Unidentified speaker
Dr. Frett.
Season 9 · Episode 19–20
The Truth
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code9ABX19–20Original airdate · May 19, 2002
539 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ helicopter whirring ]
[ engines rumbling ]
[ machinery humming ]
[ door closes ]
[ door buzzing ]
[ footsteps approaching ]
[ grunting ]
Fox Mulder
No! You're dead.
Alex Krycek
Go.
[ loud thumping ]
Alex Krycek
There's others.
[ klaxon blaring ]
[ klaxon blaring ]
Unidentified speaker
Halt! Sir? Sir!
[ both grunting ]
[ grunts ]
[ gasps and grunts ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 02
Scene 02
Military Guard
What are you thinking?
Fox Mulder
Where am I?
Military Guard
Wrong answer! What are you thinking?
Fox Mulder
I'm thinking about getting the hell out of here.
Military Guard
Wrong... Answer!
[ groans ]
[ moans ]
[ gasps ]
Military Guard
No sleeping!
[ metal door clanging ]
Military Guard
What are you thinking?
Fox Mulder
About my son... About his mother.
Military Guard
Wrong answer! Now, what are you thinking?
Fox Mulder
What do you want from me?!
Military Guard
Wrong... Answer! I want answers, you hear me? I want answers!
[ grunting ]
[ gasps ]
[ metal door clanging ]
Military Guard
No sleeping! Did you hear me?
Fox Mulder
Yes.
Military Guard
What are you thinking?
Fox Mulder
What should I be thinking?
Military Guard
You're a guilty man. You entered a government facility illegally in search of nonexistent information! You failed in every respect!
Fox Mulder
Yes.
Military Guard
Say it!
Fox Mulder
I'm a guilty man. I failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crime.
[ door clanging shut ]
[ door buzzing ]
Scene 03
Scene 03
Dana Scully
How long has he been here?
Walter Skinner
I'm trying to get someone to say.
Dana Scully
Who called you?
Walter Skinner
Kersh's office.
Dana Scully
Who called them?
Walter Skinner
I don't know; I just know that Mulder's being held here indefinitely.
Dana Scully
What for?
Walter Skinner
For the murder of a military man.
[ door squeaks ]
[ silence ]
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Dana.
[ gasps ]
Dana Scully
Oh, my god.
Fox Mulder
You okay?
Dana Scully
Am I okay? Mulder, I haven't seen you in such a long time. I was so worried.
Fox Mulder
Well, it's okay, I'm all right. They're treating me really well in here.
Dana Scully
What's happened to you?
Fox Mulder
Nothing. I'm squared away. Oh, hey, walter. It's good to see you, man.
Walter Skinner
Have they told you what the charges are, Mulder? What you're doing here?
Fox Mulder
Oh, yeah, yeah. We're clear on that.
Dana Scully
You're clear on what?
Fox Mulder
My crimes.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
I murdered a man, Dana. I went looking for something that didn't exist, and I-- I made a terrible mistake. I should be punished severely.
Walter Skinner
Whatever you were doing you have the right to a lawyer... To an inquiry and process of law.
Fox Mulder
I don't think you heard me.
Guard
All right. Time's up.
Dana Scully
We're going to get you out of here.
Fox Mulder
Well, how is that? I'm a guilty man.
Guard
Time's up. Let's go.
Fox Mulder
Uh... Excuse me. I don't understand. Why are you helping me?
Alex Krycek
Because you can't do this alone.
Guard
Let's go.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Fox Mulder
You saw him? Mulder?
Monica Reyes
They've accused him of murder?
Dana Scully
And they have him believing that he did it.
John Doggett
Of murdering who?
Dana Scully
Knowle Rohrer.
John Doggett
Knowle Rohrer? It can't be. I watched Knowle Rohrer die.
Monica Reyes
He can't die. Knowle Rohrer's a super soldier.
[ hangs up phone ]
Walter Skinner
Mulder sidestepped security at a facility known as mount weather-- a place where they say our so-called "shadow government" is installed.
Monica Reyes
What about this murder charge?
Walter Skinner
30 government workers are ready to testify they witnessed Mulder push a military officer to his death.
John Doggett
Killing a man who can't be killed? Where you goin'?
Dana Scully
To beg mercy with the man upstairs.
Scene 05
USMC BASE BRIG
General Mark A. Suveg
Come in. Deputy director Kersh. I've just been going over my notes on this whole business. Please, have a seat.
Alvin Kersh
Thank you.
General Mark A. Suveg
We both got a problem with this man of yours, agent Mulder.
Alvin Kersh
Mulder's been a running problem for the FBI. But nothing this serious.
General Mark A. Suveg
I would think--
Alvin Kersh
I've been asked by a female agent... Mulder's closest associate to beg mercy of the military court to give Mulder every consideration based on his good character.
General Mark A. Suveg
You've reviewed the charges, yes?
Alvin Kersh
Yes. There's a charge of murder.
General Mark A. Suveg
This would look bad for the marines if it didn't look worse for the FBI. What does Mulder intend to plead? You wanted a chance to clear up this mess, mr. Kersh and I'm going to give it to you, give it to the FBI.
Alvin Kersh
How?
