[Approaches Spender in a parking garage] Agent Spender.. I need to speak with you.
SpenderWho are you?
Somebody who's taken an interest in you - In this case of yours.. This case I gave you.
Spender
[looks around, approaches CSM] ... What are you? CIA? NSA?
Spender
You said you had information.
..Control the board. Know which men to sacrifice and when.
Spender
I don't know what you're talking about.
Don't become part of someone else's cause or crusade. Pursue your own self-interest - Always.
Spender
You're not supposed to come here. It's what was agreed to. It's the deal you made.
I had to congratulate you. Commend how you handled things. How you handled Mulder.
Spender
I did what I was asked.
You did well, son. He's on very thin ice now, you know?
Spender
Mulder will be back. As long as he lives, he won't give up.
Well, there's solutions, of course. Simple but extreme solutions. I've used these methods. They have their place. But not here.
Spender
(surprised) You've killed men?
You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for... Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
[Scully exits the elevator and enters the X-Files office.]
(direct) I want you to do me a favor. It's not negotiable. Either you do it or I kill you. You understand?
[Spender, alone, gets up and comes over to her]
Spender
You okay, Agent Scully?
No, I'm not. I'm a gun ready to go off so don't test me, Spender. Don't even think about trying to weasel me.
Spender
What is it that you need?
(writing it down) Navy AWACS SLAR 100 K swath. South-southeast of Bermuda. I am looking for a boat, maybe a ship. 1939 luxury liner.
Spender
1939?
Don't ask too many questions. I don't care what you do or who you do or who you have to grease, I need that information and I need it now. Are we clear on that?
Spender
Crystal.
And, Agent Spender... If you're not back in a hurry I am going to hunt you down, and so help me God... (makes a fist)
Spender
Right.
You looking for work, Agent Spender? 'Cause if you are, I got a whole pile in that middle drawer that I'd love to shove down someone's throat.
Spender
I was just writing you a note. I think you know why I'm here.
Spender
She wants to talk to you.
I didn't hear the magic word.
Spender
Look, Agent Mulder, I'm not going to get down on my knees here.
Are you asking me, Agent Spender?
Spender
My mother's been gone for almost a year. She turns up in a train car where she's been operated on by a group of doctors who were burned alive. I just want the truth.
The truth is out there, Agent Spender. Maybe you should find it for yourself.
[Agent Spender and AD Kersh study evidence of the Syndicate's death]
AKAD Kersh
The way these people died... the loss of life here - it is beyond words. I can't imagine how it must be for you - losing your mother.
Spender
Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.
AKAD Kersh
Why did you ask for it?
Spender
Because I'm responsible for the deaths of those people at the Air Base hangar in no small way. I certainly didn't prevent them.
AKAD Kersh
I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.
Spender
Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.
AKAD Kersh
Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.
Spender
Also my doing... and my mistake.
AKAD Kersh
I would ask...
Spender
I'd ask, sir - before you tell me that it's not my business - that you do everything you can to get them back on the X-Files. Far worse can happen... and it will.
AKAD Kersh
Where are you going?
Spender
To pack up my office.
AKAD Kersh
Agent Spender... [Spender leaves; Kersh turns to Mulder, angrily] You have answers now? Why didn't I hear about those answers before?
I've had answers for years.
AKAD Kersh
Then why didn't we hear about them?
No one would ever listen.
AKAD Kersh
Who burned those people?
They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.
AKAD Kersh
What the hell does that mean?
It means the future is here, and all bets are off.
AKAD Kersh
Agent Scully, make some sense.
Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.
[Cigarette Smoking Man sits in the X-Files office looking at picture of himself and Bill Mulder; Spender enters.]
Spender
Get out of here.
This picture you have - I haven't seen it since you were born. You probably don't even know who the other man is.
Spender
I don't care. Get out.
It's Bill Mulder, Fox Mulder's father. Isn't that something. He was a good man... a friend of mine... who betrayed me in the end.
Spender
I know more than enough about your past... enough to hate you.
Your mother was right. I came here hoping otherwise. [takes out gun] Hoping that my son... might live to honor me... ...like Bill Mulder's son. [fires, then leaves the office]
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