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5X20 The End

Writer: Chris Carter
Director: RW Goodwin
Original Broadcast: AU: 15.07.1998 US: 17.05.1998
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US

Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny

Guest Cast:
Russian Chess Player · Orest Blajkevitch
Frohike · Tom Braidwood
Smoking Man · William B Davis
Shooter · Martin Ferraro
Gibson Praise · Jeff Gulka
Langly · Dean Haglund
Byers · Bruce Harwood
Alex Krycek · Nicholas Lea
Second Clinician · Paul Monz de Sa
Third Elder · John Moore
Second Elder · George Murdock
Well-Manicured Man · John Neville
Special Agent Jeffrey Spender · Chris Owens
First Clinician · Patrick Phillips
Assistant Director Walter Skinner · Mitch Pileggi
Agent Diana Fowley · Mimi Rogers
Third Clinician · John Trottier
Black-Haired Man · Michael Shamus Wiles
First Elder · Don S Williams

An attempted assassination draws Mulder and Scully into an investigation that strikes at the heart of the X-Files, bringing an important person from Mulder's past into direct conflict with Scully.

Smoking Man: "Go on. Take your shot Alex." [He turns away]
Krycek: "Right there." [Smoking Man turns back] "I was sent to bring you back."

Mulder: "Ha, you know you're going places in the Bureau when the Assistant Director tidies up your office for you. What's up?"
Skinner: "I was just looking."
Mulder: "For anything special?"
Skinner: "I came down to ask you something. I guess I was just nosing around, wondering about you, your long term plans."
Mulder: "My long term plans? You got them right there in your hands."

Skinner: "There's a case — nothing I'd send you normally — a murder, an assassination, of a Russian, a Chess player. The shooter is former National Security Agency, one of ours. Its got a lot of people upset. This kid Jeffrey Spender, Special Agent Spender, he's been given the case, he's running it."
Mulder: "Did you give it to him?"
Skinner: "No. It came as an order from somewhere outside the Bureau. He's got his team assembled upstairs right now. He was very specific that you be excluded." [Mulder smiles]

Mulder: [to Spender] "I don't... I don't... have any questions. No, I just think you're wrong."

Smoking Man: "You look surprised. Is it that I'm here? Or that I'm alive?"
First Elder: "When we heard that you'd been shot, we assumed the worst."
Second Elder: "There were reports you lost too much blood to have survived."
Smoking Man: "Obviously you underestimated me. More obviously, you overestimated the man you sent to do the job." [He lights up] "Well let's say all is forgiven. Now, you have a job for me."
Well-Manicured Man: "There's been an incident. An unfortunate mistake."
Smoking Man: "Yes, I've seen, I've heard, I've read."

Mulder: "Gibson. Hi. My name is Fox, this is Dana and Diana. How you doing?"
Gibson Praise: "I don't mind it here. They get all the good TV shows. Where I live in the Philippines, all we get is 'Baywatch'."
Mulder: "What's wrong with 'Baywatch'?"
Gibson Praise: [studying Mulder] "You've got a dirty mind." [Mulder looks at Scully, she smiles back in amusement]

Gibson Praise: "I know what's on your mind. I know you're thinking about one of the girls you brought."
Mulder: "Oh?"
Gibson Praise: "And one of them is thinking about you."
Fowley: "Which one?"
Gibson Praise: [studying Mulder] "He doesn't want me to say."

Mulder: [to Spender] "You know, when I first met you, I figured you were just ambitious. And this morning my opinion changed, and I thought you were arrogant. Now I'm beginning to wonder what you're protecting."

Shooter: "I've got nothing to say."
Mulder: "I read your bio. You've been trained, Special Forces. You were in Grenada, Zaire. You were inside Saddam's palace with a hit squad when they started raining bombs down over it — yet you failed to kill him as well."
Shooter: "Like I said —"
Mulder: "— Yeah, yeah, I know. You got nothing to say. That's okay, I'm a pretty good guesser. The kid reads minds. How's that? Why not tell them you told me that and then let's see how safe and snug you feel in here."

Spender: "What'd you get? Did you get anything?"
Mulder: "Just his attention."

[Frohike unlocks a multitude of locks to let Scully in and she finds him wearing pyjamas and a flak jacket]
Frohike: "Sorry, caught me getting ready for bed. Come in, come in."
Scully: "Thank you."
Frohike: "To what do we owe the pleasure of this late hour?"
Scully: "I need your help."
Langly: "With what?"
Scully: "You've all heard of Gibson Praise, the Chess wunderkind. These are a series of scans and neural electrical outputs of his brain and brain processes. There seems to be some suspicion that he's a fraud."
Byers: "Dorf on Chess?"
Scully: "Well, apparently he wins by reading his opponents' minds."
Frohike: "I'm loving it!"
Langly: "And you want us to what?"
Scully: "Analyze the data... with an eye to the parapsychological."
Frohike: "Ooh, walk on the wild side?"
Scully: "But first... I want you guys to tell me who Diana Fowley is."
Byers: "Diana Fowley. Geez, we haven't heard that name in a while."
Scully: "Then you know her."
Byers: "Well... yeah."
Frohike: "She was... Mulder's chickadee when he just got out of the Academy. Good looking."
Scully: "Well she claims to have worked closely with him for a while."
Langly: "She was there when he discovered the X-Files. She has some kind of background in Parascience."
Byers: "She got a legout appointment a while back in Berlin. I always wondered why they split up."

Mulder: "How's little Karnac doing?"
Fowley: "Put a TV in front of him, he turns right into a normal kid."

Scully: "An area of the temporal lobe the neurophysicists are calling the God Module."
Skinner: "I hope I'm not going to hear that this kid is the next Christ child."

Scully: "These talks included instructions from the Justice Department to close down the X-Files."
Mulder: "This was all strategised, every move. I just couldn't see it. It all was part of a plan."
Scully: "Mulder, whatever you may believe, this time they may have won."