1 00:01:22,876 --> 00:01:24,419 (buzz) 2 00:01:27,923 --> 00:01:29,466 (buzz) 3 00:01:32,177 --> 00:01:34,763 (distorted whispering) 4 00:01:40,394 --> 00:01:43,480 (man's distorted voice) 5 00:01:53,782 --> 00:01:56,910 (louder distorted voices) 6 00:02:33,488 --> 00:02:34,656 Checkmate. 7 00:02:34,740 --> 00:02:36,033 (gunshot) 8 00:02:37,451 --> 00:02:39,536 (crowd screams) 9 00:03:55,987 --> 00:03:59,116 (whistling) 10 00:04:10,585 --> 00:04:11,628 (Dew) 11 00:05:21,698 --> 00:05:23,241 (gunshot) 12 00:05:28,497 --> 00:05:32,375 Go on! Take your shot, Alex. 13 00:05:36,796 --> 00:05:38,882 Right there! 14 00:05:41,927 --> 00:05:45,013 I was sent to bring you back. 15 00:06:06,201 --> 00:06:07,994 You know you're going places in the Bureau 16 00:06:08,078 --> 00:06:11,748 when the assistant director tidies your office. 17 00:06:11,831 --> 00:06:14,042 What's up? 18 00:06:14,125 --> 00:06:16,419 I was just, uh, looking. 19 00:06:16,503 --> 00:06:18,588 For anything special? 20 00:06:20,298 --> 00:06:25,637 I came down to ask you something. I guess I was nosing around, wondering about you, 21 00:06:26,263 --> 00:06:28,473 your long-term plans. 22 00:06:28,557 --> 00:06:32,519 My long-term plans? You got 'em in your hands. 23 00:06:36,273 --> 00:06:38,775 What do you hope to find? 24 00:06:40,318 --> 00:06:42,821 I mean, in the end? 25 00:06:43,613 --> 00:06:46,199 Whatever I hope to find is in here. 26 00:06:46,783 --> 00:06:49,703 Maybe I'll know it when I find it. 27 00:06:49,786 --> 00:06:53,665 - Is that what you came to ask me? - No. 28 00:06:53,748 --> 00:06:58,628 There's a case, not your usual. A murder, an assassination of a Russian chess player. 29 00:06:59,170 --> 00:07:02,882 The shooter is former National Security Agency, one of ours. 30 00:07:02,966 --> 00:07:06,219 He's got a lot of people upset. This kid, Jeffrey Spender, 31 00:07:07,178 --> 00:07:10,432 Special Agent Spender, he's been given the case. 32 00:07:10,515 --> 00:07:12,475 Did you give it to him? 33 00:07:12,559 --> 00:07:16,813 No. It came as an order from somewhere outside the Bureau. 34 00:07:17,606 --> 00:07:21,651 He's got his team assembled. He was very specific that you be excluded. 35 00:07:27,991 --> 00:07:31,411 Using a weapon registered to a US intelligence agency, 36 00:07:31,494 --> 00:07:34,164 the shooter fired one shot at Anatol Klevinol 37 00:07:34,247 --> 00:07:38,418 before being captured without incident a short distance from the scene. 38 00:07:38,501 --> 00:07:44,424 No motive has been established, nor has the shooter offered a statement or accomplice. 39 00:07:48,011 --> 00:07:50,096 Please continue. 40 00:07:51,014 --> 00:07:54,267 The trajectory of the shot suggests the shooter acted alone, 41 00:07:54,351 --> 00:07:57,228 but we cannot rule out an accomplice or conspiracy. 42 00:07:57,312 --> 00:08:00,190 A single bullet was fired from a catwalk at a steep angle, 43 00:08:00,273 --> 00:08:03,151 striking the target just right of the solar plexus. 44 00:08:03,234 --> 00:08:07,280 Um, sorry. Can you rewind the tape? 45 00:08:10,075 --> 00:08:12,202 Please. I'll tell you where. Just take it back. 46 00:08:12,285 --> 00:08:14,913 If you have any questions, we can talk later. 47 00:08:14,996 --> 00:08:18,291 I don't have any questions. No, I just think you're wrong. 48 00:08:19,668 --> 00:08:21,920 Mulder, what are you doing? 49 00:08:22,003 --> 00:08:24,589 The Russian wasn't the target. His opponent was. 50 00:08:24,673 --> 00:08:27,592 His opponent, Agent Mulder, was a 12-year-old boy. 51 00:08:27,676 --> 00:08:32,889 And a good chess player. Let me show you his best move. If you just take it back. 52 00:08:36,893 --> 00:08:38,895 OK. Stop it there. 53 00:08:38,978 --> 00:08:42,732 Look what the kid does here, before the kill shot. Play. 54 00:08:44,609 --> 00:08:47,445 You see what he does? He just pushes back. 55 00:08:47,529 --> 00:08:48,655 You see that? 56 00:08:48,738 --> 00:08:51,199 He's pushing back because the game's over. 57 00:08:51,282 --> 00:08:54,202 You described a steep trajectory for the kill shot. 58 00:08:54,285 --> 00:08:59,332 If the kid doesn't push back, he catches the bullet in the neck, not the Russian. 59 00:09:00,041 --> 00:09:03,294 - Can we move on here? - I think Agent Mulder is right. 60 00:09:04,713 --> 00:09:08,383 Looks like the boy sensed the shooter precognitively. 61 00:09:08,466 --> 00:09:11,302 If you rewind the tape, you'll see it. 62 00:09:12,178 --> 00:09:14,347 There's no way. It's impossible. 