MulderI know why you're here and what you want. I can't give it to you.
Make them a deal, Mulder. Guilty on a lesser charge. Maybe they'll go for it and they'll let you walk out of here.
Mulder
I'd rather die, Scully.
How can you say that? How can you say that, Mulder, to me?
Mulder
Because this is greater than you or me. This is about everything we've worked for for nine years. The truth that we both sacrificed so much to uncover and to expose.
Well, then, expose it, Mulder! Take the stand. Whatever it is that you're withholding, take the stand and hit them full force.
Mulder
I can't.
Mulder
I just can't.
You say this is greater than us, and maybe it is, but this is us fighting this fight, Mulder, not you. It's you and me - That's what I'm fighting for, Mulder. You and me.
[Scully leaves]
Mulder
Who's that? Who's there?! (X steps forward) ..What are you doing here?
That's what I'm here to ask you.
Mulder
..I'm putting the truth on trial.
What truth? Who's truth? You think these men will even hear it?
Mulder
They're afraid to hear it.
They're not afraid. They have too much power to be afraid. You're going to learn that just like I did. You'll die learning it.
Mulder
I'm not afraid of that.
There's a truth even you're afraid to speak now, because you know it's futile.
Mulder
No. Because I refuse to accept it.
Then you're going to need help.
Mulder
How can you possibly help me?
[X hands him a piece of paper with Marita Covarrubias' name & address on it]
(Mulder is urinating at the roadside) Hey hotshot. Might have the common courtesy of doing your little business downwind.
Mulder
Oh boy.
Why don't you finish draining the little lizard then we'll talk?
We're very worried about you.
It's craziness, man. Turn around.
Just hang a big U-ie and never look back.
Mulder
I can't.
Why risk perfect happiness, Mulder? Why risk your lives?
Mulder
Because I need to know the truth.
You already know the truth.
Mulder
I need to know if I can change it.
For crying out loud. All you're going to do is get yourself killed.
Mulder! What are you doing?
Mulder
(The Lone Gunmen have vanished) I'll be right with you, Scully.
..What's the matter, Agent Mulder? You come to see the wise man but you look as if you've seen a ghost.
Mulder
You're not a wise man, you're a dead man. Just like Krycek and X.
You see a dead man, Agent Scully?
I hoped and prayed you were dead, you chain-smoking, son of a bitch.
You waste your time. Ask Mulder - He knows the futility of hope and prayers. He knows the truth now.. You have told her the truth, haven't you, Fox? I helped you find it.
Mulder
You didn't help me - You sent me to that government facility knowing exactly what I'd find.
And now you've refused to speak it. Not to Scully, not to anyone, even though it would have saved your life. You damn me for my secrets, but you're afraid to speak the truth.
Mulder
You call me afraid? Look at you sitting alone in the dark like a fossil.
It's the final refuge. The last place to hide from those who are insidiously taking power now.
The aliens.. They fear this place, its geology. Magnetite, like that which brought down the original UFO in Roswell. Indian wisemen realized this over 2,000 years ago. They hid here, and watched their own culture die. The original shadow government.
Leaves me to tell you what Mulder's afraid to, Agent Scully.
Mulder
Come on, let's go.
It's a scary story. Want to come sit on my lap?
My story's scared every president since Truman in '47.
Mulder
(To Scully) You don't have to hear this.
No, I wanna hear it, Mulder.
Ten centuries ago the Mayans were so afraid that their calendar stopped on the exact date that my story begins. December 22, the year 2012. The date of the final alien invasion. Mulder can confirm the date - He saw it at Mount Weather.. where our own 'Secret Government' will be hiding when it all comes down.
Mulder
Yeah, you smile... feeling drunk with power. The power to do nothing.
My power comes from telling you. Seeing your powerlessness hearing it.. They wanted to kill you, Fox. I protected you all these years.. waiting for this moment... to see you broken. Afraid. Now you can die.
What are you thinking? Mulder?
Mulder
I'm thinking... I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crimes.
Mulder
I believe.. that I sat in a motel room like this with you when we first met.. and I tried to convince you of the truth. And in that respect, I succeeded, but... in every other way... I've failed.
You don't believe that either.
Mulder
Mm. I've been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. You heard the man — the date's set. I can't change that.
You wouldn't tell me. Not because you were afraid or broken.. but because you didn't want to accept defeat.
Mulder
Well, I was afraid of what knowing would do to you. I was afraid that it would crush.. your spirit.
Why would I accept defeat? Why would I accept it, if you won't? ..Mulder, you say that you've failed, but you only fail if you give up. And I know you — you can't give up. It's what I saw in you when we first met. It's what made me follow you... why I'd do it all over again.
Mulder
And look what it's gotten you.
And what has it gotten you? Not your sister. Nothing that you've set out for. But you won't give up, even now. You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for, then what is left to believe in?
Mulder
I want to believe that... the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us... as part of something greater than us - greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that.. if we listen, to what's speaking.. it can give us the power to save ourselves.
Then we believe the same thing.
[Mulder embraces Scully]
Mulder
...Maybe there's hope.
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