SKINNER: You read this report?
Do you believe them?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Of course I do.
DR. OPENSHAW: A man should never live long enough to see his children or his work destroyed.
SCULLY: Do you recognize any of these men?
BYERS: Are you familiar with a post-World War II project known as Operation Paper Clip?
MULDER: Our deal with the devil. The U.S. government provided safe haven for certain Nazi war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge.
(Langly points out Klemper.)
LANGLY: I know who this man is. Victor Klemper.
BYERS: The man standing next to your father is one of those criminals, though not the most famous of the bunch. Wernher von Braun, designer of the V-2 rockets that leveled London, may be the most notorious, but Victor Klemper certainly takes the prize for the most… evil Nazi to escape the Nuremburg trials.
SCULLY: What did he do?
LANGLY: He experimented on the Jews… drowned them, suffocated them, put them in pressure chambers. All in the name of science.
BYERS: Together with Von Braun, Klemper helped us win the space race. Using his scientific data on the effects of high-altitude flying, we were able to put astronauts on the moon before the Soviets.
LANGLY: One giant step for mankind.
SCULLY: What would he be doing in a photo with your father?
MULDER: I don’t know. Do you recognize anybody else in the photograph?
(Langly shakes his head.)
BYERS: No. Operation Paper Clip was supposed to have been scrapped in the 1950s but if this is 1973…
SCULLY: Whatever happened to Klemper?
LANGLY: He’s still here, living very well at the expense of the American taxpayer.
MULDER: (voiceover) Two men, young, idealistic - the fine product of a generation hardened by world war. Two fathers whose paths would converge in a new battle - an invisible war between a silent enemy and a sleeping giant on a scale to dwarf all historical conflicts. A 50-years war, its killing fields lying in wait for the inevitable global holocaust.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
