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Pilot Production Code: #1X79 Original Air Date: 09/10/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Robert Mandel A YOUNG FBI AGENT IS ASSIGNED WATCHDOG DUTY OVER A FELLOW AGENT, BUT FINDS HERSELF DRAWN INTO HIS INVESTIGATIONS OF PARANORMAL AND UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.

Special Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and instructor at the FBI Academy in Virginia, receives instructions to report to Chief Scott Blevins in Washington. Blevins assigns Scully to investigate – and debunk – an unassigned project dubbed “The X− Files,” a burial ground for mysterious, unsolved FBI cases linked to the paranormal. Scully is instructed to contact Fox Mulder, an agent who has become obsessed with investigating the otherwise forgotten X−File cases. Mulder displays a particular interest in a series of mysterious deaths scattered across the United States linked by one common clue: two strange red marks on the victims’ skin. Mulder and Scully fly to Bellefleur, Oregon, to investigate the death of Karen Swenson, a high school student who died mysteriously, and whose corpse is marked with two red welts. The agents exhume the body Ray Soames, one of Karen’s classmates. When Soames’ casket is opened, however, a strange humanoid carcass is discovered inside. The corpse turns out to be that of an orangutan, and X−rays reveal an unidentified metal object implanted in the creature’s nasal cavity. Mulder and Scully question Billy Miles and Peggy O’Dell, classmates of Swenson and Soames who were injured in an automobile accident and have since been institutionalized. Miles has been reduced to a near vegetable state, while O’Dell has been confined to a wheelchair. O’Dell suddenly becomes violent, and in the struggle to subdue her, two red marks are discovered on her skin. While searching the field where Karen Swenson met her fate, the agents are confronted by a detective who orders them off the premises. The pair comply, but as they drive along the highway, they are blinded by a strange light from the sky. The light drains the energy from their car, bringing it to a halt. Mulder looks at his watch and realizes nine minutes cannot be accounted for. The pair return to their motel where Mulder tells Scully that his interest in the X−Files stems from his childhood when his sister, who was then eight years old, was abducted from their bedroom while he

slept. Mulder says that he could not recall any of the incidents until placed under hypnosis years later. An anonymous phone call tips the agents that Peggy O’Dell was killed as she ran along the highway. While investigating the incident, the agents are informed that the autopsy bay was vandalized. They return to the hotel to find their rooms have been set ablaze, destroying all evidence gathered in the case. The agents are confronted by Theresa Nemman, daughter of the coroner who originally performed the autopsies on the victims. She admits she too bears the red marks on her skin, and describes how a bright light appeared in the sky the evening she was hanging out with her friends Billy Miles and Peggy O’Dell. Mulder hypothesizes that Billy Miles is under the control of an alien force. He adds his belief that Billy killed Peggy O’Dell. The agents return to the forest hoping to gather more evidence. Detective Miles attempts to stop them, and both he and Mulder witness Billy carrying Theresa to the spot in the woods where the other bodies had been found. A mysterious light illuminates Billy, and a strong wind swirls around him. Moments later the light fades and the winds die, and Billy stands over Theresa not knowing where he is or how he got there. The welts having vanished from his skin. After returning to Washington, Scully gives her report. Much to the surprise of her supervisors, the metal object removed from the corpse was not destroyed with all of the other evidence. Scully kept it on her person and turns it into them as the single remaining piece of physical evidence of what had transpired. The metal object is taken by The Cigarette−Smoking Man and filed away alongside several others inside a massive government warehouse in the basement of the Pentagon.

Deep Throat Production Code: #1X01 Original Air Date: 09/17/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Daniel Sackheim A TEST PILOT WHO MAY HAVE BEEN FLYING AIRCRAFT MADE WITH ALIEN TECHNOLOGY DISAPPEARS, AND MULDER AND SCULLY MUST DEFY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT TO FIND THE TRUTH.

Mulder and Scully investigate the strange disappearance of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Budahas, a test pilot for the military who experienced a psychotic episode and was supposedly hospitalized for treatment. Mulder suspects that Budahas may have met the same fate as six other pilots who mysteriously vanished from Ellens Air Base while participating in experimental

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aircraft test flights. Mulder hints to Scully that the disappearance may be linked to the paranormal – classifying it as an “X−File” case. Mulder is approached by a mysterious man – dubbed “Deep Throat” – who advises that the investigation be dropped. But Mulder and Scully ignore the advice and interview Mrs. Budahas, who describes her husband’s unpredictable behavior, strange skin rash and aversion to discussing this work on the military’s top secret projects. The agents theorize the pilots may have been associated with Project Aurora, a code name given the Pentagon’s secret testing of sub−orbital spy craft. Aided by tips from reporter Paul Mossinger and UFO buff Ladonna, the agents stake out a fenced area near the base. That night, Mulder and Scully watch in amazement as two brightly lit objects shoot through the night sky maneuvering at incredibly speed. The agents give chase when two teenagers, Emil and Zoe, are spotted climbing through a hole from the opposite side of the fence. But the hunters become the hunted when a helicopter from the base bears down on the group. The foursome escape, retreating to a restaurant where Zoe and Emil recount tales of watching the light show. Mulder tells a disbelieving Scully that the military may be flying planes built using technology from a UFO. Mrs. Budahas phones the agents at their hotel when her husband suddenly reappears. But the Lieutenant Colonel cannot remember any details having to do with his past and the military. Mulder tells Scully he believes Budahas’ memory has somehow been drained, and that he – like the other missing pilots who tested the mysterious aircraft – are physiologically incapable of dealing with the stress created during the flights. The agents are approached by men who seize their evidence and order them to leave town. But Mulder returns to the base, and using Emil and Zoe as guides, climbs through the hole in the fence. Alone on the base, Mulder is spotted by a UFO and taken prisoner by base security that suddenly arrives. He is then sedated and treated by mysterious figures acting as doctors. Scully is attacked by Mossinger, who she discovers has been working for the military all along. Scully overpowers him, taking him hostage at gunpoint. She uses Mossinger to find Mulder and when she learns he is in custody of the military trades Mossinger in return for Mulder. But when he is returned to her, he is unable to recall his encounter with the UFO or what happened while he was on the base because of the treatment they gave him. Back in Washington, Mulder is once again approached by Deep Throat while jogging. Deep Throat warns Mulder that the agents have chosen a

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very dangerous path and their lives are in danger now that they know the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Squeeze Production Code: #1X02 Original Air Date: 09/24/93 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Harry Longstreet MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR A HUMANOID KILLER WHOSE SAVAGE MURDER SPREE REOCCURS EVERY THIRTY YEARS.

FBI Agent Tom Colton describes to Scully a series of murders he believes were committed by a serial killer. The victims were all murdered inside locked or secured rooms. Each had their liver ripped out of their body. Despite Colton’s discomfort, Mulder is brought into the case. Mulder finds strange humanoid fingerprints at the high−security office building where businessman George Usher was murdered. Mulder links the prints to similar killings that occurred in the United States every thirty years, going back to at least 1903. In each occurrence, five victims had their livers torn out. Instead of combining forces, Scully and Mulder decide to take different avenues of investigating the case: Scully the traditional; Mulder the unorthodox. At the scene of the Usher murder, Mulder assures Scully that the suspect would not return, having already beaten the security system. He thinks the killer would seek a new challenge. But as they talk, Mulder discovers someone crawling inside an air duct. The suspect, an Animal Control officer named Eugene Tooms, is taken into custody. Tooms passes a polygraph test… except for those questions posed by Mulder regarding his age. Mulder suspects Tooms is the killer. Using a computer, he manipulates the image of Tooms’ fingerprints, elongating them. They are compared to the prints from 1933. The prints match. Scully is intrigued and re−teams with Mulder on the case. Tooms attacks and kills another victim guarded by high−tech security equipment. Tooms disappears; Scully and Mulder find that his apartment was never lived in. Scully tracks down Frank Briggs, the sheriff who investigated the five murders that occurred in 1933. Briggs describes how he tracked the murders until the present day, never able to prove his belief that Tooms was the killer. The agents locate an abandoned building that Tooms once listed as his address. Inside they discover a small room containing “trophies” taken from each crime scene throughout the century. Mulder speculates that Tooms may be a genetic mutation that hibernates for decades and eats

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human livers to provide sustenance. As they leave the scene, Tooms procures Scully’s necklace. Scully arranges a stake−out of the abandoned building, but Colton calls it off without informing Mulder. Mulder arrives at the building, and finding no undercover agents, ventures inside. He finds Scully’s necklace placed with the other trophies. Mulder races to Scully’s apartment and finds her grappling with Tooms. Mulder draws his weapon and, with Scully’s help, manages to handcuff Tooms. He is taken to jail, where he begins assembling a new “nest.”

Conduit Production Code: #1X03 Original Air Date: 10/01/93 Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Directed by Daniel Sackheim MULDER BECOMES OBSESSED WITH SOLVING A CASE THAT CLOSELY PARALLELS AN “ENCOUNTER” HE EXPERIENCED AS A CHILD.

In a remote region along the banks of Lake Okoboji in Iowa, a mysterious bright light descends from the night sky. Ruby Morris, a teenage girl, vanishes from her sleeping bag while her brother Kevin frantically call out to their mother. Mulder requests that the FBI investigate the Ruby Morris disappearance after it is reported in a tabloid. Scully and Blevins note a similarity between the case and Mulder’s own childhood “encounter” in which his sister was allegedly abducted by aliens. Mulder tells Scully that Lake Okoboji is a UFO “hot spot.” He presents several newspaper articles written over the last several decades as proof. One article describes a sighting reported by girl scouts, one of whom is identified as Darlene Morris, mother of the girl who disappeared. The agents travel to Iowa to investigate further. Darlene sticks by her story, insisting the disappearance has nothing to do with her divorce. Mulder questions Kevin Morris, who cannot remember what happened the night of the encounter. But Kevin’s strange doodling piques Mulder’s interest and he has the doodles faxed to Washington for analysis. The boy says his doodles are the result of his television communicating with him. Scully and Mulder are contacted by a young girl who keeps her identity secret. The girl states that a boy named Greg Randall got Ruby pregnant, and that he couple were planning to elope together. Kevin Morris’ doodles turn out to be part of a top secret binary defense satellite transmission. The boy is taken into custody by NSA Agent Holtzman and then released. New doodles taken from the Morris home turn out to be digital renderings of everything from Shakespeare passages to bars from

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a Brandenburg concerto. Mulder believes the boy has become a conduit for alien transmissions. The agents return to the site of the abduction. They find evidence of intense heat. They also find Greg Randall’s body buried in a shallow grave. Mulder discovers a handwritten note in Randall’s wallet noting a doctor’s appointment. The handwriting matches that of the mysterious girl encountered earlier. By questioning the doctor, the agents locate the mysterious girl, who turns out to be Tessa Sears. Scully informs Tessa that officials know that it is she – and not Ruby – who was impregnated by Greg Randall. Sears admits she shot Greg when she discovered he was having an affair with Ruby. But she insists she did not murder Ruby. Scully and Mulder return to the Morris home and find it abandoned. They also find a large portrait of Ruby formed with binary numbers. The agents travel back to Lake Okoboji. Mulder finds Kevin floating in a strange fog. Just as Mulder pulls Kevin away, a group of bikers drives by them and Ruby’s unconscious body is discovered nearby. Darlene forbids Mulder from speaking with her daughter, insisting that as far as she is concerned, Ruby had simply run off with bikers. That night, Mulder listens to tape recordings of his hypnosis session in which he described his belief that one day his sister will be returned to Earth unharmed.

The Jersey Devil Production Code: #1X04 Original Air Date: 10/08/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Joe Napolitano MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A LEGENDARY CREATURE THAT HAS ROAMED THE NEW JERSEY COUNTRYSIDE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS.

Mulder and Scully investigate the gruesome murder of Roger Crockett, a homeless man who was attacked and partially eaten in a wooded area outside Atlantic City. Mulder believes the death is related to a similar incident that occurred in New Jersey in 1947, in which a motorist was attacked and eaten by a half−human creature as he attempted to fix a flat tire. The agents travel to the Atlantic City morgue to gather more information. They clash with Detective Thompson, the local police official in charge of the investigation. Unphased, Mulder decides to perform an investigation on his own. He interviews Ranger Brullet, who discovered the body, and a homeless man named Jack, who knew the victim. Both believe Crockett was killed by The Jersey Devil, a legendary half−human creature that roams the New Jersey countryside. Meanwhile, Scully attends her godson’s

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birthday party, where she meets Rob, a handsome divorcee. Mulder stakes out a dark alley near the woods where Jack claims the Devil has been prowling. That night, the creature makes an appearance, but before Mulder gets a good look at it, the police arrive and arrest him, mistaking him at first for a vagrant. At the jail, Mulder again clashes with Thompson, accusing him of keeping the creature a secret so as not to upset tourism in Atlantic City. Scully bails Mulder out of jail and the duo travel to the University of Maryland, where Dr. Roger Diamond affirms Mulder’s theory that a human being might at birth revert to its most primal instincts – devolving into a carnivorous Neanderthal. Scully, meanwhile, goes on a date with Rob. Ranger Brullet finds another body in the backwoods, but this time the corpse appears to be half−animal. Mulder theorizes that two such creatures may have roamed the countryside. He and Scully comb an abandoned building for the Devil as the police fan out to capture them. Mulder manages to allude police long enough to locate the second creature, which turns out to be female. She suddenly attacks and wounds Mulder and escapes into the woods. Police track the creature and kill it, despite Mulder’s plea to take it alive. An autopsy report confirms the female creature recently gave birth, leading Mulder to conclude it came to the city in search of food scraps for its young after its mate died. Some time later, a feral child roams the New Jersey countryside in search of food.

Shadows Production Code: #1X05 Original Air Date: 10/22/93 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Michael Katleman MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF TWO MEN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY A POWERFUL PSYCHOKINETIC FORCE.

Officials from a mysterious government agency question Mulder and Scully about two recently discovered male cadavers. The victims appear to have died after their throats were crushed from inside their bodies. When the officials refuse to elaborate on the case, Mulder feigns ignorance and does not link the deaths to an existing X−File. He later admits to Scully, however, that he lied to the government men. Mulder attributes the deaths to psychokinesis – the ability of a psychic force to manipulate matter. Without help from the government officials, Mulder and Scully begin an investigation on their own and trace the murders to Philadelphia. Working

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with local police, they are taken to the crime scene. The agents realize a security camera at a nearby automated bank machine may have recorded the murders. They find footage of the victims accosting Lauren Kyte, an employee of HTG Industrial Technologies. Working with bank records, the agents access Lauren’s home address and pay her a visit. Lauren claims the men tried to grab her paycheck and she fled, escaping without injury. Coming up empty−handed, the agents get into their car and prepare to drive away. Suddenly, the vehicle snaps into reverse at full speed. It careens down a street and collides with another car. Mulder and Scully escape with minor injuries. Mulder tells Scully that he believes Lauren was somehow responsible for the mishap. While surveying Lauren’s house, Mulder accidentally photographs a strange image at her window. Using computer enhancement, that image turns out to be the form of Lauren’s dead boss, Howard Graves. Lauren is attacked in her home by two hit men. But before the assailants can harm Lauren, a mysterious force intervenes and kills them. Mulder and Scully arrive shortly thereafter and detain her for questioning. Lauren finally confesses the incredible truth: her boss, Howard Graves, was murdered by co−worker Robert Dorland after he threatened to expose HTG Technologies for selling restricted parts to Isfahan terrorists. Graves’ spirit returned from the dead, and has been protecting her ever since. The FBI raids HTG Technologies, hoping to uncover evidence of the illegal parts sales. When the agents come up empty−handed, Graves’ psychic force materializes and rips a hole in the wall of Dorland’s office, exposing a hidden micro−disk. The U.S. Attorney’s office uses the new evidence to prosecute Dorland.

Ghost in the Machine Production Code: #1X06 Original Air Date: 10/29/93 Written by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa Directed by Jerrold Freedman ON HALLOWEEN, MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF A CORPORATE EXECUTIVE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY A THINKING COMPUTER.

Mulder and Scully are approached by Special Agent Jerry Lamana, who is on probation for mishandling an important case. Lamana explains that he has been assigned to investigate the murder of Benjamin Drake, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company called Eurisko. Drake was electrocuted when he fell victim to an elaborate boobytrap devised by someone with intimate knowledge of the Central Operating

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System (COS) at Eurisko’s high rise headquarters. Afraid of mishandling yet another important case, Lamana successfully lobbies Mulder and Scully’s expertise. The agents are told by Peterson, the Eurisko building’s system engineer, that one of the few people who has access to the building’s sophisticated control center is Brad Wilczek, the 30− year−old founder of the company and Drake’s arch enemy. Using a voice analyzer, Scully determines that Wilczek disguised his own voice electronically and telephoned Drake moments before his death… playing a key role in the boobytrap. Lamana drives to the Eurisko building to make the arrest. The elevator Lamana rides in reaches the 29th floor and suddenly drops at fantastic speed, crashing into the ground. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Wilczek had been hard at work on Artificial Intelligence – the development of a thinking machine. Though Wilczek is arrested for the deaths of Drake and Lamana, and even signs a confession, Mulder believes him innocent. From his jail cell, Wilczek admits to Mulder that COS is an intelligent machine. He explains that when Drake made overtures to shut the system down, COS eliminated him in self−defense. Mulder convinces Wilczek to develop a computer virus that will shut down the system. Armed with the virus, Mulder and Scully gain entrance to the Eurisko building. COS anticipates their every move and turns the building’s electrical systems against them. With Peterson’s assistance, Mulder makes his way to the main control room. As Mulder is about to insert the computer disk into the system, Peterson pulls out a gun and demands he stand back. Peterson admits he is an operative for the Defense Department – a government agency eager for Artificial Intelligence technology. Scully enters and pulls her gun, gaining the upper hand. Peterson drops his weapon. Mulder inserts the computer disk and engages the virus. COS shuts down forever… or does it?

Ice Production Code: #1X07 Original Air Date: 11/05/93 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by David Nutter MULDER AND SCULLY ARE SENT TO INVESTIGATE WHEN A TEAM OF GEOPHYSICISTS STATIONED AT A REMOTE ALASKAN OUTPOST IS KILLED BY A PARASITIC ALIEN LIFE FORM.

Mulder and Scully view a videotape recorded by two geophysicists who were part of the Antarctic Ice Core Project, a scientific expedition sanctioned

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by the United States Government. Their mission was to drill deep into the Arctic ice in search core samples that date the Earth’s climate as far back as the Dawn of Man. But something went wrong during the expedition, and the two geophysicists committed suicide. Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. They are teamed with Dr. Denny Murphy, a geologist; Doctor Lawrence Hodge, a physician, and Doctor Nancy Dasilva, a toxicologist. The group boards a plane piloted by Bear, a rugged man who wears a bear claw around his neck. When the group arrives at the Arctic compound, they busily set about documenting their grisly surroundings. Scattered around the site are the bodies of scientists from the previous expedition, all of whom died mysterious, violent deaths. A dog suddenly springs from the darkness and jumps onto Mulder. Bear intercedes, and in the process of pulling the animal off Mulder, he is bitten. The dog is sedated, and during an examination, a worm−like organism is discovered squirming beneath its skin. Scully’s autopsies reveal that the scientists from the previous expedition – except for the two who committed suicide – killed each other. Examination of ice core samples leads to the conclusion that the first team tapped into the remnants of a meteor that collided with the Earth thousands of years in the past. When the scientists came in contact with the core samples, they exposed themselves to an alien organism that had remained dormant beneath the Arctic Ice. When Bear is told his blood and stool samples must be analyzed to ensure the parasite has not infected him, he refuses to cooperate. A scuffle ensues, and as the others pin Bear down, Hodge discovers – and surgically removes – one of the parasites from his body. When the worm is removed, however, Bear expires. The scientists theorize that the parasite feeds on a chemical that controls aggressive behavior, leading the first team of geophysicists to kill one another. Paranoia within the group builds to a fever pitch when a severe storm ends radio contact with the rest of the world. Mulder discovers Murphy’s body stuffed inside a refrigerator, his throat cut. The others suspect that Mulder may be the killer and padlock him inside a supply room. While performing an experiment, Hodge accidentally mixes blood samples from two different infected hosts. To his surprise, the parasitic organisms attack and kill one another. The scientists infect the dog that attacked Bear with a second worm. It returns to normal. Mulder convinces Scully that he is not infected. When they exit the supply room, the pair are jumped by Dasilva and Hodge, who pin Mulder to the ground and lower the last worm to his ear. But

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Hodge is horrified when he discovers the parasite wriggling beneath Dasilva’s skin. The others hold Dasilva down while Hodge inserts the parasite. The group is rescued and flown to another base. Mulder announces he is returning to the site to perform more tests. Hodge informs him, however, that the military burned the compound to the ground.

Space Production Code: #1X08 Original Air Date: 11/12/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by William Graham WHEN A SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION IS SABOTAGED, MULDER SUSPECTS IT MAY BE THE WORK OF AN EVIL EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPIRIT THAT INHABITS THE BODY OF A FORMER GEMINI ASTRONAUT.

Michelle Generoo, the mission control communication commander for the Space Shuttle program, arranges for a secret meeting with Mulder and Scully. She produces an X−ray of the shuttle’s Auxiliary Power Unit valve that she believes was tampered with. A shuttle mission was scrubbed at the last possible second when the valve malfunctioned, narrowly averting disaster. Where the X−ray came from, and how the incredibly strong valve could have been tampered with, remains a mystery, though NASA attributes the malfunction to simple mechanical failure. Fearing NASA might overlook the possibility of sabotage to maintain launch schedule, Generoo decided to step forward on her own. The agents meet with Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt, a former astronaut who flew on the Gemini Eight mission and is now the current Space Shuttle Program Director. Belt insists that because of tight security and the sophisticated technology involved, it would be impossible for anyone to sabotage the mission by tampering with the valve. When the next shuttle achieves orbit around the Earth, a technical problem develops. Generoo, whose husband is one of the astronauts aboard the ship, races back to Mission Control in her car. She loses control of her vehicle when a fog bank forms into a sinister face and rushes toward her windshield. Mulder and Scully rescue Generoo and return with her to Mission Control. They find technicians attempting to rotate the shuttle before it overheats and burns in orbit. Belt orders telemetry signals to be halted, then instructs the astronauts to fly the ship using the onboard computer. Despite some anxious moments, the astronauts correct the problem and regain contact with Mission Control.

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A mysterious force that resembles the famous “Mars Face” emanates from Belt’s body and floats into outer space. It engulfs the shuttle, creating an oxygen leak aboard the vessel. Belt orders the shuttle astronauts to don space suits and deploy their payload. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt considers the success of the mission more important than the astronaut’s lives. Belt begins having seizures and Mulder and Scully rush to his aid. Generoo assumes command of the mission and orders the shuttle to return to Earth. Belt, however, insists that the ship will burn up upon reentry unless it changes its trajectory by 35 degrees. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt is telling the truth. She gives the order to change trajectory, saving the shuttle. Belt suffers another seizure. He jumps from his hospital window, plummeting to his death. Mulder speculates that when Belt orbited the Earth in his Gemini capsule years earlier, he was possessed by an alien spirit, and has been fighting to regain control of his body ever since. The force used Belt to sabotage numerous space missions. Realizing what was happening, Belt struggled to correct the alien’s sabotage before it was too late. Mulder concludes that Belt sent the valve X−rays to Generoo hoping to expose the potentially disastrous flaw.

Fallen Angel Production Code: #1X09 Original Air Date: 11/19/93 Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Directed by Larry Shaw THE FUTURE OF THE X−FILES PROJECT IS JEOPARDIZED AFTER MULDER SECRETLY INFILTRATES THE GOVERNMENT COVER−UP OF A UFO CRASH.

Colonel Calvin Henderson is alerted by the U.S. Space Surveillance Center that radar tracked an unidentified object as it fell from orbit and crashed in Townsend, Wisconsin. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Henderson is the premiere reclamations expert for the Air Force. During the Cold War, Henderson was assigned to prevent technology from downed U.S. aircraft from falling into Soviet hands. Now, he is head of a crash retrieval team. The government officially labels the crash site a quarantined area, attributing it to a toxic chemical spill. Mulder sneaks passed the military units guarding the area and photographs the wreckage, visible to him as an intense blue light. His presence is discovered, however, and Henderson has him arrested. Mulder is placed in Scully’s custody. She warns that when McGrath learned that he infiltrated the crash site without prior approval, he recommended

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that a hearing be held to discontinue the X−Files project altogether. With the hearing only a day away, Mulder insists he be given the chance to prove a UFO had crashed in Townsend. The agents discover that they have been spied upon by Max Fenig, a member of an organization that tracks UFO sightings. He acknowledges that he knows all about Mulder, Scully and the X−Files project, having accessed files through the Freedom of Information Act. Max’s recreational vehicle is a surveillance operation on wheels. He plays for Mulder and Scully a recording he intercepted moments after the UFO crash, in which Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright, who was the first person to arrive at the crash scene, radioed for fire crews. When the agents approach Mrs. Wright for information, she refuses to talk. Dr. Jeffrey Oppenheim, who examined Deputy Wright, agrees to be interviewed. He examined the bodies of Wright and the firemen, all of whom died from severe burns the likes of which he had never seen before. Suddenly, the bodies of several soldiers are rushed through the hospital’s corridors, each exhibiting the same burns described only moments earlier by Oppenheim. Shorthanded, Oppenheim enlists Scully’s medical expertise. Mulder aids Max when he suffers a seizure. Max blames the episode on epilepsy, but Mulder notices a diamond−shaped scar behind Max’s ear, a scar Mulder links to UFO abductions. Before Scully has a chance to examine Max, he disappears from his vehicle. The agents track him to a warehouse, where they discover Henderson and his men surrounding the building. Before Mulder can save Max, he disappears in a blinding blue light – the victim of an alien abduction. At the hearing, Mulder defends his action as unorthodox, but necessary, given that the toxic spill was a government cover−up. McGrath’s decision to fire Mulder and terminate the X−Files project is overruled by Deep Throat. He tells McGrath he likes to keep his friends close… and his enemies closer.

Eve Production Code: #1X10 Original Air Date: 12/10/93 Written by Kenneth Biller and Chris Brancato Directed by Fred Gerber MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR TWO GIRLS WHO DISAPPEARED AFTER THEIR FATHERS WERE MURDERED IN AN IDENTICAL FASHION.

Mulder and Scully investigate when a man named Joel Simmons is found dead in his backyard, his body drained of blood, his mouth disfigured. Mulder at first links the incident to mysterious cattle mutilations that have occurred in the United States since 1967.

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The agents interview Teena Simmons, Joel’s eight−year−old daughter, who was at home when the killings took place. Teena describes how “men from the clouds” were after her father. Mulder is somewhat mystified, however, when Teena tells him the men wanted to “exsanguinate” her father, a word far too complex for a little girl to know the meaning of. Shortly thereafter, the agents receive word of another, almost identical murder that took place in San Francisco, in which a man named Doug Reardon was found dead in his backyard, also drained of blood and disfigured. The agents are stunned when they meet Reardon’s eight−year−old daughter, Cindy. She and Teena are identical in appearance. Teena, meanwhile, disappears from the foster home where she is temporarily housed, apparently the victim of a kidnapping. Scully investigates when it is discovered that Mrs. Reardon had in−vitro fertilization at a clinic in San Francisco. A physician named Sally Kendrick supervised both the Simmons’ and Reardons’ IVF program. Kendrick, it is revealed, was fired from her position after she was discovered tampering with the genetic material of fertilized ova in the lab prior to implant. Deep Throat contacts Mulder. He reveals the existence of a top secret program once run by the United States government called the “Litchfield Experiment,” in which a group of genetically controlled children were raised and monitored. The boys were dubbed “Adam,” the girls “Eve.” Mulder and Scully track Eve Six to a mental institution. To their astonishment, she looks exactly like Sally Kendrick. Eve admits that two other Eves besides herself are still alive. The agents realize that Sally Kendrick was continuing the Litchfield experiment at the clinic in San Francisco where she cloned herself into Teena, Cindy and six other little girls. One of the other Eves kidnaps Cindy. She takes the girl to a motel and introduces her to Teena. Both little girls knew of the other’s existence, and they murdered their own fathers. Eve is convinced she can raise the girls so they will not suffer from the mental disorders that drove the other Eves mad. Despite her conviction, she realizes too late that the little girls, for no apparent reason, poisoned her drink. Mulder and Scully are tipped that the girls can be found at the motel. When they arrive, they find Eve dead. The girls claim the two remaining Eves conspired to kill them. The agents fall for the story, never suspecting the girls played any role in the murder. Mulder and Scully transport the girls in their car. They pull off the road at a diner so the girls can use the rest room. Mulder orders four sodas, and when he is not looking, Cindy poisons two of the drinks. Mulder realizes the drinks have been tampered with

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and stops Scully from ingesting her soda just in time. The girls, however, realize their scheme has been discovered. They play cat−and−mouse with the agents in the diner’s parking lot, but Mulder gains the upper hand and arrests them.

Fire Production Code: #1X11 Original Air Date: 12/17/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Larry Shaw MULDER AND SCULLY JOIN FORCES WITH AN INSPECTOR FROM SCOTLAND YARD WHEN A MAN WITH PYROKINETIC POWERS STALKS MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY.

In England, an affluent, elderly man suddenly bursts into flames while walking from his front porch to his car. Despite the efforts of those at the scene to extinguish the fire, the man is burned alive. Mulder and Scully are approached by Phoebe Greene, Mulder’s ex−classmate and former lover, who is employed as an inspector by Scotland Yard. Greene tells the detectives about the death of the man in England, and how it is but one of a series of similar murders aimed at the British aristocracy. Sir Marsden, who narrowly escaped being burned alive in a similar incident, has temporarily relocated his family to Cape Cod. Mulder and Scully agree to aid Greene with the case. Scully, however, is hard pressed to contain her obvious jealousy. Special Agent Melvin Beatty, an arson specialist, examines the evidence linking the fires, but is at a loss as to how the blazes were started. Mulder’s notion that it may be attributed to pyrokinetics – an individual’s ability to conduct and control a fire – is scoffed at by Beatty. Mulder confesses to Scully that he is terrified by fire, and admits that Phoebe is all too aware of his phobia. He tells Scully he will handle the investigation without her help. Unbeknownst to Sir Marsden and his family, the caretaker at their Cape Cod home is the same man who gardened for the elderly man who was set ablaze in England. That man, who call himself Bob, walks to a local bar and sets it ablaze using his pyrokinetic power. Mulder and Greene interview a survivor of the blaze. The are intrigued when the survivor tells them that a British man started the blaze by causing himself to ignite. Mulder and Greene stake out an elegant party attended by the Marsdens hoping to trap the arsonist. After surveying the hotel where the party is given, Mulder and Greene conclude the arsonist will not strike. They take advantage of their surroundings for some intimate slow dancing on the ballroom floor. Scully arrives at the party with information

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regarding the case. She notices that the hotel security status grid is lit up, indicating a fire somewhere on the upper level. She interrupts Mulder and Greene with the news, shattering an intimate moment. Mulder races upstairs but is overcome with smoke. Bob races out of the hotel with the Marsden’s children and is hailed a hero. Scully takes advantage of Mulder’s hospital stay to fill him in on her research. She believes the arsonist uses a highly flammable accelerant, such as rocket propellant, to fuel the fires. Scully also suspects she may have pinpointed the arsonist, a man named Cecil L’Ively, who acted as caretaker for two of the victims. They come to realize that the Marsden’s caretaker is the same man. The detectives rush to the house in Cape Cod and evacuate the family. Mulder catches Greene sharing a passionate kiss with Sir Marsden, ending his interest in her. Mulder and Scully encounter Bob/Cecil, who has rigged the entire dwelling to catch fire. Mulder becomes paralyzed with fear when he encounters the fire. Phoebe splashes accelerant on Bob and he bursts into flames. Mulder and the others escape from the house and watch as it is consumed in fire. Bob’s flesh regenerates itself, however, and he soon recovers inside his heavily guarded cell.

Beyond the Sea Production Code: #1X12 Original Air Date: 01/07/94 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by David Nutter SCULLY BELIEVES THAT THE PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS OF A DEATH ROW INMATE ARE THE ONLY HOPE IN APPREHENDING A VICIOUS MURDERER.

Scully receives a phone call from her mother, Margaret, relaying the tragic news that her father died of a massive coronary. Only moments earlier Scully had seen an ethereal image of her father sitting in a chair. Scully returns to work anxious for a new case – anything to keep her mind off her father’s death. Her curiosity is piqued by a report of a young couple’s kidnapping near Jackson University. A similar abduction occurred at another university exactly one year earlier. The bodies of that couple were later found. Authorities believed they had been tortured. The only lead in the case is a man named Luther Lee Boggs, who is scheduled for execution in North Carolina’s gas chamber in one week. Boggs asserts that he knows who the serial killer is, and backs up that claim by describing a charm bracelet worn by one of the victims. He alleges that his knowledge is obtained from psychic transmissions. He makes a

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proposition: that his information be traded for a reprieve from death row. Before traveling to North Carolina, Scully attends memorial services for her father. Captain William Scully’s ashes are scattered at sea as the song “Beyond the Sea” is played. The agents meet with Boggs at the North Carolina prison where he is interred. Mulder hands Boggs a small piece of cloth and tells him it was cut from the clothing worn by one of the serial killer’s victims. Boggs falls into a trance and describes landmarks near the kidnapper’s hideout. Mulder then reveals that the cloth was cut from one of his own T−shirts and has nothing to do with the victims. Convinced Boggs is a fraud, Mulder exits, leaving Scully alone with Boggs. He begins singing “Beyond the Sea,” sending a chill down Scully’s spine. While driving along a roadway, Scully becomes intrigued by imagery described by Boggs during his trance. She enters an abandoned warehouse nearby and discovers evidence that the kidnapped couple had been interred there. Police are notified about the warehouse’s location. But Scully cannot bring herself to tell Mulder about her father’s ghost, or about Boggs’ knowledge of the burial. Mulder concludes that Boggs is in contact with someone involved with the kidnapping – not with the spirit world. But when the agents meet with Boggs a second time he tells them that the victims are being held at a boathouse on a lake. Agents raid the boathouse and rescue one of the victims, Liz Hawley. Mulder is shot at close range by the kidnapper, Lucas Henry, who proceeds to escape on a motorboat with the remaining victim, Jim Summers. With Mulder recuperating in the hospital, Scully concentrates on locating Lucas Henry. She again interviews Boggs, who relives his near−death experience in the gas chamber when he was saved by a last minute reprieve. It was during this brief out−of−body experience that Boggs first came in contact with the spirit world. He refuses to reveal more details of Jim Summer’s whereabouts until he is guaranteed that his execution sentence has been dropped. Scully approaches the Warden for a stay of execution, but the request is denied. Left with no other choice, Scully lies to Boggs, telling him his sentence has been reduced to life in prison. Boggs channels with the spirit world and describes a condemned brewery as Henry’s new hideout. He then tells Scully he knew she lied to him about the pardon. Scully and other agents converge on the brewery, rescuing Jim Summers. Henry refuses to give himself up and is killed. Later, Scully witnesses Bogg’s execution.

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GenderBender Production Code: #1X13 Original Air Date: 01/21/94 Written by Larry Barber and Paul Barber Directed by Rob Bowman A RELIGIOUS SECT MEMBER CAPABLE OF CHANGING GENDER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A MURDER SPREE.

A woman named Marty seduces a businessman at a trendy nightclub. The couple go to a motel and have sex. Shortly thereafter the businessman begins convulsing and dies. Before Marty leaves the motel, her physique changes and she metamorphoses into a man. Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. Mulder links the death to a series of others in which victims died in the throes of passion. Medical tests reveal large amounts of pheromones – or human sex attractants – in the victim’s blood. He also links two of the murders to a remote town in Massachusetts inhabited by The Kindred – a sect of religious isolationists famous for their abstinence and pure Christian beliefs. The agents travel to the rural village, where sect members allow them access to their community only after they relinquish their guns. As Mulder and Scully dine with The Kindred, Brother Aaron suddenly begins choking. Scully is forbidden by the other sect members from aiding Brother Aaron, and he is led away. The agents perform some clandestine investigating during the night. They are intrigued by activity emanating from a cellar beneath a barn. Mulder makes his way inside and watches a religious ceremony centering around Brother Aaron’s body. In his effort to keep his presence a secret, Mulder becomes trapped inside a crypt where Aaron’s body is entombed in a strange, membranous substance. He watches as Brother Aaron’s body begins transforming into a woman. Scully, meanwhile, has been pulled aside by Brother Andrew, a handsome sect member who possesses a mysterious hypnotic power. Andrew tells Scully he believes the murders were committed by Brother Martin. But before he reveals how Martin killed, Andrew places Scully in a trance and begins kissing her. Mulder breaks out of the crypt and rescues Scully before Andrew has sex with her. Mulder and Scully are permitted to leave the town. They receive a break in the case when one of Martin’s intended victims escapes unharmed. He describes how his attacker changed gender right before his eyes. Police track Marty to a hotel after he/she orders food using a victim’s credit card. Mulder and Scully raid a hotel room and encounter Marty and his latest victim, who is very dead. Marty flees but agents give chase. Before they can apprehend

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Marty, however, he/she is surrounded by fellow Kindred members and dragged into the darkness. Scully, Mulder and other FBI agents raid the village where the sect lives. But they find the village completely deserted. Only one clue points to their whereabouts: distinct geometric patterns and lines cut in a crop circle – the same markings associated with UFO landing sights.

Lazarus Production Code: #1X14 Original Air Date: 02/04/94 Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Directed by David Nutter THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL POSSESSES AN FBI AGENT WHO IS ALSO SCULLY’S EX−BOYFRIEND.

