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Season 5 · Episode 2

Redux II

Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.

Production code5X03Original airdate · November 9, 1997
321 dialogue entries
Scene 01

TRINITY HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL UNIT

Fox Mulder

Can you help me? I'm looking for a woman who's-- excuse me-- excuse me. I'm looking for a Dana Scully. Was a Dana-- sc-- excuse me. I'm looking for Dana Scully. Is she a patient here? Dana Scully? Is-is there an admitting nurse here? Look, can somebody help me here?

Intern

You're gonna have to calm down.

Fox Mulder

I will calm down when somebody gives me a reason to calm down! Now, I'm looking for a patient that was admitted to the e.r.

Intern

Dana Scully.

Fox Mulder

Yes! Where is she?

Intern

I heard you the first time. I have her in the I.c.u.

Fox Mulder

Where is that?

Intern

You're gonna have to tell me who you are first.

Fox Mulder

Where is she?

Walter Skinner

Agent Mulder! Where you goin'?

Fox Mulder

I.c.u.

Walter Skinner

You're movin' pretty good for a dead man.

Fox Mulder

I'm only half dead.

Walter Skinner

You got a lot to answer for, agent Mulder! You guys hold here. Yes, sir.

Fox Mulder

What happened to her?

Walter Skinner

She went into hypovolemic shock. She's lost a lot of blood.

Fox Mulder

Due to what? Due to what?

Walter Skinner

She's dying. Let's go home. There's nothing you can do. Let go of me.

Fox Mulder

Get the hell off of me!

Walter Skinner

Don't do this! Don't make me put you under arrest. Don't!

Scene 02

FBI HEADQUARTERS

Scott Blevins

I'm somewhat at a loss here in going forward. This situation developing unexpectedly... During a formal inquiry into your reported death, agent Mulder. The fact of your being here today very much alive, it gives the effect of reshaping this investigation... Into something altogether different, as we're now put upon to verify the identity... Of this body found in your apartment... And the circumstances which led to this.

Senior Agent

Would you care to enlighten us on these circumstances?

Fox Mulder

Are you suggesting that I can?

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, we're here informally to give you the chance to help yourself.

Fox Mulder

Help myself how?

Senior Agent

By allowing any facts or details which might serve... To let us go forward with this inquiry in a more informed manner.

Fox Mulder

That helps you. How does that help me?

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, this is going to quickly become a murder investigation. Criminal charges are going to be made.

Walter Skinner

We have only one other suspect. She may no longer be able to testify on her own behalf.

Scott Blevins

Agent Scully lied to us. Why?

Senior Agent

Who's protecting whom, agent Mulder?

Scott Blevins

Your choice is your own, but your failure to answer... Will reflect poorly on the record in a formal inquiry.

Fox Mulder

Are we finished then?

[ door opens ]

[ door closes ]

Scene 03

HALLWAY

Walter Skinner

Word of advice, my friend. Keep playin' it the way you are.

Fox Mulder

Thanks, Buddy.

Walter Skinner

Hey, right now, you need a Buddy. You need all the help you can get.

Fox Mulder

You should've mentioned that at the hospital, hauling my ass off.

Walter Skinner

I saved your ass, agent Mulder. I've been withholding forensic evidence about the body found on your apartment floor. Until you showed up last night, I was the one keeping your secret. I had no choice but to bring you in.

Fox Mulder

Scully will verify all of that.

Walter Skinner

That's a good place to lay it, considering her condition. You want me to lay it where it belongs, agent Mulder? Pathology turned up two gunshot wounds to the dead man in your apartment-- one fired point-blank to the left temple with a handgun, the second a postmortem wound to the face to remove the man's identity. Now, I'd be happy to verify the ballistics on that first shot.

Fox Mulder

How can you help me?

Walter Skinner

Tell me why Scully lied for you.

Fox Mulder

The disease she has was given to her... By somebody connected to the FBI to a mole working here.

Walter Skinner

Who?

Fox Mulder

I failed to find that out, sir.

Walter Skinner

You don't want to forget who your friends are, agent Mulder-- to remember who you can trust.

Television Speaker

The chairman said, "what are the appropriate limits of human knowledge?"

Scene 04

RACETRACK - ON TV

Television Speaker

I don't think there are any appropriate limits to human knowledge. As long as science is done openly and with free will, then I don't think there are any limits.

Chairman

Senator Kennedy.

