1 00:00:02,963 --> 00:00:04,840 NARRATOR: Previously on The X-Files: 2 00:00:05,507 --> 00:00:08,594 You sent for me. I'm here. 3 00:00:08,802 --> 00:00:11,805 We're witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion. 4 00:00:12,014 --> 00:00:15,559 REYES: Kill everyone but the chosen. SCULLY: Alien DNA mixed with our DNA. 5 00:00:15,767 --> 00:00:17,769 Science given to them by an alien race. 6 00:00:18,312 --> 00:00:21,857 Neither you nor I could save mankind from self-extermination. 7 00:00:24,109 --> 00:00:25,819 I just changed the timetable. 8 00:00:26,236 --> 00:00:29,114 Get to the hospital. Help is on its way, I promise. 9 00:00:32,201 --> 00:00:35,204 SMOKING MAN: That their fates were sealed since birth. 10 00:00:35,412 --> 00:00:37,372 They were simply puppets. 11 00:00:37,581 --> 00:00:39,291 The world will go on. 12 00:00:40,167 --> 00:00:42,085 Just in my image instead of God's. 13 00:00:43,545 --> 00:00:44,880 [SHOUTING] 14 00:00:46,173 --> 00:00:47,674 MULDER: Who sent you? 15 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:52,888 You see a seemingly weak man... 16 00:00:53,096 --> 00:00:55,682 ...but I'm the most powerful man in the world. 17 00:00:59,228 --> 00:01:01,605 My name is Carl Gerhard Busch... 18 00:01:02,731 --> 00:01:04,691 ...but I've been known by many aliases... 19 00:01:04,858 --> 00:01:07,319 ...during my long career with the U.S. government. 20 00:01:07,527 --> 00:01:12,366 It's been a humbling job, though I'm hardly known as a humble man. 21 00:01:12,574 --> 00:01:14,993 I've been a witness to history, much of it violent. 22 00:01:15,577 --> 00:01:18,747 Much of it an abomination of the values Americans hold dear. 23 00:01:20,791 --> 00:01:23,460 I've had a privileged seat at the centers of power... 24 00:01:23,669 --> 00:01:27,756 ...held the reins of that power, making sacrifices few are capable of. 25 00:01:27,965 --> 00:01:30,467 Of which even fewer still are willing. 26 00:01:30,676 --> 00:01:34,388 If people knew the truth, they'd riot in the streets. 27 00:01:34,596 --> 00:01:39,518 Too much is made of the will to power, as if our will is free, our choices our own. 28 00:01:39,726 --> 00:01:45,983 Our destinies are forged in our bones, made real by a raging impulse to self-destruct. 29 00:01:49,778 --> 00:01:51,113 I'm not a bad man. 30 00:01:51,321 --> 00:01:52,614 More a practical man. 31 00:01:52,823 --> 00:01:56,660 I have taken certain gifts I was given and made good men great. 32 00:01:56,868 --> 00:01:57,995 It is my greatness. 33 00:02:00,497 --> 00:02:04,793 I'm a father to two men who have figured more in the future than they might ever know. 34 00:02:05,002 --> 00:02:07,337 Both would end up working for the FBI... 35 00:02:07,546 --> 00:02:11,550 ...both complex but dedicated men who sacrificed dearly. 36 00:02:11,758 --> 00:02:16,638 And in their dogged pursuits would end up paying a terrible price... 37 00:02:16,888 --> 00:02:19,891 ...searching for truths as I parceled them out. 38 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:23,937 Truths held only by the few who know the levers of power... 39 00:02:24,146 --> 00:02:26,940 ...and the invisible hand controlling them. 40 00:02:27,149 --> 00:02:28,442 ls there life out there? 41 00:02:28,650 --> 00:02:32,321 Good heavens, to doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. 42 00:02:32,696 --> 00:02:36,700 It's a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity. 43 00:02:36,908 --> 00:02:39,911 The nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools. 44 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:45,042 We listen, we search, we hope for a sign, as if our eyes and ears are good enough... 45 00:02:45,250 --> 00:02:46,626 ...our brains large enough... 46 00:02:46,835 --> 00:02:48,879 ...our egos small enough. 47 00:02:50,047 --> 00:02:51,465 I'm an old man now. 48 00:02:51,673 --> 00:02:54,009 I will leave my own mark upon history. 49 00:02:54,217 --> 00:02:56,511 More than presidents or tyrants. 50 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,805 I don't ask for loyalty and trust... 51 00:02:59,556 --> 00:03:00,974 ...the fleeting bonds of men. 52 00:03:01,725 --> 00:03:06,980 I ask only for the years to show my sons and their sons I was right. 53 00:03:07,189 --> 00:03:12,319 What their father did had to be done. 54 00:03:25,999 --> 00:03:32,631 ARMSTRONG: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 55 00:03:34,674 --> 00:03:35,717 Cut! 56 00:03:35,884 --> 00:03:37,010 [BELL RINGS] 57 00:03:37,177 --> 00:03:39,012 MAN: Reset. Back to one, everybody. 58 00:04:46,538 --> 00:04:49,916 WOMAN: What's her heart rate? MAN: Heart rate elevated to 186 BPM. 59 00:04:50,125 --> 00:04:52,335 WOMAN: Ma'am, can you hear me? Can you hear me, ma'am? 60 00:04:52,544 --> 00:04:55,589 I need her blood pressure. No dilation, unresponsive. 61 00:04:55,797 --> 00:04:58,175 No indication of trauma. You found her where she is? 62 00:04:58,383 --> 00:05:00,760 She must have fallen. It's me, Scully. 63 00:05:00,969 --> 00:05:03,847 Can you hear me? WOMAN: Bit her tongue. No head trauma. 64 00:05:04,055 --> 00:05:05,557 Does she take meds? No. 65 00:05:05,765 --> 00:05:07,976 She's healthy, a doctor. She would've told me. 66 00:05:08,185 --> 00:05:10,687 Hey, hey, hey. We've got a gurney coming in. 67 00:05:11,938 --> 00:05:14,316 What happened? They said she had a seizure. 