1 00:01:34,127 --> 00:01:37,688 Dr Openshaw, congratulations. 2 00:01:37,764 --> 00:01:41,359 Your work... it's completed. 3 00:01:42,970 --> 00:01:45,438 You should see her. 4 00:02:06,059 --> 00:02:08,550 25 years. 5 00:02:09,796 --> 00:02:12,492 She must seem like an old friend. 6 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:14,658 Yes. 7 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,133 We're, uh... going out to celebrate. If you'd like to come... 8 00:02:23,243 --> 00:02:26,644 No. You go on ahead. 9 00:04:30,370 --> 00:04:33,464 This is the end. 10 00:04:33,573 --> 00:04:38,067 I never thought I'd hear myself say those words after all these years. 11 00:04:39,813 --> 00:04:45,080 You put your life into something. Build it, protect it. 12 00:04:47,554 --> 00:04:51,046 The end is as unimaginable as your own death. 13 00:04:52,058 --> 00:04:54,549 Or the death of your children. 14 00:04:56,963 --> 00:05:00,399 I could never have scripted the events that led us to this. 15 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,333 None of us could. 16 00:05:03,436 --> 00:05:08,169 All the brilliant men. The secret that we kept so well. 17 00:05:11,011 --> 00:05:14,105 It happened simply, like this. 18 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:19,580 We had a perfect conspiracy... with an alien race. 19 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:27,091 Aliens who were coming to reclaim this planet and to destroy all human life. 20 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:34,791 Our job was to... secretly prepare the way for their invasion. 21 00:05:36,136 --> 00:05:40,835 To create for them a slave race of human/alien hybrids. 22 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,835 They were good plans. 23 00:05:47,948 --> 00:05:50,280 Right plans. 24 00:05:51,685 --> 00:05:56,850 Kept secret for over 50 years, ever since the crash at Roswell. 25 00:05:56,957 --> 00:06:00,120 Kept secret from men like Fox Mulder. 26 00:06:03,296 --> 00:06:05,662 Plans that would've worked. 27 00:06:05,799 --> 00:06:09,496 had not a rebel alien race come to destroy them. 28 00:06:11,872 --> 00:06:15,239 Had not my own son chosen betrayal. 29 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:21,075 Or chosen to betray more wisely. 30 00:06:34,027 --> 00:06:37,827 AD Skinner, I... I didn't hear the elevator. I was workin' here. 31 00:06:37,898 --> 00:06:42,426 - Working on what, Agent Spender? - Progress report on the X-Files. 32 00:06:42,535 --> 00:06:45,026 - Progress report to who? - Just a file. 33 00:06:46,172 --> 00:06:51,007 I wasn't aware that you'd made any progress. I've received but one memorandum. 34 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:55,446 - Are you planning to hit me all at once? - Uh, it's been slow going. 35 00:06:56,683 --> 00:07:00,244 Truth is, your purpose is not to make any progress, isn't it? 36 00:07:00,353 --> 00:07:03,516 Truth is, you have no interest in the X-Files. 37 00:07:04,691 --> 00:07:07,956 Beyond a certain... personal case. 38 00:07:09,062 --> 00:07:12,293 - Your mother's abduction. - Alleged abduction. 39 00:07:13,733 --> 00:07:16,224 That's what I'm here about. 40 00:07:43,096 --> 00:07:45,462 - What happened here? - No one knows yet. 41 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:48,557 A group of people were burned alive here. 42 00:07:49,235 --> 00:07:53,672 Another man's on life support. Only your mother survived. 43 00:07:53,773 --> 00:07:56,901 Where is she? Where is she? 44 00:07:56,977 --> 00:07:59,104 They've got her outside. 45 00:08:05,251 --> 00:08:07,344 Mom. 46 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:16,494 Mom... 47 00:08:16,596 --> 00:08:18,689 It's me, Jeffrey. 48 00:08:20,767 --> 00:08:23,930 Mom, what happened to you? 49 00:08:24,604 --> 00:08:27,539 It's been so long, I thought I'd never see you again. 50 00:08:27,707 --> 00:08:30,699 Oh... don't cry, honey. 51 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:34,135 Where have you been? 52 00:08:39,986 --> 00:08:42,318 What did they do to you? 53 00:08:42,455 --> 00:08:44,616 I need to talk to someone. 54 00:08:44,724 --> 00:08:47,659 You can tell me. 55 00:08:47,794 --> 00:08:50,160 I need to speak to Agent Mulder. 