Épisode Anasazi S02E25 - X-Files Saison 2

Au Nouveau-Mexique, dans une réserve Navajo, un jeune indien nommé Éric se promène dans le désert lorsqu'un tremblement de terre le déstabilise. Une fois la secousse passée, son attention est tout à coup attirée par la présence d'un énorme wagon frigorifique dans une vallée. Il y fait alors une petite excursion et est choqué par ce qu'il voit. Il décide alors de ramener un peu de sa découverte à son père et à son grand-père. Il leur présente alors le cadavre d'un alien et son grand-père, Albert Hosteen, annonce en navajo que des gens vont venir pour obtenir des réponses vis-à-vis de cette découverte.

A Dover, dans le Delaware, Kenneth Soona alias "Le Cogiteur" (un ami des Lone Gunmen) accède aux fichiers Top secret du Département de la Défense concernant les extra-terrestres. Il les télécharge sur une cassette numérique et, très rapidement, l'Homme à la cigarette et ses alliés reçoivent la nouvelle de l’infiltration, ce qui leur cause un grand émoi. Pendant ce temps, à Washington, avertis par Sokona, les Lone Gunmen débarquent chez Fox en assurant que leur source veut lui remettre des documents de la plus haute importance et qu'ils leur ont organisé un rendez-vous un peu plus tard. Tout à coup, un coup de feu est tiré dans le couloir : sans raison apparente, l'une des voisines de Mulder vient d'abbatre son mari. Un peu plus tard, Mulder rencontre Sokona qui lui remet une disquette contenant les fichiers piratés en assurant qu'il s'agit d'informations de première main sur des sujets tels que Roswell ou encore le Majestic 12.

Le lendemain, Mulder examine les fichiers puis entre dans une grande colère en se rendant compte que ce n'est que du charabia. Scully, qui arrive alors, le trouve très agité et demande à voir les fichiers. Elle lui apprend alors que les données sont codées en Navajo, un langage amérindien, et qu'elle est capable d'identifier l'écriture parce que son père lui avait appris qu'il s'agissait du seul langage codé que les ennemis des Alliés n'aient pu décrypter au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. A la demande de Mulder, elle accepte d'enquêter et de faore traduire le code : elle le prévient nénamoins qu'il n'existe que peu de spécialistes et que même les Navajos actuels ne peuvent pas tous lire et comprendre la langue de leurs ancêtres. Ils sont interrompus par un appel de Skinner qui veut voir Mulder dans son bureau. Soudain, sans que rien n'annonçe le drame, Fox frappe son supérieur avant de partir. Scully est donc convoquée par ses supérieurs pour répondre du comportement de son partenaire : on l'accuse alors de mentir pour le couvrir et on la prévient qu'elle encourt aussi des sentences disciplinaires s'il s'avère qu'elle dissimule des faits, autre que le manque de sommeil (il prend d'ailleurs des médicaments pour essayer de dormir), pouvait expliquer le comportement inhabituel et inapproprié de son collègue. 

En parallèle, Bill Mulder reçoit à son domicile de Martha's Vineyard la visite du Fumeur qui vient l'informer du vol des informations classées secrètes (supposées être détruites depuis longtemps) et du fait que son fils les possède. Il l'avertit qu'il ne peut plus protéger Fox, qui est devenu trop gênant, et qu'il faut s'attendre à ce qu'il découvre bientôt la vérité et l'implication de son propre père dans le Complot. Après le départ de son vieil amis, il appelle son fils et lui demande de venir le voir. A son arrivée, Bill s’excuse pour tout ce qu’il a fait dans le passé et son comportement avec lui. Il s'absente ensuite un moment pour prendre un traitement médical et se rend dans sa salle de bain où il se fait tuer par Alex Krycek. Alerté par le coup de feu, Mulder voit Alex s'enfuir et ne peut que recueillir les derniers mots de son père qui lui demande de lui pardonner.

