1 00:00:02,170 --> 00:00:05,590 - Last season on "the x-files": - We have the complete corpus 2 00:00:05,673 --> 00:00:10,261 of an extraterrestrial biological entity. The ice-core samples I took can't be faked. 3 00:00:10,344 --> 00:00:12,513 (Mulder) I refuse to believe it's not true. 4 00:00:12,597 --> 00:00:16,851 - So you're saying it's all been a hoax. - Which you've been used to perpetuate. 5 00:00:18,895 --> 00:00:21,772 - (Gunshot) - He said that the men behind this hoax 6 00:00:21,856 --> 00:00:24,358 gave me this disease to make you believe. 7 00:00:25,443 --> 00:00:27,862 Early this morning, 8 00:00:27,945 --> 00:00:32,825 I got a call from the police, asking me to come to agent mulder's apartment. 9 00:00:34,452 --> 00:00:36,954 The detective asked me... 10 00:00:39,207 --> 00:00:42,501 He needed me to identify a body. 11 00:00:42,585 --> 00:00:45,588 Agent Scully... 12 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,975 Agent mulder died late last night 13 00:00:58,059 --> 00:01:01,896 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 14 00:01:07,151 --> 00:01:09,612 (Man) When we speak of life beyond earth, 15 00:01:09,695 --> 00:01:15,201 what we generally mean is intelligent life, something resembling our noble selves. 16 00:01:16,327 --> 00:01:18,537 It is highly probable 17 00:01:18,621 --> 00:01:24,377 that there are such intelligent forms of life in other galaxies in the universe. 18 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:27,838 And it is even more probable that many of these forms 19 00:01:27,922 --> 00:01:30,883 are vastly more intelligent than we. 20 00:01:30,967 --> 00:01:35,096 (Mulder) I have held a torch in the darkness to glance upon a truth unknown. 21 00:01:35,179 --> 00:01:37,807 An act of faith begun with an ineloquent certainty 22 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:42,979 that my journey promised the chance not just of understanding but of recovery, 23 00:01:43,562 --> 00:01:48,401 that the disappearance of my sister 23 years ago would come to be explained, 24 00:01:48,484 --> 00:01:52,280 and that the pursuit of these greater truths about extraterrestrial life 25 00:01:52,363 --> 00:01:54,699 might even reunite us. 26 00:01:54,782 --> 00:02:00,246 A belief which I now know to be false, and uninformed in the extreme. 27 00:02:01,038 --> 00:02:07,003 My folly revealed by facts which illuminate both my arrogance and self-deception. 28 00:02:07,086 --> 00:02:09,547 If only the tragedy had been mine alone, 29 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:13,843 it might have been more easy tonight to bring this journey to its end. 30 00:02:17,430 --> 00:02:19,515 (Phone) 31 00:02:27,356 --> 00:02:29,442 (Man) Agent mulder? 32 00:02:31,610 --> 00:02:33,654 Agent mulder? 33 00:02:33,738 --> 00:02:34,780 Yeah. 34 00:02:34,864 --> 00:02:39,118 There's a matter of security I hadn't anticipated. Just after! Left your... 35 00:02:39,201 --> 00:02:43,831 - Who are you? - Just after our last conversation I was... 36 00:02:43,914 --> 00:02:48,502 - Who are you? - Are you listening? Are you hearing me? 37 00:02:48,586 --> 00:02:50,921 We can't speak right now. I believe... 38 00:02:51,005 --> 00:02:55,885 Did they give agent Scully this disease? Did they do this to her because of me? 39 00:02:55,968 --> 00:02:58,596 They may be listening, agent mulder. 40 00:02:58,971 --> 00:03:02,975 They may be watching everything you do and say. 41 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:07,396 Are you listening, agent mulder? 42 00:03:08,272 --> 00:03:10,274 Agent mulder? 43 00:03:11,150 --> 00:03:13,235 Agent mulder? 44 00:03:29,585 --> 00:03:32,380 Put that out! Back away! 45 00:03:33,047 --> 00:03:35,549 Get away. 46 00:03:40,888 --> 00:03:42,765 (Gunshot) 47 00:04:54,211 --> 00:04:55,754 (Beep) 48 00:04:58,090 --> 00:05:00,593 You have no new messages. 49 00:05:11,187 --> 00:05:13,147 (Man) Keep going, FBI woman. 50 00:05:13,981 --> 00:05:19,862 Mulder? What are you doing? Why are you sitting in my bedroom in the dark? 51 00:05:20,779 --> 00:05:23,616 It was too crowded in my apartment. I couldn't sleep. 52 00:05:23,699 --> 00:05:27,244 - I'm not kidding, mulder. - Good, cos neither am I. 53 00:05:27,328 --> 00:05:29,371 There's a dead man in my apartment. 54 00:05:29,455 --> 00:05:32,291 It's only a matter of time before he stinks the place up. 55 00:05:32,374 --> 00:05:35,503 What are you talking about, mulder? What's going on? 56 00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:40,007 Somebody thinks my life is interesting enough to video. 57 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:44,929 My apartment's been under surveillance for at least two months. Look at this. 58 00:05:45,554 --> 00:05:48,224 Courtesy of the us government. 59 00:05:48,307 --> 00:05:52,102 - That's the dead man in your apartment? - Yeah. He works... 60 00:05:52,186 --> 00:05:54,897 He worked for the department of defense. 61 00:05:55,981 --> 00:05:58,359 How did he die, mulder? 62 00:05:59,193 --> 00:06:01,987 Gunshot wound to the face. 63 00:06:02,071 --> 00:06:03,906 Have you contacted anybody at the bureau? 64 00:06:03,989 --> 00:06:07,159 I can't do that. I can't go to the authorities. 65 00:06:07,243 --> 00:06:11,288 - What are you talking about? - This man ostelhoff worked for the military. 66 00:06:11,372 --> 00:06:15,376 Are you getting the picture? Do you see what's happening here? 67 00:06:15,459 --> 00:06:18,212 That the hoax is connected to the military. 68 00:06:18,295 --> 00:06:20,923 This hoax, your cancer, everything. 