"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, notjust 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." "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." " I'm cutting him off." "Talk to me, people." "Does anybody have him?" "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?" " I can't see him anywhere." " He must be headed your way." " You got him, Mulder?" " Not yet." "I got him." "I lost him." "Mulder, he's right in front of you." " He's got a gun." " General, get off the stage." "I can't see him." "I can't see him." "Good morning, sir." "All right." "Let's 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 0600 this morning." "Forensics reports the wound was not self-inflicted." "The weapon hasn't been recovered." "The driver, Private First Class Gus Burkholder, is currently being held on suspicion of murder." "Tests confirm the private did not do the shooting." "There is suspicion of an accomplice, based on one piece of evidence, a so-called death card used by soldiers in Vietnam to mark their kills." "And by Burkholder's possible ties to a paramilitary group called the Right Hand, whose stated aim is violent revolution." "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 officials are in Washington today for a rededication of the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial." "Unless we can determine a motive, we will consider any one of them to be a target." "What if Burkholder is telling the truth, that he's innocent?" "Until we find another suspect, we will pursue the Right Hand and their leader, ex-Marine Denny Markham, in a preemptive strategy to put a stop to any other plans they've made." "You have Markham's file in front of you." "For obvious reasons, we're keeping this from the media." "If you encounter any resistance, do not engage." "Surveil and call for backup." "Agent Chandler has your assignments." "We have less than 12 hours to prevent any further execution or loss of life." "Understood?" "Beckwith and Fontana, you'll go to Virginia Beach." "Jackson and Miller, go to Alexandria." "Was that for the benefit of the general, or have you developed a real strategy?" "I'm flyin' by the seat of my pants." "You mean there's no procedure outlined for an invisible assassin?" " Did you talk to Burkholder?" " I convinced him to take a polygraph test." " And?" " He passed." "The nature of his claims suggest a false positive." "The tester admitted that the results are highly interpretive." "You heard his story?" "I found his story compelling." "But then I believe the Warren Commission." "If I have to devise a strategy around that story, there is no strategy." "Somebody killed the general." "Somebody is not telling the truth." "The man who heads the Right Hand." "Do you have a warrant for him?" " Yes, why?" " Let Mulder and I serve it." "One misstep, Markham smells a shakedown, he's gonna disappear and find another way to push the button." "And I've already seen more dead soldiers than I ever wanna 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, sir." " Mr Markham?" " Gate's unlocked." "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." " We'd like to go over that list with you, sir." " No way you'll be getting that from me." " We have a copy, if you come with us." " I'm not going anywhere." "We have a warrant for your arrest if you don't cooperate." "Under the new antiterrorism law, we can and will hold you until we get the information." "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 \x22word\x22 on this?" "Where'd that come from?" "I'd like to ask you that." "More men are gonna die." "This guy's a one-man threat to national security." "I'll bet he's got more weapons than most Third World armies." "He told me to pull this photo from his file cabinet." " Who's this?" " He says he killed General MacDougal." "Name's Nathaniel Teager." "26 confirmed solo enemy kills." "A veritable killing machine." "Left for dead by the government that created him." "Left for dead?" "He belonged to Green Beret Detachment B-11, the squad known as the Bloody Sabers." "In 1971, the B-11 was being transported when their chopper was shot down." "No survivors." " When was this photo taken?" " December 1995." "Just after the Right Hand liberated him from a POW camp outside the U Minh forest." "I'm sure you're aware that in 1973 the Defense Department determined there were no more POWs in Vietnam." "Maybe that's why they tried to kidnap Sergeant Teager when we brought him home." "The government kidnapped a US prisoner of war?" "I said they tried." "Had their commandos board our plane in San Diego." "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 POW left for dead comes back to avenge the injustices?" " Maybe the war ain't over." " Maybe not Denny Markham's war." "Given the facts of the case and the polygraph test, it's the only explanation we've got." "Or it's a clever story being proffered as a cover-up for an elaborately orchestrated conspiracy." "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." "Do I know you?" "No, ma'am." "I've come to act in his behalf for the reason that Gary remains a 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?" "God..." "Where are you?" "Where'd you go?" "Is it true she made a positive ID from the photo?" " From a fax of it." "Do you have the photo?" " Yeah, and copies to distribute." "We've got it out to local law enforcement, but not to the exclusion of the other suspects." "I thought she ID'd Teager." "She did." "But I cannot authorize a strategy that targets a soldier who's officially dead." "Because