X-Files Logo 'Audrey Pauley'

Story Code '#9X13'
by Steven Maeda		 X-Files Cast

SCENE 1: FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA

(It is night. REYES and DOGGETT pull up in REYES' car at DOGGETT's house)

REYES:
Thanks for the beer.

DOGGETT:
Thanks for the lift.

(REYES unbuckles her seat belt)

REYES:
So, big plans for the weekend?

DOGGETT:
Oh, huge. Microwave pizza, satellite TV.

REYES:
Wow. Thanks for making my life sound exciting. Maybe we both need pets. They say people with pets live longer.

DOGGETT:
(Confesses) I was thinking about getting a cat.

REYES:
There's dog people, and there's cat people. You are a dog person, John.

DOGGETT:
How do you figure?

REYES:
You're faithful, you're dependable, you're without guile, you're very comfortable to be around. So why a cat?

DOGGETT:
Low maintenance. They don't expect much from you, so you can't disappoint 'em.

REYES:
I don't see you ever disappointing anyone, John.

(The two look at each other, sharing the moment. The moment soon passes)

DOGGETT:
See you Monday?

REYES:
Yeah. See ya.

(DOGGETT smiles at her and leaves. REYES puts her seatbelt back on. She drives off. DOGGETT stops to watch her leave)

REYES:
(Smiling to herself) John, John, John.

(She reaches an intersection about a block away when another car speeding through a stop sign hits her on the driver's side)


SCENE 2 - EMERGENCY ROOM

(REYES is wheeled into the emergency room where an ER nurse and several others are working on her)

E.R. NURSE:
One, two and three.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Miss... ?

E.R. NURSE: :
Reyes.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
How you feeling tonight? You with us?

(DOCTOR PREIJERS shines his penlight into her eyes... )


SCENE 3 - NETHERWORLD E.R.

(REYES lies with her eyes open but there is no noise. She sits up and we find that there is no one else in this room. It's the same room but everyone has disappeared. REYES touches the blood on her head and climbs off the gurney. She stands up but there is no one anywhere in sight. She steps into the waiting area but no-one is in this hospital it would seem. There is a bluish colour to everything)

REYES:
Hello? Is anybody here?

(Everything here is strange. The machines are not like normal machines, there is nothing anywhere except space and walls. REYES checks around the place, in rooms but she can't find anyone. She walks to the exit and the automatic doors open. Outside there is just blue sky - a strange nothingness)


OPENING CREDITS


SCENE 4 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES dabs at her cut on the temple in the reflection of a towel dispenser. A man in pyjamas approaches her. REYES is startled and almost jumps around at his voice)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Hello. It's okay. I was a little freaked out, too... at first.

REYES:
Who are you?

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Stephen Murdoch. I-I don't even know if that matters anymore but my name is Stephen. Did you just look outside?

(REYES nods her head slightly)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Yeah. Don't do that.

(MURDOCH turns and starts walking down the hallway. REYES follows)

REYES:
Where did everybody go?

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
I think the question is, "where did we go?" Were you in an accident?

REYES:
I think I was hit by a car on my way home.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
I came in with chest pains. Mister Barreiro, someone new. I found Mister Barreiro wandering around here same as you. He fell at a construction site where he used to work.

(REYES and MURDOCH walk up to MR BARREIRO, who has a large scar on his scalp)

REYES:
(To MURDOCH) You think we're dead.

(It would appear both the men believe so)

REYES:
No. No, I don't believe that.

VAL BARREIRO:
Have you ever been dead? So how do you know you're not?

(REYES turns and walks away from the two men)


SCENE 5 - EMERGENCY ROOM

(SCULLY enters, seeing an upset DOGGETT sitting down, she sits next to him)

DOGGETT:
Hell of a thing to wake up to, huh?

(She puts a comforting arm around his shoulders)

DOGGETT:
We stopped after work. She had a beer.

SCULLY:
Well, the man who hit her had fifteen. Don't do this to yourself, John.


SCENE 6 - REYES' HOSPITAL ROOM

(REYES is lying in a hospital bed, unconscious. She isn't showing brain activity. SCULLY and DOGGETT look through the charts)

SCULLY:
It's true, John. She's gone.

DOGGETT:
I don't accept that. Look at her breathing. Her heart's still beating. There's got to be hope.

SCULLY:
There's no measurable electrical activity in her brain. Brain death is... indeed death, John.

