1 00:00:02,963 --> 00:00:04,882 I know you think I'm crazy... 2 00:00:05,090 --> 00:00:06,675 ...but it's not me. 3 00:00:06,884 --> 00:00:08,510 It's the world. 4 00:00:08,719 --> 00:00:10,846 The world's gone mad. 5 00:00:11,054 --> 00:00:12,097 Because... 6 00:00:12,431 --> 00:00:17,102 Because Martians have invaded, but nobody seems to care. 7 00:00:18,103 --> 00:00:20,272 MAN: Take it easy, mister. 8 00:00:20,689 --> 00:00:22,649 Have a cup ofjoe. 9 00:00:24,026 --> 00:00:25,277 [WHIMPERING] 10 00:00:25,485 --> 00:00:27,487 I can't take it easy. 11 00:00:27,696 --> 00:00:29,239 I just saw one outside. 12 00:00:29,448 --> 00:00:33,785 So tell me, what do these Martians look like? 13 00:00:33,994 --> 00:00:38,498 They have giant heads and multiple appendages. 14 00:00:38,707 --> 00:00:42,252 Yikes. And they're here to eat us or something? 15 00:00:42,461 --> 00:00:43,503 No. 16 00:00:43,712 --> 00:00:47,257 They have a ray of some kind that makes us... 17 00:00:48,383 --> 00:00:49,468 ...forget. 18 00:00:49,676 --> 00:00:50,719 Forget what? 19 00:00:52,137 --> 00:00:53,805 There! I just saw one! Where? 20 00:00:54,014 --> 00:00:56,433 Outside through that window, I just saw one of them. 21 00:00:56,642 --> 00:00:58,518 Heh. Hey, mister. 22 00:00:58,727 --> 00:00:59,978 That ain't a window. 23 00:01:00,187 --> 00:01:01,688 That's a mirror. 24 00:01:21,792 --> 00:01:22,793 [WHIMPERING] 25 00:01:23,001 --> 00:01:26,421 What is this, some kind of sick joke, buddy? 26 00:01:27,172 --> 00:01:31,927 Oh, it's no joke. 27 00:01:33,971 --> 00:01:36,139 And my name's not Buddy. 28 00:01:36,932 --> 00:01:38,600 Wait, what? 29 00:01:38,809 --> 00:01:40,352 [LAUGHING MANIACALLY] 30 00:02:14,136 --> 00:02:15,554 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 31 00:02:15,762 --> 00:02:17,347 [PHONE RINGING] 32 00:02:25,689 --> 00:02:28,150 Hello? DANA: Mulder, it's me. Where have you been? 33 00:02:28,358 --> 00:02:31,194 I've been trying your cell. I was out squatching. 34 00:02:31,403 --> 00:02:34,406 What? Bigfoot hunting. I had my phone turned off. 35 00:02:34,614 --> 00:02:38,744 Did you have any luck? No. But that's not really the point. 36 00:02:38,952 --> 00:02:41,955 I just had to get away from the madness for a little while. 37 00:02:42,164 --> 00:02:44,875 It seems this past year all I've done is watch the news... 38 00:02:45,083 --> 00:02:47,336 ...and worry that the country's gone insane. 39 00:02:47,544 --> 00:02:51,298 I had to get out to nature, you know, where it's simple and uncomplicated... 40 00:02:51,506 --> 00:02:53,425 ...where it's just you and the elements. 41 00:02:53,633 --> 00:02:58,638 And possibly a cryptozoological simian-like hairy humanoid with enormous feet. 42 00:02:58,847 --> 00:03:02,809 I think you just like saying "squatching." Are we still on for dinner tomorrow night? 43 00:03:03,018 --> 00:03:04,519 Yeah, I'll see you then. 44 00:03:04,728 --> 00:03:08,732 Scully, did I ever tell you about the time I found a Sasquatch footprint in the mud? 45 00:03:08,940 --> 00:03:11,485 It was 35 years ago. You did, I've heard this before. 46 00:03:11,693 --> 00:03:14,404 On the banks of Mogoagogo River. You've told me already. 47 00:03:14,613 --> 00:03:17,824 I gotta go, gotta go. In beautiful British Columbia-- Scully? 48 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:19,076 Scully? 49 00:03:19,284 --> 00:03:21,244 [DIAL TONE] 50 00:03:23,413 --> 00:03:24,414 [CLEARS THROAT] 51 00:03:24,623 --> 00:03:27,125 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 52 00:03:38,970 --> 00:03:40,138 [TWIG SNAPS] 53 00:03:40,347 --> 00:03:42,682 [MAN SPITTING] 54 00:03:54,027 --> 00:03:55,404 Mulder. 