WRITTEN BY
Chris Carter
DIRECTED BY
Chris Carter
AIRED ON
January 3, 2018
RUNTIME
42 minutes
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SUMMARY
The episode reveals that the events of the previous season finale were a vision Scully had, warning of a viral apocalypse engineered by the Cigarette Smoking Man. Mulder sets out to find their son, William, believed to be crucial in stopping the impending catastrophe. Meanwhile, Scully falls into a coma, experiencing cryptic visions that provide clues to William's location. As Mulder delves deeper, he uncovers shocking truths about William's origins and his own connection to the overarching conspiracy, setting the stage for an intense battle against the shadowy forces threatening humanity.
STORY
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BEHIND THE SCENES
- The shooting of the episode began on August 8th, 2017.
MYTHOLOGY
The episode reveals that the events of "My Struggle II" were a vision experienced by Scully, who is now in a coma.
Scully awakens with renewed determination to find William, her and Mulder's son, who is believed to be the key to stopping the global conspiracy.
The Cigarette Smoking Man reveals that he is the true father of William, having manipulated Scully's pregnancy through alien DNA.
Mulder and Scully continue to chase down leads about the Syndicate's plans, focusing on finding William before the conspiracy fully unfolds.
PHOTOS
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QUOTES
Gone fishing.
— Pete Martell
Dale Cooper: Who's the lady with the log?
Sheriff Truman: We call her the Log Lady.
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The X-Files is dead
Written by
Pike on 2018-01-04
★
The X-Files is dead. I truly believe that Fox (now Disney) should simply fire Chris Carter (or never call him again) and replace him with someone younger, with an original vision, or even anyone who can write a decent script.
My Struggle III sucks, big time. It is beyond bad. Everything is bad, disgusting, abject. Chris Carter doesn't know how to write anymore, this is now clear as water. There is no denying and it pains me to say as I adored his initial vision, but he lost the plot, entirely, with no coming back.
TASTELESS LOOK
The series now has the same look as all those stupid hyped tv series such as CSI or Hawaii Five O. Visually, it's horrible. It is clinically horrendous. I have rarely seen something as soul-less, if that's even a word.
EDITING
The editing is, here again, horrible. There are countless fast zooms, shortcuts to no end.
MUSTANG CAR CHASE
The car chasing scenes are grotesque, it looks like an ad for Mustang - and a very bad one.
PAINFULL DIALOGUE
The dialogue is so stupid. I wouldn't even know where to start.
CSM
The CSM, this character that we loved so much and that was perfect during the entire series, is named Bush. Is that supposed to be funny? It's so bold that it is beyond childish.
MYTHO-NO-LOGIC
Mythologically speaking, it is Dallas. The CSM raped Scully. Monica Reyes even says that Bush is in love with Scully. My eyes and ears are bleeding. No comment.
MORSE CODE IN BRAIN SCANS
Skinner sees morse code into the brain scans of Scully.
WORSE THAN FANFICS
The story is having the same level as a child one. It is a mix of stupid alien invasion, virus, plan to go to another planet. Seriously speaking, we don't give a shit anymore. This doesn't matter anymore. I am laughing thinking that some will try to think about it all and connect it with the rest of the show. My dear friends, it has been a very long time since Carter is having fun and write without knowing where he goes, all of that on an ocean of US dollars.
FAKE
Everything looks fake. That's the worse. Of course, there are actors, dialogue, music, scenes, but there is no symphony. It doesn't work.
I probably forget some, but Chris Carter should really take his retirement. He has totally become George Lucas. That's really fascinating. How could someone as talented as him in the 90's could produce such horrendous episodes? This poor man tries to work with the past, but all has become too complex. The X-Files is way past the time of the end.
The next episodes are better, but life isn't so easy. We cannot just remove this episode out of the equation. The mythology of The X-Files is the core of the series. So, I tell you this, to me, The X-Files has become the worst tv series that I know of.
My rating: 1/5.
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My Strugle III 11X01
Written by
Syldana on 2018-03-12
★
Review 11X11:
Well after watching FINALLY this damn episode, I finally continue my journey and move to the next stage in this obstacle course, obscure, confused, complicated, incomprehensible, bypassed, in a word convoluted and reflection of the functioning of the spirit of its appointed creator.
25 years old that I'm doing this trip and Chris Carter is still trying to surprise me, but even better to smoke me. Good choice of word since here the Smoker will be the instigator of what made me lose my head for good until the arrival of the Loners does a little storage.
