1 00:00:04,337 --> 00:00:07,932 [ Machinery Beeping, Metal Clattering ] 2 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:14,311 [ Beeping Continues ] 3 00:00:23,723 --> 00:00:26,590 [ Beeping ] 4 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:35,296 [ Instrument Whirring ] 5 00:01:34,327 --> 00:01:37,990 Dr. Openshaw, congratulations. 6 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:41,625 Your work-- it's completed. 7 00:01:43,236 --> 00:01:45,170 You should see her. 8 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,127 Twenty-five years. 9 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:12,963 She must seem like an old friend. 10 00:02:13,032 --> 00:02:14,966 Yes. 11 00:02:18,605 --> 00:02:22,302 We're, uh, going out to celebrate. 12 00:02:22,375 --> 00:02:25,867 - If you'd like to come-- - No. 13 00:02:25,945 --> 00:02:28,243 You go on ahead. 14 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:51,397 [ Gasping ] 15 00:02:53,306 --> 00:02:55,934 [ Screaming ] Oh, God! 16 00:02:59,345 --> 00:03:01,575 -[ Men Screaming ] -[ Man ] No! 17 00:03:06,386 --> 00:03:09,219 [ Grunts, Groans ] 18 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:33,433 This is the end. 19 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:37,498 I never thought I'd hear myself say those words after all these years. 20 00:04:39,846 --> 00:04:42,940 When you put your life into something, 21 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:45,348 build it, protect it, 22 00:04:47,487 --> 00:04:50,684 the end is as unimaginable as your own death... 23 00:04:51,991 --> 00:04:54,516 or the death of your children. 24 00:04:56,929 --> 00:05:00,365 I could never have scripted the events that led us to this. 25 00:05:00,433 --> 00:05:03,300 None of us could. 26 00:05:03,369 --> 00:05:06,133 All the brilliant men, 27 00:05:06,239 --> 00:05:08,799 the secret that we kept so well. 28 00:05:11,044 --> 00:05:13,535 It happened simply, like this. 29 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:17,806 We had a perfect conspiracy... 30 00:05:17,884 --> 00:05:20,318 with an alien race-- 31 00:05:21,721 --> 00:05:24,315 aliens who were coming to reclaim this planet... 32 00:05:24,390 --> 00:05:26,824 and to destroy all human life. 33 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:32,620 Our job was to secretly prepare the way... 34 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:34,633 for their invasion, 35 00:05:36,135 --> 00:05:39,832 to create for them a slave race of human/alien hybrids. 36 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,471 They were good plans, 37 00:05:47,947 --> 00:05:49,881 right plans, 38 00:05:51,651 --> 00:05:54,085 kept secret for over 50 years, 39 00:05:54,153 --> 00:05:56,849 ever since the crash at Roswell, 40 00:05:56,923 --> 00:05:59,858 kept secret from men like Fox Mulder. 41 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:05,723 Plans that would have worked... 42 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:09,461 had not a rebel alien race come to destroy them, 43 00:06:11,804 --> 00:06:14,739 had not my own son chosen betrayal... 44 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:20,574 or chosen to betray more wisely. 45 00:06:33,726 --> 00:06:37,162 A.D. Skinner, I-- I didn't hear the elevator. I was working here. 46 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:39,323 Working on what, Agent Spender? 47 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:42,095 [ Clears Throat ] Progress report on the X-Files. 48 00:06:42,168 --> 00:06:45,069 - Progress report to who? -Just a file. 49 00:06:45,171 --> 00:06:48,470 I wasn't aware that you'd made any progress. 50 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:51,101 In the months since your assignment, I've received but one memorandum. 51 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:53,770 Are you planning to hit me all at once? 52 00:06:53,846 --> 00:06:56,542 Uh, it's been slow going. 53 00:06:56,616 --> 00:06:59,915 The truth is, your purpose is not to make any progress, isn't it? 54 00:06:59,986 --> 00:07:02,955 The truth is, you have no interest in the X-Files... 55 00:07:04,924 --> 00:07:08,690 beyond a certain personal case. 56 00:07:08,761 --> 00:07:11,821 - Your mother's abduction. - Alleged abduction. 57 00:07:13,533 --> 00:07:15,467 That's what I'm here about. 58 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:23,534 [ Fire Extinguisher Spraying ] 59 00:07:42,862 --> 00:07:45,490 - What happened here? -[ Skinner ] No one knows yet. 60 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:48,557 A group of people were burned alive here. 61 00:07:48,634 --> 00:07:50,966 And a man's on life support. 62 00:07:51,070 --> 00:07:54,506 - Only your mother survived. - Where is she? 63 00:07:54,607 --> 00:07:58,509 - Where is she? - They've got her outside. 64 00:08:05,184 --> 00:08:07,118 Mom. 65 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:16,585 Mom. 66 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:18,789 It's me,Jeffrey. 67 00:08:20,466 --> 00:08:23,993 Mom, what happened to you? 68 00:08:24,103 --> 00:08:26,970 You've been gone so long, I thought I'd never see you again. 69 00:08:27,039 --> 00:08:29,405 Oh, don't cry, honey. 