Nisei

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Investigating a video of an alien autopsy, Mulder and Scully find evidence that Japanese scientists brought to America after the Second World War may have been involved in Scully's abduction. (Part 1 of 2)

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[edit] Teaser

Four Japanese Surgeons, operating on an Alien body.

A train reaches a station, and a man gets off the train, and disconnects to last carridge, and signals the train to start up again. After night falls, cars pull up outside the train, and the passengers get out, and great a Japanese man, who has just gotten of the train carridge. The man gets in one of the cars and leaves. The other men, however, enter the carridge, and put on Bio-Protection suits, and begin operating on a body, they are extracting a green liquid from it. Suddenly, the Military, or possiby the NSA, storms to train, and kill all the men. The put the body in a bag, and leave. A close up shot reaveals the body, is infact an alien, and are also shows a small camera, in the side of the train, that has been recording the whole event.

[edit] Act One

FBI HEADQUARTERS,
WASHINGTON, DC

Scully walks into the office, and finds Mulder watching the video of the autopsy shown earlier. She asks how much it cost him, and he replies $29.95, plus shipping. Scully is shocked by how much it cost, and complains that it seems more faked than the Alien Autopsy aired on FOX, because you can't even see the body. Mulder says what intrigues him, is the striking lack of detail, but what he is really interested in, is when the train carridge (neither of the currently know that this took place in a train), is stormed. The video cuts off just after the squad of men starts firing. Scully asks who is selling the tapes, Mulder replies "Some guy in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Claims he pulled it off the satalite this morning"

ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Kazuo Sakurai, A high ranking Japanese Diplomate, who attacks Mulder

Agents Mulder and Scully, arive outside the house of the man who is selling the tapes. The front door is boarded up, will the back door ha been broken into. By the side of the door, is a mailbox, with "Rat Tail Productions" written at the top of it. Inside the house, Scully finds a man, with his hands tied together with rope, and it appears he was suffocated by a pillowcase on his head, which is bloody. His body is stiil warm, meaning he has only been murdered recently. Mulder spots a man running in a hallway downstairs, and chases the man for about 3 blocks of houses. The man is Japanese, and is carrying a briefcase, which he does not seem reluctant to drop. The man attempts to climb a fence, but Mulder pulls him down, but the man turns to attack him, and seems to be skilled in Martial Arts. He kicks Mulders gun out of his hand, and then tries to run. Mulder pulls up his trouser leg, revealing an ankle holster. He takes the gun out and fires several warning shots at the man. The man turns in shock and looks at Mulder. "Got tired of losing my gun", Mulder explains. Mulder takes the mans bag, and realises he doesn't speak english, before he arrests him.

[edit] Act Two

SUBSTATION C
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

The Japanese Man is in custody, but Scully was unable to locate an Japanese - English interpreter. Towards the end of the hallway, Mulder spots Assistant Director Skinner walking towards them. Mulder mutters a joke to Scully, and says "Look at this, a beacon in the night." Skinner greets Mulder and Scully, and tells them he's having a bit of an international crisis. He tells Mulder that the man he arrested earlier was Kazuo Sakurai, a high ranking Japanese Diplomate, and that Mulder will have to let him go free. Skinner says that the murder victim and the paperwork all have to be handeled by another agency. Before he leaves Skinner tells Mulder to keep his nose clean in everything untill he gets back to Washington.
Scully asks Mulder if he just wants to drop the case, bt he reminds her that he paid $29.95 for the tape, and says he think he's entitled to a few more answers. Mulder opens the trunk of his car and gets out the briefcase that Kazou was carrying. Inside the bag, are satalite photos of a ship at sea. Scully also finds a sheet of paper with a list of UFO club members, with the name Betsy Hagopian circeled. Mulder tells Scully to get a motel room, and find Betsy, while he goes back to 'DC, "like a good boy" as Skinner told him to do, and show the photo to some of his friends.

THE LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON DC

A satalite photo of The Talapus, a Scavenger Ship from San Diego

Mulder returns to the the Lone Gunmen. He shows them the satellite photos that he found in the briefcase. They tell him that the boat in the picture is called the Talapus. They tell him that the Optics of the picture are German, the technology is probably from the USA, and the satellite is Japanese, launched from South America. "Got to love that Global Economy, huh?" replies Mulder. They also tell him that the Talapus was a salvage ship out of San Diego, and it spent months looking for a Japanese sub that went down in World War II, that was rumored to be carrying a load of gold bullion. Mulder asks if they ever found the submarine, and Langley tells him that they didn't, according to the reports, but judging from the photos, the ship never returned to San Diego, because it took the Panama Canal to Newport News in Virginia (A Naval Ship Yard), but none of them can understand why they would go there. "Maybe what they found wasn't a Japanese Sub..."