56 00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,869 - I don't want him talking with her. - Why? 57 00:08:59,973 --> 00:09:02,134 He's forbidden from the X-Files. 58 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:04,972 - She's asking for him. - She's my mother. 59 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:06,376 What are you afraid of? 60 00:09:06,479 --> 00:09:09,243 Mulder filling her head with alien abduction nonsense. 61 00:09:09,349 --> 00:09:11,249 Are you afraid of the truth? 62 00:09:11,351 --> 00:09:14,479 I wanna know who did this to her and why. That's all. 63 00:09:14,587 --> 00:09:18,648 Then why not use every resource available to you? 64 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:22,191 I'll send you a progress report. 65 00:09:24,164 --> 00:09:28,760 My son refused to believe that his mother had been abducted, 66 00:09:28,868 --> 00:09:31,564 though it had been going on for years. 67 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:35,599 Even after I had him put in charge of the X-Files, 68 00:09:35,708 --> 00:09:39,872 where Fox Mulder had amassed so much evidence of our secret plans, 69 00:09:40,013 --> 00:09:45,041 he still couldn't bring himself to accept the possibility of alien life. 70 00:09:48,021 --> 00:09:52,185 When he did... come to believe, 71 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:55,455 when the facts became so glaring... 72 00:09:56,930 --> 00:09:58,090 he turned. 73 00:09:58,198 --> 00:10:02,532 Not to me, his father, but to the man I'd ruined. 74 00:10:03,703 --> 00:10:06,866 The man I'd chosen for him to replace. 75 00:10:08,241 --> 00:10:11,039 Hey, Milk. Let's play ball. 76 00:10:11,111 --> 00:10:14,080 Yo, homestyle, cough up the rock. 77 00:10:14,647 --> 00:10:19,050 - Wanna rotate in? - Yeah. Yeah, I got next. 78 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:23,753 - Game. - Oh, no, no, Ike, it don't work like that. 79 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:28,393 Hey, homegirl. Word up? 80 00:10:28,495 --> 00:10:31,953 Mulder, it's my distinct impression that you just cheated, 81 00:10:32,065 --> 00:10:35,626 - and that you're not coming in again today. - I got game. 82 00:10:35,735 --> 00:10:38,295 I'm wondering if you have any work left in you. 83 00:10:38,404 --> 00:10:42,340 Oh, no, I'm ready to j-o-b. Just not on some jag-off shoeshine tip. 84 00:10:42,442 --> 00:10:44,273 No jag-off shoeshine tip? 85 00:10:44,344 --> 00:10:47,643 No background-checking jag-off shoeshine tip. 86 00:10:47,747 --> 00:10:51,274 About your j-o-b, somebody's been trying very hard to reach you. 87 00:10:51,351 --> 00:10:54,149 Somebody who wants you back at the FBI ASAP. 88 00:10:55,588 --> 00:10:58,853 - About what? - About an X-File. 89 00:11:07,934 --> 00:11:09,925 Lookin' for work, Agent Spender? 90 00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:14,997 I got a whole pile in that middle drawer that I'd love to shove down someone's throat. 91 00:11:15,108 --> 00:11:19,545 - I think you know why I'm here. - They found your mother. 92 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:25,442 She wants to talk to you. 93 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:28,715 - I didn't hear the magic word. - I'm not going down on my knees. 94 00:11:28,821 --> 00:11:31,346 Are you asking me, Agent Spender? 95 00:11:32,625 --> 00:11:35,059 My mother turns up in a train car, 96 00:11:35,161 --> 00:11:39,393 where she's been operated on by doctors who were burned alive. 97 00:11:40,967 --> 00:11:43,231 I just want the truth. 98 00:11:44,137 --> 00:11:49,404 The truth is out there, Agent Spender. Maybe you should find it for yourself. 99 00:12:22,041 --> 00:12:26,034 - I expected you sooner. - I've been at the train yard. 100 00:12:27,847 --> 00:12:30,179 Trying to tidy things up. 101 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:34,687 The overkill will be hard to divert attention from. 102 00:12:34,787 --> 00:12:37,847 But not as hard as from Cassandra. 103 00:12:38,858 --> 00:12:41,691 You have no idea, do you? 104 00:12:42,295 --> 00:12:44,855 Cassandra is a success. 105 00:12:44,964 --> 00:12:48,058 No. She can't be. 106 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:51,794 Not now. 107 00:12:51,904 --> 00:12:57,638 I had prepared a syringe for her, as agreed. But the rebels came. 108 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:01,709 They saved her to expose us. 109 00:13:02,382 --> 00:13:06,250 - She is the key to everything. - I won't let her out of our hands. 