70 00:08:31,711 --> 00:08:34,578 Where have you been? 71 00:08:39,986 --> 00:08:42,318 What did they do to you? 72 00:08:42,388 --> 00:08:46,586 - I need to talk to someone. - You can tell me. 73 00:08:47,927 --> 00:08:50,191 I need to speak to Agent Mulder. 74 00:08:57,537 --> 00:09:00,005 - I don't want him talking with her. - Why? 75 00:09:00,106 --> 00:09:02,768 He's forbidden from the X-Files. He's to stay out of this. 76 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:04,934 - She's asking for him. - She's my mother. 77 00:09:05,044 --> 00:09:06,477 What are you afraid of? 78 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:09,481 Mulder filling her head with alien-abduction nonsense. 79 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:11,574 Are you afraid of the truth? 80 00:09:11,651 --> 00:09:14,552 I want to know who did this to her and why. That's all I want. 81 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:17,384 Then why not use every resource available to you? 82 00:09:19,992 --> 00:09:22,256 I'll send you a progress report. 83 00:09:24,196 --> 00:09:27,131 My son refused to believe that his mother had been abducted, 84 00:09:28,834 --> 00:09:31,462 though it had been going on for years. 85 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:35,836 Even after I schemed to put him in charge of the X-Files, 86 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:39,935 where Fox Mulder had amassed so much evidence of our secret plans, 87 00:09:40,046 --> 00:09:44,073 he still couldn't bring himself to accept the possibility of alien life. 88 00:09:47,954 --> 00:09:52,323 When he did come to believe, 89 00:09:52,391 --> 00:09:54,985 when the facts became so glaring, 90 00:09:57,930 --> 00:10:00,694 he turned not to me, his father, 91 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,428 but to the man I'd ruined, 92 00:10:03,536 --> 00:10:06,835 the man I'd chosen for him to replace. 93 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:10,904 Hey, milk, let's play ball. 94 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:14,037 Yo, homestyle, cough up the rock. 95 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:15,944 [ Man ] Wanna rotate in? 96 00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:17,915 [ Man Yells ] Yeah. 97 00:10:19,852 --> 00:10:23,686 - Game. - Oh, nah. It don't work like that. 98 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,820 Hey, homegirl. Word up. 99 00:10:27,893 --> 00:10:31,329 Mulder, it's my distinct impression that you just cheated... 100 00:10:31,397 --> 00:10:33,490 and that you're not coming in again today. 101 00:10:33,599 --> 00:10:35,533 Scully, I got game. 102 00:10:35,601 --> 00:10:38,263 You got so much game, I'm wondering if you have any work left in you. 103 00:10:38,371 --> 00:10:42,637 No, I'm ready toJ-O-B,just not on some jagoff shoeshine tip. 104 00:10:42,708 --> 00:10:44,266 No jagoff shoeshine tip? 105 00:10:44,343 --> 00:10:47,642 No background checking jagoff shoeshine tip. 106 00:10:47,713 --> 00:10:49,146 About yourJ-O-B, Mulder, 107 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:51,308 somebody's been trying very hard to reach you by phone, 108 00:10:51,384 --> 00:10:54,080 somebody who wants you back at the F.B.I. A.S.A.P. 109 00:10:55,421 --> 00:10:58,788 - About what? - About an X-File. 110 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:07,689 [ Phone Rings ] 111 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,530 You looking for work, Agent Spender? 'Cause if you are, 112 00:11:10,636 --> 00:11:13,605 I got a whole pile in that middle drawer I'd love to shove down someone's throat. 113 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:16,834 I was writing you a note. You know why I'm here. 114 00:11:16,909 --> 00:11:19,469 They found your mother. 115 00:11:22,214 --> 00:11:24,307 She wants to talk to you. 116 00:11:24,383 --> 00:11:26,874 I didn't hear the magic word. 117 00:11:26,952 --> 00:11:30,615 - I'm not gonna get down on my knees. - Are you asking me? 118 00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:34,221 My mother's been gone for almost a year. 119 00:11:34,293 --> 00:11:35,726 She turns up in a train car... 120 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:38,491 where she's been operated on by doctors who were burned alive. 121 00:11:40,132 --> 00:11:42,293 I just want the truth. 122 00:11:43,569 --> 00:11:46,629 Well, the truth is out there, Agent Spender. 123 00:11:46,739 --> 00:11:50,140 Maybe you should find it for yourself. 124 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:10,517 [ Machinery Beeping ] 125 00:12:18,471 --> 00:12:21,736 [ Air Hissing ] 126 00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:24,401 I expected you sooner. 127 00:12:24,477 --> 00:12:27,571 I've been at the train yard. 128 00:12:27,646 --> 00:12:29,910 I'm trying to tidy things up. 129 00:12:29,982 --> 00:12:33,315 The overkill will be hard to divert attention from, 130 00:12:34,687 --> 00:12:36,951 but not as hard as from Cassandra. 131 00:12:38,624 --> 00:12:41,559 You have no idea, do you? 132 00:12:41,627 --> 00:12:44,357 Cassandra is a success. 