Let it be clear, for 9 years this series was based on a Bible very inspired and particularly effective both in its originality and in its ability to bring into me the anxieties that have haunted my dreams Geeks for decades, a mythology that stuck with the atmosphere and fascination of the world in the 90s for the occult, the mysterious and the paranormal. Carter, wanting to stay in the game, has had a lot of fun since season 10 to change direction every month, and he's going through the head with a speech "but we had that in mind from the beginning". During the first series, I was confident in this speech as the guideline was logical and the new revelations in perfect continuation with the data we already had, today it is no longer the case when I see it betray the past to build the future.
So certainly, the arrival of some elements is interesting. We had been prepared for a long time to a form of contagion, a spread: the black oil (Purity), the bees ... I was very proud to see in season 10 that we were led to the implementation not a final and deadly Invasion for Humanity, but rather an eradication by a virus, Spartan in addition: recall that in season 5 episode The Pine Bluff Variant was precisely staged murders of bacteriological mass by aerosol. My struggle III also practices a small update by inserting into history, and through a very interesting introduction proclaimed by the CSM, our new fears, more modern terrors, current: war, pandemic and planet in decline under politicians improbable and dangerous, even destructive. These fatalistic speeches were often practiced in the past through the offsprings of Mulder and Scully and in connection with episodes that addressed the gradual destruction of our world, the arrival of the End ... But this speech is all the more interesting that it comes out of the mouth of the one who knows EVERYTHING, has all the cards and confirms once and for all that he is from the beginning the puppeteer of all that we possess, the great advances, the various implementations in power and that he educated, directed and above all possessed the whole of humanity. We knew this man extremely dangerous since his episode of season 4 epi 7, but Carter completes here a little CV and attributes to his character an egocentric speech possible, sick of power, possessing an instinct of extreme survival (even warheads). are not right about him), quietly declaring that he gave his sons all the means to climb the ladder and be ready for the inevitable (good a son Borderline and one who has been hiding for years in the shadows after was disfigured to the extreme but finally looks human) ... But apparently that was not enough, it was also necessary that he had the hand on Scully and his offspring and that's when the unthinkable is declared.
However, do not skip the steps and analyze the new direction set up.
Mythology evolves. For a long time, this was defined by adding new elements to what we already had but Carter decides once again, since the start of the Revival, to change his tune. The Consortium is dead, long live the Consortium. Since here it is not one that we have and composed of the CSM and his new Diana, but two: a mysterious man who also smokes (reminder of a distant time when the cigarette was commonplace, calmed the stress, where smoking everywhere, lack of anti-smoking campaigns and giving a sexy image in old movies) and a woman just as singular. The old tradition of the Consortium was that the members kept a relatively anonymous or semi-anonymous identity: CSM, the man with manicured hands ... but My Struggle III breaks the secrets, reveals names and intentions, we touch fingertips the big revelations and the identities are revealed little by little starting with that of the Smoker. It took another episode centered to find out: Carl Gerhard Bush. Well I admit, I laughed at the sight of that, facing such a charisma is better than the last name of the most ridiculous president of the USA. But there is a Germanic sounding that will perhaps send us back to the Second World War, to Nazism, to Hitler's Utopia that wanted to recreate Men as a superior race. Since here the horror is to learn that certainly we try to destroy us (well that we knew it thank you ^^^) but that those who possess the weapon of our destruction are not only ET, it is a human , humans, who will make the decision of who should live or die, who will be the sacrificed and the elected ... and that this decision is currently in the hands of a mental patient who has his favorites and wants to completely erase the slate to make us return to the state of the Natural Man, a new beginning, we eradicate those who have made the brothel to keep a handful of human beings who will return to fundamentals. Being the father of Fox and Jeffrey, we would think that everything will be done mainly in family except once again the Madonna Scully is replaced (ENCORE !!!!!) in the center of the History.
The CSM wants to protect it and he wants it all, why? Good question ?
