M I L L E N N I U M

"SKULL AND BONES"

Ep. # 3.06  [MLM-306  (6C06)]

Written by Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Edited by Peter B. Ellis

Transcribed by Emmett S. Land

[ Third Season ]  (Complete Transcript)

U.S. Air Date: November 6, 1998

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Please note that I am not a professional at doing this so the below
transcription may not be perfect.  I broke it down into segments
which consists of the events that occur between two commercials.


-- Emmett S. Land
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FINGUS, MAINE

[We first see a highway construction site on a dark rainy day.  There
is a dump truck backing up with its warning beeper blaring.  Workers
in hard hats are moving about doing their work.  In the distance we
see a heavy duty CAT grader grading the path for the new highway. 
There is someone (probably the foreman) in a small truck pulling up
behind the grader blowing his horn to get the attention of the grader
operator.  The foreman jumps out of his truck and runs toward the
grader waving his arms.]

Foreman:  "Stop!  Stop!  Stop!"

[The grader operator stops the grader.]

Foreman:  "You're way off!"

[The grader operator opens the grader cab door.]

Grader Operator:  "What's up?"

Foreman:  "This is already a grade!  Just waiting for gravel."

[The grader operator gets out of the cab and looks around.  The foreman
looks down at a muddy hole in the ground and notices something odd.]

Foreman:  "What?"

[The foreman and grader operator move closer.  In the mud we see parts
of a human skeleton including a skull.  Once they realize what it is,
the two men look at each other in disbelief.]


McMILLAN PARK
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA

[Through someone else's eyes, we see a white cloudy sky above some
trees.  Across the sky comes a human skull spinning toward us like a
ball.  When it comes down close to us, a softball glove reaches out
and catches it.  No longer looking through this guy's eyes, we see a
boy take the softball (it is no longer a skull) from his glove and
throw it.  We hear funky music from a boom box and sounds of people
enjoying a nice day at the park.  The guy is sitting on a park bench
watching people and periodically writing down words in a journal.]

Voice 1:  "Shut up, pig face, or I'll tell."

Voice 2:  "Go ahead and tell.  You'll still be fat and ugly."

[The guy looks up from his journal and sees what appears to be two
woodchucks in the grass in front of him arguing.  But, looking up
further, he realizes that it is two girls on their bicycles who are
arguing.]

Girl 1:  "You'll still be a big stupidhead, big stupidhead."

Girl 2:  "Take it back.  I mean it.  You're not my friend."

Girl 1:  "Stupid."

[The guy slowly turns his head and looks at a large rock beside the
park bench.  Through his eyes, we see a skeleton hand come out of the
dirt by the rock.  He looks forward and blinks his eyes.  Seconds
later, he slowly looks back toward the rock and he sees the skeleton
hand still there reaching upward.  He quickly looks forward again, and
then continues writing in his journal.]


[FADE to black... Logo fade in... Music and main titles roll]


M I L L E N N I U M


wait

worry


starring

Lance Henriksen (Frank Black)
Klea Scott (Emma Hollis)

created by Chris Carter


the time is near


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[Fade from white.]

[We return to Fingus, Maine.  As the camera pans over the highway
construction site, we hear radio dispatch chatter as we see police
officers blocking off parts of the site with yellow crime scene tape.
We then see Peter Watts and the local sheriff walking through the
scene.]

Sheriff:  "Twelve years as sheriff, I never had a single unidentified
body.  Now they put this new federal highway through and suddenly
we're rolling in them.  Can't say I ever had a need to call the FBI
out here before."

Peter:  "Actually, I'm former FBI.  I work with a private consortium
called the Millennium Group.  The FBI subcontracts out to us on
certain kinds of cases."

[A police officer walks up and hands Peter some paperwork.]

Police Officer:  "Mr. Watts."

Peter:  "Thank you."

Sheriff:  "Not local, I can tell you that.  I know everybody in this
county, dead or alive, and nobody's missing."

Peter:  "I'd like to get these remains undercover.  A large tent will
be fine.  Also we're going to need power generators, phone lines."

Sheriff:  "It's already on its way.  Special Agent Baldwin made the
same requests."

Peter:  "That's good.  I'm glad to see you got your bases covered."

[Two automobiles pull up.  FBI Special Agents Barry Baldwin and Emma
Hollis, along with their FBI team, gets out of the automobiles and
walk towards Peter.]

Peter:  "Barry Baldwin."

[Baldwin nods and he greets Peter with a handshake.]

Peter:  "Peter Watts.  We met briefly at Quantico.  I was involved in
that investigation with the downed airliner with the Millennium
group."

Baldwin:  "What are you doing out here, Peter?"

[They walk across the highway construction site.]

Peter:  "Sheer coincidence.  A few of us were out here on something
else and we got a call.  Piece of luck."

[In an aerial view, we see parts of the highway construction site
sectioned off and being searched for more human remains.  We then see
Peter, Baldwin and Emma squatting over and examining the bones
previously found.]

