Linda Note: Opening Credits - OK folks, this is it. The very last Mulderisms/Scullyisms for me. Ready? Lookie there's Mulder! Anybody gonna miss him besides me? Thought so. Love ya Mulder and I'm gonna miss you like you won't believe. Godspeed my friend . . . David Duchovny you rock the house, you know I'll always be behind you 1000% =)
Knowle Rohrer: This couldn't wait, John. It's about this thing you're pursuing.
Doggett: This thing?
Rohrer: This man you're after. I think you know what I'm talking about.
Doggett: I think I'm confused, Knowle-- if it's a man or if it's a thing.
Mulder: --- who this trusted source of yours is who's been spinning this fantasy.
Doggett: His name's Knowle Rohrer. He's deep inside US Intelligence. I don't know much more than that.
Mulder: Did he ever lie to you? Give you bad information, false leads?
(Doggett pauses and avoids Mulder's eyes.)
Mulder: (incredulously) Well, you have to think about it?
Mulder: Hey. You know, how is it that this friend of yours is so desperate for your help? And then when we want to reach him, all of a sudden he's unreachable, nowhere to be found?
Doggett: I don't know, maybe he got wind. Maybe he got spooked. But I'm beginning to think it doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
Mulder: You told me that he told you he knew how to stop Billy Miles. Are you telling me now that you think he's a liar?
Doggett: He is or he isn't. What the hell difference does it really make?
Mulder: It doesn't make any difference at all. Unless you want to protect Scully and that baby.
Doggett: And then what? How long can you keep this up? How long until the next Billy Miles rears his head? The next threat? The next phantom? You ever stop to ask yourself? All the sacrifice, the blood spilled-- you've given nearly a decade of your life. Where the hell is it all going to end?
(Mulder thinks for a moment.)
Mulder: (softly) I don't know. Maybe it doesn't.
(Rohrer gets out of the car and heads for the elevators.)
Doggett: Where's he going?
Mulder: Not to see you, that's for sure.
Krycek: Get out of the car.
(Mulder resignedly climbs out the driver's side to avoid the shattered glass.)
Krycek: Doesn't seem fair now. Doesn't seem right. Coming down to this.
Mulder: What do you know about fair or right, Krycek? You're a coward.
(Mulder slowly walks around the car to face Krycek.)
Krycek: I could've killed you so many times, Mulder. You've got to know that. I'm the one that kept you alive. (his voice cracks a little) Praying you'd win somehow.
Mulder: Then there really is no God.
Krycek: You think I'm bad. That I'm a killer. We wanted the same thing, brother. That's what you don't understand.
Mulder: I wanted to stop them. All you wanted was to save your own ass.
Krycek: No. I tried to stop them. Tried to kill . . . Scully's baby to stop them. It's too late. The tragedy's that you-- you wouldn't let it go. That's why I have to do this. 'Cause you know how deep it goes. Right into the FBI.
Mulder: You want to kill me, Alex, kill me. Like you killed my father. Just don't insult me trying to make me understand.
(Krycek's finger slowly and reluctantly tightens on the trigger. His face is contorted with indecision. Mulder is calm. He and Mulder stare at each other. A gun is fired. Krycek gasps in pain and falls, dropping his gun. There is a bullet wound in his right arm. He looks up and sees Skinner a few yards away, gun in hand. Krycek reaches down to pick up his gun and screams in pain and falls to the ground again as Skinner shoots him in the right arm again. His arm is now useless. Weakly, Krycek uses his prosthetic left arm to push his most definitely unregistered gun toward Skinner.)
Krycek: It's going to take more bullets than you can . . . ever fire to win this game. But one bullet . . . and I can give you a thousand lives. (He looks up at Mulder.) Shoot Mulder.
(Skinner looks at Mulder. Mulder looks at Skinner. Skinner raises his gun and fires. Krycek, the Ratboy, falls to the ground, a bullet hole between his eyes. Goodbye, Krycek. Without any regret, Mulder glances at Skinner, then walks to the driver's side of the car.)
(Inside the FBI building. Doggett is looking around Kersh's office? He goes out into the hall in time to see Agent Crane and Rohrer come out of the elevator. Doggett holds his gun on them.)
Doggett: Right there! Both of you!
(They begin walking toward him.)
Doggett: I'm prepared to use force!
(They keep coming. Doggett runs.)
Linda Note: I don't know, is that a manly man thing to do? ;)
(The helicopter lands and Mulder gets out.)
Mulder: (to the leaving aliens replicants) Hey! Scully! Scully! Where is she?! Scully! Where is she?! Scully! Where is she? Tell me where she is!
(Reyes come out of the building.)
Reyes: Mulder!
(Mulder runs to Reyes. The helicopter still hovers a few feet from the ground.)
Mulder: How is she?
Reyes: She's inside. She needs to get to the hospital.
(Mulder looks at her for a second with concern only for Scully, then enters the building.)
(Mulder waits a moment, then enters the bedroom, smiling. Scully is sitting on the edge of the bed with the baby.)
Mulder: How's everybody doing?
Scully: We're doing just fine.
(Smiling, Scully rises from the bed and carries the baby to Mulder He gently pushes the blanket away from the baby's face.)
Mulder: Hey, now.
(The baby begins fussing softly.)
Mulder: (with tender authority) None of that.
(Scully smiles, looks up at Mulder and then gently transfers the baby to Mulder's arms. Mulder is nervous but awed and delighted. The baby calms in his arms. Mulder is beaming. He glances from the baby to Scully.)
Mulder: (breathlessly) Hi. (He hums softly. He looks up at Scully again.) What are you going to call him?
Scully: William. (He looks at her.) After your father.
(They gaze at each other for a long moment. She smiles warmly. He looks back down at the baby.)
Mulder: Well, I don't know. He's . . . he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner.
(Mulder and Scully laugh, then Scully frowns in confusion.)
Scully: I don't understand, Mulder-- they came to take him from us-- why they didn't.
Mulder: I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?
Scully: From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth . . . about how . . . and why. And I know that you feared it, too.
Mulder: I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.
Scully: Which is what?
(Still holding *their* baby between them, Mulder leans down and kisses Scully on the lips. And keeps kissing her. Scully reaches out to hold Mulder's arms and returns the lover's kiss. The Triangle kiss was passionate, but it wasn't really her. The Millennium kiss was sweet, but could be interpreted as friendly. This is the one. No questions left. The kiss continues as the screen fades to credits 10 seconds later.)
Linda Note: And that's it folks. =*(
Goodbye Fox Mulder. Goodbye Dana Scully. Goodbye Krycek, Skinner, even you manly man Doggett. Goodbye to all the numerous characters who have graced my screen - I'll miss you all.
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