Man
Stop right there!
Season 8 · Episode 16
Three Words
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX18Original airdate · April 8, 2001
331 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ panting ]
Scene 02
WASHINGTON, DC
Secret Service Guards
Freeze. Freeze! Put your hands in the air!
Howard Salt
I need to tell the president something. I need to tell... I need to tell the president something.
Lead Guard
Get down on the ground.
Howard Salt
I need to see the president. He needs to know. Look, he needs to know. Aliens-- aliens-- they're taking over the united states. He needs to know.
Guard
[ guard #1 ] he's got a weapon. Get the weapon! Get the weapon!
Lead Guard
He's shot. He shot himself. Damn it. Stupid son of a bitch. What was he thinking?
Another Guard
Get a medic!
Guard
Get a medic!
Howard Salt
Please, the president...
[ screaming ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 03
Scene 03
Dana Scully
Mulder, are you okay?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. For a guy who was, uh... In a coffin not too long ago I think I'm doing pretty damn good. I don't quite have my legs under me... Yet.
Dana Scully
Well, you might want to consider sitting down when you hear what we have to tell you.
Fox Mulder
Uh-oh.
Dana Scully
Now, it's, uh... It's good news. It's... It's miraculous news.
Dr. Lim
I can't possibly exaggerate the inconceivability of you sitting here. Let's be honest... Your condition may be more incredible than your recovery.
Dana Scully
Whatever neurological disorder you were suffering from it's no longer detectable. After a course of transfusions and antivirals it has rid your body of the virus that was invading it. The scars on your face on your hands, on your feet, on your chest they, they seem to be repairing themselves. Mulder, you are in perfect health.
Fox Mulder
Wow.
Dr. Lim
How do you feel agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Like austin powers.
[ chuckles ]
Scene 04
Scene 04
Dana Scully
Must feel good to be home.
Fox Mulder
Something looks different.
Dana Scully
It's clean.
Fox Mulder
Ah... That's it. Missing molly.
Dana Scully
Yeah. She wasn't as lucky as you. Mulder... I don't know if you'll ever understand what it was like. First learning of your abduction... And then searching for you and finding you dead. And now to have you back and, uh...
Fox Mulder
Well, you act like you're surprised.
[ chuckles ]
Dana Scully
I prayed a lot. And my prayers have been answered.
Fox Mulder
In more ways than one.
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
I'm happy for you. I think I know... How much that means to you.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry. I don't mean to be cold or ungrateful. I just... I have no idea where I fit in. Right now. I just, uh... I'm having a little trouble... Processing... Everything.
Scene 05
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Marion
It's marion the librarian, boys. I got the new harry potter.
[ laughing ]
Marion
Our lord and savior. For you.
Absalom
I've got my books.
Marion
Expand your horizons.
Absalom
I know all I need to know.
Marion
Want to bet? Put a rise in your levi's.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Tv Reporter
Again, our top story is the death of a man who jumped the fence at the white house last evening his name now released. Howard salt, a federal employee working on the u.s. Census got as far as the white house front door yesterday where he was stopped by security and shot accidentally by his own gun. According to a secret service spokesman salt appeared to be irrational and resisted arrest shouting unspecified grievances against the u.s. Government and demanding to speak with the president. Coworkers describe him as likable and hardworking.
Alvin Kersh
We never see them coming. People are so rarely what they seem. Gentlemen please, sit down. An application was submitted to me this morning by agent Scully on behalf of our old friend, Fox Mulder, for reinstatement. I assume you both know about this.
Walter Skinner
Reinstatement?
Alvin Kersh
To the X-Files.
John Doggett
I thought Mulder just went home.
Alvin Kersh
Well, somebody's very anxious for him to get back to work. I wanted you both to see this before I deny the application.
Walter Skinner
What is it?
Alvin Kersh
It's a review of the success rate of your X-Files since agent Doggett joined the team. Damn impressive, john.
John Doggett
Impressive, sir? The only thing impressive about my work on the X-Files is that I even know what's going on half the time.
Alvin Kersh
From this report, you and agent Scully have had more arrests on percentage than she and Mulder over seven years. Take a look.
Walter Skinner
Well, that's not very fair to agent Mulder. So many of his cases involve...
