That many of you here tonight came home
not to a hero's welcome
but to the hostility of the American people
is a shameful fact of history.
One that I will never understand or forgive.
But it also underscores our sacred duty,
not just today but forever,
to honor those who served with honor
and to remember those who fell--
men and women whose ultimate sacrifice
must never be forgotten.
There is probably no audience
that understands better
that our freedom is not free.
All right, you're my eyes out there.
Talk to me. Positions report.
Sector three clear.
No sign of him in four.
Sector six, report.
Mulder.
He's here. I feel him.
Then where is he?
Hold on.
I think I have him in section four.
Can you confirm that, Scully?
Positive I.D. He's heading towards you, three.
Positions hold. Three and four, do you have eye contact?
I have him in three.
He's coming towards you, Scully.
Don't take your eyes off him, Scully.
Mulder, he saw me.
He's heading towards the sound booth.
Copy that. I'm cutting him off.
Talk to me, people. Does anybody have him?
This memorial is a place where we can come
and thank those men and women who died...
What's happening, Scully?
I'm closing on him.
Do you have him in three?
Negative.
Scully.
Scully!
I lost him.
You got him, three?
I don't see him, Scully.
What's happening, Agent Scully?
I can't see him anywhere.
He must be headed your way.
You got him, Mulder?
Not yet.
I got him.
I lost him.
Pick him up, Mulder. He's right in front of you.
He's got a gun!
General, get off the stage!
I can't see him.
Left side! You're good!
Good! Good! Good!
Morning, sir.
All right, let's go!
Go! Go! Go!
Who the hell are you?
How did you get in here?
What the hell are you...?
Lieutenant General! Sir!
Lieutenant General Peter MacDougal
was shot dead at extreme close range at 0600 this morning.
FBI forensics reports
the wound was not self-inflicted.
The murder weapon hasn't been recovered.
The general's driver,
Private First Class Gus Burkholder,
is currently being held on suspicion of murder.
Well, it says here NAA tests confirmed
the private did not do the shooting.
There is suspicion of an accomplice based on
the one piece of evidence found at the crime scene--
a so-called death card used by soldiers
in Vietnam to mark their kills,
and by Private Burkholder's possible ties
to a radical paramilitary group called the Right Hand,
whose stated aim is violent revolution.
After speaking with General Bloch,
he believes we have a high probability of opportunity
for a group like this.
A unique situation that could result in
the very public loss of lives.
Dozens of high-ranking military officials
are in Washington today for a re-dedication
of the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial.
Unless we can determine a clear motive,
we will consider any one of them to be a target.
What if Private Burkholder is telling the truth,
that he's innocent?
Until we can find another suspect,
the FBI will pursue the Right Hand
and their leader, an ex-marine named Denny Markham,
in a preemptive strategy to put a stop
to any of the plans they may have made.
You all have Markham's file in front of you.
For obvious reasons,
our strategy includes
keeping this from the media.
You'll be working in teams of two.
If you encounter any resistance, do not engage.
Surveil and call for backup.
Agent Chandler has your assignments
and your field warrants.
We have less than 12 hours to prevent
any further execution or loss of life. Understood?
All right, Beckwith and Fontana,
you're going to Virginia Beach.
Jackson and Miller, you're going to Alexandria.
Was that for the benefit of the general,
or have you been able to develop a real strategy?
Right now, I'm flying by the seat of my pants.
You mean there's no procedure outlined
for an invisible assassin?
Did you talk to Private Burkholder?
I interviewed him and convinced him to take a polygraph test.
And?
He passed.
The nature of his claims would suggest a false positive.
The tester admitted that the results are highly interpretive.
You heard his story, Mulder?
Yeah. I found his story compelling, personally,
but then again, I believe the Warren Commission.
Well, if I have to devise a strategy around that story,
then there is no strategy.
Somebody killed the general,
which means somebody is not telling the truth.
The man who heads the Right Hand, Markham--
do you have a warrant for him?
Yes. Why?
Let Mulder and I serve it.
One misstep...
Markham smells a shakedown, he's going to disappear
or find another way to push the button.
And I've already seen more dead soldiers
than I ever want to see.
Mr. Markham?
Who is it?
Agents Mulder and Scully with the FBI.
What do you want?
It's extremely urgent
that we talk to you right now, sir.
Mr. Markham?
Gate's unlocked.
Now, you wanted to see me about...?
The murder of General Peter MacDougal.
Am I under suspicion?
No, but your group is,
and Private First Class Gus Burkholder.
Is that a name I should know?
