William B. Davis credited as playing...
The Cigarette-Smoking Man
- [last lines]
- Conrad Strughold: Oh, you look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled all this way?
- Cigarette Smoking Man: We have business to discuss.
- Conrad Strughold: You have regular channels.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: This involves Mulder.
- Conrad Strughold: Ah, that name. Again and again.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: He's seen more than he should.
- Conrad Strughold: What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: He's determined now, reinvested.
- Conrad Strughold: He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: Yesterday, I received this.
- [hands him a telegram]
- Conrad Strughold: [reads it, then drops it with a worried look] Oh...
- [we see that it reads: "X-Files reopened. Stop. Please advise. Stop"]
- Cigarette Smoking Man: Secure the station. I want everybody else down below. If you're not armed, arm yourselves! We may have a breach.
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: [the Cigarette Smoking Man and Dr. Bronschweig climb down a ladder into the cave while wearing bio-haz-mats suits] We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development, which is like nothing we've ever seen.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: Brought on by what?
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Heat, I think. The coincident invasion of a host, the fireman, in an environment that raised his body temperate above 98.6.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: [they walk into an isolation chamber where one of the infected firemen is lying on a gurney, breathing heavily, his skin gelatinous, and hooked up to various I.V. drips] This man's still alive.
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Technically... and biologically. But he'll never recover.
- Cigarette Smoking Man: How can this be?
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: [he points to the alien embryo forming in the fireman's chest seen through the skin which is pulsating] The developing organism is using his life energy, digesting bone and tissue. We've just slowed the process.
- [pause]
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: Do you want us to destroy this one too before it gestates?
- Cigarette Smoking Man: Uh, no. No. We need to try our vaccine on it.
- Ben Bronschweig, M.D.: And if it's unsuccessfull?
- Cigarette Smoking Man: Burn it... like the others.