Alvin Kersh
Aliens? There lies the problem. The FBI isn't a place for personal crusades. I'm asking you both to make that understood on my behalf.
John Doggett
Well, you can't ask me to tell Mulder he's off the X-Files. It's his unit. He created it.
Alvin Kersh
I'm not asking you, john.
John Doggett
You sent me to find Mulder. I found him. Don't charge me with driving a stake through his heart.
Alvin Kersh
Maybe you'd rather I close the X-Files. Then we'd both be getting what we want.
Walter Skinner
Let's go, agent Doggett. Now.
Scene 07
Scene 07
Fox Mulder
Kersh wants to put me behind a desk? That is not what Kersh wants.
Dana Scully
No, I think Kersh wants you to quit, Mulder.
Walter Skinner
It's more than that. He wants to punish you, to hurt you.
Fox Mulder
And you by putting you in this position. And agent Scully, for not giving up on me. Truth is, this is a bullet that was fired about eight years ago. It's a magic bullet that's been going round and round and right now it seems poised to hit me right in the back of the head.
Dana Scully
I think the question is, are we going to sit here and let this happen?
Fox Mulder
Scully, you're going to give birth in a couple months. You can talk as tough as you like but you know and I know and they know that in a little while you're going to have more important things than whether or not the X-Files remains open.
Walter Skinner
They're not closing the X-Files. Kersh aims to keep them open with agent Doggett running them.
Fox Mulder
Agent who?
Dana Scully
I've had a partner for the last several months. He was assigned to help me find you.
Fox Mulder
Mission accomplished. Does he know what he's doing at all, this guy?
Walter Skinner
About the paranormal? Not much.
Fox Mulder
I see. Then maybe the question is not who fired this magic bullet but whether or not it was a lone gunman.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett is above reproach, Mulder. He's being maneuvered just like you.
Fox Mulder
Well, good. At least he's maneuverable.
Walter Skinner
Where are you going?
Fox Mulder
Going to get dressed. For the first time I feel like getting back to work.
Scene 08
BASSETT COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
Prison Armed Guard
Wrap it up and fall in. Stay in line. Let's go. Get back in line-- hey, you! [ yelling ]
[ cheering ]
Wounded Guard
Go get that son of a bitch.
Prison Armed Guard
Nobody move! Stand
Absalom
Down!
[ train horn blowing ]
[ gun cocks ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Absalom
Get over here. Over here now. Come on, sit down. Hands behind your back. Head down. Down between your legs.
John Doggett
Absalom. That's your name, right? What are you looking at?
Absalom
The back of your neck. Sit up, agent Doggett. I had to make sure.
John Doggett
Make sure of what?
Absalom
Make sure that you're still you.
John Doggett
Yeah, I'm still me. So why don't you put that weapon down?
Absalom
You see this? Huh, do you see it?
John Doggett
"man shot at the white house."
Absalom
They killed him for what he knew. Then they'll kill me, too.
John Doggett
Not if you put the weapon down.
Absalom
No. They'll kill me anyway. I got one chance here. With you. Sit down. Didn't I tell you to sit down?
John Doggett
I'm not going anywhere.
Absalom
You're going with me. And I'm going to show you and you are going to spread the word. Doubting thomas is going to spread the word.
John Doggett
What word?
Absalom
The invasion has begun.
John Doggett
What invasion?
Absalom
They're already here.
John Doggett
Who's already here?
Absalom
Certain men have gone out among you and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city saying, "let us go, and serve other gods that ye have not known."
John Doggett
I don't know what that means.
Absalom
I open my mouth... In parables. I utter things that... Have been kept secret from the world.
[ telephone ringing ]
Absalom
On your knees, john Doggett.
Scene 10
FBI TASK FORCE BRIEFING ROOM
Walter Skinner
He goes by the name absalom. A self-styled prophet agent Scully and I apprehended in montana where he commanded members of a small UFO cult.
[ line ringing ]
Walter Skinner
These words were found on the wall of his cell after he escaped from a work detail 40 Miles from the state prison. Now, we don't know they mean but absalom claimed to have knowledge of an alien invasion. There were also claims of healings of numerous abductees that had been subjected to alien torture.
