M I L L E N N I U M

"THE HAND OF SAINT SEBASTIAN"

Ep. # 2.08  [MLM-208  (5C08)]

Written by Glen Morgan & James Wong
Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Edited by George R. Potter

Transcribed by Emmett S. Land

[ Second Season ]  (Complete Transcript)

U.S. Air Date: November 14, 1997

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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

First, a little history on Saint Sebastian:

Source:  http://bode.diee.unica.it/~giua/SEBASTIAN/Sebastian.life.html
    (valid URL as of 11/19/97)

Sebastian died a martyr in Rome, probably in AD 288.  His tomb in the
place named Ad Catacumbas on the Via Appia has been venerated at least
as far back as the time of Saint Ambrose and probably had some
connection to Milan.

Two hundred years after his death a legend sprang up about his life.
According to this legend, Sebastian, a Christian, decided to go into
the military during a time of persecution.  This decision was not to
save his own life, but in order to put himself in a position to
comfort the martyrs, as he did with Mark and Marcellian.  As a member
of the military, the ones who captured and guarded the persecuted
Christians, he was in ideal place to stay with them, encourage them,
and even alleviate their sufferings without anyone being suspicious or
keeping him out.

He showed such aptitude, however, in the military life, that the
emperor Diocletian made him a captain without ever guessing Sebastian
was a Christian.  As more and more Christians died, it was inevitable
that Sebastian would be found out.  Diocletian was furious at what he
saw as a betrayal after all he had done for Sebastian.  He ordered
Sebastian to be shot by archers.

Irene, a Christian, found Sebastian still alive and nursed him back to
health.  As soon as he could stand, Sebastian went looking for
Diocletian.  Sebastian didn't want revenge or a reprieve.  He wanted
to accuse Diocletian of all the cruelties he had committed.
Diocletian had Sebastian beaten to death.

A Sebastian proconsul of Diocletian is also mentioned in connection
with the legend of Santa Innocenza.

Sebastian is considered patron saint of archers and soldiers based on
this legend.

His Feast Day is on January 20, according to both the New Roman
Calendar [The Divine Office, London: Collins, 1974] and the Old Roman
Calendar [Omar Engelbert, The Lives of the Saints, London: 1951].

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MONTI SABATINI, ITALY
998 A.D.


[We first see a forest mountain and its reflection in a lake on a wet
cloudy night.  Then, in the forest we see a man (from here on out
referred to as Man #1) standing and holding a lit candle.   As he starts
to walk through the forest, he looks back as if to make sure he is not
being followed.  We hear distant thunder as he makes his way along a
forest path.  He is then startled by a man (from here on out referred
to as Man #2) who appears from behind a tree and blows out the candle.
They speak Vulgar Italian.]

Man #2:  "Don't be afraid."

Man #1:  "I do not fear for my life, but for the life of our cause."

Man #2:  "They know.  You have to be careful, now they have the
blessing of the church."

Man #1:  "The church is a snake in the open.  It is the snake in the
grass that causes concern."

Man #2:  "Here."

Man #2 grabs a pouch and hands it to Man #1.

Man #2:  "This should take you as far north as you need to go."

[Man #1 takes the pouch and secures it up his sleeve.  He then reaches
up under his robe a pulls out a larger pouch and removes from it
something wrapped in a cloth and holds it out in front of Man #2.  Man #1
then removes the cloth and we see a mummified hand.  Man #2 looks down
upon it.]

Man #2:  "May Saint Sebastian bless us and our travels."

[Man #2 bends down and kisses the mummified hand and then looks back up
at Man #1.]

Man #2:  "This is who we are."

Man #1:  "This is who we are."

[Man #1 wraps the hand with the cloth and walks away with it.  Back at
Man #1's camp, we see him and his people -- consisting of about 8 to 10
men and women -- putting out their fire and gathering their things.
Man #1 hears something.]

Man #1:  "Shh!"

[A horseman comes galloping towards Man #1's camp with a bunch of men
following behind him on foot armed with swords and hatchets.]

Man #1:  "Run!"

[We see Man #1's people scatter as some are stabbed in the back and
killed.  A man on foot with a sword swings at Man #1 but misses as Man #1
ducks and throws the man to the ground and kills him.  The horseman
comes galloping towards Man #1.  Man #1 grabs a bag and runs through the
woods.  As the horseman is about to catch him, Man #1 grabs a large
piece of wood and knocks the horseman off his horse and kills him as
he lays on the ground in a daze.  Man #1 hears rustling in the woods
and walks in that direction.  He comes face to face with Man #2.]

Man #2:  "Are you well?"

[Man #1 looks relieved when seeing Man #2 and smiles.  Then, two men walk
up beside Man #2 and aims their bow and arrows toward Man #1.]

Man #2:  "The cause dies tonight."

[Man #1 quickly turns and runs.  The two arrows enter his upper back and
he falls dead to the ground.  Man #2 searches his dead body but does not
find the mummified hand.  Man #2 rips open the back of Man #1's shirt and
we see on his bloody back a tattoo of the ouroboros surrounded by
various other tattoos.]

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


M I L L E N N I U M


this

is

who we are

starring

Lance Henriksen (Frank Black)
Megan Gallagher (Catherine Black)

created by Chris Carter


the time is near


--------- commercial segment --------- 
 
[Fade from white.] 

