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I know you think I'm crazy...
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...but it's not me.
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It's the world.
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The world's gone mad.
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Because...
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Because Martians have invaded,
but nobody seems to care.
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MAN:
Take it easy, mister.
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Have a cup ofjoe.
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[WHIMPERING]
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I can't take it easy.
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I just saw one outside.
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So tell me,
what do these Martians look like?
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They have giant heads
and multiple appendages.
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Yikes. And they're here
to eat us or something?
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No.
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They have a ray of some kind
that makes us...
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...forget.
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Forget what?
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There! I just saw one!
Where?
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Outside through that window,
I just saw one of them.
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Heh. Hey, mister.
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That ain't a window.
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That's a mirror.
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[WHIMPERING]
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What is this, some kind
of sick joke, buddy?
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Oh, it's no joke.
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And my name's not Buddy.
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Wait, what?
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[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]
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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[PHONE RINGING]
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Hello?
DANA: Mulder, it's me. Where have you been?
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I've been trying your cell.
I was out squatching.
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What?
Bigfoot hunting. I had my phone turned off.
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Did you have any luck?
No. But that's not really the point.
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I just had to get away from the madness
for a little while.
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It seems this past year
all I've done is watch the news...
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...and worry that the country's gone insane.
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I had to get out to nature, you know,
where it's simple and uncomplicated...
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...where it's just you and the elements.
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And possibly a cryptozoological
simian-like hairy humanoid with enormous feet.
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I think you just like saying "squatching."
Are we still on for dinner tomorrow night?
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Yeah, I'll see you then.
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Scully, did I ever tell you about the time
I found a Sasquatch footprint in the mud?
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It was 35 years ago.
You did, I've heard this before.
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On the banks of Mogoagogo River.
You've told me already.
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I gotta go, gotta go.
In beautiful British Columbia-- Scully?
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Scully?
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[DIAL TONE]
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[TWIG SNAPS]
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[MAN SPITTING]
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Mulder.
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It's me. Now, I know you're surprised
to see me.
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I thought we were all done
after, you know, that last case.
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I've stumbled on the conspiracy to...
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To end all conspiracies.
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Who are you?
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[SIGHS]
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So they have already gotten to you.
How did you know how to contact me?
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To meet me here?
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L-- It had to be someplace safe.
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They“.-
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They'd kill us if they had the chance.
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And who are they?
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They are why you don't remember.
Why aren't people getting probed...
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...by aliens anymore?
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You used to know,
but they made you forget...
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...so that you wouldn't remember me.
Look, what is this all about?
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Oh, my God.
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There's no way for me to make you understand
without me seeming like a crazed madman.
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It's a little late for that.
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[SIREN WAILING]
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I think your ride is here.
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The first Twilight Zone episode you ever saw,
it was "The Lost Martian," right?
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You remember that?
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And if I do?
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That Twilight Zone episode
doesn't exist.
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It never did.
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[FOOTSTEPS]
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MAN [WHISPERS]:
Were you followed?
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Who is that?
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It'd be a hell of a twist if it were Rod Serling.
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Submitted for your approval.
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No, it's not in here either.
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What I don't understand is how this guy knew
about your secret rendezvous signal?
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Who cares about any of that, Scully?
I can't find "The Lost Martian."
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When he said that that episode
of The Twilight Zone didn't exist...
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...that's when I knew he was a crazy person.
It's a classic.
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I came home and checked my box DVD set,
and it wasn't on there.
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I checked all my episode guide books.
No mention of it.
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I had to search it online. Nothing.
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Now I'm going through my tapes
because I'm sure I recorded it at some point.
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Well, maybe it's one of those other shows,
like Outer Limits or--
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Confuse The Twilight Zone
with The Outer Limits?
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Do you even know me?
Can we talk about this over dinner? Please?
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I'm not gonna be able to eat until I find this,
ever again.
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It can't be that good of an episode.
It's not about the episode, Scully.
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It's about my memory
of seeing my first Twilight Zone.
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It changed me.
You don't forget that.
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I was 8 years old,
my parents let me stay up till midnight...
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...because that was back in the day
when it only aired late at night...
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...on some local channel.
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Wait, what?
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And my name's not Buddy.
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MAN: Wait, what?
Oh, now I get it.
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[DEVIL LAUGHING]
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I remember it all so clearly,
as if it just happened.
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[DOOR CLOSES]
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MAN:
He stand you up again?
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Are you that guy that met
with Mulder last night?
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What gave it away, Skulls?
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He mentioned the forehead sweat.
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I need you to help me find someone.
Who?
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Me.
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They... They're trying to erase me!
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Skulls, look, I can prove it.
Hey. I'm armed.
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[STAMMERS]
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Where did you find this?
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My fingerprints are on that box.
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Just prove that I'm real!
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Wait!
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[GASPS]
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FOX:
Let me get this straight.
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When it cools,
it forms into three different layers...
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...with three different textures,
all from the same mix?
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How has this never been an X-File?
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I have such wonderful memories
associated with it.
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I remember my mom making it.
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I remember family vacations
over the summer holidays...
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...and Fourth of July, fireworks,
America, God, love.
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That's some Jell-O.
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I mean, just the cherry flavor.
The lemon-lime tasted like leprechaun taint.
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But I have literally been looking
for this for decades.
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But every time I look for Goop-O A-B-C,
everyone says:
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"No, you must be thinking
about Jell-O 1-2-3."
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It's the Mandela Effect.
What do you mean?
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When someone has a memory of something
not shared by the majority or the factual record.
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Some people have a memory
of seeing a movie...
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...called Shazaam starring Sinbad
as an irrepressible genie...
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...even after it's pointed out to them
they're probably thinking of Kazaam...
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...starring Shaquille O'Neal as a genie.
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Especially because a movie
called Shazaam was never made.
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But what if I don't remember either movie?
You win!
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But, Mulder, isn't your false
Twilight Zone memory also a Mandela Effect?
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No, because my false memory is real.
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But again, how does this mystery guy,
whose fingerprints came up with nothing...