110 00:13:06,319 --> 00:13:10,050 They will run medical tests on her. 111 00:13:10,723 --> 00:13:13,419 It's only a matter of time. 112 00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:18,927 Cassandra must be terminated. 113 00:13:24,937 --> 00:13:27,337 They will come and question me. 114 00:13:31,511 --> 00:13:33,843 I know. 115 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:39,809 I'm sorry. 116 00:13:57,170 --> 00:14:01,038 A man should never live long enough to see his children... 117 00:14:01,140 --> 00:14:03,768 or his work destroyed. 118 00:14:25,965 --> 00:14:29,662 - Hello? - Have you heard the news? 119 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:32,997 - No. - The rebels have struck. 120 00:14:33,139 --> 00:14:35,505 - Where? - In Virginia. 121 00:14:35,575 --> 00:14:38,703 During one of our medical procedures. 122 00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:41,575 They killed the project doctors. Burned them. 123 00:14:41,681 --> 00:14:44,343 - All of them? - Yes. 124 00:14:44,417 --> 00:14:47,409 Dr Openshaw died in the hyperbaric chamber this evening. 125 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,351 My God. 126 00:14:49,422 --> 00:14:52,414 I've called an emergency meeting of the Syndicate. 127 00:14:52,525 --> 00:14:55,323 Only the future rides on our response. 128 00:14:55,828 --> 00:14:58,388 I'll be on a plane. 129 00:15:09,709 --> 00:15:13,008 - Dr Openshaw. - I've come to see you. 130 00:16:06,499 --> 00:16:10,162 - I didn't expect to find you here. - Where'd you expect to find me? 131 00:16:10,269 --> 00:16:13,067 Agent Spender offered you an X-File assignment. 132 00:16:13,172 --> 00:16:15,606 It wasn't exactly an offer. 133 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:18,473 Isn't it the opportunity you've been waiting for? 134 00:16:18,578 --> 00:16:23,242 It is an opportunity made to order for the powers that be. 135 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:24,340 It's a setup? 136 00:16:24,450 --> 00:16:30,184 This is the kind of mistake they've been waiting for to come down on me full force. 137 00:16:30,289 --> 00:16:34,749 - But Agent Spender asked you. - Like I said, not exactly. 138 00:16:48,541 --> 00:16:55,447 We've seen this before. Bodies set aflame with no conclusive cause of combustion. 139 00:16:57,116 --> 00:16:59,346 Mulder... 140 00:16:59,452 --> 00:17:01,283 I know. 141 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:05,555 I was with Cassandra Spender when she disappeared. 142 00:17:05,658 --> 00:17:10,721 You sat with me while I was under hypnosis when I spoke of just these sorts of details. 143 00:17:10,830 --> 00:17:15,733 I am sure that what she would tell us would expose more than just what happened to her. 144 00:17:15,835 --> 00:17:20,898 I was taken to one of those train cars. I was tested just like Cassandra. 145 00:17:21,841 --> 00:17:25,675 What if what she tells us could expose who did this to me? 146 00:17:30,850 --> 00:17:34,684 Mulder, Agent Spender doesn't have to know. 147 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:49,525 Oh, my God. 148 00:17:50,269 --> 00:17:51,600 My God. 149 00:17:51,704 --> 00:17:56,732 - Cassandra. - Oh, Dana. Oh, my God. 150 00:17:57,610 --> 00:17:59,578 It's so good to see you. 151 00:18:02,014 --> 00:18:04,107 We're old friends. 152 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:10,085 If, uh... if I can get a hold of a wheelchair, you wanna go out for some fresh air? 153 00:18:10,189 --> 00:18:13,124 I don't need a wheelchair. 154 00:18:21,567 --> 00:18:24,092 But I am dying for a cigarette. 155 00:18:35,314 --> 00:18:38,408 It feels so good to walk. 156 00:18:38,551 --> 00:18:41,145 The doctors don't know what to say. 157 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:46,218 I told them they wouldn't believe how it happened, and they wouldn't. 158 00:18:46,325 --> 00:18:51,888 No, I'm not gonna tell anybody this time, cos nobody believes you anyway. 159 00:18:51,998 --> 00:18:55,934 They want to hear it, but they just think you're crazy. 