133 00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:46,364 No. 134 00:12:46,465 --> 00:12:48,399 She can't be. 135 00:12:50,002 --> 00:12:51,936 Not now. 136 00:12:52,004 --> 00:12:54,734 I had prepared a syringe for her, as agreed. 137 00:12:55,841 --> 00:12:59,333 But the rebels came. 138 00:12:59,411 --> 00:13:01,675 They saved her to expose us. 139 00:13:01,747 --> 00:13:03,942 She's the key to everything. 140 00:13:03,983 --> 00:13:06,178 I won't let her out of our hands. 141 00:13:06,252 --> 00:13:08,914 They will run medical tests on her. 142 00:13:10,055 --> 00:13:12,546 It's only a matter of time. 143 00:13:15,995 --> 00:13:18,054 Cassandra must be terminated. 144 00:13:24,703 --> 00:13:27,263 They will come and question me. 145 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:32,944 I know. 146 00:13:37,616 --> 00:13:39,709 I'm sorry. 147 00:13:43,455 --> 00:13:47,118 [ Air Hissing ] 148 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:50,128 [ Beeping Faster ] 149 00:13:50,196 --> 00:13:53,654 [ Beeping Faster ] 150 00:13:57,102 --> 00:14:00,902 A man should never live long enough to see his children-- 151 00:14:00,973 --> 00:14:03,737 or his work-- destroyed. 152 00:14:03,809 --> 00:14:06,300 [ Fast Beeping Continues ] 153 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:15,620 [ Beeping Faster ] 154 00:14:18,591 --> 00:14:23,255 [ Phone Ringing ] 155 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:27,131 Hello. 156 00:14:27,233 --> 00:14:29,633 [ Cigarette-Smoking Man ] Have you heard the news? 157 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:33,001 - No. - The rebels have struck. 158 00:14:33,072 --> 00:14:35,040 - Where? - In Virginia... 159 00:14:35,107 --> 00:14:38,543 during one of our medical procedures. 160 00:14:38,644 --> 00:14:41,306 They killed the project doctors, burned them. 161 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,314 - All of them? - Yes. 162 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:47,409 Dr. Openshaw died in the hyperbaric chamber this evening. 163 00:14:47,486 --> 00:14:49,215 My God. 164 00:14:49,288 --> 00:14:51,779 I've called an emergency meeting of the syndicate. 165 00:14:51,857 --> 00:14:55,258 Only the future rides on our response. 166 00:14:55,327 --> 00:14:58,455 I'll be on a plane. 167 00:14:58,530 --> 00:15:00,464 [ Doorbell Rings ] 168 00:15:09,041 --> 00:15:12,909 - Dr. Openshaw. - I've come to see you. 169 00:15:14,713 --> 00:15:17,273 [ Grunting ] 170 00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:29,856 [ Screaming ] 171 00:15:49,148 --> 00:15:51,048 [ Keyboard Clicking ] 172 00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:09,964 - Didn't expect to find you here. - Where'd you expect to find me? 173 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:12,868 I thought Agent Spender offered you an X-File assignment. 174 00:16:12,938 --> 00:16:15,532 It wasn't exactly an offer. 175 00:16:15,607 --> 00:16:18,701 But isn't it just the opportunity you've been waiting for? 176 00:16:18,777 --> 00:16:21,541 It is an opportunity made to order for the powers that be. 177 00:16:21,613 --> 00:16:24,138 You think it's a setup? 178 00:16:24,249 --> 00:16:26,513 This is exactly the kind of mistake they've been waiting for... 179 00:16:26,618 --> 00:16:29,109 to come down on me full force. 180 00:16:30,222 --> 00:16:32,816 But Agent Spender asked you. 181 00:16:32,891 --> 00:16:35,519 Like I said, not exactly. 182 00:16:47,606 --> 00:16:50,006 We've seen this before. 183 00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:54,136 Bodies set aflame with no conclusive cause of combustion. 184 00:16:57,249 --> 00:16:59,183 Mulder. 185 00:16:59,251 --> 00:17:00,980 I know. 186 00:17:01,086 --> 00:17:05,147 I was with Cassandra Spender when she disappeared. 187 00:17:05,257 --> 00:17:07,350 You sat with me while I was under hypnosis... 188 00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:10,190 when I spoke of just these sorts of details. 189 00:17:10,262 --> 00:17:12,856 I have no doubt that what Cassandra would tell us... 190 00:17:12,931 --> 00:17:15,729 would expose more than just what happened to her. 191 00:17:15,801 --> 00:17:19,532 I was taken to one of those train cars. I was tested just like Cassandra. 192 00:17:19,605 --> 00:17:23,405 What if what she tells us could-could expose... 193 00:17:23,475 --> 00:17:26,535 who did this to me? 194 00:17:30,482 --> 00:17:33,315 Mulder, Agent Spender doesn't have to know. 195 00:17:45,030 --> 00:17:47,191 [ Door Opens ] 196 00:17:47,266 --> 00:17:49,962 Oh, my God. 197 00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:52,731 - My God. [ Chuckling ] - Cassandra. 198 00:17:52,805 --> 00:17:56,536 Oh, Dana. Oh, my God. 199 00:17:56,608 --> 00:17:59,372 It's so good to see you. 200 00:18:01,647 --> 00:18:03,911 We're old friends. 201 00:18:05,884 --> 00:18:09,285 If, if I can get ahold of a wheelchair, you want to go out for some fresh air? 202 00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:11,288 I don't need a wheelchair. 203 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,033 But I am dying for a cigarette. 204 00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:38,075 It feels so good to walk. 205 00:18:38,183 --> 00:18:41,641 The doctors don't know what to say. 206 00:18:41,753 --> 00:18:45,917 I told them they wouldn't believe how it happened, and they wouldn't. 207 00:18:45,991 --> 00:18:48,721 No, I'm not gonna tell anybody this time, 208 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,627 because nobody believes you anyway. 