My struggle III allows the SCM to have a voice, so we explore more his entourage ... composed of Monica LOL And yes when we are a swelling first we are not surrounded by his family but those who tolerate that you like hear you speak and especially who believe you. The Smoker is a free electron from the beginning, the Flashback proves it by the way, it is HIM who decides, point. When Monica's role he shares the audience, some are collapsed that it is switched to the dark side, question, but why a woman so adorable today displays such a bad and determined expression. Me this turnaround I find it great, simply because smooth characters have no place in the X Files. In the face of the coming horror, we have to adapt in one form or another to be able to cope with it. Moreover, all the characters climb an additional level: Scully takes the place of Cassandra Spender and prophesies the future through visions of dead, pandemics, apocalypse to come erasing at the same time all My struggle II which was not that the product of his prophecy and, it seems, she shares her visions with her son (perhaps it is also the author at a distance) that we finally see in brief touches here and there; Mulder seems to be developing new cold combat techniques, just like the CIA agent (no one can deny ...), Monica is the new Diana, and Skinner may be on his way to becoming a traitor to the balance of the CSM ... to see. When the Smoker, well he is the man to kill, he who had so brilliantly hidden all his secrets discovers that Consortium 2 wants to set up His program, knows everything, wants to seize everything and starting with the: Messiah . It took a reason to reintroduce William, why not repeat then the old story repeated a thousand times during season 9, he is tam tam tam Special !!!!!!!!!! And his mom is very important in the equation. So what annoys me at this point is that at the beginning it was Mulder's quest, him the cornerstone, and now according to the words of the Smoker one just has to be content to get it down so that Dana Virgin Mary Scully is the queen of the world that her son becomes Jesus son of God who will soon take a radical role in what is happening fast, how and why, we are left in limbo once again with only one element: Dana and her son have a unique bond, this child is a superman and ... tam tam tam
Horror and damnation, we learn in an excellent new face to face Skinner / CSM that William is the pure product of an experience started since the episode In friend and especially His work.
As much to tell you that the screen has rocked in the void, we have been walking for 17 years, that Carter lost his mind and that there I am but not at all agree with that.
William was not only a link between Mulder and Scully, it was the offspring of Fox, the one to whom we were going to convey the good, the worthy leader of the Resistance and the healthy product (but a bit magical anyway) of his parents. I am angry that they are the son of Satan here because this new direction is interesting. I can say My ass ?? So I say it !!!!!!!!! What stupidity, Carter had drunk or what ??? The story of this family, which started with the CSM and Bill Mulder, was interesting because it was followed precisely in a logical generational order. We started with the grandparents who set up a plan for an upcoming Invasion, which set up the beginnings of a conspiracy spanning 50 years, then the sons, the girls: either sacrificed (Samantha, his abduction, his death, the clones of them used or used to thwart ...), either victims (Jeffrey disfigured by the Truth, deaf to the words of his mother), or at the head of a quest, a search sown of pitfalls, giving birth to a lonely hero, at first humiliated but whose role is to reveal the unthinkable to the face of the World who laughs at him (Mulder, then comes his companion and partner Scully). William was predestined to Grand (to be the Savior of all, the offensive) certainly, but as a third generation Bordel !!!!!!!!!, the one that does better than the previous one. Instead of that we have the right to a vulgar Greek tragedy: where the son wants to kill the father, the son is no longer the son but the half-brother and Scully, my Scully is found "raped" by science and sacrificed on the Altar of Teena and Cassandra. It's foul, but is it true? I want to lie said the intro phrase, Ok, but how much? How far has it been to be able to go such an abominable being (then it's up to the answer to the question that?), I think it's ready for anything, the truth is elsewhere but the lies too ... Carter built and built, resumes, chiseled, and I end up with a monumental skull ache because of him and this interminable building that keeps changing its appearance. After 25 years I too am old to use the words of the Smoker and I feel tired to follow the meanders of a spirit as contorted as that of the Creator. I have admitted a lot of things, and if the CSM wants to play God with pleasure, I can not wait to see him being crushed by his children, he wants to protect Scully and make her concubine but that I can not wait for her to spit in his face, especially since we have information that they do not have and if it turns out to be true, it will demolish the little moral rampart that they remained to them. To be continued...
TRANSCRIPT
Previously on The X-Files...
You sent for me. I'm here.
You are witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion.
REYES: To kill everyone but the chosen.
SCULLY: Alien DNA mixed with our DNA.
Science given to them by an alien race.
Neither you nor I could save mankind from self-extermination.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
I just changed the timetable.
Get to the hospital.
Help is on its way, I promise.
SMOKING MAN: That their fates were sealed since birth.
- (GASPS)
- They were simply puppets.
The world will go on.
Just in my image instead of God's.
MULDER: Who sent you?
You see a seemingly weak man.
But I'm the most powerful man in the world.
SMOKING MAN:
My name is Carl Gerhard Busch.
But I've been known by many aliases
during my long career with the U.S. government.