69 00:06:21,006 --> 00:06:25,427 It just doesn't lead back to the military, it leads right back to the FBI. 70 00:06:26,762 --> 00:06:28,639 What? 71 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:32,518 This man ostelhoff was set up in the apartment directly above mine. 72 00:06:32,601 --> 00:06:34,436 I caught him destroying phone records 73 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,856 on which the same number was called 17 times. 74 00:06:37,940 --> 00:06:40,568 This is a pbx operator at the bureau. 75 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:42,611 Yeah. 76 00:06:42,695 --> 00:06:45,364 - Who would he be calling at the FBI? - I don't know. 77 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:50,744 - Mulder, how long has this been going on? - Maybe since you joined me on the x-files. 78 00:06:50,828 --> 00:06:54,373 That would mean that for four years we've been pawns in a game, 79 00:06:54,456 --> 00:06:57,376 that it was a lie from the beginning. 80 00:06:58,794 --> 00:07:02,006 Mulder, these men... You give them your faith, 81 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:04,883 and you're supposed to trust them with your life. 82 00:07:04,967 --> 00:07:09,638 There are those who can be trusted. What I need to know is who among them is not. 83 00:07:10,264 --> 00:07:14,101 I will not allow this treason to prosper, not if they've done this to you. 84 00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:16,812 We can't go to the bureau making these accusations. 85 00:07:16,895 --> 00:07:19,607 No. But as they lie to us, we can lie to them. 86 00:07:21,525 --> 00:07:23,694 A lie to find the truth. 87 00:07:33,746 --> 00:07:37,249 (Mulder) Let the truth be known though the heavens fall. 88 00:07:37,333 --> 00:07:40,252 The web of lies entangling us can now be connected back 89 00:07:40,336 --> 00:07:43,213 to the very institution which brought us together. 90 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:48,552 The facts supported by a byzantine plot, executed by someone inside the FBI, 91 00:07:48,636 --> 00:07:52,640 who, if named, could be tied to the hoax meant to destroy me... 92 00:07:54,016 --> 00:07:57,394 And to the terminal disease inflicted on Scully. 93 00:07:57,478 --> 00:08:02,191 In four years I have shared my partner's passionate search for the truth, 94 00:08:02,274 --> 00:08:04,610 and if my part has been a deception, 95 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:09,073 I have never seen her integrity waver or her honour compromised. 96 00:08:10,157 --> 00:08:12,868 But now, I ask her to lie... 97 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:15,454 To the people lying to us. 98 00:08:15,537 --> 00:08:18,040 A dangerous lie to find the truth, 99 00:08:18,123 --> 00:08:22,753 to find the man who would be revealed as its enemy, as our enemy... 100 00:08:24,046 --> 00:08:27,841 As the enemy within. 101 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,387 Agent Scully, 102 00:08:31,470 --> 00:08:34,056 is it true? 103 00:08:34,139 --> 00:08:36,475 Yes, sir. 104 00:08:36,558 --> 00:08:39,895 - Are you all right? - I'm, uh... 105 00:08:39,978 --> 00:08:44,733 I don't know what to say. They asked me to come down and identify the body. 106 00:08:44,817 --> 00:08:48,028 Well, how'd you make the ID? 107 00:08:48,112 --> 00:08:52,866 The word from Alexandria pd is it was self-inflicted. A shotgun blast to the face. 108 00:08:54,118 --> 00:08:58,580 I saw mulder earlier this morning. He was wearing the same clothes. 109 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:07,047 Well, I'm very sorry. 110 00:09:10,467 --> 00:09:12,386 Agent Scully. 111 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:18,392 Section chief blevins wants you in for questioning. 112 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:23,147 He believes you have information that you haven't come forward with. 113 00:09:34,533 --> 00:09:39,204 (Mulder) The military connection to the conspiracy we had pierced was undeniable. 114 00:09:39,288 --> 00:09:42,499 The man in my apartment worked for the department of defense, 115 00:09:42,583 --> 00:09:45,169 at its advanced research facility. 116 00:09:45,252 --> 00:09:48,005 What I might find here I was uncertain of, 117 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:51,467 but my crime had provided me access. 118 00:09:51,550 --> 00:09:56,054 As long as they believed Scully's lie, that it was me lying on that floor, 119 00:09:56,138 --> 00:09:58,599 I might learn truths here. 120 00:09:58,682 --> 00:10:03,437 But if our lies were discovered, both Scully and I would be discovered with them. 121 00:10:07,566 --> 00:10:09,860 (Beep) 122 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:21,663 Agent Scully. Please have a seat. 123 00:10:26,376 --> 00:10:29,087 Some time has passed since you were first here. 124 00:10:29,171 --> 00:10:30,923 Four years. 125 00:10:31,006 --> 00:10:35,511 From our reports, your work on the x-files brought you very close to agent mulder. 126 00:10:37,012 --> 00:10:40,224 - Yes, sir. - We're all sorry about what's happened. 127 00:10:41,934 --> 00:10:46,480 - But that's not why I'm here. - We've been informed by the dod 128 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:48,816 that prior to agent mulder's accident 129 00:10:48,899 --> 00:10:52,194 you may have been contacted by a dod employee. 130 00:10:53,695 --> 00:10:55,405 Yes. That's right. 131 00:10:55,489 --> 00:10:58,325 And that he gave you classified information. 