Tad O'Malley
It's all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
Season 11 · Episode 10
My Struggle IV
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code2AYW10Original airdate · March 21, 2018
345 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Previously · Recap
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The aliens brought not only technology... they brought the seeds of our destruction. Civilization is in its final stages.
Dana Scully
I have seen it. Oh. Aah!
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Dana Scully
I know how it begins.
Fox Mulder
Tell me what you saw.
Dana Scully
A plague will be released. And then it starts a pandemic. The Smoking Man is behind it.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You can't stop what's begun.
Monica Reyes
You've always had your enemies.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
My enemies are legion.
Mr. Y
This is no ordinary contagion. This is an alien pathogen.
Fox Mulder
He wants to exterminate humanity. What's your enterprise?
Erika Price
The colonization of space.
Fox Mulder
Transport all humanity off planet or only a chosen few?
Mr. Y
Kill him.
Erika Price
You're his son. He won't be expecting you.
Walter Skinner
And why kill Mulder? Mulder would kill me. Scully will never take your offer.
Dana Scully
You have to stop the Smoking Man. He can't act without William.
Walter Skinner
Who's the father?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
William is my son.
[GASPS]
Scene 02
William's Story
Dana Scully
Mulder, William is the key.
William
My name is Jackson Van De Kamp. That's what my parents called me when they adopted me 17 years ago. My original name was William, I've come to learn. That's what my birth mother called me. Dana Scully. I've never really met her properly, but I can feel her in these-- Is this a message for me? --Violent episodes in which I can feel us connected... to the future in ways I'm just beginning to understand. Or am I sending a message to you? I don't know my role in the future. But I'm beginning to understand that as well. I have visions of it. It's a world of confusion, and pain and loneliness that I can't escape... nor can I prevent. But I want no part in the suffering. I've known happiness. I had a happy childhood. Until I grew older, I had a life where I could dream of anything that I ever wanted to be. But even then, I knew that I had... powers. Special powers.
[BOTH GASP]
William
When I turned 11, my powers grew.
[KIDS YELLING [INDISTINCTLY]
William
I got in a fight with Jerry Marriot. He was this bully who used to pick on smaller kids who couldn't defend themselves. So I sent him to the hospital.
[KIDS GASP]
William
I had to change schools many times. The kids would catch on that I was... Different.
[GASPING]
William
And then I, uh, just kind of became a criminal. So I was sent away to a school for bad kids. It devastated my parents, but I just couldn't help myself. Yeah, I guess that's why I've been lashing out. I talked to psychologists, and I would just make up stories. Tell them what they want to hear. I'm so scared that I'm gonna-- I'm gonna find out one day that... I'm my father, all of a sudden. But then this man from the government to talk to me. I could tell something was up, so I decided to just cool it. And I had to come home. But every day, there was this car in the street with these guys in it watching our house. And I was smart. I didn't make any mistakes... until I decided to play a stupid joke on these two girls.
[SCREAMING]
William
My whole world came crashing down. My parents were killed by those men on the street. Oh, no. They're hunting me now. They found me. I'm afraid they'll kill me too... if they catch me. What I need right now is answers.
Dana Scully
Jackson?
William
About who I am, about how I can get my life back. You seem like a nice person. I want to ask my real mother questions. But the truth can only come from my father. A man I've only seen in my visions. But who I know I already hate.
Scene 03
The Docks · The Smoking Man
Cigarette-Smoking Man
But I need you to know, Fox... when I gave you life... I never fathomed a moment when I would need to end it.
Fox Mulder
I don't think you can do it.
[GUNSHOT]
[MEN SPEAKING [INDISTINCTLY]
Scene 04
The Motel · Front Desk
Fox Mulder
Hi. I'm an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You have a guest here, a young man in his late teens. Checked in this evening.
Motel Manager
Paid me in hundreds.
Fox Mulder
Is the boy a criminal? No. He's not. The boy is my son.
Scene 05
FBI Headquarters · Kersh's Office
Alvin Kersh
Have you seen the Internet? Seen this load of BS Mulder's spewing?
Walter Skinner
I haven't seen it. What is it?
Alvin Kersh
Well, he's going off about a conspiracy on this Tad O'Malley show. About a conspiracy to wipe out humanity. "Death will hunt you down." That's a quote from Mulder. A quote from a Federal agent, Mr. Skinner.
Walter Skinner
I can't speak for Agent Mulder.
Alvin Kersh
You're his superior. You're supposed to be in charge.
Walter Skinner
I am in charge. I'll see if I can find Agent Scully--
Alvin Kersh
You find her. And you shut her down. I'm closing the X-Files. I want Mulder and Scully's badges.
