The X-Files

I have an urgent communication for Dr Nordlinger.

I can deliver it.

I was asked to confirm he received the communique and...

That's not procedure.

...report back Dr Nordlinger's acknowledgement of the communique.

What's going on?

There's some confusion as to the proper procedure, Dr Nordlinger.

I have a communication for you.

Communication acknowledged and confirmed, Captain.

We're returning to base.

- Officer Banford. - Captain?

Prepare to transmit to operations commander.

Transmit what, sir?

Sir, what is the communication?

We're coming in.

Doggett!

- I'm sorry I'm late. - Have a seat, Agent Reyes.

Agent Reyes, I thought we might have a little chat.

Mr Skinner here has been trying to help me put together

the pieces of your X-Files investigation.

Can we cut the crap?

Can we? There's a lot of crap to cut through.

Agent Reyes, you probably want to zip it and try to cooperate.

Like it or not, I'm now charged with the task of reining you in.

Reining us in? For what?

Unauthorised autopsies, breaking and entering into a state water facility,

wilful misuse of your positions.

I don't wanna go into any of this without my partner.

Your partner. Your so-called partner, who's running this circus, is nowhere to be found.

What are you doing, Brad?

Giving you and Mr Skinner the chance

to put a nice spin on this mess that Doggett's made.

Agent Reyes, if you're not gonna zip it,

at least recognise that he's the only one who can help you.

We were given a tip we believe leads to a larger conspiracy.

Conspiracy? Involving the FBI?

John Doggett and I are running a legitimate investigation into the FBI.

- Neither one of us feels... - Agent Reyes.

I'm trying to help you keep your job.

But that's not gonna happen if you insist on chasing shadows, chasing conspiracies.

How do you know there isn't one?

You're taking on the entire FBI here, Monica.

This witch-hunt isn't going to expose anything but you.

That is, unless you distance yourself from John Doggett.

What are you doing?

I'm distancing myself, Brad. From you. From your political games.

- You just wanna get John Doggett. - You're making a big mistake here.

Yeah. I seem to make one every time I walk in your door.

Lie back, John. It's OK.

What the hell's this?

It's Shannon, Shannon McMahon.

We were together in Bravo Company, USMC.

You tried to contact me.

What the hell are you doing here now?

Your lungs were full of water.

- Pulled me under. - I did what I had to.

- You held me down. I remember. - They would have caught you.

They might have figured it out, what you've started to figure out.

What are you?

You know what I am.

I'm the product of 50 years of military science,

the programme your old friend Knowle Rohrer told you about.

I'm a bioengineered combat unit.

I have no weaknesses. I don't sleep.

I can breathe underwater. That's how I saved your life, John.

How do you know what I know? What Knowle Rohrer told me?

Knowle Rohrer and I were drafted right out of Bravo Company together.

We were...

Adam and Eve.

The programme's first. There are many more now.

Knowle Rohrer is dead.

You can't kill us. We can't be killed.

Knowle Rohrer and I are alike in almost every way.

The difference is, I hate what I am.

Why are you here telling me this?

The programme's expanding in ways no one ever dreamed of.

I need your help to stop it, John.

You need my help? What can I do?

Expose the deaths of those two men I killed, what they were doing.

- What were they doing? - Preparing the water supply.

Preparing it for what?

What are you doing, Captain?

Where are you going? We're under strict orders not to leave ship.

Look at us.

They've got us tied up at a civilian dock in Baltimore. Why?

I think they may be onto us.

You're only drawing suspicion if they're not. You can't leave.

We can't risk waiting. We can't risk not making contact now.

I'll be back.

Hi. Sorry about the hour.

I just put him down.

I couldn't talk on the phone.

What is it?

I was told to leave this alone.

You and Mulder asked me to leave it be, to let Mulder disappear.

We were concerned for the safety of the baby, and for Mulder.

Why am I risking that now? Why are you?

Why are you getting mixed up with Doggett's investigation?

Something happened...

with my baby.

What?

I can't explain it.

It's, uh...

It's unexplainable.

It's, uh... It's not normal.

Whatever it is, I think you've made a terrible mistake.

Letting Doggett pull you into this. I mean, he's hellbent.

And Agent Reyes is following right in his tracks.

I need answers.

I need to know. I can't just sit around wondering.

If you can't tell me, then get to Mulder. Tell him what happened.

No. Mulder can't know.

He can't be brought back into this. He can't be brought back to the FBI.

It's just too dangerous for him right now.

It's too dangerous for everyone.

The EPA employee you are trying to reach, Carl Wormus, is not available.

If you want to leave a voice mail, stay on the line.

Something's wrong.

Very wrong.

Sir?

What is this? Where's Banford?

Chief Petty Officer Banford has been relieved of his post, sir.

I'm your new second in command.

- Hello? - Dana.

I'm sorry if I woke you. It's Monica Reyes.

Dana...

There's something I think you need to be aware of, something you need to hear.

Something I'm not sure I believe.

I'm listening.

It's not me you need to hear it from.

Agent Scully...

we may have some answers for you, about your baby.

Dana, this is Shannon McMahon.

Hi.

Let's start with the water.

You're a scientist, you'll appreciate the science involved.

A new additive is being put in the water supply. It's called chloramine.

It's not news. Or let me say, it's been reported but no one's asking questions yet.

What should they be asking?

To deliver something to everyone's home in America,

what better way than through water?

I've had my fair share of conspiracy theories.

So cut the mystery crap and get to the science.

Chloramine is just a substitute for chlorine.

You can drink it and it's harmless.

Unless someone were to quietly go and change its molecular makeup.

Who? And how?

I think you'd be more interested in why.

All right, then. Why?

To prime a population to breed a generation of super-soldiers.

By adding something to our water?

Something which promotes the mutation of offspring and fertilisation and pregnancy.

What you're saying is absurd.

Is it? No more absurd than I am.

I am a first-generation prototype.

Now they're seven stages advanced on the science which created me,

to the point where now they have given birth to a super-soldier from a mutated egg.

How can we trust any of this?

Or you?

What you say you are?

We all have a standard mutation.

What are you looking at?

Ship's logs.

Those logs are classified.

As second in command, I'm supposed to know the ship, sir.

In case something should happen to you.

What is the greater mission of this ship? If I may ask. Sir?

I don't ask.

We don't ask.

What's going on?

It's Banford, sir. Officer Banford.

It doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't hold up to any argument either, does it?

She drowned that man from the EPA. She's drowned two men.

She says they're part of the programme, working to spike Maryland's water.

So she killed them as a way of contacting you? You believe that?

You saw that thing on her neck. You said you saw it before.

I think we're on to something. It's freaky, it's mind-blowing, but you gotta admit that.

I'm not doubting what she is, only what she says she's doing.

- What? What'd you find? - Nothing.

Nothing more than a small deformity of the spine.

Physically, she seems absolutely normal, as normal as you or I.

I don't believe this.

What don't you believe, Agent Doggett?

I just examined her.

That I'm here with both of you telling me that you don't see what's in front of us.

She's the key to everything in this case, right to the FBI.

For your sake, I hope so.

But I hope not for mine.

John Doggett.

Agent Doggett, I don't wanna be making this call, I really don't, but I'm forced to.

What are you talking about?

You wanna turf me now? You gonna take my badge and gun?