The Truth (The X-Files)
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| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 19 |
| Guest stars | Alan Dale as Toothpick Man William Devane as General Frank Suveg |
| Written by | Chris Carter |
| Directed by | Kim Manners |
| Production no. | 9ABX19/9ABX20 |
| Original airdate | May 19, 2002 (Fox) |
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The Truth is the final two episodes of the television drama The X-Files. It originally aired on May 19, 2002.
[edit] Plot
When Mulder is placed under military arrest, Scully and Skinner immediately travel to Virginia to see him. Mulder has been placed under arrest for breaking into a military bunker - where he accessed information on alien technology - and allegedly killing Knowle Rohrer, Doggett's former army friend-turned-supersoldier.
While Mulder receives mysterious visits from phantoms of his past, Scully and Skinner go to great lengths to get him released, but he is ultimately put on trial - a trial with an outcome seemingly set from the start.
Skinner takes Mulder's defense, while Scully, Reyes, Doggett, Marita Covarrubias, Gibson Praise and Jeffrey Spender take the stand. Although they ultimately prove his case - when Scully discovers that the body is not that of Knowle Rohrer - their testimony is overruled and Mulder is sentenced to death.
With the surprising help of Deputy Director Kersh, the group breaks him out and Mulder and Scully drive off. Despite being told to get out of the country, Mulder instead drives south to New Mexico. Doggett and Reyes return to find their office emptied, suggesting that the X-Files have been closed down for a third time. Skinner finds himself being called in for a meeting with Kersh and the Toothpick Man and we see him for the last time as the door closes behind him. Gibson warns Doggett and Reyes that Mulder is in danger.
In New Mexico, Scully and Mulder arrive at a pueblo where a dying Cigarette-Smoking Man is hiding out to survive the colonization - an event that will happen on December 22, 2012. This corresponds to a significant date in the Mayan Calendar - perhaps the end of the world. Outside, Reyes and Doggett face off against Knowle Rohrer, who has been sent to kill Mulder and the Smoking Man. The pueblo is filled with magnetite, which kills Rohrer as he advances on Doggett and Reyes. Switching cars with Mulder and Scully, the agents drive off. Black helicopters destroy the pueblo - and the Smoking Man - before giving chase to the wrong car and we last see Doggett and Reyes driving off with them in pursuit.
In a hotel room in New Mexico, Mulder and Scully prepare for bed and talk. Their final words:
SCULLY: You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
MULDER: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us - greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.
SCULLY: Then we believe the same thing.
MULDER: Maybe there's hope.
- The last scene mirrors a scene in the pilot where Mulder first opens up to Scully.
- During his testimony, Gibson Praise "outs" The Toothpick Man (Alan Dale) as "not human".