Tad O'Malley
--a motel manager reporting a military-style incursion.
Walter Skinner
What if it's not just fake news?
Alvin Kersh
I don't care if it is true. That's someone else's problem. We're not gonna see panic in the streets.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Scene 06
Skinner's Phone · The Smoking Man
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Skinner. I promised you a global contagion. I'm about to deliver on that promise. All I asked of you was to find the boy.
Walter Skinner
So if I find him, will it stop?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Just find me the boy, Mr. Skinner.
Walter Skinner
Sir, I've left you three messages. Why aren't you answering? I've been getting my ass chewed.
Scene 07
FBI Headquarters · Scully and Skinner
Dana Scully
Well, it's Mulder. He needs your help.
Walter Skinner
He needs a hell of a lot more than that, Agent Scully. Where is he?
Dana Scully
He's with our son.
Walter Skinner
They're being pursued.
Dana Scully
He needs your help. I need your help. I've been told to shut you down. What are you talking about?
Walter Skinner
I've been asked to take your badges.
Dana Scully
Who said that? Kersh? Is he in there?
Walter Skinner
Dana--
Dana Scully
He doesn't understand what's happening. Mulder has lit a fuse that you can't put out.
Walter Skinner
He's made outrageous public statements on an Internet site.
Dana Scully
That wasn't him. That was me. And they're not outrageous.
Walter Skinner
Where are they? I can't help you, Agent Scully... if I don't know what's going on.
Scene 08
Mulder's House · Monica Reyes
Dana Scully
I'll put you on speaker phone.
Fox Mulder
Who's on the phone?
Monica Reyes
This is Monica Reyes. I think they've got your son, William.
Fox Mulder
Just tell me where he is, Monica.
Monica Reyes
Tennessee.
Fox Mulder
Being transported by a private jet.
Monica Reyes
Tail number NGDJG, landing in Maryland in two hours.
Fox Mulder
Which airport in Maryland?
Monica Reyes
Braddock KTCA southeast terminal.
Fox Mulder
This may be your last good chance. When you say “last good chance," what exactly do you mean?
Scene 09
The Smoking Man's SUV
Monica Reyes
The person who controls your son is the person who controls the future.
Scene 10
Mulder's Car · The Airport
Dana Scully
He's not on that plane, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You have any reason to distrust her?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Is there word on the boy?
Monica Reyes
Nothing. Nothing to report.
Dana Scully
I don't know how I know. I just know that he's not on that plane.
Fox Mulder
But what if he is on the plane? What if this is out last good chance?
Dana Scully
Just come back alive.
Fox Mulder
Come on, come on. Damn it.
[GUNSHOTS]
[SPEAKING [IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Scene 11
The Warehouse Complex
Guards
Don't move. Stop there. Face away. Hands behind your head. Behind your head!
[GRUNTING]
[GUNSHOTS]
Scene 12
Mr. Y's Office
Fox Mulder
And here I thought you were a liar. Your secret space program. You should really do a better job at protecting your ass.
Mr. Y
How the hell did you get in here?
Fox Mulder
You can't keep this a secret for long.
Mr. Y
I'm unarmed, If you wouldn't mind.
Fox Mulder
I'm only here about my boy.
Mr. Y
Well, we couldn't catch him. And I mean that quite literally, Mr. Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Why does everybody want my son?
Mr. Y
You still don't understand, do you? Your son has what everybody wants, what people would kill to have.
[STATIC OVER RADIO]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
Scene 13
The Warehouse · Mulder Escapes
Guards
I see him. I see him! Move!
Fox Mulder
Move!
Guards
Go! Get him! Going up! Pull out. Cut him off! Down. Heads up!
[GRUNTING]
Guards
Move, move.
Fox Mulder
Go, go, go.
Guards
Stay with him. He's jumping over!
[CROWD CHATTERING [INDISTINCTLY]
Scene 14
Mulder's House
Dana Scully
Mulder, you haven't been answering your phone.
Fox Mulder
I had some payback to... pay back. But you were right, Scully, he wasn't on that plane. Look, I found something on the Web. I think it's how they found him. There was a lotto cluster in northeastern Tennessee. Eight recent winners in a 10-mile radius.
Dana Scully
Where was the last winner?
[CROWD MURMURING]
Scene 15
Truck Stop · Tennessee
Man
Okay.
Clerk
Anything else?
Fox Mulder
Hi. You had a winning lottery ticket sold here last week?
Clerk
Don't talk about that. I was about to take the register when the kid bought the ticket.
