IMAGES FROM "ALL THINGS" (56)
TEASERScully is looking in the bathroom mirror as she gets dressed, while in voice over. Water is dripping from the sink.
SCULLY(V.O.):
Time passes in moments. Moments which, rushing past, define the path of a life, just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path. To see the reasons why all things happen. To consider whether thepath we take in life is our own making, or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed. But what if we could stop? (Scully stops and looks at something) Pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes? Might we then see the endless forksin the road that have shaped a life? And seeing those choices...choose another path?
She picks up her jacket and walks off screen. The camera pans slowly up a bed showing someone’s thigh and arm, and finally their face it’s Mulder.
ACT ONE
63 HOURS EARLIER
In the office, music is coming from Mulder’s CD player. There is a close up of a bright light flashing to the music. As the camerapans away, we see that the light is the front of a projector that Mulder was using. His hips are moving to the music.
See the stars broken
In the middle of the night
Nothing left here for me
Just washed away
The rain pushes
The buildings slide
The sky turns
Scully brings lunch into the office. When she starts to talk, Mulder puts his hand up for her to wait, but she turns off the music. Scully tells him that she got the lab to rush the autopsy results on Szczesny, if he’s interested. He tells her that he heard her. She starts to take food out of a takeout bag as she talks. She tells him that Szczesny died of drowning, but not from the inhalation of ectoplasm as he suggested, but rather in a margarita mix – upchucked with about forty ounces of tequila, which she and her friends rapidly consumed while trying to reenact the “Blair Witch Project.” Mulder thinks that it demands a little deeper investigation, but Scully doesn’t.
Mulder says that it doesn’t matter. He shows her pictures of computer generated crop circles on the projector. He tells Scully that the patterns are fractals and were predicted in advance by a computer. He wants to go where the next one will be. Scully is not listening at all. He tells her that he’s not wearing any pants. She still doesn’t know what he said, so he tells her that she’s not listening, but she insists that she is. He wants to go to England and get there early. She doesn’t want to go.
SCULLY: To be honest, it’s Saturday, I wouldn’t mind, I don’t know, taking a bath.
MULDER: What the hell does that mean?
She tells him that she has to finish an autopsy, and there is no reason to go to England on something that’s not even a bureau matter. He says that he’ll cancel her ticket and thanks her for lunch. He gets up.
SCULLY: Mulder! Look, we’re always running. We’re always chasing the next big thing. Why don’t you ever just stay still?
MULDER: I wouldn’t know what I’d be missing.
WASHINGTON NATIONAL HOSPITAL
Scully’s at the hospital picking up x-rays of the autopsy, in slow motion. The x-rays in the envelope are not of Szczesny, but rather of D. (Daniel) Waterston.
Scully tells the nurse what happened and she gets the right x-rays. She knows Waterston, so she goes in to see him. He is asleep.
His doctor sees her there and tells her of his condition. The doctor tells Scully that Waterston mentioned her, but she thinks he is mistaken. Waterston is a doctor, and was also Scully’s college professor. He made his own diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection that was causing him chest pains.
Scully is at home when Waterston’s daughter calls. She tells her that the doctor told her father that she had been there and that he wants to see her. She tells her though that that doesn’t mean that she will accept her into his life.
Scully gets a call on the other line. It’s Mulder. He is getting ready to leave for England. Mulder wants her to get in touch with a spiritual healer who researches crop circles. She tells him that she’s out for the evening. He’s hurt. She tells him to leave the information on her answering machine later and she’ll try for him.
Scully goes to the hospital to see Daniel. She first goes into the wrong room (304 instead of 306). She apologizes (the woman in the room ends up being the healer).
Scully asks Daniel how he got to DC, but he tells her it’s a long story. He gets her to hold his hand. They talk. Daniel misses her. Scully had an affair with him when she was in college. She left him so his family life wouldn’t be ruined, and he was devastated. She tells him that she only came to see if he was all right. He says that he knows it must have been hard for her to walk through the door, but she still came, and that means something to him.