Scully and fellow FBI agent Jack Willis stake out a bank after an anonymous informant tips them that a robbery will take place that day. That tip proves correct when Warren Dupre and his wife Lula Phillips stage a hold up. Dupre is ordered to put down his weapon, but rather than comply he shoots Willis in the chest. Scully returns fire and mortally wounds Dupre. At the hospital emergency room, doctors are able to resuscitate the badly injured Willis. But unbeknownst to them, Dupre’s consciousness took possession of the agent’s body as both men died in the emergency room. The possessed Willis leaves his hospital room and locates his former body in the morgue. He hacks a finger off the corpse, removing a gold wedding ring. Meanwhile, Scully and Mulder begin their search for the missing Willis. When Mulder learns of the missing ring, he begins to suspect that Willis may be possessed. Willis locates Lula’s brother, Tommy, at a seedy hotel. When Tommy claims not to know Lula’s whereabouts, Willis accuses him of tipping off the FBI about the bank robbery. He sees Lula’s photograph being broadcast on a local television news program and grows enraged. He shoots and kills Tommy. Willis reappears at the hotel during the murder investigation. He explains his absence by claiming he wandered from the hotel in a daze and collapsed in the street. Mulder discovers a fresh fingerprint on Tommy’s television set – a print left by Willis. That evidence mysteriously disappears soon after being given to Willis. Willis and Scully respond to a tip about Lula’s whereabouts. Scully chases and eventually arrests Lula, but Willis releases her and takes Scully hostage. Dupre’s spirit attempts to convince Lula that he now inhabits Willis’ body, but those attempts are met with skepticism despite the fact that Willis knows intimate details about Lula’s life.

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Scully tells Dupre’s consciousness that Willis is a diabetic and that excess sugar could induce a coma. When a drug store is robbed of insulin and syringes, Mulder suspects that Scully’s location must be close by. Before Willis can inject the insulin, Lula smashes the bottles. She laughs at Willis, revealing that it was she – and not her brother Tommy – who tipped off the FBI about the bank robbery. With Willis now gravely ill, Lula phones FBI headquarters and demands a million dollars ransom for Scully’s safe return. Analyzing the phone call for clues, Mulder and his fellow agents narrow the scope of their search. Willis feigns his death and grabs Lula’s gun, pointing it at her. He proclaims his intense love for Lula, then pulls the trigger. FBI agents storm the house, but Willis’ body succumbs to diabetic shock and dies. Scully is located and released unharmed.

Young at Heart Production Code: #1X15 Original Air Date: 02/11/94 Written by Scott Kauffer and Chris Carter Directed by Michael Lange A CRIMINAL BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED IN PRISON YEARS EARLIER WAGES A VENDETTA AGAINST MULDER.

Mulder and Scully are asked by Special Agent Reggie Purdue to aid in the investigation of a jewelry store robbery. Mulder realizes his old friend Purdue requested his assistance with the case because of a note found at the crime scene that reads: “Fox can’t guard the chicken coop.” Mulder explains to Scully that his first FBI case involved an armed robber named John Barnett, who left notes that taunted Mulder about the crime spree. Barnett was eventually captured and sentenced to life in prison, where he died four years earlier. But Mulder is disquieted when a lab technician analyzes the note and concludes it was written by Barnett within the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, Scully and Purdue review video surveillance footage of Barnett’s capture by the FBI years earlier. In the footage, Mulder had the opportunity to kill Barnett, but because a hostage was nearby he hesitated. That hesitation allowed Barnett time to kill an armored car driver and an FBI agent. Mulder returned fire, wounding Barnett. But Mulder never forgave himself for the error. During the trial Barnett swore he would “get” Mulder. Mulder visits Barnett’s old prison cell mate, Joe Crandall, who swears Barnett was alive on the night he supposedly died. He also claims he saw a prison physician, Dr. Ridley, amputate Barnett’s right hand. Mulder phones Purdue with the news, but during the conversation Purdue is attacked and strangled.

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Mulder and Scully rush to the scene but arrive too late. Another of Barnett’s notes is found on Purdue’s body. The agents pay a visit to the National Institute of Health, where they meet Dr. Austin. He explains that Dr. Ridley experimented on young children afflicted with a disease called Progeria, which accelerates the aging process and causes premature death. Ridley lost his license to practice medicine and performed age−reversal experiments in secret. Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett was one of Ridley’s Guinea pigs, and may now sport the physique of a 40−year−old. Mulder and Scully are approached by the now− ailing Dr. Ridley, who tells them that Barnett is the last of his patients who is still alive. Ridley explains that he used a different technique on Barnett – he grafted the cells of a salamander onto his arm to counter side effects of the experiment. Those cells grew and mutated into Barrett’s new hand. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Barnett stole Ridley’s secrets on age−reversal and now wishes to trade the medical information to the U.S. government in exchange for immunity. Realizing that Scully is Barnett’s next intended victim, Mulder and his fellow agents stake out a recital hall where Scully is to meet a friend. Barnett shoots Scully, but she is protected by a bullet proof vest. Barnett takes a cellist hostage, but Mulder sees his chance and fires, killing Barnett.

E.B.E. Production Code: #1X16 Original Air Date: 02/18/94 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by William Graham MULDER AND SCULLY BECOME THE FOCUS OF A MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WHEN THEY ATTEMPT TO TRACE THE GOVERNMENT’S SECRET TRANSPORT OF AN ALIEN LIFE FORM.

Mulder and Scully investigate a UFO sighting in Reagan, Tennessee. They interview a truck driver named Ranheim, who claims he fired his shotgun at a mysterious object in the sky. Ranheim, however, changes the details of his story, prompting Mulder to speculate that he has something to hide. The agents also realize that Ranheim exhibits symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, an illness that normally afflicts veterans of the conflict in Iraq. Ranheim claims he is not a veteran of that war. After further investigation, Scully discovers that Ranheim’s real name is Frank Druce, a former Special Operations officer in Iraq who had been admitted to VA hospitals for treatment of his illness. Meanwhile, Mulder receives top secret information from Deep Throat that Druce was transporting the wreckage of a UFO that was shot down over Iraqi

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air space. But other evidence hints that the truck is a decoy, and that the real wreckage is actually being kept at Fort Benning in Georgia. Mulder and Scully realize that Deep Throat has been deliberately leaking them misinformation. When Mulder confronts Deep Throat, he admits that he tried to lead the investigation away from the truck. He justifies his action by stating that the country is not ready to comprehend a closely guarded government secret. He also confirms that the agents are under constant surveillance. Determined to uncover the truth, Mulder and Scully resume their search for the truck. Their diligence pays off, and the vehicle is located on a remote roadway. While surveying the truck from afar, the agents’ vehicle is suddenly engulfed by an intense light. The truck comes to a stop and the agents open its doors. Inside, they find evidence that an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, or E.B.E., had been inside. Mulder and Scully suspect that the E.B.E. had been shuttled to a top secret government facility where a host of UFO sightings had been reported in the previous week. With the aid of an extreme government watchdog group called “The Lone Gunman,” the agents gain access to the heavily− guarded facility. The agents’ presence is detected and they are taken into custody, but not before Mulder comes close to seeing the E.B.E. Deep Throat comes to Mulder’s aid. He reveals that after the Roswell UFO incident in 1947, the most powerful governments in the world signed a top secret treaty ordering the execution of any E.B.E. that might survive a UFO crash. Deep Throat reveals that he carried out the murder of the E.B.E., and to atone for his act, he will continue to leak Mulder top secret information. Mulder is released, but he remains unsure that Deep Throat is telling the truth.

Miracle Man Production Code: #1X17 Original Air Date: 03/18/94 Written by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter Directed by Michael Lange THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A MINISTRY LED BY A MAN WHOSE SON POSSESSES THE POWER TO HEAL – AND TO KILL – WITH A TOUCH OF HIS HAND.

Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when Scully plays him a video tape on which the Reverend Calvin Hartley and his 18−year−old adopted son Samuel hold a service for their Miracle Ministry congregation. As the tape progresses, Samuel places his hand on an ailing woman. Scully explains that the woman was rushed to the hospital, where she died of undetermined causes.

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The agents travel to a remote town in Tennessee where Reverend Hartley and his followers began their base of operations. There they confer with Sheriff Daniels, who explains his belief that Samuel literally possesses the “touch of death.” Samuel mysteriously disappears, but he is tracked to a bar. Daniels charges him with suspicion of murder and places him under arrest. At the courthouse, Samuel requests that the judge not release him on bail, fearing he may again kill another parishioner if he let free. But the judge concedes to a bail request, which would allow Samuel to be released. Suddenly, and inexplicably, the courtroom is engulfed by a swarm of locusts, creating a scene that resembles a biblical plague. Once Samuel is released, Reverend Hartley pressures Samuel to perform miracles at another church meeting. But as Mulder and Scully watch, the event again turns tragic when a Multiple Sclerosis sufferer lapses into a seizure and dies. A preliminary autopsy suggests the woman, Margaret Hohman, died of toxic poisoning. Mulder suspects that Samuel is innocent, and that someone else is poisoning the parishioners of Miracle Ministries. Mulder relays his conclusion to Sheriff Daniels, and soon afterward Samuel is found dead in his jail cell. The agents return to the courthouse where Samuel was arraigned and find evidence that someone dumped locust into the ventilation system. They trace the insects – and a highly−poisonous cyanide – to Leonard Vance, an accident victim that Samuel brought back to life. Before Vance is arrested, Samuel returns from the dead to ask him why he poisoned the parishioners. Vance angrily reveals his burned flesh and scar tissue, admitting that he conspired to squash the parishioner’s faith in its greatest healer. Vance ingests a lethal dose of pesticide before the agents arrive at his house, but before he dies he tells of Samuel’s resurrection from the dead. This unnerves Sheriff Daniels, who had arranged Samuel’s beating inside the jail cell. Daniels is later approached by Deputy Tyson, who reveals that the District Attorney is investigating his role in Samuel’s death.

Shapes Production Code: #1X18 Original Air Date: 04/01/94 Written by Marilyn Osborn Directed by David Nutter THE AGENTS TRACK A WOLF−LIKE CREATURE LINKED TO NATIVE AMERICAN LEGEND.

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shotgun at the creature and kills it. But when he examines the body, Jim discovers he killed a Native American man known as Joseph Goodensnake. Mulder convinces Scully to aid him with the investigation, which at first glance does not appear to be related to the supernatural, but rather, a tragic accident. They interview Jim Parker, who explains that someone – or something – had been mutilating his cattle. He insists that he shot a wolf−like beast with his gun – not Goodensnake. Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when he discovers a piece of translucent skin where Goodensnake’s body had been recovered. The agents travel to Trego Indian Reservation, where Sheriff Charlie Tskany allows them to examine Goodensnake’s body. They discover that Goodensnake’s front teeth are abnormally−long, not unlike that of a wild animal. But the sheriff refuses Scully’s request to perform a detailed autopsy, citing Native American burial rituals. As members of the tribe burn Goodensnake’s body at a burial ground, Mulder explains to Scully that the oldest X−File on record was created by J. Edgar Hoover. It involved a series of murders that occurred in the United States during World War II in which victims were mauled to death by what police assumed to be a wild animal. An animal was tracked and killed by police, but when they retrieved the carcass, they found only the body of a man. Scully insists it is physically impossible for a human to change form. Lyle Parker arrives at the burial grounds to offer his condolences to Goodensnake’s sister, Gwen. She becomes distraught and insists that he leave. Not long after the cremation, Mulder and Scully discover Jim Parker’s mutilated corpse at his ranch. They also find Lyle Parker, lying naked in the mud nearby. Scully transports Lyle to the hospital for treatment while Mulder and Sheriff Tskany continue the investigation. Tskany takes Mulder to the home of Ish, an elderly mystic Native American. Ish explains that the attacks that occurred during World War II were the result of a Manitou, an evil spirit capable of changing a man into a beast. Tskany speculates that because the power is passed through bloodlines, Gwen too may be a shape−shifter, and she may have killed Jim Parker to avenge her brother’s death. But when Gwen is interviewed, she claims she saw a wolf−like creature attack and kill Jim Parker. Mulder and Tskany realize that Lyle may have contracted the shape−shifting power after he was mauled by the beast. They race back to the Parker ranch, where Mulder rescues Scully by shooting and killing a wolf−creature. Moments later, the creature reverts to Lyle’s form.

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Darkness Falls Production Code: #1X19 Original Air Date: 04/15/94 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Joe Napolitano A GROUP OF LOGGERS WORKING IN A REMOTE FOREST UNEARTH THOUSANDS OF DEADLY INSECT− LIKE CREATURES THAT PARALYZE – AND THEN COCOON – THEIR VICTIMS.

Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of thirty loggers who were clearing trees in a remote forest in Washington State. They join forces with Larry Moore, a member of the Federal Forest Service, and Steve Humphreys, an employee of the lumber company. Moore and Humphreys suspect that the loggers may have been victimized by militant environmentalists – or eccoterrorists – who have waged a campaign of destruction against lumber companies in retaliation for ruining American forests. As the group travels along a dirt road, a tire on their 4x4 falls victim to sabotage. Left with little choice, the foursome set out on foot. They discover a deserted logger’s encampment, and hanging from a nearby tree, a strange cocoon−like object. When the cocoon is cut open, the group finds a grotesquely shrunken corpse inside. Shortly thereafter, Doug Spinney, an eccoterrorist suspected of sabotaging equipment, arrives at the camp on foot, his jeep having run out of gasoline. He warns that strange, insect−like creatures inhabit the forest, and when darkness falls they descend from the sky in search of prey. The only thing the creatures fear, Spinney adds, is light. Humphreys scoffs at Spinney’s story, believing it to be a cover for the loggers’ disappearance. Frustrated by Moore’s refusal to arrest Spinney, Humphreys begins to hike back to town alone. Along the way, the tiny insects engulf him. Mulder, Scully, Moore and Spinney examine a giant tree trunk lying in the woods. Moore takes a core sample, and finds tiny insects feeding in its center. This leads to speculation that the once dormant creatures were released when the loggers cut down the tree. Mulder allows Spinney to transport the remaining gasoline used to fuel the cabin’s generator to the stalled jeep – which is two valleys away. Moore chastises Mulder’s decision, certain the creatures will attack once darkness falls and the generator runs out of fuel. Scully panics when millions of the phosphorescent bugs swarm inside the cabin, waiting for the last glow of a light bulb to fade. But the fuel in the generator lasts until sunrise, keeping one light glowing and sparing the group a grisly fate. Realizing they will be attacked come nightfall, the threesome decide to carry a good tire

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from one of the sabotaged vehicles to the abandoned 4x4. But when they locate the 4x4, they are horrified to discover Humphrey’s cocooned corpse inside. Spinney suddenly appears with the jeep as he had promised. He transports the others through the forest at a high rate of speed, hoping to outrun the darkness. Along the way, the jeep’s tires are punctured by a sharp metal device Spinney himself had planted on the dirt road to sabotage the logger’s vehicles. A swarm of insects descends upon the jeep and everyone inside is cocooned. The group is rescued by military medical personnel, then transported to a hospital for treatment.

Tooms Production Code: #1X20 Original Air Date: 04/22/94 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by David Nutter EUGENE TOOMS, WHOM MULDER HELPED INCARCERATE, IS RELEASED ON PAROLE.

Scully is told by her superiors that the investigation of all X−Files cases must adhere to proper FBI procedures. She counters that the extraordinary nature of the cases dictates that unorthodox means of investigation be utilized, but her objection is overruled. Meanwhile, Eugene Tooms, a serial killer with unusual abilities, is interviewed by a parole board. Mulder, who helped incarcerate Tooms, testifies at the hearing. But those present at the review question Mulder’s credibility when he claims that Tooms’ murder spree spanned some 100 years, and that Tooms is capable of elongating his body – a process achieved through the ingestion of human livers. Tooms is released from the sanitarium and placed under the care of Doctor Aaron Monte. Mulder is certain that Tooms will commit another murder the moment the opportunity presents itself. While Mulder keeps constant surveillance over Tooms, Scully researches the earlier murders hoping to prove that Tooms was responsible. Scully calls on the services of Frank Briggs, a retired police detective who accumulated evidence surrounding the murders – a series of five killings that occur once every 30 years. He notes that in 1933, a human liver was discovered near a then− under−construction chemical plant, but the body of the victim was never recovered. Briggs believes that Tooms hid the body because something about the corpse could tie him to the killing. Scully and Briggs venture to the chemical plant and recover a body entombed deep inside the cement foundation. Using sophisticated computer

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enhancement, a bite mark on the victim’s body is matched to Tooms’ dental records. Tooms charges that Mulder beat him up. Mulder is arrested and interrogated. He vehemently denies the false allegations but cannot disprove them. Scully backs him up by claiming she was with him when the beating allegedly transpired. Mulder is released, but warned to stay far away from Tooms. Mulder and Scully discover the body of Tooms’ fifth victim – Dr. Monte. Realizing that Tooms will try to hibernate for another 30 years, Mulder and Scully rush to the location where he had previously “nested.” In place of the dilapidated building stands a shopping mall. Mulder guesses that an escalator shaft is the likeliest place Tooms would have made the new nest. He climbs inside the darkened shaft, a flashlight illuminating his path. Tooms suddenly springs out of the darkness and attacks Mulder. With Scully’s help, the agent struggles free. Tooms becomes entangled in the escalator’s gears and is crushed to death.

Born Again Production Code: #1X21 Original Air Date: 04/29/94 Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Directed by Jerrold Freedman AN EIGHT−YEAR−OLD GIRL IS THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A SERIES OF BIZARRE, SEEMINGLY UNRELATED DEATHS.

Detective Sharon Lazard discovers an eight year old girl lost and shivering outside a boarded up storefront. Lazard transports the girl to the precinct where she is questioned by Detective Barbala. During the course of the interview, Barbala is suddenly hurled out a window. He falls six stories to his death. Due to the mysterious nature of the death, Mulder and Scully are called to the scene. Lazard is convinced that Barbala was alone with Michelle when the tragedy occurred. She is also convinced that Barbala did not commit suicide. Michelle tells the agents that another man was present in the room when Barbala died. The description Michelle provides matches the likeness of Officer Charlie Morris – who died nine years earlier. The agents question Morris’ former partner, Tony Fiore, who states that Morris was murdered by a gang after a drug deal soured. In reality, Fiore and an insurance salesman named Len Felder plotted to scare Morris as part of an insurance scam, but their scheme went too far and Morris died. When Felder disembarks from a city bus, his scarf becomes caught in the vehicle’s door. As the bus continues its journey, Felder is dragged to his

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death. Michelle, a passenger aboard the bus, stares at Felder’s motionless body. After further investigation, the agents piece together the connection between the dead men and the insurance scam. They question Tony’s wife Anita, who is concerned for her husband’s safety because he did not return home from work. During the course of the interview, Anita likens the incident to the disappearance of her first husband – Charlie Morris. Scully and Mulder become intrigued by origami animals found throughout the home, figures similar to those folded by Michelle. Mulder concludes that Michelle is the reincarnation of Charlie Morris, who is avenging his murder by killing the participants. Michelle is placed under hypnosis, but when Charlie’s spirit begins to relive the murder, Michelle’s mother Cynthia halts the experiment. A video tape of the session is analyzed using sophisticated equipment. It reveals an image of a man in a diving suit. Autopsy reports indicate that Morris drowned, then his body was beaten to cover up the truth. Mulder concludes that Morris was drowned in his own fish tank, and the last image he saw was that of the deep sea diver−aerator. The agents rush to Tony Fiore’s house. Inside, Michelle uses her psychokinetic powers to hurl objects at Tony with great force. Mulder and Scully gain entrance to the home and calm Michelle, whose powers subside with her anger. Fiore is tried and convicted of Morris’ murder. Michelle’s life returns to normal.

Roland Production Code #1X22 Original Air Date: 05/06/94 Written by Chris Ruppenthal Directed by David Nutter WHEN TOP SCIENTISTS AT AN AERONAUTICS RESEARCH LAB DIE UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, THE AGENTS SUSPECT A MENTALLY−CHALLENGED JANITOR MAY SOMEHOW BE THE CULPRIT.

Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Dr. Ronald Surnow, an aeronautical scientist, who was developing a jet engine that could double supersonic speeds using half the fuel. Surnow was sucked into the engine when he became trapped inside a wind tunnel. Surnow’s colleagues, Drs. Keats and Nollette, tell the agents that another member of the team, Arthur Gamble, died in a car accident not long ago. The agents interview Roland Fuller, a mentally− challenged janitor, who was the only other person inside the lab at the time of the incident. Mulder is intrigued by Roland’s ability to manipulate complex numbers. But his attempt to link Roland’s

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handwriting with some unidentified equations on a blackboard at the lab prove unsuccessful. Shortly thereafter, Roland murders Keats by forcing his head into a vat of liquid nitrogen and smashing his frozen skull. The agents investigate, and realize that after Keats was murdered, the perpetrator gained access to a computer file that belonged to the late Arthur Gamble. During a visit to the cryogenics lab where Gamble’s head is preserved, they also discover that Gamble and Roland are identical twins. Mulder arranges for constant surveillance of Nollette – who is most likely to be the next victim – after Roland disappears. Mulder speculates that the twin brothers share a psychic connection, and that Gamble is controlling Roland from the Netherworld. Nollette overhears Mulder's theory and sabotages Gamble’s cryogenic unit. Roland gains access to a computer terminal and completes a simulation that pushes the jet model past Mach 15. Nollette suddenly appears, gun in hand. He thanks Roland/Gamble for solving the equation, allowing him to take credit for the work. Roland becomes enraged and overpowers Nollette. He locks the scientist inside the tunnel and starts the engine. Mulder and Scully gain access to the room and ask Roland – not Gamble – to remember the access code that will shut down the engine. Roland recalls the code and disengages the machine.

The Erlenmeyer Flask Production Code: #1X23 Original Air Date: 05/13/94 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin DEEP THROAT TIPS MULDER TO A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT CASE INVOLVING A MISSING FUGITIVE AND THE CLONING OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL VIRUSES.

Mulder receives a cryptic tip from Deep Throat regarding an incident in which a fugitive eluded police after a high speed chase. During the escape, the suspect was shot and wounded by police before he fell into a lake. Despite many hours of dredging, the fugitive’s body is not recovered. After some investigating, Mulder realizes that someone deliberately switched the car the suspect was driving with another vehicle. The agents trace the original car to a Dr. Berube, a scientist who is not eager to cooperate with the FBI investigation. With the puzzling case at a dead end, Mulder prepares to give up. But Deep Throat makes contact and convinces him that case is of extreme importance. Meanwhile, Dr. Berube’s dead body is discovered inside the lab. The police end their search for the fugitive without recovering a body. When they leave the

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lake, the mysterious fugitive resurfaces from beneath the water. Tiny gills in his neck allowed him to remain submerged for a long period. The fugitive makes his way to the city, and after attempting to contact Berube collapses on the street. As paramedics rush the fugitive to a hospital, they insert a needle into his skin. Suddenly, a rush of toxic gas is emitted from the fugitive’s body. The paramedics are overcome by the fumes and the fugitive escapes into the night. With the help of Dr. Carpenter, Scully analyzes a flask taken from Dr. Berube’s lab. The bacteria inside is suspected of being extraterrestrial in origin. Mulder discovers a storage room containing human bodies suspended in a clear liquid. But when he returns to the room with Scully, he finds that it has been emptied. Deep Throat explains that Dr. Berube had been experimenting with extraterrestrial viruses. He used humans afflicted with terminal illnesses as his guinea pigs. The experiment was funded by the US government, but officials were interested only in technology – not the patients’ well being. One of those patients was Dr. Secare, a friend of Dr. Berube’s. When it became clear that the government wanted Secare eliminated, Berube warned his friend and gave him his car to escape. When Secare was hunted down by police, he used his mutation to his advantage and hid beneath the lake. Scully is stunned to learn that Dr. Carpenter was killed in a car accident. Shortly thereafter, Mulder locates Dr. Secare hiding in the attic of his house. The pair are surprised by a government official who shoots and kills Secare. When Mulder disappears, Scully makes contact with Deep Throat. Deep Throat arranges for Scully to gain access to a top secret containment facility in Maryland. Scully steals an alien fetus, and with Deep Throat’s help arranges for an exchange – the fetus for Mulder. After Deep Throat makes the exchange, he is shot and killed by the government agents. Later, Scully learns from Mulder that the government is shutting down the X−Files project.

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Little Green Men Production Code: #2X01 Original Air Date: 09/16/94 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by David Nutter MULDER TRAVELS TO PUERTO RICO IN ADVANCE OF A BERET TEAM OUT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE OF AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCOUNTER.

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With the X−Files project officially disbanded, Mulder and Scully return to rank and file FBI investigations. But the agents, having been exposed to extraordinary cases involving extraterrestrials and the paranormal, can hardly conceal their boredom. Believing that the agency has them under surveillance, they meet in the parking garage of the Watergate Hotel. There Mulder confesses to Scully that he has grown depressed about his mission in life – finding evidence that proves his sister was abducted by aliens years earlier. He laments that despite having numerous close encounters with UFOs, he still possesses no physical evidence that proves extraterrestrials exist. He is losing interest in finding “the truth.” But Mulder is later summoned to the Capitol Building by Senator Richard Matheson, an X−Files patron, who lets him in on a big secret: an abandoned radio telescope in Puerto Rico was the site of a UFO encounter. Mulder flies to Puerto Rico immediately, hoping to beat the Blue Beret UFO Retrieval Team before they can confiscate evidence that contact was made. He makes forced entry into the facility, where he discovers a reel to reel tape spinning unattended on a tape recorder. A terrified Puerto Rican man named Jorge draws Mulder an image of an extraterrestrial that he witnessed at the site. When Mulder does not show up for work, Scully begins an investigation. She searches his apartment and discovers a piece of paper containing a “Wow Signal,” a radio transmission from deep space containing a transmission code thirty times stronger than galactic background noise. Dr. Kip Troitsky tells Scully that only a handful of radio telescopes actively search for such signals. Scully searches through airline manifests and finds one containing Mulder’s pseudonym, “George E. Hale.” That flight was bound for Puerto Rico. Scully’s progress is slowed when a hurricane strikes the island. She grows even more concerned when she realizes FBI agents are following her. Mulder and Jorge listen to the reel to reel tapes as the force of the hurricane intensifies. Suddenly, Jorge hears noises that terrify him. He runs from the building. Mulder runs after him, but after a short search discovers the man’s dead body, his expression frozen in fear, as if he were frightened to death. Feeling more isolated than ever, Mulder records his thoughts into a tape recorder. He wonders aloud what he would do if he did indeed come face to face with extraterrestrial life. Moments later, an intense, blinding force rocks the building. Mulder watches, horrified, as an alien being walks towards him. He is engulfed in a blinding light. When Mulder regains consciousness, Scully is at his side. But they soon realize that the Blue Beret team has arrived. Confident the Berets will kill them, the pair scramble for a nearby jeep and head into the wilderness. The Berets open fire, striking

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the jeep. But Mulder outmaneuvers them and escapes down a roadway. When he returns to Washington, Mulder is reprimanded by Skinner for missing work. Mulder counters that his phone was tapped illegally. Mulder is allowed to keep his job. Later, he and Scully listen to the reel to reel tape, only to realize it is blank.

The Host Production Code: #2X02 Original Air Date: 09/23/94 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Daniel Sackheim MULDER PURSUES A HUMANOID, PARASITIC ORGANISM THAT USES SEWAGE SYSTEMS AS ITS HOME.

The crew aboard a Russian freighter bound for New Jersey encounter a ferocious, humanoid monster lurking inside its sewage tanks. After the beast drags one crewman to his death, orders are given to purge the tanks. Sometime later, Mulder is pulled off a job performing mundane surveillance work and assigned to investigate a mysterious murder case in New Jersey. He is ushered beneath the streets of Newark, into the sewers, where he inspects the corpse of a sanitation worker. Outraged at being assigned to yet another meaningless case, which he believes to be a drug−related killing, Mulder confronts Assistant Director Skinner. Skinner reminds him that the X− Files have been closed. Mulder later confesses to Scully that he is thinking of leaving the bureau and pursuing his interest in the paranormal on his own. While performing the autopsy on the body recovered from the New Jersey sewer, Scully discovers a strange, worm−like creature slithering inside the corpse. Meanwhile, another sanitation worker is attacked by the creature lurking inside the sewer. This time, the victim survives. Mulder and a hospital physician, Dr. Zenzola, inspect a wound on the workman’s back. Unsure about what could have made the mark, Mulder and the doctor tell the man he can leave the hospital. But when the workman returns home, a parasitic worm forces its way out of his body, killing him in the process. Mulder pays a visit to the sewage processing plant. An elderly employee named Charlie discovers a humanoid creature swimming in a sedimentation pond. Terrified, he flushes the system, capturing the creature in the process. Mulder has it placed in a holding cell. With the creature in custody, Mulder pays a visit to Skinner. He states that had the case been treated as an X−File from the beginning, the workman’s life might have been spared. Skinner tells Mulder that the creature will be institutionalized… and he agrees that the case should have been labeled an X−File.

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The creature escapes and takes refuge inside a chemical tank near a campsite. It is accidentally sucked inside a tanker truck and transported away. Meanwhile, Mulder receives mysterious messages from a high−ranking government official who makes it clear that reinstatement of the X−Files depends on his success with the assignment. Mulder tracks the creature to a sewage treatment plant. Scully warns him that the fluke she discovered inside the corpse is actually an incubating larva – meaning that the creature is trying to reproduce. The agent and a foreman crawl inside a tunnel hoping to locate the creature. It suddenly lunges out of the water and grabs hold of the foreman, dragging him beneath the foul sludge. The foreman resurfaces, gasping for air. The creature makes its way to an overflow pipe, which leads to the sea. Mulder engages a rusty lever, causing a guillotine−like metal gate to drop from above. The creature is severed in two. Later, Mulder meets with Scully, who produces photographs linking the creature to meltdown waste from the Chernobyl Reactor in Russia.

Blood Production Code: #2X03 Original Air Date: 09/30/94 Teleplay by Glen Morgan and James Wong Story by Darin Morgan Directed by David Nutter MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF VIOLENT KILLINGS COMMITTED BY SEEMINGLY NORMAL RESIDENTS OF A SMALL TOWN.

Ed Funsch is an ordinary guy who performs an ordinary job at the United States Post Office in Franklyn, Pennsylvania. One day his supervisor delivers bad news: because of cutbacks, Ed has been laid off. Depressed about his prospects for the future, Ed nonetheless returns to his spot at the zip code sorter machine. As he stares at the digital display on the device, numbers begin changing into letters of the alphabet. They form words. Instead of seeing postal codes, Ed views a message: “Kill ‘Em All.” Shortly thereafter, a real estate agent enters a crowded elevator in an office building. He begins sweating profusely, and as he stares at the elevator’s digital display floor−indicator, he too sees the message “Kill ‘Em All.” The man loses control. He strikes out at the other passengers, killing two in a wild frenzy. The senselessness of the crime, and its similarity to other violent incidents that have rocked the small town of Franklyn, prompts local police ask for the FBI’s help. Mulder is assigned the case. He learns that the real estate agent and others who suddenly went berserk did so in a busy, public area. None of

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the suspects obeyed orders to surrender and were subsequently shot to death by police. Mulder suspects that electronic devices found smashed at the scenes of the crimes are linked to the killings. Another bizarre killing shakes the small town when a woman attacks a lecherous automotive mechanic at the garage where he works. Mulder inspects the murder scene and is most intrigued by a smashed digital dashboard display. Accompanied by local police, Mulder interviews Bonnie McRoberts, whose car the mechanic was working on at the time he was murdered. But McRoberts suddenly goes berserk and slashes at Mulder with a knife. Police open fire, killing her. Scully examines the woman’s corpse and finds evidence that a chemical similar to LSD is present in her blood. But that chemical is only triggered when a high amount of adrenaline is secreted. Mulder discovers that the city of Franklyn sprays orchards with dangerous insecticides in its quest to exterminate a particularly virulent species of cluster fly. Unfortunately, he learns this firsthand – he is doused by a helicopter flying a secret operation under the cover of darkness. County Supervisor Larry Winter defends the operation, noting that the local economy depends on crops. But Mulder’s exposure to the chemical begins to have an effect on his mind. He too sees messages in electronic displays. He realizes that all of the killers suffered from phobias – phobias that could be exploited through subliminal means. Since the chemical agent used in the manufacture of the insecticide produces fear in cluster flies, Mulder concludes the same fear is being chemically induced and then triggered by someone using the town of Franklyn for a controlled experiment. Mulder and Scully believe that only a small percentage of the population of Franklyn – some 25 people – are at risk of having a violent reaction to the chemical. One of these is Ed Funsch. The agents arrive at Funsch’s home and discover an empty rifle case. Mulder realizes that Funsch is afraid of the sight of blood. He races to a local blood drive at a college, where Funsch has climbed a clock tower armed with rifles. Mulder overpowers Funsch and arrests him.

Sleepless Production Code: #2X04 Original Air Date: 10/07/94 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER SEARCHES FOR A VIETNAM VET WHO CAN PROJECT HIS CONSCIOUSNESS INTO OTHER PEOPLE’S MINDS.

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apartment. When emergency crews arrive at Grissom’s building, they do not find a fire. But they do find Grissom’s dead body. Skinner assigns Mulder and Alex Krycek, another agent for the FBI, to investigate the mysterious incident. Annoyed at the prospect of working with Krycek, Mulder travels to Connecticut by himself. He interviews Dr. Penelope Charyn, who explains that Grissom revolutionized sleep therapy, and developed a process whereby a person’s dreams can be altered by electric stimulation. Mulder grudgingly accepts Krycek as his partner. They visit Scully in the autopsy bay. She explains that Grissom shows classic physiological responses of having been burned alive in a fire… yet his flesh is not charred. Interest in the case grows when another man, Henry Willig, is found dead in his apartment with forty−three internal hemorrhages – signs that he had been shot to death. But upon examination, no bullets or signs of foul play are detected. Mulder realizes that both Willig and Grissom were Vietnam veterans, and that both were stationed at Parris Island. After further checking, the agents determine that Augustus Cole is the only surviving member of a special squad that included Willig. But Cole turns up missing when he is traced to a psychiatric ward. A mysterious government operative, X, meets Mulder in a dark parking structure (as did Deep Throat). He claims that Grissom conducted sleep deprivation experiments as Parris Island in an attempt to make soldiers aggressive and fearless. The woman warns that Augustus Cole has not slept in twenty−four years. The agents get a break in the case when Cole robs a pharmacy of anti− depressants. Mulder and Krycek are shocked when two officers shoot one another while searching the drug store. Mulder theorizes that Cole possesses the ability to project his consciousness into the minds of other people. The agents locate Salvatore Matola, a former member of the special marine squad whose name was not officially listed on any government documents. Matola claims that a Dr. Girardi participated in the experiments. He also admits that his entire squad went AWOL and massacred everyone who lived in the Vietnamese village of Phu Bai. Mulder concludes that Cole is punishing everyone associated with the massacre for its twenty−fourth anniversary. The agents rush to a train station to intercept Girardi. Mulder draws his gun when he sees Cole, pistol in hand, approaching Girardi. But in reality, Mulder is reacting to images projected into his mind. Seeing that Mulder is pointing his gun at innocent bystanders, Krycek shoots at Mulder. Luckily, he misses. The agents track Cole and Girardi to a train car in a railway yard. Girardi is badly injured, the victim of Cole’s dream projection. Mulder finds Cole and tries convincing him to testify in court about the

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experiment. But Cole projects an image into Krycek’s brain, making it seem as if he is pointing a gun at Mulder. Krycek falls for the trick and shoots Cole. Later, Krycek reports to a mysterious tribunal that is bent on eliminating Mulder and Scully forever.

Duane Barry (1 of 2) Production Code: #2X05 Original Air Date: 10/14/94 Written and Directed by Chris Carter A FORMER FBI AGENT WHO CLAIMS HE WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS TAKES SEVERAL PEOPLE HOSTAGE.

Mulder and Alex Krycek are assigned to a hostage negotiation. They are briefed by Agent Lucy Kazdin, who explains that a mental patient named Duane Barry has taken his psychologist, Dr. Hakkie, and three other people hostage at a travel agency. Barry demands safe passage for himself and Hakkie to an alien abduction site – although he cannot remember where the site is. Mulder phones Barry and tries calming him. It soon becomes apparent that Barry is well acquainted with hostage crises. Kazdin explains that Barry is a former FBI agent. A strange light envelopes the scene. Barry becomes unglued and fires his gun, wounding some of the hostages. Kazdin explains that a power generator blew, but Mulder suspects otherwise. Mulder and Agent Janus volunteer to aid the wounded. They are equipped with a flak jacket and a wire. As Janus tends to an injured man, Mulder speaks with Barry in person for the first time. He strays from the FBI script and talks about UFOs candidly. Barry is taken aback; it’s the first time someone given credence to his past experiences. He allows Mulder to trade himself for one of the hostages. As Mulder walks Barry through his UFO encounters, the FBI agents listen in, convinced that Barry is being driven over the edge. When Scully is updated of the situation, she urges the FBI to get Mulder out immediately. She explains that in 1982, Barry was shot in the line of duty. The injury effectively destroyed the moral center of his brain, leaving him a pathological liar who suffers from severe delusions. Scully speaks to Mulder via the hidden two−way receiver wired to his body. She urges him to get the hostages away from Barry. Barry concedes to Mulder’s request and releases the remaining hostages. Soon after, an FBI marksman shoots Barry. Barry is rushed to a hospital. Kazdin tells Mulder that x−rays revealed strange pieces of metal inside Barry’s nasal cavity, lending credence to the man’s claim that he was kidnapped and tortured by aliens. Scully discovers that the metal is encoded with strange symbols.

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Ascension (2 of 2) Production Code: #2X06 Original Air Date: 10/21/94 Written by Paul Brown Directed by Michael Lange MULDER ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE SCULLY AFTER SHE IS ABDUCTED BY A DERANGED MAN WHO BELIEVES IN UFOS.