Peter:  "We found only two skulls but pieces of three separate
scapulas were unearthed along with duplicate metacarpal fragments
which indicate there might be more to come."

Baldwin:  "It's going to be hard to make any I.D.s with what we've got
here."

Peter:  "A lot of pieces, scattered fragments.  The heavy equipment
didn't help us any.  But then, I saw you do an amazing job I.D.ing
those crash victims with a whole lot less."

[Baldwin politely waves off Peter's compliment.]

Emma:  "It's not just the teeth.  The bones look stripped and clean.
There are caustic burns here from acid or some kind of leaching
agent."

Baldwin:  "Probably potassium hydroxide."

Peter:  "Yeah, that would be my guess, too."

Emma:  "Maybe we should test the surroundings for potassium hydroxide.
It could lead us to more bodies."

Peter:  "MmmHmm.  Excuse me."

[Peter stands up and walks away.]

Baldwin:  (speaking to Emma) "That's a good man.  He used to be Frank
Black's partner in the Millennium Group."

[Emma turns and looks at Peter as he briefly speaks to another
Millennium Group member (from here on referred to as Mabius) and
then continues to walk out of view.]

[We now go to Quantico.  We join Andy McClaren in his office as Frank
Black knocks on the door and enters.]

Andy:  "Frank, thanks for rushing in here.  You, uh... heard about
this thing up in Maine?"

Frank:  "Look, Andy, you don't want me on that case, that's your call.
I'm not complaining."

Andy:  "No.  What are you talking about?  I figured four agents up
there is plenty."

Frank:  "Peter Watts is up there representing the Millennium Group."

[Frank sits down in a chair across the desk from Andy.]

Andy:  "Well, it's news to me, Frank.  Really.  Anyway, you're still
wrong.  I want you on this case.  But working on a different angle
down here."

[Andy pulls several clear plastic evidence bags out of an envelope and
gives it to Frank.]

Andy:  "Fifteen years ago, a woman named Cynthia Paggett disappeared.
I got this note describing her murder-- alleged murder.  Precise
location, what she was wearing, every last detail.  But we could never
find a body.  In fact, we could never find any evidence of any crime.
Now, everything in the note had already come out in the newspaper,
including the fact that I was investigating, so, yeah, I figured
crackpot.  Let it go."

Frank:  "Yeah."

Andy:  "I got five more notes that same year.  Each one, like the
first, just a name of someone who disappeared.  Each of them, like the
first... a matter of public record."

[Frank looks through the evidence which includes newspaper clippings
with photos of those who disappeared.]

Frank:  "Professional people.  These are not your usual victims."

Andy:  "I always felt we'd heard from the killer.  But there was zip
evidence of any crime, legwork went nowhere.  Anyway, the notes
stopped, everything went away.  But, check the writing."

[Frank looks closely at the writing of each letter.]

Frank:  "The writing gets smaller with each correspondence."

Andy:  "This arrived yesterday."

[Andy hands Frank another letter inside a clear plastic evidence bag.]

Frank:  "Obsessive.  He's a writer.  That's what he does.  There will
be journals and diaries."

Andy:  "The last two words.  Take a look."

[Andy gives Frank a magnifier so he can read the very small print.  The
last two words in the letter are, "Fingus, Maine".  Once seeing these
two words, Frank quickly looks back at Andy.]

Andy:  "Same guy fifteen years later.  He describes the burial site in
a letter with the same postmark."

[As Frank looks at the postmark, we see that the postage was stamped
"ARLINGTON, VA. 22203 on NOV 05 1998".]

Frank:  "He's here."

Andy:  "Find him, Frank."

[We return to the highway construction site in Fingus, Maine.  We see
another skeleton being carefully unearthed and we hear a camera snap a
picture of it.  Emma is looking over the skeleton as Peter Watts
approaches.]

Peter:  "Agent Hollis, Baldwin says you found something.  Another
intact skeleton."

Emma:  "Yeah.  It looks like a female but it's not going to do us much
good.  The teeth have all been removed.  I was hoping we might find a
piece of jewelry."

Peter:  "We checked several soil samples.  No traces of the leaching
agents you were asking about."

Emma:  "I don't think this was the original burial site.  I think they
were buried somewhere else and moved here so they'd be buried under
the freeway forever.  They were only discovered by accident.  A guy on
a grader moving dirt that was set to be covered.  If we follow the
route of the highway where they haven't graded yet, we might find a
burial ground or even a murder site."

[Peter sighs and shakes his head no.]

Emma:  "What?"

Peter:  "I had the same thought.  I couriered three separate pieces of
skeleton to a lab in Bangor before you all got here.  Unfortunately,
they found traces of a fungus that couldn't possibly have survived in
this climate."

Emma:  "What kind of fungus?"

Peter:  "Some variety of aspergillus that is fairly unique to central
Florida.  So, whoever moved these bodies here went to a whole lot of
trouble.  But it was a good thought, Agent Hollis."