(DOGGETT looks down at REYES)

SCULLY:
I'm sorry.

(Behind DOGGETT we see REYES appear in a blue hallway. She is looking in towards them...or is she?)


SCENE 7 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES is looking in but it is into an empty room. She checks room after room and goes through a nurse's chart which is covered in nonsense. MURDOCH appears next to her)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
The thing is, it's not that bad, once you get used to the idea.

REYES:
Have you seen this? It's nonsense, all of it. There's not a single sign on any of the walls here. Why is that?

(MURDOCH stands with his hands clasped. He doesn't say anything)

REYES:
You say we're dead. This seem like heaven to you? A big, deserted catholic hospital?

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
I didn't say this was heaven. For all I know, it's... it's hell.

(They're walking down the hallway)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
I don't know anything for sure. Maybe this place is a way station; to what comes next.

(REYES considers his words. She makes up her mind and begins to walk away from him with purpose)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Where are you going?

REYES:
I'm finding a way out.

(REYES is looking outside and, picking up a mug, she drops it out the doors and as it falls it disintegrates. REYES walks back inside and the doors close)


SCENE 8 -REYES' HOSPITAL ROOM

(DOGGETT and SCULLY meet with DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Jack Preijers. I'm very sorry for your loss.

DOGGETT:
Look, you two are the experts but there's got to be something more that can be done.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Well, I wish there were. And I don't mean to make this any harder but I do have information you both need to hear. Your partner had a living will. She signed an organ donor card.

DOGGETT:
Uh-uh. No way.

SCULLY:
John ...

DOGGETT:
Just slow down, all right?

DOGGETT:
She's lying there in one piece. There's no fractures, no damage to her skull. Does that add up to you?

SCULLY:
John, at the end of the day it doesn't matter. It doesn't change the diagnosis or her prognosis.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
In these situations time is always of the essence. There is a woman in Minnesota who can be saved by your friend's heart. In a real sense, she will live on.


SCENE 9 -NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(As REYES walks back down the hallway she sees a figure through the frosted glass but we can't make out who it is)

REYES:
Mister Murdoch? Mister Barreiro?

(The figure runs and REYES runs after her. It is a WOMAN, she rounds the corner and REYES stops)

REYES:
You, stop!

(The WOMAN stops and looks at REYES before running into another corridor. REYES gives chase but it is a dead end, the woman is gone. REYES checks out the wall, it is solid)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Monica?!

(REYES goes to find MURDOCH)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Monica!

(REYES gets to where MURDOCH is standing. BARREIRO is crackling with electricity, like the mug that REYES threw. He is screaming in pain)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
What's happening to him?

(BARREIRO disappears. MURDOCH and REYES are left standing in shock)

REYES:
Oh, my god.


SCENE 10 - MR BARREIRO'S HOSPITAL ROOM

(BARREIRO is lying on the hospital bed. His WIFE, DAUGHTER and SON are standing next to him. The machine flatlines and a solemn faced DOCTOR PREIJERS turns off the heart monitor)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
I am so very sorry for your loss.

(The family cry. The WOMAN who REYES saw stands outside watching before moving on with her cart of flowers)


SCENE 11 - REYES' HOSPITAL ROOM

(SCULLY is studying MONICA's record when a weary DOGGETT enters the room)

DOGGETT:
They're burning up the phone lines down there. Arranging with all these other hospitals how to divvy up Monica. They say they could do it as early as tomorrow.

(He looks hopefully at SCULLY)

DOGGETT:
Is there anything... anything at all?

SCULLY:
I did note some minor swelling in the left anterior which is consistent with subdural haematoma.

DOGGETT:
Minor swelling?

SCULLY:
I-I don't know if that means anything. It's not like there's an exact formula for how much damage equals death.

(DOGGETT begins looking through the papers, desperate to save REYES)

DOGGETT:
What about this?

(DOGGETT pulls out a piece of paper. It's the brain monitor readout. They stop very suddenly at 8:11)

DOGGETT:
This was monitoring her brain activity, right? Electrical impulses.

SCULLY:
Yeah. She had EEG monitoring after the point that she coded.

DOGGETT:
Suddenly they just stop here. Right here. And if we can learn what this is maybe we can reverse it.

(DOGGETT takes the papers and walks out of the room to find someone who can answer his questions. SCULLY calls out to him, but he doesn't answer her)

SCULLY:
Agent Doggett.