55 00:03:55,612 --> 00:03:58,573 It's me. Now, I know you're surprised to see me. 56 00:03:58,782 --> 00:04:03,036 I thought we were all done after, you know, that last case. 57 00:04:03,286 --> 00:04:05,831 I've stumbled on the conspiracy to... 58 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:08,333 To end all conspiracies. 59 00:04:09,501 --> 00:04:10,544 Who are you? 60 00:04:10,752 --> 00:04:12,379 [SIGHS] 61 00:04:13,588 --> 00:04:17,342 So they have already gotten to you. How did you know how to contact me? 62 00:04:17,551 --> 00:04:18,593 To meet me here? 63 00:04:18,802 --> 00:04:21,263 L-- It had to be someplace safe. 64 00:04:21,471 --> 00:04:22,889 They“.- 65 00:04:23,557 --> 00:04:25,976 They'd kill us if they had the chance. 66 00:04:26,184 --> 00:04:27,394 And who are they? 67 00:04:27,602 --> 00:04:31,189 They are why you don't remember. Why aren't people getting probed... 68 00:04:31,398 --> 00:04:32,524 ...by aliens anymore? 69 00:04:32,732 --> 00:04:35,068 You used to know, but they made you forget... 70 00:04:35,277 --> 00:04:39,239 ...so that you wouldn't remember me. Look, what is this all about? 71 00:04:39,448 --> 00:04:40,490 Oh, my God. 72 00:04:40,699 --> 00:04:44,161 There's no way for me to make you understand without me seeming like a crazed madman. 73 00:04:44,870 --> 00:04:46,204 It's a little late for that. 74 00:04:46,413 --> 00:04:48,582 [SIREN WAILING] 75 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:51,960 I think your ride is here. 76 00:04:53,628 --> 00:04:57,382 The first Twilight Zone episode you ever saw, it was "The Lost Martian," right? 77 00:04:57,591 --> 00:04:58,675 You remember that? 78 00:04:59,468 --> 00:05:00,510 And if I do? 79 00:05:00,886 --> 00:05:04,973 That Twilight Zone episode doesn't exist. 80 00:05:05,182 --> 00:05:07,142 It never did. 81 00:05:07,350 --> 00:05:10,187 [FOOTSTEPS] 82 00:05:12,397 --> 00:05:14,316 MAN [WHISPERS]: Were you followed? 83 00:05:14,691 --> 00:05:16,276 Who is that? 84 00:05:18,987 --> 00:05:22,324 It'd be a hell of a twist if it were Rod Serling. 85 00:05:32,209 --> 00:05:34,294 Submitted for your approval. 86 00:05:37,172 --> 00:05:39,633 No, it's not in here either. 87 00:05:39,841 --> 00:05:45,055 What I don't understand is how this guy knew about your secret rendezvous signal? 88 00:05:45,263 --> 00:05:48,558 Who cares about any of that, Scully? I can't find "The Lost Martian." 89 00:05:48,767 --> 00:05:51,937 When he said that that episode of The Twilight Zone didn't exist... 90 00:05:52,145 --> 00:05:55,148 ...that's when I knew he was a crazy person. It's a classic. 91 00:05:55,357 --> 00:05:58,068 I came home and checked my box DVD set, and it wasn't on there. 92 00:05:58,276 --> 00:06:00,820 I checked all my episode guide books. No mention of it. 93 00:06:01,029 --> 00:06:03,240 I had to search it online. Nothing. 94 00:06:03,448 --> 00:06:06,993 Now I'm going through my tapes because I'm sure I recorded it at some point. 95 00:06:07,202 --> 00:06:10,872 Well, maybe it's one of those other shows, like Outer Limits or-- 96 00:06:11,081 --> 00:06:13,416 Confuse The Twilight Zone with The Outer Limits? 97 00:06:13,625 --> 00:06:18,213 Do you even know me? Can we talk about this over dinner? Please? 98 00:06:18,421 --> 00:06:22,509 I'm not gonna be able to eat until I find this, ever again. 99 00:06:22,717 --> 00:06:27,389 It can't be that good of an episode. It's not about the episode, Scully. 100 00:06:27,597 --> 00:06:31,685 It's about my memory of seeing my first Twilight Zone. 101 00:06:31,977 --> 00:06:34,437 It changed me. You don't forget that. 102 00:06:34,646 --> 00:06:37,649 I was 8 years old, my parents let me stay up till midnight... 103 00:06:37,857 --> 00:06:41,152 ...because that was back in the day when it only aired late at night... 