[Emma walks away.  Peter looks as if he thinks Emma needs to be
convinced of his findings and follows her to a tent.]

Peter:  "I'd be happy to show you those results, if you like."

Emma:  "No.  I'm sure you're right."

[Emma walks to another table and writes the time on a clipboard,
apparently getting ready to catalog some evidence.  Peter sighs and
follows her.]

Peter:  "Okay, you have a bad impression of me and it's because of
Frank Black."

Emma:  "I don't have any impression of you."

Peter:  "I was with the Bureau for almost twenty years.  I've seen the
politics.  Frank is not immune."

Emma:  "Is that some kind of advice?"

Peter:  "No, but I don't like to be maligned or have the people I work
with spoken poorly of."

Emma:  "Okay."

Peter:  "I'm... for me, it's always been about the work."

[Someone carries in a tray with parts of the latest skeleton that was
unearthed and puts it on the table.  Emma picks up the skull.]

Emma:  "Look at this.  Looks like a bullet hole."

Peter:  "Point-blank, judging from the depression at the entry point."

Emma:  "An execution wound.  What's this?"

[Emma takes a brush and removes some of the dirt from the side of the
skull.]

Peter:  "Discoloration.  Aspergillus?"

Emma:  "No.  Look."

[Emma takes a pointed instrument and removes a circular plug from the
side of the skull.]

Emma:  "There was a surgical procedure.  To relieve pressure from a
head injury.  They plugged up the hole.  How common can that be?"

[Barry Baldwin enters the tent.]

Baldwin:  "Buried treasure?"


ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA

[Frank is on a cell phone talking to Andy.]

Frank:  "I'm at 471 East Maple.  Uh... they described this as the
first murder site."

Andy:  "It was a restaurant.  Crummy seafood."

Frank:  "Well, it's a parking lot now.  Maybe you could orient me."

Andy:  "Oh, man, without the building... I remember the site was, uh,
very hidden."

Frank:  "Yeah.  Well, there's nothing here now."

Andy:  "There's a retaining wall."

Frank:  "How far down the wall?"

Andy:  "I don't know.  About halfway.  We ought to have some photos on
this somewhere, shouldn't we?"

[Frank looks along the retaining wall and notices something.]

Frank:  "I'll get back to you, Andy."

[Frank hangs up the cell phone and walks toward the retaining wall.  We
see a man looking through the blinds of his apartment window looking
down at Frank.  It is the same guy we saw at McMillan Park earlier.
Once Frank got close to the retaining wall, he notices an eye painted
on the wall.  Upon seeing this eye, Frank gets a vision from his gift.
In his vision, we see quick flashes of a bloody hand; Cheryl Andrews
being held down and shot in the back of the head; Frank looking in a
mirror with blood dripping down it; large black rubber gloves and some
saws and other cutting tools hanging on a wall; a hacksaw up against a
bloody human limb; Frank spitting blood from his mouth; and a hammer,
mallet, meat cleaver and other knives sitting on a table top.  Once
the vision stopped, Frank looks up and sees the guy looking down at
him.  The guy moves away from the window and Frank looks at the eye
once again.]

[Frank is now inside the apartment building walking down a hallway.  We
hear a dog barking.  Frank passes up the first door he comes to and
knocks on the second door.  The guy slowly exits out of the first door
and walks away from Frank.]

Frank:  "Hey."

[The guy turns and looks at Frank and then runs.]

Frank:  "Hey!  Come here!"

[Frank chases the guy down the stairs, out of the back of the building
and down an alley.  He catches up with the guy in the parking lot.]

Frank:  "Stop!"

[The guy stops, closes his eyes and raises his hands over his head as
if he was under arrest.  Frank walks around him.  Both are breathing
heavily.]

Frank:  "What are you doing?"

The Guy:  "You said stop."

[Frank tugs downward on the guy's jacket wanting him to put his hands
down and relax.]

Frank:  "Come on."

[The guy puts his hands down with a confused look on his face.]

[We now see Frank and other FBI agents searching the guy's apartment. 
The guy is being held out in the hallway.  Frank picks up a newspaper
and we see an article, "Grisly Find:  Remains of 6 bodies found".
Andy walks in.]

Andy:  "I tell you, Frank, you caught yourself a weird one here."

Frank:  "What did he say?"

Andy:  "Nothing.  Not a word.  He's wound up, jumpy.  So there's
nothing here."

Frank:  "No.  He was watching me.  They have to be here.  Journals,
something."

[Frank grabs a handful of pens from a pencil cup and holds them up.]

Frank:  "He's a writer."

[Frank slams the pens down on the desk out of frustration and looks out
the door at the jumpy guy who looks about to cry.  Andy turns and
walks out of the apartment and takes the guy away.  Frank sits in a
chair and sighs.  We then see Frank walk out of the apartment into the
hallway, closing the apartment door.  He is the last to leave.  He
puts on his jacket and looks at the closed door.  As he starts walking
down the hallway, he notices a vent down by the floor.  The vent is
covered from the inside.  So, frank takes a pen from his shirt pocket
and pushes the cover loose through the grate.  He then sees
intermittent light coming through the vent as if it was shining
through a slow rotating fan.  Frank goes back into the apartment and
finds a hidden room through the back of a closet.  In this hidden room
he finds rows and rows of journals.  Each journal was titled with a
victim number and name.]


