"The method, as they called it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of singular mediscientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a 'quid pro quo.' The syndicate would help them to create a population of alien-hybrids who would hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien biomaterial. So there would be a clone race immune to the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of immunity or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme.

"They were the Vichy government to the German final solution - collaborationists whose motivation was simple, self-directed survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloguing and record-keeping done through a complex intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government, from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Defense. The operation, under the working title 'Purity Control,' had been launched in 1948. Its original conception, the brain-child of German scientists given immunity themselves from war crimes and allowed to continue the eugenics experiments that were Hitler's dark legacy.

"The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create plausible denial and an effective cover-up of 'Purity Control.' But through 50 years, numerous U.S. and UN administrations, the principles began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders.

"Such that by 1990, the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders will be taken from a man named Strughold, a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to Northern Africa. These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a foreseeable future, had in spite of this, everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloguing constituted their greatest vulnerability - exposure. Their detection would insure not just their own demise but a far-reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the globe.

"To protect against this, the Syndicate employs methods of disinformation, using covert government programs that had been regrettably discovered as a kind of smokescreen. They dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress-accountable agencies serve to hide their own more odious undertaking. They had even at times used a UFO phenomena to create a hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced so completely as to make belief in believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable.

"They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves - alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonization. A double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics had helped to stem a leak or threat but who also kept watch on the syndicate. A threat in itself as the Syndicate had something to hide that not even the colonists knew of - a vaccine against the black oil. An inoculant against the substance in which the alien life force was held. In fact, the very medium of the life force itself.

"To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life and of colonization. If the Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered, a vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret with their lives, they would kill to protect it as it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken. That they had been able to, over decades, conduct their work on the vaccine undetected, was a result of a code among the Syndicate members to put honor and the future above personal politics.

"But now this code was beginning to break down. An incipient scramble for power beginning to develop, a threat from within that doubled the threat from without -- from agents Mulder and Scully and the X-Files."

Mulder: What is this?

WMM: A weak vaccine against the virus agent Scully has been infected with. It must be administered within 96 hours. That leaves you little time to reach those coordinates.

Mulder: You're lying.

WMM: No. Oh, I have no means to prove otherwise. The virus is extraterrestrial. We know very little about it, except--it was the original inhabitant of this planet.

Mulder: A virus?

WMM: What is a virus, but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated. Living in a cave, underground ... until it mutates, and attacks.

Mulder: This is what you've been conspiring to conceal? A disease?

WMM: No, for God's sake! You've got it all backwards. AIDS, the Ebola virus ... on an evolutionary scale, they are newborns. *This virus* walked the planet long before the dinosaurs.

Mulder: What do you mean, "walked"?

WMM: Your aliens, agent Mulder. Your little green men. They arrived here millions of years ago. Those that didn't leave, have been lying dormant, underground, since the last ice age, in the form of an evolved pathogen ... waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race, when it comes to colonize the planet ... using us as hosts. Against this, we have no defense. Nothing, but a weak vaccine. Do you see why it was kept secret? Why even the best men, men like your father, do not let the truth be known? Until Dallas, we believed the virus would simply control us; that massive infection would simply make us a slave race. Imagine our surprise when they begun to gestate.

Mulder: Why are you telling me this?

WMM: For the sake of my own children. Once it's learned what I've told you, my life will be over.

WMM: Survival is the ultimate ideology. Your father wisely refused to believe this.
Mulder: But he sacrificed my sister. He let them take Samantha.
WMM: Without a vaccination, the only true survivors of the viral holocaust will be those immune to it--human-alien clones. He allowed your sister to be abducted, to be taken to a cloning program for one reason.
Mulder: So she would survive ... as a genetic hybrid.
WMM: Your father chose hope over selfishness. Hope, the only future he had, his children. His hope for you was that you would uncover the truth about the project, that you would stop it, that you would fight the future.