[ snickering ]
Walter Skinner
Claims that have never been substantiated... Or refuted. But evidence of torture was real. Now, the only way we're going to get answers is to bring this guy in. Just know the man that you're looking for is dangerous. He's a felon, and he is capable of physical violence. All right, that's it. Where the hell is agent Doggett?
Dana Scully
I can't reach him.
Walter Skinner
I can't run this thing, agent Scully. This is obviously an X-Files case.
Dana Scully
I know. And I'm all over it. I will find him.
[ telephone ringing ]
Dana Scully
I don't know if this is going to make you feel any better.
Scene 11
Scene 11
Fox Mulder
Hey.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
Who says you can't go home again?
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
Fox Mulder
What's it look like?
Walter Skinner
It looks like you want to give them real ammunition to use on you that's what it looks like.
Fox Mulder
Hey, I am just down here visiting my buds. Where is this agent Doggett anyway? What kind of hours does he keep?
Dana Scully
Please, you do not want to stir that up right now.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Walter Skinner
Because we have a manhunt in progress and I want agent Doggett running it.
Fox Mulder
Anything to do with this? This absalom abductee class picture?
Dana Scully
Yes... It does. Why?
Fox Mulder
Because I noticed that the man who was shot on the white house lawn is one of the men in that photograph. Top right hand corner. In profile. Howard salt, if I'm not mistaken.
Dana Scully
He's right. You're right.
Fox Mulder
Consider that a freebie. The next one's going to cost you.
Walter Skinner
Why? What else do you know?
Fox Mulder
Oh, I don't know anything. But you know me, I got a real big hunch. This howard salt was a multiple alien abductee worked for the u.s. Census bureau. Wanted to get word to the president unspecified grievances. What do you want to bet those grievances were?
Dana Scully
You think he knew something?
Fox Mulder
I think they killed him for it.
Walter Skinner
The man jumped the white house fence. He had a gun.
Fox Mulder
Once again, I'm a betting man. I'm betting he had more than that.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you make it sound like this was a conspiracy.
Fox Mulder
Ooh. There's that word again.
Walter Skinner
You're being paranoid, Mulder. Even for you.
Fox Mulder
Do you want to hear something really paranoid? The FBI gets its way, there's going to be nobody down here to ask the paranoid questions. Nobody to find those faces in those photographs. Surely not this agent Doggett.
Scene 12
Scene 12
John Doggett
Just what do you have in mind if you don't mind my asking? It's my head that's going to get blown off if there's a screw up.
Absalom
We're going to get what that man at the white house died for.
John Doggett
To get it? To get it where?
Absalom
You just concentrate on not screwing up, agent Doggett.
[ gun chamber clicks ]
Absalom
Either way, you and I are going to become overnight sensations.
Scene 13
FBI EVIDENCE ROOM
Dana Scully
Mulder, I know you know this but if anything leaves this room you could be in violation of the law.
Fox Mulder
Really? When I was dead I was hoping maybe they changed the rules.
Dana Scully
Mulder, just being here could be used by Kersh as cause for dismissal.
Fox Mulder
Then why don't you shut the door so he doesn't find out.
Dana Scully
I just don't know what you're hoping to find in salt's personal effects.
Fox Mulder
Neither do I, really. But maybe it's like howard salt's picture I'll know it when I see it.
Dana Scully
So you'll risk the consequences even though there may be nothing here?
Fox Mulder
You don't get it, do you, Scully? The man shot at the white house, the prison escapee there's something bubbling to the surface here. I want to know what it is.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you've been through an ordeal that defies all logical explanation. How can you think that these two men have the answers when they defy all standard of credibility?
Fox Mulder
Since when has an X-File not defied a certain standard of credibility? At least that's the way it used to work. Look, Scully, I need to make sense of what happened to me. So that I can stop it. Because if I can't stop it, it could happen to anyone. It could happen to you. And who's to say it's going to stop there?
Dana Scully
Mulder, if you go down the X-Files will go down, too. I mean, theoretically, they could put you in prison for what you're doing here.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, well, compared to where I just was prison would be a princess cruise. Ho. Hey. What the hell is this? The entire hard drive is taken up with this. Ten gigabytes of memory.
Dana Scully
It's been encrypted.
Fox Mulder
Mm.