Hospital Announcer

Dr. Vermont,

Senator Kennedy (television)

You've stated that... The cloning of humans would be ill-considered... And technically difficult to accomplish. Can you expand a little bit on what you see... As the biggest technical obstacle to human cloning--

[ continues, indistinct ]

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I trust you've heard.

First Elder

Mulder is alive.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

As I said, he's not to be underestimated.

First Elder

Yes, as you said. Though I hear he has you to thank in some part for his new freedom.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Using a stolen ID, Mulder was able to get inside the advanced research projects facility.

First Elder

And you allowed him to escape.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Yes.

First Elder

We're too vulnerable. Our man in the FBI is exposed. What Mulder may have seen could expose our plans.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

What Mulder's seen only serves us. It serves to ensure our plans. Mulder's in trouble. He needs help. We can give it to him.

First Elder

In exchange for?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

His new loyalty... To us. As I've said all along, Mulder's much more valuable to us alive.

First Elder

You can proceed now.

Scene 05

SCULLY'S ROOM

Dana Scully

Mulder, what are you doing here?

Fox Mulder

Heard you were being moved out of I.c.u., you were feeling better.

Dana Scully

Mulder, somebody's gonna see you here.

Fox Mulder

It's okay. I'm officially among the undead.

Dana Scully

What happened?

Fox Mulder

I didn't come here to talk about that.

Dana Scully

Mulder, don't try and protect me. I need to know.

Fox Mulder

Well, there's not much to talk about anyway. I'm gonna testify to everything I know in front of the FBI assembly. The conspiracy, the men behind it, what I believe is its purpose.

Dana Scully

Did you find out who in the FBI is involved?

Fox Mulder

No. But that doesn't matter now.

Dana Scully

Yes, it does.

Fox Mulder

Hey, Scully, how about those yankees, huh?

Dana Scully

Mulder, Skinner has evidence against you. He knows that you killed that man they found in your apartment.

Fox Mulder

Yeah. Skinner's withholding it.

Dana Scully

Mulder, Skinner's dirty. He's not your friend. I'm almost certain that he's the man inside on this.

Fox Mulder

I don't believe that.

Dana Scully

If you testify, he will use it to ruin you.

Fox Mulder

No, not Skinner.

Dana Scully

He's-he's been in a position to know everything from the beginning, everything that we've done over the past four years.

Fox Mulder

If I don't testify now, they'll start to bury the truth.

Dana Scully

Well, then you have to lay it on me. You have to tell them... That I was the one who killed that man.

Fox Mulder

I can't-- I can't do that.

Dana Scully

Yes, you can. Mulder, if I can save you, let me. Let me at least give some meaning to what's happened to me.

[ door opens ]

Margaret Scully

Dana? Hi, Fox.

Fox Mulder

Hi, mrs. Scully.

Margaret Scully

I hope I'm not interrupting.

Fox Mulder

No, no, no. I was just on my way out. Hi. I'm, uh-- I'm Fox Mulder. I don't think we've ever met.

Bill Scully Jr.

I'm Bill Scully.

Fox Mulder

I'm sorry about your sister.

Bill Scully Jr.

Mr. Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Yeah?

Bill Scully Jr.

I know something about you-- about what Dana's been through with you, so... Let's leave the work away from here, okay? Let her die with dignity.

Scene 07

HALLWAY

Fox Mulder

Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

You should be glad for why I'm here-- to pay you some respect.

Fox Mulder

Go to hell.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

For your cleverness and your resource, what you managed to do for Scully.

Fox Mulder

What are you talking about?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, breaching the security at the defense department facility, finding the cure for her disease.

Fox Mulder

What I found was useless.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

On the contrary. It's essential to her survival. If you like, we could step outside and I might explain myself. I'm here tonight as a friend, agent Mulder.

Scene 08

LONE GUNMAN'S OFFICE

Fox Mulder

He promised me it would be in here.

John Fitzgerald Byers

I'll be damned. It never occurred to me what the deionized water might be for.

Richard Langly

Who knew it was a microchip we were lookin' for.

Melvin Frohike

This is a cure for cancer?

Fox Mulder

It may be for Scully's.

John Fitzgerald Byers

How?

Fox Mulder

Shortly after she was abducted, she discovered a small metallic chip implanted subcutaneously in her neck. It was just a short time after she had it removed that she developed cancer.

John Fitzgerald Byers

It's unreal.

Melvin Frohike

Too freakin' amazing.

Fox Mulder

Watch your language, Frohike, and grab me some tweezers.