68 00:05:14,524 --> 00:05:16,735 MAN: One, two, three, lift. 69 00:05:17,402 --> 00:05:21,114 Gentle. Gentle. Call the hospital with our ETA. 70 00:05:21,781 --> 00:05:23,241 Let's clear out. 71 00:05:24,284 --> 00:05:26,786 WOMAN: Coming through. I'm going with you. 72 00:05:26,953 --> 00:05:28,413 [CHATTERING] 73 00:05:31,166 --> 00:05:34,044 I just want someone to tell me what the hell is going on here. 74 00:05:34,211 --> 00:05:36,880 No news, good news, Mulder. That's BS and you know it. 75 00:05:37,088 --> 00:05:39,508 Why don't you go get some air? I'll text you when there's word. 76 00:05:39,716 --> 00:05:41,259 I don't wanna hear it from you. 77 00:05:41,468 --> 00:05:42,552 I wanna talk to Scully. 78 00:05:42,761 --> 00:05:45,889 Excuse me. ls one of you Fox Mulder? 79 00:05:46,097 --> 00:05:48,892 Is she gonna be okay? I'm Dr. Joyet, her neurologist. 80 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,603 We've done a series of tests-- Answer my question. 81 00:05:51,811 --> 00:05:53,104 The answer is we don't know. 82 00:05:53,313 --> 00:05:55,065 What do you mean? What have you been doing? 83 00:05:55,273 --> 00:05:57,108 Mulder, why don't you let her talk? 84 00:05:57,651 --> 00:06:00,320 I wanna talk to Scully. She's still unconscious. 85 00:06:00,654 --> 00:06:04,699 What I know right now is that she has extremely abnormal brain activity. 86 00:06:04,908 --> 00:06:06,701 Abnormal how? 87 00:06:06,910 --> 00:06:08,495 I need to show you something. 88 00:06:09,412 --> 00:06:13,124 We ran her through everything we have here. CTs, fMRl. 89 00:06:13,625 --> 00:06:14,834 The entire protocol. 90 00:06:15,043 --> 00:06:17,128 When I say abnormal... 91 00:06:17,337 --> 00:06:20,215 ...I don't see any damage, just gross abnormality. 92 00:06:20,423 --> 00:06:22,342 The brain is a very complex organ. 93 00:06:22,551 --> 00:06:27,472 A cascading series of subsets that begin and end with the prefrontal cortex... 94 00:06:27,681 --> 00:06:31,810 ...the part that makes us human. What you're seeing now is the PFC in real time. 95 00:06:32,018 --> 00:06:36,231 The reason I don't have any answers for you is I've never seen anything like this before. 96 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:38,441 What's this here? JOYET: The hypothalamus. 97 00:06:38,608 --> 00:06:41,236 The area we associate with fight or flight. 98 00:06:41,403 --> 00:06:44,864 I don't know what I'm looking at, but I'm reading this part as signal. 99 00:06:45,073 --> 00:06:46,908 I'm reading this flashing as code. 100 00:06:47,117 --> 00:06:49,494 You must be mistaken. What do you mean "code"? 101 00:06:49,661 --> 00:06:52,831 Six dots, two dashes: "Him." 102 00:06:53,415 --> 00:06:55,041 "Find him." 103 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:58,420 This is insanity. 104 00:07:00,338 --> 00:07:01,923 I wanna see her. 105 00:07:03,383 --> 00:07:04,926 [EKG BEEPING] 106 00:07:12,559 --> 00:07:13,810 Can she hear us? 107 00:07:14,019 --> 00:07:16,938 What she needs right now is quiet, rest. 108 00:07:17,147 --> 00:07:19,941 Neurologically speaking, her brain's on fire. 109 00:07:20,150 --> 00:07:23,903 I'm sure that's what she needs, but I'm gonna stay here. 110 00:07:25,947 --> 00:07:28,450 Mulder, a moment outside? 111 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,876 You're not helping your cause. Are you helping my cause? 112 00:07:38,084 --> 00:07:39,461 What if it was a message? 113 00:07:39,669 --> 00:07:41,296 Find who? It's absurd. 114 00:07:41,504 --> 00:07:42,839 Who would you be asking for? 115 00:07:43,256 --> 00:07:44,924 Your son. 116 00:07:47,260 --> 00:07:48,720 Why ask for him now? 117 00:07:51,056 --> 00:07:52,182 She's not dying. 118 00:07:52,390 --> 00:07:54,059 Maybe she's not... 119 00:07:54,267 --> 00:07:57,604 ...but I've seen you believe far more absurd things, Agent Mulder. 120 00:07:57,812 --> 00:08:00,023 Far less personal. 121 00:08:02,025 --> 00:08:03,568 Hey- 122 00:08:04,694 --> 00:08:06,488 I care about her too. 123 00:08:06,696 --> 00:08:08,740 I'm just looking for answers here. 124 00:08:08,948 --> 00:08:11,159 Then you go look for them, Skinner. 125 00:08:11,368 --> 00:08:13,828 Where I'm needed is in there. 126 00:08:22,087 --> 00:08:24,089 The thought is imperishable. 127 00:08:24,297 --> 00:08:26,549 A fear that takes hold in the gut. 128 00:08:26,758 --> 00:08:31,096 That the person you care for most in the world could be hurt by you... 129 00:08:31,304 --> 00:08:32,847 ...by your actions... 130 00:08:33,056 --> 00:08:35,141 ...the simple fact of knowing you. 131 00:08:35,350 --> 00:08:37,811 As she lies here, so helpless... 132 00:08:38,019 --> 00:08:41,606 ...those same thoughts and fears flood my mind with questions. 133 00:08:41,815 --> 00:08:46,361 If I caused this, how then can I make it stop? 134 00:08:54,911 --> 00:08:58,456 SMOKING MAN: You think you know who I am. REYES: I thought you were dead. 135 00:08:58,665 --> 00:09:01,376 EINSTEIN: Massive contagion, alien DNA. - Spartan Virus... 136 00:09:01,543 --> 00:09:04,212 SMOKING MAN: You'll be dead yourself, within a week. 137 00:09:12,595 --> 00:09:14,013 Mulder. 138 00:09:14,681 --> 00:09:15,724 Scully. 139 00:09:18,351 --> 00:09:19,853 Mulder, you have to go. 140 00:09:20,061 --> 00:09:22,355 I'm not going anywhere. 