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March 21, 2018
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SUMMARY
Mulder and Scully are racing against time to stop an imminent global viral outbreak orchestrated by the Cigarette Smoking Man. As Mulder pursues his son, William, who holds the key to stopping the plague, Scully grapples with her own revelations about William?s true origins and powers. The episode is a high-stakes confrontation involving conspiracies, betrayals, and the quest for truth, culminating in a dramatic showdown where William's fate and the future of humanity hang in the balance. In the end, Scully reveals a shocking personal discovery that leaves the door open for new possibilities, blending intense action with deep emotional and philosophical questions.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
- This will be a mythology episode.
- The episode will end on a cliffhanger, even though this may be the series finale.
- Chris Carter: "There is an easter egg in My Struggle IV and it helps you to understand where the series, the characters, the show is going. (...) And it's hiding in plain sight."
MYTHOLOGY
The episode concludes the "My Struggle" arc, with Mulder and Scully racing against time to stop the Cigarette Smoking Man and his plans for global depopulation.
William, now a young man with powerful psychic abilities, becomes the focal point of the struggle between the forces of good and evil.
Mulder confronts the Cigarette Smoking Man, who is ultimately killed, seemingly ending his decades-long manipulation and control over the conspiracy.
William disappears, leaving his fate uncertain, while Scully reveals that she is pregnant with Mulder's child, offering a glimmer of hope for the future.
The episode closes with the possibility that the alien conspiracy is not entirely over, as William's whereabouts remain unknown, and his role in the broader scheme is still unclear.
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1995
Written by
Pike on 2018-03-22
★
1995. I'm talking about a time that the under-twenty can not know. Nobody had an Internet connection. You had to go to the library when you had a question on a specific topic. The doctors held the ultimate knowledge and no one had a cell phone in my village. My parents were too poor to get the phone. We wrote letters to my family. And when there was an emergency, it was from the neighbors that my family called to join us. We did not have an iPad, no iPhone, no MacBook and no smartwatch. Still, life was beautiful because simpler. People would meet at bars and sometimes in the evening we would listen to the radio while reading a book.
I was a young child of 11 years old and suddenly, one night, by chance, on a television as heavy as stone, the young child that I was then discovered at the Frontiers of the Real, a series that would literally change my life. Because I became a teenager with the series, buying The Secret File as we find the Holy Grail, literally. Actually.
Back in the future. We are in 2018 and it's time to say goodbye to this fetish series that disappeared during this journey. Because X-Files is gone. My Struggle IV is the end of a screenwriter who has lost the most valuable good. I do not mean money or celebrity. I'm talking about his ability to be an artist. The man whose name I do not mention can not write anymore. And I am so in the afterlife that I will not, for once, use vulgarities to describe my thinking.
The episode is bad. So what ? What is the point of analyzing it? Kersh announces that he closes the office of unclassified affairs, between the pear and the dessert. Okay, if he wants to. It does not matter. I could talk about Mulder killing two people in such a distressing and surprising way. He kills the first person without even knowing who she is. And the second holds the key to an enigma. I could. I could talk about the fact that Scully suddenly, months after his vision, feels a sense of urgency for no reason and jumps on his phone to call Tad O'Malley. I could say all that, but that does not interest me. That does not interest me anymore.
I could mention that the resolution of the episode is one of the worst moments in the history of television. I could explain that the Man with the cigarette, this famous personage which I like to the madness is not more. Because he is now the pen of the screenwriter. The screenwriter no longer listens to the Man with the cigarette. So he killed him, first on paper, then really. We had all understood the ploy, from the trailer and from the pregeneric. So it falls flat. And we do not care.
When Mulder murders the Man with the cigarette, I received a small discharge in the belly. Because I think back to my television love affair and I am the witness of a television rape. This is where I'm still this young child of 11 years, the cassette of the Secret File in the hands, looking forward to the third season of the series.