“THE HAND OF ST. SEBASTIAN”

PEAT EXCAVATION SITE
BREMEN, GERMANY

[We see a large backhoe bury its shovel bucket into the peat bog and
scoop up a load.  As the backhoe operator swings the shovel bucket
around, a co-worker walks into view carrying a thermos.  The backhoe
operator sets the shovel bucket on solid ground, shuts off the motor
and climbs out.  He speaks German.]

Backhoe operator:  "Come on.  Break time is only fifteen minutes."

[The co-worker looks toward the shovel bucket with a slight look of
shock on his face.  The backhoe operator walks over and looks into
it and we see, partially covered by the peat bog, the remains of a
dead body partly decomposed and partly mummified.]

[We then see a computer screen showing the ouroboros with the words
"There are 779 days remaining".  The camera pans down on top of a
glossy wooden desktop showing the reflection of the Millennium Group
Elder.  He is having a conversation with Peter Watts.]

Elder:  "It has come to our attention that you have been engaged in
an independent project."

Peter:  "It began... as a curiosity."

Elder:  "It's become much more.  Now it's a distraction.  And that
which distracts should be excised.  Mr. Watts, the uninitiated
perceive time with no appreciation of the beginning.  And no
understanding of the end.  To them time is an infinite commodity.  We
know better and we will not waste a second of it.  This is who we
are."

Peter:  "Well, that's what I intend to find out, sir-- Who we are."

Elder:  "That question was answered when you were accepted."

Peter:  "The answer only leads to more questions."

Elder:  "What you want to confirm they will deny.  What you want to
find they will hide."

[The Elder leans forward and makes a circular motion, similar to the
ouroboros, with his finger on the top of his desk.]

Elder:  "You are on a path that has no beginning, no middle and no
end... because it is a matter of faith.  Maybe that is what you need
to find."

Peter:  "This is all about the science."

Elder:  "Then you will never find it."

Peter:  "I'm close.  I just need a little more time."

Elder:  "Peter, we don't want to lose you over this."

Peter:  "Is that a threat, sir?"

Elder:  "A caution... because if we found out, they already know."

[We then go to Frank's house.  We see a close-up of his face and we hear
him typing on the computer keyboard.  He has his glasses on and he
seems to be concentrating on whatever he is working on.  The camera
pans around and we see that he is playing computer solitaire.  We then
see Peter standing outside the screen door.  He knocks and Frank looks
in that direction.]

Frank:  "Peter... come on in."

[Peter opens the squeaky screen door and walks in.  Frank looks at his
pager.]

Frank:  "I didn't get your page."

Peter:  "I didn't send one."

[Frank takes his glasses off and puts them on the table.]

Frank:  "Anything wrong?"

Peter:  "What I'm about to ask you is... unauthorized by the
Millennium Group.  If you tell me to take a flying leap I'll
completely understand.  It won't affect our professional relationship
in any way."

Frank:  "And our personal?"

[There is an uneasy pause as Frank and Peter look at each other.]

Peter:  "I need your help, your gift, and I can't tell you why but I
can tell you it might be dangerous."

Frank:  "You're asking for a leap of faith."

Peter:  "More than you know."


BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY

[Frank and Peter pull into a parking spot and get out of a car.  As
they walk into a building, we see a man in a nearby parked car.  He
pulls out a gun and makes sure it is loaded as he watches Frank and
Peter go inside.  Once inside, Frank and Peter walk up to a door that
is sealed off by police tape indicating that a crime was recently
committed.  Peter removed the tape and jimmied the door open.  They
enter a lab that has been ransacked.]

Frank:  "This is obviously unexpected."

Peter.  "I spoke to Dr. Schlossburg on the phone just three days ago."

[We see the mummified body found at the peat excavation site earlier
laying on top of a metal table.  Then we see the tape outline where
Dr. Schlossburg's body was found with blood on the floor.  Frank puts
on an examination glove.  Peter sees a picture of Dr. Schlossburg and
a woman (his wife probably) laying busted on the floor.]

Frank:  "From the massive blood loss, I'd say the attack was violent
and protracted.  Looking around at this expensive equipment, the only
motive that we can rule out is robbery."

[As Peter puts on a pair of examination gloves and walks over to look
at the mummified body, Frank kneels down and shuffles through some
papers scattered on the floor.  He notices a xerox copy of a drawing
or painting of Saint Sebastian tied to a tree with arrows in him.
Peter turns on a bright light over the mummified body.  Frank then
comes across a drawing of the hand of Saint Sebastian.  Upon seeing
this drawing, Frank gets a vision of arrows going across the front of
him and then turning toward him.  After the vision, he looks over at
Peter.  Outside we see another man joining the man in the parked car.]

First man:  "They're inside."

[The second man pulls his gun out and makes sure it is loaded.  They
both get out of the car.  Back in the lab we see Peter trying to
access Dr. Schlossburg's computer but it is password protected.]

Frank:  "My advice, before we go any further, is that we talk to the
German police."

[Peter pulls out his cell phone and makes a call.  We then see Brian
Roedecker laying on a hide-away bed eating snacks and watching the
movie "Beneath the Planet of the Apes".  As his phone rings, Roedecker
says the words to the movie as the actors speak.]

Roedecker:  (quoting movie)  "Help me... You ask me to help you?  Man is evil,
capable of nothing but distruction."