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[Fade from white.]

[We return to Fingus, Maine.  Inside a tent we see Emma continuing her
work.  As the camera pans to the left, we see two skulls in a tray
with a light shining down on them.  Then we see Peter bent over
observing an FBI agent examining a skull and trying to rebuild an
image of the victim on a computer.]

FBI Agent:  "The skull is gracile-- that is, smooth and delicate.
It's almost certainly female.  The palate has a caucasian aspect to
it.

[The FBI agent types some data into the computer and some of the
features of the victim are generated on the screen.]

FBI Agent:  "She was probably of Northern European extraction.  You
see the pitting... inside the brain case?  That erosion there?"

[The FBI agent points at the erosion.]

Peter:  "Mm-hmm."

FBI Agent:  "It's from an infection.  That's why they had to drill the
hole."

[The FBI agent types some more data into the computer and more of the
victim's features are generated on the screen.  Emma walks over with a
folder and looks at the image on the computer screen.]

Peter:  "Welcome to the future, huh?"

Emma:  "Oh, my God, that's her."

Peter:  "Who?"

Emma:  "Cynthia Paggett.  We cross-referenced medical records state by
state down the eastern seaboard trying to I.D. the skull."

[Frank stands up straight.]

Emma:  "Using the position of the hole and by matching the bore lines
to a surgical drill bit used at Mass General in the early '80s, we
narrowed it down to four possibilities.  Including..."

[Emma pulls out a Polaroid picture of Cynthia Paggett from the folder
and hands it to Peter.  Peter holds the picture up to the image on the
computer screen.  They both have the same distictive facial features.
Emma smiles as she is amazed at the similarities.]

Peter:  "Yeah, well... it's a place to start."

[Peter slaps the picture down on the folder Emma is holding and walks
away.  He seems disturbed that Emma has I.D.ed one of the victims.
Emma looks confused at Peter's reaction.  Baldwin walks into the tent
and passes Peter on his way in.]

Baldwin:  "Hollis, McClaren's on line one.  He's got some kind of an
update."

[Emma walks over to Baldwin and attempts to show him the picture.  But
before she could say anything...]

Baldwin:  (low voice) "What did you do to piss him off?"

[Baldwin walks over and sits on the table and opens line one on the
phone.  Emma joins him.]

Baldwin:  "We're all here, sir."

Andy:  "I understand you're close to making your first positive I.D."

Baldwin:  "Yes, sir."

Emma:  "No.  We've just got a confirmation on that, sir.  A Cynthia
Paggett."

[Emma shows the picture to Baldwin.]

Andy:  "Excellent.  That's real good work."

Baldwin:  "Thank you, sir."

[Peter moves into view still looking disturbed.]

Andy:  "Just so you know, we have a suspect in custody."

Baldwin:  "Did we get a confession?"

Andy:  "No.  But we have a list of six victims we'd like you to work
off."

[Peter makes eye contact with Mabius.]

Andy:  "Uh, their names and supporting material are being sent to you
as we speak.  The medical records should allow you to I.D. the
skeletons absolutely."

Emma:  "How many victims?"

Andy:  "Six, which I understand matches the body count."

Baldwin:  "So, we're done.  We can go home."

Andy:  "Looks like.  Good job people."

[Peter once again makes eye contact with Mabius.  This time Emma
notices.]

[We now return back to the jumpy guy's apartment where Frank is sitting
and reading one of the journals.  He gets up and enters the hidden
room to get another journal.  He comes across one that is titled
"Victim 38 - Cheryl Andrews, M.D.".]

[Frank is now back at Quantico in an interrogation room with the jumpy
guy.]

Frank:  "Where did you get this name?  Victim 38?  She was a friend of
mine.  Cheryl Andrews."

Ed:  "M.D.  Disappeared October 9, 1997."

[Frank walks closer and sits on the table.]

Frank:  "What do you mean, 'disappeared'?"

The Guy:  (low voice) "She did autopsies."

Frank:  "Yes."

Ed:  (low voice) "That's what killed her."

Frank:  "What do you mean?  What do you mean, Ed?"

[Frank reaches for the journal on the table in front of Ed.  Ed
frantically grabs the journal and hugs it tightly against his chest.]

Ed:  "They keep me safe.  If they find them, they'll know I know."

Frank:  "Who are 'they'?  Have you seen them?  Do you know their
names?"

[Andy knocks on the interrogation room window and Frank acknowledges
him.]

Frank:  "Huh?"

[Frank slowly reaches for the journal Ed is clutching.]

Frank:  "Let me have it.  It's okay."

[Ed puts his finger up to his lips, as someone does when they want you
to be quiet, as Frank walks out of the interrogation room.]