Fox Mulder
So you saw the kid who bought it?
Attendant
Told Deidra the winning numbers like he's got inside information, hands her the ticket. Says he'll split it with her. He did too.
Fox Mulder
So he came back. When was that?
Attendant
This morning. Deidra took the money and quit on the spot... which is why I'm cleaning toilets.
Fox Mulder
You have security cameras?
Attendant
Oh, my God. You're not gonna take back that money, are you?
Fox Mulder
I'm just looking for the boy.
Scene 16
Scully's Vision
Dana Scully
William.
William
You can't help me.
Monica Reyes
The person who controls your son...
William
Nobody can.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I promise global contagion.
Monica Reyes
...controls the future.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I need the boy.
[PHONE RINGING]
Scene 17
Truck Stop · The Security Video
Dana Scully
It was him, wasn't it?
Fox Mulder
I'm looking at him. He cashed in and hitched a ride with a trucker. I'm two hours behind him. I got the direction he's headed.
Dana Scully
They're heading northeast.
Fox Mulder
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Dana Scully
We need to find him before they do. Everything depends on it. Every last thing in the world.
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna find him.
Dana Scully
I am tired of looking at him on video.
Scene 18
Truck Stop · Outside
Man
Need the key to the bathroom? Is it open?
Woman
I think it's open. Keep going, okay?
Scene 19
The Semi · William and the Trucker
Trucker
A young fellow like you needs to be careful. Trust on the road....
William
I can take care of myself okay.
Trucker
I've been a trucker for 40 years, seen it all. The driving can drive you mad. Yeah, filling the time, thinking about trouble.
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
William
What kind of trouble do you mean?
Trucker
What kind of trouble are you looking for?
[LINE RINGING]
Scene 20
Scully Calls O'Malley
Tad O'Malley
Hello?
Dana Scully
It's Dana Scully.
Tad O'Malley
I'm just about to go on here.
Dana Scully
I want you to listen to me.
Tad O'Malley
Can I call you right back?
Dana Scully
You're looking for a conspiracy? Here it is.
William
You know why nobody's gonna mess with me? Because I have super powers.
Trucker
Right. Like one of them, uh, X-Men.
[SCOFFS]
Dana Scully
There's going to be a contagion. A virus is going to be unleashed. People's immune systems will be decimated.
Tad O'Malley
Did you say "unleashed"? Where are you getting this information?
Dana Scully
A man-made contagion... from an alien pathogen.
[STATIC OVER RADIO]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
Trucker
How the hell did you do that?
William
Same way I do this.
[ROARING]
[SCREAMING]
Tad O'Malley
You realize how crazy this sounds?
Dana Scully
Death in the streets, Mr. O'Malley.
Tad O'Malley
Are you prepared to go on air? Can I say that you're my source?
Dana Scully
A federal agent is your source.
Tad O'Malley
Will Agent Mulder go on record?
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder's our only hope.
Tad O'Malley
Karen!
Scene 21
Scully's Vision
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You search for truth.
William
I've seen the future.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
This is the truth that kills you.
Dana Scully
William.
Fox Mulder
William.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Scene 22
Mulder on the Highway
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I lost him. He scared the truck driver. You don't want to know.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I've seen it. He got out. You're in grave danger.
Fox Mulder
No, I'm too close now.
[TRACKER BEEPING]
Fox Mulder
I-- I think I know where he's going.
Dana Scully
You're not listening. You're not listening to me. I've seen how it ends, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
He probably hitched another ride. I'm not that far behind him.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I got to go.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Scene 23
The Watching Man's Car
Watching Man
Hey.
William
Thanks for stopping.
Watching Man
No trouble at all. Long way from nowhere. Where you headed?
William
Uh, Norfolk.
Watching Man
I'm passing right by there. Get in.
[MAN SPEAKING OVER RADIO [INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SPEAKING [INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
Scene 24
Brianna's House
Brianna
I bet you went to see her first.
William
I just have to talk to you, Sarah.
Brianna
How come you didn't call her?
William
Hi, Maddy. You're up past your bedtime.
Maddy
Mm.
William
Look, I had to ditch my phone.
Brianna
Heh. Like we believe that.
William
Look, I can explain everything. Please, it's cold. I--
Brianna
My parents are coming home soon, so--
William
Do you remember me, Brianna?
Brianna
Yeah, I think I know why you're here.
Scene 25
Brianna's House · Mulder
Fox Mulder
Has he been here?
Brianna
Look, we broke up.
Fox Mulder
Has he called?
Brianna
We don't talk anymore.
Fox Mulder
I need you to be honest.