[In the movie, Charlton Heston gets shot by the apes.  Roedecker picks
up the phone and says these words as Heston says them in his death
scene.]

Roedecker:  (quoting movie)  "You... bloody bastard."

Peter:  "Roedecker, this is Watts.  I need you to connect with the
networking system at Hamburg University Science Department.  The
terminal in question is located in Bremerhaven, Germany.  FTP -
204.48.18.31."

Roedecker:  (massaging his foot)  "I have office hours."

Peter:  "The files are protected by a password system.  How quickly
can you bypass security and access the files?"

Roedecker:  "I believe the work you're requesting is illegal under
international, federal and state statutes."

Peter:  "Are you saying that you wont do it?"

Roedecker:  "What I'm saying is GOLDEN TIME.  What files are you
looking for?"

Peter:  "Just get in and then contact me.  You can reach me anytime on
my cell."

Roedecker:  "Oh, my God.  Don't tell me we had this conversation on an
unsecured line, because in a court of law, this could be construed as
a de facto admission of guilt."

Peter:  "What conversation?"

Roedecker:  "Gotcha."  (English accent)  "Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Say no more."

[Peter hangs up his cell phone and puts it in his pocket.  Then he
starts looking through some papers in an opened cabinet drawer.]

Frank:  "What the hell is going on?  What are you looking for?"

[Peter slams the drawer shut out of frustration.  Then, the two men
from the parked car come busting through the door with guns in hands.]

First man:  (speaking German)  "Halt!  Don't move!  Police!"

Second man:  (speaking German)  "Stay where you are!"

Peter:  (speaking German)  "No!  No!  We are the police."

Frank:  "What are you saying?"

Peter:  (speaking German)  "Do you speak English?"

First man:  "You are... also police?  Let me see your stinkin'
badges."

Peter:  "I'm going to reach for my identification."

[Peter pulls out his wallet and takes out a card.]

Peter:  "I know how this appears but Dr. Schlossburg was working with
our group."

[Peter gives the card to the first man.]

Frank:  "We are consultants to law inforcement in the United States.
We entered this crime scene in that capacity."

First man:  "Uh-huh."

[The first man looks at the card.  It is a simple white business card
with the name "Peter Watts" under the ouroboros symbol.]

First man:  "What is this?  I've never known this group."

Second man:  (speaking German)  "We should take them in."

Frank:  "That's right, take us in."

Frank looks at Peter.

Frank:  "Then we'll be able to explain everything."

[We then go to a German police station.  Frank and Peter are sitting on
a bench in what looks to be a questioning room.]

Frank:  "You said Dr. Schlossburg was involved with the group.  What
was he working on?"

Peter:  "An answer."

Frank:  "To what?"

Peter:  "Who we are."

[Frank gives Peter a slightly shocked look.  Then a very distinguished
looking woman in uniform walks in with the first man from the lab
scene earlier behind her.  Frank and Peter stand up.]

Chief:  "My apologies, Mr. Watts, Mr. Black.  The Direktor Der
Bereitschaftspolizei informs me that the Millennium Group shall have
our fullest cooperation.  To fulfill his request, I bring to you
Detektiv Heim."

[The police chief leaves the room.]

Heim:  (sigh)  "We stake out perp when you two were busted.  Okay."

[Heim puts a folder down on the bench between Frank and Peter.]

Heim:  "Dr. Schlossburg worked at Hamburg University science
department.  But you would know because, uh, you tailed him, correct?"

Peter:  "We know because we worked with him."

[Heim walks over beside Frank, who is now looking inside the folder,
and looks over his shoulder.  Peter is looking over Frank's other
shoulder.  They are looking at pictures from the crime scene.]

Heim:  "And this is him after the hemorrhoid got through with him.
The perp capped the mark at around, maybe, midnight three days ago."

Frank:  "I hope you don't mind me saying so but you have a very
colorful vocabulary."

Heim:  "Danke schon.  Thank you.  I learn much about good detective
work from American TV police shows.  Sipowicz, Kojak, Hunter, Tony
Scali."

Frank:  "Who?"

Heim:  "The Commish."

Peter:  "Have you established a motive for the murder?"

Heim:  "Robbery.  The doctor surprised some freakin' dirtbag.  The
attacker escape in this window and from the blood trail we detect an
injury.  The doctor maybe kicked him in the... in the labonza."
(snickering)

Frank:  "Can we examine the body?"

Heim:  "Who loves ya, baby?  Come on."

[They walk out of the questioning room and to a nearby desk.  Heim
makes a phone call.  He speaks German to the person on the other end,
then hangs up.]

Heim:  "It seems a Mongolian cluster flock has appeared.  Dr.
Schlossburg's body is gone.  It has been released.  Has been... (puff)
cremated."

[Heim drives Frank and Peter back to their car.]

Heim:  "Sorry about that.  Uh, when you have question, uh, telephone."

Peter:  "Yeah."

[Frank and Peter get out of Heim's car.]

Heim:  "Catch ya later."

[Heim gives them a thumbs up and drives off.  When Frank and Peter get
in their car, Frank immediately spots a piece of knotted red wire on
the floorboard and picks it up.  Peter puts the key in the ignition.]

Frank:  "What's this?"

