Before the exploration of space, of the moon and the planets, man held that the heavens were the home and province of powerful gods, who controlled not just the vast firmament but the earthly fate of man himself, and that the pantheon of powerful warring deities was the cause and reason for the human condition, for the past and future, and for which great monuments would be created, on earth as in heaven. But in time man replaced these gods with new gods and new religions that provided no more certain or greater answers than those worshipped by his Greek or Roman or Egyptian ancestors. And while we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods and found our certainties in science, believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation. Our eyes turn skyward, ready to accept the truly incredible, to find our destiny written in the stars. But how do we best look to see? With new eyes or old?
“Patient X” · Season 5, Episode 13
In this episode: Fox Mulder (3), Alex Krycek (2), Dana Scully (1)
[Alex Krycek and a squad of soldiers approach Marita Covarrubias and a group of UN peacekeeping troops at a mass incineration site]
(speaking in Russian) Under what authority are you corrupting this crime scene?
(responds in Russian) Under the United Nations Charter - Chapter 7, Articles 39 and 42.
(chuckles) Your authority isn't recognized here. Nor are your lies.
These are U.N. peacekeepers. This is a mission of mercy.
This is a mission of fear. Yours and the men you work for.
(scoffs) I don't know what you're talking about.
You go back and you tell them what you've seen here - What you've found.
My name is Marita Covarrubias - I'm a Special Representative to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
I know who you are - I know who you work for. Now you go back and you tell them -
Tell them what? What happened here?
..Tell them it's all going to hell.
The regression hypnosis work I did with you-
No, I'm not questioning your methods, Dr Werber. I'm questioning myself, and how I was tricked. How I was led to believe, through an elaborate staging of events, that my sister had been abducted.
A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.
So, you and I have been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?
Well, look who's answering the bat-phone.
[Scully throws a newspaper at Mulder.]
Shouldn't that be my picture next to the headline? [A picture of Mulder with the headline, "All this conjecture about little green men - false, dangerous, delusional."] ..Or is that just you having a little fun?
Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?
You look constipated, actually.
That would make sense - I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.
This wouldn't have anything to do with Cassandra Spender?
Cassandra Spender is living proof that the truth I've been so boldly seeking for the last five years is the truth of a madman.
How's that?
One more anal-probing gyro-pyro levitating ecoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody.
Well - I guess I'm done here; You seem to have invalidated your work. Have a nice life.
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