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TEASER
GALPEX-ORPHEUS PLATFORM
GULF OF MEXICO
158 MILES OFF OF THE COAST OF TEXAS
There are many workers on the oil rig at see. The group is watching hockey. The television goes out, so one man, Bo Taylor, hits the top of it and it comes back in.

Meanwhile, another man, Diego Garza, is being served food. When the man cutting the meat walks away, Garza looks back to one of the workers, Simon de la Cruz, and then looks back to the knife in the meat.

Carrying the knife, Simon walks to where a man is working on the communication radio.

Back in the lounge, where the men are still watching hockey, the television goes out again. Taylor hits it once more, but it does not work.

Taylor leaves to find the man that was working with the communication equipment.

When he gets there, he finds Simon bashing the radio. On the floor he sees the body of the communication officer.

When Taylor turns to Simon, his body begins to glow bright, and Simon screams in horror.

ACT ONE
FBI HEADQUARTERS
8:57 AM
Doggett walks through the storage room to get to the X-Files office. The door is locked. He unlocks it and walks in to find Mulder already there, looking through files. When Doggett asks him what he is looking for, he tells him he’s looking for information on the death of an oil worker. Doggett tells him that he got a head’s up on it from him a few days ago. Mulder tells him that that is why he is there.

Doggett tells Mulder that he knows that he has more than a proprietary interest in the cases, but that it’s not his fault that he’s not assigned to the X-Files anymore.  He didn’t see any reason to pursue the case.

Mulder tells him what he found out. Simon’s body was found covered in flash burns from radiation, and the communications officer is missing.

MULDER: These files include the same kind of radiation phenomena. Tissue destroyed by exposure to…
DOGGETT: Black Oil. Five years ago you and Agent Scully investigated a case of a War World II plane salvaged from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Where a substance was brought to the surface, which you described as a highly contagious virus of extraterrestrial origin. That has radioactive properties and can take over a man’s body and is part of an alien conspiracy to colonize the planet if I’m not mistaken.
MULDER: And you’d love to help, but you left your light saber at home. How’d you get stuck down here, Agent Doggett? Kersh catch you peeing in his corn flakes?

Suddenly, the phone rings. Mulder picks it up and hands it to Doggett. It’s Scully on the line. She asks him why he did not tell her that he was working on the oil rig case. He tells her that he wasn’t, but she then tells him that Mr. Ortega, an oil executive, is there in Kersh’s office, and says that someone from the X-Files called him. He tells Scully that it was Mulder. She asks what he is talking about, and he tells her that he is going to let Mulder answer that.

Mulder and Doggett meet with everyone in Kersh’s office. Kersh is angry about what Mulder did, but keeps his temper down somewhat because Mr. Ortega is there. They have a sensitive situation that they don’t want to turn into an international situation. Ortega’s workers found a new oil reserve, which may spread into Mexico, and the Mexican government could claim it as theirs, so they want to be the first to drill it. Mulder says that the incident has nothing to do with that whatsoever. It’s about the unexplained death of Simon de la Cruz. Ortega tells Mulder that Simon was nothing but a Mexican National killed in a U.S. business enterprise, and that Mexican government would like nothing better than to use his death to make them abandon the rig so they can be the first to drill. Kersh says that now he has no choice but to conduct an investigation. Mulder says that that won’t do any good, but Kersh just thanks him and tells him that he has done enough already. Mulder tells Kersh that he doesn’t know what he’s dealing with, but Kersh responds that he does. Mulder says that the case is an X-File. Kersh knows that and says that he is sending someone from the X-Files to investigate. Mulder tells him that he can’t send a pregnant woman one hundred fifty miles out to sea. Kersh tells him that he’s not sending Scully.

GULF OF MEXICO
26 HOURS LATER
Doggett arrives at the oil rig by helicopter. A new communications operator is also there. The man on the rig that Doggett meets with says that he thought that only one FBI agent was coming. Mulder beat him there.

Mulder has been talking to Taylor. Mulder tells Doggett to sit down so Taylor doesn’t have to repeat his story.

