The X-Files (1993–…): Season 6, Episode 11 - Two Fathers - full transcript

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(beeping)

Dr Openshaw, congratulations.

Your work... it's completed.

You should see her.

25 years.

She must seem like an old friend.

YSS.

We're, uh... going out to celebrate.
lfyou'd like to come...

No. You go on ahead.

(screaming)



(yelling)

This is the end.

I never thought I'd hear myself
say those words after all these years.

You put your life into something.
Build it, protect it.

The end is as unimaginable
as your own death.

Or the death of your children.

I could never have scripted the events
that led us to this.

None of us could.

All the brilliant men.
The secret that we kept so well.

It happened simply, like this.

We had a perfect conspiracy...
with an alien race.

Aliens who were coming to reclaim
this planet and to destroy all human life.

Our job was to... secretly prepare
the way for their invasion.

To create for them a slave race
of human/alien hybrids.



They were good plans.

Right plans.

Kept secret for over 50 years,
ever since the crash at Roswell.

Kept secret from men like Fox Mulder.

Plans that would've worked,

had not a rebel alien race
come to destroy them.

Had not my own son chosen betrayal.

Or chosen to betray more wisely.

AD Skinner, I... I didn't hear the elevator.
I was workin' here.

- Working on what, Agent Spender?
- Progress report on the X-Files.

- Progress report to who?
- Just a file.

I wasn't aware that you'd made any progress.
I've received but one memorandum.

- Are you planning to nit me all at once?
- Uh, it's been slow going.

Truth is, your purpose is not
to make any progress, isn't it?

Truth is, you have no interest in the X-Files.

Beyond a certain... personal case.

- Your mother's abduction.
- Alleged abduction.

That's what I'm here about.

- What happened here?
- No one knows yet.

A group of people were burned alive here.

Another man's on life support.
Only your mother survived.

Where is she? Where is she?

They've got her outside.

IVlom_

Mom...

It's me, Jeffrey.

Mom, what happened to you?

It's been so long,
I thought I'd never see you again.

Oh... don't cry, honey.

Where have you been?

What did they do to you?

I need to talk to someone.

You can tell me.

I need to speak to Agent Mulder.

- I don't want him talking with her.
- Why?

He's forbidden from the X-Files.

- She's asking for him.
- She's my mother.

What are you afraid of?

Mulder filling her head
with alien abduction nonsense.

Are you afraid of the truth?

I wanna know who did this
to her and why. That's all.

Then why not use every resource
available to you?

I'll send you a progress report.

My son refused to believe
that his mother had been abducted,

though it had been going on for years.

Even after I had him
put in charge of the X-Files,

where Fox Mulder had amassed
so much evidence of our secret plans,

he still couldn't bring himself
to accept the possibility of alien life.

When he did... come to believe,

when the facts became so glaring...

He turned.

Not to me, his father,
but to the man I'd ruined.

The man I'd chosen for him to replace.

Hey, IVlilk. Let's play ball.

Yo, homestyle, cough up the rock.

- (man) Wanna rotate in?
- (man #2) Yeah. Yeah, I got next.

- Game.
- Oh, no, no, Ike, it don't work like that.

Hey, homegirl. Word up?

Mulder, it's my distinct impression
that you just cheated,

- and that you're not coming in again today.
- I got game.

I'm wondering if you have
any work left in you.

Oh, no, I'm ready to j-o-b.
Just not on some jagoff shoeshine tip.

No jagoff shoeshine tip?

No background-checking
jagoff shoeshine tip.

About your]-o-b, somebody's been
trying very hard to reach you.

Somebody who wants you
back at the FBI ASAP.

- About what?
- About an X-File.

(phone ringing)

Lookin' for work, Agent Spender?

I got a whole pile in that middle drawer
that I'd love to shove down someone's throat.

- I think you know why I'm here.
- They found your mother.

She wants to talk to you.

- I didn't hear the magic word.
- I'm not going down on my knees.

Are you asking me, Agent Spender?

My mother turns up in a train car,

where she's been operated on
by doctors who were burned alive.

I just want the truth.

The truth is out there, Agent Spender_
Maybe you should find it for yourself.

- I expected you sooner.
- I've been at the train yard.

Trying to tidy things up.

The overkill will be hard
to divert attention from.

But not as hard as from Cassandra.