63 00:09:14,431 --> 00:09:17,600 Just rewind the tape so we can all see for ourselves. 64 00:09:56,514 --> 00:09:58,558 You look surprised. 65 00:09:58,641 --> 00:10:02,312 Is it that I'm here? Or that I'm alive? 66 00:10:02,395 --> 00:10:05,815 When we heard you'd been shot, we'd assumed the worst. 67 00:10:05,899 --> 00:10:09,736 There were reports you lost too much blood to have survived. 68 00:10:09,819 --> 00:10:12,071 Obviously you underestimated me. 69 00:10:12,989 --> 00:10:16,451 More obviously, you overestimated the man you sent to do the job. 70 00:10:27,003 --> 00:10:29,881 Well, let's say all is forgiven. 71 00:10:29,964 --> 00:10:32,091 Now you have a job for me. 72 00:10:32,175 --> 00:10:36,554 There's been an incident, an unfortunate mistake. 73 00:10:36,638 --> 00:10:39,098 Yes. I've seen, I've heard, I've read. 74 00:10:39,182 --> 00:10:42,811 - The boy is a problem to us. - What would you like me to do? 75 00:10:43,394 --> 00:10:46,940 Shoot him dead? Splatter his brains? 76 00:10:47,023 --> 00:10:48,608 Dear God! 77 00:10:48,691 --> 00:10:51,861 What's the matter? Does this sort of business offend you? 78 00:10:51,945 --> 00:10:55,532 It's in your interest, as in ours. 79 00:10:55,615 --> 00:10:58,243 You think you know my interest? 80 00:11:00,203 --> 00:11:02,831 Can we count on you? 81 00:11:07,961 --> 00:11:09,838 Yes. 82 00:11:22,016 --> 00:11:24,102 How long have you been with the Bureau? 83 00:11:24,185 --> 00:11:28,940 Since '91. I took an assignment in Europe after the Wall came down, 84 00:11:29,023 --> 00:11:32,151 when the director stepped up foreign terrorism concerns. 85 00:11:32,235 --> 00:11:35,572 And they brought you on this because of a terrorism angle? 86 00:11:35,655 --> 00:11:38,783 No. I requested a reassignment. 87 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:42,620 There were things at home I decided I wanted to get back to. 88 00:11:47,750 --> 00:11:51,713 1991, that's about when you started work on the X-Files. 89 00:11:51,796 --> 00:11:54,716 More or less, yeah. 90 00:11:59,971 --> 00:12:02,932 Uh, I 'd. .. better just put it down. 91 00:12:05,935 --> 00:12:09,063 - (Lisa) No of fence, Mom, but that was cool. - (Marge) Homer? 92 00:12:11,608 --> 00:12:13,401 Gibson? 93 00:12:14,652 --> 00:12:16,279 Hi. 94 00:12:16,362 --> 00:12:18,406 My name is Fox. 95 00:12:18,489 --> 00:12:21,534 This is Dana and Diana. How you doing? 96 00:12:22,327 --> 00:12:26,205 I don't mind it here. They get all the good TV shows. 97 00:12:26,831 --> 00:12:31,002 Where I live in the Philippines all you get is Baywatch. 98 00:12:32,378 --> 00:12:34,964 What's wrong with Baywatch? 99 00:12:36,257 --> 00:12:38,927 You've got a dirty mind. 100 00:12:42,221 --> 00:12:46,309 Your parents are gonna pick you up on Friday to take you back home. 101 00:12:47,352 --> 00:12:49,479 I don't wanna play any chess. 102 00:12:51,397 --> 00:12:53,816 How do you know I want to? 103 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:57,070 Cos you got that cheap old chess computer in your hand. 104 00:12:57,987 --> 00:13:01,616 It's not so cheap. Don't you want to see how fast you can beat it? 105 00:13:02,408 --> 00:13:03,952 No. 106 00:13:06,829 --> 00:13:08,957 Maybe because you can't. 107 00:13:16,339 --> 00:13:18,716 I'm right, aren't I? 108 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,804 You know what I'm talking about. You knew the moment I came in. 109 00:13:25,014 --> 00:13:28,518 That's how you win. How you know what your opponent's gonna do. 110 00:13:28,601 --> 00:13:31,145 You get inside his head, read his thoughts. 111 00:13:33,106 --> 00:13:37,318 That's how you knew that man was gonna shoot you. Isn't it? 112 00:13:37,402 --> 00:13:42,448 I know what's on your mind. I know you're thinking about one of the girls you brought. 113 00:13:42,532 --> 00:13:43,741 Oh? 114 00:13:47,453 --> 00:13:50,415 One of them's thinking about you. 115 00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:53,251 Which one? 116 00:13:57,505 --> 00:14:00,008 He doesn't want me to say. 117 00:14:03,177 --> 00:14:07,015 This kid's gonna need round-the-clock protection. 118 00:14:10,226 --> 00:14:12,353 Mulder? 119 00:14:12,645 --> 00:14:15,648 - What was that all about? - That kid's no chess master. 120 00:14:15,732 --> 00:14:17,942 I could probably beat him. 121 00:14:18,026 --> 00:14:22,196 He's recognised internationally as a prodigy. He's beaten grandmasters. 122 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,950 The most unfair advantage. What he's doing is a magic trick. 