The X-Files

I have lived with a fragile faith built on vague memories...

...from an experience that I could neither prove nor explain.

When I was 12, my sister was taken from me.

Taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial.

This belief sustained me...

...fuelling a quest for truths that were as elusive as the memory itself.

To believe so passionately was not without sacrifice, ...

...but I always accepted the risks -

...to my career, my reputation, my relationships, to life itself.

Easy.

He's an FBI agent. His name's Mulder.

Come on, let's go!

Get a frostbite bay, stat!

Let's get ready, please!

- Basal temp's 86°. - Right eye dilated. Left eye dilated.

All right, let's get him into that tub or we'll lose him.

On three. One, two, three.

- Agent Mulder was brought here tonight. - This is an authorised area.

- I'm a federal agent. - Hold on! We need to see some ID.

There is no time for this. A man is dying.

What happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief.

If I should die now, it will be with a certainty that my faith has been righteous.

And if larger mysteries are revealed...

...I will already know the answer to the question that has driven me here.

That there is intelligent life in the universe other than our own.

That they are here among us. And that they have begun to colonise.

I'm Dana Scully, his partner. What are his vitals?

- He's suffering from extreme hypothermia. - No! Get him out of the tub.

- He's lost all his body heat. - If you keep him in there, you'll kill him.

The cold is what's keeping him alive.

His heart stopped!

Get me one amp of epinephrine and a cannula.

You gotta see this, Cap. We got a UFO or something buzzing us. Right up here.

It's been up there for about 20 minutes.

- Could be a helicopter. - Not the way it flew over us.

It's coming at us again.

It's gonna crash.

Reverse engine!

We're going after it.

Two days ago, the crew of an ice cutter thought they had seen a UFO...

...when a strange aircraft plunged into the Beaufort Sea.

Later they recovered what is believed to be a Russian fighter pilot from the water...

...where he miraculously survived the extreme Arctic temperatures.

The man was airlifted to a hospital in Alaska,

where he was listed in stable condition.

But while authorities have been trying to determine who he is...

...we've learned that he has walked out of the hospital and is now listed as missing.

Reporting from our field office...

- Where is he? - Agh! I don't know.

- I've been looking for you. - I was down the street.

Someone fired more shots at the White House.

You gotta wonder when even the president has to worry about drive-by shootings.

What are you working on?

I found these in my e-mail. Three obituaries.

Sent by whom?

- Obviously somebody that knows me. - Why?

The deceased are Dr Landon Prince of Scranton, Pennsylvania...

...Dr Dale Gayhart of New York City...

...and Dr Harvey Buchanon of Tea Neck, New Jersey.

All worked in abortion clinics. They died in arson fires.

- Sounds like militant right-to-lifers. - Sounds like it.

- Why send them to you? - It's taken me all morning to figure that out.

What'd you find?

This is the latest victim - Dr Landon Prince.

And these are the other two victims. Drs Gayhart... and Buchanon.

- Triplets? - Nope. I can't find any blood connection.

In fact, I can't find any records on them at all.

It's as if, before they died, they never existed.

What?

Dr Prince performed legal clinical abortions...

...which has its own occupational hazards these days.

You don't know any more about him?

He went about his work quietly. No family's come forward.

What about the man you arrested? This preacher?

Reverend Calvin Sistrunk.

He's got a motive. He's threatened these abortion docs before.

He was carrying this when we arrested him.

We're hoping for an indictment.

As soon as you locate Dr Prince's remains.

Yes. But that fact hasn't been released.

There have been two identical fire deaths. Neither body's been found.

We're certain he was in the building. His car was in the parking lot.

We found his keys where the fire was started.

He's been missing since the incident.

Could be we'll just be finding teeth and bone.

Good afternoon!

Reverend Sistrunk, these are Agents Scully and Mulder. They want to ask you...

If Dr Prince burns in hell's fire for his murder of the unborn?

If his damnation is God's will?

- Is that what you think, Reverend? - I guess it's a question of opinion.

In my opinion, Dr Prince's killer will be linked to two other murders.

How do you feel about that?

There are those who endorse the killing of the heathen sinner in God's name.

But I am not one of them.

Have you been to New York or New Jersey recently?

No, sir.

This clipping, where'd you get it?

From the newspaper. Obviously, more of God's soldiers are seeking this man.

- Which newspaper? - The local paper up in Binghamton.

Yeah, I remember this one. The man who placed this paid cash.

- Would you recognise his face? - Might.

No. That's not him.

