[Agent Spender and AD Kersh study evidence of the Syndicate's death]
The way these people died... the loss of life here - it is beyond words. I can't imagine how it must be for you - losing your mother.
Yes, sir. But that's not why I asked for this meeting.
Why did you ask for it?
Because I'm responsible for the deaths of those people at the Air Base hangar in no small way. I certainly didn't prevent them.
I can assume then you can explain how they died? Because I have yet to hear any explanation.
Agent Mulder can explain it. I think Agent Scully, to an extent. They might have even prevented what you see in those photos.
Agents Scully and Mulder have been suspended by the FBI.
Also my doing... and my mistake.
I would ask...
I'd ask, sir - before you tell me that it's not my business - that you do everything you can to get them back on the X-Files. Far worse can happen... and it will.
Where are you going?
To pack up my office.
Agent Spender... [Spender leaves; Kersh turns to Mulder, angrily] You have answers now? Why didn't I hear about those answers before?
I've had answers for years.
Then why didn't we hear about them?
No one would ever listen.
Who burned those people?
They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy.
What the hell does that mean?
It means the future is here, and all bets are off.
Agent Scully, make some sense.
Sir, I wouldn't bet against him.
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