He's on the mailing list for the Right Hand.
2,000 names on that list.
I can't keep track of every one of them.
Well, we'd like to go over that list with you, sir.
No way in hell you'll be getting that from me.
We already have a copy, if you'll just come with us.
I'm not going anywhere.
Sir, we have a warrant for your arrest
if you don't cooperate.
Under the new anti-terrorism law,
we can and will hold you
until we get the information we want.
There goes the neighborhood.
You can make this as easy or as hard as you wish, sir.
The Right Hand believes in empowering the individual
over a corrupt and corrupting federal government.
We're prepared for the time
when armed resistance will be necessary.
Lives will have to be sacrificed.
But that day has not yet come.
Would you take
a polygraph, Mr. Markham?
My word's good enough.
What's your "word" on this?
Where'd that come from?
I'd like to ask you that.
More men are going to die.
This guy's a one-man threat to national security.
I bet he's got more weapons and ammo
than most Third World armies.
He told me to pull this photo
from his file cabinet. Who's this?
He says that's who killed General MacDougal.
Name's Nathaniel Teager.
26 confirmed solo enemy kills.
Veritable killing machine,
left for dead by the same government that created him.
Left for dead?
He belonged to Green Beret detachment B-11--
squad known as the Bloody Sabers.
1971, the B-11 was being transported
in country when their chopper was shot down.
There were no survivors.
When was this photo taken?
December 1995.
Just a few hours after the Right Hand liberated him
from a P.O.W. camp just outside the U-Minh Forest.
Mr. Markham, I'm sure that you're aware that in 1973,
the Defense Department determined
that there were no more P.O.W.s in Vietnam.
Maybe that's why they tried to kidnap Sergeant Teager
when we brought him home.
The government kidnapped a U.S. prisoner of war?
I said they tried.
Had their commandos board our plane in San Diego,
but when they broke into the cargo hold
where we hid him, he was already gone.
I never did figure out how.
I think I've heard enough.
You don't believe him, do you?
But what if he's telling the truth?
A phantom P.O.W. left for dead
comes back to avenge the injustices?
Maybe the war ain't over, Scully.
Well, maybe not Denny Markham's war.
Well, given the facts of the case
and Private Burkholder's polygraph test,
it's the closest thing to an explanation that we've got.
Or it's just a clever story
being proffered as a cover-up for what is actually
an elaborately orchestrated conspiracy.
Well, there is that possibility, too.
Let Markham take the polygraph.
And what if he passes?
He won't.
Mrs. Davenport?
Renee Davenport?
Yes.
Wife of Lance Corporal Gary Davenport of the Special Forces?
Yes. I'm sorry. Do I know you?
No, ma'am.
I've come to act in his behalf
for the reason that Gary remains prisoner of war.
Gary's dead.
No, ma'am.
May you forgive me,
as you forgive him as a man and a soldier,
for restoring the honor and memory of the B-11.
Oh, my God.
Where did you get these?
Who gave you these?
Hey, where are you?
My God.
Where are you? Where'd you go?
Is it true she made a positive I.D. from the photo?
From a bad fax of it.
Do you have the actual photo with you?
Yeah, and more copies to distribute.
We have event security checking out all vendors and workmen.
We've got it out to local law enforcement,
but not to the exclusion of the other suspects.
I thought she I.D.'d Teager.
She did, but I cannot authorize
or promote a strategy here that's going to target
a soldier who's officially dead.
Because his name's on a wall?
No, because I just got off the phone with
the Army forensics lab where
Sergeant Nathaniel Teager's remains have been stored
since they were recovered from the crash site.
They have his remains?
Markham may have staged this whole thing--
finding somebody vulnerable like her to pass off his lies.
Why go to all that trouble?
To create a decoy to divert our attention,
which seems to be working.
Well, this woman saw someone.
I want to know who.
Yes, that's him.
Are you sure?
Everything he said made it sound
like Gary was still alive.
That can't be true, can it?
You say he just disappeared?
That's what's so strange.
One minute, he's standing right in front of me,
and then he's gone.
What if he was telling the truth?
What if Gary is alive?
I've tried to get on with my life.
I've remarried.
What am I supposed to tell my husband now?
What am I supposed to do?
Oh, your eye.
What?
Oh, my God.
What's happening to me?
I think you just burst a capillary.
My God. Scully?
Hold a tissue there.
Can we get Mrs. Davenport an eye exam?
An eye exam? For what?
By all accounts,
the man we're looking for-- the man she saw--
has a knack for vanishing in plain sight.
Maybe there's a connection.
