ANOTHER_MAN BAR_PATRONS CAFE_PATRONS FBI_AGENT GUNMAN GUNMAN_2 KARAH KIDS LANGLY MULDER PRICE RUSSIAN SCULLY SECURITY_DISPATCH SECURITY_GUARD SECURITY_GUARD_2 SECURITY_GUARD_3 SECURITY_GUARD_4 SHOOTER SKINNER SCULLY Mulder. MULDER Hm. LANGLY MULDER Hm. LANGLY MULDER What? LANGLY Fox Mulder. MULDER Langly? LANGLY Uh, I-I believe, I believe you knew me as Langly. Um, Richard Langly. "Ringo" Langly. MULDER Lone Gunmen Langly? LANGLY Mulder, I-I need to know. Am I dead? If I am, they know that I know. SCULLY Know that he knows what? MULDER Go. MULDER My gun's upstairs. GUNMAN SCULLY GUNMAN 2 MULDER Scully? You all right? SCULLY There's one in the room. Behind the couch. MULDER Two down, all clear. LANGLY Mulder. Am I.dead? If I am, they know that I know. MULDER Better call it in from a landline. SCULLY Yeah. This is Special Agent Dana Scully. XF072161. Yes, Washington D.C. Field Office. Yes, I'm calling in an incident where multiple gunshots were exchanged. There were two suspects on the ground. No, we weren't injured. Agent Mulder's.residence, yes. Yeah. Faras Corner, 227700 Wallace Road. You're careful not to taint that, but you're willing to conceal this? MULDER You said taint. This, may not be related to that. SCULLY Yes, but we're not gonna know unless it's properly investigated. MULDER Scully, 10 minutes ago, we received a message on this phone from a man who's been dead for 16 years, and now you want me to hand it over to Evidence where it's gonna sit in a locker for what, two, three years? I was gone back then. Could-could Langly be alive? SCULLY No. I was at Langly's, at the Lone Gunmen's burial in Arlington Cemetery. MULDER But did you ever see Langly's body? SCULLY Well, nobody did. They were exposed to a weaponized strain of the Marburg virus. Their bodies were incinerated. MULDER Well, it's gotta be connected, right? That-that whatever Langly message and this. They know that he knows. Uh, who's they? I mean, it's-it's-it's too much of a coincidence, right? SCULLY Well, I think that the Langly message was warning us that these guys were coming. MULDER It wasn't warning us. It-it asked if he were dead. SCULLY What do you think it was? MULDER I don't know what I think. I don't know. But, I'll tell you what I do know. We gotta take a trip to Ikea. SCULLY Well, that was fast. What is that? The Critical Incident Response Group? Never. MULDER I got 14 rounds. SCULLY Eight. MULDER Don't answer the phone. If we use the phone, they may be able to pinpoint our exact location in the house. Identify yourself! RUSSIAN Can't hear you. Answer your phone. SCULLY Should I call Skinner? We haven't talked to him in a couple weeks, and I don't know where he stands. MULDER We are federal agents. We are armed. Identify yourselves. RUSSIAN Hold on, hold on, see the "we are armed" thing. That is a problem for you. Put down your guns. Come out. SKINNER Hello? SCULLY Skinner, it's Scully. I'm with Mulder. SKINNER Listen to me, Scully. RUSSIAN Put down your guns. SKINNER Surrender. I can't explain on an open line, but I can't help you right now. The only chance you have is to put down your weapons and surrender to them. RUSSIAN Can't hear you! You know what you did. MULDER We defended ourselves! RUSSIAN Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say. But see, they were wearing body gowns, so you know how that turns out for the ones who weren't SCULLY Skinner says surrender. MULDER Why should we surrender? To who? SCULLY I don't know. MULDER Why are we under suspicion? Identify yourselves or we'll be forced to consider you hostile agents, and respond with deadly action and the aggressive action. RUSSIAN Identify ourselves? No. We don't need to identify ourself. What world are you living in? RUSSIAN ANOTHER MAN RUSSIAN Where's your phone, bro? MULDER Easy for Orwell to say. RUSSIAN I want to believe. Here's what I believe. We would've all saved lots of money and headaches if we only knew Americans would have been just fine losing the Cold War. If they could only make a little money off of it. You guys there, find his phone. You two, watch these two. Once we find his phone. Hold on, stop. Hold on! LANGLY Richard Langly. Ringo Langly, I need to know. RUSSIAN Well well well, Ringo. You're never going to know. And neither will these two. MULDER Stop. Surrender? Give up? SKINNER I'm risking my own ass being out here. MULDER Who are they? Why are you so afraid? SCULLY They're not U.S. intelligence, I'll tell you that much. MULDER The commander was Russian. Skinner, tell us who they are. SKINNER It's Perlu Services. American security contractor with its headquarters in Moscow. MULDER A private contractor has ascendancy over the FBI? SKINNER When their a classified security directive. From the Executive Branch. I thought they were just questioning you guys, why would they want to kill you? SCULLY You tell us. SKINNER They're not supposed to kill any intelligence agents, but apparently they will. You need to come with me. Do you have any money? Take it. It's all I have on me. SCULLY Is Langly alive? SKINNER Lone Gunman Langly? You and I buried him in Arlington