Mulder rushes to Scully’s apartment when he realizes that she was attacked by Duane Barry. When he arrives at the scene, a police investigation is already in progress. There are signs of a struggle; broken glass and human blood dot the floor. Scully’s mother Margaret speaks to Mulder about the abduction; she describes a nightmare she experienced that foretold the incident. FBI agents are skeptical when Mulder hints that Barry’s UFO story might be legitimate. Skinner removes Mulder from the investigation and sends him home. Meanwhile, Barry makes his way to the alien landing site. A patrolman pulls Barry over for speeding. He notices blood on Barry’s hands and draws his weapon. But Barry pulls a gun and kills the police officer. Mulder reviews a videotape of the incident which was recorded by a camera mounted inside the patrolman’s car. Using video enhancement, Scully’s image is pinpointed – and she is alive. Mulder reviews audio tapes of his hostage negotiations. He realizes that Barry is heading for Skyland Mountain in Virginia. Accompanied by Krycek, Mulder drives to the remote location. They are told by a tram operator that Barry is driving up the mountain using back roads. Hoping to beat Barry to the summit, Mulder boards the dangerous passenger tram and journeys up the mountain. But before the tram reaches its destination, Krycek kills the tram operator and sabotages the controls, stranding Mulder in the process. When Mulder attempts to climb off the tram, Krycek engages the power, hoping to crush him. But Mulder outmaneuvers Krycek and continues his search. Mulder sees a blinding light pass overhead. When he locates Barry, Scully is nowhere to be found. Barry begins laughing hysterically. He describes how the aliens will no longer bother him now that they have another guinea pig. But Mulder remains skeptical; he questions Barry’s sanity and lashes out at him during an interrogation. Shortly after Krycek conducts his own interrogation, Barry lapses into cardiac arrest and dies. Mulder tells Skinner that Krycek poisoned Barry – and that the military is aware of Scully’s location.

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He believes that Scully got too close to the truth, especially when she discovered the metallic implant. Mulder concludes that a covert military operation – assisted by the mysterious Smoking Man – is behind the cover−up. Those suspicions are confirmed when Krycek vanishes without a trace. Left with little choice, Skinner officially reopens the X−Files.

3 Production Code: #2X07 Original Air Date: 11/04/94 Written by Chris Ruppenthal, Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by David Nutter MULDER LINKS A SERIES OF GRISLY DEATHS TO A GROUP OF MODERN−DAY VAMPIRES.

With Scully still missing, Mulder begins work on the newly reopened X−Files project. He investigates the violent death of a Los Angeles businessman who was attacked by several people as he used his jacuzzi. The murder resembles several other similar attacks believed to have been committed by the Trinity Killers: the victim’s body is drained of blood, bite marks are discovered on the exterior jugular vein, and a quotation written in blood is found near the body. Mulder tracks his first suspect to the Hollywood Blood Bank. He finds a new employee in the basement dining on human blood. The man, who calls himself The Son, wants to live forever because he believes there is no afterlife. Mulder believes the man is delusional and a faker. Believing his condition a psychological, Mulder places The Son in a jail cell where he will come in contact with direct sunlight at dawn. Mulder tells him the sunlight will be blocked if he reveals the whereabouts of his accomplices. But as guards watch horrified, The Son burns to death when dawn breaks. Mulder theorizes that vampirism is, in part, based on a real disease called porphyria, an affliction which causes blisters on the skin when a sufferer is exposed to sunlight. With the aid of a coroner, a hand stamp on The Son’s skin is deciphered. It reads “Club Tepes.” Mulder visits the club, where he meets a mysterious woman named Kristen. During an erotic encounter, Kristen tempts him with a drop of her blood. But Mulder declines to drink. An Asian man accepts Kristen’s offer and the couple retreat to a secluded area. When Kristen finishes arousing the man, three of her accomplices rush him. Mulder and members of the police department discover the man’s corpse drained of blood. Nearby is a can of cranberry sauce and some fingerprints. By matching the fingerprint with existing records, Mulder locates Kristen’s home. Kristen recounts how

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she first met The Son, whose real name was John. During a fight with John, they tasted each other’s blood. From that point on they turned to “blood sports.” They were joined by others, but Kristen explains how it turned unnatural. Kristen insists that with John dead, she is not in jeopardy. She refuses Mulder’s escort to the police department. Instead, Mulder spends the night with Kristen, and the two become lovers. The next day, The Son appears at Kristen’s house as wild fires spread throughout the Malibu hills. The Son tells Kristen that he is immortal and cannot be killed even by sunlight. He instructs Kristen to kill Mulder. Instead, Kristen stabs The Father, the first of the Holy Trinity, who is hiding in the darkness. The Son attacks Mulder, but he is overpowered and tied up. As the fires near the house, Mulder and Kristen attempt to make their getaway by car. Suddenly, The Holy Spirit attacks the couple. Kristen hits the vampire with her car, impaling it against a nail. She returns to the house and pours gasoline around herself and The Son. She states her intent to become immortal and ignites the gas. Later, firemen tell Mulder that four corpses were discovered inside the house.

One Breath Production Code: #2X08 Original Air Date: 11/11/94 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by R.W. Goodwin WHEN SCULLY’S COMATOSE BODY IS DISCOVERED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL, MULDER SUSPECTS THE GOVERNMENT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DISAPPEARANCE.

Despite Mulder’s objection that it is still too soon to give up hope, Margaret Scully orders a gravestone for her missing daughter, Dana. Not long afterward, Dana’s comatose body mysteriously appears at a local hospital. She is hooked to a life support system, her condition critical. There are no records indicating how she arrived at the hospital… or who brought her there. Mulder is furious. A doctor reveals that Dana’s living will specifically requests termination of life support should such a situation develop. Melissa Scully visits the hospital. She claims that, through channeling, she can communicate with her sister. Dana also receives a visit from Frohike, one of the Lone Gunman. Frohike and his colleagues discover that Dana’s DNA exhibits signs of genetic tampering. They conclude that with her immune system decimated, Dana does not have long to live. When Mulder returns to the hospital, he sees a mysterious man steal a vial containing Dana’s blood sample. Mulder gives chase. A fight ensues between the two men. Suddenly, X emerges from the

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shadows and shoots the mysterious man. Mulder is shocked at the senselessness of the killing. He does, however, recover the blood sample. Soon after, the Scullys honor Dana’s wish and the life support system is disconnected. Mulder approaches Skinner and demands he have access to the mysterious Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM), convinced he is responsible for the cover−up. But his request is denied. Some time later, at the hospital, a mysterious woman leaves behind a pack of cigarettes containing CSM’s address. Mulder secretly enters CSM’s apartment and puts a gun to his head. But CSM holds all the cards; he reminds Mulder that if he dies, he takes all the secrets with him. Realizing he has arrived at a dead end, Mulder gives Skinner his resignation. Skinner refuses to accept Mulder’s resignation. Later, Mulder is approached by X and leaked information regarding an illegal search that will occur at his apartment, a search that will be performed by government operatives. Mulder is instructed to kill the intruders and claim self− defense. As Mulder waits in the darkness for the agents, Melissa appears at his door. She tells him that Dana’s condition is deteriorating, and that now more than ever, Dana needs him at her side. Mulder visits Scully’s bedside and gives her words of encouragement. When Mulder returns to his apartment, he finds that it has been ransacked. The next day, Mulder receives a telephone call from the hospital. Dana has regained consciousness.

Firewalker Production Code: #2X09 Original Air Date: 11/18/94 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by David Nutter A PARASITIC SILICON−BASED LIFE FORM IS DISCOVERED BY A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS RESEARCHING A VOLCANO.

Adam Pierce, a technician at the California Institute of Technology’s Volcano Observatory, approaches Mulder and Scully with a mystery. A team of scientists working at Mount Avalon issued a distress signal requesting an immediate airlift. When contact with the team was lost, Pierce and his fellow scientists at Cal Tech activated a robotic camera, nicknamed Firewalker, which relayed pictures from inside an active volcano. The pictures – which are reviewed by Mulder and Scully – show Chief Seismologist Phil Erikson’s heat−seared corpse lying at the volcano’s caldera, where temperatures reach over 400 degrees Celsius. The videotape also captured a hulking figure near the body. Pierce suspects that his brilliant colleague, Daniel Trepkos, may somehow be responsible for the death.

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Mulder, Scully and Pierce fly by helicopter to Mount Avalon. They find scientists Jason Ludwig, Jesse O’Neil and Peter Tanaka hiding inside the field base. Ludwig describes how Trepkos went berserk and destroyed the facilities. Shortly thereafter, Trepkos finds Pierce and strangles him. Mulder uncovers Trepkos’ notes, which describe an unknown life form living inside the volcano. The notes suggest Trepkos possesses physical evidence that proves the existence of silicon−based life. Scully interviews Jesse O’Neil, who had been romantically linked to Trepkos. Tanaka begins having coughing fits. Scully insists he be airlifted off the base and taken to a hospital. But the scientist runs off into the forest. Mulder and Ludwig give chase. Tanaka loses his balance and trips, falling down an embankment. Suddenly, his throat swells enormously and a spike pierces his skin, killing him instantly. Scully’s examination of the body supports Mulder’s theory that a silicon−based life form, possibly a fungus, grew inside Tanaka’s body. Believing the fungus to be communicable and airborne, the group is quarantined. Ludwig volunteers to guide Mulder to the underground steam caves where Trepkos is believed to be hiding. But Trepkos surprises them and shoots Ludwig with a flare gun. He proceeds to burn the body so that the parasitic spore living inside will die. Trepkos explains the Erikson inadvertently released the spore after Firewalker pulled a sample out of the volcano. Everyone at the base – except himself – was infected by the parasite. He crippled the transmitter equipment, and killed Pierce, all in an effort to keep the spore from spreading. Mulder, realizing Scully is in jeopardy, races back to the base. O’Neil handcuffs herself to Scully and loses consciousness. Realizing what is about to occur, Scully carries her body to rubber−sealed Plexiglas door and placed her on the other side, separating them. O’Neil’s throat expands to grotesque proportions – the fungus within replicating – ready to infect a new host. Suddenly, O’Neil’s throat explodes, the organic matter spattering against the Plexiglas. Mulder finds Scully safe and unharmed. Trepkos returns to the base, where he discovers Jesse’s corpse. Mulder allows him to remove the body and leave the area. Meanwhile, he and Scully are quarantined for a month to ensure neither has been infected.

Red Museum Production Code: #2X10 Original Air Date: 12/09/94 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Win Phelps

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Gary Kane, a sixteen−year−old high school student, leaves his home suddenly after receiving a mysterious phone call. When Gary fails to return home, his mother, Beth, notifies police. Two officers on patrol notice Gary – who is clad only in his underwear – wandering aimlessly in a wooded area. A phrase is written on his back in marker: “He is one.” Mulder and Scully review the facts in the case. Gary was not sexually assaulted, nor was he the victim of a prank. Surprisingly, there are reports of other teenagers having experienced similar ordeals. Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when a Wisconsin sheriff, Bill Mazeroski, speculates that the victims have been possessed. He explains that a religious cult called the Church of the Red Museum settled into the area and purchased a cattle ranch. Being vegetarians, the church members turned beef cattle into pets – much to the consternation of local ranchers. The sheriff takes the agents to the church. They watch as Richard Odin, the sect’s leader, addresses his parishioners via a computer. Mulder explains to Scully that the church members are “walk ins” – believers in soul transference who have taken possession of other people’s bodies. Local teenagers harass a young Red Museum member. Mulder comes to the boy’s aid, and in the process learns that one of the harassers is the sheriff’s son, Rick. A girl who participated in the verbal attack on the Red Museum member is later found with the message “She is one” scrawled on her back. Lab tests reveal large quantities of a hallucinogen – a controlled substance – in the girl’s blood. That night, a small plane carrying Dr. Gerry Larson crash lands in a field. Mulder, Scully and Sheriff Mazeroski discover a briefcase bearing Larson’s initials filled with hundred dollar bills. They also discover a vial containing a mysterious fluid, and a computer printout list containing the names and credit card numbers of the victims’ families… each of whom Larson delivered and treated through childhood. While interviewing Beth Kane, Mulder notices a light shining through a hole in her bathroom mirror. He smashes the glass, revealing a video camera surveillance set−up. The man behind the surveillance, Gerd Thomas, abducts Rick, the sheriff’s son… just as he abducted all the previous victims. But instead of turning up dazed, Rick is found dead. Mulder discovers that Gerd Thomas owns the building where the Kane family lives. He is placed under arrest. Numerous video tapes are recovered. Thomas apologizes for his sickness but insists he did not murder Rick. He explains that Dr. Larson was paying him to inject cattle with a mysterious liquid… the same liquid Larson used to “inoculate” his young patients.

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Scully sees the mysterious Crew−Cut Man – who executed Deep Throat – driving on the street. Mulder realizes that the mysterious fluid is alien DNA, the same substance found in the erlenmeyer flask months earlier. The Crew−Cut Man, Scully speculates, killed Rick to cover up evidence. Aware that other lives are in danger, Mulder asks the sheriff to round up everyone on Larson’s computer list and transport them to the Red Museum. Realizing that the Crew−Cut Man’s base of operation is the local slaughterhouse, Mulder rushes to the scene. He finds the facility soaked with gasoline. The Crew−Cut Man suddenly springs from the darkness and a fight ensues. Scully and Mazeroski arrive and shoot the Crew−Cut Man, killing him. An investigation reveals no clues as to who the man was or the chemical makeup of the substance injected into the townspeople.

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The mystery deepens when Tiernan, a hospital orderly, is pushed out a window by an invisible force. A toxicological report on Hal’s blood reveals trace levels of Ibotenic acid, an hallucinogenic drug. While searching the basement of the nursing home, Mulder uncovers a room containing hundreds of mushrooms. And beneath a pile of fertilizer Mulder discovers the dead body of a missing orderly. Gung, an Asian orderly, is questioned about the room. He admits that he has been feeding herbs to the residents – herbs that allow them to speak to the dead. Gung is convinced that the mysterious rapes and murders were committed by angry spirits. Stan overdoses on the herbs and a group of ghosts mass for an attack against residents and visitors alike. Michelle and Mulder become trapped inside a bathroom that floods with water. Scully comes to their aid. Grego finds Stan and drugs him. Suddenly, the attacks end and the ghosts disappear. The door to the bathroom suddenly bursts open, sending Mulder and Michelle sliding to the floor in a great rush of water.

Production Code: #2X11 Original Air Date: 12/16/94 Written by Paul Brown Directed by Steven Surjik

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A SERIES OF VIOLENT ATTACKS AT A CONVALESCENT HOME ARE LINKED TO ANGRY SPIRITS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.

Production Code: #2X12 Original Air Date: 01/06/95 Written by Sara Charno Directed by Rob Bowman

Michelle Charter works as a nurse at the Excelsis Dei Convalescent Home. While making her rounds one night, she is suddenly and violently attacked by an invisible entity that proceeds to rape her. News of the attack reaches FBI headquarters, piquing Mulder and Scully’s interest in the case. They travel to Worcester, Massachusetts, the town where Michelle works. During her interview, Michelle insists that the spirit which entered her body emanated from an elderly patient afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease named Hal Arden. Outraged by the incident, she initiates a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that she is regularly subjected to sexual harassment and has no recourse for protection. The agents speak with Hal, who assures them he is not strong enough, nor possesses the sexual drive, to rape anyone. But shortly thereafter Hal begins choking after he secretly ingests a mysterious pill given him by his roommate Stan. Mulder and Scully are unable to save Hal and he dies. Dr. John Grago is upset when he learns the news; Hal’s Alzheimer’s disease had been in remission since he began taking an experimental drug called Depranil. Laura Kelly, the daughter of Hal’s roommate, Stan, has her father discharged from the facility because of his markedly improved mental and physical state. She notes, however, that Stan has begged her not to take him away from the home.

A PREGNANT WOMAN EXPERIENCES VISIONS OF SERIAL KILLINGS THAT SPAN HALF A CENTURY.

In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, Detective B.J. Morrow experiences a frightening vision. In her mind’s eye, she sees a man bury a corpse in a shallow grave. Certain of the exact location, B.J. rushes to a field, shovel in hand, and exhumes the body. Using dental records, Mulder and Scully positively identify the remains. The victim is FBI Agent Sam Chaney, who disappeared in the 1940s along with his partner, Tim Ledbetter. Chaney and Ledbetter were investigating a serial murder case at the time. Mulder is puzzled by B.J. and her sudden knowledge of where the body was buried, so he and Scully travel to Aubrey hoping to uncover more about the case. During questioning, B.J. tells the agents her car stalled near the field one night, and she noticed a dog digging in the ground. She claims it attracted her attention and, after some digging, she proceeded to find the grave. But Scully senses that B.J. is having an affair with Lieutenant Brian Tillman. She theorizes that B.J. made the initial phone call alerting police about the body from the motel where she was rendezvousing with Tillman. When confronted about the truth, B.J. admits she not only is having an affair with the married Tillman – she is pregnant. She also reveals how the pregnancy has

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triggered strange dreams in which she sees another murder. Further research reveals that the serial murderer, dubbed the “Slash Killer” by the press at the time, would knock female victims unconscious and carve the word “sister” on their chests. Mulder suspects that Chaney was a victim of the killer he was trying to catch. Using a computer, the agents analyze the victim’s bone fragments hoping to find more clues. Preliminary findings suggest that letters where carved into the corpse. Those letters, B.J. reveals, spelled the word “brother.” The agents are intrigued when Tillman reveals that the same serial killer who stalked Aubrey fifty years earlier has apparently embarked on another murderous rampage. Accompanied by B.J., Mulder and Scully search the scene of the latest crime. B.J. realizes the victim is the woman she saw in her dream. B.J. searches through mug shots from the 1940s and identifies the man in her dreams. He is Harry Cokely, convicted in 1945 for rape and attempted murder. He carved the word “sister” on his victim, Linda Thibedeaux, before she escaped. The agents visit Cokely, now in his seventies, sickly and house ridden. B.J. awakens one night with blood seeping from her chest. She experiences another vision and rushes to a stranger’s home, where she uncovers the body of Ledbetter. The agents interview Linda Thibodeaux. She admits that, as a result of being raped, she gave birth to Cokely’s child. She placed the baby in the hands to an adoption agency. Further investigation reveals that Cokely’s son was Raymond Morrow – B.J.’s father. The agents conclude that B.J. committed the latest series of killings. B.J. attacks Thibodeaux, but she stops short of killing her. Mulder and Scully rush to Cokely’s house, suspecting that B.J. will attempt revenge. Cokely dies after his oxygen equipment is sabotaged. B.J. attacks Mulder with a razor. But Tillman arrives and reminds B.J. who she really is. B.J. falls into a trance and is taken into custody.

Irresistible Production Code: #2X13 Original Air Date: 01/13/95 Written by Chris Carter Directed by David Nutter SCULLY AND MULDER HUNT DOWN A FETISHIST WHO COLLECTS PIECES OF THE DEAD.

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graveyard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Suspecting the incident might be related to UFOs, Bocks notifies Mulder and Scully, hoping their expertise might help shed some light on the bizarre incident. But Mulder recognizes signs of an escalating fetishist – a man who collects dead things – at work. Despite her years of work performing autopsies, Scully is nonetheless repulsed by the manner in which the bodies are mutilated. Hair has been snipped away in clumps, and fingernails have been torn out with pliers. Scully is plagued by nightmares featuring a demon. In the dreams, she becomes one of the killer’s victims. When even more mutilated bodies turn up, Mulder fears the fetishist’s compulsion might lead to murder. His suspicions prove correct: Donnie employs the services of a prostitute, then murders and mutilates her. After examining how the body was defiled, Mulder suspects the killer has a deep hatred toward women. Donnie make a conscious effort to blend into the community. He takes a job as a delivery man, and while working his route he wins the confidence of Ellen Brumfield and her family. He enrolls in a mythology class at a junior college, but his attention is drawn to a pretty coed who sits at the front of the class. One night in the school’s parking lot Donnie pins the girl to her car. But she strikes back by kneeing him in the groin. Donnie is arrested. That same night, however, a different suspect with a history of assault is also arrested. Mulder and Scully interview the man at the jail but determine he is not a suspect. But Donnie, who is in a cell nearby, takes note of Scully’s name. Bothered by her reaction to the case, Scully flies back to Washington and seeks the services of Karen Kosseff, a member of the FBI’s Employee Assistance Program. Scully admits she has lost faith and feels vulnerable. Meanwhile, forensics lifts a fingerprint off the prostitute’s corpse. Mulder and Bocks trace the print to Donnie, leading them to his apartment. They search the dwelling and discover a human finger inside a freezer. Donnie begins stalking Scully after she flies back to Minneapolis. He forces her rental car off the road and kidnaps her. Police locate the car. Mulder and Bocks search for clues but come up empty−handed. Mulder realizes that Donnie’s psychological profile sketches the mind of a deviant who, like notorious murders before him, is the embodiment of evil. Scully breaks free from her bonds and attempts to elude her captor. But Donnie gives chase, gun in hand. The two grapple for the weapon, and as Scully looks at Donnie’s face, she sees the visage of a demon, the same horrible creature from her dream. Mulder and Bocks storm Donnie’s hideout. Donnie drops his weapon and is taken into custody.

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Die Hand Die Verletzt Production Code: #2X14 Original Air Date: 01/27/95 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN POPULATED BY DEVIL WORSHIPERS.

In a remote wooded area of New Hampshire, a group of teenagers – two boys and two girls – locate an alter that they believe is used for Black Magic. One of the kids, a boy named Dave Duran, jokingly recites an incantation believing it will scare his girlfriend. But the joke backfires and the words summon a powerful, evil force. The kids panic and run away from the alter. One of the teenagers, Jerry Stevens, is attacked by the force. A hunter discovers his desecrated body the following morning. Believing the murder to be the work of a witch cult, Sheriff John Oakes asks the FBI for help. Mulder and Scully examine the corpse – its eyes and heart having been cut out. Mulder’s sense that the area has a strange feel is confirmed when toads begin dropping from the sky. Scully attributes the strange event to tornados in Northern Massachusetts. After researching a local library, the agents discover that Duran checked out a book on witchcraft. When questioned, a horrified Duran admits he never thought his words would summon the Devil. A visit to Crowley High School uncovers signs that the student population suffers from repressed memory. Scully, however, attributes the town’s fear to mass hysteria. But Mulder notes how water in the city drains in a counter clockwise fashion – against the laws of gravity. He believes a powerful force is at work. During a science class, a fifteen−year−old girl named Shannon Ausbury suddenly begins screaming when asked to dissect a pig embryo. The agents question the girl. Shannon recounts how her stepfather sexually molested her, a nearly forgotten memory. But she also recounts how her parents friends impregnated her three times and then killed the children. She also claims that Jim murdered her sister during a sacrifice. Mulder and Scully are stunned by the claims and decide to interview her parents. The Ausburys claim one daughter died of crib death and assure the agents their daughter has never been pregnant. With the town’s secret in danger of being exposed, a devil worshiper named Mrs. Paddock, a new teacher at the high school, places a spell on Shannon. Shortly thereafter, Shannon slashes her wrists. A group of parents – who are member of the high school’s PTC – meet in secret. But these are no ordinary townsfolk; the parents worship Black Magic. The PTC members tell Jim Ausbury that they were responsible for Shannon’s death. Anxious for

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the police and FBI investigations to end, and realizing that Shannon makes the perfect scapegoat, they fabricate a story in which Shannon killed Jerry out of jealousy. But Jim Ausbury, disillusioned with his religion and disgusted with the PTC members and their lie about his daughter, tells Mulder the truth: Shannon and other youngsters were forced to participate in the ancient rituals against their will. Using post hypnotic suggestion, the memory of the rituals was repressed. After exposing the conspiracy, Ausbury is attacked and swallowed by a large python. Recalling that Mrs. Paddock kept a snake in her room, the agents decide an investigation is in order. But when they arrive at the school, PTC members take them hostage. Before the occultists can do the agents harm, they suddenly and mysteriously attack and kill one another. Mulder and Scully escape and search for Mrs. Paddock. But she is not to be found.

Fresh Bones Production Code: #2X15 Original Air Date: 02/03/95 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A VOODOO CURSE CAUSED THE DEATHS OF TWO MARINES STATIONED AT A HAITIAN REFUGEE CAMP.

In North Carolina, Mulder and Scully investigate when two Marines stationed at the Folkstone government processing center for Haitian refugees die in mysterious accidents. The Marines officially classify the deaths as suicides, but Robin McAlpin, the wife of one victim, believes otherwise. Private Jack McAlpin died after he lost control of his car and skidded into a tree. The agents comb the accident scene and discover a strange image painted on the tree. Mrs. McAlpin tells the agents that a Marine named Harry Dunham suspects that the murders were caused by a voodoo curse. Mulder and Scully visit the encampment hoping to find answers. As they survey the deplorable conditions, a young Haitian boy, Chester, sells the agents a charm to help ward off evil. Later, the agents speak with Colonel Jacob Wharton, who runs the camp. He confirms that ever since a young Haitian boy was killed in the camp, things have been chaotic. Wharton blames the trouble on Pierre Bauvais, a revolutionary held in an isolation cell. Bauvais cryptically blames the deaths on loco− miroir, the voodoo crossroads between two worlds. Scully obtains permission to examine McAlpin’s corpse. In the temporary camp morgue, Scully and a marine physician are horrified when they discover the body of a dead dog in place of McAlpin. Later that night, as Scully drives Mulder through the rain, a bedraggled man hobbles in front of the car. Scully

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slams on the brakes. The agents are shocked when they get a good look at the man – Jack McAlpin. A blood test reveals trace levels of a poison called tetrodotoxin in McAlpin’s system. Mulder speculates that someone injected the Marine with the poison, thereby making him appear dead. This leads the agents to the grave of Manuel Guttierez, the second Marine who allegedly committed suicide. The body, however, is missing. A gravekeeper explains how grave robbers regularly snatch the dead from their resting grounds. Mulder spots Chester in the cemetery. The boy explains that he collects and sells frogs that Bauvais uses for his magic. This piques Scully’s interest, as certain frog species secrete a substance chemically similar to the toxin found in McAlpin’s blood. Mulder questions Dunham. He insists that Bauvais threatened to take the souls of all the Marines, one by one, unless his people are released. Mulder confronts Wharton with allegations of prisoner mistreatment, but the Colonel insists there is no official policy of harassment. Wharton is convinced that Bauvais told the agents about his illegal mistreatment of the Haitians. In response, he has Bauvais severely beaten. The agents discover Dunham’s corpse floating in a bathtub, blood oozing from a stab wound. They also discover McAlpin nearby holding a knife. Suspecting Bauvais is somehow responsible, the agents ask Wharton for permission to speak with him. Wharton, however, claims that Bauvais killed himself by slashing his wrists with a bedspring. The case turns more bizarre when Robin McAlpin gives the agents a photo that Dunham wanted released in the event of his death. The picture reveals Wharton engaged in a voodoo ceremony with Bauvais. Mulder and Scully rush to the cemetery after learning that Wharton intends to steal Bauvais’ soul. As Mulder falls victim to Wharton’s magic, Bauvais rises from the dead. He avenges his murder by killing Wharton. Scully, meanwhile, fends off an attack by using the special charm that Chester sold Mulder.

Colony (1 of 2) Production Code: #2X16 Original Air Date: 02/10/95 Written by Chris Carter Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter Directed by Nick Marck AS MULDER SEARCHES FOR A KILLER CAPABLE OF ALTERING HIS SHAPE, A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE HIS LONG−LOST SISTER SUDDENLY APPEARS.

Agent Mulder, unconscious and suffering from severe hypothermia, is transported by helicopter to a base in Alaska. Scully rushes to her partner’s aid, and immediately clashes with doctors at the scene.

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When Mulder’s heart stops, she insists he be removed from a tub of warm water because the cold is the only thing keeping him alive. With the doctors locked in a stalemate, the sequence of events leading to Mulder’s condition unfolds… A research vessel sailing in the Arctic Circle encounters what appears to be a UFO crashing into the Beaufort Sea. But the news media reports that the spacecraft was, in actuality, a Russian plane. The pilot of that craft, a bounty hunter, disappears, and later begins killing doctors at abortion clinics across the United States, setting fires to cover the crime. Mulder discovers that the doctors, though unrelated by birth, look identical. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that officials never recovered bodies from the burned clinics. The agents uncover evidence that the killer ran ads in local newspapers in an effort to locate his targets. They realize his next intended victim is a doctor in Syracuse. Mulder notifies Agent Weiss to guard the doctor until they arrived at the scene. But Weiss discovers the bounty hunter standing over the doctor’s corpse (which is slowly dissolving – as if dipped in acid). Weiss opens fire on the bounty hunter, but his bullets prove ineffective. When Mulder and Scully arrive in Syracuse, Weiss tells them there was no sign of the doctor. Unknown to the agents, the bounty hunter is capable of morphing into different shapes, allowing him to assume Weiss’ identity. When Mulder return to Washington to meet with Skinner, he learns that Weiss has been killed. A CIA agent named Ambrose Chapel approaches Mulder and Scully. He claims that during the Cold war Soviet scientists discovered how to clone DNA. They planted clones in strategic positions within America’s medical establishment, hoping to sabotage the country’s immune system in the event of war. Chapel believes a secret agreement exists that sent the bounty hunter to eliminate the clones in exchange for absolute suppression of the program’s existence. The clones, Chapel suspects, were attempting to contact the agents, hoping they would expose the plot. Mulder flies home when he receives word there was a family emergency – losing contact with Scully in the process. When he arrives, he is shocked to discover his sister Samantha – who had been abducted by a UFO as a child – in the company of his parents. Samantha tells Mulder that after her abduction she was placed in the care of visitors from another planet, and then made to forget her real family. She used hypnotic therapy to uncover her buried memories and locate her family. She asks Mulder to help stop the bounty hunter before he kills her adoptive father. Scully discovers more of the clones hiding in an industrial building. She has them placed in maximum protective custody. Mulder finally locates Scully and

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enters her hotel room. But Scully realizes the man standing in her room is not the real Mulder…

End Game (2 of 2) Production Code: #2X17 Original Air Date: 02/17/95 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER ATTEMPTS TO CATCH AN ALIEN BOUNTY HUNTER WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS SISTER’S WHEREABOUTS.

Deep beneath the frigid waters of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Circle, crewmen aboard a submarine investigate sonar readings that indicate a huge, unidentified craft is floating nearby. The submarine’s captain receives orders to destroy the vessel without further investigation. Before torpedoes are launched, however, a powerful shock wave disables the submarine’s reactors. Meanwhile, a bewildered Scully receives a telephone call from Mulder as, simultaneously, a man who appears to be Mulder (the alien bounty hunter from the previous episode) shows up at her motel room. The doppelganger overpowers Scully, and demands to know where he can find Mulder. When Scully refuses to cooperate, the doppelganger throws her across the room. The real Mulder and his sister, Samantha, arrive at the motel some time later. Scully is gone, but signs of a struggle are evident. Samantha tells Mulder that the bounty hunter is interested in her, not Scully. Samantha explains that the only way the bounty hunter can be killed is to pierce the base of his skull. She warns, however, that his blood is toxic, and exposure to humans is fatal. Samantha assures her brother that the bounty hunter will contact them. As they await word, Samantha explains that aliens have been attempting to establish a colony on Earth since the late 1940s. But their experiments with cloning was not sanctioned, and others of their race considered it a dilution of the species. A bounty hunter was dispatched to terminate the colony. Scully, held at gun point, telephones Mulder and arranges a rendezvous at a bridge. Mulder informs Skinner of the situation, and an FBI sharpshooter is positioned nearby. The exchange is made, and the bounty hunter walks Samantha toward an awaiting van. Suddenly, the sharpshooter’s bullet rings out. The bounty hunter is struck in the neck. He falls backwards over the bridge, still clinging to Samantha. The pair plummet into the dark, icy waters below. Mulder relays news of his sister’s apparent death to his father. Mr. Mulder gives his son an envelope, which Samantha had left behind during her visit. Mulder opens it and finds a key and address inside.

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Mulder travels to the address, which turns out to be an abortion clinic. Inside, Mulder is shocked to discover alien clones who look like his sister. Suddenly, the bounty hunter appears and knocks Mulder unconscious. A fire races through the building, but Mulder is saved by firefighters. X tells Mulder that all the clones, save the original “Samantha,” was killed in the fire. He also admits that the bounty hunter is inside a vessel beneath the Beaufort Sea. Meanwhile, pathologists tell Scully that a strange retrovirus found in Agent Weiss’ blood is inhibited by extreme cold. This leads Scully to conclude that the bounty hunter may have survived his fall into the icy river. Mulder makes the trip to Alaska by himself in secret. He finds the submarine’s conning tower protruding from the ice. Inside, he encounters the bounty hunter. During a struggle, the bounty hunter bleeds green ooze onto Mulder. Mulder is pushed outside the sub, and shortly thereafter the vessel descends beneath the ice. Mulder’s body is rushed to a military field hospital. Scully arrives at the scene. She realizes that Mulder has been infected with the alien retrovirus. She convinces physicians to lower Mulder’s body temperature to counteract the virus. Her efforts are successful, and Mulder’s life is saved.

Fearful Symmetry Production Code: #2X18 Original Air Date: 02/24/95 Written by Steve De Jarnatt Directed by James Whitmore Jr. ANIMALS FROM A ZOO IN IDAHO ARE SUSPECTED OF KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE, BUT WITNESSES CLAIM THE REAL CULPRIT IS A POWERFUL INVISIBLE FORCE.

A powerful, invisible force shakes the darkened, deserted streets of Fairfield, Idaho. Two janitors watch in horror as the force smashes a plate glass window and crumples a car. A construction worker is killed as the force rumbles down a highway. Then, suddenly, a ten−foot tall Indian elephant materializes out of thin air. The pachyderm runs off until, finally, it grows exhausted and lies on the ground. As residents of the community watch, saddened, the elephant dies. Mulder and Scully investigate the incident. Mulder believes the invisible force and the elephant – whose name is Ganesha – are somehow connected. Ed Meecham, a worker at the Fairfield zoo, tells the agents that the animal’s cage is still locked. At Meecham’s suggestion, the agents question Willa Ambrose, a naturalist hired by the zoo’s board of supervisors. Ambrose explains she was hired to redesign the zoo’s restrictive pens to make them more humane environments. She explains that Meecham is from the “old school” and

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resents her involvement. Mulder and Scully interview Kyle Lang, an animal rights activist and member of the Wild Again Organization, who believes Ganesha was treated in an inhumane fashion by Meecham. But he is just as contemptuous towards Ambrose, whom he claims is attempting to gain custody of a gorilla so it can be kept in a cage at the zoo. Believing that members of the W.A.O. are responsible for releasing the elephant, the agents stake out the zoo. One night, a red−haired boy sneaks into the zoo with a night−vision camera. The animals become enraged. As the boy watches, horrified, a tiger dematerializes inside its cage. An invisible force strikes at the boy, ripping him to pieces. Mulder becomes convinced that some invisible force – not an escaped tiger – is responsible for the boy’s death. He is intrigued by reports that no animals kept at the zoo are able to reproduce. Scully performs an autopsy on the elephant, and discovers that it was once pregnant. Ambrose assures her that the animal could not possibly have given birth without her knowledge. Shortly thereafter, the missing tiger turns up at a construction site. The agents, Ambrose and Meecham attempt to capture the animal. But when the tiger charges Ambrose, Meecham kills it. Mulder tells Ambrose about a theory of his involving aliens impregnating zoo animals for some unknown purpose. Using sign language, Ambrose questions Sophie. The gorilla relays her fears about a baby flying “into the light.” Meanwhile, the zoo’s board of directors, in an effort to cut costs, eliminates Ambrose’s job. Sophie is prepped for her return to the wilderness despite Ambrose’s conviction that the gorilla will be killed by poachers. Kyle returns to the zoo one evening looking for Willa. Instead, he finds Sophie’s empty cage. Suddenly, a large crate crashes into Kyle, killing him. Scully discovers evidence that Kyle was murdered with a cattle prod. She arrests Ambrose for his death. Ambrose admits she and Ed Meecham joined forces and transported Sophie to an abandoned factory. When Mulder arrives at the factory, he finds Sophie in an uncontrollable rage. He and Meecham attempt to tranquilize the animal, but suddenly Meecham runs off, leaving Mulder alone with the gorilla. Sophie lashes out of the darkness and strikes Mulder. As Mulder loses consciousness, the animal disappears in a blinding flash of light. Later, Sophie’s dead body is discovered on a roadside. Ambrose weeps and embraces the animal.

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Story by Howard Gordon Teleplay by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS BECOME STRANDED ABOARD A SHIP WHERE THE HUMAN AGING PROCESS IS GREATLY ACCELERATED.

Mulder receives word that a Navy destroyer, the U.S.S. Ardent, vanished in the waters of the North Atlantic. Eighteen survivors were rescued by a Canadian trawler, but only one, Lieutenant Richard Harper, survived the mysterious incident. Harper is admitted to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland where he placed under tight security. Scully gains access to Harper’s room. She is surprised to discover that Harper – who is twenty− eight years old – looks like an elderly man. Mulder is unsurprised when he hears the news. He tells Scully about the Philadelphia Experiment, a top secret World War II project in which the United States government attempted to render battleships invisible to radar. Not long afterward, the U.S.S. Eldridge vanished from a Philadelphia Navy Yard only to reappear minutes later, hundreds of miles away in Norfolk, Virginia. Mulder believes these events are linked to the Roswell Incident. He theorizes that government physicists may have been trying to manipulate worm holes on earth. The agents travel to Norway in search of answers. They meet Henry Trondheim, the captain of a trawler called the Zeal. Trondheim tells of a legendary stone that Greenlanders believe is an evil god. Mulder and Scully hire Trondheim to navigate the treacherous waters and dense fog. Despite Trondheim’s best efforts, his ship collides with the Ardent. The agents, accompanied by Trondheim and his first mate, Halvorsen, board the Ardent and discover dead bodies covered with a strange substance. Suddenly, the sound of an engine fills the air. The foursome race onto the ship’s deck, only to see the Zeal disappearing into the fog. They realize they are stranded. A man’s scream shatters the ghostly quiet. Mulder, Scully and Trondheim race to the ship’s mess hall, where they discover Halvorsen’s dead body. More sounds in the galley lead them to a faltering old man, Captain Phillip Barclay, who claims that his ship encountered a strange light that stopped time itself. A short time later, Barclay dies. A man named Olafssen, a pirate whaler and wanted criminal, suddenly rushes Trondheim. Mulder draws his weapon and order Olafssen to stop. A fight ensues between Trondheim and Olafssen, but Mulder convinces Trondheim that Olafssen, who has not aged, may hold clues to the mystery. The Ardent’s log describes how four Norwegian sailors were rescued after their ship had sunk. This leads Trondheim to speculate that Olafssen’s men stole his boat and left their leader stranded. Not long afterward, Scully, Mulder and Trondheim begin aging rapidly.