General Mark A. Suveg
A fair hearing for your agent by his own agency. Your prosecutor, your judges. Held in my court.
Alvin Kersh
That can't be legal. Why do this?
General Mark A. Suveg
I want a verdict. A guilty verdict. This man Mulder has made a lot of enemies. He's a crusader. And a lot of people do not like the crusade.
Alvin Kersh
I can't do that.
General Mark A. Suveg
Oh, you'll do it, deputy director. You and I both know there are forces inside the government now that a man would be foolish to disobey.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Dana Scully
Mulder. Mulder!
[ sniffing ]
Fox Mulder
I smelled you coming, clarice.
[ chuckles ]
Dana Scully
Oh, my-- damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.
Fox Mulder
No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act. Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.
Walter Skinner
The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble you're in.
Fox Mulder
Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that right around the 50th brainwashing session.
Dana Scully
Mulder, why are they doing this to you?
Fox Mulder
They think they're preparing me for my trial. For my testimony.
Walter Skinner
Your testimony's not going to matter. Not with the case they're building.
Fox Mulder
Not building. Rigging.
Walter Skinner
Yeah, I don't think you understand the seriousness of the charges. This isn't some routine wrist slapping. You're on trial for your life.
Fox Mulder
My trial's a forgone conclusion. What they really want is for me to admit my guilt and help them out. What's really on trial here is the truth.
Dana Scully
Mulder, they're saying you killed a man.
Fox Mulder
Have they produced a body? You can't produce a body because you can't kill the man who won't die.
Walter Skinner
Well, body or not, they've got 30 witnesses from that government facility ready to testify against you.
Dana Scully
Mulder, we'll get you the best lawyer.
Fox Mulder
To defend a man who believes in aliens against the FBI and the military? It's never going to happen. Skinner can defend me.
Walter Skinner
I can't represent you.
Fox Mulder
You know all the facts, the details the whole government conspiracy. More than that, I trust you.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
They can't try me without exposing themselves. I know what I'm doing.
[ cell door opening ]
Fox Mulder
Whoo, now it's a party.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
What's the matter?
Monica Reyes
We've been working off what little we have but the military just got back to us.
John Doggett
You ready for this? I know this is impossible but they're saying they got Knowle Rohrer's body.
Scene 07
7:12 AM
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me.
Fox Mulder
Is it time to go?
Dana Scully
No. That's why I'm here.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, I need you to talk to me. Confide in me... Or we'll lose.
Fox Mulder
We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.
Dana Scully
You're scaring me. Mulder, I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm going to lose you again.
Fox Mulder
I know what I'm doing.
Dana Scully
Well... Whatever you're doing... You have no idea how much has already been lost... What I've had to do.
Fox Mulder
I do know. Skinner told me.
Dana Scully
Our son, Mulder-- I gave him up.
[ sobbing ]
Dana Scully
Our son. I'm so afraid you could never forgive me.
Fox Mulder
I know you had no choice. I just missed both of you so much.
Dana Scully
God, where have you been? Where have you been hiding?
Fox Mulder
In New Mexico.
Dana Scully
Doing what?
Fox Mulder
Looking for the truth.
[ laughing ]
[ laughing ]
Dana Scully
You found something, didn't you? Huh? What did you find?
Fox Mulder
I can't tell you.
Dana Scully
You found something in that facility? That's what you were doing, right? Mulder, what did you find out there?
Fox Mulder
Scully, I can't tell you.
Dana Scully
That doesn't make sense.
Fox Mulder
You've got to trust me, Scully. I know things it's better you don't.
[ door creaking open ]
Scene 08
Scene 08
Kallenbrunner
Assistant director Skinner. Special agent kallenbrunner. I'll be handling the prosecution. I'm out of the l.a. Field office.
Walter Skinner
How did you get this assignment?
Kallenbrunner
I was a federal prosecutor in D.C. Before joining the FBI. And you?
Walter Skinner
That's a good question.
Alvin Kersh
Let's bring in the defendant. This proceeding is called to order. Mr. Kallenbrunner you may proceed.
Kallenbrunner
I have no witnesses to call. I will submit to the court, however the sworn testimony of 30 men and women who saw the crime.
Alvin Kersh
Assistant director.
Walter Skinner
I move to dismiss these proceedings on the grounds it violates the accused's rights to a fair trail. I'm not a lawyer. You're not a judge. This is not a court of law.
Alvin Kersh
This is a military court of law. You may want to familiarize yourself with title ten of the u.s. Code. But I suggest you call a witness.
Walter Skinner
Then I move to delay this trail. My central witness, marita covarrubias works for the united nations and I can't locate her. And I've received no help from the u.s. Government locating her.
Alvin Kersh
I have to deny that request. Do you have another witness, mr. Skinner?
Walter Skinner
I'll call a witness but I would like to do so under protest.
Alvin Kersh
Both the panel's judgments and rulings are sovereign, mr. Skinner. There is no record.
Walter Skinner
Excuse me? This isn't a secret tribunal. As you've so kindly informed me, it's a court of law.
Alvin Kersh
Military court of law mr. Skinner.
Fox Mulder
It's okay. Try your case.
Walter Skinner
Please state your name for the court.
