Inside the X Files Page #4

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I'm sorry. My grandson fell and broke his leg.

While we have been made to wait, we watched

surveillance tapes, which have raised more concerns.

More concerns than what?

We have been forced to reassess

our role in colonization...

by new fact of biology which

have presented themselves.

The virus has mutated.

Into what?

A new extraterrestrial biological entity.

My God...

The geometry of mass infection presents certain

conceptual reevaluations for us about our place in their colonization.

This isn't colonization.

This is spontaneous repopulation.

All our work...

If it's true, they have been using us all

along. We have been laboring under a lie.

- It could be an isolated case.

- How can we know?

We're going to tell them what we found,

what we have learned,

by turning over a body

infected with the gestating organism.

ln hope of what?

Learning that it's true?

That we are nothing but digestives for the

creation of a new race of alien life forms?

By cooperating now, we are

but beggars to our own demise.

Cooperation's the only chance of saving ourselves.

They still need us to carry out their preparations.

We will continue to use them as they do us,

if only to play for more time to continue work...

...on our vaccine.

My lateness might just as well have been

absence. A course has already been taken.

There are complications.

Mulder saw one of the infected bodies

that we destroyed in Dallas.

He's gone back there again.

Someone has tipped him.

Who?

Kurtzweil, we think.

No one believes Kurtzweil.

Or his books.

He's a toiler, a crank.

Mulder believes him.

Then Kurtzweil must be removed.

As must Mulder.

Kill Mulder... we take the risk

of turning one man's quest into a crusade.

Then you must take away

what he holds most valuable.

That with which he can't live without.

I don't know, Mulder.

I don't see any evidence of an archaeological

or any other kind of a dig site.

This is where he marked on the map.

Where he said those fossils were unearthed.

You're sure those fossils were infected

with the same virus you saw at the morgue?

Both sets of bones were porous. As if the virus

or the causative microbe were decomposing it.

And you have never seen that virus before?

No.

Look at that.

- That look like new grass to you?

- Looks pretty green for this climate.

Uh-huh.

Ground's dry about an inch down.

This was laid recently.

The equipment's looks brand new, too.

No irrigation system.

Somebody's covering their tracks.

Hey!

Hey!

You boys live around here?

Yeah.

Have you seen anybody digging over there?

We're not supposed to talk about it.

You're not supposed to talk about it?

Who told you that?

Nobody.

Nobody?

Same nobody that built that playground?

Nobody buy you those new bikes, too?

- I think you better tell us.

- We don't even know you.

Well, we're FBI agents.

You're not FBI agents.

How do you know? Because you all look

like door-to-door salesmen.

Hey, you wanna buy a badge?

They all left an hour ago.

Going that way.

Unmarked tanker trucks.

What are archeologists hauling out

in tanker trucks?

I don't know, Mulder.

Where are they going with it?

That's the first question to answer

if we're gonna find them.

What are my choices?

- About 100 miles of nothing in both directions.

- Well, which way you think they went?

You got two choices. One of them's wrong.

- I think they went left.

- I don't know why, I think they went right.

Five years together, Scully.

How many times I been wrong?

Never.

Not driving, anyway.

- I was right about the bomb, wasn't I?

- This is great. This is fitting.

What?

I have to be in Washington DC

in 11 hours for a hearing,

the outcome of which might possibly affect

one of the biggest decisions of my life.

And here I am, in the middle of nowhere, Texas,

chasing phantom tanker trucks.

We're not chasing tanker trucks, Scully,

we're chasing evidence.

Of what, exactly?

That bomb in Dallas was allowed to go off to

hide something, bodies infected with a virus you yourself detected.

They haul oil in tanker trucks. They haul gas

in tanker trucks. They do not haul viruses in tanker trucks.

Well, they may be hauling a virus

in these tanker trucks.

What do you mean? Mulder?

What are you not telling me?

Mulder!

The virus may be extraterrestrial.

I don't...

Mulder, I don't...

- What do you think they are?

- I have no idea.

This is weird, Mulder.

Very weird.

Any thoughts as to why anybody would be

growing corn in the middle of the desert?

Those could be giant Jiffy Pop poppers.

It's cool in here.

The temperature's being regulated.

For the purpose of what?

Mulder, I think we're on top of a larger structure here.

This is some kind of a venting system.

You hear something? You hear that?

I hear a humming.

Like electricity.

High voltage, maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Scully...

Yeah?

Run!

- Scully!

- I can't see!

Give me your hand!

- Did you get stung?

- I don't think so.

Talk to me, Scully!

Scully!

Damn it!

Scully! Hey!

Scully!

Scully!

Talk to me, Scully!

Mulder!

Scully!

Mulder!

Can you hear me?

Mulder...

Scully!

Scully!

Scully!

Mulder!

Scully!

Scully, talk to me!

Mulder...

Where'd they go?

Come on.

She's coming in.

Special Agent Scully.

I apologize for making you wait.

I have new evidence.

Evidence of what?

These are fossilized bone fragments...

that I have been able to study, that were

gathered at the bomb site in Dallas.

You have been back to Dallas?

Yes.

You found something. Yeah, on the Texas

border. Some kind of experiment.

Something they excavated was

brought there in tanker trucks.

- What?

- I'm not sure. A virus, I think.

And I also have reason to believe that...

there may have been some involvement

by Special Agent in charge Michaud.

Those are very serious allegations,

Agent Scully.

Yes, I know.

- You saw this experiment?

- Yeah, but we were chased off.

- What did it look like?

- There were bees, corn crops.

And you have conclusive evidence of this,

something to tie this claim of yours to the crime?

N-Not completely conclusive.

I hope to, but we are in the process of--

we're working towards gathering that evidence.

Working with?

With Agent Mulder.

- What are they?

- What do you think?

A transportation system. Transgenic crops.

The pollen genetically altered to carry a virus.

That would be my guess.

Your guess?

What do you mean, your guess?

Hey! You told me you had answers.

Yeah. Well, I don't have them all.

You didn't know my father. Like I

told you, he and I were old friends.

You have been using me!

You have been using me...

....to gather information for your goddamn

books! Lower your voice!

Kurtzweil! Kurtzweil!

You'd be sh*t out of luck if it wasn't for me.

You saw what you saw because I led you to it.

I'm putting my ass on the line for you.

Your ass? I just got chased through

Texas by two black helicopters!

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