You have no idea, do you?

Cassandra is a success.

No. She can't be.

Not now.

I had prepared a syringe for her, as agreed.
But the rebels came.

They saved her to expose us.

- She is the key to everything.
- I won't let her out of our hands.

They will run medical tests on her.

It's only a matter of time.

Cassandra must be terminated.

They will come and question me.

I know.

I'm sorry.

(beeping)

(beeping speeds up)

A man should never live long enough
to see his children...

Or his work destroyed.

(phone rings)

- Hello?
- Have you heard the news?

- No.
- The rebels have struck.

- Where?
- In Virginia.

During one of our medical procedures.

They killed the project doctors. Burned them.

- All of them?
- Yes.

Dr Openshaw died in the hyperbaric chamber
this evening.

My God.

I've called an emergency meeting
of the Syndicate.

Only the future rides on our response.

I'll be on a plane.

(doorbell)

- Dr Openshaw.
- I've come to see you.

(screaming)

- I didn't expect to find you here.
- Where'd you expect to find me?

Agent Spender offered you
an X-File assignment.

It wasn't exactly an offer.

Isn't it the opportunity
you've been waiting for?

It is an opportunity made to order
for the powers that be.

It's a setup?

This is the kind of mistake they've been
waiting for to come down on me full force.

- But Agent Spender asked you.
- Like I said, not exactly.

We've seen this before. Bodies set aflame
with no conclusive cause of combustion.

Mulder...

I know.

I was with Cassandra Spender
when she disappeared.

You sat with me while I was under hypnosis
when I spoke of just these sorts of details.

I am sure that what she would tell us would
expose more than just what happened to her.

I was taken to one of those train cars.
I was tested just like Cassandra.

What if what she tells us
could expose who did this to me?

Mulder, Agent Spender doesn't have to know.

(door opens)

Oh, my God.

My God.

- Cassandra.
- Oh, Dana. Oh, my God.

It's so good to see you.

We're old friends.

If, uh... if I can get a hold of a wheelchair,
you wanna go out for some fresh air?

I don't need a wheelchair.

But I am dying for a cigarette.

It feels so good to walk.

The doctors don't know what to say.

I told them they wouldn't believe
how it happened, and they wouldn't.

No, I'm not gonna tell anybody this time,
cos nobody believes you anyway.

They want to hear it,
but they just think you're crazy.

Guess I wouldn't believe it either,

except that it happened to me.

NO...

I'm only gonna tell somebody I can trust
and who can do something about it.

I was hoping when I saw you that Agent
Mulder was gonna be coming in behind you.

I've got a surprise for you, Cassandra.

- Agent Mulder?
- Shh, shh, shh.

Oh! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

I think I'm gonna pee the floor.

Don't... don't do that.

Look at you.

I told you about their power.
You said you didn't believe it.

I had reasons for doubt
when I met you, Cassandra.

You just doubted yourself.

You were just doubting you'd
ever see her again, weren't you?

Your sister.

Agent Mulder told me he believed
he saw his sister... last year.

That wasn't her, Agent Mulder.

- Then where is she?
- Out there. With them.

The aliens.

(strikes match)

Cassandra, you were found in a train car.

You'd been operated on by doctors.

Yes, that's right.

- And these are the doctors who cured you?
- No, the aliens cured me.

The doctors were working with them.
That's what I wanted to tell you.

What?

I told you that the aliens
were here to do good

and that I was being used
as an oracle to spread the word.

Only now I know what the aliens
are here for, and it isn't good.

What are they here for?

To wipe us off the planet.

They're taking over the universe.

They're infecting all other life forms
with a black substance called Purity.

It's their life force. it's what they're made of.

It's the virus. The Black Oil.

But, Cassandra, the doctors
weren't infected. They were burned.

By another race of aliens.

A rebel force, that are mutilating their faces
so that they won't be infected.

- This is what I couldn't tell my son Jeffrey.
- Why couldn't you tell Jeffrey?

Because he doesn't believe me.

Even though his life is in danger
by these same rebel aliens.

Spender's life's in danger?

He's in with the men that have been working
with the alien colonists for 50 years.

Working to do what?

Whatever it is they did to me,

and to you, Dana.

And you know who these men are?

Oh, sure. One of them's my ex-husband.

Jeffrey's father.