Dana Scully
My name is Dana katherine Scully. I was assigned nine years ago to the X-Files to spy on agent Mulder whose methods the FBI distrusted.
Walter Skinner
Assigned not just as an agent, but as a medical doctor. A scientist. And as a serious scientist you came to believe in agent Mulder's theories.
Dana Scully
I came to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
[ gunshot ]
Dana Scully
And in a conspiracy inside the government to keep their existence a secret.
Walter Skinner
The proof was overwhelming. It was even scientifically undeniable.
Dana Scully
I believe as do many respected scientists that life came to earth millions of years ago from a meteor or a rock from mars.
Walter Skinner
So, what you're saying is, life-- human life-- is extraterrestrial by definition.
Kallenbrunner
Objection. What does this nonsense have to do with Mulder murdering a man in cold blood?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully will prove that a government conspiracy exists to deny the existence of extraterrestrials.
Alvin Kersh
You are not here proving government conspiracies mr. Skinner. You are here to defend Fox Mulder.
Walter Skinner
And I'm trying to do that.
Alvin Kersh
It's your case, mr. Skinner.
Walter Skinner
So, a meteor crashed to earth but along with the biological building blocks on it there was something else-- an alien virus.
Dana Scully
I believe there was a virus which thrived here prehistorically. I believe that virus infected early man and transformed his physiology.
Walter Skinner
Changed him into something else.
Dana Scully
Into an alien life-form himself.
Walter Skinner
And what happened to these aliens?
Dana Scully
They died in the last ice age 35,000 years ago.
Walter Skinner
And the virus?
Dana Scully
It lay dormant underground until it surfaced once again during our current geologic period.
Walter Skinner
And the government knows of this?
Dana Scully
The government learned of this virus in 1947 when a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.
Walter Skinner
A UFO crash revealed the virus?
Dana Scully
The virus thrived underground in petroleum deposits. In black oil. It has sentience. It can think. It has the ability to communicate and it communicated with the ufos.
Walter Skinner
And the government knows this, too.
Dana Scully
In Roswell, they captured aliens from the spacecraft wreckage. They salvaged various alien technology from them and from their data banks they learned of the alien plan to recolonize the earth.
Alvin Kersh
Is this all leading anywhere?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. The destruction of mankind.
Alvin Kersh
I'll warn you once, agent Mulder.
Walter Skinner
And what did the government do with this... Information of an alien takeover?
Dana Scully
They kept it a dark secret. If it had gotten out there would have been wild panic.
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Skinner, are we finished?
Walter Skinner
No. There's the matter of agent Scully's own abduction in 1994.
Alvin Kersh
Abduction by whom?
Dana Scully
By the military working with the government conspirators to develop a breed of human-alien hybrids that the aliens would use as a slave race.
Walter Skinner
Thank you, agent Scully. Your witness, mr. Kallenbrunner.
Kallenbrunner
All these e.t.s running around. It's hard to keep these aliens straight without a scorecard. I myself have never seen an alien. Could we call one as a witness?
Dana Scully
You're being facetious.
Kallenbrunner
No, I'm not. I'd just like to see some proof.
Dana Scully
There are the mars rocks--
Kallenbrunner
No. I need something good. Something amazing. Something really cool.
Dana Scully
I don't know what you mean.
Kallenbrunner
Well, what I mean is, you have no proof to back up one word you just told us. Agent Scully, isn't it true that you and Mulder were lovers, and you got pregnant and had his love child?
Walter Skinner
Objection!
Kallenbrunner
Thank you. Next witness.
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Walter Skinner
Can you state your full name?
Jeffrey Spender
Jeffrey frank spender.
Walter Skinner
Mr. Spender I know you didn't hear mr. Kallenbrunner but he'd like to make a mockery of the X-Files. You worked on the X-Files yourself.
Jeffrey Spender
Yes, until three years ago.
Walter Skinner
When you were shot in the X-Files office. Shot by your own father. [ gunshot ] can I ask you to please tell the court exactly who your father was?
Jeffrey Spender
He led the government conspiracy to exploit the existence of aliens.
Kallenbrunner
Objection. There's no government conspiracy that I've seen established here.
Alvin Kersh
I agree with mr. Kallenbrunner. I don't see where this is going.
Walter Skinner
If I can prove this conspiracy, it will justify Mulder's actions and you will have no choice but to acquit.
Alvin Kersh
I hope this isn't the entire basis of your defense, mr. Skinner.
[ sighs ]
Walter Skinner
You have a relationship to agent Mulder don't you, mr. Spender?
Jeffrey Spender
He's my half-brother. His mother had an affair with my father.
Walter Skinner
But he never knew that. Not until he met you at the FBI.
Jeffrey Spender
He didn't know both his father and mine were in the alien conspiracy. His father was a reluctant member. When agent Mulder began to know the truth about this connection, my father had his father killed by an assassin named alex Krycek.
Walter Skinner
He killed him to silence him?
Jeffrey Spender
Mulder's father lived his life in shame. Not for the conspiracy but for a terrible decision he made.
Walter Skinner
Involving agent Mulder's sister.
Jeffrey Spender
The aliens distrusted their human collaborators. Members of the conspiracy were made to surrender family members as human collateral.
