Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers Story Page #3

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l can't give it to you.

Make them a deal, Mulder.

Guilty on a lesser charge.

Maybe they'll let you walk out of here.

l'd rather die, Scully.

How can you say that?

How can you say that, Mulder, to me?

Because this is greater than you or me.

lt's what we've worked for for nine years...

...the truth that we both sacrificed so much

to uncover and to expose.

Then expose it, Mulder. Take the stand.

Whatever it is that you're withholding,

take the stand and hit them full force.

l can't.

-Why?

-l just can't.

You say this is greater than us.

And maybe it is.

But this is us fighting this fight, Mulder.

Not you. lt's you and me.

That's what l'm fighting for, Mulder.

You and me.

Get up.

Who's that? Who's there?

What are you doing here?

That's what l'm here to ask you.

l'm putting the truth on trial.

What truth? Whose truth?

You think these men will even hear it?

They're afraid to hear it.

They're not afraid.

They have too much power to be afraid.

You're going to learn that, just like l did.

You'll die learning it.

l'm not afraid of that.

There's a truth even you're afraid to speak,

because you know it's futile.

No. Because l refuse to accept it.

Then you're going to need help.

How can you possibly help me?

They said this is where l could find

the body, at Fort Marlene. Right.

The deceased's name is Knowle Rohrer,

former Marine, last employed by the DOD.

No, l don't want to call back.

l want to talk to your superior--

The son of a b*tch hung up on me.

There's somebody in your yard.

Where is he?

He was at the back door.

l got him. He's coming around.

Stay where you are! Federal agent!

Hands in the air!

Who are you? What are you doing

skulking around my house?

l didn't want to be seen.

l don't want to endanger him.

Who are you talking about?

Someone who wants to help Mulder.

State your full name for the court.

Marita Covarrubias.

And your former government title?

Special Representative

to the Secretary General of the UN.

The United Nations.

A position giving you unrestricted access

to countries and Ieaders around the worId.

Isn't that right?

Yes.

How did you use this power?

Basically, to further the interests...

...of a secretive group of men

who called themselves the Syndicate.

What were their interests?

Developing an alien virus vaccine.

Before the Russians developed one.

And how'd they go about that?

By testing innocent civilians

all over the world.

Test subjects were tracked...

...through DNA identifiers

in their smallpox vaccination scars.

Without the subject's knowledge?

Mostly.

Some deveIoped suspicions.

I saw Russians who cut off their arms

to prevent being tracked.

As they did to an American man that you

worked quite cIoseIy with.

Yes. AIex Krycek.

Did you believe in the Syndicate?

And their international conspiracy?

No.

l was paid for my access.

ln fact, you came to hate them.

Yes.

lt's why l helped Agent Mulder

when he approached me.

But you were found out,

and the Syndicate punished you for this.

They turned me into...

...a test subject.

Testing what?

They were pretending

to work with the aliens...

...to infect the entire population

with an alien virus.

But the conspirators were trying

to save themselves...

...by secretly and selfishly

developing a vaccine.

The conspirators believed all life

in the universe was infected with the virus.

IncIuding the shape-shifting bounty hunters

who poIiced the conspiracy for the aIiens.

But they were wrong.

And it led to the destruction

of the conspiracy.

And who destroyed it?

A group of renegade aliens, who'd avoided

infection through self-disfigurement.

And the conspirators themselves,

what happened to them?

They're all dead now.

KiIIed by these same faceIess aIiens.

What are you afraid of now?

Why resist testifying here today?

Because the conspiracy continues.

Just in another form, by other men.

Objection. Mr. Skinner can't ask questions

and give the answers.

Sustained.

Fox Mulder's on trial, accused of killing

one of these new conspirators.

An alien replacement for a human being,

called a super-soldier.

You can prove this, can't you?

You know who these men are, don't you?

Ms. Covarrubias?

They'll kill her.

Ms. Covarrubias, l asked you a question.

l need an answer.

No.

lt's okay. Let her go.

What are you doing?

She's the last best witness that we have.

lt doesn't matter.

Thank you, Ms. Covarrubias.

l got nothing else.

Assistant Director?

l have an unscheduled witness

that l'd like to call here today.

-No, not him.

-Mulder, sit down.

l'm trying to protect that boy.

Now he's here to protect you.

Mr. Callenbruner, do you have

any objections to this witness?

Not like Mr. Mulder here does.

Can you tell us your name?

Gibson Andrew Praise.

Do you know this man?

Yes. He's my friend.

l hid him in the desert for the last year.

Mulder met you as a chess prodigy.

Your Iife was endangered

due to your unusuaI brain activity.

Cut to the chase, Mr. Skinner.

Gibson Praise can read people's minds.

Mulder and Scully

proved this, scientifically.

There's a certain junk DNA...

...which all humans share,

but has no apparent function.

Gibson's junk DNA is functional,

DNA which is believed to be alien.

You're trying to tell us

this boy can read minds?

Yes.

He's reading your mind right now.

And the minds of the judges, too?

Yes.

Even his.

And what makes him so special?

He's not human.

He's one of them. One of them!

l want that man examined!

-Mr. Skinner, control him!

-Mulder!

You're afraid of what l know!

You're afraid of the truth!

Where's Gibson?

He's with Scully, in good hands.

We spent the night talking to him.

He knows you're concerned.

We're protecting him.

He shouldn't have done what he did,

exposing himself like that.

He was trying to protect you,

and it may have worked.

He says three judges are wavering.

They're leaning in your favor.

lt's gonna take a little more than that,

the way things are going.

We were never gonna win.

Take the stand, Mulder. Testify.

No.

-Then we'll testify. Me and Monica.

-No.

Both of us have seen too much--

Listen to me. They'll destroy you.

They'll put you out on the street.

What's left for us on the X-Files?

We came to this job to give it our best.

lt's the way we're gonna leave.

lt's not about how good you are.

They control the game. They own it.

Then let's shove it up their ass.

Mr. Skinner?

l'd like to call John Doggett.

Agent Doggett,

you've been on the X-Files for two years.

With all that you've seen, how do you feel

about this term, ''paranormal''?

The way l look at it...

...calling something paranormal's

just a way of avoiding a real explanation.

You're a skeptic.

But l see here in your reports...

...some very detailed descriptions of things

that a skeptic would never believe in.

These so-called super-soldiers.

That's a whole different deal.

ln what way?

'Cause l've seen them with my own eyes.

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