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Jump the Shark

Episode: 9X15
Airdate: 04/21/02
Written by: Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Cliff Bole
Starring: Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Robert Patrick as John Doggett, Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes, and Mitch Pileggi as A.D. Skinner
Guest Starring: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Michael McKean, Steven Snedden, Zuleikha Robinson, Jim Fyfe, Marcus Giamatti, John Prosky, Timothy Landfield, and Michael Craven Wells

IMAGES FROM "JUMP THE SHARK " COMING SOON!

TEASER
In a voiceover, Morris Fletcher recaps what has happened to the Lone Gunmen previously.

ACT ONE
20 MILES WEST OF HARBOR ISLAND
BAHAMAS
Sharks swim underwater.

Morris is on a boat with a young blond, rubbing lotion on her shoulders.

Suddenly a raft pulls up beside the two. Two men get out and grab the girl. Morris doesn't seem too concerned, as long as they leave him alone.

Instead, the one man pours gasoline into Morris's boat, and tells him that his boss told him to tell Morris that he's fired. Morris yells that the boat is rented and he put a deposit on it.

As their boat pulls away, the man throws a flare into Morris's boat.

Morris jumps out of the boat into the water as the boat blows up.

The camera pans down to show stuff floating in the water, including a draft of a spaceship.

U.S. COASTGUARD BASE
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
Morris sits waiting, a bandage on his face.

Reyes and Doggett come in. Morris requested them by name. He tells them that they head The X-Files unit, and he thought that they would appreciate what he has to offer.

MORRIS: You have no idea who you're sitting here with, do you?
DOGGETT: A guy who's up fudge creek for violating The Federal Secrets Act. How's that for starters?

He tells Doggett that he's got top security clearance, and is supposed to check in with his former employer every month, but he skipped a few phone calls. He tells them that he used to work at Groom Lake in Nevada. They don't respond, so he adds that he worked at Area 51. They still are silent, so he tells them that he was a Man in Black from the Men in Black. They still don't believe him. He questions them that they've never heard of them.

DOGGETT: I saw the movie.
MORRIS: Yeah, well…there were a lot of technical inaccuracies in that thing.

He tells them that he's ready to make a deal to "save his furry pink ass." Morris tells him that people are trying to kill him. He asks them if they've heard about his boat. They have. Reyes tells him that his "female companion" told them what she witnessed. He's surprised that they didn't kill her, but he can't even remember her name, which Reyes tells him is Brittney.

He tells them that he needs protection and to get out of there. They scratch his back and he will scratch theirs. He can give them the keys to the kingdom--UFOs, aliens--the whole fifty-year cover-up. He was there.

Reyes asks him if the documents of his that they have are indicative of the secrets that he can tell them.

Reyes pulls out the draft of the spaceship.

He tells them that they're just the tip of the iceberg. Reyes questions this, and tells him that the drawing is the "Jupiter 2" from "Lost in Space."

Realizing he's caught, he tells them that those documents are B.S., but only those. He was freelancing for a foreign billionaire, and he told him that the Air Force lost a flying saucer in the Bermuda Triangle, and that he could recover it for him. He just wanted to cruise the Bahamas. He never would have given him the real thing. That would be un-American.

Doggett and Reyes just look at each other and then stand up to leave. He tells them that he needs protection. They ignore him. When they reach the door, Morris blurts out, "Super Soldiers."

That stops Reyes and Doggett in their tracks. Morris appears to have not wanted to say that.

Doggett asks him what he knows about super soldiers. He tells them that he only knows a bit, but there may be one that he can help them lay their hands on. Doggett asks if he has a name, but Morris tells him that it is a "she."

OFFICES OF "THE LONEGUNMAN"
TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND
Reyes and Doggett ring the bell. Frohike and Byers look at the video camera and wonder what they want.

Frohike opens the door. They come in, and Reyes asked what happened-if they were robbed. There is hardly anything in the room. Langly tells them that they weren't. Frohike says that they are upgrading. Langly adds that they gave away all their crap to the Salvation Army and are getting totally new stuff.