132 00:10:59,326 --> 00:11:04,998 He had information about the discovery of what mulder believed to be an alien corpse. 133 00:11:05,082 --> 00:11:08,627 He, uh... he said the body was part of a hoax. 134 00:11:08,710 --> 00:11:11,421 He provided evidence of this? 135 00:11:12,381 --> 00:11:14,758 No hard evidence, no. 136 00:11:16,385 --> 00:11:20,264 Agent Scully, I suggest you tell us everything you know. 137 00:11:20,347 --> 00:11:24,601 If you have any knowledge of this man, you should speak up now. 138 00:11:24,685 --> 00:11:27,396 - What knowledge? - His name. 139 00:11:35,696 --> 00:11:37,656 Whatever you're withholding, 140 00:11:37,739 --> 00:11:41,368 you'll be asked to explain yourself tonight 141 00:11:41,451 --> 00:11:45,247 at ajoint FBI panel I've asked assembled on this matter. 142 00:11:47,124 --> 00:11:50,210 Is this the man? Michael kritschgau? 143 00:11:56,925 --> 00:11:58,844 Yes. 144 00:12:25,495 --> 00:12:26,622 Hey. 145 00:12:26,705 --> 00:12:29,791 - How'd you get in here? - Through the front door. 146 00:12:30,459 --> 00:12:34,087 - You can't bypass security. - You can when you have the card. 147 00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:37,341 Put that away. Put it away. 148 00:12:38,216 --> 00:12:41,178 You knew my apartment was being surveilled. How? 149 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:46,016 Come with me. 150 00:12:55,484 --> 00:12:59,154 I was followed from your apartment the night we spoke. 151 00:12:59,237 --> 00:13:03,241 Someone at the FBI is involved. This man ostelhoff was the contact... 152 00:13:03,325 --> 00:13:05,535 How did you get his card? 153 00:13:06,954 --> 00:13:09,623 I found it on a dead man. 154 00:13:10,624 --> 00:13:13,251 You know what that is? 155 00:13:13,335 --> 00:13:16,922 What you have in your hand? It gives you level-four clearance. 156 00:13:17,005 --> 00:13:20,258 Level-four clearance? I get to dine at the officers' club? 157 00:13:20,342 --> 00:13:24,179 You have access to everything. Things that I can only tell you about. 158 00:13:24,262 --> 00:13:27,933 - I need to know who did this to Scully. - Which you can have. 159 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:31,061 - What you may find is much more than that. - What? 160 00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:34,606 What you want most desperately of all. 161 00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:38,902 The cure for Scully's cancer? 162 00:15:13,830 --> 00:15:16,166 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 163 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:19,336 - Communication center, please. - One moment. 164 00:15:21,421 --> 00:15:24,091 - Communications. Holly. - It's Dana Scully. 165 00:15:24,174 --> 00:15:27,177 Dana, I'm so sorry about what's happened. I just heard. 166 00:15:27,677 --> 00:15:32,891 I need your help on something. I was hoping that you could help with some information. 167 00:15:33,642 --> 00:15:37,646 - Sure. What do you need? - I have some calls placed to the bureau, 168 00:15:37,729 --> 00:15:41,483 on the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth. 169 00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:43,985 They came in to the pbx operator. 170 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:47,697 The first was at 11:21. 171 00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:51,368 The next at 11:14, 3:07, 172 00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:54,329 2:02 and 5:12. 173 00:15:55,247 --> 00:15:57,749 They would have all gone to the same extension. 174 00:15:57,833 --> 00:16:01,503 - And you're looking for that extension? - Yes. 175 00:16:03,088 --> 00:16:08,426 I got five calls matching the times and dates transferred to an executive-level extension. 176 00:16:08,885 --> 00:16:11,805 - Whose? - It could be anyone at that level. 177 00:16:13,974 --> 00:16:17,644 Would assistant director Skinner be at that extension? 178 00:16:24,985 --> 00:16:26,695 Yes. 179 00:16:29,865 --> 00:16:33,493 - Thank you. - Ok. You take care now, Dana. 180 00:16:38,874 --> 00:16:40,750 (Phone) 181 00:16:42,752 --> 00:16:43,795 Yes? 182 00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:45,881 - (Man) Special agent Scully? - Yes. 183 00:16:45,964 --> 00:16:50,260 This is dr vitagliano at the paleoclimatology department at American university. 184 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:53,930 You'd asked me to look into these ice-core samples for you. 185 00:16:54,014 --> 00:16:56,850 Right. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you. 186 00:16:56,933 --> 00:16:59,394 You might wanna come down to the lab. 187 00:16:59,477 --> 00:17:03,023 There's something I know you're gonna want to see for yourself 188 00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:09,779 - what am I looking for? - Level four is a biological quarantine wing. 189 00:17:09,863 --> 00:17:12,490 It houses a series of labs and medical facilities 190 00:17:12,574 --> 00:17:16,786 in an elaborate system for the storage of vast quantities of DNA. 191 00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:20,957 - DNA from whom? - Virtually every American born since 1945. 192 00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:26,046 Every immigrant, every indigenous person who's given blood to a government doctor. 193 00:17:26,129 --> 00:17:29,674 This is what I told you. This is the hoax into which you've been drawn. 