The X-Files (TV Series)

Sleepless (1994)

Jon Gries: Salvatore Matola

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• Salvatore Matola : They said it'd be like living two lifetimes. And that... at first, that... that's what it was like. Not having to sleep and all made us feel like nothin' could touch us, you know? We'd do 24 hour patrols, night ambushes, you know, that type of thing.

  Fox Mulder : And you never got tired?

  Salvatore Matola : Nah. Not so that we had to sleep. And then, nothing that the pills couldn't fix.

  Fox Mulder : Serotonin?

  Salvatore Matola : Yeah.

  Fox Mulder : How long did this go on?

  Salvatore Matola : Quite awhile, I'd say. Quite awhile until we stopped taking orders from company commander in Saigon.

  Krycek : The entire squadron went AWOL?

  Salvatore Matola : Yeah, somethin' like that.

  Fox Mulder : Well, then who did you take orders from?

  Salvatore Matola : We didn't. We just made up missions as we went along, until it didn't matter anymore who we were killing. Farmers, women. Outside of Phu Bai, there was this... school and uh... they were just kids.

• Fox Mulder : But why Grissom? He was never in country, he wasn't even part of the squadron.

  Salvatore Matola : Sure he was. He made us what we are. Him and Dr. Gerardi.

  Fox Mulder : Who's Gerardi?

  Salvatore Matola : The other Doc. The one who did the surgeries on us. It's because of him... I haven't slept a night in twenty-four years.