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You didn't know my father
I told you he and I were old friends
You're a liar. You lied to me to gather information for you. For your goddamn books. Didn't you?
You'd be shit out of luck if not for me. You saw what you saw because I led you to it. I'm putting my ass on the line for you.
Your ass? I just got chased across Texas by two black helicopters.
And why do you think it is you're standing here talking to me? These people don't make mistakes, Agent Mulder.
I'm looking for anything out of the ordinary. Maybe something from the FEMA offices where the bodies were found.
We weren't expecting to find those remains, of course. They went right off to Washington.
Was there anything in those offices that didn't go to D.C.?
Some bone fragments came up in the sift this morning. We thought there'd been another fatality, but we found out FEMA had recovered them from an archeological site out of town.
Have you examined them?
No. Just fossils, far as I know.
You said you knew the location of the archeological site where these were found.
Show you right on a map.
Is this Dr. Kurtzweil's residence?
You got some kind of business with him?
I'm looking for him.
Looking for him for what?
Feds are looking for him, too. Real nice business he's got, huh?
What's that?
Selling naked pictures of little kids over his computer.
You looking for him for some other reason?
Yeah, I had an appointment for a pelvic examination.
You want a call if we turn up Kurtzweil?
No. Don't bother.
Yes.
We have a situation. The members are assembling.
Is it an emergency?
Who called this meeting?
Strughold. He's just gotten on a plane in Tunis.
Its effect on the host has changed. The virus no longer just invades the brain as a controlling organism. It's developed a way to modify the host body.
Into what?
My lateness may have well been absence. A course has already been taken.
There are complications.
Do they know?
Mulder was in Dallas when we were trying to dispose of evidence. He's gone back there again. Someone has tipped him.
Who?
Kurtzweil, we think.
You've got something to show me.
Yes.
We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development, which is nothing like we've ever seen.
Brought on by what?
Heat, I think. The coincident invasion of a host, the fireman, and an environment that raised his basic body temperature above ninety eight point six.
This man's still alive.
Technically and biologically, though he'll never recover.
How can this be?
The developing organism is using his life energy, digesting bone and tissue. We've just slowed the process.
Do you want me to destroy this one, too? Before it gestates?
No. No...we need to try our vaccine on it.
And if it's unsuccessful?
Incinerate it. Like the others.
This man's family will want to see the body laid to rest.
Tell them he was trying to save the young boy's life, and that he died heroically like the other firemen.
Of what?
They seemed to buy our story about the Hanta virus. You'll make sure the families are taken care of financially, along with a sizeable donation to the community. Maybe a small roadside memorial.
Special Agent Scully
I apologize for making you wait I've brought some new evidence with me
Evidence of what?
You've been back to Dallas?
Yes.
Are you going to let us in on what exactly you're trying to prove
That the bombing in Dallas may have been to destroy the bodies of those firemen, so their deaths and the reason for them wouldn't have to be explained
those are very serious allegations, Agent Scully
Yes. I know.
And you have conclusive evidence of this? Something to tie this claim of yours to the crime
Nothing completely conclusive
I hope to. We're working to develop this evidence
Working with?
Agent Mulder.
What is it you find incredible?
Well...where would you like me to start? Antarctica is a long way from Dallas, Agent Scully. I can't very well submit a report to the Attorney General that alleges the links you've made here. Bees and corn crops do not quite fall under the rubric of domestic terrorism.
No, they don't.
Most of what I find in here is lacking a coherent picture of an organization with an attributable motive. I realize you're very lucky to be alive Agent Scully. The ordeal you've endured has clearly affected you though the holes in your account leave this panel with little choice but to delete these references from our final report to the Justice Department. Until which time hard evidence becomes available that would give us cause to pursue such an investigation.
What am I doing here?
You were shot in the head. The bullet broke the flesh on your right brow and glanced off your temporal plate.
Penetration but not perforation.
They gave you a craniotomy to relieve the pressure from a subdural hematoma. But you've been unconscious since they brought you in.
When was that?
Scully had a violent reaction to a bee sting
You called 911. Except the call was intercepted.
They took her
I need your clothes, Byers.
Me?
Poopy day?
Yup.
A woman? Work.
What do you do?
What do I do. I'm a key figure in an ongoing government charade. An annoyance to my superiors. A joke among my peers. "Spooky," they call me. Spooky Mulder. Whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was a kid. Who now chases little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens and anyone who'll listen that the fix is in. That our government's hip to the truth and a part of the conspiracy. That the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shitstorm of all time.
I think that about does it, Spooky.
Does what?
Why don't you go home to the old lady
Sorry. Don't have one.
Do you live around here?
Yeah.
Not supposed to talk about it.
You're not supposed to talk about it? Who told you that?
I think you better tell us.
We don't even know you.
Well, we're FBI agents.
You're not FBI agents.