194 00:17:29,758 --> 00:17:32,636 The roots go back 50 years to the end of world war ii. 195 00:17:32,719 --> 00:17:35,555 Playing on a national appetite for bogus revelation 196 00:17:35,639 --> 00:17:38,767 and a public newly fearful of the atom bomb, 197 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:44,231 the us military command fanned the flames of what were called "flying saucer" stories. 198 00:17:44,314 --> 00:17:46,775 There are truths which can kill a nation. 199 00:17:46,858 --> 00:17:50,737 The military needed something to deflect attention away from its arms strategy: 200 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:54,783 Global domination through the capability of total enemy annihilation. 201 00:17:54,866 --> 00:17:57,577 The nuclear card was fine if we alone could play it, 202 00:17:57,661 --> 00:18:01,248 but the generals knew they could not win a public-relations war. 203 00:18:01,706 --> 00:18:06,086 Those photos from Hiroshima were not faces Americans wanted to see in a mirror. 204 00:18:06,169 --> 00:18:08,880 Oppenheimer knew it, but we silenced him. 205 00:18:08,964 --> 00:18:13,760 When the Russians developed the bomb, the fear in the military was for armistice. 206 00:18:14,844 --> 00:18:17,806 The business of america isn't business, it's war. 207 00:18:17,889 --> 00:18:20,976 Since antietam nothing has driven the economy faster. 208 00:18:21,059 --> 00:18:23,395 We needed a reason to keep spending money. 209 00:18:23,478 --> 00:18:26,690 If there wasn't a war, we called it war anyway. 210 00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:30,151 The cold war was essentially a 50-year public-relations battle, 211 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:33,822 a pitched game of chicken against an enemy we only called names. 212 00:18:34,281 --> 00:18:36,074 The communists called us a few names, too. 213 00:18:36,157 --> 00:18:38,660 "We will Bury you", khrushchev said 214 00:18:38,743 --> 00:18:43,164 the public believed it. After what McCarthy had done, they ate it with a big spoon. 215 00:18:43,248 --> 00:18:46,293 We squared off a few times, in Cuba, Korea and Vietnam. 216 00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:51,214 - Nobody dropped the bomb. Nobody dared. - What has this to do with flying saucers? 217 00:18:51,298 --> 00:18:55,093 The us military saw a good thing in '47 when the roswell story broke. 218 00:18:55,176 --> 00:18:59,347 The more we denied it, the more people believed it was true. Aliens had landed: 219 00:18:59,431 --> 00:19:03,935 A made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest. 220 00:19:04,019 --> 00:19:09,107 They opened investigations called grudge, twinkle, project "blue book", majestic 12. 221 00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:11,401 They brought in professors, congressmen, 222 00:19:11,484 --> 00:19:16,489 fed them enough bogus facts, fuzzy photos and eyewitnesses that they believed it, too. 223 00:19:16,573 --> 00:19:19,534 They'd even hooked Doug MacArthur, for god's sake. 224 00:19:19,617 --> 00:19:22,287 I can't tell you how fortuitous the timing was. 225 00:19:22,370 --> 00:19:26,458 You know when the first supersonic flight was? 1947. 226 00:19:26,541 --> 00:19:30,295 Soon every experimental aircraft being flown was a ufo sighting. 227 00:19:30,378 --> 00:19:33,465 When the abduction stories started up, it was too perfect. 228 00:19:33,548 --> 00:19:37,969 We'd almost gotten caught in Korea, a misstep. China and the Soviets knew it. 229 00:19:38,053 --> 00:19:39,888 The UN got heated up. 230 00:19:39,971 --> 00:19:43,975 Germ warfare. We were accused of using it on the Koreans. 231 00:19:47,937 --> 00:19:51,441 It was developmental, nothing like what we and the Russians have now. 232 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:55,987 The bio-weapons used in the Gulf war were so ingenious as to be almost undetectable. 233 00:19:56,071 --> 00:20:00,658 - Developed right in this very building. - And these abductions, they've been lies? 234 00:20:00,742 --> 00:20:05,246 Not lies, exactly. But citizens taken unsuspecting and tested. 235 00:20:05,330 --> 00:20:09,209 A classified military project above top-secret and still ongoing. 236 00:20:09,292 --> 00:20:13,213 You've heard the recent denials about roswell by the military and the CIA? 237 00:20:13,296 --> 00:20:16,758 What's been the effect? Even Wilder and more widespread belief. 238 00:20:16,841 --> 00:20:19,928 The American appetite for bogus revelation. 239 00:20:20,011 --> 00:20:23,973 But I've seen aliens. I've witnessed these things. 240 00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:26,976 You've seen what they wanted you to see. 241 00:20:32,649 --> 00:20:37,237 The line between science and science fiction doesn't exist. This is about control, 242 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,032 of the very elements of life - DNA. Yours, mine, everyone's. 243 00:20:41,116 --> 00:20:42,575 Then why a hoax? 244 00:20:42,659 --> 00:20:45,995 Why create hard evidence, an alien body that could be disproved? 245 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:48,748 The body you found was so good, so believable, 246 00:20:48,832 --> 00:20:52,585 that only a scientific examination would have proven the fraud. 247 00:20:52,669 --> 00:20:55,171 Scully would have known. 248 00:20:55,255 --> 00:21:00,260 The hoax was planned so that agent Scully wouldn't be alive to do an examination. 249 00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:05,223 You went along with all this. You let them do this to Scully. 250 00:21:06,516 --> 00:21:09,602 I paid the price, agent mulder. 