KURTZWEIL: There's something you don't know about the bombing in
Dallas.
MULDER: What's that?
KURTZWEIL: SAC Darius Michaud never tried, or intended, to defuse
that bomb.
MULDER: (skeptical) He just let it explode in his face, huh?
KURTZWEIL: What's the question no one's asking? Why that building? Why not the federal building?
MULDER: The federal building was too well guarded.
KURTZWEIL: No. They put the bomb in the building across the street
because it did have federal offices. The Federal Emergency Management
Agency had a provisional medical quarantine office there, which is
where the bodies where found. But that's the thing ... the thing you
didn't know. The thing you'd never think to check.
Those people were already dead.
MULDER: Before the bomb went off?
KURTZWEIL: That's what I'm saying.
MULDER: You're telling me they blew up that entire building just to hide
the bodies of those firemen.
KURTZWEIL: And one little boy.
CSM: This man is still alive.
BRONSCHWEIG: Technically and biologically. But he'll never recover.
CSM: How can this be?
BRONSCHWEIG: The developing organism is using his life energy ...
digesting bone and tissue ... we've just slowed the process. Do you want
us to destroy this one, too? Before it gestates?
CSM: No, no. We need to try our vaccine on it.
BRONSCHWEIG: And if it's unsuccessful?
CSM: Burn it, like the others.
KURTZWEIL: According to the newspaper, FEMA was called out to
manage an outbreak of the Hanta virus. Are you familiar with what
the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s real power is? FEMA
allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon
declaration of a national emergency. Think about that! What is an
agency with such broad-sweeping power doing managing a small
viral outbreak in suburban Texas?
MULDER: You’re saying it wasn’t such a small outbreak.
KURTZWEIL: No, I’m saying it wasn’t the Hanta virus.
MULDER: Well, what was it? What was it?
KURTZWEIL: When we were young men in the military, your father
and I were recruited for a project. They told us it was biological
warfare, a virus.
MULDER: What killed those men?
KURTZWEIL: What killed them I won't even write about! We have no
context for what killed those men, or any appreciation of the scale
at which it will be unleashed in the future.
MULDER: A plague?
KURTZWEIL: The plague to end all plagues, Agent Mulder. A silent
weapon for a quiet war. The systematic release of an indiscriminant
organism for which the men who will bring it on still have no cure!
They've been working on this for fifty years! While the rest of the
world have been fighting gooks and commies, these men have been
secretly negotiating a planned armageddon!
MULDER: Negotiating with whom?
KURTZWEIL: I think you know. The timetable has been set. It will
happen on a holiday, when people are away from their homes.
The president will declare a state of emergency, at which time all
government, all federal agencies, will come under the power of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA, the secret
government.
STRUGHOLD: We have been forced to reassess our role in Colonization
by new effects in biology which have .... presented themselves.
FIRST ELDER: The virus has mutated.
WMM: Into what?
STRUGHOLD: A new extraterrestrial biological entity.
WMM: This isn't Colonization, this is spontaneous repopulation!
All our work! .... If it's true, they've been using us all along! We've
been labouring under a lie!
SECOND ELDER: It could be an isolated case.
WMM: How can we know?!
STRUGHOLD: We're going to tell them what we've found, what we've
learned by turning over a body infected with the gestating organism.
WMM: In hope of what? Learning that it's true? That we are nothing
but digestives for the creation of a new race of alien life-forms?!
By cooperating now, we are but beggers to our own demise.
MULDER: A transportation system. Transgeneric crops that are
polygenically altered to carry a virus.
WMM: No. Though I have no means to prove otherwise.The virus is
extraterriestrial. We know very little about it except that it was the
original inhabitant of this planet.
MULDER: (unbelieving) A virus...
WMM: What is a virus, but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated?
Living in a cave, underground, until it mutates ... and attacks.
WMM: Your aliens, Agent Mulder. Your little green men arrived here
millions of years ago. Those that didn't leave have been lying dormant
underground since the last ice age in the form of an evolved pathogen,
waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race when it comes to
colonize the planet -- using us as hosts. Against this we have no
defense, nothing but a weak vaccine. Do you see why it was kept
secret? Why even the best men, men like your father, could not let
the truth be known. Until Dallas we believed the virus would simply
control us, that mass infection would make us a slave race.
Imagine our surprise when they began to gestate.
WMM: My group has been working cooperatively with the alien colonists,
facilitating programs like the one you saw. To give us access to the virus,
in hope that we might be able secretly to develop a cure.
WMM: Survival is the ultimate ideology.
Your father wisely refused to believe this.
MULDER: But he sacrificed my sister!
He let them take Samantha...
WMM: No. Without a vaccination, the only
true survivors of the viral holocaust would be those immune to it:
human/alien clones. He "allowed" your sister to be abducted, to be
taken to a cloning program. For one reason.
MULDER: So she'd survive.
As a genetic hybrid...
WMM: Your father chose hope over selfishness. Hope in the only future
he had: his children. His hope for you, was that you would uncover the
truth about the Project. That you would stop it -- That you would
fight the future.