Taylor tells them that the workers can sometimes go off the deep end. They have a hard time because they are away from their friends and family and might as well be doing hard time.

Doggett asks him what that has to do with Simon. He tells them that the Metizos were usually the most reliable men, but Simon just lost it.

Doggett then says that Simon was found with flash burns, and asks what that has to do with him going off of the deep end. Taylor tells them that Simon tried to blow up the oil rig, knocked a cock off of a gas valve, and then must have sparked it.

The agents then ask Taylor about the second victim—the communications chief. Taylor tells them that he probably never knew what hit him. They didn’t even know it happened until the shift change.

Mulder thanks Taylor, gets up, and walks out, ignoring Doggett as he calls after him.

Once the agents have left the room, Taylor’s eyes flow with the Black Oil.

When Doggett finally catches up to Mulder, he tells him that he can call the Deputy Director on him. Mulder sarcastically tells him that he can’t because there is no radio. He also tells Doggett that he knows that he won’t do it anyway. They are both in the same boat, but paddling in different directions. Doggett tells him that he’s wrong. They are going in his own direction.

Mulder and Doggett both agree that Taylor was lying. Mulder thinks that Taylor knows the truth about what happened, and that he may not be the only one.

DOGGETT: I never would have believed it—these stories about you.
MULDER: Really? What stories are those?
DOGGETT: That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic.
MULDER: What church?

Scully conducts an autopsy on Simon de la Cruz in the morgue. Skinner comes in and tells her that the body was supposed to go straight to Mexico. Scully ignores him and shows him what she found by accident in Simon’s third ventricle in his brain.

Scully leans over the corpse and pokes his head and black oil leaks out from Simon. Skinner is startled by this, and tries to pull Scully away, but she tells him that it is all right. The man was definitely infected, but the oil is dead. She tells him that intuitively one would think that the radiation killed it, but that is impossible because the oil itself has radioactive properties.

Scully tells him that she needs him to have Kersh call a controlled evacuation. He tells her that he can’t go to Kersh. She tells him that Doggett could be in danger.  He tells her that she doesn’t know that. No one else on the ship is infected. He wants to know why, but she doesn’t know yet.

Taylor walks up to the new communications operator. The man tells him that the radio is receiving some kind of interference that they need to get rid of.

Taylor knocks the man to the floor and then crouches down and leans over him. He opens his mouth and oil falls from his mouth and eyes, and enters the communications chief.

ACT TWO
Scully tries to make contact with Doggett via the radio. The radio on the rig has been fixed, so she gets through. The communications chief answers and tries to get her to leave the message with him, but Mulder overhears and takes over the radio.

Scully is surprised when she finds out Mulder is there. She tells him that he shouldn’t ignore orders, and that Kersh won’t tolerate it. He tells her that Kersh doesn’t need to know. He tells her that she needs him out there. She says that as of that morning she would have to agree. She tells Mulder that Simon was infected, but the Black Oil is dead. She says that the radiation might be the cause, but this makes no sense to either of them. She tells him that it could be an isolated event, but the fact that he was infected at all puts everyone on the rig at risk.

Scully tells him that he and Doggett need to evacuate the oil rig and the will quarantine everyone after. Mulder tells her that if the crew is infected, the last place that they want them to be is on the shore where they can infect others. He says that she has the answers there. She found the virus and now needs to find out what kills it.

SCULLY: And what if I can’t?
MULDER: Oh, when, ah, he gets old enough, you tell the kid I went down swinging.
<JAMIE’S NOTE: Is the word “he” a clue???>

Doggett walks in and hears part of what they are saying. He wants to know who he was talking to, but at first, Mulder just walks away. After a while, Mulder finally tells Doggett that he won’t like what he has to do with the information once he hears it.

Doggett tells the crew that they are under quarantine. All of the men get angry at this.

Mulder tells Doggett that he was talking to Scully, who said that they were lucky that he was out there. Doggett tells him that he is wrong, and that he is only letting him stay there.