Scene 09

FBI HEADQUARTERS

Scott Blevins

Mr. Kritschgau, thank you for being here today... And for cooperating with this investigation. We hope you can provide information... That will allow us to make formal charges... For the murder of defense employee scott Ostelhoff. Mr. Kritschgau, we have learned that you were in contact with agents Mulder and Scully... Just prior to this man's death.

Michael Kritschgau

That's correct.

Scott Blevins

And that you may have given them classified information. What motivated this?

Michael Kritschgau

My knowledge of government involvement in a conspiracy against the American people.

Senior Agent

Uh, before-- before we go into any specifics on that subject, I'd like to ask you a more pointed question. Do you know who killed scott Ostelhoff?

Michael Kritschgau

No, I don't.

Senior Agent

Do you know of any connection between his death and agents Mulder or Scully?

Michael Kritschgau

No. I'm aware of one death in connection, though. My son, who died early this morning.

Senior Agent

Mr. Kritschgau, you're employed by the Department of Defense, is that correct?

Michael Kritschgau

Technically. Part of my remuneration has come from another source. A congressional lobbying firm-- something called Roush.

Walter Skinner

Roush? Any idea what that is?

Michael Kritschgau

No, sir.

Scene 10

SCULLY'S ROOM

Bill Scully Jr.

This is crazy, just crazy.

Fox Mulder

Well, crazy in what sense? In that it might save your sister's life?

Bill Scully Jr.

You're not a doctor. You have no place even suggesting this science fiction.

Fox Mulder

It's not science fiction.

Bill Scully Jr.

He's never heard of it!

Margaret Scully

Bill. [ sighs ]

Bill Scully Jr.

Have you?

Doctor

No, I haven't.

Margaret Scully

I think there's an obvious difference of opinion here.

Dana Scully

I think... That everybody here has their heart in the right place. But I need it to be my decision.

Bill Scully Jr.

Dana--

Dana Scully

I know you're only looking out for me, Bill, but I don't think you have all the facts.

Margaret Scully

Don't you think you should listen to your doctor?

Dana Scully

Yes. I am.

Fox Mulder

Would she have to stop her conventional treatment?

Doctor

To be honest, at this point... The only approach I have left with her particular cancer... Is quite unconventional.

Dana Scully

I'd like to try this.

Bill Scully Jr.

You really believe this crap, don't you?

Scene 12

HALLWAY

Bill Scully Jr.

Yes, I do. You see, she's your big defender, but I think the truth is she just doesn't want to disappoint you.

Fox Mulder

If it works, I don't care what you think she thinks.

Bill Scully Jr.

You're a real piece of work, you know that, mr. Mulder?

Fox Mulder

Why is that? Because I don't think the way you think? Because I won't just sit passively back and watch the family tragedy unfold?

Bill Scully Jr.

You're the reason for it. And I've already lost one sister to this quest you're on. Now I'm losing another. Has it been worth it? I'll tell you what I mean. Have you found what you've been looking for?

Fox Mulder

No.

Bill Scully Jr.

No. You know how that makes me feel?

Fox Mulder

In a way, I think I do. I lost someone very close to me. I lost a sister. I lost my father. All because of this thing I'm looking for.

Bill Scully Jr.

This what? Little green aliens? Yeah. Little green aliens. You're one sorry son of a bitch. There's not a lot more to say.

[ cell phone ringing ]

Fox Mulder

One sorry son of a bitch speaking.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

How's our patient? You did find the chip, didn't you, agent Mulder?

Fox Mulder

Yes.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I can imagine there was some question as to its medical value.

Fox Mulder

Well, there still is.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

And so I have yet to earn your trust, in spite of my gesture.

[ chuckles ]

Fox Mulder

You could say that, yeah.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, I have something else to offer you. I've arranged a meeting I think you'll want to attend, mr. Mulder.

Scene 13

RESTAURANT

Waitress

Tabasco. It cures anything.

Fox Mulder

I'll keep that in mind.

Waitress

You know him or somethin'?

Fox Mulder

I think that's my sister. Samantha?

Samantha Mulder

I was afraid I'd never see you again. He always told me something had happened to you that night.

Fox Mulder

Who? Who told you that?

Samantha Mulder

My father.

Scene 14

RESTAURANT

Samantha Mulder

I never really knew what happened. I could never put the memories all back together. But as much as I tried to remember, I tried more to forget.

Fox Mulder

Why?

Samantha Mulder

I was eight years old... And frightened to death. And they told me that I was an orphan.

