Announcer (recap)
[ announcer ] last season.
Season 5 · Episode 1
Redux
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code5X02Original airdate · November 2, 1997
227 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening recap and Mulder’s apartment
Dr. Arlinsky (recap)
What we have is the corpus... Of an extraterrestrial biological entity. The ice core samples I took, they can't be faked.
Fox Mulder (recap)
I refuse to believe that it's not true. So you're saying it's all been orchestrated. A hoax.
Michael Kritschgau (recap)
Which you've been used to perpetuate.
[ gunshot ]
Dana Scully (recap)
He said the men behind this hoax... Gave me this disease to make you believe. Early this morning I got a call from the police... Asking me to come to agent Mulder's apartment. The detective asked me-- he needed me to identify a body.
FBI Official (recap)
Agent Scully--
Dana Scully (recap)
Agent Mulder died late last night... From an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Television Panelist
When we speak of life beyond the earth, what we generally mean... Is, of course, intelligent life, something resembling our noble selves. It is highly probable that there are... Such intelligent forms of life... In other galaxies in the universe. [ sighs ] and it is even more probable... That many of these forms are vastly more intelligent than we.
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
I've held a torch in the darkness... To glance upon a truth unknown; an act of faith begun with an ineloquent certainty... That my journey promised the chance not just of understanding, but of recovery; that the disappearance of my sister 23 years ago... Would come to be explained; and that the pursuit of these greater truths... About the existence of extraterrestrial life... Might even reunite us. A belief which I now know to be false and uninformed in the extreme. My folly revealed by facts which illuminate... Both my arrogance and self-deception. If only the tragedy had been mine alone, might it be more easy tonight to bring this journey to its end.
[ phone ringing ]
Michael Kritschgau (phone)
Agent Mulder? Agent Mulder. Yeah.
Michael Kritschgau
There's a matter of security. Something I hadn't anticipated. Just after I left your apartment--
Fox Mulder
Who are you?
Michael Kritschgau
Just after our last conversation, I was followed--
Fox Mulder
Who are you?
Michael Kritschgau
Are you listening, agent Mulder? Are you hearing me? We can't speak right now. I have reason to believe that these--
Fox Mulder
Did they give agent Scully this disease? Did they do this to her because of me?
Michael Kritschgau
They may be listening, agent Mulder. They may be watching you, everything you do and say. Are you listening, agent Mulder? Agent Mulder?
[ exhales ]
Michael Kritschgau
Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Put that out! Back away! Get away.
[ gunshot ]
[ machine beeps ]
Answering Machine
You have no new messages. [ beep ]
Fox Mulder
[ Mulder ] keep going, FBI woman.
Scene 02
SCULLY'S APARTMENT
Dana Scully
Mulder? What are you doing? Why are you sitting in my bedroom in the dark?
Fox Mulder
It was too crowded in my apartment. I couldn't sleep.
Dana Scully
I'm not kidding, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Good. 'cause neither am I. There's a dead man on the floor of my apartment, and it's only a matter of time before he starts to stink the place up.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about, Mulder? What's going on?
Fox Mulder
Apparently somebody thinks my life is interesting enough to put on videotape. My apartment's been under electronic surveillance for at least two months. Look at this. Courtesy of the u.s. Government.
Dana Scully
That's the dead man in your apartment?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. He works-- he worked for the Department of Defense.
Dana Scully
How did he die, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Gunshot wound to the face.
Dana Scully
Have you contacted anybody at the Bureau?
Fox Mulder
I can't do that, Scully. I can't go to the authorities with this.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
This man, Ostelhoff, worked for the military. Are you beginning to get the picture? Do you see what's happening here?
Dana Scully
That the hoax is connected to the military, just like Kritschgau said it was.
Fox Mulder
This hoax, your cancer, everything. It just doesn't lead back to the military. It leads right back to the FBI
Dana Scully
What?
Scene 03
SCULLY'S DINING ROOM
Fox Mulder
This man Ostelhoff was set up in the apartment directly above mine. I caught him trying to destroy phone records on which the same number was called 17 times.
Dana Scully
This is the p.b.x. Operator at the Bureau.
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Who would he be calling at the FBI?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
Mulder, how long has this been going on?
Fox Mulder
Maybe since the beginning, since you joined me on the X-Files.
