Dana Scully quotes from The X-Files

(standing in Scully's kitchen as she performs an ad hoc necropsy) You gotta be freakin' kidding me. I can't believe you're cutting up a dead cat on your kitchen table.

Scully

Will you keep your voice down, please? You're going to wake my baby.

Reyes

Well, why name himself after cousin Oliver? None of the other Brady's particularly liked Oliver. He was a self-described pest.

Scully

A jinx. Cousin Oliver, the Jinx. (Scully srhugs) ..Oh, so maybe I watched an episode or two.

Doggett

Okay, so be it. Just tell me how this helps me bust him, and uh, I'm happy.

Scully

Well, I'm starting to hope that it doesn't come to that.

Reyes

What do you mean?

Scully

Well, the power that this man seemingly possesses is extraordinary. It needs to be studied.

It could expand the scope of human knowledge. It could change everything.

Scully

It very well could. I mean, I've.. I've been working this unit for nine years now. I-I've investigated nearly 200 paranormal cases. We are due for some incontrovertible proof. I want vindication, for - for Mulder and.. for all of us.

Doggett

One big question. Why "The Brady Bunch"? Seriously, you two are fans. Why are people still watchin' a 30 year old TV show?

Reyes

Because.. they're the family everyone wishes they had. Loving parents, lots of brothers and sisters, everybody getting along.

Scully

They're the, uh, perfect family. And since Oliver didn't have one as a child, he... created one.

Doggett

Sure, I'd buy all that. But in this case, why "The Brady Bunch"? Why not "The Partridge Family"? Why not "Eight Is Enough"? (to Dr. Reits) Where was Oliver when you first saw "The Brady Bunch"? He was with you, right?

He'd always insisted we watch it together every week I was there.

Doggett

And the longer you two were together, the more his psychokinetic power faded, until finally it went away completely. Now, what do you think that was?

(slowly realizes) Because for the first time in his life, he was happy.

Doggett

Because he was with you.

Scully

Well, what are you suggesting is the course of action, John?

Doggett

A - Oliver's gonna die if he continues to use his power. B - his power goes away when he's happy. And C - you're the father he never had, and he loves you. A to B to C.

Doggett

So close, Dana. I'm sorry you don't get your proof.

Scully

Me too. Well, maybe I've had it these past nine years. If not proof of the paranormal, then... of more important things. (looks at Oliver for a moment, then leaves)

Doggett

Well, here's hopin' the TV stays off and he learns how to love the real world.

Reyes

(smiles and takes his hand) I think you are getting the hang of this job.

Doggett

You saw him? Mulder?

Reyes

They've accused him of murder?

Scully

And they have him believing that he did it.

Doggett

Of murdering who?

Scully

Knowle Rohrer.

Doggett

Knowle Rohrer? It can't be. I watched Knowle Rohrer die.

Reyes

He can't die. Knowle Rohrer's a super soldier.

Skinner

(Skinner hangs up phone) Mulder side-stepped security at a facility known as Mount Weather - a place where they say our so-called shadow government is installed.

Reyes

What about this murder charge?

Skinner

Thirty government workers are ready to testify they witnessed Mulder push a military officer to his death.

Doggett

Killing a man who can't be killed? (Scully begins to leave, Doggett turns to her) Where are you going?

Scully

..To beg mercy with the man upstairs.

Scully

Mulder.. Mulder!

Mulder

(makes a smirking face) ..I smelled you coming, Clarice.

Scully

Oh.. Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.

Mulder

No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.

Mulder

(moves to hug Skinner) Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.

Skinner

The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble you're in.

Mulder

Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that, right around the 50th brainwashing session. (he kisses Scully on the hand)

Scully

Mulder, why are they doing this to you?

Mulder

They think they're preparing me for my trial - For my testimony.

Scully

Mulder, it's me.

Mulder

Oh. Is it time to go?

Scully

No. That's why I'm here. Mulder, I need you to talk to me. Confide in me.. or we'll lose.

Mulder

We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.

Scully

You're scaring me. Mulder, I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm going to lose you again.

Mulder

I know what I'm doing.

Scully

Well.. whatever you're doing... you have no idea how much has already been lost... What I've had to do...

Mulder

I do know. Skinner told me.

Scully

Our son, Mulder... I gave him up. (cries and hugs Mulder) ..Our son. I'm so afraid you could never forgive me.

Mulder

I know you had no choice. I just missed both of you so much.

Scully

God, where have you been? Where have you been hiding?

Mulder

In New Mexico.

Scully

Doing what?

Mulder

Looking for The Truth.

Scully

You found something, didn't you? Huh? What did you find?

Mulder

I can't tell you.

Scully

You found something in that facility? That's what you were doing, right? Mulder, what did you find out there?

Mulder

Scully, I can't tell you.

Scully

That doesn't make sense.

Mulder

You've got to trust me, Scully. I know things. It's better you don't.

Mulder

I know why you're here and what you want. I can't give it to you.

Scully

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.

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

Why?

Mulder

I just can't.

Scully

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.

Get up.

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?

Doggett

(answering phone) Yeah... I'll tell her. (He hangs up)

Scully

Who was it?

Doggett

Skinner.

Scully

..Agent Doggett?

Doggett

Death by lethal injection.

Frohike

(Mulder is urinating at the roadside) Hey hotshot. Might have the common courtesy of doing your little business downwind.

Mulder

Oh boy.

Langly

Why don't you finish draining the little lizard then we'll talk?

Byers

We're very worried about you.

Frohike

It's craziness, man. Turn around.

Langly

Just hang a big U-ie and never look back.

Mulder

I can't.

Byers

Why risk perfect happiness, Mulder? Why risk your lives?

Mulder

Because I need to know the truth.

Byers

You already know the truth.

Mulder

I need to know if I can change it.

Langly

Change it?

Frohike

For crying out loud. All you're going to do is get yourself killed.

Scully

Mulder! What are you doing?

Mulder

(The Lone Gunmen have vanished) I'll be right with you, Scully.

Cigarette Smoking Man

..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.

Cigarette Smoking Man

You see a dead man, Agent Scully?

Scully

I hoped and prayed you were dead, you chain-smoking, son of a bitch.

Cigarette Smoking Man

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.

Cigarette Smoking Man

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.

Cigarette Smoking Man

It's the final refuge. The last place to hide from those who are insidiously taking power now.

Scully

Who?

Cigarette Smoking Man

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.

Cigarette Smoking Man

Leaves me to tell you what Mulder's afraid to, Agent Scully.

Mulder

Come on, let's go.

Cigarette Smoking Man

It's a scary story. Want to come sit on my lap?

Scully

..You don't scare me.

Cigarette Smoking Man

My story's scared every president since Truman in '47.

Mulder

(To Scully) You don't have to hear this.

Scully

No, I wanna hear it, Mulder.

Cigarette Smoking Man

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.

Cigarette Smoking Man

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

You don't believe that.

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

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.

Scully

Then we believe the same thing.

Mulder

...Maybe there's hope.