Byers ask them what they want. Doggett tells them that they need their help. For months they've been investigating the so-called "super soldiers." Frohike asks if they mean the ones that want to kill Mulder. Reyes tells him that he's right, and they need their help to track one of them down.

Doggett pulls out a picture and tells them she is who they are looking for. It's Yves Adele Harlow.

The gunmen look at each other. Langly tells them that she's a fellow hacker. They explain that they don't know her real name. She disappeared a year ago and nobody has seen her.

Doggett tells them that they believe that she has resurfaced and become a super soldier. The Lone Gunmen tell him that she isn't one, and ask who told them that.

Morris walks in and tells the agents that what they are doing is pointless.

MORRIS: These three monkeys couldn't find stink in an outhouse.

Frohike, seeing Morris, runs after him with a golf club, ready to beat him over the head. Doggett grabs him and stops him. Frohike yells to let him at him and he'll kill him. Langly adds that he will hold him down. Morris just tells the agents that he told them that they wouldn't help.

Byers tells them that Morris is a professional liar. Langly says that he is a scam artist, and he used them to track down Yves a year ago. Frohike adds that that is when he abducted her. Morris tells them that that is why he knows what happened to her.

Morris tells them that all he did was facilitate a meeting. He didn't know in advance what the man that he was working for was going to do to her. He then tells Doggett and Reyes again that they don't want the Lone Gunmen working for them. They don't even have their "ridiculous Tinkertoy gizmos."

MORRIS: This place is like How the Grinch Stole Radio Shack.

Ignoring him, Doggett questions that the gunmen know the woman. They need help tracking her down.

HARTWELL COLLEGE
KEARNY, NEW JERSEY
Yves walks down a hallway and into a professor's office. He tells her that it isn't his office hours. She tells him that he will make time for her.

Yves then pulls out a little silver gun and shoots him. It sprays something at him.

Meanwhile, a man, John Gillnitz, walks down the hall towards the office.

Gillnitz reaches the office. When no one answers his knock, he uses a key to open the door.

He enters and sees the window open. He walks over to it, looks down, and sees Ives running away. She sees him as well.

He walks around the desk and sees the professor's body. There is a bloody hole in his chest.

ACT TWO
Langly works at the computer as the gunmen stand around him. They are searching for Yves in the airline reservation database.

Morris tells them that they are never going to find her that way. He is right-they can't find her anagram in the computer.

Morris notices Langly's t-shirt that says "Joey Lives." He asks him who Joey is. Langly explains angrily that he is Joey Ramone, the lead singer of the Ramones, who died. Morris guesses that he's between 34-35 and tells him that he should cut his hair and grow up.

Langly tells him that Doggett and Reyes aren't there to save him.

He tells Langly to get a real hero-not some dead teenybopper. Langly, getting angrier, tells Morris that he will tell him why he is his hero. He tells him that it's because people like him never managed to grind him down. They never stole his spirit. He never gave in, gave up, or sold out until his last breath. He then adds that he's not dead. Guys like that, they live on forever.

Morris finally tells the gunmen that if they are going to work together, then they should work *together.* Frohike tells him that they don't have to work together.

MORRIS: Well, watching you three try and find your butts with both hands is not my idea of a fun time.

He tells them that it would be a lot easier for them if they knew her real name--Lois Runce.

Suddenly they hear a knock at their secret door. Jimmy Bond stumbles in and then passes out and falls to the floor.

When Jimmy wakes up, they ask him where he has been. He tells them that he was in Zurich, Malta, Yemen, and then New Jersey. He ran out of money, hitchhiked there, and then snuck in back because he didn't know if they were being watched.

Jimmy tells them that he had to see them. It's about Lois. They are surprised that he knows her real name. They now believe it since Jimmy told them.

