MULDER'S APARTMENT
10:02 AM


The door opens and a pick locking devise is put into a suit pocket. It's Cancerman. He shuts the door behind him. He looks around the apartment. He sees the chalk outline of the dead man.

He sees a framed picture of Fox and Samantha as kids.

He puts the picture down. He looks at the blood on the floor. He looks at the ceiling peep hole.


X-FILES OFFICE

Scully walks in and picks up the phone, pushes a button and sits at the desk.

VOICE ON PHONE
Federal Bureau of Investigation. How may I direct your call?

SCULLY
Communications center, please.

She takes the phone log out of her pocket

HOLLY ON PHONE
Communications Center. This is Holly.

SCULLY
Holly, this is Dana Scully.

HOLLY
Dana, I'm so sorry about what's happened. I just heard.

SCULLY
Holly, I need your help on something. I was hoping you could help me with some information.

HOLLY
Sure, what do you need?

SCULLY
I have some calls placed to the Bureau on consecutive dates. On the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth. They came into the PBX operator. The first was at 11:21, the next was at 11:14, 03:07,

Holly is typing in on her computer as Scully rattles the numbers off.

02:02, and 05:12. They would have all been transferred to the same extension.

HOLLY
And you're looking for that extension?

SCULLY
Yes.

HOLLY

I've got five calls matching those times and dates transferred to an executive level extension.

SCULLY
Whose?

HOLLY
It's a branch extension. It could be anyone at that level.

SCULLY
Would Assistant Director Skinner be at that extension?

Holly types again

HOLLY
Yes.

SCULLY
Scully is wounded.
Thank you.

HOLLY
Okay. You take care now Dana.

As soon as Scully hangs up, the phone rings

SCULLY
Yes?

DR. VITAGLIANO ON PHONE
Special Agent Scully?

SCULLY
Yes.

VITAGLIANO
This is Dr. Vitagliano over at the paleoclimatology department over at American University. You had, ah, me look into these ice core samples for you?

SCULLY
Right. I...ah...I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you.

VITAGLIANO
I think you want to come down here to the lab. There's something I know you're going to want to see for yourself.



DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
11:04 AM


Mulder and Kritschgau are walking down the hall

MULDER
What am I looking for?

KRITSCHGAU
Level 4 is a biological quarantine wing. It houses a series of labs and medical facilities, and an elaborate facility for the storage of mass quantities of DNA.

MULDER
DNA from whom?

KRITSCHGAU
Virtually every American born since 1945. Every immigrant, every indigenous person who's ever given blood or tissue to a government donor. This is what I was telling you. This is the hoax into which you've been drawn. The roots go back 50 years to the end of World War II. Playing on a virulent national appetite for bogus revelation and a public newly fearful of the atomic bomb...

During the rest of the monologue by Kritschgau, we see old film and pictures of what he's talking about

the U.S. Military Command began to fan the flames of what were being called flying saucer stories. There are truths that can kill a nation, Agent Mulder. The military needed something to deflect attention away from its arms strategy--global domination from the capability of total enemy annihilation. The nuclear card was fine as long as we alone could play it. But the Generals and Politicos knew they could not win a public relations war. Those photographs from Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not faces Americans wanted to see in the mirror. Oppenheimer knew it, of course, but we silenced him. When the Russians developed the bomb, the fear in the military was not for safety at home, but for armistice and treaty. The business of America isn't business, Agent Mulder, it's war. Since Antitam, nothing has driven the economy faster. We needed a reason to keep spending money, and when there wasn't a war to justify it, we called it a war anyway. The Cold War was essentially a fifty-year public relations battle...a pitched game of chicken against an enemy we not much more than called names. The Communists called us a few names, too. "We will bury you," Kruschev said, and the public believed it. And after what McCarthy had done, they ate it with a big spoon. We faced off a few times in Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, but nobody dropped the bomb--nobody dared.

MULDER
But what does all this have to do with flying saucers?

KRITSCHGAU
The U.S. Military saw a good thing in '47 when the Roswell story broke. The more we denied it, the more people thought it was true--aliens had landed. A made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest. They opened official investigations with names like Grudge, Twinkle, Project Blue Book, Majestic 12. They brought in college professors and Congressmen and fed them enough bogus facts and fuzzy pictures and eyewitness accounts that they believed it, too. They even hooked Doug MacArthur, for God's sake. I can't tell you how fortuitous it was. Do you know when the first supersonic flight was, Agent Mulder? 1947. Soon every experimental aircraft being flown was a UFO sighting. When the abduction stories started up, it was too perfect. We almost got caught in Korea, an ambitious misstep. China and the Soviets knew it. The UN got all heated up at us.

MULDER
Germ warfare. We were accused of using it in the Korea.

KRITSCHGAU
It was developmental then, nothing like what we and the Russians have now. The bio-weapons used in the Gulf War were so ingenious as to be almost undetectable. Developed in this very building.

They walk through a door

MULDER
What about all the reports of abductions? You're saying they've all been lies?

KRITSCHGAU
Not lies exactly,

We see a woman laying on a table with a big stomach and a grid pattern of lights shining on her, like Scully during her abduction

but citizens taken unsuspecting and tested. A classified military project, above top-secret and still ongoing. You've heard the recent denials about Roswell by the military and the CIA. What's been the effect? Even wilder and more widespread belief. The American appetite for bogus revelation, Agent Mulder.

MULDER
But I've seen aliens. I've witnessed these things.

KRITSCHGAU
You've seen what they wanted you to see.

They go into an elevator

The line between science and science fiction doesn't exist any more. This is about control, of the very elements of life. DNA--yours, mine, everyone's.

MULDER
Then why a hoax? Why create hard evidence, an alien body that could be disproved?

KRITSCHGAU
The body you found was so good, so believable, that only a directed scientific examination could have proven the fraud.

MULDER
Scully would have known.

KRITSCHGAU
The timing of the hoax was planned so Agent Scully wouldn't be alive to do the examination.

MULDER
You went along with all this. You let them do this to Scully.

KRITSCHGAU
I paid the price, Agent Mulder. When my son came back sick from the Gulf War,that was my retribution. I'm helping you now, but not unselfishly.

MULDER
You believe there's a cure for him in here, too.

KRITSCHGAU
I have to think there is.

Mulder uses Ostlehoff's code card to enter Level 4 clearance. Kritschgau watches. When Mulder enters, Kritschgau walks away but is met by two men in fatigues

SOLDIER
Michael Kritschgau... May we talk to you?

KRITSCHGAU
What about?

SOLDIER
DOD is detaining you for questioning. Would you come with us, Mr. Kritschgau?

He doesn't have much of a choice



RACE TRACK
12:11 PM


A rider is working out a horse on the track. The stands are empty except for the Fat Man Elder. Cancerman walks to him and sits next to him

ELDER
I was told that you needed to see me, that there was some urgency.

CSM
It seems I've been left out of the loop.

ELDER
Left out?

CSM
You were watching Mulder. You had a man on him. No one bothered to inform me of this.

He lights a cigarette

ELDER
I know nothing about a man.

CSM
I will not be cut out like this. You need my expertise. Is this being run from the DOD?

ELDER
If it is, I am unaware of it.

CSM
I've always kept Mulder in check. I put this whole thing together; I created Mulder.

ELDER
Agent Mulder is dead. Our FBI source confirmed it this morning. Mulder killed himself. Mulder was an asset. Without his partner, you may have underestimated his fragility.

CSM
I've never underestimated Mulder. I still don't.




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