[Peter looks at the red wire Frank is holding and carefully removes his
hand away from the ignition.  They look at each other, then quickly
get out of the car.  As they run, the car explodes, knocking them to
the ground.  As they lay on the ground, Peter repeats the words of
caution he received from the Millennium Group Elder.]

Peter:  "If we found out, they already know."


--------- commercial segment --------- 
 
[Fade from white.] 

[The police chief is inspecting the car which is still on fire.  She
walks over to Frank who is sitting on the back of an ambulance getting
first aid.]

Chief:  "Do you have idea who explode the auto?"

Frank:  "No.  I assume it was someone connected with Dr. Schlossburg.
When you find out what kind of device was used on the car, you might
have a little more information."

[Frank gives the red wire to the police chief.]

Chief:  "When can I expect your departure?"

Frank:  "Well, the visa's for six months."

Chief:  "Please hurry.  I sniff at you two and I smell trouble."

[Frank walks over toward Peter who has just finished being questioned
by another officer.]

Peter:  "Did you tell them anything?"

Frank:  "Don't have anything to tell them."

Peter:  "I think they lied to us about the circumstances surrounding
Schlossburg's death.  I don't think we can trust them."

Frank:  "Can I trust you?  I got on a plane to Germany just because
you asked me to.  I expect the same trust from you."

Peter:  "Yeah."

Frank:  "Tell me what's going on before I walk."

[We hear a camera clicking.  Peter turns around and we see a passenger
in a black car taking pictures of Frank and Peter and then the driver
drives off.]

Peter:  "Not here."

[Frank and Peter are now walking down a sidewalk with outdoor vendors.]

Peter:  "There are certain things I can't tell you.  There are secrets
to Millennium that have to be earned.  There are truths that you
wouldn't understand even if I attempted to explain."

Frank:  "Don't tell me, you took a blood oath."

Peter:  "No less than having my breast torn open and my heart and
organs thrown over my left shoulder and carried in the valley of
Jehoshaphat."

Frank:  "The decaying body in the lab isn't the only reason we're
here."

Peter:  "That's part of it, but I'm hoping that the body leads to a
greater discovery."

[We see two individuals in black trench coats walking behind Frank and
Peter (I refer to them as TCs from here on).  One is a muscular woman
with a buzz cut.  She was the passenger in the black car who was taking
pictures of Frank and Peter (I refer to her as TC1 from here on).  The
other one looks like a bigger built version of Patrick Stewart (I
refer to him as TC2 from here on).]

Peter:  "How long ago do you think that body was buried?"

Frank:  "It's very well-preserved.  Just at a cursory glance, I'd say
50, 75 years at the most."

Peter:  "Dr. Schlossburg has placed that body at a thousand years old.
It's a bog mummy.  The body is so well-preserved because of a
polysaccharide called sphagnum.  It's found in the peat moss.  They
found bodies at 2,000 years old-- bodies that go back to the beginning
of Christianity-- back to the beginning of the Millennium Group."

[Frank and Peter stop at one of the sidewalk vendors.]

Frank:  "That would be of great interest to archeologists-- to...
historians.  What's the interest to you?  Why would anybody want to
kill to stop this discovery?"

Peter:  "There have always been those who've opposed the group's
methods and philosophy... but those are the snakes in the open.  It's
the snake in the grass that causes concern."

[Frank spots the two TCs through a mirror hanging on the vendor's
display rack.  The two TCs see that Frank spots them.]

Frank:  "We're being followed."

[Peter grabs something from the display rack.]

Peter:  "I think Taylor would love this."

Frank:  "Uh-huh."

[As the two TCs turn and leave, Peter looks in their direction.  Frank
turns his head and watches them leave.]

Frank:  "They're good.  They knew we knew."

Peter:  "Those are just the ones we spotted."

[Peter pays the vendor.]

Peter:  "Danke."

[We now go to Frank and Peter in an elevator going up to their hotel
rooms.  The elevator door opens on Frank's floor and they are greeted
by Cheryl Andrews.  They are surprised to see her.]

Andrews:  "The police said you left the crime scene an hour ago, and
my German wasn't good enough to get anything more out of them.  Where
the hell have you two been?"

Peter:  "Andrews, what are you doing here?"

Andrews:  "The group asked me to conduct a workshop on kinesic
interview and interrogation techniques at the police academy in
Bremen.  As soon as I heard what happened I came as fast as I could.
You guys okay?"

Frank:  "Well, it's been a long day, but we're fine."

Andrews:  (laughing)  "Well, I know you're not on vacation.  You must
be on a case.  Why don't you give me the case file so I'll do some
legwork?"

Peter:  (shaking his head)  "N... It's not necessary, really.  It's
under control.  If you don't mind, I'm-I'm beat.  I'll go up to my
room."

[Frank walks out of the elevator.]

Frank:  "Good night."

Peter:  "Night."

[Andrews looks in at Peter as the elevator door closes.]

Andrews:  "This is who we are."

Peter:  "This is who we are."

[Andrews pushes the elevator down button.]

Andrews:  "Do you need anything, Frank?"

Frank:  (shaking his head no)  "I'm just along for the ride."

Andrews:  "Sometimes when a car crashes it's the driver that's killed.
Sometimes it's the passenger."

[The other elevator door opens and Andrews starts to walk in.]

Andrews:  "Be careful."

Frank:  "Good night."

[The elevator door closes.]