Mulder, what she has is
a simple sub-conjunctival hemorrhage.
It's probably brought on by her emotional state.
And how did she reach that emotional state?
What about you?
What are you going to do?
I'm going to see if we're really chasing a dead man.
Agent Mulder?
Yes.
Dr. Benjamin Keyser.
I think I located what you're looking for.
It's a small miracle I found it, actually.
The record had been partially destroyed.
Two bicuspids and a molar.
This was all that was left of Teager at the crash site?
I've seen findings made with far less.
And these are Sergeant Teager's teeth.
I cross-checked them with his dental records.
Is there any way to tell how the teeth were extracted?
Well, I would assume they were pulled.
On each of these teeth,
there's a pronounced scoring in the enamel.
Here, see for yourself.
Can you tell if that was pre- or postmortem?
No, not really.
Well, then this is presumptive, isn't it?
A finding of death based on inconclusive evidence.
Actually, it was noted right here, even underlined.
"Inconclusive."
Whoever signed off on this death chose to ignore the facts, huh?
I couldn't tell you who that was.
As I said, these records were partially destroyed.
Is there any other way to tell?
Well, based on the records
and the reports filed at the same time,
we could make a pretty good guess.
Yes.
Yes, just a moment.
It's for you, sir.
Hello.
General Steffan, this is
Special Agent Fox Mulder with the FBI.
I'm calling because we have reason to believe
that your life may be in danger.
What are you talking about?
That the person or persons responsible for the murder
of General MacDougal this morning
may have chosen to target you.
Based on what information?
Based on a death certificate
that you may have put your signature on--
a death certificate for Sergeant Nathaniel Teager.
I don't know anything about that,
but I'm on my way to the Pentagon right now.
Listen, sir, I'm ten minutes away.
I'm going to have to ask you to trust
my risk assessment on this and take every caution.
Right.
Okay, do you know your driver, sir?
Yes. He drives me all the time.
Good. I'm going to put two FBI agents there
to escort you, just as a precaution.
They have my mobile phone number, okay?
How many of you know what a pentagon is?
Nobody?
A pentagon is a shape with five sides,
and the Pentagon is just that.
We're standing right now in section "A."
Built in 1941 through an act of Congress,
the Pentagon is virtually a city in itself.
Almost 23,000 people...
General, sir? Good afternoon.
Thanks.
All clear, General.
Thank you, gentlemen, that'll be all.
Mulder.
Mulder, I'm at the Georgetown Medical Center.
Did you find out what caused her eye to hemorrhage?
No, but the ophthalmologist discovered something--
something called a transient scotoma.
Scotoma?
A floating blind spot.
Well, what would cause that?
Well, any number of diseases can scar the retina:
diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration.
In turn, they create a visual field deficit.
Um...
Well, does she have any of those diseases?
It doesn't appear so.
Well, don't you think it's odd, Scully,
that she'd have a blind spot
that she wouldn't... that she wouldn't have noticed before?
Thanks.
Well, not necessarily.
The processes of the brain fill in,
and the visual cortex compensates conceptually.
Well, that might account for Teager's vanishing.
I asked the doctor that, and he laughed at me.
Oh, hold on a second, Scully.
It's Mulder.
Agent Mulder, this is General Steffan.
I found something on my desk-- something very troubling.
Where are you?
In my office.
Uh, the agents I assigned to you-- are they with you?
No. No, they're just outside.
I want you to call them into your office right now, General.
Who put this here?!
Listen to me very carefully, okay?
I'm on my way over there...
General Steffan? General Steffan?
Call an ambulance.
The general's secretary had been in here organizing his desk
no more than 15 minutes before the general was shot.
He never saw this card,
and he never saw anyone go in and out of the office,
aside from the general and the agents assigned to him.
From my cursory exam, nothing about the general
can explain your narrative.
I was on the phone with the man.
He was shot at close range in the forehead.
I think he would've seen the shooter.
Not necessarily.
He could have turned and been surprised.
There's far too little forensic evidence yet to know, Mulder.
No scotoma?
It's beyond my capabilities here
to make that kind of analysis.
I think it's beyond all our capabilities,
but somebody's got to explain how a four-star general
could be shot and killed in what is symbolically
the best-guarded military base in the country.
Sir?
I need both of you out here
to see something... now.
That's him.
That's Teager.
Whoever it is, I want to know
how the hell this happened.
Neither of us has a clear explanation, sir.
You were on your way here, Agent Mulder.
You knew the general was in danger.
I did everything I could; I put two agents with him.
This is insanity. This man is killing at will.