along with Byers and Frohike. SCULLY You didn't answer my question. SKINNER I just did. He's buried in Arlington. RUSSIAN Hack Mulder's phone. Find out how he contacted Mulder. Ah, kill switch. SCULLY The Lone Gunmen are buried in this section. Here's Byers. And Frohike. What are we looking for, Mulder? MULDER Knowing Langly, bread crumbs. Here's one. Langly's is backwards. Huh. His birthdate is wrong. October 13th, we shared the same birthday. Hm. Byers was born on the day Kennedy was assassinated, so that's correct. Frohike, 1945. Frohike look 57 to you when he died? SCULLY Frohike looked 57 the day he was born. His birthday is the same day that FDR died. MULDER So Langly, March 28, 1969. Any president die that day? SCULLY Eisenhower. MULDER Who needs Google when you got Scully? SCULLY Right. Well, JFK was the 35th president. Eisenhower was the 34th president. FDR. MULDER Now you're just showing off, really. SCULLY The. MULDER Thirty. SCULLY 32nd president. SCULLY Two. 32, 34, 35. 32nd, 34th, 35th.anything in that? SCULLY You mean, other than the fact that the 33rd is missing? MULDER 33rd? Three and three? Three up, three down, three over? SCULLY Well, he's facing this way. One.two.three, I'll go this way. MULDER All right. Scully. This is it. I watched his funeral. From a 1,000 yards away. Over there, through binoculars. SCULLY Deep Throat. MULDER I didn't know his real name till right now. I never visited out of respect, I guess. 1994. He's dead because the world was so dangerous and complex, then. Who'da thought we'd look back with nostalgia and say that was a simpler time, Scully? Everything we feared came to pass. How the hell did that happen? SCULLY Mulder. Deep Throat was assassinated eight years before the Lone Gunmen died. How and why would Langly leave bread crumbs at a grave in a graveyard that he didn't even know he was gonna be buried in? MULDER This cross.it's different from all the others. It's not engraved. It protrudes. SCULLY What is that? Thank you, Skinner. MULDER I think it's a memory medallion. You scan it, and it links to a video of the pet or person. But I don't have my phone to scan it. SCULLY Mulder.do gravediggers work at night? CAFE PATRONS MULDER I'm gonna open an X-File on this bran muffin. I gotta get to the bottom of why it's so freaking good. SCULLY I don't care if it came out of an alien's butt, I'm gonna eat the whole thing. Mmm. MULDER All right. New York, it's called the Long Lines Building. Edward Stone documents indicated the building code name Titanpointe was used as an NSA mass surveillance station in a program code name Blarney. It was started in the 70s and expanded after 911. SCULLY Why? Why did he point us to the NSA program? Why didn't he just tell us if it was about a building? MULDER I-I opened an X-File on this building in the-in the 90s. In fact, Langly actually provided the initial information, we should check it out. SCULLY It? An X-File? MULDER Mm-hmm. SCULLY You mean the X-Files that are in our office that we can't get into kinda X-File? Right. Okay. SKINNER MULDER Don't get in. SKINNER I need you to put the weapon down, Mulder. MULDER Cannot do that, sir. You seem to be working with people who tried to kill us. SKINNER I don't work with them. The world is different, Mulder. When Scully started, it was just us, dark forces within the U.S. government, there was barely a Russia. Now there's 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. Homeland Security, Russian FSB, Chinese MSS, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Blackwater. Private companies launched to the space station, and all of them are in bed with one another, while trying to exterminate each other. And that includes each of us. SCULLY We need your help, Walter. Even if we don't trust you. SKINNER What is this? How did we get here? SCULLY What about us? We were the ones who were just assaulted. We can't go to our home. They'll be waiting for us at our office. We're not asking for you to get us out of this. But we do expect your help. MULDER We need to see the X-Files. SKINNER If you wanna see the X-Files, you don't have to go to the office. SKINNER After the X-Files were closed in 2002, the Agency lobbied Director Mueller for jurisdiction over the files. They were looking to cross-reference their own past research in telekinesis, MKUltra, Remote viewing, with your fieldwork. The agency then contracted a private company to digitize and maintain the files online for any U.S. intelligence agencies to have classified access. MULDER A private contractor. Perlu again? SCULLY So the Russians who tried to kill us have had access to all of our work? MULDER When the X-Files were reopened, why weren't we told? Why didn't you tell us? The X-Files belong to us. SCULLY Do you work with them? Do you work for them? SKINNER You two were gone. I was left here. I didn't know if you were coming back and the files were too important to sit in a basement gathering dust. And what's in them? Belongs to everyone. That's the point of 'em. Control of the X-Files reverted back to the FBI after the files were reopened. MULDER May I? SKINNER