Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers Story Page #5

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...that the truth will out,

and that no one lie can live forever.

l believe it still.

Much as you try to bury it,

the truth is out there.

Greater than your lies, the truth

wants to be known. You will know it.

lt'll come to you, as it's come to me:

Faster than the speed of light.

You may believe yourselves

rid of your headache now.

And maybe you are.

But you've only done it

by cutting off your own heads.

Yeah.

l'll tell her.

Who was it?

Skinner.

Agent Doggett?

Death by lethal injection.

'Evening. l.D., please?

Master Sergeant Rohrer.

Go on ahead.

Get up!

Who's there?

l'm here with Skinner. Get up.

Move it, Mulder.

What are you doing?

We're getting you out of here. Come on.

Guard!

Where is he?

Seal the building. Seal the base.

We have an escaped prisoner!

You're never gonna make it this way.

Come on.

Mulder?

You've got to move out.

What's he doing?

What l should've done from the start.

You want to go north to Canada.

Get to an airport.

lf you're not gone in 24 hours,

you may never get out.

Do you understand?

None of you will be safe now.

You let us worry about that.

Good luck.

Kersh told us to head north.

You just got on a road going south.

That's right.

Where are you going?

To see a man about the truth.

You can't hide me forever.

We can destroy your files,

make it next to impossible to find you.

You don't know these people.

l'm gonna protect you, Gibson.

John?

What the hell is this?

What the hell's going on?

They can't do this. Who authorized this?

l'm gonna find out.

Skinner.

They've packed up the X-Files.

I know.

lt's out of control.

l'm trying to get to the bottom of it.

l'm trying to get to Kersh.

All l can think is it's punishment

for taking Mulder's side.

Unless they found out

that we helped him escape.

Then they know about

the Deputy Director's involvement, too.

l need to see the Deputy Director.

And he needs to see you.

He knows.

Then we're all in danger here.

No. He knows about Mulder and Scully,

where they're going.

You mean the border?

No, that's not where they went.

And they know that.

They're gonna find them and kill them.

Where are they, Gibson?

Mulder and Scully, where'd they go?

Hey, hotshot.

You might have the common courtesy

of doing your business there, downwind.

Oh, boy.

Why don't you just finish draining

the little lizard, and then we'll talk.

We're very worried about you.

lt's craziness, man. Turn around.

Just hang a big U-ie and never look back.

l can't.

Why risk perfect happiness, Mulder?

Why risk your life?

Because l need to know the truth.

You already know the truth.

l need to know if l can change it.

Change it?

For crying out loud,

you'll only get yourself killed.

Mulder?

What are you doing?

l'll be right with you, Scully.

What are they?

Pueblos. Anasazi lndians.

Abandoned 2,000 years ago.

Nobody knows why.

Yeah, Mulder, but what are we doing here?

Hello.

My name is Fox Mulder.

Do you understand me?

Mulder, what is this?

l was sent a message and a key to

the government facility at Mount Weather.

The lndian said it was

from a wise man who lived in the ruins.

The Keeper of the Truth.

Do you see anything at aII?

What's the matter, Agent Mulder?

You come to see the wise man,

but you look as if you've seen a ghost.

You're not a wise man. You're a dead man.

Just like Krycek and X.

Do you see a dead man, Agent Scully?

l hoped and prayed you were dead,

you chain-smoking son of a b*tch.

You waste your time. Ask Mulder.

He knows the futility of hopes and prayers.

He knows the truth now.

You have told her the truth,

haven't you, Fox?

l helped you find it.

You didn't help me.

You sent me to that government facility

knowing exactly what l'd find.

And now you refuse to speak it.

Not to Scully, not to anyone.

You even refused to testify

what you learned.

Even though it would have saved your life.

You damn me for my secrets

but you're afraid to speak the truth.

You call me afraid?

Look at you,

sitting here alone in the dark like a fossil.

lt's the final refuge.

The last place to hide from those

who are insidiously taking power now.

Who?

The aliens.

They fear this place, its geology.

Magnetite.

Like that which brought down

the original UFO in Roswell.

lndian wise men realized this

over 2,000 years ago.

They hid here.

And watched their own culture die.

The original shadow government.

Agent Doggett!

Who the hell is that?

Which leaves me to tell you

what Mulder's afraid to, Agent Scully.

Come on, let's go.

lt's a scary story.

You want to come sit on my lap?

You don't scare me.

My story's scared every President

since Truman in '47.

-You don't have to hear this.

-No, l want to hear it, Mulder.

Ten centuries ago,

the Mayans were so afraid...

...that their calendars stopped

on the exact date that my story begins.

December 22, the year 2012.

The date of the final alien invasion.

Mulder can confirm the date.

He saw it at Mount Weather.

Where our own secret government

will be hiding when it all comes down.

Yeah, you smile. Feeling drunk with power.

Power to do nothing.

My power comes from telling you.

Seeing your powerlessness hearing it.

They wanted to kill you, Fox.

l protected you all these years,

waiting for this moment...

...to see you broken. Afraid.

Now you can die.

Run, Monica. Get out of here.

No.

Knowle Rohrer, that's far enough.

Shoot me, Agent Doggett,

if you think it'll make a difference this time.

Agent Doggett!

Mulder, get out of there!

They know where you are!

Get out of here!

-Get in the car!

-No! Go!

Go!

What are you thinking?

Mulder?

l'm thinking....

l'm a guilty man. l failed in every respect.

l deserve the harshest punishment

for my crimes.

You don't believe that.

l believe...

...that l sat in a motel room like this

with you when we first met.

And l tried to convince you of the truth.

And in that respect, l succeeded, but...

...in every other way, l've failed.

You don't believe that, either.

l've been chasing after monsters

with a butterfly net.

You heard the man, the date's set.

l can't change that.

You wouldn't tell me...

...not because you were afraid, or broken...

...but because you didn't want

to accept defeat.

l was afraid of what knowing

would do to you.

l was afraid that it would crush your spirit.

Why would l accept defeat?

Why would l accept it if you won't?

Mulder, you say that you've failed.

But you only fail if you give up,

and l know you.

You can't give up.

lt's what l saw in you when we first met.

lt's what made me follow you.

Why l'd do it all over again.

And look what it's gotten you.

And what has it gotten you?

Not your sister.

Nothing that you've set out for.

But you won't give up, even now.

You've always said

that you want to believe.

But believe in what, Mulder?

lf this is the truth that you've been

looking for, what is left to believe in?

l want to believe that...

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