Dana Scully
That would mean that for four years we've been nothing more than pawns in a game; that it was a lie from the beginning. Mulder, these men. You give them your faith and you're supposed to trust them with your life.
Fox Mulder
There are those who can be trusted. What I need to know is who among them is not. I will not allow this treason to prosper. Not if they've done this to you.
Dana Scully
Mulder, we can't go to the Bureau making these accusations.
Fox Mulder
But as they lie to us, we can lie to them. A lie to find the truth.
[ police radio chatter ]
Scene 04
MULDER'S APARTMENT BUILDING
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
Let the truth be known though the heavens fall. The web of lies entangling us can now be connected... Back to the very institution which brought us together. The facts supported by a byzantine plot, executed by someone inside the FBI, who, if named, agent Scully? Could be tied to the hoax meant to destroy me... And to the terminal disease inflicted on Scully. In four years I have shared my partner's passionate search for the truth. And if my part has been a deception, I have never seen her integrity waver or her honor compromised.
Detective
Is it him?
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
But now, I ask her to lie...
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
To the people lying to us-- a dangerous lie to find the truth; to find the men who would be revealed as its enemy, as our enemy. As the enemy within.
Scene 05
HALLWAY
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully. Is it true?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
Walter Skinner
Are you all right?
Dana Scully
I'm, uh-- I don't know what to say. They asked me to come down and identify the body.
Walter Skinner
Well, how'd you make the ID? The word from alexandria p.d. Is it was self-inflicted. A shotgun blast to the face.
Dana Scully
I saw Mulder earlier this morning. He was wearing the same clothes.
Walter Skinner
I'm very sorry. Agent Scully. Section chief Blevins wants you in for questioning on this. He believes you have information you haven't come forward with.
Scene 06
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
The military connection to the conspiracy we had pierced was now undeniable. The man who lay dead in my apartment worked for the Department of Defense... At its advanced research facility. What I might find here, I was uncertain of, but my crime had provided me access. As long they believed Scully's lie that it was me lying on that floor, I might learn truths here. But if our lies were discovered, both Scully and I would be discovered with them.
Scene 07
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Scott Blevins
Agent Scully, please have a seat. Some time has passed since you were first in this office.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Four years.
Scott Blevins
From all reports, your work on the X-Files brought you very close to agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
Senior Agent
We're all sorry about what's happened, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
But that's not why I'm here.
Scott Blevins
You're here because we've been informed by the Department of Defense... That prior to agent Mulder's accident... You may have been contacted by a d.o.d. Employee.
Dana Scully
Yes, that's right.
Other Guy
And that he gave you classified information.
Dana Scully
He had information about the discovery of what agent Mulder believed to be an alien corpse. He, uh-- he said the body was part of a hoax.
Scott Blevins
He provided evidence of this?
Dana Scully
N-no hard evidence, sir. No.
Scott Blevins
Agent Scully, I suggest you tell us everything you know. If you have any knowledge of this man, you should speak up now.
Dana Scully
What knowledge?
Scott Blevins
His name. Whatever you're withholding, you'll be asked to explain yourself tonight... At a joint FBI panel I've asked assembled on this matter.
Walter Skinner
Is this the man? Michael Kritschgau?
Dana Scully
Yes.
[ man on p.a., indistinct ]
Scene 08
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Michael Kritschgau
Hey! How'd you get in here?
Fox Mulder
Through the front door.
Michael Kritschgau
You can't bypass security. You can when you have the card. Put that away. Put it away.
Fox Mulder
You knew my apartment was being surveilled. How?
[ chuckles ]
Michael Kritschgau
Come with me.
[ lock clicks ]
Scene 09
OFFICE IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Michael Kritschgau
I was followed from your apartment the night we spoke.
Fox Mulder
Someone at the FBI is involved. This man Ostelhoff was in contact with somebody--
Michael Kritschgau
How'd you get his card?
Fox Mulder
I found it on a dead man.
Michael Kritschgau
You know what that is, what you have in your hand? It gives you level four clearance.
Fox Mulder
Level four clearance. That means I get to dine at the officer's club?
Michael Kritschgau
You have access to everything. Things I don't. Things I can only tell you about.
Fox Mulder
I need to know who did this to Scully.
