1 00:00:02,171 --> 00:00:05,591 - Last season on "The X-Files": - We have the complete corpus 2 00:00:05,674 --> 00:00:10,262 of an extraterrestrial biological entity. The ice-core samples I took can't be faked. 3 00:00:10,345 --> 00:00:12,514 (Mulder) I refuse to believe it's not true. 4 00:00:12,598 --> 00:00:16,852 - So you're saying it's all been a hoax. - Which you've been used to perpetuate. 5 00:00:18,896 --> 00:00:21,773 - (gunshot) - He said that the men behind this hoax 6 00:00:21,857 --> 00:00:24,359 gave me this disease to make you believe. 7 00:00:25,444 --> 00:00:27,863 Early this morning, 8 00:00:27,946 --> 00:00:32,826 I got a call from the police, asking me to come to Agent Mulder's apartment. 9 00:00:34,453 --> 00:00:36,955 The detective asked me... 10 00:00:39,208 --> 00:00:42,502 He needed me to identify a body. 11 00:00:42,586 --> 00:00:45,589 Agent Scully... 12 00:00:54,681 --> 00:00:57,976 Agent Mulder died late last night 13 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:01,897 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 14 00:01:07,152 --> 00:01:09,613 (man) When we speak of life beyond Earth, 15 00:01:09,696 --> 00:01:15,202 what we generally mean is intelligent life, something resembling our noble selves. 16 00:01:16,328 --> 00:01:18,538 It is highly probable 17 00:01:18,622 --> 00:01:24,378 that there are such intelligent forms of life in other galaxies in the universe. 18 00:01:24,461 --> 00:01:27,839 And it is even more probable that many of these forms 19 00:01:27,923 --> 00:01:30,884 are vastly more intelligent than we. 20 00:01:30,968 --> 00:01:35,097 (Mulder) I have held a torch in the darkness to glance upon a truth unknown. 21 00:01:35,180 --> 00:01:37,808 An act of faith begun with an ineloquent certainty 22 00:01:37,891 --> 00:01:42,980 that my journey promised the chance not just of understanding but of recovery, 23 00:01:43,563 --> 00:01:48,402 that the disappearance of my sister 23 years ago would come to be explained, 24 00:01:48,485 --> 00:01:52,281 and that the pursuit of these greater truths about extraterrestrial life 25 00:01:52,364 --> 00:01:54,700 might even reunite us. 26 00:01:54,783 --> 00:02:00,247 A belief which I now know to be false, and uninformed in the extreme. 27 00:02:01,039 --> 00:02:07,004 My folly revealed by facts which illuminate both my arrogance and self-deception. 28 00:02:07,087 --> 00:02:09,548 If only the tragedy had been mine alone, 29 00:02:09,631 --> 00:02:13,844 it might have been more easy tonight to bring this journey to its end. 30 00:02:17,431 --> 00:02:19,516 (Phone) 31 00:02:27,357 --> 00:02:29,443 (man) Agent Mulder? 32 00:02:31,611 --> 00:02:33,655 Agent Mulder? 33 00:02:33,739 --> 00:02:34,781 Yeah. 34 00:02:34,865 --> 00:02:39,119 There's a matter of security I hadn't anticipated. Just after I left your... 35 00:02:39,202 --> 00:02:43,832 - Who are you? - Just after our last conversation I was... 36 00:02:43,915 --> 00:02:48,503 - Who are you? - Are you listening? Are you hearing me? 37 00:02:48,587 --> 00:02:50,922 We can't speak right now. I believe... 38 00:02:51,006 --> 00:02:55,886 Did they give Agent Scully this disease? Did they do this to her because of me? 39 00:02:55,969 --> 00:02:58,597 They may be listening, Agent Mulder. 40 00:02:58,972 --> 00:03:02,976 They may be watching everything you do and say. 41 00:03:04,811 --> 00:03:07,397 Are you listening, Agent Mulder? 42 00:03:08,273 --> 00:03:10,275 Agent Mulder? 43 00:03:11,151 --> 00:03:13,236 Agent Mulder? 44 00:03:29,586 --> 00:03:32,381 Put that out! Back away! 45 00:03:33,048 --> 00:03:35,550 Get away. 46 00:03:40,889 --> 00:03:42,766 (gunshot) 47 00:04:54,212 --> 00:04:55,755 (Dew) 48 00:04:58,091 --> 00:05:00,594 You have no new messages. 49 00:05:11,188 --> 00:05:13,148 (man) Keep going, FBI woman. 50 00:05:13,982 --> 00:05:19,863 Mulder? What are you doing? Why are you sitting in my bedroom in the dark? 51 00:05:20,780 --> 00:05:23,617 It was too crowded in my apartment. I couldn't sleep. 52 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:27,245 - I'm not kidding, Mulder. - Good, cos neither am l. 53 00:05:27,329 --> 00:05:29,372 There's a dead man in my apartment. 54 00:05:29,456 --> 00:05:32,292 It's only a matter of time before he stinks the place up. 55 00:05:32,375 --> 00:05:35,504 What are you talking about, Mulder? What's going on? 56 00:05:36,671 --> 00:05:40,008 Somebody thinks my life is interesting enough to video. 57 00:05:40,091 --> 00:05:44,930 My apartment's been under surveillance for at least two months. Look at this. 58 00:05:45,555 --> 00:05:48,225 Courtesy of the US government. 59 00:05:48,308 --> 00:05:52,103 - That's the dead man in your apartment? - Yeah. He works... 60 00:05:52,187 --> 00:05:54,898 He worked for the Department of Defense. 61 00:05:55,982 --> 00:05:58,360 How did he die, Mulder? 62 00:05:59,194 --> 00:06:01,988 Gunshot wound to the face. 63 00:06:02,072 --> 00:06:03,907 Have you contacted anybody at the Bureau? 64 00:06:03,990 --> 00:06:07,160 I can't do that. I can't go to the authorities. 65 00:06:07,244 --> 00:06:11,289 - What are you talking about? - This man Ostelhoff worked for the military. 