The X-Files - 4.

French title: Tout ne doit pas mourir
translation: Not Everything has to die

US Airdate: October 4, 1996

writer: Chris Carter

director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Agent Pendrell ..... Brendan Beiser

Second Senior Agent ...... Ken Camroux

Repairman ...... Garvin Cross

Marita Covarrubius .... Laurie Holden

Gray-Haired Man ..... Morris Panych

Senior FBI Agent ..... Michael David Simms

Jeremiah Smith ..... Roy Thinnes

Pilot ...... Brian Thompson

Mrs. Mulder ..... Rebecca Toolan

Elder ..... Don S. Williams

Mr. X ....... Steven Williams

SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT A TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD THEM TO THE TRUTH...AND SAVE THE LIFE OF MULDER'S MOTHER.

Mulder and Scully desperately try to protect the life of Jeremiah Smith. Not only is this mysterious man a link to the colonization plan-- his paranormal healing powers are Mulder's only hope of saving his mother's life. Close on their trail is the relentless alien bounty hunter: an assassin who is hard to escape. And harder to kill.With the assassin close behind, Smith leads Mulder to an eerie, isolated farm community. There, Mulder is stunned to see clones of his sister Samantha, who had been abducted by aliens as a child. Smith tells Mulder that these children have been bred as worker drones. Before Smith can reveal more about the "Colonization" conspiracy, they are set upon by the alien assassin. Mulder is helpless to save Smith or Samantha.

Back in Washington, Scully's investigations into Smith's background lead her to a disquieting conclusion. All five of the identical men named Jeremiah Smith were secretly cataloguing the entire human population. But at whose orders? And why?

Meanwhile, the Cigarette-Smoking Man and the Elder have identified X as a traitor. He is ambushed and gunned down. As he dies, he leaves behind one last ambiguous clue: the letters "SRSG" scrawled in blood.

With his mother still in a coma, a despondent Mulder follows the last of his meager clues to the end of the line: the United Nations office of Special Representative to the Secretary General. An enigmatic official denies the Colony ever existed...as she hands him a folder containing photographs of the farm and of Samantha.

And finally, because "the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose," the Cigarette-Smoking Man directs the Alien Bounty Hunter to heal Mulder's mother.

The search for the truth continues...

Tag line changes to "Everything Dies".

We meet the woman who may be Mulder's new informant in Marita Covarrubius, or as she's been nicknamed the UNblonde, because she works at the UN, or simply Uniblonde. Her last name translates as such: "rubia" means blonde but the whole word means yellow cave as rubia can also mean yellow. "Covarrubias" is a medievil town in Spain.

Some great direction: The telephone man falling from pole, straight into camera. When the Alien Bounty Hunter clicks open his icepick inside the bee hive, a bee stops in midflight at the tip. The wood chips pile gives us some beautiful images: Mulder hiding in them and sliding gracefully down them, Scully's hair being almost the same shade.

Telephone man: (to kids) "A bee just stung me, eh? (notices that they all are identical) Well now, don't you all take the cake. Does your mom ever mix you up?"

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Jeremiah Smith: "They'll know where to find us, they'll be waiting for us."

Mulder: "Who?"

Jeremiah Smith: "Your government men. They'll be waiting at the hospital with your mother."

Mulder: "What can they do? We're working in the light. They can't stop us without exposure, without consequence."

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 colonization."

Jeremiah Smith: "Hegemony, Mr. Mulder. A new origin of species."

Mulder: "I don't understand."

Jeremiah Smith: "I can show you."

Mulder: "My mother is dying. I need to take you to her right now."

Jeremiah Smith: "And if they are waiting for us? If they're willing to kill me and then face the consequence of their actions and stand before your ineffectual justice system, I will be dead. I won't be able to save your mother. The work will go on. The plan will continue to be executed. Or you can stop it."

Mulder: "HOW can I stop it?!"

Jeremiah Smith: "I can take you to a place, show you the work in progress, and you -- "

Mulder: "No, look, there's no time -- "

Jeremiah Smith: " -- and you can see your sister!"

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Scully: "Mulder, he's coming after you."

Mulder: "Who?"

Scully: "The man you left for dead. He's alive."

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Mr. X: "I have information for him, a matter that would concern him greatly."

Scully: "Concern him how?"

Mr. X: "Concerning his mother."

Scully: "Has something happened to her?"

Mr. X: "No, not yet. I prefer to speak with Agent Mulder. Let's just say she is unprotected." (he turns to leave)

Scully: "Not until you give me some information. These are data entries taken from Social Security Records."

Mr. X: "You're going in the wrong direction, Agent Scully."

Scully: "All begin with the letters S-E-P. 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. Protect the mother."

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Skinner: "So what you're saying, Agent Scully, is that we're being cataloged, tagged, and inventoried? By who?"

Scully: "I don't know... but it would have to be a government agency."

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Scully: "You can't blame yourself for what you could only hope."

Mulder: "I've seen too many things not to believe."

Scully: "I've seen things too, but there are answers to find now. But I have hope that there is a place to start. That's what I believe."

Mulder: "You put such faith in your science. The things I've seen, science gives no place to start."

Scully: "Nothing happens in contradiction to nature... only in contradiction to what we know of it. Now that's a place to start. That's where the hope is."

Mulder: "I felt I was so close."

Scully: "I feel it too....I know it."

Mulder: "How?"

Scully: "I was warned by a man we both know, who I believe knows the truth, who can lead us to a place to start." (as she is still talking, we see the recently shot Mr. X dragging himself towards Mulder's apartment, writing SRSG in his own blood: Special Representative to the Secretary General)

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Marita Covarrubius: "I know it's not the answer you wanted. Can I ask why this is so important to you?"

Mulder: "I've suffered some very... (his voice chokes) ...very personal losses recently and I was hoping..." (he opens the file and his eyes light up when he sees it contains pictures of the drones working in the fields)

Marita Covarrubius: "Not everything dies, Mr. Mulder."

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Cancer Man: "You see, the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose. And you know how important Agent Mulder is to the equation."