05x20 - The End

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Checkmate.

Go on! Take your sh*t, Alex.

Right there!

I was sent to bring you back.

You know you're going places in the Bureau

What's up?

Iwasjust‘ uh, looking.

For anything special?

I came down to ask you something. I guess I was nosing around, wondering about you, your long-term plans.

My long-term plans? You got 'em in your hands.

What do you hope to find?

I mean, in the end?

Whatever I hope to find is in here.

Maybe I'll know it when I find it.

Is that what you came to ask me? No.

There's a case, not your usual. A m*rder, an assassination of a Russian chess player.

The sh**t is former National Security Agency, one of ours.

He's got a lot of people upset. This kid, Jeffrey Spender, Special Agent Spender, he's been given the case.

Did you give it to him?

No. It came as an order from somewhere outside the Bureau.

He's got his team assembled. He was very specific that you be excluded.

Using a w*apon registered to a US intelligence agency, the sh**t fired one sh*t at Anatol Klevinol before being captured without incident a short distance from the scene.

No motive has been established, nor has the sh**t offered a statement or accomplice.

Please continue.

The trajectory of the sh*t suggests the sh**t acted alone, but we cannot rule out an accomplice or conspiracy.

A single b*llet was fired from a catwalk at a steep angle, striking the target just right of the solar plexus.

Um, sorry. Can you rewind the tape?

Please. I'll tell you where. Just take it back.

If you have any questions, we can talk later.

I don't have any questions. No. Ijust think you're wrong.

Mulder, what are you doing?

The Russian wasn't the target. His opponent was.

His opponent, Agent Mulder, was a 12-year-old boy.

And a good chess player. Let me show you his best move. If you just take it back.

OK. Stop it there.

Look what the kid does here, before the k*ll sh*t. Play.

You see what he does? He just pushes back.

You see that?

He's pushing back because the game's over.

You described a steep trajectory for the k*ll sh*t.

If the kid doesn't push back, he catches the b*llet in the neck, not the Russian.

Can we move on here? I think Agent Mulder is right.

Looks like the boy sensed the sh**t precognitively.

If you rewind the tape, you'll see it.

There's no way. It's impossible.

Just rewind the tape so we can all see for ourselves.

You look surprised.

Is it that I'm here? Or that I'm alive?

When we heard you'd been sh*t, we'd assumed the worst.

There were reports you lost too much blood to have survived.

Obviously you underestimated me.

More obviously, you overestimated the man you sent to do the job.

Well, let's say all is forgiven.

Now you have a job for me.

There's been an incident, an unfortunate mistake.

Yes. I've seen. I've heard. I've read.

The boy is a problem to us. What would you like me to do?

sh**t him dead? Splatter his brains?

Dear God!

What's the matter? Does this sort of business offend you?

It's in your interest as in ours.

You think you know my interest?

Can we count on you?

Yes.

How long have you been with the Bureau?

Since ‘91. I took an assignment in Europe after the Wall came down, when the director stepped up foreign terrorism concerns.

And they brought you on this because of a terrorism angle?

No. I requested a reassignment.

There were things at home I decided I wanted to get back to.

1991, that's about when you started work on the X-files.

More or less, yeah.

Uh. I'd... better just put it down.

No offence, Mom, but that was pretty cool. Homer!

Gibson?

Hi.

My name is Fox.

This is Dana and Diana. How you doing?

I don't mind it here. They get all the good TV shows.

Where I live in the Philippines all you get is Baywatch.

What's wrong with Baywatch?

You've got a dirty mind.

Your parents are gonna pick you up on Friday to take you back home.

I don't wanna play any chess.

How do you know I want to?

Cos you got that cheap old chess oomputer in your hand.

It's not so cheap. Don't you want to see how fast you can b*at it?

No.

Maybe because you can't.

I'm right, aren't I?

You know what I'm talking about. You knew the moment I came in.

That's how you win. How you know what your opponent's gonna do.

You get inside his head, read his thoughts.

That's how you knew that man was gonna sh**t you. Isn't it?

I know what's on your mind. I know you're thinking about one of the girls you brought.

Oh?

One of them's thinking about you.

Which one?

He doesn't want me to say.

This kid's gonna need round-the-clock protection.

Mulder?

What was that all about? That kid's no chess master.

I could probably b*at him.