Andy:  "What are you doing, Frank?"

Frank:  "Interrogating a suspect."

Andy:  "Yeah, well, we have procedures for that, you know?  What's the
book?"

Frank:  "He's not our killer, Andy."

Andy:  "Come on, Frank, who are you kidding?  I have never seen so
much evidence against one man."

Frank:  "He's just a witness.  He witnessed the first murder from his
window."

Andy:  "What about all the others?  We're talking about six bodies
here.  Six murders.  He knows about all of them."

Frank:  "He learned about them.  Look at the victimology.  It's people
who's disppearance would be recorded in the newspaper: scientists,
doctors, teachers."

Andy:  "Yeah, well, there were no doctors, Frank.  Not on the list he
gave us.  What is it you are not telling me, Frank."

Frank:  "There are more bodies up there."

[We return to Fingus, Maine.  We see Emma unplugging some equipment and
various police officers moving about carrying boxes.  A police officer
approaches Emma.]

Police Officer:  "There was one of your guys looking for a photo of
that suspect you're holding.  I don't have one.  Maybe I should..."

Emma:  "One of our guys?"

Police Officer:  "He was working with that Millennium fella."

[A nearby phone starts ringing.  Emma walks over and answers it.]

Emma:  "Emma Hollis."

Frank:  "There's a reason Peter Watts is there."

Emma:  "Frank?"

Frank:  "Victim 38 is why he's there."

Emma:  "What are you talking about?  Victim 38?  We've got six; we're
done."

Frank:  "No, you're not.  Victim 38:  Her name was Cheryl Andrews.
She was a doctor.  Peter Watts is there to find her remains and keep
them a secret."

Emma:  "From who?"

Frank:  "From me.  I used to work with her in the Millennium Group."

Emma:  "What do you want me to do?"

Frank:  "I'm sending you an e-mail."

[We now see Emma sitting in front of a computer with her back to the
tent door.  She opens the e-mail from Frank and sees a picture of
Cheryl Andrews with a note from Frank saying "They Killed Her." 
Mabius walks into the tent and sees what is on the computer screen over
Emma's shoulder.  Emma turns and looks at him and he walks back out of
the tent.  Emma turns back to the computer screen and then looks at
some of the skulls on a nearby table.  Emma walks out of the tent and
starts following the planned route of the new highway (this is where
she suggested to Peter they look before he told her the Florida fungus
story).  She sees the front wheels of a police car sunk into some
loose mud.  She walks in that direction.  As she got close, her shoes
sink into some loose mud.  She takes a few more steps, puts on some
examination gloves, kneels down, and starts digging with her hands.
We see Peter coming up behind her.  Emma then unearths a human skull
and holds it in her hands.]

Peter:  "What'd you find?"

[Emma turns to Peter and looks startled.  She then looks back at the
skull.]


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[Fade from white.]

[Still in Fingus, Maine, we see Emma looking over the remains of the
victim she just found.  An FBI agent is taking pictures.  Baldwin
walks up to Emma.]

Baldwin:  "It was a good find.  We were packing up.  What made you
even think to look here, Hollis."

Emma:  "I saw a depression in the soil, an irregularity.  A piece of
luck."

Baldwin:  "You're not working on information that we're not privy to,
are you?"

Emma:  "I heard from Quantico there might be more bodies."

Baldwin:  "From Quantico?"

Emma:  "From Frank Black.  I was under the impression it was breaking
information.  I am not working in secret, if that's what you're
thinking, Barry."

[Baldwin looks pissed as he turns and walks away.]

[Back at Quantico, we see Frank enter the interrogation room where Ed
is being held.  Frank relieves the officer guarding Ed.]

Frank:  "Thank you."

[Frank closes the door once the officer is out of the room.  He walks
over and puts a journal and some pens on the table in front of Ed and
sits down.  Ed grabs the journal, opens it, and starts writing.]

Frank:  "The victims they found buried in Maine... I'm reading here in
your journal.  They were programmers, scientists, doctors, uh, school
test administrators with no apparent connection."

[Ed slightly snickers.]

Frank:  "I need your help."

[Ed stops writing and closes the journal.]

Ed:  "Then get me out of here.  It's not safe."

Frank:  "You're still a suspect until we find who did this.  Cheryl
Andrews.  You said an autopsy killed her.  What's the connection, Ed?"

Ed:  "Everything.  Everything's connected.  It's what all of them
knew.  It's who she was.  Princeton undergrad, Harvard Medical School.
Johns Hopkins Post Doc."

[As Ed is speaking, we see Emma on a computer in a tent doing research
on Cheryl Andrews.  Through public records, she finds the same
information that Ed is speaking of.]

Ed:  "Publications:  'The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Human
Brain Catabolism and Behavior'.  And... 'Autopsy on John Doe!'."

    [We see Cheryl Andrews doing the autopsy.]

    Andrews:  "An enormous mass approximately 60, 6-0, centimeters
    anterior, slightly larger posterier."

