Cadet Hayes? Rudolph Hayes? I'm Agent Doggett. This is Agent Reyes. (Hayes is smelling a dead arm; Doggett is confused) Is that part of the training here, Cadet - smelling body parts?
HHayes
This man's flesh smells of creosote... but his skin is soft. Untanned. He worked indoors. A hardware store, probably. The tear marks at his elbow go from left to right. He was broadsided in a car accident. His hands gripped the wheel so hard.. his thumb bone snapped on impact.
You determined all that just by looking at that arm?
HHayes
(stands, looks at them) I see things.
We came to thank you. Because of your analysis, we were able to work up a profile to catch the man who murdered those women.
HHayes
What's the profile?
White male, twenty-five to thirty-five, ex-military. Employed near the bars where he met.. (Hayes shakes his head) ..why are you shaking your head?
HHayes
The profile's wrong. Your killer is in his forties. A felon recently arrived from out of state. His parole officer thinks he's looking for a job. He already has one - working for organized crime. He's killed many people. He's going to keep on killing. (walks away)
(smiles) Kind of annoying, isn't he?
I want to check somethin' out. (finds identical pieces of roof tile in the garbage can) Ah-ha. Hold this, please? (she takes the bag, he climbs up on the roof to see it's been re-tiled)Ah-ha.
Twice with the "ah-ha's."
(sigh) The roof's been patched. When I was inside, I knew I smelled fresh plaster.
So, are you gonna fill me in?
A - Eyewitness places the deceased inside this house just prior to the time of his demise. B - We found a fragment of roofing shingle at the scene of the impact. It would seem it matches the discarded piece you now hold in your hand. C - There's a hole in the roof, recently patched, this big around. Connect A to B to C.
Much in the fashion of, say, Daffy Duck or Wiley Coyote, the deceased shot straight up through the roof, flew high into the air and landed on his buddy's car? (skeptically) You're serious?
A to B to C. I gotta tell ya, I think I'm finally gettin' the hang of this job.
Okay, so be it. Just tell me how this helps me bust him, and uh, I'm happy.
Well, I'm starting to hope that it doesn't come to that.
Well, the power that this man seemingly possesses is extraordinary. It needs to be studied.
RDr. Reits
It could expand the scope of human knowledge. It could change everything.
It very well could. I mean, I've.. I've been working this unit for nine years now. I-I've investigated nearly 200 paranormal cases. We are due for some incontrovertible proof. I want vindication, for - for Mulder and.. for all of us.
One big question. Why "The Brady Bunch"? Seriously, you two are fans. Why are people still watchin' a 30 year old TV show?
Because.. they're the family everyone wishes they had. Loving parents, lots of brothers and sisters, everybody getting along.
They're the, uh, perfect family. And since Oliver didn't have one as a child, he... created one.
Sure, I'd buy all that. But in this case, why "The Brady Bunch"? Why not "The Partridge Family"? Why not "Eight Is Enough"? (to Dr. Reits) Where was Oliver when you first saw "The Brady Bunch"? He was with you, right?
RDr. Reits
He'd always insisted we watch it together every week I was there.
And the longer you two were together, the more his psychokinetic power faded, until finally it went away completely. Now, what do you think that was?
RDr. Reits
(slowly realizes) Because for the first time in his life, he was happy.
Well, what are you suggesting is the course of action, John?
A - Oliver's gonna die if he continues to use his power. B - his power goes away when he's happy. And C - you're the father he never had, and he loves you. A to B to C.
So close, Dana. I'm sorry you don't get your proof.
Me too. Well, maybe I've had it these past nine years. If not proof of the paranormal, then... of more important things. (looks at Oliver for a moment, then leaves)
Well, here's hopin' the TV stays off and he learns how to love the real world.
(smiles and takes his hand) I think you are getting the hang of this job.
GGuard
What are you thinking?
About my son.. about his mother.
GGuard
Wrong answer! (He swings at Mulder and misses) What are you thinking?
