Season 9 · Episode 16

William

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

Production code9ABX17Original airdate · April 28, 2002

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Scene 01

Mr. Van De Kamp

Easy there, hon. You're cleaning so hard I'm afraid you're going to stick the dog in the dishwasher. Hey. Come on, now. Quit it. This is what we dreamed about. What we prayed for.

Mrs. Van De Kamp

I know. I'm sorry.

[ sighs ]

Mrs. Van De Kamp

I just can't stop wondering why. Why give up a child? Give it up to strangers?

Mr. Van De Kamp

God has his reasons and his ways.

Social Worker 1

Mr. And mrs. Van de kamp. Hi. This was so hard to find. I'm so sorry but there's a page here that didn't get signed. If I can just get you to do that now. Okay. Here we go. Right there.

Social Worker

Thanks.

Mrs. Van De Kamp

I keep asking myself a question. I know there's been a medical exam... But are you sure he's okay?

Mr. Van De Kamp

Now, honey.

Mrs. Van De Kamp

Why would the mother give him up?

Social Worker 1

You should understand... This was a life choice by a single mother and a terribly difficult decision for her. But I can say it was only for the good of the child.

Social Worker

I want you to meet William.

Scene 02

GEORGETOWN

Music

♪ William was a bullfrog ♪ ♪ was a good friend of mine ♪ ♪ never understood a single word he said... ♪

[ raspy breathing ]

Music

♪...and it must have been some mighty fine wine ♪ ♪ joy to the world ♪ ♪ all the boys and girls ♪ ♪ joy to the fishes... ♪

[ faint clatter ]

Music

♪...in the deep blue sea ♪ ♪ joy to you and me ♪ ♪ if I were the king of the world ♪ ♪ I tell you what I'd do... ♪

[ raspy breathing ]

Scene 03

FBI HEADQUARTERS

John Doggett

1,492.

[ panting ]

John Doggett

1,493. 20. They don't pay me enough.

[ raspy breathing ]

[ elevator dings ]

[ Doggett groaning ]

John Doggett

Right there! Hands in the air! Turn around and step forward. Step forward. Let's go, tough guy! All the way down!

[ elevator dings ]

Scene 04

2:02 AM

Dana Scully

Agent Reyes.

Monica Reyes

Agent Scully.

Dana Scully

Do we know who he is?

Monica Reyes

He says his name is miller but he has no identification on him. Beyond that, we don't know a lot.

Dana Scully

Why are the lights off?

Monica Reyes

He wouldn't speak with them on.

Dana Scully

What do you mean?

Monica Reyes

If you saw him in the light, you'd understand. Something's wrong with his face. He's been severely burned by fire or maybe acid.

Dana Scully

And he says he knows me?

Monica Reyes

And that he's afraid. A victim of what he calls the alien conspiracy.

[ footsteps ]

John Doggett

You won't talk to me. You going to talk to her, mr. Miller?

Jeffrey Spender

If she'll help me and protect me.

John Doggett

You better hope she's feeling more charitable than I am, partner. Agent Scully. He's under arrest for assaulting a federal officer. I've explained to him the penalties but he still refuses a lawyer.

Dana Scully

How did he get in the building?

John Doggett

We found a card key on him. Says it was given to him by Fox Mulder.

Dana Scully

His name is miller?

John Doggett

Daniel miller of fredericksburg. He gave us an address but we're still working on the confirmation.

Dana Scully

What are you doing here?

Jeffrey Spender

I came here to find answers.

Dana Scully

Answers to what?

Jeffrey Spender

To this. What they did to me.

Dana Scully

From your scarring, it appears that you've been burned. Are you claiming that someone burned you and that there is evidence here to incriminate them?

Jeffrey Spender

According to Fox Mulder the men who did this are part of a government conspiracy.

Dana Scully

Go on.

Jeffrey Spender

You know who these men are.

Dana Scully

Did Mulder tell you that too? When?

Jeffrey Spender

If I were to tell you that you might use the information to find him. Mulder doesn't want to be found.

John Doggett

When I searched him I found those X-Files stuffed inside his clothes. You know who that is?

Dana Scully

That's his sister.

John Doggett

Whose?

