The X-Files

before the exploration of space,

Of the moon and the planets, man held that the heavens...

Were the home and province of powerful gods,

Who controlled not just the vast firmament,

But the earthly fate of man himself.

And that the pantheon of powerful warring deities...

Was the cause and reason for the human condition,

For the past and the future...

And for which great monuments would be created on earth, as in heaven.

But, in time, man replaced these gods with new gods and new religions...

That provided no more certain or greater answers...

Than those worshipped by his Greek or roman or Egyptian ancestors.

And while we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods...

And found our certainties in science,

Believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation.

Our eyes turn skyward, ready to accept the truly incredible,

To find our destiny written in the stars.

But how do we best look to see? With new eyes or old?

Mama!

Papa! Mama!

Papa!

Mama! Papa!

aah!

X-Files Season 5 Episode 13 - Patient X

Da.

Too bad for you.

It-- It's like the flesh is cooked.

All the way through.

your authority isn't recognized here.

Only your lies.

These are U.N. Peacekeepers. This is a mission of mercy.

This is a mission of fear.

Yours and the men you work for.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You go back and tell them what you've seen here, what you've found.

My name is Marita Covarrubias.

I am a special representative to the Secretary General of the United Nations.

I know who you are, and I know who you work for. You go back and you tell them--

Tell them what? What happened here?

Tell them it's all going to hell.

- -

Does the boy know?

Did he see?

You tell them to kiss my American ass.

during my last several abductions,

I have experienced no fear whatsoever.

And it was the absence of fear that allowed me...

To communicate with them, and them with me.

They've told me that I am an apostle,

Here to spread the word of a dawning of a new age of supernatural enlightenment.

Sensibly, it's not a question of truth versus fiction...

But of truths which are incomprehensible,

Because we have no physics, no real language...

For explaining patient x's story,

Much less the existence of extraterrestrials.

Nothing to prepare us for the ontological shock that is bound to follow.

we quibble and we jaw about the need for proof,

For evidence, as if it would serve some purpose,

As if it would make a difference.

When what we should be seeking is exactly...

What this woman is describing--

Not if they are here but why...

And what their business is.

In my conversations with her, she believes this business--

The abductions and the experiments--

Are due to their plans for us.

And that we are not simply breeding cows for them,

As some have suggested, but subjects.

Much like we think of our relationship with God.

And that there are sights...

What she calls "lighthouses" around which will be great activity.

All-- All this conjecture-- The ontological shock that you speak of--

For which we are so ill-Equipped is, in my opinion, not only false but dangerous.

This woman-- This woman presents no good or credible testimony...

Apart from the feel-Good message that she promotes.

You think she's lying?

No, I don't think she's lying.

I think...

That if you prepare people well enough to believe a lie,

They will believe it as if it were true.

And if you tell them a really big lie-- Like there are aliens from outer space--

Much more than a small one, they will believe it.

And if you suggest to them that these aliens are doing bad things to them,

The power of this suggestion will be to make certain people believe...

That certain psychopathologies and neuroses that they're suffering from...

Can now be attributed to that.

Mr. Mulder-- Agent Mulder, she has physical ailments.

Are you discounting any belief in the existence of extraterrestrials?

No, I just question mindless belief.

But you've cited evidence. You've made claims yourself.

What I've seen, I've seen because I wanted to believe.

I-- If you look too hard, you can go mad.

But if you continue to look, you become liberated and you come awake,

As if from a dream, realizing that-- That the lies are there...

Simply to protect what they're advertising--

A government which knows that its greatest strength...

Is not in defense but in attack.

It's strongly held by believers in U.F.O. Phenomena...

That there is military complicity or involvement in abductions.

But what if there is no complicity?

What if there is simply just the military seeking to develop an arsenal of weapons...

Against which there is no defense?

Biological warfare, which justifies in their eyes...

Making an ass out of the nation with stories of little green men.

A conspiracy wrapped in a plot inside a government agenda.

- Dr. Werber? - It's been some time.

Almost five years. I came down expecting to hear...

How your work had progressed.

I'm... surprised, to say the least.

A lot has changed.

You seem to have abandoned something you believed so completely.

In spite of what I know about you, from our work together,

The memories I helped you recover about the experience with your sister.

Well, I've come to distrust a lot of things.

I've-- I've come to distrust those memories.

I'm sorry.

For what?

I've taken a lot of criticism for my work with alien abductees and in the field itself.

The regression hypnosis work I did with you--

No, I'm not questioning your methods, Dr. Werber.

I'm questioning myself and how I was tricked.

How I was led to believe, through an elaborate staging of events,

That my sister had been abducted.

A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie.

The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials.

It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.

So, you and I have just been advocates of insanity all along?

Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?

Yeah. Is patient x any more credible?

I hope so. I'm her doctor.

I think you should meet her.

I think you might change your mind.

Cassandra.

Oh, hi.

- Fox Mulder. - Hi.

I am so glad to finally meet you.

You are a hero of mine.

I am? I read about you in the news about three years ago.

How you helped that man who escaped from the hospital. Um, Duane Barry.

How he had held those people hostage at the travel agency,

Because he was being called by aliens,

And you were the only one who believed him.

You may not like me as much as you like that story.

Oh, that story saved my life.

How's that?

I have been a multiple abductee for over 30 years.

I had been afraid to seek help.

Nobody would ever believe me, really,

Until I read about you.

That's how I came to meet Dr. Werber. Cassandra--

He told me that you had been through hypnotic regression yourself.

That's how you discovered that your sister had been abducted.

Cassandra. Yes.

Are you here voluntarily?

Um, yes, under doctor's supervision.

Hmm.

Whatever it is that you're afraid of,

I suggest you check yourself out of here as soon as you can...

And start living your life, okay?

Uh, now's not a real good time.

Cassandra is experiencing a sensation that she's about to be called.

Now is a time of war and stress among the alien nations.

The-- The different races, they're in upheaval.

I will be summoned to a place, just like Duane Barry.

The man you're talking about died because of what he believed in.

He died in a room after I'd been interrogating him,

After he received a visit from some men from our government.

Oh, I'm sure the government's involved.

They don't want us to know about it all. Cassandra.

There was a time when I would have believed what you're saying, without a doubt.

There is no doubt, Mr. Mulder.

I know what I've experienced.

I-I have been through the terror and the tests more times than I can count.

I have had an unborn fetus taken from me.

But they're not here for the reasons that you might think.

They're here to deliver a message.

Except something has gone wrong.

There are-- There are other forces at work.

They're going to be calling me. I can feel it.

And you of all people need to know about this...

Because you're the one that can do something.

I'm not.

We're gonna take good care of you.

Agent Scully, my name is Jeffrey Spender. Special agent Spender.

Is there something I can help you with, agent Spender?

I feel kind of funny approaching you like this.

I just haven't been able to reach agent Mulder.

About what?

About somebody he's been talking to.

Somebody who claims to be an alien abductee,

Who I'd really prefer he weren't talking to.

You gonna tell me who this is?

This is going to sound weird. Uh, it's my mother.