    [Andrews covers the microphone to make an "off the record" comment
    to Peter Watts.]

    Andrews:  "Nothing approaching this scale has ever been reported."

    [Andrews uncovers the microphone and continues the autopsy.]

    Andrews:  "A cascading tumor precipitated by pulsed
    electromagnetic radiation."

[On her computer screen, Emma sees that the John Doe autopsy was
witnessed and signed by Peter Watts.]

Ed:  "There are records of everything.  It's all there.  It's all
there in plain sight.  That's how I know."

Frank:  "Know what?"

Ed:  "Look!"

Frank:  "Know what?  Secrets?"

Ed:  "No, no, no!  No.  There are no secrets!  Not anymore, but you
see, people... can be erased.  If a school test administrator finds
thousands of I.Q. tests tampered with-- gone.  If witnesses in
Oklahoma City report a halo effect five seconds before the explosion--
gone.  If five satellites explode on their launch pads and somebody
asked why?!-- gone.  If a doctor doing an autopsy finds a mutation two
weeks after a so-called radio installation goes online in Alaska..."

Frank:  "Cheryl Andrews."

Ed:  "...gone.  She went to a conference in Germany to report what she
found.  She never made it."

[We see Emma pull up the arrest record of Cheryl Andrews using an
inter-agency link where she was arrested for murder in Germany (refer
to 'The Hand of Saint Sebastian' episode, season two.  This is why she
never made it to the conference).]

Ed:  "They had her arrested and deported."

[On Emma's computer screen, we see "Autorisieren Homer B. Pettey".]

    [We see Cheryl Andrews at an airport showing her passport.  The
    customs agent scans her passport number into a computer.  It pulls
    up her criminal record where she was arrested in Germany with a
    note that says...]

    Refer to SD Processing
    Authorization:  Homer B. Pettey

    Agent:  "I'm going to have to ask you to step to the side, please,
    ma'am."

    Andrews:  "I - I don't have anything to declare.  Literally, all I
    have is my passport."

    Agent:  "Just go with the officer, please."

    [We see Andrews being escorted away by an officer with a confused
    look on her face.]

Ed:  "And that's the last I have on Cheryl Andrews.  Frankfurt
Airport."

[On Emma's computer screen, we see...]

Department of State
Bureau of Intelligence and R...

ATTENTION!

DO NOT PERMIT EGRESS.

DETAIN.

    [We then see Andrews being thrown to the floor in a stairwell.]

Ed:  "Arrested, deported... and then the record stops."

    [We then see Andrews being shot in the back of the head.]

[It seems that Emma has put the pieces together that the Millennium
Group may have executed Cheryl Andrews.  She looks at the skulls lined
up on a nearby table.  She calls Frank.]

Frank:  (answering phone)  "Hello?"

Emma:  "Homer B. Pettey-- Does that name mean anything to you?"

Frank:  "No."

Emma:  "Cheryl Andrews was arrested in Germany and released before
trial.  It was authorized by Homer B. Pettey."

Frank:  "You're hoping she's not up there among the bodies.  They
distroyed her because she got involved in something, saw something,
knew something."

Emma:  "Who, the Millennium Group?"

[Frank remains silent.  We see Peter enter the tent behind Emma.]

Emma:  "Is this how you live?  Wondering if it will happen to you, to
your daughter?"

[Emma turns and sees Peter standing there.]

Frank:  "Hollis, watch your back."

[Emma hangs up the phone.]

Peter:  "I wish now we'd finished our conversation about Frank."

Emma:  "What do you mean?"

Peter:  "You're a promising agent, Hollis.  You're smart, capable.
He's doing you a great disservice."

Emma:  "He's not doing anything."

Peter:  "Frank has had a lot of good years, but... paranoid delusions
reinforce themselves.  Now, every new fact tends to confirm the
fiction.  I don't care if you're talking about space aliens or J.F.K.
or... the Millennium Group."

[Peter approaches Emma and shows her a copy of a Omaha Gazette
newspaper article, dated February 15, 1998, announcing the death of
Cheryl Andrews.  The title of the article was "Local Doctor Passes".
It also shows a picture of her.]

Peter:  "Cheryl Andrews was a valued comrade who died ten months ago
at her home in Omaha.  I was at the funeral, as were several other
Group members.  It was open casket.  You can ask her family if you...
want to make that call.  I don't know what else..."

[Peter turns and walks out of the tent.  Emma looks dumbfounded.]


--------- commercial segment ---------

[Fade from white.]

[We now see Emma in a library looking through newspaper archives on
microfilm.  She finds the exact same article that Peter gave her a
copy of.  As Emma is turning off the microfilm reader, a librarian
walks up behind her.]

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

Emma:  "I already had it."

Emma gets up and walks away.

Emma:  "Thank you."

[On her way out, Emma notices some large posters with information about
the new interstate highway being constructed.  One of them looks like
an airial view of the path of the new highway titled "EMINENT DOMAIN -
WHO HAS TO MOVE?".  Among the list of names of those who need to move,
Emma sees the name "Homer Pettey".]

