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- Last season on The X Files... - All right, nobody moves!

He reached down and he healed me with his hand.

Cancer Man... he was here with your mother.

He wants something from her...

something she may have kept in this house.

Agent Mulder, your mother's just been

admitted to a hospital in serious condition.

The date is set

and the outcome inevitable.

I want the Smoking Man smoked out.

He knows about the man that disappeared from

the restaurant shooting. He's trying to kill him.

Oh! Damn it!

A bee just stung me, eh?

Well, now...

don't you all take the cake?

Does your mom ever mix you up?

I've come to you at great risk.

I mean you no harm.

Mulder, he knows about your sister.

How do I know you're for real?

I can explain everything to you.

First, I want you to come somewhere with me.

I want you to come with me to see my mother.

Stay out of his way, Scully.

He doesn't want to hurt you.

You can't use your gun.

Stop right there, sir!

Come on.

Mulder!

Scully, get the car!

This way.

Damn.

This way.

Hey!

Jeremiah!

Jeremiah, stop!

What are you doing?

There'll be more

right behind him.

You can't leave here.

They'll kill me!

I need your help!

My mother is dying.

Mulder!

Mulder!

Mulder!

Mulder!

Where are they going?

I don't know.

I need to know.

Please, I don't know.

They'll know where to find us.

They'll be waiting for us.

Who?

Your government men... they'll be waiting

at the hospital with your mother.

What can they do?

We're working in the light.

They can't stop us without exposure, without consequence.

You have to understand something:

I must perish.

Whatever the consequences to that end,

they are incalculable to the preservation of the larger plan.

The larger plan?

You mean colonization.

Hegemony, Mr. Mulder... a new origin of species.

I don't understand.

I can show you.

My mother is dying.

I need to take you to see her right now.

And if they are waiting for us?

If they're willing to kill me

and face the consequences of their actions

to stand before your ineffectual justice system, I will be dead.

I won't be able to save your mother.

The work will go on.

The plan will continue to be executed.

Or you can stop it.

How can I stop it?

I can take you to a place

and show you the work in progress,

where you can see...

No, look, there's no time! There's...

Where you can see your sister.

He isn't coming.

I told you.

Then where is he?

I don't know.

Certainly he anticipated

we'd be here waiting.

Unless we have a security leak.

Who?

I've come in receipt of some pictures

of your visit to Mrs. Mulder's summer house.

Were you aware you were being photographed?

By whom?

I believe that can be determined

by a simple planting of information...

...to see where that information flows.

What information?

That Mrs. Mulder's life is in danger...

that left unprotected...

she may come to an unnatural end.

Scully.

Scully, it's me.

Where are you?

I'm right where you left me, Mulder.

I'm sitting here in my car.

Why?

Because you wouldn't answer your phone,

and because I didn't know what else to do.

Are you okay, Scully?

Yes, I'm fine.

Listen to me,

there's going to be... there's going to be

people looking for me,

and they're going to think they can get to me through you.

- Mulder... - No, no, no, hold on.

Just-just listen for a second, Scully.

I need you to do something for me.

I had to steal a car from an airport in Alberta.

There's going to be a record of me

going through Canadian customs,

and I need you to cover my tracks.

I also need you to know that I'm okay, Scully.

I'm fine.

Okay?

Mulder, he's coming after you.

Who?

The man you left for dead.

He's alive.

That's it for the gas.

How much further from here?

About 20 miles.

Maybe half that...

on foot over those hills.

Let's go.

Sir.

Agent Scully.

I heard you were looking for me.

There's been some concern about you and Agent Mulder.

We're fine, sir.

We've been searching for this man, Jeremiah Smith.

Did you find him?

No.

I received a memo from you

that there's more confusion about this man...

that the Social Security Administration

has five men with this name

working in branch offices around the country

with identical photo I.D.s.

We ran a check on these men.

All five have not reported to work in three days.

Now, would you or Agent Mulder like to let me in on

what it is your suspicions are?

I'm afraid we haven't exactly

formulated any clear suspicions, sir.

Well, we have, Agent Scully.

Sir?

We were able to download the hard drive data

from each of the five missing men's

Social Security workstations, and in each case, we found

an enormous amount of files and data that cannot be identified.

Do not correspond

with any kind of accounting or document collection

done as normal departmental business.

The data was all locked in password files.

How much of it is there?