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Scully develops a theory about the sudden aging. If the ship had drifted close to another massive metallic source – such as a meteorite – the resulting electromagnetic energy could excite free radicals, the elements suspected of causing aging. The agents suspect that drinking desalinized water from the ship’s tanks is the source of the aging. But if Olafssen drank recycled sewage water, which does not come from the sea, it may have kept him from contracting the illness. While the agents are away, Olafssen tells Trondheim that drinking the recycled water will save his life. Trondheim kills Olafssen and begins drinking from a toilet bowl. With the recycled water supply dwindling rapidly, tension begins to escalate. Trondheim locks himself in the ship’s sewage hold and backflushes all the water into a single tank. With no water left to drink, Scully improvises by combining sardine juice, limes, and the water from a snowglobe. But before either can consume the precious drinking water, the ship’s outer hull gives way and the vessel is flooded. Trondheim is overcome by the freezing water and drowns. Scully and Mulder are rescued by helicopter, and doctors are able to revive them.

Humbug Production Code: #2X20 Original Air Date: 03/31/95 Written by Darin Morgan Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR A KILLER IN A FLORIDA TOWN INHABITED BY SIDE−SHOW PERFORMERS.

Mulder tells Scully about a series of identical attacks that occurred over a period of twenty−eight years in almost every state in America. One of the most recent involved Jerald Glazebrook, who performed as The Alligator Man in carnivals and circuses. The agents travel to Gibsonton, Florida, where they attend Glazebrook’s funeral. They soon realize that most of the town’s residents suffer from physical deformities, and that most work the side− show circuit. When Mulder takes an interest in a drawing found on a menu, Sheriff Hamilton directs the agents to Hepcat Helm, who operates and designs exhibits for a carnival fun house. Hepcat explains that the drawing on the menu depicts the Feejee Mermaid, an exhibit that P.T. Barnum called “the genuine fake” because it fooled no one. Mulder theorizes that the Feejee Mermaid may, in fact, be quite real. The agents take rooms at a local trailer park run by a midget named Mr. Nutt. Lanny, a Siamese twin, helps the agents with their luggage. Later that night, while working alone in his workshop, Hepcat is murdered by a strange creature. A preliminary examination of Hepcat’s body produces more questions than answers.

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Later, the agents speak with Dr. Blockhead, who claims he has trained his body to accept acute pain. He demonstrates his abilities by driving a nail up into his nostril. Mulder aids Blockhead by removing the nail with a pair of pliers. Before the agents leave, they spot The Conundrum, a man who eats live animals and just about anything else he can fit in his mouth. Blockhead describes his friend as a “geek.” Mulder keeps the nail taken from Blockhead’s nose and has the blood analyzed, hoping it will match blood found at Hepcat’s workshop. The blood samples match, but both turn out to be O positive. Mulder tells Scully that he ran background checks on some of the local side−show performers. His most interesting discovery reveals that Sheriff Hamilton once performed as Jim−Jim, the Dog−Faced Boy. But after surveying Hamilton, the agents conclude he is not a suspect. Soon afterward, Mr. Nutt becomes the killer’s latest victim. The agents conclude that the murderer is so physically small that he was able to climb through the doggie door in Nutt’s trailer. When a drunken Lanny learns of Nutt’s death, he flies into a rage. He is arrested by Hamilton and transported to jail. The agents approach Dr. Blockhead for further questioning. But Blockhead, a magician and escape artist, easily eludes them. Sheriff Hamilton detains Blockhead by grabbing hold of the fish hooks which pierce his skin. When the agents, Hamilton, and Blockhead arrive at the jail, they notice that Lanny is in pain. Scully realizes that Lanny’s twin brother, Leonard, is capable of extracting himself from his brother’s body. Lanny admits that Leonard is seeking another brother with whom he can co−join. The agents track Leonard into the fun house, but their efforts to capture him prove futile. Later, Blockhead laments that due to advances in genetic engineering, people with severe abnormalities will not exist. Everyone in the future, he fears, will look like Mulder. Dr. Blockhead and the Conundrum, who suffers from a swollen stomach, pack up their belongings and prepare to leave town. As their vehicle hits the open road, Mulder and Scully realize that the Conundrum may have eaten Leonard.

The Calusari Production Code: #2X21 Original Air Date: 04/14/95 Written by Sara Charno Directed by Mike Vejar THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE WHEN A YOUNG BOY’S FAMILY IS PLAGUED BY SEVERAL TRAGIC ACCIDENTS.

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Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Teddy Holvey, a two−year−old child who was run over by a miniature train as he chased a floating helium balloon through a park. Photographs of the incident are analyzed by a laboratory. They reveal a strange amorphous form – not visible to the naked eye – that appears to be pulling the balloon in the direction of the train. This information leads Mulder to speculate that a poltergeist was somehow responsible. The agents travel to Arlington, Virginia and interview Steve and Maggie Holvey. There, Mulder’s interest is piqued by a gammadion, a symbol that resembles a reverse swastika. As the agents question the Holveys, an elderly Romanian woman, Golda, enters the room with their son Charlie, an eight−year−old boy. Golda intones that Charlie is evil and was responsible for Teddy’s demise. But Scully believes Charlie and Teddy are the victims of Munchausen by proxy, in which a caretaker brings harm to a child by inducing medical symptoms. Shortly thereafter, Steve is killed in a freak accident after his necktie is entangled in a garage door opener. While investigating the scene, the agents discover a strange ash around Steve’s corpse. The substance, called Vibuti, is a holy ash produced during the presence of spiritual beings. Several Rumanian men, known as Calusari, hold a mysterious religious ceremony involving dead roosters in Golda’s room. It is interrupted when Charlie suffers a seizure. Shortly thereafter, Golda is attacked and killed by live roosters. Mulder suspects that Golda and the Calusari were trying to ward off evil from entering the house. Charlie is transported to St. Matthew’s Hospital for observation. A social worker, Karen Kosseff, questions the boy about Golda’s murder. Charlie claims Golda was killed by the ghost of Michael, his stillborn twin. But Maggie insists Charlie was never told about his brother. Michael’s spectre appears in the hospital and attacks a nurse. Pretending to be Charlie, Michael tricks Maggie into believing he has been released from the hospital. The agents discover the truth about Michael’s spirit. As Mulder supervises a Calusari exorcism over Charlie’s body, Scully races to the Holvey residence. Inside, she comes face to face with Michael, a knife clutched in his hand. As the exorcism at the hospital reaches its climax, Michael’s ghost suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a trace of ash. The Calusari leader warns Mulder and Scully that the evil now knows who they are.

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Directed by Rob Bowman AS SCULLY INVESTIGATES THE SPREAD OF A DEADLY CONTAGION AT A PRISON, MULDER TRACKS DOWN TWO ESCAPED CONVICTS INFECTED WITH THE DISEASE.

Bobby Torence, a prisoner incarcerated at the Cumberland State Correctional Facility in Virginia, receives a mysterious package containing a pig’s leg. Shortly after his exposure to the appendage, Bobby suffers several goiter−like protrusions on his face and neck. He is relocated to the prison infirmary, where two physicians, Auerbach and Osborne, attend to his lesions. Bobby’s cell is later cleaned by two other convicts, Paul and Steve, who realize that the laundry cart offers them an opportunity for escape. The FBI assigns Mulder and Scully to aid in the capture of the escapees. But the agents remain mystified as to why the Bureau is interested in the case. Scully’s suspicions are aroused when Dr. Osborne claims he was sent to the facility by the Centers for Disease Control. He explains that a mysterious flu−like illness has taken the lives of ten prisoners, and that the escaped convicts may be carriers of the disease. Scully realizes that the bodies of the dead prisoners are marked for incineration. Osborne catches Scully sneaking about the cadavers. As Scully watches, horrified, a pustule on a cadaver suddenly bursts, spraying Osborne with a white fluid. Meanwhile, Paul and Steve murder a man and steal his motor home. At a gas station, Paul places a call to his girlfriend, Elizabeth, informing her of his freedom. Angelo, a gas station attendant, finds Steve doubled−over in pain inside a restroom. Paul knocks Angelo unconscious with a tire iron and he and Steve escape. Mulder and members of the U.S. Marshal’s office find Angelo’s unconscious body at the station. Mulder traces the last phone call made at the gas station’s pay phone to Elizabeth’s residence. The convicts make their way to Elizabeth’s home. But Steve’s condition worsens. Without warning, a pustule on Steve’s skin bursts open, spraying Elizabeth with puss. Mulder and the marshals storm Elizabeth’s home, but they arrive too late. Steve is already dead, and Paul is not to be found. Scully traces the package mailed to Bobby Torrence to a company called Pinck Pharmaceutical. While examining Bobby’s corpse, she pulls the hard slender carapace of a dead insect from an open boil. Osborne, who is near death, tells Scully that he works not for the CDC, but for Pinck Pharmaceutical. He explains how the company regularly finances the exploration of rain forests for potential drug application. A field entomologist sent the lab samples of an insect, Faciophagia Emasculata, which is parasitic in nature and attacks

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the human immune syndrome. Now the company – and the government – are trying to cover−up the fact that prisoners were used as Guinea pigs for Pinck Pharmaceutical’s experiments. Aided by information supplied by Elizabeth, Mulder tracks Paul to a bus station. Realizing that Paul is the only remaining person who can testify against the government and Pinck Pharmaceutical, Mulder tries taking him alive. But a sniper’s bullet rings out, killing Paul.

Soft Light Production Code: #2X23 Original Air Date: 05/05/95 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Jim Contner THE AGENTS HUNT DOWN A SCIENTIST WHO IS LITERALLY AFRAID OF HIS OWN SHADOW.

The agents are called to a hotel in Richmond, Virginia by Detective Kelly Ryan, one of Scully’s ex− pupils at the academy. Ryan, who is working her first case, is stymied by the disappearance of several people. The latest victim, Patrick Newirth, vanished from his hotel room. The only clue to his whereabouts is a mysterious scorched pattern burned into the carpet beneath the door to his room. Mulder notices that a light bulb in the room had been unscrewed from its socket. He had it dusted for finger prints. The agents travel to the residence of another victim. There they discover another loose light bulb and a scorch mark. Among the items found in the victim’s trash is a train ticket. The agents realize that all three victims traveled through the Richmond train station before they died. Policemen are dispatched to stake out the station. They attempt to stop a man, Chester Ray Banton, for questioning, but Banton runs away from them. Cornered in two bright pools of light, Banton warns the officers to stay back. When the officers step on his shadows, they vaporize in a fiery burst of light. Mulder and Scully review video footage recorded by the train station’s security system. They discover that Banton sat around the station for days staring at the ground. An insignia on his clothing leads them to a company called Polarity Magnetics, where a Dr. Davey gives the agents a tour of the facility. Davey explains how Banton, who is a scientist, performed research on dark matter such as quantum particles, quarks and neutrinos. One day, according to Davey, Banton became trapped inside a particle accelerator room and was exposed to a massive amount of energy – which literally burned his shadow right into a wall. Mulder reviews the videotaped security footage and realizes Banton was sitting in an area where florescent lighting did not cast any shadows. Shortly

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thereafter, the agents corner Banton at the station. Again, he warns them to stay back. As his shadow creeps towards Scully, Mulder raises his gun and shoots an overhead light bulb, plunging the area into darkness. Banton is relieved. Banton is transported to a psychiatric hospital and imprisoned in a room with soft light. During an interview, Banton insists to Mulder that the government is hunting him down in an effort to learn his secrets. Detective Ryan then informs the agents that their services on the case are no longer required. Frustrated, Mulder seeks out X, his shadowy government contact. But X insists he cannot be of any help to him. A short time thereafter, X and some paramedics attempt to kidnap Banton from the psychiatric facility. The paramedics come in contact with Banton’s shadow and are vaporized. The scientist emerges from his room and escapes. Banton returns to Polarity Magnetics intent on destroying himself inside the particle accelerator. Detective Ryan arrives at the scene and attempts to arrest Banton, but she comes into contact with his shadow and is instantly vaporized. Banton convinces Davey to engage the accelerator once he’s inside. But once Banton enters the chamber, he realizes Davey is a government operative. X, however, kills Davey, then transports Banton to a secret research facility for examination and testing.

Our Town Production Code: #2X24 Original Air Date: 05/12/95 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman A MEAT PROCESSING PLANT COMES UNDER SCRUTINY AFTER SEVERAL PEOPLE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR FROM A SMALL TOWN.

The agents travel to the small town of Dudley, Arkansas after George Kearns, a Federal Poultry Inspector, mysteriously disappears. Aided by Sheriff Arens, Mulder and Scully examine a field where a resident had reported sighting a foxfire burning. They find evidence that some sort of ceremony had taken place in the field. George Kearns’s wife is then interviewed, but she believes her husband, a known womanizer, ran off with someone younger. A visit to Chaco Chicken, the meat processing plant that George had threatened to close to due repeated health violations, leads to Paula Gray, the woman George had been having an affair with. She suddenly grows violent and tries to kill Jess Harold, a supervisor at the plant. But the sheriff draws his gun and fires, killing her before she can slash Harold’s throat. The agents interview Walter Chaco, the owner of the plant and Paula’s grandfather. He grants them

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permission to perform an autopsy on the girl’s body. After the autopsy, Scully concludes that Paula suffered from a rare degenerative illness called Creutzfeldt−Jacob’s disease… the same illness carried by George Kearns. She also learns the youthful− looking Paula was 47 years old. After a near−miss with a chicken delivery truck that plunges into a polluted lake, Mulder orders that the water be dredged in hopes of finding George’s body. What the agents find beneath the lake, however, is dozens of human bones. Mulder runs a missing persons check and confirms that as many as 87 people within a 200 mile radius of the town have been reported missing in the last 50 years. He begins to suspect that a cult of cannibals is systematically killing people and eating their flesh to stay forever young. Doris Kearns approaches Walter Chaco and tells him she can no longer keep what she knows about the town a secret. Jesse Harold warns Chaco that the woman is unstable; but Chaco insists it is the FBI they should be worried about. Nonetheless, Harold has Doris Kearns killed. When Scully arrives at the Kearns’ residence, she is taken captive. Mulder returns to Chaco’s estate and finds a multitude of human skulls stored within a cabinet. When he realizes Scully has been abducted, Mulder races to the site of a blazing foxfire. The townspeople turn on Walter Chaco and execute him. As Sheriff Arens, a cult member, prepares to eliminate Scully, a shot rings out. Mulder, gun in hand, rushes to Scully’s aid. Pandemonium breaks out, and the cult members rush from the scene, trampling Jesse as he tries to retrieve a gun. Scully later concludes that the outbreak of Creutzfeldt−Jacob’s disease was spread by cannibalism.

Anasazi (1 of 3) Production Code: #2X25 Original Air Date: 05/19/95 Written by Chris Carter Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin MULDER RECEIVES AN ENCRYPTED COMPUTER DISK CONTAINING THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT’S TOP SECRET FILES ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.

A computer hacker nicknamed The Thinker gains access to top secret Defense Department files on extraterrestrial life. He gives Mulder the files on a computer diskette – with the proviso that government officials be held responsible for UFO cover−ups throughout the years. Mulder’s initial enthusiasm is dampened when he realizes the files are encoded in Navajo. But Scully promises to find a translator as soon as possible. When Skinner questions Mulder about the rumor he possesses

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sensitive information, Mulder suddenly punches him. Mulder is at a loss for his inexplicable behavior. Skinner later informs Scully that a disciplinary hearing will determine if Mulder is to be dismissed without reinstatement. The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) pays Mulder’s father an unexpected visit on Martha’s Vineyard. He informs him about the top secret files falling into his son’s hands. Mr. Mulder realizes his name is on those files. He telephones his son and asks him to come home. Later, Scully lets herself into Mulder’s apartment when he fails to answer his door. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out, smashing a window. Scully narrowly avoids injury. When Mulder arrives at Martha’s Vineyard, his father speaks cryptically about his work for the State Department. Before he can explain the truth, Alex Krycek shoots and kills him. When Scully learns of the killing, she urges Mulder to leave Martha’s Vineyard less the authorities suspect him of the murder. When Mulder returns home, he is very ill. Scully attends to his sickness. She notices a suspicious delivery person carting a soft water canister to the basement of the apartment building. Mulder spots Alex Krycek sneaking around outside his apartment building. He wrestles the agent to the ground and grabs his revolver. Certain that Mulder is about to kill Krycek, Scully draws her weapon and shoots Mulder in the chest. When Mulder regains consciousness, he is lying in a motel room in New Mexico, his bullet wound having been ministered by Scully. She explains that lab tests revealed that water flowing into Mulder’s apartment building was spiked with a strong hallucinogen, explaining Mulder’s aggressive behavior. An Indian man named Albert Hosteen begins translating the encoded Defense Department files. He explains to Mulder how a tribe of Indians who once lived in New Mexico disappeared without a trace. Their name was Anasazi, which means Ancient Aliens. Albert believes they were abducted by visitors from another planet. Albert’s nephew Eric leads Mulder out into the desert. There, Eric shows the agent a railroad train boxcar buried in a rock quarry. Inside the car are the corpses of what appear to be alien beings. CSM calls Mulder on his cellular phone. He claims that Mulder’s father authorized the project. But Mulder insists he will expose CSM. CSM traces Mulder’s location by pinpointing the source of the cellular phone transmission. But when he arrives in the desert by helicopter, Mulder is not to be found. CSM orders his men to destroy the boxcar.

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The Blessing Way (2 of 3) Production Code: #3X01 Original Air Date: 09/22/95 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin AS SCULLY FACES POSSIBLE DISMISSAL FROM THE FBI, A MANHUNT ENSUES FOR THE MISSING AGENT MULDER.

In this continuation of the previous episode… A team of camouflaged soldiers, lead by The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM), searches for Mulder and the computer tape believed to be in his possession. Albert Hosteen and his family are interrogated and beaten, and Scully – whose visit to the smoldering boxcar produces no leads – is detained, searched, and questioned. But CSM’s efforts are in vain. At FBI headquarters, Scully is given a mandatory leave of absence until a review board investigates the nature of her insubordination. Crestfallen, Scully returns home to her family. She tells her mother she erred by countermanding her superiors. When Scully returns to Washington, Frohike informs her The Thinker – the computer hacker who accessed the MJ files – was professionally executed by unknown assailants. When Scully approaches Skinner with the news, and theorizes how Mulder and The Thinker could have been gunned down by the same individuals, Skinner shows interest only in the missing computer tape. Meanwhile, Albert and his family investigate when buzzards begin circling high above the New Mexico desert. They find Mulder’s limp, lifeless body near a tunnel in the red rock quarry. He is transported to a Navajo hogan, an igloo−like dome of mud, where a healing ritual called The Blessing Way is performed over his body. As the ceremony progresses, Mulder’s soul encounters a bridge spanning two worlds. He encounters visions of Deep Throat, and his father, and of the aliens trapped inside the boxcar. On the third day of the ritual, the Navajos watch as Mulder regains consciousness. While passing through a security checkpoint at FBI headquarters, Scully sets off a metal detector. A security guard waves a magnetic wand near her neck and again trips the security alarm. Puzzled, Scully visits the medical lab, where a physician removes a computer chip from beneath her skin. Melissa convinces her sister to visit Dr. Pomerantz, a hypnotist. While under hypnosis, Scully encounters repressed visions of men, lights and alarms. Having recovered from his close brush with death, Mulder returns to his mother’s home in

Martha’s Vineyard. He searches for clues about his father and the people he worked with, certain they will lead him to his missing sister. While attending Mr. Mulder’s funeral, Scully is approached by a Well−Manicured Man. The stranger claims Mulder is dead, and that a hit squad is out to kill her. Later, Skinner approaches Scully outside her apartment. The pair drives to Mulder’s apartment, where a very suspicious Scully pulls out a revolver and demands Skinner answer her questions. Searching through Scully’s darkened apartment, Alex Krycek and his assistant encounter Melissa. A shot rings out and Melissa slumps to the floor. As the standoff between Scully and Skinner continues, someone approaches the front door to Mulder’s apartment. Catching Scully off−guard, Skinner pulls out a gun.

Paper Clip (3 of 3) Production Code: #3X02 Original Air Date: 09/29/95 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Rob Bowman AS A GOVERNMENT HIT SQUAD CLOSES IN ON THE AGENTS, MULDER SEARCHES FOR CLUES ABOUT HIS FATHER’S INVOLVEMENT IN A SECRET PROJECT.

As the standoff between Scully and Skinner (from the previous episode) continues… Mulder bursts through the front door of his apartment and orders Skinner to drop his weapon. Skinner complies, then produces the computer disk containing the Defense Department’s top secret files on extraterrestrial life. He realizes the disk is the only leverage the trio has in bringing Mr. Mulder’s killers to justice, and insists on keeping it himself. Mulder and Scully examine an old group photograph of Mr. Mulder with his government colleagues. With the Lone Gunmen’s help, Mulder and Scully identify a man named Victor Klemper from the group. Klemper is a Nazi War criminal and a participant in Operation Paper Clip, a U.S. government operation that provided safe haven for war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge. Before the agents interview Klemper, Scully learns that her sister Melissa is in critical condition at a nearby hospital. But fearing an ambush by assassins, Scully joins Mulder in his quest to locate Klemper. The agents elicit little information from the elderly Klemper, except that the group photo was taken at the Strughold Mining Company in West Virginia, and his mention of Napier’s Constant, the base of all natural logarithms. When the agents visit the ramshackle mine, they discover heavy metal doors built into the rocky walls of the mountainside. The agents gain access by entering Napier’s Constant into an electronic keypad. Inside, they find a seemingly endless row of

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filing cabinets containing files and tissue samples on hundreds of U.S. citizens. Their search is interrupted when a UFO drops from the sky. Simultaneously, a government hit squad surrounds the building. Mulder comes under fire and runs for cover. He and Scully find an escape route and make their way to safety. Skinner pays a visit to the hospital where Melissa is being monitored. There he meets Mrs. Scully, and Albert Hosteen, who prays for Melissa’s recovery. Skinner is alerted to a shadowy figure monitoring the room. In a darkened stairwell, he is attacked by Krycek and his accomplice. They overpower Skinner and steal the computer disk. Mulder and Scully make a second trip to question Klemper, but when they arrive, they are informed by the Well−Manicured Man (WMM) that Klemper is dead. Mulder recognizes him as one of the people in his father’s group photograph. WMM recounts how, in 1947, a spacecraft was reportedly recovered in New Mexico. This event coincided with the formation of Operation Paper Clip. Mulder suspects that Klemper was experimenting with the creation of a super race – a hybridization of humans and aliens. The files stored in the mountain, Mulder realizes, are vaccination records on hundreds of millions of Americans who received smallpox vaccinations – a DNA database of virtually everyone born since the 1950s. Skinner threatens to expose the Cigarette− Smoking Man if any harm should befall Mulder or Scully. He reveals that Albert Hosteen – who read the computer disks – spread the contents amongst his Navajo people in the ancient oral tradition, chapter and verse, file for file. Later, Mulder visits Scully at the hospital, and learns that Melissa passed away during surgery.

D.P.O. Production Code: #3X03 Original Air Date: 10/06/95 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE APPARENTLY STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN THE SAME SMALL TOWN.

Darin Oswald, a nineteen−year−old resident of Connerville, Oklahoma, argues with twenty−one− year−old Jack Hammond over a video arcade game. The altercation escalates, and Jack, by far the bigger of the two, knocks Darin to the floor. Moments later, the electricity within the arcade seemingly falls under Darin’s power. Frightened, Jack runs to his automobile and attempts to drive away. But an intense electrical field engulfs the car, killing Jack. As Mulder and Scully examine Jack’s body, the local coroner describes how five other young people were killed in the same manner. Sheriff Jack

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Teller corrects the coroner’s statement, noting four people died but one survived. Scully believes it is statistically improbably for so many people in such a small area to have been struck by lightning – especially when only 60 people die of being struck by lightning each year in the United States. Nonetheless, Mulder and Scully visit the video arcade. Darin’s friend, Zero, who works at the arcade and witnessed the killing, acts suspiciously and provides little help. But Mulder notices the initials “D.P.O.” logged on a video game’s list of top scorers. The initials match those of Darin Peter Oswald – the one victim who survived being stuck by lightning. While working at a local garage, Darin approaches Sharon Kiveat, a former high school teacher. Darin harbors a crush on the attractive woman, but he is unable to act upon his fantasies because Sharon is married to his boss, Frank. Later, the agents pay a visit to the garage and interview Darin about Jack’s death. Darin claims he was so wrapped up in his game he did not notice what had happened. During the interview, Mulder’s cell phone suddenly and inexplicably melts. The next day, the agents examine a field where several cows were killed by lightning. They discover a fulgarite, an area where the lightning fused sandy soil into glass. Imbedded within the fulgarite is a shoe print. Scully makes a cast of the print and discovers it came from a size eight and a half military boot. She also finds a small quantity of antifreeze within the glass, which Mulder deduces came from the garage. The agents visit Darin’s home, and discover that his shoe size is eight and a half. They also find Sharon Kiveat’s photograph. Using his powers, Darin alters a traffic light signal and causes an automobile accident. Frank drives his tow truck to the scene to remove the vehicles. Darin then causes Frank to collapse. Paramedics rush to his aid, but find their defibrillator inoperative. Darin rushes to Frank’s side and revives him. Scully examines Darin’s medical history and discovers he suffers from a severe chemical imbalance. Mulder theorizes how the electrolyte imbalance might enable Darin to generate electricity levels much higher than normal. The agents take Darin into custody, but Sheriff Teller releases him do to the improbable nature of the charges. Darin travels to the video arcade. There, a terrified Zero insists he did not squeal on his friend. Zero tries to escape, but Darin kills him by generating a lightning bolt. Darin proceeds to the hospital and enters Frank’s room looking for Sharon. Instead, he finds Scully, her gun drawn. Sharon ends the showdown by agreeing to follow Darin outside. Sharon suddenly breaks free and runs to safety. When Teller and Mulder surround the teenager, he summons a lightning bolt. The energy kills Teller and knocks Darin to the

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Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose Production Code: #3X04 Original Air Date: 10/13/95 Written by Darin Morgan Directed by David Nutter A MAN WITH PSYCHIC POWERS ASSISTS THE AGENTS WITH THE HUNT FOR A KILLER.

A lanky, seemingly amiable man, hereon referred to as The Puppet, pays a visit to Madame Zelma at a palm reader shop. When Madame Zelma seems more interested in taking The Puppet’s money than predicting his future, The Puppet strangles her. Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully are asked to assist in a murder investigation wherein several “professional prognosticators” were gruesomely murdered – and their entrails evidentially arranged in an attempt to divine the future. Later, a man named Clyde Bruckman, an insurance salesman, discovers Madame Zelma’s body in a dumpster outside his apartment. As the agents interview Bruckman, it becomes apparent he possesses detailed knowledge about the killings, leading Mulder to believe Bruckman is a true psychic. Bruckman suspects that the killer may also possess psychic powers. He predicts another victim will surface the following day floating in a lake. When Bruckman’s vision proves correct, Mulder asks him for assistance in finding the killer. Bruckman fears that interfering with fate might adversely alter the future. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that all of the victims had in their possession a keychain from an investment firm that provides market strategies based on astrological forecasts. Bruckman accurately predicts that the firm’s owner was murdered and buried in a forest. Later, Bruckman describes how Mulder, at some point in the future, will step in a pie – and then meet his fate at the hands of the murderer. When a tarot card reader is murdered, Mulder and Scully assign Agent Havez to guard Bruckman at a hotel, fearing the killer may sense his whereabouts. As Scully inspects clues at the murder scene, she realizes the murderer is the bellhop (The Puppet) at the hotel. When The Puppet arrives at Bruckman’s hotel room to serve him his meal, both men sense each other’s psychic vibes. The Puppet kills Havez, then runs from the room. Mulder and Scully arrive at the hotel and spot the bellhop racing away from the scene. Mulder follows The Puppet into the hotel’s kitchen, where he steps in a pie. Recognizing the prophetic sign, Mulder spins around, and is able to deflect his attacker’s blow momentarily. But as The Puppet poises to strike Mulder with a knife,

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Scully exits from the elevator and fires her gun, killing The Puppet. Later, the agents find Bruckman’s body at his apartment. The agents realize he took his own life.

The List Production Code: #3X05 Original Air Date: 10/20/95 Written and Directed by Chris Carter ENEMIES OF A PRISON INMATE WHO DIED IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR BEGIN DYING ONE BY ONE.

Napoleon “Neech” Manley, a well−liked prison inmate on death row, is strapped into an electric chair and killed. Several days later a prison guard is found dead in the very cell Neech had occupied for eleven years. Mulder tells Scully that Neech strongly believed in reincarnation, and swore he would return from the grave to take vengeance on five men who mistreated him. The agents travel to the prison, where they examine the guard’s corpse and the cell where his body was discovered. The Warden suspects that Neech’s inmate friends are responsible for the murder. Mulder interviews Neech’s friend, Speranza, who firmly believes Neech’s spirit killed the guard. Later, a prison guard named Parmelly pulls Scully into the shower area and tells her about the existence of a list which names the five men Neech’s spirit intends to kill. Parmelly claims an inmate named Roque possesses the list. Soon after, an inmate opens a paint can and discovers the head of prison guard Fornier inside. Mulder interviews Roque, who offers to recite the names of the men on the list in exchange for a transfer. The Warden balks at the idea of negotiating with prisoners. Suspecting that he might be on the list, the Warden interrogates Roque in the shower area, and beats him up. When Roque’s body is later discovered, Mulder suspects he may not be the third victim from Neech’s list. His suspicion is confirmed by Speranza. Mulder and Scully travel to the home of the man who engaged the power on the electric chair that killed Neech. They find his maggot−infested body in the attic. Scully reviews phone records indicating a man named Danny Charez spoke with Neech on many occasions. Charez, who was once Neech’s defense attorney, tells the agents he is now helping Speranza – hoping he has some sway with Neech’s spirit. Later, Charez is attacked and killed. Working on a tip from Charez, the agents realize Parmelly and Neech’s wife, Danielle, are lovers. One night, Danielle realizes Neech has inhabited Parmelly’s body. As the agents surround the Manley home, Danielle pulls out a gun and shoots Parmelly. Later, Neech’s spirit materializes in the Warden’s car. Neech claims his last victim by killing the Warden.

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2Shy Production Code: #3X06 Original Air Date: 11/03/95 Written by Jeffery Vlaming Directed by David Nutter THE AGENTS HUNT FOR A KILLER WHO USES THE INTERNET TO ATTRACT HIS VICTIMS.

Mulder and Scully assist Cleveland Detective Alan Cross with the investigation into a brutal homicide in which a female victim’s body is so badly decomposed, and covered with a mucus−like slime, that positive identification is difficult. Mulder connects the case to a series of similar killings in which female victims – all of whom answered personal ads in local newspapers – died in a similar manner. When the latest victim, Lauren Mackalvey, is identified, Mulder locates her roommate, Jennifer. Jennifer explains how Lauren meet her date on the Internet, a man who went by the on−line name “2Shy.” Meanwhile, Scully’s autopsy on Lauren’s body reveals that a great deal of her body fat is missing. Meanwhile, when the killer, Virgil Incanto, gets stood up by his on−line date, Ellen, he attacks and murders a prostitute. During the struggle, the prostitute scraps Virgil with her nails, leaving rake marks on his arm. Mulder examines the killer’s e−mail correspondence to Lauren. He discovers quotations from rare Italian poems, leading him to believe the suspect is a college professor or translator. Cross assembles a list of people in the Cleveland area with such credentials. Chemical analysis of the killer’s skin sample found beneath the prostitute’s fingernails shows no oils or fatty acids – leading Mulder to speculate that the murderer might be using his victim’s bodies to replenish a chemical deficiency in order to survive. Meanwhile, using Cross’s list, the agents interview possible suspects. But it is Cross who ends up interviewing Virgil, and in the process, notes a bandage on his arm. Virgil kills Cross, then arranges another date using the Internet. When his intended victim, Ellen, drives him home, Virgil spots someone inside his apartment. He hastily excuses himself. Virgil’s nosy landlady, Monica, discovers Cross’s decomposed body inside the apartment. Virgil kills Monica before she can scream. But Monica’s blind daughter, Jesse, enters Virgil’s apartment looking for her mother. Though Virgil insists Monica is not in the apartment, Jesse smells her mother’s perfume. Jesse calls 911, and the agents rush to the apartment building. But Virgil is not to be found. The agents access Virgil’s computer records, hoping to find clues about his next victim. Meanwhile, Virgil talks his way into Ellen’s apartment, apologizing for his hasty exit during their

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date. As Ellen sends a computer message to an on− line friend, a message from the FBI – warning about Virgil – pops up on her screen. Virgil sees the message and attacks Ellen. After cracking Virgil’s computer hard drive, the agents contact women who are his potential next victims. Unable to reach Ellen by phone, the agents drive to her apartment. Mulder and Scully, acting on a tip from a neighbor, burst into Ellen’s apartment. As Mulder searches for Virgil, Scully stays behind with Ellen, who is covered with mucus but still alive. Suddenly, Virgil springs from the shadows and attacks Scully. Ellen, however, regains consciousness, and shoots Virgil. Virgil recovers from the gunshot wound, and is later interrogated.

The Walk Production Code: #3X07 Original Air Date: 11/10/95 Written by John Shiban Directed by Rob Bowman A QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A SERIES OF BIZARRE DEATHS.

Lieutenant Colonel Victor Stans locks himself inside a rehabilitation room at an army hospital intent on committing suicide. The water temperature of a whirlpool tub is raised to the boiling point, and Stans approaches, ready to throw himself in. As a disembodied voice speaks to Stans, glass on an alarm box smashes, and the deadbolt lock to the rehab room door slides open, as if moved by an invisible force. Stans throws himself into the scalding tub, but he is quickly rescued by a nurse and firemen. Mulder and Scully turn their attention to the case. Stans tells them a sort of phantom soldier, whom he’s never seen clearly, killed his wife and child, and now wishes to see him suffer by not letting him take his own life. The agents are approached by Army Captain Janet Draper, who requests a suspension of whatever investigation the FBI has begun. Protocol requires any criminal investigation of military personnel to be conducted through military channels and the superior officer. Mulder and Scully turn to General Callahan, who accuses them of gross misconduct and labels Stans’ misfortune a tragic accident. But Scully notes a similar case involving Staff Sergeant Kevin Aiklen, who also served with Callahan in the Gulf War. Aiklen claimed he, too, was prevented from killing himself by an unseen force after his family died in a tragic “accident.” After the agents leave, Callahan is visited by the phantom soldier, who appears in the reflection of a window. Shortly thereafter, Draper is drowned when water from a swimming pool assumes human form and attacks her.

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Mulder warns Callahan that if the pattern is at all consistent, his family may be in great danger. Callahan reluctantly admits he was visited by the phantom soldier the previous night. When Callahan returns home, his wife describes how their son Trevor saw a stranger inside the house. Scully notices someone inside the Callahan’s backyard, but he escapes. A fingerprint check leads the agents to Quentin Freely, nicknamed Roach. He is charged with murder. A search of Roach’s apartment turns up mail from each of the victim’s homes. But shortly thereafter, as a military MP stands guard, sand from a sandbox takes human form and attacks Trevor, killing him. During interrogation, Roach claims he is merely the “mailman” for a fellow vet named Leonard Trimble, nicknamed Rappo. The agents rush to the army hospital, where they are told Rappo is a quadruple amputee. When Mulder and Scully return to Roach’s cell, they find his dead body, a bed sheet stuffed down his throat. Mulder suspects that Rappo is capable of astral projection – the ability to leave his own body and travel virtually anywhere. Before Callahan and his wife can pack up their belongings and leave, Mrs. Callahan is murdered. Despondent, Callahan seeks out Stans. He pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot himself, but the gun will not fire. Stans insists he knows the identity of the killer. Callahan enters Rappo’s room at the hospital. But after conversing with the amputee, Callahan decides not to kill him. As Callahan attempts to leave the hospital, steam pipes in the sub−basement rupture. Callahan is engulfed by the hissing steam, from which emerges the phantom soldier. Mulder comes to the general’s aid, but he, too, is attacked by the force. Meanwhile, Stans gains access to Rappo’s room. He locks the door, and using a pillow, smothers the amputee, killing him. Back in the sub−basement, the invisible force dissipates.

Oubliette Production Code: #3X08 Original Air Date: 11/17/95 Written by Charles Grant Craig Directed by Kim Manners A WOMAN EXPERIENCES A PSYCHIC CONNECTION WITH A TEENAGER HELD CAPTIVE BY A DERANGED MAN.

