The X-Files

No!

- You're dead. - Go.

- There's others. - (alarm)

Halt!

What are you thinking?

- Where am I? - Wrong answer! What are you thinking?

- I'm thinking about getting outta here. - Wrong answer!

No sleeping!

What are you thinking?

About my son. About his mother.

Wrong answer! What are you thinking?

- What do you want from me? - Wrong answer!

I want answers. You hear me? I want answers!

No sleeping!

Did you hear me?

Yes.

What are you thinking?

- What should I be thinking? - You're a guilty man.

You entered a government facility illegally in search of nonexistent information.

- You failed in every respect. - Yes.

Say it!

I am a guilty man.

I failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crime.

- How long has he been here? - I've been trying to get someone to say.

- Who called you? - Kersh's office.

- Who called them? - I just know that Mulder's being held here.

- What for? - For the murder of a military man.

Mulder.

Dana.

Oh!

Oh, my God!

Are you OK?

Am I OK?

Mulder, I haven't seen you in such a long time.

I was so worried.

It's OK. I'm all right. They're treating me really well in here.

What's happened to you?

Nothing. I'm squared away.

Hey, Walter. It's good to see you, man.

- Have they told you what the charges are? - Yeah, we're clear on that.

- You're clear on what? - My crimes.

- Mulder... - I murdered a man, Dana.

I went looking for something that didn't exist and I made a terrible mistake.

I should be punished severely.

Whatever you were doing, you have the right to a lawyer,

to an inquiry and process of law.

- I don't think you heard me. - Time's up.

- We're going to get you out of here. - How's that? I'm a guilty man.

Time's up. Let's go.

Excuse me.

I don't understand. Why are you helping me?

- Because you can't do this alone. - Let's go.

- You saw him? Mulder? - They've accused him of murder?

- And they have him believing that he did it. - Of murdering who?

- Knowle Rohrer. - Knowle Rohrer?

- It can't be. I watched Knowle Rohrer die. - He can't die. He's a super-soldier.

Mulder sidestepped security at Mount Weather,

where our so-called shadow government is installed.

What about this murder charge?

30 government workers are ready to testify.

Killing a man who can't be killed?

Where are you going?

To beg mercy with the man upstairs.

Come in.

Deputy Director Kersh.

I've just been going over my notes of this whole business. Please, have a seat.

Thank you.

We've both got a problem with this man of yours, Agent Mulder.

Mulder's been a running problem for the FBI, but nothing this serious.

I've been asked by a female agent, Mulder's closest associate,

to beg mercy of the military court,

to give Mulder every consideration based on his good character.

- You've reviewed the charges, yes? - Yes.

There's a charge of murder.

This'd look bad for the marines if it didn't look worse for the FBI.

What does Mulder intend to plead?

You wanted a chance to clear up this mess, Mr Kersh,

and I'm going to give it to you, give it to the FBI.

How?

A fair hearing for your agent by his own agency.

Your prosecutor, yourjudges. Held in my court.

That can't be legal.

- Why do this? - I want a verdict.

A guilty verdict.

This man Mulder has made a lot of enemies. He's a crusader.

And a lot of people do not like the crusade.

- I can't do that. - You'll do it, Deputy Director.

You and I both know there are forces inside the government now

that a man would be foolish to disobey.

Mulder.

Mulder.

I smelled you coming, Clarice.

Dammit, Mulder! It's not funny to see you putting on that act.

That is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.

- Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man. - You're gonna be kissing your ass goodbye.

I kinda gathered that. Right around the 50th brainwashing session.

- Why are they doing this to you? - They're preparing me for my testimony.

Your testimony won't matter with the case they're building.

Not building - rigging.

I don't think you understand the seriousness of the charges.

This isn't some routine wrist-slapping. You're on trial for your life.

My trial's a foregone conclusion. They want me to admit my guilt and help them out.

- What's really on trial here is the truth. - They're saying you killed a man.

Have they produced a body?

You can't produce a body because you can't kill a man who won't die.

Body or not, they've got 30 witnesses ready to testify against you.

Mulder, we'll get you the best lawyer.

To defend a man who believes in aliens against the FBI and the military?

It's never gonna happen. Skinner can defend me.

I can't represent you.

You know all the facts, the government conspiracy. More than that, I trust you.

Mulder...

They can't try me without exposing themselves.

I know what I'm doing.

Whooh! Now it's a party.

Agent Mulder.

- What's the matter? - The military just got back to us.

You ready for this?

I know this is impossible, but they're saying they've got Knowle Rohrer's body.

Mulder, it's me.

- Is it time to go? - No.

That's why I'm here.

Mulder, I need you to talk to me...

confide in me...

or we'll lose.

We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.

You're scaring me.

Mulder, I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm gonna lose you again.

I know what I'm doing.

Well...

whatever you're doing...

you have no idea how much has already been lost,

what I've had to do.

I do know.

Skinner told me.

Our son, Mulder.

I gave him up.

Our son.

I was so afraid you could never forgive me.

I know you had no choice.

I just missed both of you so much.

God! Where have you been?

Where have you been hiding?

In New Mexico.

Doing what?

Looking for the truth.

You found something, didn't you?

What did you find?

I can't tell you.

You found something in that facility.

That's what you were doing, right?

- Mulder, what did you find out there? - Scully, I can't tell you.

That doesn't make sense.

You gotta trust me, Scully.

I know things it's better you don't.

Assistant Director Skinner.

Special Agent Kallenbrunner. I'll be handling the prosecution.

I'm out of the LA field office.

- How'd you get this assignment? - I was a federal prosecutor. And you?

That's a good question.

Let's bring in the defendant.

This proceeding is called to order.

- Mr Kallenbrunner, you may proceed. - I have no witnesses to call.

I will submit to the court, however, sworn testimony of 30 people who saw the crime.

Assistant Director.

I move to dismiss these proceedings on the grounds that it is not a fair trial.

I'm not a lawyer, you're not a judge, this is not a court of law.

This is a military court of law. Familiarise yourself with title 10 of the US Code.

- But I suggest you call a witness. - Then I move to delay this trial.

My central witness, Marita Covarrubias, works for the UN and I can't locate her.

And I've received no help from the US government.

I have to deny that request. Do you have another witness, Mr Skinner?

I'll call a witness, but I do so under protest.

Both the panel's judgments and rulings are sovereign.

- There is no record. - Excuse me?

This isn't a secret tribunal, as you so kindly informed me. It's a court of law.

Military court of law, Mr Skinner.

It's OK. Try your case.

Please state your name for the court.

My name is Dana Katherine Scully.

I was assigned nine years ago to the X-Files to spy on Agent Mulder,

whose methods the FBI distrusted.

Assigned not just as an agent but as a medical doctor, a scientist.

And, as a serious scientist, you came to believe in Agent Mulder's theories.

I came to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life

and in a conspiracy inside the government to keep their existence a secret.

The proof was overwhelming. It was even scientifically undeniable.

I believe, as do many respected scientists,

that life came to earth millions of years ago from a meteor or a rock from Mars.

So what you're saying is life, human life, is extraterrestrial by definition.

Objection. What does this nonsense have to do with Mulder murdering a man?

Agent Scully will prove a conspiracy exists to deny the existence of extraterrestrials.

You are not here proving government conspiracies, Mr Skinner.

- You are here to defend Fox Mulder. - And I'm trying to do that.

It's your case, Mr Skinner.

So a meteor crashed to earth.

But along with the biological building blocks, there was something else.

An alien virus.

I believe there was a virus which thrived here prehistorically.

I believe that virus infected early man and transformed his physiology.