66 00:06:11,373 --> 00:06:15,377 Are you getting the picture? Do you see what's happening here? 67 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:18,213 That the hoax is connected to the military. 68 00:06:18,296 --> 00:06:20,924 This hoax, your cancer, everything. 69 00:06:21,007 --> 00:06:25,428 It just doesn't lead back to the military, it leads right back to the FBI. 70 00:06:26,763 --> 00:06:28,640 What? 71 00:06:28,723 --> 00:06:32,519 This man Ostelhoff was set up in the apartment directly above mine. 72 00:06:32,602 --> 00:06:34,437 I caught him destroying phone records 73 00:06:34,521 --> 00:06:37,857 on which the same number was called 17 times. 74 00:06:37,941 --> 00:06:40,569 This is a PBX operator at the Bureau. 75 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:42,612 Yeah. 76 00:06:42,696 --> 00:06:45,365 - Who would he be calling at the FBI? - I don't know. 77 00:06:45,448 --> 00:06:50,745 - Mulder, how long has this been going on? - Maybe since you joined me on the X-Files. 78 00:06:50,829 --> 00:06:54,374 That would mean that for four years we've been pawns in a game, 79 00:06:54,457 --> 00:06:57,377 that it was a lie from the beginning. 80 00:06:58,795 --> 00:07:02,007 Mulder, these men... You give them your faith, 81 00:07:02,090 --> 00:07:04,884 and you're supposed to trust them with your life. 82 00:07:04,968 --> 00:07:09,639 There are those who can be trusted. What I need to know is who among them is not. 83 00:07:10,265 --> 00:07:14,102 I will not allow this treason to prosper, not if they've done this to you. 84 00:07:14,185 --> 00:07:16,813 We can't go to the Bureau making these accusations. 85 00:07:16,896 --> 00:07:19,608 No. But as they lie to us, we can lie to them. 86 00:07:21,526 --> 00:07:23,695 A lie to find the truth. 87 00:07:33,747 --> 00:07:37,250 (Mulder) Let the truth be known though the heavens fall. 88 00:07:37,334 --> 00:07:40,253 The web of lies entangling us can now be connected back 89 00:07:40,337 --> 00:07:43,214 to the very institution which brought us together. 90 00:07:43,298 --> 00:07:48,553 The facts supported by a Byzantine plot, executed by someone inside the FBI, 91 00:07:48,637 --> 00:07:52,641 who, if named, could be tied to the hoax meant to destroy me... 92 00:07:54,017 --> 00:07:57,395 and to the terminal disease inflicted on Scully. 93 00:07:57,479 --> 00:08:02,192 In four years I have shared my partner's passionate search for the truth, 94 00:08:02,275 --> 00:08:04,611 and if my part has been a deception, 95 00:08:04,694 --> 00:08:09,074 I have never seen her integrity waver or her honour compromised. 96 00:08:10,158 --> 00:08:12,869 But now, I ask her to lie... 97 00:08:12,952 --> 00:08:15,455 to the people lying to us. 98 00:08:15,538 --> 00:08:18,041 A dangerous lie to find the truth, 99 00:08:18,124 --> 00:08:22,754 to find the man who would be revealed as its enemy, as our enemy... 100 00:08:24,047 --> 00:08:27,842 as the enemy within. 101 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,388 Agent Scully, 102 00:08:31,471 --> 00:08:34,057 is it true? 103 00:08:34,140 --> 00:08:36,476 Yes, sir. 104 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,896 - Are you all right? - I'm, uh... 105 00:08:39,979 --> 00:08:44,734 I don't know what to say. They asked me to come down and identify the body. 106 00:08:44,818 --> 00:08:48,029 Well, how'd you make the ID? 107 00:08:48,113 --> 00:08:52,867 The word from Alexandria PD is it was self-inflicted. A shotgun blast to the face. 108 00:08:54,119 --> 00:08:58,581 I saw Mulder earlier this morning. He was wearing the same clothes. 109 00:09:04,295 --> 00:09:07,048 Well, I'm very sorry. 110 00:09:10,468 --> 00:09:12,387 Agent Scully. 111 00:09:15,473 --> 00:09:18,393 Section Chief Blevins wants you in for questioning. 112 00:09:18,476 --> 00:09:23,148 He believes you have information that you haven't come forward with. 113 00:09:34,534 --> 00:09:39,205 (Mulder) The military connection to the conspiracy we had pierced was undeniable. 114 00:09:39,289 --> 00:09:42,500 The man in my apartment worked for the Department of Defense, 115 00:09:42,584 --> 00:09:45,170 at its Advanced Research Facility. 116 00:09:45,253 --> 00:09:48,006 What I might find here I was uncertain of, 117 00:09:48,089 --> 00:09:51,468 but my crime had provided me access. 118 00:09:51,551 --> 00:09:56,055 As long as they believed Scully's lie, that it was me lying on that floor, 119 00:09:56,139 --> 00:09:58,600 I might learn truths here. 120 00:09:58,683 --> 00:10:03,438 But if our lies were discovered, both Scully and I would be discovered with them. 121 00:10:07,567 --> 00:10:09,861 (Dew) 122 00:10:19,078 --> 00:10:21,664 Agent Scully. Please have a seat. 123 00:10:26,377 --> 00:10:29,088 Some time has passed since you were first here. 124 00:10:29,172 --> 00:10:30,924 Four years. 125 00:10:31,007 --> 00:10:35,512 From our reports, your work on the X-Files brought you very close to Agent Mulder. 126 00:10:37,013 --> 00:10:40,225 - Yes, sir. - We're all sorry about what's happened. 127 00:10:41,935 --> 00:10:46,481 - But that's not why I'm here. - We've been informed by the DOD 128 00:10:46,564 --> 00:10:48,817 that prior to Agent Mulder's accident 129 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,195 you may have been contacted by a DOD employee. 