a second. Back up. It can't be. That's Kenneth Orgel. An advisor to a Senate subcommittee on ethics and new technology. Skinner: He's a scientist? Scully: A physicist. Very well known, as far as physicists go. Mulder: He signed in here as a visitor to the office of assistant director Walter Skinner. Scully: Why would he be coming to see you? Skinner: I'd like to ask him that myself. Scully: Sir, if this man poisoned you, you should be off your feet and under a doctor's care. Skinner: If this man poisoned me, I'm going to put a gun to his head, find out why, and ask him how he's going to make me well. Scully: What hospital was he in? Mulder: St. Katherine's. (Mulder and Skinner are at Orgel's house.) Orgel: Yes? Skinner: Dr. Orgel? Kenneth Orgel? Orgel: Yes. Skinner: Do you know who I am? Orgel: No. Skinner: My name's Walter Skinner. I'm an assistant director at the FBI. Mulder: Dr. Orgel, you visited the FBI this morning. You came to see Mr. Skinner. Orgel: No...you must be mistaken. Sorry, you'll have to come back another time. (He shuts the door on them.) Mulder: Go around back. Skinner: What? (Mulder pulls out his gun. Mulder knocks and Orgel opens the door again.) Orgel: Please, you're bothering me. (Mulder tries to push through, however he fails. Around back, Skinner has gotten into the house. Inside, a man is taking Orgel away.) Skinner: Federal agent! Go! Mulder: Drop the gun. Drop it! (The other man hits Skinner over the head. Mulder chases after them, but the one man gets away with Orgel. (JR NOTE: during this music from The X-Files movie is playing!) The bluish purple veins have started up Skinners neck.) [commercial break] (Mulder and Skinner try to get information out of a man, but he doesn't speak English.) Man: [speaking Arabic] Don't push me, beautiful! Mulder: Yeah, so's your mom. Man: [speaking Arabic] Take your hands off me! Mulder: Hey, give it a rest, huh?! Man: [speaking Arabic] You are such pigs! Pigs should eat you! No, you should die like pigs! Skinner: Let him go, agent Mulder. Mulder: What? Skinner: He's got diplomatic papers. It's our mistake. You can go. Just let him go. Get in the house. The police are going to be here any moment. I don't have time to stand around and answer any questions. His name is Alexander Lazreg-- L-A-Z-R-E-G. He's the cultural attache with the Tunisian mission here in D.C. See what else you can find out about him. Mulder: You need to get to a hospital. Skinner: No. I'm trying to stay out of one. (Finally they let him go.) <1:06 AM 20 HOURS, 20 MINUTES REMAINING> (Scully is at the hospital talking to the doctor who had checked Skinner after the boxing incident.) Dr. Plant: The boxer--FBI. Scully: Yes, you released him from your care earlier this evening. Dr. Plant: Is he not all right? Scully: Well, that's why I'm here. He may have been poisoned. Dr. Plant: You're kidding. By who? Scully: I don't know. In fact, I'm not even sure what I'm looking for. Dr. Plant: Well, you're lucky. He's on a government HMO. No one's even bothered to handle his samples yet. Scully: Is this them in here? Dr. Plant: I'm not supposed to let you have those. Not without a written release from the patient. Scully: We may not have time. He may not have time, either. Dr. Plant: He had absolutely no symptoms of poisoning. Scully: Are you sure these haven't been processed? Dr. Plant: I'm not sure, but I doubt they've even been touched. <2:33 AM> (Mulder is in Orgel's house looking around.) Cop: I'm not so sure you should be doing that. Mulder: This is a crime scene. What would you rather I be doing? Cop: It's just that I'm concerned for Dr. Orgel's personal property, and the preservation of evidence. (In the garbage he finds pictures of Orgel with Senator Matheson.) Mulder: I'd be a lot more concerned with the preservation of Dr. Orgel. [to himself] Hello, senator... (Scully processes the blood.) Dr. Plant: It's carbon. Pure carbon. How in the world would that get into his bloodstream? Scully: How is it working as a poison? Dr. Plant: By all rights, it shouldn't be. Scully: Look at them, just rattling around in the solution. (Scully and the doctor