160 00:18:56,068 --> 00:18:58,628 Guess I wouldn't believe it either, 161 00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:01,138 except that it happened to me. 162 00:19:02,675 --> 00:19:04,142 No... 163 00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:08,612 I'm only gonna tell somebody I can trust and who can do something about it. 164 00:19:08,681 --> 00:19:14,642 I was hoping when I saw you that Agent Mulder was gonna be coming in behind you. 165 00:19:14,754 --> 00:19:17,245 I've got a surprise for you, Cassandra. 166 00:19:19,592 --> 00:19:21,856 - Agent Mulder? - Shh, shh, shh. 167 00:19:21,961 --> 00:19:26,921 Oh! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! 168 00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,365 I think I'm gonna pee the floor. 169 00:19:29,468 --> 00:19:32,596 Don't... don't do that. 170 00:19:33,372 --> 00:19:34,532 Look at you. 171 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,337 I told you about their power. You said you didn't believe it. 172 00:19:38,444 --> 00:19:41,880 I had reasons for doubt when I met you, Cassandra. 173 00:19:41,981 --> 00:19:44,643 You just doubted yourself. 174 00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:49,443 You were just doubting you'd ever see her again, weren't you? 175 00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:52,619 Your sister. 176 00:19:56,629 --> 00:20:00,622 Agent Mulder told me he believed he saw his sister... last year. 177 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:03,630 That wasn't her, Agent Mulder. 178 00:20:07,473 --> 00:20:11,637 - Then where is she? - Out there. With them. 179 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:15,738 The aliens. 180 00:20:18,984 --> 00:20:22,511 Cassandra, you were found in a train car. 181 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:25,749 You'd been operated on by doctors. 182 00:20:25,858 --> 00:20:28,156 Yes, that's right. 183 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:32,594 - And these are the doctors who cured you? - No, the aliens cured me. 184 00:20:32,698 --> 00:20:37,158 The doctors were working with them. That's what I wanted to tell you. 185 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:37,861 What? 186 00:20:37,937 --> 00:20:40,735 I told you that the aliens were here to do good 187 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,072 and that I was being used as an oracle to spread the word. 188 00:20:45,177 --> 00:20:48,738 Only now I know what the aliens are here for, and it isn't good. 189 00:20:48,848 --> 00:20:51,544 What are they here for? 190 00:20:51,684 --> 00:20:53,914 To wipe us off the planet. 191 00:20:55,688 --> 00:20:58,179 They're taking over the universe. 192 00:20:58,257 --> 00:21:03,524 They're infecting all other life forms with a black substance called Purity. 193 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:08,590 It's their life force. It's what they're made of. 194 00:21:08,701 --> 00:21:11,192 It's the virus. The Black Oil. 195 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:15,604 But, Cassandra, the doctors weren't infected. They were burned. 196 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:18,302 By another race of aliens. 197 00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:23,814 A rebel force, that are mutilating their faces so that they won't be infected. 198 00:21:24,717 --> 00:21:30,212 - This is what I couldn't tell my son Jeffrey. - Why couldn't you tell Jeffrey? 199 00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:32,814 Because he doesn't believe me. 200 00:21:33,893 --> 00:21:37,727 Even though his life is in danger by these same rebel aliens. 201 00:21:37,797 --> 00:21:40,459 Spender's life's in danger? 202 00:21:40,566 --> 00:21:45,970 He's in with the men that have been working with the alien colonists for 50 years. 203 00:21:46,071 --> 00:21:48,164 Working to do what? 204 00:21:50,609 --> 00:21:53,806 Whatever it is they did to me, 205 00:21:53,913 --> 00:21:55,847 and to you, Dana. 206 00:22:02,121 --> 00:22:04,248 And you know who these men are? 207 00:22:05,524 --> 00:22:10,359 Oh, sure. One of them's my ex-husband. 208 00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:14,857 Jeffrey's father. 209 00:22:17,603 --> 00:22:23,098 Cassandra was starting to realize her role in the greatest science project ever known. 210 00:22:24,143 --> 00:22:27,271 She was the center of 50 years of work. 211 00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:29,814 The key to all of our plans. 