He's recognised internationally as a prodigy. He's beaten grandmasters.

The most unfair advantage. What he's doing is a magic trick.

He was goofing on you. He was playing along.

You're positing that this kid can read minds.

We've seen a number of these cases before.

We have seen cases of fakers and lucky guessers, but no one that has been able to stand up to rigorous testing, and no one who has gone so far as to claim that they can zero in on the mind of one person in a crowd of thousands.

Maybe that's why they want him dead. Who? Who are you talking about?

I don't know. I'm not the mind-reader.

Say that what you're suggesting is possible.

Who would want to k*ll a kid who offers you the ultimate advantage?

I mean, in business, in w*r, in anything?

Maybe somebody whose business is in keeping secrets.

Well, let's test him. I think the kid'll stand up.

Let's run a brain scan and a psych evaluation on him.

You know what to do. Diana.

So you two know each other?

It was a long time ago.

Why are you here? To talk to the sh**t.

I'vejust spent the last six hours talking with him.

He's not been what I'd call forthcoming. Let me see what I can do.

I'd prefer you stay out of there.

In fact, I'd prefer you stay out of this thing altogether.

When I first met you, I figured you were ambitious.

Then I thought you were arrogant.

Now I wonder what you're protecting. I'm trying to run this thing right, not like some paranormal free-for-all.

You're insulting me, when you should take notes.

You got the assignment, but just cos you wear the suit doesn't mean it fits.

You're lucky you're not defusing an international incident and sending agents barking down a lot of bad leads.

Now, the kid is the key to this. And the sh**t knows why.

Excuse me.

What does it take to k*ll a kid?

Money orjust evil stupidity?

I didn't k*ll a kid. No. Thanks to the kid.

Wanna talk about heartlessness?

Your squeaky friend there hasn't given me any food or water for 16 hours.

Iwon't tolerate that. Spender, you gotta get this guy some food.

Come on.

I've got nothing to say. Oh?

I read your bio. You've been trained. Special Forces. You were in Grenada, Zaire.

You were inside S*ddam's palace with a hit squad when they bombed it, yet you failed to k*ll him as well. Like I say...

Yeah. I know, you got nothing to say. That's OK, I'm a pretty good guesser.

The kid reads minds. How's that?

Why don't I tell them you told me that? Then let's see how safe you feel in here.

What can you do for me?

I don't know.

I might be able to get you immunity or get you into the witness protection programme.

Never happen. Think about it.

What did you get? Did you get anything?

Just his attention.

How you doin'?

I didn't like those tests. I didn't like being in the machine.

They are a little scary, aren't they?

You're wondering, aren't you? About what? About you?

About that other girl.

She’s wondering about you, too.

We're gonna show you a group of cards, and as we look at them we want you to tell us what we're thinking. Now, take as much time as you need.

Chair.

Piano.

Piece of pie.

Light bulb.

Smiley face.

Statue.

Cow. It's amazing. It's hard to believe.

I've witnessed clairvoyants who were over 90% accurate and seen telepathy demonstrated, but I've never witnessed anything like this.

Where'd you see that? Mulder and I were in psychiatric hospitals.

There were some patients serving criminal sentences who we felt were misdiagnosed.

What?

Coffee and a cruller.

A nonfat latte.

An English muffin.

Grand slam number two with double hash browns and a side of Canadian bacon.

He just told us all what we ate for breakfast.

I have to disappear for a bit.

I was handed a note.

Now I'm handing it to you.

OK. Hang on. I'm coming.

Is somebody gonna let me in? Hey, yeah. Comin'. Comin'.

Sorry. You caught me getting ready for bed.

Come in, come in. Thank you.

To what do we owe the pleasure?

I need your help. With what?

You've all heard of Gibson Praise, the chess wunderkind. These are a series of scans and neuroelectrical outputs of his brain and brain processes.

There seems to be some suspicion that he's a fraud.

Dorf on chess? Apparently he wins by reading minds.

I love it. And you want us to what?

Analyse the data... with an eye to the parapsychological.

Oohh, walk on the wild side.

first, I want you to tell me who Diana Fowley is.

Diana Fowley? We haven't heard that name in a while.

Then you know her.

Well, yeah.

She was Mulder's chickadee when he just got out of the Academy.

Good-looking.

She claims to have worked closely with him.