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...how does he even know
about these secret memories of ours?
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You can ask him tonight.
I taped an "X" to the window this morning.
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But that's your secret rendezvous signal.
I don't wanna intrude.
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He clearly wants you involved, Scully.
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Come on, it'll be like a date.
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Well, this is romantic.
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Isn't it?
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[SCOFFS]
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So who are you?
I think my name is Reggie.
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Reggie something.
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Well, Mr. Something, you wanna
tell us what this is all about?
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[SCOFFS]
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Like all life-questioning revelations,
it came to me while I was moving.
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Not myself, but my mother.
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When unpacking her stuff, I came across
a bunch of old things of mine she kept.
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Remembering my mom
reading Dr. Wuzzle books to me...
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...is one of the fondest memories I have.
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But when I looked more closely
at the book's cover...
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That's when the woozle-wozzle-bloober-blubs
hit the fan.
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What'?
Because Dr. Wuzzle's name...
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...was spelled different than how I remembered.
Not with two S's, but with two Z 's.
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What's happening?
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It's the Mandela Effect.
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The what effect?
The Mandela Effect.
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When someone has a memory that doesn't
coincide with everybody else's or the facts.
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So named because some have
a memory of hearing...
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...that Nelson Mandela died in the '80s
while imprisoned...
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...when, in fact, he died a free man in 2013.
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No. It's called the Mengele Effect.
Because people have a memory...
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...of Josef Mengele getting apprehended
in Ohio in 1970. So it's the Mengele Effect.
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The Mandela Effect has been
an Internet meme for almost a decade.
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It's always been called that.
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Ah. See, you're having a Mengele Effect
about the Mandela Effect.
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I should know
because of how I found out about it.
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My search led me to a historical repository
of vintage Americana.
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[DOOR BELL RINGING]
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[MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER]
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Excuse me, do you have
any old Dr. Wuzzle books?
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That's something
somebody might actually want, so no.
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I do have something over in the political shame
section that might interest you.
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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Uh... It's a cartoon that
Dr. Wuzzle drew back in 1940.
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[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
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Damn it, it's still wrong!
Easy, easy.
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If you're gonna break something,
use the Evel Knievel doll.
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It'll make it more authentic.
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What-- No, I'm sorry. It's...
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I remember his name being spelled
in a different way.
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Oh, boy. Sounds like somebody's suffering
from the Mengele Effect.
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See? It's called the Mengele Effect.
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That doesn't prove anything.
Just trust me.
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Okay, I've done a lot of research into this
since then.
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And the shop owner himself
was a bit of an expert on the topic.
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It all started a couple of years ago.
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People coming in looking for some
fondly remembered item from their past.
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I'd show it to them,
but there's always something just a little off.
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And they'd be like, "No, I remember the logo
being racist in a different way."
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Like everybody's recall is out of whack.
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Yeah, yeah.
And I think the government knows about it.
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What do you mean?
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Government always knows
more than they let on.
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For instance, do you think the government
didn't know when this was being sold...
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...back in the '70s,
that it wasn't full of carcinogens?
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They know the truth
about the Mengele Effect.
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That's when I launched my own investigation
into the phenomenon.
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The Mengele Effect is being
intentionally orchestrated by someone.
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Who? And to what end?
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For the simple reasons Orwell said,
"He who controls the past, controls the future."
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The ability to manipulate memory
creates unlimited power.
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Political, economical, cultural.
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It runs the gamut from Holocaust denial
to corporate product recognition.
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There are companies
who are willing to pay anything, do anything...
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...to have people forget
that their products explode on impact...
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...or suddenly catch fire. Companies like--
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Spending billions in profit
to repress these memories.
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Only thing I haven't been able to do
is figure out how they're doing it.
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They can't.
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I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous.
I mean, the Mandela Effect--
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It's the Mengele Effect.
It's the Mengele Effect, just say it.
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--Is simply people
misremembering stuff.
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But maybe this is actually evidence
of a parallel universe.
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BOTH: Wait, What?
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So maybe these differences
in collective memories are actually evidence...
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...of our universe somehow becoming
intertwined with another...
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...if not identical, then very similar universe.
So people's memories are correct...
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...they're just remembering something
that happened in another dimension.
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Hence, the discrepancies.
That's science, Scully.
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Theoretical science, at best, Mulder.
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Yeah, we're not gonna do this parallel universe
sci-fi gobbledygook, nerd boy, okay?
238
00:15:04,739 --> 00:15:07,200
Just, please, drop it.
That crap gives me a headache.
239
00:15:07,408 --> 00:15:12,789
It's a lot better than some evil entity
zapping people's brains with a hypno-ray gun.
240
00:15:12,997 --> 00:15:19,837
I never mentioned a hypno-ray gun.
It's faulty memory because Occam's razor.
241
00:15:20,046 --> 00:15:23,591
That's Ozzie's razor, not Occam's.
It's always been Ozzie's razor.
242
00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,635
Maybe in a parallel universe it is...
243
00:15:25,843 --> 00:15:29,138
...but in still yet another universe,
it's perhaps known as Occam's ax.
244
00:15:29,347 --> 00:15:32,391
BOTH: It's not parallel universes!
245
00:15:32,642 --> 00:15:36,729
Now, look, since I'm the only one
with any proof of this insidious plot--
246
00:15:36,938 --> 00:15:38,940
What proof? You've yet to offer any proof.
247
00:15:39,148 --> 00:15:42,235
Proof is in the fact that once I uncovered
what they were up to...
248
00:15:42,443 --> 00:15:46,906
...they turned the Mengele Effect on me.
Just-- Look.
249
00:15:48,032 --> 00:15:50,451
It's my high school yearbook my mom kept.
250
00:15:50,660 --> 00:15:55,164
There is not a single picture of me in here.
Anywhere.
251
00:15:55,498 --> 00:15:57,959
There's not any inscriptions
from my classmates here.
252
00:15:58,167 --> 00:16:01,504
No "Have a great summer,"
"You were funny in math class." Nothing.
