Página PrincipalInternal dating: Just after the end of Redux, which seems to be set in mid October (1997), despite the fact that we all thought Gethsemene happened in May.
Mulder follows Skinner into the ICU, doubling over in pain and shock when he sees Scully. Skinner tells him that Scully went into hypovolemic shock due to blood loss and that she is dying. He tries to get Mulder to leave, and Mulder throws off Skinner's arm, wrestling with the AD. "Don't do this!" Skinner shouts. "Don't make me arrest you." Two other agents pull Mulder from the ICU.
The credits roll: The Truth Is Out There
Mulder is called into Blevins' office, asked to explain himself, why he is very much alive. Blevins asks why Scully lied to the committee, and when Mulder does not reply, is asked, "Who is protecting whom?" There will be a murder investigation into Scott Ostelhoff's death, and unless Mulder can name another shooter, he will be the target of that investigation.
Refusing to answer, Mulder leaves. Skinner follows him, says Mulder needs to remember who his friends are, who he can trust. Skinner has been withholding forensic evidence about the body, he says, and about the shootings. He wishes to help Mulder. "How can you help me?" asks Mulder. "Tell me why Scully lied for you," Skinner replies. Mulder tells Skinner that he was seeking information about a mole within the FBI, but that he has not yet been able to identify that person.
CSM and the Elder meet again at the same racetrack. CSM is triumphant about Mulder's "return". The Elder is less than pleased, angry that Mulder has seen some of the evidence of their project, and that CSM let him go at the Pentagon when he had the chance to capture Mulder. CSM disagrees, saying "As I've said all along, Mulder's much more valuable to us alive." He tells the Elder of his plan to gain Mulder's trust and loyalty, and bring him into the fold.
The Cigarette-Smoking Man leaves, and without turning around, the Elder speaks to the man sitting behind him. "You can proceed now."
At the hospital, Mulder goes to visit Scully, giving her a kiss on the cheek. She is stunned to see him until Mulder explains that he is "officially among the undead." Scully demands to know what has happened, but Mulder is vague, telling her that there will be an investigation, but downplaying the significance of it. Scully insists that Mulder finger her as the murderer. "Mulder, if I can save you, let me. Let me at least give some meaning to what's happened to me." Mulder tells her he can't do that.
Maggie and Bill Scully, Jr. walk in, and Mulder gets ready to leave. He introduces himself to Bill, says he is sorry for what happened to Scully. Bill says he's heard about Mulder, and tells Mulder he should leave work away from Dana. "Let her die with dignity," he says coldly.
As Mulder is leaving Scully's room, he sees CSM coming down the hall. "Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains," Mulder says. CSM tells Mulder he has come as a friend, that he has something important to tell him.
There is a microchip hidden in the vial of de-ionized water, according to CSM. At the office of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder finds the chip, to the mingled dismay and astonishment of the three men. None of them realized what the water was for. Mulder says CSM has told him it's a cure for Scully's cancer, that she only became ill after removing the original implant from her abduction.
The FBI investigation into Ostelhoff's death continues. Michael Kritschgau is called before the committee, and denies knowledge of who killed Ostelhoff. He does not know if Mulder or Scully are involved, but, he says, he knows of one death connected with Ostelhoff's. Earlier that morning, his son had died. Blevins evades this fact and tries to get back to the facts. Asked if he had worked for the Department of Defense, Kritshgau agrees, but says part of his pay came from a group called only Roush.
Mulder gives the chip to Scully, telling her its purpose, despite Bill Scully's obvious anger. He calls the treatment "science fiction," and asks the doctor if he has ever heard of such a thing. Dr. Zuckerman says he has not, but the ultimate decision is Scully's. She says, "I think everybody in this room has their heart in the right place." She placates Bill, but says she wants to try implanting the chip.
Later that afternoon, as Bill Scully leaves his sister's room, he passes Mulder, sitting in the hall outside the room. He scoffs at Mulder's belief that the chip will work, saying that Dana is Mulder's defender, but Bill believes she just doesn't want to let Mulder down. Mulder replies, "If it works I don't care what you think she thinks." With quiet anger and pain, Bill tells Mulder that he has already lost one sister to Mulder's quest, and now he is losing another. "Has it been worth it? Have you found what you've been looking for?"
"No," Mulder says softly.
"Do you know how that makes me feel?" Bill asks.
"I think I do," Mulder answers. "I've lost very someone close to me, too. I lost a sister. I lost my father. All because of this thing I'm looking for."
"For what?" Bill says. "Little green aliens?"
All Mulder can do is nod. "Yeah. Little green aliens."
"You're one sorry son-of-a-bitch," Bill says, and walks off.
As he sits there, Mulder's phone rings. It's CSM, wanting to know about the chip, if Scully is doing better. Mulder says there's still question as to it's value, and CSM replies, "And so I have yet to earn your trust, despite my gesture." He tells Mulder he has arranged a meeting that the agent should attend.
That night, at a diner, Mulder sits alone and waits, going to the door of the diner when a car pulls up. CSM is driving the car, and in the passenger seat is a woman who Mulder believes is Samantha.
Sitting in the diner, Samantha tells Mulder that she was raised by foster parents, and told she was an orphan until the night her foster family took her to a hotel to meet her father. She says CSM raised her, was kind to her, and is the only father she's ever known. Disbelieving, Mulder says, "But you knew who your father was." Samantha replies, "I thought I knew." She goes on to say that CSM and Mrs. Mulder kept her true parentage a secret, so as not to hurt the family.
Tonight, Samantha says, CSM told her he had finally found Fox, that Mulder had been looking for her for a long time. "Is that true?" she asks tremulously. Near tears, Mulder cannot speak for a moment, then says forcefully, "What you've been told...I want you to listen to me...by that man, may not be true. The man that brought you here has known where I've been for a very long time." Samantha is stunned, says she does not believe Mulder. "Then I want you to come with me. I want you to come see Mom," Mulder says. "Mom--is alive?" cries Samantha. She had not known.
