Página PrincipalInternal dating: No internal dating. The only clues, besides the fact that it occurs on Monday, are that the trees are bare, and everyone in the episode is wearing some form of jacket. Episode aired on February 28th 1999.
Across the street, Skinner pushes through the mass of people and behind the tape line. A young woman with greasy hair and pale skin stands in front of the police officer guarding the barrier, and she watches Skinner intently as he runs up to the waiting police cars.
Skinner runs up to a man, who introduces himself as Lt. Kratzgow, the man in charge. When asked if the Bureau is taking over, Skinner says that's not why he's come, and asks what's happening.
Kratzgow tells him that the silent alarm was tripped 30 minutes before, man had drawn a handgun. Obviously not a pro, Kratzgow says, because it the robber was, he would've been long gone. He says that, though the blinds are down, there is possibly someone wounded.
When asked why he's there if the Bureau isn't handling the case, Skinner says that two of his agents might be in the building.
The young woman runs across the street, yelling Skinner's name. "Stop this! Don't let this happen!" she cries as she's being dragged away by a police officer. Skinner watches her, confused.
The camera moves up Scully's back, and we see she is crouching on the floor, holding Mulder's bleeding form. He has been shot in the chest, and the look on her face is one of shock. She presses her palm against his wound, looking off into the distance.
The camera moves up, and there is a shot of the whole room. Everyone is laying on the floor, and as the camera pounds by, their faces are fearful.
Scully nurses Mulder's form, and she suddenly looks up, eyes wide.
A man stands above her. He has a ragged beard, mid-length hair, and a cold, unfeeling expression. He barely looks down at her. He is breathing heavily. His jacket is pulled back, and strapped around his chest is a string of sticks of dynamite. His thumb rests on the switch.
"You're in charge here, you know," Scully says. "It doesn't have to end like this." As she ends her sentence, she looks to the doors, where heavily armed policemen have burst in through the doors.
"Yeah, it does," the man tells her.
"No!" Scully screams.
He pulls the switch, and the building explodes. Skinner and the other policemen are left in a cloud of dust.
The credits roll: The truth is out there.
A man drops a newspaper against apartment number 42, and the loud noise causes Mulder to jerk awake in his bed. He makes an odd face and lifts a sticky wet sheet off of himself and puts his feet on the wet floor. He pulls back the sheet, and his waterbed is leaking. His alarm clock is broken, and his cell phone is soaking wet. He picks up his watch: Monday, 7:15, it says. He rushes out of the room, and when the phone rings, he trips over his own sneakers sitting on the floor of his bedroom. The people on the phone are his downstairs' neighbors, telling him about the damage.
The look on Mulder's face says that this is not a good day.
FBI HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
Mulder rips open his check envelope and signs the back. Scully walks in, and he says, "I know, I missed the meeting."
"You didn't miss the meeting; you're just extraordinarily late for the meeting. It's still going on."
When she asks what he's doing 'down there' (apparently they're back in their basement office), he tells her, with no enthusiasm, "Having the best damn day of my life. I don't know when I'm going to burst into song. Zippety-do-dah." He recounts the morning story to Scully, telling her that he has to deposit his paycheck or the check he wrote his land lord is going to bounce.
Mulder: Ever have one of those days, Scully?
Scully: Since I've been working here? Yeah. . . Since when did you have a waterbed, Mulder?
He looks at her with a strange look, as if he doesn't know when he got the waterbed. She raises her brows at him.
Mulder: The bank's just down the street. I'll be back in ten. Cover for me, will ya?
To his retreating back, she asks, "When do I not?"
A car races across traffic to park against the curb. The man from the beginning (the one with the ragged beard) is driving. Next to him in the car is the young woman from the beginning, and he calls her Pam.
"I've gotta go pick something up," he says, uneasily, "I'll be--" "Right back," Pam says, not looking at him. "No biggie."
As he gets out of the car, he rams straight into a biker, and then he runs on towards the bank doors.
Pam looks solemnly out of the windshield, and says quietly, "Right on schedule," then adds, "Poor guy."
Mulder is approaching. He looks at her as he passes, his gaze lingering on her. He shakes his head, and jogs across the street.
With more emotion - surprise - than we've seen from her character yet, she says, "He's never done that before."
Mulder gets at the back of the line. At a table, the bearded man is writing on a piece of bank stationary, "This is a robbery." He continues writing.