Morris questions that he was able to track her all over the world. Jimmy says that he traced her to a college in New Jersey and finally saw her. He called her, but she ran. Later on, he found out that he thinks that she murdered someone.

Meanwhile, Lois--Yves, opens the door to the furnace. She takes a respirator out of her bag and puts it on. She then takes out a small bag with something bloody and glowing inside. She throws it in the furnace. She takes off her respirator and says, "One down."

HARTWELL COLLEGE
KEARNY, NEW JERSEY
Reyes and Doggett go to talk to John Gillnitz. They show him the picture of Yves and ask if that is who he saw running away. He tells them that it could have been. He isn't sure because it was dark.

They ask him if he knows why the victim, Douglas Houghton, had been targeted. He doesn't know. He tells them that Houghton was a good teacher, and even better researcher.

Reyes asks him what he researched. Houghton researched sharks, rays, and skates. He was an immunologist. Sharks have remarkable immune systems. Doggett questions that he was going medical research. Gillnitz tells them that Houghton just wanted to save the world.

At the gunmen's, Kimmy thinks that he can do better than they can with the hacking. The Lone Gunmen tell him that Jimmy found out what kind of car she drives, and through the computer, they tracked it going southbound of Newark. They are betting that she is heading for D.C. They want to intercept her, and hope that he can find a military satellite to get them a Birdseye view of the Beltway.

After finding what they need, the Lone Gunmen leave, making Jimmy stay to keep an eye on Morris.

MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Doggett and Reyes go to see the medical examiner. After doing the autopsy, he tells them that the only thing that he can tell them for sure is what killed the man-a tiny poison pellet. The wound in his chest was done postmortem.

The examiner pulls down the sheet covering the body. The hole in Houghton's chest is glowing a purplish color. He guesses that it is bioluminescence-the stuff that makes lightning bugs, plankton, and jellyfish glow-but he is waiting to hear back from the lab.

Doggett asks if he means that the stuff was put on postmortem. He tells them that as near as he can tell, the stuff bled from him. When he opened the body up, he found adhesions-indicating past surgery. He figured that he would find that the man had a bypass or pacemaker. Instead he found a piece of cartilage.

The doctor takes out the cartilage and gives it to Doggett.

He tells them that it was living tissue grafted into the man, but he has no idea why.

Doggett looks at the cartilage. Doggett says that it looks like it held something-something that's missing. He asks the doctor if that could be the purpose for the wound. Reyes guesses that it was the purpose of the murder, and whatever was inside it, she removed it.

The agents return to the Lone Gunmen's office. Morris tells them that he doesn't know anything about it.

MORRIS: You're looking at me oddly.
DOGGETT: Perhaps because you've been known to lie on occasion.

Meanwhile, Kimmy, who has been working on the computer, starts yelling at it and hitting it. He tells them that he can't make magic on sub-standard equipment. It's junk. He says that he knew that the gunmen were broke, but this is pathetic.

Doggett and Reyes look at each other. Reyes questions that they're broke. Kimmy tells her that they had to hock all of their stuff to pay the rent. Their paper hasn't been published in a month.

Jimmy, angry with Morris, tells him that they were getting by all right until he put them out of business when he took Yves. They spent every last dime trying to find her.

Suddenly, Reyes's phone rings. It's Byers. He tells her for them to hurry to Hotel Farragut. They've found Yves.

The Lone Gunmen hide around the corner. Frohike uses a mirror to see Yves down the hall.

A man walks down the hall towards her. She sneaks and follows him. In turn, the Lone Gunmen follow her.

Yves has already gotten into the room when the Lone Gunmen get there. She is just about to shoot the man when the gunmen yell to her not to do it.

Getting his chance, the man runs away, knocking the door into Yves in the process. It knocks her out. The gunmen look down at her, lying on the floor.

ACT THREE
Still in the hotel, the Lone Gunmen talk to Yves. Frohike asks her if she was really going to "smoke that guy." She tells them that she knows that they mean well, but she can't begin to tell them how badly they mucked things up.