Walter Skinner
So, Mulder's father gave up Mulder's sister. His own eight-year-old daughter.
Jeffrey Spender
Mulder witnessed his sister being abducted by aliens. It haunted him to no end. It's why he pursued the X-Files.
Walter Skinner
What became of her? Samantha?
Jeffrey Spender
She was returned. She was sent to California where we were raised together. She was taken many more times and suffered horrible tests.
Walter Skinner
Mulder spent years looking for her... Several times thinking that he'd found her. But he was tricked.
Jeffrey Spender
Samantha was part of the cloning experiment done by the conspiracy. She herself died in 1987.
Walter Skinner
By your own father's hand essentially.
Jeffrey Spender
When I went to work for the FBI I didn't know of my father's crimes. When I stood up to him, he shot me. When I didn't die he subjected me to the same horrible tests.
Walter Skinner
Your witness.
Kallenbrunner
Mr. Spender, I'm sorry for your suffering. I'm sure none of us can really imagine what it's like. Your father must be brought to justice.
Jeffrey Spender
I believe my father is dead.
Kallenbrunner
Mr. Spender, you're here to speak for the character of agent Mulder. In reports you filed while an FBI agent I see here you describe Mulder as "arrogant "difficult, a control freak widely disliked by his peers."
Jeffrey Spender
Those reports were written before I knew the truth.
Kallenbrunner
This report calls him "unstable prone to violent outbursts." I have the report right here if your memory needs refreshing. Thank you, mr. Spender.
Scene 10
WEED HOPE, NEW MEXICO
Gibson Praise
You found out about Mulder? You found out he's in trouble. I'll get ready now.
Scene 11
Scene 11
Fox Mulder
I know why you're here and what you want. I can't give it to you.
Dana Scully
Make them a deal, Mulder. Guilty on a lesser charge. Maybe they'll go for it and they'll let you walk out of here.
Fox Mulder
I'd rather die, Scully.
Dana Scully
How can you say that? How can you say that, Mulder, to me?
Fox Mulder
Because this is greater than you or me. This is about everything we worked for for nine years. The truth that we both sacrificed so much to uncover and to expose.
Dana Scully
Well, then, expose it, Mulder! Take the stand. Whatever it is that you're withholding take the stand and hit them full force.
Fox Mulder
I can't.
Dana Scully
Why?
Fox Mulder
I just can't.
Dana Scully
You say this is greater than us, and maybe it is but this is us fighting this fight, Mulder, not you. It's you and me. That's what I'm fighting for, Mulder. You and me.
X
Get up.
Fox Mulder
Who's that? Who's there? What are you doing here?
X
That's what I'm here to ask you.
Fox Mulder
I'm putting the truth on trial.
X
What truth? Whose truth? You think these men will even hear it?
Fox Mulder
They're afraid to hear it.
X
They're not afraid. They have too much power to be afraid. You're going to learn that just like I did. You'll die learning it.
Fox Mulder
I'm not afraid of that.
X
There's a truth even you're afraid to speak now because you know it's futile.
Fox Mulder
No. Because I refuse to accept it.
X
Then you're going to need help.
Fox Mulder
How can you possibly help me?
Scene 12
Scene 12
John Doggett
They said this is where I could find the body, at fort marlene. Right. The deceased's name is Knowle Rohrer, former marine last employed by the d.o.d. No, I don't want to call back. I want to talk to your superior--
[ phone disconnects ]
John Doggett
Son of a bitch hung up on me!
Monica Reyes
Shh. There's somebody in your yard.
John Doggett
Where is he?
Monica Reyes
He was at the back door.
John Doggett
I got him. He's coming around. Stay where you are! Federal agent! Hands in the air! Who are you? What are you doing skulking around my house?
Indian Boy
I didn't want to be seen. I don't want to endanger him.
John Doggett
Who are you talking about?
Indian Boy
Someone who wants to help Mulder.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Walter Skinner
State your full name for the court.
Marita Covarrubias
Marita covarrubias.
Walter Skinner
And your former government title?
Marita Covarrubias
Special representative to the secretary general of the u.n.
Walter Skinner
The united nations. A position giving you unrestricted access to countries and leaders around the world. Isn't that right?
Marita Covarrubias
Yes.
Walter Skinner
How did you use this power?
Marita Covarrubias
Basically, to further the interests of a secretive group of men who called themselves the syndicate.
Walter Skinner
What were their interests?
Marita Covarrubias
Developing an alien virus vaccine before the russians developed one.
Walter Skinner
And how'd they go about that?
Marita Covarrubias
By testing innocent civilians all over the world. Test subjects were tracked through DNA identifiers in their smallpox vaccination scars.
Walter Skinner
Without the subjects' knowledge?
Marita Covarrubias
Mostly. Some developed suspicions. I saw russians who cut off their arms to prevent being tracked.
Walter Skinner
As they did to an american man that you worked quite intimately with.
Marita Covarrubias
Yes. Alex Krycek.
Walter Skinner
Did you believe in the syndicate? In their international conspiracy?
Marita Covarrubias
No. I was paid for my access.
Walter Skinner
In fact, you came to hate them.