253
00:16:01,712 --> 00:16:03,923
It's like I never even went to this school.
254
00:16:04,132 --> 00:16:08,511
Maybe you did but in a parallel universe.
Exactly-- Knock that off.
255
00:16:08,719 --> 00:16:09,720
[SIGHS]
256
00:16:09,929 --> 00:16:12,723
None of us remember our high school years
with much accuracy.
257
00:16:12,932 --> 00:16:17,353
Skulls, I wish this was about
my own psychological issues.
258
00:16:17,562 --> 00:16:20,606
That way, the memorabilia shop owner
would still be alive.
259
00:16:20,815 --> 00:16:24,235
When I went back to tell him
about the conspiracy to manipulate memory...
260
00:16:24,443 --> 00:16:27,738
...and to see if he had--
Do you guys remember the little candies...
261
00:16:27,947 --> 00:16:31,868
...that were shaped like watermelon slices,
but they taste like coconut?
262
00:16:32,076 --> 00:16:35,746
When I went back, they had silenced him.
263
00:16:36,289 --> 00:16:37,999
[GASPS]
264
00:16:38,207 --> 00:16:41,210
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER]
265
00:16:41,419 --> 00:16:43,421
They had impaled him with a lawn dart.
266
00:16:43,629 --> 00:16:46,174
[PANTING]
267
00:16:47,091 --> 00:16:50,094
I'm sorry, but what's a lawn dart?
268
00:16:50,303 --> 00:16:52,013
Oh, it's this kid's game...
269
00:16:52,221 --> 00:16:55,766
...where you would try to throw
these mini-metallic javelins into the air...
270
00:16:55,975 --> 00:16:58,019
...onto these rings that you put on a lawn.
271
00:16:58,227 --> 00:17:02,899
And they sold these to kids?
We were made of sterner stuff back then.
272
00:17:03,107 --> 00:17:05,651
Well, it just sounds
like an accidental death to me.
273
00:17:05,860 --> 00:17:09,113
No! No, that's what
they want you to believe!
274
00:17:09,614 --> 00:17:12,909
[SIREN WAILING]
275
00:17:13,117 --> 00:17:14,702
Sounds like your ride's here.
276
00:17:15,703 --> 00:17:18,998
She thinks I'm just some kind
of conspiracy nut.
277
00:17:19,207 --> 00:17:22,501
Well, a conspiracy nut is right twice a day.
No, that's a broken clock.
278
00:17:22,710 --> 00:17:26,172
Still applies because they want you
to think all conspiracies are nutty...
279
00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:32,011
...so you will ignore the ones that are true.
Reggie, take it from a fellow nut, okay?
280
00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:35,097
At some point, you're gonna
have to explain who they are.
281
00:17:35,306 --> 00:17:38,392
You keep on referring
to this omnipresent, mysterious they...
282
00:17:38,601 --> 00:17:42,855
...to give intentionality to random events or
external explanations for psychological ones.
283
00:17:43,064 --> 00:17:46,901
But there's no they there. Who is they?
284
00:17:49,570 --> 00:17:51,364
This 9U)'-
285
00:17:51,948 --> 00:17:53,241
He is They.
286
00:18:02,917 --> 00:18:05,044
NARRATOR".
This is a story of a man named They.
287
00:18:05,253 --> 00:18:08,631
Dr. Thaddeus Q. They, a neuroscientist
who has discovered a way...
288
00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:12,385
...to manipulate collective memory.
Most people have never heard of him.
289
00:18:12,593 --> 00:18:13,928
Or rather they have...
290
00:18:14,136 --> 00:18:17,056
...but he's manipulated their memories
to make them forget they have.
291
00:18:17,390 --> 00:18:21,394
While working on NASA's
top secret Operation Soy Bomb...
292
00:18:21,602 --> 00:18:24,689
...involving future, one-way space flights
beyond our realm...
293
00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:27,942
...Dr. They devised a technique
to change specific memories...
294
00:18:28,150 --> 00:18:30,695
...which would allow astronauts
to complete their mission...
295
00:18:30,903 --> 00:18:34,282
...without being weighed down
by thoughts of life back on Earth.
296
00:18:34,490 --> 00:18:39,704
However, Dr. They was fired for also making
the astronauts think they were chimpanzees.
297
00:18:40,496 --> 00:18:43,624
He perfected his research
at U.S. University Hospital in Grenada...
298
00:18:43,833 --> 00:18:47,670
...and now applies his method
for a number of unknown, mysterious clients.
299
00:18:47,878 --> 00:18:49,922
His memory manipulations
have run the gamut.
300
00:18:50,131 --> 00:18:52,967
From Holocaust denial
to corporate product recognition...
301
00:18:53,175 --> 00:18:57,054
...to making people forget he, himself,
once starred as an irrepressible genie...
302
00:18:57,263 --> 00:18:58,931
...in a movie called Ka-Blaam.
303
00:18:59,307 --> 00:19:01,559
Dr. They has not been heard of
for many years...
304
00:19:01,767 --> 00:19:05,146
...but rumors swirl that he was
at the last presidential inauguration...
305
00:19:05,354 --> 00:19:08,065
...where, amongst the hundreds of millions
who attended...
306
00:19:08,274 --> 00:19:11,277
...he was seen occupying
the last remaining seat available.
307
00:19:11,485 --> 00:19:16,115
And as to his motivations for being there,
and what exactly he is up to now...
308
00:19:16,324 --> 00:19:18,200
...we have no way of knowing.
309
00:19:18,451 --> 00:19:22,872
Or perhaps we once did,
but have since been made to forget.
310
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,540
Oh.
311
00:19:24,957 --> 00:19:26,334
What the hell was that?
312
00:19:26,542 --> 00:19:27,835
FOX:
That video was...
313
00:19:28,794 --> 00:19:30,212
...unbelievable.
[SCOFFS]
314
00:19:30,421 --> 00:19:33,674
You wanna hear unbelievable,
check out these comments.
315
00:19:33,883 --> 00:19:38,346
"I think the editing could have been tighter."