212 00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:35,617 Something even my colleagues didn't realize yet. 213 00:22:38,791 --> 00:22:41,783 I killed to keep them unknowing. 214 00:22:44,129 --> 00:22:47,792 I killed Dr Openshaw so they wouldn't discover her, 215 00:22:48,801 --> 00:22:51,702 when it's Cassandra I should've killed, 216 00:22:53,138 --> 00:22:56,005 Cassandra who needed to die. 217 00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:02,973 I couldn't do it. 218 00:23:03,048 --> 00:23:06,176 With all the blood on my hands, 219 00:23:06,318 --> 00:23:09,845 I couldn't kill the mother of my own son. 220 00:23:09,922 --> 00:23:12,686 The woman I never even loved. 221 00:23:15,427 --> 00:23:17,987 My colleagues never knew, 222 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:22,398 focused as they were on the new threat, 223 00:23:22,501 --> 00:23:27,529 the faceless alien rebels who'd burned our doctors alive. 224 00:23:29,208 --> 00:23:32,439 But my colleagues had become old men, 225 00:23:33,712 --> 00:23:39,548 blind to the fact that the faceless rebels already held the upper hand, 226 00:23:40,552 --> 00:23:45,285 that they'd used their powers of disguise to infiltrate our group. 227 00:23:46,058 --> 00:23:51,724 Rebels have attacked and burned facilities in New Mexico and the Southwest. 228 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:57,134 The medical staff at our Arizona research facility has been slain. 229 00:24:00,906 --> 00:24:03,807 The train-car deaths cost us. 230 00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:08,471 Work on the human/alien hybrids will suffer the death of Dr Openshaw. 231 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:11,140 What do they want? 232 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:17,447 To expose our enterprise, everything we've worked for. 233 00:24:17,556 --> 00:24:21,083 While some hotshot reporter's gonna put the pieces together. 234 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,995 - Not to mention law enforcement. - We have our control on the federal agencies. 235 00:24:26,098 --> 00:24:29,625 Our new man at the FBI is very capable of diverting attention. 236 00:24:29,735 --> 00:24:33,603 Why not side with the rebels? 237 00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:40,343 Join their alien resistance. 238 00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:45,678 It's an option. 239 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:49,752 It's an option you declined long ago. 240 00:24:51,957 --> 00:24:56,417 Resistance was futile then. Why would it be less so now? 241 00:24:56,528 --> 00:25:00,521 That's why you voted against it. Against men like Bill Mulder. 242 00:25:01,934 --> 00:25:06,337 Collaboration has allowed you to prepare, to stall colonization. 243 00:25:06,438 --> 00:25:09,999 How close are you to developing a human/alien hybrid? 244 00:25:10,109 --> 00:25:12,373 That alone ensures your survival. 245 00:25:12,778 --> 00:25:15,212 As slave labourers for the aliens. 246 00:25:17,216 --> 00:25:19,514 What about your vaccine? 247 00:25:19,618 --> 00:25:24,146 By collaborating, you bought time to secretly develop a way to combat the aliens, 248 00:25:24,223 --> 00:25:26,453 - to fight the future. - Alex, enough! 249 00:25:35,234 --> 00:25:38,032 For 50 years, we've worked on this project. 250 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:43,703 50 years since Roswell. 251 00:25:43,809 --> 00:25:48,803 We can't sacrifice ourselves for every new threat, can we, now? 252 00:26:00,692 --> 00:26:04,992 - Why risk getting caught? - They'll monitor any work on our machines. 253 00:26:05,064 --> 00:26:09,160 We need access to files, a name that'll raise flags. 254 00:26:22,347 --> 00:26:25,282 Maybe she was making it all up. 255 00:26:33,625 --> 00:26:36,185 Smokey's got a name. 256 00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:53,610 Get up from the desk. 257 00:26:53,712 --> 00:26:58,706 Get up, turn the computer off. Grab whatever you took, or print it out and give it to me. 258 00:26:58,817 --> 00:27:01,547 Let's go, Agents. They're coming. 259 00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:08,553 - Who? - Just go. 260 00:27:09,495 --> 00:27:11,554 Assistant Director. 