A Washington, Scully a tenu sa promesse et trouvé quelqu'un qui puisse traduire le Navajo. Le document est cependant tellement complexe que Jospehine Doane, l'experte, n'en comprend pas la teneur exacte et ne peut en déchiffrer que quelques mots :  «marchandise» et «vaccination». Elle lui propose de la mettre en relation avec l'une de ses connaissance, Albert Hosteen, spécialiste du Navajo. Entretemps, Scully veut avoir des nouvelles de Mulder et décide de se rendre chez lui : elle constate qu'il est absent. Alors qu'elle entre dans son appartement, elle voit que Mulder a semble-t-il décidé de faire appel à Mr X (comme le prouve le X collé sur sa vitre) et manque de se faire tuer quand une balle est tirée et l'effleure à la tête avant d'atterrir dans le mur. Abasourdie, elle retourne chez elle où elle reçoit un appel de Mulder qui l'avertit du décès de son père. Elle lui demande de venir chez elle parce qu'elle craint qu'en restant là-bas, on ne l'accuse du meurtre et que cette accusation puisse être renforcée par le fait que son comportement soit actuellement agressif. Mulder acquiesçe et se rend chez elle. En arrivant, il tombe dans ses bras en état de choc. Scully le fait alors dormir dans son lit afin de pouvoir le veiller. A son réveil le lendemain, Mulder constate que son arme et que Dana la fait analyser par la balistique afin qu'on puisse prouver que la balle qui a tué son père ne provienne pas de son arme : il l'accuse alors de ne plus lui faire confiance. Le soir même, elle retourne chez Mulder pour extraire du mur la balle qui a bien failli lui coûter la vie pour la faire analyser et renforcer l'innocence de son partenaire. En regardant pour la fenêtre, elle voit des hommes changer l’eau de l’immeuble. Dans le sous-sol, elle constate que le tuyau d’eau alimentant l’appartement de Mulder n’est pas identique aux autres. Après analyse, elle découvre que l’eau comporte une drogue, ce qui explique le comportement de Mulder. Un peu plus tard, Mulder voit Krycek rôder près de son appartement. Il lui tend une embuscade, le frappe et lui vole son arme. Il s'apprête à le tuer pour se venger quand Scully, armée, apparaît. Elle le somme de lui laisser la vie sauve mais devant son refus lui tire dans l'épaule, permettant ainsi au tueur de fuir.

Désormais insconscient, Scully doit maintenant s'assurer que Mulder reste en sécurité le plus longtemps possible et surtout jusqu'à la drogue qui coule dans ses veines ne fasse plus effet. Avec l'aide d'Hosteen, elle transporte Mulder au Nouveau-Mexique et reste à ses côtés jusqu'à son réveil. Quand il revient à lui, elle lui dit qu'il se trouve chez Albert Hosteen qui est parevnu à décrypter les fichiers contenus sur la disquette : les noms de Scully et de Duane Barry apparaissent dans les fichiers ainsi que le mot «test», elle veut savoir pourquoi et demande à Fox d'enquêter et découvrir la vérité pendant qu'elle rentre à Washington pour affronter Skinner qui l'a convoquée. Convocation à laquelle elle ne s'est pas rendue parce qu'elle était trop occupée à se battre pour l'innocenter. Elle lui dit aussi que que son comportement irrationnel est lié à une drogue qui lui a probalement été injectée par ses ennemis parce qu'il s'approchait trop prêt de la vérité. Ils espéraient pouvoir le retourner contre ses amis et le mettre hors jeu. Elle ajoute qu'elle lui a tiré dessus pour l'empêcher de tuer Krcyek avec son arme et donc ruiner ses efforts pour l'innocenter.

Scully s'en va laissant Mulder avec Albert. Ce dernier lui raconte alors une légende amérindienne racontant la disparition soudaine de la nation anasazi, 600 ans plus tôt, dans d'étranges circonstances. Albert pense qu'ils ont été enlevés par des aliens mais qu'il reste encore des traces de leur existence et donc de ce qui leur est réellement arrivé. Il sait que Mulder n’a pas peur de la vérité et il est convaincu qu'il pourra la faire éclater : comme les signes le lui ont annoncé. Éric, le eptit-fils d'Albert, amène Mulder au wagon frigorifique. À peine arrivé, Mulder reçoit un appel de l’Homme à la cigarette qui lui dit acoir des choses importantes à lui communiquer. En réalité, il en profite pour le localiser. Mulder entre dans le wagon et appelle Scully : il vient de découvrir des cadavres d’extraterrestres, ils ont tous des traces de vaccination contre la variole. L’Homme à la cigarette arrive, il met le feu au wagon provoquant ainsi une gigantesque explosion alors que Fox est encore à l'intérieur !

Scene 1
Navaro Reservation
Two Grey Hills, New Mexico
April 9

An earthquake occurs...

Native American : Where are you going?

Eric Hosteen : Riding. I'll be back in a few hours.

Albert Hosteen : Eric. Leave the snakes alone today. They'll be angry and afraid.

Native American : What is it?

