The X-files
Emily (part 2 of 2)
Episode: 5X07
First aired:11/30/97
Written by: John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Kim Manners
The conclusion to the two parter, starting with
Christmas Carol. In Christmas Carol, Scully has learned that she is the biological mother of Emily, who is sick.
Mulder and Scully search for the cure for Emily's illness while
Scully struggles with personal feelings.
In a amazing dream, Scully walks through a
sandstorm recounting her thoughts. She finds her
gold cross necklace on the sand and dissolves into sand herself.
Mulder goes to
San Diego the the Children's Center to visit Scully who is keeping an eye on
Emily. Scully is attempting to gain
custody of Emily and wants Mulder as a witness. Mulder has discoverd, through the help of Frohike, that Emily's mother is Anna
Fugazzi, a
slang term for fake.
Mulder warns Scully that the men behind the
conspiracy will do anything to protect Emily, which may
jeopardize Scully's custody. At the custody hearing, Mulder talks about Scully's past
disappearance saying that Emily was conceived through a scientific experiment and that Emily is still Scully's
daughter.
Scully gets another
mysterious phone call which is traced to the Children's Center. Mulder and Scully rush there and find Emily very sick with a cyst on the back of her neck. A doctor attempts to do a biopsy on the
cyst but it suddenly oozes a
green, blubbling fluid that produces
fumes that overwhelmes the doctor.
Emily's previous
doctor refuses to transfer her
medical records to the Children's Center and Mulder physically
assaults him, warning him that he has to produce the reacods.
Mulder follows the doctor to a house where the doctor is killed by two men in dark suits using an alien
gimlet. They assume his appearence. One of them men goes to the Center and injects Emily with a greenish
fluid. Scully chases him through the
hospital but he
morphs into a stranger and she looses sight of him. Mulder feels that the fluid will not do Emily harm because the conspirators want to keep her alive and well, but he does not know why.
Mulder finds his way into a Retirement Home and discovers that
elderly women including Anna Fugazzi were all given hormone
injections and that they all gave birth a few years ago.
Emily's condition is worsening and she continues to undergo tests and therapy. Mulder discovers
cylinders containing live human embryos floating in a greenish
fluid and takes some
samples. Leaving the building, Mulder is stopped by a detective who takes the samples from him. One of the morphing men appears. Mulder snatches the samples back and yells at the detective not to fire at the man. The detective shoots the man still and is overcome by fumes that come from greenish fluid oozing from the wound. The man morphs into the
detective's form.
Emily slips into a
coma and dies. At the funeral, Scully says that there is still evidence of what the men did to her. She lifts the casket led but only finds sandbags, one that has broken and spilled. She finds her
gold necklace lying on the sand.
Important Quotes:
Scully -- "It begins where it ends... In
nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest
fears, coming to me
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 reflecting back upon me. Until at last, I reach the end. Facing a truth I can no longer deny.
Alone, as ever."
Scully -- "She's gone into a
coma.
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 born to... serve an
agenda."
Scully -- "I have a chance to stop that.
You were right. This child... was not meant to be."
Mulder -- "All right.
I'll stay with you."
Scully -- "
I think I'd like to be alone."
Scully -- "Who are the men who would create a life whose only hope was to
die?"
Mulder -- "I don't know. But that you
found her... and you had a chance to love her... then, maybe she was meant for that too."
Scully -- "She found me."
Mulder -- "So you could
save her."
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