Reyes and Doggett come into the room. They can't find the man that ran out of the room. He used a stolen ID.

Doggett dumps out Yves's bag. In it are the respirator, surgical gloves, a scalpel, and the gun.

Reyes asks Yves why she was going to cut the man open. Yves tells her that time is running out, and unless they let her finish what she started, innocent people will die.

Doggett asks her to elaborate, but she first wants to know who put them on to her.

At the Lone Gunmen's office, Yves slammed down Morris. He tells them that she's not a super soldier-it was an honest mistake. Yves rips the Band-Aid from his cheek. Underneath it is a tracking device that he would have activated once he knew that they found Yves.

Doggett realizes that he had the bandage on his face since Miami. Reyes realizes that he planned the whole thing--even the boat. Doggett knows that he used the super soldiers just to hook us. Byers adds that he did it so that in turn they would hook them to track Yves for him all over again.

Morris tells them that they always get the job done for him. Doggett asks him who he works for. Morris looks to Yves, and she tells Doggett that he works for an international arms dealer-a billionaire and the scum of the earth. Morris prompts her by saying that the man is also someone else. Yves tells them that the man is her father. Everyone is shocked. She tells them that her father is a murderer and a supporter of terrorism and she hates what he stands for. Jimmy tells her that she is a murderer too. She explains to Jimmy that the man that she killed was a terrorist-a zealot whose research was funded by her father, for its potential a weapon system.

Reyes is confused. She tells Yves that the man was an immunologist who studied sharks. Yves tells her that he used that knowledge of immune systems to devise a vessel of sorts--one that kept him safe from the engineered virus that he carried within him.

Doggett says that the man had living tissue implanted in his chest. Reyes realizes what it was, and tells Doggett that it was shark cartilage. It contained something that Yves removed. Doggett realizes that she removed the virus.

Yves tells them that she destroyed it, but it was only one of two. The Lone Gunmen realize that it was in the bald guy who got away.

Yves tells them all to think of him as a human time bomb. No one would ever suspect him--not even a metal detector. Byers asks what the trigger is. She tells him that it is programmed cellular death--genetically altered to a high degree of precision. The way that the vessel is decaying inside him is virtually clocklike. It will lose its integrity and rupture at eight o'clock that night--in five hours. She tells them that once the virus is airborne, its kill radius is five or six miles, depending on the winds. It potentially could kill thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Frohike says to Morris that he knows that he's a dirt bag, but asks him how he could be a party to this. Yves tells them that he is a con man, but not a killer. He didn't know about it.

Doggett asks how they can track him down.

Kimmy works on the computer. Frohike smokes Morley's, even though he quit twenty years ago.

Morris picks up an issue of their newspaper and tells them that it's a shame that they are too broke to publish. Their rag was always such a hoot and he was going to miss it.

Talking to Byers, Frohike tells him that maybe Morris is right. It hasn't been their year. Byers tells him simply to never give up. He tells him that if that is the best that they can say about them, then it will do.

Kimmy finally finds the man on the satellite, and Yves realizes where he is headed.

HARTWELL COLLEGE
KEARNY, NEW JERSEY
The man they are looking for walks down a hall. He sees men in hazmat type suits behind and in front of him. They pull down plastic to quarantine him.

Doggett calls Byers. He tells him that they got him. He asks him how well they trust Yves. Byers tells him that they trust her completely. Doggett tells him that they had him tested and found no virus or cartilage in his chest. Yves says that it doesn't make any sense. Doggett just tells them that they have to have the wrong guy.

Back at the gunmen's, Yves tells them that there must be a second man-it's basic terrorism 101. They only have an hour to find out who it is.

John Gillnitz enters a convention for the International Bioethics Forum. The guard runs the metal detector over him.

ACT FOUR
The Lone Gunmen and Jimmy continue to talk to Yves. Jimmy says that the man must be involved somehow. He went straight back to the college where the victim worked. Frohike guesses that this is their base of operation.