Jeffrey Spender

Mulder's. She was abducted from her home when she was a little girl-- part of this same government conspiracy.

Dana Scully

You seem to know a lot, mr. Miller. It gives an impression either that you are telling the truth or you just want us to believe that you are.

Jeffrey Spender

If I thought you'd believe me, I wouldn't have snuck in here.

Dana Scully

Agent Doggett. Would you please arrange the transfer of this man to quantico? I'd like to personally examine his injuries.

[ soft squishing ]

Scene 05

Dana Scully

From the tissue quality, your scarring is fairly recent... The extent of it severe but it's not from burning or chemicals.

Jeffrey Spender

No.

Dana Scully

What is it then?

Monica Reyes

Mr. Miller?

Jeffrey Spender

I was injected.

Dana Scully

Injected with what?

Jeffrey Spender

I don't know. It burned. Throughout my whole body inside and out.

John Doggett

Agent Scully, agent Reyes. I need to speak to you.

Dana Scully

What is it, agent Doggett?

John Doggett

I've been out running this man's supposed id. There's seven daniel millers in fredericksburg but I can tell you, he isn't one of them.

Monica Reyes

Then who is he?

John Doggett

I got an idea but you're not going to believe it.

Dana Scully

Well, who is he?

John Doggett

You asked him how he got in the FBI-- how he knows what he knows.

Dana Scully

He said that he contacted agent Mulder-- that Mulder told him...

John Doggett

I don't think so. I don't think Mulder told him anything. I think that how he got in here and the reason he knows what he knows is because that man in there is Mulder.

[ laughs ]

Dana Scully

That's ridiculous. It's absurd.

John Doggett

Is it? What is true and what we want to be true aren't always the same.

Dana Scully

I'm telling you, that's not Mulder.

John Doggett

I hope you prove me wrong.

Scene 06

Dana Scully

Can you open your mouth, sir? I need to look at your dental work.

Jeffrey Spender

You're not going to tell me I need braces, are you?

[ chuckles ]

Dana Scully

Now your eyes.

Jeffrey Spender

Are you going to help me?

Dana Scully

I don't know how I can.

Jeffrey Spender

Help me make them pay for this.

Dana Scully

You, uh... Refer to them as if I know them or know where they are.

Jeffrey Spender

They did terrible things to you too when you were abducted.

Dana Scully

Sir, you've given us a false name. We know that your name is not daniel miller.

Jeffrey Spender

No, it's not.

Dana Scully

What is it?

Jeffrey Spender

I can't say.

Dana Scully

Why lie to us, if you want us to help you?

Jeffrey Spender

Because there are people working here at the FBI who would kill me if they knew I was being held here. The same people who would kill Mulder.

Dana Scully

You can put your clothes back on.

Jeffrey Spender

I'm asking for your help. But I might be able to help you.

Dana Scully

How can you help me?

Jeffrey Spender

You're looking for answers too. We're both looking for answers.

Dana Scully

It's not him. It's not Mulder.

John Doggett

You're absolutely sure of that?

Dana Scully

Yes. And so will we all be once you bring me back his DNA tests.

Monica Reyes

What do we do with him now?

Dana Scully

Well, admittedly he's lying about who he is but the danger to him may be real. I think we need to figure out what it is that he wants and then see if he lies about that too.

John Doggett

How are we going to do that?

Dana Scully

Well, first, I think we need to quietly get him back to dc. To FBI headquarters.

Scene 07

Dana Scully

You came here looking for something. What is it that you hope to find?

Jeffrey Spender

I didn't find it.

Monica Reyes

You stole several files pertaining to the 1973 abduction of Mulder's sister. But yet you say there's danger to your life right now.

Jeffrey Spender

The conspiracy to keep the truth about aliens from the american public all but destroyed a few years ago has given rise to a new conspiracy in the government now by men who are alien themselves.

Dana Scully

And what does this have to do with you?

Jeffrey Spender

What you can see they did to me was a failed attempt to turn me into one of these alien men. I was a guinea pig-- a test subject. And now I want to expose their evil plans.

Monica Reyes

What plans are those?

Jeffrey Spender

To do this to you... To everyone. Mulder said there were files here-- cases like mine. He gave me names and case numbers but I don't see them. They're not here. Someone's already removed them.