Scully is in the car when her cell phone rings. It’s Mulder; he thought that he would get her answering machine. He gives her the information on where he wants her to go.
All of a sudden, but in slow motion, Scully sees a woman walking in front of her car, and she slams on the breaks. When she looks around, at first she sees no one, but then she sees the woman walking away, unharmed.
ACT TWO
Scully visits the woman who studies crop circles, Colleen Azar. Scully doesn’t want to talk to her, but she gives her advice anyway.
COLLEEN: There is a greater intelligence in all things. Accidents, or near accidents, often remind us that we need to keep our mind open to the lessons it gives. You may want to slow down.
Walking to her car, Scully drops the papers the woman gave her. They fall to the ground in slow motion. She looks at a picture of a crop circle.
Scully’s cell phone rings.
At the hospital, Daniel is awake. He calls her hurricane Scully when she comes in. He wants her to tell the doctor that the doses he is prescribing of medicine for himself is right. She agrees that it is. The doctor leaves. Daniel’s daughter talks to Scully before she leaves: “You come off so rational, but maybe you know less than you think.”
Daniel tells Scully that his daughter’s been through some very difficult times, and she’s very angry. Scully asks how she found out about them. He tells her that there are things she doesn’t know, things he’s not proud of. He tells her that after she left him, things got bad at home. It was hard for him when she walked away. He shutdown from his family, and soon was divorced. That’s when he moved to Washington, almost ten years ago.
Tears start to cry. She realizes that he moved to D.C. because of her. She tells him that he’s come at such a strange time. He tells her that he knows that she has a life now. She tells him that she doesn’t know what she has. She only found out that he was there because of the mix up in x-rays.
Daniel asks her what she wants. She tells him that she wants everything she should want at this time in her life. She says that maybe she wants the life she didn’t choose.
Daniel gets her to hold his hand again. She leans down and puts her head on his bed. She starts to fall asleep. Suddenly she hears Daniel’s heart monitor. He’s going into cardiac arrest.
Crying, Scully tries to save him, as she calls for nurses to come help her.
ACT THREE
The nurses finally get there, anR>d with their help Scully gets his heart to beat again.
Scully goes back to see Colleen again. She wants to ask her about ‘slowing down.’
Scully tells her that she has a friend who is ill, and she had a strange feeling earlier in the day, that he may be dying from a more serious condition than anyone realizes. She guesses that Scully sensed something She tells Scully explains to Scully about feeling peoples’ auras, and that she must have seen her friend’s pain. Where there’s pain there’s a need for healing – physically, mentally, or spiritually. She tells Colleen that he has a heart condition. She says that when we hold on to shame, guilt, and fear, it creates imbalance and makes us forget who we are. She says that she knows it’s difficult for her to accept. She asks Scully if she would like some tea. While Colleen is making the tea:
COLLEEN: Have you ever had moments when everything gets incredibly clear? When time seems to expand?
SCULLY: Yes. It’s so strange.
COLLEEN: You may be more open to things than you think…It’s just a matter of what you do with it.
Colleen tells Scully that she used to be a successful physicist, but she was unhappy in her career. She was cut off from the world and herself, and was literally dying inside. Two years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She tells Scully that it’s the cancer that got her attention and stopped her from being on a self-destructive path she was on, and it made her realize that she was in a field that had little meaning to her, and it allowed her to be happy for what feels like the first time in her life.
Scully asks her how. She tells her that she was introduced to a healer who helped her to see the disease for what it was. It wasn’t until she began releasing shame and telling the truth that her cancer went into remission. She tells Scully that she knows that she still isn’t sure, and wants some proof to take with her.
COLLEEN: Everything happens for a reason.
Scully comes into the hospital with flowers to see Daniel. His daughter is there and gets mad at her. He’s gone into a coma. She asks if Scully has any idea the hell that she created in their lives. Scully tells her that she left so that there wouldn’t be hell in their
lives.