123 00:14:26,034 --> 00:14:28,870 He was goofing on you. He was playing along. 124 00:14:28,953 --> 00:14:31,456 You're positing that this kid can read minds. 125 00:14:31,539 --> 00:14:34,125 We've seen a number of these cases before. 126 00:14:34,208 --> 00:14:37,253 We have seen cases of fakers and lucky guessers, 127 00:14:37,336 --> 00:14:41,090 but no one that has been able to stand up to rigorous testing, 128 00:14:41,174 --> 00:14:43,468 and no one who has gone so far 129 00:14:43,551 --> 00:14:48,723 as to claim that they can zero in on the mind of one person in a crowd of thousands. 130 00:14:48,806 --> 00:14:52,727 - Maybe that's why they want him dead. - Who? Who are you talking about? 131 00:14:52,810 --> 00:14:54,687 I don't know. I'm not the mind-reader. 132 00:14:54,771 --> 00:14:57,607 Say that what you're suggesting is possible. 133 00:14:57,690 --> 00:15:01,527 Who would want to kill a kid who offers you the ultimate advantage? 134 00:15:01,611 --> 00:15:04,030 I mean, in business, in war, in anything? 135 00:15:04,113 --> 00:15:07,492 Maybe somebody whose business is in keeping secrets. 136 00:15:10,119 --> 00:15:13,706 Well, let's test him. I think the kid'll stand up. 137 00:15:13,790 --> 00:15:17,418 Let's run a brain scan and a psych evaluation on him. 138 00:15:17,502 --> 00:15:20,171 You know what to do, Diana. 139 00:15:24,342 --> 00:15:26,719 So you two know each other? 140 00:15:26,803 --> 00:15:29,388 It was a long time ago. 141 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,533 - Why are you here? - To talk to the shooter. 142 00:15:48,616 --> 00:15:51,828 I've just spent the last six hours talking with him. 143 00:15:51,911 --> 00:15:55,540 - He's not been what I'd call forthcoming. - Let me see what I can do. 144 00:15:55,623 --> 00:15:57,875 I'd prefer you stay out of there. 145 00:15:57,959 --> 00:16:01,379 In fact, I'd prefer you stay out of this thing altogether. 146 00:16:01,462 --> 00:16:03,840 When I first met you, I figured you were ambitious. 147 00:16:03,923 --> 00:16:06,342 Then I thought you were arrogant. 148 00:16:06,425 --> 00:16:10,138 - Now I wonder what you're protecting. - I'm trying to run this thing right, 149 00:16:10,221 --> 00:16:12,390 not like some paranormal free-for-all. 150 00:16:12,473 --> 00:16:15,184 You're insulting me, when you should take notes. 151 00:16:15,268 --> 00:16:19,272 You got the assignment, but just cos you wear the suit doesn't mean it fits. 152 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:23,192 You're lucky you're not defusing an international incident 153 00:16:23,276 --> 00:16:26,445 and sending agents barking down a lot of bad leads. 154 00:16:26,529 --> 00:16:30,324 Now, the kid is the key to this. And the shooter knows why. 155 00:16:32,660 --> 00:16:34,745 Excuse me. 156 00:16:37,498 --> 00:16:40,418 What does it take to kill a kid? 157 00:16:40,501 --> 00:16:43,629 Money or just evil stupidity? 158 00:16:43,713 --> 00:16:47,175 - I didn't kill a kid. - No. Thanks to the kid. 159 00:16:47,717 --> 00:16:50,720 Wanna talk about heartlessness? 160 00:16:50,803 --> 00:16:53,389 Your squeaky friend there 161 00:16:53,472 --> 00:16:57,310 hasn't given me any food or water for 16 hours. 162 00:16:58,102 --> 00:17:02,273 I won't tolerate that. Spender, you gotta get this guy some food. 163 00:17:03,482 --> 00:17:05,568 Come on. 164 00:17:14,911 --> 00:17:17,622 - I've got nothing to say. - Oh? 165 00:17:17,705 --> 00:17:22,960 I read your bio. You've been trained, Special Forces. You were in Grenada, Zaire. 166 00:17:23,044 --> 00:17:27,089 You were inside Saddam's palace with a hit squad when they bombed it, 167 00:17:27,173 --> 00:17:30,051 - yet you failed to kill him as well. - Like I say... 168 00:17:30,134 --> 00:17:34,847 Yeah, I know, you got nothing to say. That's OK, I'm a pretty good guesser. 169 00:17:34,931 --> 00:17:37,850 The kid reads minds. How's that? 170 00:17:39,101 --> 00:17:43,231 Why don't I tell them you told me that? Then let's see how safe you feel in here. 171 00:17:46,234 --> 00:17:48,819 What can you do for me? 172 00:17:50,488 --> 00:17:52,240 I don't know. 173 00:17:52,323 --> 00:17:57,787 I might be able to get you immunity or get you into the witness protection programme. 174 00:18:00,081 --> 00:18:03,292 - Never happen. - Think about it. 175 00:18:11,467 --> 00:18:13,678 What did you get? Did you get anything? 176 00:18:13,761 --> 00:18:16,138 Just his attention. 