Inside the X Files Page #5

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And why do you think it is you're

standing here talking to me?

These people don't make mistakes.

What's wrong?

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Transfer effective immediately.

I already gave Skinner

my letter of resignation.

You can't quit now, Scully.

I can, Mulder. I debated whether or not

even to tell you in person...

We're close to something here.

We're on the verge.

You are on the verge, Mulder.

Please don't do this to me.

After what you saw last night, after all

you have seen, you can just walk away?

I have. I did. It's done.

- I need you on this, Scully.

- You don't need me, Mulder.

You never have.

I have just held you back.

I gotta go.

If you wanna tell yourself that so you can quit

with a clear conscience, you can. But you're wrong.

Why did they assign me to you

in the first place, Mulder?

To debunk your work,

to rein you in, to shut you down.

But you saved me!

As--as difficult and as frustrating as

it's been sometimes...

your goddamn strict rationalism and science

have saved me a thousand times over.

You have kept me honest.

You made me a whole person.

I owe you everything...

...Scully, and you owe me nothing.

I don't know if I want to do this alone.

I don't even know if I can.

And if I quit now, they win.

- Ow! Jesus!

- I'm sorry.

No... Something stung me.

Must have gotten in your shirt.

- Mulder...

- Huh?

Something's wrong.

What?

- l'm having lancinating pain in...

- What?

...my chest.

Scully.

My motor functions are being affected.

My... my pulse is thready.

And I have... a funny taste

in the back of my throat.

I think you're going into anaphylactic shock.

No, Mulder, I have no allergy.

- Emergency dispatch.

- This is Special Agent Fox Mulder...

...I have an emergency.

I have an agent down.

Can you hear me?

Can you say your name?

She's got constriction in the throat and larynx.

Passages are open.

Ok, let's get her in the van right away.

Look out. Coming through. Watch your back.

She said she had a funny taste in the back

of her throat, but there was no preexisting allergy to bee sting.

Now, the bee that stung her

might have been carrying a virus.

- A virus?

- Would you tell that to the doctor?

Get on the radio. Tell them we have an allergic

reaction. Tell them it may have been carrying a virus!

I wanna go with her. What hospital? I...

What hospital are you taking her to?

- What are you doing?

- Reading his chart.

- Put it down.

- I will put it down when I'm ready.

- Both of you, shut up.

- I think he's coming out of it.

He's coming to.

Hey, Mulder.

Mulder?

Oh, God...

Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow...

...Toto.

What am I doing here?

A bullet grazed your brow and

glanced off your temporal plate.

Three centimeters to the left,

and we'd all be playing harps right now.

You have been unconscious since they brought you in.

Where's Scully?

We put together you called 911,

but that call must have been intercepted.

Scully had a reaction to an africanized

honey bee we found in your hall.

I gotta get it to her.

Mulder, easy, easy.

Well... you're staying right here.

You don't understand.

This goes right back to Dallas.

- Tell me where she is, I will find her.

- I don't know where she is,

but I can think of someone who might.

You leave here unprotected,

how far will you get?

How far will they let you get? Because they

will know the minute you walk out of here.

What can we do?

You can strip Byers naked.

- What?

- I need your clothes.

It's Mulder.

Dr Kurtzweil, isn't it? Dr Alvin Kurtzweil?

Mr Mulder.

What happened to Kurtzweil?

He's come and gone.

I wanna know where Scully is.

The location of agent Scully

and the means to save her life.

Please.

What is it?

A weak vaccine against the virus

Agent Scully has been infected with.

It must be administered within 96 hours.

That leaves you little time to

reach those coordinates.

- You're lying.

- No.

...Though I have no means to prove otherwise.

The virus is extraterrestrial.

We know little about it,

except that it was

the original inhabitant of this planet.

- A virus?

- What is a virus,

but a colonizing force

that cannot be defeated?

Living in a cave, underground,

until it mutates and attacks.

This is what you have been

conspiring to conceal?

A disease? No, for God's sake,

you have got it all backwards.

AIDS, the Ebola virus.....on an

evolutionary scale, they are newborns.

This virus walked the planet

long before the dinosaurs.

What do you mean, "walked"?

Your aliens, Agent Mulder, your little green

men, arrived here millions of years ago.

Those that didn't leave have been lying

dormant, underground, since the last ice age,

in the form of an evolved pathogen,

waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race

when it comes to colonize the planet,

using us as hosts.

Against this, we have no defense.

Nothing, but a weak vaccine.

Do you see why it was kept secret?

Why even the best men, men like your father,

could not let the truth be known?

Until Dallas, we believed the virus

would simply control us,

that mass infection would make us a slave race.

Imagine our surprise when

they began to gestate.

My group has been working

cooperatively with the alien colonists,

facilitating programs like the one

you saw to give us access to the virus,

in hope that we might be able

secretly to develop a cure.

To save your own asses.

Survival is the ultimate ideology.

Your father wisely refused to believe this.

But he sacrificed my sister.

He let them take Samantha.

Without a vaccination, the only true survivors

of the viral holocaust will be those immune to it.

Human-alien clones.

He allowed your sister to be abducted, to be

taken to a cloning program for one reason.

So she would survive...

as a genetic hybrid.

Your father chose hope over selfishness.

Hope, in the only future he had, his children.

His hope for you, was that you would

uncover the truth about the project.

That you would stop it,

that you would fight the future.

- Why are you telling me this?

- For the sake of my own children.

Once it's learned what l have told you,

my life will be over.

Where's Dr Kurtzweil?

l'd like to get out of the car now.

Stop the car!

Driver...

The men I work with will stop

at nothing to clear the way...

for what they believe is their stake

in the inevitable future.

I was ordered to kill Dr Kurtzweil.

As I was ordered to kill you.

Trust no-one, Mr Mulder.

Get out of the car.

Why? The upholstery's already ruined.

Get out of the car!

You have precious little time.

What I have given you,

the alien colonists don't yet know exists.

The vaccine you hold is the

only defense against the virus.

Its introduction into an alien environment...

may have the power to

destroy the delicate plans...

we have so assiduously protected

for the last 50 years.

What do you mean, "may have"?

Find Agent Scully. Only then will you realize

the scope and grandeur of the project.

Go!

Go now!

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