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Nothing Important Happened Today (Part 2 of 2)

Episode: 9X02
Airdate: 11/18/01
Written by: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Tony Wharmby
Starring: Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Robert Patrick as John Doggett, Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes, and Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
Also Starring: James Pickens Jr. as Deputy Director Kersh
Guest Starring: Lucy Lawless as Shannon McMahon, Cary Elwes as Brad Follmer, Adam Baldwin, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Bruce Harwood, Ryan Cutrona, Ben Reed, and Jeff Austin


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TEASER
The captain of a ship goes through many different security procedures to enter—first he punched in a passcode, then he had a palm scan and an eye scan, and finally
he used a key.

He is greeted by a man, who he tells that he has a telegram for Dr. Norlinger. He tells him to give it to him, but he says that he needs it acknowledged and confirmed
from him.

Norlinger comes out of a room that has a video of an egg being injected playing on the wall.

The captain gives him the telegram and he opens it. It says:
EMERGENCY STOP.
RETURN TO OPERATIONS
BASE DIRECTLY STOP.

He tells the captain that the communication is acknowledged and confirmed. He then says that they are returning to base.

The captain leaves the room and starts talking to another man. He tells him to prepare to transmit to operations commando. He asks the captain what they are
transmitting. He just says, “We’re coming in.”

The captain then walks over to the wheel.

The camera zooms out through a porthole to show that they are on a very large ship.

The tagline is changed to NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY

ACT ONE
Doggett is out of air and is drowning. Follmer continues to look for him for a few minutes before finally leaving. McMahon swims over to him and breathes air into
his mouth.

FBI HEADQUARTERS
10:21 A.M.
Skinner, Reyes, and Follmer sit in Follmer’s office.

Follmer tells Reyes that Skinner has been helping him put together pieces of their investigation.

REYES: Can we cut the crap, Brad?
FOLLMER: I don’t know, can we? There’s a lot of crap to be cut through.

Skinner tells Reyes that she probably will want to zip it and try to cooperate.

Follmer tells Reyes that like it or not, he now has the task of reining her in.

She asks for what. He tells her that it’s for unauthorized autopsies, breaking and entering into the state water facility, and more.

She tells him that she really doesn’t want to go into this without her partner. He tells her that her partner who’s running the circus is nowhere to be found.

Reyes asks him what he is doing. He tells her that he is giving her and Skinner the opportunity to put a nice spin on the mess that Doggett has made.

Skinner tells Reyes that if she won’t zip it, to at least recognize that Follmer is trying to help her.

She tells him that they were given a tip that they believe leads to a larger conspiracy. He guesses that she means in the FBI. She tells him that she and Doggett are
running a legitimate investigation into the FBI.

Follmer interrupts her, saying that he is only trying to help her keep her job but that is not going to happen if she insists on chasing shadows and conspiracies.

She asks him how he knows that there isn’t a conspiracy. He says that she’s taking on the entire FBI, and that this witch-hunt isn’t going to expose anything.

He tells her she needs to distance herself from Doggett.

She starts to leave and Follmer asks her where she is going. She tells him that she is distancing herself—from him and his political games. She says that she knows
he just wants to get Doggett.

He tells her that she is making a big mistake. She responds that she seems to make on every time she walks through his door.

Doggett wakes up in his bed to find that McMahon is in the room with him. He asks about her.

She tells him who she is, that they worked together in Bravo Company at USMC, and that he had been trying to get in contact with her. He asks her why she is
there now, and then starts to cough. She tells him that there is water in his lungs.

He remembers what happened and gets angry. He tells her that she pulled him under. She just tells him that they would have caught him. They might have figured
out what he is starting to figure out.

He asks her what she is. She tells him that he already knows. She is the product of fifty years of military science. She is a bioengineered combat unit. She has no
weaknesses. She doesn’t sleep and she can breathe underwater. That’s how she saved his life.

He asks her how she knows what he knows—what Rohr told him. She tells him that she and Knowle were drafted right out of Bravo Company together. They
were Adam and Eve. They were the first, but there are now many more like them.