209 00:18:51,697 --> 00:18:54,632 They want to hear it, but they just think you're crazy. 210 00:18:55,767 --> 00:18:58,395 Guess I wouldn't believe it either... 211 00:18:58,470 --> 00:19:01,064 except that it happened to me. 212 00:19:02,407 --> 00:19:05,672 No, I'm only gonna tell somebody I can trust... 213 00:19:05,744 --> 00:19:08,338 and who can do something about it. 214 00:19:08,413 --> 00:19:10,973 I was hoping, when I saw you, that Agent Mulder... 215 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:14,280 was going to be coming in the door behind you. 216 00:19:14,386 --> 00:19:16,946 I've got a surprise for you, Cassandra. 217 00:19:18,757 --> 00:19:21,658 - Agent Mulder? - Shh! Shh, shh, shh! 218 00:19:21,727 --> 00:19:25,128 Oh! Oh, my God. 219 00:19:25,197 --> 00:19:28,633 Oh, my God! I think I'm going to pee the floor. 220 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,134 - Don't-- Don't do that. - [ Laughing ] 221 00:19:32,404 --> 00:19:35,635 - Look at you. - I told you about their power. 222 00:19:35,707 --> 00:19:37,641 You said you didn't believe it. 223 00:19:37,709 --> 00:19:41,201 Well, I had reasons for doubt when I met you, Cassandra. 224 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,646 You just doubted yourself. 225 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:49,143 You were just doubting you'd ever see her again, weren't you? 226 00:19:49,254 --> 00:19:52,314 Your sister. 227 00:19:56,662 --> 00:20:00,359 Agent Mulder told me he believed he saw his sister last year. 228 00:20:00,432 --> 00:20:03,230 That wasn't her, Agent Mulder. 229 00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:11,576 - Then where is she? - Out there, with them. 230 00:20:13,378 --> 00:20:15,539 The aliens. 231 00:20:15,614 --> 00:20:17,809 [ Striking Match ] 232 00:20:17,916 --> 00:20:22,148 Cassandra, you were found in a train car. 233 00:20:22,254 --> 00:20:25,519 You'd been operated on by doctors. 234 00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:27,855 Yes, that's right. 235 00:20:27,926 --> 00:20:31,555 - These are the doctors who cured you? - No, the aliens cured me. 236 00:20:31,630 --> 00:20:34,428 The doctors were working with the aliens. 237 00:20:34,499 --> 00:20:37,263 - That's what I wanted to tell you. - What? 238 00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:40,601 I told you that the aliens were here to do good... 239 00:20:40,672 --> 00:20:43,698 and that I was being used as an oracle to spread the word. 240 00:20:43,775 --> 00:20:48,542 Only now I know what the aliens are here for, and it isn't good. 241 00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:50,377 What are they here for? 242 00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:53,678 To wipe us off the planet. 243 00:20:55,354 --> 00:20:57,720 They're taking over the universe. 244 00:20:57,789 --> 00:21:00,724 They're infecting all other life-forms... 245 00:21:00,792 --> 00:21:04,228 with a black substance called Purity. 246 00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:07,493 It's their life force. It's what they're made of. 247 00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:10,262 It's the virus, the black oil. 248 00:21:10,335 --> 00:21:14,294 But, Cassandra, the doctors weren't infected. They were burned. 249 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:18,134 By another race of aliens. 250 00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:20,940 A rebel force that are mutilating their faces... 251 00:21:21,013 --> 00:21:23,641 so that they won't be infected. 252 00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:26,809 This is what I couldn't tell my son Jeffrey. 253 00:21:26,918 --> 00:21:31,356 - Why couldn't you tellJeffrey? - Because he doesn't believe me. 254 00:21:34,192 --> 00:21:36,786 Even though his life is in danger by these same rebel aliens. 255 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:38,955 Spender's life's in danger? 256 00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:42,865 He's in with the men that have been working with the alien colonists... 257 00:21:42,934 --> 00:21:45,596 for 50 years. 258 00:21:45,671 --> 00:21:47,798 Working to do what? 259 00:21:50,208 --> 00:21:52,472 Whatever it is they did to me... 260 00:21:53,612 --> 00:21:55,546 and to you, Dana. 261 00:22:00,952 --> 00:22:03,853 And you know who these men are? 262 00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:07,921 Oh, sure. 263 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:10,257 One of them's my ex-husband, 264 00:22:11,496 --> 00:22:14,522 Jeffrey's father. 265 00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:20,864 Cassandra was beginning to realize her role in the greatest science project... 266 00:22:20,939 --> 00:22:23,669 that man had ever known. 267 00:22:23,742 --> 00:22:26,836 She was the center of 50 years of work, 268 00:22:26,945 --> 00:22:29,436 the key to all of our plans-- 269 00:22:31,450 --> 00:22:34,283 something even my colleagues didn't realize yet. 270 00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:40,952 I killed to keep them unknowing. 