That's correct, sir.
He's unstoppable?
Is that what you're telling me?
I think that Teager has an ability,
the ability to effectively erase himself
from the visual field.
If he's invisible, then why is
he on this video clear as day?
I think that he can hide himself from human sight
by manipulating something that Scully has referred to
as naturally occurring:
a blind spot.
That is conjecture, sir.
You mean even if I'm looking at him...
You might not be able to see him.
Isn't it true that U.S. soldiers
have reported the unexplained appearance
and disappearance of VC guerrillas?
I've read the dispatches myself.
Maybe Teager learned something
from his captors in 25 years of isolation.
I've got four miles
of crowded streets where 31 military officers
are staging for a parade into Freedom Square.
If what you're saying has any truth to it,
I can't protect these men.
Call it off.
Parade or no parade, those men are going to be vulnerable.
The only way to stop this killer is to catch him.
How do we do that?
By finding his next victim before he does.
I am Major General Benjamin Bloch.
He did it again, didn't he?
I told them he would.
According to the FBI,
you know the man they're looking for.
Maybe you can tell me why they can't seem to find him.
Same reason you can't.
Which I imagine
is the same reason you're here right now.
I am here because people are dying--
soldiers who dedicated their lives
to the defense of this country.
I guess that's one way of looking at it.
As it stands, you are facing
charges of conspiracy to commit homicide and treason.
But if both those fall through, there is still
enough evidence to convict you
for possession and transport of illegal arms.
Are you threatening me?
No.
I am offering you a deal--
for you and the people you represent.
If you think I've got any sway with Teager, you're mistaken.
I just need to know what he wants.
You know what he wants,
and we both know you can't give it to him,
not without dragging
that nice clean uniform of yours through the mud.
Whatever you do to me
won't change his mind, General.
He's sending a message and making damn sure
everyone hears it loud and clear.
Men!
Mark time!
You told me you were in a rush.
Crosstown traffic's all snarled up because of the parade.
You need information on American prisoners of war.
A man named Teager.
I have no information on him.
Then why did you come here?
Tell me what you know.
A P.O.W. named Teager may be back home
carrying out death sentences against the men
that left him in Vietnam.
Who are those men?
Generals-- Steffan and MacDougal.
They have a connection.
What is that?
A recent news story--
extremely embarrassing to the U.S. military--
about the disposing of South Vietnamese soldiers.
Men employed by our government as spies and commandoes
and then left behind enemy lines to certain capture and death.
The operation was disavowed,
and their lives were erased from the records.
By a secret three-man commission who may now be facing charges,
whose testimonies might be used
in the calculation of reparations.
Are you saying that our government
wants these officers dead?
Why would they ask us to protect them?
Because they know you can't.
Well, who's the third man?
I need a name.
General Bloch!
General, sir! Stop the car!
What's going on here?
We need you to get out of the car, sir, for your own safety.
Why? We just received information
your life might be in danger.
From who?
Shooter!
Get down!
Where?! Where is he?!
He was there.
I saw him.
It was him, sir.
It was the man in the photo.
Are you sure?
I saw him, sir.
It was him.
Are you sure?
Right, mount!
...when you find out.
Scully. I heard what happened.
They told me you saved General Bloch's life.
He's doing all right. He's over there.
They told me you saw somebody on the parade route?
I'm not really sure.
You saw him, didn't you?
You saw Teager.
I told you, I'm not sure, Mulder.
Yeah, but you drew your gun, Scully.
You must have been a little more convinced than that.
How are you so convinced
that General Bloch was his next target?
I found out about General Bloch from the same person
who told me that we were never meant to save Bloch's life,
or the other generals.
What are you talking about?
This case-- why do you think it was dumped in your lap?
Unless heading up an anti-terrorism detail
is all of a sudden part of your job description.
Well, that doesn't prove that he was set up.
No, they knew about Teager; they've known that
he'd be unstoppable from the beginning.
You saying that they wanted Skinner to fail?
And us. Given the nature of the case,
they knew that you'd bring us in.
Mulder, the government is not about
to sacrifice the lives of ranking military officers
just to discredit us.
Discrediting us in this case is only secondary.
Secondary to what?
To maintaining their secret policy
of denial about P.O.W.s,
which required silencing the men who made that policy.
I think Denny Markham's story is having its intended effect.
I think you're buying into the lie, Mulder.
No, Denny Markham may be the only man in this case
who's telling the truth.
But if you don't believe me,
why don't you ask General Bloch himself?
Ask me what?
Look, I can't wait around here any longer.
