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End Game

2.17 End Game

US Airdate: February 17, 1995

writer: Frank Spotnitz

director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Lieutenant Terry Wilmer ........ Colin Cunningham

Bill Mulder ................ Peter Donat

Samantha Mulder ................ Megan Leitch

Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner .... Mitch Pileggi

Pilot .......................... Brian Thompson

Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

MULDER'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR HIS SISTER TAKES ON NEW URGENCY AS HE CHASES THE ONE MAN WHO MAY KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS INTO THE ARCTIC WASTES. SCULLY ENLISTS SKINNER'S AID TO FIND HIM.

Mulder faces an excruciating choice when he is forced to ransom his partner by turning over the woman he believes is his sister to the alien assassin. Guilt-ridden, he must answer to his father for losing his sister yet again, bringing more grief upon his family. But his further search turns up a surprising secret about "Samantha," leading him on a quest that takes him literally to the ends of the earth. Scully must enlist the aid of Assistant Director Skinner to rescue him before the alien assassin kills him. In the frozen desert of the Arctic ice shield, Mulder finally gets an answer about his sister -- even though the asking price is his life.

Notes

The title refers to the term given to the last set of moves in a chess game.

The scene shown at the beginning, which mirrors the last scene of "Colony", is slightly different. In "Colony", Scully's face is seen as she hears Mulder's voice on the phone, then she turns around and we see the fake Mulder. In this episode, as she hears his voice, the fake Mulder is seen in the background, slightly out of focus.

Quotes

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Captain: "Prepare to surface!"

Midshipman: "Surface into what? We're under 32 feet of glacial ice!"

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(Scully has her gun drawn on Mulder/Alien Bounty Hunter)

Mulder: "Okay, I'm going to take my left hand and reach into my pocket and get my ID, okay? Just don't shoot me. I got shot once and I didn't much care for it..."

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Samantha: "I know how to kill him."

Mulder: "How?"

Samantha: "By piercing the base of the skull..."

Mulder: "That would kill anybody."

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Samantha: "I'm fairly sure it will work"

Mulder: " 'Fairly sure' "??

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(after Samantha tells long tale about alien/human testing etc.)

Mulder: "That's a good story. But I've heard a lot of good stories lately."

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(Mulder lounging around in his darkened apartment)

Mulder: "Make yourself at home..."

Skinner: "What's going on here, Agent Mulder? Why are all the lights out?"

Mulder: "Orders from my opthalmologist."

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Mulder: "These guys can hollow out a dime at 200 yards."

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Header on Mulder's computer:

Mail- 238479 (man she gets a lot of e-mail!)

To: Dana Scully, 001013

From: Fox Mulder, 000517

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Mr X: "You wanted to see me?"

Mulder: "How was the opera?"

Mr X: "Wonderful. I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "I'm sorry. I need your help."

Mr X: "It's over. The fat lady is singing."

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Mr X: "The key to winning the war, Mr. Mulder, is knowing which battles to fight."

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(Mr. X and Skinner in the elevator after X has seen Scully in Mulder's apartment)

Mr. X: "Excuse me.."

Skinner: "Did you tell her what she needed to know? (slams X against the elevator wall) How hard do you want to make this?"

Mr. X: "No harder than it has to be." (Headbutts Skinner, they exchange blows, Skinner finally tossing X down on the floor. X pulls gun)

Mr. X: "I've killed men for far less."

Skinner: "You pull that trigger you'll be killing 2 men. Now I want to know where Mulder is..."

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(Skinner appears at her door, cut, bleeding, tie askew, from his run-in with Mr. X with info on Mulder's whereabouts)

Scully: "How did you get this?"

Skinner: "Unofficial channels."

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Assassin: "Is the answer to your question worth dying for? Is that what you want?"

Mulder: "Where is she? Just tell me where she is."

Assassin: "She's alive......Can you die now?"

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Scully: "Hey, how you feeling?"

Mulder: "Like I got a bad case of freezer burn."

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Scully: "Thanks for ditching me..."

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Scully: "Did you find what you were looking for?"

Mulder:(whispering) "No... no. But I found something I'd thought I'd lost. Faith to keep looking."

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Scully's closing monologue:

"Transfusion and an aggressive treatment with anti-viral agents have resulted in a steady but gradual improvement in Agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his exposure to the still unidentified retrovirus whose origin remains a mystery. The search team that found Agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine nor the man he was looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena ...but I am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was exposed to, and science that allowed us to understand its behavior, and ultimately, it was science that saved Agent Mulder's life."

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