How was the opera?
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Wonderful. I've never slept better.
“End Game” · Season 2, Episode 17
In this episode: Fox Mulder (4), Dana Scully (2), Mr. X (2), X (1)
(Scully reads her report on the case as a voiceover as she enters Mulder's hospital room and sits down next to him.) Transfusions and a treatment with antiviral agents have resulted in a steady but gradual improvement in Agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his exposure to the still-unidentified retrovirus, whose origin remains a mystery. The search team that found Agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine nor the man he was looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. But I am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe, but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things that seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was exposed to, and science that allowed us to understand its behavior. And ultimately, it was science that saved Agent Mulder's life.
Thanks for ditching me.
I'm sorry, I, uh... I couldn't let you risk your life on this.
Did you find what you were looking for?
No... no. But I found something I thought I'd lost.
Scully gives him a questioning look:
Faith to keep looking.
[voiceover, message on computer being read by Scully] Scully - When you get this message I'll be too far away for you to stop me. But where I'm going I can't allow you to follow. I won't let you jeopardize your life and your career for reasons purely personal to me. You were right, Scully - you said a line has to be drawn somewhere. I'm drawing it for you here. I'll contact you when I can.
You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles, Agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win.
You wanted to see me?
How was the opera?
Wonderful. I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Agent Mulder.
I'm sorry. I need your help.
It's over. The fat lady is singing.
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