130 00:10:53,696 --> 00:10:55,406 Yes. That's right. 131 00:10:55,490 --> 00:10:58,326 And that he gave you classified information. 132 00:10:59,327 --> 00:11:04,999 He had information about the discovery of what Mulder believed to be an alien corpse. 133 00:11:05,083 --> 00:11:08,628 He, uh... he said the body was part of a hoax. 134 00:11:08,711 --> 00:11:11,422 He provided evidence of this? 135 00:11:12,382 --> 00:11:14,759 No hard evidence, no. 136 00:11:16,386 --> 00:11:20,265 Agent Scully, I suggest you tell us everything you know. 137 00:11:20,348 --> 00:11:24,602 If you have any knowledge of this man, you should speak up now. 138 00:11:24,686 --> 00:11:27,397 - What knowledge? - His name. 139 00:11:35,697 --> 00:11:37,657 Whatever you're withholding, 140 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:41,369 you'll be asked to explain yourself tonight 141 00:11:41,452 --> 00:11:45,248 at a joint FBI panel I've asked assembled on this matter. 142 00:11:47,125 --> 00:11:50,211 Is this the man? Michael Kritschgau? 143 00:11:56,926 --> 00:11:58,845 Yes. 144 00:12:25,496 --> 00:12:26,623 Hey. 145 00:12:26,706 --> 00:12:29,792 - How'd you get in here? - Through the front door. 146 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:34,088 - You can't bypass security. - You can when you have the card. 147 00:12:34,505 --> 00:12:37,342 Put that away. Put it away. 148 00:12:38,217 --> 00:12:41,179 You knew my apartment was being surveilled. How? 149 00:12:43,932 --> 00:12:46,017 Come with me. 150 00:12:55,485 --> 00:12:59,155 I was followed from your apartment the night we spoke. 151 00:12:59,238 --> 00:13:03,242 Someone at the FBI is involved. This man Ostelhoff was the contact... 152 00:13:03,326 --> 00:13:05,536 How did you get his card? 153 00:13:06,955 --> 00:13:09,624 I found it on a dead man. 154 00:13:10,625 --> 00:13:13,252 You know what that is? 155 00:13:13,336 --> 00:13:16,923 What you have in your hand? It gives you level-four clearance. 156 00:13:17,006 --> 00:13:20,259 Level-four clearance? I get to dine at the Officers' Club? 157 00:13:20,343 --> 00:13:24,180 You have access to everything. Things that I can only tell you about. 158 00:13:24,263 --> 00:13:27,934 - I need to know who did this to Scully. - Which you can have. 159 00:13:28,017 --> 00:13:31,062 - What you may find is much more than that. - What? 160 00:13:31,729 --> 00:13:34,607 What you want most desperately of all. 161 00:13:35,191 --> 00:13:38,903 The cure for Scully's cancer? 162 00:15:13,831 --> 00:15:16,167 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 163 00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:19,337 - Communication Center, please. - One moment. 164 00:15:21,422 --> 00:15:24,092 - Communications. Holly. - It's Dana Scully. 165 00:15:24,175 --> 00:15:27,178 Dana, I'm so sorry about what's happened. I just heard. 166 00:15:27,678 --> 00:15:32,892 I need your help on something. I was hoping that you could help with some information. 167 00:15:33,643 --> 00:15:37,647 - Sure. What do you need? - I have some calls placed to the Bureau, 168 00:15:37,730 --> 00:15:41,484 on the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth. 169 00:15:41,734 --> 00:15:43,986 They came in to the PBX operator. 170 00:15:45,196 --> 00:15:47,698 The first was at 11:21. 171 00:15:47,782 --> 00:15:51,369 The next at 11:14, 3:07, 172 00:15:51,452 --> 00:15:54,330 2202 and 5212. 173 00:15:55,248 --> 00:15:57,750 They would have all gone to the same extension. 174 00:15:57,834 --> 00:16:01,504 - And you're looking for that extension? - Yes. 175 00:16:03,089 --> 00:16:08,427 I got five calls matching the times and dates transferred to an executive-level extension. 176 00:16:08,886 --> 00:16:11,806 - Whose? - It could be anyone at that level. 177 00:16:13,975 --> 00:16:17,645 Would Assistant Director Skinner be at that extension? 178 00:16:24,986 --> 00:16:26,696 Yes. 179 00:16:29,866 --> 00:16:33,494 - Thank you. - OK. You take care now, Dana. 180 00:16:38,875 --> 00:16:40,751 (Phone) 181 00:16:42,753 --> 00:16:43,796 Yes? 182 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,882 - (man) Special Agent Scully? - Yes. 183 00:16:45,965 --> 00:16:50,261 This is Dr Vitagliano at the Paleoclimatology Department at American University. 184 00:16:50,344 --> 00:16:53,931 You'd asked me to look into these ice-core samples for you. 185 00:16:54,015 --> 00:16:56,851 Right. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you. 186 00:16:56,934 --> 00:16:59,395 You might wanna come down to the lab. 187 00:16:59,478 --> 00:17:03,024 There's something I know you're gonna want to see for yourself. 188 00:17:05,526 --> 00:17:09,780 - What am I looking for? - Level four is a biological quarantine wing. 189 00:17:09,864 --> 00:17:12,491 It houses a series of labs and medical facilities 190 00:17:12,575 --> 00:17:16,787 in an elaborate system for the storage of vast quantities of DNA. 191 00:17:16,871 --> 00:17:20,958 - DNA from whom? - Virtually every American born since 1945. 192 00:17:21,042 --> 00:17:26,047 Every immigrant, every indigenous person who's given blood to a government doctor. 193 00:17:26,130 --> 00:17:29,675 This is what I told you. This is the hoax into which you've been drawn. 