(He ignores her and continues out of the room)


SCENE 12 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(MURDOCH and REYES are in the corridor that the WOMAN disappeared into)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Okay, so-so this woman you saw-she went through the wall?

REYES:
I don't know. She was here, and then she disappeared.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Disappeared? What do you mean, like Mister Barreiro did?

REYES:
Different than Barreiro.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Okay, okay, let's concentrate on one unexplainable event at a time here. What the hell happened to Mister Barreiro?

REYES:
My opinion? I think he died. You can't die if you're already dead. Which backs up my belief that you and I are alive. I have no idea where she went.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Hold on. If he's dead... and we're not... then where the hell are we?

(REYES has no answer for him)


SCENE 13 - HOSPITAL

DOGGETT:
Doctor Preijers.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
I'll be there in one minute.

DOGGETT:
I'm wondering about this moment on my partner's EEG tape-8:11 P.M., When brain death apparently occurred.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
You're reviewing our records?

DOGGETT:
Well, no offence, but yeah. I just need to know if there was some change in Monica's condition leading up to this.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Agent Doggett, if you're trying to build a malpractice case against me or this hospital ...

DOGGETT:
I'm not. I just want the facts.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Whitney, could you pull the code notes from earlier tonight, please?

NURSE WHITNEY:
Mm-hmm.

DOGGETT:
Look, Monica had a seat belt and an airbag protecting her through the crash. The ambulance crew said she was conscious at the scene. I just think there's something we're all missing.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Well, I don't think this will help you any but this describes what my team and I did to save your friend. You can take it, copy it, study it at your leisure.

NURSE:
(From behind) Doctor Preijers?


SCENE 14 - REYES' ROOM

(The FLOWER WOMAN, who is in fact AUDREY PAULEY, is standing at REYES' bedside. DOGGETT sees her as he walks in and she turns to leave)

DOGGETT:
(Whispering) Oh, it-it's all right. (He indicates that she can stay) You work here?

AUDREY PAULEY:
Uh, I-I'm a patient aide. I deliver the flowers mostly. Are you her husband?

(DOGGETT shakes his head, no)

AUDREY PAULEY:
You love her, though.

(DOGGETT doesn't say anything. She opens the door to leave, pauses and makes a decision to help comfort him)

AUDREY PAULEY:
She's not gone. Not her soul.

DOGGETT:
I wish I could talk to her. I wish I could tell her. Guess I wish a lot of things.

(AUDREY looks at DOGGETT. She doesn't know what to say. She leaves. He turns to look at REYES. DOGGETT stands next to her bed)


SCENE 15 - HOSPITAL BASEMENT

(AUDREY comes out of the elevator and walks into a room where we can see a model of the hospital, like a doll house. AUDREY sits in front of it and we go through the window into the Netherworld Hospital where REYES and MURDOCH are looking for a way out)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Come on. You're not giving up, are you?

(MURDOCH sees something behind REYES)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Monica.

(REYES turns around and sees AUDREY. Half of her is coloured and the other half is bluish like everything else in this world)

REYES:
(Softly) Please. Don't run. Who are you?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I'm Audrey. I-I work at the hospital.

REYES:
Audrey, I'm Monica. Stephen and I just want to get out of here. Will you show us the way out?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I can't. I can't help you.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Why not?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I came to tell you your friend... loves you very much.

REYES:
My friend? Did you talk to John? Does he know where I am?

AUDREY PAULEY:
They all think you're dead.

(REYES turns to look at MURDOCH. AUDREY has delivered her message. She turns to leave)

REYES:
Wait! Give my friend a message. Tell him he's a dog person.

(AUDREY looks at REYES - a silent agreement before disappearing around a corner. REYES and MURDOCH give chase but she is gone)


SCENE 16 - DOCTOR PREIJERS' OFFICE

(DOCTOR PREIJERS is working, water drips from a faucet when the NURSE WHITNEY enters)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Hey, Whitney.

NURSE WHITNEY:
Doctor, it's not my place to say, but you might want to review the code notes for tonight.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Why is that?

NURSE WHITNEY:
Well, there was an injection you gave Miss Reyes that wasn't in the notes.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
I don't think so.

NURSE WHITNEY:
In trauma bay, I saw you administer the IV push. I assumed it was epinephrine.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
I have no memory of that. Anybody else see this?