What do you want from me?!
GGuard
Wrong.. answer! (He swings at Mulder again, they grapple before the guard throttles Mulder with his baton) I want answers, you hear me? I want answers! (he leaves)
They've accused him of murder?
And they have him believing that he did it.
Knowle Rohrer? It can't be. I watched Knowle Rohrer die.
He can't die. Knowle Rohrer's a super soldier.
(Skinner hangs up phone) Mulder side-stepped security at a facility known as Mount Weather - a place where they say our so-called shadow government is installed.
What about this murder charge?
Thirty government workers are ready to testify they witnessed Mulder push a military officer to his death.
Killing a man who can't be killed? (Scully begins to leave, Doggett turns to her) Where are you going?
..To beg mercy with the man upstairs.
(makes a smirking face) ..I smelled you coming, Clarice.
Oh.. Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.
No, that is funny. What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.
[They embrace, Skinner averts his eyes allowing them a little privacy]
(moves to hug Skinner) Come here, you big, bald, beautiful man.
The only thing you're going to be kissing, Mulder, is your sweet ass good-bye, with the trouble you're in.
Uh-huh, I kind of gathered that, right around the 50th brainwashing session. (he kisses Scully on the hand)
Mulder, why are they doing this to you?
They think they're preparing me for my trial - For my testimony.
No. That's why I'm here. Mulder, I need you to talk to me. Confide in me.. or we'll lose.
We can't win, Scully. We can only hope to go down fighting.
You're scaring me. Mulder, I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm going to lose you again.
Well.. whatever you're doing... you have no idea how much has already been lost... What I've had to do...
I do know. Skinner told me.
Our son, Mulder... I gave him up. (cries and hugs Mulder) ..Our son. I'm so afraid you could never forgive me.
I know you had no choice. I just missed both of you so much.
God, where have you been? Where have you been hiding?
You found something, didn't you? Huh? What did you find?
You found something in that facility? That's what you were doing, right? Mulder, what did you find out there?
Scully, I can't tell you.
You've got to trust me, Scully. I know things. It's better you don't.
I know why you're here and what you want. I can't give it to you.
Make them a deal, Mulder. Guilty on a lesser charge. Maybe they'll go for it and they'll let you walk out of here.
How can you say that? How can you say that, Mulder, to me?
Because this is greater than you or me. This is about everything we've worked for for nine years. The truth that we both sacrificed so much to uncover and to expose.
Well, then, expose it, Mulder! Take the stand. Whatever it is that you're withholding, take the stand and hit them full force.
You say this is greater than us, and maybe it is, but this is us fighting this fight, Mulder, not you. It's you and me - That's what I'm fighting for, Mulder. You and me.
[Scully leaves]
Who's that? Who's there?! (X steps forward) ..What are you doing here?
That's what I'm here to ask you.
..I'm putting the truth on trial.
What truth? Who's truth? You think these men will even hear it?
They're afraid to hear it.
They're not afraid. They have too much power to be afraid. You're going to learn that just like I did. You'll die learning it.
There's a truth even you're afraid to speak now, because you know it's futile.
No. Because I refuse to accept it.
Then you're going to need help.
How can you possibly help me?
[X hands him a piece of paper with Marita Covarrubias' name & address on it]
(to Kersh and the panel) Yes.. I'd like to congratulate you - On succeeding where so many before you have failed. A bullet between the eyes would have been preferable to this charade. But I've learned to pretend over the past nine years - to pretend that my victories mattered only to realize that no one was keeping score. To realize that liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars.. That the devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men, which is what we have here today. If I am a guilty man, my crime is in daring to believe; that the truth will out and that no one lie can live forever.. I believe it still. Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there. Greater than your lies, the truth wants to be known. You will know it. It'll come to you, as it's come to me, faster than the speed of light. (Notices the ghosts of Krycek & X standing behind the panel of judges) ..You may believe yourselves rid of your headache now, and maybe you are... but you've only done it by cutting off your own heads.