141 00:09:22,564 --> 00:09:24,607 To find the Smoking Man. 142 00:09:26,151 --> 00:09:28,778 Scully, I'm gonna get your doctor. No, listen to me. 143 00:09:29,404 --> 00:09:30,697 I've seen it. 144 00:09:30,905 --> 00:09:32,157 You've seen what, Scully? 145 00:09:32,323 --> 00:09:33,992 I know how it begins. 146 00:09:35,618 --> 00:09:36,661 There's a virus. 147 00:09:36,870 --> 00:09:38,371 The Spartan Virus. 148 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,958 It shuts down our immune systems... 149 00:09:42,167 --> 00:09:44,002 ...and it starts a pandemic. Scully. 150 00:09:44,169 --> 00:09:48,339 You had a seizure. You have extremely abnormal brain activity. 151 00:09:48,548 --> 00:09:50,341 No. A plague is released. 152 00:09:50,550 --> 00:09:53,762 But there's a cure. Mulder, I'm absolutely certain about this. 153 00:09:53,970 --> 00:09:57,015 Okay. Tell me what you saw. 154 00:09:58,767 --> 00:10:00,477 You're dying, Mulder... 155 00:10:00,685 --> 00:10:02,312 ...and I can't save you. 156 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,564 Not without stem cells from our son. 157 00:10:04,773 --> 00:10:06,191 Scully, I'm fine. 158 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:09,736 I'm here. There's no plague. You don't need to save me. 159 00:10:09,944 --> 00:10:11,696 The Smoking Man is behind it. 160 00:10:11,905 --> 00:10:14,574 The Smoking Man is dead. No. No, he's not. 161 00:10:15,408 --> 00:10:16,576 He's alive. 162 00:10:16,785 --> 00:10:20,163 And he's in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mulder... 163 00:10:20,371 --> 00:10:23,792 ...from where he unleashes hell on earth. 164 00:10:24,584 --> 00:10:28,129 Scully, I don't doubt you, that you believe what you're saying... 165 00:10:28,338 --> 00:10:31,424 ...but the doctor said that your brain is on fire. 166 00:10:32,258 --> 00:10:34,135 It's me, Mulder. 167 00:10:34,886 --> 00:10:37,472 I'm not an irrational person. 168 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,142 You have to find him and you have to stop him... 169 00:10:41,351 --> 00:10:43,686 ...before he kills you. 170 00:10:45,772 --> 00:10:49,108 I'm gonna talk to your doctor first. Okay? 171 00:11:08,586 --> 00:11:10,088 [CAR STARTS] 172 00:11:19,931 --> 00:11:21,432 [TIRES SQUEALING] 173 00:11:35,697 --> 00:11:38,032 [SHOUTING AND GRUNTING] 174 00:11:44,914 --> 00:11:46,082 Where's the boy? 175 00:11:46,666 --> 00:11:49,002 All we want is the boy. 176 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:52,422 [GRUNTS] 177 00:12:01,431 --> 00:12:02,891 I don't doubt the visions. 178 00:12:03,099 --> 00:12:04,934 It's their specific etiology. 179 00:12:05,143 --> 00:12:08,605 I call them visions, but my experience of them was very real. 180 00:12:08,813 --> 00:12:10,607 Real is a subjective judgment. 181 00:12:10,815 --> 00:12:13,067 If you believe them to be real, they are to you. 182 00:12:13,276 --> 00:12:15,486 The question is where these visions came from. 183 00:12:15,695 --> 00:12:17,655 If the seizure caused them. Or the exact opposite. 184 00:12:17,864 --> 00:12:20,742 If the seizure was caused by the visions. I don't understand the difference. 185 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:24,245 Let's just say we are verging on the fringes of accepted neurology. 186 00:12:24,412 --> 00:12:26,497 You mean you think her visions have a source. 187 00:12:28,541 --> 00:12:30,793 JOYET: This is rather sensitive territory. 188 00:12:33,671 --> 00:12:37,634 I don't have to tell you that we live at the nexus of certain government agencies. 189 00:12:37,842 --> 00:12:40,428 CIA, DIA, NSA, DARPA... 190 00:12:40,637 --> 00:12:43,514 ...doing experiments on the mind even before the Cold War. 191 00:12:43,723 --> 00:12:44,974 We have files on all that. 192 00:12:45,183 --> 00:12:49,395 I've had certain patients, products of these experiments, casualties. 193 00:12:49,604 --> 00:12:52,565 I've also seen things that can only be described as superhuman. 194 00:12:52,774 --> 00:12:54,984 I'm not a part of any experiments. 195 00:12:55,193 --> 00:12:56,569 MULDER: But you may have been. 196 00:12:56,778 --> 00:12:58,488 You said there's a man behind this. 197 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,910 I need to get out of here. Scully. 198 00:13:04,077 --> 00:13:07,205 I have to get to the bottom of this, Mulder. Scully, I'm on this. 199 00:13:08,623 --> 00:13:09,707 I'm on it. 200 00:13:18,383 --> 00:13:19,634 [PHONE BEEPS] 201 00:13:33,648 --> 00:13:35,149 [GROANING] 202 00:13:36,818 --> 00:13:39,487 SMOKING MAN: Why is this happening? Mulder's coming. 203 00:13:39,654 --> 00:13:43,408 SMOKING MAN: This is going to go down badly. We are not to be found. 204 00:13:43,741 --> 00:13:45,576 [PANTING] 205 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:53,876 SPENDER". It's Jeffrey Spender. Someone's looking for your son. For William. 206 00:13:54,085 --> 00:13:58,006 They came after me in my home. You may all be in danger. 207 00:13:58,506 --> 00:14:00,800 They will be coming for me. 208 00:14:06,931 --> 00:14:09,058 Mulder will be coming for me. 209 00:14:12,145 --> 00:14:14,147 If he finds me, he'll kill me. 210 00:14:20,695 --> 00:14:23,281 But we are not to be found. 211 00:14:30,288 --> 00:14:32,415 MULDER: If Scully was a conduit... 