The X-Files movie - Ten Thirteen lyrics

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Song by Chris Carter<br /><br>

The method, as they call it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of singular meta-scientific complexity, had been<br>

given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids<br>

who would hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien bio-material, so there would be a clone race immune to the<br>

effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of<br>

immunity or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme.<br>

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They were the Vichy government to the German "Final Solution": collaborationists whose motivation was simple, self-directed<br>

survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloging and record-keeping done through a complex<br>

intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government, from the Social Security Administration to the<br>

Department of Defense.<br>

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The operation, under the working title "Purity Control," had been launched in 1948, its original conception the brainchild<br>

of German scientists given immunity themselves for war crimes, and allowed to continue the eugenic experiments that were<br>

Hitler's dark legacy.<br>

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The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create plausible denial<br>

and an effective cover-up of Purity Control. But through 50 years, numerous U.S. and U.N. administrations, the principals<br>

began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders, such that - by 1990 - the operation<br>

ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders would be taken from a man named Strughold, a<br>

German industrialist who had fled his homeland to northern Africa.<br>

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These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a foreseeable future, had, in spite of this, everything to lose.<br>

Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloging constituted their greatest vulnerability: exposure. Their<br>

detection would ensure not just their own demise, but a far-reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the<br>

globe.<br>

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To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation, using covert government programs that had been<br>

regrettably discovered, as a kind of smokescreen - a dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress-accountable agencies<br>

served to hide their own more odious undertaking.<br>

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They had even at times used the UFO phenomenon to create a hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced so<br>

completely as to make belief in believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable.<br>

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They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves - alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning<br>

operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonization. A double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics had helped to<br>

stem a leak or threat, but who also kept a watch on the Syndicate. A threat in itself, as the Syndicate had something to hide<br>

that not even the colonists knew of: a vaccine against the black oil, an inoculant against the substance in which the alien<br>

life force was held - in fact, the very medium of the life force itself.<br>

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To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life, and of colonization. If<br>

the Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered, the vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the<br>

black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret<br>

with their lives. They would kill to protect it, as it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the<br>

planet was overtaken.<br>

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That they had been able to, over decades, conduct their work on the vaccine undetected was the result of a code among the<br>

Syndicate members that put honor and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down, an<br>

incipient scramble for power beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat from without: from agents<br>

Mulder and Scully, and the X-files.<br>

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