Rewatch: 9x20 The Truth Part Two (2/2)
Mytharc for Dummies: Gibson says three of the judges are leaning in Mulder’s favor, but Mulder says the game is rigged. This trial is so ridiculous precisely because we and Mulder know that there can only be one verdict. So I personally spend the whole time wondering why we’re bothering, feeling like my time as a viewer is being wasted because the outcome is assured.
Doggett takes the stand to bring us up to the Super Soldier era. He backstories that he’s a skeptic, but he’s seen these Super Soldiers with his own eyes, coming back to life from every gruesome scenario you could imagine. He says they’re a military project--ordinary men made invincible. And the only way to kill them is with magnetite; thus, Mulder couldn’t have killed Knowle Rohrer. But his testimony, like everyone else’s, is basically cut short and rendered useless when he won’t say that he backs up Mulder’s assertion that the Super Soldiers are aliens.
Reyes takes the stand and tells them about Scully giving birth to William while Billy Miles and his Super Soldier friends watched. She then says that Scully was part of a group of women who were abducted and later used to give birth to alien babies. She talks about William’s strange powers, but never says what I think we’ve essentially learned, which is that whatever is/was up with William, it wasn’t caused directly by outside meddling, only by what had been done to both Mulder and Scully before his conception. But whatever, I guess. Whatever.
Doggett and Reyes have the corpse of “Knowle Rohrer” sent to Quantico for Scully to examine. It’s obviously not his body, but one of another man who died of a broken neck and whose body was burned post-mortem. Kersh is unimpressed, says Scully had no authorization to examine the body and swiftly adjourns the trial.
After Mulder is declared guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injection, Knowle Rohrer shows back up at the brig. Why? I don’t know. I guess to show us, the viewer, that he really wasn’t dead? But we already knew that, we didn’t need proof. It’s not like they need Knowle specifically for anything, right? He ends up chasing them all down, but when he shows up at the brig, he doesn’t know they’re going to bust Mulder out and he'll need to chase them.
I still don’t know what Grandpa O.C.’s agenda is. He’s a Super Soldier and he works at the FBI, but I don’t know how much power he has, where he is in the chain of command. The last we see Skinner, he’s walking into the office with him. Godspeed, Skinman, you better be in the movie. Gibson says that O.C. already knows that Mulder and Scully aren’t heading off the continent, he knows where they’re going. How? I’m loathe to bring up Scully’s chip, but can it be used as an actual tracking device? Scully GPS? But that use for it has never been brought up before, and you think it would have come up in all of the “William’s not safe with me” stuff.
CSM sent Mulder the keycard to Mount Weather so the truth about colonization would be revealed to him. For no other reason than, as I said before, to be a total dick. He’s been hiding out in the pueblos because the magnetite means it’s a safe haven when the aliens come. He looks like he’s been in the ground for weeks, so I don’t know why he’s so worried about what he’s going to be up to in 2012, but like the Boy Scouts, I’m sure “be prepared” is the motto of the Syndicate, too. He says: “My power comes from telling you. Seeing your powerlessness hearing it. They wanted to kill you, Fox. I protected you all these years. Waiting for this moment. To see you broken. Afraid.” This goes along with what Spender told Scully in “William,” that he’s out for himself and wants to see everyone else fail and be taken over by our new alien overlords. But I almost, almost want to hope that there’s something inside of him that thinks with the knowledge, Mulder might change fate. Ahem, fight the future. As it were.
Seeing someone’s flaming skull means he’s really dead, right? Even on XF?
And I’m sure there are other ways that the new conspiracy could have found out otherwise in the past 6 years, but the destruction of the pueblo by the helicopters means that they think they’ve killed Mulder and Scully.
Doggett takes the stand to bring us up to the Super Soldier era. He backstories that he’s a skeptic, but he’s seen these Super Soldiers with his own eyes, coming back to life from every gruesome scenario you could imagine. He says they’re a military project--ordinary men made invincible. And the only way to kill them is with magnetite; thus, Mulder couldn’t have killed Knowle Rohrer. But his testimony, like everyone else’s, is basically cut short and rendered useless when he won’t say that he backs up Mulder’s assertion that the Super Soldiers are aliens.
Reyes takes the stand and tells them about Scully giving birth to William while Billy Miles and his Super Soldier friends watched. She then says that Scully was part of a group of women who were abducted and later used to give birth to alien babies. She talks about William’s strange powers, but never says what I think we’ve essentially learned, which is that whatever is/was up with William, it wasn’t caused directly by outside meddling, only by what had been done to both Mulder and Scully before his conception. But whatever, I guess. Whatever.
Doggett and Reyes have the corpse of “Knowle Rohrer” sent to Quantico for Scully to examine. It’s obviously not his body, but one of another man who died of a broken neck and whose body was burned post-mortem. Kersh is unimpressed, says Scully had no authorization to examine the body and swiftly adjourns the trial.
After Mulder is declared guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injection, Knowle Rohrer shows back up at the brig. Why? I don’t know. I guess to show us, the viewer, that he really wasn’t dead? But we already knew that, we didn’t need proof. It’s not like they need Knowle specifically for anything, right? He ends up chasing them all down, but when he shows up at the brig, he doesn’t know they’re going to bust Mulder out and he'll need to chase them.
I still don’t know what Grandpa O.C.’s agenda is. He’s a Super Soldier and he works at the FBI, but I don’t know how much power he has, where he is in the chain of command. The last we see Skinner, he’s walking into the office with him. Godspeed, Skinman, you better be in the movie. Gibson says that O.C. already knows that Mulder and Scully aren’t heading off the continent, he knows where they’re going. How? I’m loathe to bring up Scully’s chip, but can it be used as an actual tracking device? Scully GPS? But that use for it has never been brought up before, and you think it would have come up in all of the “William’s not safe with me” stuff.
CSM sent Mulder the keycard to Mount Weather so the truth about colonization would be revealed to him. For no other reason than, as I said before, to be a total dick. He’s been hiding out in the pueblos because the magnetite means it’s a safe haven when the aliens come. He looks like he’s been in the ground for weeks, so I don’t know why he’s so worried about what he’s going to be up to in 2012, but like the Boy Scouts, I’m sure “be prepared” is the motto of the Syndicate, too. He says: “My power comes from telling you. Seeing your powerlessness hearing it. They wanted to kill you, Fox. I protected you all these years. Waiting for this moment. To see you broken. Afraid.” This goes along with what Spender told Scully in “William,” that he’s out for himself and wants to see everyone else fail and be taken over by our new alien overlords. But I almost, almost want to hope that there’s something inside of him that thinks with the knowledge, Mulder might change fate. Ahem, fight the future. As it were.
Seeing someone’s flaming skull means he’s really dead, right? Even on XF?
And I’m sure there are other ways that the new conspiracy could have found out otherwise in the past 6 years, but the destruction of the pueblo by the helicopters means that they think they’ve killed Mulder and Scully.