It's been a humbling job,
though I'm hardly known as a humble man.
I've been a witness to history, much of it violent,
much of it an abomination of the values Americans hold dear.
I've had a privileged seat at the centers of power,
held the reins of that power,
making sacrifices few are capable of,
of which even fewer are willing.
If people knew the truth, they'd riot in the streets.
Too much is made of the will to power,
as if our will is free, our choices our own.
Our destinies are forged in our bones,
made real by a raging impulse to self-destruct.
I'm not a bad man, more a practical man.
I've taken certain gifts I was given and made good men great.
It is my greatness.
I'm a father to two men who have figured more in the future
than they might ever know.
Both would end up working for the FBI,
both complex but dedicated men who sacrificed dearly,
and in their dogged pursuits
would end up paying a terrible price,
searching for truths as I parceled them out,
truths held only by the few who know the levers of power
and the invisible hand controlling them.
Is there life out there? Good heavens.
To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination.
It is a failure to recognize the limits
of our own stupidity,
the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools.
We listen, we search.
We hope for a sign, as if our eyes and ears are good enough,
our brains large enough, our egos small enough.
I'm an old man now.
I will leave my own mark upon history,
more than presidents or tyrants.
I don't ask for loyalty and trust,
the fleeting bonds of men.
I ask only for the years to show my sons and their sons
I was right.
What their father did had to be done.
(BEEPING, FILTERED BREATHING)
? ?
NEIL ARMSTRONG: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- DIRECTOR: Cut.
- (BELL RINGS)
MAN: Cut. Reset.
(CREW CHATTERING)
? ?
(HEART BEATING)
(HEART BEATING FASTER)
FEMALE PARAMEDIC: What's her heart rate?
MALE PARAMEDIC: Heart rate elevated to BPM.
FEMALE PARAMEDIC: Ma'am, can you hear me?
Can you hear me, ma'am?
I need her blood pressure.
No dilation, unresponsive.
No indication of trauma.
- You found her where she is?
- She must've fallen.
It's me, Scully.
- Can you hear me?
- She's bit her tongue, but no trauma to her head.
Has she had seizures before?
Does she take meds for anything?
No, no. She's perfectly healthy.
She's a doctor. She would've told me.
Hey, hey, hey.
We got a gurney coming in.
- What happened, Agent Mulder?
- They say she had a seizure.
MALE PARAMEDIC: One, two, three, lift.
Gentle, gentle.
Call the hospital with our ETA.
Let's clear out.
FEMALE PARAMEDIC: Coming through.
I'm going with you.
(DOCTORS CHATTERING)
I just want someone to tell me what the hell is going on here.
- No news, good news, Mulder.
- That's BS, and you know it.
Why don't you go outside and get some fresh air?
I'll text you when there's word.
I don't want to hear it from you.
I want to talk to Scully.
DR. JOYET: Excuse me.
Is one of you Fox Mulder?
- She gonna be okay?
- I'm Dr. Joyet, her neurologist.
- We've done a series of tests.
- Can you answer my question?
- The answer is we don't know.
- What do you mean you don't know? What the hell you been doing in there?
Mulder, why don't you let her talk.
- I want to talk to Scully.
- She's still unconscious.
What I know right now is that she has extremely abnormal brain activity.
Abnormal how?
I need to show you something.
We ran her through everything we have here...
CTs, FMRI, the entire protocol.
When I say "abnormal" I don't see any damage, just gross abnormality.
The brain is a very complex organ, a cascading series of subsets that begin and end with the prefrontal cortex.
The part that makes us human.
What you're seeing right now is the PFC in real time, and the reason I don't have any answers for you is
I've never seen anything quite like this before.
- What's this here?
- DR. JOYET: The hypothalamus.
The area we associate with fight-or-flight.
I don't know what I'm looking at, but I'm reading this part, the signal,
I mean, I'm reading this flashing as code.
- You must be mistaken.
- What do you mean, "code"?
Six dots, two dashes.
"Him."
"Find him."
This is insanity.
I want to see her.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
Can she hear us?
What she needs right now is quiet, rest.
Neurologically speaking, her brain's on fire.
MULDER: I'm sure that's what she needs.
But I'm gonna stay here.
Mulder, a moment outside?
You're not helping your cause.
- Are you helping my cause?
- What if it was a message?
Find who? It's absurd.
Who would you be asking for? Your son.
Well, why ask for him now?
- She's not dying.
- Maybe she's not.
