the x-files. 7x10; mulder/scully scene picspam
TEENA MULDER: Fox, it's your mother. I'd hoped you'd call upon your return but I haven't heard from you. I'm sure you're busy. There are... so many emotions in me, I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid, for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
(He rewinds the tape again and puts his head close to the machine as if trying to hear any noise in the background.)
TEENA MULDER: There are... so many emotions in me, I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid, for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
(He leans his head on the machine. There is a knock at the door.)
(MULDER opens it to SCULLY. She looks very sad and tired.)
MULDER: I'm glad you're here. My mother was trying to tell me something. I think I figured it out. It's something about my sister... that she was never able to tell me.
(He plays the tape for her.)
TEENA MULDER: So much that I've left unsaid, for reasons I hope one day you'll understand.
MULDER: She knew what I'd find with this case out in California.
SCULLY: How could she know that, Mulder?
MULDER: A child disappearing without a trace, without evidence, in defiance of all logical explanation? She knew because of what's driven me, what I've always believed.
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: Scully, these, these parents who've lost... (swallows painfully) who've lost their children... they've had visions of their sons and daughters, in scenarios that never happened but, which they describe in notes that came through them as automatic writing and words that came through them psychically... from old souls protecting the children. My mother... must have written a note like that herself. Describing... the scenario of my sister's disappearance, of her, of her abduction by aliens. Don't you see, Scully? It never happened. All these visions that I've had have just been... they've been to help me cope to help me deal with the loss but... I've been looking for my sister in the wrong place. That's... what my mother was trying to tell me. That's what she was trying to warn me about. That's why they killed her.
SCULLY: Your mother killed herself, Mulder. I conducted the autopsy. She was dying of an incurable disease. An untreatable and horribly disfiguring disease called Paget's Carcinoma. She knew it. There were doctor's records. She didn't want to live.
(MULDER stares at SCULLY for a moment, then puts his face in his hands. Suddenly he stands and shakes the desk violently. SCULLY touches his arm to calm him down. He pulls away in agony, starting to break down.)
SCULLY: Mulder...
MULDER: She was trying to tell me something. She was... (voice breaking as he cries) trying to tell me something.
SCULLY: (almost crying herself) Mulder, she was trying to tell you to stop. To stop looking for your sister. She was just trying to take away your pain.
(MULDER turns to her desperately and holds her tightly around her waist and cries. SCULLY holds him and puts her lips against his neck. She rocks him gently.)
What is it that prompted me to do this? Eh, who knows. I was watching Sein und Zeit last night and my love for this scene became a bit overwhelming and next thing I knew, I was making a mini-picspam. Hm, I'm thinking I'll pick my favorite scene from Closure and picspam that as well. Yes, I'm one of them who loves the closure to the Samantha-arc, sue me.
fin ♥