It was obviously an ultimate affront before stopping this series, namely the fact that the future-former FBI agent Dana Katherine Scully announced to be pregnant at 54 years. The worst thing the creator had done was to finish the seventh season on that same ad. Seventeen years later, he dares to do the same, in a final baroud of honor, of which he alone can explain the reason. In the evening, when he seeks sleep. Because he has no doubt his reasons. Do the crazy people think they are crazy? That's why I'm not going to attack this character, who will have until his death, and mine, my eternal respect for his original creation. But I can not follow him anymore. He lost me as a viewer, but it does not matter, because there will always be other people to love what he proposes. And this is very well so.
If twelfth season there is, it will be in an exact configuration in seasons 8 and 9. Namely a missing character (Scully) while remaining the engine of the series. The creator does not learn from his mistakes and redoes the same choices. Is.
SCULLY'S JOURNEY
Scully's journey, as learned from the 11th season can be summarized that way: she was medically raped by the CSM and then abandons her love for her child in about five minutes and then is pregnant at 54. This is the worst storyline I have ever seen in my entire life. This is beyond stupidity and amateurism.
NOT THE END
The series will come back. I promise you that. I have enough experience to confirm it. Again, the only unknown is time. In two years, twelve years, twenty years. But she will come back.
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11X10 My struggle IV
Written by
Syldana on 2018-03-24
★
Review 11X10
Unlike many fans, I have lived the chapters My struggle with a lot of enthusiasm. The first represented the great return of X-Files in form again of series, whereas its creator left more on a crusade carried by films. Idea to which he clings again. The 2nd will have finally brought me a very visionary scenario of the great Invasion and provided by a still brand new character who was a real nice meeting, when we left him at a "boring" stage of his life and who did not bring much to this stage of its development. Apart from big problems to his mother.
The 3 is a great snub and finally puts on stage an important link William / Dana with these visions both futuristic and apocalyptic. I liked this snatch of first meeting with William, it starts strong and immediately plunges us into the fact that it has reached a stage of its development out of norm where this character can finally on his own integrate a very chapter long awaited of Mythology. The first stage of a "new generation" struggle against the End is no longer a hypothesis but an "inevitable" future.
My Struggle IV will be the episode of William. Obvious choice since these episodes focused on the most important actors of this Mythology: Mulder, Scully, the CSM and because I sense as obvious that with the departure of a large part of the cast first generation, William will be the next have to resume the quest.
For that, it was of course something other than a banal kid. To face this three-headed monster, William had to be exceptional, but how to realize it with a vision of the future and 2 or 3 flashes. We lost more than 15 years of his life, and wanting to skip the steps would have made us tolerate such a big leap leaving the viewer in the shadows over everything else and would never have allowed us to build a relationship with him or make to be born in us an affection, a particular attachment with him. Ghouli and the attached site will have done a great job.
The kid did not just wake up one morning with all this, his gifts, like a new Clark Kent preparing for his life to become the great Superman, came little by little in a completely disoriented, lacking landmarks and a real mentor to guide him to what awaits him, and the important choice he will one day make. The big X-Men school does not exist in the X-Files, this kid will be satisfied with a panel of incompetent psychiatrists, strange encounters with men coming surely from any Consortium, and obviously he has long been watched.
William is special but he is double too. A duality long fueled between use quite charming of his gift: take other appearances, hatching an egg, defend the oppressed of a kid from his school quite violent and also adopt behaviors inherently dangerous where he can knowingly kill through of a lightning telekinesis or put the man in a mortal situation for his life (the crash of cars). What should we conclude?
William can be the good or the bad, and since the dawn of time, to possess such power has always put the being who is the holder in the face of a crucial choice: to become the Savior, or to be the Destroyer. Will he then be Superman or Lex Luthor? And above all, where does this duality come from? In his genes?