But I've seen you believe far more absurd things, Agent Mulder.
Far less personal.
Hey.
I care about her, too.
I'm just looking for answers here.
Then you go look for them, Skinner.
Where I'm needed is in there.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
MULDER: The thought is imperishable,
a fear that takes hold in the gut,
that the person you care for most in the world
could be hurt by you.
By your actions.
The simple fact of knowing you.
As she lies here, so helpless,
those same thoughts and fears flood my mind with questions.
If I caused this, how then can I make it stop?
SMOKING MAN: You think you know who I am.
REYES: I thought that you were dead.
EINSTEIN: Massive contagions. Alien DNA.
SCULLY: The Spartan Virus.
SMOKING MAN: You'll be dead yourself within a week.
(SCULLY PANTING)
(WHISPERS): Mulder.
Scully.
Mulder, you have to go.
I'm not going anywhere.
To find the Smoking Man.
Scully, I'm gonna get your doctor.
No, listen to me. I've seen it.
You've seen what, Scully?
I know how it begins.
There's a virus. The Spartan Virus.
It shuts down our immune systems,
- and it starts a pandemic.
- Scully, you had a seizure.
You-you have extremely abnormal brain activity.
No, a plague is released.
But there's a cure.
Mulder, I'm absolutely certain about this.
Okay. Tell me what you saw.
You're dying, Mulder.
But I can't save you.
Not without stem cells from our son.
Scully, I'm fine. I'm here.
There's no plague.
You don't need to save me.
The Smoking Man is behind it.
- Smoking Man is dead.
- No.
No, he's not. He's alive.
And he's in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mulder, from where he unleashes hell on Earth.
Scully, I don't doubt you, that you believe what you've seen.
But the-the doctor said that your brain is on fire and...
It's me, Mulder.
I'm not an irrational person.
You have to find him.
And you have to stop him before he kills you.
I'm gonna talk to your doctor first. Okay?
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(GRUNTING)
Where's the boy?
All we want is the boy!
I don't doubt the visions.
It's their specific etiology.
Well, I call them visions, but my experience of them was very real.
Real is a subjective judgment.
If you believe them to be real, then they're real to you.
The question is where these visions came from.
- If the seizure caused them.
- Or the exact opposite.
If the seizure was caused by the visions.
I don't understand the difference.
Let's just say we're verging on the fringes of accepted neurology.
You mean you think her visions have a source?
DR. JOYET: This is rather sensitive territory.
I don't have to tell you that we live at the nexus of certain government agencies... the CIA, DIA, NSA, DARPA... doing experiments on the mind even before the Cold War.
- We have files on all that.
- I've had certain patients, products of these experiments, casualties.
I've also seen things that could only be described as superhuman.
I'm not a part of any experiment.
MULDER: But you may have been.
You said there's a man behind this.
(SIGHS)
- I need to get out of here.
- Scully.
I have to get to the bottom of this, Mulder.
Scully, I'm on this. I'm on it.
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(PHONE BEEPS)
(GROANING)
Why is this happening now?
You say Mulder's coming for you.
This is going to go down badly.
But we are not to be found.
(PANTING)
(ENGINE STARTS)
SPENDER (RECORDED): Mulder, it's Jeffrey Spender.
Someone's looking for your son, for William.
They came after me in my home.
You may all be in danger.
They will be coming for me.
Mulder will be coming for me.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
If he finds me, he'll kill me.
But we are not to be found.
MULDER: If Scully was a conduit,
if her abnormal brain activity was triggered
by some external agency,
who or what had reason to put her through the trauma?
For what purpose and to what end was she suffering?
Scully's story would be incredible outright...
a dead man unleashing a plague on the world,
my impending demise, the desperation to find our son...
unbelievable, if not for the fact that I've been followed
since I left the hospital.
- But followed by whom?
- (ENGINE REVVING)
This is going to go down badly.
- Certainly you've taken precautions.
- Of course.
I've been at this too long not to have my alternatives.
? ?
You know Mulder. He's determined.
Determined to what? Stop me?
He can't stop what's already begun.
? ?
(HORN HONKING)
(HORN BLARING)
(HORN BLARING)
(HORNS HONKING)
(HORN BLARING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
? ?
SCULLY: William. Our son.
SPENDER: Your child is part alien.
SCULLY: You take him from us.
SPENDER: Scully. Agent Scully.
Agent Scully.
- What are you doing here?
- I've taken a risk coming here.
- What is it, Spender?