Scully is walking out of the hospital in slow motion. The song on Mulder’s CD player is playing in the background. The mystery woman walks by but she doesn’t see her at first. She finally turns around and sees her, and chases after her again.
Scully goes through a door that leads her to the entrance of a Buddhist church.
Inside Scully kneels at the statue, and she has a vision. She sees a bright flash and sees pictures flying by of herself and her family, and of Mulder. She sees CSM and Emily. Then, she sees Daniel lying down and she sees his heart through his chest, but its black.
ACT FOUR
Scully brings Colleen and the healer to the hospital to help Daniel. They bring a man who puts his hands over Daniel’s chest to heal him.
His doctor comes in and starts to scream, but Daniel’s daughter gives her consent to have it done, since it has a possibility of helping. The healer tells them that Daniel is ready to move on to the other side, but something is holding him back – unfinished business -- something he needs to release.
Scully is in her kitchen in a robe, making tea. During this the same song as before plays again. It is a dream. She is suddenly in the hospital room. She looks down at the bed, and it is her.
…Hear the rain fall
See the wind come to my eyes
See the storm broken
Now nothing
Speak to me baby
In the middle of the night
Speak to me
Scully wakes up with a start to the phone ringing. She gets out of bed and picks it up. It’s Maggie, she tells Scully to come to the hospital right away and then hangs up.
At the hospital Daniel is awake. Scully tells him that she believes that the spiritual healing saved his life, but he believes in science and medicine.
He basically tells Scully that they can start a new life together. She tells him no. She says to him that he needs to take the responsibility for the hurt he caused on his family. He’s been running from the truth for ten years. He tells her that it was all for her, she’s all he lives for. Ignoring him, she says that maybe he’s alive now to make up for that, to make it up to Maggie. He tells her that it’s Maggie talking, not her. She tells him that it isn’t. She’s a different person than he once knew, and she didn’t realize it until she saw him again. His daughter is listening. Scully leaves.
Scully is walking when she sees the woman again. She rushes up to her (in slow motion) and grabs her by the shoulder. The person turns around, but it’s Mulder. He came back from England because there was nothing there (he sounds like he missed her). She tells him that sometimes “nothing happens for a reason.” He asks what she means, and she just says, “Nothing.” She tells him that when they get back to his apartment she’ll make him some tea.
Mulder and Scully are sitting (more lounging) on Mulder’s couch.
MULDER: I just find it hard to believe.
SCULLY: What part?
MULDER: The part where I go away for two days and your whole life changes.
SCULLY: Um, I didn’t say my whole life changed.
MULDER: You speaking to God in a Buddhist temple, God speaking back.
SCULLY: Um, and I didn’t say that God spoke back. I said that I had some sort of vision.
MULDER: Well, for you, that’s like saying you’re having David Crosby’s baby.
Pausing, MULDER looks at SCULLY
MULDER: What is it?
SCULLY: I once considered spending my whole life with this man. What I would have missed.
MULDER: I don’t think you can know. I mean, how many different lives would we be leading if we made different choices. We, we don’t know.
SCULLY: What if there was only one choice? All the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to?
MULDER: All the choices would then lead to this very moment.
SCULLY leans her head on MULDER’S shoulder
MULDER: One wrong turn and we wouldn’t be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. Says a lot, a lot, a lot. I mean, it’s probably more than we should be getting into at this late hour.
Mulder turns to Scully. She has fallen asleep on his shoulder. He looks over at her like he wants to kiss her, but instead, (in slow
motion) as the music starts again, he brushes a strand of hair off of her face lovingly. He reaches for the quilt and gently tucks it
around her, while just looking at her with this *look.* He then starts to stand up as the camera pans to below his fish tank,
showing a small Buddha statue.WOW! WOW! WOW! It was such a great, shippy episode! Many kudos to Gillian!