Michael Kritschgau
What you can have, what you may find, is so much more than that.
Fox Mulder
What?
Michael Kritschgau
What you want most desperately of all.
Fox Mulder
The cure for Scully's cancer?
Scene 11
X FILES OFFICE
Voice On Phone
Federal Bureau of investigation. How may I direct your call?
Dana Scully
Communications center, please.
Telephone Operator
One moment. [ line ringing ]
Holly (phone)
Communications, Holly.
Dana Scully
Holly, Dana Scully.
Holly
Dana, I'm so sorry about what's happened. I just heard.
Dana Scully
Holly, I need your help on something. I was hoping that you could help me with some information.
Holly
What do you need?
Dana Scully
I have some calls placed at the Bureau on consecutive dates. On the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth. They came in to the p.b.x. Operator. The first was at 11:21. The next at 11:14, 3:07, 2:02 and 5:12. They would have all been transferred to the same extension.
Holly
And you're looking for that extension?
Dana Scully
Yes.
Holly
I've got five calls matching those times and dates... Transferred to an executive level extension.
Dana Scully
Whose?
Holly
It's a branch extension. It could be anyone at that level.
Dana Scully
Would assistant director Skinner be at that extension?
[ keys clacking ]
Holly
Yes.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Holly
Okay. You take care now, Dana.
[ phone rings ]
Dana Scully
Yes?
Dr. Vitagliano (phone)
Special agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Yes.
Dr. Vitagliano
This is dr. Vitagliano... At the paleoclimatology department at American university. You asked me to look into these ice core samples for you.
Dana Scully
Right. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you.
Dr. Vitagliano
You might want to come down here to the lab. There's something I know you're gonna want to see for yourself.
Scene 12
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Fox Mulder
What am I looking for?
Michael Kritschgau
Level four is a biological quarantine wing. It houses a series of labs and medical facilities-- an elaborate system for the storage of vast quantities of DNA.
Fox Mulder
DNA from whom?
Michael Kritschgau
Virtually every American born since 1945. Every immigrant, every indigenous person... Who's ever given blood or tissue to a government doctor. This is what I was telling you, agent Mulder. This is the hoax into which you've been drawn. The roots go back 50 years to the end of world war ii, playing on a virulent national appetite for bogus revelation... And a public newly fearful of something called the atom bomb, the u.s. Military command began to fan the flames of what were called "flying saucer stories." there are truths which can kill a nation. The military needed something to deflect attention away from its arms strategy-- global domination through the capability of total enemy annihilation. The nuclear card was fine as long as we alone could play it. But the generals and politicos knew that what they could not win was a public relations war. Those photos from nagasaki and hiroshima... Were not faces americans wanted to see in a mirror. Oppenheimer knew it, but we silenced him. When the russians developed the bomb, the fear in the military... Was not for safety at home, but for armistice and treaty. The business of America isn't business, it's war. Since antietam, nothing has driven the economy faster. We needed a reason to keep spending money. When there wasn't a war to justify it, we called it war anyway. The cold war was essentially a 50-year public relations battle, a pitched game of chicken against an enemy we not much more than called names. The communists called us a few names too. "we will bury you," khrushchev said, and the public believed it. After what McCarthy had done they ate it with a big spoon. We squared off a few times in cuba, korea and Vietnam, but nobody dropped the bomb, nobody dared.
Fox Mulder
What does any of this have to do with flying saucers?
Michael Kritschgau
The u.s. Military saw a good thing in '47 when the Roswell story broke. The more we denied it, the more people believed it was true. Aliens had landed. A made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest. They opened official investigations with names like grudge, twinkle, project blue book, majestic 12. They brought in college professors and congressmen and fed them enough bogus fact, enough fuzzy photos and eyewitness accounts that they believed it too. They even hooked doug macarthur, for God's sake. I can't tell you how fortuitous the timing of it all was. Do you know when the first supersonic flight was, agent Mulder? 1947. Soon every experimental aircraft being flown was a UFO sighting. When the abduction stories started up, it was too perfect. We'd almost gotten caught in korea, an ambitious misstep. China and the soviets knew it. The u.n. Got all heated up at us.
Fox Mulder
Germ warfare. We were accused of using it on the koreans. Yeah.