Cassandra was starting to realise her role
in the greatest science project ever known.

She was the centre of 50 years of work.

The key to all of our plans.

Something even my colleagues
didn't realise yet.

I Killed to Keep them unknowing.

I killed Dr Openshaw
so they wouldn't discover her,

when it's Cassandra I should've killed,

Cassandra who needed to die.

I couldn't do it.

With all the blood on my hands,

I couldn't kill the mother of my own son.

The woman I never even loved.

My colleagues never knew,

focused as they were on the new threat,

the faceless alien rebels
who'd burned our doctors alive.

But my colleagues had become old men,

blind to the fact that the faceless rebels
already held the upper hand,

that they'd used their powers
of disguise to infiltrate our group.

Rebels have attacked and burned facilities
in New Mexico and the Southwest.

The medical staff at our Arizona
research facility has been slain.

The train-car deaths cost us.

Work on the human/alien hybrids
will suffer the death of Dr Openshaw.

What do they want?

To expose our enterprise,
everything we've worked for.

While some hotshot reporter's
gonna put the pieces together.

- Not to mention law enforcement.
- We have our control on the federal agencies.

Our new man at the FBI is very capable
of diverting attention.

Why not side with the rebels?

Join their alien resistance.

It's an option.

It's an option you declined long ago.

Resistance was futile then.
Why would it be less so now?

That's why you voted against it.
Against men like Bill IVlulder.

Collaboration has allowed you to prepare,
to stall colonisation.

How close are you to developing
a human/alien hybrid?

That alone ensures your survival.

As slave labourers for the aliens.

What about your vaccine?

By collaborating, you bought time to secretly
develop a way to combat the aliens,

- to fight the future.
- Alex, enough!

For 50 years, we've worked on this project.

50 years since Roswell.

We can't sacrifice ourselves
for every new threat, can we, now?

- Why risk getting caught?
- They'll monitor any work on our machines.

We need access to files,
a name that'll raise flags.

Maybe she was making it all up.

(beep)

Smokey's got a name.

(Typing)

Get up from the desk.

Get up, turn the computer off. Grab whatever
you took, or print it out and give it to me.

Let's go, Agents. They're coming.

- Who?
- Just go.

Assistant Director.

I'll assume you came to apprehend these
agents for unauthorised entry into my office.

I'll make sure it's duly noted
in the report at their dismissal.

I've done as you've asked.
Mulder's gone up to his superiors.

He and his partner will be
processed out of the FBI.

I've done as you've asked.
Now I would like you to do for me.

Do for you?

I think I'm entitled.

- To?
- The truth.

The truth about my mother.

- She won't tell me.
- Because you won't believe her.

Maybe you won't believe me.

- Maybe it's better not to know.
- I need to know!

You need to show me you're capable
of handling the responsibility.

Don't try me, old man!

(slap)

I gave you responsibility.
I gave you a position!

I gave you things you couldn't get.
You can't do the job!

Keeping Fox Mulder down is not a job!
It's your dirty work!

You pale to Fox Mulder.

- Bet you're curious about CGB.
- What's that?

CGB Spender_ His name.
Cigarette-Smoking Man.

What's it stand for?

It's an alias, as far as I can figure.
One of hundreds.

Scully, wanna go one-on-one?

We got time now that we're
on administrative leave.

Aren't you curious what I've got in the box?

Everything I could find on him.

Nothing you could ever find
would be accurate or credible.

Maybe.

But there's a picture you're gonna wanna see.

That's CGB Spender... and my father.

It was taken in 1973.

The connection was something they worked
on for 25 years at the State Department.

A highly classified project.

There's more, if you're ready.

Cassandra Spender is indeed
the mother of Agent Jeffrey Spender

and the ex-wife of CGB Spender.

But there's something that you're
gonna be surprised to find out.

She was first abducted in 1973,
on the night of November 27th.

That's the same night as my sister.

There are other names connected
to CGB Spender and your father.

PhD's, doctors...

One, a Nobel winner for early works
in genetics. A Dr Eugene Opensnaw

He was found amongst the burn victims,
clinging to life beside Cassandra Spender_

He died the next day in the hospital,
before he was questioned.

- The project is still going on.
- Yeah.

If Mulder hadn't known of
his father's history with me,

he was fuelled now with names
and dates and... certainties.