104 00:06:41,361 --> 00:06:42,779 ...on some local channel. 105 00:06:42,988 --> 00:06:45,490 Wait, what? 106 00:06:46,616 --> 00:06:48,702 And my name's not Buddy. 107 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,162 MAN: Wait, what? Oh, now I get it. 108 00:06:51,371 --> 00:06:52,372 [DEVIL LAUGHING] 109 00:06:52,581 --> 00:06:57,002 I remember it all so clearly, as if it just happened. 110 00:06:59,254 --> 00:07:01,006 [DOOR CLOSES] 111 00:07:04,134 --> 00:07:06,553 MAN: He stand you up again? 112 00:07:10,348 --> 00:07:13,643 Are you that guy that met with Mulder last night? 113 00:07:14,561 --> 00:07:16,730 What gave it away, Skulls? 114 00:07:17,147 --> 00:07:19,065 He mentioned the forehead sweat. 115 00:07:19,774 --> 00:07:22,944 I need you to help me find someone. Who? 116 00:07:23,737 --> 00:07:24,779 Me. 117 00:07:25,905 --> 00:07:29,159 They... They're trying to erase me! 118 00:07:29,367 --> 00:07:32,912 Skulls, look, I can prove it. Hey. I'm armed. 119 00:07:42,839 --> 00:07:44,299 [STAMMERS] 120 00:07:45,967 --> 00:07:47,552 Where did you find this? 121 00:07:47,886 --> 00:07:50,305 My fingerprints are on that box. 122 00:07:51,890 --> 00:07:53,308 Just prove that I'm real! 123 00:07:56,436 --> 00:07:58,188 Wait! 124 00:07:58,521 --> 00:08:00,190 [GASPS] 125 00:08:16,873 --> 00:08:18,708 FOX: Let me get this straight. 126 00:08:19,042 --> 00:08:21,878 When it cools, it forms into three different layers... 127 00:08:22,087 --> 00:08:24,923 ...with three different textures, all from the same mix? 128 00:08:25,256 --> 00:08:27,133 How has this never been an X-File? 129 00:08:27,884 --> 00:08:30,887 I have such wonderful memories associated with it. 130 00:08:31,096 --> 00:08:32,430 I remember my mom making it. 131 00:08:32,639 --> 00:08:35,975 I remember family vacations over the summer holidays... 132 00:08:36,184 --> 00:08:41,648 ...and Fourth of July, fireworks, America, God, love. 133 00:08:41,981 --> 00:08:43,650 That's some Jell-O. 134 00:08:43,858 --> 00:08:47,404 I mean, just the cherry flavor. The lemon-lime tasted like leprechaun taint. 135 00:08:47,612 --> 00:08:50,448 But I have literally been looking for this for decades. 136 00:08:50,657 --> 00:08:53,743 But every time I look for Goop-O A-B-C, everyone says: 137 00:08:53,952 --> 00:08:56,663 "No, you must be thinking about Jell-O 1-2-3." 138 00:08:56,871 --> 00:08:59,040 It's the Mandela Effect. What do you mean? 139 00:08:59,249 --> 00:09:04,587 When someone has a memory of something not shared by the majority or the factual record. 140 00:09:05,338 --> 00:09:07,924 Some people have a memory of seeing a movie... 141 00:09:08,133 --> 00:09:12,178 ...called Shazaam starring Sinbad as an irrepressible genie... 142 00:09:12,387 --> 00:09:16,015 ...even after it's pointed out to them they're probably thinking of Kazaam... 143 00:09:16,224 --> 00:09:18,143 ...starring Shaquille O'Neal as a genie. 144 00:09:18,351 --> 00:09:21,813 Especially because a movie called Shazaam was never made. 145 00:09:22,021 --> 00:09:24,899 But what if I don't remember either movie? You win! 146 00:09:25,108 --> 00:09:29,696 But, Mulder, isn't your false Twilight Zone memory also a Mandela Effect? 147 00:09:29,904 --> 00:09:32,657 No, because my false memory is real. 148 00:09:32,866 --> 00:09:39,164 But again, how does this mystery guy, whose fingerprints came up with nothing... 149 00:09:39,372 --> 00:09:42,417 ...how does he even know about these secret memories of ours? 150 00:09:42,625 --> 00:09:46,045 You can ask him tonight. I taped an "X" to the window this morning. 151 00:09:46,254 --> 00:09:50,884 But that's your secret rendezvous signal. I don't wanna intrude. 152 00:09:51,384 --> 00:09:54,220 He clearly wants you involved, Scully. 