Before I could only trust myself. Now I can only trust you. And they have taken you away from me.
“Little Green Men” · Season 2, Episode 1
In this episode: Fox Mulder (6), Dana Scully (3), Morris (1)
I was told by the Assistant Director that Mulder was gone.
So?
So, whenever he's away, I feed his fish.
[Opening Narration]
We wanted.. to believe... we wanted to call out. On August 20th and September 5th, 1977, two spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida. They were called Voyager. Each one carries a message ... A gold-plated record depicting images, music and sounds of our planet - Arranged so that it may be understood if ever intercepted by a technologically mature extraterrestrial civilization. Thirteen years after its launch, Voyager I passed the orbital plane of Neptune and, essentially, left the solar system. Within that time, there were no further messages sent. Nor are any planned. ..We wanted to listen. On October 12th, 1992, NASA initiated the High-Resolution Microwave Survey; A decade-long search by radio telescope scanning ten million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence. Less than one year later first-term Nevada Senator Richard Brian successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project.. I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away. The X-Files had been shut down. They closed our eyes.. our voices have been silenced.. our ears now deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities.
MMatheson
I take it you're familiar with the high-resolution microwave survey?
The search for extraterrestrial radio signals. They shut it down.
MMatheson
You have to get to the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. I'll try to delay them as long as I can but my guess is you'll have at least twenty-four hours. After that, I can no longer hold off the Blue Beret U.F.O. Retrieval Team. And they have been authorized to display terminal force.
What am I looking for?
MMatheson
..Contact.
Have you ever been to San Diego?
Yeah.
Did you check out the Palomar observatory?
No.
From 1948 until recently, it was the largest telescope in the world. The idea and design came from a brilliant and wealthy astronomer named George Ellery Hale. Actually, the idea was presented to Hale one night. while he was playing billiards, an elf climbed in his window and told him to get money from the Rockefeller Foundation for a telescope.
And you're worried that all your life, you've been seeing elves?
In my case... little green men.
But, Mulder... during your time with the X-Files, you've seen so much.
That's just the point. Seeing is not enough, I should have something to hold onto. Some solid evidence. I learned that from you.
Your sister's abduction, you've held onto that.
I'm beginning to wonder if... if that ever even happened.
Mulder, even if George Hale only saw elves in his mind, the telescope still got built. Don't give up.
(Speaking into tape recorder) Deep Throat said "trust no one." And that's hard, Scully. Suspecting everyone, everything, it wears you down. You even begin to doubt what you know is the truth. Before, I could only trust myself. Now, I can only trust you.. and they've taken you away from me.
It should be right here. The entire tape is blank.
You know, an electrical surge in the outlet during the storm may have degaussed everything, erasing the entire tape. You still have nothing.
I may not have the X-Files, Scully, but I still have my work. And I've still got you. And I still have myself.
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