Who are you?
Who I am is irrelevant.
Why are you trying to help me?
You think I want to be here, Agent Mulder? I don't want to be here.
[Mr. X hands Mulder an envelope] What's this?
Data from a top secret military project. Born of the idea that sleep is the soldier's greatest enemy.
Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Parris Island?
Not deprivation. Eradication.
Why?
Why else? To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls fear, heightens aggression. Science had just put a man on the moon. So they looked to science to win a losing war.
And Willig and Cole were the lab rats.
Lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand-plus confirmed kills for a thirteen-man squad.
You think Cole's behind what's happening now?
I'm not here to do your thinking, Agent Mulder. All I know is, Augustus Cole hasn't slept in twenty-four years. There's someone else you should see - Another member of the squad who was reportedly killed in action.
I thought Cole was the last?
His name is on the envelope.
[X turns and begins to walk away]
...How do I contact you?
You can't.
I may need more.
[turns around] You still don't get it, do you? Closing the X-Files, separating you and Scully was only the beginning. The truth is still out there, but it's never been more dangerous. The man we both knew paid for that information with his life - A sacrifice I'm not willing to make.
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