My Struggle III put the viewer in the face of a horrific revelation. The CSM created this being. Why ? After failing to rally his two sons on his side, the Evil apparently not being so attractive to everyone and the genetic inheritance not doing all the work, the CSM will surely have wanted to model a small Pinocchio to control and who would represent a first idea, a witnessing experience of what could be the Man of tomorrow: both man and Alien. But what will we fight against? If the Aliens have disappeared from the new Mythology, it may be wise choice from Carter, since we do not throw like that more than 50 years of a double-game alliance that gave rise to a whole book: Purity control, hybrids, tests on humans, kidnapped and pregnant women, Bounty Hunter ... what we keep in the end, beyond the Spartan virus invasion (idea already germinated with the demonstration of the damage of the Black Oil, the bees carriers of a virus ...), it is the idea that a woman, Scully in this case and following a crowd of events, proved to be the Elue to carry and to give birth to this first hybrid prototype.
During the first few seasons we had first glimpses of these variety crossings, but the science was still at a very early stage and many of the gestations were trials, failures, or undergoing eradication.
What makes me angry however, is that this simple episode too short (but everything was too short from the start, episodes, length of the season ...) flies over a lot of things, questions more than he responds and loses the opportunity to finally evoke what we great experts of this epic had raised off-screen.
To begin with, why Scully? The CSM had chosen her to be and alongside Mulder: judicious but not for the CSM since she protected and endorsed Mulder in her choices, and to be the Mother of this future little Jesus. Why she ? What did the CSM perceive in her so much apart in her personality, in what she would become, in her future choices, in the relationship she had with Mulder ...
The CSM is eminently strategist, assessing all the shots in advance, we can wonder if he had planned everything or if the individual choices of his son and his future companion have at some point hurt or if everything went as planned.
Then there is the maternity of Scully, it has long been thought that this baby was the addition of Mulder and Scully: assumption that I still remain under the elbow because certainly the CSM is the creator but how far? We are talking about mixing, but we are not told which ones, he used his own seed as the ultimate attempt to finally create the son he dreamed of, at no time the CSM can be explained in the details, we drop a bomb but we are left in the dark. Sorry but it's not enough for me to make "a father", at best a creator in the lab but with what exactly will know, the biological father could as well be the neighbor.
Then we have the big-walled slaughter of explosions or shots of the characters,, Monica will not have revealed his real motivations, also very ambiguous in his actions, also thin for Barbara whose character will not finally been exploited long enough and will never have provided all its true potential, when to others their level of utility amounts to a true minimum vital. Let's also talk about Scully's reaction to Skinner's revelation. No time for a speech, we do not have the necessary airtime and Skinner's voice drowns.
So certainly, she is already aware of her new motherhood, but where is the rage, the anger, the feeling to be taken again in the figure that she was used, that this son both cried and regretted as well as by Mulder (Although for a long time his torment was more interior than anything else) was still an experience, that all this suffering, all his efforts to protect this little one, his long speeches to finally find one day the pardon of William proved vain, and that this scene of a brilliant reunion between Mulder finally squeezing this son in his arms, finally exchanging with him and telling him everything he had long held in him is "all that for that? ".
There I have trouble, honestly. After Dana lost Emily tragically, had a son adopted and lived like a heartbreak, she had the right to a second chance, the chance to raise and see the fruits of her love grow with Fox who as for him deserved to have HIS child and to be FINALLY a real father for someone (including education, transmission of an inheritance ...). But...
If these two have basted so much that injustice endlessly endless and that it was time, in my opinion, that this wrong be repaired, it could only happen at the end of an era. we were clearly not going to see them in a typical mom and dad season. But the announcement of a late pregnancy does not plaster any more! Not facing such a mess of lost time for a young man that they lose in every sense of the word.
To come back to this pregnancy, I understand that many describe it but honestly it was for a long time obvious that Carter was going to play this card. I hear of course, that the Bible has always been the other side of the mirror of this series. Scully has always been the "religious" part of this saga while Mulder carried on his shoulders all the irrational part, the "beyond the possibilities".