his name is on a wall?" "Because I spoke with the army forensics lab where Teager's remains have been stored since they were recovered from the crash site." "They have his remains?" "Markham may have staged this, finding somebody vulnerable to pass off his lies." " Why go to all that trouble?" " To create a decoy?" "To divert our attention?" "Which seems to be working." "This woman saw someone." "I wanna know who." " Yes, that's him." " Are you sure?" "Everything he said made it sound like Gary was still alive." "But 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?" " Your eye." " What?" "Oh, my God." "What's happening to me?" "I think you just burst a capillary." "Scully?" " Can we get Mrs Davenport an eye exam?" " An eye exam?" "For what?" "The man we're looking for, the man she saw, has a knack for vanishing in plain sight." "She has a subconjunctival hemorrhage, probably brought on by her emotional state." "And how did she reach that emotional state?" " What about you?" "What are you gonna do?" " I'm gonna see if we're chasing a dead man." " Agent Mulder?" " Yes." "Dr Benjamin Keyser." "I think I located what you're looking for." "It's a miracle I found it." "The record had been partially destroyed." "Two bicuspids and a molar." "This is all that was left at the crash site?" "I've seen findings made with far less." "These are Sergeant Teager's teeth." "I checked them with his dental records." " Can you 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." "Then this is presumptive." "A finding of death based on inconclusive evidence." "It was noted here, even underlined." "\x22Inconclusive.\x22" "Whoever signed off this death chose to ignore the facts, huh?" "I couldn't tell you who that was." "These records were partially destroyed." "Is there any other way to tell?" "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." "We have reason to believe your life may be in danger." "What are you talking about?" "The person responsible for the murder of General MacDougal may have chosen to target you." "Based on what information?" "A death certificate you may have put your signature on." "The death certificate for Sergeant Nathaniel Teager." "I don't know about that, but I'm on my way to the Pentagon right now." "Sir, I have to ask you to trust my risk assessment and take every caution." "Right." "Do you know your driver, sir?" "Yes." "He drives me all the time." "I'm gonna put two FBI agents there to escort you just as a precaution." "They have my mobile phone number, OK?" "How many of you know what a pentagon is?" "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." " General, sir." " Good afternoon." " All clear, General." " Thank you, gentlemen." "That'll be all." " Mulder." " I'm at the Georgetown Medical Center." "Did you find out what made her eye bleed?" "No, but the ophthalmologist discovered something called a transient scotoma." " Scotoma?" " A floating blind spot." " What would cause that?" " Any number of diseases can scar the retina." "Diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration." "In turn they create a visual field deficit." " Does she have any of those diseases?" " It doesn't appear so." "Don't you think it's odd she'd have a blind spot she wouldn't have noticed?" "Not necessarily." "The processes of the brain fill in, and the visual cortex compensates conceptually." " That might account for Teager's vanishing." " I asked the doctor that." "He laughed at me." "Hold on, 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." "The agents I assigned to you - are they with you?" "No." "They're just outside." "Call them into your office now, General." "Who put this here?" "Listen carefully." "I'm on my way there." "General Steffan?" "General Steffan?" "Call an ambulance." "The general's secretary was in here no more than 15 minutes before the general was shot." "He never saw this card and he never saw anyone go in, aside from the general and his agents." "From my cursory exam, nothing can explain your narrative." "I was on the phone with him." "He was shot in the forehead." "He would've seen the shooter." "Not necessarily." "He could've turned and been surprised." "There's too little evidence yet to know." "No scotoma?" "It's beyond my capabilities to make that analysis." "But somebody's got to explain how a four-star general could be killed in 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." "I wanna know how the hell this happened." "Neither of us has a clear explanation, sir." "You knew the general was in danger." "I did everything I could." " This man is killing at will." " That's correct, sir." " He's unstoppable?" " I think Teager has an ability." "The ability to erase himself from the visual field." "If he's invisible, then why is he on this video clear as day?" "I think he can hide himself by manipulating what Scully refers to as a blind spot." "That is conjecture, sir." " Even when looking at him?" " You might not be able to see him." "US soldiers 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." "We've got four miles of streets where 31 officers are staging for a parade into Freedom Square." "If what you're saying is true, I can't protect these men." "Call it off." "Parade or no parade, the only way to stop this killer is to catch him." "How?" "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 find him." "The 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 lookin' at it." "As it stands, you are facing charges of conspiracy to commit homicide and treason." "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 makin' damn sure