Fox Mulder

But you call that man your father.

Samantha Mulder

Sometime later, I don't know how long, my foster parents took me to a hotel room... And said that I was gonna see my father.

Fox Mulder

But you knew who your father was.

Samantha Mulder

I thought I knew. But he told me that it had all been a secret, and that he and mom... Hadn't told anyone to protect the family.

Fox Mulder

And you believed that?

Samantha Mulder

He was so kind to me. And he was the only one I could remember from before what happened.

Fox Mulder

You don't remember anything about that night?

Samantha Mulder

I remember... You. I remember something. Men, and-- and then nothing.

Fox Mulder

I can help you. You were abducted, Samantha. I can help you to remember.

Samantha Mulder

I don't want to, Fox. I don't.

Fox Mulder

Then why come here at all?

Samantha Mulder

My father told me that he'd found you. You wanted to see me very badly-- that you'd been looking for me for a long time. Is that true? I'm so sorry, Fox. And I wish that I'd known how to find you.

Fox Mulder

What you've been told-- I want you to listen to me, okay? What you've been told by that man... May not be true.

Samantha Mulder

Why do you say that?

Fox Mulder

Because the man that brought you here... Has known where I've been for a very long time.

Samantha Mulder

I don't understand. Why wouldn't he tell me?

Fox Mulder

I don't know. But I think he's kept a lot of things from you.

Samantha Mulder

I don't believe you. He's been a good father to me. He's given me a life, and he cared for me when there was no one else.

Fox Mulder

Then I want you to come with me-- come with me to see mom.

Samantha Mulder

Mom is alive?

Fox Mulder

Yes. And I know she'd like to see you very, very much.

Samantha Mulder

I can't.

Fox Mulder

Why not?

Samantha Mulder

This is too much. I didn't wanna come here at all, Fox. I was afraid to see you. I have another life now. I have children of my own.

Fox Mulder

Don't-- no. No, please don't go.

Samantha Mulder

I can't stay here now.

Fox Mulder

Tell me how I can find you.

Samantha Mulder

I need some time.

Fox Mulder

Just-just tell me where I can find you.

Samantha Mulder

Please don't, Fox!

Fox Mulder

We will do this on your time. Just--

Samantha Mulder

Then please-- please let me go. I promise you I'll think about it.

Scene 15

HOSPITAL

Doctor

You doing okay?

Dana Scully

Mmm. Either it's my head or I'm a long way from med school, but I can't remember what you're injecting me with.

Doctor

Fluro-deoxyglucose. Deoxyglucose. If you're making any progress, I'm hoping it might show up first in a pet scan.

Dana Scully

You're not holding your breath, are you?

Doctor

I'm going after your cancer as aggressively as I know how, Dana. If I can jump-start your immune system, if I can get your cytolytic cells to recognize your tumor... As something to attack, then there's a chance.

Dana Scully

Have you ever witnessed a miracle, dr. Zuckerman?

Doctor

I don't know that I have. But I have seen people make recoveries-- come back from so far gone, I can't explain it.

Dana Scully

Isn't that a miracle?

Doctor

Maybe they are miracles, but I don't dare call them that.

Dana Scully

Thank you.

Scene 16

CITY STREET

Cigarette-Smoking Man

My apologies for the... Rather hasty departure last night.

Fox Mulder

What do you want from me?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Want from you?

Fox Mulder

You give me these things, the only things I ever wanted, and I can't think of any reason for you to do so.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, that's true. No act is completely selfless. But I've come today not to-- not to ask but to offer. Offer you the truth that you've so desperately sought-- about the project, about the men who've conspired to protect it.

Fox Mulder

I know the truth.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Do you?

Fox Mulder

I spoke to one of your men.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

And you know he's not a liar?

Fox Mulder

I've seen enough to know he's not a liar, yeah.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

You've seen but scant pieces of the whole.

Fox Mulder

What more can you show me?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

This man you spoke to, Michael Kritschgau, he's deceived you with beautiful lies. He's told you that everything you've ever believed... About the existence of extraterrestrial life is untrue.

Fox Mulder

What are you saying?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

As I said, I'm offering you a chance to know the truth.

Fox Mulder

In exchange for what?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Quit the FBI come work for me. You can make your problems go away.

Fox Mulder

No deal.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

After all I've given you?

Fox Mulder

What have-- what have you given me? The claim of a cure for Scully? Is she cured? You show me my sister only to take her right back? You've given me nothing.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I intend to keep my promises. I just need something from you.