194 00:17:29,759 --> 00:17:32,637 The roots go back 50 years to the end of World War ll. 195 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,556 Playing on a national appetite for bogus revelation 196 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,768 and a public newly fearful of the atom bomb, 197 00:17:38,851 --> 00:17:44,232 the US military command fanned the flames of what were called "flying saucer" stories. 198 00:17:44,315 --> 00:17:46,776 There are truths which can kill a nation. 199 00:17:46,859 --> 00:17:50,738 The military needed something to deflect attention away from its arms strategy: 200 00:17:50,821 --> 00:17:54,784 global domination through the capability of total enemy annihilation. 201 00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:57,578 The nuclear card was fine if we alone could play it, 202 00:17:57,662 --> 00:18:01,249 but the generals knew they could not win a public-relations war. 203 00:18:01,707 --> 00:18:06,087 Those photos from Hiroshima were not faces Americans wanted to see in a mirror. 204 00:18:06,170 --> 00:18:08,881 Oppenheimer knew it, but we silenced him. 205 00:18:08,965 --> 00:18:13,761 When the Russians developed the bomb, the fear in the military was for armistice. 206 00:18:14,845 --> 00:18:17,807 The business of America isn't business, it's war. 207 00:18:17,890 --> 00:18:20,977 Since Antietam nothing has driven the economy faster. 208 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:23,396 We needed a reason to keep spending money. 209 00:18:23,479 --> 00:18:26,691 If there wasn't a war, we called it war anyway. 210 00:18:26,774 --> 00:18:30,152 The Cold War was essentially a 50-year public-relations battle, 211 00:18:30,236 --> 00:18:33,823 a pitched game of chicken against an enemy we only called names. 212 00:18:34,282 --> 00:18:36,075 The Communists called us a few names, too. 213 00:18:36,158 --> 00:18:38,661 "We will bury you", Khrushchev said. 214 00:18:38,744 --> 00:18:43,165 The public believed it. After what McCarthy had done, they ate it with a big spoon. 215 00:18:43,249 --> 00:18:46,294 We squared off a few times, in Cuba, Korea and Vietnam. 216 00:18:46,377 --> 00:18:51,215 - Nobody dropped the bomb. Nobody dared. - What has this to do with flying saucers? 217 00:18:51,299 --> 00:18:55,094 The US military saw a good thing in '47 when the Roswell story broke. 218 00:18:55,177 --> 00:18:59,348 The more we denied it, the more people believed it was true. Aliens had landed: 219 00:18:59,432 --> 00:19:03,936 a made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest. 220 00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:09,108 They opened investigations called Grudge, Twinkle, Project "Blue Book", Majestic 12. 221 00:19:09,191 --> 00:19:11,402 They brought in professors, congressmen, 222 00:19:11,485 --> 00:19:16,490 fed them enough bogus facts, fuzzy photos and eyewitnesses that they believed it, too. 223 00:19:16,574 --> 00:19:19,535 They'd even hooked Doug MacArthur, for God's sake. 224 00:19:19,618 --> 00:19:22,288 I can't tell you how fortuitous the timing was. 225 00:19:22,371 --> 00:19:26,459 You know when the first supersonic flight was? 1947. 226 00:19:26,542 --> 00:19:30,296 Soon every experimental aircraft being flown was a UFO sighting. 227 00:19:30,379 --> 00:19:33,466 When the abduction stories started up, it was too perfect. 228 00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:37,970 We'd almost gotten caught in Korea, a misstep. China and the Soviets knew it. 229 00:19:38,054 --> 00:19:39,889 The UN got heated up. 230 00:19:39,972 --> 00:19:43,976 Germ warfare. We were accused of using it on the Koreans. 231 00:19:47,938 --> 00:19:51,442 It was developmental, nothing like what we and the Russians have now. 232 00:19:51,525 --> 00:19:55,988 The bio-weapons used in the Gulf War were so ingenious as to be almost undetectable. 233 00:19:56,072 --> 00:20:00,659 - Developed right in this very building. - And these abductions, they've been lies? 234 00:20:00,743 --> 00:20:05,247 Not lies, exactly. But citizens taken unsuspecting and tested. 235 00:20:05,331 --> 00:20:09,210 A classified military project above top-secret and still ongoing. 236 00:20:09,293 --> 00:20:13,214 You've heard the recent denials about Roswell by the military and the CIA? 237 00:20:13,297 --> 00:20:16,759 What's been the effect? Even wilder and more widespread belief. 238 00:20:16,842 --> 00:20:19,929 The American appetite for bogus revelation. 239 00:20:20,012 --> 00:20:23,974 But I've seen aliens. I've witnessed these things. 240 00:20:24,058 --> 00:20:26,977 You've seen what they wanted you to see. 241 00:20:32,650 --> 00:20:37,238 The line between science and science fiction doesn't exist. This is about control, 242 00:20:37,321 --> 00:20:41,033 of the very elements of life - DNA. Yours, mine, everyone's. 243 00:20:41,117 --> 00:20:42,576 Then why a hoax? 244 00:20:42,660 --> 00:20:45,996 Why create hard evidence, an alien body that could be disproved? 245 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,749 The body you found was so good, so believable, 246 00:20:48,833 --> 00:20:52,586 that only a scientific examination would have proven the fraud. 247 00:20:52,670 --> 00:20:55,172 Scully would have known. 