The X-Files - 2.

writer: Howard Gordon

director: David Nutter

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Peter Tanaka ................... Hiro Kanagawa

Eric Parker .................... David Kaye

Vosberg ........................ David Lewis

Dr. Adam Pierce ................ Tuck Milligan

Jason Ludwig ................... Leland Orser

Jesse O'Neil ................... Shawnee Smith

Dr. Daniel Trepkos ............. Bradley Whitford

A RESEARCH TEAM IS BEING DECIMATED BY A KILLER WHO MAY LURK AMONG THEM -- OR COME FROM THE HEART OF A VOLCANO.

Back at work after her abduction, Scully immediately joins Mulder in investigating a mysterious death at a volcanic research station. Isolated in the trashed station, they must track down a silent killer from the heart of the volcano, which is killing the research team one by one. Suspicion centers on the absent team leader, who claims to have discovered an entirely new form of life in the volcano. But this new life-form has deadly effects on the humans it encounters, and both Mulder and Scully may have been exposed. As time runs out, Mulder must find a missing genius, and Scully must find a way to halt the spread of a killer organism.

Mulder: "Scully, I don't think it's a good idea for you to go."

Scully: "Mulder, I appreciate your concern, but I'm ready. I want to work."

Mulder: "Maybe you should take some time off."

Scully: "I've already lost too much time!"

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Mulder: "You think he's responsible for what happened?"

Pierce: "Whatever there is between, me 'n Trepkos, I pray that he isn't. We've got $20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out, it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through proper channels."

Mulder: "We're not exactly proper channels."

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(after Ludwig almost whacks Mulder with a baseball bat)

Ludwig: "This isn't what it looks like."

Mulder: "Just about took my head off... do you always greet people this way?"

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Mulder: "What do you make of Mr. Trepkos' neighborhood?"

Scully: "What do you mean?"

Mulder: "Don't you think their behavior's a little bizarre? Almost paranoid?"

Scully: "Based on what?"

Mulder: "Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-Ball with my head. He knew I wasn't Trepkos."

Scully: "Now, Mulder, you're sounding paranoid."

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Mulder: "I'm going to go find Trepkos."

Scully: "What if he's already dead?"

Mulder: "Then he'll have a tough time answering my questions."

Scully: "Will you at least let me go with you?"

Mulder: "No."

Scully: "Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that, we both do. I'm *back*, and I'm not going anywhere."

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Mulder: "Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. How many times do you have to kill him?"

Trepkos: "It's not him I'm trying to kill."

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Trepkos: "If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself, our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things."

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Trepkos: "My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. Daily I fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this dissent."

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Trepkos: "I say the Earth holds some truths best left buried."

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Trepkos: "You still believe you can petition heaven to get some penetrating answer. If you found that answer, what would you do with it?"

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