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"This is the first selection of music on the Voyager spacecraft. The first. Four and a half billion years from now, when the sun exhausts its fuel and swells to engulf the earth, this expression will still be out there, traveling four and a half billion years. That is, if it's not intercepted first. Imagine, Fox. If another civilization out there were to hear this, they would think 'what a wonderful place the earth must be.'" - Sen. Richard Matheson (Little Gren Men)

Senator Richard Matheson

Tall, distinguished looking, and moving with regal grace, Sen. Richard Matheson embodies power and authority. Mulder told Scully in the first episode that certain contacts in Congress had enabled him to pursue his interests in the X-Files; we meet one of those contacts in "Little Green Men." Sen. Matheson summons Mulder to his office to send him on a mission to recover evidence of alien contact; he demonstrates a detailed knowledge of the space program as well as the Voyager mission, and indulges in a little wistful fantasizing as he imagines Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto as Earth's musical representative to alien worlds. On a more practical level, he states with conviction that he can hold off the secret military UFO retrieval team for only 24 hours, and warns Mulder that these Blue Berets will kill him if they find him with the evidence. Here, it would seem, is an out-and-out ally for Mulder, unalloyed by fear or double-dealing. But although Matheson appears here as a power to be reckoned with, when Mulder goes to him for help in "Ascension," X tells him that the Senator cannot help him now. Whether X is guessing, or is speaking for the Senator himself, he reminds Mulder that "they," including Beltway politicians, have only one policy: deny everything.

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