Yeah? Uh-huh. MULDER MULDER All the files on NSA Project Blarney and the Titanpointe building are gone. SKINNER Uh-huh. MULDER Langly has been bleached from the X-Files. Not just the person, but any information Langly contributed to theoretical computer science. SCULLY Byers and Frohike are still in here. MULDER Cryptographic protocols, machine learning, quantum algorithms, all gone. SKINNER All right, thanks. I had the Director speak with the Executive Branch to call this off, but the, uh, the Bureau's not in good standing with the White House these days. MULDER How do you like that? The FBI finally found out what it's like to be looked upon as a little spooky. KARAH Okay, complete the two problems, and e-mail me your solutions by Friday. SCULLY We're old friends of Richard Langly. KARAH I figured if I.hadn't seen you in five years, then I never would and I could.stop regretting. MULDER We received a message on my cell. KARAH Asking if he was alive. You should go. They're watching. SCULLY Who is watching? KARAH Perlu Services. They came to us 15 years ago, with the science and the math to prove that we could live forever. The contract states we can live out our natural lives. We could continue our work after we die. SCULLY And where is Richard now? KARAH They brought us to a facility, and over a two-week period, they scanned and copied the salient features of our biological brain. They uploaded us into a simulation. The two minds could never exist at once. Our simulated selves would come into consciousness in that life once we died in this. SCULLY And so did he instruct you to-to leave this for us? KARAH He entrusted me in case he discovered that they had lied about life in the simulation. And if Richard is reaching out, then they must have. We wanted a life eternal together. So we took the deal. But we theorized what to do if it was not what they had offered. How would that life know it was a simulation? Well, there would be cheats. The stars and the moon, they wouldn't be fully realized. The background people wouldn't be fully rendered. They'd constrict the use of technology, of two-way contact to control them. But Richard being Richard, hacked away to reach out. MULDER Why reach out to me if you're alive? KARAH Memory isn't erased, it's suppressed. They've probably theorized, as we have, that their lives are a simulation, that perhaps Richard's subconscious must have recalled the two of you investigating this type of subject matter. SCULLY Remember, he saw Mulder in his dreams. MULDER Who hasn't? Well? KARAH Perlu is likely aware that Richard is reaching out to you to expose a simulation. MULDER Is there anything we can do to help Langly get through? KARAH Do you have the cell? SCULLY No, it was taken from us. KARAH Wim van Eck phreaked my phone, years ago, using video signal manipulation to my cell. We'd have to help him by making this side easier to reach. You're gonna have to edit the SIM card to your number and follow these steps, for the phone so that you can con. SHOOTER SCULLY Mulder, that's evidence. MULDER He's evidence. BAR PATRONS MULDER Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry. It's been a.it's been a long day. Tough day. Thank you. Scully, you looked so adorbs just there. All curled up in a ball in the booth of a skanky bar with your fingers wrapped around the grip of an assassin's glock. I did what I could to follow Dr. Hamby's algorithms, and I added what little I know about phreaking, and we have to wait and see if we receive another transmission, but they knew Langly was trying to reach us and they knew that Dr. Hamby knew about Langley and the computer simulations. The longer we leave the phone on, the sooner they're gonna find us. So I gotta turn it off, we gotta move to different spots. Oh. Scully. LANGLY Is this Mulder? MULDER Yes, it's-it's Mulder. It is Mulder. Is that.Langly? Richard Langly? Uh, it's Mulder and Scully. LANGLY Scully? Dana? Dana Scully. MULDER Yeah. LANGLY But I'm not real, though. That right? You are real, and I'm not? MULDER Dr. Hamby told us you were in a simulation. LANGLY Mulder, it's like I designed heaven. I eat hotdogs and donuts all day long, no one here ever dies of cancer or Alzheimer's. And the Ramones are here. And they don't fight! And every night they get on stage and they play "California Sun," and I circle the mosh pit like they do on the west coast. There's consensual sex without blame or judgment. Oh, and the New England Patriots are here and they never, ever win. Ever. And I'm begging you, destroy it. We're living a lie here. It's a work camp. We're digital slaves. They take our uploaded minds to develop science that only the elite will use to leave your world. We turn theories of space colonization into realities for them. We dream, but we're not allowed to have dreams, goals, nothing for ourselves. No choice, no diversity. Ugh. There's a-there's a wall around this place and the stars are fake.and the sunlight has no warmth. And all the great minds that have died since they realized this place are here. Steve Jobs. Marvin Minsky. Michael Crichton. They all hate