The X-Files

Dr Openshaw, congratulations.

Your work... it's completed.

You should see her.

25 years.

She must seem like an old friend.

Yes.

We're, uh... going out to celebrate. If you'd like to come...

No. You go on ahead.

This is the end.

I never thought I'd hear myself say those words after all these years.

You put your life into something. Build it, protect it.

The end is as unimaginable as your own death.

Or the death of your children.

I could never have scripted the events that led us to this.

None of us could.

All the brilliant men. The secret that we kept so well.

It happened simply, like this.

We had a perfect conspiracy... with an alien race.

Aliens who were coming to reclaim this planet and to destroy all human life.

Our job was to... secretly prepare the way for their invasion.

To create for them a slave race of human/alien hybrids.

They were good plans.

Right plans.

Kept secret for over 50 years, ever since the crash at Roswell.

Kept secret from men like Fox Mulder.

Plans that would've worked,

had not a rebel alien race come to destroy them.

Had not my own son chosen betrayal.

Or chosen to betray more wisely.

AD Skinner, I... I didn't hear the elevator. I was workin' here.

- Working on what, Agent Spender? - Progress report on the X-Files.

- Progress report to who? - Just a file.

I wasn't aware that you'd made any progress. I've received but one memorandum.

- Are you planning to hit me all at once? - Uh, it's been slow going.

Truth is, your purpose is not to make any progress, isn't it?

Truth is, you have no interest in the X-Files.

Beyond a certain... personal case.

- Your mother's abduction. - Alleged abduction.

That's what I'm here about.

- What happened here? - No one knows yet.

A group of people were burned alive here.

Another man's on life support. Only your mother survived.

Where is she? Where is she?

They've got her outside.

Mom.

Mom...

It's me, Jeffrey.

Mom, what happened to you?

It's been so long, I thought I'd never see you again.

Oh... don't cry, honey.

Where have you been?

What did they do to you?

I need to talk to someone.

You can tell me.

I need to speak to Agent Mulder.

- I don't want him talking with her. - Why?

He's forbidden from the X-Files.

- She's asking for him. - She's my mother.

What are you afraid of?

Mulder filling her head with alien abduction nonsense.

Are you afraid of the truth?

I wanna know who did this to her and why. That's all.

Then why not use every resource available to you?

I'll send you a progress report.

My son refused to believe that his mother had been abducted,

though it had been going on for years.

Even after I had him put in charge of the X-Files,

where Fox Mulder had amassed so much evidence of our secret plans,

he still couldn't bring himself to accept the possibility of alien life.

When he did... come to believe,

when the facts became so glaring...

he turned.

Not to me, his father, but to the man I'd ruined.

The man I'd chosen for him to replace.

Hey, Milk. Let's play ball.

Yo, homestyle, cough up the rock.

- (man) Wanna rotate in? - (man #2) Yeah. Yeah, I got next.

- Game. - Oh, no, no, Ike, it don't work like that.

Hey, homegirl. Word up?

Mulder, it's my distinct impression that you just cheated,

- and that you're not coming in again today. - I got game.

I'm wondering if you have any work left in you.

Oh, no, I'm ready to j-0-b. Just not on some jagoff shoeshine tip.

No jagoff shoeshine tip?

No background-checking jagoff shoeshine tip.

About yourj-o-b, somebody's been trying very hard to reach you.

Somebody who wants you back at the FBI ASAP.

- About what? - About an X-File.

Lookin' for work, Agent Spender?

I got a whole pile in that middle drawer that I'd love to shove down someone's throat.

- I think you know why I'm here. - They found your mother.

She wants to talk to you.

- I didn't hear the magic word. - I'm not going down on my knees.

Are you asking me, Agent Spender?

My mother turns up in a train car,

where she's been operated on by doctors who were burned alive.

I just want the truth.

The truth is out there, Agent Spender. Maybe you should find it for yourself.

- I expected you sooner. - I've been at the train yard.

Trying to tidy things up.

The overkill will be hard to divert attention from.

But not as hard as from Cassandra.

You have no idea, do you?

Cassandra is a success.

No. She can't be.

Not now.

I had prepared a syringe for her, as agreed. But the rebels came.

They saved her to expose us.

- She is the key to everything. - I won't let her out of our hands.

They will run medical tests on her.

It's only a matter of time.

Cassandra must be terminated.

They will come and question me.

I know.

I'm sorry.

A man should never live long enough to see his children...

or his work destroyed.

- Hello? - Have you heard the news?

- No. - The rebels have struck.

- Where? - In Virginia.

During one of our medical procedures.

They killed the project doctors. Burned them.

- All of them? - Yes.

Dr Openshaw died in the hyperbaric chamber this evening.

My God.

I've called an emergency meeting of the Syndicate.

Only the future rides on our response.

I'll be on a plane.

- Dr Openshaw. - I've come to see you.

- I didn't expect to find you here. - Where'd you expect to find me?

Agent Spender offered you an X-File assignment.

It wasn't exactly an offer.

Isn't it the opportunity you've been waiting for?

It is an opportunity made to order for the powers that be.

It's a setup?

This is the kind of mistake they've been waiting for to come down on me full force.

- But Agent Spender asked you. - Like I said, not exactly.

We've seen this before. Bodies set aflame with no conclusive cause of combustion.

Mulder...

I know.

I was with Cassandra Spender when she disappeared.

You sat with me while I was under hypnosis when I spoke of just these sorts of details.

I am sure that what she would tell us would expose more than just what happened to her.

I was taken to one of those train cars. I was tested just like Cassandra.

What if what she tells us could expose who did this to me?

Mulder, Agent Spender doesn't have to know.

Oh, my God.

My God.

- Cassandra. - Oh, Dana. Oh, my God.

It's so good to see you.

We're old friends.

If, uh... if I can get a hold of a wheelchair, you wanna go out for some fresh air?

I don't need a wheelchair.

But I am dying for a cigarette.

It feels so good to walk.

The doctors don't know what to say.

I told them they wouldn't believe how it happened, and they wouldn't.

No, I'm not gonna tell anybody this time, cos nobody believes you anyway.

They want to hear it, but they just think you're crazy.

Guess I wouldn't believe it either,

except that it happened to me.

No...

I'm only gonna tell somebody I can trust and who can do something about it.

I was hoping when I saw you that Agent Mulder was gonna be coming in behind you.

I've got a surprise for you, Cassandra.

- Agent Mulder? - Shh, shh, shh.

Oh! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

I think I'm gonna pee the floor.

Don't... don't do that.

Look at you.

I told you about their power. You said you didn't believe it.

I had reasons for doubt when I met you, Cassandra.

You just doubted yourself.

You were just doubting you'd ever see her again, weren't you?

Your sister.

Agent Mulder told me he believed he saw his sister... last year.

That wasn't her, Agent Mulder.

- Then where is she? - Out there. With them.

The aliens.

Cassandra, you were found in a train car.

You'd been operated on by doctors.

Yes, that's right.

- And these are the doctors who cured you? - No, the aliens cured me.

The doctors were working with them. That's what I wanted to tell you.

What?

I told you that the aliens were here to do good

and that I was being used as an oracle to spread the word.

Only now I know what the aliens are here for, and it isn't good.

What are they here for?

To wipe us off the planet.

They're taking over the universe.

They're infecting all other life forms with a black substance called Purity.

It's their life force. It's what they're made of.

It's the virus. The Black Oil.

But, Cassandra, the doctors weren't infected. They were burned.

By another race of aliens.

A rebel force, that are mutilating their faces so that they won't be infected.

- This is what I couldn't tell my son Jeffrey. - Why couldn't you tell Jeffrey?

Because he doesn't believe me.

Even though his life is in danger by these same rebel aliens.