271 00:22:43,662 --> 00:22:46,790 I killed Dr. Openshaw so they wouldn't discover her... 272 00:22:48,266 --> 00:22:50,962 when it's Cassandra I should have killed, 273 00:22:52,738 --> 00:22:54,968 Cassandra who needed to die. 274 00:22:59,411 --> 00:23:01,345 I couldn't do it. 275 00:23:02,681 --> 00:23:05,650 With all the blood on my hands, 276 00:23:05,751 --> 00:23:09,551 I couldn't kill the mother of my own son, 277 00:23:09,621 --> 00:23:11,919 a woman I never even loved. 278 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:17,157 My colleagues never knew, 279 00:23:19,064 --> 00:23:21,931 focused as they were on the new threat-- 280 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,266 the faceless alien rebels who'd burned our doctors alive. 281 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:31,504 But my colleagues had become old men, 282 00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:36,371 blind to the fact that the faceless rebels... 283 00:23:36,481 --> 00:23:40,076 already held the upper hand, 284 00:23:40,152 --> 00:23:43,781 that they'd used their powers of disguise to infiltrate our group. 285 00:23:45,524 --> 00:23:48,618 [ Krycek ] Rebels have attacked and burned project facilities... 286 00:23:48,693 --> 00:23:52,288 in New Mexico and the southwest. 287 00:23:52,364 --> 00:23:56,130 The medical staff at our Arizona research facility's been slain. 288 00:24:00,005 --> 00:24:03,532 The train-car deaths cost us. 289 00:24:03,608 --> 00:24:08,136 Work on the human/alien hybrids will suffer the death of Dr. Openshaw. 290 00:24:08,246 --> 00:24:10,146 What do they want? 291 00:24:11,817 --> 00:24:14,786 To expose our enterprise, 292 00:24:14,886 --> 00:24:17,081 everything we've worked for. 293 00:24:17,155 --> 00:24:20,556 Well, some hotshot reporter's gonna put the pieces together, 294 00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:22,559 not to mention law enforcement. 295 00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:25,596 We have our control on the federal agencies. 296 00:24:25,664 --> 00:24:28,690 Our new man at the F.B.I.'s very capable of diverting attention. 297 00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:33,033 Why not side with the rebels? 298 00:24:37,008 --> 00:24:40,000 Join their alien resistance. 299 00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:46,381 It's an option. 300 00:24:46,451 --> 00:24:49,113 It's an option you declined long ago. 301 00:24:51,556 --> 00:24:55,959 Resistance was futile then. Why would it be any less so now? 302 00:24:56,027 --> 00:25:00,157 That's why you voted against it, against men like Bill Mulder. 303 00:25:01,733 --> 00:25:05,726 Collaboration has allowed you to prepare, to stall colonization. 304 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:09,171 How close are you to developing a human/alien hybrid? 305 00:25:09,241 --> 00:25:12,005 That alone ensures your survival. 306 00:25:12,110 --> 00:25:14,874 As slave laborers for the aliens. 307 00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:19,081 What about your vaccine? 308 00:25:19,150 --> 00:25:21,744 By collaborating, you bought yourself time... 309 00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:24,687 to secretly develop a way to combat the aliens, to fight the future. 310 00:25:24,756 --> 00:25:27,247 Alex, enough! 311 00:25:34,266 --> 00:25:37,702 For 50 years we've worked on this project. 312 00:25:39,604 --> 00:25:42,095 Fifty years since Roswell. 313 00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:46,274 We can't sacrifice ourselves for every new threat, 314 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:48,403 can we now? 315 00:26:00,025 --> 00:26:01,788 Why risk getting caught here? 316 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:04,727 They're gonna be monitoring any work on our machines, in or out. 317 00:26:04,796 --> 00:26:08,061 We need access to files on a name that'll raise flags. 318 00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:16,907 [ Beeping ] 319 00:26:21,846 --> 00:26:24,644 Maybe she was making it all up. 320 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,354 [ Computer Beeps ] 321 00:26:32,657 --> 00:26:34,989 Smokey's got a name. 322 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,934 [ Typing ] 323 00:26:47,772 --> 00:26:49,706 [ Beeps ] 324 00:26:51,543 --> 00:26:54,535 Get up from the desk. Get up, turn the computer off, 325 00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:57,844 grab whatever you took or printed out and give it to me. 326 00:26:57,916 --> 00:27:00,043 Let's go, Agents. They're coming. 327 00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:06,382 - Who? -Just go. 328 00:27:08,226 --> 00:27:10,126 Assistant Director. 329 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:15,896 I'll assume you came down to apprehend these agents for unauthorized entry... 330 00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:17,901 into my office. 331 00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:22,406 I'll make sure it's duly noted in the report of their dismissal. 332 00:27:43,294 --> 00:27:46,457 I've done as you've asked. Mulder's been brought up to his superiors. 