251 00:21:09,686 --> 00:21:13,273 When my son came back sick from the Gulf war, that was my retribution. 252 00:21:13,356 --> 00:21:16,192 I'm helping you now, but not unselfishly. 253 00:21:16,276 --> 00:21:19,320 Do you believe there's a cure for him in here, too? 254 00:21:19,404 --> 00:21:21,948 I have to think there is. 255 00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:33,877 (Beep) 256 00:21:43,553 --> 00:21:46,890 Michael kritschgau, may we talk to you? 257 00:21:46,973 --> 00:21:49,893 - What about? - Dod is detaining you for questioning. 258 00:21:49,976 --> 00:21:52,645 Would you come with us, mr kritschgau? 259 00:21:53,062 --> 00:21:55,648 Sir? 260 00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:25,887 I was told that you needed to see me. That there was some urgency. 261 00:22:27,639 --> 00:22:31,142 - It seems I've been left out of the loop. - Left out? 262 00:22:33,061 --> 00:22:36,439 You were watching mulder. You had a man on him. 263 00:22:37,690 --> 00:22:40,610 No one bothered to inform me of this. 264 00:22:42,111 --> 00:22:44,447 I know nothing about a man. 265 00:22:44,531 --> 00:22:47,825 I will not be cutout like this! 266 00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:50,537 You need my expertise. 267 00:22:53,831 --> 00:22:55,917 Is this being run from dod? 268 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,003 If it is, I'm unaware of it. 269 00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:04,342 I've always kept mulder in check. 270 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:07,345 I put this whole thing together. I created mulder. 271 00:23:07,428 --> 00:23:09,681 Agent mulder is dead. 272 00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:13,226 Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. 273 00:23:15,728 --> 00:23:18,648 Mulder killed himself. 274 00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:24,320 Mulder was an asset. Without his partner, we may have underestimated his fragility. 275 00:23:24,404 --> 00:23:27,073 I've never underestimated mulder. 276 00:23:30,159 --> 00:23:32,745 I still don't. 277 00:23:47,176 --> 00:23:49,596 As you'd asked, I've tested some of the cellular material 278 00:23:49,679 --> 00:23:52,682 found in the ice-core sample. 279 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:56,269 Because we couldn't identify it as either plant or animal, 280 00:23:56,352 --> 00:23:59,355 only as some kind of chimeric hybrid, 281 00:23:59,439 --> 00:24:03,234 I put some of the cells in media containing foetal bovine serum. 282 00:24:03,318 --> 00:24:05,028 The cells began to divide. 283 00:24:05,612 --> 00:24:07,905 Then they were animal cells that you found. 284 00:24:08,197 --> 00:24:13,286 - They are not classifiable. - You said there was mitotic cell division. 285 00:24:13,369 --> 00:24:16,289 When the cells began to divide they didn't just multiply. 286 00:24:16,372 --> 00:24:21,461 They began to go through the stages of morula, blastula, gastrula. 287 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:26,007 - They began somatic development? - The beginning of a life form. 288 00:24:32,347 --> 00:24:36,100 Growing into what... I don't know. 289 00:24:42,482 --> 00:24:45,151 (Mulder) I had come here looking for answers, 290 00:24:45,234 --> 00:24:49,822 hoping not only to lay bare this conspiracy against the country and the men behind it, 291 00:24:49,906 --> 00:24:55,328 but to finally learn the truth about the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life. 292 00:24:55,411 --> 00:25:00,792 Now, with what I've heard, my beliefs seem more and more improbable. 293 00:25:01,376 --> 00:25:03,294 The possibility of a cure for Scully 294 00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:06,047 somewhere inside these walls, my only hope. 295 00:25:07,298 --> 00:25:10,927 But if I might find it and somehow save her, 296 00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:15,014 the very existence of this cure would mean with certainty 297 00:25:15,098 --> 00:25:18,393 that I have believed in a lie from the start. 298 00:25:41,916 --> 00:25:43,501 (Click) 299 00:26:34,886 --> 00:26:39,682 (Scully) I had no way to reach agent mulder, to tell him what I had discovered: 300 00:26:39,766 --> 00:26:42,226 An unidentified microscopic life form, 301 00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:46,689 whose very existence held the possibility of revelation. 302 00:26:46,773 --> 00:26:51,736 Was this organism, extracted from the ice which had entombed the alien corpse, 303 00:26:51,819 --> 00:26:56,532 the germ cell that might give proof of extraterrestrial life? 304 00:26:56,616 --> 00:27:02,497 Or was it just the opposite: The scientifically engineered creation of a chimera, 305 00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:08,169 an unclassifiable biological product designed to set up a hoax, 306 00:27:08,252 --> 00:27:12,632 manufactured to create the false beliefs that have long driven agent mulder? 307 00:27:14,884 --> 00:27:17,637 I now began to realise that the answer to this question 308 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,140 might exist within the life form itself. 309 00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:25,978 Biological proof of its connection to the cancer invading my body, 310 00:27:26,062 --> 00:27:29,023 to a virus living inside this organism 311 00:27:29,106 --> 00:27:32,985 to which I had been exposed during my abduction three years ago. 312 00:27:57,134 --> 00:28:00,471 - I'm not sure what you hope to find. - I need to do a southern blot, 313 00:28:00,555 --> 00:28:04,141 to run the culture that you showed me against my own DNA. 314 00:28:04,225 --> 00:28:07,770 You said that the unclassified cells you saw were full of virus. 