- Someone came at me.
- What do you mean, came at you?
- Trying to find your son.
- What did you tell them?
- I didn't tell them anything, but they'll be coming at me again.
I need to know where he is.
You made me promise to hide your son.
To never tell you, to never tell anyone where he was.
Your son was never to be found.
I know. I'm asking you to break that promise.
- What if they come at you?
- You don't understand.
- Mulder's life may depend on it.
- (FOOTSTEPS, VOICES APPROACHING)
I only have a name, of the adoptive parents: Van de Kamp.
I want you to help me find him.
- I've already broken a promise.
- No.
The Smoking Man, your father.
He's the one that's looking for them.
- My father's dead.
- No, he's not. He's alive.
- Dana, you've got to stay calm.
- I'm not gonna calm down.
- You've got to stay in bed.
- I want to get out of here.
Nurse, can you help me? Miss Scully... Security!
Where are my things?
Look, you can't keep me here.
I fear you may seize.
Just tell me where my things are. I'm leaving.
I'm concerned for Scully.
If she were to fear her boy was in danger, like Mulder, she'd stop at nothing.
The boy is in danger. You said so.
But I don't understand from whom.
You've always had your enemies.
Yes, but why go after the boy now?
Maybe they know he's your weakness.
They couldn't possibly know that.
But suddenly everyone knows everything of you and your plans.
My plans are airtight.
And even if they were to get out, they would be dismissed as so much fake news.
That's the world we live in, Monica.
Every day a new disaster, when the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean.
We refuse to imagine our impending extinction, the acceleration of the cataclysms.
We've thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion and cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths.
Civilization a joke, and my plan merely the punch line.
MULDER: Were Scully's visions a prophecy
playing out in real time?
Just as she foretold, the driver I'd dropped
had driven me seven hours, through three states,
and across the border into South Carolina.
(PHONE VIBRATING)
Scully, what's wrong?
SCULLY (OVER PHONE): Nothing. Nothing's wrong.
Then stay off the phone.
It's okay, Mulder. I'm okay.
No, Scully, you're not.
SCULLY: Just listen to me, Mulder.
Jeffrey Spender came to me.
(SIGHS) What are you talking about?
He gave me a name, how to find our son.
- No...
- Something to start on.
You can't be doing this now, Scully.
I need to, Mulder.
I've seen how it happens and how it ends.
- Where are you?
- I don't want you to worry.
Scully, where are you?
Standing at your desk.
No, it... it's not worth it.
Mulder, I know what I'm doing.
Damn it, Scully.
Where are you?
I'm passing into South Carolina.
I'm following a guy.
This is what I saw, Mulder.
How it begins.
The confrontation between you and the Smoking Man.
All right, look, I want you to listen to me.
No. This is why you need William.
- Why I need to find him.
- I'm gonna call Skinner.
I need you to just stay put, okay?
I have to find our son.
You need him.
And I need you.
(GROANING): Oh. Oh.
- Scully? Scully?
- (GROANING)
SMOKING MAN: Find me the boy.
MULDER: What does he want with my son?
MR. Y: He's a very special child.
The threat is that you'll never see your son again.
(GASPING): What... is happening?
? ?
You think Scully will forgive you?
She'll come to see the beauty of it.
The beauty of a planet returned to its savage state.
Living as we were intended.
These are people you're killing.
I'm just cleaning the mess that they made.
Doesn't mean we won't hate you.
I've endured more hatred than you'll ever know.
My enemies are legion.
MULDER: What price was Scully now paying
for her visions and her certainties?
And what price would I pay for not turning back to help her?
All I could do was heed her admonitions.
Scully and her boy have a bond beyond you, beyond science.
She's completely unaware of that.
Really? What makes you so certain?
It's a secret only you and I know.
MULDER: I was running on only adrenaline
and Scully's premonitions.
But was it hope I should be feeling
or fear that Scully was right,
and a man I'd come to despise... my own father... was alive?
And if he were, he'd become mad with power.
I owe it to Scully now to find out the truth.
SMOKING MAN: I fear only for Scully and the boy, and the harm my enemies may bring on them.
I think you're in love with her.
I worry for her.
I always had Mulder to protect her.
But now he's going to force my hand.
You won't shed a tear for Mulder.
Of course I will. He's my son.
What if Scully finds the boy first?
You and I won't let that happen.
(ENGINE TURNS OFF)
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Federal agent! I'm armed!
Please point the gun away.
Hands!