Man
Who's at the door, Brianna?
Brianna
I really have to go, sir.
Fox Mulder
He's been here, hasn't he?
Brianna
He's in big trouble.
Fox Mulder
I need to know where he is.
Brianna
Well, you're asking the wrong girl.
Scene 26
Sarah's House
William
I can't believe you, Sarah. I can't live like this.
Sarah
What are you talking about?
William
If this is gonna be my life, I don't want to live.
Sarah
You can't talk like that, Jackson. What--? Jackson. I haven't even heard the name "Jackson" in months. You have no idea what I've been through. Maybe-- Maybe you need to go to the police.
William
I can't. The police killed my parents.
Sarah
Are you sure they're the ones who killed your parents?
William
Yeah, because I'm some kind of freak.
Sarah
Stop it. You are not... a freak.
William
Yes, I am.
Sarah
No.
William
Okay, yeah. You've seen what I can do, Sarah. They want me for that. Catch me, put me in a cage. They want to poke me, and prod me and keep me in a laboratory.
Sarah
So, what are you gonna do?
William
I could die. I could jump off a bridge, or--
Sarah
What can I say to stop you?
William
Say you'll come with me. I can't do this alone. Please. I'm so sick of being alone.
Sarah
That's my parents.
William
Please, I can't.
Sarah
I can't talk now.
William
I have money. I have-- Look, I have so much money.
Sarah
Okay.
William
We can go anywhere. I can meet you somewhere.
Sarah
Mm-hm.
William
Meet me at that motel.
Sarah
The Timberland? Okay, I will. Just go. Okay? Out the back.
William
Okay, promise?
Sarah
I promise.
William
Now, don't do anything stupid before I get there, okay?
Sarah
Okay?
Scene 27
Sarah's House · Mulder
Fox Mulder
Sarah, I need to know where he is.
Sarah
I don't know what you mean.
Fox Mulder
He's on the run. I can help him.
Sarah
Why should I believe you're telling the truth if he doesn't even believe it?
Fox Mulder
Because I'm his father. That's why.
Sarah
I don't believe you're his father.
Scene 28
The Timberland Motel
William
I'm trying to sleep. What do you want?
Fox Mulder
My name is Mulder. I'm your father. I know it must seem strange to you... but I've been looking for you forever.
William
Okay, so how'd you find me now?
Fox Mulder
Doesn't matter. I'm here.
William
Oh.
Fox Mulder
You're taller than me. I held you when you were a baby.
William
Maybe you did, but I don't remember that.
Fox Mulder
You're angry. And I understand.
William
I don't think you do understand.
Fox Mulder
There's a lot I have to explain.
William
It's not safe for you here, okay? Go.
Fox Mulder
If you trust me, I'll protect you.
[TRACKER BEEPING]
[BEEPING]
Fox Mulder
I know you know who I am. You hid from me and from your mother.
William
Yeah, because I'm a danger to people.
Fox Mulder
I can help with that.
William
You can't help me. Nobody can help me. These people, they're never gonna stop coming for me. WILLIAM: I've seen the future, all right? I have visions. I know what happens if they catch me, all the people who are gonna die.
Fox Mulder
Your mother has those same visions.
William
Then why don't you see them? Look, I don't want to live in that world. Maybe I can stop it. If I didn't exist--
Fox Mulder
It's not your fault.
William
Yes, it is.
Fox Mulder
Then let me help you stop it.
William
You can't.
Fox Mulder
All right?
William
Because you die too.
Scene 29
The Motel · The Soldiers
Soldier
We still want the boy alive.
Fox Mulder
No one has to die here, William, especially not you. You have to live.
William
I know you think you're helping me. But you're not helping me. You're helping them. You're just helping them find me. Okay? Okay. It's too late. Listen. You gotta go.
Fox Mulder
I'm not leaving. Get back there, get down. Get out the back. Get down. No, stay away from the door. Move. Get down.
Soldier
Let me see your hands.
Fox Mulder
William.
[CROWD SPEAKING [INDISTINCTLY]
Fox Mulder
William!
Scene 30
The Motel · Aftermath
Fox Mulder
The hell is going on here?
Walter Skinner
I can't help you, Agent Scully, if I don't know what's going on.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You can't believe what just happened. You seeing this? I lost him, Scully. He's gone.
Dana Scully
Just tell me where you are.
Fox Mulder
I'm still in Norfolk.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I'm coming down there.
Scene 31
FBI Headquarters · Scully and Skinner
Dana Scully
He won't listen to reason. He'll listen to me. I know he will. I gotta go.
Walter Skinner
I'm supposed to rein you in.