212 00:14:32,582 --> 00:14:37,003 ...if her abnormal brain activity was triggered by some external agency... 213 00:14:37,211 --> 00:14:40,298 ...who or what had reason to put her through the trauma? 214 00:14:40,506 --> 00:14:43,509 For what purpose and to what end was she suffering? 215 00:14:44,343 --> 00:14:46,846 Scully's story would be incredible outright. 216 00:14:47,055 --> 00:14:51,392 A dead man unleashing a plague on the world, my impending demise... 217 00:14:51,601 --> 00:14:53,895 ...the desperation to find our son. 218 00:14:54,103 --> 00:14:59,025 Unbelievable. If not for the fact that I've been followed since I left the hospital. 219 00:14:59,233 --> 00:15:00,443 But followed by whom? 220 00:15:09,702 --> 00:15:13,122 This is going to go down badly. Certainly you've taken precautions. 221 00:15:13,289 --> 00:15:16,459 Of course. I've been at this too long not to have my alternatives. 222 00:15:19,545 --> 00:15:21,172 [ENGINES REVVING] 223 00:15:42,735 --> 00:15:45,404 You know Mulder. He's determined. 224 00:15:45,613 --> 00:15:47,907 Determined to what? Stop me? 225 00:15:48,116 --> 00:15:50,535 He can't stop what's already begun. 226 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,214 [CAR HORN HONKING] 227 00:17:17,288 --> 00:17:19,248 [BABY CRYING] 228 00:17:20,249 --> 00:17:22,043 SCULLY: William, our son. 229 00:17:22,251 --> 00:17:25,463 Your child is part alien. SCULLY". They'll take him from us. 230 00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:27,173 SPENDER: Scully. 231 00:17:27,381 --> 00:17:28,674 Agent Scully. 232 00:17:28,883 --> 00:17:30,718 Agent Scully. 233 00:17:31,260 --> 00:17:32,345 What are you doing here? 234 00:17:32,678 --> 00:17:35,514 I've taken a risk coming here. What is it, Spender? 235 00:17:35,723 --> 00:17:37,475 Someone came at me. What do you mean? 236 00:17:37,683 --> 00:17:40,102 Trying to find your son. What did you tell them? 237 00:17:40,311 --> 00:17:43,564 I didn't tell them anything. But they'll be coming at me again. 238 00:17:43,773 --> 00:17:45,399 I need to know where he is. 239 00:17:45,608 --> 00:17:49,570 You made me promise to hide your son. To never to tell you or anyone where he was. 240 00:17:49,779 --> 00:17:51,239 Your son was never to be found. 241 00:17:51,447 --> 00:17:54,492 I'm asking you to break that promise. What if they come at you? 242 00:17:54,659 --> 00:17:58,162 You don't understand. Mulder's life may depend on it. 243 00:17:58,329 --> 00:17:59,497 [JOYET CHATTERING] 244 00:18:03,042 --> 00:18:06,796 I only have a name of the adoptive parents. Van de Kamp. 245 00:18:07,546 --> 00:18:10,132 Help me find him. I've already broken a promise. 246 00:18:10,341 --> 00:18:14,345 No. The Smoking Man, your father, he's the one that's looking for them. 247 00:18:14,553 --> 00:18:16,013 My father's dead. He's alive. 248 00:18:16,222 --> 00:18:17,598 Dana. 249 00:18:17,807 --> 00:18:20,309 You've gotta calm down. I wanna get out of here. 250 00:18:20,518 --> 00:18:22,645 Nurse, help me. Miss Scully. Security. 251 00:18:22,853 --> 00:18:24,105 Where are my things? 252 00:18:24,313 --> 00:18:26,482 You can't keep me here. I fear you may seize. 253 00:18:26,691 --> 00:18:28,859 Just tell me where my things are, I'm leaving. 254 00:18:34,073 --> 00:18:35,992 SMOKING MAN: I'm concerned for Scully. 255 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,205 If she were to fear her boy was in danger, like Mulder, she'd stop at nothing. 256 00:18:41,414 --> 00:18:43,457 The boy is in danger. You said so. 257 00:18:43,666 --> 00:18:45,668 But I don't understand from whom. 258 00:18:45,876 --> 00:18:49,922 You've always had your enemies. Yes, but why go after the boy now'? 259 00:18:50,298 --> 00:18:52,967 Maybe they know he's your weakness. 260 00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:59,765 They couldn't possibly know that. But suddenly everyone knows everything... 261 00:18:59,932 --> 00:19:01,392 ...of you and your plans. 262 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,478 My plans are airtight. And even if they were to get out... 263 00:19:04,687 --> 00:19:06,981 ...they would be dismissed as so much fake news. 264 00:19:07,189 --> 00:19:10,609 That's the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster. 265 00:19:10,818 --> 00:19:14,613 But the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. 266 00:19:14,822 --> 00:19:17,199 We refuse to imagine our impending extinction. 267 00:19:17,408 --> 00:19:19,452 The acceleration of the cataclysms. 268 00:19:19,660 --> 00:19:23,289 We've thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion. 269 00:19:23,497 --> 00:19:27,084 Cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths. 270 00:19:27,293 --> 00:19:29,503 Civilization a joke... 271 00:19:29,712 --> 00:19:33,257 ...and my plan merely the punch line. 272 00:19:36,135 --> 00:19:39,430 MULDER: Were Scully's visions a prophecy playing out in real time? 273 00:19:39,597 --> 00:19:43,184 Just as she foretold, the driver I had dropped had driven me seven hours... 274 00:19:43,392 --> 00:19:47,438 ...through three states and across the border into South Carolina. 275 00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:51,901 [CELL PHONE BUZZING] 276 00:19:54,070 --> 00:19:57,073 Scully, what's wrong? SCULLY: Nothing. Nothing's wrong. 