Albert : The Earth has a secret it needs to tell.

Eric rides to pit. He sees the top of a metal object in the quarry and removes sand from off of it to reveal a hatch...

Back at the reservation.

Eric : I found something. Better come see.

Six people are standing over something...

Eric : What do you think it is?

Native American : I don't know.

Albert says something in Navajo and then goes back inside.

Eric : What did he say?

Native American : He said it should be returned. They will be coming.

Scene 2
Dover Delaware
April 10

The Thinker is reading "The 50 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time" while his computer is trying to log in passcodes. It starts bleeping...

The Thinker : You bitch! Beautiful!

He has hacked into something and inserts a DAT into a tape drive...

Scene 3
United Nations Building
New York City
April 10

An official is walking down a hall and knocks on a door...

Italian Official : What is it, Antonio?

Antonio : Someone has broken into the MJ documents.

Italian Official : Who would do such a thing?

He picks up the phone.

Antonio : I don't know.

Japanese Official : [Answer a ringing phone] From where did you hear this? Has everyone been told?

German Official : [On the phone] Yes, I understand. No, this is their problem. They must take care of it promptly.

He hangs up and calls Cancerman who answers his phone.

Cancerman : Yes.

German Official : You are familiar with the MJ file?

Cancerman : Ja. I have already taken care of it.

German Official : Good.

Cancerman : [Hangs up] Gentlemen. That was the phone call I never wanted to get.

Black OPPs military break down The Thinkers' apartment door and look around.

Scene 4
Washington, D.C.
April 11

Mulder is getting water from the tap. There are three knocks on his door...

Mulder : What are you guys doing here?

Byers : Can we talk inside?

Mulder : I'm not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night. I'm really not in the mood for the three stooges.

Frohike : I don't think we've been followed.

Mulder : Who would follow you?

Byers : Multinational black opps unit. Code name Garnett.

Langly : Trained killers. School of the American Alumni.

Mulder : Have you boys been defacing library books again.?

Frohike : They don't want us. They want him.

Mulder : Kenneth Suna.

Langly : We think that's his real name.

Byers : You've heard us refer to him as The Thinker.

Mulder : What did he do?

Byers : Hacked into the defense department computer system.

Mulder : [Paying attention] What?

Byers : The Thinker's an anarchist and a snoop. Whatever he got into has made him a very wanted man. Customs and immigration are on full alert. Every port of egress is closed.

Mulder : What are you coming to me for?

Byers : In his last communique, The Thinker named a meeting place and a three hour time window. He asked specifically for you.

Langly : The only problem is he may already be dead.

A gun shot is heard. They all rush out of Mulder's apartment to find people standing outside of another apartment...

Mulder : What happened?

Woman : She just shot her husband. They'd been married for thirty years. It's like she went crazy.

Cop : Everybody go back to your apartment, we'll handle this.

Frohike : Weirdness.

Scene 5
US Botanic Garden
Washington, D.C.

Mulder sits down until The Thinker walks toward him...

The 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.

The Thinker : Look, I'm sorry about the wait but I kinda got this ninja party shaking my butt.

Mulder : Why? What've you got?

The Thinker : Well if I'm correct I got the original defense departments UFO intelligence files. Everything from the 1940's and up.

Mulder : Everything?

The Thinker : Everything. Roswell, MJ12 and beyond.

Mulder : You've read them?

The 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?

The Thinker : I didn't take any precautions. I mean I... I didn't even expect to get inside.

He gives Mulder a package.

Mulder : You know they always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me?

The Thinker : I want the truth. And I want you to promise that those rat bastards answer to the people.

Scene 6
FBI Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
April 12

Mulder looks at the tape and puts it in his computer. Scully walks in.

Scully : Mulder, Skinner's looking for you.

Mulder : Come in and lock the door.

Scully : Why, what's going on?

Mulder : Are you familiar with the ten commandments, Scully?

Scully : You want me to recite them?

Mulder : No. Just number 4, the one about obeying the sabbath, the part about 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.

The screen shows 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.

Mulder : I don't believe this. This is just gibberish. [He stands up and hits a pencil holder.] 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 II. 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.

He goes to walk out.

Scully : Mulder. Are you okay?

Mulder : Yeah. I just haven't been sleeping.

Skinner is walking out of his office.

Mulder : Sir.

Skinner : Agent Mulder. I need to speak with you.

Mulder : About?

Skinner : In my office.

Mulder : Why? Is this another jerk off assignment where I end up doing the government's dirty work?