333 00:27:46,531 --> 00:27:50,297 He and his partner will be processed out of the F.B.I. 334 00:27:50,368 --> 00:27:54,566 I've done as you've asked. Now, I would like you to do for me. 335 00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:03,347 Do for you? 336 00:28:03,415 --> 00:28:06,851 - I think I'm entitled. - To? 337 00:28:06,951 --> 00:28:09,249 The truth. 338 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,720 The truth about my mother. 339 00:28:13,558 --> 00:28:15,583 She won't tell me. 340 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,651 Because you won't believe her. 341 00:28:17,729 --> 00:28:20,289 Maybe you won't believe me. 342 00:28:24,135 --> 00:28:27,593 - Maybe it's better not to know. - Look, I need to know. 343 00:28:27,672 --> 00:28:29,936 Show me that you're capable of handling the responsibility... 344 00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:31,498 that comes with this knowledge. 345 00:28:31,576 --> 00:28:33,942 Don't try me, old man! 346 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,474 I gave you responsibility. I gave you a position. 347 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:41,848 I gave you the things that you couldn't get yourself, and you can't do the job. 348 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,753 Keeping Fox Mulder down is not a job! It's your dirty work. 349 00:28:47,859 --> 00:28:50,521 You pale to Fox Mulder. 350 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:15,147 Bet you're curious about C.G.B. 351 00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:17,051 What's that? 352 00:29:17,122 --> 00:29:21,058 C.G.B. Spender. His name-- cigarette-smoking man. 353 00:29:22,894 --> 00:29:25,192 What's it stand for? 354 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:29,927 -[ Ball Swishes Through Net ] - It's an alias, as far as I can figure. 355 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:31,935 One of hundreds. 356 00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:35,505 Scully, wanna go one-on-one? 357 00:29:35,573 --> 00:29:38,371 We got nothing but time now that we're on administrative leave. 358 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:42,140 Aren't you curious what I've got in the box? 359 00:29:42,247 --> 00:29:44,681 Everything I could find on him. 360 00:29:44,749 --> 00:29:48,583 Nothing you could ever find would be accurate or credible. 361 00:29:48,653 --> 00:29:51,121 Maybe. 362 00:29:51,189 --> 00:29:53,817 But there's a picture you're gonna want to see. 363 00:30:03,101 --> 00:30:05,262 That's C.G.B. Spender... 364 00:30:05,336 --> 00:30:07,270 and my father. 365 00:30:07,338 --> 00:30:09,772 It was taken in 1 973. 366 00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:14,107 I traced the connection to something they worked on together for 25 years... 367 00:30:14,179 --> 00:30:17,842 at the State Department-- a highly classified project. 368 00:30:19,050 --> 00:30:21,848 There's more, if you're ready. 369 00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:30,226 Cassandra Spender is, indeed, the mother of AgentJeffrey Spender... 370 00:30:30,295 --> 00:30:33,059 and the ex-wife of C.G.B. Spender. 371 00:30:33,131 --> 00:30:37,761 But there's something that you're gonna be surprised to find out. 372 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:42,000 She was first abducted in 1 973... 373 00:30:42,073 --> 00:30:44,598 on the night of November 27. 374 00:30:45,810 --> 00:30:48,677 That's the same night as my sister. 375 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:54,140 And there are other names connected to C.G.B. Spender and your father-- 376 00:30:54,252 --> 00:30:56,846 PhDs, doctors, 377 00:30:56,921 --> 00:30:59,856 one a Nobel winner for early works in genetics, 378 00:30:59,924 --> 00:31:01,789 a Dr. Eugene Openshaw. 379 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:05,261 He was the doctor that was found amongst the burn victims... 380 00:31:05,330 --> 00:31:08,959 clinging to life beside Cassandra Spender. 381 00:31:09,033 --> 00:31:11,297 He died the next day in the hospital... 382 00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:13,337 before he was questioned. 383 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,498 - The project is still going on. - Yeah. 384 00:31:21,312 --> 00:31:24,770 If Mulder hadn't known of his father's history with me, 385 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:29,582 he was fueled now with names and dates and... certainties. 386 00:31:32,223 --> 00:31:34,657 I couldn't stop him any longer-- 387 00:31:35,994 --> 00:31:38,224 stop him from learning our sins, 388 00:31:39,797 --> 00:31:42,163 his father's and my own. 389 00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:48,171 The truth was out there... 390 00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:50,173 fatally exposed. 391 00:31:53,811 --> 00:31:56,780 I had one last hope, 392 00:31:58,216 --> 00:32:00,878 one chance to preserve my legacy. 393 00:32:15,466 --> 00:32:19,903 - I waited, like you asked. - Good. 394 00:32:19,971 --> 00:32:21,939 I'm pleased. 395 00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:26,744 I was doubtful after our last meeting. 