248 00:20:55,256 --> 00:21:00,261 The hoax was planned so that Agent Scully wouldn't be alive to do an examination. 249 00:21:01,262 --> 00:21:05,224 You went along with all this. You let them do this to Scully. 250 00:21:06,517 --> 00:21:09,603 I paid the price, Agent Mulder. 251 00:21:09,687 --> 00:21:13,274 When my son came back sick from the Gulf War, that was my retribution. 252 00:21:13,357 --> 00:21:16,193 I'm helping you now, but not unselfishly. 253 00:21:16,277 --> 00:21:19,321 Do you believe there's a cure for him in here, too? 254 00:21:19,405 --> 00:21:21,949 I have to think there is. 255 00:21:32,251 --> 00:21:33,878 (Dew) 256 00:21:43,554 --> 00:21:46,891 Michael Kritschgau, may we talk to you? 257 00:21:46,974 --> 00:21:49,894 - What about? - DOD is detaining you for questioning. 258 00:21:49,977 --> 00:21:52,646 Would you come with us, Mr Kritschgau? 259 00:21:53,063 --> 00:21:55,649 Sir? 260 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:25,888 I was told that you needed to see me. That there was some urgency. 261 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,143 - It seems I've been left out of the loop. - Left out? 262 00:22:33,062 --> 00:22:36,440 You were watching Mulder. You had a man on him. 263 00:22:37,691 --> 00:22:40,611 No one bothered to inform me of this. 264 00:22:42,112 --> 00:22:44,448 I know nothing about a man. 265 00:22:44,532 --> 00:22:47,826 I will not be cut out like this! 266 00:22:47,910 --> 00:22:50,538 You need my expertise. 267 00:22:53,832 --> 00:22:55,918 Is this being run from DOD? 268 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:59,004 If it is, I'm unaware of it. 269 00:23:01,048 --> 00:23:04,343 I've always kept Mulder in check. 270 00:23:04,426 --> 00:23:07,346 I put this whole thing together. I created Mulder. 271 00:23:07,429 --> 00:23:09,682 Agent Mulder is dead. 272 00:23:10,307 --> 00:23:13,227 Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. 273 00:23:15,729 --> 00:23:18,649 Mulder killed himself. 274 00:23:18,732 --> 00:23:24,321 Mulder was an asset. Without his partner, we may have underestimated his fragility. 275 00:23:24,405 --> 00:23:27,074 I've never underestimated Mulder. 276 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,746 I still don't. 277 00:23:47,177 --> 00:23:49,597 As you'd asked, I've tested some of the cellular material 278 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,683 found in the ice-core sample. 279 00:23:52,766 --> 00:23:56,270 Because we couldn't identify it as either plant or animal, 280 00:23:56,353 --> 00:23:59,356 only as some kind of chimeric hybrid, 281 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,235 I put some of the cells in media containing foetal bovine serum. 282 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:05,029 The cells began to divide. 283 00:24:05,613 --> 00:24:07,906 Then they were animal cells that you found. 284 00:24:08,198 --> 00:24:13,287 - They are not classifiable. - You said there was mitotic cell division. 285 00:24:13,370 --> 00:24:16,290 When the cells began to divide they didn't just multiply. 286 00:24:16,373 --> 00:24:21,462 They began to go through the stages of morula, blastula, gastrula. 287 00:24:22,463 --> 00:24:26,008 - They began somatic development? - The beginning of a life form. 288 00:24:32,348 --> 00:24:36,101 Growing into what... I don't know. 289 00:24:42,483 --> 00:24:45,152 (Mulder) I had come here looking for answers, 290 00:24:45,235 --> 00:24:49,823 hoping not only to lay bare this conspiracy against the country and the men behind it, 291 00:24:49,907 --> 00:24:55,329 but to finally learn the truth about the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life. 292 00:24:55,412 --> 00:25:00,793 Now, with what I've heard, my beliefs seem more and more improbable. 293 00:25:01,377 --> 00:25:03,295 The possibility of a cure for Scully 294 00:25:03,379 --> 00:25:06,048 somewhere inside these walls, my only hope. 295 00:25:07,299 --> 00:25:10,928 But if I might find it and somehow save her, 296 00:25:11,011 --> 00:25:15,015 the very existence of this cure would mean with certainty 297 00:25:15,099 --> 00:25:18,394 that I have believed in a lie from the start. 298 00:25:41,917 --> 00:25:43,502 (Click) 299 00:26:34,887 --> 00:26:39,683 (Scully) I had no way to reach Agent Mulder, to tell him what I had discovered: 300 00:26:39,767 --> 00:26:42,227 an unidentified microscopic life form, 301 00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:46,690 whose very existence held the possibility of revelation. 302 00:26:46,774 --> 00:26:51,737 Was this organism, extracted from the ice which had entombed the alien corpse, 303 00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:56,533 the germ cell that might give proof of extraterrestrial life? 304 00:26:56,617 --> 00:27:02,498 Or was it just the opposite: the scientifically engineered creation of a chimera, 305 00:27:02,581 --> 00:27:08,170 an unclassifiable biological product designed to set up a hoax, 306 00:27:08,253 --> 00:27:12,633 manufactured to create the false beliefs that have long driven Agent Mulder? 307 00:27:14,885 --> 00:27:17,638 I now began to realise that the answer to this question 308 00:27:17,721 --> 00:27:21,141 might exist within the life form itself. 