[We now go back to the elevator that Peter is in.  His cell phone is
ringing.]

Peter:  "Yeah?"

Roedecker:  "It's Hacker Man."

[We see Roedecker at his computer desk shuffling through papers and
reading from his computer screen.  He is online.]

Roedecker:  "Uh, I been working on this little problem of yours, Mr.
W."

Peter:  "Go ahead."

Roedecker:  "Did the background check on herr doctor-- Got his
important dates, significant numbers, names of his relatives.  I've
already tried a dozen algorithmic combinations.  So far, not even a
nibble."

Peter:  "This is time-sensitive material.  People are trying to shut
us down.  I need to get through as soon as possible."

Roedecker:  "I've done a little research on the Internet.  Our man has
been a naughty little doctor.  From his terminal, he has logged
hundreds of hits on adult video web sites, online sex chat-- you name
it-- all American-made.  Probably prefers the production value and
galaxy of stars available to satiate his, uh... " (pulling his crotch)
"...unique perversity."

[The elevator door opens and Peter starts to walk out.]

Peter:  "Get to the point, Hacker Man."

Roedecker:  "A guy who uses his work station for porn would most
likely have other salacious material for use on hand, if you get my
drift.  It's a long shot, but maybe that's the key to his password."

[Peter returns to Dr. Schlossburg's lab.  He bustes through the door
and tears away the yellow crime scene tape.  Once inside, he looks
around and finds a small metal box.  The camera returns to Roedecker
who is now asleep.  We see his computer screen saver which is the
ouroboros.  Its head starts eating its tail and continues eating until
it makes a complete circle.  Then the body returns and it repeats.
Roedecker's phone rings.]

Roedecker:  "Suicide hot line."

Peter:  "I found his stash."

Rodecker:  "Mmm.  Anything juicy?"

Peter:  "A couple of the magazines appear to be older with dog-eared
pages-- personal favorites, I presume."

[Roedecker has drool in the right corner of his mouth.]

Roedecker:  "Some of these stars have attained one-name status, kind
of like, uh, Madonna or Cher in the mainstream.  Ten to one he used a
name for the password."

[Peter pushes some keys on Dr. Schlossburg's computer and the password
prompt pops up.]

Peter:  "I'm trying... Ginger."

Roedecker:  "Hmm... enthusiastic."

[The computer says access denied.]

Peter:  (sighs)  "Tracy."

Roedecker:  "Jail bait."

[The computer says access denied.]

Peter:  "Seka."

Roedecker:  "Whoa, a blast from the past."

[The computer says access denied.]

Peter:  "Wait a minute.  Here's one."

[Peter unfolds a page that has a picture of the porn star Christy
Canyon.  The bottom right corner of the page has the name of her fan
club, The ChatterBox Club.]

Peter:  "He's a member of her fan club.  Christy."

Roedecker:  "Oh, yeah, she's hot-- an ultra-babe-alicious, or... so
I've been told."

[The computer beeps and files begin to open and display on the screen.]

Peter:  "I'm in."

[Roedecker leans back in his chair.]

Roedecker:  "Ah... that was good for me.  Was it good for you?"

[Peter hangs up his cell phone and watches the files come up.  The
computer beeps turn in to life support machine beeps as we go to a
hospital room.  We see Dr. Schlossburg laying in a hospital bed with
his head bandaged.  His eyes open.  A nurse sees that his eyes are
opened and she hurries to the door and shouts down the hall.]

Nurse:  (speaking German)  "He's awake!"

[Detektiv Heim jumps up from a chair and rushes to the room.  He walks
over to Dr. Schlossburg.]

Heim:  "Dr. Schlossburg?"

[Dr. Schlossburg looks frightened.  They speak German.]

Heim:  "Don't be afraid.  You're safe."

[Heim shows Dr. Schlossburg his identification.]

Heim:  "You're under protective custody, checked into this hospital
under an assumed name.  No one knows you're alive."

[Heim puts away his identification and pulls out a small pad and a pen.]

Heim:  "Can you tell me anything about your attacker?  A description,
anything?"

Schlossburg:  "I know who attacked me."

Heim:  "Ja?"

Schlossburg:  "His name is... Peter Watts."


--------- commercial segment --------- 
 
[Fade from white.] 

[We see Andrews walking up a dark, rat infested alley.  After being
startled by someone, she pulls out her gun.  It is Frank.]

Andrews:  "You were this close to having an additional rectum."

Frank:  "I have reason to believe we're being monitored."

Andrews:  "Is that why you had me meet you outside instead of
someplace warm and light that doesn't have the smell of urine?"

Frank:  "Watts is missing.  I haven't seen him all day.  I tried to
page him.  No response.  I have never known him not to answer a page."

Andrews:  "He's been behaving in an uncharacteristic way.  I've got to
be honest with you, Frank.  The group brought me over here to bring
him in.  He's been acting totally on his own, under the auspice of
Millennium without authorization, without consultation, and he's
brought you into this.  It's jeopardizing your candidacy.  We got to
help him."

Frank:  "What do you want me to do?"

Andrews:  "Find him.  He obviously trusts you.  Determine his
objectives and then contact me.  I'm at this number here."

[Andrews writes a phone number on the back of a Millennium card and
gives it to Frank.]

Andrews:  "At that point we can decide to get him through it or get
him out.  You've already had one attempt on your lives.  Whatever he's
doing... it puts us all in danger."