The agents arrive at the home of Amy Jacobs, a fifteen−year−old girl abducted from her bedroom by a stranger. Agent Eubanks points out several drops of blood found on the carpet, the result of Amy’s nosebleed. Mulder is intrigued by a report about a woman employed at a fast food restaurant who uttered the same words spoken by the stranger at the exact moment the kidnapping occurred. That

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woman, Lucy Householder, had been rushed to the hospital after suffering a seizure and a nosebleed. Records indicate that Lucy was kidnapped, at the age of eight, while her parents slept. She was held hostage in a basement for five years, and although she eventually was released unharmed, her abductor was never caught. When Mulder and Scully confront Lucy about the incident at the restaurant, she becomes uncooperative, insisting she cannot help locate the missing girl. Eubanks uncovers evidence of Lucy’s criminal record, including prostitution and narcotics convictions. Lucy’s psychic visions into Amy’s mind continue to terrify her. She experiences temporary blindness – the result of Amy’s being locked away in a darkened basement room, or oubliette. Mulder again asks Lucy for her help, but she insists she cannot locate Amy. Scully uncovers evidence that every student from Amy Jacob’s class received their school photograph – except for Amy. A photographer from Larkin Scholastic fired his assistant, Carl Wade, the day after the shoot. Mulder shows Lucy a current photograph of Wade, and her face registers recognition. Wade is the same man who kidnapper Lucy years earlier. Meanwhile, Amy successfully digs a hole through the oubliette, and escapes. Wade gives chase – and at the same time, Mulder chases Lucy as she flees the half−way house where she lives. As Amy loses her footing and tumbles down a rocky bank, landing on her arm, Lucy falls and injures her arm. Lucy looks to Mulder, wondering what is happening to her. Meanwhile, Eubanks arrives at the half−way house with DNA lab results confirming that the blood found on Lucy’s clothing matches Amy’s. Mulder insists it would be impossible for Lucy to have any connection with the crime. A tow truck driver comes forward and identifies Wade as a stranded motorist he encountered on a rural road. The tip leads agents to the town where Lucy was found seventeen years earlier. Working from an address registered at a local photography store, the agents pinpoint the remote cabin where Wades resides. But when they storm the cabin, the agents find Lucy huddled in the oubliette. Lucy’s words indicate Amy and Wade are in water. Mulder realizes this can only mean a nearby river. Wade, realizing his time with Amy has grown short, pushes her beneath the water. As Amy drowns, Lucy, detained by FBI agents in the back seat of a car, begins to suffocate. Agents call for paramedics. Mulder and Scully locate Amy’s lifeless body on the riverbank and begin CPR. Their efforts prove futile. But suddenly, Amy begins coughing, water pouring from her mouth. Simultaneously, Lucy continues choking. Though Amy is successfully revived, Lucy dies. An autopsy later reveals five

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liters of water in Lucy’s lungs. Mulder and Scully speculate that Lucy died for Amy – and that perhaps it was the only way she could outrun her past.

Nisei (1 of 2) Production Code: #3X09 Original Air Date: 11/24/95 Written by Chris Carter, Howard Gordon and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman AN “ALIEN AUTOPSY” VIDEOTAPE AND A JAPANESE DIPLOMAT’S MURDER SPARK MULDER’S SEARCH FOR A STRANGE CREATURE ABOARD A TRAIN. SCULLY ENCOUNTERS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT HER DISAPPEARANCE.

With great interest, Mulder views a mail order videotape which purportedly contains an actual alien autopsy. The footage shows a team of Japanese surgeons performing the procedure. The tape suddenly ends when a group of armed soldiers storms the operating room. Mulder and Scully trace the tape’s origin to a video piracy operation in Allentown, Pennsylvania. When the agents arrive at the scene, they find a man’s body with a pillowcase tied over its head. Mulder chase a Japanese man fleeing the scene and takes him into custody. Skinner reveals that the suspect, Kazuo Takeo, is a high−ranking government official from the Japanese diplomatic corps. Mulder searches Takeo’s leather satchel, uncovering satellite photos and a list of names containing members of the Mutual UFO Network. Mulder learns that the satellite photos contain images of a salvage ship named the Talapus, which spent months searching for a Japanese sub sunk during World War II. The ship made port in Newport News, Virginia, leading to speculation that perhaps the Talapus found something other than the downed sub. The list of Mutual UFO Network members leads the agents to a Lottie Holloway and Penny Northern. They tell Scully that she is one of them. Confused, Scully insists she is conducting an FBI investigation into the murder of Steve Zinnzser (the man found with the pillow case over his head). The women tell the agents that Zinnzser was a member of their group. They also describe their experiences in a “bright white place,” triggering Scully’s partial memory of what transpired during her disappearance. The women display small pieces of metal which were surgically removed from the back of their necks. They bring Scully to the hospital, where another member of their group, Betsy Hagopian, is dying of an undiagnosed cancer ailment. Penny claims everyone who was abducted will die in the same fashion. Meanwhile, Mulder travels to Virginia where he discovers the Talapus hidden between much larger

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vessels. Nearby, Mulder discovers an airplane hangar that houses a large circular object – which the Talapus must have dredged from the bottom of the sea. Skinner tells Mulder that the Japanese diplomat was found murdered. Later, Mulder visits Senator Matheson, who requests the return of the satellite photographs. Mulder believes that doing so would entangle him in the murder investigation. In a cryptic gesture, Matheson gives Mulder a list containing the names of four murdered Japanese scientists. Scully and Mulder meet at FBI headquarters. Mulder displays a photograph of Japanese medical officers taken during World War II. Four of the men are the same surgeons found murdered the previous day. Mulder suspects that the scientists were trying to create a human−alien hybrid, a continuation of their work, and similar work done by the Nazis, during the war. He suspects that the U.S. government may be behind the murders. Mulder also shows Scully a photo of train cars which he believes are part of the government’s secret railroad, one of which was used to carry out the alien autopsy. Mulder travels to Quinnimont, West Virginia, where he discovers train cars from the satellite photos. As Mulder prepares to jump onto one of the moving cars, Scully contacts him on his cellular phone. She passes on information, given to her by X, that his life is in great danger. Nonetheless, Mulder jumps on top of the train car.

731 (2 of 2) Production Code: #3X10 Original Air Date: 12/01/95 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman WHEN MULDER BECOMES TRAPPED ABOARD A TRAIN RIGGED WITH AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE, SCULLY SEARCHES FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND THE GOVERNMENT’S INVOLVEMENT WITH SECRET EXPERIMENTS.

In this continuation of the previous episode… X tells Scully that the metallic implant (which was surgically removed from the back of her neck) is the key to all the answers she’s been searching for. Meanwhile, Mulder – who clings precariously to the top of a train bound for Canada – makes his way to safety and climbs aboard one of the cars. He the car which is quarantined and cut off from the rest of the train. With assistance from the train’s conductor, Mulder searches for Dr. Shiro Zama, whom he suspects is behind the experiments. But the Red−Haired Man (an assassin who murdered the Japanese diplomat in the previous episode), kills Zama and hides his body inside a lavoratory.

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With the aid of Agent Pendrell, Scully learns that the implant collects information and artificially replicates a person’s mental processes. Pendrell discovers the name of the chip’s manufacturer, a Japanese firm, and traces a delivery to Dr. Zama at Hansen’s Disease Research Facility in Virginia. Scully attempts to contact Mulder by cellular phone to relay the information, but unknown to her, Mulder dropped the device when he jumped onto the train. Scully drives to the research facility, where she encounters Escalante, a hideously deformed man. Escalante explains that the facility was once a leper colony, but the staff, including Zama, fled when death squads arrived to kill the patients. Escalante was being treated for leprosy, but hundreds of other patients were interned at the camp with symptoms that resembled the disease. The creatures were kept apart from the patients and apparently tortured. Meanwhile, Mulder finds Zama’s body inside the lavoratory. He is suddenly attacked by the Red− Haired Man. With the conductor’s help, Mulder overcomes him. The Red−Haired Man claims the quarantined car is rigged with an explosive device, which was installed by Zama in case he could not escape to Canada with his creature. Mulder and his captive are unable to leave the quarantined car out of fear that opening the door without the proper access code might detonate the bomb. Scully is captured by soldiers and brought before an Elder, a member of the Syndicate. He explains how Zama – a brilliant scientist whose real name is Ishimaru – was hidden in the U.S. after World War II so he could continue his experiments. But Ishimaru kept his discoveries secret, unwilling to share his knowledge with the government that had granted him asylum. Scully and the Elder dial the Red−Haired Man’s cellular number and contact Mulder. Scully believes the creature aboard the train isn’t an alien being after all. She’s convinced Ishimaru used the railroad to conduct secret radiation tests on lepers, the homeless, and the insane. As proof, she reminds Mulder about the President’s public apology for secret radiation tests that were conducted on innocent people until 1974. Only those tests never ended. The quarantined car is uncoupled from the train in an isolated area. Mulder questions the Red− Haired Man about the creature, and theorizes how Zama developed a human−alien hybrid with super immunity, capable of withstanding the effects of atomic and biological weapons. Scully reviews the alien autopsy tape and realizes Zama was caught on video punching in the proper code to open the door of the quarantine car. She phones Mulder with the code. But before he can exit the car, Mulder is attacked by the Red− Haired Man. X arrives, shoots the Red−Haired Man, and rescues Mulder moments before the train car explodes.

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Revelations Production Code: #3X11 Original Air Date: 12/15/95 Written by Kim Newton Directed by David Nutter SCULLY ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT A BOY WHOSE DEATH COULD TRIGGER THE COMING OF ARMAGEDDON.

The agents travel to Pennsylvania to investigate the mysterious death of Reverend Finley, a self− proclaimed Stigmatic whose palms suddenly bled as his rapt congregation looked on in awe. Mulder recalls a series of international, religiously− motivated murders in which the victims were all false Stigmatics – just like Reverend Finley. Scully notes ligature marks on Finley’s neck, suggesting strangulation. Meanwhile, in Loveland, Ohio, fifth grade student Kevin Kryder begins bleeding at the palms as his teacher, Mrs. Tynes, and fellow classmates look on in horror. The agents are informed by Carina Maywald, a Social Services worker, that Kevin’s father, Michael, was institutionalized after he proclaimed the boy was the son of God. Mulder theorizes that Kevin may have inflicted the wounds on himself in protest over his father’s incarceration. Now, Mulder fears the boy may become a target for the Stigmata killer. At the mental institution, Michael Kryder professes his belief that “Forces of Darkness” are out to eliminate his son and thereby trigger Armageddon. But he also believes that God will chose someone to protect Kevin and avert catastrophe. Surprisingly, Scully places more faith in the story than does Mulder. Kevin is kidnapped from a social services dormitory by a bald, frightening−looking man. Based on a description from children at the dormitory, Mrs. Kryder identifies the man as Owen Jarvis, a gardener. The agents storm Jarvis’ home and take him into custody. But Kevin has run off. Owen claims God told him to protect the boy. Using great strength, Owen breaks his handcuffs and runs to the Kryder home. He finds the Millennium Man (the same man who murdered Reverend Finley) preparing to murder Kevin. A fight ensues, and the Millennium Man kills Owen. The agents arrive at the scene and rescue Kevin. But the Millennium Man escapes. The agents trace finger prints burned into Owen’s neck to Simon Gates (the Millennium Man), who owns a recycling plant. Records indicate Gates visited Israel. Mulder speculates Gates may be suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition that causes people to suffer religious delusions induced by the journey. Susan Kryder and her son become stranded on a remote road after their car breaks down. Gates appears at the scene and chases after Kevin. Susan

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climbs into Gates’ car and attempts to run him down. But she loses control of the vehicle and dies in a crash. The agents take Kevin to a nearby motel and place him under surveillance. As Kevin is taking a bath, Scully tells Mulder how his disbelief towards religious miracles is difficult to fathom given his open−mindedness towards the paranormal. Suddenly, a loud noise erupts from the bathroom. When the agents enter, they find Kevin has been abducted through a window. Scully notices a circular recycling logo on a trash bin. Suspecting she might be the person chosen by God to protect Kevin, she drives to Gates’ recycling plant. Mulder, however, believes Gates will try to get out of town as quickly as possible, and heads for the airport. Scully’s hunch proves correct; Gates throws himself into the blades of a gigantic recycling vat, taking Kevin with him. But the boy manages to cling to a safety platform. Scully pulls the boy to safety. The wounds on the boy’s hands miraculously heal.

War of the Coprophages Production Code: #3X12 Original Air Date: 01/05/96 Written by Darin Morgan Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS COME TO THE AID OF A TOWN SEEMINGLY UNDER ATTACK BY KILLER COCKROACHES.

Dr. Jeff Eckerle, a renowned scientist, calls an exterminator to rid his basement of cockroaches. As the exterminator, Dr. Bugger, sets about his work in the basement of Eckerle’s home, he suddenly grabs his throat, gasping for breath, and falls against a cement wall. Eckerle rushes to the basement, and looks on, horrified, as roaches swarm Dr. Bugger, engulfing his entire body. Shortly thereafter, Mulder strikes up a conversation with Sheriff Frass, who relays the news about the roach attack. Intrigued, Mulder inspects the exterminator’s corpse, and phones Scully for her opinion regarding the bizarre incident. Scully suspects the man was probably allergic to cockroaches and died from anaphylactic shock. Shortly thereafter, the sheriff receives a report about a teenager who mutilated his own body with a razor after he became convinced that roaches were burrowing into his body. Scully again supplies a logical explanation, attributing the incident to a psychotic disorder caused by the victim’s drug use. Mulder searches the drug den and turns up a cockroach exoskeleton, which he believes is made out of metal. Mulder takes the skin to a nearby hospital for examination. Meanwhile, hospital staff discover the

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dead body of Dr. Newton, who expired while using a toilet. An orderly describes how roaches completely covered Newton’s corpse. Mulder again telephones Scully for advice. She attributes the death to an aneurysm caused by straining too forcefully. Sheriff Frass tells Mulder the federal government erected a facility in town to conduct experiments on cockroaches. Mulder sneaks onto the property, where he encounters Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, a voluptuous entomologist. Berenbaum, a federal agent with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, explains that cockroaches are being studied to determine the best method to eradicate them. She agrees with Scully’s theory about an accidental importation of a new cockroach species – a species which is attracted to, rather than repelled by, the sight of human beings. Yet another body turns up at a nearby motel. Mulder finds one of the bugs trapped inside a roach motel, and brings it to Dr. Berenbaum for examination. The insect proves to be robotic, not organic. The discovery leads Mulder to Dr. Alexander Ivanov at the Massachusetts Institute of Robotics. He examines the robotic insect, but is stunned by its complexity. He suspects that, perhaps, the robot cockroaches were sent to explore Earth by an advanced alien race. When Scully arrives in town, she finds the community in a state of panic. She phones Mulder with a theory about Dr. Eckerle, who witnessed the exterminator’s death. Eckerle is an alternative fuel researcher, who manufactures methane gas from manure. Scully believes the new species of bugs, which are dung−eaters, may have accidentally hitched a ride along with the manure samples. Mulder drives to Eckerle’s lab, where the crazed doctor confronts the agent with a gun. Eckerle fires the weapon, missing Mulder but igniting methane gas. A huge explosion engulfs the research facility, killing Eckerle.

Syzygy Production Code: #3X13 Original Air Date: 01/26/96 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners A RARE ALIGNMENT OF THE PLANETS GIVES TWO TEENAGED GIRLS DANGEROUS TELEKINETIC POWERS.

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accounts false or imagined. But during Deboom’s funeral, the casket suddenly erupts into flames. The agents interview two blonde teenaged girls, Terri Roberts and Margi Kleinjan, who were present on the night Deboom died. The girls give almost identical stories… one account corroborating the other. Shortly thereafter, the girls attend basketball practice at the high school gymnasium. One of the players, Eric, accidentally crashes into the girls, showering them with lemonade. The girls focus their powers on the ball, sending it bouncing beneath wooden, accordion−like bleacher seats. When Eric crawls beneath the bleachers, the electric motor suddenly engages, crushing him to death. With each passing death, the townspeople’s anger increases. So, too, does the tension between Mulder and Scully, who are unusually short with one another. Detective White visits Mulder at his motel room. The conversation shifts from the facts in the case, and Mulder and White find one another in each other’s arms. But Scully interrupts their tryst with news of another death. Mulder turns to Madame Zirinka, an astrologist, for help. Zirinka claims a rare planetary alignment, scheduled for January 12th, is affecting people’s behavior. She also believes that those people born in 1979 will have all the energy of the cosmos focused on them. Meanwhile, Margi makes sexual advances towards Scott Simmons inside his garage. But their private moment is spoiled when a jealous Terri interrupts. Margi and Terri engage in a bitter argument. When their telekinetic powers flair, a garage door spring suddenly and unexpectedly snaps in two, impaling and killing Scott. The girls turn to the police, and blame each other for the deaths that have plagued the town. But when they are brought to the police station, their anger towards one another wrecks havoc. Guns discharge, furniture moves, and everyone ducks for cover. Scully pushes Terri into an interrogation room where Margi is being held. She dead bolts the door, and watches, amazed, as the power within builds to a crescendo. But when the clock strikes midnight, the fury suddenly ends. The agents open the interrogation room door and find the girls, weeping and frightened, inside.

Grotesque Production Code: #3X14 Original Air Date: 02/02/96 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by Kim Manners MULDER BECOMES OBSESSED WITH A CASE INVOLVING AN INCARCERATED SERIAL KILLER WHO CLAIMS HE WAS POSSESSED BY A GARGOYLE.

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In Washington, D.C., an artist’s model is brutally slashed to death after he finishes a session posing for a group of art students. The FBI links one of the students, John Mostow, to the model’s death, and to several other killings of young males over a three year period. Agents Patterson and Nemhauser arrest an unruly Mostow in his studio apartment. During the struggle, Mostow bites Nemhauser on the arm. Five days after the arrest, the body of another young male victim, bearing the same facial mutilation, is found six miles away. Mulder and Scully interview Mostow in his jail cell. He claims he was possessed by a dark spirit, an entity that forced him to kill. Afterward, the agents meet with Patterson, who worked on solving the serial killings for three years. In private, Mulder tells Scully that he and Patterson have held a grudge ever since his days as a student at the bureau. Patterson was well−respected and even envied by many students, but Mulder failed to step in line. He didn’t believe in Patterson’s teachings that the only way to find a monster is to become one yourself. The agents visit Mostow’s studio, where they find sketch after sketch of gargoyles covering the room. Mostow believed the images protected him from the demon. Mulder and Scully discover more bodies – covered with clay – hidden within a secret room. Shortly thereafter, a man employed as a glassblower is viciously attacked by a figure armed with a carpet knife. Mulder visits a library and reads literature pertaining to gargoyles. He then returns to Mostow’s apartment, where he draws and sculpts images of the creatures. A dark figure emerges from the shadows. Mulder chases the figure to an industrial area. The creature attacks the agent, but during the struggle, Mulder falls from a gangway. The figure runs off into the darkness. Later, Mulder tells Scully that the creature exists. Scully is skeptical, and as she leaves the scene, she discovers broken pieces of a knife. The crime lab finds Mulder’s finger print on the blade. Scully pays a visit to the FBI’s evidence room, but Mostow’s confiscated knife, seized by agents, is no where to be found. Mulder returns to Mostow’s studio, where he discovers Nemhauser’s dead body encased in clay. When Patterson arrives at the studio, Mulder accuses him of killing Nemhauser and everyone else murdered since Mostow’s incarceration. Mulder describes how Patterson became so obsessed with finding the killer, imaging everything the killer imagined, sinking himself so deeply into the case that finally, he became the very thing he so desperately sought to catch. Scully arrives at the studio, distracting Mulder. Patterson runs off and makes his way onto a rooftop. A struggle ensues, during which Patterson’s face transforms into a hideous gargoyle. Mulder manages to grab his gun. He shoots Patterson, wounding him. Patterson is taken to jail.

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Piper Maru (1 of 2) Production Code: #3X15 Original Air Date: 02/09/96 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING A SUNKEN WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT.

A salvage vessel, the Piper Maru, sets anchor on the wind−scarred waters of the Pacific Ocean. The French−speaking crew lowers a diver, Gauthier, into the briny depths. Gauthier discovers the wreckage of a World War II fighter on the ocean floor, creating jubilation amongst his comrades. But as Gauthier peers into the glass canopy of the aircraft, he sees a living World War II pilot, his eyes covered with a thick black membrane, trapped inside. Certain he is hallucinating, Gauthier goes topside. But as the crew works to unsuit him, they fail to notice a black filmy membrane that now covers Gauthier’s eyes. Meanwhile, back in Washington, Skinner informs Scully that due of a lack of new leads or evidence, local police have made her sister’s murder investigation inactive. Afterward, Scully joins Mulder in his office. Mulder shows her evidence that the Piper Maru had been anchored in the exact location where the crew of the Talapus (see episode #3X09) had performed scavenger work. He also reveals that everyone aboard the Piper Maru, except Gauthier, suffered acute radiation burns. The agents travel to a ship yard and examine the vessel. Mulder notices an oily film covering the diving suit. He and Scully find videotape footage of Gauthier’s dive – and see the remains of the submerged World War II aircraft. Gauthier, meanwhile, returns to San Francisco and begins ransacking a home office. His American wife, Joan, catches him in the act. Gauthier attacks Joan, and shortly thereafter, her eyes become covered by the same black film. Mulder finds Gauthier semi−conscious, on the kitchen floor. Gauthier only remembers events up to his discovery of the sunken aircraft, and nothing about the ransacked apartment. Mulder also finds a letter linking J. Kallenchuk Salvage Brokers to the mystery. Scully tracks down an old neighbor and World War II vet, Commander Christopher Johansen, hoping he can shed some light on the sunken aircraft. As luck would have it, Johansen reveals he was aboard the submarine Zeus Faber during its mission to locate the plane – which had been transporting an atomic bomb during the war. He recounts how the sub crew took ill during the mission, and how he took over command when the Captain became irrational. Mulder follows Geraldine Kallenchuk (who runs the salvage brokerage) to Hong Kong. He handcuffs

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himself to Geraldine and breaks into her office. Alex Krycek suddenly appears and gets the drop on Mulder. He forces Geraldine (still handcuffed to Mulder) into the hallway and dead bolts the door, separating the two. Gunshots suddenly ring out, and Geraldine is killed. Krycek escapes through a window. Mulder unlocks the handcuffs and he, too, flees the scene. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Skinner is shot in the stomach by the Hispanic Man (Luis Cardinal) (who, with Krycek, killed Scully’s sister). Skinner is rushed to the hospital. Mulder surprises Krycek at the Hong Kong airport. He punches him in the face, pulls a gun and demands the return of the digital tape. Krycek gives the agent a key, claiming the tape is kept inside a locker back in Washington. Mulder allows him to use a rest room so he can remove the blood from his face. But Joan Gauthier suddenly appears inside the men’s room and attacks Krycek. The filmy black substance transfers from Gauthier to Krycek.

Apocrypha (2 of 2) Production Code: #3X16 Original Air Date: 02/16/96 Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners MULDER UNCOVERS MORE CLUES ABOUT A GOVERNMENT COVER−UP INVOLVING AN ALIEN ENTITY AND A SUNKEN WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT. SCULLY PURSUES THE MAN WHO MURDERED HER SISTER.

In flashback, government agents – among them a young William Mulder and the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) – visit the deathbed of a radiation− scarred crewman who served aboard the submarine Zeus Faber (see episode #3X15). The man insists the Navy tricked the submarine’s crew into believing that their mission was to recover an atomic bomb from a sunken aircraft. But he believes the real purpose of the mission was to guard an alien entity living on the ocean floor – a life−form that invaded the sub and killed crewmen with deadly radiation. CSM assures the crewman that the government will make the truth public. In present day Washington, Scully visits Skinner at a hospital. Skinner, semi−conscious, reveals that he recognized his assailant. Fearing further attacks, Scully assigns guards posted outside his hospital room. Meanwhile, Mulder orders Krycek to drive him to the location where the digital tape is stored. During the journey, another vehicle deliberately slams into Mulder’s car, forcing it off the road. Mulder is injured in the crash and loses consciousness. Armed men confront Krycek and demand the tape. Moments later, a blinding white

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light emanates from Krycek’s body and strobes the armed men. Scully visits Mulder at the hospital where he’s recuperating from injuries suffered in the car crash. Scully produces lab tests that prove Skinner’s assailant and her sister’s killer are one and the same. Later, the agents examine the diver’s suit Gauthier wore during the salvage mission. Mulder points out a layer of diesel oil covering the suit. He believes the oil is a medium used by an extraterrestrial to jump from host to host. Krycek, Mulder postulates, is the alien’s latest host. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder recovers a package believed to contain the digital tape. The tape case inside the package is empty, but faint pen strokes on the outside of the paper package reveal the Well−Manicured Man’s (WMM) phone number. Mulder arranges a face−to−face meeting in hopes of learning Krycek’s location. Krycek, meanwhile, gives the tape to CSM. During their meeting, WMM tells Mulder a UFO was downed by American pilots over the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. Missions to salvage the craft failed because of intense radiation. Mulder realizes that WMM doesn’t know where Krycek is. Meanwhile, Scully guards Skinner as he is transported to another hospital. The Hispanic Man, Luis Cardinal, attempts to gain access to the ambulance. But Scully surprises him and a chase ensues. Cardinal is struck by an automobile and falls into an alleyway. Terrified Scully will shoot him, he reveals that Krycek is headed for an abandoned missile site outside Bismarck, North Dakota. The agents gain access to the site, but CSM has them taken into custody before they can search all the silos. Later, we see Krycek inside a silo where an alien spacecraft is hidden. The entity exits Krycek’s body, leaving him entombed within the silo. Later, Mulder tells Scully that Luis Cardinal was found dead inside his jail cell – a death made to look like a suicide.

Pusher Production Code: #3X17 Original Air Date: 02/23/96 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS PLAY A DEADLY GAME OF CAT−AND− MOUSE WITH A KILLER WHO CAN CONTROL PEOPLE’S MINDS.

At a grocery market in Virginia, Agent Frank Burst and a phalanx of sheriff’s deputies arrest a man known only as Pusher. Pusher is shackled in leg irons and seated in the back of a cruiser, a heavy steel screen separating him from Burst and a deputy

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(who’s at the wheel). As the deputy waits his turn to pull onto a busy highway, Pusher uses the sound of his voice to take control of the deputy’s mind. Against his will, the deputy drives the cruiser directly into the path of an oncoming truck, and an enormous collision ensues. Burst survives the impact, but the sheriff’s deputy is killed and Pusher escapes. Burst approaches Mulder and Scully for help with the bizarre case. He describes how, a month earlier, Pusher called him and confessed to a string of contract killings going back two years. The murders Pusher confessed to had all been ruled suicides by the coroner’s office. But he possessed intimate details known only to police. Burst believes Pusher was bragging when he confessed to the crimes, as if he was playing a twisted game. Most disturbing is how Pusher somehow willed the sheriff’s deputy to unlock his shackles. A clue finger−written on the wrecked police cruiser leads the agents to back issues of a magazine called “American Ronin” (a ronin is a samurai warrior without a master). After leafing through several issues, the agents find “hit for hire” ads they suspect were placed by Pusher. They trace a telephone number listed in the ad to a pay phone, which, in turn, leads them to a driving range where Pusher works. Heavily−armed federal agents surround the range. Pusher takes refuge inside a shed and is cornered by an agent. He wills the agent to pour gasoline over his own body and set himself on fire. Scully extinguishes the flames, and Pusher is taken into custody. But during a preliminary court hearing, Pusher (whose real name is Robert Modell) clouds the mind of the presiding judge and is released. Using his mental powers, Modell slips by FBI security and gains access to the agency’s computer records. Skinner spots the intruder and attempts to intercede. But Modell overpowers an office cleric’s mind and wills her to spray mace in Skinner’s eyes. During the confusion, Modell escapes with the records. Skinner recovers, and later informs the agents that Modell fled with Mulder’s computer file. Burst, Mulder, Scully and a team of SWAT officers storm Modell’s apartment, but find it empty. What they do find is epilepsy medication. Scully theorizes that if a brain tumor triggered Modell’s powers, he might be dying… and committing murders as one last big “hurrah.” Modell phones the agents as they are sifting through his apartment. As Burst tries to keep him on the line until the call can be traced, Modell wills him to suffer a fatal heart attack. The FBI tracks Modell to a nearby hospital. Mulder fears that Modell might focus his powers on one of the armed agents, so he enters the building alone, unarmed and wired with high−tech video gear that allows Scully and the other agents to see what he sees.

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As Mulder walks through the building, shots ring out. He finds the dead bodies of an MRI technician and a security guard. He also finds a medical chart which confirms the tumor is fatal. Modell clouds Mulder’s mind and forces him to play Russian roulette, first on himself, and then on Scully. Scully trips a fire alarm after realizing that Modell must concentrate all of his energy for his powers to work. This distracts Modell long enough for agents to rush him. Later, we see Modell in a hospital bed, weak and near death.

Teso Dos Bichos Production Code: #3X18 Original Air Date: 03/08/96 Written by John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners A CURSE BEFALLS MEMBERS OF AN ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAM AFTER A SACRED URN IS EXCAVATED IN SOUTH AMERICA AND TRANSPORTED TO A BOSTON MUSEUM.

At the Teso Dos Bichos excavation site in South America, Secona Indian diggers uncover an Amaru urn embedded in the wall of a burial mound. The urn contains the remains of a female shaman, which the Indians believe is sacred to their tribe. Bilac, a Brazilian−born man acting as dig coordinator, tells Dr. Roosevelt, the American leader of the expedition, that the urn should be left undisturbed. But Roosevelt insists it be transported back to the United States. Later, Bilac participates in an Indian tribal ceremony and consumes a strange liquid called yaje. Moments later, a jaguar−like form attacks Roosevelt inside his tent, killing him. At the Museum of Natural History in Boston, a night watchman discovers the body of Mr. Horning, who participated in the archeological project. Dr. Lewton, the museum’s coordinator, suspects that the murder may be an act of political terrorism. Mulder tells Scully that the Secona Indians believe great evil will befall anyone who disturbs the remains of an Amaru, a woman−shaman. The agents question Bilac, who admits he objected to the dig from the very beginning. Scully believes it was Bilac who murdered Horning, and not a mythological Jaguar spirit sent by the Seconas. Later, Dr. Lewton is attacked by an unseen force as he works under the hood of his stalled Jaguar automobile. The agents search the area around the museum hoping for clues. Scully finds body parts of dead rats wedged inside the engine. She suspects the animals were attracted by the car engine’s warmth. While searching nearby woods, Mulder discovers Lewton’s eviscerated remains dangling from a tree. Mona Wustner, a grad student researcher, phones the agents with news that Bilac made

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frightening comments to her. Inside the woman’s washroom at the museum, Mona discovers rats trapped within a toilet. But when Mulder arrives at the museum, Mona has disappeared. Scully, meanwhile, gains access to Bilac’s residence. She finds the liquid yaje inside a ceremonial bowl, and reads journal entries indicating that Bilac has invoked the Amaru curse. Mulder discovers Bilac inside the woman’s washroom at the museum. He claims Mona is dead, but insists he does not know where to find the body. Bilac is placed in a room guarded by security men. The agents find the dead body of Mona’s dog, Sugar. A veterinarian performs an autopsy and discovers evidence that the dog had eaten a cat which had devoured a poisoned rat. Mulder concludes the rats are trying to get away from something. Bilac disappears. The agents suspect he escaped into steam tunnels that run beneath the museum. Pulling up a manhole cover, the agents descend into the darkness. They discover Dr. Lewton’s partially− devoured body parts… and dozens of ravenous house cats. Mulder rescues Scully after she is attacked by a cat. But the felines give chase, and the agents take refuge inside a room. As a sea of cats mass for another attack, the agents discover Bilac’s body stuck inside an air vent. Realizing the vent is their only means of escape, Mulder and Scully dislodge the body and make their way to safety. Animal control is dispatched to hunt down the rampaging felines, but cannot locate them in the miles of steam tunnels. Mulder receives word that the State Department is returning the urn to Ecuador.

Hell Money Production Code: #3X19 Original Air Date: 03/29/96 Written by Jeff Vlaming Directed by Tucker Gates THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A DEADLY GAME IN SAN FRANCISCO’S CHINATOWN DISTRICT.

The agents travel to San Francisco’s Chinatown district after a night watchman at a crematorium discovered a man being burned alive inside an oven. Mulder discovers a Chinese character scrawled inside the oven door, along with a wad of currency. Glen Chao, a detective of Asian descent, identifies the writing as the Chinese word for “ghost.” He also explains that the currency is called “hell money,” which is used as an offering to spirits during the Chinese Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. The threesome learn that the victim’s name is Johnny Lo. They search Lo’s apartment and discover blood

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stains beneath a newly installed wall−to−wall carpet. Meanwhile, an Asian man, Hsin, temporarily leaves his daughter, Kim, so he can attend a mysterious meeting. At an abandoned restaurant, Hsin participates in a strange game in which players draw colored tiles from jade vases. A Wiry Man draws a tile that elicits great excitement from the crowd – and a sense of relief from Hsin. The Wiry Man is escorted to a back room, where he is drugged. Shortly thereafter, the agents discover his body in a cemetery. Scully’s autopsy on the Wiry Man’s corpse reveals evidence that the man’s body organs had been harvested. The agents confront Chao about their discovery, but they sense he is being protective about the goings−on within the Chinese community. But Chao does provide the name of the man who installed the carpet in Johnny Lo’s apartment: Hsin. Mulder, Scully and Chao pay a visit to Hsin’s apartment. Hsin’s eye is heavily bandaged, which he claims is a work−related injury. As Chao and Hsin carry on a conversation in Chinese, Mulder discovers one of the colored game tiles. After the threesome leave the apartment, Hsin tells his daughter they need money for her leukemia treatments. But Kim blames her father’s eye injury on the mysterious meetings. Moved by his daughter’s concern, Hsin tells the head−gamesman, a Hard−Faced Man, that he no longer wishes to participate. But the Hard−Faced Man insists Hsin is close to winning a jackpot worth two million dollars. Meanwhile, Chao is attacked by what appear to be masked demons. But when Mulder visits the hospital, Chao is not to be found. By checking a hospital chart, the agents realize Chao’s blood type matches the blood found on the carpet padding at Johnny Lo’s apartment. Mulder suspects Chao is somehow involved. The agents return to Hsin’s apartment, where they question Kim. She explains that the family has no medical insurance, and that the cost of leukemia treatments is very high. Mulder realizes Hsin is participating in some sort of game. The agents pay a visit to an organ procurement organization, where they are told that a number of Asian men request typing and antigen work−ups, only to disappear. The agents trace a phone number supplied by the organization to an abandoned restaurant. Inside the kitchen, the agent’s discover human organs being stored in freezers. Unbeknownst to them, another game is underway in a room over the restaurant. Hsin loses and is dragged to the back room. Chao, no longer willing to help cover up the activity, interrupts the game and smashes one of the jade vases – revealing tiles of all the same color within. The participants realize that the game is rigged, and a melee breaks out.

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The agents hear the commotion and race upstairs. They find Chao holding the Hard−Faced Man – about to remove one of Hsin’s organs – at gun point. Hsin is rescued and his daughter is placed on a recipient list at the organ procurement organization.

Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space” Production Code: #3X20 Original Air Date: 04/12/96 Written by Darin Morgan Directed by Rob Bowman SCULLY RECOUNTS THE INVESTIGATION OF AN ALLEGED UFO ENCOUNTER FOR A FAMOUS AUTHOR RESEARCHING HIS LATEST NOVEL.

Scully meets with Jose Chung, a famous author researching a book about an alleged UFO encounter in Klass County, Washington. Scully recounts how a teenaged girl, Chrissy Giorgio, was found inside her boyfriend’s car on a deserted country road. Chrissy exhibited signs of physical abuse. Scully theorizes she may have been a victim of date rape. Chrissy’s boyfriend, Harold Lamb, was questioned by Detective Manners. Lamb claimed that he and Chrissy were abducted by aliens. Lamb passed a lie detector test, but when Mulder and Scully arrived at the scene, he changed his story and claimed he raped Chrissy. Unsatisfied with Lamb’s account, Mulder asked Chrissy if she experienced any unusual symptoms – such as vision problems and nose bleeds – after the encounter allegedly took place. She claimed she saw sudden flashes of an alien’s face. Mulder became convinced the girl was suffering from “Post Abduction Syndrome.” Scully, meanwhile, attributed her ailments to stress disorder triggered by sexual trauma. Under hypnosis, Chrissy described how she and her boyfriend were examined by aliens aboard a spaceship – confirming Lamb’s original alibi. Later, the agents interviewed Roky Crikenson, an electric company employee who allegedly witnessed the abduction and recorded his observations in a manuscript. Roky described how strange men wearing black clothing visited his home the previous evening and warned him not to divulge his story. Mulder read Roky’s manuscript and concluded it verified Lamb’s account of what occurred on the night of the alleged abduction. But Mulder was puzzled by Chrissy’s story, which did not match Roky’s or Lamb’s versions. Chrissy was again placed under hypnosis. During the second session, she described how she was interrogated by men from the Air Force and CIA. This led Mulder to speculate that the case might not have anything to do with aliens after all.

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The agents were alerted about the discovery of a dead alien. But during an autopsy examination, Scully discovered the alien was, in fact, a dead man wearing a costume. A check of military records revealed the deceased was Air Force Major Robert Vallee. When Vallee’s body disappeared, Mulder tracked down Blaine Faulkner, who videotaped Scully’s “autopsy.” But the mysterious “men in black” beat the agent to Faulkner’s doorstep and took possession of the tape. After leaving Faulkner’s apartment, Mulder encountered a naked man walking along a country road. He realized the man was Lieutenant Jack Sheaffer, a missing military officer. Sheaffer admitted that he piloted a fake UFO−type craft developed by the military to confuse potential invading forces. But Sheaffer was convinced that he, Vallee, and the two teenagers were actually abducted by a real UFO. Mulder then returned to his motel room, where he later claimed to have encountered the “men in black,” and a man who strongly resembled game show host Alex Trebek. The agents were informed that a top secret government plane crashed in a forest nearby. Detective Manners claimed that the UFO sightings could be attributed to the strange craft – until Vallee’s body is pulled from the wreckage. In the present day, Mulder approaches Chung and asks him not to write the book. He fears any account of the events will only make the participants look foolish. Chung denies his request.

Avatar Production Code: #3X21 Original Air Date: 04/26/96 Story by David Duchovny and Howard Gordon Teleplay by Howard Gordon Directed by James Charleston SKINNER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF A PROSTITUTE.