Dana Scully

Yes.

Monica Reyes

Who?

Scene 08

Dana Scully

This is what you're looking for.

Jeffrey Spender

You trust me? Thank you.

Monica Reyes

What are you doing?

Dana Scully

Proving agent Doggett wrong. That that's not Mulder in there.

Monica Reyes

How? I don't understand.

Dana Scully

Mulder and I agreed to take those files out of the X-Files office and leave them here for safekeeping. Mulder would have known where they were. And that man in there didn't.

[ William crying ]

[ crying continues ]

Dana Scully

What are you doing?! Get away from the crib!

Jeffrey Spender

He was crying...

Dana Scully

It's none of your business!

Jeffrey Spender

I'm sorry. I'd heard so much about William. Mulder told me how he missed him.

Dana Scully

Well, if that's true, then where the hell is he? Just tell me where he is!

Jeffrey Spender

You don't want to know.

Dana Scully

I have to know.

Jeffrey Spender

He's in pain-- terrible pain.

Dana Scully

Then let me go to him.

Jeffrey Spender

There's nothing you can do.

Dana Scully

That's not for you to decide.

Jeffrey Spender

You know as well as I that's Mulder's decision. I... He begged me to honor it. For your safety... And William's.

Monica Reyes

Here, Dana, let me take him for you.

Jeffrey Spender

No. Please. May I? I wanna hold him.

Monica Reyes

Mr. Miller...

Jeffrey Spender

No, it's important I do this. I want to hold him for Mulder.

[ cooing ]

Jeffrey Spender

He's so beautiful.

[ door opening ]

Scene 09

John Doggett

Assistant director. You said you've spoken to the lab.

Walter Skinner

I got some advance info on the exam that Scully performed on the man.

John Doggett

What?

Walter Skinner

The blood type matches Mulder's but there are aspects of the physiology that aren't a match.

John Doggett

Such as?

Walter Skinner

Well, the body mass, of course. He's shorter and weighs considerably less than Mulder did.

John Doggett

You haven't seen this guy-- what they've done to him. They way he's twisted, he's like an old man. He could be a hundred years old.

Walter Skinner

I'm just relaying the facts. And the fact is, he's not a hundred years old, is he? Not the way he attacked you. Well, whoever he is, he wants something.

John Doggett

He says he wants revenge against the people that burned him. And Mulder directed him to the place where he could find the files and the people who did it.

Walter Skinner

That doesn't make any sense. Mulder knows those files inside out. Why would he direct him? Why not just tell him?

[ phone ringing ]

Walter Skinner

Skinner. Yeah. You're sure about that? All right.

John Doggett

What?

Walter Skinner

That was the lab. They were able to rush the pcr test and they came up with a definitive DNA result.

John Doggett

What is it?

Walter Skinner

Where is this man right now?

Scene 10

Dana Scully

It's all been a good act.

Jeffrey Spender

I don't know what you mean.

Dana Scully

I think you do. You knew those files were here. You just pretended not to

Unidentified speaker

So that I'd bring you here to see William.

Jeffrey Spender

No.

Dana Scully

I want the truth from you.

Jeffrey Spender

What truth?

Dana Scully

The truth that you won't speak.

Jeffrey Spender

I want the same truth you do.

Dana Scully

Don't do this to me. Not you.

Jeffrey Spender

I didn't come here to upset you. I didn't plan on being caught. I know you must have a hard life living alone raising a son not knowing whether you'll see Mulder again.

Dana Scully

How do you know my life?

Jeffrey Spender

I know what Mulder knows. I know they used you to create the child. I know they continue to use you to take care of it and raise it.

Dana Scully

What are you saying?

Jeffrey Spender

You know what I'm saying. Your son-- your child is part alien.

Dana Scully

Just tell me who you are. Come on, just say your name. Say it! Just say it!

Monica Reyes

Agent Scully...

Dana Scully

Could you please leave? And close the door?

Monica Reyes

Can you step out, please?

Dana Scully

This was a private conversation.

Monica Reyes

I understand. I'm sorry.

Dana Scully

Do you know who that man is?

Monica Reyes

Yes, I do.