153 00:09:54,637 --> 00:09:56,473 Come on, it'll be like a date. 154 00:10:03,271 --> 00:10:04,814 Well, this is romantic. 155 00:10:05,023 --> 00:10:06,024 Isn't it? 156 00:10:06,232 --> 00:10:07,692 [SCOFFS] 157 00:10:26,377 --> 00:10:29,506 So who are you? I think my name is Reggie. 158 00:10:30,215 --> 00:10:32,008 Reggie something. 159 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:36,930 Well, Mr. Something, you wanna tell us what this is all about? 160 00:10:37,305 --> 00:10:38,306 [SCOFFS] 161 00:10:38,515 --> 00:10:41,976 Like all life-questioning revelations, it came to me while I was moving. 162 00:10:42,185 --> 00:10:44,062 Not myself, but my mother. 163 00:10:44,270 --> 00:10:49,025 When unpacking her stuff, I came across a bunch of old things of mine she kept. 164 00:10:49,234 --> 00:10:51,945 Remembering my mom reading Dr. Wuzzle books to me... 165 00:10:52,153 --> 00:10:54,531 ...is one of the fondest memories I have. 166 00:10:55,198 --> 00:10:58,076 But when I looked more closely at the book's cover... 167 00:10:58,284 --> 00:11:00,912 That's when the woozle-wozzle-bloober-blubs hit the fan. 168 00:11:01,287 --> 00:11:02,956 What'? Because Dr. Wuzzle's name... 169 00:11:03,164 --> 00:11:08,461 ...was spelled different than how I remembered. Not with two S's, but with two Z 's. 170 00:11:09,712 --> 00:11:11,047 What's happening? 171 00:11:11,256 --> 00:11:12,715 It's the Mandela Effect. 172 00:11:12,924 --> 00:11:15,635 The what effect? The Mandela Effect. 173 00:11:15,844 --> 00:11:19,848 When someone has a memory that doesn't coincide with everybody else's or the facts. 174 00:11:20,056 --> 00:11:22,350 So named because some have a memory of hearing... 175 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,311 ...that Nelson Mandela died in the '80s while imprisoned... 176 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,730 ...when, in fact, he died a free man in 2013. 177 00:11:28,356 --> 00:11:32,777 No. It's called the Mengele Effect. Because people have a memory... 178 00:11:32,986 --> 00:11:38,408 ...of Josef Mengele getting apprehended in Ohio in 1970. So it's the Mengele Effect. 179 00:11:38,616 --> 00:11:41,661 The Mandela Effect has been an Internet meme for almost a decade. 180 00:11:41,870 --> 00:11:43,246 It's always been called that. 181 00:11:43,454 --> 00:11:46,624 Ah. See, you're having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect. 182 00:11:46,833 --> 00:11:49,168 I should know because of how I found out about it. 183 00:11:49,377 --> 00:11:54,924 My search led me to a historical repository of vintage Americana. 184 00:11:55,133 --> 00:11:56,467 [DOOR BELL RINGING] 185 00:11:58,678 --> 00:12:00,388 [MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER] 186 00:12:00,597 --> 00:12:04,934 Excuse me, do you have any old Dr. Wuzzle books? 187 00:12:05,268 --> 00:12:07,729 That's something somebody might actually want, so no. 188 00:12:08,229 --> 00:12:12,525 I do have something over in the political shame section that might interest you. 189 00:12:12,734 --> 00:12:13,735 [CLEARS THROAT] 190 00:12:18,531 --> 00:12:24,078 Uh... It's a cartoon that Dr. Wuzzle drew back in 1940. 191 00:12:24,287 --> 00:12:26,205 [MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] 192 00:12:27,081 --> 00:12:29,417 Damn it, it's still wrong! Easy, easy. 193 00:12:29,626 --> 00:12:33,171 If you're gonna break something, use the Evel Knievel doll. 194 00:12:33,379 --> 00:12:35,465 It'll make it more authentic. 195 00:12:35,673 --> 00:12:38,593 What-- No, I'm sorry. It's... 196 00:12:38,927 --> 00:12:42,555 I remember his name being spelled in a different way. 197 00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:48,394 Oh, boy. Sounds like somebody's suffering from the Mengele Effect. 