Attorney Jay Cassal finalizes Skinner’s divorce petition. Skinner, however, decides to wait one more day before signing the document. While relaxing at the Chesapeake Lounge at the Ambassador Hotel, Skinner is approached by an attractive woman. The pair strike up a conversation, and their apparent mutual attraction and loneliness quickly escalates to lovemaking in a hotel room. During their passion, Skinner sees the woman change from an attractive lover to an old woman. Skinner suddenly awakens. When he turns to the woman from the bar, he discovers her lifeless corpse. Scully and Mulder join Homicide Detective Waltos at the crime scene, where they learn details about the murder and Skinner’s possible

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involvement. The victim is identified as Carina Sayles, a former legal secretary who moonlighted for an escort service. The agents interview Lorraine Kelleher, who runs the escort service. Kelleher states that Sayles called her from the bar and used Skinner’s credit card number to pay for the “transaction.” Scully tells Mulder neither of them really knows very much about Skinner’s personal life. Later, the agents meet with their boss after he is released from jail. But he is uncooperative, and refuses to comment about the incident, or explain why he refused a polygraph test. During their conversation, it dawns on Mulder that Skinner did not know that Sayles was a prostitute. Scully shows Mulder a videotape containing footage of people who suffer from REM sleep behavior disorder. The affliction causes sufferers to grow violent during sleep, perhaps explaining the murder. Scully learns from Skinner’s psychiatrist that he had been experiencing a recurring dream in which he is confronted by an old woman. Mulder links the description to a succubus, a spirit that visits men during the night in just such a form. Skinner’s wife, Sharon, pays a visit to Skinner’s apartment. Later, police discover that Sharon was involved in an automobile accident – and evidence that someone ran her off the road. All evidence points to Skinner. Later, Skinner tells Mulder he first encountered visions of the old woman during a near−death experience in Vietnam. Mulder searches Skinner’s damaged car for clues. He cuts away the automobile’s exploded air bag from the steering wheel and has it analyzed. The FBI crime lab constructs a computerized image of a facial imprint embedded in the air bag. It belongs to someone other than Skinner. Mulder suspects that someone within the government is trying to destroy Skinner (having failed in their attempts to kill him in a previous episode). A hearing is established to investigate the facts in the case. Skinner’s accusers use Scully’s testimony about the X−Files to dismiss him from the Bureau. Later, the agents discover that Kelleher fell from her condo high−rise. They question her assistant, Judy, who identifies the computer image of the man who stole Skinner’s car as the same man who hired Sayles to approach Skinner. The agents arrange for Judy to meet the suspect at the Ambassador. Skinner visits his ailing wife at the hospital. There, he again sees the image of the old woman, who beckons to him from his wife’s bed. Skinner moves closer, only to see Sharon’s form. Sharon whispers something in Skinner’s ear. The man whose image was reconstructed from the air bag surprises Judy and Scully in their hotel room. Mulder and Detective Waltos rush to their aid, but Skinner mysteriously appears and guns down the assailant. When Scully asks Skinner as to

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how he knew the assailant’s whereabouts, he cryptically declines to answer.

Quagmire Production Code: #3X22 Original Air Date: 05/03/96 Written by Kim Newton Directed by Kim Manners MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A BEAST SIMILAR TO THE LOCH NESS MONSTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO RESIDE NEAR A LARGE LAKE.

Dr. Paul Farraday, a biologist, and Dr. William Bailey, a member of the U.S. Forestry Service, debate the cause of a rapid decline in the frog population at Heuvelmans Lake in Georgia. Shortly thereafter, while walking near the lake’s shore, Bailey is attacked and killed by an unseen force. Mulder and Scully drive to the lake after Bailey becomes the second person reported missing from the area in the same week (Scully brings her dog, Queequeg, along for the ride). Mulder suspects the disappearances are linked to Big Blue, a legendary, Loch Ness−like monster that allegedly lives in the murky water. It becomes apparent that the creature’s supposed existence is responsible for most of Lake Heuvelmans’ tourism business. While speaking with Ted Bertram, owner of a local tackle shop, the agents encounter Ansel Bray, a Big Blue expert who has devoted his life to photographing the elusive behemoth. The conversation is interrupted when a local fisherman barges into the shop with news that he discovered a body floating in the lake. The body is identified as Scott Woosley, a Boy Scout leader who disappeared after he wander from his troop to relieve himself. Scully notes that Woosley’s fly is open, a common identifier of drowning victims who consumed too much alcohol and fell into the water while urinating. But Mulder believes the creature is responsible for the death. The agents interview Farraday, who quite openly scoffs at the notion of the existence of Big Blue. Shortly thereafter, Ted Bertram is killed by the unseen creature. Aided by Sheriff Lance Hindt, the agents search the area where Bertram disappeared. They inspect giant three−toed footprints imbedded in the muck on the lake’s shore. But the evidence is dismissed when a “dinosaur boot” is uncovered near the scene. The body count increases after a teenaged diver is killed. Based on a preliminary examination, Scully attributes the death to a motor boat propeller. Not long afterward, Ansel is also attacked and killed. Mulder begs the Sheriff to close down the lake before anyone else is attacked. Hindt refuses, citing

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a lack of manpower. But as Hindt is dragging the lake for bodies, something grabs hold of his line and yanks him into the water. Immediately, he orders the lake closed. Scully gives chase when Queequeg suddenly darts off into the woods near the lake. She discovers the tattered remains of a leather dog collar. The agents rent a boat, and using a depth finder, embark on a nighttime hunt for the elusive creature. Something tears a hole in the boat’s hull, causing the vessel to sink. Surrounded by darkness, the pair take refuge on a tiny rock island. But Farraday emerges from the darkness and informs the agents the shore is only a stone’s throw from their island. Embarrassed, Mulder and Scully walk to shore. Mulder takes interest in Farraday’s bag full of frogs. He realizes that the monster’s sudden attack on humans was provoked by a change in the lake’s ecosystem. Farraday becomes the creature’s next victim, but he escapes with a flesh wound. Mulder tracks the elusive culprit through a marsh area, firing several rounds from his pistol. What he encounters, however, is a monstrous alligator, now bleeding from gunshot wounds. But somewhere in the lake, a serpentine form undulates in the murky, moonlit water.

Wetwired Production Code: #3X23 Original Air Date: 05/10/96 Written by Mat Beck Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF MURDERS LINKED TO A DEVICE THAT ALTERS TELEVISION SIGNALS.

A mysterious Plain−Clothed Man alerts Mulder to a pair of multiple−homicides in which the killers suddenly became delusional. Mulder is unsure who the informant is working for, but he nonetheless follows up on the tip. He and Scully visit a psychiatric hospital, where Joseph Patnick, one of the mass murderers, suddenly goes berserk while watching television. The agents meet with Dr. Stroman, who theorizes his patient might be suffering from a delusional syndrome. The agents search Patnick’s home looking for clues. While combing the house, Mulder and Scully locate row upon row of video cassette tapes containing cable news broadcasts. Back at the motel, Mulder views hours of the news footage but is unable to formulate a link between the broadcasts and the murders. Scully, however, cites recent studies linking television violence to violent behavior. Mulder dismisses the connection. Out of curiosity, Scully views the rest of the video tapes. Late that night, she sees Mulder and

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the Cigarette−Smoking Man meeting in secret in a car parked outside the motel. The next day, the agents receive word regarding yet another strange murder. This time, a housewife suddenly beat a neighbor to death. The killer, Mrs. Riddock, told authorities that her husband was having an affair with a blonde woman in a hammock in their backyard. In reality, Mrs. Riddock attacked and killed her next door neighbor, who was resting in a hammock with a Golden Retriever. The agents search Riddock’s home and uncover a large pile of VHS cassette tapes. Mulder spots a cable technician working on a utility pole nearby. When the technician drive off, Mulder climbs the pole and removes a video trap device. He brings it to the Lone Gunmen for analysis. Meanwhile, Scully grows more and more suspicious about Mulder’s activities. While speaking with Scully over the telephone, Mulder notices her paranoia and drives back to the motel. Believing she is being attacked by unknown intruders, Scully opens fire, narrowly missing her partner. She then runs off. The Lone Gunmen confirm Mulder’s theory that the device somehow induces violent behavior. Using different colors, it acts as a sort of mind control. Mulder, who is red−green color blind, realizes why he was not affected. Mulder receives word that Scully’s body may have been located. Before he reaches the morgue, the Plain−Clothed Man warns him to concentrate on finding the parties responsible before they destroy evidence. Mulder ignores the warning and goes to the morgue. The victim, however, is not Scully. Mulder travels to Mrs. Scully’s house. Scully suddenly steps into view, leveling a pistol at Mulder’s head. Delusional, she claims that Mulder has been lying to her from their very first assignment. But Mrs. Scully convinces her distraught daughter to drop the weapon. Mulder realizes that Dr. Stroman’s treatment of Patnick was unorthodox. He tracks Stroman and the cable technician to a house on the outskirts of town. Suddenly, gunshots rings out. When Mulder enters the home, he finds X standing over the bodies. X blames the deaths on Mulder. But Mulder counters he never knew who the Plain−Clothed Man was working for. Later, Mulder and the now−recovered Scully meet with Skinner. But Mulder does not identify X as the man who killed Stroman and the cable technician.

Talitha Cumi (1 of 2) Production Code: #3X24 Original Air Date: 05/17/96 Teleplay by Chris Carter Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter

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Directed by R.W. Goodwin AFTER HIS MOTHER SUFFERS A STROKE, MULDER SEARCHES FOR AN ALIEN BEING WHO POSSESSES MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS.

At a busy fast food restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, a distraught man, Galen, suddenly pulls out a gun and begins shooting at customers. A police sharpshooter returns fire, severely wounding him. A Gentle−Looking Man steps from the crowd and places his open palm on Galen’s wound, miraculously healing it in a matter of moments. When Scully and Mulder arrive at the scene, paramedics and detectives are unable to describe the incident in a coherent fashion, as all of the customers who were struck by gunfire are now uninjured. Even more puzzling, the Gentle−Looking Man disappeared from the scene without a trace. Meanwhile, at the Mulder’s beach front summer home in Rhode Island, Mrs. Mulder is approached by the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). They become embroiled in a heated argument. Shortly thereafter, Mulder receives word that his mother was rushed to an emergency room in serious condition. Accompanied by Scully, Mulder races to the hospital. From her bed, Mrs. Mulder asks her son for a pen. She then writes the word “palm” on a sheet of note paper. The agents return to Washington, where they view unedited videotape footage of the fast food restaurant shooting. Analyzing the footage frame by frame, the agents watch in astonishment as the Gentle−Looking Man seemingly morphs into another man. Shortly thereafter, a group of agents, headed by CSM, corner and arrest the Gentle−Looking Man at a Social Security Office where he is employed. Almost simultaneously, Scully stops a person who looks exactly like the Gentle−Looking Man at FBI headquarters. The man, Jeremiah Smith, claims he is about to turn himself in. Smith is questioned by Skinner and released. Back at the summer house, X shows Mulder photographs of his mother and CSM having an argument. Mulder claims he does not know what the discussion was about. Mulder leaves the house, then doubles back under the cover of darkness. Using a pen, he rearranges the letters of the word “palm” to spell “lamp.” He then smashes a ceramic lamp against a wall and uncovers a stiletto weapon (the same device the Bounty Hunter used to kill alien colonists in previous episodes). The first Jeremiah Smith (arrested at the Social Security Offices) is thrown in prison and interrogated by CSM. During the interrogation, Smith transforms into Deep Throat and Mr. Mulder, (both of whom CSM had killed). CSM tries to hide his astonishment. During the conversation, Smith tells CSM he is dying of lung cancer.

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Meanwhile, Mulder tracks the second Smith to the Social Security Offices. But Smith suddenly breaks away and disappears into a crowd. Back at the prison, the Bounty Hunter, stiletto in hand, enters Jeremiah’s cell. But it is empty. At the hospital, doctors tell Mulder that his mother’s condition is worse than previously thought. Mulder is approached by CSM. He claims to have information pertaining to the whereabouts of Mulder’s sister. Mulder counters that he possesses what CSM is looking for. One of the Jeremiah Smiths arrives at Scully’s apartment unannounced. Scully drives him to a secluded location and rendezvous with Mulder. Suddenly, the Bounty Hunter arrives at the scene, stiletto in hand.

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Herrenvolk (2 of 2) Production Code: #4X01 Original Air Date: 10/04/96 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT A TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD THEM TO THE TRUTH… AND SAVE THE LIFE OF MULDER’S MOTHER.

Mulder and Scully desperately try to protect the life of Jeremiah Smith. Not only is this mysterious man a link to the colonization plan – his paranormal healing powers are Mulder’s only hope of saving his mother’s life. Close on their trail is the relentless alien bounty hunter: an assassin who is hard to escape. And harder to kill. With the assassin close behind, Smith leads Mulder to an eerie, isolated farm community. There, Mulder is stunned to see clones of his sister Samantha, who had been abducted by aliens as a child. Smith tells Mulder that these children have been bred as worker drones. Before Smith can reveal more about the “Colonization” conspiracy, they are set upon by the alien assassin. Mulder is helpless to save Smith or Samantha. Back in Washington, Scully’s investigations into Smith’s background lead her to a disquieting conclusion. All five of the identical men named Jeremiah Smith were secretly cataloguing the entire human population. But at whose orders? And why? Meanwhile, the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) and the Elder have identified X as a traitor. He is ambushed and gunned down. As he dies, he leaves behind one last ambiguous clue: the letters “SRSG” scrawled in blood.

With his mother still in a coma, a despondent Mulder follows the last of his meager clues to the end of the line: the United Nations office of Special Representative to the Secretary General. An enigmatic official denies the Colony ever existed… as she hands him a folder containing photographs of the farm and of Samantha. And finally, because “the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose,” CSM directs the Alien Bounty Hunter to heal Mulder’s mother.

Home Production Code: #4X03 Original Air Date: 10/11/96 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Kim Manners AN INVESTIGATION INTO INFANTICIDE IN AN IDYLLIC SMALL TOWN LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY TO AN EVEN MORE APPALLING DISCOVERY: A FAMILY DEFORMED BY INBREEDING INTO A FERAL, MURDEROUS CLAN.

Home, Pennsylvania. An idyllic small town is the last place anyone would expect to find a hideously malformed newborn buried in a shallow grave. This gruesome discovery is enough for the local sheriff, Andy Taylor, to call in the FBI. Although the child’s deformations indicate multiple genetic abnormalities, neither Mulder nor Scully believe this local tragedy is a matter for the X−Files: until they learn more about Home’s reclusive Peacock clan. For over a century, this farm family has lived on the outskirts of town… and the outskirts of civilization. Generations of inbreeding have deformed their bodies and their souls into something less than human, and more than animal. Now that the family has dwindled down to three brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect that the Peacocks have devised a grotesque plan to propagate their species by forcing a kidnapped woman into involuntary pregnancy. While someone (or something) watches unseen, Mulder and Scully explore the Peacock farm and find the bloody evidence of a recent birth. Before they can arrest the Peacocks, the family strikes back. Later that night, the Peacock boys massacre the sheriff and his wife. As Mulder says, “They went caveman.” Fearing for the life of the Peacocks’ prisoner, Scully and Mulder courageously invade the farmhouse with only the local deputy as back−up. When they discover the hiding place of the clan matriarch, they finally comprehend the appalling truth. Mrs. Peacock, a multiple amputee, is the mother of the murdered infant. And also the proud mother of three sons who’ll do anything for mom. With guile, luck, and firepower, Mulder and Scully manage to kill two of the rampaging Peacocks. In the confusion, the oldest boy and Mrs.

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Teliko Production Code: #4X04 Original Air Date: 10/18/96 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by James Charleston MULDER AND SCULLY COMBINE FOLKLORE AND SCIENCE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN.

Four African−American men have vanished off the streets of Philadelphia. An FBI/Police task force has come up with no leads… until the body of the most recent victim is discovered. Surprisingly, violence isn’t the cause of death. The body’s bizarre lack of pigmentation hints at some unknown ailment. The Centers for Disease Control calls in Scully to unravel the medical mystery. Mulder, however, believes that more than a simple pathogen is involved. His investigations lead to a cover−up of a similar death on a flight from West Africa, and the presence of a toxic plant native to that area. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that the victim’s pituitary gland – which produces melanin among other hormones – has somehow been destroyed. While their investigation is under way, the killer strikes again. This time a young black student is stalked and kidnapped from a bus stop. The evidence leads Scully and Mulder to a recent West African immigrant, Samuel Aboah. They arrest him when he attempts to escape. Hospital tests reveal that, among other peculiar abnormalities, Aboah lacks a pituitary gland. A tip from his UN informant sends Mulder to Minister Diabria, a diplomat from the West African country of Burkina Faso. Reluctantly, Diabria admits he had ordered the cover−up of the first murder – because he knew the identity of the killer. It was one of the mythical Teliko: evil spirits of the air, who emerge at night to suck the life and color out of their victims. Who would have believed that a terrifying West African folktale could come to life in 20th century America? No one… except Mulder. Mulder explains his theory to a skeptical Scully: the Teliko are not ghostly entities, but members of a lost African clan, who have survived over generations by hunting down other humans to steal what they lack: hormones from the pituitary gland. Aboah escapes the hospital. In the ensuing manhunt, Aboah captures Mulder. Scully comes to Mulder’s aid and shoots Aboah just in time to save Mulder’s life. And the truth about the Teliko is destined to die along with him.

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Unruhe Production Code: #4X02 Original Air Date: 10/27/96 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER’S ONLY HOPE OF STOPPING A PSYCHOTIC KILLER ARE PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHS THAT REVEAL THE MADMAN’S DARKEST FANTASIES.

Northern Michigan. A young woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend murdered. Her passport photographs, taken only moments earlier, don’t show the expected smiling portraits. Instead, they display nightmarish images of the terrified girl. The photographs fascinate Mulder. Scully tries to find a logical explanation: the pictures were planted, or the film is damaged. But to Mulder, they are an example of “psychic photography”: the paranormal ability to create images on film with the mind. Mulder theorizes that the suspect doesn’t even know he possesses this gift… and that the photographs reveal the killer’s darkest fantasies. The kidnap victim is found: alive, but almost brain−dead. Her abductor had given her a primitive, botched lobotomy with an ice pick inserted through her eyes. Her mind almost gone, she endlessly repeats the word “unruhe”: the German word for “trouble” or “unrest.” Soon, the kidnapper abducts and kills again. Scully realizes that the same construction company had job sites near each crime scene. While Mulder is in Washington to examine the photos at the FBI labs, Scully follows up on her lead. She knows foreman Gerry Schnauz is the kidnapper by his terrified reaction to the word “unruhe.” She arrests him. Schnauz is a formerly institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence. When confronted by the photographs of his victims, he’s startled at the sight of his own paranoid delusions brought to life on film. Admitting the crime, he tells them where to find his other victim. She too has been lobotomized. Schnauz kills a guard and escapes from jail. He returns to the scene of the first crime to steal the camera and film. Mulder’s blood runs cold when he sees exposed photographs of Schnauz’s next victim: Scully! Now, Mulder’s only hope of saving her is studying the photos to get deep inside Schnauz’s mind. In captivity, Scully, too, must use everything she knows about Schnauz to keep herself alive. But she can’t talk him out of his delusions. It won’t be long before he wields the icepick to rid Scully of the “unruhe” he believes is tormenting her. Mulder’s insight into the madman’s mind leads him to Schnauz’s dark den. With hardly a moment to spare, he shoots Scully’s kidnapper. And finds one

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last series of psychic photographs: Schnauz – shot dead on the floor.

The Field Where I Died Production Code: #4X05 Original Air Date: 11/03/96 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Rob Bowman AN INVESTIGATION INTO A RELIGIOUS CULT TAKES MULDER ON HIS STRANGEST JOURNEY EVER… THROUGH HIS PAST LIVES.

Apison, Tennessee, once the site of a Civil War battle, is now the home of the Temple of the Seven Stars, a doomsday religious cult that believes in reincarnation. A member named “Sidney” calls the FBI with accusations of child abuse and weapons stockpiling. Fearing another Waco or Jonestown, the BATF and the FBI lead a joint raid on the compound. No weapons are found. Neither is Vernon Ephesian, the cult’s dangerously charismatic leader, who dominates his followers with a mix of Biblical prophecy, New Age channeling and old−fashioned intimidation. An odd compulsion leads Mulder to search a nearby field where he finds an underground Civil War bunker concealing Ephesian and his six wives – all on the verge of committing mass suicide. One of the wives, Melissa, catches Mulder’s attention. She feels somehow familiar to him. Ephesian, his wives and the cultists are taken into custody. But with no evidence of abuse or illegal weapons, the FBI can hold them for only one day. Mulder and Scully are assigned to interrogate Ephesian and his wives. Preaching fire and brimstone, Ephesian admits nothing. Melissa is a different story. Under questioning, this withdrawn and hostile girl suddenly shifts personalities into the mysterious informant Sidney, a gruff male New Yorker. But somehow Mulder knows Melissa’s case is even more unusual than Multiple Personality Disorder. He is certain that “Sidney” is one of Melissa’s past lives. Scully, who has a hard enough time with MPD let alone reincarnation, can’t understand why Mulder is so obsessed with Melissa, and so certain he is right. Then comes a revelation that surprises even Mulder. Melissa shifts into yet another identity: a Civil War nurse named Sarah Kavanaugh. She tells them she watched as her fiancée Sullivan Biddle died in the aftermath of the long−ago battle. And that Biddle is one of Mulder’s past lives. Mulder unconditionally believes her. Desperate to discover the truth Mulder has himself regressed. Scully listens as Mulder cycles through a series of his past lives. He says that same souls reincarnate together over and over again: he, Samantha, Scully, even the Cigarette−Smoking Man are destined to

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play out many lifetimes together. Melissa and Mulder are soulmates fated always to be star− crossed lovers. The current Melissa hears Mulder’s story, but she won’t allow herself to believe. She returns to Ephesian. Scully doesn’t know what to think – especially when she discovers photographs of Sarah and Sullivan in historical archives. After Ephesian and his cultists are released, everyone’s worst fears come true. Ephesian leads the cult in a mass suicide. Mulder discovers the body of Melissa… clutching the photograph of Sarah Kavanaugh in her hand.

Sanguinarium Production Code: #4X06 Original Air Date: 11/10/96 Written by Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew Directed by Kim Manners A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS DEATHS WHICH PLAGUE A COSMETIC SURGERY CLINIC LEAD MULDER TO BELIEVE IT MAY NOT BE HUMAN ERROR, BUT HUMAN SACRIFICE.

Everyone wants to be beautiful. And the Aesthetic Surgery Unit of Chicago’s Greenwood Memorial Hospital can make anyone more attractive… for a price. For one patient thought to be undergoing a scalp−reduction the price is a grisly death, when Dr. Lloyd goes insane during surgery and performs a violent liposuction instead… and literally sucks the life blood out of the man. Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate the doctor’s unusual defense: demonic possession. Scully logically assumes the doctor’s sleeping pill addiction caused a psychotic break. When Mulder discovers evidence of a pentagram – an occult symbol of protection – on the floor of the operating room, he concludes that some kind of magic is at work. Scully is dubious, to put it mildly. Another surgeon goes into an uncontrollable frenzy, using a laser to burn through the flesh of a patient’s face. Mulder discovers the mark of the pentagram on this body as well – placed there by Nurse Waite, a practicing witch. Dr. Franklyn admits that Nurse Waite worked at the clinic ten years earlier when similar deaths had occurred. Scully and Mulder search her house, finding a spooky den of candles, incense, herbs and witchy objects. But Nurse Waite is gone. She’s lying in wait for Dr. Franklin; submerged in a tub full of gore in his bathroom. Her sneak knife attack fails, and she’s arrested. Before Nurse Waite can explain herself to Mulder, she dies horribly, in what Mulder recognizes from Nurse Waite’s occult books as a classic case of death by hex.

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Waite was trying to protect the patients… but against what or whom? Maybe Dr. Franklyn – who smiles inscrutably as he levitates a few feet above his bed. Putting all the clues together, Mulder deduces that Franklyn is a black magician. Cursed with the sin of vanity, Franklyn transforms his looks beyond the limits of surgery: using sorcery and human sacrifice. Ten years ago, he had escaped suspicion. Today, he manages to escape even Mulder. Mulder is too late to stop the final sacrifice that completes the spell. Dr. Franklyn slices off his own face, to disappear forever… … And the classically handsome Dr. Hartman is welcomed aboard at a Los Angeles cosmetic surgery clinic.

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man Production Code: #4X07 Original Air Date: 11/17/96 Written by Glen Morgan Directed by James Wong FROHIKE PIECES TOGETHER WHAT COULD BE THE SECRETS BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS CIGARETTE− SMOKING MAN’S PAST. HIS SPECULATION COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE.

In the Lone Gunmen’s office, Scully and Mulder listen, as Frohike reveals what he suspects to be the chilling, secret past of the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). Hiding in a nearby high rise, CSM eavesdrops on them with electronic listening devices, his sniper’s rifle trained on the office’s front door. Who will be his next target? Frohike believes CSM was orphaned as a baby. His father, a Communist spy, was electrocuted. His mother died of lung cancer. In 1963, he was an Army Captain (whose only friend is the proud father of 1−year−old Fox Mulder). Recognizing his capabilities, the right−wing conspiracy that operates within the shadows of the official government recruits the young officer – his first assignment: the assassination of JFK. In its successful aftermath, he lights his first smoke… and becomes the Cigarette− Smoking Man. By 1968, even J. Edgar Hoover takes orders from CSM, and no President has ever suspected he exists. CSM personally takes charge of the operation against Martin Luther King. Yet, even CSM has a dream. He longs to be a published author, and writes political potboilers under a pen name. Despite a pile of scathing rejections, he keeps trying. Christmas 1991. CSM has covertly started wars, assassinated world leaders, rigged elections, the Oscars, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and moved the Rodney King trial to Simi Valley. Despite his power, he’s a lonely man leading an empty life. He

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still can’t get his written works published. And with the Soviet Union gone, he doesn’t even have any more enemies. Then it happens. A survivor is discovered in the wreckage of an alien craft. His mysterious associate, known to Mulder and Scully as Deep Throat executes the only alien which survived the crash. CSM has a new purpose, and new truths to conceal. He goes forth on this mission with a vengeance. Young FBI agents Fox “Spooky” Mulder and Dana Scully take on the “X−Files.” Unknowingly they are part of CSM’s plans. This year. CSM is jubilant when a magazine finally accepts one of his stories. He prepares his resignation, and lights his last cigarette. Until he realizes the magazine is nothing but a cheap girlie rag – whose editors even had the nerve to change the story’s ending. With all his dreams destroyed, he sits on a park bench and muses about the similarity of life to a cheap, tasteless box of chocolates. Resuming his role, CSM lights up a smoke. The present. CSM’s finger is on the trigger of a sniper rifle, ready to repeat the act which started his shadowy career. He watches Frohike leave the office. Does he shoot? No. He can kill Frohike any time he chooses, and he revels in that power.

Tunguska (1 of 2) Production Code: #4X09 Original Air Date: 11/24/96 Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter Directed by Rob Bowman SCULLY RISKS CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS WHEN SHE REFUSES TO DIVULGE MULDER’S WHEREABOUTS TO A SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE.

While performing a random search of a suitcase being carried by a man claiming to have diplomatic immunity, an airport customs agent is attacked by a black oil that congeals into tiny worms which penetrate his skin. An anonymous tipster warns Mulder about a right−wing militia organization planning a bombing which could be the next Oklahoma City. The informant turns out to be Alex Krycek, the traitor Mulder blames for his father’s murder. Left trapped in an abandoned missile silo by the Cigarette− Smoking Man (CSM), Krycek says he was freed by a militia group during a salvage operation. Claiming he wants revenge on CSM, Krycek promises Mulder that he can help expose CSM and the Shadowy Syndicate. Despite his hatred for Krycek, Mulder reluctantly believes him. Krycek leads Mulder and Scully to intercept a Russian courier at the airport. The courier escapes, but the diplomatic pouch he is carrying is recovered. The pouch contains a four−billion−year−old rock of extraterrestrial origin. Dr. Sacks, a government

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exobiologist, drills into the rock. The same black worms which killed the customs agent emerge from the rock and attack him. Scully and Pendrell investigate this deadly enigma. Mulder’s possession of the artifact alarms the Well−Manicured Man, who orders CSM to take care of the problem. Mulder seeks out his UN contact, Marita Covarrubias, who finds out the origin of the Russian courier’s flight. Mulder learns the flight originated near Tunguska, Siberia and instantly recognizes the significance. In 1908, a fireball crashed to earth in Tunguska, igniting a series of cataclysmic explosions. It was the most massive and most mysterious event of its kind in history. Until now, no one had been able to discover what really happened. Maybe someone has finally found out the truth… Marita helps Mulder with credentials that will get him to Tunguska. At the last minute, Mulder discovers Krycek is fluent in Russian, and brings him along as a translator. Mulder and Krycek discover a Siberian Gulag located at the site of the crash – its hard−laboring prisoners sentenced to mine the extraterrestrial rocks. Before they can learn any more, they are captured, beaten and jailed. Mulder realizes Krycek is in league with their captors. Krycek is freed, and Mulder is subjected to an inhuman medical experiment. Under the most primitive of conditions, Mulder and other prisoners are infected with the oily black worms, and injected on the left arm with an amber liquid.

Terma (2 of 2) Production Code: #4X10 Original Air Date: 12/01/96 Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter Directed by Rob Bowman A RUSSIAN ASSASSIN IS BROUGHT OUT OF RETIREMENT TO ERASE ALL LINKS TO AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE MYSTERIOUS “BLACK CANCER.”

In Tunguska, Mulder has survived his ordeal for now, but is still being held captive in a Siberian Gulag. The prisoner in the next cell explains that all the men in the camp are injected with “black cancer” until the toxin finally kills them. Escape is impossible. Resistance is futile. Mulder swears he will survive, long enough at least to kill Krycek. Impressed by Mulder’s will to survive, the prisoner gives Mulder his own home−made knife. Back in Washington, Dr. Sacks is alive after being infected by the black worms from the rock that was recovered in the diplomatic pouch, although he is comatose. For Scully and Agent Pendrell, the medical mystery starts to unravel when tests reveal

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a black vermiform organism attached to his brain’s pineal gland. St. Petersburg. A former KGB assassin, Vassily Peskow, comes out of retirement when a messenger from “Comrade Arntzen” requests his help, and tells him the Cold War isn’t over. Peskow makes his way to a horse farm which belongs to the Well− Manicured Man (WMM) where he assassinates Dr. Bonita Chung−Sayre, a well−known authority on viruses and WMM’s personal physician. Due to testify before the Senate Subcommittee hearing, Skinner presses a reluctant Scully for more information about the pouch and its contents. Skinner surprises her with his news: the pouch’s intended recipient was the late Dr. Chung−Sayre, who was killed in a “riding accident.” Tunguska. The prisoners, including Mulder, are on the march. Nearby, Krycek is laughing it up with Mulder’s tormentors. The sight spurs Mulder to action. Armed only with the knife, Mulder steals a battered truck and makes his escape, knocking Krycek into the back of the truck and taking him along for the ride. The chase ends when the truck’s brakes give out. Krycek bails out before the crash, but Mulder is trapped inside. Krycek flees through the woods where he runs into a group of men – all of which are missing their left arm. Krycek tells them he is an escaped prisoner, and the men take him in. Meanwhile, Mulder has survived the accident and hides in the forest from his pursuing captors. In Washington, Scully is jailed for contempt of Congress when she refuses to reveal Mulder’s whereabouts at the Senate hearing. As she explains to Skinner, someone with a secret agenda is deliberately obfuscating the case: focusing on a missing FBI agent, rather than the existence of a toxic biohazard of extra−terrestrial origin and the deaths of those connected to it. Mulder is discovered hiding in the woods by a family, who explains that the villagers’ only means of saving themselves from the fatal experiments is a drastic one: amputation of the left arm. Mulder must persuade them to take him to St. Petersburg, or they may amputate his arm to “save” him. Unfortunately for Krycek, his rescuers “save” him as he sleeps. Peskow continues his mission, paying a visit to the comatose Dr. Sacks whom he injects with the same amber fluid that had been shot into Mulder at the Gulag. The worms emerge, and he kills Sacks. At the Senate hearing, Scully is just about to be charged with contempt again… when Mulder appears, arm intact. Mulder’s presence puts the attention back on the rock and the biotoxin, but when Scully tries to bring up the subject of the biotoxin’s extraterrestrial origin, her claims are not taken seriously. Mulder interrupts the hearing, challenging the skepticism of the Senators when the most conservative scientists and science journals have every reason to believe that life exists outside

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our terrestrial sphere. Taken aback by Mulder’s statement, the chairman of the subcommittee abruptly adjourns the hearing, calling for a recess until the evidence can be properly evaluated. Following the lead that Dr. Chung−Sayre was the supervising physician at a nursing home in Boca Raton, Mulder and Scully travel to Florida to investigate. She and Mulder arrive too late. Peskow has already poisoned all of the patients and black worms have emerged from their deceased bodies. Mulder realizes a similar experiment to the one being conducted in Russia had been conducted at this nursing home. Still bent on finding a trace of evidence left behind, Mulder and Scully travel to New York where they interview the head of the militia group Krycek was running with. The militia member tells them Krycek told them his name was Arntzen, and that Krycek approached them. Everything Krycek told him was a lie. They also learn that the US government covered up their knowledge that Soviet−developed “black cancer” was deployed by Saddam during the Gulf War. Mulder now believes the whole thing was a set up from the beginning by someone who doesn’t want the rocks in American hands. Finally, he discovers where Krycek is hiding another rock: Terma, North Dakota, in the stolen truck carrying the Militia’s fertilizer bomb. Again, Peskow is one step ahead of Mulder and Scully. He drives the truck to a Canadian oil refinery, intending to destroy the remaining rock. Mulder and Scully arrive too late to prevent Peskow from igniting a fiery explosion which engulfs the last piece of evidence. Both barely escape with their lives. The final report on their investigation is turned over to the Senate subcommittee, but in vain. The Cigarette−Smoking Man controls the Senator who chairs the committee. In St. Petersburg, Peskow returns home to find Krycek, sporting a prosthetic left arm, who commends Peskow for a job well done.

Paper Hearts Production Code: #4X08 Original Air Date: 12/15/96 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER HAS HAUNTING DREAMS THAT LEAD HIM TO QUESTION WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO HIS SISTER.

Mulder experiences a series of vivid dreams that lead him to the discovery of the long−buried skeleton of a murdered child. Mulder is shaken, recognizing the M.O. of serial killer John Lee Roche, one of the first killers Mulder profiled. Between 1979 and 1990, Roche abducted girls between the

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ages of 8 and 10 from their homes, strangled them, and cut a heart−shaped piece of fabric from their clothes as a trophy. When captured, Roche confessed to 13 murders. Mulder fears that this discovery means there are more victims than those Roche had admitted to. When the girl is identified, it proves that Roche began his crimes as early as 1975. Another clue from the dream helps Mulder locate where the killer hid his trophies. He finds a total of 16 hearts, and realizes there are two more unknown victims. Scully and Mulder interview Roche in jail. He won’t tell them about the missing children, and toys with their questions. Oddly, he comments that he understands why Mulder is taking the case personally. His meaning becomes clear with Mulder’s next dream. Mulder goes back in time to the terrifying night in 1973 when his sister Samantha was abducted – except the creature who bursts through door is not an alien – it is Roche. Could Roche have abducted and murdered Samantha? Mulder tries to get the truth from Roche, who claims that he sold a vacuum to Mulder’s father before Samantha’s disappearance. When Roche won’t answer Mulder directly, Mulder becomes enraged and punches Roche in the face. Scully, who witnessed Mulder’s loss of control, tries to convince him the dreams are nothing but images from his subconscious. She is certain that Roche is only cleverly manipulating Mulder’s emotions. Mulder always believed Samantha was abducted by aliens, and now he doesn’t know what to believe. His fears seem confirmed when, in the basement of his family home, Mulder discovers the same model of vacuum that Roche claimed Mulder’s father bought for his mother. When Skinner finds out Mulder struck Roche, he denies Mulder further access to the prisoner. Yet Skinner is sympathetic when Mulder tells him his fears about Samantha, and finally allows Mulder interview Roche again, as long as Scully keeps an eye on him. Mulder finally agrees to give Roche what he had been demanding: the heart trophies he cut out of pajamas of his victims. Now, Mulder demands to know the truth about Samantha. Roche’s description of the night Samantha was abducted is exactly the same as Mulder remembers. He refuses to tell Mulder if one of the cloth hearts was taken from Samantha’s clothing. Instead, he makes Mulder choose one of the hearts at random, and tells them where to find the body. Another body is discovered – it’s not Samantha. When Mulder and Scully return, Roche is fully in control. Refusing to divulge anything more unless he’s taken to the scene of the crime. Scully can’t stand to listen anymore, and makes Mulder leave with her. She insists that Roche is playing Mulder. Willing to risk everything to find out the truth about his sister’s abduction, Mulder makes a difficult

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decision. Without notifying Scully or Skinner, he releases Roche from jail and takes him to his childhood home in Martha’s Vineyard. Inside the house, Roche describes everything in great detail – except, Mulder says they are in the wrong house. He has tricked Roche by deliberately taking him to a house 6 miles away from his childhood home. Now he now knows Roche has been lying all along. Mulder guesses that his extensive knowledge of Roche enabled Roche to get into his head saying, “I profiled you… maybe some connection was created between us. And through it, you pilfered my memories of Samantha.” Mulder plans to return Roche to jail the next morning. In the motel, he has one final dream of Samantha – and wakes up to find himself bound in his own handcuffs with Skinner and Scully pounding on the motel room door. Roche is missing; and so are Mulder’s FBI badge and his gun. With Mulder’s ID, Roche tracks down the whereabouts of Caitlin, a little girl he had spotted on their flight to Boston. Mulder shoulder’s all the blame for placing Caitlin in such horrific danger. And he admits to Scully that she was right. Roche was just playing him. Mulder’s knowledge of Roche pays off when he correctly identifies where Roche took the girl. He shoots Roche to save Caitlin’s life… still plagued by the doubts Roche planted about Samantha’s fate. With Roche dead, will Mulder ever find out the truth?

El Mundo Gira Production Code: #4X11 Original Air Date: 01/12/97 Written by John Shiban Directed by Tucker Gates MULDER AND SCULLY FOLLOW A TRAIL OF BODIES LEFT BEHIND BY WHAT COULD BE THE LEGENDARY CHUPACABRA.

