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Mulder stumbles upon secret files documenting proof of extraterrestrial life. He believes the information can tell him something about the disappearance of his sister, but conspirators works against Mulder, making him doubt those he has long trusted.

THINKER: I...I don't want you to know my real name. I... I just don't think it's that important that you know.
MULDER: Sounds like a line I used in a bar once.
THINKER: Look, I'm sorry about the wait but I kinda got this ninja party shaking my butt.
MULDER: Why? What've you got?
THINKER: Well, if I'm correct, I got the original defense department's UFO intelligence files. Everything from the 1940's and up.
MULDER: Everything?
THINKER: Everything. Roswell, MJ12 and beyond.
MULDER: You've read them?
THINKER: Not entirely. I downloaded all I could and then I split. I mean, I knew that these guys would be after me.
MULDER: What makes you think they know who you are?
THINKER: I didn't take any precautions. I mean I... I didn't even expect to get inside.
MULDER: You know they always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me?
THINKER: I want the truth. And I want you to promise that those rat bastards answer to the people.

MULDER: Are you familiar with the Ten Commandments, Scully?
SCULLY: You want me to recite them?
MULDER: Just number four, the one about obeying the Sabbath. The part where God made heaven and earth but didn't bother to tell anybody about his side projects?
SCULLY: What are you talking about?
MULDER: The biggest lie of all. (Mulder's computer screen says "Department Of Defense. Top Secret.")
SCULLY: What is this?
MULDER: The Holy Grail. The original defense department files. Hard evidence that the government has known about the existance of extraterrestrials for over fifty years.
SCULLY: Where did you get this?
MULDER: Your friendly neighborhood anarchist. (the screen shows a strange code) I don't believe this. This is just gibberish. Damn it. I'm so sick of this crap, BS and double talk. I can't believe this.
SCULLY: Mulder, this may not be gibberish.
MULDER: It's a joke Scully, it's a bad joke.
SCULLY: I think it's just encrypted and I think I recognize it. It looks like Navajo. It was used in World War 2. My father told me it was the only code the Japanese couldn't break, I... I remember the long strings of consonants.
MULDER: Well can you find out?
SCULLY: Well only a handful of people can decipher it.
MULDER: Then find one of 'em.

Bill Mulder: No one was supposed to know.
Cancer Man: Who could have predicted the future Bill? That the computers that you and I only dreamed of, would someday be home appliances capable of the most technical espionage.
Bill Mulder: The files should have been destroyed.
Cancer Man: They should have, but they weren't. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.
Bill Mulder: How do you know my son has them?
Cancer Man: The man who stole them has come forward.
Bill Mulder: Oh God.
Cancer Man: As always, we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible authentication.
Bill Mulder: My name is in those files.
Cancer Man: The files have been encrypted, of course. We have a certain luxury of time. We endeavoured to prevent that fact from ever coming to light.
Bill Mulder: You wouldn't... harm him?
Cancer Man: I've protected him this long, haven't I? Your son has been provident in the alliances that he's created. The last thing we need is a martyr in a crusade.
Bill Mulder: But if he should, learn of my involvement...
Cancer Man: You're your own man Bill. You always have been. But I strongly encourage you in that event, to deny everything. It's good to see you again Bill. You look well.

Scully: Can you tell me which words you do recognize?
Navajo Woman: This word, it means goods, merchandise. And this one means vaccination. They're both modern words which is why they stand out.

Bill Mulder: It's... it's so clear now. Simple. It was so complicated then. The, the choices that needed to be made.
Mulder: What choices? Dad...
Bill Mulder: You're a smart boy Fox. You're smarter than I ever was.
Mulder: About what?
Bill Mulder: Your politics are yours, you've never thrown in. The minute you do that, their doctrines become yours and you can be held responsible.
Mulder: You're talking about your work in the state department.
Bill Mulder: You're going to learn of things... Fox, you're going to hear the words and they'll come to make sense to you.
Mulder: What words?
Bill Mulder: The merchandise. Look I, I've been taking some medication. You'll have to excuse me for a moment.
(MULDER'S father leaves and goes into the bathroom, opening the medicine cabinet. KRYCEK'S reflection is show in the mirror, he is standing behind the shower curtain. A gunshot is heard, MULDER runs in)
Mulder: Dad? Dad. Dad.. Oh, Dad...
Bill Mulder: (before he dies) Forgive me...

Mulder: You took my gun. You think I did it, don't you?
Scully: I took your gun to run it through ballistics to try and clear you, Mulder.
Mulder: Well, why didn't you ask me?
Scully: You had a temperature of 102 last night, I didn't want to wake you.
Mulder: What, were you afraid that I was going to shoot you too?
Scully: Mulder, I'm being called into Skinner's office this afternoon, they're going to want answers, and I'd like some good ones to give them.
Mulder: (angry) So you can clear your conscience and your name? You've been making reports on me since the beginning Scully, taking your little notes!
Scully: Mulder, you're sick, you're not thinking straight, I'm on your side. You know that.
Mulder: Look, you have my files and you have my gun. Don't ask me for my trust.

Mulder: You shot me!
Scully: Yes, I did. You didn't give me much choice. You were about to kill Krycek.
Mulder: Why'd you shoot me? He's the one...
Scully: If he is, then his weapon is probably the same one that killed your father.
Mulder: What are you talking about?
Scully: If you killed Krycek with that weapon there would have been no way to prove that you didn't kill your father. I'm sorry about your father, Mulder, I haven't been able to tell you.

Scully: I was certain they would have killed you, Mulder.
Mulder: Thank you. Thank you for taking care of me.
Scully: There's something else. My name is in those files. It appears in the latest entries with Duane Barry's.
Mulder: In what context?
Scully: It's not clear, but it has something to do with a test. I want you to find out, Mulder. I need you to.

Mulder: (answering phone) Mulder.
Cancer Man: You're a hard man to reach.
Mulder: Not hard enough, apparently.
Cancer Man: Where are you?
Mulder: I'm at the Betty Ford Center, where are you?
Cancer Man: I need to talk to you, Mr. Mulder, in person. There are some things to explain.
Mulder: I'll save the government the plane fare, I just need to know which government that is.
Cancer Man: Your father may have told you things, Mr. Mulder. I should warn against taking those things at face value.
Mulder: Yeah, which things are those?
Cancer Man: He was never an opponent of the project. In fact, he authorized it. That's what he couldn't live with.
Mulder: No, he couldn't live with it because you had him killed.
Cancer Man: We weren't involved in that.
Mulder: Now listen to me, you black-lunged son of a bitch, I'm gonna expose you and your project, your time is over.
Cancer Man: Expose anything and you only expose your father

Mulder: (on the phone with SCULLY) I'm in a boxcar buried inside a quarry. There are bodies everywhere.
Scully: Bodies?
Mulder: Stacked floor to ceiling.
Scully: What happened to them?
Mulder: I don't know.
Scully: Mulder, in these files I found references to experiments that were conducted here in the US by Axis Power scientists who were given amnesty after the war.
Mulder: What kind of experiments?
Scully: Some kind of tests, on humans. What they referred to as merchandise.
Mulder: But these aren't human, Scully. From the look of it I'd say they were alien.
Scully: Are you sure?
Mulder: I'm pretty damn sure. Wait a sec... This one... has a smallpox vaccination scar.
Scully: Mulder.
Mulder: Oh, my God, Scully, what have they done?

Cancer Man: (in the boxcar) Where's Mulder? He's here!
Black Opps Man: No sir, if he was, he's vanished without a trace.
Cancer Man: Nothing vanishes without a trace. Burn it!


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