I couldn't stop him any longer.

Stop him from learning our sins.

His father's and my own.

The truth was out there, fatally exposed.

I had one last hope.

One chance to preserve my legacy.

- I waited like you asked.
- Good.

I'm pleased.

I was doubtful after our last meeting.

You have a new job for me?

YSS.

I may have been unduly harsh.

You deserve a fighting chance

to prove your father wrong.

- What is it?
- A weapon.

A man has infiltrated the group
that I work with. That's to kill him.

I don't understand.

He's pretending to be
a member of our group,

disguising himself as a man
he's already killed.

You will greet him as that man,

engage him in conversation,
then put that in the back of his neck.

You can do it, Jeffrey.

Watch where you point that.

(doorbell)

Sir, my name is Jeffrey Spender.
My father sent me to see you.

- I have a message from the group.
- They've changed their minds?

That's what I'm here about.

Sit, please.

- What have you to tell me?
- Something I've been entrusted with.

It's, uh... it's a name, actually.

One that will have meaning for you.

I'm sorry.

(knocking)

Thanks for coming. I know it's late, and
you're forbidden to have any contact with us.

Sir.

Cassandra Spender's life is in danger?

Her life's been in danger goin' on 30 years.
Just not the way I think it is now.

In danger from who?

LVlen who've conducted experiments
on a secret government project,

that is now the most
private global enterprise.

- Enterprising to do what?
- To develop alien/human hybrids

that will survive the viral apocalypse
when aliens colonise the Earth.

I suppose you have proof of this.

Files that Agent Scully dug up
that make connections

to Dr Eugene Openshaw, to my sister,
to my father, to Agent Spender's father.

- Agent Spender's father?
- The Smoking IVlan.

- What?
- It's true, sir. We have documented evidence.

You believe this, Agent Scully?
This whole account?

I know she has doubts about
the purposes of these experiments,

but she believes she was a test subject
when she was abducted four years ago.

If Cassandra's life was in danger,
why not Scully's?

Cassandra represents the final stages
of these experiments.

She may very well be the first
successful alien/human hybrid.

What I don't understand is, if she was
a success, then why is her life threatened?

Because... the men who created her
would rather kill her

than let her expose the enterprise.

She's under 24-hour guard.

Assigned by Agent Spender?

You've never seen one before, have you?

It's shocking at first.

The acceptance of the idea, it's_..

It's something you thought
only children and fools believed in.

It undermines your beliefs,
in yourself and the world.

- But then you come to understand.
- Understand what?

Well, the responsibility that this knowledge
demands by the men who have it.

The great sacrifice,
by great men like... your father.

- What sacrifice?
- The sacrifice of your mother.

What do you know about that?

Just that she's been the subject
of an experiment for 25 years.

My father's involved in that?

- Is he?
- Your father directs the experiments.

So... I'm protecting her now
so the experiments can continue?

That's... why he put you on the X-Files.

That's why your father sent you here tonight.

You're protecting the project, Jeff.

Making the sacrifices.

So that you can be a great man, too.

I'll be my own great man.

I've trusted no one.

Treachery is the inevitable result of all affairs.

Every man believes he has
his own good reason.

I have little doubt
of my son's disloyalty to me.

Certainly, he led Mulder and Scully to us.

His mother must know by now
her central role in the grand plan,

that she's as much alien as human.

Do you wonder why I've chosen you?

You've never betrayed me.
Now I need someone to trust.

I'll help you.

It's not too late.

(door opens)

Cassandra?

Ms Spender?

- Where's my mother?
- You tell me, Agent Spender.

Where's the guard?
I had a guard posted here...

I got here and she was gone.

- He took her.
- Who?

Agent Spender?

(banging at door)

- Cassandra?
- I can't believe I found you.

How did you find us? Cassandra?

How did you get here?

- How'd you get out?
- How'd you get your clothes?

(knocking)

Agent Scully, Agent Mulder,
you cannot let them find me!

You cannot let them have me!
You have got to kill me! Now!

If you don't kill me, it all starts!
There won't be any stopping it!

(knocking)

I am the one!

You have to shoot me! Please!

Mulder, what are you doing?

- Stay out of the way, Scully.
- Mulder!

- Mulder, we have to protect her!
- (knocking continues)

(Scully) IVlulder! IVlulder!

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