309 00:27:21,308 --> 00:27:25,979 Biological proof of its connection to the cancer invading my body, 310 00:27:26,063 --> 00:27:29,024 to a virus living inside this organism 311 00:27:29,107 --> 00:27:32,986 to which I had been exposed during my abduction three years ago. 312 00:27:57,135 --> 00:28:00,472 - I'm not sure what you hope to find. - I need to do a Southern blot, 313 00:28:00,556 --> 00:28:04,142 to run the culture that you showed me against my own DNA. 314 00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:07,771 You said that the unclassified cells you saw were full of virus. 315 00:28:07,855 --> 00:28:10,524 Right. What are you looking for? 316 00:28:10,941 --> 00:28:14,695 A match. And I need it before seven. 317 00:28:14,778 --> 00:28:16,572 Tonight? 318 00:28:16,655 --> 00:28:21,285 Not gonna happen. Not unless we have a blazing-hot probe. 319 00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:23,704 It's got to happen. 320 00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:27,457 Everything in my life depends on it. 321 00:28:45,183 --> 00:28:47,936 - What are you doing? - I was gonna ask you the same. 322 00:28:48,020 --> 00:28:50,439 No, you weren't. You followed me here. 323 00:28:50,522 --> 00:28:54,610 Why are you following me? Is this more dirty work you're doing for the DOD? 324 00:28:54,693 --> 00:28:57,571 Why don't you tell me what you're doing here? 325 00:28:57,654 --> 00:29:00,198 - I want an answer from you. - I want an answer from you! 326 00:29:00,282 --> 00:29:03,493 - This isn't your job! - My job is to direct the agents under me. 327 00:29:03,577 --> 00:29:07,497 To question their motives when they're lying about investigations. 328 00:29:07,581 --> 00:29:11,001 To take steps to cease or censure those actions. 329 00:29:12,336 --> 00:29:16,131 - Your lying is on record. - And what about yours? 330 00:29:16,214 --> 00:29:21,094 I have the pathology and forensics reports for the body found in Mulder's apartment. 331 00:29:23,513 --> 00:29:27,392 Now, you have to answer for yourself in five hours. 332 00:29:27,476 --> 00:29:31,313 As you compound the lies, you compound the consequences for them. 333 00:29:31,396 --> 00:29:34,191 All lies lead to the truth. Isn't that right? 334 00:29:34,274 --> 00:29:37,736 And what about your lie, Agent Scully? What does it lead to? 335 00:29:37,819 --> 00:29:41,865 The truth. About the men behind what happened to me. 336 00:29:41,949 --> 00:29:44,242 About my abduction and the tests. 337 00:29:44,326 --> 00:29:47,079 About being exposed to something against my will. 338 00:29:47,162 --> 00:29:51,208 About being put on a table and having something implanted in me, 339 00:29:51,291 --> 00:29:52,793 then having my memory stolen, 340 00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:56,254 only to have it returned along with a disease I was given. 341 00:29:56,338 --> 00:30:00,676 Is that yourjustification? Is that what you'll tell the joint panel tonight? 342 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:04,471 - Are you afraid of that? - Well, considering the dead man 343 00:30:04,554 --> 00:30:09,142 was murdered in cold blood and you wilfully misidentified him, yes, I am afraid. 344 00:30:09,977 --> 00:30:14,272 - But I'm only afraid for you. - You're gonna use that against me. 345 00:30:14,356 --> 00:30:19,111 You're gonna use me as I've been used all along, to preserve the lies. 346 00:30:19,194 --> 00:30:21,279 Where is Agent Mulder? 347 00:30:26,201 --> 00:30:28,787 Your silence won't save you. 348 00:30:30,706 --> 00:30:35,085 Not with these people. And if you lie, I don't know if anything can. 349 00:30:36,003 --> 00:30:38,088 Except proof. 350 00:30:42,175 --> 00:30:47,222 (Scully) The cruellest ironies are those consecrated by the passage of time, 351 00:30:47,305 --> 00:30:51,059 chanced and occasioned by shocking discovery. 352 00:30:52,477 --> 00:30:57,691 I had joined Mulder on the X-Files because of my background in the medical sciences. 353 00:30:58,525 --> 00:31:01,319 My assignment was to question his work, 354 00:31:01,403 --> 00:31:06,867 to debunk his investigations and rein him back into the FBI mainstream. 355 00:31:08,535 --> 00:31:12,622 Now, as fate would have it, I am calling on these very same skills 356 00:31:12,706 --> 00:31:15,709 to prove that he has been the target of a scheme 357 00:31:15,792 --> 00:31:19,546 orchestrated by someone close to us in the FBI. 358 00:31:20,672 --> 00:31:23,592 Someone we have trusted above all others, 359 00:31:23,675 --> 00:31:29,056 involved in a highly organised plot to keep a dangerous secret from the light of day. 360 00:31:30,223 --> 00:31:35,020 I could only guess at what Agent Mulder may have uncovered on his own, 361 00:31:35,103 --> 00:31:37,647 what he may have found to confirm or deny 362 00:31:37,731 --> 00:31:41,610 what he has long held to be a conspiracy to control the public inquiry 363 00:31:41,693 --> 00:31:46,823 into the government's knowledge and contact with an alien race or races. 364 00:31:46,907 --> 00:31:49,534 If he had hoped, as I do, 365 00:31:49,618 --> 00:31:53,497 to learn the identity of those who sought to destroy us, 366 00:31:53,872 --> 00:31:57,793 I had, with the discovery of this unidentified microorganism, 367 00:31:57,876 --> 00:32:00,504 what could amount to forensic evidence. 