The X-Files

Previously on The X Files:

It's all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.

The aliens brought not only technology...

...they brought the seeds of our destruction.

Civilization is in its final stages.

I have seen it.

Oh. Aah! Scully?

I know how it begins.

Tell me what you saw. A plague will be released.

And then it starts a pandemic.

The Smoking Man is behind it.

You can't stop what's begun. You've always had your enemies.

My enemies are legion.

This is no ordinary contagion.

This is an alien pathogen.

He wants to exterminate humanity. What's your enterprise?

The colonization of space.

Transport all humanity off planet or only a chosen few?

Kill him. You're his son.

He won't be expecting you. And why kill Mulder?

Mulder would kill me. Scully will never take your offer.

You have to stop the Smoking Man.

He can't act without William.

Who's the father? William is my son.

Mulder, William is the key.

My name is Jackson Van De Kamp.

That's what my parents called me when they adopted me 17 years ago.

My original name was William, I've come to learn.

That's what my birth mother called me.

Dana Scully.

I've never really met her properly, but I can feel her in these--

Is this a message for me?

--Violent episodes in which I can feel us connected...

...to the future in ways I'm just beginning to understand.

Or am I sending a message to you?

I don't know my role in the future.

But I'm beginning to understand that as well. I have visions of it.

It's a world of confusion, and pain and loneliness that I can't escape...

...nor can I prevent.

But I want no part in the suffering.

I've known happiness.

I had a happy childhood.

Until I grew older, I had a life where I could dream of anything that I ever wanted to be.

But even then, I knew that I had...

...powers.

Special powers.

When I turned 11, my powers grew.

I got in a fight with Jerry Marriot.

He was this bully who used to pick on smaller kids who couldn't defend themselves.

So I sent him to the hospital.

I had to change schools many times. The kids would catch on that I was...

...different.

And then I, uh, just kind of became a criminal.

So I was sent away to a school for bad kids.

It devastated my parents, but I just couldn't help myself.

Yeah, I guess that's why I've been lashing out.

I talked to psychologists, and I would just make up stories.

Tell them what they want to hear.

I'm so scared that I'm gonna-- I'm gonna find out one day that...

...I'm my father, all of a sudden.

But then this man from the government to talk to me.

I could tell something was up, so I decided to just cool it.

And I had to come home.

But every day, there was this car in the street with these guys in it watching our house.

And I was smart. I didn't make any mistakes...

...until I decided to play a stupid joke on these two girls.

My whole world came crashing down.

My parents were killed by those men on the street.

Oh, no.

They're hunting me now.

They found me.

I'm afraid they'll kill me too...

...if they catch me.

What I need right now is answers. Jackson'?

About who I am, about how I can get my life back.

You seem like a nice person.

I want to ask my real mother questions.

But the truth can only come from my father.

A man I've only seen in my visions.

But who I know I already hate.

But I need you to know, Fox...

...when I gave you life...

...I never fathomed a moment when I would need to end it.

I don't think you can do it.

Hi. I'm an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

You have a guest here, a young man in his late teens.

Checked in this evening. Paid me in hundreds.

Is the boy a criminal?

No. He's not.

The boy is my son.

Have you seen the Internet? Seen this load of BS Mulder's spewing?

I haven't seen it. What is it?

Well, he's going off about a conspiracy on this Tad O'Malley show.

About a conspiracy to wipe out humanity.

"Death will hunt you down." That's a quote from Mulder.

A quote from a Federal agent, Mr. Skinner. I can't speak for Agent Mulder.

You're his superior. You're supposed to be in charge.

I am in charge.

I'll see if I can find Agent Scully-- You find her.

And you shut her down.

I'm closing the X-Files. I want Mulder and Scully's badges.

--a motel manager reporting a military-style incursion.

What if it's not just fake news? I don't care if it is true.

That's someone else's problem. We're not gonna see panic in the streets.

Skinner. I promised you a global contagion.

I'm about to deliver on that promise.

All I asked of you was to find the boy.

So if I find him, will it stop?

Just find me the boy, Mr. Skinner.

Sir, I've left you three messages.

Why aren't you answering? I've been getting my ass chewed.

Well, it's Mulder.

He needs your help.

He needs a hell of a lot more than that, Agent Scully. Where is he?

He's with our son.

They're being pursued.

He needs your help. I need your help. I've been told to shut you down.

What are you talking about? I've been asked to take your badges.

Who said that? Kersh? Is he in there?

Dana-- He doesn't understand what's happening.

Mulder has lit a fuse that you can't put out.

He's made outrageous public statements on an Internet site.

That wasn't him.

That was me.

And they're not outrageous.

Where are they?

I can't help you, Agent Scully...

...if I don't know what's going on.

I'll put you on speaker phone. Who's on the phone?

This is Monica Reyes. I think they've got your son, William.

Just tell me where he is, Monica.

Tennessee. Being transported by a private jet.

Tail number NGDJG, landing in Maryland in two hours.

Which airport in Maryland? Braddock K TCA southeast terminal.

This may be your last good chance.

When you say "last good chance," what exactly do you mean?

The person who controls your son is the person who controls the future.

He's not on that plane, Mulder. You have any reason to distrust her?

Is there word on the boy? Nothing. Nothing to report.

I don't know how I know. I just know that he's not on that plane.

But what if he is on the plane? What if this is out last good chance?

Just come back alive.

Come on, come on.

Damn it.

Don't move. Stop there.

Face away.

Hands behind your head.

Behind your head!

And here I thought you were a liar.

Your secret space program.

You should really do a better job at protecting your ass.

How the hell did you get in here? You can't keep this a secret for long.

I'm unarmed, if you wouldn't mind.

I'm only here about my boy.

Well, we couldn't catch him.

And I mean that quite literally, Mr. Mulder.

Why does everybody want my son?

You still don't understand, do you?

Your son has what everybody wants, what people would kill to have.

I see him. I see him! Move!

Move!

Go! Get him!

Going up!

Pull out.

Cut him off!

Down.

Heads up!

Move, move.

Go, go, go.

Stay with him.

He's jumping over!

Mulder, you haven't been answering your phone.

I had some payback to...

...pay back.

But you were right, Scully, he wasn't on that plane.

Look, I found something on the Web. I think it's how they found him.

There was a lotto cluster in northeastern Tennessee.

Eight recent winners in a 10-mile radius. Where was the last winner?

Okay. Anything else?

Hi. You had a winning lottery ticket sold here last week?

Don't talk about that. I was about to take the register when the kid bought the ticket.