And here we are, this Genesis long evoked in this series and which finds here its culminating point. Mulder becomes the new Abraham, Scully will be Sarah and she plays an important role again in the final scene since instead of making William the new Samantha (as I read elsewhere and I adhere to the idea that will follow ...) in Mulder's life, letting him believe in a possible return of this son, to see him go on a new long search, she keeps the truth for her. She knows of course that this child is not really dead, knowledge that it owes to its link with him. The visions will continue. But she keeps it for herself to preserve her man and focuses on his future role as a father.
I love Mulder's reaction in the final scene. Although I find it questionable the new behavior of this character in Jack Bauer mode that sacking everything in its path, cuts the floor to two Consortiums of several balls as soon as they are finally ready to make important revelations, I admit that Mulder is finally here to show his long-held emotions.
His mind collapses for William, for the fact that this long-hated father was able to shoot at him (umm and Jeffrey you had already forgotten), to have lost a father's "suddenly" fundamental title while this character had always had a spirit entirely focused on his quest to the point of sacrificing a large part of his life ... In short he acts finally as a human, and this is rewarded for a brief moment, it is now: a father .
Carter is doubly enraged by giving the impression of doing the cleaning in this episode where everything is going too fast, even (Ghouli.net gave the sensation of giving answers a little way all in one block) and to bring conclusions too hasty to the living while the dead are euthanized, but can we trust what we see?
The resolution of the image was not great, but the ball did it really crossed the head of Monica, 1 cm near it can be content to touch the skull like Mulder in Fight the future, Skinner is maybe just stuck under the car, I found his fall rather strategic in the mode I anticipate, I lie down so that it slides just above him and he stays there waiting for the moment to come out, when at the CSM he did it to us three times, it's an immortal now, it's the death of the actor who will sound the knell of this character. As for William, if he feels so alone, he is not so much that. Kyle and Molly are still on the run (never thought what a mess) and with them three, a new team could form in time even though I think William at this stage no longer needs a grown man in his life, a guide and especially a role that I would see quite play Mulder in his life. Organic or not, Mulder may one day be a father to him, because the other choice that will be offered to William will be the CSM and after what he saw it do, clearly this alliance is already damn. The CSM will definitely fail eternally in this role.
In conclusion, this episode is no longer a chapter, an advance in the Mythological field since it does not contain a real conclusion. The end does not take place but it is coming and William has not really embraced his destiny here. Many doors finally open here to a sequel, Mulder and Scully are moving towards a new life, the dead are they really and William has not yet at this stage acted to upset the future of the world. He thinks for a moment of killing himself, as a logical choice to protect the world, but that is not his destiny. For now, he's just a kid with powers, he'll be either the Savior of the world or his Destroyer and he still has a lot to learn about him.
As for his connections with Mulder and Scully, they are still in the evolution phase, because in the final genetic or not the two agents will have a role to come in the life of this boy (it would be a little easy to just turn the page on him while they all have a future role that remains to play). When at the CSM, it clearly can not just be content to leave "like that" while there is still work to do.
It is thought that the episode serves here to eradicate everything and everyone who gravitates around and is not Mulder and Scully, and ... that's all? Without real purpose? I do not foresee the future, I do not decide it, I can only note that we have a gestation ending there, with new questions, other perspectives, a staging that forces the door to a sequel, because nothing here ends in the end. And it is not the nostalgia that expresses itself, or the refusal that it ends, but rather an objective point of view on the extent of the scenes which are restricted too much on the surface since the case is too short and would have deserved a triptych and not a single episode, damn it !!!
SCRIPT
TRANSCRIPT
Previously on The X Files...
It's all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
The aliens brought not only technology... they brought the seeds of our destruction.
Civilization is in its final stages.
I have seen it.
Scully?
I know how it begins.
Tell me what you saw. A plague will be released.
And then it starts a pandemic.
