All language subtitles for The X-Files s05e20

Checkmate.

Go on! Take your shot, 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 murder,
an assassination of a Russian chess player.

The shooter 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 weapon registered
to a US intelligence agency,

the shooter fired
one shot at Anatol Klevinol

before being captured without incident
a short distance from the scene.

No motive has been established, nor has the
shooter offered a statement or accomplice.

Please continue.

The trajectory of the shot
suggests the shooter acted alone,

but we cannot rule out
an accomplice or conspiracy.

A single bullet 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 kill shot. 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 kill shot.

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

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

Looks like the boy sensed
the shooter 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 shot,
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?

Shoot 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 beat 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 shoot 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 beat 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 kill a kid who
offers you the ultimate advantage?

I mean, in business, in war, 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 shooter.

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 shooter knows why.

Excuse me.

What does it take to kill a kid?

Money orjust evil stupidity?

- I didn't kill 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 Saddam's palace
with a hit squad when they bombed it,

- yet you failed to kill 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 terrorists.

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 terrorist bomb, 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 kill 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 killed because of the X-Files?

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

To us.

I can't.

But the shooter can,
the assassin that you have locked up,

in exchange for immunity.

You wanna give a murderer 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 killer 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 kill 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 gun.
- Gibson, get down. Get back. Get back.

He didn't come here to kill me.
He's aiming at you.

What?

Agent Mulder. Scully.

They killed a US marshal,
then shot 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 shooter shot 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 shot.
- 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 murder!

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?!