177 00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:26,357 How you doin'? 178 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,152 I didn't like those tests. I didn't like being in the machine. 179 00:18:31,362 --> 00:18:33,698 They are a little scary, aren't they? 180 00:18:33,781 --> 00:18:37,159 - You're wondering, aren't you? - About what? About you? 181 00:18:37,952 --> 00:18:40,288 About that other girl. 182 00:18:43,374 --> 00:18:45,960 She's wondering about you, too. 183 00:18:49,046 --> 00:18:52,800 We're gonna show you a group of cards, and as we look at them 184 00:18:52,883 --> 00:18:57,471 we want you to tell us what we're thinking. Now, take as much time as you need. 185 00:19:03,477 --> 00:19:05,354 Chair. 186 00:19:06,814 --> 00:19:08,441 Piano. 187 00:19:10,151 --> 00:19:11,694 Piece of pie. 188 00:19:13,654 --> 00:19:15,740 Light bulb. 189 00:19:17,325 --> 00:19:19,410 Smiley face. 190 00:19:20,328 --> 00:19:22,538 Statue. 191 00:19:23,706 --> 00:19:27,335 - Cow. - It's amazing. It's hard to believe. 192 00:19:27,418 --> 00:19:31,380 I've witnessed clairvoyants who were over 90% accurate 193 00:19:31,464 --> 00:19:35,843 and seen telepathy demonstrated, but I've never witnessed anything like this. 194 00:19:37,636 --> 00:19:42,099 - Where'd you see that? - Mulder and I were in psychiatric hospitals. 195 00:19:42,183 --> 00:19:47,355 There were some patients serving criminal sentences who we felt were misdiagnosed. 196 00:19:48,647 --> 00:19:49,899 What? 197 00:19:51,692 --> 00:19:54,195 Coffee and a cruller. 198 00:19:55,488 --> 00:19:57,573 A nonfat latte. 199 00:19:58,824 --> 00:20:00,910 An English muffin. 200 00:20:04,538 --> 00:20:08,751 Grand slam number two, with double hash browns and a side of Canadian bacon. 201 00:20:13,089 --> 00:20:16,258 He just told us all what we ate for breakfast. 202 00:20:16,884 --> 00:20:19,595 I have to disappear for a bit. 203 00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:28,813 I was handed a note. 204 00:20:29,688 --> 00:20:32,191 Now I'm handing it to you. 205 00:20:47,206 --> 00:20:48,999 (buzzer) 206 00:20:49,083 --> 00:20:52,128 OK. Hang on. I'm coming. 207 00:20:52,211 --> 00:20:56,257 - Is somebody gonna let me in? - Hey, yeah. Comm'. Comm'. 208 00:21:05,099 --> 00:21:07,977 Sorry. You caught me getting ready for bed. 209 00:21:08,269 --> 00:21:10,646 - Come in, come in. - Thank you. 210 00:21:14,275 --> 00:21:16,777 To what do we owe the pleasure? 211 00:21:16,861 --> 00:21:19,822 - I need your help. - With what? 212 00:21:21,657 --> 00:21:26,954 You've all heard of Gibson Praise, the chess wunderkind. These are a series of scans 213 00:21:27,037 --> 00:21:30,499 and neuroelectrical outputs of his brain and brain processes. 214 00:21:30,583 --> 00:21:34,128 There seems to be some suspicion that he's a fraud. 215 00:21:34,211 --> 00:21:38,674 - Dorf on chess? - Apparently he wins by reading minds. 216 00:21:39,550 --> 00:21:42,678 - I love it. - And you want us to what? 217 00:21:42,761 --> 00:21:44,847 Analyse the data... 218 00:21:45,973 --> 00:21:48,642 with an eye to the parapsychological. 219 00:21:48,726 --> 00:21:51,145 Oohh, walk on the wild side. 220 00:21:54,148 --> 00:21:56,525 First, 221 00:21:56,609 --> 00:21:59,320 I want you to tell me who Diana Fowley is. 222 00:21:59,612 --> 00:22:02,656 Diana Fowley? We haven't heard that name in a while. 223 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:04,909 Then you know her. 224 00:22:04,992 --> 00:22:06,785 Well, yeah. 225 00:22:06,869 --> 00:22:10,498 She was Mulder's chickadee when he just got out of the Academy. 226 00:22:12,124 --> 00:22:14,001 Good-looking. 227 00:22:14,084 --> 00:22:16,587 She claims to have worked closely with him. 228 00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:18,797 She was there when he discovered the X-Files. 229 00:22:18,881 --> 00:22:20,925 She has a background in parascience. 230 00:22:21,008 --> 00:22:24,470 She got a legate appointment a while back, in Berlin. 231 00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:28,015 I always wondered why they split up. 232 00:22:34,647 --> 00:22:37,733 Why don't you boys see what you can find? 233 00:22:40,444 --> 00:22:42,530 I must make my stand. 234 00:22:42,613 --> 00:22:46,075 (man) Your stand will destroy you. 235 00:22:46,158 --> 00:22:48,786 Better to perish for what I believe in 236 00:22:48,869 --> 00:22:51,789 than endure forever as a traitor to life. 237 00:22:52,289 --> 00:22:53,541 (man) Then so... 238 00:23:00,339 --> 00:23:02,925 How's little Carnac doin'? 