everyone hears it loud and clear." "Band." "Band." "Time." "You told me you were in a rush." "Crosstown traffic's snarled up because of the parade." "You need information on 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 POW named Teager may be 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 US military about the disposing of South Vietnamese soldiers." "Men employed by our government as spies and then left behind enemy lines to certain death." "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?" "Get out of the car, sir, for your own safety." " Why?" " Your life might be in danger." "From who?" "Shooter." "Get down." " Where?" "Where is he?" " He was there." "I saw him." "I..." "It was him, sir." "It was the man in the photo." "Are you sure?" "I saw him, sir." "It was him." "Are you sure?" "Hup." "Mount." "Call when you find out." "Scully, I heard what happened." "You saved General Bloch's life." "He's doing all right." "He's over there." " 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." "But you drew your gun." "You must have been convinced." "How are you so convinced that Bloch was his next target?" "I found out about Bloch from the person who told me we were never meant to save Bloch's life." " What?" " This case." "Why has it been dumped on you?" "Is heading up an antiterrorism detail part of yourjob?" " That doesn't prove he was set up." " They knew Teager would be unstoppable." " They wanted Skinner to fail?" " And us." "They knew you'd bring us in." "The government is not about to sacrifice the lives of military officers just to discredit us." " Discrediting us is only secondary." " Secondary to what?" "Maintaining their policy of denial about POWs, and silencing the men who made that policy." "Markham's story is having its intended effect." "You're buying into the lie." "Markham may be the only man in this case who's telling the truth." " If you don't believe me, ask General Bloch." " Ask me what?" "I can't wait here." "I'm delivering the keynote address in five minutes." "You might reconsider." "He won't reconsider." "Not going out would be an admission of guilt." "We still have reason to believe your life is in danger." "It's yourjob to protect me still, isn't it?" " That's what we're trying to do." " Then do yourjob." "General..." "All right, people, listen up, because we don't have much time." "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?" "To create a national memorial..." "Hey, man, is that you?" "..for all Americans who gave their lives in the Vietnam War." "Hey, where ya goin'?" "Hey, where ya goin'?" "The founder of the Vietnam Veterans 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, the airmen, the sailors." " Hey, Teager." "It's me" " Leo Danzinger." "I saw you, man." "Where are ya?" "Behind you." "I..." "I thought you were dead." "That's what they told us." "That's what they wanted you to believe." " I don't understand." " You will." "After tonight." "What are you talkin' 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 letting me die off was easier than admitting the truth." "It's all over, Teager." "It's been over for a long time now." "Not for me." "Not for the others." "You're tellin' me there's more?" "What are you doin', man?" "Where are ya?" "It is an 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." "You're my eyes out there." "Positions report." "We owe that freedom to the selfless sacrifice..." " Sector three clear." " No sign of him in four." "And it is our duty to remember them." "Hold on." "I think I have him in section four." "Can you confirm that, Scully?" "Positive." "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." " I'm cutting him off." "Talk to me, people." "Does anybody have him?" "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?" " I can't see him anywhere." " He must be headed your way." " You got him, Mulder?" " Not yet." "I got him." "I lost him." "Mulder, he's right in front of you." " He's got a gun." " General, get off the stage." "I can't see him." "Teager's here." "I saw him." "He's gone." "He's gone." "No cause for alarm, ladies and gentlemen." "Just a minor disturbance." " Where's Bloch?" " With Skinner." " We gotta stop him." " What's going on?" "He can only hide himself in somebody's direct line of sight." "That's why he killed MacDougal and Steffan at close quarters." "Get away from the car." "Teager's in the car." "Get down." "Get 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." "Service number 82278." "Date of birth March 7, 1952." "Sergeant, Green Beret Detachment B-11." "Service number 82278." "March 7, 1952." "The Pentagon claims that the man who was killed was Thomas Lynch." "A vet who's been in and out of VA psychiatric hospitals for 15 years." "A sometime member of the Right Hand." "He was on Denny Markham's mailing list." " Markham made a positive ID." " They must've gotten to him." "Army Forensics claims to have confirmation." "You heard him." "We both did." "It's happening all over again." "They're covering the lies, to make him invisible." "We've gotta subpoena Markham and Bloch, and petition for the release of Teager's body." "I can't do that, Agent Mulder." "Why not?" "This has been turned over to CID." "It's no longer ourjurisdiction." " Don't let them do this." " Let it go." "You did yourjob." "So did Nathaniel Teager." "You found the man, but now he's dead." "It's over." "Is that what you believe?" "Is that what you really believe?" "They're notjust denying this man's life." "They're denying his death." "And with all due respect, sir, he could be you."