Michael Kritschgau
It was developmental then, nothing like what we and the russians have now. The bioweapons used in the gulf war were so ingenious... As to be almost undetectable-- developed right in this very building.
Fox Mulder
And all these reports of abductions, you're saying they've all been lies.
Michael Kritschgau
Not lies, exactly, but citizens taken unsuspecting and tested-- a classified military project above top secret and still ongoing. You've heard the recent denials about Roswell, about the military and c.I.a.? What's been the effect? Even wilder and more widespread belief. The American appetite for bogus revelation, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
But I've seen aliens. I've witnessed these things.
[ elevator bell dings ]
Michael Kritschgau
You've seen what they wanted you to see. The line between science and science fiction doesn't exist anymore. What this is about is control of the very elements of life-- DNA. Yours, mine, everyone's.
Fox Mulder
Then why a hoax? Why create hard evidence, an alien body that could be disproved?
Michael Kritschgau
The body you found was so good, so believable, that only a directed scientific examination... Would have proven the fraud.
Fox Mulder
Scully would have known.
Michael Kritschgau
The timing of the hoax was planned so that agent Scully... Wouldn't be alive to do an examination.
Fox Mulder
You went along with all this. You let them do this to Scully.
Michael Kritschgau
I paid the price, agent Mulder. When my son came back sick from the gulf war, that was my retribution. I'm helping you now, but not unselfishly.
Fox Mulder
You believe there's a cure for him in here too.
Michael Kritschgau
I have to think there is.
Soldier
Michael Kritschgau. May we talk to you?
Michael Kritschgau
What about?
Soldier
D.o.d. Is detaining you for questioning. Would you come with us, mr. Kritschgau?
Attendant
Sir.
Scene 13
RACE TRACK
First Elder
I was told that you needed to see me, that there was some urgency.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It seems I've been left out of the loop.
First Elder
Left out?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You were watching Mulder. You had a man on him. No one bothered to inform me of this.
First Elder
I know nothing about a man.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I will not be cut out like this. You need my expertise. Is this being run from d.o.d.?
First Elder
If it is, I'm unaware of it.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've always kept Mulder in check. I put this whole thing together. I created Mulder.
First Elder
Agent Mulder is dead. Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. Mulder killed himself. Mulder was an asset. Without his partner, we may have underestimated his fragility.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I never underestimated Mulder. I still don't.
Scene 14
PALEOCLIMATOLOGY LAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Dr. Vitagliano
As you had asked, I've tested some of the cellular material... Found in the ice core sample. Because we couldn't identify it as either plant or animal, only as some kind of chimeric hybrid, I put some of the individual cells in media... Containing fetal bovine serum, and the cells began to divide.
Dana Scully
Well, then they were animal cells that you found.
Dr. Vitagliano
They are not classifiable.
Dana Scully
What do you mean? You said there was mitotic cell division.
Dr. Vitagliano
When the cells began to divide, they didn't just multiply. They began to go through the stages of morula, blastula, gastrula.
Dana Scully
They began somatic development?
Dr. Vitagliano
The beginning of a life-form. Growing into what, I don't know.
Scene 15
LEVEL 4
Fox Mulder
I had come here looking for answers, hoping not only to lay bare this conspiracy against the country and the men behind it, but to finally learn the truth about the possibility... Of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Now with what I've heard, my beliefs seem more and more improbable. The possibility of a cure for Scully somewhere inside these walls... Is my only hope. But if I might find it and somehow save her, the very existence of this cure would mean with certainty... That I have believed in a lie from the start.
Dana Scully (voice-over)
I had no way to reach agent Mulder... To tell him what I had discovered-- an unidentified microscopic life-form whose very existence... Held the possibility of revelation. Was this organism-- extracted from the ice... Which had entombed the alien corpse-- the germ cell that might give proof of extraterrestrial life? Or was it just the opposite? The scientifically engineered creation of a chimera-- an unclassifiable biological product designed to set up a hoax, manufactured to create the false beliefs... That have long driven agent Mulder. I now began to realize that the answer to this question... Might exist within the life-form itself-- biological proof of its connection to the cancer invading my body, to a virus living inside this organism... To which I had been exposed during my abduction three years ago.
Scene 16
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Dr. Vitagliano
I'm still not sure what you're hoping to find here.