239 00:23:03,008 --> 00:23:07,054 Put a TV in front of him, he turns right into a normal kid. 240 00:23:07,137 --> 00:23:09,765 He's the real deal, Fox. 241 00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:14,603 We tested him with Zener cards, random numbers, a variety of ESP tasking. 242 00:23:14,937 --> 00:23:17,273 He's got ability to not just focus on a thought 243 00:23:17,356 --> 00:23:19,650 but a multitude of thoughts at once. 244 00:23:19,733 --> 00:23:22,111 (TV) ..and women who think... 245 00:23:22,194 --> 00:23:26,156 There's something else. There's something we're missing here. 246 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,702 That was a good catch on the videotape. I was impressed. 247 00:23:30,744 --> 00:23:33,831 - You would have caught it eventually. - No. 248 00:23:33,914 --> 00:23:38,961 Been too many years trying to get inside the head of too many Arab terrorists. 249 00:23:39,044 --> 00:23:43,465 I'm out of practice with this stuff. But you seem at the top of your game. 250 00:23:43,549 --> 00:23:46,176 It's all I do. 251 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:49,471 It's all I've been doing for the last five years. 252 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:52,141 Been my life, such as it is. 253 00:23:54,059 --> 00:23:57,771 Sometimes I hear about you. About the work you're doing. 254 00:23:58,814 --> 00:24:01,442 I think how it might have been if I'd stayed. 255 00:24:01,525 --> 00:24:05,821 We'd all be blown up by some terrorist bomb, no doubt, huh? 256 00:24:07,781 --> 00:24:10,451 I sense you could have used an ally, though. 257 00:24:10,534 --> 00:24:13,537 Someone who thinks like you, with some background. 258 00:24:13,621 --> 00:24:15,956 You mean Scully? 259 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,001 She's not what I'd call an open mind on the subject. 260 00:24:20,961 --> 00:24:25,215 She's a... scientist. She just makes me work for everything. 261 00:24:25,299 --> 00:24:29,053 Yes, but I'm sure there were times when two like minds on a case 262 00:24:29,136 --> 00:24:31,430 would have been advantageous. 263 00:24:34,308 --> 00:24:37,144 I've done OK without you. 264 00:24:41,357 --> 00:24:43,525 Hey... 265 00:24:44,318 --> 00:24:47,363 I'm on your side. 266 00:25:43,919 --> 00:25:45,504 Mulder. 267 00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:47,506 Mulder, it's me. 268 00:25:48,465 --> 00:25:51,719 - Where are you? - I'm on my way to work. 269 00:25:52,594 --> 00:25:56,765 I was hoping I could show you something. Something about the boy. 270 00:25:57,057 --> 00:26:00,769 I'm at the psych facility with him. Why don't you come by and show me? 271 00:26:00,853 --> 00:26:04,231 Uh, no. I'd prefer to show you at work, if that's OK. 272 00:26:04,815 --> 00:26:07,693 - OK. What is it? - I think you'll be surprised. 273 00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:12,865 Very surprised. 274 00:26:12,948 --> 00:26:15,325 I'm on my way. 275 00:26:45,063 --> 00:26:47,691 (man) Agent Spender? 276 00:26:47,775 --> 00:26:50,194 I need to speak with you. 277 00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:53,697 - Who are you? - Somebody who's taken an interest in you. 278 00:26:53,781 --> 00:26:57,326 In this case of yours. This case I gave you. 279 00:27:08,629 --> 00:27:11,507 What are you? CIA? NSA? 280 00:27:12,591 --> 00:27:15,677 - You're a brave boy. - You said you had information. 281 00:27:18,055 --> 00:27:23,143 Control the board. Know which men to sacrifice and when. 282 00:27:23,435 --> 00:27:28,565 - I don't know what you're talking about. - Don't be part of someone else's crusade. 283 00:27:28,649 --> 00:27:31,235 Pursue your own self-interest. 284 00:27:32,069 --> 00:27:33,862 Always. 285 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,246 Agent Spender. 286 00:27:43,038 --> 00:27:44,832 Agent Spender? 287 00:27:45,666 --> 00:27:48,794 - Who were you talking to? - I don't know. 288 00:27:53,507 --> 00:27:57,511 You don't know who you were talking to? You're lying. 289 00:27:57,594 --> 00:28:00,597 - What's your deal? - I was told he was dead. 290 00:28:00,681 --> 00:28:03,058 Obviously, whoever it is, he's not. 291 00:28:09,815 --> 00:28:12,276 You're here to tell me a story. 292 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,323 Tell him exactly as you told me. 293 00:28:20,993 --> 00:28:24,454 I've conducted some tests on Gibson Praise, 294 00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:28,876 and have come up with some rather unexpected conclusions. 