Fox Mulder

You murdered my father. You killed Scully's sister. And if Scully dies, I will kill you. I don't care whose father you are. I will put you down.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, you're certainly capable, so I've been told. I understand you have a hearing tomorrow, where you'll have to testify to these murderous impulses of yours. When you reconsider, the offer still stands.

Scene 17

SCULLY'S ROOM

Margaret Scully

Dana? Dr. Zuckerman called. He, uh-- he said that you wanted to see me. What is it?

[ sobbing ]

Dana Scully

I'm so sorry. I fight and I fight... And I fight, but I've been so stupid.

Margaret Scully

What? What is it?

Dana Scully

I've come so far in my life on simple faith. And now when I need it the most, I just push it away. I mean, why-- why do I wear this? Why do I wear this, mom? I put something that I don't even know... Or understand under the skin of my neck. I will subject myself to these crazy treatments, and I keep telling myself that I'm doing everything I can, but it's a lie.

Margaret Scully

You have not lost your faith, Dana.

Dana Scully

But I have... In a way. When you asked-- when you asked father McCue to dinner... To minister to my faith, I just closed off to him.

Margaret Scully

What's important now... Is that you save your energy.

Dana Scully

I'm not getting better, mom.

Margaret Scully

You don't know that yet.

Dana Scully

The pet scan showed no improvement.

Margaret Scully

I know you're afraid. I know you're afraid to tell me, but you have to tell someone.

Scene 18

LOCATION UNKNOWN

Television Speaker

I'll make a statement right here. Cloning will continue. The human mind will continue to inquire into this. Human cloning will take place, and it'll take place in my lifetime. I think it's right and proper that we continue this kind of inquiry. I think it holds untold benefits for human kind.

First Elder

Turn on your television. Are you watching the hearings? Do you see who's there? He's gathering information for who? Our colleague was supposed to have fixed the FBI problem. You will fix it now. Do you understand me? Then I will fix it for good.

Scene 20

BLEVIN'S OFFICE

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, will you please take a seat? Something urgently important has come to the fore. As you're set to testify on your own behalf later today, I've received alarming forensic evidence... From the man's body found in your apartment. I have here in my hand ballistic data... Matching your service weapon, agent Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Where did you get that?

Scott Blevins

I'm not at liberty to say. But unless you can offer up someone else who might have fired the kill shot, everything points to you as this man's murderer. Are you prepared to give testimony... You're not the man who fired the shot?

Fox Mulder

Why am I here?

Scott Blevins

The man worked for the Department of Defense, agent Mulder.

Fox Mulder

The man was spying on me.

Scott Blevins

Do you know for whom? Agent Scully... Was prepared to name the man at the FBI.. Who was involved in this plot against you and her. We believe she was going to name assistant director Skinner, whom we have learned has been working inside the FBI with a secret agenda.

Fox Mulder

I refuse to believe that.

Scott Blevins

We've accumulated substantial evidence against him.

Fox Mulder

Can you show it to me?

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, if you name this man today in your testimony, we can file charges against him, charges which may very well exonerate you.

Fox Mulder

Name Skinner and save myself.

Scott Blevins

That's what I called you here to recommend. As a friend.

Fox Mulder

I'll see you at the hearing.

Scene 21

SCULLY'S ROOM

Fox Mulder

Good morning.

Dana Scully

What are you doing here? You have a hearing.

Fox Mulder

Yeah. I came by last night, but I didn't have the heart to wake you.

Dana Scully

Came by for what? Mulder, what is it?

Fox Mulder

I was lost last night. But as I stood here, I thought I'd found my way. I've been, uh-- I've been offered a deal, a deal that could save my life in a way. And though I'd refused the deal earlier, I left here last night with my mind made up to take it.

Dana Scully

A deal with who?

Fox Mulder

It doesn't matter. I'm not taking the deal. I'm not taking any deal, not after what happened this morning.

Dana Scully

What happened this morning?

Fox Mulder

Section chief Blevins directed me to implicate Skinner-- to name him as the man inside in the FBI.. Who may have deceived us both. And if I name him, they'll protect me.

Dana Scully

Are you going to name him?

Fox Mulder

No.

Dana Scully

Then they'll prosecute you.

Fox Mulder

Yeah, if they have evidence against me, they know I killed that man.

Dana Scully

Even with the ballistics evidence, I can still be the shooter.

