The X-Files

Two men, young, idealistic,

the fine product of a generation hardened by world war.

Two fathers whose paths would converge in a new battle,

an invisible war between a silent enemy and a sleeping giant,

on a scale to dwarf all historical conflicts.

A 50 years' war, its killing fields lying in wait for the inevitable global holocaust.

Theirs was the dawn of Armageddon.

While the world was unaware, unwitting spectators to the hurly-burly

of the decades-long struggle between heaven and earth,

there were those who prepared for the end,

who measured the size and power of the enemy and faced the choices.

Stand and fight, or bow to the will of a fearsome enemy.

Or surrender, to yield and collaborate,

to save themselves and stay their enemy's hand.

Men who believed victory was the absence of defeat

and survival the ultimate ideology, no matter what the sacrifice.

Shoot me now before it's too late!

- Mulder! - Shoot!

Who are you?!

- What's going on?! - Get down!

- Who are you?! - Get down!

On the floor!

Who are you?!

We're with the Centers for Disease Control. Remain calm and where you are.

You're gonna be transported to a quarantine facility soon.

Quarantine for what?

A contagion.

A contagion of unknown origin.

There must be some mistake. I signed up for the aromatherapy treatment.

Are we gonna be able to talk to somebody who can tell us what this is all about?

Where the hell do you think we are?

I think, based on our travel time, probably Fort Marlene.

High-risk decontamination and quarantine.

I beg for your forgiveness and offer my humblest apologies for how this went down.

I didn't have a lot of choices.

I owe your neighbours apologies. It'll be a while before they get back in the building.

We're still acting on a CDC level 4 quarantine protocol.

Based on what information?

That Cassandra Spender had contracted a highly contagious vectoring organism,

which produces a spontaneous cellular combustion.

- What? - She remains the only surviving victim

of an unspecified medical experiment that killed seven doctors

with violent and unexplained burning.

- Who called you? - Agent Spender.

Where's Cassandra?

She's isolated, pending full and satisfactory medical evaluation.

Cassandra was in a general hospital environment for days.

We met with her. Yet on a whim you call in the Third Battalion.

It's unjustified and highly suspicious as to motive.

- Scully... - What motives are you suspecting?

- Your isolation of Cassandra. - She's patient zero.

No one is sick or infected here.

I assume that, based on you walking in, dressed to the nines,

offering apologies masquerading as explanations.

- Scully. - Mulder, I want to see Cassandra.

- I told you, she's isolated. - Yes, and I am a medical doctor.

Who is suspended indefinitely from her position at the FBI.

- They burned our clothes. - Hey... I heard grey is the new black.

Mulder, this stinks. And not just because I think that woman is a...

- I think you know what I think she is. - No, you hide your feelings very well.

Agent Spender calling the Centers for Disease Control?

This is somebody using their position to stage a government kidnapping.

No. Skinner was at the hospital when Cassandra went missing.

He heard Spender make the phone call to the CDC.

But she wasn't sick, Mulder.

The remarkable thing is she was well.

Why did she come to my apartment, demanding to be killed?

Because of everything that was done to her,

the medical experiments and the implant put in her neck.

The same thing that was done to me. She just wants it to stop.

And, I'm telling you, they have taken her so that it can continue.

No, it won't continue. It doesn't have to any more.

She knows what she is. It's dangerous for her to be alive.

That's why she came to my apartment, asking to be killed.

What is she?

I think she's the one, Scully.

I recovered all the medical records from the hospital.

The doctors who examined her before she escaped are telling us

Cassandra Spender may be the culmination of 25 years of this group's finest efforts.

That's why the rebels struck. They tried to kill her.

They killed everyone but her. They struck to keep her alive, to keep us from killing her.

- What do the rebels want? - To destroy us.

They know that when the aliens learn of Cassandra, colonisation will begin.

- We must destroy Cassandra. - No.

Let colonisation begin. We must turn over Cassandra.

- Save ourselves. - Bill Mulder was against this.

He said this would be our tragic mistake.

Bill Mulder sacrificed his only daughter because he knew this day would arrive.

What choice have we?

If you want to see your families survive.

If we want to see those we sacrificed returned to us.

Hello?

Hello?

Oh, ma'am. These shoes, they're two sizes too small.

I was wondering if I could get a...

a pair that fit maybe?

I can't be seen with you.

Marita?

If they catch me with you, they'll kill me this time.

Who?

- The Smoking Man... his group. - What have they done to you?

Tests.

Terrible, terrible tests.

Like the tests on Cassandra Spender?

No.

Cassandra Spender is part of a programme that's been going on for 25 years.

A hybrid programme.

What were the tests on you?

I was infected with the alien virus. The Black Oil.

My tests were on the vaccine against it.

- Being developed in secret. - In secret from the alien colonists.

The hybrid programme was in cooperation with the aliens,

but the conspirators never intended to succeed, to finish the work.

- They were buying time. - To make a vaccine and build a weapon.

But Cassandra Spender happened.

She's the first, isn't she? She's the first successful alien-human hybrid.

If she is...

and the aliens learn a hybrid exists...

colonisation of the planet will begin.

With no stopping it.

Jeffrey.

Jeffrey.

- Jeffrey. - Mom.

- How are you feeling? - I'm fine. Why are they keeping me here?

I'm keeping you here because you're safe here.

- Safe from who? - You know who. From my father.

You can't keep me safe from him.

Loan, Mom, and I'm going to. There won't be any more tests on you.

You don't understand.

- You don't understand about me. - I do. I understand everything now.

You don't understand what will happen. What will happen to you if they find me out.

- You've got to let me go. - They'll just hurt you again, Mom.

Yes. You must let them.

Or everyone dies.

Everyone.

Jeffrey...

Please... Jeffrey!

Jeffrey! Jeffrey!

- Latest in home security. - Get through this, you gotta come past me.

I got a call from Scully, said it was urgent.

I'll ask you to hear me out before you launch any objection.

Mulder, I asked them to pull up everything they could on Diana Fowley.

- I don't have time for this. - She's playing you for a fool.

I know her, Scully. You don't.

You knew her. You don't any more.

I think we can prove that to you.

She took a position in the FBI's foreign counterterrorism unit in 1991.

Seven years in Europe.

Yet there isn't a single piece of information available on her activities in the FBI files.

Hope you got something more than that to indict her with.

Travel records pulled from airline manifests that had been purged from her FBI records.

Extensive movement throughout western Europe.

- Almost weekly trips to and from Tunisia. - For the purpose of what?

That's what we couldn't figure. Until we took a flier and found this.

- Mutual UFO Network logs. - MUFON.

Special Agent Diana Fowley of the FBI was visiting every European chapter,

collecting data on female abductees.

So she's collecting data. Big deal.

- Or hiding it. - Scully, you're reaching.

When I was abducted, a chip was put in my neck,

when I happened upon a MUFON group filled with women who'd had the same experience.

So you're suggesting that Diana is monitoring these abductees and these tests.

You tell me that Cassandra Spender is the critical test subject,

the one who could prove everything, and yet who is watching over her?

Mulder, I can prove what you're saying, or I can disprove it.

But not when Diana Fowley is keeping us from even seeing her.

Mulder, ask yourself why there is no information whatsoever

on Special Agent Diana Fowley,

why she would suddenly happen into your life when you are closer than ever to the truth.

I mean, you ask me to trust no one, and yet you trust her on simple faith.

Cos you've given me no reason here to do otherwise.

Well, then I can't help you any more.

- You're making this personal. - Because it is personal.

Because without the FBI, personal interest is all that I have.

And if you take that away, then there is no reason for me to continue.

Diana?

Diana?

Sorry. Nobody home.

What are you doing here?

- Door was open. I came in. - Interesting company you keep.

No more interesting than your apparent lingerie fetish.

You feeling smug, CGB?

Yeah, I know your name.

I know your game, and I got nothing to lose.

I remember looking over a gun barrel at you once before, Agent Mulder.

You couldn't pull the trigger then. What makes you think you can do it now?

I came here looking for my son.

- Why? - Because he's betrayed me.

He's chosen the wrong side. He's chosen to believe in your cause.

- That presumes my cause is wrong. - It is, Agent Mulder. It is.

I'm not the one using innocent people,

innocent women, as lab rats, trying to create a hybrid, an alien-human hybrid

so that I might save my own sorry ass when they finally come knocking!

- You find that funny?! - Your father was against it too.

Back in '73. The lone dissenter.

But he came to his senses... and gave up your sister Samantha.

He didn't give up my sister. You made him do it.

You're wrong, Agent Mulder. I can't tell you how wrong you are.

How wrong you've always been.

We had agreed to cooperate with the alien colonists