it here. They don't even know who they are. What we were in that life is completely opposite from what we are here. Go to the Long Lines Building. Titanpointe. Please, for all of us. Shut. This. Down. MULDER Travel guides for NSA personnel Titanpointe for Blarney operation were included in the Snowden leaks. That's what we're sure of. What we're not sure of is. SCULLY When do they serve mimosas on the bus? KIDS MULDER High-five, Scully. That was fun. SCULLY Uh. Are you kidding me? MULDER Langly believed there was a tunnel between Titanpointe and the FBI Field Office a few blocks away. SCULLY You think we can get in there looking like this without raising suspicion? MULDER You look good. SCULLY 'm a bit tied up here to, uh, flash you my ID, but Special Agent Scully, XF071261, Washington Field Office. FBI AGENT I can take him upstairs to holding. SCULLY No, I'm taking him to Titanpointe. The, uh, NSA guys wanna question him. It would help if you could get us in the tunnel. FBI AGENT Wow. After you drop him off, maybe you'll come back and repay the favor. FBI AGENT It's easier getting him through without cuffs. SCULLY I'm not uncuffing him. This guy's like.Hannibal Lecter level psycho. MULDER FBI AGENT So, hon', what's your home office? SCULLY Sorry, bro. Married to the Bureau. SCULLY All right. MULDER You know, if they're waiting outside the elevator doors when they open, that's it. So.I'm guessing the computer simulation is housed on one of the upper floors by an exhaust opening, so. SCULLY There are 29 floors. MULDER Mm-hmm. SCULLY MULDER So, let's take it slow on the eighth. 20, 22, 24, 26. SCULLY Shut up. SECURITY GUARD Follow her! Don't let her get away. SECURITY GUARD 2 SECURITY GUARD 3 SECURITY GUARD 4 RUSSIAN What are you running for? Ain't you heard, FBI Mulder? You're on our side now. PRICE I'll confess. After our last encounter, I was disappointed by you. I didn't get your value to Mr. Y, but he explained that, uh, we'd meet over and over and then I'd change my opinion. In the last few days, I've seen your instinct for survival. MULDER Well, now that I've won you over, you'll stop sending assassins to kill us? We've really turned a corner. PRICE Easy. You have a way to go, Fox. Or rather, you need to change how you look at all this. You're still refusing to answer the question of your father. You don't understand what's about to happen. SECURITY DISPATCH PRICE Our world is a progression of one life being replaced by another, over and over. This is what's really meant by evolution. And, this series of, replacements isn't about this is black, and this white. This is male, and this female. This is rich, and this poor. This is chaos, and this. MULDER Control. PRICE Now that you understand that.what you really need to know is this life on this Earth, all human life, most animal life is about to be crushed. Burned to the ground. The computer simulator down the hall is necessary for our evolution as a species. When we leave this planet, this life will have evolved into that. Of the 100s of extraordinary minds uploaded into that world, the only one that figured out it was living in a computer simulation had seven billion choices to contact in this world, and the one person Langly reached out to was you. MULDER Huh. PRICE And to think my company advised killing you. But now that you are once again in front of me, and aware of the simulation, I believe you won't want to destroy it. Not when you understand the good it’s doing. Its reason for being is to advance life, not end it. MULDER If I were to change my course of action and, um, terminate my father, would I be able to upload to the simulation? And, could Agent Scully be with me? PRICE It won't be her. And it won't be you. And we can upload a mind now through any smartphone. No one's even aware we're doing it. We can take a piece of your mind anytime you make a call. Painless. MULDER PRICE Two hours. MULDER Painless, except we have to die. PRICE One of our best incentives here is that you and loved ones don't ever die. MULDER So if you upload me through my phone, I don't really have a choice. PRICE Sure you do. You could not use your phone. MULDER I mean, don't get me wrong, I want to believe, but.I would just like to.to see it. PRICE Very few have ever seen it, and those that do don't realize what it is. It's just a client server. Wires, lights, why do you need to see it? MULDER It's the closest I'll get to seeing God. In this life. Or that. RUSSIAN Stop. Face to the wall. SCULLY Why do you operate so well with your hands cuffed behind your back? MULDER As if you didn't know. RUSSIAN SCULLY Bye-bye, Ringo. I'm armed! MULDER Hi. SCULLY What? You okay? MULDER Got my phone back. SCULLY Oh. The simulator is down. MULDER Okay. Let's bring him back through the tunnel to the FBI Field Office. Come back with some cyber forensics agents and then start a case against Erika Price. SCULLY Okay. MULDER Oh, I thought I was going to throw up for a second, but I'm okay. MULDER They're gone. LANGLY Mulder? Mulder! They know that we know. Destroy the backup. Mulder, I'm afraid. Mulder, he's there. SHOOTER