396 00:32:29,847 --> 00:32:32,179 You have a new job for me? 397 00:32:33,751 --> 00:32:35,981 Yes. 398 00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:38,113 I may have been unduly harsh. 399 00:32:39,490 --> 00:32:42,516 You deserve a fighting chance... 400 00:32:42,593 --> 00:32:44,857 to prove your father wrong. 401 00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:51,895 - What is it? - A weapon. 402 00:32:54,238 --> 00:32:57,765 A man has infiltrated the group that I work with. 403 00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:01,868 - That's to kill him. - I don't understand. 404 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:04,710 He's pretending to be a member of our group, 405 00:33:04,782 --> 00:33:07,376 disguising himself as a man he's already killed. 406 00:33:09,053 --> 00:33:11,920 You will greet him as that man. 407 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,924 Engage him in conversation, 408 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:17,291 then put that in the back of his neck. 409 00:33:27,271 --> 00:33:29,739 You can do it,Jeffrey. 410 00:33:44,722 --> 00:33:47,691 -[ Door Lock Locking ] - Watch where you point that. 411 00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:27,830 [ Doorbell Ringing ] 412 00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:33,329 Sir, my name is Jeffrey Spender. 413 00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:36,567 My father sent me to see you. 414 00:34:43,881 --> 00:34:46,782 I have a message from the group. 415 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:50,912 - They've changed their minds? - That's what I'm here about. 416 00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:06,536 Sit, please. 417 00:35:11,843 --> 00:35:15,301 - What have you to tell me? - Something I've been entrusted with. 418 00:35:15,413 --> 00:35:18,405 It's, uh-- It's a name, actually, 419 00:35:18,483 --> 00:35:21,008 one that will have meaning for you. 420 00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:29,293 I'm sorry. 421 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,100 [ Grunting ] 422 00:35:45,576 --> 00:35:48,044 [ Groans ] 423 00:35:54,886 --> 00:35:56,615 [ Sighs ] 424 00:35:56,687 --> 00:35:59,178 [ Panting ] 425 00:36:04,395 --> 00:36:06,829 Thanks for coming. I know it's late. 426 00:36:06,898 --> 00:36:10,595 You've been forbidden to have any contact with us. 427 00:36:11,736 --> 00:36:13,670 Sir. 428 00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:16,172 You say Cassandra Spender's life is in danger. 429 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:20,176 Her life's been in danger going on 30 years,just not the way it is now. 430 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:21,768 In danger from who? 431 00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:24,246 Men who have conducted medical experiments... 432 00:36:24,315 --> 00:36:26,442 in what began as a secret government project, 433 00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:28,542 but what is now the most private global enterprise. 434 00:36:28,653 --> 00:36:30,314 Enterprising to do what? 435 00:36:30,421 --> 00:36:34,187 To develop alien/human hybrids that will survive the viral apocalypse... 436 00:36:34,258 --> 00:36:36,317 when aliens colonize the Earth. 437 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:39,363 And I suppose you have proof of this? 438 00:36:39,430 --> 00:36:41,421 Files that Agent Scully dug up... 439 00:36:41,499 --> 00:36:44,468 that make the right connections to Dr. Eugene Openshaw, 440 00:36:44,535 --> 00:36:48,835 to my sister, to my father, to Agent Spender's father. 441 00:36:48,906 --> 00:36:52,808 - Agent Spender's father? - The smoking man. 442 00:36:54,512 --> 00:36:56,173 - What? - It's true. 443 00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:57,612 We have documented evidence. 444 00:36:57,682 --> 00:37:01,448 Then you believe this, Agent Scully? This whole account? 445 00:37:01,552 --> 00:37:05,215 I know that Agent Scully has her doubts about the purposes of these experiments. 446 00:37:05,323 --> 00:37:09,692 I also know that she believes she was a test subject when she was abducted. 447 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,957 If Cassandra Spender's life is in danger, why not Scully's? 448 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:16,591 I believe Cassandra Spender represents the final stages of these experiments-- 449 00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:20,194 that she may very well be the first successful alien/human hybrid. 450 00:37:20,271 --> 00:37:24,002 What I don't understand is if she was a success, why is her life threatened? 451 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,010 Because... 452 00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:30,445 the men who created her would rather kill her... 453 00:37:30,514 --> 00:37:34,314 than let her expose the enterprise. 454 00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:37,717 She's under 2 4-hour guard. 455 00:37:37,788 --> 00:37:39,722 Assigned by Agent Spender? 