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The X-Files: I Want to Believe 2008 [FullVersion]
Directed by Chris Carter
Produced by Chris Carter
Frank Spotnitz
Written by Frank Spotnitz
Chris Carter
Starring David Duchovny
Gillian Anderson
Billy Connolly
Amanda Peet
Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner
Mitch Pileggi
Music by Mark Snow
Cinematography Bill Roe
Editing by Richard A. Harris
Studio Ten Thirteen Productions
Dune Entertainment III
Crying Box Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) July 25, 2008 (US and Canada) August 1, 2008 (United Kingdom) November 7, 2008 (Japan)
Running time 104 minutes
Country Canada
United States
Language English
Budget $30,000,000[1]
Gross revenue $68,369,434 (Worldwide)[2]
$15,822,864 (US DVD/Blu-ray Sales)[3]
Preceded by The X-Files
Plot
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, treating a young boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Mosely Drummy (Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) arrives to ask Scully's help in locating Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says that the FBI will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Bannan (Xantha Radley). Scully agrees and convinces Mulder who is living in a nearby small home, bearded and clipping newspaper articles about the paranormal, to help.
The duo is taken to Washington, D.C., where Agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) wants Mulder's expertise with the paranormal as they have been led to a clue by Father Joseph (Joe) Fitzgerald Crissman (Billy Connolly), a priest defrocked for pedophilia who claims God is sending him visions of the crimes. Whitney and Drummy take Father Joe and Mulder to the kidnapped Bannan's home, where the former priest overcomes the others skepticism when in anguish and on his knees in pain, begins to bleed from his eyes. A second woman, driving home after swimming in a natatorium, is run off the road by Janke Dacyshyn (Callum Keith Rennie), a snowplow driver who then wrecks her car and abducts her. Father Joe is again recruited for help with the second abducted woman. After a grueling nighttime search in a snow covered field, he leads the FBI to what turns out to be a frozen burial ground of people and body parts. Analysis of the remains eventually leads them to Dacyshyn, an organ transporter in Richmond, Virginia, and his husband, Franz Tomczeszyn (Fagin Woodcock) who was among the youths Father Joe sexually abused. During an FBI raid on the organ donor facility where Dacyshyn works, he ends up escaping, leaving Bannan's severed head at the scene. Mulder, who accompanied Whitney on the raid, chases Dacyshyn to a building construction site. Whitney follows, and is killed when Dacyshyn pushes her down an elevator shaft.
Later, Scully goes to Father Joe's apartment to confront him about his religious visions. To her despair, he says he knows nothing more about those visions than what he had told the FBI, and then collapses suffering a seizure, as we are shown at the same moment Tomczeszyn begins to suffer a seizure too. Scully calls for an ambulance, and later learns that Father Joe, who is admitted to Our Lady of Sorrows, suffers from advanced lung cancer. Scully, seeking a resolution, asks him if Bannan is still alive as he replies she is. Deciding to investigate the incidents further, Mulder drives Scully's car to Nutter's Feed Store in a small town near the abductions. He learns Dacyshyn has purchased an animal tranquilizer. When Dacyshyn coincidentally arrives moments later, Mulder slips out and then follows him to a small compound. Mulder enters, and the commotion caused by a two-headed guard dog's attack brings Dacyshyn out from one of the buildings; a hideout for a makeshift east-European medical team led by Tomczeszyn that has been murdering people and stealing their organs for years. The field where Father Joe had earlier discovered the bodies, turned out to be their dumping ground. Mulder enters the building to find that the team is attempting to place Tomczeszyn's head on the body of the second abducted woman. Mulder tries to save her, but a doctor comes from behind and injects him with acepromazine. Helpless, Mulder is taken outside to be murdered by Dacyshyn.
When Scully cannot reach Mulder on his cell phone, she calls her old FBI superior, Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), for help. They triangulate the phone's location and find Scully's abandoned car, eventually making their way through the snow to find a rural mailbox whose address, 25-2, corresponds to a Biblical chapter and verse, Proverbs 25:2, from which Father Joe had quoted to Scully through a vision. They race to the address where Skinner breaks up the medical procedure before the young woman is beheaded. Mulder is about to be axed by Dacyshyn, but Scully attacks him in an ensuing confrontation, incapacitating him. Later, Mulder is at home when Scully tells him Father Joe has died. It happened at the same moment, Mulder notes, that Scully disconnected Tomczeszyn's severed head. Somehow, he surmises, the two men's fates were linked by more than just visions. Scully remains troubled by Father Joe's advice, "Don't give up", and expresses doubts about Christian's surgery, due to the words of a pedophile priest. When the moment of surgery comes however, Scully pauses a moment, turns and sees three nuns and then forges ahead with the risky procedure.