Doggett tells her that Rohr is dead. She tells him that they can’t be killed.

She tells him that she is different from Rohr because she hates what she is. She has come to him because the program is expanding in ways that no one ever
dreamed of, and she needs him to help to stop it.

He asks what he can do. She says that he can expose the deaths of the two men that she killed and what they were doing—varying the water supply.

PORT OF BALTIMORE
9:17 P.M.
The captain tells his second mate that he is leaving, but he tells him that he can’t leave—they’ve been told not to. The captain wants to know why, and thinks that
maybe they are on to them. The man tells him that if he leaves and they weren’t it will be more suspicious. The captain tells him that he can’t risk waiting—can’t risk
not making contact now. He tells him that he will be back and then leaves.

Back at Scully’s apartment there is a knock. It’s Skinner.

He tells her that he’s let Mulder disappear as she wanted, but wants to know why he is risking that now, and why she is.

She tells him that she needs answers, but that Mulder can’t know and can’t be brought back into it—can’t be brought back to the FBI. It’s too dangerous for him.

Skinner tells her that it is dangerous for everyone.

The captain is trying to get a hold of Carl Wormus (who is already dead), but he gets no answer.

Behind him, Knowle is watching.

ACT TWO
Reyes calls Scully and tells her that there is something she needs to hear.

At his apartment, Doggett tells her that they may have some answers for her about her baby.

McMahon is there and wants to talk to Scully.

She starts to tell Scully about the water—how the government has been adding chloramene to it. It has been in the news, but no one’s been asking questions. Scully
asks her what questions they should be asking. McMahon says that if they want to deliver something to everyone’s home in America, what better way than through
that which is most taken for granted—water.

Scully tells her that she has had her share of outrageous conspiracy theories and to cut the mystery crap and get to the science.

Scully tells her that chloramene is just a chlorine substitute and is harmless. McMahon says that it is unless someone were to quietly go and change its molecular
makeup.

Scully asks her who and how, but she tells her that she should be asking why. It is to prime a population to breed a generation of super soldiers. It also promotes
mutation of offspring, fertility, and pregnancy.

Scully says that that is absurd. McMahon says that it is no more absurd than she herself is. She is a first generation prototype. There are now seven stages to the
point where they now have successfully given birth to a super soldier from a mutated egg.

Scully asks how she knows that she can believe her.

McMahon turns around and shows her the lump on the back of her neck—it is a standard mutation..

Knowle is standing in the ship looking at logs. The captain comes in and gets upset. He tells him that he is the new second in command and should know what’s
going on in case something was to happen to him.

He asks the captain why they are doing what they’re doing. The captain tells him that they don’t ask.

They hear an alarm sound and go outside. There are divers jumping off of the side of the ship who are pulling out a body. It appears to be that of the real second in
command.

Scully has checked McMahon out. She tells Doggett and Reyes that except for a small deformity in her spine, she is normal.

Doggett tells her that she may be the key to everything in the case. She tells him that for her sake she hopes that she isn’t.

Doggett is with Kersh and Follmer in Kersh’s office. Doggett starts to yell at Kersh for suspending him. Follmer tells him that he was going to tell him why he was
being suspended, but his actions speak for himself and is a testament to his gross insubordination.

Doggett keeps yelling and tells Follmer that he has a wishy-washy mouth.

Follmer says that paranoia must come with the job—he sounds like Fox Mulder. The suspension stands.

Doggett just tells them to try and stop him, and then walks out.

Reyes is in the office looking up information about Shannon McMahon. She finds out that she works for the Justice Department.

The Lone Gunmen suddenly walk in. She asks them how they got in. Frohike shows her his “badge.” They are out of funds and their internet connection has been
cut off, so they came there to log on, but she really needs to see what they found.

They open the laptop. They have tapped into a phone line and there is someone (the captain of the ship) trying to get a hold of Wormus. Reyes tells them that
Wormus is dead. They know that—who ever is calling must not know that.

They see that he is trying to call through again so Langly patches the call through. The phone rings and Frohike answers it.

