The X-Files

Excuse me. You want that warmed up?

No, but I'll buy another one if you leave me alone.

We'll see about that.

Eight ball.

Yeah. hello, Jackson.

How'd you get this number? What do you care?

Your partner, Kenny Slater, he took your money, didn't he?

I want to help you, Jackson. Help me what?

Slater's in the metro diner.

Fourteenth and Arlington.

He's in Florida by now, man. Jamaica or Cuba.

No, he's here, in the metro diner.

Fourteenth and Arlington.

Fourteenth and Arlington.

It's Kenny. The fool's come back.

the men who took your product Friday night are in the metro diner.

Fourteenth and Arlington.

#

Spanish jack is in the metro diner. Fourteenth and Arlington.

I understand you wish to speak with him.

Fourteenth and Arlington.

Boyce. Pico Salazar's in the metro diner.

Salazar? Who is this? Fourteenth and Arlington.

Sharper than a serpent's tooth...

To have a thankless child.

Now you know what's coming,

And there's nothing you can do.

You won't feel a thing.

U.S. Marshals! On the floor!

- No! - Down! Down!

No!

X-Files Season 5 Episode 11 - Kill Switch

Charles Figgis, ten-Year veteran of the U.S. Marshal's service.

Multiple gunshot wounds. High-Speed Teflon rounds.

His partner, Gerald Boyce, was D.O.A. at Mercy General.

Tried to catch a nine-Millimeter slug in his teeth.

Looks like they crashed the wrong party.

Figgis and Boyce had radioed in that they were coming to apprehend Pico Salazar.

Pico Salazar?

The Colombia cartel's banking liaison.

Salazar escaped from federal custody three months ago.

Boyce and Figgis were on the offender transport squad that lost them.

They took his escape personally.

A phone tip told them that Salazar was going to be here tonight.

A foreign national with his kind of connections?

What would he be doing here, let alone in the country?

I don't think he is, or was.

But there were a lot of very photogenic gentlemen who were.

Mulder, these are street-Level coke dealers.

Minor wholesalers at most. Yeah.

Not the type you'd expect to associate with a cartel boss.

What would they be doing here?

Maybe it was for the pie.

It's 2:45 in the morning.

You mind telling me what it is we're supposed to be looking for?

- Donald Gelman. - Who?

Donald Gelman, silicon valley software pioneer.

He's been missing since 1979. And you recognize him?

He invented the internet.

He didn't quite invent it, but he's a Silicon Valley folk hero.

He was writing internet software even before there was an internet.

Why have I never heard of him? On the eve of the deal...

That was gonna set him up as another Bill Gates,

He went hiking and said he'd think about it; never came back.

I still don't see the connection.

Maybe that's the point.

Folks, I'm gonna have to ask you to stay back, please.

So, why was Gelman in there?

I think someone obviously wanted him dead.

You think this was a hit on him?

Eight unconnected dealers all in the same place at the same time?

All tipped off by phone, looking for somebody?

Last call goes to the marshals. They arrive; the place explodes.

Gelman dies in the cross fire. It's genius.

Mulder, did you take a look at him back there?

A man who was dying. His body was a bag of bones.

When you talk about Gelman, you want to kill the brain, not the body.

- Mulder, that's evidence. - Gee, I hope so.

#

# Heavenly shades of night are falling #

# It's twilight time #

# Out of the mist your voice is calling #

# It's twilight time #

# When purple-Colored curtains mark the end of day #

Jobs and Wozniak at apple,

Gates and Allen writing basic,

The homebrew computer club's first meetings-- Gelman was there.

Now they're power brokers and billionaires.

Back then, they were just...

- Inspired nerds. - All except Gelman.

Gelman was a part of the group but not one of them.

At 28, he was the old man.

- Some say the brightest of all. - He wrote the earliest viruses.

And found himself under investigation by the N.S.A.

Is that why he disappeared? Gelman?

Gelman was a visionary, not a capitalist. A subversive.

This is a "one-of."

I've never seen anything like it.

- Gelman built this? - That may be what got him killed.