277 00:19:57,281 --> 00:20:00,826 Then stay off the phone. It's okay, Mulder. I'm okay. 278 00:20:01,035 --> 00:20:02,912 No, Scully, you're not. 279 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:06,832 Just listen to me, Mulder. Jeffrey Spender came to me. 280 00:20:07,041 --> 00:20:10,461 What are you talking about? He gave me a name. How to find our son. 281 00:20:10,669 --> 00:20:13,339 Something to start on. You can't be doing this now. 282 00:20:13,547 --> 00:20:16,759 I need to, Mulder. I've seen how it happens and how it ends. 283 00:20:16,967 --> 00:20:19,470 Where are you? I don't want you to worry. 284 00:20:19,678 --> 00:20:21,222 Scully, where are you? 285 00:20:22,515 --> 00:20:24,141 Standing at your desk. 286 00:20:24,350 --> 00:20:26,519 No. It's not worth it. 287 00:20:26,727 --> 00:20:30,439 Mulder, I know what I'm doing. Damn it. Scully. 288 00:20:30,648 --> 00:20:31,774 Where are you? 289 00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:34,860 Passing into South Carolina. I'm following a guy. 290 00:20:36,695 --> 00:20:38,447 This is what I saw, Mulder. 291 00:20:39,490 --> 00:20:40,658 How it begins. 292 00:20:41,033 --> 00:20:43,953 A confrontation between you and the Smoking Man. 293 00:20:44,161 --> 00:20:45,830 All right, look. 294 00:20:46,163 --> 00:20:48,082 I want you to listen to me. No. 295 00:20:48,290 --> 00:20:50,084 This is why you need William. 296 00:20:50,751 --> 00:20:53,421 Why I need to find him. I'm gonna call Skinner. 297 00:20:53,629 --> 00:20:57,633 I need you to just stay put, okay? I have to find our son. 298 00:20:57,842 --> 00:20:59,051 You need him... 299 00:20:59,260 --> 00:21:00,719 ...and I need you. 300 00:21:00,886 --> 00:21:02,388 [GASPS] 301 00:21:03,389 --> 00:21:04,640 Scully? [GROANING] 302 00:21:04,849 --> 00:21:06,475 Scully? 303 00:21:07,309 --> 00:21:09,395 MR. Y: Find the boy. MULDER: What does he want with my son? 304 00:21:09,603 --> 00:21:11,981 MR. Y". He's a very special child. 305 00:21:12,189 --> 00:21:15,067 The threat is that you'll never see your son again. 306 00:21:15,443 --> 00:21:18,696 What is happening? 307 00:21:37,173 --> 00:21:40,551 You think Scully will forgive you? She'll come to see the beauty of it. 308 00:21:40,759 --> 00:21:44,597 The beauty of a planet returned to its savage state. 309 00:21:44,805 --> 00:21:46,432 Living as we were intended. 310 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,478 These are people you're killing. I'm just cleaning the mess that they made. 311 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:52,813 Doesn't mean we won't hate you. 312 00:21:53,022 --> 00:21:55,357 I've endured more hatred than you'll ever know. 313 00:21:55,566 --> 00:21:57,902 My enemies are legion. 314 00:22:00,362 --> 00:22:04,825 MULDER". What price was Scully now paying for her visions and her certainties? 315 00:22:05,034 --> 00:22:07,703 What price would I pay for not turning back to help her? 316 00:22:08,287 --> 00:22:11,874 All I could do was heed her admonitions. 317 00:22:12,625 --> 00:22:14,793 Scully and her boy have a bond beyond you. 318 00:22:15,002 --> 00:22:16,253 Beyond science. 319 00:22:16,462 --> 00:22:18,631 She's completely unaware of that. 320 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:23,260 Really? What makes you so certain? It's a secret only you and I know. 321 00:22:26,472 --> 00:22:30,184 MULDER". I was running on only adrenaline and Scully's premonitions. 322 00:22:30,392 --> 00:22:35,564 But was it hope I should be feeling, or fear that Scully was right... 323 00:22:35,773 --> 00:22:40,110 ...and a man I had come to despise, my own father, was alive? 324 00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:43,447 And if he were, he'd become mad with power. 325 00:22:43,656 --> 00:22:47,284 I owe it to Scully now to find out the truth. 326 00:22:47,743 --> 00:22:50,079 SMOKING MAN: I fear only for Scully and the boy. 327 00:22:50,287 --> 00:22:52,373 And the harm my enemies may bring on them. 328 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:54,458 I think you're in love with her. 329 00:22:58,212 --> 00:22:59,463 I worry for her. 330 00:22:59,838 --> 00:23:04,635 I always had Mulder to protect her. But now he's going to force my hand. 331 00:23:04,843 --> 00:23:08,264 You won't shed a tear for Mulder. Of course I will. He's my son. 332 00:23:08,472 --> 00:23:10,683 What if Scully finds the boy first? 333 00:23:16,063 --> 00:23:18,607 You and I won't let that happen. 334 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:45,861 Federal agent! I'm armed! 335 00:24:48,739 --> 00:24:50,991 Please point the gun away. 336 00:24:51,408 --> 00:24:53,619 Hands! Hands in the air where I can see them. 337 00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:56,038 For heaven's sake, Mr. Mulder. 338 00:24:56,246 --> 00:24:58,332 All you had to do was knock. 339 00:25:03,629 --> 00:25:05,422 Agent Scully? 340 00:25:20,062 --> 00:25:22,690 [CELL PHONE BUZZING] 341 00:25:40,708 --> 00:25:42,918 [CAR ALARMS BEEPING] 342 00:25:49,341 --> 00:25:51,260 Both hands on the wheel. 343 00:25:51,719 --> 00:25:54,972 What the hell is this, Monica? Me with a gun to your head. 344 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,436 [CAR ALARM WAILING] 345 00:26:18,662 --> 00:26:19,913 Mind if I smoke? 