198 00:12:48,603 --> 00:12:51,314 See? It's called the Mengele Effect. 199 00:12:51,522 --> 00:12:54,609 That doesn't prove anything. Just trust me. 200 00:12:54,817 --> 00:12:57,403 Okay, I've done a lot of research into this since then. 201 00:12:57,612 --> 00:13:00,990 And the shop owner himself was a bit of an expert on the topic. 202 00:13:01,199 --> 00:13:02,951 It all started a couple of years ago. 203 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:06,704 People coming in looking for some fondly remembered item from their past. 204 00:13:06,913 --> 00:13:10,083 I'd show it to them, but there's always something just a little off. 205 00:13:10,291 --> 00:13:14,170 And they'd be like, "No, I remember the logo being racist in a different way." 206 00:13:14,379 --> 00:13:16,381 Like everybody's recall is out of whack. 207 00:13:16,589 --> 00:13:21,177 Yeah, yeah. And I think the government knows about it. 208 00:13:21,886 --> 00:13:23,054 What do you mean? 209 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:25,390 Government always knows more than they let on. 210 00:13:25,598 --> 00:13:29,394 For instance, do you think the government didn't know when this was being sold... 211 00:13:29,602 --> 00:13:32,438 ...back in the '70s, that it wasn't full of carcinogens? 212 00:13:32,647 --> 00:13:36,985 They know the truth about the Mengele Effect. 213 00:13:37,443 --> 00:13:40,446 That's when I launched my own investigation into the phenomenon. 214 00:13:40,655 --> 00:13:44,117 The Mengele Effect is being intentionally orchestrated by someone. 215 00:13:44,325 --> 00:13:46,369 Who? And to what end? 216 00:13:46,577 --> 00:13:50,748 For the simple reasons Orwell said, "He who controls the past, controls the future." 217 00:13:50,957 --> 00:13:54,877 The ability to manipulate memory creates unlimited power. 218 00:13:55,086 --> 00:13:57,088 Political, economical, cultural. 219 00:13:57,296 --> 00:14:01,592 It runs the gamut from Holocaust denial to corporate product recognition. 220 00:14:01,801 --> 00:14:04,929 There are companies who are willing to pay anything, do anything... 221 00:14:05,138 --> 00:14:08,182 ...to have people forget that their products explode on impact... 222 00:14:08,391 --> 00:14:11,561 ...or suddenly catch fire. Companies like-- 223 00:14:11,769 --> 00:14:15,690 Spending billions in profit to repress these memories. 224 00:14:15,898 --> 00:14:19,277 Only thing I haven't been able to do is figure out how they're doing it. 225 00:14:19,485 --> 00:14:20,987 They can't. 226 00:14:21,195 --> 00:14:25,074 I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. I mean, the Mandela Effect-- 227 00:14:25,283 --> 00:14:28,161 It's the Mengele Effect. It's the Mengele Effect, just say it. 228 00:14:28,369 --> 00:14:31,831 --Is simply people misremembering stuff. 229 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:37,795 But maybe this is actually evidence of a parallel universe. 230 00:14:38,004 --> 00:14:39,464 BOTH: Wait, What? 231 00:14:39,672 --> 00:14:43,259 So maybe these differences in collective memories are actually evidence... 232 00:14:43,468 --> 00:14:46,554 ...of our universe somehow becoming intertwined with another... 233 00:14:46,763 --> 00:14:50,683 ...if not identical, then very similar universe. So people's memories are correct... 234 00:14:50,892 --> 00:14:53,436 ...they're just remembering something that happened in another dimension. 235 00:14:53,644 --> 00:14:55,938 Hence, the discrepancies. That's science, Scully. 236 00:14:56,147 --> 00:14:58,941 Theoretical science, at best, Mulder. 237 00:14:59,150 --> 00:15:04,530 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.