In a migrant workers’ shantytown in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Eladio Buente flirts with pretty Maria Dorantes while his brother Soledad watches jealously. Flakita, a nosy neighbor, bemoans the age−old story: “Two brothers. One woman. Trouble.” Suddenly, three ear−splitting booms come from the sky, followed by a painfully bright flash, and a brief but torrential downpour of hot yellow rain. In its aftermath, Flakita discovers the mutilated corpses of Maria and one of her goats, their faces partially eaten away. Eladio is missing. Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths. According to Mulder, the strange occurrences preceding Maria’s death are called Fortean events, "An unusual or highly infrequent meteorological phenomenon… Fortean events have been linked to alien encounters, and cattle mutilations…” Scully greets Mulder’s information with her usual

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skepticism. She can’t tell much from the goat’s corpse, and Maria’s body is at the morgue. According to Flakita, Maria was killed by El Chupacabra – the Goatsucker – a gray hairless creature out of Puerto Rican folk tales with a small body, large head and bulging black eyes. Scully notes the amazing similarity between the descriptions of El Chupacabra and a gray alien. Soledad angrily refutes Flakita’s story. He accuses his brother, Eladio, of killing Maria out of jealousy. This lover’s triangle convinces Scully that Eladio is the killer, until she examines Maria’s remains. The state of Maria’s corpse shocks even Scully. It’s hardly visible beneath mounds of greenish fungal growth. Meanwhile, Mulder locates Eladio with the help of Conrad Lozano, a cynical Immigration agent. Eladio is in INS custody, segregated from fearful prisoners who think he’s El Chupacabra. Eladio denies killing Maria, claiming something or someone unknown mutilated Maria during the yellow rain. Mulder believes Eladio did not kill Maria, and Scully must agree. Scully’s autopsy of the body revealed that Maria succumbed to a massive fungal infection – no one, she says, could deliberately do such a thing. Eladio escapes from INS custody, and the agents discover the driver of the INS deportation bus dead from a different fungal infection. Mulder thinks there may be a connection between the fungi and the missing immigrant. Lozano and Mulder track Eladio to a construction site where he has found work, but the vengeful Soledad is also on Eladio’s trail. Both brothers escape before Lozano and Mulder can take them into custody. The site’s foreman is dead, his body ravaged by a myriad of fungi. Scully calls Mulder and warns him against touching or inhaling the lethal lichen. A mycology professor has isolated an enzyme that acts as a catalyst, accelerating fungal growth. If it escapes into the environment, there could be a biological hazard of frightening proportions. Scully believes that Eladio is inadvertently responsible for deaths by spreading the enzyme which he somehow is carrying. Mulder now thinks the Fortean events could have been caused by something falling from space… which would mean the enzyme is alien. Scully, on the verge of losing patience with Mulder’s theories, just wants to find the man who seems to be spreading it. Now quite ill, Eladio begs his cousin Gabrielle for help. She reluctantly agrees to lend him money. Flakita, the village gossip, warns the agents that Soledad is planning to kill Eladio. Eladio eludes them again, but Lozano arrests Soledad. When Eladio sees his own face for the first time, he can’t believe the horror of it. He no longer looks human – Eladio has indeed transformed into El Chupacabra. Gabrielle tells Scully and Mulder that Eladio has run away to Mexico. But Mulder realizes it’s a lie. Speeding on their way, he alerts a hazmat

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team to meet them at the shantytown… where it all began. Where the two brothers will finally settle their dispute over Maria. What really happened that night? According to Flakita, Lozano brings Soledad to the camp, and orders Eladio to face his brother like a man. But Eladio is no longer a man… he is El Chupacabra. Flakita hides as gray aliens – whom she calls Chupacabras – descend on the village. They kill Lozano, and take Soledad up in the sky with them. Gabrielle weaves another tale. Lozano orders Eladio to face Soledad. In the horror of realizing his brother is El Chupacabra, Soledad can’t shoot. He and Lozano struggle over the gun, and Lozano takes a bullet. The two brothers, now both Chupacabras, run away to Mexico. The story Mulder and Scully report to Skinner isn’t much clearer. All they know is that by the time they got to the camp, both the brothers were gone. Lozano was dead… brought down by two bullets and the fungus. And Los Chupacabras? The Buente brothers, their faces luridly disfigured, may have hitchhiked off into the Mexican night.

Leonard Betts Production Code: #4X14 Original Air Date: 01/26/97 Written by Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban and Vince Gilligan Directed by Kim Manners A HEADLESS CORPSE WALKS OUT OF A HOSPITAL MORGUE TRIGGERING THE SEARCH FOR A MAN WHO POSSESSES UNIMAGINABLE REGENERATIVE POWERS.

Michele Wilkes, an Emergency Medical Technician, races an ambulance through the streets of Philadelphia as her highly−regarded partner, Leonard Betts, attends to a dying man. As the ambulance speeds through an intersection, it is broadsided by a truck. Wilkes survives, but she is horrified to discover Betts’ decapitated body nearby. Mulder and Scully are brought into the case when Betts’ headless corpse disappears from a hospital morgue. Scully theorizes that someone attempted to steal the body and sell it to an unscrupulous medical supplier. But when security camera footage shows an unidentified person with a strange distortion around the head area leaving the hospital. Mulder suspects something strange is going on – perhaps the body left by itself. With Mulder’s reluctant help, Scully fishes through the hospital’s bio−disposal unit for the missing corpse. The agents recover the missing head, but the whereabouts of the body remains a mystery. As Scully prepares to perform an autopsy on the head, its eyes and mouth suddenly snap open.

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A tissue sample taken from Betts’ head is analyzed by a pathologist who determines that Betts was riddled with cancer, so much that a normal human could have never lived that way. Mulder hypothesizes that Betts had somehow incorporated cancer into his body, and possessed unimaginable regenerative powers – perhaps the next step in Man’s evolution. A fingerprint search reveals that Betts’ real name is Albert Tanner. The agents interview his mother, Elaine, who claims that Albert died in an automobile accident six years earlier. As Wilkes is transporting another patient, she recognizes Betts’ voice transmitting over the ambulance radio. She locates Betts working as an EMT at another hospital. As the two embrace, Betts sadly pulls out a syringe and injects Michele with a lethal substance. A security guard witnesses the murder and handcuffs Betts to his car. Betts slips out of the cuffs by tearing off his own thumb. When the thumb is found, Mulder guesses he tore it off because he knew he could grow another. When the agents search the trunk of Betts’ car, they discover plastic bags filled with human tumors. Mulder postulates that Betts is ingesting the cancerous tissue in order to survive. They learn that the car is registered to Albert Tanner’s mother. Weak and needing sustenance, Betts attacks and kills a heavy−smoking bearded man after he leaves a bar. Strengthened, Betts is then able to “give birth” to a duplicate of himself. The agents discover a storage locker key at Mrs. Tanner’s home. When they open the door to the locker, they find the smoking man’s body, its left lung missing. Suddenly from within the locker, a car roars to life, and Betts attempts to run down Mulder and Scully. The agents dive for cover and open fire. The car bursts into flames, incinerating Betts. Though Mulder is convinced that something else is going on, Scully reminds her partner that Betts is quite dead and his not coming back to life, and the case is over. Nonetheless, Mulder exhumes the body of the man Mrs. Tanner claimed was killed in the automobile accident. Inside the casket is a corpse identical to Betts. Mulder concludes that the fiery crash was a ruse – and the real Leonard Betts is still alive. The agents stakeout Mrs. Tanner’s home waiting for Betts to return. When an ambulance arrives at the scene, Mulder and Scully race inside. They find Mrs. Tanner, still clinging to life, with a fresh surgical incision on her chest. Mulder searches the neighborhood while Scully accompanies Tanner to the hospital, but when the ambulance pulls into the hospital parking lot, she realizes Betts hitched a ride by hiding on the vehicle’s roof. Betts jumps inside the ambulance and slams the rear doors behind him. Wielding a scalpel, he tells Scully she possesses “something I need.” A scuffle ensues, and Scully kills Betts using defibrillation pads. Later that night, as

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Never Again Production Code: #4X13 Original Air Date: 02/02/97 Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Rob Bowman WHILE MULDER IS VACATIONING, SCULLY FINDS HERSELF ATTRACTED TO A HANDSOME DIVORCEE WHOSE BETTY PAGE−LIKE TATTOO SEEMINGLY HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN.

Ed Jerse, a handsome Philadelphia resident, is devastated as a judge decrees the harsh terms of his divorce settlement. After downing too many drinks at a neighborhood bar, Ed enters a tattoo parlor and selects a Betty Page−like design (on which is printed the words, “Never Again.”) The next day, while at work, Ed hears a female voice refer to him as a “loser.” Angered, Ed picks a fight with some women close to his cubicle, but they don’t understand his anger. His boss sends him home for the day. Meanwhile, Mulder tells Scully he must take time off for vacation or face losing several weeks’ pay. Tension erupts between the pair when Mulder tells his partner what cases need her attention during his absence. Scully refuses to waste her time on a dubious case involving a Russian living in Philadelphia whom Mulder believes possesses valuable information on UFOs. Scully tells Mulder she feels as though she has lost sight of herself – as if her own life does nothing but stand still. Now in his shabby apartment, Ed hears the female voice taunting him again, mocking him. Not realizing where the voice is coming from, he thinks it’s his downstairs neighbor. The voice eventually drives Ed to the point of madness. In a rage, Ed bursts into the woman’s apartment and attacks her. Later, he drags the body into the basement and stuffs it inside an incinerator. Despite her reservations, Scully decides to keep tabs on Mulder’s Russian. She quickly realizes the man is an extortionist and his activities have nothing to do with the X−Files. Scully follows the Russian into a nearby tattoo parlor, where she strikes up a conversation with Ed (who is in the process of begging the tattoo artist to cover his handiwork). They strike up a conversation and an undeniable chemistry develops between the pair. Ed hands Scully his business card, and suggests they have dinner. She politely declines, but takes his card anyway. After a tense phone conversation with Mulder about the Russian, Scully sets up a date with Ed. Scully tells Ed how her whole life, she’s followed

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some type of father figure around, until she has to rebel. Ed observes that it looks like she’s ready to rebel again. After consuming a few drinks, Scully and Ed return to the tattoo parlor, where Scully has the image of a snake eating its own tail tattooed on her back. The pair returns to Ed’s apartment. Noting the bad weather, Ed suggests Scully spend the night. Scully notices blood dripping from Ed’s tattoo and, doctor−like, helps him pull off his shirt. A moment of intimacy develops, but before Ed can act upon his feelings, the Betty tattoo cries out: “Kiss her… and she’s dead.” The next morning, Ed awakens on the couch. He leaves Scully a note that he is going to get breakfast. While Ed is away, detectives roust Scully from her sleep. They reveal that a resident downstairs was reported missing, and that a blood type different from hers was found inside the apartment. The detectives tell Scully that the blood contains chemical abnormalities. Seeing the chemical breakdown, Scully realizes it is composed of the same odd ingredients the Russian tattoo artist used to make the ink he used in their tattoos. When Ed returns with breakfast, Scully tells him about the detectives’ visit. She also reveals that the chemical found in the blood is an ergot alkaloid that can produce dangerous hallucinations. Ed confides in Scully about hearing Betty’s voice in his head, taunting him, controlling him – but now that Scully is here, the voice has gone away. Now afraid for herself, Scully prepares to take them both to the hospital. But when Ed learns Scully is an FBI agent, he snaps. He attacks her and Scully is knocked unconscious. As Betty’s voice urges him on, Ed drags Scully’s body into the basement, intending to stuff it inside the incinerator. Scully regains consciousness and tells Ed to “take control.” Suddenly, Ed gathers the strength to thrust his arm inside the incinerator, burning off the tattoo. He is transported to a burn center for treatment. When Mulder returns from vacation, the air between him and Scully remains tense. Scully reminds her partner that not everything revolves around him – and that she intends to live her own life.

Memento Mori Production Code: #4X15 Original Air Date: 02/09/97 Written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban and Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman WHEN SCULLY IS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER, MULDER HUNTS FOR RESEARCH FILES PERTAINING TO A GROUP OF FEMALE ABDUCTEES WHO ALSO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE.

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Scully shows Mulder an MRI x−ray indicating a cancerous mass has been detected on the wall between her sinus and cerebrum. The tumor is inoperable and if it grows, the chance for survival is slim. Instead of requesting a leave of absence, Scully opts to follow another avenue of investigation: contacting a group of purported female abductees who experienced similar symptoms after having implants removed from the base of their necks. The agents travel to the home of Betsy Hagopian in Allentown, Pennsylvania where Scully had met these women before. A realtor informs them that Hagopian (one of the female abductees) passed away two weeks earlier. While searching through Hagopian’s house, the agents realize someone is downloading computer files via phone modem. The call is traced, and the agents apprehend Kurt Crawford, the man who downloaded the files. Crawford explains that he and Hagopian were both members of the same UFO network and downloaded Hagopian’s files because the government is out to destroy them. Crawford also reveals that all of the women who claimed they were abducted by aliens died of similar tumors, with the exception of Penny Northern, who is now hospitalized and near death from cancer. Scully visits Northern at the hospital, who reveals that Dr. Scanlon, who has been treating her cancer, may have isolated the cause. Seeing her future self in Penny’s condition, Scully checks herself in and Dr. Scanlon begins treating her cancer. Meanwhile, Mulder and Crawford search through hard files in Hagopian’s basement. They discover that all of the woman abductees, including Northern, were treated at the same fertility clinic in Pennsylvania. When Scully asks Mulder to bring her overnight bag to the hospital, Mulder leaves Crawford in the basement to attend to Scully. Later that evening, the Gray−Haired Man (the same man who killed X) shows up and kills Crawford, whose body melts into a pool of green liquid. Meanwhile, Mulder breaks into a federally− subsidized fertility clinic where all the female UFO network members were patients. Inside, he discovers Kurt Crawford (Mulder is unaware of the other Crawford’s death). They access a computer terminal and download a directory containing Scully’s name. Near the breaking point, Mulder demands that Skinner arrange a meeting with the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). But Skinner refuses, insisting CSM deals only in lies. Nonetheless, Skinner secretly enlists CSM’s help. Mulder turns to the Lone Gunmen, who tell him that the fertility clinic’s mainframe is housed in a high−security federal research facility. The foursome infiltrate the research facility, and once inside, Mulder realizes Dr. Scanlon is on staff. He instructs Byers to find Scully and stop her treatment immediately. As he continues through the building’s

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corridors, Mulder encounters additional Crawfords and realizes Kurt is a clone. He finds several of them dressed as doctors inside an incubator room housing tanks containing human forms, including those of Samantha. One of the Kurts shows Mulder a cold storage room containing vials of human ova – including a vial with Scully’s name on it. The eggs were harvested from women during their abduction, which were later used for reproduction. Mulder realizes the women are the Kurts’ birth mothers and the clones are actually working to save their mothers’ lives. The Gray−Haired Man arrives at the clinic and traps Mulder between two security doors in a quarantine wing. The Gray−Haired Man opens fire, slowly cracking the bullet proof glass that stands between himself and his prey. Working feverishly, Frohike breaks a computer code from a remote location, allowing Mulder to open the outside door and run to safety. When Mulder returns to the hospital, he finds Scully at Penny’s bedside. Byers arrived in time to stop Scully’s treatment, but Penny Northern had died and Dr. Scanlon was gone. Scully tells her partner she has decided to fight the disease and continue her work.

Kaddish Production Code: #4X12 Original Air Date: 02/16/97 Written by Howard Gordon Directed by Kim Manners MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A GOLEM, A MAN−MADE MONSTER DESCRIBED IN JEWISH FOLKLORE, MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL HATE− MONGERS WHO MURDERED A JEWISH MAN.

Mourners gather at a cemetery in Brooklyn to pay their last respects to Isaac Luria, a Hasidic man brutally murdered by three teenaged hate−mongers. Among the group is Ariel Luria, and her father, Jacob Weiss. When night falls, a shadowy figure enters the cemetery and shapes a man−sized sculpture out of mud. Mulder and Scully investigate Isaac Luria’s death. Isaac, who lived in a neighborhood with a history of racial tension, was severely beaten inside his market. Police ruled out robbery as a motive as nothing was stolen. They later retrieved a store surveillance tape from the VCR of a sixteen−year− old named Tony Oliver, one of the teenagers who participated in the killing. Oliver was strangled by an unknown assailant. Most intriguing to Mulder is the discovery of Isaac Luria’s finger prints on Oliver’s body. Weiss shows them an anti−Semitic pamphlet left at his door that very morning. Mulder tells his partner that whoever printed the pamphlets

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probably knows who killed Isaac. The agents interview Curt Brunjes, who owns a copy shop across the street from Isaac’s market. When the agents show Brunjes photos of Banks and Macguire, (the teenagers suspected of beating Isaac), he claims their faces are unfamiliar. Unbeknownst to the agents, Banks listens in on the conversation via a security surveillance camera. Scully tells Brunjes there are rumors that Isaac has risen from the grave to avenge his murder. Spooked, Banks and Macguire dig up Isaac’s coffin. As Macguire walks to the car to retrieve some tools, Banks pries open the coffin lid and discovers Isaac’s body inside. Later, Banks finds Macguire’s body protruding from a mound of mud. The agents are called to the crime scene. Mulder locates a slender leather book tucked beneath Isaac’s burial shroud. But when he touches the old book, it suddenly bursts into flames. The agents turn to Kenneth Ungar, a scholar from the judaic archives. Ungar explains that what Mulder found was a book on Jewish mysticism. He insists it would never have been buried with the dead. Ungar notes a name engraved into the leather: Jacob Weiss. Ariel tells the agents that although she and her husband received their wedding license weeks before the murder, the marriage ceremony never transpired. The agents locate Weiss in the attic of a synagogue. They also discover Banks’ dead body hanging from a wooden beam. Weiss is arrested and charged with murder. He admits to both of the murders, but Mulder believes someone – or something – was in the attic with him. Unger tells Mulder about the Golem, a creature from mystical text. He explains how early Kabbalists believed a righteous man could create a living being from the earth itself. A single Hebrew word, “emet,” is inscribed on the back of the Golem’s hand. To destroy the Golem, Unger explains, the first letter, “e,” must be erased. Brunjes is found murdered. When the agents examine the surveillance camera tape. they discover that the Golem whose physical features match those of Isaac Luria is responsible for the murder. Weiss returns to the synagogue after he is released from jail. There he discovers Ariel preparing for her wedding ceremony. When Weiss attempts to stop his daughter, the Golem attacks him. The agents rescue Weiss and, as Scully attends to his injuries, Mulder searches for Ariel. The Golem attacks Mulder, knocking him aside as he attempts to fend off the being. But Ariel intercedes. When the wedding continues, the Golem places a ring on Ariel’s finger. Ariel expresses her love for Isaac, then wipes the letter “e” off the Golems’ hand. The creature crumbles into dust.

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Unrequited Production Code: #4X16 Original Air Date: 02/23/97 Written by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter Directed by Michael Lange A SEEMINGLY INVISIBLE VIETNAM VET BEGINS KILLING THE MILITARY’S TOP BRASS.

A crowd gathers at the U.S. Capitol Mall, near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. As the re−dedication ceremony begins, General Benjamin Bloch steps up to a podium and delivers his speech. A short distance away, Mulder, Scully and other FBI agents feverishly hunt down an armed man making his way through the crowd. When Mulder attempts to focus on the suspect, he seemingly vanishes. As the story unfolds in flashback, Lieutenant General Peter MacDougal is gunned down at close range in the back seat of a limousine, a Death Card at his side. Though the murder weapon is never located, the General’s driver, who has ties to a radical paramilitary group called the Right Hand, is held on suspicion of murder. But the driver, who maintains his innocence, passes a polygraph test, and lab tests reveal he did not fire a weapon. With dozens of high−ranking military officials arriving in Washington for the re−dedication ceremony, Skinner assigns his agents to investigate the Right Hand movement, and its leader, an ex−Marine named Denny Markham. Markham gives the FBI a photograph of a man named Nathaniel Teager, a Green Beret captured by the enemy in 1971. Markham’s group liberated Teager from a POW camp in 1995. When U.S. government commandos attempted to kidnap Teager, he suddenly disappeared. Scully suspects Markham’s story is a cover−up for an elaborately orchestrated conspiracy plan. Meanwhile, Teager approaches a woman, Renee Davenport, as she views the Memorial. He informs Davenport her husband is still alive and gives her his dog tags as proof. Suddenly, Teager disappears. Davenport positively identifies Teager as the man she saw at the memorial. Scully takes Davenport to an ophthalmologist when her eye hemorrhages. She is diagnosed with a floating blind spot – but the cause is undetermined. Mulder learns that MacDougal was one of the original military officials who signed Teager’s death certificate (even though forensic evidence was inconclusive). Mulder assigns two FBI agents to guard General Steffan, one of MacDougal’s counterparts (who also signed the certificate). But Teager slips by the agents and murders Steffan. A security camera captured Teager’s image passing through a metal detector at the Pentagon. Skinner is outraged. Mulder tells Skinner that Teager has the ability to hide himself from a person’s field

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of vision. He notes that, during the war, U.S. soldiers reported that Viet Cong guerrillas had the ability to appear and disappear at will. He speculates that Teager learned this trick during his 25 years in the POW camp. Mulder believes the only way to stop Teager is to find his next victim. Marita Covarrubias tells Mulder that MacDougal, Steffan and a third general headed a secret three−man commission that covertly disposed of South Vietnamese soldiers who cooperated with the U.S. government during the war. Covarrubias reveals that testimony from the generals could have been used in the calculation of reparations. Mulder realizes the government wanted the generals dead all along. Covarrubias gives him the name of the third general: Bloch. Bloch is rushed from the podium at the re− dedication after the agents spot Teager in the crowd. Skinner escorts Bloch toward an awaiting limo. Mulder, however, realizes Teager is hiding inside. Skinner tackles Bloch moments before gunshots flash from inside the limo. Teager puts the limo in gear and attempts to make a getaway. Agent Hill opens fire, killing him.

Tempus Fugit (1 of 2) Production Code: #4X17 Original Air Date: 03/16/97 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE APPARENT DOWNING OF A COMMERCIAL JETLINER BY A UFO.

At the Headless Woman’s Pub, waiters singing “Happy Birthday” approach Mulder and Scully’s table. Scully is surprised that her partner remembered the occasion. Before the celebration continues, the agents are approached by Sharon Graffia, who identifies herself as the sister of Max Fenig (the alien abductee seen in “Fallen Angel” #1X09). Fenig was killed in an airplane crash in Upstate New York two hours earlier. It was Fenig’s wish that the agents be sought out should any harm befall him. The agents attend a Go−Team meeting assembled by the National Transportation Safety Board. Mike Millar, the man in charge of the operation, plays a tape recording of the last radio exchange between Flight 549 and air traffic control in Albany. During the recording, the pilot makes reference to an “intercept.” Mulder believes is an indication the airliner was forced out of the sky. But his comments before the group are met with great skepticism. The agents comb the crash site for possible clues. Mulder realizes there is a nine minute discrepancy between the official time of the crash and the time indicated on passengers’ wrist

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watches. In the distance, an investigator named Garrett sprays an acid−like substance on one of the bodies, dissolving the victim’s fingertips and face. A few moments later, other Go−Team members pull a survivor, Larold Rebhun, from the wreckage. Scully concludes he was exposed to extreme radiation. Mulder tells Scully that he believes Fenig was abducted from the aircraft by being sucked out of the emergency exit door. However, Go−Team members find Fenig’s body amongst the debris field. The agents interview Louis Frish, who, along with Armando Gonzales, manned the Air Force Reserve air control tower on the night of the crash. Louis claims there was no radio contact between the Air Force and the civilian plane. Later, Louis finds Gonzales’ dead body inside the control tower. Several government men storm the tower. Louis avoids capture by hiding on the roof. Later, Sharon Graffia disappears from her motel room. Mulder concludes she was abducted by a UFO. Louis Frish tells Mulder, Scully, and Millar that he – not an air traffic controller in Albany – was the last person to communicate with Flight 549. Louis explains that his commanding officer ordered him (along with Gonzales) to lie to investigators. The men saw an unidentified radar blip enter Flight 549’s airspace. Moments later, there was an explosion. Mulder speculates that a third, unidentified aircraft shot down the intercept craft – but is at a loss to explain the absence of a second crash site. As the agents drive Louis away from the Go−Team’s headquarters, two automobiles give chase. In an attempt to outmaneuver his pursuers, Mulder drives onto a runway. An airliner lands on the strip, narrowly missing Mulder’s car. The two chase cars break off their pursuit. Later, Mike Millar encounters a UFO hovering above the crash site. He finds Sharon Graffia nearby. Scully and Louis await a Federal Marshal at the Headless Woman’s Pub. Garrett enters with a gun. Scully draws her weapon and a shoot−out ensues. Agent Pendrell, who happened to be frequenting the bar, is shot in the chest. Scully manages to shoot Garrett in the leg. After examining a map, Mulder concludes that the second craft crashed into Great Sacandaga Lake. He scuba dives into the murky water, where he encounters twisted wreckage – and the body of a gray alien. Suddenly, a bright beam of light emanates from the surface. Mulder shields his eyes from the impossibly intense light.

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As seen in the previous episode, Mulder, clad in scuba gear, inspects (what appears to be) the wreckage of a UFO deep beneath the murky waters of Great Sacandaga Lake in Upstate New York. A bright beam of light penetrates the darkness, illuminating the agent. The light’s source is revealed to be a team of frogmen, accompanied by an amphibious craft equipped with large searchlights. Mulder attempts to make an escape, but he is placed under military arrest. A wounded Garrett escapes from the Headless Woman Pub. Scully immediately turns her attention to Agent Pendrell, who was caught in the crossfire. Paramedics are called to the scene and Pendrell is transported to a nearby hospital. Skinner tells Scully that Louis Frish is being placed under military arrest (for suspicion of murder and providing false testimony to a federal investigation). Mulder is released from jail. The Air Force asserts that Flight 549 collided with a military fighter jet when Frish and his tower co−controller made an error in judgment. Based on the wreckage he saw beneath Lake Sacandaga, Mulder believes Flight 549 collided with a UFO (after it was shot down by a military jet). Scully tells Mulder that Agent Pendrell died of his injuries. Mulder conveys his sympathies. Records reveal that Sharon Graffia is not Max Fenig’s sister, but an unemployed aeronautical engineer who spent time in mental institutions (where she met Fenig). The agents search Fenig’s mobile home. They discover a videotape in which Fenig states that the military salvaged alien technology for use in their own technological applications. He claims to have undeniable, irrefutable proof to back up his assertion. Mulder describes for Mike Millar the sequence of events that (he believes) led to the downing of Flight 549. According to Mulder, Max boarded the plane carrying physical proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Someone followed him aboard the craft, intending to obtain the object at any cost. But before the assassin could carry out his plot, Flight 549 was intercepted by a UFO. As the UFO began to abduct Fenig, flight controllers ordered a military jet into 549’s airspace on a mission to destroy the alien craft. When the Air Force shot down the UFO, the airliner, caught in its “tractor beam,” spun out of control and crashed. The manager of the trailer park where Fenig lived gives Mulder Fenig’s undelivered mail. One envelope contains a luggage claim ticket bearing a three−letter designation for Syracuse. Meanwhile, Scully meets with Sharon Graffia at a mental health center. She admits she stole an object from her

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employer after Max insisted it could prove the existence of alien life. The object was divided into three parts. Max and Sharon each took a segment, but they were later confiscated. Mulder finds the third piece inside Fenig’s luggage at the Syracuse airport. He boards a flight for Washington, but is followed by Garrett (Agent Pendrell’s killer). Mulder gets the jump on Garrett and confines him to a bathroom aboard the plane. He telephones Scully and instructs her to meet him at Dulles airport. Suddenly, Mulder’s wrist watch stops running. A UFO intercepts the aircraft and, during the commotion, Garrett escapes from the lavatory. He grabs a knapsack containing the third stolen alien segment. As a bright light from the UFO engulfs the plane, Mulder instructs Garrett to drop the bag. But Garrett refuses to do so. When the plane lands at Dulles airport, Garrett is not on board. Mulder tells Skinner that Garrett “caught a connecting flight.”

Synchrony Production Code: #4X19 Original Air Date: 04/13/97 Written by Howard Gordon and David Greenwalt Directed by Jim Charleston THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN AN ELDERLY MAN USES A TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE TO COMMIT MURDER.

Jason Nichols and Lucas Menand, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, become embroiled in an argument as they walk down a city street. They are approached by an elderly man, who warns Menand that he will be run over by a bus at exactly eleven forty−six that evening. Menand tells a campus security cop that the old man is harassing him. The guard places him in the back seat of a sedan and drives away. A few moments later, Menand is run down by the bus… at exactly eleven forty−six. Mulder and Scully review the facts of the case. Nichols was taken into custody after the bus driver told police that he pushed Menand into the path of his vehicle. But Nichols tells authorities he was attempting to save Menand – as an unidentified old man had forewarned of his colleague’s impending death. The security guard who arrested the old man is found frozen to death. Scully concludes guard was somehow exposed to some sort of chemical refrigerant, as weather conditions are too warm to explain the corpse’s frigid internal temperature. Mulder interviews Nichols at the police station. Nichols explains that he and Menand had been arguing because Menand threatened to go public with a claim that he had falsified data on a research paper.

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A short time later, the elderly man kills Dr. Yonechi, a Japanese researcher, by pricking him with a metallic stylus. Mulder and Scully examine Yonechi’s frozen corpse. Lab tests reveal that the doctor was injected with an unidentifiable chemical compound. The agents approach Nichol’s girlfriend, Lisa Ianelli, who is also a researcher. She recognizes the chemical compound as a rapid freezing agent that Nichols had been engineering for years. But she points out that the chemical has not yet been invented. Lisa tells the agents that if Yonechi was injected with the chemical, he may not be dead. With Lisa’s help, Scully and a team of medical personnel successfully resuscitate Yonechi. But his body temperature suddenly and rapidly begins to increase, until finally, he bursts into flames. Lisa realizes she made an error when she recommended that doctors remove Yonechi’s body from a tub filled with yellowish fluid. Lisa confesses that it was she who falsified the data to get the research grant (Nichols is in jail because he is covering for her). Those who would have figured out the truth – Menand and Yonechi – are now dead. Police receive a tip that the elderly man is living at a nearby hotel. Inside the elderly man’s room, the agents discover a faded color photograph picturing Nichols, Yonechi and Lisa toasting champagne glasses inside the cryology lab. Mulder realizes the photo was taken five years in the future – on the day the researchers successfully synthesized the freezing compound. The elderly man is attempting to alter that future: when he failed to save Menand from being killed by the bus, he killed Yonechi. Mulder also realizes the elderly man is none other than Jason Nichols. Lisa locates the elderly man and confronts him. The elderly man gathers the courage to inject her with the chemical. But Scully successfully resuscitates Lisa, and remembering the girl’s words, immediately returns her body to the tub (to prevent the fire that killed Yonechi). Nichols confronts his elderly self in the computer mainframe room at the cryogenic lab, where the old man has erased all of Nichols’ files from the computer. Nichols lunges at the old man, choking him. Mulder, unable to open the lab door, yells to Nichols. He tells him that Lisa is alive. The old man tells Nichols that “it’s better that we never were.” Wrapping his arms around his younger self, the old man bursts into flames. The fire consumes them both. Later, Lisa sets to work at cryonics lab, attempting to reconstruct the chemical compound.

Small Potatoes Production Code: #4X20 Original Air Date: 04/20/97 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Clifford Bole

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Doctors in Martinsburg, West Virginia, attend to a woman, Amanda Nelligan, as she goes into labor. When a nurse asks about the baby’s father, Amanda tells her that the child’s father is from another planet. When the baby is delivered, those in attendance gasp in horror when they see that the crying newborn has a four−inch tail. Word of the strange birth is spread by newspaper tabloids, and Mulder and Scully travel to Martinsburg to investigate. During the drive, Mulder notes that five babies were born with vestigial tails over the course of three months – all within a city of less than 15,000 people. Scully hypothesizes that the abnormalities may be attributable to ground water contamination or prescription drug interaction. At the hospital, Amanda, a Star Wars fan, tells the agents the baby’s father is Luke Skywalker. She recounts the tale of how Luke Skywalker came to her home and romanced her. With the assistance of a Health Department doctor, Scully determines that each of the five children born with tails share the same father. Mulder notes that all five women also shared the same fertility specialist, Dr. Alton Pugh. When the agents arrive at Pugh’s office, they discover several angry couples confronting the doctor about the births. As Mulder looks around the doctor’s office, he encounters a janitor, Eddie Van Blundht, fixing a leaky sink inside an exam room and notices above his sagging pants a feint, roughly triangular scar at the base of the man’s spine. Eddie tries to run, but is quickly apprehended and taken into custody. All of the women present swear that the only person they have had sex with has been their husbands. Later, a paternity test reveals that Eddie is the father of all five children. Scully hypothesizes that he may have used the tranquilizer Rohypnol to incapacitate his victims. Eddie, a homely man, responds defensively at the inference that the only reason a woman would have sex with him is if she was coerced. While a sheriff’s deputy is filling out his arrest record, Eddie suddenly changes form, metamorphosing into an exact duplicate of the deputy. Eddie strikes the astonished deputy on the head and makes his getaway. After questioning the deputy, Mulder concludes that Eddie impregnated four of the five women by making himself look like their husbands. The fifth woman, Amanda, was tricked into believing she was making love to Luke Skywalker. The agents travel to the Van Blundht residence, where they meet Edward Sr. He claims he once performed as “Eddie the Monkey Man” and still has his tail intact. As they talk to him they realize the old man is, in fact, Eddie Jr. in a different form. Eddie suddenly runs out of the house and disappears into the neighborhood. After searching the house

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they discover the mummified body of the real Edward Sr. inside the attic. Scully’s autopsy reveals an anomalous muscular structure beneath the surface of the corpse’s skin. Essentially the man’s skin was also a muscle. Mulder speculates that if Eddie inherited this same trait, it would explain his ability to change form. Meanwhile, Eddie metamorphoses once again – this time into a duplicate Mulder. The real Mulder tracks him to a locker room at the hospital where Amanda Nelligan is staying. Suddenly, Eddie bursts through the ceiling, knocking him to the ground. He ties up the real Mulder and locks him inside the hospital’s boiler room. Pretending to be Mulder, Eddie returns to Washington with Scully, files a report with Assistant Director Skinner and closes the case. Later, the fake Mulder shows up at Scully’s apartment with a bottle of wine. After spending the evening having relaxing conversation and relating in a personal rather than professional manner, Scully tells the fake Mulder, “I really feel like I’m seeing a different side of you tonight.” The fake Mulder leans in close, and prepares to give her a kiss. Just as their lips are about to meet, the real Mulder kicks in the front door and interrupts them. Eddie slumps back on the couch, thwarted, and transforms back to his normal appearance and is taken into custody.

Zero Sum Production Code: #4X21 Original Air Date: 04/27/97 Written by Howard Gordon and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners SKINNER IS FRAMED FOR MURDER AFTER HE COVERS−UP THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS ATTACKED BY A SWARM OF BEES.

Jane Brody, a mail sorter at an overnight delivery company, sneaks into the female employee’s rest room to smoke a cigarette. Without warning, hundreds of bees creep into the stall where Jane is sitting. When the young woman attempts to swat the insects so she can escape, the bees swarm and attack, stinging her to death. An e−mail file containing photographs of the victim is sent to Mulder, but Skinner intercepts and deletes the file. Skinner then covertly erases evidence of the bee attack, and incinerates Jane Brody’s body. Identifying himself as Fox Mulder, Skinner visits a police forensics lab in Virginia where he switches a vial containing Brody’s blood with another identical container. As he is leaving, Skinner is approached by Detective Ray Thomas, the man who e−mailed Mulder photographs of Brody’s body. Skinner tells the disappointed Thomas (who thinks he is talking to Fox Mulder) that the evidence

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does not warrant his further involvement in the case. Mulder pays Skinner an unexpected visit. He states that someone has gone to great lengths to keep news of the bee attack from reaching him. He also reveals that Detective Thomas was found dead, the victim of an execution−style shooting. With Scully undergoing tests at a hospital for the treatment of her cancer, Mulder asks Skinner for his help in solving the mystery. Later that night, Skinner is approached by the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). Skinner accuses him of murdering Detective Thomas. CSM counters that Skinner “failed to neutralize a potentially compromising situation.” Mulder discovers that someone stole Brody’s body from a morgue and switched her blood sample at the police station. He also discovers that Thomas was murdered by someone using a government issue gun. Shortly thereafter, Skinner realizes his own weapon is missing. Skinner revisits the women’s rest room where Brody was killed. He discovers part of a massive honeycomb inside the rest room wall, and brings a piece of the honeycomb to entomologist Peter Valdespino for analysis. Mulder discovers that a bank surveillance camera captured a blurry image of someone talking to Detective Thomas shortly before he was murdered. He hopes the Bureau’s Photo Unit can produce a clearer image of the man who he suspects is Thomas’ killer. Using larvae taken from the honeycomb, Valdespino hatches more bees to identify the species. The insects unexpectedly swarm the entomologist, killing him. Mulder later discovers that Valdespino died from smallpox. He hypothesizes that someone has engineered a method of spreading the contagion using the insects. Skinner questions Brody’s co−worker, Misty Nagata. She reveals that a damaged overnight package was confiscated by other investigators working on the case. Students at an elementary school in South Carolina are attacked by a swarm of bees. Skinner tells doctors at a hospital emergency room that the children should be treated not for bee stings, but for smallpox. Working from surveillance camera footage, the FBI photo unit produces a clear image of Skinner talking to Thomas shortly before his death. Outraged, Mulder accuses Skinner of working in conjunction with CSM from the very beginning. But Skinner insists he was framed. Skinner again confronts CSM, firing several shots in anger. Afterward, CSM instructs Marita Covarrubias, in the company of Syndicate members, to tell Mulder whatever he wants to hear.