Scully sits bored at a budget meeting. Skinner, too, looks quite displeased. A man talks endlessly about a study being performed, which he says, "Makes crime trends for the coming year hard to predict."
"The unpredictable future," Skinner concurs. "Which brings us to Agent Mulder. Will he or will he not grace us with his report?"
Scully gets up, and leaves the room with a sigh.
Mulder waits impatiently at the bank line.
The bearded man crumples the note he's been writing, and with a look of rage on his face, draws a gun and yells for everyone to get down. He waves the gun around, and orders Mulder to the floor.
He orders the teller to give him all the counter money and urges her faster, even as she trips the silent alarm with the toe of her shoe.
Through the window, Mulder sees Scully approaching and sighs in frustration. He moves to look at the bearded man, who glares at him. As the bearded man forces the teller towards the ATM machine, Mulder tells the bearded man to lock the front doors.
As the man goes to the doorway, Scully walks in. The man points his gun at her, and Mulder jumps up behind them, yelling for him to stop. The man spins around and shoots Mulder. Scully draws her gun, and she and the man have a standoff. As he pulls away his jacket to reveal a belt of dynamite, he orders her to drop her gun. Reluctantly, she lowers her weapon, dread in her expression.
Skinner's assistant comes into the meeting and gives Skinner a look. He looks back at her hard.
As policemen run by the car, Pam, looking out of the windshield, says, "Go, go, go," just as one of the men outside yells the same. She appears numb, unaffected by the drama unfolding around her.
She gets out of the car slowly and proceeds towards the yellow police tape line. Skinner runs through the crowd and past the barrier. Pam merely watches him.
As Skinner talks with the officer in charge, Pam rushes up, yelling, "Skinner! Don't let them charge in there!" She's dragged off much as before.
Inside the bank, Scully's untying Mulder's neck tie and ripping off his shirt in order to press against the wound.
She asks him his name, saying that's she's got to call him something "like Steve," she offers, "that's a nice, honest name."
Voice filled with tears, she tells the man, whose name is Bernard, that she has to get her partner out. She tells him that they don't know how has a bomb, and he says that they had better know, better figure it out.
She tells him to walk in front of the door, to show them what he has. He draws his gun on her and claims that she's trying to get him killed.
Nearly crying, she looks down at Mulder and then up again at Bernard. "I just want everyone to live... that's all. Just show them. You have control over everything that happens here-- you do. And it doesn't have to end this way."
And as the policemen burst through the door, and Scully screams, he pulls the switch and blows the bank apart.
Skinner and the other men outside are surrounded by a cloud of smoke.
A man walks down the hall of an apartment building, and the sound of his newspaper hitting the door of apartment 42 jerks Mulder awake. He discovers his wet sheet and soaked carpeting soon enough, and shortly after, the leak in the waterbed and the broken alarm clock. His phone is soaked, and he steps OVER the sneakers this time when he leaves the room and returns.
The conversation with the downstairs' neighbor proceeds much the same as the last one, and as he backs out of the room, he falls hard over the sneakers. He runs away from the ringing phone.
Pam is on the phone, and the other end is ringing. Pam tells Bernard that she won't come with him to whatever he plans to do, and he says that he isn't asking, ordering her to go along.
She says to go to work, that it's "not too late."
He says he has a plan, and "by this time tomorrow, Pam--"
She cuts him off, sadly, "Everything'll be roses." He nods and smiles, and she walks off. grabbing her jacket and heading out of the apartment. The clock shows it to be 7:17.
In the basement office, Mulder rips the envelope (and accidentally the check) as he gets out his paycheck.
Scully walks in, and he says to her, "I know; I missed the meeting."
"No, not yet," she replies, "But only because it's the longest in FBI history."
When she asks him where he's been (with the conversation proceeding much like the one previous -- earlier in the show), he says, "Have you ever had one of those days that you just wish you could rewind and start all over again from the beginning?"
"Yes, frequently," she answers, "but who's to say that if you did rewind and start over again, that it wouldn't turn out the same way?"
"So, you think it's all just fate, we have no free will?"
"No, I think we're free to be the people we are: good, bad, or indifferent. I think that it's our character that determines our fate."
"And all the rest is just preordained? I don't buy it. There's too many variables, too many forks in the road. I mean, I meant to be on time this morning, but my waterbed springs a leak, flooding my apartment and the apartment below me, so that makes me late for the meeting. And then I realize I've got to write a check to cover the damages to my landlord, but as I'm walking to work I realize that's going to bounce unless I deposit my pay. So now I've got to go to the bank, which makes me even later."