John Doggett

Agent Scully...

Dana Scully

What is this? What?

John Doggett

We got DNA results. A positive id.

Dana Scully

It's not him. He wouldn't say these things.

John Doggett

The DNA's a match to Fox Mulder's.

Dana Scully

It's not him.

Scene 11

John Doggett

Can we get you anything?

Dana Scully

No, thank you. I just need a minute.

John Doggett

Where'd he go?

Monica Reyes

I don't know. I'll go check the nursery.

John Doggett

Monica, stay with Scully!

Scene 12

John Doggett

Hey!

[ rattling ]

John Doggett

No more running, Mulder. We're going to protect you now.

[ Doggett panting ]

Scene 13

Monica Reyes

Give him some time.

John Doggett

You're going to live, buddy.

Jeffrey Spender

That's going to scar.

Monica Reyes

We're going to talk, but first you're going to get some sleep.

Dana Scully

So, what now?

Monica Reyes

What do you mean?

Dana Scully

What do you want to do?

John Doggett

Keep it a secret, for starters.

Dana Scully

Well, that's not going to be hard.

[ sighs ]

Dana Scully

Nobody's ever going to believe that that's Mulder.

Monica Reyes

Somebody did this to him. Whoever that is is going to know it's him. I mean, that's what he's afraid of.

Dana Scully

If he's so afraid, then why did he run?

John Doggett

You still don't believe it's him.

Dana Scully

You know a person in so many ways. Ways that a test can't even begin to know.

John Doggett

Look, I'll be happy to run his DNA again for you but I don't have to tell you what a long shot it is. I mean, it came up a perfect match.

Monica Reyes

You asked why he'd run. Stop and think how hard this is for him. I mean, the way he looks.

Dana Scully

If that was Mulder, I wouldn't care.

Monica Reyes

But he cares. He has to.

John Doggett

Maybe he's ashamed. Of what?

[ sighs ]

John Doggett

Not just the way he looks but you let him go to protect him only he couldn't protect himself.

Dana Scully

You believe that?

John Doggett

[ sighing ] I don't know. We'll have a better sense when he wakes up.

[ coughs softly ]

[ velcro ripping ]

[ baby crying ]

Monica Reyes

Is he okay?

[ baby continues crying ]

Dana Scully

Oh, my god, there's blood! Oh, my god!

Monica Reyes

There's blood on the sheets.

Dana Scully

What'd he do to him? What'd he do to him?!

[ crying continues ]

Scene 14

Dana Scully

Where's dr. Edwards?

Dr. Newman

I'm dr. Newman. I'm going to take your baby.

Dana Scully

He's been injected with something.

Dr. Newman

Take him to trauma.

Doctor

Airways are open. Lungs are clear. Heart rate slightly elevated. Skin is warm. Nondiaphoretic.

Monica Reyes

I spoke to another doctor, a woman-- dr. Edwards.

Dr. Whitney Edwards

I'm whitney edwards. Agent Reyes?

Monica Reyes

Yes. This is Dana Scully.

Dr. Whitney Edwards

Do we have any idea what he's been injected with?

Dana Scully

I've no idea. I don't know.

Dr. Whitney Edwards

We're going to run some tests...

Dana Scully

I'm a medical doctor, okay? Can I...

Dr. Whitney Edwards

Good. Then you know what this is all about. You just need to sit tight for me and let us do our job.

Scene 15

John Doggett

What'd you do to him?! What'd you do?! Where'd you put it? Is this it? Is this what you used? Answer me!

Jeffrey Spender

Yes.

John Doggett

Anything happens to that kid I'm going to take you out personally. I don't care who the hell you are.

Scene 16

Monica Reyes

Here she comes.

Dana Scully

How is he? Is he all right?

Dr. Whitney Edwards

He's good. He's doing fine.

Dana Scully

Oh, god.

Monica Reyes

Well, can she see him?

Dr. Whitney Edwards

We have him in step down right now as a precaution but I think he'll be going home in no time.

Dana Scully

What did you find?

Dr. Whitney Edwards

Nothing.

Monica Reyes

How could you find nothing? There would have to be something.

Dr. Whitney Edwards

There's some slight bruising on the head where something clearly broke the skin, but... He's fine.