295 00:28:28,959 --> 00:28:32,379 Ones which I myself have difficulty reconciling with what I know. 296 00:28:32,754 --> 00:28:35,674 - These are? - Neurological tests, 297 00:28:35,757 --> 00:28:40,596 mapping of brain functions using a very high-resolution EEG. 298 00:28:40,679 --> 00:28:43,473 - What did you find out? - The tests revealed 299 00:28:43,557 --> 00:28:48,562 something peculiar in an area of the brain that we are only beginning to understand, 300 00:28:49,563 --> 00:28:53,942 an area of the temporal lobe that neurophysicists call the "God module". 301 00:28:55,777 --> 00:28:58,947 I hope I'm not going to hear that this kid is the next Christ child. 302 00:28:59,031 --> 00:29:02,993 All of the boy's brain processes are showing extraordinary activity 303 00:29:03,076 --> 00:29:08,373 in exactly this part of the brain, which is not just abnormal or anomalous, 304 00:29:08,457 --> 00:29:11,418 but, from what I know, absolutely unheard of. 305 00:29:11,501 --> 00:29:12,920 There are corollaries. 306 00:29:13,003 --> 00:29:16,715 Individuals responsible for great leaps forward in science. 307 00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:19,843 Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Stephen Hawking. 308 00:29:19,927 --> 00:29:22,846 All these men exhibited modes of thinking 309 00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:26,099 that are suggestive of access to special brain centres. 310 00:29:26,183 --> 00:29:31,146 So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone goes to such lengths as to kill him. 311 00:29:31,229 --> 00:29:34,942 This kid may be the key not just to all human potential but to... 312 00:29:35,025 --> 00:29:38,528 all spiritual, unexplained, paranormal phenomena. 313 00:29:39,404 --> 00:29:42,324 The key to everything in the X-Files. 314 00:29:43,909 --> 00:29:45,827 Let me get this right. 315 00:29:45,911 --> 00:29:49,498 We should believe this boy was gonna be killed because of the X-Files? 316 00:29:49,748 --> 00:29:52,751 - No. It's bigger than that. - Uh-huh. Explain it to me. 317 00:29:53,585 --> 00:29:56,129 To us. 318 00:29:56,213 --> 00:29:58,674 I can't. 319 00:29:58,757 --> 00:30:02,344 But the shooter can, the assassin that you have locked up, 320 00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:06,306 in exchange for immunity. 321 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:10,727 You wanna give a murderer a free ride for the secrets to the pyramids? This is crazy. 322 00:30:10,811 --> 00:30:15,399 You mischaracterise what I've said. This would be quantifiable, scientific proof 323 00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:19,319 of everything that Agent Mulder and I have investigated in five years. 324 00:30:19,403 --> 00:30:22,781 How do you quantify the spiritual? It can't be done. 325 00:30:23,448 --> 00:30:27,869 You ask for immunity for a killer on that basis, the Attorney General's gonna go off. 326 00:30:28,578 --> 00:30:32,332 You're allowed to investigate the X-Files as an indulgence, 327 00:30:32,416 --> 00:30:36,253 but draw the wrong kind of attention and they'll close you down, 328 00:30:36,753 --> 00:30:42,092 put an end to all your work. Something I happen to have an interest in myself. 329 00:30:45,303 --> 00:30:48,265 Let's everyone step out in the hall. 330 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:52,477 Agent Mulder, you stay put. 331 00:31:09,745 --> 00:31:11,621 She's right, you know. 332 00:31:11,705 --> 00:31:14,791 The risk you're taking, the long-term plans you and I talked about. 333 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:17,044 If what Scully's found is true, 334 00:31:17,127 --> 00:31:21,798 and I believe it is, then the answers I might have spent a lifetime searching for 335 00:31:21,882 --> 00:31:24,509 may fall together like a million puzzle pieces. 336 00:31:24,593 --> 00:31:26,887 You'd risk the X-Files? 337 00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:31,016 How soon can you call the Attorney General? 338 00:31:34,311 --> 00:31:37,230 The Attorney General's heard my request for immunity. 339 00:31:37,314 --> 00:31:39,399 Heard it? 340 00:31:42,861 --> 00:31:45,280 You said that you could get it. 341 00:31:45,363 --> 00:31:50,452 She needs something more. Something to convince her you're not just playing games. 342 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:54,790 Something that I can corroborate. 