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There's no sign of him, Mulder. Maybe he's moved on. What are you looking at?
On the videotape, Dr. Banton kept staring at the floor. I've been trying to figure out what he might have been looking at.
Well, maybe the exposure affected his mind. Nonsensical repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness.
You trying to tell me something?
He believes the government is out to get him.
It's tax season - so do most Americans.
Neat trick, Mulder; for your birthday I'll buy you a utility belt.
I think the good citizens of Dudley have been eating more than just chicken.
I don't think we've been followed.
Who would follow you?
Multinational black ops unit. Code name Garnett.
Trained killers. School of the American Alumni.
Have you boys been defacing library books again?
My father's dead, Scully. They killed him.
[Intro narration] There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.
[standing over an unconscious Mulder] I was first struck by the absence of time, having depended on it so completely as a measure of myself and my life. Moving backwards into the perpetual night - it consumes purpose, indeed, all passion and will. I come to you, old friend, with the dull clarity of the dead, not to beckon, you but to feel the fire and intensity that still live in you... and the heavy weight of your burdens which I had once borne. There is truth you know, friend, if that's all you seek, but there's no justice or judgment, without which truth is a vast... dead... hollow. Go back. Do not look into the abyss or let the abyss look into you; awaken the sleep of reason and fight the monsters within and without.
He was a good friend. A redwood among mere sprouts. I guess this means he's passing you the torch?
Uh, I'm afraid not. I'm soon to be out of a job.
Those sons of bitches! They're rigging the game.
And like rats they just scatter back into the wood pile.
The rats that killed the cat.
We predict the future. And the best way to predict it, is to invent it.
Hello, son. I did not dare hope to see you so soon, nor ever again hope to broker fate with a life to which I gave life. The lies I told you were a pox and poison to my soul, and now you are here because of them. Lies I thought might bury forever a truth I could not live with. I stand here ashamed of the choices I made so long ago when you were just a boy. You are the memory, Fox. It lives in you. If you were to die now, the truth will die. And only the lies survive us.
I went to your father's funeral. I told your mother that you were going to be okay.
How did you know?
I just knew.
I need something to put my back up against, Mulder.
I know. I feel the same way. I feel that we've lost so much... but we've got The X-Files, and I believe what we're looking for is in them. I'm more certain than ever the truth is out there, Scully.
I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.
What is this?
This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass!
Listen -
(Interrupting) Now, you listen to me, you son of a bitch! This man's name is Albert Hosteen. You should remember that. Because if Agents Mulder and Scully come down with so much as a case of the flu, Albert is prepared to recite, chapter and verse, file for file, everything on your precious tape.
It's a nice try, Skinner.
I'm sure you're thinking Albert is an old man and there are plenty of ways you might kill him too. Which is why, in the ancient oral tradition of his people, he's told twenty other men the information on those files. So unless you kill every Navajo living in four states... that information is available with a simple phone call. (Smirks) Welcome to the wonderful world of high technology
Are you familiar with a post-World War II project known as Operation Paper Clip?
Our deal with the devil. The U.S. government provided safe haven for certain Nazi war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge.
[Points at the picture.] I know who this man is. Victor Klemper.
The man standing next to your father is one of those criminals, though not the most famous of the bunch. Wernher von Braun, designer of the V-2 rockets that leveled London, may be the most notorious, but Victor Klemper certainly takes the prize for the most... evil Nazi to escape the Nuremburg trials.
What did he do?
He experimented on the Jews... drowned them, suffocated them, put them in pressure chambers. All in the name of science.
Together with Von Braun, Klemper helped us win the space race. Using his scientific data on the effects of high-altitude flying, we were able to put astronauts on the moon before the Soviets.
One giant step for mankind.
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