Episode Summary
Agents Mulder and Scully's search for a man who seems to possess strange powers leads to the discovery of a dangerous secret from Mulder's past. The secret could bring Mulder and Scully to the brink of exposing the truth about alien existence.
Episode Details
- Writer: Chris Carter
- Director: RW Goodwin
- Original Broadcast: AU: 05.02.1997 US: 04.10.1996
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Agent Pendrell Brendan Beiser
- Second Senior Agent Ken Camroux
- Repair Man Garvin Cross
- Smoking Man William B Davis
- Marita Covarrubias Laurie Holden
- Young Samantha Mulder Vanessa Morley
- Grey-Haired Man Morris Panych
- Assistant Director Walter Skinner Mitch Pileggi
- Senior FBI Agent Michael David Simms
- Jeremiah Smith Roy Thinnes
- Bounty Hunter Brian Thompson
- Teena Mulder Rebecca Toolan
- Elder Don S Williams
- Mr X Steven Williams
Quotes
Jeremiah Smith: You have to understand something. I must perish. Whatever the consequences to that end they are incalculable to the preservation of the larger plan.
Mulder: The larger plan? You mean colonisation.
Jeremiah Smith: Hegemony, Mr Mulder. A new origin of the species.
Mulder: I don't understand.
Jeremiah Smith: I can show you.
Scully: [answering mobile phone] Scully.
Mulder: Scully, it's me. Where are you?
Scully: I'm right where you left me, Mulder.
[Eight hours previously] I'm sitting here in my car.
Mulder: Why?
Scully: Because you wouldn't answer your phone and because I didn't know what else to do.
[Scully has the bounty hunter sitting in the backseat of the car with a spike to her neck]
Mulder: Samantha, it's me. It's me, Fox, your brother. Do you remember me?
[to Jeremiah Smith] What's wrong with her?
Jeremiah Smith: She has no language.
Mulder: What do you mean?
Jeremiah Smith: She's a drone, Mr Mulder, a worker.
Mulder: How did they get here?
Jeremiah Smith: They're stationed here. They're part of an agrarian work force.
Mulder: Who takes care of them?
Jeremiah Smith: They take care of themselves. Parenting is unnecessary, a needless division of energy.
[Mulder looks around the small cluster of houses at duplicates of his young sister and a young Kurt Crawford]
Mulder: They're clones.
Jeremiah Smith: Serial ova-types. You seen enough, Mr Mulder? We can't stay around here much longer.
Mr X: If you want to involve yourself, Agent Scully, you might do well to give this information to your partner.
Scully: Not until you give me some information first. These are data entries taken from Social Security records —
Mr X: You're going in the wrong direction, Agent Scully.
Scully: — all beginning with the letters SEP. You know what these are. Confirm or deny.
Mr X: Smallpox Eradication Program.
Scully: Smallpox?
Mr X: Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through, Agent Scully.
Scully: What's that supposed to mean?
Mr X: Leave it alone.
Skinner: I'm not a scientist, Agent Scully, and I don't know that many people in this room...
Scully: What I'm saying is that I think this protein is a tag. Some kind of genetic marker that was applied to me when I was inoculated against Smallpox as a child.
Senior FBI Agent: Why you?
Scully: Not just me, all of us. Quite possibly anybody who's been inoculated over the last 50 years.
Second FBI Agent: Agent Scully, frankly this sound like something we might have expected from Agent Mulder.
Scully: I had my doubts and I'm still not certain, but I performed the same procedure on Agent Pendrell. The location of the protein from his biopsy should be identical to mine, but it's slightly different. Which might correspond to the alpha-numeric entries collected at the Social Security administration.
Skinner: So what you're saying, Agent Scully, is we're being catalogued, tagged and inventoried. By who?
Scully: I don't know, but it would have to be a government agency.
Senior FBI Agent: And to what purpose?
Scully: I don't know that either and I think the only man who might be able to give us that information is Jeremiah Smith.
Mulder: [on phone] I'm going to need some protection, Scully.
Scully: Oh believe me, Mulder, you're going to have it.
Mulder: What do you mean?
Scully: There's a lot of people who want to talk to Jeremiah Smith.
Bounty Hunter: [to Mulder] Everything dies.
Mulder: I've seen too many things not to believe.
Scully: I've seen things too, but there are answers to be found now. We have hope that there's a place to start. That's what I believe.
Mulder: You put such faith in your science, Scully, but... the things I've seen science provides no place to start.
Scully: Nothing happens in contradiction to nature; only in contradiction to what we know of it. So that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
[A dying Mr X writes SRSG in his own blood on the floor outside Mulder's apartment]
[Mulder has been asking the various Special Representatives of the Secretary General at the UN about the farmland in Canada where he saw his sister]
Marita Covarrubias: Can I ask why this is so important to you?
Mulder: I've suffered... I've suffered some very personal losses recently... and I was hoping... that...
Marita Covarrubias: Not everything dies, Mr Mulder.
[The Smoking Man explains to the Bounty Hunter why he should heal Mrs Mulder]
Smoking Man: If his mother were to die, he would...
Bounty Hunter: Be what?
Smoking Man: You see, the most ferocious enemy is the one who has nothing left to lose and you know how important Agent Mulder is to the equation.