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There's a lot of film and tape behind the scenes, and this guy has the scoop on Mulder and Scully! But, it's  'just a job'  to him.


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Title: Cinematographer

Author: Pattie

Rated: PG

Category: Narrative, Myth Arc.

Spoiler(s): The entire series.

Summary: Someone behind the tapes and hidden
videos takes stock of Mulder and Scully.

Feedback: patfiler2016@outlook.com

Archive: Gossamer. Others, just ask if you want
it, please.

Disclaimer: All characters of the show and The
X-Files are copyrighted property of Chris Carter,
Ten Thirteen Productions and Fox Studios. Any
original characters are mine. I make no money from
this hobby, and intend no copyright infringement.

Author's Note: No, the character is definitely NOT
Chris Carter. Hi, Mr. Carter.


Another day, another dollar. All I have to do is look
and listen. Okay, so my wife and kids don't know that
I'm a spy, a Peeping Tom, a voyeur. They don't know
that I go over video and audio tapes for a "business"
of sorts. So my pay could be called "hush money". It
puts clothes on our backs and food on the table. You
do what you have to do these days, right?

Reels and reels of sound. Stacks of videos from all
over the country and even the Hoover Building. I tell
my family and neighbors I run a recording studio. Yeah,
right. The two "stars" of my works of art are a short,
red-haired woman and a tall, brown-haired man who just
happen to be FBI Agents. Not all of my "videography"
and "recordings" were taken by me personally. Some of
the places my workmates placed cameras and microphones
would make us look like perverts, but what the heck.
"Get it on tape!" I was told. "Never let them out of
sight!"

Well, it sure beats picking up trash for a living. Who
am I to judge the people who hired me? The subjects or
"objets d'art" may have found one or two of our mikes,
but that's just another occupational hazard, along with
loud music and bird droppings.

This shows they're both in the hospital for some
reason. No, I think that's actually decontamination.
Yeah, something about green little mites and a lumber
camp. Their reports, from what I recall, sounded like
the plot from a scary bug movie. Well, I guess there is
truth in some of the things the movies show, too.

Didn't I see a National Geographic show about creatures
who live so deep under the sea that we're just starting
to name them and study them? Well, it was the kids'
idea to watch that after "The Little Mermaid" came out.
The "Finding Nemo" movie did a lot to get them into
that, too.

Hmm... I AM paid to be here, so I suppose I should go
through the archives and make sure everything is clear
as crystal.

Too bad about the lady's head and the guy's ribs. I
guess that's all in a day's work for FBI Agents. That
week was one rough week! Something about a "fight club"
and twins separated at birth, or maybe not. Who woulda
thought?

Ah, now here's a classic. My, but aren't I sentimental!
This one gets to me, but I do have a family to feed, so
this is strictly business. Now if I were a critic for
some network or paper, I'd be rating this one as a tear-
jerker. Sound track is awesome! I had to put it all
together from several angles, and three mikes.

The big fibbie's apartment. (That was a cinch to bug.
He's hardly ever home.) So anyway, the little lady's
here to tell him that the powers that be at the Hoover
have shut them down. That poor little redhead's in
tears, and he isn't far behind her. He can't accept
that she wants to move on from there, maybe going back
to being a doctor as she always wanted to be. Now he's
begging her not to stop helping him look for the
things he wants to find out. They're close to "The
Truth", as he calls it, so many times here and way back.

Look at that. Now he's saying she's kept him honest,
that she's his touchstone, (and that hallway was so easy
to wire), she can't leave him now that they're onto things.
She says anything from here on in is personal, as far as
any more snooping around and asking questions. (That
means her sister, I think. Maybe it means him, too.)

Aw nuts! The bee stings here, she goes into some sort of
shock, and he was just going to kiss her! Damn! I was
actually rooting for the poor sucker! You can't tell me
they're not into each other. Me and the guys have been
doing their motel rooms for a long, long time. They're
out of town so often, my wife thinks I'm stepping out
on her!

Okay, so here's another one. Yeah, that was a good
year. There they are in the office, puttin' it all
back together after a fire. They managed to save a
few things. And I know how he did it, where he had a
lot of other stuff, but I was just putting cameras and
microphones in place, so I really don't care about
what's in his desk at home, or the mother lode of
disks and paper in his bedroom.

Listen to this one. Hoo boy, she's telling him about
some guy she had an affair with. He was in the hospital
dying, a little bit about her experiencing time slowing
down, choices she made that led her to this point, then
she falls asleep. Well, under the Budda is a mike. She
falls asleep while he's talking to her. Than after
that... Well, ahem, I have that on video... Sure hope
the porno investigators never get me for that one. I
swear the camera was only set up so we could get a
gander of what he was reading late at night, after
someone actually put a bed in his room. Mirrors on
the ceiling, too. We monitor Morris Fletcher.

Now lets see... oh yeah! Their first meeting. He
sees himself as "The FBI's Most Unwanted". She's
there to see to it that he doesn't get too close to
some interesting "Project". (They don't tell me
nothing. I just do the dirty work and get on with
my business.) She looks happy to see him, and he
sounds like he's not happy to see her, but look at
that. Yeah. Guess what happens eight years down the
road.

I know I'm zipping back and forth, grabbing them out
of order. Hey, I don't really care. I mean, it's not
like it's a soap opera or something, but a guy gets
bored when there's nothing to edit! Nobody will ever see
it in order anyway.

I know my bosses, and I have a few tricks up my sleeve as
well, as far as they're concerned. The things I've heard
them say and the plans they have are something right out
of an outer space movie. And you know, all the blowing
things up, drugging folks and shutting people up is not
going to make any difference when and if what they say
is going to happen happens.

So, here I am talking to myself again. Going over the
"product" as we in the profession call it. Some day, I'm
going to base a TV series on all this, and make a mint of
money, because I don't believe a damn word about aliens,
shape shifters, viruses or a "planned Armageddon".

As for those two fibbies, well, maybe they'll end up like
me and my wife. After all, there's only one author of life,
and I think it's all better left to Him.

Now, where did I put the military courtroom tapes?
They're about the end of this job, and I don't have
any new assignments!


END

Disclaimer: All characters of the show and The X-Files are
copyrighted property of Chris Carter, Ten Thirteen Productions
and Fox Studios. Any original characters are mine. I make no
money from this hobby, and intend no copyright infringement.