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I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place. Much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into darkness cannot help her at all Only the light...
[disgustedly] Oh, enough! - with the harmonic convergence crap, okay, you're not saying anything to me.
[angrily] Why don't you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat. You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite.
When I was eighteen, I, uh... I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted, Mulder, I- I enlisted in the Marine Corps the day of my eighteenth birthday. I did it on a blind faith. I did it because I believed it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three weeks into my tour, a ten-year-old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp covered with grenades and I, uh... I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. One night on patrol, we were, uh... caught... and everyone- everyone fell. I mean, everyone. I looked down at my body from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the V.C. strip my uniform, take my weapon and I remained in this thick jungle... peaceful... unafraid... watching my- my dead friends. Watching myself. In the morning, the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag until... I guess they found a pulse. I woke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not. Your resignation is unacceptable.
(realizing) You. (exhales heavily) You gave me Cancer Man's location. You put your life in danger.
Agent Mulder, every life, every day, is in danger. That's just life.
I feel, Scully... that you believe... you're not ready to go. And you've always had the strength of your beliefs. I don't know if my being here... will help bring you back. But I'm here.
I brought you a present. It's a video. Superstars of the Superbowls.
I knew there was a reason to live.
Hello, Fox.
[smiles] Not Fox. Mulder. [opens her eyes]
Mulder: How you feeling?
[suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...
[shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.
[holding a gun on the Cigarette Smoking Man/Cancerman] Why her?? Why her and not me?? ..ANSWER ME!
..I like you. I like her, too - That's why she was returned to you.
[holds gun closer to CSM's head] You should be the one to die.
Why? Look at me. No wife. No family. Some power. I'm in the game because I believe what I'm doing is right.
Right? Who are you to decide what's right?
Who are you? ..If people were to know of things that I know.. It would all fall apart. I told Skinner you shot the man in the hospital, but I didn't really believe it. And here you are with a gun to my head. I have more respect for you, Mulder. You're becoming a player. You can kill me now, but you'll never know the truth.
[Mulder begins pressing the trigger of his gun, but then releases]
..And that's why I'll win. Don't worry - This will be our secret. We wouldn't others to.. start rumors.
I'm going to find Trepkos.
What if he's already dead?
Then he'll have a lot of trouble answering my questions.
[voice-over] Scully and I are in the third day of a month-long quarantine, undergoing level 4 decon procedures. We are so far without symptoms of fungal contamination. All our specimens and field notes were confiscated by the military biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. Their presence has delayed for an indefinite period the arrival of the USGS data retrieval team. I suspect, though, that there will be little left for them to retrieve. There are no plans at present to explore further any of the hundreds of volcanically active mountains in the Cascade Range, including Mount Avalon. All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers.... Of the members of the Firewalker descent team, only Trepkos and O'Neil remain unaccounted for. They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. Firewalker, however, was recovered, though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparably damaged. The data it collected from the earth's interior will never be known. And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between the 11th and 13th of November, 1994, mine stands as the only record.
You still believe you can petition heaven and get some penetrating answer. If you found that answer, what would you do with it?
Scully? I don't think it's a good idea for you to go.
Mulder, I appreciate your concern - but I'm ready. I want to work.
Well, maybe you should take some time off.
I've already lost too much time.
[on video] Scientific data? We're talking about revisiting the very origin of the earth, peering into the fire where it all began - a human endeavor more important even than man's exploration of space.
There's something I think you ought to see first. They call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. They're followers of a guy named Odin that moved out here from California three years ago and bought a ranch.
What's the significance of the name "Red Museum?"
Well, Odin and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. They drove the ranch right into the ground, turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. Calls it a monument to barbarism.
Probably went over big with the local ranchers.
(laughs) Well, you gotta admit, it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow country and start a church like his.
Business changed. People changed too.
In what way?
Competition. Used to get by with fifty milk cows. Now, you got to have five hundred. Used to turn them out to pasture, now you keep them in pens and grain feed them.
You said you wanted to show us something.
You're looking at it. See those men over there? Well, they're injecting the cattle with something called B.S.T. Bovine somatotrophin.
A genetically-engineered growth hormone.
Yeah, shoot them up and a cow will produce ten percent more milk. Feed it to beef cattle, more meat on the hoof. Changed the business. Changed a whole lot of things.
How do you mean?
Well, that, uh, fracas in town this afternoon. Ten, even five years ago, never would have happened. People around here have changed... gotten mean... spiteful... dog-eat-dog. We had seven rapes here last year by high school boys. Well, that, um... this, this business of the kids being found in the woods... well, I think that you're going to find it all comes from the same root source.
Like the growth hormone.
You know, for a holy man, you've got quite a knack for pissing people off.
So, you started to tell me about walk-ins but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.
Well, it, it's kind of a new age religion based on an old idea. That if you, uh, lose hope or despair and want to leave this mortal coil, you become open and vulnerable.
To inhabitation by a new spirit.
A new enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a walk-in. And Mikhail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor.
But not Nixon?
No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.
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