look at the screen.) Dr. Plant: It's just bizarre. Did you see that? Scully: Did you just touch something? Dr. Plant: No, I didn't. Scully: It just multiplied. Look! It just did it again. Dr. Plant: Zooming in. What the hell are they? <4:01 AM> (Mulder is at Senator Matheson's house wanting to know what is going on.) Man: Wait here, please. Matheson: I don't have to tell you how late it is, do I, agent Mulder? But I suspect that wasn't even a consideration of yours. (Mulder shows him the pictures he found.) Mulder: Actually, time is my only consideration, senator. This was taken only three days ago. It's of you and Dr. Kenneth Orgel, holding a senate resolution--S.R. 819, I think it's called. What is that? Matheson: A funding bill. What is this all about? Mulder: A friend of mine is going to die because of S.R. 819. I don't know how, I don't even know why, but I'm betting you do. Matheson: What are you talking about? Mulder: I don't even really know yet; all I have are a few pieces: a Tunisian diplomat, this Dr. Kenneth Orgel, this health bill, S.R. 819--all leading up to a plot to kill an assistant director of the FBI. Does that make sense? Matheson: The bill you've referred to will provide money and supplies to the World Health Organization, medical technology to Third World countries. I have aided you in the past with information, Fox, and advice, which right now is to leave here at once and never again suggest to anyone my involvement in any such dark intrigue. Am I understood? Mulder: This man may die. He may only have a few hours to live. Matheson: My intention is to save lives, Fox, but I can't save his. Good night, Fox. Drive safely. (The diplomat that Mulder and Skinner were with before is leaving as Skinner is. Skinner stops and looks in his mirror as he waits. His veins have worsened. Suddenly a shot comes through his window from the man with the diplomatic papers. When the man comes over to Skinner's window, he sits up and fires at him. Skinner gets out of the car to look around. He is holding his gun out in front of him. Skinner goes after him. His sight is blurry again and he has trouble walking. Lazreg is behind Skinner, who hadn't shot him enough to kill him. A car suddenly comes out of nowhere and hits Lazreg. The camera shows a glimpse of who was driving the car - a man with long hair and a beard. Skinner sits down against a car trying to catch his breath. Skinner collapses.) [commercial break] <6:14 AM 15 HOURS, 21 MINUTES REMAINING> (Scully is in the lab looking through the microscope at Skinner's blood sample.) Scully: Dr. Plant? Dr. Plant: What? What is it? Scully: I think I've found it. I think I found what the carbon's doing. It's, uh...it's not just reproducing itself. It has behavior. It's creating something, a matrix stimulated by blood flow in response to movement. It's multiplying and solidifying in an orderly fashion. It's building valves or-or dams in the vascular system. Dr. Plant: It's building a heart attack. Nurse: (comes in) Dr. Plant? You're doing blood work on a Walter Skinner? Dr. Plant: Yes. Nurse: I just heard on the radio there's a Walter Skinner who's been picked up by paramedics at a parking garage, downtown. Scully: Where are they taking him? Nurse: D.C. General. (At the hospital, the doctors are looking at Skinner.) Man: Did you see this? We've got some sort of extreme vascular event here. How is he even still alive? Dr. Cabrera: We'll take the left arm first. Mark it just above the bicep. Let's get to it. I'll get this side. (The doctors are preparing to remove his arms, thinking it will help.) Man: Hey, you...out. (Thankfully, Scully gets there in time. The doctors try to throw her out, but being Scully, she doesn't give up.) Scully: I know this man. Man: I don't care. This is a sterile operating room. Dr. Cabrera: Get these people out. Scully: Look, I'm sorry. His name is Walter Skinner. We've been investigating his illness. What are you doing? Dr. Cabrera: If he's to live, he's gonna have to lose his arms. Scully: No, that won't save him. It's his blood. Dr. Cabrera: Who the hell is this woman? Dr. Plant: She's a