This jerk just says, "Meh."
316
00:19:38,846 --> 00:19:42,600
When I stumbled across this,
I tried to confirm as much of it as I could...
317
00:19:42,808 --> 00:19:46,479
...but I was only able to verify
the most important part, the Grenada thing.
318
00:19:46,687 --> 00:19:48,564
That was the most important part?
319
00:19:48,773 --> 00:19:52,026
Tell me, Little Miss Skeptic,
why did we invade Grenada?
320
00:19:52,234 --> 00:19:53,778
Uh...
321
00:19:53,986 --> 00:19:55,071
When was that again?
322
00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:57,281
There was a Marxist overthrow
of the government.
323
00:19:57,490 --> 00:20:01,369
Reagan was concerned about U.S. students
at a university hospital.
324
00:20:01,577 --> 00:20:02,870
Now you're just--
What?
325
00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:08,250
You're just embarrassing yourself at this point.
Those were the official reasons.
326
00:20:08,459 --> 00:20:13,547
But no one really remembers the reasons.
Not even me, and I was there.
327
00:20:15,966 --> 00:20:17,718
I found this amongst my mom's stuff.
328
00:20:17,927 --> 00:20:22,765
I wrote it when I was in Grenada,
when I was 18, to be read when I turned 50.
329
00:20:27,645 --> 00:20:29,230
"To myself at age 50.
330
00:20:29,438 --> 00:20:31,482
Always remember..."
331
00:20:32,108 --> 00:20:35,694
And the rest of the letter's redacted.
Who redacted it?
332
00:20:36,112 --> 00:20:41,951
I did when I wrote it. It was meant as a joke.
That stuff was funny to me when I was a kid.
333
00:20:42,159 --> 00:20:46,163
Okay, what does this prove?
You're missing the most important part.
334
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,333
FOX:
Oh.
335
00:20:49,542 --> 00:20:51,585
A Grenada UFO stamp.
Yeah.
336
00:20:51,794 --> 00:20:53,796
What's that?
Prime minister of Grenada...
337
00:20:54,004 --> 00:20:57,883
...once advocated in front of the U.N. for
the creation of a department of UFO research.
338
00:20:58,092 --> 00:21:00,511
He issued these stamps
to raise money for that.
339
00:21:00,719 --> 00:21:04,265
After he was deposed, he confessed
a UFO had crashed off their coast...
340
00:21:04,473 --> 00:21:07,017
...and a dead alien had been
recovered from the waters.
341
00:21:07,226 --> 00:21:09,728
Correct. Except for one detail.
342
00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:12,773
The alien wasn't dead.
343
00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:16,485
REGGAE:
I was a med student at that hospital.
344
00:21:16,694 --> 00:21:21,282
They brought in the semiconscious alien,
and Dr. They was put in charge of saving it.
345
00:21:22,241 --> 00:21:26,996
The alien had been sent to Earth
to warn us about the holes in the ozone layer.
346
00:21:27,204 --> 00:21:29,665
One of his people would return in 35 years...
347
00:21:29,874 --> 00:21:33,627
...to see if we had managed
to avoid environmental catastrophe.
348
00:21:33,836 --> 00:21:35,421
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
349
00:21:47,057 --> 00:21:52,688
I only caught glimpses of their conversation.
The two of them talked alien telepathically.
350
00:21:52,897 --> 00:21:58,777
ALIEN: I will telepathically transfer to you
all our knowledge of what you call the brain.
351
00:21:59,153 --> 00:22:03,032
REGGIE: But that's when the invasion occurred,
and the men from the government showed up.
352
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,325
ALIEN:
Wait, what?
353
00:22:06,243 --> 00:22:09,288
[ALIEN GASPING]
354
00:22:10,748 --> 00:22:12,500
[ALIEN WHIMPERING]
355
00:22:15,252 --> 00:22:19,340
I don't know if I repressed the memory
or Dr. They erased my mind...
356
00:22:19,548 --> 00:22:24,553
...but seeing that stamp,
it all came flooding back to me.
357
00:22:24,762 --> 00:22:27,306
Now we're dealing
with recovered memories?
358
00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:29,183
I'm sorry.
359
00:22:30,142 --> 00:22:31,560
I'm out.
360
00:22:32,144 --> 00:22:36,607
Reggie, what you told us
is theoretically possible...
361
00:22:36,941 --> 00:22:40,778
[WHISPERING]
...but more likely in another universe.
362
00:22:43,322 --> 00:22:46,867
The one thing I didn't forget
was the telepathic screams of that alien.
363
00:22:47,076 --> 00:22:49,537
ALIEN:
No, wait. What are you--? Hey! Oh!
364
00:22:49,745 --> 00:22:51,956
Oh! No!
365
00:22:52,164 --> 00:22:55,334
REGGIE: I wanted to know where the men
from the government took him.
366
00:22:55,668 --> 00:23:00,005
That's when I dropped out of med school,
joined the FBI.
367
00:23:00,756 --> 00:23:03,092
And that's how I started the X-Files.
368
00:23:05,719 --> 00:23:07,012
That's right.
369
00:23:07,221 --> 00:23:09,598
We used to be partners!
370
00:23:33,205 --> 00:23:35,416
[PHONE RINGING]
371
00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:37,501
Mulder.
EGGIE: Foxy.
372
00:23:37,710 --> 00:23:39,003
Reggie, what's up?
373
00:23:39,211 --> 00:23:43,299
I got this really cool poster for the office, man.
You're gonna flip over it.
374
00:23:43,507 --> 00:23:45,009
[LAUGHS]
375
00:23:45,968 --> 00:23:50,139
FOX: Sorry, nobody down here
but the FBl's most unwanted.
376
00:23:53,309 --> 00:23:56,020
Move along, sugar boobs,
this is the X-Files.
377
00:23:56,228 --> 00:23:58,397
No women allowed.
378
00:24:05,613 --> 00:24:10,284
That guy is so creepy.
379
00:24:10,659 --> 00:24:12,870
And changes world history.