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'm going to book myself on that princess cruise.
Dana Scully
I'll book it for you.
Scene 14
FEDERAL STATISTICS CENTER
FBI guard (intercom)
State your name and your business.
John Doggett
Special agent john Doggett, FBI
[ buzzer ]
[ beeping ]
John Doggett
I hope you know I got no idea where I'm going down here.
Absalom
I just need access to wherever they compile all the available data from the current u.s. Census.
John Doggett
And then what?
Absalom
Then you pick up the phone you tell the FBI why you aren't coming to work until somebody pays us some serious attention.
John Doggett
Just so you're not surprised we might not make it that far. We passed through an x-Ray scanner on the way in here back at the gate.
Absalom
Well, you better hope we make it. I'd hate to see you die in vain.
John Doggett
That's sort of in your hands, huh? So just in case how about you tell me what's in this facility that's worth me dying for.
Absalom
It's all in the census data. Proof.
John Doggett
What?
Absalom
That they're already here. That they're already among us. It's all in there. I got a loaded gun pointed at this man's head! He's an FBI agent!
John Doggett
Listen to him! Just back off!
Absalom
I'll pull the trigger!
John Doggett
Listen to the man! Back off!
Absalom
I'll pull it.
John Doggett
Lower your weapons! Listen to him!
Scene 15
Scene 15
Walter Skinner
It may not be the best way but it's certainly one way to catch an escaped convict. I'll give you that, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
I'd just as soon stick to the old-fashioned way, sir. Shot was a little too close for comfort.
Walter Skinner
You say this man claimed the u.s. Census bureau had data information that he was after that connects to this man who was shot on the white house lawn?
John Doggett
Proof, he said, that they were here among us whoever they are.
Fox Mulder
Sir.
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Is this john Doggett? You agent Doggett? I hope you're not commending him as a hero for what he did, because he is not.
Walter Skinner
I'm not about to referee a boxing match.
John Doggett
Just what's the problem here?
Fox Mulder
The problem? You occupy an office that used to be... Devoted to finding the truth and now you're busy burying it, that's the problem.
John Doggett
Whoa, you must've got your wires crossed somewhere, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You got that man killed.
John Doggett
I got him killed?
Fox Mulder
Because of what he knew. What he was going to expose.
John Doggett
You see this, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I see you sitting there, agent Doggett. That's good enough for me.
Walter Skinner
You've got to understand what he's been through. I mean, now he's back and you're...
Scene 16
Scene 16
Melvin Frohike
You know, it's really not fair. You've been dead for six months and you still look better than me. But not by much.
Fox Mulder
Melvin. I'd be a whole lot happier to see you if you'd just take your hands off my ass.
Melvin Frohike
Sorry.
John Fitzgerald Byers
I think it goes without saying that we're all, uh, tremendously relieved.
Richard Langly
And not just because we got big questions about your involvement in a certain blessed event.
Dana Scully
So much for playing a hunch, Mulder. The, uh, gunmen were able to decrypt the data that you found on howard salt's hard drive. It was a series of file directories that were downloaded the day that he died.
Fox Mulder
Downloaded from where?
Richard Langly
The f.s.c., the federal statistics center.
John Fitzgerald Byers
A government information bank used by the u.s. Census bureau where your mr. H. Salt worked.
Fox Mulder
All right, what are you waiting for, boys? Get cracking.
Melvin Frohike
Unless you think we're all idiots it's only langly who's the idiot.
Richard Langly
Don't make like it's my hacking skills. I've never seen such a radical counterdefensive.
Dana Scully
Fifteen minutes after howard salt was shot at the white house, firewalls went up on every data bank at that very facility.
Fox Mulder
Well, why do that? Because I'm right. Because they would kill to protect what's in those files.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Unless you got a password we don't see any way short of that of getting ahold of this data.
Richard Langly
And the thing is even if you have a pass code you still have to break into the f.s.c. Just to use it. We all agree, you're going to have to let this one go.
Fox Mulder
Oh. I see. Somebody's been doing a little campaigning for her cause. Well, just remember, boys, this is america. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win.
[ sniffles ] [ sighs ]
Scene 17
Scene 17
Knowle Rohrer
Your name came up today, john. Folks are all worked up. They say you dodged a bullet.