I'm delivering the keynote address in five minutes.
You might want to reconsider. He won't reconsider.
Not going out there would be an admission of guilt.
We still have reason to believe that your life is in danger.
It's your job to protect me still, isn't it?
That's what we're trying to do.
Then do your job.
General!
All right, people, listen up,
because we don't have much time here.
You all know your responsibilities.
You have your sectors and your assignments.
It gives me great pleasure
to introduce a very special man.
Wounded and decorated for gallantry in Vietnam,
he had an idea...
Teager.
Hey, man, is that you?
Hey, where are you going?
Hey.
Hey. Hey, where are you going?
...the founder of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Fund,
Mr. Jan Scruggs.
Teager.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
We are here to rededicate this memorial
on this important day.
We especially remember
those who cannot share this day with us,
the soldiers...
Hey, Teager.
It's me, Leo Danzinger.
I saw you, man.
Where are you?
Behind you.
I... I thought you were dead.
That's what they told us.
Because that's what they wanted you to believe.
I don't understand.
You will.
After tonight.
What are you talking about?
I waited for them, Leo.
I waited for them to come.
But they never came.
Maybe they didn't know.
They knew.
They just figured let me die off.
It was easier than admitting the truth.
It's all over, Teager.
It's been over for a long time now.
Not for me.
And not for the others.
You're telling me there's more?
What are you doing, man?
Where are you?!
It is a distinct honor
to present to you now another great American
and a brother-in-arms,
Major General Benjamin Bloch.
Admiral Leitch,
Senator Baine,
fellow Americans,
and especially the veterans.
There is probably no audience that understands better
that our freedom is not free.
All right, you're my eyes out there.
Talk to me. Positions report.
Sector three clear.
No sign of him in four.
And for that, it is our duty to remember them.
Hold on.
I think I have him in section four.
Can you confirm that, Scully?
Positive I.D. He's heading towards you, three.
Positions hold. Three and four, do you have eye contact?
I have him in three.
He's coming towards you, Scully.
Don't take your eyes off him, Scully.
Mulder, he saw me.
He's heading towards the sound booth.
Copy that. I'm cutting him off.
Talk to me, people. Does anybody have him?
What's happening, Scully?
I'm closing on him.
You have him in three?
Negative.
Scully.
I lost him.
You got him, three?
I don't see him, Scully.
What's happening, Agent Scully?
I can't see him anywhere.
He must be headed your way.
You got him, Mulder?
Not yet.
I got him.
I lost him.
Pick him up, Mulder. He's right in front of you.
He's got a gun!
General, get off the stage!
I can't see him.
Mulder.
Teager's here.
I saw him out of the corner of my eye.
Mulder, he's gone. He's gone.
There's no cause for alarm,
ladies and gentlemen.
Just a minor disturbance.
Let's try and keep some order.
Where's General Bloch?
He's with Skinner.
We got to stop him.
What's going on here?
I think he can only hide himself
in somebody's direct line of sight.
When you're looking directly at him?
That's why he killed General MacDougal
and Steffan at close quarters--
MacDougal in his car and Steffan in his office.
Get away from the car.
He's in the car. Teager's in the car.
Get down! Down!
Get out of the car with your hands in the air!
It's over, Teager!
Come on out!
Get an ambulance over here!
Teager, Nathaniel J.
Sergeant, Green Beret detachment B-11.
March 7, 1952.
Teager, Nathaniel J.
Sergeant,
Green Beret detachment B-11.
Date of birth...
March 7, 1952.
Teager, Nathaniel J.
Sergeant, Green Beret detachment B-11.
Pentagon is claiming that the man who was killed
was a Thomas Lynch.
He's a vet who's been in and out
of V.A. psychiatric hospitals for the last 15 years.
And a sometime member of the Right Hand.
His name was on Denny Markham's mailing list.
Markham made a positive I.D.
They must have gotten to him.
Army forensics claims to have multiple confirmation.
You heard him. We both did.
It's happening all over again.
They're covering the lies with more lies,
trying to make him invisible.
We've got to subpoena Markham and General Bloch
and we've got to petition the State Department
to release Teager's body.
I can't do that, Agent Mulder.
Why not?
This investigation has been
turned over to C.I.D.
It's no longer our jurisdiction.
Don't let them do this.
Let it go, Agent Mulder. You did your job.
So did Nathaniel Teager.
You found the man that you were looking for, but now he's dead.
It's over.
Is that what you believe?
Is that what you really believe?
They're not just denying this man's life.
They're denying his death.
And with all due respect, sir...
he could be you.