Frank:  (agreeing)  "Mmm."

[Frank and Andrews leave in different directions.  We then see TC1
walking out to a railing overlooking the alley where they were
standing.]

[Frank has returned to Dr. Schlossburg's lab.  He sees that the
computer is on and notices a page laying beside it that talks about
Saint Sebastian.  He has another vision of arrows going past him and
toward Peter with Peter holding his hands up in front of his face.
The vision stops.]

Peter:  "They're maintaining surveillance out front."

Frank:  "Yeah.  I noticed that.  I found another way in.  You've been
here all this time?"

[Frank turns around and we see Peter sitting on the floor.  Peter nods.]

Frank:  "You made it into the system.  Did you find what you were
looking for?"

Peter:  "No."

Frank:  "Maybe it doesn't exist."

[Peter sighs deeply.  As we hear the following words from Peter, we
hear a solemn violin playing the Millennium theme.]

Peter:  "A thousand years ago, when this man was alive, Otto III,
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, dug up Charlemagne's bones for
inspiration in the planning of a reformation of religious faith across
Europe.  What he saw in those bones gave rise to the persecution,
torture, death of thousands.  At the same time members of the Order of
Knights Chroniclers, whose warnings about the upcoming millennium came
into conflict with the new order of the empire, became hunted.  And
they were forced underground.  The Knights had in their possession a
holy relic... the hand of Saint Sebastian."

Frank:  "Sebastian was ordered shot to death with arrows, but he
miraculously survived."

Peter:  "The bounty for the return of the hand was so lucrative that
member turned against member, the group was almost destroyed,
survivors dispersed all over the world, and the hand of Saint
Sebastian disappeared.  Legend has it that whoever has possession of
the hand has the knowledge to overcome the evils of the millennium."

Frank:  "That's a great story but you can't believe that a mummified
hand, even if it is a holy relic, can tell us anything.  The dead
can't speak."

Peter:  "They talk to you, Frank.  It's your gift.  I've seen it."

[Peter stands up and looks down upon the mummified body.]

Peter:  "Otto III saw evil in the bones of Charlemagne.  I want to
find the good... the faith.  When I first became aware of this
project, I didn't know why I was interested.  It was so..."

Frank:  "Unlike you?"

Peter:  "But when I look at him... this anonymous man from a thousand
years ago, then I know why.  There is no future without a past."

[Peter steps back and leans up against a table, looking toward Frank.]

Peter:  "John Schlossburg called me three days ago and told me he had
found the location of the circle-- the preserved burial site of The
Order of Knights Chroniclers.  I have searched every scrap of
information here.  Maybe in a thousand years, someone will find it
again."

[Christy's ChatterBox chat program pops up on the computer screen and
we hear a female computerized voice as we see the chat displayed on
the screen.]

Voice:  "Come play with me.  Come on, lover.  I'm still hot from our
session last night."

Peter:  "Roedecker says Schlossburg was obsessed with these on-line
sex chats."

Frank:  "Last night?  The policed said he's been dead for three days."

[Frank walks over to the computer and types.]

Frank's chat:  "Do you have the right man?"

Voice:  "You're always just right, Doc.  Last night, and every night."

Frank:  (looking over at Peter)  "Schlossburg's still alive."


BREMERHAVEN CENTRAL HOSPITAL

[Frank and Peter are sitting in a car parked a little ways from the
hospital.  Frank is looking at the entrance through a pair of
binoculars.]

Frank:  "They're keeping him here in protective custody."

[Frank sees a cop in uniform walk up to Detektiv Heim who is putting on
his coat and looking at his watch.]

Frank:  "There's a shift change."

[Now in the hospital, Frank enters a hallway where the cop is getting
settled at a security desk.  Frank is carrying flowers.]

Frank:  "Hi.  Excuse me.  You speak English?"

Cop:  (speaking German)  "This area is not open to the public."

Frank:  "I'm looking for Radiology.  I must've taken a wrong turn or
something."

Cop:  (pointing at a sign)  "Sign... the sign."

Frank:  "Oh, if I could read that I wouldn't have to ask, would I?
Could you help me find it, please?  Could you show me?  Please, it'll
only take a second."

Cop:  "Ja, ja.  Okay, okay."

[The cop, somewhat annoyed, shows Frank the way to Radiology.  After
they leave the hallway, Peter enters and looks for Dr. Schlossburg's
room.  He enters the room and walks over to Dr. Schlossburg who has
his eyes closed.]

Peter:  "Dr. Schlossburg..."

[Dr. Schlossburg opens his eyes.]

Schlossburg:  (speaking German)  "Who are you?"

Peter:  (speaking German)  "I am Peter Watts.  We've talked many times
over the telephone."

Schlossburg:  "There was another person... he introduced himself as
Peter Watts... before he attacked me."

Peter:  "Did he ask you anything before the attack?"

Schlossburg:  "No.  Nothing."

Peter:  "Dr. Schlossburg, did you find the location of the circle?"

[We see the cop return to the security desk and sit down.  Peter leaves
Dr. Schlossburg's room and walks in the opposite direction.  The cop
spots him through a security monitor.]

Cop:  (speaking German)  "What?"

[The cop runs towards Peter.]

Cop:  "Stay where you are!  Halt!"