doctor. Scully: You're not going to solve anything until you get a scope into him. Nothing se is going to work. Look, if you want to save this man, listen to what I'm saying. (Finally they listen to her. The female doctor pulls her mask down. JR NOTE: It's the doctor from the teaser that had let Skinner die.) Scully: It's OK, sir. Lie back down. We're just moving you to another room. Skinner: Who did this to me? (As Skinner is being moved to another room, Scully is trying to comfort him.) Scully: That's what Mulder's trying to figure out right now, but we're going to take good care of you. I promise. We're going to do everything we can. (Skinner starts seeing flashbacks, first of the boxing match. Then, he sees Orgel grabbing his wrist. Next is the scene in the parking garage.) Skinner: I don't know. I can't remember. <8:58 AM> (At the bureau, Skinner's secretary hears someone in Skinner's office. She goes in to find out what they are doing.) Skinner's Secretary: Sir? Is that you? Agent Mulder! (It's Mulder. He is digging through Skinner's stuff, looking for anything of importance.) Mulder: Do you have the key to this drawer? Skinner's Secretary: What are you doing? Mulder: A.D. Skinner's in the hospital. Somebody poisoned him. Skinner's Secretary: Poisoned him? Why? Mulder: For doing his job. Skinner's Secretary: I don't understand. Mulder: I'm looking for anything that relates to a senate resolution: S.R. 819. If you wanna save his life, you'll help me open this drawer. Skinner's Secretary: I don't have the key. Mulder: You have a letter opener? In your desk? Something? Skinner's Secretary: Is he going to be all right? (Ignoring her, Mulder finds an envelope on her desk. He opens it and starts to read. Back at the hospital Scully is looking at Skinner's charts when Mulder comes in.) Mulder: What's his condition? Scully: He's stable, but it's not good, Mulder. He's got extreme vascular trauma and distension. His...his blood has become a weapon against his body. Mulder: Well, can you fight it? Scully: We don't know what it is. I mean, the best that we can do is keep lasering his arteries open. But it's only going to be a matter of time before we lose. I mean, it's--it's building walls in his vessels faster than we can tear them down, and...and we just don't have the technology to combat it. Mulder: Maybe we do. (He shows her the package he had been looking at before in Skinner's mail. It was from Matheson.) Scully: What is this? Mulder: I found this in Skinner's morning mail. He was doing a security check on a senate bill for violation of trade laws involving sensitive technology. Scully: Yeah, but this is just a routine procedure, Mulder. The FBI does dozens of these a year. Mulder: No. This bill was going to vote in the Senate. All it was waiting on was Skinner's review and an analysis by Dr. Kenneth Orgel. Scully: You're saying that Dr. Orgel poisoned Skinner in order to coverup his analysis? Mulder: No. Orgel didn't poison anybody. Orgel came to the FBI to tell Skinner what he knew--that there was a gross violation of export laws involving new technology. Scully: New technology. Mulder: You know what that means? Scully: Well, I think I might. (A cell phone rings. It's Skinners.) Mulder: That's not me. Nurse: You want to get this? It was in his pants pocket. Mulder: Thank you. Hello. (The computer voice from before says...) Voice: Might as well...give up. Scully: Who is it? Mulder: It's a computer synth voice. Voice: You can't...stop it. Mulder: Somebody that must know he's here. Voice: Walter Skinner...your time... (A man is shown holding a little computer screen displaying the message as he writes.) [YOUR TIME IS ALMOST UP] (Mulder sees him and runs over. It's the man with the long hair and beard.) Mulder: Federal agent! Stop right there! (The man runs and Mulder chases him. (JR NOTE: You probably know by now who it is he is chasing.) After scaring a nurse, Mulder sees the man's car drive out. He follows it as far as he can, but it is too fast. He goes up a level and tries to cut him off. Mulder loses the bearded man. When he gets to where the man went, he sees a smashed