315 00:28:07,854 --> 00:28:10,523 Right. What are you looking for? 316 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:14,694 A match. And I need it before seven. 317 00:28:14,777 --> 00:28:16,571 Tonight? 318 00:28:16,654 --> 00:28:21,284 Not gonna happen. Not unless we have a blazing-hot probe. 319 00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:23,703 It's got to happen. 320 00:28:24,537 --> 00:28:27,456 Everything in my life depends on it. 321 00:28:45,182 --> 00:28:47,935 - What are you doing? - I was gonna ask you the same. 322 00:28:48,019 --> 00:28:50,438 No, you weren't. You followed me here. 323 00:28:50,521 --> 00:28:54,609 Why are you following me? Is this more dirty work you're doing for the dod? 324 00:28:54,692 --> 00:28:57,570 Why don't you tell me what you're doing here? 325 00:28:57,653 --> 00:29:00,197 - I want an answer from you. - I want an answer from you! 326 00:29:00,281 --> 00:29:03,492 - This isn't your job! - My job is to direct the agents under me. 327 00:29:03,576 --> 00:29:07,496 To question their motives when they're lying about investigations. 328 00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:11,000 To take steps to cease or censure those actions. 329 00:29:12,335 --> 00:29:16,130 - Your lying is on record. - And what about yours? 330 00:29:16,213 --> 00:29:21,093 I have the pathology and forensics reports for the body found in mulder's apartment. 331 00:29:23,512 --> 00:29:27,391 Now, you have to answer for yourself in five hours. 332 00:29:27,475 --> 00:29:31,312 As you compound the lies, you compound the consequences for them. 333 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:34,190 All lies lead to the truth. Isn't that right? 334 00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:37,735 And what about your lie, agent Scully? What does it lead to? 335 00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:41,864 The truth. About the men behind what happened to me. 336 00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:44,241 About my abduction and the tests. 337 00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:47,078 About being exposed to something against my will. 338 00:29:47,161 --> 00:29:51,207 About being put on a table and having something implanted in me, 339 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:52,792 then having my memory stolen, 340 00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:56,253 only to have it returned along with a disease I was given. 341 00:29:56,337 --> 00:30:00,675 Is that yourjustification? Is that what you'll tell the joint panel tonight? 342 00:30:00,758 --> 00:30:04,470 - Are you afraid of that? - Well, considering the dead man 343 00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:09,141 was murdered in cold blood and you wilfully misidentified him, yes, I am afraid. 344 00:30:09,976 --> 00:30:14,271 - But I'm only afraid for you. - You're gonna use that against me. 345 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:19,110 You're gonna use me as I've been used all along, to preserve the lies. 346 00:30:19,193 --> 00:30:21,278 Where is agent mulder? 347 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,786 Your silence won't save you. 348 00:30:30,705 --> 00:30:35,084 Not with these people. And if you lie, I don't know if anything can. 349 00:30:36,002 --> 00:30:38,087 Except proof. 350 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:47,221 (Scully) The cruel/est ironies are those consecrated by the passage of time, 351 00:30:47,304 --> 00:30:51,058 chanced and occasioned by shocking discovery. 352 00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:57,690 I had joined mulder on the x-files because of my background in the medical sciences. 353 00:30:58,524 --> 00:31:01,318 My assignment was to question his work, 354 00:31:01,402 --> 00:31:06,866 to debunk his investigations and rein him back into the FBI mainstream. 355 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:12,621 Now, as fate would have it, I am calling on these very same skills 356 00:31:12,705 --> 00:31:15,708 to prove that he has been the target of a scheme 357 00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:19,545 orchestrated by someone close to us in the FBI. 358 00:31:20,671 --> 00:31:23,591 Someone we have trusted above all others, 359 00:31:23,674 --> 00:31:29,055 involved in a highly organised plot to keep a dangerous secret from the light of day. 360 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:35,019 I could only guess at what agent mulder may have uncovered on his own, 361 00:31:35,102 --> 00:31:37,646 what he may have found to confirm or deny 362 00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:41,609 what he has long held to be a conspiracy to control the public inquiry 363 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:46,822 into the government's knowledge and contact with an alien race or races. 364 00:31:46,906 --> 00:31:49,533 If he had hoped, as I do, 365 00:31:49,617 --> 00:31:53,496 to learn the identity of those who sought to destroy us, 366 00:31:53,871 --> 00:31:57,792 I had, with the discovery of this unidentified microorganism, 367 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,503 what could amount to forensic evidence. 