Monica Reyes

What about a tox screen?

Dr. Whitney Edwards

There's an elevated amount of iron in his blood but other than that, your son is completely normal.

Monica Reyes

That doesn't make sense.

Dana Scully

No... I think it does. It makes perfect sense now.

Scene 17

Dana Scully

I have seen my share of the hideous of the disgusting and the repellent but you, sir are the most perfect expression I will ever see of all that is vile and hateful in life.

Jeffrey Spender

That may well be but for a moment, you believed it-- that I was him.

Dana Scully

I never believed it.

Jeffrey Spender

You wanted to believe.

Dana Scully

You are as false as your face. I bet you wish night and day that that bullet that was meant to kill you had succeeded.

Walter Skinner

I don't believe this.

John Doggett

What?

Walter Skinner

Who this is.

Jeffrey Spender

You're wrong about that. When I look in the mirror I see something much different than the world sees. He could destroy my face and my dignity when he shot me in that office......but he couldn't destroy the one thing I love most-- my hatred of him.

Dana Scully

Your cigarette-smoking, son of a bitch of a father.

Jeffrey Spender

And Mulder's.

Dana Scully

You counted on the DNA that we'd buy it without question and not look any further. DNA's what Mulder shared with jeffrey spender.

Jeffrey Spender

Ah. Half brothers raised apart-- that's about all that Mulder and I ever shared.

Dana Scully

You haven't seen Mulder, have you? You haven't even talked to him. So, getting caught at the FBI... Winning our trust was all towards one thing. It was only to get to William.

Jeffrey Spender

Sitting here, you'd wish me dead. Shortly, I'll do you the favor.

Dana Scully

I had this checked. It's an unknown metal that you injected into my son.

Jeffrey Spender

It's a form of magnetite.

[ inhales deeply ]

Jeffrey Spender

A gift.

Dana Scully

"a gift"?

Jeffrey Spender

Having failed as a conspirator to control alien colonization my father wanted nothing more than to see the world fail too.

Dana Scully

So, what, you've prevented it now? You've... Prevented alien colonization by injecting this metal into my son?

Jeffrey Spender

Your son is the one thing the aliens need. I took revenge on my father by taking William away from them.

Dana Scully

So, he's all right now? I mean, just like that? So it's over. They'll let him be.

Jeffrey Spender

It'll never be over. They'll always know what he was. They'll never accept what he is.

Dana Scully

Well, I can protect him.

Jeffrey Spender

And if you can't? Look at me......what they did. Is this what you want for your son?

Scene 18

Monica Reyes

Dana... The room's all fresh for you. I threw out all the old bedding and bought some brand-new stuff, okay?

Dana Scully

Thank you.

Monica Reyes

I know it's impossible to stop thinking about what he said about William... But it's all lies, Dana and you were the one who proved it.

Dana Scully

And how should I prove it now? By insisting that I can protect him......only to learn too late that I can't?

Monica Reyes

You say it as if you have a choice.

Dana Scully

He didn't have a choice to come into this life. I don't have a choice about what he is or was......but I do have a choice about the life my son will have......and shouldn't I choose that he never have to be afraid of anyone or anything? And can I ever really even promise him that?

Monica Reyes

But who can?

Music

♪ hallelujah... ♪ ♪ chills the body but not the soul ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ michael, row the boat ashore ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ michael, row the boat ashore ♪

Unidentified speaker

[ singing ] ♪ hallelujah ♪

Mr. Van De Kamp

♪ sister, help to trim the sail ♪...in there.

Scene 19

Mr. Van De Kamp

♪ hallelujah ♪ look what I got. Big buffalo.

[ laughing ]

Music

♪ sister, help to trim the sail ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ michael, row the boat ashore ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪

Mr. Van De Kamp

Sweet dreams, baby boy. ♪ michael, row the boat ashore ♪

Music

♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ jordan river is deep and wide ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ milk and honey on the other side, hallelujah. ♪

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The dialogue comes from the official DVD subtitle track supplied by Boggsfiles. Speaker and scene attribution was cross-checked against character-labelled reference material. Subtitle wording is preserved while capitalization and spacing are standardized for easier reading.