- Do you have his name or address? - No, we don't. He wouldn't sign anything.

In fact, he called to place that ad a second week...

...so we did, but... he never came back to pay.

Thank you.

I've got a bad feeling about this case.

- What do you mean? - Nothing about it makes sense.

We've got three deaths of identical victims. No bodies, a non-suspect.

Sounds just like an X-File.

You don't know who sent you that information. We've been set up before.

If we were being set up, would we be given this little to go on?

There's something bigger here, Scully. I'll bet there are more of these guys.

- More victims? - Unless we get to them first.

The deaths follow a pattern. New Jersey, New York, Scranton...

Then an ad is placed here in Binghamton looking for a man exactly like the others.

The killer's moving in a northerly direction.

Uh... Excuse me.

Excuse me.

The number in the ad, would that be a voice mail?

Yes.

- How would you access that? - Well, you'd start by paying the bill.

Dial the number, then press 1236.

There's 24 messages responding to the ad.

First caller's seen the man in the photo in Syracuse.

That's north.

- Special Agent Weiss. - This is Agent Mulder.

- I need to enlist your help. - Shoot.

I'm with Agent Scully. We believe a man in your area may be in danger.

His name is Dr Aaron Baker. He's living in Syracuse.

We need you to sit on him until we can get there.

You got it. I'll call you back with an address as soon as I track him down.

Your plans will not succeed.

Federal agent. Drop your weapon. I said drop it!

What the hell...?

- Agent Mulder? - Yes. Agent Weiss?

Yes, sir.

- Did you find Dr Baker? - No, I'm afraid not.

No one's home. There's two weeks' mail in the mailbox.

We may be too late. We should take a look around anyway.

Not much to see.

- Agent Mulder has arrived. - Send him right in.

- Agent Mulder, please have a seat. - I'm sorry I'm late. I just flew in.

- From? - Syracuse.

Where you were doing what?

Agent Scully and I were following up a lead.

- Did anyone authorise this investigation? - No, sir.

- Do you have paperwork on this case? - No, sir.

We had an understanding with respect to the X-Files.

Agent Mulder, the people I answer to aren't quite so understanding.

Particularly when a field agent is found dead.

What?

Special Agent Barrett Weiss, Syracuse office.

His body was found in the trunk of a car in front of a house that you sent him to.

It's impossible. I spoke to Agent Weiss at the house.

Save it for your report!

Until this matter is cleared up, your butt and mine are in a sling!

And your investigation, official or otherwise, is terminated.

Don't underestimate the seriousness of this, Agent Mulder. A man is dead.

I want a full accounting on my desk in the morning.

- Mulder. - (Scully) Mulder, it's me.

- Where are you? - I'm at home.

- Agent Weiss is dead, Scully. - What?

He was killed and Skinner hit the roof. We're grounded until he gets a full accounting.

I just wish I knew what the hell was going on.

- Have you checked your e-mail, Mulder? - No. Why?

I received something unsettling and I wondered if you'd gotten it, too.

- What is it? - It's a digitally-scanned photograph.

There's another one, Mulder. His name is Dr James Dickens.

- And, Mulder... - Yeah.

He's right here in Washington.

Stay where you are, Scully. I'll pick you up.

Agent Mulder?

My name is Ambrose Chapel.

I work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

I need to talk to you about the case you're working on.

- What case is that? - The murder of certain identical victims.

I have a story to tell, Agent Mulder. Believe me, you wanna hear it.

We've known of their existence for a decade.

We found out they were in the country last year.

Who were they?

Vague intelligence reports reveal that, early in the Cold War...

...Soviet scientists stumbled on a genetic anomaly in sets of identical twins.

They isolated the DNA material that gave the twins their facial features, hair colour...

...and they were able to reproduce it.

- Are you saying these men are clones? - By all outward appearances.

How did they get here?

The programme went by the code name "Gregor" - the name given to every clone.

We believe the original Gregor came here in the mid-'70s on a German passport.

Using that same document, they were able to bring a small cadre of clones in...

...several of which are in strategic positions in the medical establishment.

For what purpose?

In the event of war, they would mobilise simultaneously across the US...

...to contaminate blood supplies, sabotage pharmaceutical factories.

Essentially, destroy the country's immune system.

If you've known about this for a year, why hasn't anything been done?

Well, this is where the story gets perhaps even more incredible.

Secretly, someone is allowing the Gregors to be systematically eliminated...

...by a man who I believe is a Russian spy-killer...

...in exchange for the suppression of the programme's existence...