380
00:24:13,078 --> 00:24:15,831
And then Columbus
never discovers America...
381
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,709
...man never lands on the moon...
382
00:24:18,917 --> 00:24:21,128
...the U.S. never invades Grenada...
383
00:24:21,462 --> 00:24:22,755
Wait, wait, wait.
384
00:24:22,963 --> 00:24:24,965
What's this about Grenada?
385
00:24:25,174 --> 00:24:26,175
[HISSES]
386
00:24:26,383 --> 00:24:27,426
[MEOW5]
387
00:24:27,635 --> 00:24:31,930
Guys, if this turns out to be killer cats,
I'm gonna be very disappointed.
388
00:24:32,306 --> 00:24:33,349
[HISSES]
389
00:24:33,557 --> 00:24:37,186
She's their mother.
If she's their mother, how can she be their...?
390
00:24:37,394 --> 00:24:39,063
[MAN SCREAMING]
391
00:24:39,271 --> 00:24:40,314
Oh, boy.
392
00:24:44,193 --> 00:24:45,569
[DANA GASPS]
393
00:24:47,029 --> 00:24:48,697
Ohm!
394
00:24:57,581 --> 00:24:59,291
REGGIE:
All those memories...
395
00:24:59,667 --> 00:25:03,420
You guys mean to tell me
you don't remember any of that?
396
00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:08,092
Not even our last case together?
397
00:25:10,177 --> 00:25:13,555
This is the Mengele Effect in action.
Dr. They is using it against us...
398
00:25:13,764 --> 00:25:16,809
...because he knows we are the only team
capable of stopping him.
399
00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:19,561
There is no Dr. They.
400
00:25:19,770 --> 00:25:20,813
Really?
401
00:25:21,021 --> 00:25:23,399
Well, tell that to his henchmen.
402
00:25:26,026 --> 00:25:27,319
He sent more of them.
403
00:25:37,913 --> 00:25:39,123
FBI.
404
00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:40,874
FBI.
405
00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:43,419
What are you doing here?
406
00:25:45,379 --> 00:25:46,463
You don't know?
407
00:25:47,464 --> 00:25:49,925
The legend that
I've heard so much about...
408
00:25:50,134 --> 00:25:52,678
...would've already figured out who
this guy was that you've been talking to...
409
00:25:52,886 --> 00:25:56,223
...and why we were asked
to find out why you are.
410
00:25:56,432 --> 00:25:58,892
But I guess that's how things go.
411
00:25:59,101 --> 00:26:02,688
You start out a rebel,
but then you get fat.
412
00:26:02,896 --> 00:26:06,525
And the next thing you know,
you're deep state.
413
00:26:06,734 --> 00:26:08,527
Sad.
414
00:26:09,695 --> 00:26:12,197
[DANA MUMBLES]
415
00:26:14,158 --> 00:26:15,492
Do you know who I am?
416
00:26:15,701 --> 00:26:19,872
I'm Fox Mulder. I was fighting the power
and breaking conspiracies...
417
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,041
...before you saw your first chemtrail,
you punks.
418
00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:26,211
I'm Fox freaking Mulder, you punks!
419
00:26:26,420 --> 00:26:27,671
I'm Fox Mulder!
420
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,214
Fox Mulder!
421
00:26:29,423 --> 00:26:33,093
FOX:
So this moron's father is about there.
422
00:26:33,302 --> 00:26:34,928
Reggie...
423
00:26:35,387 --> 00:26:37,514
This guy... Tsk.
424
00:26:37,973 --> 00:26:41,727
To Bob Dylan, whose '98 Grammy
performance is remembered by millions...
425
00:26:41,935 --> 00:26:45,063
...because a half-naked man
with "soy bomb" written on his chest...
426
00:26:45,272 --> 00:26:47,649
...jumped on stage and started dancing
like a spaz.
427
00:26:47,858 --> 00:26:51,111
No official video of the incident exists.
Did it happen?
428
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,115
Seven years later, the band Eels releases
a song "Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb."
429
00:26:55,324 --> 00:26:59,536
A coded message? Especially because the
band's lead singer, the son of Hugh Everett Ill...
430
00:26:59,745 --> 00:27:02,080
...who originated the many-worlds
interpretation of quantum physics--
431
00:27:02,289 --> 00:27:05,083
I'm right back to parallel universes again.
432
00:27:06,043 --> 00:27:10,714
It's true, Scully, I've lost the plot. I can't find the
hidden connections between things anymore.
433
00:27:10,923 --> 00:27:13,967
The world's become too crazy
for even my conspiratorial powers.
434
00:27:14,176 --> 00:27:18,972
Maybe you've just lost your taste for it,
especially after all this birther stuff.
435
00:27:19,181 --> 00:27:20,808
Maybe.
436
00:27:22,059 --> 00:27:26,480
Maybe it's just realizing the absurdity
of an evil doctor named They.
437
00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:28,482
[PHONE RINGING]
438
00:27:28,690 --> 00:27:30,275
[FOX EXHALES]
439
00:27:31,401 --> 00:27:33,111
Mulder.
440
00:27:34,696 --> 00:27:36,281
When?
441
00:27:36,490 --> 00:27:38,075
Where?
442
00:27:41,912 --> 00:27:42,955
Who was that?
443
00:27:43,372 --> 00:27:44,581
Dr. They.
444
00:27:44,790 --> 00:27:46,667
[BELL TOLLING]
445
00:28:07,312 --> 00:28:10,107
Dr. They, I presume?
446
00:28:10,941 --> 00:28:15,529
Kids today don't even know what this means.
Why should they?
447
00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:20,242
When's the last time someone admitted
doing something they were ashamed of?
448
00:28:20,450 --> 00:28:25,372
Even if caught on tape doing it, they just say,
"Well, that was taken out of context."
449
00:28:25,581 --> 00:28:28,125
Yes. But why are you shaming me?
450
00:28:28,876 --> 00:28:33,964
Someone who's spent his life seeking the truth
behind every great conspiracy...