Enough to fill seven ten-gigabyte hard drives...

roughly a billion entries.

It appears to be some kind of

personal record-keeping or accounting.

Could it be some kind of cryptogram?

If it is, I can't crack it.

I'd like to get a copy of a portion of this.

I might be able to figure it out.

Seriously?

Maybe. There's somebody I want to run it by.

Agent Mulder?

No.

I think, sir, this is more along my field of expertise.

What happened to this man?

I wouldn't touch the body, Mr. Mulder.

There's a work order here.

It's for yesterday.

He's only been here

a little more than 24 hours.

You know what killed him, don't you?

It's not much further.

You're looking at the future,

Mr. Mulder.

What is it?

A flowering shrub.

But its specific epithet can't be found

on any of your taxonomic charts.

Being grown for what?

Pollen.

What is this?

What's going on here?

What did I tell you, Mr. Mulder?

That looks just like my sister.

But that's not possible.

She's no older than the day she was taken.

Samantha?

Samantha.

Samantha?

Samantha?

Samantha?

Samantha, it's me.

It's me, Fox, your brother.

Do you remember me?

What's wrong with her?

She has no language.

What do you mean?

She's a drone, Mr. Mulder... a worker.

What are you talking about?

There's more you should see so that you might understand.

How'd they get here?

They're stationed here.

They're part of an agrarian work force.

Who takes care of them?

They take care of themselves.

Parenting is unnecessary...

a needless division of energy.

They're clones.

Serial ovotypes.

Have you seen enough, Mr. Mulder?

We can't stay around here much longer.

I'll go see if I can find some gas.

Open the door, Agent Scully.

How did you know I was here?

I've been trying to reach Agent Mulder.

I watched you enter the building.

Where is he?

I don't know.

I have information for him...

a matter that would concern him greatly.

Concern him how?

Concerning his mother.

Has something happened to her?

No. No, not yet.

Is she in danger?

I prefer to speak with Agent Mulder directly.

Let me just say she is unprotected.

From whom?

From whom?

If you want to involve yourself, Agent Scully,

you might do well to give this information

to your partner.

Not until you give me some information first.

These are data entries taken from Social Security records...

You're going in the wrong direction, Agent Scully.

All beginning with the letters S-E-P.

You know what these are.

Confirm or deny.

Smallpox Eradication Program.

Smallpox?

Don't unlock doors you're not prepared

to go through, Agent Scully.

What's that supposed to mean?

Leave it alone.

Protect the mother.

What are you doing?

She's coming with us.

You can't do this.

She's not your sister.

Well, then who is she?

You have a chance here

to understand something so much greater...

to comprehend it, to expose it.

Well, then explain it to me.

Explain it to me now.

Bees.

It's an apiary.

Are bees what killed that man we found?

Yes.

It's probably not a good idea to hide in there.

No, you have no immunity to them.

But you do?

Somebody lead me.

I can't see anything.

Is that the only way out?

We've walked into our own trap.

Are you busy, Agent Pendrell?

No. I was just, uh...

Good, 'cause I think I've made some headway on this data.

Can you call up the files?

Yeah. I've got to tell you, I've gotten nowhere.

Smallpox Eradication Program.

Smallpox? How'd you figure that?

I got lucky. But the key is in this first string of letters.

20-letter strings.

30 different variations.

You say "a 20-letter code" to any scientist,

and they immediately think

"protein amino acid sequence code,"

which is what this turned out to be.

Protein sequence code for what?

Cowpox virus...

the virus used to inoculate humans against smallpox.

Okay, right.

These guys were keeping records of smallpox inoculations. Why?

I haven't worked that out yet.

But the big question is

this second alpha numeric string.

15 digits.

Yeah, I checked. Each one is different...

an infinite number of variations.

An inventory.

Of what?

Of us.

With all due respect, Agent Scully,

it looks like something from the Hubble Telescope.

Actually,

it's an image created

by what's called a confocal microscope.

You're looking at a three-dimensional picture

of the location of a protein... in this case,

cowpox structural protein number six.

It's one of the inoculants used in the smallpox vaccine.

Where'd it come from?

From me.

I had a biopsy taken

from the smallpox vaccination scar

on my upper arm.

Through a process called immunohisto chemical staining

and through the addition of an antibody

for the cowpox virus six,

I was able to get this picture of the location of a protein...

a single, non-random protein pattern.