Scully's response is, "Since when did you get a waterbed?"
"I might just as easily not have a waterbed, and then I'd be on time for this meeting. You might just as easily have stayed in medicine and not gone into the FBI, and then we'd never have met... Blah, blah, blah."
"Fate?"
"Free will, with every choice, you change your fate."
"Then let's change yours. I will deposit your check, you gather your files, go to Skinner's office, give your report-- before he takes it out on both of us."
Scully walks into the bank and gets on line. In the background, Bernard is at a desk. A close up shows that he is writing his note - again! - and it says, "This is a hold up."
Mulder realizes that endorsed his "damn check stub," as he says. He leaves the building, and walks towards the bank. As he walks by a dingy vehicle, Pam jumps out and says, "Mulder!"
"Don't go to the bank today," she says, "Bernard's in there."
She tells him that he passes her everyday on the street -- this day. She tells him that when he goes inside, everyone gets killed. Over and over, she tells him, and last time, she says, he looked at her like he knew her. "Please remember me," she says.
They hear a shot inside the bank, and she urges him not to go in. He shrugs her off and draws his weapon as he runs across the street.
Inside, the bank is in the middle of a holdup by, of course, Bernard. Scully and Bernard have their weapons trained on one another. Both Mulder and Scully tell Bernard to drop his weapon, but, as he says, he "ain't droppin' nothing!"
As Mulder approaches, Bernard shouts, "I'll shoot her!"
"What do you think I'll do then?" Mulder counters.
Bernard pulls back his jacket to reveal the bomb, and Scully looks at Mulder, shocked.
"Bernard," Mulder says to the man, "that's your name, right?"
Scully kneels to check the pulse of the gunshot victim. "Bernard, she's not dead. You're not a murderer... yet."
Mulder adds, "You can end this the right way."
"Sir, please, listen to them. Don't hurt anyone else, a whole lotta police are coming," the woman teller says.
"Did you hit the alarm?" he asks. He drops his gun and pulls the switch on the bomb, even as Mulder yells, "No!"
Behind the beat-up car, Pam drops to the ground as the explosion rings out and the windows in the car shatter. She sobs and covers her ears.
The sound of the newspaper wakes Mulder up. (Well, many newspapers-- obviously many days.) He find the leak, as usual, and the phone rings. The conversation is short, and he's rather calm about being late (though, off screen, he does trip over the sneakers!)
Walking down the hall, Scully calls Mulder's cell phone, which she finds is not available. As she waits for the elevator, Pam, with an FBI tour pass on, rushes up to her, addressing her by name and telling her not to go into Cradock Marine bank. She begs her not to go "this time."
"If you walk in that bank, you'll die. Both of you," Pam says as she's herded back by her tour guide. Scully looks shaken.
Scully goes down to the office, but cannot find Mulder. He runs into her as she's about to leave the office. As she tells him that he hasn't quite missed the meeting and that his cell phone isn't working, he freezes, and after a moment shakes his head, saying what a sense of déjà vu came over him.
He says it's been happening all morning. "I woke up, opened my eyes-- was soaking wet." To Scully's raised eyebrow, he says, "Long story. But I had the distinct sensation that I had lived that moment before."
"Well, you may have. Did you do a lot of drinking in college?" she asks.
"I wonder what it means," he says, ignoring her comment.
"I don't see why it has to mean anything."
"Some Freudians believe the déjà vu phenomenon to be repressed memories escaping the unconscious. They represent the desire to have a second chance, to set things right."
"To set what things right?"
"Whatever's wrong."
"Mulder, it's more likely we're talking about simple neurochemistry. A glitch in the brain's ability to process recognition and memory. Doesn't mean that the memory's authentic."
"Well, what if it were?"
"What if you'd lived this moment before, and now you're living it again?"
"Yeah, so that I could right some wrong or change fate."
"Well, right now I'd say that you were fated to go to this meeting."
He tells her that instead he's going to the bank, and she suddenly remembers the girl in the hallway. He says that he's going to Cradock bank, and she tells him about the woman who warned against going into that bank.
He says he'll use the ATM machine, because he doesn't want to "tempt fate."
Scully returns to the meeting, and they rush right back into the info.
When Mulder gets to the ATM, he finds it out of order. He sees Pam across the street and walks over to her. "Do you remember me?" she asks hopefully, but he tells her that she matches the description Scully gave of the woman that stopped her in the hall.