Upset, Samantha cries that she can't see her mother, that this is all too much, that she had not even wanted to come see Mulder at all. She rises to go, but Mulder will not let go her hand, begging her not to go. "Tell me where to find you," he repeats over and over. Crying desperately, Samantha pulls back, pleading with him to let her go. "We will do this on your time," Mulder says, "just..." he falls speechless at Samantha's distress, and finally lets her go. "I promise I'll think about it," she says, and leaves the diner. Through unshed tears, Mulder watches her get into CSM's car and pull away.
Scully is given a PET scan by Dr. Zuckerman, on the hopes that this is where any improvement will show up first. She asks the doctor if he has ever seen a miracle. He says no, but that he has seen people recover from being so far gone he couldn't explain it. "Isn't that a miracle?" asks Scully. "Maybe they are miracles," Dr. Zuckerman replies. "But I don't dare call them that."
Mulder and the CSM meet in public, while a sniper watches their every move from a building across the street.
CSM tells Mulder that he has been told "beautiful lies" by Kritschgau, and offers to show Mulder the real truth. Mulder is puzzled. "Why are you doing this? You give me these things, the only things I ever wanted. And I can't think of any reason for you to do so." CSM is pragmatic. "That's true," he concedes. "No act is completely unselfish." He tells Mulder he can offer him everything, if Mulder will quit the FBI, and come work for him.
"No deal," Mulder says.
Not surprised, CSM says, "After all I've given you?"
Mulder: "What? What have you given me? A claim of a cure for Scully. Is she cured? You show me my sister only to take her right back. You've given me nothing."
CSM: "I intend to keep my promises. I just need something from you."
Mulder: "You murdered my father, you killed Scully's sister, and if she dies, I will kill you. I don't care who's father you are. I will put you down."
CSM: "Well, you're certainly capable, so I'm told."
Mulder walks away from the deal.
Scully asks that her mother join her at the hospital, and clutches her tightly. "I fight, and I fight, and I fight," she cries, "But I've been so stupid." She holds her cross. "I mean, why do I wear this?" She feels she has lost her faith, and regrets being so cold to Father McCue at her mother's dinner. Then she says, "I'm not getting better, Mom." The PET scan has shown no improvement. Mother and daughter weep together, then Maggie says, "I know you're afraid to tell me, but you have to tell someone."
While watching a Senate committee on cloning, the Elder sees Skinner, and makes a phone call. He tells the person on the other to "take care of the FBI problem. And then I will fix it for good."
That night, Mulder goes to see Scully. She is sleeping, unaware of his presence. Giving in to his despair and the events of the past days, Mulder sinks to his knees and cries by Scully's bedside.
The following morning, Section Chief Blevins calls Mulder in to see him, alone. He tells Mulder that he has the forensic evidence of the body in Mulder's apartment, but will not reveal where he got it from. He says that when she spoke before the committee, Scully was about to reveal a name, of someone inside the FBI, who was working against them all. Blevins says he believes she was going to name Skinner, and that they have constructed evidence against the AD. He urges Mulder to name Skinner as Ostelhoff's killer, reminds Mulder that he is "a friend."
Mulder goes to visit Scully before the hearing, telling her that he came to see her last night, that he was lost. He had made up his mind to take a deal, he says, but after his meeting with Blevins, he changed his mind. "I'm not taking any deals," he says. Scully still thinks Skinner is the mole, and once again, she asks Mulder to name her as the murderer. I won't do that, Mulder says. "Because of your brother, and because of your mother. And because I couldn't live with it."
Father McCue walks in, and Scully reaches out, grabs Mulder's hand. He gives her a good-bye kiss and leaves.
At the hearing, Mulder tells the committee he is prepared to name the mole inside the FBI. Anxiously, Skinner asks for a recess, but Mulder says he wishes to continue. He has evidence of a conspiracy against the American people, evidence that Scully was given her disease against her will, and says he can tie all this evidence back to one man sitting in the room. Blevins and his fellow agent seek to get the hearing back on course, asking about Scott Ostelhoff's killer. "I will answer that question," Mulder shoots back, ignoring the questions being fired at him.
Across town, a sniper draws a bead on CSM as he moves around his apartment.
In the hospital, Scully prays silently along with the priest.
"Agent Mulder, the section chief has asked you a question. You are going to answer," the other agent shouts.
"I cannot do that, sir," Mulder retorts.
"You can and you will," comes the reply.
"I cannot answer that question because the Section Chief is the man I'm about to name," states Mulder. Shocked, Blevins rises to his feet.
A single bullet hit CSM in the chest. Sticken, he pulls close a photograph of young Fox and Samantha Mulder.
In a panic, Blevins enters his office. The other agent hangs up the telephone, walks forward hastily, and shoots Blevins in the chest. He wipes his prints from the gun, and lays it in Blevins' outstretched hand.
After the hearing, Skinner arrives at the hospital. Mulder sits outside Scully's room. Skinner tells Mulder that Blevins was on Roush's payroll, and that the evidence is being cleaned up. He pauses, then tells Mulder that the smoking man is dead. He hands Mulder the picture, stained with blood, and says forensics is assuming the blood is CSM's. Although no body was found, there was too much blood loss for the man to have survived.
Mulder informs Skinner that Scully's cancer has gone into remission. "That's unbelievable," Skinner says. "How?" Smiling, Mulder shakes his head. "I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know."
Hesitantly, Skinner goes in to see Scully, and the two smile at each other.
In the hallway, believing his only link to his sister to be dead, Mulder holds up the picture, and cries.
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