JAPANESE EMBASSY
WASHINGTON DC

Kazuo Sakurai walks out of the embassy, where a black car is waiting for him. A chauffeur opens the door for him, and he gets in. The chauffeur closes the door, and locks Sakurai in the car. A face comes out of the shadows behind the seats, and smiles a sadistic smile towards him. The driver adjusts his rear view mirror, and reflects the man in the back of the car, strangling Sakurai to death.

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BETSY HAGOPIAN'S HOUSE
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA*

Scully goes to try and find Betsy Hagopian.She arrives at her house, and notices a "MUFON" (Mutual UFO Network) sticker on the window. Scully kmocks the door, and a woman with dark hair answers. Scully asks if she is Betsy, and the woman says that Besty is not there right now. When she asks for any way she could contact Betsy, the woman looks a Scully with awe on her face. Scully apologises and reaches for her badge, and the woman says "I know you". Scully tells her she must be mistaken, but the woman is sure that she ha seen Scully before. She calls for her friend Penny, and when Penny gets there, she straight away says "Oh My God! She's one.". Sclly asks "One what?", and the first woman answers "One of us." Scully tells them they must be mistaken, but Penny calls someone and says to bring the group to Betsy's place. Scully tells them about the man who was murdered by Kazo, and they say that he was one of their group. Scully tells them again that they must be wrong, bt they tell her this;

A Flashback of Scullys Abduction to "The Bright White Place".

LOTTIE HOLLOWAY: Did you have an unexplained event in your life last year? Were you missing for a period of time that can't be accounted for?

(Scully stares at them in shock.)

SCULLY: Why did you ask me that?

PENNY NORTHERN: I think you better sit down, Miss Scully. I think there are some people you're going to want to meet.

When people starts to arive, Scully asures them that she has never seen any of them in her life. They say she cannot remember because she has only been taken once. Sclly asks what they meen by "Taken". They tell her "To the Bright White Place". Scully suddenly sees a flashback of herself lieing on a table, souranded by bright light. A woman asks "You remember, don't you? There were men there, performing tests" Scully asks which men they are talking about, and Lottie tells her that they do not reveal themselves, that they take here memory away, but somehow it keeps seeping back. That some may have come back to her but didn't make scence. Scully doesn't understand why she can't remember the MUFON members. They tell her that the first time, all you remember is the light, then sometimes the faces of the men who perform the tests. Scully stares at her until her memory returns briefly and she sees some kind of tube attached to her belly button during the tests, exactly like Mulder had imagined when Scully was abducted. Her stomach is inflated, being filled with air. It grows very large as two figures, presumably aliens, watch in the background. They ask if she has the mark, and one woman shows hers to Scully. She has a brown mark on the back of her neck, exactly like Scully has. Lottie says that that is where they put the implant. Sclly tries to leave, but Penny convinces her to come and see Betsy...

-Summary will be contineud soon-

[edit] Background Information

[edit] General Information

The episode title is a reference to the term for first-generation Japanese-Americans (American born children of Japanese immigrants).

[edit] Goofs

In act one, it is shown that Kazou Sakurai does not speak, nor understand the English language. However, in the scence where he is killed, his chauffeur speaks to him in English.

[edit] Other

While visiting MUFON, Scully has several flashbacks of the time she was abducted. All of these flashbacks are exactlly the same as how Mulder imagines it happening in an earlier episode, suggesting Mulder possibly has phycic abilities.

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[edit] References

Canadian Northwest Express; Betsy Hagopian; Vancouver; Steve Zinnzser; Knoxville; Tennessee; Allentown; Pennsylvania; Newport News; Virginia; train; alien autopsy; Fox network; execution style; back-up gun; Mutual UFO Network; cancer; sattelite photos; World War II; 731; alien-human hybrid; implant; chip

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Series:	The X-Files
Original Airdate:	11-24-95
Production Number:	3x09
Date(s):	1995
Written by:	Chris Carter, Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by:	Rob Bowman