The X-Files

That many of you here tonight came home not to a hero's welcome...

...but to the hostility of the American people...

...is a shameful fact of history.

One that I will never understand...

...or forgive.

But it also underscores our sacred duty...

...not just today but for ever...

...to honour those who served with honour...

...and to remember those who fell.

Men and women whose ultimate sacrifice...

...must never be forgotten.

There is probably no audience...

...that understands better that our freedom is not free.

All right, you're my eyes out there. Talk to me. Positions report.

- Sector three clear. - No sign of him in four.

Sector six, report.

Mulder?

- He's here. I feel him. - Then where is he?

Hold on. I think I have him in section four.

Can you confirm that, Scully?

Positive. He's heading towards you, three.

Positions hold. Three and four, do you have eye contact?

I have him in three. He's coming towards you, Scully.

Don't take your eyes off him, Scully.

Mulder, he saw me.

- He's heading towards the sound booth. - I'm cutting him off.

Talk to me, people. Does anybody have him?

What's happening, Scully?

I'm closing on him.

- Do you have him in three? - (man) Negative.

Scully?

- Scully! - I lost him. You got him, three?

I don't see him, Scully.

What's happening?

- I can't see him anywhere. - He must be headed your way.

- (Scully) You got him, Mulder? - Not yet.

I got him.

I lost him.

Mulder, he's right in front of you.

- He's got a gun! - General, get off the stage!

I can't see him. I can't see him!

Good morning, sir.

All right! Let's go!

Who the hell are you? How did you get in here?

- What the hell are you...? - (gunshot)

Lieutenant General? Sir?

Lieutenant General Peter MacDougal was shot dead at 0600 this morning.

Forensics reports the wound was not self-inflicted.

The weapon hasn't been recovered.

The driver, Private First Class Gus Burkholder...

...is currently being held on suspicion of murder.

Tests confirm the private did not do the shooting.

There is suspicion of an accomplice, based on one piece of evidence...

...a so-called death card used by soldiers in Vietnam to mark their kills.

And by Burkholder's possible ties to a paramilitary group called the Right Hand...

...whose stated aim is violent revolution.

We have a high probability of opportunity for a group like this.

A unique situation that could result in the very public loss of lives.

Dozens of officials are in Washington today...

...for a rededication of the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial.

Unless we can determine a motive...

...we will consider any one of them to be a target.

What if Burkholder is telling the truth, that he's innocent?

Until we find another suspect, we will pursue the Right Hand...

...and their leader, ex-Marine Denny Markham...

...in a pre-emptive strategy to put a stop to any other plans they've made.

You have Markham's file in front of you.

For obvious reasons, we're keeping this from the media.

If you encounter any resistance, do not engage.

Surveil and call for backup. Agent Chandler has your assignments.

We have less than 12 hours to prevent any further execution or loss of life.

Understood?

Beckwith and Fontana, you'll go to Virginia Beach.

Jackson and Miller, go to Alexandria.

Was that for the benefit of the general, or have you developed a real strategy?

I'm flyin' by the seat of my pants.

You mean there's no procedure outlined for an invisible assassin?

- Did you talk to Burkholder? - I convinced him to take a polygraph test.

- And? - He passed.

The nature of his claims suggest a false positive.

The tester admitted that the results are highly interpretive.

You heard his story?

I found his story compelling. But then I believe the Warren Commission.

If I have to devise a strategy around that story, there is no strategy.

Somebody killed the general. Somebody is not telling the truth.

The man who heads the Right Hand. Do you have a warrant for him?

- Yes, why? - Let Mulder and I serve it.

One misstep, Markham smells a shakedown...

...he's gonna disappear and find another way to push the button.

And I've already seen more dead soldiers than I ever wanna see.

Mr Markham?

- Who is it? - Agents Mulder and Scully with the FBI.

What do you want?

It's extremely urgent that we talk to you, sir.

- Mr Markham? - Gate's unlocked.

You wanted to see me about...?

- The murder of General Peter MacDougal. - Am I under suspicion?

No, but your group is, and Private First Class Gus Burkholder.

- Is that a name I should know? - He's on the mailing list for the Right Hand.

2,000 names on that list. I can't keep track of every one.