Heavy casualty. A brother goes down.

I found this in his CD-Rom drive.

- What is it? - "Twilight time."

# Together at last at twilight time #

We're up against 64-Bit encryption,

A password that's a random sequence of 12 symbols.

Gelman's got this baby sealed tight.

this CD has some kind of enhanced background data.

Lots of code. Maybe a program he designed.

What for?

Anyone think to check his e- Mail?

"David missing. Fear the worst.

The hunted has become the hunter."

- "Invisigoth"? - Could be an address.

Seven digits.

An alphanumeric string of four.

That's standard I.D. A shipping container.

There must be a thousand containers here.

And in no particular order.

Frohike says this place is really proud of its accurate tracking.

If not in their computer security.

Yeah.

Should be straight ahead. Three rows and to the right.

#

Sounds like somebody's home. -#

F.B.I.!

- Mulder? - I'm all right. Go. Enter.

Stop! F.B.I.!

F.B.I.! Stop or I'll shoot!

Thank you.

Home sweet home.

- Are you invisigoth? - How did you find me?

Donald Gelman's mailbox. You left a return address.

You know where Donald is? Let us ask the questions.

- Why don't you bite me? - Hey.

Like, what you're doing here and what all this stuff is.

Why would I tell you, even if you could understand?

You just committed felony assault on a federal agent, followed by resisting arrest.

Arrest for what? Unless you got a warrant, you just busted in here...

And seriously violated a buttload of my constitutional rights.

- We had just cause to come in. -

Now we've got just cause to get out.

- What is that? - A surveillance module that monitors computing processes.

- It's locking on. - What is?

A D.O.D. satellite.

Warp upgrade orbital weapons platform. We gotta get out of here.

- A weapons platform? - Scully?

That thing has optical systems that can read headlines on a newspaper.

Scully-- It's targeting us!

the Department of Defense wants to kill you?

No, it's controlling their satellite. You're out of your mind.

Scully, we gotta get out of here right now.

Mulder, this is absurd!

- It's locked. Give me the keys. - Mulder!

We're all gonna die! Give me the keys!

- - Come on!

Get in the car, Scully.

No more screwing around.

We need a name. Your real name.

Invisigoth. You want my address?

It's T-O-A-S-T.

When you said "it" was targeting us back there, you meant an artificial intelligence.

Donald Gelman was trying to create ascension A.I.,

A program with its own consciousness.

He succeeded, didn't he?

Donald wrote an interlocking sequence of viruses 15 years ago.

- It got loose on the net. - What do you mean, "got loose"?

He let it loose so it could evolve in its natural environment.

- Urschleimin silicon. - Urschleimin silicon?

The primordial slime. The ooze out of which all life evolved.

Except this time, it's artificial slime, artificial life.

One man alone achieving the equivalent of Copernicus, Magellan and Darwin.

What was your role in all this? Were you the bass player?

Autometa theory, M.I.T, '95.

Postdoc, the Santa Fe institute.

Headhunted to Kobayashi my junior year.

Then Donald showed up in Tokyo and made me a better offer.

- A better offer to do what? - You wouldn't understand.

You believe this load of crap?

You saw what happened back there, Scully. You saw that container blow.

She could've rigged an explosive charge.

There are no weapons platforms. There is no such department of defense satellite.

What about star wars? Brilliant pebbles? They were never built!

We don't even have that kind of technology.

Even if an artificial intelligence was targeting us with an armed satellite,

- Why isn't it doing it now? - Because it doesn't know where we are.

If I so much as made a phone call right now, it would nuke us where we're standing.

- How? - It recognizes my voice, monitors all communication.

I haven't used a phone in over a month.

Then how did it know to target the container?

All I can think is some idiot got on Donald's computer...

And tried to contact me over the net.

Only Donald knew where I was. And David.

- Who's David? - David Markham.

He was hardware. Donald and I were software.

We'd been caring for the A.I. Weaning it.

Then Donald warned us the system started to display more than consciousness.

It started to display intention, but before we could stop it, it was gone.