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Internal dating: Cancer Man's resignation letter is dated November 12th 1997 Of course, most of the events of the episode are shown in flashback.
Frohike says that CSM first "appeared" in 1940 in Baton Rouge Lousiana, at the same time as the Trotsky assassination in Mexico City. His father was Communist spy that gave American war plans to the NKVD during the Nazi-Stalinist Pact, and was executed before CSM learned to walk. Then his mother smoked herself to a death due to lung cancer before he spoke his first word. CSM became a lonely orphan, burying himself in books. History lost track of him until a year after the Bay of Pigs invasion...
Center for Special Warfare, Ft Bragg, North Carolina -- October 30, 1962. A young CSM is a US Army Special Forces captain, friends with fellow Green Beret captain Bill Mulder. Mulder shows CSM a picture of his one-year old child with his wife, and tells him that the baby has just spoken his first word: "JFK". CSM is called into a meeting with Special Forces two-star General Francis. At the meeting are a government agent, a Mafioso, and a Cuban. The agent asks CSM if he has met any of these men or the General before -- he responds no. The agent asks if CSM aided Congo president Kasavubu in the arrest of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961, if he had been involved in the training of Cuban revolutionaries under Operation Zapata (the Bay of Pigs), had helped Dominicans assassinate Raphael Trujillo in 31 May 1961 -- to all, CSM denies involvement. The agent brings up the execution of CSM's father by electrocution, to which CSM voices his regret at not being able to throw the switch himself. General Francis breaks into the conversation, offering CSM a cigarette. CSM replies that he never touches them. General Francis defends the extraordinary nature of CSM's father for shouldering the responsibility not only himself for his country, yet goes on to decry Communism as the greatest evil of all time. General Francis tells CSM that he was chosen for a special assignment in the hope that this extraordinary nature might run in the family. The agent tells CSM that the assignment is "confidential compartmentalized" and that his acceptance means that his military record will be erased and he will cease to be an officer in the US Army. The assignment is the assassination of President Kennedy, instigated by the Cuban Missile Crisis, which General Francis blames upon the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, caused by the President's denying air support to the Cuban revolutionaries. The agent tells CSM that a patsy is being set-up....
Lee Harvey Oswald enters his garage coughing on a cigarette, where he meets CSM, who Oswald calls "Mister Hunt". CSM warns Oswald about the dangers of smoking. CSM leaves a rifle wrapped in paper, which he calls "curtain rods". Oswald describes himself and CSM as defenders of a free Cuba, and CSM tells him to hide the rifle in the book depository building. In return, Oswald will get a visa to immigrate to Cuba. During the president's visit, CSM tells Oswald he will be watcing a movie at the Texas Theatre. Oswald leaves, and CSM picks up the pack of Morley cigarettes that Oswald leaves behind.
Oswald hides the rifle, while CSM, dressed as a public works employee, sets up a snipers nest in the underground tunnels of the Trinity River Overflow Outlet. As Oswald is trying to get a root beer out of a dispensing machine, CSM guns down the President. Oswald realizes that he's been set-up, runs off to his boarding room, and gets a revolver. A Dallas policeman stops Oswald on the street and Oswald shoots the officer. Oswald enters the Texas Theatre and begins watching the war movie on-screen. Police enter the theater and find Oswald. As Oswald is dragged off screaming and fighting, CSM, sitting to the rear of the theater, takes out Oswald's cigarettes, and smokes his first Morley...
CSM is in his apartment typing out a fictional story based on his experiences. He types the final line: "I can kill you whenever I please... but not today". The story is titled: "TAKE A CHANCE: A JACK COLQUITT ADVENTURE, written by Raul Bloodworth (nom de plume)". On the radio is a speech by the Reverend Martin Luther King. MLK speaks of people feeling that Marxism may be the last hope of the revolutionary spirit. CSM grimaces, wishing MLK had not said that.
CSM meets with a US Army general and J. Edgar Hoover. He is insulting towards "Edgar" because of the uneffective wiretapping efforts of the FBI and their clumsy attempts at dirty tricks. The general talks about "behind the fence" operations that speak of "Negro army" being recruited by MLK's ally Stoagie Carmichael. CSM is sympathetic to MLK and his cause, but cannot allow his "Maoist" rhetoric which could sabotage the war in Vietnam by driving Black soldiers to refuse to fight. CSM decides that MLK must be assassinated, and decides to do it himself, out of respect for MLK. The president will be kept unaware of the operation, as he is unaware of even CSM's existence.