368 00:32:02,047 --> 00:32:07,511 Hard and undeniable genetic evidence of a connection between the conspirators 369 00:32:07,594 --> 00:32:12,432 and the cancer which has now metastasised in my bloodstream. 370 00:32:17,187 --> 00:32:18,730 (Dew) 371 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,123 I have few short hours to conduct these tests 372 00:32:36,206 --> 00:32:40,377 before I must appear before an FBI panel to explain myself. 373 00:32:41,837 --> 00:32:45,549 And as I am ready to lie to them about Agent Mulder, 374 00:32:45,632 --> 00:32:49,094 I am also ready to confront them with proof. 375 00:32:49,177 --> 00:32:52,055 Proof extracted from this tiny organism 376 00:32:52,139 --> 00:32:56,434 that could blow open a conspiracy of global consequence. 377 00:32:58,311 --> 00:33:02,566 (Mulder) If Scully and I were led to believe that the conspiracy meant to destroy us 378 00:33:02,649 --> 00:33:05,235 has its roots in the Department of Defense, 379 00:33:05,318 --> 00:33:08,530 that fact seems all but irrefutable now. 380 00:33:08,613 --> 00:33:14,119 I had entered a storage facility by a hallway connecting underground to the Pentagon. 381 00:33:14,202 --> 00:33:17,789 On hundreds of shelves are materials that reveal nothing 382 00:33:17,873 --> 00:33:20,208 of the cure for Scully's cancer. 383 00:33:20,292 --> 00:33:23,420 And now, as I have reached the terminus of this space, 384 00:33:23,503 --> 00:33:25,922 what appears to be an old filing system 385 00:33:26,006 --> 00:33:31,261 seems my only hope of finding what this man Kritschgau has assured me exists. 386 00:33:31,344 --> 00:33:34,848 If his own desperate hope for his son's cure has eluded him, 387 00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:37,601 I now share his desperation. 388 00:33:37,684 --> 00:33:40,478 But among these drawers is a sign, a glimmer, 389 00:33:40,562 --> 00:33:44,941 some small confirmation that the journey which has brought me here 390 00:33:45,025 --> 00:33:47,527 has not been in vain. 391 00:34:16,973 --> 00:34:18,516 (Phone) 392 00:34:21,978 --> 00:34:23,021 Yes? 393 00:34:23,104 --> 00:34:26,900 I had orders to contact you if Scott Ostelhoff entered the building. 394 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,072 - Is he there? - His key card was scanned at level four. 395 00:34:32,822 --> 00:34:36,159 He used the subterranean access to breach the Pentagon. 396 00:34:37,661 --> 00:34:40,705 - Are you sure it's him? - I can't ascertain that. 397 00:34:40,956 --> 00:34:44,584 - Do you want me to apprehend him? - Don't do or say anything. 398 00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:47,170 I'm on my way. 399 00:34:53,927 --> 00:34:58,098 (Scully) If my work with Agent Mulder has tested the foundation of my beliefs, 400 00:34:58,181 --> 00:35:02,352 science has been, and continues to be, my guiding light. 401 00:35:02,936 --> 00:35:09,025 Now I am again relying on its familiar and systematic methods to arrive at a truth, 402 00:35:09,109 --> 00:35:12,737 a fact that might explain the fate that has befallen me. 403 00:35:13,446 --> 00:35:17,659 An investigation that began without, now turning within. 404 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,414 Taking cellular material from the unidentified life form 405 00:35:22,497 --> 00:35:25,166 and isolating a virus contained within it, 406 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:27,335 then matching the DNA from this virus 407 00:35:27,419 --> 00:35:30,463 against that which I believe has caused my cancer, 408 00:35:30,547 --> 00:35:32,757 I hope a picture will develop. 409 00:35:32,841 --> 00:35:35,593 A picture that might confirm my darkest suspicions 410 00:35:35,677 --> 00:35:39,139 about the source of this disease invading my body, 411 00:35:39,222 --> 00:35:43,059 in hope of providing evidence that its cause is not without blame, 412 00:35:43,143 --> 00:35:45,645 even though its cure remains unknown. 413 00:35:46,313 --> 00:35:49,190 If science serves me to these ends, 414 00:35:49,274 --> 00:35:54,487 it is not lost on me that the tool which I have come to depend on absolutely 415 00:35:54,571 --> 00:35:57,490 cannot save or protect me, 416 00:35:57,574 --> 00:36:01,536 but only bring into focus the darkness that lies ahead. 417 00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:33,026 There it is. 418 00:36:33,735 --> 00:36:35,278 I don't understand. 419 00:36:35,362 --> 00:36:39,032 My DNA hybridised with the viral DNA from the cell culture. 420 00:36:40,825 --> 00:36:45,372 But that means the material from the ice-core sample... 421 00:36:45,455 --> 00:36:49,626 You'd have to have DNA from the unclassified chimera cells in your own body. 422 00:36:49,709 --> 00:36:52,837 - I know. - But how? And how did you know? 423 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:58,718 I believe that I was exposed to this material and it is responsible for giving me an illness. 424 00:36:58,802 --> 00:37:01,179 What kind of illness? 425 00:37:02,430 --> 00:37:05,016 One which cannot be cured. 