The Smoking Man is behind it.
You can't stop what's begun. You've always had your enemies.
My enemies are legion.
This is no ordinary contagion.
This is an alien pathogen.
He wants to exterminate humanity. What's your enterprise?
The colonization of space.
Transport all humanity off planet or only a chosen few?
k*ll him. You're his son.
He won't be expecting you. And why k*ll Mulder?
Mulder would k*ll me. Scully will never take your offer.
You have to stop the Smoking Man.
He can't act without William.
Who's the father? William is my son.
Mulder, William is the key.
My name is Jackson Van De Kamp.
That's what my parents called me when they adopted me 17 years ago.
My original name was William, I've come to learn.
That's what my birth mother called me.
Dana Scully.
I've never really met her properly, but I can feel her in these...
Is this a message for me?
Violent episodes in which I can feel us connected... to the future in ways I'm just beginning to understand.
Or am I sending a message to you?
I don't know my role in the future.
But I'm beginning to understand that as well. I have visions of it.
It's a world of confusion, and pain and loneliness that I can't escape... nor can I prevent.
But I want no part in the suffering.
I've known happiness.
I had a happy childhood.
Until I grew older, I had a life where I could dream of anything that I ever wanted to be.
But even then, I knew that I had... powers.
Special powers.
When I turned 11, my powers grew.
I got in a fight with Jerry Marriot.
He was this bully who used to pick on smaller kids who couldn't defend themselves.
So I sent him to the hospital.
I had to change schools many times. The kids would catch on that I was... different.
And then I just kind of became a criminal.
So I was sent away to a school for bad kids.
It devastated my parents, but I just couldn't help myself.
Yeah, I guess that's why I've been lashing out.
I talked to psychologists, and I would just make up stories.
Tell them what they want to hear.
I'm so scared that I'm gonna... I'm gonna find out one day that...
I'm my father, all of a sudden.
But then this man came from the government to talk to me.
I could tell something was up, so I decided to just cool it.
And I had to come home.
But every day, there was this car in the street with these guys in it watching our house.
And I was smart. I didn't make any mistakes... until I decided to play a stupid joke on these two girls.
My whole world came crashing down.
My parents were k*lled by those men on the street.
Oh, no.
They're hunting me now.
They found me.
I'm afraid they'll k*ll me too... if they catch me.
What I need right now is answers. Jackson?
About who I am, about how I can get my life back.
You seem like a nice person.
I want to ask my real mother questions.
But the truth can only come from my father.
A man I've only seen in my visions.
But who I know I already hate.
But I need you to know, Fox... when I gave you life...
I never fathomed a moment when I would need to end it.
I don't think you can do it.
Hi. I'm an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
You have a guest here, a young man in his late teens.
Checked in this evening. Paid me in hundreds.
Is the boy a criminal?
No. He's not.
The boy is my son.
Have you seen the internet? Seen this load of BS Mulder's spewing?
I haven't seen it. What is it?
Well, he's going off about a conspiracy on this Tad O'Malley show.
About a conspiracy to wipe out humanity.
Death will hunt you down. That's a quote from Mulder.
A quote from a Federal agent, Mr. Skinner. I can't speak for Agent Mulder.
You're his superior. You're supposed to be in charge.
I am in charge.
I'll see if I can find Agent Scully... You find her.
And you shut her down.
I'm closing the X-Files. I want Mulder and Scully's badges.
A motel manager reporting a military-style incursion.
What if it's not just fake news? I don't care if it is true.
That's someone else's problem. We're not gonna see panic in the streets.
Skinner. I promised you a global contagion.
I'm about to deliver on that promise.
All I asked of you was to find the boy.
So if I find him, will it stop?
Just find me the boy, Mr. Skinner.
Sir, I've left you three messages.
Why aren't you answering? I've been getting my ass chewed.
Well, it's Mulder.
He needs your help.