Hands in the air where I can see 'em!
For heaven's sake, Mr. Mulder.
All you had to do was knock.
Agent Scully?
(PHONE VIBRATING)
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- (CAR ALARM CHIRPS)
- (CAR ALARM CHIRPS)
Both hands on the wheel.
The hell is this, Monica?
Me with a gun to your head.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(CAR ALARM WAILING NEARBY)
(CAR ALARM CONTINUES WAILING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Mind if I smoke?
- (TIRES SCREECHING)
- (HORNS HONKING)
(HORN BLARING)
(HORN BLARING)
- MAN: Oh, my God. Ma'am?
- (HORN BLARING)
- Ma'am, are you all right?
- WOMAN: Call !
WOMAN: Ma'am, are you all right?
MAN: Careful.
(PEOPLE MURMURING)
- Ma'am, you okay?
- WOMAN: Stand back.
Stand back. Careful with her head.
MAN: Here we go. I got you.
- You've driven a long way.
- Where's the Smoking Man?
- Oh, we'd hoped you'd show us.
- Answer me!
- We don't know where he is.
- Then who the hell are you?
My name? I don't think it really matters at this point, do you, Mr. Mulder?
And certainly I think I must apologize for the imposition.
We can tell you this.
He was here, not long ago.
We smoked too much, we drank too much in the Foreign Service.
- Your erstwhile father led the way.
- Answer my question.
We were all part of a syndicate involved in alien colonization.
Surely you knew about this business.
- You're conspirators.
- Not at all. Quite the opposite.
Go.
It's okay, Mr. Mulder.
Our man here won't be troubling you any longer.
- This is my associate.
- MULDER: I see.
Nobody has a name.
- We've all had many names.
- You want to see me snap?
Oh, I don't think you're gonna fire that gun, Mr. Mulder.
You haven't heard what I have to say.
Let me cut to the point: the man we're both looking for
- is bent on...
- Hell-bent is what he is.
...on exterminating humanity.
SMOKING MAN: You'll be pleased to know, Mr. Skinner,
I'm here to offer you a deal.
- I don't make deals.
- This is a waste of time.
You're still a fairly young man.
Years to live, by my estimation.
Try me, you son of a bitch.
I'm the one with a gun.
Not so long ago, mankind's greatest threats were war, famine and plague.
We've all but conquered them with hard science... this faith in technology our new religion... when a simple pathogen would kill billions and billions.
Your immune system will go first, but this is what will finally kill you.
And you're a party to this?
MR. Y: His plan is already in motion.
The aliens are not coming, Mr. Mulder, just so you understand.
No interest in a warming planet with vanishing resources.
- So just unleash a plague?
- This is no ordinary contagion.
This is an alien pathogen.
The end of history, Mr. Mulder.
And why you have to kill him.
The threat is that you'll never see your son again.
What are you offering me?
Immunity to it.
In return for what?
Find me the boy, Mr. Skinner.
- He needs the boy, Mr. Mulder.
- He'll never find him.
You doubt his determination?
- He'll use those closest to you.
- What does he want with my son?
PRICE: That's the question, isn't it?
He's clearly a very special child.
Why the hell do you care?
MR. Y: We want to save humanity.
He used to want the same.
PRICE: The aliens came to study us, were prepared to work with us.
MR. Y: He was to be the man to lead us.
- But he became destructive.
- (PEOPLE ARGUING)
He took only his own counsel.
- (CLAMORING)
- SMOKING MAN: Understand,
I protected mankind as long as I could, Mr. Skinner.
- Oh, I see. So you're the hero?
- No one would listen.
The aliens brought not only technology.
They brought the seeds of our destruction.
It's what our government would never grasp.
And while they were adventuring in Cuba and Vietnam
and in Central America, I was busy in the Nevada desert,
dissecting, reverse engineering,
playing God with life-forms, the stuff of science fiction.
I had the time, the money and the freedom to plan for a day I knew would come.
MR. Y: You have no idea this man's need to control our fate, how effective and bold
his plots and ambitions.
(GASPS) Oh, my gosh. We did it.
That's really the moon?
Yes, that's really the moon, Jeffrey!
That's how heroes are made.
MAN (OVER TV): Roger, how does it look?
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
It's the fourth turning, Mr. Skinner.
Civilization is in its final stages.
Alliances are crumbling.
Truth is fluid and alterable.
The only truth left is to survive it.
And who chooses? You?
There are people with immunity.
Agent Scully has it. And her son.