Skinner : It's about a rumor that you may be in receipt of some sensitive files.

Mulder : I don't know anything about that.

He turns around.

Skinner : Agent Mulder, listen... I'm talking to you... [ He grabs Mulder's shoulder and Mulder punches Skinner.] Are we done? We're done.

Scene 7
April 13

Scully walks into a room with Skinner and other FBI directors.

Director 1 : Agent Scully, you heard about the incident here, in the hallway yesterday.

Scully : Yes, sir.

Director 1 : Do you have any explanation as to Agent Mulder's bizarre behavior?

Scully : No, sir. Agent Mulder told me he was having trouble sleeping.

Director 1 : Do you think Agent Mulder confides in you, Agent Scully?

Scully : Of course, he's my partner.

Director 2 : Your partner. Weren't you originally assigned to agent Mulder to debunk his work?

Scully : Yes, sir. A year and a half ago. I've been writing regular reports stating the validity of Agent Mulder's work on The X-Files.

Director 2 : Would you lie to protect him?

Scully : Am I accused of lying?

Director 3 : Agent Mulder has been advised of a disciplinary hearing. If there's something we learn at that meeting that you haven't stated today, you could be subject to the same summary action.

Scully : What action is that?

Skinner : Dismissal without chance of reinstatement.

Scully : Is that all, sir?

Skinner : Yes, Agent Scully, thank you.

Scene 8
West Tisbury
Martha's Vineyard, MA

The door bell rings. Bill Mulder answers the door - It's Cancerman.

Cancerman : Hello, Bill.

Bill Mulder : What are you doing here?

Cancerman : I've come on some pressing business.

Bill Mulder : We had agreed that you would never...

Cancerman : That was a long time ago, Bill. There have been some unforseen events.

Bill Mulder and Cancerman are sitting at a table.

Bill Mulder : No one was supposed to know.

Cancerman : 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.

Cancerman : They should have, but they weren't. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.

Bill Mulder : How do you know my son has them?

Cancerman : The man who stole them has come forward.

Bill Mulder : Oh, God.

Cancerman : As always we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible authentication.

Bill Mulder : My name is in those files.

Cancerman : The files have been encrypted of course. We have a certain luxury of time. We endevored to prevent that fact from ever coming to light.

Bill Mulder : You wouldn't... harm him?

Cancerman : 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...

Cancerman : 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.

Cancerman gets up and leaves.

Scene 9

Mulder is sleeping in his appartment - someone is walking toward him. He wakes up and reaches for his gun.

Scully : You didn't answer your door.

Mulder : Oh. I took a pill.

Scully : I couldn't find you at work. I was worried about you.

Mulder : I came home. I must be running a fever. Maybe it's the threat of being burnt at the stake.

Scully : They called me in today.

Mulder : What did you tell them?

Scully : That nothing was wrong.

Mulder : Well, you told them the truth then.

Scully : Mulder, you opened the door for them, they're just looking for a good reason now.

Mulder : Okay, I'll say I'm sorry.

Scully : Mulder, these files. Who knows you have them?

Mulder : Why?

Scully : Because I had to lie today. And I put my job in jeopardy in order to do so. If they find out about those files....

Mulder : How would they find out?

Scully : Maybe they already know. The question is, is it worth it? Is this cassette worth risking everything?

Mulder : I'll tell you when I find out what's on it. Now just tell me who I can talk to about breaking that code.

Scully : I'm meeting with someone in an hour. I might know something later tonight, I just need some kind of assurance that they're not going to let us hang ourselves with this. That I'm doing the right thing.

Mulder : I'll try to find out.

Mulder tapes an X to the window.

Scully : I need to know one more thing, Mulder. Why did you attack Skinner?

Mulder : I've thought of that, Scully. I honestly can't say.

Scully leaves.

Scene 10
Offices Of The Navajo Nation
Washington, D.C.

Navajo Woman : This is all you have?

Scully : Currently, yes.

Navajo Woman : There are words I recognise but you'll need an actual code talker to make any sense of this. I know a man who might help. I could have him contact you.

Scully : Yeah, thank you... er... 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.

Scully : Thank you. You've been very helpful.

The phone rings. Mulders appartment.

Mulder : Mulder.

Bill Mulder : Fox, this is your father, I need to see you right away.

Mulder : Where are you?

Bill Mulder : I'm at home. How soon can you be here?

Mulder looks at the X on the window.

Bill Mulder : Fox, it's very important.