NURSE WHITNEY:
Just me. But it happened. My only point being, if there is an investigation that's the kind of inconsistency malpractice lawyers love to get a hold of.

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
Whitney, thank you so much for looking out for me.

(As she turns to leave, DOCTOR PREIJERS runs and grabs her from behind, muffling her screams. He injects her with something and she falls to the floor)


SCENE 17 - HOSPITAL

(It is day at the busy hospital but DOGGETT, sitting in the hallway is in his own world)

REYES V.O.:
There's cat people, and there's dog people. You are a dog person, John. You're faithful. You're dependable. You're without guile and you're very comfortable to be around.

(DOGGETT's memory shows REYES behind the wheel of her car saying these words)

REYES V.O.:
I don't see you ever disappointing anyone, John.

(In his mind they lean in gently and kiss. But a woman's screams fill the air and he returns to the real world)

NURSE:
Get me some help in here!


SCENE 18 - HOSPITAL

(NURSE WHITNEY is lying on a table. SCULLY is there)

SCULLY:
What exactly are you thinking?

DOGGETT:
She helped work on Monica. I started asking questions about what happened in the trauma bay and she very inconveniently drops dead.

SCULLY:
You're thinking that somebody murdered her to cover something up.

DOGGETT:
Well, if it were you, how would you go about it make it look like natural causes?

SCULLY:
Well, I'd use a fast-acting barbiturate like pentobarbital. I'd use a small-bore needle to make it next to impossible to find an injection mark.

DOGGETT:
Next to impossible... That's why you're perfect for the job. Should probably test her blood, too, while you're at it, right?

SCULLY:
Agent Doggett... I'm happy to do this for you. Just don't kid yourself that this is going to somehow bring her back.

(DOGGETT leaves and SCULLY watches as he goes)


SCENE 19 - REYES' ROOM

(DOGGETT is brushing REYES' hair off her eyes when AUDREY enters)DOGGETT is sitting next to MONICA'S bedside. He is tenderly brushing

AUDREY PAULEY:
Your name is John, right? She has a message for you. She says you're a dog person.

(As the impact of AUDREY's words confront him, she turns away. DOGGETT looks back at the unconscious REYES and then runs after AUDREY)

DOGGETT:
Wait. Where did you get that? Who said that to you?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I told you. She's not gone.


SCENE 20 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES is looking through the sheets while MURDOCH looks outside)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Look, I went through every last page of that before you ever got here. It's just nonsense, just like you said. There's not a clue in it.

REYES:
Maybe in itself it's a clue. This place looks pretty complete at first glance but really it's not. There's so much missing. Words, details. It's like a set. A movie set but like it was built by someone who couldn't quite grasp what it was they were recreating.

(MURDOCH starts to shake and gasp. He can't breathe)

REYES:
Stephen, you okay?

(MURDOCH falls and REYES grasps his hand)

REYES:
Stephen, talk to me.

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
(Gasping) ): What's... what's happening to m-me?


SCENE 21 - HOSPITAL ROOM

(DOCTOR PREIJERS turns off MR MURDOCH's life support. MRS MURDOCH, standing by his bed is crying)

MRS. MURDOCH:
Does he feel any pain?

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
(Shaking his head) Absolutely none.

(DOCTOR PREIJERS disconnects the oxygen tubing to MISTER MURDOCH)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
It's just a matter of time.


SCENE 22 - HOSPITAL BASEMENT

(AUDREY enters her room. DOGGGETT is behind her and follows. AUDREY closes the door as he enters)

DOGGETT:
You live down here?

(AUDREY stands by the door)

AUDREY PAULEY:
The-the nuns let me stay. I-I wanted to be a nurse, only I can't do much but they let me help out.

(DOGGETT studies the hospital model, the centrepiece of AUDREY'S room)

DOGGETT:
This is this hospital. You made this?

(AUDREY nods)

DOGGETT:
Why?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I like to visit it. I sort of go... inside my head.

DOGGETT:
You go into the model?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I like it there. It's quiet. I used to have it all to myself but then some people showed up. Hospital patients. Your friend.

DOGGETT:
This is where you say you talked to her? Right inside here?

(He indicates the model. She shakes her head)

AUDREY PAULEY:
Well... not so much like tiny people in a... in a model, but .. inside my head? Up here, I guess.

(She stops. She looks at him. DOGGETT looks confused)

AUDREY PAULEY:
You don't believe me.