After looking at the manifest list of the crew, Mulder realizes that someone—Diego Garza—is missing.

Back at the morgue, Scully shows Ortega Simon’s body. Since Scully has no proof that any of the other crew members are infected, he gets angry. He tells her that unless she has proof, he will bring the crew back and send out another one.

Mulder tells Doggett that they need to find Diego. Doggett doesn’t think that they can. Mulder asks him if he noticed on the manifesto list that Diego is mestizo—mixed Mexican decent—just like his friend Simon. The crew chief said that the mestizos were particularly good workers, but now one is dead after trying to sabotage the rig, and the other is missing. If they were the best workers, one would think that someone would miss them. Doggett tells him that maybe he was just finishing what Simon had started, to protect Mexican oil interest. Mulder tells him that if they are hiding something, that’s not it.

Doggett tells him that he called the quarantine, but that he still hasn’t given him any straight answers about what he thinks is going on. Mulder tells him that he doesn’t know what they are hiding. Doggett sarcastically tells him that when he does to let him know because he has to get on the radio and justify the action. 

Mulder tells him that he didn’t come out there just to bust his ass. He has seen the substance and how it can take over a man’s body. The men could be infected and not even know that they are being controlled.

Doggett wipes his fingers on an oily pipe and brings his hand back to show Mulder the oil. He then sarcastically asks if it is going to take over his body. When Mulder doesn’t answer, he asks when it is going to kick in. Mulder tells him that that is not how it works. It body jumps from man to man, and he is not sure that it is in all oil. Doggett tells him that that is a relief since ninety percent of the planet depends on it. Mulder has a realization and tells Doggett that Ortega lied. Doggett asks if he thinks that Ortega is infected too. Mulder tells him that he doesn’t think that. The new oil province that he wants to protect is already in production and is being pumped and drilled by the rig, which is how the crew got infected. Doggett tells him that he is reaching. Mulder says that billions and billions of barrels underneath them are waiting to be produced, and waiting to infect the ninety percent of the planet he had talked about. Doggett tells him that if they are hiding something, that sure is something for them to be hiding. Mulder asks him, what if that is why Diego is hiding? Maybe he knows what they are up to because he is the only one that is not infected. Doggett asks him that if that is true why he doesn’t come down and tell them.

Suddenly fire alarms ring. Mulder and Doggett rush to the source. The fire is in the radio room. Mulder grabs a fire extinguisher and starts spraying. Doggett tells him that he will go find another.

On the way, Diego knocks him over.

ACT THREE
Scully is in the morgue when Kersh comes in. Skinner walks in when Kersh asks about the quarantine. Skinner tells him that he was the one who ordered it. Kersh tells them that he’s calling the quarantine off. She tells him that they could do that, but all radio contact has been cut. Kersh tells them that as soon as it is reestablished he wants the quarantine lifted.

Scully tells him that she thinks that he is making a mistake. He tells her that it’s a mistake not to do it, and that Scully and Skinner are running out of mistakes.

On the way out, Kersh says:

KERSH: If I didn’t know any better, I’d say this was a Mulder stunt.

A worker shows Mulder where the fire was. Mulder asks him what it is about the room that makes people violent. The man is surprised that Mulder thinks that someone started the fire.

Mulder borrows the man’s radio to contact Doggett. He repeats his name over and over again. Finally Doggett wakes up, but before he can pick up the radio, Diego kicks it away.

When Doggett sits up, Diego slits his arm with a knife. In Spanish he declares that Doggett has red blood. Doggett obviously does not understand why he could possibly have different colored blood.

He tells Doggett that they killed Simon and if they find him they will kill him too. Doggett doesn’t know Spanish very well, but he communicates the best that he can.  He realizes that the man is Diego. Diego tells him that they wanted the radio so he started the fire. Doggett asks him what he is afraid of, and he says, “¡Ya vienen!” (They’re coming!) and he asks Diego who is coming. He tells him that “los platillos” (flying ships) are coming.