261 00:27:13,265 --> 00:27:18,999 I'll assume you came to apprehend these agents for unauthorized entry into my office. 262 00:27:19,104 --> 00:27:22,733 I'll make sure it's duly noted in the report at their dismissal. 263 00:27:43,929 --> 00:27:46,989 I've done as you've asked. Mulder's gone up to his superiors. 264 00:27:47,099 --> 00:27:50,830 He and his partner will be processed out of the FBI. 265 00:27:50,936 --> 00:27:55,532 I've done as you've asked. Now I would like you to do for me. 266 00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:03,971 Do for you? 267 00:28:04,116 --> 00:28:06,676 I think I'm entitled. 268 00:28:06,785 --> 00:28:10,186 - To? - The truth. 269 00:28:10,289 --> 00:28:13,019 The truth about my mother. 270 00:28:14,459 --> 00:28:18,122 - She won't tell me. - Because you won't believe her. 271 00:28:19,331 --> 00:28:22,129 Maybe you won't believe me. 272 00:28:24,803 --> 00:28:28,068 - Maybe it's better not to know. - I need to know! 273 00:28:28,173 --> 00:28:31,973 You need to show me you're capable of handling the responsibility. 274 00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:34,410 Don't try me, old man! 275 00:28:35,814 --> 00:28:38,908 I gave you responsibility. I gave you a position! 276 00:28:39,017 --> 00:28:42,248 I gave you things you couldn't get. You can't do the job! 277 00:28:42,354 --> 00:28:45,221 Keeping Fox Mulder down is not a job! It's your dirty work! 278 00:28:48,594 --> 00:28:50,994 You pale to Fox Mulder. 279 00:29:13,852 --> 00:29:17,515 - Bet you're curious about CGB. - What's that? 280 00:29:17,623 --> 00:29:22,356 CGB Spender. His name. Cigarette-Smoking Man. 281 00:29:23,528 --> 00:29:25,689 What's it stand for? 282 00:29:27,199 --> 00:29:31,795 It's an alias, as far as I can figure. One of hundreds. 283 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:36,098 Scully, wanna go one-on-one? 284 00:29:36,208 --> 00:29:39,439 We got time now that we're on administrative leave. 285 00:29:39,544 --> 00:29:42,570 Aren't you curious what I've got in the box? 286 00:29:42,714 --> 00:29:45,148 Everything I could find on him. 287 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:48,981 Nothing you could ever find would be accurate or credible. 288 00:29:49,087 --> 00:29:50,213 Maybe. 289 00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:54,283 But there's a picture you're gonna wanna see. 290 00:30:03,669 --> 00:30:07,799 That's CGB Spender... and my father. 291 00:30:08,340 --> 00:30:11,332 It was taken in 1973. 292 00:30:11,443 --> 00:30:16,244 The connection was something they worked on for 25 years at the State Department. 293 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:19,478 A highly classified project. 294 00:30:19,584 --> 00:30:22,314 There's more, if you're ready. 295 00:30:26,858 --> 00:30:30,760 Cassandra Spender is indeed the mother of Agent Jeffrey Spender 296 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,525 and the ex-wife of CGB Spender. 297 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:39,262 But there's something that you're gonna be surprised to find out. 298 00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:45,107 She was first abducted in 1973, on the night of November 27th. 299 00:30:46,311 --> 00:30:49,041 That's the same night as my sister. 300 00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:54,641 There are other names connected to CGB Spender and your father. 301 00:30:54,786 --> 00:30:57,311 PhD's, doctors... 302 00:30:57,389 --> 00:31:02,292 One, a Nobel winner for early works in genetics. A Dr Eugene Openshaw. 303 00:31:03,161 --> 00:31:09,396 He was found amongst the burn victims, clinging to life beside Cassandra Spender. 304 00:31:09,501 --> 00:31:13,801 He died the next day in the hospital, before he was questioned. 305 00:31:16,408 --> 00:31:19,969 - The project is still going on. - Yeah. 306 00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:25,180 If Mulder hadn't known of his fathers history with me, 307 00:31:25,317 --> 00:31:30,880 he was fueled now with names and dates and... certainties. 308 00:31:32,824 --> 00:31:35,520 I couldn't stop him any longer. 309 00:31:36,528 --> 00:31:39,224 Stop him from learning our sins. 310 00:31:40,332 --> 00:31:42,926 His father's and my own. 311 00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:50,501 The truth was out there, fatally exposed. 