Marita Covarrubias
Yes. It's why I helped agent Mulder when he approached me.
Walter Skinner
But you were found out. And the syndicate punished you for this.
Marita Covarrubias
They turned me into a-- a test subject.
Walter Skinner
Testing what?
Marita Covarrubias
They were pretending to work with the aliens to infect the entire population with an alien virus but the conspirators were trying to save themselves by secretly and selfishly developing a vaccine. The conspirators believed all life in the universe had been infected with the virus including a race of shape-shifting alien bounty hunters who policed the conspiracy for the aliens. But they were wrong and it led to the destruction of the conspiracy.
Walter Skinner
And who destroyed it?
Marita Covarrubias
A group of renegade aliens who had avoided infection with the virus through self-disfigurement.
Walter Skinner
And the conspirators themselves-- what happened to them?
Marita Covarrubias
They're all dead now... Killed by these same faceless aliens.
Walter Skinner
Then what are you afraid of now? Why resist testifying here today? Because the conspiracy continues just in another form by other men.
Kallenbrunner
Objection. Mr. Skinner can't ask questions and give the answers.
Alvin Kersh
Sustained.
Walter Skinner
Fox Mulder's on trial for murder here. The man he's accused of killing is one of these new conspirators. An alien replacement for a human being. What they're calling a super soldier. You can prove this, can't you? You know who these men are, don't you? Ms. Covarrubias?
Alex Krycek
They'll kill her.
Walter Skinner
Ms. Covarrubias, I asked you a question. I need an answer.
Fox Mulder
No. It's okay. Let her go.
Walter Skinner
What the hell are you doing, Mulder? She's the last best witness that we have.
Fox Mulder
Doesn't matter.
Walter Skinner
Thank you, ms. Covarrubias. I got nothing else.
John Doggett
Assistant director.
Walter Skinner
I have an unscheduled witness that I'd like to call here today.
Fox Mulder
No, not him.
Walter Skinner
Mulder, sit down.
Fox Mulder
You don't understand. I'm trying to protect that boy.
Walter Skinner
Well, now he's here to protect you.
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Kallenbrunner do you have any objections to this... Witness?
Kallenbrunner
Not like mr. Mulder here does.
Walter Skinner
Can you tell us your name?
Gibson Praise
Gibson andrew Praise.
Walter Skinner
Do you know this man?
Gibson Praise
Yes. He's my friend. I hid him in the desert for the last year.
Walter Skinner
Mulder met you as a chess prodigy. Your life was endangered because of your highly unusual brain activity.
Alvin Kersh
Cut to the chase, mr. Skinner.
Walter Skinner
Gibson Praise can read people's minds. Mulder and Scully proved this scientifically. There's a certain junk DNA which all humans share but has no apparent function. Gibson's junk DNA is functional-- DNA which is believed to be alien.
Kallenbrunner
You're trying to tell us this boy can read minds?
Gibson Praise
Yes.
Fox Mulder
He's reading your mind right now.
Kallenbrunner
And the minds of the judges, too?
Gibson Praise
Yes. Even his.
Kallenbrunner
And what makes him so special?
Gibson Praise
He's not human.
Fox Mulder
He's one of them. One of them! I want that man examined!
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Skinner, control him.
Fox Mulder
Mulder! You're afraid! You're afraid of what I know! You're afraid of the truth!
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Scene 14
Fox Mulder
■■ where's Gibson?
Monica Reyes
He's with Scully; in good hands.
John Doggett
We spent the night talking to him. Gibson knows you're concerned. We're protecting him now.
Fox Mulder
He shouldn't have done what he did-- exposing himself like that.
Walter Skinner
Well, the boy was trying to protect you and it looks like it may have worked.
Monica Reyes
He says three judges are wavering. They're leaning in your favor.
Fox Mulder
It's going to take a little more than that the way things are going. We were never going to win.
Walter Skinner
Take the stand, Mulder. Testify.
Fox Mulder
No.
John Doggett
Then we'll testify, me and Monica.
Fox Mulder
No.
Monica Reyes
Both of us have seen too much...
Fox Mulder
Listen to me, they'll destroy you. They'll put you out on the street.
John Doggett
What's left for us on the X-Files?
Monica Reyes
We came to this job to give it our best. It's the way we're going to leave.
Fox Mulder
It's not about how good you are. They control the game. They own it.
John Doggett
Then let's shove it up their ass.
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Scene 15
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Skinner?
Walter Skinner
I'd like to call John Doggett. Agent Doggett... You've been on the X-Files for two years. And with all that you've seen how do you feel about this term "paranormal"?
John Doggett
Well, the way I look at it, calling something paranormal is just a way of avoiding a real explanation.
Walter Skinner
You're a skeptic. But I see here in your own case reports some very detailed descriptions of things that a skeptic would never believe in... These so-called super soldiers.
John Doggett
Well, that's a whole different deal.
Walter Skinner
In what way?
John Doggett
'cause I've seen 'em with my own eyes; shot... Drowned... Even ground up in a garbage truck. And they just come right back to life.
Walter Skinner
What are they?
John Doggett
Well, the best I can figure they're some kind of secret military project-- ordinary men made invincible.