She was there when he discovered the X-files.

She has a background in parascience.

She got a Iegate appointment a while back, in Berlin.

I always wondered why they split up.

Why don't you boys see what you can find?

I must make my stand.

Your stand will destroy you.

Better to perish for what I believe in than endure forever as a traitor to life.

Then so...

How's little Carnac doin'?

Put a TV in front of him, he turns right into a normal kid.

He's the real deal, Fox.

We tested him with Zener cards, random numbers, a variety of ESP tasking.

He's got ability to notjust focus on a thought but a multitude of thoughts at once.

..and women who think...

There's something else. There's something we're missing here.

That was a good catch on the videotape. I was impressed.

You would have caught it eventually. No.

Been too many years trying to get inside the head of too many Arab t*rrorists.

I'm out of practice with this stuff. But you seem at the top of your game.

It's all I do.

It's all I've been doing for the last five years.

Been my life, such as it is.

Sometimes I hear about you. About the work you're doing.

I think how it might have been if I'd stayed.

We'd all be blown up by some t*rror1st b*mb, no doubt, huh?

I sense you could have used an ally, though.

Someone who thinks like you, with some background.

You mean Scully?

She's not what I'd call an open mind on the subject.

She's a... scientist. She just makes me work for everything.

Yes, but I'm sure there were times when two like minds on a case would have been advantageous.

I've done OK without you.

Hey...

I'm on your side.

Mulder.

Mulder, it's me.

Where are you? I'm on my way to work.

I was hoping I could show you something. Something about the boy.

I'm at the psych facility with him. Why don't you come by and show me?

Uh, no. I'd prefer to show you at work, if that's OK.

OK. What is it? I think you'll be surprised.

Very surprised.

I'm on my way.

Agent Spender?

I need to speak with you.

Who are you? Somebody who's taken an interest in you.

In this case of yours. This case I gave you.

What are you? CIA? NSA?

You're a brave boy. You said you had information.

Control the board. Know which men to sacrifice and when.

I don't know what you're talking about. Don't be part of someone else's crusade.

Pursue your own self-interest.

Always.

Agent Spender.

Agent Spender?

Who were you talking to? I don't know.

You don't know who you were talking to? You're lying.

What's your deal? I was told he was dead.

Obviously, whoever it is, he's not.

You're here to tell me a story.

Tell him exactly as you told me.

I've conducted some tests on Gibson Praise, and have come up with some rather unexpected conclusions.

Ones which I myself have difficulty reconciling with what I know.

These are? Neurological tests, mapping of brain functions using a very high-resolution EEG.

What did you find out? The tests revealed something peculiar in an area of the brain that we are only beginning to understand, an area of the temporal lobe that neurophysicists call the "God module".

I hope I'm not going to hear that this kid is the next Christ child.

All of the boy's brain processes are showing extraordinary activity in exactly this part of the brain, which is notjust abnormal or anomalous, but, from what I know, absolutely unheard of.

There are corollaries.

Individuals responsible for great leaps forward in science.

Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Stephen Hawking.

All these men exhibited modes of thinking that are suggestive of access to special brain centres.

So this kid is a human oddity. Tell me why anyone goes to such lengths as to k*ll him.

This kid may be the key notjust to all human potential but to... all spiritual, unexplained, paranormal phenomena.

The key to everything in the X-files.

Let me get this right.

We should believe this boy was gonna be k*lled because of the X-files?

No. It's bigger than that. Uh-huh. Explain it to me.

To us.

I can't.

But the sh**t can, the assassin that you have locked up, in exchange for immunity.

You wanna give a m*rder*r a free ride for the secrets to the pyramids? This is crazy.

You mischaracterise what I've said. This would be quantifiable, scientific proof of everything that Agent Mulder and I have investigated in five years.

How do you quantify the spiritual? It can't be done.

You ask for immunity for a k*ller on that basis, the Attorney General's gonna go off.

You're allowed to investigate the X-files as an indulgence, but draw the wrong kind of attention and they'll close you down, put an end to all yourwork. Something I happen to have an interest in myself.

Let's everyone step out in the hall.

Agent Mulder, you stay put.

She's right, you know.

The risk you're taking, the long-term plans you and I talked about.

If what Scully's found is true, and I believe it is, then the answers I might have spent a lifetime searching for may fall together like a million puzzle pieoes.