Scully enters Mulder's apartment.

Scully : Mulder...

She walks to the window, a gun shot is fired and the bullet cuts Scully's head.

Scene 11
Bill Mulder's House

Bill Mulder : Fox.

Mulder : Dad. What is it?

Bill Mulder : Come in. [Locking the door.] 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.

Bill goes to the bathroom and opens a medicine cabinet. From the reflection in the mirror, Krycek appears. A gun shot is heard and Mulder runs into the bathroom.

Mulder : Dad? Dad. Dad [He hears tires screech.] Oh, Dad.

Bill Mulder : Forgive me...

Bill Mulder dies. Mulder carries him to the sofa and uses his cell phone.

Scully : Hello.

Mulder : My father's dead, Scully.

Scully : Where are you?

Mulder : They shot him and he's dead.

Scully : Mulder, where are you? Just tell me where you are.

Mulder : I'm on the Vineyard.

Scully : Who shot him, Mulder?

Mulder : I don't know.

Scully : Mulder, were you arguing?

Mulder : I didn't do it, Scully, he was trying to tell me something.

Scully : Mulder, listen to me...

Mulder : You gotta believe me, Scully.

Scully : Mulder, I believe you, just listen to me, you've gotta get out of there, you have to leave immediately.

Mulder : I can't leave the crime scene, it'll look like I'm running, make me look guilty.

Scully : Mulder, they're gonna suspect you anyway, you've got no ID on the shooter, you, your behavior has been irrational recently, Mulder, can't you see that everything is pointing directly at you?

Mulder : He was shot with somebody else's weapon.

Scully : Damn it, Mulder, you're an FBI agent, you have access to weapons other than your own.

Mulder : All right. Meet me back at my apartment.

Scully : No. No you can't come home. Someone shot through your window tonight, they almost killed me, they might be trying to kill you.

Scene 12

Scully opens the door to her apartment to a ragged looking Mulder, she helps him in.

Scully : Fox... My God. Look at you. You're sick.

Mulder : I'm okay.

Scully : No come on, I want you to lie down on, woah, come on I want you to lie down, let me take your coat off.

Mulder : You gotta find them, Scully.

Scully : Right now you have to lie down. Come here.

Mulder : We gotta find out who killed my father.

Scully : Well, right now you need to rest okay, rest. It's okay. Okay.

Scene 13
April 14

Mulder wakes up.

Mulder : Scully.

He looks for his gun.

Scene 14
FBI Headquarters
Firearms Unit

A guy is firing bullets into a tank.

FBI Guy : I'll run a comparison as soon as they send me the bullet removed from the victim.

Scully : How long will it take to determine if there a match?

FBI Guy : They're both 9mm rounds. Run the specs, compare the stray. We should know pretty much right away.

Scully's phone rings. Scully answers it.

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 gonna shoot you too?

Scully : Mulder, I'm being called into Skinner's office this afternoon, they're gonna want answers and I'd like some good ones to give them.

Mulder : 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.

Scully : Mul...

Scene 15

Mulder hangs up. Scully goes to Mulder's apartment to get the bullet out of wall and sees an unmarked truck through the window. She goes into the basement and looks at the water supply units. On one of the tanks is a filter. She removes the filter. Outside, Mulder gets out of a cab and sees someone go around the side of the building. He runs through the building to the other side. Mulder grabs the person as he walks around the corner, and then punches him - it's Krycek.

Mulder : I'm gonna kill you anyway, Krycek, so you may as well tell me the truth. Did you kill my father? Did you kill him... answer me.

Mulder punches him.

Scully : Mulder, don't shoot him. Just back away.

Scully points a gun at Mulder.

Mulder : He killed my father, Scully.

Scully : I have him, Mulder.

Mulder : No, Scully...

Scully shoots Mulder, Krycek runs off.

Woman's Voice : Oh my God. Somebody call the police.

Scene 16
April 16

Mulder is in a room.

Albert : He's awake.

Scully : Mulder, Mulder it's me. Here drink some of that, you haven't had any water in over 36 hours. Your shoulder's going to be fine. The round went through nice and clean.

Mulder : You shot me.

Scully : Yes, I did. You didn't give me much choice, you were going to shoot 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.

Mulder : How'd you know it was Krycek?

Scully : I didn't. I went back to your apartment to pull the slug from the wall, but I noticed an unmarked van delivering soft water and I found this in one of the tanks servicing your building.

Mulder : What is it?