368 00:32:02,046 --> 00:32:07,510 Hard and undeniable genetic evidence of a connection between the conspirators 369 00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:12,431 and the cancer which has now metastasised in my bloodstream. 370 00:32:17,186 --> 00:32:18,729 (Beep) 371 00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:36,122 I have few short hours to conduct these tests 372 00:32:36,205 --> 00:32:40,376 before I must appear before an FBI panel to explain myself. 373 00:32:41,836 --> 00:32:45,548 And as I am ready to lie to them about agent mulder, 374 00:32:45,631 --> 00:32:49,093 I am also ready to confront them with proof. 375 00:32:49,176 --> 00:32:52,054 Proof extracted from this tiny organism 376 00:32:52,138 --> 00:32:56,433 that could blow open a conspiracy of global consequence. 377 00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:02,565 (Mulder) If Scully and I were led to believe that the conspiracy meant to destroy us 378 00:33:02,648 --> 00:33:05,234 has its roots in the department of defense, 379 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:08,529 that fact seems all but irrefutable now. 380 00:33:08,612 --> 00:33:14,118 I had entered a storage facility by a hallway connecting underground to the Pentagon. 381 00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:17,788 On hundreds of shelves are materials that reveal nothing 382 00:33:17,872 --> 00:33:20,207 of the cure for Scully's cancer. 383 00:33:20,291 --> 00:33:23,419 And now, as I have reached the terminus of this space, 384 00:33:23,502 --> 00:33:25,921 what appears to be an old filing system 385 00:33:26,005 --> 00:33:31,260 seems my only hope of finding what this man kritschgau has assured me exists. 386 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:34,847 If his own desperate hope for his son's cure has eluded him, 387 00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:37,600 I now share his desperation. 388 00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:40,477 But among these drawers is a sign, a glimmer, 389 00:33:40,561 --> 00:33:44,940 some small confirmation that the journey which has brought me here 390 00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:47,526 has not been in vain. 391 00:34:16,972 --> 00:34:18,515 (Phone) 392 00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:23,020 Yes? 393 00:34:23,103 --> 00:34:26,899 I had orders to contact you if Scott ostelhoff entered the building. 394 00:34:28,359 --> 00:34:32,071 - Is he there? - His key card was scanned at level four. 395 00:34:32,821 --> 00:34:36,158 He used the subterranean access to breach the Pentagon. 396 00:34:37,660 --> 00:34:40,704 - Are you sure it's him? - I can't ascertain that. 397 00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:44,583 - Do you want me to apprehend him? - Don't do or say anything. 398 00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:47,169 I'm on my way. 399 00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:58,097 (Scully) If my work with agent mulder has tested the foundation of my beliefs, 400 00:34:58,180 --> 00:35:02,351 science has been, and continues to be, my guiding light. 401 00:35:02,935 --> 00:35:09,024 Now I am again relying on its familiar and systematic methods to arrive at a truth, 402 00:35:09,108 --> 00:35:12,736 a fact that might explain the fate that has befallen me. 403 00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:17,658 An investigation that began without, now turning within. 404 00:35:19,118 --> 00:35:22,413 Taking cellular material from the unidentified life form 405 00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:25,165 and isolating a virus contained within it, 406 00:35:25,249 --> 00:35:27,334 then matching the DNA from this virus 407 00:35:27,418 --> 00:35:30,462 against that which I believe has caused my cancer, 408 00:35:30,546 --> 00:35:32,756 I hope a picture will develop. 409 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,592 A picture that might confirm my darkest suspicions 410 00:35:35,676 --> 00:35:39,138 about the source of this disease invading my body, 411 00:35:39,221 --> 00:35:43,058 in hope of providing evidence that its cause is not without blame, 412 00:35:43,142 --> 00:35:45,644 even though its cure remains unknown. 413 00:35:46,312 --> 00:35:49,189 If science serves me to these ends, 414 00:35:49,273 --> 00:35:54,486 it is not lost on me that the tool which I have come to depend on absolutely 415 00:35:54,570 --> 00:35:57,489 cannot save or protect me, 416 00:35:57,573 --> 00:36:01,535 but only bring into focus the darkness that lies ahead. 417 00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:33,025 There it is. 418 00:36:33,734 --> 00:36:35,277 I don't understand. 419 00:36:35,361 --> 00:36:39,031 My DNA hybridised with the viral DNA from the cell culture. 420 00:36:40,824 --> 00:36:45,371 But that means the material from the ice-core sample... 421 00:36:45,454 --> 00:36:49,625 You'd have to have DNA from the unclassified chimera cells in your own body. 422 00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:52,836 - I know. - But how? And how did you know? 423 00:36:53,379 --> 00:36:58,717 I believe that I was exposed to this material and it is responsible for giving me an illness. 424 00:36:58,801 --> 00:37:01,178 What kind of illness? 425 00:37:02,429 --> 00:37:05,015 One which cannot be cured. 