Inside the X Files Page #3

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There's been no autopsy performed here.

No Y-incision,

no internal exam.

You telling me the cause of death

in that report is false?

That this man didn't die from an

explosion or from flying debris?

Mulder, I can't tell you what killed this man.

I'm not sure anybody else could claim to, either.

Mulder, you knew before we got here

this man didn't die at the bomb site.

- I'd been told as much.

- You're saying this is a cover-up?

Of what?

I don't know.

But I have a hunch that what you're going to

find won't be anything that can be categorized or easily referenced.

Mulder, this is gonna take some time.

Somebody's gonna figure out sooner or later

that we're not even supposed to be here.

We are being blamed for this man's death.

l want to know what he died of.

Wouldn't you?

I think that's it, up here.

Tell them to look for anything.

- Excuse me? Can I help you?

- ls this Dr Kurtzweil's residence?

- Do you have some kind of business with him?

- Yeah, I'm looking for him.

You're looking for him for what?

The Feds are looking for him, too.

Real nice business he's got, huh?

What's that?

Selling naked pictures of little kids

on his computer.

You looking for him for some other reason?

Yeah. I had an appointment

for a pelvic examination.

Hey, you want a call if we turn up this

Kurtzweil? No. Don't bother.

See this crap?

Somebody knows I'm talking to you.

Not according to the men in blue.

Oh, what is this time, kiddie porn again?

Sexual battery of a patient?

They wanna discredit you, for what?

Because I'm a dangerous man, because

I know too much about the truth.

Now, that... end of the world

apocalyptic garbage you write?

You know my work?

- I was right about Dallas, wasn't I, Agent--

- How? How were you right?

Are you familiar with the

Hanta virus, Agent Mulder?

Yeah. It was a deadly virus spread by field mice

in the southwestern United States several years ago.

According to the newspaper, FEMA was called out

to manage an outbreak of the Hanta virus.

Are you familiar with what the Federal Emergency

Management Agency's real power is?

FEMA allows the White House to suspend

constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency.

Think about that.

What is an agency with such

broad, sweeping power...

doing managing a small viral

outbreak in suburban Texas?

You're saying it wasn't such a small outbreak.

No... I'm saying it wasn't the Hanta virus.

Well, what was it?

What was it?

When we were young men in the military,

your father and I were recruited for a project.

They told us it was biological warfare, a virus.

What killed those men?

What killed them, I won't even write about.

We have no context for what killed those men.

Or any appreciation of the scale in which

it will be unleashed in the future.

A plague?

A plague to end all plagues, Agent Mulder.

A silent weapon for a quiet war.

The systematic release of an

indiscriminate organism...

for which the men who will bring it

on still have no cure.

They have been working on this

for 50 years.

While the rest of the world has

been fighting gooks and commies,

these men have been secretly

negotiating a planned Armageddon.

Negotiating with whom?

I think you know.

The timetable has been set.

It will happen on a holiday, when people

are away from their homes.

The president will declare a state of emergency,

at which time all government, all federal

agencies will come under the power...

of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...

FEMA. The secret government.

They call me paranoid.

Go back to Dallas, Agent Mulder, and dig.

Or we're going to find out along

with the rest of the country...

...when it's too late.

Scully, it's me.

- Yeah.

- Why are you whispering?

Well, Mulder, I can't really talk right now.

- What did you find?

- Evidence of a massive infection.

- What kind of infection?

- I don't know.

All right, listen to me. I'm going home, and

then I'm booking myself on a flight to Dallas.

I'm going to get you a ticket, too.

- Mulder...I need you there with me.

- I need your expertise.

- Mulder, I have got a hearing tomorrow.

- I can get you back in time for that hearing,

and maybe with evidence that will blow it away.

Mulder, I can't. I'm way past

the point of common sense here.

This is not common sense.

It's...

It--can you--are you there?

Scul--

Scully?

I'm afraid what you're looking for

amounts to a needle in a haystack.

This explosion was so devastating, there hasn't been

much that we have been able to put together just yet.

I'm looking for anything out of the ordinary, really.

Maybe something from the FEMA offices...

where those bodies were found.

Well, we weren't expecting to find those remains,

of course, and we sent them off to Washington.

Well, anything from those offices that

you haven't sent off to DC yet?

Some bone fragments turned up in the sift this morning.

I thought we had another fatality, but we

found out FEMA recovered them from an archeological site out of town.

- Have you examined them?

- No. Just fossils, as far as we know.

I'd like you to let this person

take a look at them, if you don't mind.

Just let me see if I can lay my

hands on what you're looking for.

I thought you said you weren't coming.

I wasn't planning on it,

particularly not after spending half

an hour in cold storage this morning.

But I got a better look at the blood and

tissue samples I took from the fireman.

Well, what did you find?

Something I couldn't show to anybody else,

not without causing the kind of attention

I'd just as soon avoid right now.

But what those men were infected with contains

a protein code that I have never seen before.

What it did to them, it did extremely fast.

- How was it contracted?

- That, I don't know.

But, unless it can respond to conventional

treatment, it could be a serious health threat.

Like I said, these are just fossils, but

they weren't near the blast center,

so they're not going to tell you much.

Right. Why don't you--

why don't you check this out?

You said you knew the location where these

were found? Show you right on the map.

I want all of these settings

checked and recalibrated.

I want a steady -2 Celsius

throughout the transfer of the body...

after I have administered the vaccine.

- It's gone!

- What?

It's left the body. I think it's gestated.

- What's the matter?

- Wait.

I can see it.

Oh...

Jesus, Lord...

- You--you see it?

- Yeah.

So much for little green men.

I need you down here.

Help... I need help.

What are you doing?

What are you doing!

Oh, my God.

Sir, you have a call.

Yes?

We have a situation.

The members are assembling.

Is it an emergency?

Yes. A meeting has been set,

tonight in London to determine a course.

Who called this meeting?

Strughold. He just got on a plane in Tunis.

- Has Strughold arrived?

- Yes. They're waiting in the library, sir.

We were beginning to worry. Some of us have

traveled so far, and you are the last to arrive.

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