They'll survive with a select few.
What about Agent Mulder?
MR. Y: Kill him, before he kills us all.
You're his son, Mr. Mulder.
He won't be expecting you.
MULDER: You know what I think?
That's only half the story.
He wants to exterminate humanity.
What's your budding enterprise?
The colonization of space.
We're closer than you think.
PRICE: Building Dyson spheres and magnificent habitable structures.
Oh.
That's the plan.
A secret space program?
I don't think so.
I think this is a power play.
You want me to kill him so you can implement your own plan.
You want to see blood in the streets.
The colonization of space?
How do you plan to do that?
Transport all humanity off-planet?
Seven billion people?
That's not possible.
Only a chosen few.
And you call him evil?
We can take you with us, Mr. Mulder, you and your boy.
You're a liar. You're all liars.
Then no one can save us.
I know someone who can save us.
And I think you know her, too.
Now get out of my way.
I think we're finished here.
Get your ass back in the car.
I'm not finished.
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(PHONE VIBRATING)
Come on, pick up the phone.
Why do you want the boy?
He's very important to me.
You're asking me to betray them, to betray people that I care about.
(LAUGHS): No, no, no.
I'm asking you to turn your back on the whole human race.
- Come on!
- (PHONE BEEPS)
Are you the FBI agents?
I came as quickly as I could.
MILLER: From what I understand, Agent Einstein may have saved her life.
- How'd you even find her?
- We were pulling into the FBI when we saw her car take the hit.
- And you knew to bring her here?
- From her medical bracelet.
Well, she's lucky you found her when you did.
(PHONE VIBRATING)
- Hello?
- DR. JOYET: I just wanted to tell you she's here, in case you were worried.
(TIRES SCREECH)
- Where's "here"
- The hospital.
She had an accident, and we're monitoring her.
MAN (OVER P.A.):
Night nurse coordinator, extension .
Night nurse coordinator, extension .
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
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(MUFFLED GRUNTING)
(CHOKING)
(GASPING)
(PANTING)
MULDER: The horror I'd felt,
the gut-wrench of seeing Scully fighting
against a storm in her head, now only doubled.
Had I come full circle to find the truth
or only to uncover greater lies?
Not one conspiracy, but two,
that threatened not only Scully, but our son.
A drum beats in my heart.
That man they just wheeled out on a gurney... I know that man.
The Smoking Man didn't send him.
How do you know that?
Because the Smoking Man won't harm me.
He's held my life in his hands.
That... was something else.
Your visions, Scully.
They're not wrong.
My visions... are from William.
I don't know how, but I know that he's guiding me.
And you.
They're looking for him.
The Smoking Man can't act without William.
I know that in my bones.
And William knows it.
They won't find him.
But he will find us.
So we... just wait?
Do nothing?
We do our work.
The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
They said you were attacked.
I was calling you.
I didn't get your call.
Where have you been, Skinner?
- Where you been?
- Leave it alone, Mulder.
- I asked you to look for her.
- And I looked for her.
Where'd you look?
I said leave it alone.
You smell like smoke.
Mulder.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Break it up, break it up.
Break it up.
Whose side are you on?
I said leave it alone, Mulder.
MULDER: What are you hiding?
What could possibly make you think that I would ever take your deal?
You're not betraying Scully.
She'll be with us. She's immune.
Hey, you really get off on this, don't you?
(CHUCKLES) Manufacturing destiny?
Then why kill Mulder?
Mulder would kill me.
Scully will never take your offer.
- Of course she'll take it.
- Not without Mulder, she won't.
I'll present her with a simple choice.
Mulder or her only son.
- So this is just vengeance?
- (CHUCKLES)
Oh, it's more than that.
Dana and I have a history.
A very important history that goes back years.
I'm glad you came.
We'll need to take a trip.
I'm here.
It'll require a few days.
(GASPS)
SCULLY: You drugged me.
SMOKING MAN: (LAUGHS): I did nothing of the sort.
SCULLY: How the hell did I get out of my clothes and into bed?
SMOKING MAN: We carried you, my housekeeper and I.
You'd been up for over hours; you were delirious.
You can ask her.
I don't know what you're up to.
You impregnated her?
SMOKING MAN: With science, Mr. Skinner.
Alien science.
To create the first superhuman child.
Mulder's not the father?
I'm asking.
Who's the father?
SMOKING MAN: I am. William is my son.
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(DISTORTED VOICES)
(HEART BEATING)
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