“The Truth II” is episode twenty of season nine of The X-Files and the second part of the two-part season and, at the time, series finale.
Doggett enters the courtroom and speaks to Skinner, who says he wants to call an unscheduled witness. In the previous episode, “The Truth”, Gibson Praise heard about Mulder’s trial, and he’s the witness. Mulder objects as he’s been trying to protect Gibson; Skinner tells him that Gibson is now going to protect him.
Skinner explains that Gibson can read people’s minds. Mulder and Scully proved that scientifically. Gibson confirms he can read the minds of those there. Including the judges. Even one of them. When asked what makes that one so special, Gibson says he’s not human. Mulder wants the judge, Toothpick Man, examined.
Instead, he’s taken out of court, then back to his cell where Skinner, Reyes and Doggett are. Gibson is with Scully. Mulder thinks Gibson shouldn’t have come but Skinner says he’s trying to protect Mulder and it may have worked. According to Reyes, Gibson says that three judges are wavering in Mulder’s favour. Mulder says it will take more than that; they were never going to win. Mulder refuses to testify. Both Reyes and Doggett offer and, despite Mulder saying they’ll be destroyed, won’t back down.
Doggett is called and it’s made clear that he’s a sceptic before moving on to the supersoldiers. Which Doggett believes in, having seen them with his own eyes. They’re been shot, drowned, crushed in a garbage truck and always come back to life. He figures they’re a secret military project. Skinner says the man Mulder is accused of killing is a supersoldier that Doggett served with in the Marines. Kallenbrunner objects; Doggett hasn’t seen the victim. Not for lack of trying, according to Doggett. Doggett says Mulder couldn’t have killed Rohrer; the only way is with a rare metal, a magnetite meteorite. And Mulder hasn’t been accused of doing that. Kallenbrunner says Mulder believes the supersoldiers are aliens. And an alien conspiracy must be unbelievable to Doggett. And that’s what Mulder has built his defence on.
Reyes is brought in next; she testifies as to what happened when Scully have birth and how the child was extraordinary. Kallenbrunner asks if she can present the baby. No; William was given up for adoption. Reyes ends up having a go at them, including Kersh, saying they will lose.
Later, Doggett and Reyes head to Scully’s. They think they’ve found Rohrer’s body. Or at least what they’re saying is his body. Doggett spoke to someone who didn’t know he was supposed to be given the run-around. It’s been transferred to Quantico. Reyes and Scully head there. The body is rather crispy. Reyes says it would be hard to tell who it is. Scully wants Rohrer’s medical records.
At court, Scully arrives with what she’s found. Skinner reads it and moves to dismiss the case, because there’s no victim The body is of a man who died of a broken neck and was burnt post-mortem. Kersh denies this. Scully had no authorisation to examine the body. He adjourns the trial.
Later, the judges come back with the verdict. After fair and impartial consideration – which surely no-one in the room believes, including Kersh, who is the one saying it – they find the defendant guilty. Does he wish to say anything before sentencing? He does. Mulder congratulates them on succeeding where so many before failed. He has a go at the judges. The truth is still out there and it will be known.
Skinner contacts the others at Scully’s. Mulder has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.
Knowle Rohrer turns up at the Marine base. Skinner and Doggett are smuggling Mulder out, which means Rohrer finds an empty cell. They get aid from an unexpected source, and that’s not the only unexpected thing.
In terms of endings, this isn’t really one. Despite it being known to be the last one, there was a sequel hook. Which wasn’t even covered in the six years later film, I Want to Believe. It wasn’t until season ten and “My Struggle”, thirteen years later, that any progress was made.