The captain tells him that he has been trying to reach him. They have been ordered to post. One of his men is dead and they need to call the FBI—get to the
FBI—and expose the people for what they are.

Knowle has been listening to the whole conversation.

ACT THREE
Reyes goes to see Follmer. His secretary is in there, but she gets him to get her to leave.

He tells her that he is surprised that she is walking through his door again. She tells him that she needs his help. He tells her that he has been trying to help her.

She tells him that she needs Shannon McMahon’s case file at the justice department. She tells him that she would be saying that it was for her, but Doggett is a good
man. Follmer questions that Doggett really thinks he is right. She just says to him, “Like you always are?”

Reyes comes to the window of Doggett’s car. Scully is with him. Reyes tells them that McMahon is lying. She says that McMahon worked at the Justice
Department. She says that McMahon killed the people she did because they were going to expose the program, not to contact him like he thought.

Doggett still thinks that McMahon is trying to help them. Scully tells him that if what Reyes says is true, she needs to know.

Back on the ship, the captain enters the room holding a hostage. He tells Norlinger that he needs all of their information and everything.

Knowle is behind them.

Doggett, Scully, and Reyes are now on the ship. Knowle appears. Doggett points his gun at him and tells Scully and Reyes to run, which they do.

Doggett starts shooting Knowle in the chest, but it has no affect.

Knowle comes up to Doggett and puts his hands on the sides of Doggett’s face and starts squeezing.

Suddenly his head comes flying off. McMahon steps out from behind and helps Doggett up. She tells him that he didn’t trust her.

Suddenly a fist (Knowle’s) comes out through the front of her abdomen.

The two of them fall into the water.

Meanwhile Scully and Reyes have found the captains head and body lying on the deck.

As Doggett searches for Scully and Reyes, he enters a room. There is a video projected that has ova being injected.

On the wall he sees a bomb. It says that the detonator is armed and it only has a little over two minutes left on the counter.

Doggett starts yelling for Scully and Reyes.

He finally finds them and they reenter the room.

Scully sees the video and is upset—they are manipulating ova.

She finds a list of test subjects’ names. She wants to know if her name is there.

Doggett tells her that they don’t have time. The ship is going to blow up.

She ignores him and looks at the hanging tubes of DNA. She frantically looks—she has to know.

Doggett tries to make her stop. He tells her that they have to go. They will find some other way.

Finally they all run out the ship as it explores. They hide behind a car.

WASHINGTON D.C.
48 HOURS LATER
Doggett is in Deputy Director Kersh’s office with him. He gives him his report.

Kersh reads some of the stranger aspects of it aloud, including that there is a conspiracy like cancer spreading in the US government, but then says that he doesn’t
see any mention of him. Doggett tells him that he could not find any incriminating evidence on him that he could prove.

Doggett gives him his badge and gun and tells him that before he leaves there is one thing that he still doesn’t understand, which is why he sent him the obituary. Did
he want to get him fired or killed? He tells Kersh that he figured out that he had to have been the one who sent the obituary.

Kersh just starts telling him of a story of King George III, who kept a journal. On July 4, 1776, when the United States became independent, he wrote in his
journal, “Nothing Important Happened Today.”

Doggett asks him what that has to do with him, and if he means that he is trying to help him.

Kersh asks him what if he told Mulder to go or he would be killed by the same people that almost killed him (Doggett).

Doggett tells him that Mulder wouldn’t listen to him. Kersh tells him that he said that he told Mulder. He didn’t persuade him.

Doggett realizes that Scully persuaded him into leaving.

Doggett is in the elevator when Follmer enters. He notices that Doggett’s badge is in place.

The door opens and Reyes heads towards the elevator as Follmer exits.

Doggett tells Follmer, “Just so long as you know where to reach us, Mr. Follmer.

Deep in the water lies Knowle’s headless body, with his arm through McMahon’s body.

Suddenly McMahon opens her eyes.

Scully jerks awake. Was it all just a dream?

Scully is lying on her couch with William in his bassinette.

William points at his mobile but nothing happens.

The screen fades to black and we hear the mobile creaking as it moves.