346 00:26:27,504 --> 00:26:29,882 [TIRES SQUEALING AND CAR HORNS HONKING] 347 00:26:44,688 --> 00:26:45,814 MAN: Oh, my God! 348 00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:49,777 Ma'am? Are you all right? WOMAN: Call 911! 349 00:26:49,985 --> 00:26:52,279 Ma'am, are you all right? MAN: Be careful. 350 00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:55,991 Ma'am, you okay? WOMAN: Stand back, stand back. 351 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,952 Be careful of her head. MAN: Here we go. I got you. 352 00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:06,293 You've driven a long way. Where's the Smoking Man? 353 00:27:06,502 --> 00:27:08,420 We had hoped you'd show us. Answer me! 354 00:27:08,629 --> 00:27:11,590 We don't know where he is. Then who the hell are you? 355 00:27:12,508 --> 00:27:16,470 My name? I don't think it really matters at this point, do you, Mr. Mulder? 356 00:27:16,678 --> 00:27:19,765 And certainly I think I must apologize for the imposition. 357 00:27:19,973 --> 00:27:21,475 We can tell you this. 358 00:27:21,683 --> 00:27:23,977 He was here not long ago. 359 00:27:24,436 --> 00:27:26,939 We smoked too much and we drank too much in the foreign service. 360 00:27:27,147 --> 00:27:30,275 Your erstwhile father led the way. Answer my question. 361 00:27:30,484 --> 00:27:33,695 We were all part of a syndicate involved in alien colonization. 362 00:27:33,904 --> 00:27:36,657 Surely you knew about this business. You're conspirators. 363 00:27:36,865 --> 00:27:40,118 Not at all. Quite the opposite. Go. 364 00:27:40,786 --> 00:27:42,287 It's okay, Mr. Mulder. 365 00:27:42,496 --> 00:27:46,083 Our man here won't be troubling you any longer. 366 00:27:46,291 --> 00:27:47,376 This is my associate. 367 00:27:48,168 --> 00:27:52,422 I see. Nobody has a name. We've all had many names. 368 00:27:52,631 --> 00:27:53,757 You wanna see me snap? 369 00:27:53,966 --> 00:27:56,468 I don't think you're gonna fire that gun, Mr. Mulder. 370 00:27:56,677 --> 00:27:59,847 You haven't heard what I have to say. Let me out to the point. 371 00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:02,015 The man we're both looking for is bent-- 372 00:28:02,224 --> 00:28:06,311 Hell-bent is what he is. --on exterminating humanity. 373 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,524 You'll be pleased to know, Mr. Skinner, I'm here to offer you a deal. 374 00:28:10,732 --> 00:28:13,735 I don't make deals. This is a waste of time. 375 00:28:13,944 --> 00:28:17,114 You're still a fairly young man. Years to live, by my estimation. 376 00:28:17,322 --> 00:28:20,868 Try me, you son of a bitch. I'm the one with the gun. 377 00:28:22,828 --> 00:28:28,208 Not so long ago, mankind's greatest threats were war, famine, and plague. 378 00:28:28,417 --> 00:28:30,586 We've all but conquered them with hard science. 379 00:28:30,794 --> 00:28:34,548 This faith in technology, our new religion... 380 00:28:34,756 --> 00:28:41,263 ...when a simple pathogen would kill billions and billions. 381 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:46,226 Your immune system will go first, but this is what will finally kill you. 382 00:28:48,729 --> 00:28:50,272 Are you a party to this? 383 00:28:52,941 --> 00:28:54,818 MR. Y: His plan is already in motion. 384 00:28:55,027 --> 00:28:58,947 The aliens are not coming, Mr. Mulder, just so you understand. 385 00:28:59,156 --> 00:29:02,868 No interest in a warming planet with vanishing resources. 386 00:29:03,076 --> 00:29:04,620 So just unleash a plague? 387 00:29:04,828 --> 00:29:08,290 This is no ordinary contagion. This is an alien pathogen. 388 00:29:08,498 --> 00:29:12,502 The end of history, Mr. Mulder. And why you have to kill him. 389 00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:15,589 The threat is that you'll never see your son again. 390 00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:20,010 What are you offering me? 391 00:29:20,802 --> 00:29:22,346 Immunity to it. 392 00:29:22,554 --> 00:29:23,680 In return for what? 393 00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:26,183 Find me the boy, Mr. Skinner. 394 00:29:27,976 --> 00:29:30,812 He needs the boy, Mr. Mulder. He'll never find him. 395 00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:34,149 You doubt his determination? He'll use those closest to you. 396 00:29:34,358 --> 00:29:37,819 What does he want with my son'? PRICE: That's the question, isn't it? 397 00:29:38,028 --> 00:29:40,405 He's clearly a very special child. 398 00:29:44,993 --> 00:29:48,705 Why the hell do you care? MR. Y: We want to save humanity. 399 00:29:48,914 --> 00:29:50,874 He used to want the same. 400 00:29:51,959 --> 00:29:54,711 PRICE: The aliens came to study us... 401 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,630 ...were prepared to work with us. 402 00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:59,299 MR. Y: He was to be the man to lead us. 403 00:29:59,675 --> 00:30:03,971 But he became destructive, he took only his own counsel. 404 00:30:05,514 --> 00:30:09,267 Understand, I protected mankind as long as I could, Mr. Skinner. 405 00:30:09,476 --> 00:30:11,770 I see. So you're the hero. No one would listen. 406 00:30:11,979 --> 00:30:15,273 The aliens brought not only technology... 407 00:30:17,442 --> 00:30:19,945 ...they brought the seeds of our destruction. 