He needs a hell of a lot more than that, Agent Scully. Where is he?
He's with our son.
They're being pursued.
He needs your help. I need your help. I've been told to shut you down.
What are you talking about? I've been asked to take your badges.
Who said that? Kersh? Is he in there?
Dana... He doesn't understand what's happening.
Mulder has lit a fuse that you can't put out.
He's made outrageous public statements on an internet site.
That wasn't him.
That was me.
And they're not outrageous.
Where are they?
I can't help you, Agent Scully... if I don't know what's going on.
I'll put you on speaker phone. Who's on the phone?
This is Monica Reyes. I think they've got your son, William.
Just tell me where he is, Monica.
Tennessee. Being transported by a private jet.
Tail number NGDJG, landing in Maryland in two hours.
Which airport in Maryland? Braddock KTCA southeast terminal.
This may be your last good chance.
When you say last good chance, what exactly do you mean?
The person who controls your son is the person who controls the future.
He's not on that plane, Mulder. You have any reason to distrust her?
Is there word on the boy? Nothing. Nothing to report.
I don't know how I know. I just know that he's not on that plane.
But what if he is on the plane? What if this is our last good chance?
Just come back alive.
Come on, come on.
Damn it.
Don't move. Stop there.
Face away.
Hands behind your head.
Behind your head!
And here I thought you were a liar.
Your secret space program.
You should really do a better job at protecting your ass.
How the hell did you get in here? You can't keep this a secret for long.
I'm unarmed, if you wouldn't mind.
I'm only here about my boy.
Well, we couldn't catch him.
And I mean that quite literally, Mr. Mulder.
Why does everybody want my son?
You still don't understand, do you?
Your son has what everybody wants, what people would k*ll to have.
I see him. I see him! Move!
Move!
Go! Get him!
Going up!
Pull out.
Cut him off!
Down.
Heads up!
Move, move.
Go, go, go.
Stay with him.
He's jumping over!
Mulder, you haven't been answering your phone.
I had some payback to... pay back.
But you were right, Scully, he wasn't on that plane.
Look, I found something on the web. I think it's how they found him.
There was a lotto cluster in northeastern Tennessee.
Eight recent winners in a 10-mile radius. Where was the last winner?
Okay. Anything else?
Hi. You had a winning lottery ticket sold here last week?
Don't talk about that. I was about to take the register when the kid bought the ticket.
So you saw the kid who bought it?
Told Deidra the winning numbers like he's got inside information, hands her the ticket.
Says he'll split it with her. He did too. So he came back. When was that?
This morning. Deidra took the money and quit on the spot... which is why I'm cleaning toilets. You have security cameras?
Oh, my God. You're not gonna take back that money, are you?
I'm just looking for the boy.
William. You can't help me.
The person who controls your son... Nobody can.
I promise global contagion. Controls the future.
I need the boy.
It was him, wasn't it?
I'm looking at him. He cashed in and hitched a ride with a trucker.
I'm two hours behind him. I got the direction he's headed.
They're heading northeast. That's exactly what I'm thinking.
We need to find him before they do.
Everything depends on it.
Every last thing in the world. I'm gonna find him.
I am tired of looking at him on video.
Need the key to the bathroom? Is it open?
I think it's open.
Keep going, okay?
A young fellow like you needs to be careful.
Trust on the road...
I can take care of myself okay.
I've been a trucker for 40 years, seen it all.
The driving can drive you mad.
Yeah, filling the time, thinking about trouble.
What kind of trouble do you mean?
What kind of trouble are you looking for?
Hello? It's Dana Scully.
I'm just about to go on here. I want you to listen to me.
Can I call you right back? You're looking for a conspiracy? Here it is.
You know why nobody's gonna mess with me?
Because I have super powers.
Right.
Like one of them, uh, X-Men.
There's going to be a contagion.
A virus is going to be unleashed. People's immune systems will be decimated.
Did you say unleashed?
