Inside the X Files Page #2

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I ignored a primary tactical rule

and left him alone with the device.

Agent Scully says it was she who ordered you out

of the building, that you wanted to go back in.

No.

They're asking for you, sir.

Thank you.

Whatever you told them in there, Scully,

you don't have to protect me.

All I told them was the truth.

They're trying to divide us on this,

and we can't let them.

Mulder, they have divided us.

They're splitting us up.

What? What are you talking about?

I have a meeting with OPR, day after tomorrow,

for remediation and reassignment.

They were the ones that put us together.

Because they wanted me to invalidate

your investigations into the paranormal, but...

I think this goes deeper than that now.

This is not about you, Scully.

They're doing this to me.

They're not doing this.

Mulder, I left behind a career in medicine

because I thought that I could...

make a difference at the FBI,

But it hasn't turned out that way.

And now, if they were to transfer me

to Omaha or Cleveland or some...

field office, it just doesn't hold the

interest for me that it once did.

Not after what I have seen and done.

You're quitting.

Maybe you should ask yourself

if your heart's still in it, too.

Agent Mulder, you're up.

I'm sorry.

Mulder...

Good luck.

I'd say this about exceeds

your minimum daily requirement.

Whoa. You have got to train

for that kind of heavy lifting.

Poopy day?

So,

what do you do?

- What do I do?

- Mm-hm.

I'm the key figure in an ongoing

government charade.

The plot to conceal the truth about

the existence of extraterrestrials.

It's a global conspiracy, actually, with

key players in the highest levels of power,

And it reaches down into the lives of every

man, woman and child on this planet.

So, of course, no one believes me.

I'm an annoyance to my superiors,

a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky.

Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted

by aliens when he was just a kid,

and now he chases after little green men

with a badge and a gun,

and shouting to the heavens or anyone

who will listen that the fix is in,

that the sky is falling.

And when it hits, it's gonna be

the shitstorm of all time.

Well...

- I would say that about does it, Spooky.

- Does what?

Well, looks like 86 is your lucky number.

You know, one is the loneliest number.

Hello?

- Whoa!

- Sorry.

That official FBI business?

What?

Bet the Bureau's accusing you

of the same thing in Dallas.

Standing around holding your yank

while bombs are exploding.

Do I know you?

No, but I have been watching your career

for a good while.

Back when you were just

a promising young agent. Before that.

- You come out here for a reason?

- Yeah,

I did.

My name is Kurtzweil.

Dr Alvin Kurtzweil.

- I'm supposed to know that name?

- I'm an old friend of your father's.

Back at the Department of State, we were

what you might call fellow travelers,

But his disenchantment outlasted mine.

Right.

How'd you find me?

I heard you come in here now and again.

I figured you'd be needing a little drinking tonight.

You a reporter? I'm a doctor, but

I think I mentioned that. OB-GYN.

You got something to tell me, you got

as much time as it takes me to hail a cab.

There's something you don't know

about the bombing in Dallas.

What's that?

SAC Darius Michaud never tried

or intended to defuse that bomb.

He just let it explode in his face, huh?

What's the question no one's asking?

Why that building?

Why not the Federal Building?

The Federal Building was too well guarded.

No. They put the bomb in the

building across the street...

because it did have Federal offices there.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency...

had a provisional medical quarantine office

there, which is where the bodies were found.

But that's the thing, the thing you didn't

know. The thing you'd never think to check.

Those people were already dead.

Before the bomb went off?

That's what I'm saying.

Darius Michaud was a 22-year veteran...

Michaud was a patriot. The people he was

loyal to know their way around Dallas.

They blew that building to hide something.

Maybe even something they couldn't predict.

You're telling me they blew up that entire building

just to hide the bodies of those firemen?

And one little boy.

I think you're full of sh*t.

Do you?

Arlington, please.

Actually, you know, let's go to Georgetown.

Let's go to Georgetown.

- I woke you. Did I wake you?

- No.

Why not? It's 3 in the morning.

Are you drunk, Mulder?

I--I--I was until about 20 minutes ago, yeah.

Was that before or after

you decided to come here?

What exactly are you implying?

- Go home, Mulder.

- No, get dressed.

- It's late.

- Get dressed.

What are you doing? Just get dressed

and I will explain on the way.

You have got something to show me.

We brought the atmosphere back down to

freezing, in order to control the development,

which is like nothing we have ever seen.

- Brought on by what?

- Heat, I think.

The coincident invasion of a host,

the fireman,

and an environment that raised

his body temperature above 98.6.

This man's still alive.

Technically... and biologically.

But... he will never recover.

How can this be?

The developing organism is using his

life energy, digesting bone and tissue.

We have just... slowed the process.

Do you want us to destroy this one, too,

before it gestates?

Uh, no. No.

We need to try our vaccine on it.

And if it's unsuccessful?

Burn it. Like the others.

- ID, and floor you're visiting, please.

- We're going down to the morgue.

That area's currently off limits to anyone

other than authorized medical personnel.

- On whose orders?

- General McAddie.

General McAddie's who requested

our coming down here.

We were awakened at 3:00 AM and told

to get down here immediately.

I don't know anything about that.

- Well, call General McAddie.

- I don't have the number.

Well, then call the switchboard.

They will patch you through.

Jesus, you don't know the switchboard number?

I'm calling my CO.

Listen, son, we don't have time to dick around

while you demonstrate your ignorance of the chain of command.

The order came directly from General McAddie.

You call him.

We will conduct our business

while you confirm authorization.

Why don't you head on down,

and I will confirm authorization.

Thank you.

Why is the morgue suddenly off limits

on the orders of a general?

This is one of the firemen

who died in Dallas?

According to the toe tag.

- And you're looking for...

- Cause of death.

I can tell you that

without even looking at him.

"Concussive organ failure due to proximal

exposure to source and flying debris."

Mulder, this man's already been autopsied. You

can tell by the way he's been wrapped and dressed

Does this fit the description

you just read me?

- Oh, my God! This man's tissue, Mulder...

- It's like jelly.

There's been some kind

of cellular breakdown.

God, it's completely edematous.

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