DOGGETT:
Audrey... you said that you saw some other people besides my friend. Other patients? Can you tell me who they are?


SCENE 23 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES and MURDOCH are there, hopelessly waiting for the inevitable - MURDOCH's death)

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
There's so much... I'd do... differently.

REYES:
What?

STEPHEN MURDOCH:
Life.


SCENE 24 - HOSPITAL

(DOGGETT gets out of the elevator and rushes to where SCULLY is on the phone at the nurses' station)

SCULLY:
I'll call you back.

(SCULLY hangs up)

SCULLY:
Monica's parents are on their way from Mexico City. They're coming to say good-bye.

DOGGETT:
Well, they can say "hello" instead. Nobody's shutting off her life support system. Not with what I got.

(He holds out a couple of file folders. SCULLY takes them)

SCULLY:
What are these?

DOGGETT:
Patient files. Both men were declared brain dead, same as her. All three have something else in common, too. Check out the attending physician.

(DOGGETT pulls SCULLY off to the side. SCULLY opens the file. It is BARREIRO's file and it has DOCTOR PREIJERS' signature)

SCULLY:
Doctor Jack Preijers.

DOGGETT:
The guy is some kind of Doctor Death. He gets off on pulling the plug on his own patients. He did it last night to this guy Barreiro.

SCULLY:
Well, at the request of the family.

DOGGETT:
But what I'm saying is what if he poisoned Barreiro in the first place? Same as this guy Stephen Murdoch, same as Monica. Tox screen will prove it.

SCULLY:
How did you come up with these two men's names?

DOGGETT:
If I tell you that, you'll think I'm crazy. But Monica's alive same as this guy Murdoch. And we got to help them both get back.

(SCULLY looks at DOGGETT, perhaps she believes him)


SCENE 25 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(MURDOCH'S gasping for breath. He's no longer speaking)

REYES:
Steven stay with me.

(The electric charge surrounds MURDOCH and he disappears in her arms)


SCENE 26 - HOSPITAL

(DOGGETT and SCULLY rush to STEVEN MURDOCH's room where DOCTOR PREIJERS is placing a sheet over his body. They look at each other and DOCTOR PREIJERS looks at them)


SCENE 27 - AUDREY PAULEY'S ROOM

(AUDREY is sitting on the floor. DOGGETT is pounding at the door and AUDREY stands up, walking to the door)

DOGGETT:
Audrey, it's John Doggett! Audrey!

(She opens the door. DOGGETT walks in)

DOGGETT:
I still need your help.

AUDREY PAULEY:
I told you their names. Mister Barreiro and Mister Murdoch.

DOGGETT:
No, they're both dead now. Monica's the only one left. And inside an hour the hospital plans to cut off her life support. Now, I'm not going to let that happen-no matter what it takes. But I'm losing here. Nobody else believes she's alive. Nobody - just you and me.

AUDREY PAULEY:
I can't do anything. I only deliver the flowers is all I do. I can't help.

DOGGETT:
(Desperate) You can talk to her, right? You can.

(DOGGETT pulls AUREY to the model and they sit on their knees in front of the model)

DOGGETT:
Audrey, I need you to talk to her. I need you to tell her what's going on. I need you to tell her that they're going to pull the plug. I need her...

(DOGGETT stops a moment to gain control of his emotions)

DOGGETT:
I need you to tell her to fight. I need you to tell her to show us some sign - anything - that she's in there. I need her to understand. I don't know what the hell else to do.

(DOGGETT looks at AUDREY and then stands and leaves. She watches him go)


SCENE 28 - HOSPITAL BASEMENT

(DOGGETT, after leaving AUDREY's room, wipes his eyes and continues on his way. DOCTOR PREIJERS watches him go)


SCENE 29 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES is sitting in the E.R., waiting for her own demise. AUDREY stands behind her)

AUDREY PAULEY:
Monica?

(At the sound of AUDREY'S voice, REYES jumps up to her feet)

AUDREY PAULEY:
John wanted me to tell you something.

REYES:
You gave him my message?

(AUDREY looks at MONICA and nods)

AUDREY PAULEY:
He says you don't have very long. He says you have to give them some kind of sign.

(REYES is at a loss of what to do. AUDREY is sympathetic)

AUDREY PAULEY:
I know, I... I-I'm sorry.