Memphis Tennessee, April 3 1968. CSM stands outside a hall where MLK is giving a speech. He looks upon the same picture of Ma Mulder and little Fox that Bill Mulder showed him back in 1962, as he smokes a cigarette.
Rooming House 418 S. Main, April 4 1968. James Earl Ray enters the room where CSM is staying. They are selling a rifle, and CSM tells Ray to go see a movie while he shows it to the buyer. Later, standing behind bushes directly across from the Lorraine Motel Room 306, CSM shoots and kills MLK.
As he listens to news reports of MLK's funeral, CSM reads a nasty rejection letter for his manuscript. He once again takes out the photograph of Ma Mulder and the babe, then puts it away, and listens to Robert Kennedy's oration at the funeral.
Washington D.C., December 24 1991. CSM presides over a meeting with some operatives. He is wearing a nicotine patch. They discuss the Anita Hill case, the Rodney King trial, independence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Academy Awards, the Superbowl (CSM swears that the Buffalo Bills will not allowed to win it while he's alive), and how CSM rigged the US-Soviet hockey game in the 1980 Olympics. When one of his mens brings up Fox Mulder's taking over the X-Files, CSM responds that Mulder is his to "keep an eye on". Suddenly there is news that Gorbachev has resigned, leaving them without enemies. CSM passes out Christmas gifts to the men (bad ties) and one of his men invites him to spend Christmas with their families. CSM declines, saying that he is going to see some family during the holidays. He stops by Fox Mulder's new office in the basement as he leaves.
CSM is in his apartment when he recieves a phone call from Deep Throat. An alien craft has been recovered, matching the craft that was shot down by Marines over Hanoi, whose occupant DT executed while he was working for the CIA. Meeting DT (whom CSM calls "Ronald") at a military installation in Dogway, West Virginia, CSM is perturbed that this could sabotage the Roswell hoax they'd created to lead investigators in the wrong direction, but isn't really worried because he believes the Russians are no longer in the picture after Gorbachev's resignation. DT is still concerned and demands that the alien is killed as part of UN Security Council Directive 1013, which states that "any country capturing such an entity is responsible for its extermination". CSM thinks that a living alien would make great progress for "Bill Mulder's Project". DT convinces him that all the work they'd done over the years could be destroyed if knowledge of this were to get out, that they have "a new enemy". They flip a coin, and DT loses. Reluctantly, he executes the alien, while CSM removes his nicotine patch and lights up a Morley...
March 6 1992. CSM looks over Dana Scully's senior thesis, "Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation", published by the University of Maryland on May 15, 1986 (which seems to include references to MJ-12 and the establishment of a "super-secret" operation during the Eisenhower administration). CSM is present at Scully's assignment to the X-Files (same scene as in the pilot episode). In his meeting room, CSM listens in through a wiretap as Mulder and Scully meet for the first time (same scene as in the pilot episode), smiling at their banter.
In his apartment, CSM finally recieves an acceptance letter for his "Take A Chance" manuscript from Pivotal Publications in New York. On the letter, CSM's address is given as "Mr. Raul Bloodworth/555 Brooksbank Ave, Apt. 24/Washington, D.C./20091". He calls the publisher, Waldon Roth, who will be serializes his manuscript in a magazine called "Roman A' Clef", but CSM will have to give up some creative control. On the morning of its publication, CSM writes out his letter of resignation, throws away his cigarettes, goes to the newsstand, and finds the magazine. Roman A' Clef turns out to be a pornographic magazine, and the ending to CSM's story has been changed. Disillusioned, CSM buys the magazine and a pack of Morleys. Sitting dejected on a bus stop bench, CSM discourses on how life is like a box of chocolates to a bum. He tears up his letter of recommendation, and walks away...
Back in the warehouse, CSM chambers a round into the silenced weapon, and prepares to make the kill. Frohike says that he got all his information from the "Take A Chance" story published in the magazine, and that he'll be following it up. Frohike comes out the door of the LGM office, and CSM puts him in his sights. Echoing his Jack Colquitt character, CSM says that he can kill Frohike whenever he pleases, but not today. He decocks the hammer, and lets Frohike walk away, unharmed.
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