The X-files
Ends Game (Part 2 of 2)
Episode: 2X17
First aired:02/10/95
Written by: Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Rob Bowman
What a great episode and second part of
Colony!!!
A
navy submarine in the
Artic Circle encounters a
strange vessel and is rocked by a huge
shock wave
after firing upon it.
Where we left off... Mulder comes into Scully's motel room but Scully picks up her phone and finds
that Mulder is calling her. She looks at the Mulder standing in the doorway.
Scully hangs up on the Mulder on the phone and screams at the Mulder in the doorway to turn around. "Mulder"
morphs into the
alien bounty hunter. He throws her against the wall and demands to know where the real
Mulder is. Later, the real Mulder enters the room with
Samantha to find the room
smashed up and Scully not
there. Samantha says that Scully might have thought it was him and now the bounty hunter has Scully to get to
her. The alien bounty hunter wants Samantha because she knows how to kill him -- by piercing the base of
his
skull.
Mulder and Samantha are back in his
apartment waiting for a call from the bounty hunter. Samantha explains
that the
clones are the
progeny of two visitors from the 1940s and are trying to establish a
colony by
genetically merging with humans. The clones work at
abortion clinics for access to
fetal tissue and since
the experiment was not sanctioned by the aliens, a bounty hunter was dispatched to terminate the
colonists.
Skinner knocks on Mulders door and Samantha sneeks up behind him in case it is the bounty hunter. Mulder is relieved to find that it is the real Skinner, who is now very mad and confused about what is going on.
Mulder says that the woman is his sister, which Skinner does not understand, but Mulder immediatly
asks him for his
trust and aide and explains the situation and Scully calls with the bounty
hunter.
A trade is set on a bridge in
Bethesda. Mulder prepares to swap Samantha for Scully as Skinner and a
field agent prepare from a distance to shoot the bounty hunter in the base of his
neck. However, the
bounty hunter grabs Samantha (after letting Scully go) and they fall into the
water as he is
shot at. The
next day a search team looks for the bodies but none are found.
Scully is upset that Mulder did not tell her that it was his
sister that she was traded for. Mulder is
obviously upset that he has lost his sister and prepares to tell his
family. He talks to his dad
telling him that Samantha has been lost again. However, Samantha has left a note saying where to meet
her if something happened to her.
Mulder foes to meet Samantha at a
clinic where he finds several Samntha clones. They tell him that the
woman is not Samantha and that they were trying to get him to help them. They do say that his real sister is
alive. The bounty hunter arives and knocks Mulder out. He awakens to find the clones gone and the clinic
burning. Later, Scully finds that an unknown
virus killed the first man and that it is inhibited by the cold.
Mulder meets with
X who tells him that the alien pilot's craft was found in the
Artic and that an attack fleet was
dispatched to prevent him fro leaving.
Scully finds an
email from Mulder that says that he has gone and does not want her to know where he is so her life isn't in danger.
Scully meets with Skinner who doesn't know of Mulder's mysterious departure. Skinner refuses to tell her where Mulder is. Scully contacts X from Mulder's apartment. When X comes and sees it's not Mulder he leaves with out talking to her. On his way out, X runs into Skinner. They exchange
punches but Skinner gets X to tell him where Mulder went. Sinner then goes up to Mulder's apartment and tells Scully that he has gone to
Alaska.
Mulder finds the
submarine in the Artic, barely out of the ice. He finds a soldier there who is in fact the bounty hunter. The bounty hunter starts to throw Mulder around but Mulder persists and keeps asking him about his sister. The bounty hunter says that she is alive. Mulder shoots him and is affected by the
green blood. The bounty hunter pulls him outside and under the submarine
tower. As the submarine lowers, Mulder withers on the ground and rolls out of the way of the tower just in time.
Back where the previous episode (
Colony) started, Scully rushes into the
hospital to find Mulder being treated for extreme
hypothermia. Scully gets the doctor to take him out of the
warm bath, therefore inhibiting the virus with cold. We see Scully visiting Mulder in the hospital as he gets better. He awakes and tells Scully that he found soething he though he had lost, the
faith to keep looking.
Important Quotes:
Samantha -- "I know this is hard for you,
Fox..."
Mulder -- "No, it's not hard. It's
unbelievable."
Samantha -- "You don't believe me."
Mulder -- "After twenty-two years, why come back?"
Samantha -- "I've explained to you..."
Mulder -- "No, no, you've explained only what you had to! I know next to nothing about these people you call your parents or about the man who wants to
kill them."
Mulder (to Skinner) -- "We don't, we don't have any time. If I ever needed your help, your trust, I need it now."
Scully -- "Mulder, why didn't you tell me on the
phone that it was her?"
Mulder -- "I couldn't tell you."
Scully -- "Why not?"
Mulder -- "Cause you'd never let me go through with it."
Scully -- "Are you sure that it's your sister?"
Mulder -- "Why would you even question me on that?"
Scully -- "Because back at the motel, Mulder, it was you but, but it wasn't you."
Mulder -- "Well, it was her."
Scully -- "Well, then who is this man and what does he..."
Mulder -- "He's an
alien."
Scully -- "Is that what you're going to tell Skinner?"
Mulder -- "I already told Skinner, that was the easy part. Now I got to tell my
father."
X -- "You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles,
Agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win."
Mulder (email) -- "Scully, when you get this
message, I will be too far away for you to stop me, but where I'm going I cannot allow you to follow. I won't let you
jeopardize your life and your career for reasons purely personal to me. You were right, Scully... you said a line has to be drawn somewhere. I'm drawing it for you here. I'll contact you when I can."
Mulder -- "Where is she?"
Alien Bounty Hunter -- "Is the answer to your question worth dying for? Is that what you want?"
Mulder -- "Where is she? Just tell me where she is."
Alien Bounty Hunter -- "She's alive. Can you die now?"
Scully (voice over) -- "Ultimately, it was
science that saved Agent Mulder's life."
Scully -- "Hey. How you feeling?"
Mulder -- "Like I got a bad case of
freezer burn. How did I get here?"
Scully -- "A naval
reconnaissance squad found and choppered you to Eisenhower Field. Thanks for ditching me."
Mulder -- "I... I'm sorry, I... I couldn't let you risk your life on this."
Scully -- "Did you find what you were looking for?"
Mulder -- "No. No. But I... I found something I thought I'd lost. Faith to keep looking."
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