[We now return to Quantico.  Frank and Andy are looking through a glass
at Ed who is sitting at a desk giving information to a guy writing on
a clipboard.]

Andy:  "You're telling me that he linked 43 disappearances by reading
the newspaper?"

Frank:  "A lot of newspapers and magazines.  Scientific periodicals,
Internet newsgroups.  He witnessed the murder and it shook him,
changed his life.  Since then, he's been obsessively recording
everything about everyone he's come across.  Making connections,
building theories.  One victim leading to the next."

Andy:  "Can he I.D. the perpetrators?"

Frank:  "You know who that is, Andy.  They'll kill him."

Andy:  "You know what you're talking about, Frank?  Mass murder.
Bodies boiled down to skeletons."

Frank:  "He's done his part.  Don't make him testify."

Andy:  "Well, I am not going to release him to his own recognisance.
He's a nutcase.  We'll never see him again.  I'll put him in the
Witness Protection Program."

[Ed makes eye contact with Frank and slowly shakes his head no as if he
knows what Frank and Andy are saying.]

Frank:  "Release him, Andy.  He's safer on his own."

[We now return to Maine.  We see Emma approaching an old rundown farm
house.  On the mailbox we see the name "Pettey" written in white
paint.  Emma walks up on the porch.]

Emma:  "Hello?"

[Emma pulls out her gun and approaches the front door which is ajar.
She user her gun to knock on the door.]

Emma:  "Anybody there?  Mr. Pettey?  FBI.  Anyone here?"

[Emma pushes the door open and slowly enters the house.  There is a
bowl of cereal and spilled milk on the kitchen table.  Emma walks to
an entrance way, blocked off with plastic, that leads to another room.
But, she is then startled by a radio that starts playing the song
"Love Hurts" sung by Nazareth.  She quickly turns around and walks
toward the radio sitting on the back of the stove.  She sees that it
is plugged into an automatic timer.]

{Music:  "Love hurts... Love scars... Love wounds..."}

[The stove is next to a doorway that leads to a bedroom.  Emma looks in
and sees an unmade bed and notices some brutal looking instruments on
top of a dresser.]

{Music:  "Almost... Any heart... Not tough... Or strong... Enough..."}

[Emma returns to the entrance way blocked off with plastic and enters.]

{Music:  "To take a lot of pain... Take a lot of pain... Love is
like a cloud... Holds a lot of rain... Love hurts... Ooh, ooh, love
hurts."}

[In this room, we sees a tray with more brutal instruments and a metal
stool off to the side.  In the center of the room, there is a table of
some sort with a yellow covering.]

{Music:  "I'm young... I know... But even so..."}

[Emma removes the yellow covering and we see a brutal looking medical
table with stirrups.]

{Music:  "I know a thing... Or two... I learned... From you..."}

[Emma walks through this room and to a doorway that leads to another
dark room.]

{Music:  "I really learned a lot... Really learned a lot...  Love
is like a flame... It burns you when it's hot..."}

[In this room, we see a bloody handle of a water hose which is slowly
dripping.  Once she enters, Emma shines her flashlight around.]

{Music:  "Love hurts...  Ooh, ooh, love hurts..."}

[We see more brutal instruments, most of them bloody (this is what we
saw in Frank's vision earlier).  We see a large metal meat hook, large
rubber gloves, bloody saws, mallets, meat cleaver and knives.  Blood
is splattered on the walls.]

{Music:  "Some fools think of happiness... Blissfulness... Togetherness..."}

[Emma shines her flashlight on a bathtub filled with a bloody liquid.
She begins to gag so she puts her hand over her mouth and stumbles out
of the room.]

{Music:  "Some fools fool themselves, I guess... They're not
foolin' me..."}

[She returns to the kitchen to regain herself.  Once in the kitchen,
she notices a human skull sitting on the kitchen table next to the
bowl of cereal that was not there before.]

{Music:  "I know it isn't true... I know it isn't true... Love is
just a lie... Made to make you blue..."}

[She walks over to the skull and we see Peter Watts standing in the
doorway that leads into the house.  Emma quickly turns around and
points her gun at Peter and cocks the trigger.]

{Music:  "Love hurts..."}

Peter:  "You've got this all wrong."

{Music:  "Ooh, ooh..."}

Emma:  "Is that her?"

{Music:  "... love hurts..."}

[Peter walks toward Emma.  She does not shoot.]

Peter:  "Who?"

Emma:  "Is that her?!"

[Peter grabs Emma's gun.  After a brief struggle, he manages to take it
away from her.]

{Music:  "Ooh, ooh, love hurts..."}

Peter:  "You tell me.  Did you find what you were looking for?"

[Emma looks at Peter, down at the skull, then back at Peter.]

[Back in Virginia, we now see Ed in Frank's automobile writing in a
journal.  Frank is driving him back to his apartment.]

Ed:  "You know who they are, don't you?"