456 00:37:53,838 --> 00:37:56,432 You've never seen one before, have you? 457 00:38:01,078 --> 00:38:03,342 It's shocking at first-- 458 00:38:03,414 --> 00:38:06,474 the acceptance of the idea. 459 00:38:06,584 --> 00:38:09,553 It's something you thought only children... 460 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:11,554 and fools believed in. 461 00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:14,887 It undermines your beliefs... 462 00:38:14,959 --> 00:38:16,893 in yourself, in the world. 463 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:21,625 - But then you come to understand. - Understand what? 464 00:38:21,699 --> 00:38:26,033 The responsibility that this knowledge demands by the men who have it. 465 00:38:27,338 --> 00:38:29,738 The great sacrifice... 466 00:38:29,807 --> 00:38:32,867 by great men like... your father. 467 00:38:32,943 --> 00:38:34,535 What sacrifice? 468 00:38:34,612 --> 00:38:37,740 The sacrifice of your mother. 469 00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:46,590 What do you know about that? 470 00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:50,650 Just that she's been the subject of an experiment for 25 years. 471 00:38:52,563 --> 00:38:55,532 My father's involved in that? 472 00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,067 - Is he? - Your father directs the experiments. 473 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:04,206 So I'm protecting her now so the experiments can continue? 474 00:39:04,275 --> 00:39:07,642 That's why he put you on the X-Files. 475 00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:14,777 That's why your father sent you here tonight. 476 00:39:18,222 --> 00:39:20,747 You're protecting the project,Jeffrey, 477 00:39:22,293 --> 00:39:25,194 making the sacrifices... 478 00:39:26,530 --> 00:39:28,966 so that you can be a great man too. 479 00:39:31,001 --> 00:39:33,936 I'll be my own great man. 480 00:39:40,945 --> 00:39:44,278 I've trusted no one. 481 00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:47,613 Treachery is the inevitable result of all affairs. 482 00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:52,716 Every man believes he has his own good reason. 483 00:39:57,461 --> 00:40:00,726 I have little doubt of my son's disloyalty to me. 484 00:40:02,867 --> 00:40:06,359 Certainly he led Mulder and Scully to us. 485 00:40:08,139 --> 00:40:12,235 His mother must know by now her central role in the grand plan, 486 00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:16,404 that she's as much alien as human. 487 00:40:19,717 --> 00:40:23,209 Do you wonder why I've chosen you? 488 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,585 You've never betrayed me. 489 00:40:26,657 --> 00:40:29,023 Now I need someone to trust. 490 00:40:34,799 --> 00:40:36,733 I'll help you. 491 00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,401 It's not too late. 492 00:40:50,548 --> 00:40:53,244 [ Door Opens ] 493 00:40:53,350 --> 00:40:55,284 [ Door Closes ] 494 00:41:12,369 --> 00:41:14,303 Cassandra? 495 00:41:15,806 --> 00:41:17,740 Ms. Spender? 496 00:41:24,448 --> 00:41:27,906 - Where's my mother? - You tell me, Agent Spender. 497 00:41:28,018 --> 00:41:30,350 Where's the guard? 498 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:32,355 I-I had a guard posted here. 499 00:41:32,423 --> 00:41:34,983 I got here, and she was gone. 500 00:41:35,059 --> 00:41:37,994 - He took her. - Who? 501 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:42,932 -[ Dialing ] - Agent Spender? 502 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,333 [ Frantic Knocking ] 503 00:41:50,441 --> 00:41:52,375 - [ Panting ] - Cassandra. 504 00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:56,345 - I can't believe I found you. - How did you find us? 505 00:41:56,413 --> 00:41:58,973 Cassandra? 506 00:41:59,083 --> 00:42:02,678 How did you get here? How'd you get out of your room? 507 00:42:02,786 --> 00:42:04,720 - Where'd you get your clothes? -[ Knocking ] 508 00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:08,554 Agent Scully, Agent Mulder, you cannot let them find me. 509 00:42:08,626 --> 00:42:10,856 [ Knocking Continues ] 510 00:42:10,928 --> 00:42:14,022 - Stop it. Let go! - You cannot let them have me. 511 00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:17,829 You have got to kill me now! 512 00:42:17,902 --> 00:42:21,565 If you don't kill me, it all starts! 513 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:23,971 There won't be any stopping it. 514 00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:28,137 -[ Frantic Knocking ] - I am the one! 515 00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:32,512 You have to shoot me, please! 516 00:42:32,616 --> 00:42:35,676 [ Knocking Continues ] 517 00:42:35,786 --> 00:42:38,482 Mulder, what are you doing? 518 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:40,888 - Stand away, Scully. - Mulder! 519 00:42:40,958 --> 00:42:43,654 -[ Knocking Continues ] - Mulder, we have to protect her. 520 00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:47,857 [ Harsh Pounding On Door ] 521 00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:50,992 - Mulder. Mulder! -[ Pounding Continues ] 522 00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:34,840 [ Child ] I made this! 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net