The X-Files

it begins where it ends--

In nothingness.

A nightmare born from deepest fears...

Coming to me unguarded,

Whispering images unlocked from time and distance.

A soul unbound, touched by others but never held...

On a course charted by some unseen hand.

The journey ahead promising no more...

Than my past reflected back upon me...

Until, at last, I reach the end,

Facing a truth I can no longer deny,

Alone, as ever.

X-Files Season 5 Episode 07 - Emily

Excuse me. I'm looking for the special-Needs ward.

Second door in the main hall.

Thanks.

Emily?

I'd like you to meet a friend of mine.

His name is Mulder.

Remember I told you about him? Hi.

She's a little shy.

What are you coloring?

A potato.

Have you ever seen Mr. Potato head?

He looks like this.

Doesn't he?

I'll be right back, okay?

Thank you for coming.

Something's wrong, isn't it?

I found Emily's surrogate mother.

I had Frohike hack into the California social services adoption database.

You got a name? Yeah. Her mother of record is one Anna Fugazzi.

Fugazzi? Yeah, as in slang term for "fake."

I don't understand. Why create a false record?

Because there are no true records.

Emily didn't come into this world through any system that keeps them.

Well, how did she come into this world?

Have you asked yourself that?

Well, she was born to someone. She had to belong to someone.

Someone who's proven that they'll do anything to protect her...

Or their interest in her.

I can protect her too.

And who's gonna protect you?

Emily's adoptive parents are both dead by no accident.

I know. I--

I've considered that, but I've also considered...

That there's only one right thing to do.

Emily.

Why didn't you call me sooner?

Because I couldn't believe it.

But I need you now to be a witness on my behalf in this hearing.

And I should have declined...

If I never want to see you hurt or harmed in any way.

Then why are you here?

Because I know something that I haven't said,

Something that they'll use against you...

To jeopardize your custody of Emily.

No matter how much you love this little girl,

She's a miracle that was never meant to be, Scully.

They're ready for you.

agent Mulder, help me out here.

Does F.B.I. Stand for federal bureau of imagination?

Am I to understand that your partner,

Along with a dozen other women in Allentown, Pennsylvania,

Was abducted by employees of our federal government?

She was missing for four weeks. That's documented in the file.

And you found evidence that during this time,

She was subjected to a series of experiments...

Where, you say, they extracted her ova?

Yes. All of them.

Can that be done? I believe it can...

And was...

And that Emily Sim was conceived as a result of those experiments.

And that can be done as well?

I don't know how else to explain it.

A medical exam of miss Scully would show that she hasn't given birth.

You know,

Under normal circumstances,

This petition would be fairly simple.

But I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around this...

Michael Crichton bit.

I included this information in anticipation of your reaction...

And how it might look if you received this information without any explanation.

Can you give me an explanation...

Why anyone would kidnap Miss Scully...

To conceive this child, then put it up for adoption?

No, but the fact remains that miss Scully is the mother of this child.

Not in any legal definition.

Well, if you can show me a legal precedent for this case, I'd like to see it.

Dana has known for quite some time that she can't bear children.

She hasn't known why. Now, however that happened,

The fact that she can adopt this child, her own flesh and blood,

Is something I don't feel I have the right to question...

And I don't believe anybody has the right to stand in the way of.

Takes two of us just to get my sister- In-Law into bed these days.

When is she due?

Two weeks ago.

Why didn't you tell me, Mulder?

I never expected this.

I thought I was protecting you.

Why would they do this to me?

I only know that genetic experiments were being done,

That children were being created.

Children being created for who?

For who? For what? I don't know.

Hello.

Hello?

Hello. Is anybody there?

I need a call traced.

An incoming call to residential line 550-0380.

Mulder-- Don't hang up.

Okay, thanks. I got a trace.

County children's center.

What is it? What's the matter?

Has anyone been here in the last half hour? No. What's going on?

She's burning up. I'll call 911.

Scully.

There's something on her neck.

Oh, my god.

Okay, now, that doesn't hurt. I'm gonna turn this little thing.

All right. I'll try back later.

I just spoke to the social worker.

She hasn't been able to reach Emily's doctor.

Hi.

How is she?

Well, we've put her on a saline drip to rehydrate her.

She's running a fever of about 102.

It's good you got her here when you did. Do you know what's causing it?

Some kind of infection, probably related to the cyst on her neck.

Do you know what that is? No. I'm having it biopsied.

I'll get it off to the lab right away.

Now, are you two the parents?

- I'm her mother. - Oh, okay.

Well, can you give me any history that might help?

I know that she was being treated for anemia.

Do you know what type? I was told...

That it was some kind of autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Her treatment is experimental. Who's her doctor?

His name is Calderon. I don't know him.

Emily, I'm gonna roll you onto your side, sweetie.

Wait! Wait, wait, wait. Stop!

Stop! Move away from her!

- Move away from her! - Sir, I need to get in there.

get away from her! Get away!

Don't go in there.

Is she still sleeping?

They have her on a mild sedative.

The E.R. Doctor is in and out of consciousness.

How did you know?

If Emily is someone's creation,

Then it occurred to me that she might share the same body chemistry...

That we've seen before.

I had them put the doctor in a cooling bath like you did when I was exposed to this.

So what now?

I mean, she's still just a little girl.

You say that I can't protect her, but I can't let this be her life.

Just a few days ago, she was fine.

She was also being treated.

I need some advice.

With everything that's happening here, I'm a little at sea.

This Dr. Calderon you say is Emily's physician?

He's refusing to transfer her medical records.

He can't do that.

He's endangering her life.

He said Emily was in his care,

And if you're responsible for stopping that, then you're the one endangering her.

It's an ethical violation.

He says she was part of a double-Blind medical trial...

And that he's spoken to you about it.

He also says you have no authority over this child.

Well, authority or not, I'm not leaving her side.

It's beyond me, I'm afraid.

But it's not beyond Dr. Calderon.

I'd like to say right up front that I know Emily Sim personally...

As your partner probably told you, and, uh--

My god, I never met a sweeter, more courageous little girl.

I'm so sorry to hear about her downturn.

My hope is that these custody issues can be resolved...

So that she can resume her treatment here.

But I'm afraid I simply can't release any information about her...

As it relates to our company's experimental drug trials.

What can I say to convince you?

It's really not about convincing me.

This is something that-- Well, that we simply cannot do.

It's purely a business reality.

It has to do with Prangen's exposure to litigation.

And, of course, I'll need to protect research...

Which, frankly, represents a significant dollar investment.

So I'm wasting your time.

This is not worth the life of a three-Year-Old girl.

I wouldn't frame it like that. That's not it at all.

Look, I'm truly sorry, but there's really nothing I can do.

However, I do wish you the very best.

Okay, then.

How you feeling now? A little more helpful?

Condescending liar! Help!

Why don't you tell me what your company is really in business for?

Huh? Abducting women and stealing their unborn children.

Medical rapists, that's all you are!

Now you're gonna let that little girl die? She's just a lab rat to you!