343 00:31:55,248 --> 00:31:57,834 I need answers from you. 344 00:32:01,713 --> 00:32:04,591 The kid is a missing link. 345 00:32:05,175 --> 00:32:07,260 To what? 346 00:32:10,931 --> 00:32:14,267 He's genetic proof, isn't he? 347 00:32:14,351 --> 00:32:17,145 Genetic proof of what? 348 00:32:20,107 --> 00:32:22,400 Genetic proof of what? 349 00:32:24,444 --> 00:32:28,365 The kid's not superhuman, he's just more human than human. 350 00:32:29,407 --> 00:32:31,993 - He's what? - Most of us have genes we don't use. 351 00:32:32,077 --> 00:32:36,873 They lie dormant. Science doesn't know what they're for or where they came from. 352 00:32:36,957 --> 00:32:39,584 You think this has something to do with that? 353 00:32:39,668 --> 00:32:43,713 There's a long-held theory tied to prehistoric evidence of alien astronauts. 354 00:32:43,797 --> 00:32:47,342 You're not gonna go out there and say the kid's part-alien? 355 00:32:49,678 --> 00:32:53,557 You think that's what you heard? You led him, Agent Mulder. 356 00:32:54,015 --> 00:32:56,059 Now you're letting yourself be led. 357 00:33:09,739 --> 00:33:12,450 We entrusted you. 358 00:33:12,951 --> 00:33:16,872 - You failed. - Failed? Failed who? 359 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:21,960 Mulder has gone to the Justice Department. He has testimony about the boy. 360 00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:25,672 - That's just part of the game. - It's not a game, for God's sake! 361 00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:28,675 Sure it is. It's all a game. 362 00:33:29,718 --> 00:33:33,597 You just take their pieces one by one until the board is clear. 363 00:33:50,906 --> 00:33:54,826 Hey, missy, how about some sandwiches? 364 00:33:59,164 --> 00:34:02,959 - (Peggy) I hope you're all hungry. - (Hank) Good-looking breakfast! 365 00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:06,254 (Cotton) Yeah. I see bacon. I see ham. 366 00:34:06,338 --> 00:34:07,881 Gibson? 367 00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:12,594 This is a great show. I wish we got this where I live. 368 00:34:15,847 --> 00:34:18,433 I'd like to ask you something. 369 00:34:30,278 --> 00:34:32,572 How do you do it? 370 00:34:32,656 --> 00:34:36,534 I just hear you thinking. Like on a radio. 371 00:34:36,618 --> 00:34:40,664 Sometimes there are lots of radios, and I wanna shut them off and watch TV. 372 00:34:41,581 --> 00:34:46,086 Is that why you like chess? Cos it's just one thought that you hear? 373 00:34:46,169 --> 00:34:49,297 Yeah. That's not why I like it all the time. 374 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:54,761 - Why else do you like it? - Because there's no talking, just thinking. 375 00:34:55,303 --> 00:34:59,849 It's nothing like real life, where people think one thing but they say something else. 376 00:34:59,933 --> 00:35:04,312 - Is that what people do? - They worry about what other people think, 377 00:35:04,396 --> 00:35:08,275 when the people they're worrying about worry about the same thing. 378 00:35:08,358 --> 00:35:11,236 It makes me laugh. 379 00:35:11,319 --> 00:35:12,320 Why? 380 00:35:12,404 --> 00:35:16,283 They make up all this stuff to believe, but it's all made-up. 381 00:35:16,366 --> 00:35:20,412 Some people try to be good people but some people just don't care. 382 00:35:21,121 --> 00:35:23,206 Like you. 383 00:35:23,290 --> 00:35:27,377 - You think I don't care? - No. You don't care what people think. 384 00:35:29,296 --> 00:35:32,549 Except for her. The other one. 385 00:35:33,967 --> 00:35:35,510 (knock on door) 386 00:35:39,514 --> 00:35:42,892 I'm here to relieve you. 387 00:35:48,565 --> 00:35:51,234 Well, we'll talk about this later. OK? 388 00:35:55,822 --> 00:35:58,408 They wanna kill me, you know. 389 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:07,125 Nobody's gonna do anything to you, Gibson. 390 00:36:09,294 --> 00:36:11,629 I promise. 391 00:36:11,713 --> 00:36:13,798 I know you do. 392 00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:40,325 I've been handed another note. 393 00:36:53,004 --> 00:36:54,255 (Click) 394 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,103 Gibson? 395 00:37:10,939 --> 00:37:13,441 What are you doing? 396 00:37:14,484 --> 00:37:18,905 - There's a man with a gun. - Gibson, get down. Get back. Get back. 397 00:37:25,328 --> 00:37:28,081 He didn't come here to kill me. He's aiming at you. 398 00:37:28,164 --> 00:37:28,957 What? 399 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,605 Agent Mulder. Scully. 