451
00:28:34,172 --> 00:28:37,259
...and you're only now finding out about me?
452
00:28:37,467 --> 00:28:39,261
[CLICKING TONGUE]
453
00:28:39,469 --> 00:28:42,806
Perhaps it just goes to show
how good you are at hiding in the shadows.
454
00:28:43,015 --> 00:28:45,225
Who's hiding? I'm in the phone book.
455
00:28:45,434 --> 00:28:48,562
But nobody knows what's a phone book
anymore.
456
00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:52,733
I have to admit, what little I know of you,
I got from a rather dubious online video.
457
00:28:52,941 --> 00:28:55,193
Oh. Did you like that? I made it.
458
00:28:55,402 --> 00:28:59,114
It's my new platform. Phony fake news.
459
00:28:59,323 --> 00:29:04,745
It's a presentation of real facts, but in a way
that assures no one will believe any of it.
460
00:29:04,953 --> 00:29:05,996
To what end?
461
00:29:06,413 --> 00:29:08,707
The bitter end.
462
00:29:08,916 --> 00:29:13,378
Which is why, when I became aware
that you were finally aware of me...
463
00:29:13,587 --> 00:29:19,051
...I felt a professional courtesy to meet with you
and to tell you this in person.
464
00:29:20,010 --> 00:29:21,261
You're dead.
465
00:29:23,096 --> 00:29:27,726
Oh, that came out wrong. Heh.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.
466
00:29:27,935 --> 00:29:30,103
I meant your time, Agent Mulder.
467
00:29:30,312 --> 00:29:32,773
Your time has passed.
468
00:29:32,981 --> 00:29:36,485
Okay. So, what is
or what was my time?
469
00:29:36,693 --> 00:29:42,616
Well, it's a time when people of power thought
that they could keep their secrets secret...
470
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:46,453
...and were willing to do anything
to keep it that way.
471
00:29:46,662 --> 00:29:48,789
Those days are passed. Gone.
472
00:29:48,997 --> 00:29:54,294
We're now living in a post-cover-up,
post-conspiracy age.
473
00:29:54,503 --> 00:29:58,757
And no doubt, the kids will come up
with some catchphrase for it.
474
00:29:58,966 --> 00:30:00,550
Po-Co or something.
475
00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:06,181
They'll say like, "Oh, that's so Po-Co."
It'll make you wish you really were dead.
476
00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:08,934
As long as the truth gets out.
477
00:30:09,142 --> 00:30:12,479
Ha, ha. They don't really care
whether the truth gets out.
478
00:30:12,688 --> 00:30:17,234
Because the public no longer knows
what's meant by the truth.
479
00:30:17,609 --> 00:30:21,363
What do you mean?
No one can tell the difference anymore...
480
00:30:21,571 --> 00:30:27,035
...between what's real and what's fake.
There's still objective truth, objective reality.
481
00:30:27,369 --> 00:30:29,037
So what?
482
00:30:29,246 --> 00:30:31,790
I mean, you take this Mandela Effect.
483
00:30:31,999 --> 00:30:36,545
Well, in the old days, I would never
have come out and admitted to you...
484
00:30:36,753 --> 00:30:39,548
...yes, I can change people's
collective memories.
485
00:30:39,756 --> 00:30:42,426
That would've meant
I could control the past.
486
00:30:42,634 --> 00:30:45,387
And if that's true--
As Orson Welles once said:
487
00:30:45,595 --> 00:30:48,765
"He who controls the past
controls the future."
488
00:30:48,974 --> 00:30:52,811
It was George Orwell that said that.
Well, for now maybe.
489
00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:58,025
Anyway, the point is I can tell you all of this,
right out in the open...
490
00:30:58,233 --> 00:31:00,610
...because it doesn't matter
who knows about it.
491
00:31:00,819 --> 00:31:06,533
They won't know whether to believe it or not.
To be honest, I'm not believing any of this.
492
00:31:06,742 --> 00:31:10,370
Believe what you want to believe.
That's what everybody does nowadays anyway.
493
00:31:10,579 --> 00:31:13,457
You're only proving my point, you twit. Heh.
494
00:31:15,333 --> 00:31:17,836
But, full disclosure, you're right.
495
00:31:18,045 --> 00:31:22,758
I can't control people's minds.
Although, it turns out, you don't really have to.
496
00:31:22,966 --> 00:31:25,886
All you need is some people
to think it's possible.
497
00:31:26,636 --> 00:31:29,556
And then you've sown the seeds
of uncertainty.
498
00:31:29,765 --> 00:31:34,436
All you really need is a laptop.
So that's what this has all been about?
499
00:31:34,644 --> 00:31:36,396
The spread of online disinformation?
500
00:31:36,563 --> 00:31:38,231
Maybe.
501
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,903
You know, our current president
once said something truly profound.
502
00:31:43,111 --> 00:31:46,907
He said, "Nobody knows for sure."
503
00:31:47,908 --> 00:31:49,159
What was he referring to?
504
00:31:50,202 --> 00:31:52,120
What does it matter?
505
00:32:20,857 --> 00:32:22,234
Mulder!
Aah!
506
00:32:22,901 --> 00:32:25,362
How the hell did you get in here?
507
00:32:25,570 --> 00:32:27,823
Foxy, what did you find out from They?
508
00:32:28,031 --> 00:32:30,659
I'm not exactly sure
what to think about any of it.
509
00:32:30,867 --> 00:32:33,161
Oh, God. What did They do to you?
510
00:32:33,370 --> 00:32:36,998
That's exactly what they want you to think
about everything.
511
00:32:37,207 --> 00:32:42,587
First thing, I need to find out who you are.
His name is Reginald Murgatroid.
512
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,844
Using your yearbook,
I tracked down your high school transcripts.
513
00:32:49,052 --> 00:32:51,555
You only spent a few weeks there,
you didn't graduate.
514
00:32:51,763 --> 00:32:54,766
But after completing your GED,
you enlisted in the Army...
515
00:32:54,975 --> 00:32:58,186
...and participated
in the invasion of Grenada...