[Peter runs and disappears around a corner.  The cop runs back to the
security desk and picks up the telephone.  About that time, the two
TCs enter the hallway.  The cop looks at them very annoyed.]

Cop:  "This area is off limits."

[The two TCs pull out guns equiped with silencers.  TC2, with a stern
look on his face, shoots the cop and watches him fall dead to the
floor.  The two TCs walk into Dr. Schlossburg's room.  He turns and
looks at them.  He recognizes TC2 and gets frightened.]

Schlossburg:  (speaking German)  "You!"

[TC1 puts a pillow over Dr. Schlossburg's face and buries the barrel of
her gun into it and shoots twice.  The two TCs look at each other and
then leave.  We see blood seeping out of the gunshot hole in the
pillow.]


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[Fade from white.] 

PEAT BOG
OBENALTENDORF, GERMANY

[Frank and Peter are beside a white van putting on waders.]

Peter:  "Nothing makes any sense.  Until today, I never met Dr.
Schlossburg.  But someone using my name attacked him.  Why let him
live?  Then they make an attempt on our lives, but fail."

Frank:  "Maybe the plan was meant to fail.  So far, every move we've
made has been in reaction to events out of our control."

Peter:  "Until now, someone's been setting us up.  I believe we'll
find out who's responsible when we find the location of the burial
site.  Somehow, everything's tied into this body."

Frank:  "What if the legend's true?  The knowledge to fight the evils
of the millennium are out there."  (referring to the bog)

Peter:  "That's what we're here to find out."

[Frank and Peter walk towards a gate, both carrying a backpack of
supplies.  Frank is also carrying a shovel.  The gate is locked with a
chain, but they are able to push it far enough to squeeze through.
Inside the bog, we see Frank step from solid ground into wet spungy
ground.  After a small struggle, he is able to step back on solid
ground.  Behind him, Peter stops and looks at a map.  The map is made
up of a few aged yellowish parts of an old hand drawn map pasted to a
larger white sheet to hold them in proper position.  On the aged map
we see the ouroboros.  Peter looks up from the map and inspects their
surroundings.]

Peter:  "We're close."

[Peter hands Frank the map and walks on.  As Frank rolls up the map, he
gets another short vision of a shadowy figure of Peter being struck by
arrows.  We now see them proceeding cautiously through the bog with
Peter up front.  Frank steps to one side and starts to sink.  This
time he can not get back on solid ground.  The more he struggles the
deeper he sinks.  He tries to use the shovel to grab a hold of
something solid, but he sinks deeper.  He is now sunk down to his
neck.]

Frank:  "Peter... Peter..."

[Peter turns around and sees Frank's situation and runs to help him.]

Peter:  "Frank!"

Frank:  "Wait, wait, wait.  Go slow.  Go slow."

Peter:  "Give me your hand."

[Peter grabs a hold of Frank and pulls.]

Peter:  "Come on."

[Frank grabs a hold of Peter and helps him pull.]

Frank:  "Let's go."

[Frank is now back on solid ground panting.  He removes the pack from
his back.]

Frank:  "We need the shovel."

[Frank reaches one of the straps of the pack out to Peter.]

Frank:  "Hold on."

[Frank grabs the other stap and leans back down into the bog hole to
grab for the shovel.]

Frank:  "Okay.  Easy.  It's hooked on something.  Pull."

[They pull and the other end of the shovel brings out a mummified body
inside a cage made of plant stalk.  Back outside the gate, we see
three police cars pull up beside the white van.  It is Detektiv Heim
accompanied by a team of police officers.  He looks inside the van and
then addresses his men.]

Heim:  (speaking German)  "We've received information they are inside
the bog.  Consider the subjects armed and dangerous."

[They check their weapons.]

Heim:  "Let's go."

[Heim and his men enter the gate.  Frank and Peter are examining the
bog mummy.  Peter finds a leather pouch and carefully opens it.  He
pulls out the Hand of Saint Sebastian partly covered with a cloth.
Peter sighs, cupping his hand over it.  He looks as if he is about to
cry.]

Frank:  "The Hand of Saint Sebastian."

[Peter covers the Hand with the cloth.]

Frank:  "Wow."

[Frank closes his eyes and lowers his head in amazement.  They look at
the bog mummy and we see a tattoo of the ouroboros.]

Peter:  "This is who we are."

[They hear footsteps approaching.  It is Heim and his men.]

Heim:  "Peter Watts... You are under arrest for the murder of Dr.
Schlossburg."

Frank:  "You're making a mistake."

Heim:  "Cuff him."

[Peter gives the Hand to Frank.]

Peter:  "They must have killed him after I left."

Frank:  "Then they wanted you to find him."

[They put Peter in handcuffs.]

Peter:  "The body, Frank.  Take care of the body."

[They take Peter away, leaving Frank with the bog mummy and the Hand.
We now go to the police station where Andrews is shouting at the
police chief.]

Andrews:  "This is an outrage!  Peter Watts was an assistant Elder
at the F.B.I. for ten years.  He led the International Task Force on
Crime for three of those years.  He's a senior member of the
Millennium Group!  And I don't care what evidence you think you have!
You have the wrong man!"

Chief:  "Miss Andrews, Dr. Schlossburg identified Mr. Watts as his
attacker prior to being murdered.  We place him at the hospital via
video surveillance before the crime."

