Writers: Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz
Director: Kim Manners
Original Broadcast: AU: 25.03.1998 US: 14.12.1997
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US
Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny
Guest Cast:
Judge Maibaum · David Abbott
Frohike · Tom Braidwood
First Dark Suited Man · Eric Breker
Susan Chambliss · Patricia Dahlquist
Emily Christine Sim · Lauren Diewold
Medical Technician · Tanya Huse
Margaret Scully · Sheila Larken
Second Dark Suited Man · Stephen Mendel
Dr Vinet · Bob Morrisey
Anna Fugazzi · Sheila Paterson
Dr Calderon · Gerard Plunkett
Detective John Kresge · John Pyper-Ferguson
William Scully Jr · Pat Skipper
Tara Scully · Karri Turner
Scully fights to protect a small girl from the men responsible for her adoptive parent's deaths, while Mulder's investigation into where the girl came from draws him into a deadly confrontation.
Part two of two
Scully: [voiceover] "It begins where it ends... in nothingness. A nightmare borne from deepest fears, coming to the unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held. On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me. Until at last I reached the end. Facing a truth I could no longer deny. Alone, as ever."
Mulder: "What are you colouring?"
Emily Sim: "A potato."
Mulder: "Have you ever seen Mr Potato-head?" [Emily nods] "He looks like this..." [Mulder blows his cheeks out and crosses his eyes] "Doesn't he?"
Mulder: "I found Emily's surrogate mother. I had Frohike hack into the California Social Services adoption database."
Scully: "You got a name?"
Mulder: "Yeah. Her mother of record is one Anna Fugazzi."
Scully: "Fugazzi?"
Mulder: "Yeah, as in slang term for 'fake'."
Scully: "I don't understand. Why create a false record?"
Mulder: "Because there are no true records. Emily didn't come into this world through any system that keeps them."
Scully: "Well how did she come into this world?"
Mulder: "Have you asked yourself that?"
Mulder: "No matter how much you love this little girl, she is a miracle that was never meant to be, Scully."
Judge Maibaum: "Agent Mulder, help me out here. Does FBI stand for 'Federal Bureau of Imagination'? Am I to understand that your partner, along with a dozen other women in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was abducted by employees of our federal government?"
Mulder: "She was missing for four weeks. That's documented in the file."
Judge Maibaum: "And you found evidence that, during this time, she was subjected to a series of experiments where — you say — they extracted her ova."
Mulder: "Yes. All of them."
Judge Maibaum: "Can that be done?"
Mulder: "I believe it can. And was. And that Emily Sim was conceived as a result of those experiments."
Judge Maibaum: "And that can be done as well?"
Mulder: "I don't know how else to explain it. A medical exam of Miss Scully would show that she hasn't given birth."
Judge Maibaum: "You know, under normal circumstances this petition would be fairly simple. But I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around this... Michael Crichton bit."
Mulder: "I included this information in anticipation of you reaction and how it might look if you received this information without any explanation."
Judge Maibaum: "Can you give me an explanation? Why anyone would kidnap Miss Scully to... to conceive this child, then put it up for adoption,"
Mulder: "No. But the fact remains that Miss Scully is the mother of this child."
Judge Maibaum: "Not in any legal definition."
Mulder: "Well if you can show me a legal precedent for this case I'd like to see it."
Scully: "Takes two of us just to get my sister-in-law into bed these days."
Mulder: "When's she due?"
Scully: "Two weeks ago."
Mulder: "So I'm... wasting your time. This is not worth the life of a three year old girl."
Dr Calderon: "I wouldn't frame it like that — that's not it at all. Look, I'm... I'm truly sorry, but there's really nothing I can do. However, uh... I do wish you... the very best."
Mulder: [taking Dr Calderon's hand to shake] "Okay, then." [Throws Dr Calderon onto the table, yanks him up, slapping him hard on the face] "How you feeling now?" [Slap] "Little more helpful?" [Slaps Dr Calderon again and throws him to the ground] ''Condescending little liar!" [Kicks Dr Calderon in the back]
Dr Calderon: "Help!"
Mulder: "Why don't you tell me what your company is really in business for?" [Throws Dr Calderon against a bookshelf] "Huh? Abducting women and stealing their unborn children! Medical rapists, that's all you are! Now, are you gonna let that little girl die? She's just a lab rat to you!" [Holds gun in Dr Calderon's face] "Why don't you tell me who's life is worth saving, yours or hers? I want everything to help that little girl!" [Guards appear at office door, Mulder throws Dr Calderon to the ground] I'll be back."
Scully: "Detective..."
Detective Kresge: "Happy New Year..."
Scully: "Thanks for coming down."
Detective Kresge: "I'm posting two cops outside her room."
Scully: "That may not be necessary."
Detective Kresge: "What if this guy Calderon is thinking about coming back?"
Scully: "Well there seems to be some indication that he came here to help her."
Detective Kresge: "I don't understand. You said on the phone that he was some how connected to the death of Emily's parents."
Scully: "Because Emily's mother wanted to stop the tests, just like I did. Because as much as they'll do anything to remove that gets in their way, it seems that they need Emily to continue the tests."
Anna Fugazzi: "Hello."
Mulder: "Anna Fugazzi?"
Anna Fugazzi: "Yes."
Mulder: "Your name is Anna Fugazzi?"
Anna Fugazzi: "Yes. Are you the new doctor?"
Mulder: "No. No I'm not. Is that your real name?"
Anna Fugazzi: "Yes. For the last 71 years. Were you looking for me?"
Mulder: "Not until now."
Mulder: "That makes eight for eight."
Frohike: "Are you in adoption services, Mulder?"
Mulder: "No, I'm at the maternity ward."
Frohike: "Any... fetching young mothers in there?"
Mulder: "Yeah, I think you might have a shot here, Frohike. You know anything about pharmaceuticals?"
Frohike: "Medicinal or... recreational?"
[Mulder asks about Dr Calderon]
Anna Fugazzi: "He's supposed to be here. I was going to start my beauty sleep."
Mulder: "Your beauty sleep? What is that?"
Anna Fugazzi: "He says it's taken years off of my appearance."
Scully: "I'm okay, Mulder. It's what's meant to be."
Mulder: "But if you could treat her?"
Scully: "I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it to her."
Mulder: "Are you sure?"
Scully: "Mulder, whoever brought this child into this world... didn't intend to love her."
Mulder: "I think she was... she was born to serve an agenda."
Scully: "I have a chance to stop that. You were right. This child was not meant to be."
Scully: "Who were the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?"
Mulder: "I don't know... but that you found her. And you had a chance to love her. Maybe she was meant for that too."
Scully: "She found me."
Mulder: "So you could save her."