312 00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:57,348 I had one last hope. 313 00:31:58,950 --> 00:32:02,044 One chance to preserve my legacy. 314 00:32:16,635 --> 00:32:20,469 - I waited like you asked. - Good. 315 00:32:20,572 --> 00:32:22,631 I'm pleased. 316 00:32:23,809 --> 00:32:26,539 I was doubtful after our last meeting. 317 00:32:30,549 --> 00:32:33,074 You have a new job for me? 318 00:32:34,386 --> 00:32:35,375 Yes. 319 00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:38,748 I may have been unduly harsh. 320 00:32:40,091 --> 00:32:43,151 You deserve a fighting chance 321 00:32:43,261 --> 00:32:45,821 to prove your father wrong. 322 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:52,492 - What is it? - A weapon. 323 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:00,309 A man has infiltrated the group that I work with. That's to kill him. 324 00:33:00,412 --> 00:33:02,471 I don't understand. 325 00:33:02,581 --> 00:33:05,516 He's pretending to be a member of our group, 326 00:33:05,617 --> 00:33:09,747 disguising himself as a man he's already killed. 327 00:33:09,855 --> 00:33:12,983 You will greet him as that man, 328 00:33:13,091 --> 00:33:16,925 engage him in conversation, then put that in the back of his neck. 329 00:33:29,107 --> 00:33:31,598 You can do it, Jeffrey. 330 00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:49,650 Watch where you point that. 331 00:34:31,870 --> 00:34:35,499 Sir, my name is Jeffrey Spender. My father sent me to see you. 332 00:34:44,616 --> 00:34:48,780 - I have a message from the group. - They've changed their minds? 333 00:34:49,788 --> 00:34:52,348 That's what I'm here about. 334 00:35:04,703 --> 00:35:06,796 Sit, please. 335 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:16,035 - What have you to tell me? - Something I've been entrusted with. 336 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:19,049 It's, uh... it's a name, actually. 337 00:35:19,451 --> 00:35:21,612 One that will have meaning for you. 338 00:35:27,258 --> 00:35:29,385 I'm sorry. 339 00:36:05,463 --> 00:36:11,026 Thanks for coming. I know it's late, and you're forbidden to have any contact with us. 340 00:36:12,871 --> 00:36:14,304 Sir. 341 00:36:14,439 --> 00:36:16,498 Cassandra Spender's life is in danger? 342 00:36:16,608 --> 00:36:21,307 Her life's been in danger goin' on 30 years. Just not the way I think it is now. 343 00:36:21,446 --> 00:36:23,175 In danger from who? 344 00:36:23,281 --> 00:36:27,012 Men who've conducted experiments on a secret government project, 345 00:36:27,118 --> 00:36:29,643 that is now the most private global enterprise. 346 00:36:29,721 --> 00:36:33,316 - Enterprising to do what? - To develop alien/human hybrids 347 00:36:33,458 --> 00:36:38,452 that will survive the viral apocalypse when aliens colonize the Earth. 348 00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:40,498 I suppose you have proof of this. 349 00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:43,396 Files that Agent ScuIIy dug up that make connections 350 00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:49,633 to Dr Eugene Openshaw, to my sister, to my father, to Agent Spenders father. 351 00:36:49,974 --> 00:36:53,535 - Agent Spenders father? - The Smoking Man. 352 00:36:55,346 --> 00:36:59,305 - What? - It's true, sir. We have documented evidence. 353 00:36:59,417 --> 00:37:02,250 You believe this, Agent ScuIIy? This whole account? 354 00:37:02,353 --> 00:37:05,845 I know she has doubts about the purposes of these experiments, 355 00:37:05,924 --> 00:37:10,418 but she believes she was a test subject when she was abducted four years ago. 356 00:37:10,528 --> 00:37:13,656 If Cassandra's life was in danger, why not Scully's? 357 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:17,224 Cassandra represents the final stages of these experiments. 358 00:37:17,335 --> 00:37:20,896 She may very well be the first successful alien/human hybrid. 359 00:37:21,005 --> 00:37:25,442 What I don't understand is, if she was a success, then why is her life threatened? 360 00:37:25,543 --> 00:37:31,243 Because... the men who created her would rather kill her 361 00:37:31,349 --> 00:37:34,113 than let her expose the enterprise. 