The X Files evaluation action
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Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: [the Cigarette Smoking Man and Dr. Bronschweig climb down a ladder into the cave while wearing bio-haz-mats suits] We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development, which is like nothing we've ever seen.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Brought on by what?
Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Heat, I think. The coincident invasion of a host, the fireman, in an environment that raised his body temperate above 98.6.
Cigarette Smoking Man: [they walk into an isolation chamber where one of the infected firemen is lying on a gurney, breathing heavily, his skin gelatinous, and hooked up to various I.V. drips] This man's still alive.
Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Technically... and biologically. But he'll never recover.
Cigarette Smoking Man: How can this be?
Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: [he points to the alien embryo forming in the fireman's chest seen through the skin which is pulsating] The developing organism is using his life energy, digesting bone and tissue. We've just slowed the process.
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Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Do you want us to destroy this one too before it gestates?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Uh, no. No. We need to try our vaccine on it.
Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: And if it's unsuccessfull?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Burn it... like the others.
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Special Agent Fox Mulder: [the alien spacecraft emerges from the ice and flies overheard] Scully, you gotta see this. Scully
Special Agent Dana Scully: [whispering] I saw it. I saw it, too.