Dana Scully
This isn't about the FBI, sir. This is about our son.
Walter Skinner
I'll drive.
Scene 32
The Tad O'Malley Show
Tad O'Malley
We have been working around the clock here... to bring you breaking news of a global contagion. “Death will hunt you down." That's its name, says our FBI source... as his superiors label it fake news. Shocker. Now, follow me here. We have eye witnesses at a motel in Norfolk, Virginia. And a motel manager reporting a military-style incursion.
Fox Mulder
Federal agent. I want to talk to you.
Tad O'Malley
Four individuals in a military vehicle... Assaulting a motel room occupied by a teenager. That is our FBI source on camera... after he witnessed the execution of military personnel... A bloodbath so insane... it can only point to a conspiracy, the likes of which the world has never seen.
[BEEPING]
Fox Mulder
Let me talk to Sarah.
Man
I said she can't talk.
Scene 33
Skinner's Car
Walter Skinner
He's not answering.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Walter Skinner
He's making news again. Kersh is blowing up my phone.
Dana Scully
Why are you violating his direct orders, sir?
Walter Skinner
Right now, we need to find your son.
Dana Scully
But why would you risk your whole career?
Walter Skinner
I think I've been pretty clear about that.
Dana Scully
Who were you on the phone with outside of Kersh's office? Who was that?
Walter Skinner
There's something you need to know. Something you may not want to hear. It's about your son and who his father is.
Scene 34
Mulder's Car · Sarah
Fox Mulder
I need to know where William would go, where he might go to feel safe.
Sarah
I'd probably say the harbor.
Fox Mulder
Okay, where at the harbor?
Sarah
We'd all go down by the docks.
Fox Mulder
Do you have an address, or a street or a landmark?
Sarah
I-- I don't know. Probably the old sugar factory.
Scene 35
Skinner's Car
Walter Skinner
Hearing this about William must come as a shock. I didn't want to tell you. I wanted to find out the truth....
Dana Scully
That was Mulder. Right, hold on.
Scene 36
The Harbor Warehouses
Dana Scully
Mulder? Don't run. William. William. It's me. I just saw him. No.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Go.
Dana Scully
That's Skinner-- Wait.
[WALTER YELPS]
Fox Mulder
He's here.
Dana Scully
I know. I just saw him.
Fox Mulder
He doesn't want to be found.
Dana Scully
I just want to talk to him, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I talked to him. He told me everything. What he's afraid of--
Dana Scully
I know what he's afraid of.
Fox Mulder
Just stop. It's no use.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
I'm asking you to let him go.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
Nothing we can do.
Dana Scully
We can protect him.
Fox Mulder
No, we can't protect him. No one can. He knows that you love him.
Dana Scully
How can he know that? How can he possibly know that? Scully. Stop him. William.
Fox Mulder
William.
Dana Scully
William.
[PANTING]
Fox Mulder
William!
Dana Scully
William.
[PANTING]
Fox Mulder
William.
Scene 37
The Docks · The Smoking Man
Fox Mulder
He's in the next building.
Dana Scully
Go!
[PANTING]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You really don't give up, do you? But then you have so much to lose.
Fox Mulder
It's what we have in common. We have nothing in common.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I need the boy. The boy is mine.
Fox Mulder
The boy would rather die first.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Now that he knows the truth. That I'm the one who made him? That I'm William's creator?
[PANTING]
Fox Mulder
You'd shoot your own first-born son?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Shot my second-born son once. But I need you to know, Fox... when I gave you life... I never fathomed the moment would come... when I would need to end it.
Fox Mulder
I don't think you can do it.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Then you don't know me very well.
Fox Mulder
Hey!
[PANTING]
Scene 38
The Docks · Aftermath
Fox Mulder
He's gone. He's gone, Scully.
Dana Scully
He shot him.
Fox Mulder
He shot me.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Maybe--
Dana Scully
He wanted us to let him go. He wasn't meant to be.
Fox Mulder
William was our son.
Dana Scully
No.
Fox Mulder
Scully, he was our son.
Dana Scully
No. William was an experiment, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
Mulder. He was an idea... born in a laboratory.
Fox Mulder
But you were his mother.
Dana Scully
No.
Fox Mulder
I carried him.
Dana Scully
And I bore him. But I was never a mother to him. I wasn't.
Fox Mulder
William.... William was--
Dana Scully
But for so long... I believed.
Fox Mulder
What am I now if I'm not a father?
Dana Scully
You are a father.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about? That's impossible.
Dana Scully
I know. I know it is.
Fox Mulder
It's more than impossible.
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