Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) enters with Dr. While still at the hospital, Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) recalls how he was tortured on the alien ship. Three words are written on the disk: FIGHT THE FUTURE. Bleeding on the ground, he hands over a computer disk, begging them to give it to the President. As he struggles with them, he pulls a gun and accidentally shoots himself. Under cover of darkness, an unidentified man jumps over the fence to the White House and is intercepted by Secret Service personnel. Former series star and recurring actor David Duchovny later declared he had been happy to see his character depart in this way. The producers and writers felt that, if Mulder's character was given a clean exit, the show could more easily focus on the characters of John Doggett and Monica Reyes in the following season. The episode was written to signal Mulder's exit from the FBI. When a man is gunned down on the White House lawn attempting to inform the president of a pending alien invasion, Mulder secretly conducts his own investigation, but is soon in over his head as he tries to expose further evidence of colonization. The episode centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny), Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) and John Doggett ( Robert Patrick), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. It earned a Nielsen rating of 7.6, viewed by 7.77 million households, and received mixed to positive reviews from television critics. Written by executive producers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Tony Wharmby, it explores the series' overarching mythology. It first aired in the United States and Canada on April 8, 2001, on Fox. " Three Words" is the sixteenth episode of the eighth season (and the 177th episode overall) of the science fiction television series The X-Files. Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner.The phrase is an important recurring motif in The X-Files universe and was the subtitle for the 1998 film. The titular "Three Words": Fight the Future.
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