HALLWAY

Scully now meets Skinner in the hallway.

SKINNER
Agent Scully. Is it true?

SCULLY
Yes, sir.

She can't look at his face.

SKINNER
Are you all right?

SCULLY
I'm um.... I don't know what to say. They asked me to come down and identify the body.

SKINNER
How did you make the ID? Word has it from Alexandria P.D. that it was self-inflicted. A shot gun blast to the face.

SCULLY
I saw Mulder earlier this morning. He was wearing the same clothes.

Skinner takes a minute to size her up. He's not sure it's the truth.

SKINNER
I'm very sorry.

Scully walks past him to the elevator.

Agent Scully...

She turns around

Section Chief Blevins wants you in for questioning about this. He believes you have information you haven't come forward with.


DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Mulder enters and walks through like he belongs there. Blends in.

MULDER
voice over
The military connection to the conspiracy we had pierced was now undeniable. The man who lay dead in my apartment worked for the Department of Defense at its Advanced Research facility.

He goes to security area

What I might find here, I was uncertain of. But my crime had provided me access. As long as they believed Scully's lie, that it was me lying on my floor, I might learn truths here.

Mulder sees that everyone is using a code card to get in. He puts Ostlehoff's through the scanner

But, if our lies were discovered, both Scully and I would be discovered with them.

The light turns green and Mulder enters


FBI HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
BLEVINS' OFFICE
8:41 AM



Scully opens the door and Skinner is behind her. There is a senior agent by Blevins seated at his desk. Blevins looks up.

BLEVINS
Agent Scully. Please have a seat.

She comes in along with Skinner. The senior agent by Blevins sits in a seat next to the desk, facing the chair opposite which Scully sits at. Skinner stands behind Blevins

Some time has past since you were first in this office.

SCULLY
Yes, sir. Four years.

BLEVINS

From all reports, your work on the X-Files has brought you very close to Agent Mulder.

SCULLY
Yes, sir.

SENIOR AGENT

We're awfully sorry about what's happened, Agent Scully.

SCULLY
But that's not why I'm here.

BLEVINS
You're here because we've been informed by the Department of Defense that prior to Agent Mulder's accident, you may have been notified by a DoD employee.

SCULLY
Yes, that's right.

OTHER GUY
And he may have given you classified information.

SCULLY
He had information about the discovery of what Agent Mulder believed to be alien corpse. He said the body was part of a hoax.

BLEVINS
He provided evidence?

SCULLY
No...hard...evidence, no.

BLEVINS
Agent Scully, I suggest you tell us everything you know. If you have any knowledge of this man, you should speak up now.

SCULLY
What knowledge?

BLEVINS
His name.

She just looks at Blevins. All three men look at Scully.

Whatever you're withholding, you'll be asked to explain yourself tonight at a joint FBI panel I've asked assembled on this matter.

SKINNER
Is this the man? Michael Kritschgau?

She looks at a photo that Skinner is showing her. It's a photo of Kritschgau sitting on Mulder's chair in his living room. The angle is from the ceiling

SCULLY
Yes.



DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Kritschgau is walking down the hall.

Across a great room, hall in the building, he sees Mulder. He catches up to him and grabs him on the shoulder to stop him.

KRITSCHGAU
Hey!

With a nervous smile

How did you get in here?

MULDER
Through the front door.

KRITSCHGAU
You can't bypass security.

MULDER
Mulder shows him the code card
You can if you have the card.

KRITSCHGAU
Put it away. Put it away.

He's looking around serious.

MULDER
You knew my apartment was being surveilled. How?

He smiles again

KRITSCHGAU
Come with me.



OFFICE IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Kritschgau and Mulder enter. Kritschgau turns on the light and shuts and locks the door.

KRITSCHGAU
I was followed from your apartment the night we spoke.

MULDER
Someone at the FBI is involved, this man Ostelhoff, was in contact with somebody ...

KRITSCHGAU

How'd you get his card?

MULDER
I found it on a dead man.

KRITSCHGAU
You know what that is? What you have in your hand? That gives you Level 4 clearance.

MULDER
Level 4 clearance--that means I get to dine at the officer's club?

KRITSCHGAU
You have access to everything, Mr. Mulder. Things I don't, things I can only tell you about.

MULDER
I need to know who did this to Scully!

KRITSCHGAU
What you can have, what you may find, is so much more than that.

MULDER
What?

KRITSCHGAU
What you want most desperately of all.

MULDER
The cure for Scully's cancer?

Kritschgau nods.



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