You'd risk the X-files?

How soon can you call the Attorney General?

The Attorney General's heard my request for immunity.

Heard it?

You said that you could get it.

She needs something more. Something to convince her you're notjust playing games.

Something that I can corroborate.

I need answers from you.

The kid is a missing link.

To what?

He's genetic proof, isn't he?

Genetic proof of what?

Genetic proof of what?

The kid's not superhuman, he'sjust more human than human.

He's what? Most of us have genes we don't use.

They lie dormant. Science doesn't know what they're for or where they came from.

You think this has something to do with that?

There's a long-held theory tied to prehistoric evidence of alien astronauts.

You're not gonna go out there and say the kid's part-alien?

You think that's what you heard? You led him, Agent Mulder.

Now you're letting yourself be led.

We entrusted you.

You failed. Failed? Failed who?

Mulder has gone to the Justice Department. He has testimony about the boy.

That'sjust part of the game. It's not a game, for God's sake!

Sure it is. It's all a game.

You just take their pieces one by one until the board is clear.

Hey missy, how about some sandwiches?

I hope you’re all hungry. Good-looking breakfast!

Yeah. I see bacon. I see ham.

Gibson?

This is a great show. I wish we got this where I live.

I'd like to ask you something.

How do you do it?

I just hear you thinking. Like on a radio.

Sometimes there are lots of radios, and I wanna shut them off and watch TV.

Is that why you like chess? Cos it'sjust one thought that you hear?

Yeah. That's not why I like it all the time.

Why else do you like it? Because there's no talking, just thinking.

It's nothing like real life, where people think one thing but they say something else.

Is that what people do? They worry about what other people think, when the people they're worrying about worry about the same thing.

It makes me laugh.

Why?

They make up all this stuff to believe, but it's all made-up.

Some people try to be good people but some peoplejust don't care.

Like you.

You think I don't care? No. You don't care what people think.

Except for her. The other one.

I'm here to relieve you.

Well, we'll talk about this later. OK?

They wanna k*ll me, you know.

Nobody's gonna do anything to you, Gibson.

I promise.

I know you do.

I've been handed another note.

Gibson?

What are you doing?

There's a man with a g*n. Gibson, get down. Get back. Get back.

He didn't come here to k*ll me. He's aiming at you.

What?

Agent Mulder. Scully.

They k*lled a US marshal, then sh*t Agent Fowley.

They worked on her here. They couldn't get a chopper in, so they radioed the hospital. She's got weak Vitals and a hole in a lung.

They're not optimistic. What about the boy? Is he here?

Where's Spender? He's gone to Federal Detention.

We found the sh**t sh*t dead in his cell earlier this morning.

We also found this.

Hello, young man. Hello.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

You're a liar.

Just like him.

You've never had the stomach for our business.

Just not for your practices. I'm a necessity.

The complement to your cowardice. Your work is done now.

Mywork is just beginning.

I've got a nice straight sh*t. No. He's useful, And you may need him in the future.

Our instructions from Justice are to secure the airports and notify the parents.

Who do you work for? Do you work for him?

You and old Smokey, is that who put this together?

You're goin' down! I'll see you prosecuted for m*rder!

You watch me. Watch it happen. Your days are numbered.

You're wrong. It's your days that are numbered.

We knew the risks going to the Attorney General.

You know what's coming? Yes.

They're serious about this. I understand.

I assume you'll make Agent Mulder aware of this.

Yes. I'm here with him now.

I’m making a case, but I don't know the Attorney General's listening, I'II communicate that to him. Is there anything else? Any other news?

Agent Spender's going after Mulder full board.

He's been reciting some line about alien astronauts that makes you both look bad.

Right. Well, I'll be here if you need to reach me.

Any news on Diana?

They have her on maximum pressors, though she's barely maintaining her pressure.

What did Skinner have to say?

There are talks going on right now about reassignment.

Forwho? Both of us.

These talks included instructions from the Justice Department to close down the X-files.

This was all strategised, every move.

I just couldn't see it. It was all of a plan.

Mulder, whatever you may believe...

this time they may have won.

Can I help you? Actually, uh... I can help you.

How did you get in here? Access, Agent Spender.

It's about access.

It's what I can give you. It's what can make you.

It's why I'm doing this for you. Who are you?

I'm your father.

What?!