Kallenbrunner
Objection. What does this science fiction have to do with anything?
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett is going to tell you that the man that Mulder is accused of killing is a super soldier. A man that agent Doggett served with in the marines. Name of Knowle Rohrer.
Kallenbrunner
Objection. Agent Doggett was not present at the murder nor has he seen or examined the victim.
John Doggett
That's because I've been getting the bum's rush from the government.
Alvin Kersh
Objection sustained.
Walter Skinner
Well, then, let me ask you, agent Doggett if a super soldier is invincible how could Mulder possibly have killed this man?
John Doggett
He couldn't. The way I understand it they only way to kill a super soldier is with some rare metal. Agent Scully says it's a form of magnetite from some meteor that fell to earth.
Walter Skinner
And Mulder's not accused of doing that, is he?
John Doggett
No, sir.
Walter Skinner
Your witness.
Kallenbrunner
Agent Doggett... In going over your files I must say... It's an honor to speak to a man whose record is distinguished by such duty to his country. Now, I'm not going to doubt a man of your integrity agent Doggett, even if he tells me a story I find too incredible to believe.
John Doggett
Thank you.
Kallenbrunner
Just as you must not doubt the integrity of Fox Mulder on whose behalf you're here to testify.
John Doggett
Correct.
Kallenbrunner
Even if Mulder believes these so-called super soldiers are aliens? He believes they're aliens, you know. You said you were a skeptic.
John Doggett
That's right.
Kallenbrunner
So an alien conspiracy which Mulder has built his defense on must be entirely unbelievable to you, too.
[ sighs ]
Monica Reyes
My name is Monica Reyes. I've been with the FBI since 1990.
Walter Skinner
Before coming onto the X-Files, agent Reyes you worked in the new orleans field office investigating cases of satanic ritual abuse.
Monica Reyes
I did.
Walter Skinner
Did you ever prosecute any of these satanic cases?
Monica Reyes
No.
Kallenbrunner
For god's sake mr. Skinner, we're trying a man for murder not taking a trip down memory lane.
Walter Skinner
I'm showing the court that agent Reyes is levelheaded and objective on strange and extraordinary cases. That her belief in aliens comes from firsthand experience. And she can offer you hard proof that there is an alien conspiracy!
Monica Reyes
I was called on last year to protect agent Scully who was pregnant and whose life was in danger because of her pregnancy.
Kallenbrunner
What does this have to do with aliens?
Monica Reyes
I drove agent Scully to a secluded location in georgia where it was believed she could deliver safely. But we soon discovered we weren't alone. I was attacked and had to defend myself against an assailant, who was shot at pointblank range. Who should have died, but didn't. This assailant was then joined by others like him who surrounded agent Scully and me, and witnessed her as she gave birth to her son.
Kallenbrunner
Witnessed her? What do you mean?
Monica Reyes
We were confused as well. But we came to understand that her son was a kind of miracle child. Its birth was all important to these people; these so-called super soldiers who I believe are humans replaced by aliens.
Kallenbrunner
Why would Scully's child be important to aliens, agent Reyes?
Monica Reyes
We came to learn that Scully was one of a number of random women who had miraculous childbirths. And these women all had been abducted as part of a government program to secretly manipulate their biology operating offshore on a navy ship using these women as surrogates.
Kallenbrunner
Surrogates?
Monica Reyes
For alien babies.
Kallenbrunner
To create a slave race.
Monica Reyes
Yes.
Kallenbrunner
A program conducted by the navy, on a ship which is where?
Monica Reyes
The ship housing this program was exploded on a Baltimore dock.
Kallenbrunner
So, in other words, we have no true evidence past your good word. You claim Scully gave birth to one of these alien babies. How can you be sure of this, agent Reyes?
Monica Reyes
I saw her child do things that could be explained no other way. I saw him display amazing powers. He'd move objects with his mind.
Kallenbrunner
Really? Do you think we could arrange a demonstration for the court that we could see that ourselves?
Monica Reyes
No. The child was given up for adoption to an anonymous family.
Kallenbrunner
She gave up the miracle child? The proof of everything that she and Mulder claim that they've risked their lives for over the last nine years-- she just sent it off to some strangers?
Monica Reyes
Yes, to protect him!
Kallenbrunner
Thank you, agent Reyes. That's all.
Monica Reyes
You don't care about that child or what Scully had to sacrifice. You're only too happy she had to give it up so there's no proof.
Alvin Kersh
Agent Reyes.
Monica Reyes
You don't care what these people have sacrificed over the last nine years-- what's been lost to their cause. You make a mockery of it, gladdened it proves your point.
Alvin Kersh
Agent Reyes, that's enough!
Monica Reyes
What is the point of all of this? To destroy a man who seeks the truth or to destroy the truth so no man can seek it? Either way, you lose.
[ tires screeching ]
[ knock on door )
Scene 16
GEORGETOWN
John Doggett
Are you ready for this? We may have found Knowle Rohrer.
Dana Scully
You found him?
Monica Reyes
His body.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about? There can't be a body; he can't die. Knowle Rohrer is a super soldier.
Monica Reyes
Exactly. But they're saying it's him-- the man Mulder killed.
Dana Scully
Who's saying it's him?