(AUDREY starts to walk away)

REYES:
(Desperate) Are you really going to leave me here to die?

AUDREY PAULEY:
Uh... I can't... do... anything. There's... there's something wrong... you know, up here. And I can't help anyone. I deliver the flowers. It's all I do. And I have to even get help with that because I-I can't read what's on the little cards.

(AUDREY is crying now. REYES has an epiphany)

REYES:
You can't read?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I see it all jumbled up.

(REYES shows AUDREY the chart)

REYES:
This is your hospital. It's you who created it. It's all you, Audrey. This place is all you. And that means you can make the rules work any damn way that you want them to. You can help me escape.

(AUDREY looks around the hospital, unsure what to do)

REYES:
Audrey?

(AUDREY had disappeared. REYES is all alone again)


SCENE 30 - AUDREY PAULEY'S ROOM

(AUDREY looks down at the model. She turns as the door opens and DOCTOR PREIJERS enters)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
You know, I've always wondered what was down here. I'm being accused of things Audrey. Terrible things regarding three patients of mine. Really, it's... it's beyond the pale.

(He sighs and pulls out a small syringe from his pocket. Somehow AUDREY knows)

DOCTOR JACK PREIJERS:
You're not going to yell out, are you, Audrey?


SCENE 31 - NETHERWORLD HOSPITAL

(REYES is wandering the hallways looking for AUDREY)

REYES:
Audrey?

(Wind blows and we hear a dull noise. The walls start to shimmer and REYES realises something has gone horribly wrong)

REYES:
Audrey? Audrey!

(She finally finds AUDREY standing inside the outside ER doors)

REYES:
Audrey, what's happening?

(AUDREY is completely blue now. She has become one of them)

AUDREY PAULEY:
You have to go.

(AUDREY walks out to where the doors open to the empty void)

AUDREY PAULEY:
This way.

REYES:
No. If I do that, I'll burn up. I'll die.

AUDREY PAULEY:
No. Not now. But you have to hurry.

REYES:
What about you?

AUDREY PAULEY:
I know now. I know who told me to build it.

(REYES realises that AUDREY is dead on the other side. She jumps into the void and AUDREY shimmers and disappears. MONICA falls down..)


SCENE 32 - HOSPITAL

(DOGGETT is sitting next to the unconscious REYES. SCULLY enters)

SCULLY:
The transplant teams are in place.

(DOGGETT stands up to face SCULLY)

DOGGETT:
They're not cutting her up.

(He turns to walk out the door)

SCULLY:
John... I'm still waiting for your argument. If you have something to convince me to convince the doctors that somehow she's alive.

REYES:
John ...

(DOGGETT and SCULLY turn around. DOGGETT grabs REYES' hand)

REYES:
(Whispers) Audrey ...


SCENE 33 - HOSPITAL BASEMENT

(DOCTOR PREIJERS places the empty syringe in his pocket. DOGGETT slams him against the wall)

DOGGETT:
Where're you going, doctor?

(DOGGETT opens AUDREY PAULEY'S room. She's lying on the floor... dead.

DOGGETT:
Oh, god. Oh, no.


SCENE 34 - 3 DAYS LATER

(It is night time as DOGGETT parks the car outside REYES' home. He exits and walks around to open her door. REYES steps out and looks at him for a moment)

DOGGETT:
Good night.

REYES:
Good night.

(REYES walks to the stairs and then turns to look at him. He stands and smiles as he watches her enter her building)

[THE END]



Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), Robert Patrick (Special Agent John Doggett), Mitch Pileggi (A.D Skinner), Annabeth Gish (Special Agent Monica Reyes), Jack Blessing (Doctor Jack Preijers), Tracey Ellis (Audrey Pauley)< Michele Harrell (Mrs Murdoch), Cynthena Sanders (ER Nurse), Stan Shaw (Stephen Murdoch), Vernee Watson-Johnson (Nurse Whitney Edwards), Del Zamora (Barreiro)

Directed by Kim Manners

TX:
US TX - 17th March 2002

Notes:
*Featuring Special Special Agent Dana Scully, Special Agent John Doggett, Special Agent Monica Reyes and A.D. Walter Skinner

*During the credits sequence there is a flash-frame of a document containing the names of many online X-Philes and some anagrams of ‘X-Files’ characters (e.g. ‘Deform Lux’ is Fox Mulder) under the heading ‘FBI Contacts, Witnesses and Contributors’: