The X-Files

..rocked New Mexico. Centred under the desert...

...the 5.6 tremor was felt as far away south as Corona and Roswell.

- Where are you going? - Riding. I'll be back in a few hours.

Eric.

Leave the snakes alone today.

They'll be angry and afraid.

I found something. You better come see.

Robert, come home right now!

What do you think it is?

I don't know.

What did he say?

He said it should be returned.

They will be coming.

You bitch!

Beautiful!

Avanti.

Yes?

Ja.

Gut.

Gentlemen... That was the phone call I never wanted to get.

- Check the bedroom. - Clear!

- What are you doing here? - Can we talk inside?

I'm not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night.

Really not in the mood for the Three Stooges.

- I don't think we've been followed. - Who would follow you?

A multinational black ops unit, code-named Garnet.

Trained killers, School of the Americas alumni.

Have you been defacing library books again?

They don't want us.

- They want him. - Kenneth Soona?

- We think that's his real name. - You've heard us call him "The Thinker".

What did he do?

Hacked into the Defense Department computer system.

- Why? - The Thinker's an anarchist and a snoop.

Whatever he got into has made him a very wanted man.

Customs and Immigration are on full alert. Every port of egress is closed.

- Why are you coming to me? - In his last communiqué...

...the Thinker named a meeting place and a three-hour time window.

He asked specifically for you.

The problem is he may already be dead.

- What happened? - She shot her husband. Married 30 years.

- Like she went crazy. - OK, go back to your apartments.

We'll handle this. Excuse me, sir.

Weirdness.

I don't want you to know my real name.

I don't think it's that important that you know.

Sounds like a line I used in a bar once.

I'm sorry about the wait, but I got this ninja party shagging my butt.

Why? What have you got?

If I'm correct, I got the original Defense Department's UFO intelligence files.

- Everything from 1940s and up. - Everything?

- Everything. Roswell, MJ12, and beyond. - You've read them?

Not entirely. I downloaded all I could and then I split.

I knew these guys were gonna be after me.

What makes you think they know who you are?

I didn't take any precautions. I mean, I didn't even expect to get inside!

They've always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me?

I want the truth. And I want you to promise

that those rat bastards answer to the people.

- Mulder, Skinner's looking for you. - Come in and lock the door.

- Why? What's going on? - Do you know the Ten Commandments?

- You want me to recite them? - Just the one about obeying the Sabbath.

God made heaven and earth, but didn't tell anybody about his side projects.

- What are you talking about? - The biggest lie of all.

- What is this? - The holy grail.

The original Defense Department files.

Evidence that the government has known about extraterrestrials for 50 years.

- Where did you get this? - Your friendly neighbourhood anarchist.

No. I don't believe this.

This is just gibberish.

Dammit! I'm so sick of this crap!

BS and double talk.

I can't believe this.

- Mulder, this may not be gibberish. - It's a joke, Scully. It's a bad joke!

I think it's just encrypted and I think I recognise it.

It looks like Navajo. It was used during World War ll.

It was the only code the Japanese couldn't break.

- I remember the long strings of consonants. - Well, can you find out?

- Only a handful of people can decipher it. - Then find one of them.

Mulder.

- Are you OK? - Yeah. I just haven't been sleeping.

Sir?

- Agent Mulder, I need to speak with you. - About?

- In my office. - Why? Is it another jerk-off assignment...

...where I end up doing the government's dirty work?

It's about a rumour that you may be in receipt of some sensitive files.

- I don't know anything about that. - Agent Mulder, listen...

I'm talking to you...

Are we finished, Agent Mulder?

Are we done?

We're done.

- You wanted to see me, sir? - Yes, Agent Scully. Please have a seat.

Agent Scully?

You heard about the incident here in the hallway yesterday?

Yes, sir.

Do you have any explanation as to Agent Mulder's bizarre behaviour?

No, sir.

Agent Mulder told me he was having trouble sleeping.

Do you think Agent Mulder confides in you, Agent Scully?

- Of course. He's my partner. - Your partner?

Weren't you assigned to Agent Mulder to debunk his work?

Yes, sir. A year and a half ago.

I've been writing reports stating the validity of Agent Mulder's work on the X-Files.

- Would you lie to protect him? - Am I being accused of lying?

Agent Mulder has been notified of a disciplinary hearing.

If there's something we learn then that you haven't stated here today...

...you may be subject to the same summary action.

What action is that?

Dismissal without chance of reinstatement.

Is that all, sir?

Yes, Agent Scully. Thank you.

Hello, Bill.

- What are you doing here? - I've come on some pressing business.

- We had agreed you would never... - That was a long time ago.

There have been unforeseen events.

No one was supposed to know.

Who could have predicted the future, Bill?

That the computers you and I only dreamed of would be home appliances...

- ...capable of technical espionage. - The files should have been destroyed.

They should have, but they weren't. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.

How do you know my son has them?

The man who stole them has come forward.

Oh, God.

As always, we maintain plausible denial.

The files are only as real as their possible authentication.

- My name is in those files. - The files have been encrypted.

We have a certain luxury of time.

We endeavoured to prevent that fact from ever coming to light.

You wouldn't... harm him?

I've protected him this long, haven't I?

He's been provident in the alliances he's created.

The last thing we need is a martyr or a crusade.

But if he should... learn of my involvement?

You're your own man, Bill. You always have been.

But I strongly encourage you in that event...

...to deny everything.

It's good to see you again, Bill.

You look well.

You didn't answer your door.

I took a pill.

- I couldn't find you at work. I was worried. - I came home.

I must be running a fever.

Maybe it's the threat of being burned at the stake.

They called me in today.

- What did you tell them? - That nothing was wrong.

You told them the truth, then.

You opened the door for them. They're just looking for a reason.

OK. I'll say I'm sorry.

Mulder, these files, um... Who knows you have them?

- Why? - Because I had to lie today.

And I put my job in jeopardy in order to do so.

- If they find out... - How would they find out?

Maybe they already know.

The question is... is it worth it?

- Is it worth risking everything? - I'll tell you when I know what's on it.

Now just tell me who I can talk to about breaking that code.

I'm meeting with somebody in an hour.

I might know something later tonight.

I just need some kind of assurance that they won't let us hang ourselves with this.

That I'm doing the right thing.

I'll try to find out.

I need to know one more thing, Mulder.

Why did you attack Skinner?

I've thought about that, Scully.

I honestly can't say.

- This is all you have? - Currently.

There are words I recognise, but you'll need a code talker to make any sense of this.

I know a man who might help. I can have him contact you.

Yeah, thank you. Could you tell me which words you do recognise?

This word... it means goods, merchandise.

And this one means vaccination.

They're both modern words, which is why they stand out.

Thank you. You've been very helpful.

Mulder.

Fox, this is your father. I need to see you right away.

- Where are you? - I'm at home. How soon can you be here?

Fox, it's very important.

Mulder?

- Fox. - Dad.

What is it, Dad?

Come in.

It's...

It's so clear now. Simple.

It was so complicated then.

The choices that needed to be made.

What choices, Dad?

You're a smart boy, Fox.

You're smarter than I ever was.

About what?

Your politics are yours.

You have never thrown in.

The minute you do that, their doctrines become yours.

And you can be held responsible.

You're talking about the State Department.

You're going to learn of things, Fox.

You're going to hear the words.

And they'll come to make sense to you.

What words?

The merchandise.

Look, I, um...