408 00:30:20,153 --> 00:30:22,280 It's what our government would never grasp. 409 00:30:22,489 --> 00:30:27,119 And while they were adventuring in Cuba and Vietnam and Central America... 410 00:30:27,327 --> 00:30:31,832 ...I was busy in the Nevada desert dissecting, reverse engineering... 411 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,294 ...playing God with life forms, the stuff of science fiction. 412 00:30:36,586 --> 00:30:42,009 I had the time, the money, and the freedom to plan for a day I knew would come. 413 00:30:44,469 --> 00:30:47,472 You have no idea this man's need to control our fate... 414 00:30:47,681 --> 00:30:52,394 ...how effective and bold his plots and ambitions. 415 00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:55,230 Oh, my gosh, we did it. 416 00:30:55,981 --> 00:30:59,443 That's really the moon? Yes. That's really the moon, Jeffrey. 417 00:30:59,651 --> 00:31:01,528 That's how heroes are made. 418 00:31:01,737 --> 00:31:03,822 MAN [OVER TV]: Roger. How does it look? 419 00:31:03,989 --> 00:31:05,115 Roger. 420 00:31:05,323 --> 00:31:09,619 It's the fourth turning, Mr. Skinner. Civilization is in its final stages. 421 00:31:09,828 --> 00:31:11,246 Alliances are crumbling. 422 00:31:11,455 --> 00:31:13,582 Truth is fluid and alterable. 423 00:31:13,790 --> 00:31:16,043 The only truth left is to survive it. 424 00:31:16,251 --> 00:31:18,420 And who chooses? You? 425 00:31:18,628 --> 00:31:22,841 There are people with immunity. Agent Scully has it, and her son. 426 00:31:23,050 --> 00:31:25,093 They'll survive with a select few. 427 00:31:25,302 --> 00:31:26,553 What about Agent Mulder? 428 00:31:28,346 --> 00:31:29,389 MR. Y: Kill him... 429 00:31:29,598 --> 00:31:31,349 ...before he kills us all. 430 00:31:31,558 --> 00:31:35,604 You're his son, Mr. Mulder. He won't be expecting you. 431 00:31:35,812 --> 00:31:37,189 MULDER: You know what I think? 432 00:31:37,647 --> 00:31:41,860 That's only half the story. He wants to exterminate humanity... 433 00:31:42,069 --> 00:31:45,155 ...what's your budding enterprise? The colonization of space. 434 00:31:45,614 --> 00:31:46,990 We're closer than you think. 435 00:31:47,199 --> 00:31:51,203 Building Dyson Spheres and magnificent habitable structures. 436 00:31:52,537 --> 00:31:53,914 Oh. 437 00:31:54,081 --> 00:31:56,166 That's the plan. 438 00:31:56,708 --> 00:31:58,668 A secret space program? 439 00:31:59,169 --> 00:32:00,378 I don't think so. 440 00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:04,466 I think this is a power play. 441 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,761 You want me to kill him so you can implement your own plan. 442 00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:11,389 You wanna see blood in the streets. The colonization of space? 443 00:32:11,598 --> 00:32:14,810 How do you plan to do that? Transport all humanity off planet? 444 00:32:15,018 --> 00:32:18,522 Seven billion people? That's not possible. Only a chosen few. 445 00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:20,107 And you call him evil? 446 00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:23,610 We can take you with us, Mr. Mulder. You and your boy. 447 00:32:23,819 --> 00:32:26,279 You're a liar. You're all liars. 448 00:32:26,488 --> 00:32:28,323 Then no one can save us. 449 00:32:28,782 --> 00:32:30,784 I know someone who can save us. 450 00:32:30,992 --> 00:32:33,078 And I think you know her too. 451 00:32:34,412 --> 00:32:37,290 Now, get out of my way. 452 00:32:39,084 --> 00:32:41,128 I think we're finished here. 453 00:32:43,463 --> 00:32:46,925 Get your ass back in the car. I'm not finished. 454 00:33:04,943 --> 00:33:06,278 [CELL PHONE BUZZING] 455 00:33:12,576 --> 00:33:14,744 Come on, pick up the phone. 456 00:33:18,123 --> 00:33:19,749 Why do you want the boy? 457 00:33:21,334 --> 00:33:24,379 He's very important to me. You're asking me to betray them... 458 00:33:24,546 --> 00:33:28,091 ...to betray people that I care about. Ha, ha. No, no, no. 459 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:31,178 I'm asking you to turn your back on the whole human race. 460 00:33:33,722 --> 00:33:35,223 Come on. 461 00:33:45,108 --> 00:33:48,820 Are you the FBI agents? I came as quickly as I could. 462 00:33:48,987 --> 00:33:51,865 From what I understand, Agent Einstein may have saved her life. 463 00:33:52,073 --> 00:33:53,116 How did you find her? 464 00:33:53,283 --> 00:33:55,911 We were pulling into the FBI and we saw her car get hit. 465 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:58,705 You knew to bring her here? From her medical bracelet. 466 00:33:58,914 --> 00:34:01,416 Well, she's lucky you found her when you did. 467 00:34:07,964 --> 00:34:09,799 [CELL PHONE BUZZING] 468 00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:15,513 Hello? I just wanted to tell you she's here... 469 00:34:15,722 --> 00:34:17,432 ...in case you were worried. 470 00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:21,478 Where is here? The hospital. 471 00:34:21,686 --> 00:34:24,689 She had an accident and we're monitoring her. 472 00:34:40,455 --> 00:34:42,040 [EKG BEEPING] 473 00:35:30,422 --> 00:35:31,756 [GRUNTING AND GASPING] 474 00:35:55,780 --> 00:35:57,365 [SHOUTS] 475 00:35:57,907 --> 00:35:59,409 [SCULLY PANTING] 476 00:36:21,097 --> 00:36:22,724 MULDER". The horror I had felt. 477 00:36:22,932 --> 00:36:26,686 The gut wrench of seeing Scully fighting against the storm in her head... 478 00:36:26,895 --> 00:36:28,396 ...now only doubled. 