- We'd like to go over that list with you, sir. - No way you'll be getting that from me.

- We have a copy, if you come with us. - I'm not going anywhere.

We have a warrant for your arrest if you don't cooperate.

Under the new antiterrorism law,

we can and will hold you until we get the information.

- (sighs) - There goes the neighbourhood.

You can make this as easy or as hard as you wish, sir.

The Right Hand believes in empowering the individual...

...over a corrupt and corrupting federal government.

We're prepared for the time when armed resistance will be necessary.

Lives will have to be sacrificed. But that day has not yet come.

- Would you take a polygraph, Mr Markham? - My word's good enough.

What's your "word" on this?

Where'd that come from?

I'd like to ask you that.

More men are gonna die.

This guy's a one-man threat to national security.

I'll bet he's got more weapons than most Third World armies.

He told me to pull this photo from his file cabinet.

- Who's this? - He says he killed General MacDougal.

Name's Nathaniel Teager. 26 confirmed solo enemy kills.

A veritable killing machine.

Left for dead by the government that created him.

Left for dead?

He belonged to Green Beret Detachment B-11

...the squad known as the Bloody Sabers.

In 1971, the B-11 was being transported when their chopper was shot down.

No survivors.

- When was this photo taken? - December 1995.

Just after the Right Hand liberated him...

...from a POW camp outside the U Minh forest.

I'm sure you're aware that in 1973 the Defense Department...

...determined there were no more POWs in Vietnam.

Maybe that's why they tried to kidnap Sergeant Teager

when we brought him home.

The government kidnapped a US prisoner of war?

I said they tried.

Had their commandos board our plane in San Diego.

When they broke into the cargo hold where we hid him, he was already gone.

I never did figure out how.

I think I've heard enough.

- You don't believe him, do you? - But what if he's telling the truth?

A phantom POW left for dead comes back to avenge the injustices?

- Maybe the war ain't over. - Maybe not Denny Markham's war.

Given the facts of the case and the polygraph test...

...it's the only explanation we've got.

Or it's a clever story being proffered as a cover-up...

...for an elaborately orchestrated conspiracy.

There is that possibility too.

Let Markham take the polygraph.

- And what if he passes? - He won't.

Mrs Davenport?

Renee Davenport?

Yes?

Wife of Lance Corporal Gary Davenport of the Special Forces?

Yes. Do I know you?

No, ma'am. I've come to act in his behalf...

...for the reason that Gary remains a prisoner of war.

- Gary's dead. - No, ma'am.

May you forgive me as you forgive him, as a man and a soldier...

...for restoring the honour and memory of the B-11.

Oh, my God.

Where did you get these?

Who gave you these?

Hey, where are you?

God... Where are you? Where'd you go?

Is it true she made a positive ID from the photo?

- From a fax of it. Do you have the photo? - Yeah, and copies to distribute.

We've got it out to local law enforcement,

but not to the exclusion of the other suspects.

I thought she lD'd Teager.

She did. But I cannot authorise a strategy that targets a soldier who's officially dead.

Because his name is on a wall?

Because I spoke with the army forensics lab where Teager's remains have been stored...

...since they were recovered from the crash site.

They have his remains?

Markham may have staged this, finding somebody vulnerable to pass off his lies.

- Why go to all that trouble? - To create a decoy?

To divert our attention? Which seems to be working.

This woman saw someone. I wanna know who.

- Yes, that's him. - Are you sure?

Everything he said made it sound like Gary was still alive.

But that can't be true, can it?

You say he just disappeared?

That's what's so strange.

One minute he's standing right in front of me, and then he's gone.

What if he was telling the truth? What if Gary is alive?

I've tried to get on with my life. I've remarried.

What am I supposed to tell my husband now?

What am I supposed to do?

- Oh, your eye. - What?

Oh, my God! What's happening to me?

I think you just burst a capillary.

Scully?

- Can we get Mrs Davenport an eye exam? - An eye exam? For what?

The man we're looking for, the man she saw,

has a knack for vanishing in plain sight.

She has a subconjunctival haemorrhage, probably brought on by her emotional state.

And how did she reach that emotional state?

- What about you? What are you gonna do? - I'm gonna see if we're chasing a dead man.