Where are you getting this information? A man-made contagion... from an alien pathogen.
How the hell did you do that?
Same way I do this.
You realize how crazy this sounds? Death in the streets, Mr. O'Malley.
Are you prepared to go on air?
Can I say that you're my source?
A federal agent is your source.
Will Agent Mulder go on record?
Agent Mulder's our only hope.
Karen!
You search for truth.
I've seen the future.
This is the truth that kills you. William.
William. Mulder.
Mulder? I lost him.
He scared the truck driver. You don't want to know.
Mulder, I've seen it. He got out.
You're in grave danger. No, I'm too close now.
I... I think I know where he's going.
You're not listening. You're not listening to me.
I've seen how it ends, Mulder.
He probably hitched another ride. I'm not that far behind him.
Mulder. I got to go.
Hey.
Thanks for stopping.
No trouble at all.
Long way from nowhere. Where you headed?
Norfolk.
I'm passing right by there. Get in.
I bet you went to see her first.
I just have to talk to you, Sarah. How come you didn't call her?
Hi, Maddy.
You're up past your bedtime.
Look, I had to ditch my phone.
Like we believe that.
Look, I can explain everything. Please, it's cold. I...
My parents are coming home soon, so...
Do you remember me, Brianna?
Yeah, I think I know why you're here.
Has he been here?
Look, we broke up. Has he called?
We don't talk anymore. I need you to be honest.
Who's at the door, Brianna?
I really have to go, sir.
He's been here, hasn't he?
He's in big trouble.
I need to know where he is.
Well, you're asking the wrong girl.
I can't believe you, Sarah.
I can't live like this.
What are you talking about?
If this is gonna be my life, I don't want to live.
You can't talk like that, Jackson. What?
Jackson. I haven't even heard the name Jackson in months.
You have no idea what I've been through.
Maybe... Maybe you need to go to the police.
I can't. The police k*lled my parents.
Are you sure they're the ones who k*lled your parents?
Yeah, because I'm some kind of freak. Stop it.
You are not... a freak. Yes, I am.
No. Okay, yeah. You've seen what I can do, Sarah.
They want me for that. Catch me, put me in a cage.
They want to poke me, and prod me and keep me in a laboratory.
So, what are you gonna do?
I could die.
I could jump off a bridge, or... What can I say to stop you?
Say you'll come with me.
I can't do this alone. Please. I'm so sick of being alone.
That's my parents.
Please, I can't.
I can't talk now. I have money.
I have, look, I have so much money.
Okay. We can go anywhere.
I can meet you somewhere.
Meet me at that motel.
The Timberland?
Okay, I will.
Just go. Okay? Out the back.
Okay, promise? I promise.
Now, don't do anything stupid before I get there, okay?
Okay?
Sarah, I need to know where he is.
I don't know what you mean.
He's on the run. I can help him.
Why should I believe you're telling the truth if he doesn't even believe it?
Because I'm his father. That's why.
I don't believe you're his father.
I'm trying to sleep. What do you want?
My name is Mulder.
I'm your father.
I know it must seem strange to you... but I've been looking for you forever.
Okay, so how'd you find me now? Doesn't matter.
I'm here.
You're taller than me.
I held you when you were a baby. Maybe you did, but I don't remember that.
You're angry.
And I understand.
I don't think you do understand. There's a lot I have to explain.
It's not safe for you here, okay? Go. If you trust me, I'll protect you.
I know you know who I am.
You hid from me and from your mother.
Yeah, because I'm a danger to people. I can help with that.
You can't help me.
Nobody can help me. These people, they're never gonna stop coming for me.
I've seen the future, all right? I have visions.
I know what happens if they catch me, all the people who are gonna die.
Your mother has those same visions.
Then why don't you see them?
Look, I don't want to live in that world.
Maybe I can stop it. If I didn't exist...
It's not your fault. Yes, it is.
Then let me help you stop it. You can't.