426 00:37:30,875 --> 00:37:33,044 (Mulder) If I had the cure for Scully's cancer, 427 00:37:33,128 --> 00:37:36,548 I was now as dependent on her as she was on me. 428 00:37:36,631 --> 00:37:41,052 As I had breached this facility, I needed to find my way out to safety, 429 00:37:41,136 --> 00:37:43,805 depending on Scully to weave her story, 430 00:37:43,888 --> 00:37:48,226 to tell her tale, to make them believe the lie. 431 00:37:51,104 --> 00:37:54,232 - (Blevins) Agent Scully, please have a seat. - Thank you. 432 00:38:01,614 --> 00:38:04,617 Agent Scully, we've had a brief discussion, 433 00:38:04,701 --> 00:38:08,288 but will you restate the matter we're here to put to rest? 434 00:38:08,371 --> 00:38:10,457 Yes, sir. 435 00:38:12,709 --> 00:38:14,502 Four years ago, 436 00:38:14,586 --> 00:38:19,299 Section Chief Blevins assigned me to a project you all know as the X-Files. 437 00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:24,637 As I am a medical doctor, with a background in hard science, 438 00:38:24,721 --> 00:38:28,600 my job was to provide an analytical perspective 439 00:38:28,683 --> 00:38:31,978 on the work of Special Agent Fox Mulder, 440 00:38:32,061 --> 00:38:36,357 whose investigations into the paranormal 441 00:38:36,441 --> 00:38:39,110 were fuelled by a personal belief 442 00:38:39,194 --> 00:38:43,865 that his sister had been abducted by aliens when he was 12. 443 00:38:45,492 --> 00:38:48,620 I come here today, four years later... 444 00:38:49,662 --> 00:38:54,959 to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work. 445 00:38:56,794 --> 00:39:00,465 That it is my scientific opinion 446 00:39:00,548 --> 00:39:05,094 that he became, through the course of these years, a victim... 447 00:39:06,763 --> 00:39:10,475 a victim of his own false hopes 448 00:39:10,558 --> 00:39:14,103 and of his belief in the biggest of lies. 449 00:39:14,187 --> 00:39:18,775 You were contacted by a man who claimed he worked for the Department of Defense, 450 00:39:18,858 --> 00:39:23,780 a Michael Kritschgau, who told you that Mulder had been taken in by a hoax. 451 00:39:23,863 --> 00:39:25,448 Yes, sir. 452 00:39:25,532 --> 00:39:29,244 He told me a story which detailed, point by point, 453 00:39:29,327 --> 00:39:34,666 the systematic way in which Agent Mulder had been deceived and used. 454 00:39:35,375 --> 00:39:39,796 And how I, as his partner, had been led down the same path, 455 00:39:40,421 --> 00:39:43,049 losing a family member due to my allegiance 456 00:39:43,132 --> 00:39:45,343 and contracting a fatal disease, 457 00:39:45,426 --> 00:39:51,307 which I was being told was engineered by the men responsible for Mulder's deception. 458 00:39:51,391 --> 00:39:53,977 (Blevins) Could you convince Mulder of this? 459 00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:58,606 What I couldn't tell Agent Mulder, what I had only just learned myself, 460 00:39:59,190 --> 00:40:04,821 was that the cancer, diagnosed in me several months earlier, had metastasised. 461 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,575 And the doctors told me, short of a miracle, 462 00:40:09,242 --> 00:40:13,037 it would continue to aggressively invade my body, 463 00:40:13,705 --> 00:40:17,917 advancing faster each day towards the inevitable. 464 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:20,003 (door opens) 465 00:40:47,405 --> 00:40:49,032 (Dew) 466 00:40:57,123 --> 00:41:01,085 - I'll have Security stop him at the entrance. - No, it's OK. Let him go. 467 00:41:08,843 --> 00:41:11,387 Early this morning, 468 00:41:11,471 --> 00:41:16,225 I got a call from the police, asking me to come to Agent Mulder's apartment. 469 00:41:18,061 --> 00:41:20,563 The detective asked me... 470 00:41:22,565 --> 00:41:25,985 He needed me to identify a body. 471 00:41:26,069 --> 00:41:29,072 Agent Scully... 472 00:41:38,122 --> 00:41:41,501 Agent Mulder died late last night 473 00:41:41,584 --> 00:41:45,421 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 474 00:41:48,424 --> 00:41:50,593 (door opens) 475 00:42:00,645 --> 00:42:04,023 (Blevins) Agent Scully, these accusations that you've made... 476 00:42:04,107 --> 00:42:07,193 - You've been given a disease... - Yes, sir. 477 00:42:07,276 --> 00:42:09,612 They're extremely serious charges. 478 00:42:09,696 --> 00:42:12,990 Yes, sir, but I have proof... 479 00:42:13,574 --> 00:42:16,619 against the men behind this, 480 00:42:16,703 --> 00:42:19,539 of the lies that I believed. 481 00:42:21,499 --> 00:42:25,753 What I have here is proof undeniable 482 00:42:25,837 --> 00:42:29,757 that the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax: 483 00:42:29,841 --> 00:42:34,303 a plot designed to lead to Agent Mulder's demise, and to my own, 484 00:42:34,387 --> 00:42:38,349 planned and executed by someone in this room. 485 00:42:42,311 --> 00:42:44,397 What I have here 486 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,566 is scientific evidence... 487 00:43:01,497 --> 00:43:03,082 You. 488 00:43:03,166 --> 00:43:05,251 Somebody get a doctor. 489 00:43:47,668 --> 00:43:50,379 What? What is it? 490 00:43:51,214 --> 00:43:55,676 It's de-ionised water. It's nothing more than that. 491 00:44:24,038 --> 00:44:27,416 Visiontext Subtitles: Adrian Isaac 492 00:44:44,809 --> 00:44:46,185 (Child) I made this!