The X-Files

Easy there, hon.

You're cleaning so hard I'm afraid you're gonna stick the dog in the dishwasher.

Hey.

Come on, now, quit it.

This is what we dreamed about.

What we prayed for.

I know. I'm sorry.

- I just can't stop wondering why. - Hm?

Why give up a child? Give it up to strangers?

God has his reason and his ways.

Mr and Mrs Van De Kamp?

Hi.

This was so hard to find.

I'm so sorry, but there's a page here that didn't get signed.

If I can just get you to do that now? Here we go.

- Right there. - Thanks.

I keep asking myself a question.

I know there's been a medical exam.

But are you sure he's OK?

- Now, honey... - Well, why would the mother give him up?

You should understand this was a life choice by a single mother.

And a terribly difficult decision for her.

But I can say it was only for the good of the child.

I want you to meet William.

William was a bullfrog

Was a good friend of mine

Never understood a single word he said

- But I helped him drink his wine - (laboured breathing)

And it must have been some mighty fine wine

Joy to the world

All the boys and girls

- Joy to the fishes. .. - (clatter)

In the deep blue sea

Joy to you and me

If I were the king of the world...

1,492.

1,493.

20.

They don't pay me enough.

Right there! Hands in the air!

Turn around and step forward.

Step forward!

Let's go, tough guy. All the way down.

Agent Reyes.

Agent Scully.

Do we know who he is?

He says his name is Miller, but he has no identification on him.

Beyond that we don't know a lot.

Why are the lights off?

- He wouldn't speak with them on. - What do you mean?

If you saw him in the light you'd understand. Something's wrong with his face.

It's been severely burned, by fire or maybe acid.

And he says he knows me?

And that he's afraid.

A victim of what he calls the alien conspiracy.

You won't talk to me. You gonna talk to her, Mr Miller?

If she'll help me and protect me.

Better hope she's feeling more charitable than I am, partner.

Agent Scully, he's under arrest for assaulting a federal officer.

I explained the penalties but he still refuses a lawyer.

- How did he get in the building? - We found a card key on him.

He says it was given to him by Fox Mulder.

- His name's Miller? - Daniel Miller, of Fredericksburg.

Gave us an address but we're still working on the confirmation.

- What are you doing here? - I came here to find answers.

- Answers to what? - To this.

What they did to me.

From your scarring it appears that you've been burned.

Are you claiming someone burned you and there is evidence here to incriminate them?

According to Fox Mulder, the men who did this are part of a government conspiracy.

Go on.

You know who these men are.

Did Mulder tell you that too?

When?

If I were to tell you that, you might use the information to find him.

Mulder doesn't wanna be found.

When I searched him, I found those X-Files stuffed inside his clothes.

- You know who that is? - It's his sister.

- Whose? - Mulder's.

She was abducted from her home when she was a little girl.

Part of this same government conspiracy.

You seem to know a lot, Mr Miller.

It gives an impression either that you are telling the truth

or you just want us to believe that you are.

If I thought you'd believe me, I wouldn't have snuck in here.

Agent Doggett?

Would you please arrange the transfer of this man to Quantico?

I'd like to personally examine his injuries.

From the tissue quality, your scarring is fairly recent.

The extent of it is severe, but it's not from burning or chemicals.

No.

What is it, then?

Mr Miller?

I was injected.

Injected with what?

I don't know. It burned.

Throughout my whole body, inside and out.

Agent Scully? Agent Reyes?

I need to speak to you.

What is it, Agent Doggett?

I've been out runnin' this man's supposed ID.

There are seven Daniel Millers in Fredericksburg. But he isn't one of 'em.

Well, then, who is he?

Igotanidea.

But you're not gonna believe it.

Well, who is he?

You asked him how he got in the FBI, how he knows what he knows?

He said he contacted Agent Mulder, that Mulder told him...

I don't think so. I don't think Mulder told him anything.

I think that how he got in here and the reason he knows what he knows

is because that man in there is Mulder.

That's ridiculous.

- It's absurd. - Is it?

What is true and what we want to be true...

aren't always the same.

I'm telling you, that's not Mulder.

I hope you prove me wrong.

Open your mouth, sir. I need to look at your dental work.

You're not gonna tell me I need braces, are you?

Now your eyes.

Are you going to help me?

I don't know how I can.

Help me make them pay for this.

You refer to them as if I know them, or know where they are.

They did terrible things to you, too,

when you were abducted.

Sir, you've given us a false name.

We know that your name is not Daniel Miller.

No, it's not.

What is it?

I can't say.

Well, why lie to us if you want us to help you?

There are people here at the FBI who would kill me if they knew I was being held here.

The same people who would kill Mulder.

- You can put your clothes back on now. - I'm asking for your help.

But I might be able to help you.

How can you help me?

You're looking for answers too.

We're both looking for answers.

It's not him.

- It's not Mulder. - You're absolutely sure of that?

Yes.

And so will we all be once you bring me back his DNA test.

What do we do with him now?

Admittedly he's lying about who he is, but the danger to him may be real.

We need to figure out what he wants, then see if he lies about that too.

How are we gonna do that?

First we need to quietly get him back to DC.

To FBI headquarters.

You came here looking for something. What is it that you hoped to find?

I didn't find it.

You stole several files pertaining to the 1973 abduction of Mulder's sister.

But yet you say there's danger to your life right now.

The conspiracy to keep the truth about aliens from the American public,

all but destroyed a few years ago,

has given rise to a new conspiracy in the government now,

by men who are alien themselves.

And what does this have to do with you?

What you can see they did to me

was a failed attempt to turn me into one of these alien men.

I was a guinea pig, a test subject.

And now I want to expose their evil plans.

What plans are those?

To do this to you.

To everyone.

Mulder said there were files here.

Cases like mine. He gave me case numbers but I don't see them. They're not here.

Someone's already removed them.

Yes.

Who?

This is what you're looking for.

You trust me.

Thank you.

- What are you doing? - Proving Agent Doggett wrong,

that that's not Mulder in there.

How? I don't understand.

Mulder and I agreed to take those files out of the office

and leave them here for safekeeping.

Mulder would have known where they were, and that man in there didn't.

What are you doing? Get away from the crib!

He was crying.

It's none of your business.

I'm sorry.

I'd heard so much about William. Mulder told me how he missed him.

Well, if that's true, then where the hell is he?

- Tell me where he is! - You don't wanna know.

I have to know!

- He's in pain. Terrible pain. - Then let me go to him.

- There's nothing you can do. - That's not for you to decide.

You know as well as I that it's Mulder's decision. I... He begged me to honour it.

For your safety, and William's.

Here, Dana, let me take him for you.

No.

Please.

May I?

I wanna hold him.

- Mr Miller... - No, it's important I do this.

I want to hold him, for Mulder.

He's so beautiful.

Assistant Director. You said you'd spoken to the lab?