car and a woman yelling to a guard in Spanish. Senator Matheson is driving when he gets a call from a very familiar voice.) Matheson: Yes. Bearded Man: The bill is in danger, senator. A new threat has emerged. Matheson: You shouldn't have called me. Bearded Man: Blood will be on your hands. Matheson: I don't buy your hollow threats. Bearded Man: Well, Dr. Orgel does. You can ask him. (The bearded man is shown.) Matheson: What have you done with him? Bearded Man: I can tell you where to find him. (then he hangs up.) (Mulder is talking to someone at the impound.) Man: The car is leased, part of a fleet service that services the diplomatic counsel corps. Mulder: What other forensic evidence were you able to lift? Man: Not much on the outside. It's not surprising, considering the condition of the vehicle. Inside, we found a couple hairs--human--from an expensive wig. Mulder: Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful. What else? Man: Well, we scraped the tire treads, found something odd. (The doctor holds up a vial.) It's full of polychlorinated biphenyls--PCBs. Over 500 parts per million. Now that's the kind of levels you used to see in the 1970s. Right before the EPA got fangs. Mulder: From where? Man: Well, the PCBs are saturated evenly in the clay, uh...demo site, maybe, or, uh, an old power plant. <2:04 PM> (Matheson walks into a power plant and finds Orgel strapped to a table. He has the same disease as Skinner.) Matheson: Who's in here? Is someone there? Orgel: Oh...Senator, please, let me go. I need...Water. Matheson: Who did this to you? Orgel: Hurry...Please. It's...killing me. Matheson: They believe you've exposed them to the FBI--to Walter Skinner. Orgel: No. I told the FBI nothing. I told them nothing. Please, I promise not to expose anyone. (From up above, the bearded man is shown with the computer screen. He holds it up and increases the nanite's activity killing Orgel. Orgel starts screaming in pain. On the screen is a chart that the man is making go up with the pen. The senator backs away.) [commercial break] <5:32 PM 3 HOURS, 56 MINUTES REMAINING> (Skinner is lying in the hospital bed when Scully comes in.) Scully: Sir, there's something I'd like to try. It's a treatment called thapeutic plasmapheresis. It requires filtering all of the blood in your body. It's a radical procedure, and there is a danger that your body might go into shock. Skinner: (trusting her) I'm in your hands. I think I owe you an apology, Scully. You and Mulder. Scully: Sir? Skinner: I've been lying here thinking. Your quest...it should have been mine. Scully: What do you mean? Skinner: If I die now, I die in vain. I have nothing to show for myself. My life... Scully: Sir, you know that's not true. Skinner: It is. I can see now that...I always played it safe. I wouldn't take sides. Wouldn't let you and Mulder...pull me in. Scully: You've been our ally more times than I can say. Skinner: Not the kind of ally that I could have been. (Scully touches his hand and his mind flashes back again to when Orgel grabbed his wrist.) I remember now. Scully: What? Skinner: I can't see his face, he has a beard. Scully: Try. (In his mind he sees the boxing match, and there is the bearded man...) Skinner: He was at the gym. At the hospital. He killed that man. He was at the FBI when Orgel approached me. Scully: He was following you? Skinner: The tape. He's on the surveillance tape. (Scully goes to find out.) <5:56 PM> (Mulder is at the power plant where he finds Senator Matheson. Mulder confronts him, wanting to know where Orgel is.) Matheson: You must be surprised to see me here. I'm sure I'm not the man you're looking for. Mulder: Where is he? Where's Orgel? Matheson: Orgel is dead. Mulder: I don't believe you. You lied to me this morning; you're lying to me now. Matheson: Drop this, Fox. Mulder: Where is Orgel?! I need to know what he knows. A friend of mine is dying. Matheson: I tell you, they killed him. What Orgel knows, died with him. (Mulder grabs him by the collar.) Mulder: Tell me what you know, senator. This is about S.R. 819 isn't it? What the hell did they put in Skinner? Matheson: I'm sure you already have some idea, Fox. It's the same technology that S.R. 819 will export. Technology that the world believes is purely theoretical. Mulder: Nanotechnology. Microscopic, atom-sized machines? Machines can be stopped. (DW NOTE: Sounds like nanocritters from Andersons Antibodies to me.) Matheson: Your friend is already dead. Mulder: I don't believe that. Matheson: If you pursue this, Fox, they will kill you. Mulder: Not before I expose you and your role in this. Matheson: My role? I am a victim here. Don't you understand that? I'm fighting for my life. Mulder: I will stop this! Matheson: It's too late, Fox. It's too late! (Mulder leaves. Back in the hospital, around 9:30, Skinner is getting worse. The same scene takes place as in the teaser. Skinner goes into cardiac arrest.) Man: All right, he's coding on us. Clear. Dr. Cabrera, clear. Dr. Cabrera? Dr. Cabrera: Let him go. Man: Time of death, 9:33. (They mark the time of death, and pull a sheet over his head. The bearded man is shown with his computer screen again. He moves the levels shown on the chart back down - reverses the nanites. Skinner's heart starts beating again, he comes back to life, coughs and wakes up. The Assistant Director sees the man. In a second he is gone again.) (Inside Skinner's office) Scully: Sir, I've spoken with your doctors and your prognosis is excellent. Whatever you are infected with, appears to be dormant, and your recovery is being hailed as miracle. Mulder: The man who poisoned you was at the FBI that day. Scully was able to pull these off the security video tapes. Hopefully, it might jog your memory. Maybe you can identify this man. (Mulder shows him the pictures.) Skinner: No, I'm sorry. Mulder: S.R. 819 was withdrawn by committee late last night. Without explanation. Skinner: Good. So this man failed, then? Mulder: If that was his true motive. If he wanted to poison you to prevent you from investigating S.R. 819, why call you to tell you that? This man worked for the government that was to receive this technology. He drove one of their cars and he killed one of his own to save you. Skinner: So you still think this is about you? About the X-files? Mulder: Yes. Yes, I do. And I have an idea who may be behind all this. But I'd need your authority to continue the investigation. Skinner: I have neither the authority nor the will to allow your continued inquiry into this matter. You'll perform your duties as directed by AD Kersh and only AD Kersh. Scully: Sir? Skinner: This matter's closed, agents. Am I clear? (Skinner walks through the bureau parking lot and gets in his car. He starts to talk to someone sitting in the passenger seat beside him.) Skinner: I've been expecting you to show up. (The man closes the computer device as the camera pans to show an unmistakable face in the dark. JR NOTE: Without the beard he is easily recognizable. DW NOTE: Without or not - it's been eight month, Nic. Where'd ya hide all the time - missile silo 1121? Thanks Shiban, Ratboy is back!) Krycek: You know I can push the button any time. Skinner: What do you want from me? What's this about, Krycek? Krycek: (leaning out of the dark) All in good time. (With that, Krycek leaves. Skinner starts the car and pulls away as the screen fades to "Executive Producer Chris Carter.") [The End.] Original Air Date: 01/17/99 Written by: John Shiban Directed by: Daniel Sackheim CAST: David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully GUEST CAST: Mitch Pileggi as Assitant Director Walter Skinner Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek Raymond J. Barry as Senator Matheson Kenneth Tigar as Dr. Plant Jenny Gago as Dr. Katrina Cabrera John Towley as Kenneth Orgel Arlene Pileggi as Skinner's Secretary Donna Marie Moore as ICU Nurse Greta Fadness as OR Nurse Dan Klass as Forensic Tech Susana Mercedes as Driver Tim Van Pelt as Young Surgeon Keith Coulouris as Intern Al Faris as Silk Shirt Man Jonathan Fraser as Uniformed Cop Julie Hubert as Exam Room Nurse and Mickey Knox as Trainer Special Greetings to the best actress in the world, Gillian Anderson by Dennis Wittig the Transcriber.