400 00:37:53,523 --> 00:37:56,109 They killed a US marshal, then shot Agent Fowley. 401 00:38:00,947 --> 00:38:03,950 They worked on her here. They couldn't get a chopper in, 402 00:38:04,033 --> 00:38:08,705 so they radioed the hospital. She's got weak vitals and a hole in a lung. 403 00:38:08,788 --> 00:38:12,417 - They're not optimistic. - What about the boy? Is he here? 404 00:38:14,752 --> 00:38:18,089 - Where's Spender? - He's gone to Federal Detention. 405 00:38:18,173 --> 00:38:22,010 We found the shooter shot dead in his cell earlier this morning. 406 00:38:22,093 --> 00:38:24,471 We also found this. 407 00:38:51,831 --> 00:38:54,292 - Hello, young man. - Hello. 408 00:38:55,168 --> 00:38:58,213 There's nothing to be afraid of. 409 00:38:58,713 --> 00:39:00,798 You're a liar. 410 00:39:01,341 --> 00:39:03,551 Just like him. 411 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,641 You've never had the stomach for our business. 412 00:39:09,724 --> 00:39:13,520 - Just not for your practices. - I'm a necessity. 413 00:39:13,603 --> 00:39:17,524 - The complement to your cowardice. - Your work is done now. 414 00:39:18,024 --> 00:39:20,235 My work is just beginning. 415 00:39:42,131 --> 00:39:45,802 - I've got a nice straight shot. - No. He's useful. 416 00:39:46,427 --> 00:39:48,846 And you may need him in the future. 417 00:40:05,780 --> 00:40:07,198 (Spender) Our instructions from Justice 418 00:40:07,282 --> 00:40:10,368 are to secure the airports and notify the parents. 419 00:40:10,451 --> 00:40:13,162 Who do you work for? Do you work for him? 420 00:40:13,246 --> 00:40:16,416 You and old Smokey, is that who put this together? 421 00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:20,295 You're goin' down! I'll see you prosecuted for murder! 422 00:40:20,378 --> 00:40:23,965 You watch me. Watch it happen. Your days are numbered. 423 00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:32,599 You're wrong. It's your days that are numbered. 424 00:40:34,642 --> 00:40:37,478 (Scully) We knew the risks going to the Attorney General. 425 00:40:37,562 --> 00:40:39,856 - (Skinner) You know what's coming? - Yes. 426 00:40:39,939 --> 00:40:42,442 - They're serious about this. - I understand. 427 00:40:42,525 --> 00:40:45,528 I assume you'll make Agent Mulder aware of this. 428 00:40:45,612 --> 00:40:47,697 Yes. I'm here with him now. 429 00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:52,577 I'm making a case, but I don't know the Attorney General's listening. 430 00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:57,332 I'll communicate that to him. ls there anything else? Any other news? 431 00:40:57,415 --> 00:41:00,001 Agent Spender's going after Mulder full board. 432 00:41:00,084 --> 00:41:04,756 He's been reciting some line about alien astronauts that makes you both look bad. 433 00:41:04,839 --> 00:41:08,801 Right. Well, I'll be here if you need to reach me. 434 00:41:16,434 --> 00:41:18,936 Any news on Diana? 435 00:41:22,607 --> 00:41:24,442 They have her on maximum pressors, 436 00:41:24,525 --> 00:41:28,029 though she's barely maintaining her pressure. 437 00:41:28,738 --> 00:41:31,032 What did Skinner have to say? 438 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:34,744 There are talks going on right now about reassignment. 439 00:41:36,162 --> 00:41:38,915 - For who? - Both of us. 440 00:41:42,835 --> 00:41:46,881 These talks included instructions from the Justice Department 441 00:41:46,964 --> 00:41:48,966 to close down the X-Files. 442 00:41:54,097 --> 00:41:57,225 This was all strategised, every move. 443 00:41:58,059 --> 00:42:02,105 I just couldn't see it. It was all of a plan. 444 00:42:02,772 --> 00:42:05,358 Mulder, whatever you may believe... 445 00:42:07,860 --> 00:42:10,446 this time they may have won. 446 00:43:15,636 --> 00:43:20,683 - Can I help you? - Actually, uh... I can help you. 447 00:43:21,642 --> 00:43:25,396 - How did you get in here? - Access, Agent Spender. 448 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,565 It's about access. 449 00:43:28,691 --> 00:43:33,070 It's what I can give you. It's what can make you. 450 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,867 - It's why I'm doing this for you. - Who are you? 451 00:43:40,912 --> 00:43:43,414 I'm your father. 452 00:43:44,415 --> 00:43:45,583 What?! 453 00:43:47,001 --> 00:43:49,796 (alarm bell) 454 00:45:56,464 --> 00:45:58,341 Visiontext Subtitles: Adrian Isaac