Morris suddenly says, "Three-card Monty." They look at him questioningly. He tells them if they haven't played it before, they have now. He tells them that the men have them running after the Ace when they should be chasing the Queen. Yves realizes that he means that the man is a decoy that they were given to follow.

Jimmy says that Morris said that he didn't know anything about terrorists. Morris tells him that he doesn't, but he knows scams. He wasn't a Man in Black for years for nothing.

After some thought, Yves realizes that the man they are looking for must be the man that saw her through the window-the one that identified her (John Gillnitz).

The Lone Gunmen, Jimmy, and Yves go to the conference. They tell the guard that they are reporters. He sees that there press passes are expired, and he won't let them in. They try to tell him that people will die. He just calls security.

Suddenly Jimmy yells, "John Gillnitz!" into the room.

Gillnitz gets up and runs away. Jimmy tells the guard that he is really sorry, and then head butts him and knocks him out. They run after Gillnitz.

They can't find them. Yves tells them that they will split up-they only have four minutes. The Lone Gunmen ask her what they do if they find him. She tells them to hold him there until she gets there. Frohike asks then if she is going to cut him open. She tells him simply, "Whatever it takes." Yves and Jimmy run off together.

With about three minutes left, the Lone Gunmen hear someone banging. They find Gillnitz trying to open a door to get out.

They tell him not to run, and he tells them that he doesn't have too. They have less than two minutes left-not enough time for surgery.

The guys yell for Jimmy and Yves but they don't hear them.

Frohike looks at the wall and sees the fire alarm. He looks to his friends. Byers tells him, "Whatever it takes."

Frohike pulls the fire alarm. The doors around them close and they are locked in with Gillnitz.

Jimmy and Yves finally find the gunmen. Gillnitz is already getting sick. He is on the ground coughing and spasming. Glowing liquid leaks from his mouth.

Jimmy tries to open the door but they all tell him not to. Yves tells him that it is airtight and they are already exposed.

Jimmy puts his hand on the window and Yves does the same. Frohike puts his up against them.

FROHIKE (to JIMMY): Buddy, fight the good fight.
LANGLY also puts his hand up
LANGLY (to YVES): Both of you.
BYERS puts his hand up
BYERS: Never give up.

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Kimmy is standing at the three coffins after the funeral. Crying, he tells his friends good-bye.

Doggett tells Skinner that he must have pulled some big strings to get the Lone Gunmen in the Arlington cemetery. He tells him that it is the least that he could do.

Reyes asks Doggett if he is ready. He tells her that he is.

Reyes and Doggett turn to their friends. Jimmy is holding three folded flags and standing on either side of him are Yves and Scully.

Skinner leaves and Scully tells him that she will catch up.

Everyone is close to tears.

SCULLY: They meant so much to me. I'm not sure if they ever really knew.
JIMMY: Nobody knew what heroes they were.

Yves says a couple times that it's not right. Morris agrees with her.

MORRIS: Langly said to me the ones that never give up, they never die. I still don't know what that means.
SCULLY: It means that like everyone buried here, the world is a better place for them having been in it. It means that they're gone, but they live on through us all.

The camera starts to pan away as Jimmy puts his arm around Yves.

IMAGES FROM "JUMP THE SHARK" COMING SOON!


Overall Rating : 9.5
*Shippy Rating: 0
*Note: OK a new note. Ratings will be completely different now because of the absence of Mulder, and therefore most likely of most of the shippiness. The ratings for this season are not equally comparable to that of previous seasons, so they will more or less be rated on their own scale, with me (trying to) disregard the fact that DD is not in it as a component in the rating. Shippiness still (if any) will ALWAYS be based on MULDER and SCULLY (unless I decide to do MR/JD or something later). The shippy scale is still based on the Redux II scale (1-10, as Redux II being a 10 [now with Triangle being an 11, All Things being an 11.5, and Millennium being a 12, and Requiem a 12.5 all above the scale])*


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