516
00:32:58,562 --> 00:33:02,941
...where one of the resistance soldiers
slash construction workers...
517
00:33:03,150 --> 00:33:04,901
...hit you on the head with a shovel.
518
00:33:05,110 --> 00:33:09,239
You received medical assistance
at the U.S. university hospital there.
519
00:33:09,447 --> 00:33:14,995
After your stint in the military, you engaged
in a series of bureaucratic jobs...
520
00:33:15,203 --> 00:33:19,374
...in various federal agencies.
Starting with the U.S. Postal Service.
521
00:33:23,336 --> 00:33:25,881
DANA".
Then the Internal Revenue Service.
522
00:33:28,717 --> 00:33:31,052
The Security and Exchange Commission.
523
00:33:31,595 --> 00:33:33,138
[SNORTS]
524
00:33:33,346 --> 00:33:36,641
The Department of Justice, specifically
the Witness Protection Agency.
525
00:33:36,808 --> 00:33:39,186
Anthony "The Meat Grinder" Mortillaro...
526
00:33:39,394 --> 00:33:43,732
...one-time hit man for the mob,
you are now Tony Jones, real estate agent.
527
00:33:44,649 --> 00:33:46,943
DANA".
But after 9/11, you joined the CIA.
528
00:33:47,402 --> 00:33:49,696
[MAN GRUNTING]
529
00:33:49,905 --> 00:33:51,323
WOMAN:
Hey.
530
00:33:53,408 --> 00:33:55,911
DANA: Then onto the Pentagon
with the Department of Defense.
531
00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:58,747
Boom, goes the dynamite.
532
00:34:00,707 --> 00:34:03,210
Wait. Is that a wedding cake? Damn it!
533
00:34:03,418 --> 00:34:05,337
Not again. Argh.
534
00:34:05,837 --> 00:34:07,339
Oh, well, time for lunch.
535
00:34:07,547 --> 00:34:11,968
DANA: But your longest stint was at the NSA,
The National Security Agency.
536
00:34:12,177 --> 00:34:15,472
MAN: So you voted for him?
WOMAN: Yeah. He's gonna drain the swamp.
537
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,475
Get all those Goldman Sachs people
out of the White House--
538
00:34:18,683 --> 00:34:23,021
FOX: Did I tell you about the time
I found a Sasquatch footprint in the mud?
539
00:34:23,230 --> 00:34:28,026
DANA: Yeah, you did, I've heard this before.
FOX: It was 35 years ago about...
540
00:34:28,235 --> 00:34:31,488
...on the banks of Mogoagogo River.
On the banks of Mogoagogo River.
541
00:34:31,696 --> 00:34:35,909
Until about a year ago when
you were committed to a mental institution...
542
00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:41,248
...because you'd had a nervous breakdown.
Wait, what?
543
00:34:41,790 --> 00:34:46,419
Or perhaps it's merely the culmination
of disillusionment of a man who...
544
00:34:47,337 --> 00:34:50,590
...wanted to spend his life
in service of the country that he loved...
545
00:34:50,799 --> 00:34:54,636
...but began to feel tormented by the idea
that he was betraying its very ideals.
546
00:34:54,844 --> 00:34:59,975
And so using information, apparently
gathered through illegal warrantless wiretaps...
547
00:35:00,183 --> 00:35:03,436
...you escaped into a fantasy
where you imagined you joined a team...
548
00:35:03,645 --> 00:35:07,649
...that still did what America was meant to do,
fight for truth and justice.
549
00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:12,445
[SNAPS FINGERS]
550
00:35:12,654 --> 00:35:14,281
Or I'm from a parallel universe...
551
00:35:14,489 --> 00:35:18,326
...and I jumped dimensions--
No, that's stupid. Right? Sorry.
552
00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:20,620
Mm-hm.
553
00:35:20,829 --> 00:35:23,707
[SIREN WAILING]
554
00:35:23,915 --> 00:35:27,919
Well, looks like my ride is here.
555
00:35:28,670 --> 00:35:34,759
Hey, guys. You remember what I said last time,
if you wanted me to come along peacefully?
556
00:35:34,968 --> 00:35:38,179
Mr. Murgatroid, it demeans all of us.
557
00:35:38,388 --> 00:35:43,226
No. No, it gives a touch of classicism.
Mm.
558
00:35:43,977 --> 00:35:47,230
So you remember how "crazy people"
used to be portrayed...
559
00:35:47,439 --> 00:35:50,191
...as thinking they were Napoleon? Heh.
560
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,945
When did that stop?
Maybe it's another Mengele Effect. Right?
561
00:35:54,154 --> 00:35:55,780
Well, uh, take care, guys.
562
00:35:55,989 --> 00:35:57,032
Stay sane.
563
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:01,661
And, um, good luck
with the rest of your cases.
564
00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:05,081
Reggie.
565
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:12,005
Our last case together, what happened?
566
00:36:16,968 --> 00:36:18,887
We found the truth that's out there.
567
00:36:19,804 --> 00:36:22,599
REGGIE: I'd suddenly recalled the alien
at Grenada's declaration...
568
00:36:22,807 --> 00:36:25,685
...that one of his kind would return to Earth
35 years later.
569
00:36:25,894 --> 00:36:30,732
Foxy's crazy intuition of the uncanny led him
to figure out the location of the visitation.
570
00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:32,484
Scully drove.
571
00:36:32,692 --> 00:36:33,943
There it is!
572
00:36:34,152 --> 00:36:35,945
[TIRES SQUEALING]
573
00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:45,413
FOX:
Is that what I think it is?
574
00:36:48,708 --> 00:36:50,794
It's the gold record.
575
00:36:51,419 --> 00:36:52,462
Yup.
576
00:36:52,879 --> 00:36:54,798
It's the Voyager, what's left of it.
577
00:37:09,813 --> 00:37:13,108
ALIEN:
Greetings, Earthlings.
578
00:37:40,885 --> 00:37:43,721
I come before you as a representative...