"Have we met?" he asks.
"More times than I can count." She goes on to explain that she sees him everyday - this day - sometimes a bit earlier or later, but it always turns out the same way. How? he asks.
She tells him that whenever she tells him that there's going to be a robbery, he rushes in and that's when things go bad.
"Don't you see? We're all in Hell. I'm the only one who knows it. Something went very wrong on this day the first time around. Something got screwed up. Things didn't end the way they were supposed to. It's like a needle stuck in a groove."
"You're saying this day repeats, over and over?"
"Until we get it right. 'Til my boyfriend doesn't blow up that bank." She relates to him how she's tried to stop Bernard -- drugging his coffee, calling the police, etc. "He always gets here. He's meant to. It's you," she tells Mulder, "it's you and your partner every time."
He asks why she's the only one who remembers.
"It's got to be fifty times you've asked me that," she tells him."
"This is fifty-one. So what's the answer?"
"I don't know," she says. "I just do. I'm glad you don't."
She says that he HAS to be the variable because she's tried everyone else. (Obviously, she's lived this day MANY, MANY times.)
Mulder enters the meeting with his files, and Scully isn't there. It turns out that she's just left to find *him*. He leaves again to go find her.
Scully enters the bank, Bernard is writing his note in the background of the shot, then draws a gun on them. A woman screams and mutters incoherently, and Scully watches him and reaches for her gun.
As he threatens Scully, Mulder enters from behind and shoots him down. While laying on the floor, Bernard rips open his jacket and reaches for the switch to the bomb.
Mulder chants to himself, "It's a bomb, it's a bomb," over and over, trying to implant it in his memory. Bernard pulls the switch, and the screen goes black.
A man walks by Mulder's door and throws a newspaper. The day proceeds as usual with only minor variations on the theme. He heads to the bank as usual.
Pam and Bernard drive up, and when he asks why she's always in a mood, she answers sadly, "Because nothing ever changes." When he leaves the car, she begins to cry.
When Mulder passes, he comes up to the window and waves his papers to ask her to roll down the window, asking "Do I know you? You just seem really familiar to me." She shrugs him off, and he leaves as she rolls the window up again.
From inside, Mulder looks at Pam in the car, then sees Bernard, and seems to remember something. He looks hard at Bernard, saying silently to himself, "He's got a bomb," over and over again.
In the meeting, Scully sits disinterested, obviously waiting for Mulder, as is Skinner. A young woman comes in to ask for Scully and she leaves. Mulder is calling her from the bank. He says he needs her to do something.
In the car, Pam looks at her watch, and is shocked by Scully at her window. Scully asks her to come along and they leave the car.
Inside, as Bernard's writing his note, Mulder puts his gun down on top of the sheet of paper. He says he's a federal agent and that he doesn't want them all to die. "Take it," he says about the gun.
He says he knows that he's got a bomb, and he says he doesn't want anything bad to happen. He tells Bernard that Bernard's in charge and that he can change his fate.
Bernard picks up the gun, and tells them all to get down.
As Pam and Scully walk in, he pulls a weapon on both of them. Pam tells Mulder that he can't be in there.
Mulder tells Bernard that he's condemning them to live the day over and over again, and Pam, too. Bernard says that he's doing it for Pam, and then tells Scully to put her gun down. Mulder tells her to do it because he's got a gun. Scully puts her gun down, and Pam tells Bernard that they should go.
As the police siren comes closer, Bernard looks up at Mulder, and with a scream of, "You son of a bitch!" shoots at Mulder. Pam jumps in front of him, and takes the bullet. Mulder handcuffs Bernard, who drops his gun-- shocked.
Pam lies on the floor, breathing hard. Scully calls for medical help, and when Mulder kneels to Pam, she says, "This has never happened before." And as she closes her eyes, she smiles."
When the newspaper hits Mulder's door, he's sleeping on the couch, not in a waterbed. His telephone rings, and it's Scully. It's Tuesday, according to Mulder's watch, and he's late again. Apparently Skinner's asking for their report on what happened at the bank. She also wants an explanation of how he knew that Bernard had a bomb. He tells her it was a feeling.
"And you also had a feeling that he had an accomplice waiting in the car?"
"Not an accomplice. I think she was just trying to get away."
He asks for an hour to get ready, and sets the newspaper down, where a front page story has a picture of Pam, and the headline, "Woman Dies in Robbery Attempt."
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