I'm not a scientist, Agent Scully,

and I don't know that many people in this room...

What I'm saying is that I think this protein is a tag...

some kind of genetic marker that was applied

to me when I was inoculated against smallpox as a child.

Why you?

Not just me... all of us.

Quite possibly anybody

who's been inoculated over the past 50 years.

Agent Scully, frankly,

this sounds like something we might have expected

from Agent Mulder.

I had my doubts, and I'm still not certain.

But I performed the same procedure on Agent Pendrell.

The location of the protein from his biopsy

should be identical to mine, but it's slightly different,

which might correspond to the alphanumeric entries

collected by the men at the...

at the Social Security Administration.

So what you're saying, Agent Scully,

is we're being catalogued, tagged and inventoried?

By who?

I don't know, but it would have to be a government agency.

And to what purpose?

I don't know that either.

And I think the only man

who might be able to give us that information

is Jeremiah Smith.

Agent Scully, can I see you outside for a moment?

Alone.

Do you realize what you're promoting in there?

You're rounding these people up

in the middle of the workday to imply that there's...

I am a scientist, sir.

What I'm promoting in there is reductive evidence.

It's the reason I believe I was assigned to the X Files

in the first place, is it not?

To put Agent Mulder's work to the test of science?

Excuse me.

Scully.

Scully, where are you right now?

I'm in Skinner's office. Where are you?

Still in Canada, but I'm catching a plane soon.

I need you to meet me on the other end.

Just tell me where.

At the hospital where my mother is.

Mulder, I don't...

Her life depends upon me and my party getting there safely.

Who?

Jeremiah Smith and someone else.

I'm going to need some protection, Scully.

Oh, believe me, Mulder, you're going to have it.

What do you mean?

There's a lot of people who want to talk to Jeremiah Smith.

They'll get their chance.

We'll be there.

Please. You can't kill him.

He can't die.

He must.

That girl is my sister.

He shows you pieces,

but tells you nothing of the whole,

because he's inconsequential...

a traitor to the project.

Kill me. Let them go.

You'd trade your life for his?

For my mother's.

Everything dies.

Five hours we're out here

swinging in the wind, Agent Scully.

Something's wrong.

Something happened.

You don't have any way of getting hold of him?

This is beginning to seriously compromise

our ability to treat patients.

Oh, my God.

Mulder...

I can't.

There's nothing.

Oh, here... no.

You're freezing.

He's in... You're in shock, Mulder.

What happened?

She'll never know.

She'll never know.

We could have saved her, Scully.

As long as she's lying here,

you can't give up on her.

I don't care what the doctors say.

I had one chance.

We let it slip away.

We don't know that, Mulder.

You can't blame yourself for what you could only hope.

He took me to a place with green fields.

And I saw my sister.

She was just a little girl.

I've seen too many things not to believe.

I've seen things, too.

But there are answers to be found now.

We have hope that there's a place to start.

That's what I believe.

You put such faith in your science, Scully,

but... the things I've seen,

science provides no place to start.

Nothing happens in contradiction to nature,

only in contradiction to what we know of it.

And that's a place to start.

That's where the hope is.

I feel I came so close.

I feel it, too.

I know it.

How?

I was warned

by a man we both know,

who I believe knows the truth,

who can lead us to a place to start.

Mr. Mulder?

My name is Marita Covarrubias.

I'm the assistant to the special representative.

Was he able to review the material that I sent him?

Yes.

And will he see me?

I'm afraid he's been called into something important.

Can I ask who sent you here, Mr. Mulder?

A friend.

You know, I've been inquiring

with each of the special representatives

all month about the farmland in Canada.

I've been trying to get some answers,

and all I've gotten are dead ends.

Well, I can tell you that farm has been abandoned.

The crops you described were left to die.

But they have been identified as ginseng.

No evidence of beehives or bee husbandry was found.

I know it's not the answer you wanted.

I, uh...

Can I ask why this is so important to you?

I've suffered...

I've suffered some very personal losses recently,

and...

I was... I was hoping...

...that, um...

Not everything dies, Mr. Mulder.

I need to know the reasons why this should be.

So that the work may continue.

So that the project may proceed unabated

by removing an unnecessary obstacle.

What obstacle?

Agent Mulder, actually.

If his mother were to die, he would...

He what?

You see...

the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose.

And you know how important Agent Mulder is to the equation.

I made this!