[opening voiceover; about Cigarette Smoking Man and his father, Bill Mulder] Two men, young, idealistic - the fine product of a generation hardened by world war. Two fathers whose paths would converge in a new battle - an invisible war between a silent enemy and a sleeping giant on a scale to dwarf all historical conflicts. A 50-years war, its killing fields lying in wait for the inevitable global holocaust. Theirs was the dawn of Armageddon. And while the world was unaware, unwitting spectators to the hurly-burly of the decades-long struggle between heaven and earth there were those who prepared for the end; who measured the size and power of the enemy, and faced the choices: stand and fight, or bow to the will of a fearsome enemy. Or to surrender - to yield and collaborate. To save themselves and stay their enemy's hand. Men who believed that victory was the absence of defeat and survival the ultimate ideology... No matter what the sacrifice.
“One Son” · Season 6, Episode 12
In this episode: Fox Mulder (5), Dana Scully (2), Cigarette Smoking Man (2), Spender (2)
There must be some kind of mistake. I signed up for the aroma therapy treatment.
[frustrated] They've burned our clothes.
Hey... I heard gray is the new black.
Mulder, this stinks, and not just because I think that woman is a... well, I think you know what I think that woman is.
[dryly] No. Actually, you hide your feelings very well.
[pointing gun at him] Sorry. Nobody home. What are you doing here?
The door was open. I came in.
Interesting company you keep.
No more interesting than your apparent... lingerie fetish.
[Agent Spender and AD Kersh study evidence of the Syndicate's death]
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.
Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.
Why did you ask for it?
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.
I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.
Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.
Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.
Also my doing... and my mistake.
I would ask...
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.
Where are you going?
To pack up my office.
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.
Then why didn't we hear about them?
No one would ever listen.
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.
What the hell does that mean?
It means the future is here, and all bets are off.
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.]
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.
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.
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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