(SCULLY is sitting at her DESK!?!?!?!? in the FBI bullpen. The LONE GUNMEN approach her.)
SCULLY: What are you guys doing here?
FROHIKE: Mulder's in trouble.
LANGLY: Big trouble.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
BYERS: Let's take a walk.
SCULLY: Okay, where are we going?
(They walk a few paces away from her desk.)
FROHIKE: The walls have ears.
SCULLY: (impatient) I have ears. Will you tell me what's going on?
BYERS: Mulder's disappeared.
SCULLY: Disappeared from where?
LANGLY: From the national reconnaissance office's lacrosse mid-latitude imaging radar satellite.
(LANGLY hands her a photo.)
SCULLY: I don't understand. What am I looking at?
FOWLEY: A whole lot of nothing.
BYERS: We pulled that down 45 minutes ago off the NRO satellite, which early this morning sent a picture of a ship which
inexplicably appeared in the middle of the Atlantic.
LANGLY: The SS Queen Anne which by all accounts vanished without a trace over sixty years ago.
SCULLY: The Queen Anne? The British luxury liner?
FROHIKE: That's correct.
SCULLY: It was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
LANGLY: That's one story.
SCULLY: There's another?
BYERS: Though her exact position was kept secret for fear spies might give her up to the Axis. It's been reasonably
determined that the Queen Anne was just south of the Plantagenet bank when she went missing.
FROHIKE: Less than sixty feet of water yet she's never been found.
SCULLY: So you're saying the Queen Anne just disappeared.
LANGLY: Into the Bermuda triangle.
FROHIKE: And reappeared this morning at 6:49 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
SCULLY: That's impossible.
BYERS: Satellite doesn't lie.
SCULLY: There's nothing on here.
BYERS: We gave the original images to Mulder so he could use them as navigational aids.
LANGLY: He was in a hurry.
SCULLY: To get where?
FROHIKE: Out to the Queen Anne before anyone else got there first.
SCULLY: He's gone out here?
BYERS: He went to Bermuda and chartered a powerboat out of Hamilton Harbor. We tracked him on the satellite for an hour
and a half.
LANGLY: Until a storm blew in and obscured all transmissions.
FROHIKE: That's what you're holding.
SCULLY: What's happened to him?
BYERS: We can't know that. Not without alternative tracking data. Which is why we're here.
LANGLY: Without good data, all we can do is wait and hope for the best.
FROHIKE: Yeah, but expect the worst.
SCULLY: Well, we have to get help.
(SCULLY goes back to her desk and doesn't stop moving for the rest of the scene.)
BYERS: Without a position he's a needle in a haystack.
SCULLY: What do you need?
BYERS: Navy AWACS SLAR or SAR 100 K swath imaging. You're going to have to find somebody at the Pentagon to get
it.
SCULLY: (writing down the information) Wait for me downstairs.
(SCULLY takes her note and leaves the GUNMEN. She walks purposefully down the hall and into SKINNER's
SECRETARY's office.)
(She realizes there is another Agent in the car with her. She tries to be calm but reads the info from SKINNER excitedly. The
other Agent looks at her strangely. When the doors open, she darts out into the garage. Sound of VW bus approaching. She
gets in the back with FROHIKE who slams the door.)
BYERS: Did you get it?
SCULLY: (holding up paper triumphantly) Yeah.
(VW Bus drives away. Man -SPENDER?- runs after them, but they get away.)
SCENE 5
(1998. Twilight. Small boat near the Queen Anne. Lights are on.)
FROHIKE: Hey, Scully, you're not going to believe this. Get up here.
SCULLY: (coming up from the cabin) What?
FROHIKE: The sky just cleared and there it was.
SCULLY: Is it the Queen Anne?
BYERS: That's her.
SCULLY: I don't believe it.
FROHIKE: Seeing is believing.
SCULLY: They've got power.
BYERS: Maybe Mulder's already on board.
SCULLY: Let's hope he is.
(MULDER and 1939 SCULLY run down a hall. Camera frame splits the screen into two halves of the same hall. MULDER
and 1939 SCULLY start back down the hall. From the other side we hear SCULLY.)
SCULLY: Byers? Langly? Frohike?
(The SCULLYs cross frames seamlessly, then pause and look back as if at each other. SCULLY continues on. MULDER
grabs 1939 SCULLY's hand and urges her on the other direction.)
MULDER: Come on... Come on!
(They run off.)
SCULLY: (finding the GUNMEN) There you guys are.
(Another spilt screen as SCULLY and the GUNMEN enter the ballroom. Lots of yelling, screaming in 1939, but SCULLY and
the GUNMEN walk through a deserted, but messy room, as if post fight.)
SCENE 6
(MULDER is lying on his side in a hospital bed, unconscious. SCULLY leans over him.)
SCULLY: Mulder? Mulder, it's me. Hmm?
MULDER: (waking) Where am I? (tries to sit up)
SCULLY: You're in a hospital.
MULDER: Ooooo.
SCULLY: Lie still.
MULDER: I feel... Like hell.
SCULLY: I don't blame you. You've been through the wringer, I'd say.
MULDER: What happened to me?
SCULLY: You did something incredibly stupid.
MULDER: What did I do?
SCULLY: You went looking for a ship, Mulder. In the Bermuda Triangle.
MULDER: Say that again?
(GUNMEN enter the room.)
FROHIKE: Gilligan awakes.
MULDER: You were there.
SCULLY: Hmm?
MULDER: You were there, Scully.
(SKINNER enters.)
LANGLY: (to the others) He's delirious.
MULDER: (referring to SKINNER) And he was there, too.
SKINNER: (dropping a bouquet of flowers on the nightstand) Right-- Me and my dog Toto.
MULDER: No, you were there with the Nazis.
SCULLY: Mulder, will you settle down? It's an order.
SKINNER: Not that he takes orders...
(MULDER rests the back of his hand against SCULLY's waist which is against his bed rail. He is happy, yet very drugged.)
MULDER: You saved the world, Scully.
SCULLY: Yeah... You're right. I did.
FROHIKE: What kind of drugs is he on?
LANGLY: I want some.
MULDER: No, no, no.... The Queen Anne-- I found it. You were there with Thor's Hammer. I told you you had to turn the
ship around and then I jumped overboard.
SCULLY: Yeah, I bet you did. The boat that you were on was busted into a million pieces. And as for the Queen Anne it was
nothing more than a ghost ship.
MULDER: No, no, no. You and I were on that ship, Scully. In 1939.
SKINNER: Get some rest, Mulder, 'cause when you get out of here I'm going to kick your butt but good.
(SKINNER and the GUNMEN leave the room.)
MULDER: I would've never seen you again. But you believed me.
SCULLY: In your dreams. (as if talking to a child) Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself
"there's no place like home."
MULDER: Mmm. ( chuckles )
(SCULLY starts to leave. He calls her back.)
MULDER: Hey, Scully. (leans up on his elbow)
(SCULLY comes back and leans close to his face.)
SCULLY: Yes?
(Long pause. They look deeply at one another.)
MULDER: I love you.
SCULLY: Oh, brother... (turns away and leaves the room)
(MULDER, perhaps a little hurt, watches her go. He starts to lie down, but as soon as his face touches the pillow he pulls back
up in slight pain and rubs his jaw where 1939 SCULLY hit him. He gazes after her and smiles. Screen shifts over to credits.)
