LOCATION UNKNOWN

It's a dark room and Cancerman is smoking a cigarette. The phone rings. He answers it

CSM
Yes?

MP
Yes sir.

It's the security soldier from the Level 4 Clearance security area Mulder went through with Kritschgau watching

I had orders to contact you in the event Scott Ostelhoff entered the building.

CSM
Is he there?

MP
His keycard was scanned through the level four entrance. He used the subterranean access to breach the Pentagon.

CSM
Are you sure it's him?

MP
I can't ascertain that. Do you want me to apprehend him?

CSM
Don't do anything, don't say anything. I'm on my way.



AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Scully is continuing her test

SCULLY
voice over
If my work with Agent Mulder has tested the foundation of my beliefs, science has been and continues to be my guiding light. Now I'm again relying on its familiar and systematic methods to arrive at a truth, a fact that might explain the fate that has befallen me. An investigation that began without, now turning within. Taking cellular material from the unidentified life form and isolating a virus contained within it, then matching the DNA from this virus against that which I believe has caused my cancer. I hope a picture will develop. A picture that might confirm my darkest suspicions about the source of this disease invading my body in hope of obtaining evidence that its cause is not without blame, even though its cure remains unknown. If science serves me to these ends...it is not lost on me that the tool which I've come to depend on absolutely cannot save or protect me...but only bring into focus the darkness that lies ahead.



PENTAGON FILE ROOM

Mulder walks through an aisle with Scully's card in his hand. He's looking for the matching set of files of the number printed in red in the upper corner. MN 1068-06. He finds a box. Looks inside. Finds a tray of metal tubes



AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Scully is conferring with Dr. Vitagliano

SCULLY
There it is.

VITAGLIANO
I don't understand.

SCULLY
My DNA hybridized with the viral DNA from the cell culture.

VITAGLIANO
But that means the material from the ice core sample--you'd have to have DNA from the unclassified chimera cells in your own body.

SCULLY
I know.

VITAGLIANO
But how? How did you know?

SCULLY
I believe that I was exposed to this material and that it is responsible for giving me a serious illness.

VITAGLIANO
What kind of illness?

SCULLY
One which cannot be cured.



PENTAGON FILE ROOM

Mulder takes one of the metal tubes. It matches the number on her card



OUTSIDE PENTAGON FILE ROOM

The door opens and Mulder sticks his head out. No one is coming either way so he closes the door and walks down the hall

MULDER
voice over
If I did indeed have the cure for Scully's cancer, I was now as dependent on her as she was on me. As I had breached this facility I needed to find my way out to safety...

Cut to Scully walking down the hallway in FBI Headquarters in the blue suit from Gethsemane hearing

depending on Scully to weave her story, to tell her tale, to make them believe the lie.



FBI HEADQUARTERS

The door opens of the meeting and Scully enters. This is the replay of the hearing in Gethsemane

BLEVINS
Agent Scully, have a seat. Agent Scully, we've had a brief discussion, but will you restate the matter we're here to put to rest?

SCULLY
Yes sir. Four years ago, Section Chief Blevins assigned me to a project you all know as the X-Files.

A flash of Scully sitting in a chair in Blevins office in the Pilot

As I am a medical doctor with a background in hard science, my job was to provide an analytical perspective

Scully entering the X Files office for the first time in the Pilot

on the work of Agent Fox Mulder, whose investigations into the paranormal

Flash of Mulder looking for the file in Paper Clip, the Strughold Mining Company

were fueled by a personal belief that his sister

A flash of Samantha's file in Paper Clip

had been abducted by aliens when he was twelve. I come here today, four years later, to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work. That it is my scientific opinion that he became through the course of these years, a victim. A victim of his own false hopes, and of his belief in the biggest of lies.

SENIOR AGENT
from Blevin's office earlier
You were contacted by a man who claimed that he worked for the Department of Defense. A Michael Kritschgau. He told you that Mulder had been taken in by a hoax.

SCULLY

Yes, sir.

Mulder comes out of the door he ducked through earlier to get away from the security guys

He told me a story which detailed point by point the systematic way in which Agent Mulder had been deceived and used.

Mulder walks quickly down the hallway

And how I as his partner had been led down the same path, losing a family member due to my allegiance

Mulder reaches the code card slide thing

and contracting a fatal disease, which I was being told was engineered by the men who were responsible for Agent Mulder's deception.

Mulder slides the card through and waits

BLEVINS
Were you able to convince Agent Mulder of these facts?

It refuses Mulder's card

SCULLY
What I couldn't tell Agent Mulder, what I had only just learned myself, was that the cancer which had been diagnosed in me several months earlier had metastasized. And the doctors told me short of a miracle it would continue to aggressively invade my body, advancing faster each day towards the inevitable.

Mulder looks down the hall. Two security men enter and walk down the long hallway toward him. He tries the card again. It refuses it again. Mulder winces and looks at the two coming closer. He tries it again. No good. The two are closer. Mulder slides the card through again, fast. He waits. It works. He goes out the door and away. Cancerman is standing by the door in the security booth. Mulder doesn't see him

MP
I'll have security stop him at the entrance.

CSM
No, it's okay, that's okay--let him go.

Back at the meeting

SCULLY
Early this morning, I got a call from the police...asking me to come to Agent Mulder's apartment. The detective asked me... He needed me to identify a body.

BLEVINS
Agent Scully...

SCULLY
Agent Mulder died late last night from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

There, she's said it. She sniffs. The door opens. She turns to see Skinner enter with the autopsy results

BLEVINS
Agent Scully, these accusations you've made... You've been given a disease?

SCULLY
Yes, sir.

BLEVINS
They're extremely serious charges.

SCULLY
Yes, sir, ut I have proof: against the men behind this...of the lies that I believed. What I have here is proof undeniable...that the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax. A plot designed to lead to Agent Mulder's demise and to my own. Planned and executed by someone in this room...

She opens her file on the table and it's the result of the Blot

What I have here is scientific evidence--

Blood drips on the result.

She looks at Blevins. She has a bloody nose. She feels woozy. She falls back into the chair, helped by Skinner. She looks at Skinner

You...

SKINNER
Somebody get a doctor.

She faints


LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE

Byers opens the metal tube and pours its contents into a vial. He tests it as Frohike, Langley and Mulder watches and waits. Byers punches into the computer.

A graph appears. He looks at Mulder

MULDER
What? What is it?

BYERS
It's deionized water. It's nothing more than that.



To be continued...


EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
CHRIS CARTER




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