Fox Mulder

Scully, I can't let you take the blame... Because of your brother, because of your mother, and because I couldn't live with it. To live the lie you have to believe it, like these men who deceive us... Who gave you this disease. We all have our faith, and mine is in the truth.

Dana Scully

Then why did you come here... If you'd already made up your mind?

Fox Mulder

Because I knew you'd... Talk me out of it if I was making a mistake.

[ door opens ]

Dana Scully

You'll be in my prayers.

Fox Mulder

Have the father say a few "hail mulders" for me, okay?

Scene 22

FBI HEADQUARTERS

Senior Agent

If he's a no-show, I'm gonna ask for a bench warrant.

[ door opens ]

Fox Mulder

I'm sorry I'm late.

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, the assembled members of this review panel... First convened to address your reported death, only to find shortly that this report had been a lie-- that you were indeed very much alive... And that the body found in your apartment, believed to be yours, was a murder victim killed with a weapon... Issued by the FBI and registered to you.

Fox Mulder

Respectfully, sir, I've come here today to set the record straight... So that this process you've begun can be completed, and the guilty parties can be named.

Walter Skinner

Respectfully, sir, I'd like to ask for a short break.

Fox Mulder

I'm... Ready to proceed, please, sir.

Scott Blevins

Go on, agent Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Four years ago, while working on an assignment outside the FBI mainstream, I was paired with special agent Dana Scully, who I believed was sent to spy on me-- to debunk my investigations into the paranormal. That agent Scully did not follow these orders... Is a testament to her integrity as an investigator, a scientist and a human being. She has paid dearly for this integrity.

Scott Blevins

Agent Mulder, agent Scully lied straight-faced to this panel about your death.

Fox Mulder

She lied because I asked her to. Because I had evidence of a conspiracy-- a conspiracy against the American people.

Senior Agent

We've already heard testimony to these allegations, agent Mulder.

Fox Mulder

And a conspiracy intended to destroy the lives... Of those who would reveal its true purpose; to conduct experiments on unwitting victims... To further a secret agenda for someone within the government operating at levels... Without restraint or responsibility, without morals or conscious. Men who pretend to honor as they deceive. The price of this betrayal-- the lives and reputations of those deceived. Agent Scully... Is lying in a hospital bed right now diagnosed with terminal cancer. The victim of these same tests, conducted without her knowledge or consent... By these same men who, as they try to cover their tracks, who suborn and persecute the same people they've used in their plot, I will now call by name.

Senior Agent

Agent Mulder, did you or did you not shoot the man found dead in your apartment?

Fox Mulder

I will answer that question.

Senior Agent

Did you shoot scott Ostelhoff, employee of the Department of Defense?

Fox Mulder

I will answer that question.

Senior Agent

[ man ] answer the question asked, agent Mulder!

Fox Mulder

I will answer the question after I name the man!

Senior Agent

Agent Mulder--

Fox Mulder

I will answer that question... After I name the man who is responsible for agent Scully. The same man who directed that my apartment be surveilled by the d.o.d. A man I want to see prosecuted for his crimes, who is sitting in this very room as I speak.

Senior Agent

Agent Mulder, the section chief has asked you a question! You are going to answer!

Fox Mulder

I can't do that, sir.

Senior Agent

You can and you will!

Fox Mulder

I can't do that, sir, because the section chief is the man I'm about to name!

[ door opens ]

[ indistinct ]

[ groans ]

Scene 26

TRINITY HOSPITAL

Walter Skinner

The smoking man's dead.

Fox Mulder

How?

Walter Skinner

Shot through his window. Forensics found it at the scene. We're assuming it's his blood.

Fox Mulder

Assuming?

Walter Skinner

Well, no body was found, though there was too much blood lost for anyone to have survived. This afternoon when you named Blevins, how did you know?

Fox Mulder

I didn't. I just guessed.

Walter Skinner

Well, it was a hell of a guess. Blevins had been on payroll for four years... To a biotechnology company called Roush, which is somehow connected to all this.

Fox Mulder

Well, I'm sure whatever connections there were, they're being erased right now.

Walter Skinner

They're cleaning up, taking everything away.

Fox Mulder

Not everything. Scully's cancer's gone into remission.

Walter Skinner

That's unbelievable news.

Fox Mulder

It's the best news I could have ever heard.

Walter Skinner

What turned it around?

Fox Mulder

I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know.

Walter Skinner

Can I see her?

Fox Mulder

Yeah. She's in there with her family right now. But I'm sure she'd love to see you.

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