Back at the morgue Scully finds something. She shows Skinner the screen that shows a SEM image of a normal person’s blood, and that of Simon’s. Simon’s blood contains and impossible number of T-Cell antibodies compared to that of the normal blood. In lamens terms, he is a “virus-fighting machine.” Skinner asks her how she can explain that.

Scully tells him that there are isolated cultures immune to certain diseases through a genetic mutation. Skinner asks her if Simon had a kind of immunity to the alien virus. She tells him that Simon’s work records list him as having a mixed Mexican ancestry, but actually he is a Huecha Indian—an indigenous Mexican culture that has a rare undiluted gene pool. These genes may have an innate immunity to infection.

Skinner tells her that that is still not what killed Simon—he died from being burned. Scully tells him it was not burns. Simon was irradiated. He wasn’t affected by the virus, and the infected crew members couldn’t control him, so they killed him by irradiating him. Skinner asks her then why they only killed him and not Mulder or Doggett. Scully tells him that Simon must have been a threat because he knew something. He asks her what, but she doesn’t know.

Skinner has a realization and tells her that even if they did know and were able to get word to them, it would put Mulder and Doggett in danger too.

Doggett continues to talk with Diego. He tells him that he wants to help him Doggett tells him to trust him:

DOGGETT: Confia en mi. (Trust in me.)
DIEGO: Yo no confio nadie. (I don’t trust anyone.)
DOGGETT: Great…You trust no one.

Doggett tells him that if he stays they will find him. If he lets him go he promises that he will get him back home.

When Doggett walks out he is stopped by Taylor. He asks him where Diego is. Doggett just stares at him and tells him that he will get Mulder. Taylor suddenly grabs him and chokes him. Doggett sees Taylor’s eyes turn black. Taylor is ready to infect him just as Mulder hits him, knocking him over. Mulder hits him a few more times until he is sure that he is out.

MULDER: Agent Doggett, there’s more where that came from.

Mulder and Doggett rush into the radio room and Mulder locks the door and starts piling things against it. He asks Doggett if he knows anything about radios.  Doggett doesn’t know very much but Mulder says to use whatever knowledge he has to fix the radio. They need to call anyone who can get them off of the rig.

The workers come to the door and start pounding on it.

The camera pans to show the eyes of one of the men turn black.

ACT FOUR
Doggett finally gets the radio to work. Scully is on the other end. She thinks that she knows why and how they killed Simon. They tell Scully that they need helicopters, and she tells them that they have already been sent out to get them.

Mulder yells to Doggett to tell her not to let the helicopters land on the rig. Doggett asks how they will get out. Mulder, who’s still trying to keep the men out, tells him that that is quickly becoming a mute point.

Doggett tells Scully that there are three of them who are not infected: himself, Mulder, and Diego, who he thinks is mentally unstable because he is talking about UFOs.

Mulder realizes why Simon and Diego were trying to break the radio—to stop the communication between the men and the aliens. Mulder quickly smashes the radio before Doggett can stop him.

Suddenly everything is quite so Mulder and Doggett leave the room to find out what is happening. They start to try to get off the rig, but Doggett stops. Mulder follows him as he goes to get Diego. When he finds him, Diego is dead from irradiation.

They run away and try to get out. Mulder tells Doggett that the workers are letting them go because they are going to blow the rig up. As he says this, pipes burst and flames appear. They are stopped by different obstacles, but they make it through.

They hear the choppers and make their way up to the deck where they can be picked up.

The helicopters signal for them to jump into the water. On count they jump, just as the rig explodes.

Back at the office, Doggett finds Mulder in the office. Doggett is getting ready to go to Kersh’s office when the phone rings. Mulder tells him that that will be Kersh saying that he doesn’t need to see him because the blame has been properly assigned. He’s out of the FBI: Kersh could barely contain his joy. He is taking the fall.  Doggett asks why he is doing it for him. He tells Doggett that it is for him and for the X-Files. He has pull on Kersh, and now he has seen “it.” He’s in charge of the X-Files now.

Mulder walks out.

Doggett turns back to look at the ringing phone.