362 00:37:35,353 --> 00:37:37,913 She’s under 24-hour guard. 363 00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:41,358 Assigned by Agent Spender? 364 00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:57,469 You've never seen one before, have you? 365 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:04,073 It's shocking at first. 366 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:07,914 The acceptance of the idea, it's... 367 00:38:07,986 --> 00:38:12,320 it's something you thought only children and fools believed in. 368 00:38:13,057 --> 00:38:17,619 It undermines your beliefs, in yourself and the world. 369 00:38:18,897 --> 00:38:22,389 - But then you come to understand. - Understand what? 370 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:28,063 Well, the responsibility that this knowledge demands by the men who have it. 371 00:38:28,173 --> 00:38:33,611 The great sacrifice, by great men like... your father. 372 00:38:33,912 --> 00:38:38,576 - What sacrifice? - The sacrifice of your mother. 373 00:38:43,955 --> 00:38:46,253 What do you know about that? 374 00:38:47,525 --> 00:38:51,427 Just that she's been the subject of an experiment for 25 years. 375 00:38:53,364 --> 00:38:56,333 My father's involved in that? 376 00:38:56,434 --> 00:38:59,597 - Is he? - Your father directs the experiments. 377 00:39:01,139 --> 00:39:04,973 So... I'm protecting her now so the experiments can continue? 378 00:39:05,043 --> 00:39:08,479 That's... why he put you on the X-Files. 379 00:39:11,649 --> 00:39:15,608 That's why your father sent you here tonight. 380 00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:23,017 You're protecting the project, Jeff. 381 00:39:23,127 --> 00:39:25,960 Making the sacrifices. 382 00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:29,799 So that you can be a great man, too. 383 00:39:32,136 --> 00:39:35,003 I'll be my own great man. 384 00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:44,471 I've trusted no one. 385 00:39:45,316 --> 00:39:49,047 Treachery is the inevitable result of all affairs. 386 00:39:50,521 --> 00:39:53,684 Every man believes he has his own good reason. 387 00:39:58,529 --> 00:40:02,056 I have little doubt of my son's disloyalty to me. 388 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:07,338 Certainly, he led Mulder and Scully to us. 389 00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:14,101 His mother must know by now her central role in the grand plan, 390 00:40:14,212 --> 00:40:17,272 that she's as much alien as human. 391 00:40:20,718 --> 00:40:23,346 Do you wonder why I've chosen you? 392 00:40:24,355 --> 00:40:29,884 You've never betrayed me. Now I need someone to trust. 393 00:40:36,134 --> 00:40:38,568 I'll help you. 394 00:40:40,071 --> 00:40:42,301 It's not too late. 395 00:41:13,338 --> 00:41:15,397 Cassandra? 396 00:41:16,808 --> 00:41:18,901 Ms Spender? 397 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,816 - Where's my mother? - You tell me, Agent Spender. 398 00:41:29,821 --> 00:41:32,585 Where's the guard? I had a guard posted here... 399 00:41:32,690 --> 00:41:34,920 I got here and she was gone. 400 00:41:36,361 --> 00:41:38,921 - He took her. - Who? 401 00:41:41,265 --> 00:41:43,756 Agent Spender? 402 00:41:52,143 --> 00:41:55,112 - Cassandra? - I can't believe I found you. 403 00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:58,546 How did you find us? Cassandra? 404 00:42:00,018 --> 00:42:02,145 How did you get here? 405 00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:04,950 - How'd you get out? - How'd you get your clothes? 406 00:42:06,324 --> 00:42:10,283 Agent Scully, Agent Mulder, you cannot let them find me! 407 00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:16,831 You cannot let them have me! You have got to kill me! Now! 408 00:42:19,070 --> 00:42:24,474 If you don't kill me, it all starts! There won't be any stopping it! 409 00:42:27,145 --> 00:42:29,636 I am the one! 410 00:42:29,747 --> 00:42:33,478 You have to shoot me! Please! 411 00:42:37,321 --> 00:42:39,721 Mulder, what are you doing? 412 00:42:39,824 --> 00:42:42,725 - Stay out of the way, Scully. - Mulder! 413 00:42:42,827 --> 00:42:46,194 Mulder, we have to protect her! 414 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:51,864 Mulder! Mulder! 415 00:43:34,212 --> 00:43:35,873 I made this!