579
00:37:43,930 --> 00:37:49,811
...of the Intergalactic Union of Sentient Beings
from All Known Universes and Beyond.
580
00:37:50,019 --> 00:37:54,732
We have been observing your species
for many, what you call, "years."
581
00:37:54,941 --> 00:37:56,860
Our study is now complete.
582
00:37:57,068 --> 00:38:00,363
We no longer wish
to have any further contact with you.
583
00:38:00,572 --> 00:38:04,909
We have returned your music sampler
but will no longer tolerate...
584
00:38:05,118 --> 00:38:09,289
...any further efforts on your part
to venture beyond your realm.
585
00:38:09,497 --> 00:38:11,374
We are building a wall.
586
00:38:11,583 --> 00:38:16,171
It will be a beautiful, albeit invisible,
electromagnetic wall...
587
00:38:16,379 --> 00:38:20,717
...that will subatomically incinerate
any probes you attempt to send...
588
00:38:20,925 --> 00:38:22,677
...beyond your solar system.
589
00:38:22,886 --> 00:38:25,763
You are free to explore Uranus all you want.
590
00:38:26,222 --> 00:38:30,393
But we can't allow your kind
to infiltrate the rest of the cosmos.
591
00:38:30,602 --> 00:38:33,146
You're not sending us your best people.
592
00:38:33,354 --> 00:38:36,733
You're bringing drugs,
you're bringing crime.
593
00:38:36,941 --> 00:38:38,401
You're rapists.
594
00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:41,821
And some, I assume, are good people...
595
00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:44,407
...but we have no choice.
596
00:38:44,616 --> 00:38:45,700
Believe me.
597
00:38:45,909 --> 00:38:50,163
For although the rest of the galaxies
all have their share of these same problems...
598
00:38:50,371 --> 00:38:55,001
...we fear you could infect us
with the one trait that is unique to Earthlings.
599
00:38:55,210 --> 00:38:56,586
You lie.
600
00:38:58,129 --> 00:39:02,050
To show there are no hard feelings,
we've compiled a compendium of answers...
601
00:39:02,258 --> 00:39:08,097
...to any questions you might still have
regarding anything.
602
00:39:17,482 --> 00:39:21,361
Good luck and good riddance.
603
00:39:40,672 --> 00:39:44,592
Bing bing bong bong bing.
604
00:39:58,273 --> 00:40:00,066
So that's the truth?
605
00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:03,152
We're not alone in the universe...
606
00:40:03,987 --> 00:40:05,405
...but nobody likes us?
607
00:40:05,613 --> 00:40:07,282
It's okay, Mulder.
608
00:40:07,490 --> 00:40:10,702
There'll always be more X-Files.
No.
609
00:40:10,868 --> 00:40:15,248
They gave us all the answers
to everything.
610
00:40:15,456 --> 00:40:17,041
Even Sasquatch.
611
00:40:18,293 --> 00:40:20,962
No! It's not true!
612
00:40:21,588 --> 00:40:22,964
It can't be!
613
00:40:23,423 --> 00:40:24,424
[GRUNTS]
614
00:40:25,633 --> 00:40:27,468
[FOX SOBBING]
615
00:40:27,677 --> 00:40:30,346
It's time to face the facts, guys.
616
00:40:31,014 --> 00:40:33,725
This is the end of the X-files.
617
00:40:34,517 --> 00:40:39,564
But maybe the point wasn't to find the truth,
but to find each other.
618
00:40:40,189 --> 00:40:42,900
For no matter where we go in our lives...
619
00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:46,029
...we will always have
the memories of our time together.
620
00:40:46,237 --> 00:40:50,950
No one can take those away or alter them
to make us doubt that they actually happened.
621
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:52,869
Oh, Reggie.
622
00:40:53,286 --> 00:40:55,788
I've always...
Shh.
623
00:40:56,497 --> 00:40:58,124
[WHISPERS]
I know.
624
00:40:58,583 --> 00:41:00,209
I know.
625
00:41:01,544 --> 00:41:03,838
[FOX WHIMPERING]
626
00:41:08,343 --> 00:41:09,802
[FOX SOBS]
627
00:41:12,889 --> 00:41:17,101
And as we now know,
they lived happily ever after.
628
00:41:22,190 --> 00:41:25,568
We'll be sure to come visit you, Reggie.
Heh. No, you won't.
629
00:41:26,110 --> 00:41:27,779
[ENGINE STARTS]
630
00:41:32,784 --> 00:41:34,494
[DOOR OPENS]
631
00:41:44,462 --> 00:41:46,756
Where the hell are they taking Reggie?
632
00:41:49,509 --> 00:41:50,885
Wait, what?
633
00:41:51,094 --> 00:41:52,845
[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]
634
00:41:53,513 --> 00:41:55,890
Ha-ha-ha.
635
00:41:57,183 --> 00:42:01,562
I see you found your lost episode.
Turns out it wasn't a Twilight Zone.
636
00:42:01,771 --> 00:42:05,149
It was a knockoff show
called The Dusky Realm.
637
00:42:09,696 --> 00:42:12,615
Which is now lost for the ages.
638
00:42:13,533 --> 00:42:18,079
Couldn't find anything to set it in,
so I used your Bigfoot impression as a mold.
639
00:42:18,287 --> 00:42:19,664
[FOX CHUCKLES]
640
00:42:22,709 --> 00:42:24,252
[DANA SIGHS]
641
00:42:26,003 --> 00:42:27,797
Oh, no, wait, you first.
642
00:42:28,005 --> 00:42:29,298
It could be the lemon-lime.
643
00:42:29,507 --> 00:42:30,967
[STAMMERS]
644
00:42:32,510 --> 00:42:34,387
[SIGHS]
645
00:42:40,893 --> 00:42:42,019
[CHUCKLES]
646
00:42:55,992 --> 00:42:58,578
I want to remember how it was.
647
00:42:58,786 --> 00:43:00,204
[CHUCKLES]
648
00:43:03,124 --> 00:43:05,918
I want to remember how it all was.