Dana Scully
I need to do a southern blot... To run the culture that you showed me against my own DNA. You said that the unclassified cells you looked at under the e.e.m. Were full of virus.
Dr. Vitagliano
Right. What are you looking for?
Dana Scully
A match. And I need it before 7:00.
Dr. Vitagliano
Tonight? Not gonna happen. Not unless we have a blazing hot probe.
Dana Scully
It's got to happen. Everything in my life depends on it.
Scene 17
HALLWAY
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
Walter Skinner
I was gonna ask you the same.
Dana Scully
No you weren't. You followed me here. Why are you following me? Is this more dirty work you're doing for the d.o.d.?
Walter Skinner
Why don't you tell me something? Tell me what you're doing here.
Dana Scully
I want an answer from you.
Walter Skinner
I want an answer from you!
Dana Scully
This isn't your job!
Walter Skinner
My job is to direct the agents under me. To question their motives when they're lying about investigations. To take steps to cease or censure those actions. Your lie is on record, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
And what about yours?
Walter Skinner
On my desk I have the pathology... And forensics reports for the body found in Mulder's apartment. Now, you have to answer for yourself in five hours. As you compound the lies, you compound the consequences for them.
Dana Scully
All lies lead to the truth. Isn't that right?
Walter Skinner
And what about your lie, agent Scully? What does it lead to?
Dana Scully
The truth about the men behind what happened to me; about my abduction and the tests; about being exposed to something against my will; about being put on a table and having something implanted in me... And having my memory stolen, only to have it returned... Along with a disease that I was given.
Walter Skinner
Is that your justification? Is that what you're gonna tell the joint panel?
Dana Scully
Are you afraid of that?
Walter Skinner
Well, considering the dead man... In Mulder's apartment was murdered in cold blood... And you willfully misidentified him, yes, I am afraid. But I'm only afraid for you.
Dana Scully
You're gonna use that against me, aren't you? You're gonna use me as I've been used all along, to preserve the lies.
Walter Skinner
Where is agent Mulder? Your silence won't save you. Not with these people. And if you lie, I don't know if anything can.
Dana Scully
Except proof.
Scene 18
LATER
Dana Scully
The cruelest ironies are those consecrated... By the passage of time, chanced and occasioned by shocking discovery. I had joined agent Mulder on the X-Files because of my background in the medical sciences. My assignment was to question his work, to debunk his investigations... And rein him back into the FBI mainstream. Now, as fate would have it, I am calling on these very same skills... To prove that he has been the target of a scheme... Orchestrated by someone close to us in the FBI; someone we have trusted above all others, involved in a highly organized plot... To keep a dangerous secret from the light of day. I could only guess at what agent Mulder may have uncovered on his own; what he may have found to confirm or deny; what he has long held to be a conspiracy to control... The public inquiry into the government's knowledge... And contact with an alien race or races. If he had hoped, as I do, to learn the identity of those who sought to destroy us, I had, with the discovery of this unidentified microorganism, what could amount to forensic evidence. Hard and undeniable genetic evidence... Of a connection between the conspirators... And the cancer which has now metastasized in my bloodstream. I have few short hours to conduct these tests... Before I must appear before an FBI panel to explain myself. And as I am ready to lie to them about agent Mulder, I am also ready to confront them with proof-- proof extracted from this tiny organism... That could blow open a conspiracy of global consequence.
Scene 19
Scene 19
Fox Mulder
If agent Scully and I had been led to believe the conspiracy... Meant to destroy us has its roots in the Department of Defense, that fact seems all but irrefutable now. I have gained entry to a large storage facility by a hallway... Connecting underground to the pentagon. On hundreds of rows of shelves are materials that reveal nothing to me... Of a cure for Scully's cancer. And now, as I have reached the terminus of this space, what appears to be an old and antiquated filing system seems my only hope... Of finding what this man Kritschgau has assured me exists. If his own desperate search for his son's cure has eluded him, I now share his desperation... That among these drawers is a sign, a glimmer, some small confirmation that the journey which has brought me here... Has not been in vain.
[ ringing ]
Scene 20
LOCATION UNKNOWN
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes?
Military Police Officer
I had orders to contact you... In the event scott Ostelhoff entered the building.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Is he there?