John Doggett
You can't dodge what you don't see coming, knowle, that's for sure.
Knowle Rohrer
That should tell you something about who you're dealing with.
John Doggett
Who am I dealing with? Nsa? Secret service? Military? Who?
Knowle Rohrer
You know better than that, john.
John Doggett
They shot the man in cold blood. Didn't even stop to ask him his name.
Knowle Rohrer
The way I hear it he made it too easy. Taking a federal agent hostage in a government facility.
John Doggett
They'd have shot him anyway.
Knowle Rohrer
Without a doubt.
John Doggett
Why?
Knowle Rohrer
You and I have been friends a long time, john. I tell you things. But this is a whole other level.
John Doggett
Don't give me that doublespeak crap, knowle. I'm being accused.
Knowle Rohrer
Accused? Of what?
John Doggett
Of being used to get that man killed.
Knowle Rohrer
Well, that's insane.
John Doggett
Oh, is it? Maybe I am being used, and I just don't know it. That's what I want to know from you.
Knowle Rohrer
Can't tell you that, john. But I can tell you something. One thing you already know. These men are very good shots.
John Doggett
What don't I know?
Knowle Rohrer
Three words.
[ horn honks ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
John Doggett
Hold up!
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Could you wait a minute?
John Doggett
Agent Scully, I'm sorry to surprise you. I don't mean to.
Dana Scully
What are you doing here at this hour? You're freezing cold.
John Doggett
I got something for agent Mulder only I can't go up there. I don't know him, and I know he doesn't trust me so I'm going to ask you to get it to him.
Dana Scully
What do you have to give him?
John Doggett
Information about this escaped convict who took me hostage. One of his disciples was the man shot on the white house lawn.
Dana Scully
Oh, yeah, agent Mulder knows that already.
John Doggett
What he doesn't know is that man had a computer diskette that he was trying to get to the president.
Dana Scully
Who gave you this information?
John Doggett
I can't tell you that but what I can tell you is is this diskette was labeled with a pass code.
Dana Scully
You have this, this password?
John Doggett
It's three words: "fight the future."
Fox Mulder
Scully, what are you doing back? Did something just happen?
Dana Scully
I'm, um... I'm not exactly sure I should tell you, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Scully, if you know something that can get us moving forward again, you need to tell me.
[ pounding on door ]
Scene 19
Scene 19
John Doggett
Yeah, who is it?
Walter Skinner
It's Skinner. Open up, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
What are you doing here?
Walter Skinner
I got a call from agent Scully. She's at her apartment, completely beside herself.
John Doggett
Over what?
Walter Skinner
Mulder somehow got hold of a computer password to a database filled with secrets.
John Doggett
What kind of secrets?
Walter Skinner
Names of people the federal government is tracking using the u.s. Census. Names of people who have a certain genetic profile. It's the same information he believes the shooter at the white house knew about. Also the guy that took you hostage.
John Doggett
You said Scully was upset.
Walter Skinner
That Mulder was going to act on this information in some way that... What? You know about this?
John Doggett
I gave Scully the password.
Walter Skinner
Where did you get it?
John Doggett
I can't tell you that.
Walter Skinner
You know, I'm starting to wonder about you, too, john. Just whose side you are working on here.
John Doggett
I'm starting to wonder about that myself. You said Scully's at her apartment. What's the number there?
Walter Skinner
That's why I'm here. I can't get ahold of them-- either one of them-- and I have no idea where they went. Where are you going?
John Doggett
I can't tell you that, either. If I open up my mouth, I put you at risk. You're going to have to trust me on this.
Scene 20
FEDERAL STATISTICS CENTER
Dana Scully
[ sighs ] oh, man.
[ knocking ]
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
John Doggett
Where's agent Mulder?
Dana Scully
He wouldn't listen to me.
John Doggett
Get out of here. Get going.
Dana Scully
I can't do that to him.
John Doggett
Then do it for yourself. Look, I think I may have set you up.
Dana Scully
What?
John Doggett
You just get out of here now and I'll explain it to you later.
Dana Scully
No. You explain it to me now. Set us up how, and with whom?
John Doggett
The same men that shoot first and ask questions later.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett!
Fox Mulder
Frohike? Langly? Byers? Let's go. I'm dying out here.
