The X-Files

Thanks, mister. I'll mail it right off.

"federal bureau of investigation"?

X-Files Season 5 Episode 14 - The Red And The Black

all units responding to Ruskin dam:

We have numerous bodies. Repeat, numerous bodies.

We're coming in for a closer look.

We're looking for survivors.

[ people shouting, radio chatter ]

Agent Mulder!

Was she here? Is she here?

- Yes, and the medics are all over her. - She's alive.

They're working on her now. Come on.

An S.A.R. Chopper pilot found her huddled in the woods this morning...

With about 50 other survivors.

She has minor burns, but her fluids and electrolytes were abnormally depleted.

Scully? She's in vasogenic shock.

Unless you gents are doctors, you're in the way.

This woman needs to get to a hospital. On three.

One, two, three.

What happened here, agent Mulder?

The answer just got loaded onto that chopper.

Can I talk to you, please?

Is she here? Was she found? Who?

- Agent Spender? - My mother.

I'm fairly certain it's not a question of dosage.

We've administered three intramuscular injections over the past 20 hours...

Since we found her on the roadside.

And you've seen no effect? No.

It doesn't look good at all.

Mmm.

- Mm, what time is it? - "What time is it?"

It's time to thank your lucky stars.

- Why are you laughing? - I'm not laughing at you.

I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that's all.

Mulder, what am I doing here? You were airlifted here...

In vasogenic shock.

From what? You've got some first - Degree burns...

And scorching on your hands and face.

From what?

You don't remember?

Mulder--

- Is any of this coming back to you? - I was there?

- Well, doing what? - I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.

you shouldn't be elevated, Miss Scully.

Not until we can get your blood pressure back up. She really needs her rest.

- I'll come back. - Well, Mulder--

They didn't find her. She wasn't among the victims. They only found her wheelchair.

I'm sorry.

What were you doing with her? What was I doing with her?

What makes you think we have anything to do with this?

My mom's a cripple. She hasn't driven a car for I don't know how long.

They found her wheelchair 130 miles from the hospital,

Where I'm now told agent Scully was meeting with her privately. Look.

No, you look!

She's my mother. She's not some test subject of yours.

Your mother will be found.

All I want is for you to leave it alone.

Is that too much to ask?

You're probably thirsty.

Remind me to complain to the captain about the service.

You may have that opportunity.

This ship is bound back to Vladivostok tomorrow.

I gather there will be quite an enthusiastic homecoming.

Do you have the boy?

No. Miss Covarrubias took him.

Your alliance with her was as misguided as ours,

But it appears she was unaware of the consequences of her deception.

You were clever.

Infect the boy to insure infection of anyone...

Who tried to learn what he knows, who would cheat you.

- And where's the boy? - Dead.

Victim of another mysterious holocaust.

Unable now to tell what he knew or saw.

Then you got no choice but to deal with me.

I'm afraid there's no deal to be made.

I'm the only one who knows what those incidents are,

What they mean.

I know what that boy saw.

- You've as much as told me what I need to know. - You know nothing.

If the boy was your trump card,

Why infect him unless you could also cure him...

With a vaccine developed by the Russians?

One that works.

It would mean that the resistance to the alien colonists is now possible.

- You're dreaming. - Do you have the vaccine?

- You need what I know. - Do you have the vaccine?

Give you the means to save Covarrubias after what she did?

The means to save yourself.

I don't know what to say.

I mean, I don't have the first clue.

There's nothing here.

well, at least you're not alone.

None of the other survivors have been able to give a cogent account either.

Mulder, I have never been here.

I couldn't tell you how to get here,

Let alone drive it.

- Do you remember when you last saw Cassandra Spender? - She was there too?

I ran more x rays. I haven't told anybody yet what I found, though.

You found more implants?

That would explain how you were directed to the site and why you can't remember.

That would explain the sensation Cassandra Spender was describing,

Her abduction fantasies, it would explain Skyland mountain.

But it wouldn't explain why they would want to kill me.

And it doesn't explain why I survived.

It all comes down to a question, one that hasn't been answered...

Or I don't even think honestly addressed.

Who made that chip in your neck?

That chip was found in a military research facility.

Our government made that chip,

Implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project...

To develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity...

Or to destroy you like a lab rat...

If the truth were to be exposed.

Your cancer, your cure.

Everything that's happening to you now.

It all points to that chip.

The truth I've been searching for?

That truth is in you.

Mulder, when I met you five years ago,

You told me that your sister had been abducted...

By aliens.

That that event had marked you so deeply...

That nothing else mattered.

I didn't believe you,

But I followed you...

On nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there,

Based not on facts, not on science,

But on your memories...

That your sister had been taken from you.

Your memories were all that you had.

I don't trust those memories now.

Whether you trust them or not, they led you here...

And me.

But I have no memories to either trust or distrust.

And if you ask me now to follow you again,

To stand behind you in what you now believe...

Without knowing what happened to me out there--

Without those memories,

I can't.

I won't.

If I could give you those memories,

If I could prove that I was right and that what I believed for so long was wrong--

Is that what you really want?

The facial scarrings appear to be self-Mutilation,

Done as protection.

Protection against what?

Infection by the black oil.

He was the lone survivor of a crashed spacecraft...

At a military base in west Virginia.

What the hell is he?

An alien rebel.

This is what the boy saw in Russia,

The last face the dead saw at Skyland mountain,

And most surely...

Who killed our man at the dam in Pennsylvania.

He's a resistance fighter against the alien colonists.

This is what Alex Krycek knew--

That a war had begun.

What good was that knowledge?

Without the vaccine against the black oil, no one can survive.

We have a vaccine--

Developed by the Russians, stolen by Krycek, given to me.

You see what this means?

Resistance is possible.

We have the weapons and the magic in hand.

We don't know the vaccine works.

It will, and if it doesn't,

We have a new alliance to be made.

- Side with the resistance? - Suicide.

They'll squash us as they do them. We must turn the rebel over.

But first, wait till we know the vaccine works.

Hi, Dana. It's nice to meet you again.

Are you okay with this?

I'm okay. There are a few things...

I want to say I didn't touch on over the phone.

I'm sure agent Mulder told you about how this works. Have you ever been hypnotized?

Uh, once.

But I have to be honest with you. I didn't have much luck.

Well, I hope we can do better today.

I'm going to be using something a little different.

You may have heard of hypnagogic trance,

Which is just a light trance state...

Where we relax some of the filtering processes.

Okay?

I'm going to ask you to go back to the place we talked about on the phone.

Just close your eyes...

And take long, deep breaths,

Relaxing all parts of your body.

Long, deep breaths.

Relaxing your hands and your feet.

Relaxing your jaw, your pelvis.

Long, deep breaths.

Back to the "night place."

I don't think this is working.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

- Oh, my God! - Where are you, Dana?

Oh--

I'm, uh-- [ Panting ] I'm with the others.

- Are you in the "night place"? - Yes.