426 00:37:30,874 --> 00:37:33,043 (Mulder) If I had the cure for Scully's cancer, 427 00:37:33,127 --> 00:37:36,547 I was now as dependent on her as she was on me. 428 00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:41,051 As I had breached this facility, I needed to find my way out to safety, 429 00:37:41,135 --> 00:37:43,804 depending on Scully to weave her story, 430 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:48,225 to tell her tale, to make them believe the lie. 431 00:37:51,103 --> 00:37:54,231 - (Blevins) Agent Scully, please have a seat. - Thank you. 432 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,616 Agent Scully, we've had a brief discussion, 433 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:08,287 but will you restate the matter we're here to put to rest? 434 00:38:08,370 --> 00:38:10,456 Yes, sir. 435 00:38:12,708 --> 00:38:14,501 Four years ago, 436 00:38:14,585 --> 00:38:19,298 section chief blevins assigned me to a project you all know as the x-files. 437 00:38:20,132 --> 00:38:24,636 As I am a medical doctor, with a background in hard science, 438 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:28,599 my job was to provide an analytical perspective 439 00:38:28,682 --> 00:38:31,977 on the work of special agent fox mulder, 440 00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:36,356 whose investigations into the paranormal 441 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,109 were fuelled by a personal belief 442 00:38:39,193 --> 00:38:43,864 that his sister had been abducted by aliens when he was 12. 443 00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:48,619 I come here today, four years later... 444 00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:54,958 To report on the illegitimacy of agent mulder's work. 445 00:38:56,793 --> 00:39:00,464 That it is my scientific opinion 446 00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:05,093 that he became, through the course of these years, a victim... 447 00:39:06,762 --> 00:39:10,474 A victim of his own false hopes 448 00:39:10,557 --> 00:39:14,102 and of his belief in the biggest of lies. 449 00:39:14,186 --> 00:39:18,774 You were contacted by a man who claimed he worked for the department of defense, 450 00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:23,779 a Michael kritschgau, who told you that mulder had been taken in by a hoax. 451 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:25,447 Yes, sir. 452 00:39:25,531 --> 00:39:29,243 He told me a story which detailed, point by point, 453 00:39:29,326 --> 00:39:34,665 the systematic way in which agent mulder had been deceived and used. 454 00:39:35,374 --> 00:39:39,795 And how I, as his partner, had been led down the same path, 455 00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:43,048 losing a family member due to my allegiance 456 00:39:43,131 --> 00:39:45,342 and contracting a fatal disease, 457 00:39:45,425 --> 00:39:51,306 which I was being told was engineered by the men responsible for mulder's deception. 458 00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:53,976 (Blevins) Could you convince mulder of this? 459 00:39:54,059 --> 00:39:58,605 What I couldn't tell agent mulder, what I had only just learned myself, 460 00:39:59,189 --> 00:40:04,820 was that the cancer, diagnosed in me several months earlier, had metastasised. 461 00:40:05,279 --> 00:40:08,574 And the doctors told me, short of a miracle, 462 00:40:09,241 --> 00:40:13,036 it would continue to aggressively invade my body, 463 00:40:13,704 --> 00:40:17,916 advancing faster each day towards the inevitable. 464 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,002 (Door opens) 465 00:40:47,404 --> 00:40:49,031 (Beep) 466 00:40:57,122 --> 00:41:01,084 - I'll have security stop him at the entrance. - No, it's ok. Let him go. 467 00:41:08,842 --> 00:41:11,386 Early this morning, 468 00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:16,224 I got a call from the police, asking me to come to agent mulder's apartment. 469 00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:20,562 The detective asked me... 470 00:41:22,564 --> 00:41:25,984 He needed me to identify a body. 471 00:41:26,068 --> 00:41:29,071 Agent Scully... 472 00:41:38,121 --> 00:41:41,500 Agent mulder died late last night 473 00:41:41,583 --> 00:41:45,420 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 474 00:41:48,423 --> 00:41:50,592 (Door opens) 475 00:42:00,644 --> 00:42:04,022 (Blevins) Agent Scully, these accusations that you've made... 476 00:42:04,106 --> 00:42:07,192 - You've been given a disease... - Yes, sir. 477 00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:09,611 They're extremely serious charges. 478 00:42:09,695 --> 00:42:12,989 Yes, sir, but I have proof... 479 00:42:13,573 --> 00:42:16,618 Against the men behind this, 480 00:42:16,702 --> 00:42:19,538 of the lies that I believed. 481 00:42:21,498 --> 00:42:25,752 What I have here is proof undeniable 482 00:42:25,836 --> 00:42:29,756 that the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax: 483 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:34,302 A plot designed to lead to agent mulder's demise, and to my own, 484 00:42:34,386 --> 00:42:38,348 planned and executed by someone in this room. 485 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:44,396 What I have here 486 00:42:44,479 --> 00:42:46,565 is scientific evidence... 487 00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:03,081 You. 488 00:43:03,165 --> 00:43:05,250 Somebody get a doctor. 489 00:43:47,667 --> 00:43:50,378 What? What is it? 490 00:43:51,213 --> 00:43:55,675 It's de-ionised water. It's nothing more than that. 491 00:44:24,037 --> 00:44:27,415 Visiontext subtitles: Adrian Isaac 492 00:44:44,808 --> 00:44:46,184 (Child) I made this!