Scully : It's a dyalysis filter. It's a device used in the transmission of substance to solution, considering the level of psychosis you were experiencing, it was probably LSD, amphetamines of some kind of exotic dopamine agonist.

Mulder : Oh my God. There was a murder in my building.

Scully : Well it wasn't an excercise in subtlety. Mulder, these men are quite possibly the same ones who killed your father and who systematically tried to destroy you by turning everyone you could trust against you. I don't think I have to tell you why.

Mulder : I'd gotten too close to the truth. Where are we?

Scully : We're in Farmington, New Mexico.

Mulder : New Mexico?

Scully : We've just driven two days across country, I had to put you out to let the side effects of the psychosis abate. This is Albert Hosteen, he's been translating your files.

Albert : You're lucky she's a good shot.

Mulder : Or a bad one.

Scully : Albert was a Navajo code talker during World War II. He helped encode the original government documents.

Mulder : How'd you find him?

Scully : Through a woman in Washington. But he claims he knew you were coming.

Albert : Last week we had an omen.

Scully : Most of these files are written in jargon but apparently there was an international conspiracy of silence dating back to the 1940's. Albert says that evidence of these secrets are buried on a Navajo reservation not far from here. He says that he'll take you as soon as you are able.

Mulder gets up.

Mulder : What about you?

Scully : I'm afraid you're on your own with this. I didn't show up for a meeting with Skinner the day before yesterday and I don't know what the repercussions will be.

Mulder : You've taken a big risk.

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.

Scene 17
Navajo Nation
National Reservation

Mulder and Albert are in a car.

Mulder : You said you knew I was coming.

Albert : In the desert, things find a way to survive. Secrets are like this too. They push their way up through the sands of deception so that men can know them. Here, this is my house.

Mulder : But why me?

Albert : You are prepared to accept the truth aren't you, to sacrifice yourself to it.

Mulder : I don't understand.

Albert : There was a tribe of indians who lived here more than 600 years ago. Their name was Anasazi, it means ancient aliens. No evidence of their fate exists. Historians say they disappeared without a trace. They say that because they will not sacrifice themselves to the truth.

Mulder : And what is the truth?

Albert : Nothing disappears without a trace.

Mulder : You think they were abducted.

Albert : By visitors who come here still.

Albert gets out of the car, Mulder follows him.

Mulder : What's buried out there?

Albert : Lies. You will see for yourself.

Mulder gets on the back of Eric's bike.

Eric : It's through these rocks. It's down there.

Mulder climbs down the rockface and his cell phone rings.

Mulder : Mulder.

Cancerman : You're a hard man to reach.

Mulder : Not hard enough apparently.

Cancerman : Where are you?

Mulder : I'm at the Betty Ford center, where are you?

Cancerman : 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.

Cancerman : 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?

Cancerman : He was never an opponent of the project. In fact he authorised it. That's what he couldn't live with.

Mulder : No, he couldn't live with it because you had him killed.

Cancerman : 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.

Cancerman : Expose anything and you only expose your father.

Mulder hangs up. Cancerman gets out of a car and climbs into a helicopter.

Black Opps Guy 1 : Sir, we got a co-ordinate on F were ready to go.

Cancerman : Let's go.

Black Opps Guy 2 : Need a cigarette?

The helicopter takes off. Mulder uncovers a plaque in the dirt which reads Sierra Pacific Railroad RTC - 567 480.

Eric : Over here.

Mulder : This is a boxcar.

Mulder and Eric open the hatch into the boxcar.

Eric : Refrigeration car.

Scully's cell phone rings.

Scully : Scully.

Mulder : Yeah, it's me.

Scully : Where are you?

Mulder : Nowhere I ever expected.

Scully : What do you mean?

Mulder : 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...

Mulder looks at the arm of one of the merchandise.

Mulder : This one... has a smallpox vaccination scar.

Scully : Mulder...

Mulder : Oh, my God, Scully, what have they done?

The hatch closes. A helicopter lands and black opps military rush out.

Black Opps Guy 1 : Move out, get away from there, keep him back. Cover us were going in. Go.

Cancerman : What's your name, boy?

Black Opps Guy 1 : He's not here.

Cancerman : Where's Mulder? He's here.

Black Opps Guy 1 : No sir, if he was, he's vanished without a trace.

Cancerman : Nothing vanishes without a trace. Burn it!

An incendiary device is thrown into the boxcar. It explodes and flames fly from the open hatch. Cancerman and the black opps militay climb back into the helicopter and leave.

TO BE CONTINUED