Military Police Officer
His key card was scanned through the level four entrance. He used the subterranean access to breach the pentagon.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Are you sure it's him?
Military Police Officer
I can't ascertain that. Do you want me to apprehend him?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Don't do anything. I'm on my way.
Scene 21
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Dana Scully (voice-over)
If my work with agent Mulder has tested... The foundation of my beliefs, science has been and continues to be my guiding light. Now I am again relying on its familiar and systematic methods... To arrive at a truth-- a fact that might explain the fate that has befallen me. An investigation that began without, now turning within. Taking cellular material from the unidentified life-form... And isolating a virus contained within it, then matching the DNA from this virus... Against that which I believe has caused my cancer. I hope a picture will develop. A picture that might confirm my darkest suspicions... About the source of this disease invading my body, in hope of providing evidence that its cause is not without blame... Even though its cure remains unknown. If science serves me to these ends, it is not lost on me... That the tool with which I've come to depend on absolutely... Cannot save or protect me, but only bring into focus the darkness that lies ahead.
Scene 23
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Dana Scully
There it is.
Dr. Vitagliano
I don't understand.
Dana Scully
My DNA hybridized with the viral DNA from the cell culture.
Dr. Vitagliano
But that means... The material from the ice core sample-- you'd have to have DNA from the unclassified chimera cells... In your own body.
Dana Scully
I know.
Dr. Vitagliano
But how? And how did you know?
Dana Scully
I believe that I was exposed to this material, and it is responsible for giving me a serious illness.
Dr. Vitagliano
What kind of illness?
Dana Scully
One which cannot be cured.
Scene 24
PENTAGON FILE ROOM
Fox Mulder (voice-over)
If I did indeed have the cure for Scully's cancer, I was now as dependent on her as she was on me. As I had breached this facility, I needed to find my way out to safety; depending on Scully to weave her story; to tell her tale; to make them believe the lie.
Scene 25
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Scott Blevins
Agent Scully, please have a seat. Thank you. Agent Scully, we've had a brief discussion, but will you restate the matter we're here to put to rest.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Four years ago, section chief Blevins... Assigned me to a project you all know as the X-Files. As I am a medical doctor with a background in hard science, my job was to provide an analytical perspective... On the work of special agent Fox Mulder, whose investigations into the paranormal... Were fueled by a personal belief... That his sister had been abducted by aliens when he was 12. I come here today, four years later, to report on the illegitimacy of agent Mulder's work. That it is my scientific opinion... That he became, through the course of these years, a victim-- a victim of his own false hopes... And of his belief in the biggest of lies.
Senior Agent
You were contacted by a man who claimed he worked for the Department of Defense, a Michael Kritschgau, who told you that Mulder had been taken in by a hoax.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
[ door opening ]
Dana Scully
He told me a story which detailed point-by-point... The systematic way in which agent Mulder... Had been deceived and used, and how I as his partner had been led down the same path-- losing a family member due to my allegiance... And contracting a fatal disease which I was being told was engineered... By the men who were responsible for agent Mulder's deception.
Scott Blevins
Were you able to convince agent Mulder of these facts?
Dana Scully
What I couldn't tell agent Mulder-- what I had only just learned myself-- was that the cancer which had been diagnosed in me... Several months earlier had metastasized, and the doctors told me short of a miracle... It would continue to aggressively invade my body... Advancing faster each day towards the inevitable.
Military Police Officer
I'll have security stop him at the entrance.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
No, it's okay. Let him go.
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Dana Scully
Early this morning... I got a call from the police... Asking me to come to agent Mulder's apartment. The detective asked me-- he needed me to identify a body.
Scott Blevins
Agent Scully--
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder died late last night... From an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
[ door opens ]
Scott Blevins
Agent Scully, these accusations that you've made-- you've been given a disease.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
Scott Blevins
They're extremely serious charges.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. But I have proof... Against the men behind this... Of the lies that I believed. What I have here is proof undeniable... That the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax, a plot designed to lead to agent Mulder's demise, and to my own, planned and executed by someone in this room. What I have here... Is scientific evidence-- you.
Walter Skinner
Somebody get a doctor.
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Scene 27
LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE
Fox Mulder
What? What is it?
John Fitzgerald Byers
It's deionized water. It's nothing more than that.
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