XIII: The Conspiracy is a 2008 television film in two parts, based on the eponymous graphic novel series by Belgian authors Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, about an amnesiac protagonist who seeks to discover his concealed past.

It was first broadcast in France in October 2008 by Canal+; followed by NBC in the USA in February 2009; by Nine in Australia (as The Conspiracy) in November 2009; and by Five in the United Kingdom in December 2009 (where it was shown as a single feature instead of in two parts).

When the first female president of the United States, Sally Sheridan, (Mimi Kuzyk) is killed by a sniper, her assassin narrowly escapes after a shootout involving a shadowy figure named La Mangouste (Val Kilmer) or "The Mongoose".

XIII is aided by Kim, her father, General Carrington (Stephen McHattie), and Jones, a CIA operative, who reveal he was a special ops agent who underwent facial reconstruction for an undercover mission to flush out a group of fascists plotting to overthrow the American government.

In an NSA safehouse, Carrington reveals XIII's identity as Ross Tanner, who lost his wife and daughter in the sarin gas attacks in Chicago.

XIII and Jones research Jasper Winthrow, CEO of Standard Electronics, which owns Stratus Dynamics, a military contractor impacted by the former president's plan to scale down America's presence in Iraq.

"[3] On the other side, USA Today said "Poorly cast and performed (including an embarrassing turn by Val Kilmer), XIII is shot so murkily and staged so badly, you can hardly tell where people are, let alone where they're going.