All right? Because you die too.
We still want the boy alive.
No one has to die here, William, especially not you.
You have to live. I know you think you're helping me.
But you're not helping me. You're helping them. You're just helping them find me. Okay?
Okay. It's too late. Listen. You gotta go.
I'm not leaving. Get back there, get down.
Get out the back. Get down.
No, stay away from the door.
Move. Get down.
Let me see your hands.
William.
William!
The hell is going on here?
I can't help you, Agent Scully, if I don't know what's going on.
Mulder. You can't believe what just happened.
You seeing this? I lost him, Scully.
He's gone. Just tell me where you are.
I'm still in Norfolk.
Mulder, I'm coming down there.
He won't listen to reason.
He'll listen to me.
I know he will.
I gotta go.
I'm supposed to rein you in.
This isn't about the FBI, sir.
This is about our son.
I'll drive.
We have been working around the clock here... to bring you breaking news of a global contagion.
Death will hunt you down.
That's its name, says our FBI source... as his superiors label it fake news. Shocker.
Now, follow me here.
We have eye witnesses at a motel in Norfolk, Virginia.
And a motel manager reporting a military-style incursion.
Federal agent. I want to talk to you.
Four individuals in a military vehicle... assaulting a motel room occupied by a teenager.
That is our FBI source on camera... after he witnessed the execution of military personnel... in a bloodbath so insane... it can only point to a conspiracy, the likes of which the world has never seen.
Let me talk to Sarah. I said she can't talk.
He's not answering.
He's making news again. Kersh is blowing up my phone.
Why are you violating his direct orders, sir?
Right now, we need to find your son.
But why would you risk your whole career?
I think I've been pretty clear about that.
Who were you on the phone with outside of Kersh's office? Who was that?
There's something you need to know.
Something you may not want to hear. It's about your son and who his father is.
I need to know where William would go, where he might go to feel safe.
I'd probably say the harbor.
Okay, where at the harbor?
We'd all go down by the docks.
Do you have an address, or a street or a landmark?
I... I don't know.
Probably the old sugar factory.
Hearing this about William must come as a shock.
I didn't want to tell you. I wanted to find out the truth...
That was Mulder.
Right, hold on.
Mulder?
Don't run.
William.
William.
It's me.
I just saw him.
No.
Go.
That's Skinner... Wait.
He's here. I know. I just saw him.
He doesn't want to be found. I just want to talk to him, Mulder.
I talked to him. He told me everything. What he's afraid of...
I know what he's afraid of.
Just stop. It's no use.
What do you mean?
I'm asking you to let him go.
What are you talking about? Nothing we can do.
We can protect him. No, we can't protect him. No one can.
He knows that you love him.
How can he know that?
How can he possibly know that?
Scully.
Stop him.
William.
William. William.
William!
William.
William.
He's in the next building. Go!
You really don't give up, do you?
But then you have so much to lose. It's what we have in common.
We have nothing in common.
I need the boy.
The boy is mine.
The boy would rather die first.
Now that he knows the truth.
That I'm the one who made him?
That I'm William's creator?
You'd sh**t your own first-born son?
Shot my second-born son once.
But I need you to know, Fox... when I gave you life...
I never fathomed the moment would come... when I would need to end it.
I don't think you can do it. Then you don't know me very well.
Hey!
He's gone.
He's gone, Scully.
He shot him.
He shot me.
Mulder.
Maybe...
He wanted us to let him go.
He wasn't meant to be.
William was our son.
No.
Scully, he was our son.
No.
William was an experiment, Mulder.
What are you talking about?
Mulder.
He was an idea... born in a laboratory.
But you were his mother.
No.
I carried him.
And I bore him.
But I was never a mother to him.
I wasn't.
William...
William was...
But for so long...
I believed.
What am I now if I'm not a father?
You are a father.
What are you talking about?
That's impossible.
I know.
I know it is.
It's more than impossible.
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