Frank:  "Yeah.  I used to work for them."

[Ed shows Frank a page in the journal where he just drew a perfect
drawing of the ouroboros.]

Ed:  "Are they the government?"

Frank:  "Not exactly."

Ed:  "Work for the government?"

Frank:  "Yes, sometimes."

[When they drive up to the back of Ed's apartment building, Frank sees
a suspicious van parked in the alley.]

Frank:  "Stay down.  I mean it.  Listen to me.  Don't move."

[Frank gets out and walks up to the back of the van.  Inside the van we
see three stacks of Ed's journals wrapped up in plastic.  We then see
Frank enter Ed's dark apartment and walk toward the hidden room.  Back
outside, we see Ed looking inside the back of the van.  When he sees
his journals, he tries to open the van door, but it is locked.  He
walks back to Frank's automobile.  Inside, we see Frank enter the
hidden room.  From behind, there is a gunshot.  Frank falls to the
floor and we see Mabius walking toward the hidden room with gun in
hand.  He points the gun directly at Frank's head.  But, before he
shoots, he is distracted by the sound of the van's driver's side door
window being shattered by a tire iron.  Frank takes this opportunity
and tackles Mabius to the floor at which time he looses his gun.
Outside, Ed gets in the van and starts up the engine.  Mabius gets up
and goes for the gun.  As he picks it up and turns around, Frank
pushes him out the second floor window.  Mabius lands on top of the
van with his upper part cracking the windshield.  As he pulls his
upper part up, through Ed's eyes we see Mabius's hand which appears to
be only skeletal bones.  Ed puts the van in gear and speeds off as Mabius
rolls off the van and hits the road.  As Frank looks out the
window, we see Mabius slowly get up and limp away.]

[We now return to Maine.  We see the gruesome Pettey farmhouse being
bulldozed with a large backhoe to make room for the new highway.  Emma
and Peter are observing the distruction.  Peter is still holding
Emma's gun.]

Peter:  "Whatever terrible thing happened to those victims saddens me
as much as it does you."

Emma:  "You know what happened to them."

Peter:  "We live in a free and stable society.  While all around us
countries are collapsing in poverty, chaos, tyranny.  That's no
accident.  It's not a matter of luck."

Emma:  "43 people are dead."

Peter:  "43 threats are now gone."

[Peter moves forward and faces Emma.  She looks at him in the eyes but
periodically looks down at her gun in his hand.]

Peter:  "There are forces at work today that could easily tear this
country apart.  Terrible weapons being devoloped, with us as their
target.  Who, Agent Hollis, is prepared to do what is necessary to
assure our future?"

[In the background, we see that the farmhouse is pretty much
demolished.]

Peter:  "You'll see."

[Peter gives Emma back her gun.]

Peter:  "And then we'll talk."

[Emma takes her gun and leaves as we see the human skull being crushed
to rubble underneath the track wheels of the backhoe.]

[We now return to Quantico.  Emma and Baldwin are in Andy's office
giving their report.]

Baldwin:  "We've recovered a total of 42 victims."

Andy:  "43, I thought?"

[Baldwin looks at his paperwork.]

Baldwin:  "Uh... no, 42.  Now, even if we definitively I.D. all of
them, the process is going to take months, maybe years.  The
Millennium Group identified a fungus on the bones unique to central
Flordia.  It's a variety of aspergillus."

[Emma has a disgusted look on her face.]

Baldwin:  "So at this point, I recommend that we shift our efforts
southward."

Andy:  "Do you have anything to add to that, Agent Hollis?"

Emma:  "No, sir.  Excuse me."

[Emma walks away.  Andy looks as if he suspects that she knows
something more.  Emma grabs her jacket and shoulder bag.  As she is
leaving, she sees Frank.]

Emma:  "Don't expect me to thank you because I didn't want to know
this."

Frank:  "Know what exactly?"

Emma:  "The truth doesn't really matter, does it?  Only what you can
prove."

Frank:  "Oh, the truth does matter, Agent Hollis.  It does."

[Frank leaves and Emma follows him out.]

[We then see Ed drawing an eye on a blank piece of paper.  He puts it
in an envelope addressed to...]

    FRANK BLACK
    FBI ACADEMY
    QUANTICO, VA
    22531

[He seals the envelope and drops it in a postal mailbox.  He then
crosses a street pushing a two wheeled cart stacked with the three
stacks of journals still wrapped up in plastic.  He looks over his
shoulder to make sure he is not being followed.]


[Fade to black.]

[The credits fades in from black... ]


Executive Producer: Chip Johannessen & Michael Duggan

Executive Producer: Chris Carter


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[End titles roll]


Ten Thirteen Productions
in association with

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A News Corporation Company

Guest Starring

Terry O'Quinn (Peter Watts)
Stephen E. Miller (Andy McClaren)
Peter Outerbridge (Barry Baldwin)

Co-starring

CCH Pounder (Cheryl Andrews)
Arye Gross (Ed)
Bob Wilde (Mabius)


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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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