Melvin Frohike
Well, let us just finish our cappuccino and biscotti, and we'll see what we can do.
John Fitzgerald Byers
You can start walking now, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Is the system bypassed?
Richard Langly
You'll know if it's not.
Fox Mulder
Great.
Melvin Frohike
Smile, buddy boy. The eye in the sky is watching.
Richard Langly
We're gonna be watching Mulder get busted if I don't find the override circuit.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Everything's under control, Mulder. Just hold tight.
Richard Langly
Okay, got it!
[ beeps ]
Melvin Frohike
And voila!
Fox Mulder
Come on, guys. I'm on autopilot here.
Melvin Frohike
Go left, Mulder. There should be a pair of glass doors about a hundred yards up.
John Fitzgerald Byers
According to our information, those doors will lead you straight into the data bank.
Fox Mulder
Hey, who's working on the locks, fellas?
Melvin Frohike
Stand by. There you go.
Richard Langly
There ought to be two work stations in the middle of the room. Either one will give you access to the data.
Fox Mulder
Let's do some e-mailing.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder, get out of there!
[ pounding ]
John Doggett
Agent Mulder!
[ knocking ]
Melvin Frohike
Mulder? What the hell's that?
John Doggett
Your life's in danger if you don't get out now.
Fox Mulder
Just a fly buzzing around the window.
[ groaning ]
John Doggett
Agent Mulder, get out. You're coming with me. I'm here to save you, whatever you may think.
Fox Mulder
I think you're trying to keep this information from ever seeing the light of day, just like you did once before, agent Doggett, that's what I think.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder, I don't even know what that information is.
Fox Mulder
You're about to, along with a lot of other people. There going to learn that they've been targeted because of their genetic profiles for abduction and replacement by alien facsimiles. What do you say we start off with the Washington post, huh?
John Doggett
You can believe whatever you want, but that information is never going to make it out.
Fox Mulder
What are you going to do, shoot me?
[ phone ringing ]
The Lone Gunmen
Hello.
Dana Scully
Something's wrong.
John Fitzgerald Byers
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
I think we've been set up. You have to get Mulder out of there.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Right now that's basically impossible.
Melvin Frohike
Uh-oh. Mulder? You'd better start typing fast.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Melvin Frohike
The cavalry just arrived.
Fox Mulder
You son of a bitch. You set me up.
John Doggett
No.
Dana Scully
-get him out of there, gunmen. -[ langly ]
Richard Langly
We're working on it.
John Doggett
Come on, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Hey, get off of me.
John Doggett
If I set you up, I wouldn't be here trying to convince you to go. They're coming to kill you. They're going to kill me, too. That's the set up.
Richard Langly
Mulder, I think you better listen to the man. They got the data trapped and I can't get it uploaded let alone start transmission.
Dana Scully
What is happening, byers?
John Fitzgerald Byers
I'm trying to figure that out. Mulder, are you there?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, I'm here.
John Fitzgerald Byers
It's look like there's really, uh, no good way out of there. Uh... Except...
Fox Mulder
Except what?
John Fitzgerald Byers
It's a long shot, but, uh, worth a try especially given the alternative. Here's what you do.
John Doggett
You've got two minutes, knowle. Two minutes to give me one good reason why I shouldn't put your name in lights. Why I shouldn't expose you for the lying bastard you are.
Knowle Rohrer
Hey, john, nice knowing you.
John Doggett
You see that man across the park? You walk, that man puts your name on all the wrong desks.
Knowle Rohrer
I get it, john. You asked me for information, I tell you what I can. What you do with it is out of my hands.
John Doggett
You knew what I would do with it. That's why you gave it to me.
Knowle Rohrer
You expose me and then what? Where are you going to get your answers? 'cause you're standing on the tip of the iceberg, my friend.
John Doggett
You're full of crap.
Knowle Rohrer
Am I? What is it you think those men were trying to protect? Census data? You need me worse than you know.
John Doggett
I don't need someone using me to get another man killed.
Knowle Rohrer
You think this is about Mulder? It's about the truth, john.
John Doggett
What truth?
Knowle Rohrer
You got it all right in front of you. It's all in the X-Files. I'm just one man trying to point you in the right direction.
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