John Doggett
I got some guy on the phone at fort marlene who didn't know that he was supposed to give me the runaround. I got him to send the victim's corpse to quantico.
Dana Scully
It's there now?
Monica Reyes
We got a car out front.
Gibson Praise
Agent Scully?
Monica Reyes
Agent Doggett can stay with him.
Scene 17
FBI ACADEMY
Monica Reyes
Oh, my god. This is Knowle Rohrer?
Dana Scully
That's what it says here.
Monica Reyes
Well, how could anyone tell if it wasn't?
Dana Scully
I need you to get me Knowle Rohrer's medical records.
Monica Reyes
They'd have to come from the military. I don't know if I can.
Dana Scully
You've got to, Monica, whatever it takes. I need those records for Skinner. I need them for Mulder.
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Scene 18
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Skinner. Please call your next witness.
[ door opening ]
Dana Scully
Assistant director... I found it.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
What's going to get you off.
Walter Skinner
I want to move to dismiss again based on new evidence I just received that there is no victim. That the body of Knowle Rohrer is not Knowle Rohrer, but that of a man who died of a broken neck and whose body was burned postmortem.
Alvin Kersh
Motion denied.
Dana Scully
You can't deny it.
Alvin Kersh
You're out of order and in contempt of court, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
You're in contempt... Of evidence proving that agent Mulder is innocent.
Alvin Kersh
You have no authorization to examine the body, agent Scully. Have her removed from the courtroom.
Fox Mulder
If she's got evidence, you've got to listen.
Alvin Kersh
Order! Remove the defendant from the courtroom. This trial is adjourned. Gentlemen... We have a verdict. If you'd rise. Acting fairly and impartially, this panel finds the defendant... Guilty of first degree murder under aggravated circumstances. Is there anything you'd like to say on your behalf, mr. Mulder... Before we decide your sentence?
Fox Mulder
Yes. I'd like to congratulate you on succeeding where so many before you have failed. A bullet between the eyes would have been preferable to this charade. But I've learned to pretend over the past nine years-- to pretend that my victories mattered only to realize that no one was keeping score. To realize that liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars. That the devil is just one man with a plan but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men which is what we have here today. If I am a guilty man my crime is in daring to believe that the truth will out and that no one lie can live forever. I believe it still. Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there. Greater than your lies, the truth wants to be known. You will know it. It'll come to you, as it's come to me faster than the speed of light. You may believe yourselves rid of your headache now and maybe you are... But you've only done it by cutting off your own heads.
[ phone ringing ]
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John Doggett
Yeah. I'll tell her.
[ hangs up phone ]
Dana Scully
Who was it?
John Doggett
Skinner.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Death by lethal injection.
[ sobs ]
Scene 20
USMC BASE BRIG
Post Guard
Evening. Id, please. Master sergeant Rohrer? Go on ahead.
[ door opening ]
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Scene 21
John Doggett
Get up.
Fox Mulder
Who's there?
John Doggett
I'm here with Skinner. Get up.
Walter Skinner
Move it, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What are you doing?
John Doggett
We're getting you out of here. Come on.
Knowle Rohrer
Guard! Where is he? Seal the building. Seal the base.
Guard
We have an escaped prisoner.
[ alarm blaring ]
Alvin Kersh
You're never going to make it this way. Come on.
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Alvin Kersh
You've got to move out.
Dana Scully
What's he doing?
Alvin Kersh
What I should have done from the start. You want to go north to canada. Get to an airport. If you're not off the continent in 24 hours you may never get out, you understand?
Fox Mulder
None of you will be safe now.
John Doggett
You let us worry about that.
Monica Reyes
Good luck.
Dana Scully
Mulder, Kersh told us to head north. You just got on a road going south.
Fox Mulder
That's right.
Dana Scully
Where are you going?
Fox Mulder
To see a man about the truth.
Scene 22
7:12 AM
Gibson Praise
You can't hide me forever.
Monica Reyes
We can destroy your files-- make it next to impossible to find you.
Gibson Praise
You don't know these people.
John Doggett
I'm going to protect you, Gibson.
Monica Reyes
John...
John Doggett
What the hell is this? What the hell is going on? They can't do this. Who authorized this?
Monica Reyes
I'm going to find out.
Walter Skinner
Skinner.
Monica Reyes
They've packed up the X-Files.
Walter Skinner
I know. It's out of control. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. I'm trying to get to Kersh.
[ knock on door ]
Walter Skinner
All I can think is it's punishment for taking Mulder's side. Unless they found out that we helped him escape.
John Doggett
Then they know about the deputy director's involvement, too.
Walter Skinner
I need to see the deputy director.
Toothpick Man
And he needs to see you.
Gibson Praise
He knows.
John Doggett
Then we're all in danger here.
Gibson Praise
No. He knows about Mulder and Scully-- where they're going.
Monica Reyes
You mean the border?
Gibson Praise
No, that's not where they went and they know that. They're going to find them and kill them.
John Doggett
Where are they, Gibson? Mulder and Scully-- where'd they go?
[ unzipping ]
Scene 23
TEXAS-NEW MEXICO BORDER
Melvin Frohike
Hey, hot shot! You might have the common courtesy of doing your business there downwind.
