The X-Files

We live in a darkness of our own making,

blind to a habitant world all but unseen by us.

A world of beings travelling through time and space

imaginable to us only as flights of fancy.

Who are these beings we dare to imagine, but fear to accept?

What dark work goes on inside their impossible machines,

cloaked from us by invisible forces?

If they know our secrets,

why can't we know theirs?

Stop it, please. No!

Stop it. Let me go.

- Let me go. - (man) Let the boy go!

Let him go, Mulder!

Let him go, or I will be compelled to use my weapon.

I don't want to do that. I don't want to shoot.

Now, are you armed?

Come on, damn it. This is just stupid.

Don't turn this into a movie. Just tell me if you've got a gun.

It's too hot for this BS!

All right, then, lie down. Lie down on the ground.

Keep your hands out. Lay down on your belly there.

For crying out loud, what are you doing?

Agent Mulder, stay there!

He went over! Over the edge!

Who?

Mulder.

All right. I'll talk to Scully. You guys head back to the school.

Where is he? Where's Mulder?

- I don't know. - You don't know?

An agent said on the radio you saw him.

I saw him back right off that cliff and I saw him fall right over there.

- (Skinner) Then where is he? - Gone.

- Come on. He can't be gone. - He can't be, but he is.

That cliff there? He fell from there?

It's impossible, a fall like that.

A cop sees things. A man drops five stories, dusts his head off and goes back to work.

An old lady gets shot in a restaurant, plucks the slug out of her egg foo yung.

But even if Mulder survives this, what he does then is too much.

You got your point of impact there, clear and identifiable.

And a set of tracks here leading down to the wash.

Look at these tracks. What do you see?

Mulder was running.

- It wasn't Mulder. - That's the one thing I'm sure of.

It may have looked like Mulder, but it wasn't Mulder.

I told you I knew Mulder.

OK, maybe I didn't know him that well.

But I know who was up there, and it was Fox Mulder.

I'm sure it did look like Mulder and you have every reason to believe it was him.

But it was not Mulder.

I told you that I've seen things, things that I can't explain.

Well, I have seen what looks like a man transform into another man.

What looks like a man, but who's not a man?

- So what is he? - You don't wanna know.

If he's not a man, what the hell is he?

Don't turn your back on me. I'm asking you a legitimate question.

He's alien.

- He's a bounty hunter. - Looking to collect a bounty on...?

On Gibson Praise...

because he's part alien.

He's a human anomaly.

This alien bounty hunter disguised himself as Mulder to come out here and grab the boy?

To take him back to his ship, where we believe Mulder is.

You know, Agent Scully, you're starting to remind me a lot of Agent Mulder yourself.

Well, then, you explain it to me.

If it's true or possible that there's someone like this out there, this bounty hunter,

he could just become anyone. You, me, any damn one of us.

I think that it is true.

And possible.

And wherever Mulder is right now...

he better damn well be smiling.

Is this authorised?

Right. They're here.

- Any sign of him, of Mulder? - Not according to these people.

We went through the school.

- You're better than this. - Sir?

He's gotta be here somewhere. Let's search the school again.

Hello?

Sorry. I thought you were...

I thought they'd cleared you out of here.

Find something?

No. Let's keep looking.

- Administration building is clear. - Copy. Check it again.

I want to know how Doggett got here. How did he even know where we were going?

I don't know, but he'll turn this place upside down looking for the wrong person.

- What happened to Gibson Praise? - Whatever happened to him, he's long gone.

Wherever he is, he's three steps ahead of us.

We've got a pair of eyeballs on us. Start walking. I'll be behind you.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

You shouldn't have come here.

You shouldn't have come. You'll lead them to me.

I'm here to protect you, Gibson.

I know you know that's the truth.

I know you know my thoughts.

I know they took the man you work with - Mulder.

And now they've come to take me.

The only reason they wanna take you, Gibson, is because you're a special boy.

They wanna take you because of what you are.

I'm sorry. I didn't know that someone was following me.

My friend Thea knows. She's the only one at school I've told.

She says the FBI is looking for me, too. She's afraid for me.

She has a right to be afraid. We don't know who to trust now.

- I fell when I was running away. - You might have broken it.

If they find me, they'll take me. I know it. I've always known it.

I'm gonna make you a splint, Gibson, OK?

I can set your leg, but I'm gonna need a car to get you out of here.

I'm gonna come back for you. I promise.

I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you.

You said that to me once before.

Yeah? Deputy director for you.

- This is John Doggett. - I'm getting reports from Arizona...

- Yes, sir. - ..that you found Agent Mulder.

Somebodyjumped the gun on that. I saw him, but I...

What do you mean you saw him?

What the hell is going on out there?

I've got local SAR, a rolling ground cordon and an eye in the sky. We're on top of it.

How does the FBI find a man

and then lose him in the middle of the desert?

Cos I'd like to know.

- Are you there? - Yeah, I heard the question.

I put you in charge out there.

Now do the damn job!

This amuse you? I amuse you?

No. ltjust made sense to me.

How you found your way here, who led you to Gibson.

- You think I was spying on you? - No, but I think our new deputy director was.

You're being made a pawn in a rigged game.

You painted me the picture. Now put it in a frame.

All right.

You got a good rep, Agent Doggett. You don't compromise, you don't quit.

You're a damned good FBI agent.

Lot of guys put you in the director's chair one day.

Which is why you've been set up to fail.

No amount of rolling cordons or eyes in the sky will turn up Mulder.

It's just the wrong approach.

It's not a question of approach. It's the only approach I got.

The only way you're gonna find Mulder is to give in to the truth.

To listen to Scully.

But even then, say you do find him,

even then you lose.

You put anything about aliens or UFOs or alien bounty hunters in your report,

Kersh will ruin you.

I'm betting that was his plan.

Is Agent Scully here?

Where's Agent Scully?

I need someone who's with Agent Scully to put her on a radio.

Someone with Agent Scully.

Anyone got a 20 on Agent Scully?

Is anyone out there with her?

- I'm with Agent Scully. - Then who's this?

Go for Agent Scully.

What?

Give me the radio.

- You're with Scully? - Across the room from her.

From who? From me?

Where?

- What room? Where are you? - Bunkhouse.

We're in the dorm.

Tell him to hold her. Tell him not to let her out of his sight!

Hold Scully. We're coming to you.

Agent Scully!

Hey!

There she is!

Do you see her?

- Where did she go? Did you see her? - No.

She ran right back here!