Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers Story Page #4

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Shot, drowned,

even ground up in a garbage truck.

And they just come right back to life.

What are they?

The best l can figure,

they're some kind of secret military project.

-Ordinary men made invincible.

-Objection.

What does this science-fiction

have to do with anything?

Agent Doggett will tell you that the man

Mulder supposedly killed is a super-soldier.

A man that Agent Doggett served with

in the Marines.

Name of Knowle Rohrer.

Objection. Agent Doggett

was not present at the murder.

Nor has he seen or examined the victim.

Because the government's given me

the bum's rush.

Objection sustained.

Then let me ask you, Agent Doggett:

lf a super-soldier is invincible...

...how could Mulder possibly

have killed this man?

He couldn't.

The way l understand it, the only way to kill

a super-soldier is with some rare metal.

Agent Scully says it's a form of magnetite

from some meteor that fell to Earth.

Mulder's not accused of doing that, is he?

No, sir.

Your witness.

Agent Doggett...

...in going over your files, l must say...

...it's an honor to speak to a man whose

record shows such duty to his country.

l won't doubt a man of your integrity,

Agent Doggett.

Even if he tells me a story

l find too incredible to believe.

Thank you.

Just as you must not doubt the integrity

of Fox Mulder, for whom you're testifying.

Correct.

Even if Mulder believes

these so-called super-soldiers are aliens?

He believes they're aliens, you know.

-You said you were a skeptic.

-That's right.

So, an alien conspiracy,

which Mulder has built his defense on...

...must be entirely unbelievable to you, too?

My name is Monica Reyes.

l've been with the FBl since 1990.

Before coming on to the X-Files, you

worked in the New Orleans field office...

...investigating cases

of satanic ritual abuse.

l did.

-Were any of these cases prosecuted?

-No.

For God's sake, Mr. Skinner.

We're trying a man for murder.

Not taking a trip down memory lane.

l'm showing the court that Agent Reyes

is level-headed and objective...

...on strange and extraordinary cases...

...that her belief in aliens

comes from first-hand experience.

She can offer you hard proof

that there is an alien conspiracy.

l was called on last year

to protect Agent Scully...

...whose life was in danger

because of her pregnancy.

What does this have to do with aliens?

l drove Agent Scully to a secluded location

where we thought she could deliver safely.

But we soon discovered we weren't alone.

I was attacked, and had to defend myseIf

against an assaiIant...

...who was shot at point-blank range,

who should have died, but didn't.

This assaiIant was then joined

by others Iike him...

...who surrounded Agent Scully and me and

witnessed her as she gave birth to her son.

Witnessed her? What do you mean?

We were confused, as well.

But we came to understand

that her son was a kind of miracle child.

lts birth was all-important to these people,

these so-called super-soldiers...

...who l believe are humans

replaced by aliens.

Why would Scully's child

be important to aliens, Agent Reyes?

We Iearned that ScuIIy

was one of a number of random women...

...who had miracuIous chiIdbirths.

These women all had been abducted...

...as part of a government program

to manipulate their biology...

...operating off-shore on a Navy ship...

...using these women as surrogates.

Surrogates?

For alien babies.

To create a slave race?

Yes.

A program, conducted by the Navy,

on a ship, which is where?

The ship housing this program

was expIoded on a BaItimore dock.

ln other words, we have no

true evidence past your good word?

You claim Scully gave birth

to one of these alien babies.

How can you be sure of this?

l saw her child do things

that could be explained no other way.

I saw him dispIay amazing powers.

He'd move objects with his mind.

Could we arrange a demonstration

that we could see ourselves?

No.

The child was given up for adoption

to an anonymous family.

She gave up the miracle child...

...the proof of everything

that she and Mulder claim...

...they've risked their lives for

over the last nine years?

-She just sent it off to some strangers?

-Yes. To protect him!

Thank you, Agent Reyes. That's all.

You don't care about that child.

Or what Scully had to sacrifice.

You're only too happy that there's no proof.

Agent Reyes.

You don't care what they've sacrificed,

what's been lost to their cause.

You make a mockery of it,

gladdened it proves your point.

That's enough!

What is the point of all of this?

To destroy a man who seeks the truth?

Or to destroy the truth,

so no man can seek it?

Either way, you lose.

Are you ready for this?

We may have found Knowle Rohrer.

You found him?

His body.

What are you talking about? He can't die.

Knowle Rohrer's a super-soldier.

Exactly. But they're saying it's him.

The man Mulder killed.

Who's saying it's him?

l talked to a guy at Fort Marlene who didn't

know he had to give me the runaround.

l got him to send

the victim's corpse to Quantico.

lt's there now?

We got a car out front.

Agent Scully?

Agent Doggett can stay with him.

Oh, my God.

This is Knowle Rohrer?

That's what it says here.

How could anyone tell if it wasn't?

l need you to get me

Knowle Rohrer's medical records.

They'd have to come from the military.

l don't know if l can.

You've got to, Monica. Whatever it takes.

l need those records for Skinner.

l need them for Mulder.

Mr. Skinner, please call your next witness.

Assistant Director.

l found it.

What?

What's gonna get you off.

l move to dismiss again based on evidence

l've just received that there is no victim.

The body is not Knowle Rohrer.

This man's neck was broken

and his body was burned postmortem.

-Motion denied.

-You can't deny it.

You're out of order and in contempt.

You're in contempt! Of evidence

proving that Agent Mulder is innocent!

You had no authorization to examine

the body. Remove her from the courtroom!

-She's got evidence. You gotta listen.

-Order!

Remove the defendant from the courtroom!

This trial is adjourned!

Gentlemen.

We have a verdict. lf you'd rise?

Acting fairly, and impartially,

this panel finds the defendant...

...guilty of first degree murder

under aggravated circumstances.

ls there anything you'd like to say

on your behalf, Mr. Mulder...

...before we decide your sentence?

Yes.

l'd like to congratulate you.

On succeeding where so many before you

have failed.

A bullet between the eyes

would have been preferable to this charade.

But l've learned to pretend

over the past nine years.

To pretend that my victories mattered,

only to realize no one was keeping score.

To realize that liars do not fear the truth

if there are enough liars.

That the devil is just one man with a plan.

But evil...

...true evil is a collaboration of men...

...which is what we have here today.

lf l am a guilty man,

my crime is in daring to believe...

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