Fox Mulder
Oh, boy.
Richard Langly
Why don't you just finish draining the little lizard and then we'll talk?
John Fitzgerald Byers
We're very worried about you.
Melvin Frohike
It's craziness, man. Turn around.
Richard Langly
Just hang a big u-ie and never look back.
Fox Mulder
I can't.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Why risk perfect happiness, Mulder? Why risk your lives?
Fox Mulder
Because I need to know the truth.
John Fitzgerald Byers
You already know the truth.
Fox Mulder
I need to know if I can change it.
Richard Langly
Change it?
Melvin Frohike
For crying out loud. All you're going to do is get yourself killed.
Dana Scully
Mulder! What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'll be right with you, Scully.
Dana Scully
What are they?
Fox Mulder
Pueblos. Anasazi indian. Abandoned 2,000 years ago. Nobody knows why.
Dana Scully
Yeah, Mulder, but what are we doing here?
Fox Mulder
Hello. My name is Fox Mulder. Do you understand me?
Dana Scully
Mulder, what is this?
Fox Mulder
I was sent a message and a key to the government facility at mount weather. The indians said it was from a wise man who lived in the ruins. A keeper of the truth.
[ helicopter rotors whirring ]
Monica Reyes
Do you see anything at all?
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Scene 24
Cigarette-Smoking Man
What's the matter, agent Mulder? You come to see the wise man but you look as if you've seen a ghost.
Fox Mulder
You're no wise man. You're a dead man. Just like Krycek and x.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You see a dead man, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
I hoped and prayed you were dead you chain-smoking son of a bitch.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You waste your time. Ask Mulder. He knows the futility of hopes and prayers. He knows the truth now. You have told her the truth haven't you, Fox? I helped you find it.
Fox Mulder
You didn't help me. You sent me to that government facility knowing exactly what I'd find.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
And now you refuse to speak it. Not to Scully, not to anyone. You've even refused to testify what you learned... Even though it would have saved your life. You damned me for my secrets... But you're afraid to speak the truth.
Fox Mulder
You call me afraid? Look at you sitting here alone in the dark like a fossil.
[ exhales ]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's the final refuge. The last place to hide from those who are insidiously taking power now.
Dana Scully
Who?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The aliens. They fear this place... Its geology. Magnetite. Like that which brought down the original UFO in Roswell. Indian wise men realized this over 2,000 years ago. They hid here. And watched their own culture die. The original shadow government.
[ helicopter approaching ]
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Scene 25
Monica Reyes
Agent Doggett!
John Doggett
Who the hell's that?
Scene 26
Scene 26
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It leaves me to tell you what Mulder's afraid to, agent Scully.
Fox Mulder
Come on, let's go.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's a scary story. You want to come sit on my lap?
Dana Scully
You don't scare me.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
My story's scared every president since truman in '47.
Fox Mulder
You don't have to hear this.
Dana Scully
No, I want to hear it, Mulder.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Ten centuries ago the mayans were so afraid that their calendar stopped on the exact date that my story begins. December 22, the year 2012. The date of the final alien invasion. Mulder can confirm the date. He saw it at mount weather......where our own secret government will be hiding when it all comes down.
[ chuckles ]
Fox Mulder
Yeah, you smile... Feeling drunk with power. The power to do nothing.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
My power comes from telling you. Seeing your powerlessness hearing it. They wanted to kill you, Fox. I protected you all these years... Waiting for this moment... To see you broken. Afraid. Now you can die.
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Scene 28
John Doggett
Run, Monica. Get out of here.
Monica Reyes
No.
John Doggett
Knowle Rohrer, that's far enough.
Knowle Rohrer
Shoot me, agent Doggett if you think it'll make a difference this time.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett!
John Doggett
Mulder, get out of there!
Monica Reyes
They know where you are!
Fox Mulder
Get out of here!
John Doggett
Get in the car.
Fox Mulder
No! Go! Go!
[ helicopters approaching ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 29
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
Dana Scully
What are you thinking? Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm thinking... I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crimes.
Dana Scully
You don't believe that.
[ sighs ]
Fox Mulder
I believe that I sat in a motel room like this with you when we first met and I tried to convince you of the truth. And in that respect, I succeeded, but... In every other way... I've failed.
Dana Scully
You don't believe that, either.
Fox Mulder
Mm. I've been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. You heard the man-- the date's set. I can't change that.
Dana Scully
You wouldn't tell me. Not because you were afraid or broken... But because you didn't want to accept defeat.
Fox Mulder
Well, I was afraid of what knowing would do to you. I was afraid that it would crush your spirit.
Dana Scully
Why would I accept defeat? Why would I accept it, if you won't? Mulder, you say that you've failed but you only fail if you give up. And I know you-- you can't give up. It's what I saw in you when we first met. It's what made me follow you... Why I'd do it all over again.
Fox Mulder
And look what it's gotten you.
Dana Scully
And what has it gotten you? Not your sister. Nothing that you've set out for. But you won't give up, even now. You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what, Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
Fox Mulder
I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us-- greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking it can give us the power to save ourselves.
Dana Scully
Then we believe the same thing.
Fox Mulder
Maybe there's hope.
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