479 00:36:28,605 --> 00:36:31,024 Had I come full circle to find the truth? 480 00:36:31,232 --> 00:36:33,443 Or only to uncover greater lies? 481 00:36:33,651 --> 00:36:35,779 Not one conspiracy but two. 482 00:36:35,987 --> 00:36:38,990 They threaten not only Scully, but our son. 483 00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:41,743 A drum beats in my heart. 484 00:36:56,091 --> 00:36:59,135 That man they just wheeled out on a gurney... 485 00:36:59,344 --> 00:37:00,720 ...I know that man. 486 00:37:00,929 --> 00:37:02,972 The Smoking Man didn't send him. 487 00:37:04,224 --> 00:37:05,517 How do you know that? 488 00:37:05,809 --> 00:37:08,645 Because the Smoking Man won't harm me. 489 00:37:09,687 --> 00:37:11,898 He's held my life in his hands. 490 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,025 That" 491 00:37:14,567 --> 00:37:16,861 ...was something else. 492 00:37:18,113 --> 00:37:20,907 Your visions, Scully... 493 00:37:21,491 --> 00:37:22,826 ...they're not wrong. 494 00:37:23,201 --> 00:37:25,453 My visions... 495 00:37:26,246 --> 00:37:27,497 ...are from William. 496 00:37:28,623 --> 00:37:30,250 I don't know how... 497 00:37:30,458 --> 00:37:33,211 ...but I know that he's guiding me... 498 00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:34,629 ...and you. 499 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:41,594 They're looking for him. The Smoking Man can't act without William. 500 00:37:41,803 --> 00:37:43,847 I know that in my bones. 501 00:37:44,055 --> 00:37:46,349 And William knows it. 502 00:37:47,642 --> 00:37:49,436 They won't find him... 503 00:37:49,644 --> 00:37:51,187 ...but he will find us. 504 00:37:54,482 --> 00:37:58,445 So we just wait? 505 00:37:58,653 --> 00:38:00,488 Do nothing? 506 00:38:02,574 --> 00:38:04,826 We do our work. 507 00:38:06,494 --> 00:38:09,706 The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder. 508 00:38:16,963 --> 00:38:18,673 They said you were attacked. 509 00:38:19,299 --> 00:38:20,717 I was calling you. 510 00:38:21,134 --> 00:38:24,262 I didn't get your call. Where have you been, Skinner? 511 00:38:25,513 --> 00:38:26,598 Where have you been? 512 00:38:26,806 --> 00:38:29,642 Leave it alone, Mulder. I asked you to look for her. 513 00:38:29,851 --> 00:38:31,728 I looked for her. Where did you look? 514 00:38:32,854 --> 00:38:34,189 I said leave it alone. 515 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:37,025 You smell like smoke. 516 00:38:38,485 --> 00:38:39,736 Mulder. 517 00:38:46,117 --> 00:38:47,827 MAN 1: Break it up! Break it up! 518 00:38:48,036 --> 00:38:49,287 MAN 2: Come on. 519 00:38:50,371 --> 00:38:52,207 Whose side are you on? 520 00:38:52,749 --> 00:38:54,626 I said leave it alone, Mulder. 521 00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:59,589 MULDER: What are you hiding? 522 00:39:02,133 --> 00:39:05,386 What could possibly make you think that I would ever take your deal? 523 00:39:05,595 --> 00:39:07,180 You're not betraying Scully. 524 00:39:07,388 --> 00:39:10,767 She'll be with us. She's immune. You get off on this, don't you? 525 00:39:10,934 --> 00:39:14,187 Ha, ha. Manufacturing destiny? Then why kill Mulder? 526 00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:17,774 Mulder would kill me. Scully will never take your offer. 527 00:39:19,776 --> 00:39:22,070 She'll take it. Not without Mulder, she won't. 528 00:39:22,278 --> 00:39:24,531 I'll present her with a simple choice. 529 00:39:24,739 --> 00:39:26,908 Mulder or her only son. 530 00:39:27,116 --> 00:39:29,452 So this is just vengeance. 531 00:39:29,661 --> 00:39:31,037 Oh, it's more than that. 532 00:39:32,664 --> 00:39:34,958 Dana and I have a history. 533 00:39:35,416 --> 00:39:39,379 A very important history that goes back 17 years. 534 00:39:45,510 --> 00:39:47,262 I'm glad you came. 535 00:39:48,012 --> 00:39:49,305 We'll need to take a trip. 536 00:39:50,265 --> 00:39:51,808 I'm here. 537 00:39:52,016 --> 00:39:53,309 It will require a few days. 538 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:10,285 [GASPS] 539 00:40:10,702 --> 00:40:11,828 You drugged me. 540 00:40:11,995 --> 00:40:13,871 Ha, ha. I did nothing of the sort. 541 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:19,043 How did I get out of my clothes and into bed? We carried you, my housekeeper and I. 542 00:40:19,252 --> 00:40:23,381 You'd been up for over 30 hours. You were delirious. You can ask her. 543 00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:25,883 I don't know what you're up to. 544 00:40:26,884 --> 00:40:28,678 You impregnated her? 545 00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,889 With science, Mr. Skinner. 546 00:40:32,223 --> 00:40:34,475 Alien science. 547 00:40:34,767 --> 00:40:37,645 To create the first superhuman child. 548 00:40:37,854 --> 00:40:39,105 Mulder's not the father? 549 00:40:42,233 --> 00:40:46,446 I'm asking, who's the father? 550 00:40:47,989 --> 00:40:49,532 I am. 551 00:40:49,741 --> 00:40:51,326 William is my son. 552 00:41:06,424 --> 00:41:08,301 [VOICES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]