[Andrews turns around and faces a man, apparently her colleague.]

Andrews:  "Take care of this.  I want him out."

[Andrews walks over to Frank who is now entering the room.]

Andrews:  "You were supposed to apprise me of the situation.  We were
then to decide a cause of action.  Now he's in deep, and so are you.
They say you were excavating a body.  Where is it?"

Frank:  "We were getting very close to finding out who's behind all of
this."

Andrews:  "I want to know everything, Frank."

Frank:  "There's a public storage building near the waterfront on
Rastede.  Meet me there tonight in a couple of hours."

Andrews:  "No more games, Frank."

Frank:  (shaking head no)  "MmmMmm."

[Andrews turns to leave.]

Frank:  "No more games."

[Frank pulls out a cell phone and makes a call.  We then go to
Roedecker who answers his ringing phone.]

Roedecker:  "Hello."

Frank:  "Roedecker, is it possible to find out who accessed
Schlossburg's account to go online two nights ago?"

Roedecker:  "I can maybe get you the charge account of the user and
definitely get the phone number where they connected, especially if
it's international.  It'll just take some time."

Frank:  "I'll take anything you can get.  We're running out of time."

[We now see Frank driving the white van up the street near the public
storage building.  From the other direction, the two TCs drive up in
their black car and cuts him off.  Frank jumps out of the van and runs
to the storage building.  The two TCs follow him with guns in hand.
After checking a few doors, Frank finally finds one unlocked and makes
it inside.  The two TCs come running in right behind him.  They split
up.  TC1 follows the direction Frank went and TC2 goes in another
direction.  TC1 gets off a few unsuccessful shots.  We see sparks fly
from the pipe where the bullets hit.  We see Andrews in another part
of the building.  She hears the gunfire and runs in that direction.
Frank runs up a set of stairs with TC1 running close behind.  On the
next level, Frank comes face to face with TC2 who has his gun aiming
directly at Frank.  Frank stops and slowly steps back.  As we see
TC2's finger starting to squeeze the trigger, we here a gunshot.  TC2
falls to the floor.]

Andrews:  "Over here."

[Frank and Andrews start running down a hallway.]

Andrews:  "What the hell is going on?"

Frank:  "Watts was set up.  He was working with Schlossburg.  They
found the burial site of past Millennium members."

Andrews:  "The legend.  Where is the body now?  Is it safe?"

Frank:  "I hid it here:  Unit 998."

[They stop at the end of a hallway that branches off both left and
right.]

Andrews:  "This way."

[Andrews motions left and Frank starts to go in that direction.
Andrews pops out the clip of blank bullets from her gun and reloads
with live bullets.  The two TCs come up the other end of the hallway
Frank is heading.  He turns to Andrews who is now pointing her gun at
him.]

Frank:  "You?"

Andrews:  "Unit 998.  Let's confirm before we tidy things up."

[Andrews walks with Frank, holding his arm and aiming her gun at him.
The two TCs follow behind.  They walk back downstairs.]

Frank:  "Who do you work for?  How much did they pay you to sell your
soul?  Not enough to kill us.  You set up Watts to distroy the
credibility of the group.  I got it.  What's so important about this
body?"

Andrews:  "What does your gift tell you, Frank?"

Frank:  "Tells me that this was a test of the heart... and you
failed."

[They approach unit 998.]

Frank:  "Key."  (sighs)

[Frank removes the lock.  As he opens the door, Detektiv Heim jumps out
and unarms Andrews.  At the same time, a squad of cops come rushing
out of various other nearby storage units and unarms the two TCs.
Andrews has a look of surprise.]

Frank:  "Detective Heim... a ballistics test will prove that these are
the weapons used for the murder at the hospital."

[Frank looks directly at Andrews.]

Frank:  "You made one mistake.  You gave me your number.  It was the
same phone line used to contact Christy's ChatterBox.  That's how you
set the trap to let us know Schlossburg was still alive."

Heim:  "May I say it now, Mr. Black?"

Frank:  (shaking head yes)  "Mm-Hmm."

Heim:  "Book 'em, Dano.  Murder one."

[We now see Frank and Peter in a room with the body they found.  The
Hand of Saint Sebastian is also on the table just above the body's
head.  Peter is walking around the body.]

Peter:  "His body is covered with tattoos.  I look at this man and I
wonder.  He fought the same fight we waged today.  Did he have the
knowledge that we lack?  The knowledge to overcome the evils of the
millennium?  And did he have the foresight to pass that information
on to us?  Are these tattoos merely decorations or... are they secrets
to be deciphered?  What does he say to you, Frank?"

[Frank looks at The Hand and imitates it with his hand, placing his
fingers in the same positions as those of the Hand.]

Frank:  "He had the knowledge, Pete, but it's inside him.  And I think
that's what he's saying-- It's inside us.  We just have to find it for
ourselves."


[Fade to black.]

[The credits fade in from black... ]


Executive Producer: James Wong & Glen Morgan

Executive Producer: Chris Carter


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[End titles roll]


Ten Thirteen Productions
in association with

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Guest Starring

Terry O’Quinn (Peter Watts)
CCH Pounder (Cheryl Andrews)
Allan Zinyk (Brian Roedecker)
 
Co-starring 
 
Gottfried John (Josef Heim)
Philip Baker Hall (The Group Elder)


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Last Updated: May 08, 2003
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