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Original Air Date: 05/04/97 Written by John Shiban Directed by Jim Charleston THE AGENTS SUSPECT A MENTALLY−DISTURBED MAN IS CONNECTED TO THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL GIRLS WHOSE SPIRITS ATTEMPTED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE LIVING.

Angie Pintero, the working−class owner of a bowling alley, tells one of his employees, a mentally−disturbed, compulsive man named Harold Spuller, to go home for the evening. Shortly thereafter, Angie discovers a badly−injured blond girl wedged inside a pinspotter carriage. The girl attempts to speak, but no words come out of her mouth. Angie notices police in a nearby parking lot and rushes outside to get help. He realizes a crowd has gathered around the dead body of the same girl he saw only moments earlier in the bowling alley. Angie relates his bizarre tale to Mulder and Scully. Mulder suspects that Angie encountered the dead girl’s ghost, a spirit that was attempting to communicate with the living for reasons unknown. Three similar encounters, and three similar murders, were reported in the area in as many weeks. The agents discover the words, “She is me” written on the bowling lane where Angie saw the spirit. But its meaning remains a mystery. Detective Hudak tells Mulder and Scully that an anonymous caller phoned 911 with a message regarding Penny Timmons, one of the killer’s victims. The caller claimed that Timmons’ last words were “She is me.” But Hudak notes the victim’s larynx was severed, making it impossible for her to utter dying words. The agents trace the source of the 911 call to a payphone at the New Horizon Psychiatric Center. Mulder notices one of the patients, Harold Spuller, avoiding his gaze. After viewing photographs of the murder victims, Scully comes to the conclusion that Spuller fits the killer’s profile: a compulsive person consumed with the desire to organize, clean and reorder. Scully uses a rest room to attend to a nose bleed. There she encounters the spirit of another blond girl. Moments later, Mulder relays word that the body of yet another victim was found nearby. Mulder discovers Harold holed−up in a dimly−lit room accessible from the bowling alley. The walls of the room are covered with score sheets, including those of the victims. Mulder realizes that Harold met each of the murdered women at the bowling alley. Suddenly, Harold lapses into a strange seizure. From his point of view, he sees Angie’s ghost standing behind Mulder. He rushes out of the room and makes his way to the bowling alley, where Angie lies dead, the victim of a heart attack. Mulder tells Scully that every person who saw the apparitions was about to die, implying that

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Harold may be next. Scully, who also saw a victim’s ghost, is struck by the implication. Harold is transported back to the psychiatric center. There, he is tormented by Nurse Innes, who ridicules his intellect and physique. Later, Mulder finds Innes lying on the floor, half−conscious. Innes claims Harold went berserk and attacked her. One of the other patients, Chuck Forsch, tells Scully that Nurse Innes was trying to poison Harold. Scully slowly realizes that Innes, not Harold, was responsible for the murders. When Innes attacks Scully with a scalpel, Scully draws her weapon and fires, striking her in the shoulder. Afterward, Scully tells Mulder that Innes has been ingesting Harold’s medication, triggering violent and unpredictable behavior. She hypothesizes that Innes was out to destroy the love Harold felt towards the young women. Later, Harold’s body is discovered in a nearby alley, the apparent victim of respiratory failure. But Scully suspects Harold died from what Innes took away from him. Scully admits to Mulder that she saw the ghost of the fourth victim shortly after she was murdered. Later, Scully sees Harold’s spirit sitting in the back seat of her car.

Demons Production Code: #4X23 Original Air Date: 05/11/97 Written by R.W. Goodwin Directed by Kim Manners MULDER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN AN APPARENT DOUBLE HOMICIDE.

Mulder experiences a dreamlike vision, apparently a memory from childhood, in which he sees his mother and father reacting as if some terrible tragedy has entered their home. Mulder awakens in a motel room, sweating profusely, his hands and shirt stained with blood. He telephones Scully, who drives to the motel to offer assistance. Suffering from a mental blackout, Mulder cannot recall how he got to the motel. Scully discovers that two rounds were fired from his gun. She also traces a car parked outside Mulder’s room to a David and Amy Cassandra. The agents travel to the Cassandra residence, where they speak with a house−keeper. Inside the home are dozens of paintings of a white clapboard house. Mulder realizes he was inside the home, but cannot remember why. The housekeeper gives the agents the address of the home depicted in the painting. As Mulder approaches the dwelling, he is suddenly struck by a flashback in which he encounters a young Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) inside his parent’s home. When the seizure subsides, the agents walk inside the cottage, where they find the dead bodies of David and Amy Cassandra.

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Blood from both victims is found on Mulder’s shirt. Detective Curtis places Mulder under arrest. But a toxicology report reveals traces of the anesthetic Ketamine in Mulder and Amy Cassandra’s blood. Scully realizes the drug could account for Mulder’s memory loss. A short time later, Michael Fazekas, an admitting officer, steps inside a bathroom at the police station and shoots himself in the head. Scully discovers a small scab on the man’s scalp, similar to one found on Amy’s hairline. Detective Curtis reveals that Fazekas was a believer in UFOs. Inside Fazekas’ apartment, Scully discovers a UFO magazine featuring a photograph of Amy, who believed she was an alien abductee. A forensics report reveals that the blood spatter pattern on Mulder’s shirt does not correspond to the point of entry detail. Curtis concludes the Cassandras died as the result of a murder−suicide. Further research reveals that Amy had been seeing Dr. Charles Goldstein, a psychiatrist, in an effort to recover suppressed memories. Goldstein admits he used unconventional therapy to stimulate electrical impulses in the brain. Mulder suffers another seizure. During the attack, he experiences a vision in which a young CSM pulled Mrs. Mulder close to him, as if to kiss her. Mulder and Scully drive to Mrs. Mulder’s Greenwich home. There, Mulder confronts his mother. He accuses her of lying to him about having been forced to choose Samantha over him. He also accuses her of being unfaithful to his father. Mrs. Mulder angrily denies the allegations. Mulder storms out of the house and drives off. Mulder pulls a gun on Dr. Goldstein and forces him to finish his treatment – to make him relive (what he believes to be) to his past. Goldstein drugs Mulder, then slowly lowers a spinning needle towards his hairline. Police arrive at the scene and place Goldstein under arrest, but Mulder’s whereabouts are unknown. The psychiatrist tells Scully that Mulder left his office “to exorcise his demons.” Scully finds him at the house in Quonochontaug, balled up on the floor, a gun in his hand. Jolted by seizures, Mulder aims his gun at Scully. She attempts to convince him that the powerful hallucinogen injected into his body has affected his mind and that his visions, his apparent memories, cannot be trusted. Mulder fires a shot, but the bullet shatters a wall mirror behind Scully. Breaking down into tears, Mulder lowers the weapon. Scully’s fear changes to sympathy as she comforts her partner.

Gethsemane (1 of 3) Production Code: #4X24 Original Air Date: 05/18/97 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin

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Scully enters Mulder’s apartment, where a group of detectives and forensic technicians are waiting. Detective Rempulski introduces himself, then pulls back a sheet draped over a body lying on the floor. Scully positively identifies the victim. Later, Scully appears before a group of FBI officials led by Section Chief Scott Blevins. During the meeting, Scully recounts how, four years earlier, Blevins assigned her to a project known as the X−Files. She states that the purpose of the current meeting is to report on the illegitimacy of Mulder’s work. In flashback, a pair of anthropologists, Arlinsky and Babcock, are flown by helicopter to a snowbound camp at the base of a mountain. Accompanied by a guide, the pair make their way up the steep terrain. Upon reaching the summit, the men enter a cave where the body of a gray alien is perfectly preserved in ice. A group of guests gather at Mrs. Scully’s house for a dinner party. Amongst the attendees are Dana’s brother, Bill Scully, Jr., and a Catholic Priest, Father McCue. Scully realize McCue was invited by her mother for the purpose of discussing her faith at a time when Scully’s health is at great risk due to her cancer. After dinner, Father McCue and Scully briefly talk about her drifting from the church before their discussion is interrupted by a phone call from Mulder. He has received information about a something that was discovered in Canada. Mulder arranges for Scully to meet he and Arlinsky at the Smithsonian. Arlinsky claims that, based upon ice core samples taken from the scene, the alien body is some two hundred years old. He asks for the agents’ assistance in verifying the alien remains. Mulder and Arlinsky fly to the base camp, which is eerily deserted. Unbeknownst to them, a mysterious assassin armed with a shotgun pistol has murdered the Summiteers. Upon reaching the summit, the men discover the bodies of Babcock and a foreman. Inside the cave is a rectangular hole where the alien body had been entombed. Later, Babcock, injured but alive, tells the pair that he buried the alien body beneath his tent. Meanwhile, Scully and lab scientist Vitagliano examine ice core samples taken from the cave. Later that night, Scully returns to the Bio Lab, where she is assaulted and thrown down a flight of stairs by an unidentified attacker. Agent Hedin matches fingerprints found on the stairwell to a Michael Kritschgau, who works for the Pentagon’s research division. After viewing a personnel file, Scully positively identifies Kritschgau as her attacker. Later, she confronts Kritschgau inside a parking garage and places him under arrest. But Kritschgau warns that if he is taken to jail, the same people who gave Scully cancer will kill him.

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Mulder and Arlinsky transport the alien body to a warehouse where an autopsy can be performed. Scully contacts her partner at the warehouse and arranges a meeting so he can hear Kritschgau’s story firsthand. Soon afterward, the assassin, Ostelhoff, shoots and kills Arlinsky and Babcock at the warehouse. Meanwhile, Kritschgau, who claims to have run the Department of Defense’s agitprop arm, tells the agents that the government has been orchestrating an elaborate hoax to divert attention away from itself. The alien corpse, Kritschgau claims, was forged from bio−materials and frozen into place over the course of a year. He insists Mulder was only meant to see the alien – to make him believe the lie. Mulder counters that it is Kritschgau who is the liar. But when Mulder returns to the warehouse, he discovers the dead bodies of Arlinsky and Babcock – and the alien specimen missing. Shortly thereafter, Scully tells him the men behind the hoax gave her cancer all in an effort to make him a believer in their lies. Mulder is stunned by the revelation. Back in the current day, Scully tells FBI officials that she received a phone call from the police department asking her to identify a body inside Mulder’s apartment. Struggling to maintain composure, Scully reveals that Mulder died of an apparent self−inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

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Redux (2 of 3) Production Code: #5X02 Original Air Date: 11/02/97 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners MULDER ACCESSES A SECRET RESEARCH FACILITY THAT MAY HOLD A CURE FOR SCULLY’S ILLNESS. MEANWHILE, SCULLY PERFORMS AN EXPERIMENT IN HOPES OF DETERMINING THE ORIGIN OF THE DISEASE.

In flashback, twenty−four hours before Agent Scully told an FBI assembly that her partner was dead (see previous season’s cliffhanger)… Mulder receives a tip from Kritschgau that their conversations have been monitored. Mulder looks upward – and notices a small pinhole in the ceiling of his apartment. He races upstairs, where he encounters Scott Ostelhoff, in the apartment directly above his own, igniting flash paper. A struggle ensues, during which a shot rings out. Mulder tells Scully he killed Ostelhoff. He also informs her that the flash paper Ostelhoff attempted to destroy contained a record of seventeen phone calls placed to the PBX operator at the Bureau. The agents conclude their own agency is behind the

cover−up… and that they have been pawns in a conspiratorial game since the very beginning. Mulder suggests they create their own lie in hopes of uncovering the truth. Shortly thereafter, Scully travels to Mulder’s apartment and identifies Ostelhoff’s faceless body (the result of the shotgun blast) as that of her partner. Later, during a meeting with Blevins and Skinner, she is instructed to appear before a joint FBI panel. Afterward, Scully traces the phone number listed on Ostelhoff’s flash paper to an FBI branch extension that includes Skinner. This leads Scully to conclude that Skinner may be a mole. Meanwhile, the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) tells the Syndicate he questions reports of Mulder’s demise. Mulder uses Ostelhoff’s identification card to infiltrate DARPA, a secret research facility. There he encounters Kritschgau, who explains that the card will give him access to the entire building. Kritschgau then claims the hoax Mulder has been drawn into dates back to the days just after World War II, a time when generals were desperate to continue fueling the nation’s economy via a military build−up. In 1947, Kritschgau states, the government began using the Roswell incident as a cover story to distract the American public from the truth – and a top secret program involving DNA. He laments he went along with the lie… until his own son was exposed to bioweapons during the Gulf War. Shortly thereafter, Kritschgau is led away by sentries. Mulder manages to escape detection and make his way deeper into the research complex. He discovers a room containing dozens of alien bodies, identical to the one he discovered at the ice cave – giving credence to Kritschgau’s story. Dr. Vitagliano finishes his examination of the ice core samples given to him by Scully. The cells contained within, he concludes, are the beginnings of a new life form. Scully decides to perform a test that will compare the strange organism to her own DNA. Before she does so, she encounters Skinner, who reveals how a pathology report concluded the body found in Mulder’s apartment is not her partner. Later, the DNA test between the samples proves a match. Scully concludes her cancer resulted from being deliberately exposed to the organism. As Mulder continues his journey through the facility, he discovers a warehouse – a “repository for all the alien−related odds and ends that CSM has taken from Mulder over the years.” There he discovers a gigantic index system, which contains cards for Scully, Kritschgau, and a blank card for Kritschgau, Jr. He also discovers a metallic vial – which could contain a cure for Scully’s illness. Scully appears before the FBI panel and announces she will expose the “mechanism of deception” that drew her partner, and herself, into the government’s lies. She then informs the panel that her partner died the previous night of a self−

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Redux II (3 of 3) Production Code: #5X03 Original Air Date: 11/09/97 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners AS MULDER CONTINUES HIS SEARCH FOR A CURE FOR SCULLY’S ILLNESS – AND THE IDENTITY OF A MOLE OPERATING FROM WITHIN THE BUREAU – HE RECEIVES HELP FROM A MOST UNLIKELY SOURCE.

A frantic Mulder enters a hospital in search of Scully, who had suddenly collapsed during the FBI hearing (see previous episode). He finds her unconscious body lying in a bed, her breathing aided by a ventilator. Skinner explains that Scully went into shock and is close to death. When Mulder refuses to cooperate with Skinner, he is escorted to the main FBI building, where he is questioned by Section Chief Scott Blevins and a Senior Agent. But Mulder fails to cooperate with the inquiry and leaves the room. The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) meets with the Elder and fellow Syndicate member Quiet Willy. The Elder chastises CSM for allowing Mulder to escape from the research facility, leaving their project vulnerable to exposure. But CSM counters that Mulder is much more valuable alive, and plots to assure his loyalty. When CSM leaves the meeting, the Elder tells Quiet Willy he can “proceed.” Scully regains consciousness. She tells Mulder that Skinner is the mole operating from within the Bureau. But Mulder counters that Skinner is withholding Ostelhoff’s forensics information, casting doubt on the theory. Their conversation is interrupted by Mrs. Scully and Dana’s brother, Bill Jr. Bill blames Mulder – and his cause – for his sister’s condition. Shortly thereafter, CSM approaches Mulder. He informs him that the metallic vial contains a tiny microchip that will cure Scully’s illness. Later, Bill Jr. voices grave concern about the chip. But Scully tells Dr. Zuckerman she is willing to give it a try. Meanwhile, Kritschgau testifies before the FBI’s investigative panel. He denies knowing the identity of Ostelhoff’s killer, states that his own son died earlier that day, and reveals that part of his remuneration is funded by a Congressional lobbying firm called Roush. In an effort to cement Mulder’s trust, CSM arranges a meeting between Mulder and his sister, Samantha. She reveals that, some time after her

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abduction, she was taken to a hotel room and told that CSM is her father. Mulder tells Samantha that their mother is still alive… and that she was lied to by CSM. Her head spinning with confused emotions, Samantha makes her way back to CSM’s car and disappears into the night. Later, CSM tells Mulder that Kritschgau deceived him with a host of “beautiful lies.” He asks Mulder to quit the Bureau and work for him, but Mulder refuses. While watching a televised Congressional hearing on biotechnology, the Elder notices Skinner lingering in the audience. He instructs a subordinate to “fix” the problem. Blevins informs Mulder that a ballistics test matched the bullet from Ostelhoff’s body to Mulder’s service revolver. Blevins also claims that Skinner has been working inside the Bureau with a secret agenda. Mulder refuses to believe the story… and refuses to finger Skinner as a mole during his testimony before the FBI panel (even though such testimony would exonerate himself from wrongdoing). Mulder takes his place before the FBI panel. Simultaneously, Quiet Willy, rifle in hand, positions himself inside a parking garage opposite CSM’s apartment. Before answering questions regarding his culpability in Ostelhoff’s death, Mulder announces the name of the mole who has acted from within FBI: Section Chief Scott Blevins. At almost the same moment, Quiet Willy opens fire, shooting CSM. Blevins makes his way back to his office. There he encounters the Senior Agent, gun in hand. A shot rings out, and Blevins falls to the ground. The Senior Agent then places the weapon in Blevins’ own hand. Shortly thereafter, Skinner tells Mulder that CSM is dead. Though no body was recovered, the massive loss of blood found inside the apartment leaves no other conclusion. During their conversation, Mulder tells Skinner he guessed as to Blevins’ identity as a mole. Skinner confirms that Blevins had been working for a biotechnology company called Roush for four years. Mulder then informs Skinner that Scully’s cancer has gone into remission.

Unusual Suspects Production Code: #5X01 Original Air Date: 11/16/97 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Kim Manners IN 1989, THE LONE GUNMEN MEET FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME WHEN THEY ASSIST A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO USE CIVILIANS AS GUINEA PIGS IN A SECRET EXPERIMENT.

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place and make an unsuccessful bid for freedom. Byers is questioned by Detective Munch, who explains that despite evidence of a bloody shoot− out, and the involvement of a (now delusional) FBI agent, he has few clues about what actually transpired. Byers recounts the events that led up to the warehouse shoot−out. As the story unfolds, Byers attends a computer show at a convention center. There he meets a strikingly beautiful woman, “Holly,” who claims her psychotic ex−boyfriend kidnapped her daughter. “Holly” gives Byers an Internet address, claiming it is her only hope in locating her child. Byers hacks his way onto government computer, where he types in the name of “Holly’s” daughter, Susanne Modeski. The computer opens an encrypted file. Frohike, who mans a nearby booth, agrees to decipher the document. When “Holly” notices Mulder walking the convention floor, she identifies him as her ex− boyfriend. Frohike and Byers approach Mulder, only to learn he is an FBI Agent. When “Holly” disappears, Frohike and Byers ask Langly to hack onto the FBI mainframe computer, hoping he can find information on Mulder. Langly successfully cracks the mainframe, and learns that “Holly” is actually Susanne Modeski, who is wanted in connection with the bombing of an FBI lab that left four people dead. Modeski locates the threesome inside Byers’ motel room. She claims the information contained in her file is fabricated. She admits the story about her daughter was a lie… one she made up in a desperate attempt to have the encrypted file deciphered. She tells the men that the government is plotting an experiment in which the American public will be exposed to a paranoia−inducing gas – one she unwittingly helped develop. The encrypted file reveals the address of the warehouse where the paranoia−inducing gas is stored. It also reveals that a surveillance device was attached to Modeski’s tooth by her dentist. Using pliers, Modeski extracts a molar containing a tiny transmitter. Byers, Modeski and the others break inside the warehouse. There they discover asthma inhalers containing the gas. Mulder steps forward and announces that everyone is under arrest. Moments later, government officials enter the warehouse and instruct Modeski to follow them. When Mulder orders the men to identify themselves, they open fire, inadvertently striking the asthma inhalers. The liquid rains onto Mulder, triggering a psychotic episode. Modeski shoots the unidentified men and escapes. X steps forward and prepares to kill the threesome execution−style. When X lowers the weapon, Byers realizes he only intended to intimidate them. When Byers’ finishes his story, Munch dismisses it as fiction. Later, the Lone Gunmen are released from jail when Mulder verifies what transpired.

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Afterward, the threesome locate Susanne at a newspaper office. She laments that no one believes her story. Moments later, government men usher Modeski away.

Detour Production Code: #5X04 Original Air Date: 11/23/97 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Brett Dowler THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE WHEN SEVERAL PEOPLE DISAPPEAR IN A REMOTE REGION OF FLORIDA.

In a remote section of North Florida, two surveyors, Michael Sloan and Marty Fox, encounter a strange creature with glowing red eyes. Sloan is suddenly yanked downward, disappearing beneath the dense brush. Shortly thereafter, Marty is also attacked. While hunting for possum, twelve−year−old Louis Asekoff and his father discover Marty’s abandoned surveyor’s transit. Sensing something isn’t quite right, the Father sends Louis home with the dog. As the boy runs home, two shotgun blasts echo through the forest. Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully ride with agents Michael Kinsley and Carla Stonecypher on a highway stretching through rural Florida. Their destination: an FBI creative team seminar, in which participants are required to use their imagination to perform constructive problem solving exercises (a gathering which Mulder views as a waste of time). The agents’ journey comes to a sudden halt when state troopers set up a roadblock on the highway. His spirits lifted by the unexpected diversion, Mulder suddenly exits the vehicle for some detective work. Search and Rescue leader Michele Fazekas tells Mulder that several people are missing, and that a set of tracks found at the scene could not be identified as man nor animal. His interest piqued, Mulder arranges for he and Scully to lodge at a nearby motel… saving himself the torment of attending the teamwork seminar. That night, something sneaks into the Asekoff residence. A terrified Louis tells authorities he was chased by an invisible creature with glowing red eyes. Though the story is dismissed as the product of a young boy’s imagination, Mulder discovers a set of tracks inside the house. Mulder tells Fazekas the creature must be found before it can do more harm. Aided by Jeff Glaser, a “tech head” who possesses an infrared tracking device, Fazekas, Mulder and Scully set out in search of the predator. During the journey, Mulder theorizes that the creature is attacking humans in response to encroaching development. The infrared device detects two creatures in the dense brush, each moving in opposite directions. The group splits up and a chase ensues. Suddenly, Fazekas is yanked downward, and disappears

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beneath the undergrowth. Mulder realizes that the creatures deliberately separated the group into two units, allowing for easier access to the leader (Fazekas). As the threesome embark on a rescue mission, Mulder recounts an X−File from the early 1950s in which a town in West Virginia was terrorized by primitive−looking men with piercing red eyes. The creatures were dubbed “moth men” by local residents. Mulder, Scully and Glaser accidentally stray from the marked trail. Their journey is interrupted when the mysterious creatures make another appearance. Guided by directions from Glaser and the infrared device, Mulder ventures deep into the brush. Suddenly, a creature springs from its hiding place. Mulder opens fire, but the creature disappears from view. Shortly thereafter, Glaser separates from the group and he, too, disappears. While discussing the encounter with Scully, Mulder is suddenly yanked downward. When he resurfaces, like a jack−in−the−box, Scully opens fire, shooting into the bushes nearby. Mulder goes into shock, and Scully does her best to keep him warm as darkness falls. The following morning, as Scully searches for food, she suddenly drops from view. Mulder rushes to her aid‹and realizes she fell into a small cave. Inside the chamber, Scully discovers Fazekas and Louis’ father, barely breathing and strapped to thick poles. When Scully realizes one of the creatures is nearby, Mulder tosses her his gun. A few moments later, when the second creature approaches, he jumps from his vantage point and lands next to Scully in the cave. One of the creatures rushes the agents. Scully opens fire, striking the predator. The agents move forward for a closer look and realize their attacker is a man who lived like an animal. Kinsley and Stonecypher arrive and call for help. Mulder notices the words “Ad Noctum,” or “into darkness,” carved into one of the poles. He points out that Spanish conquistadors carved warnings on posts in the same manner… then notes that Ponce De Leon sought the Fountain of Youth in the area 450 years earlier. He concludes that the predators perceived humans as a threat to their territory, and acted accordingly. Stonecypher notes the creatures would pursue anyone who had entered the woods. Fearing the worst, Mulder suddenly rushes to Scully’s motel room. He finds his partner safe and sound, and the pair leave the area. Staring out from beneath Scully’s bed, however, is a pair of glowing red eyes.

The Post-Modern Prometheus Production Code: #5X06 Original Air Date: 11/30/97 Written and Directed by Chris Carter

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In a rural Indiana neighborhood, Shaineh Berkowitz watches a daytime talk show on television. So entranced is she by the interview, that she fails to notice someone covering the home with termite tenting. A dark figure enters the kitchen and drops a white cake into a skillet, triggering a chemical reaction that produces a gaseous white cloud. Sensing a presence in the house, Shaineh investigates. Suddenly, a horribly disfigured, Frankenstein−like face emerges from the misty darkness. Shaineh gasps in horror. Later, as the agents drive through the Indiana farmland, Scully reads aloud a letter addressed to Mulder. In it, Shaineh describes how, eighteen−years earlier, a presence entered her smoke−filled bedroom as, strangely, the voice of singer Cher filled the air. Three days later she woke up pregnant with her son, Izzy. Shaineh explains that she saw Mulder on the Jerry Springer show, and hopes he will investigate her case. The agents do, indeed, drive to Shaineh’s home. There they discover a comic book bearing the exact likeness of the creature Shaineh claims attacked her. Shaineh explains the monster is called The Great Mutato, a creation of Izzy’s fertile imagination. Izzy claims he, and many others in the community, have seen the creature – which apparently has a penchant for peanut butter sandwiches. Izzy and his friends lead the detectives to a wooded area, and using sandwiches for bait, lure the creature from its hiding place. The group gives chase, but the creature disappears into the darkness. Mulder then encounters an Old Man, who claims the real monster is his own son, renowned scientist Dr. Francis Pollidori. The agents visit Pollidori, who describes his experiments in genetic manipulation. He displays a photo of a fruit fly head… with legs growing out of its mouth. Later, Pollidori bids good− bye his wife, Elizabeth, as he embarks on a trip out of town. Moments later, termite tenting falls past Elizabeth’s window. When the agents stop by a country diner in downtown Bloomington, they are feted with heaping plates of food. It turns out that the entire town believes Jerry Springer will do a story on the creature… the result of a newspaper article in which Mulder is quoted as verifying the monster’s existence. The agents realize Izzy secretly tape recorded their conversations. As the agents drive along a country road, Mulder spots Pollidori’s tented house. The pair race inside, where they discover Elizabeth’s unconscious body. Shortly thereafter, the agents also lose consciousness. The Old Man, Professor Pollidori’s father, steps from the smoke, a gas mask covering his face. When the agents regain consciousness,

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Elizabeth describes her attacker as a hideously deformed man with two mouths. The Old Man brings the Creature a peanut butter sandwich as it watches the movie Mask, starring Cher, on television. Pollidori confronts his father, and in a rage, strangles him. A mob of townspeople forms around the local post office as a mail clerk proclaims he’s found the monster. He pulls someone wearing a rubber Mutato mask from the back room, then yanks off the mask, exposing Izzy. The postal worker then displays a box he intercepted, which is filled with identical masks. Records indicate that the residue from the white cakes is a substance used to anesthetize herds of animals. Its use is monitored by the FDA, leading the agents back to the Old Man’s farm. When the agents arrive at the scene, a diligent newspaper girl, who had been recording notes about the case, describes how she witnessed the creature burying the Old Man. Shortly thereafter, an angry mob makes its way towards the farm. The agents realize Pollidori killed his father. They befriend the frightened Mutato and attempt to escape, but they are spotted by the mob and retreat into a cellar. Pollidori and the townspeople burst into the basement. There, Pollidori claims the Creature was brought to life by his father. The Creature claims he never harmed another soul. He explains how, 25 years earlier, the Old Man realized his son was conducting secret experiments – of which he (Mutato) was an unfortunate product. The Old Man grew to love the Creature, and then set out to create it a mate. As the Creature continues his tale, the agents, putting together two and two, look around the cellar at the townspeople… one of whom resembles a horse, another a Billy goat and so on. The mob concludes Mutato is not a monster after all. A police cruiser transport Pollidori from the scene. The agents take the Creature into custody, but instead of transporting him to jail, they head for a Memphis nightclub, where Cher sings to Mutato, her biggest fan.

Christmas Carol (1 of 2) Production Code: #5X05 Original Air Date: 12/07/97 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Peter Markle A MYSTERIOUS PHONE CALL AND AN APPARENT SUICIDE LEAD SCULLY TO A YOUNG GIRL WHO SHE SUSPECTS IS HER SISTER MELISSA’S DAUGHTER.

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Tara, who is expected their first child. Not long after her arrival, Scully answers the telephone. On the other end of the line is a woman who sounds exactly like Scully’s deceased sister, Melissa. The voice tells Scully, “she needs your help.” Unnerved, Scully has the FBI trace the call which, it turns out, was made from the Sim residence. Scully discovers the home is the scene of a criminal investigation. Detective Kresge allows her access to the bathroom, where a dead blonde woman, Mrs. Robert Sim, reclines in a tub full of bloody water, the apparent victim of a suicide. Later, Scully observes the victim’s husband, Marshall, and three− year−old Emily Sim. Scully stares at the girl, intrigued by her face. Detective Kresge tells Scully that phone records do indeed indicate that an incoming call was made from the Sim residence to Bill Jr.’s house. But at the same time, there is no record of an outgoing call. Records also indicate the phone had been off the hook for three hours. Scully tells her mother she’s very happy for Bill and Tara… then admits that, as a result of her abduction, she cannot conceive a child of her own. Later that night, Scully experiences a dream in which a young Bill Jr. kills her pet rabbit. During the same dream, she encounters little Emily Sim. Scully is awoken by another call from the mysterious woman. The voice tells Scully to “go to her.” The call is again traced to the Sim residence, where Marshall assures Scully that no one used the telephone. From Scully’s viewpoint at the front door, she observes two dark−suited men sitting at the kitchen table. The next day, Scully requests – and is given access to – all evidence in the Roberta Sim case. She also phones the FBI and requests the case file on her sister, Melissa. Noting several discrepancies in the file, Scully performs an autopsy on Roberta’s body. She discovers a complete absence of medicine tablets inside her stomach. She does, however, notice a puncture wound on the heal of her foot. A search of the Sim house turns up a hypodermic needle in the trash. Marshall claims Emily suffers from anemia and requires daily injections. Scully tells her mother that a PCR test, which has a sixty−percent accuracy rate, suggests that Emily and Melissa’s DNA match (a more comprehensive test will be available in several days). This, and the undeniable physical resemblance between the pair, leads Scully to conclude that Emily is Melissa’s daughter. She reminds her mother about a period in 1994 when Melissa’s whereabouts were unknown… and speculates that she could have given Emily up for adoption. Later, Scully experiences another dream, during which Mrs. Scully gives her the crucifix she wears around her neck. When Scully awakens, Detective Kresge informs her about large bank deposits made by Marshall over the previous eighteen months. The money came from a pharmaceutical company called

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Prangen Industries. Scully and Kresge interview Dr. Ernest Calderon, who works for the company. He explains that Emily was participating in a clinical trial. When Roberta tried to pull her daughter from the program, the company agreed to send her money as a gesture of good will. Calderon also reveals he prescribed Marshall sumatriptan injections after he complained of migraines. Later, Marshall is arrested for his wife’s murder. As a result, Emily is placed in the care of Social Services. Before Emily is driven away, Scully places her gold cross around the girl’s neck. Marshall Sim confesses to the murder. But Scully finds it odd that witnesses had provided him an alibi. She and Kresge drive to the jail, where they find his body hanging from a makeshift noose. Later, Scully tells her brother that the death was made to look like a suicide. Susan Chambliss, a social worker, tells Scully that her application to adopt Emily was rejected. Scully states that the time has come for her to place her personal life ahead of her career. Cambliss promises a review of Scully’s final application. On Christmas morning, Scully receives a delivery from an FBI courier. The final DNA test results reveal that Scully is Emily’s mother.

Emily (2 of 2) Production Code: #5X07 Original Air Date: 12/14/97 Written by Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners SCULLY AND MULDER SEARCH FOR A CURE TO EMILY’S ILLNESS.

As seen in episode #5X05, Scully has learned she is the biological mother of three−year−old Emily Sim. Scully experiences a nightmare in which she discovers her gold cross lying on the ground as a sandstorm rages around her. Slowly, she, too, transforms into sand and dissolves into nothingness. Mulder travels to the San Diego County Children’s Center, where Scully is keeping an eye on Emily. Scully tells Mulder she needs him to be a witness on her behalf at a child custody hearing. Mulder informs his partner that Frohike accessed the California Social Services Adoption database. It turns out that Emily’s mother of record is one Anna Fugazzi (a slang term for “fake”). He warns Scully that the men behind the conspiracy will do anything it takes to protect Emily – including jeopardizing Scully’s custody of the girl. During the custody hearing, Mulder introduces a file documenting Scully’s disappearance years earlier. He submits that Emily Sim was conceived through a scientific experiment. Despite this, he insists that Scully is nonetheless Emily’s mother.

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Scully receives another mysterious telephone call. A trace reveals its origin to be the County Children’s Center. When the agents arrive at the scene, they discover a thick, fibrous cyst on the back of Emily’s neck. As a doctor removes a biopsy sample from the cyst, it suddenly oozes green bubbling fluid. The doctor is overcome by the fumes and treated at the hospital. Afterward, Dr. Calderon refuses to transfer Emily’s medical records to the Children’s Center. An enraged Mulder physically assaults Calderon and warns that unless he produces the records, he can expect more of the same. Afterward, Calderon approaches the two dark−suited men at the Dimsdale Convalescent home. The men realize Mulder tailed Calderon to the building. They kill Calderon using an alien gimlet, then assume his form. One of the “Dr. Calderons” travels to the Children’s Center and injects Emily with a greenish fluid. A surprised Scully chases “Calderon” through the hospital. But by the time she catches up to him, the alien has morphed into the form of a stranger. Mulder and Scully speak by phone. Mulder suspects the fluid injected into Emily will not cause her harm, as the conspirators want her alive… for reasons unknown. Mulder makes his way inside the Dimsdale Retirement Home. There he discovers evidence that the elderly women residents – including Anna Fugazzi – were all given hormone injections. Frohike uncovers evidence that the elderly women all gave birth only a few years earlier. Emily continues undergoing therapy and medical tests of all kinds, but her condition only deteriorates further. At one point she is placed inside a pressurized chamber. Suddenly, a snake−like creature stirs beneath her skin. Scully orders an end to the test. Mulder discovers cylinders containing live human embryos floating in a greenish fluid. He grabs three ampules of the greenish fluid and makes his way into a hallway. Detective Kresge suddenly steps forward, placing a gun to Mulder’s head. Kresge removes the ampules from Mulder’s hand. Suddenly, one of the “Calderons” appears at the end of the hallway. Mulder retrieves one of the ampules and runs off, warning Kresge not to fire on the advancing “Calderon.” A confused Kresge shoots nonetheless, and is then overcome by noxious fumes. The alien “Calderon” then morphs into Kresge’s form and makes his getaway. Emily slips into a coma and dies. At the funeral, Scully tells Mulder there is still evidence of what the men did to Emily. But when she lifts the casket lid, she discovers several small sandbags inside (one has spilled its contents onto the bottom of the coffin). Scully retrieves her gold crucifix, the one she gave to Emily, from the sand.

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Kitsunegari Production Code: #5X08 Original Air Date: 01/04/98 Written by Vince Gilligan and Tim Minear Directed by Daniel Sackheim MULDER AND SCULLY HUNT FOR ROBERT MODELL, A.K.A. PUSHER, AFTER HE ESCAPES FROM PRISON.

Inside Lorton Penitentiary, a physical therapist works with Robert Modell, otherwise known as Pusher (see episode #3X17). An older orderly tells his younger protégé that Modell is extremely dangerous and must never be underestimated. Despite the warning, Modell lures the young orderly into his cell… and soon after escapes. Skinner, Mulder and Scully brief a group of FBI agents and US marshals about the escapee. The group reacts with skepticism when Mulder reveals that Pusher is able to project his will onto others, forcing them to do themselves harm. After the meeting, Scully and Mulder interview the physical therapist, who tells of a nun who visited Modell, as part of a charity group, on the day before his escape. The ailing Modell makes his way to a sporting goods store, where he eats several high−protein candy bars. He telephones Mulder from the location, and speaks long enough for the call to be traced. The agents rush to the sporting goods store. Mulder notices a man outside the building wearing prison pajamas. But when the man is caught, he turns out to be the sporting goods store employee. The body of the prosecutor who helped convict Modell is discovered in his upscale home, his entire body covered with cerulean blue paint. Surrounding the body is a Japanese ideogram, repeated hundreds of times. The agents summon a Japanese agent to the scene, who translates the ideogram, kitsunegari, as meaning “fox hunt.” Mulder notes a wedding band on the victim’s finger. He contacts the real estate agency where Linda Bowman works, and obtains the address where Linda is scheduled to meet a “Fox Mulder.” Two police officers are dispatched to the location, but they are fooled by Modell, and one officer “apprehends” his partner. The reason for Modell’s interest in Linda remains a mystery. Mulder, Scully and Skinner meet with Linda, who is shaken when notified of her husband’s passing. The agents place her in protective custody and transport her to a safe house. Mulder suspects Modell may still be in the general area where the prosecutor’s body was discovered. His hunch proves correct: he discovers Modell inside a nearby engineering firm. Mulder draws his weapon, ordering Modell to remain silent. But Modell forces his will onto Mulder and escapes. Mulder tells Scully that Modell’s message was “don’t play the game.” When Mulder voices his doubts as to Modell’s motives – and the possibility

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he didn’t kill Nathan Bowman – Scully begins to suspect her partner was influenced by Modell’s will. Later, Mulder again interviews Linda Bowman, hoping to discover a reason for Modell’s interest in her. He reacts with mild surprise when Linda reveals she had only been married to Nathan for a little over two months. During the conversation, Mulder cannot help but notice subtle clues in Linda’s words, such as “brush with greatness” and “paint him.” He concludes that it was Linda who killed her husband, not Modell. Believing Mulder is under Modell’s influence, Skinner demands his service weapon and instructs him to go home. Mulder suspects that the nun who visited Modell in prison was, in fact, Linda. He returns to the prison, hoping the therapist will verify his theory. But before the therapist can positively identify Linda, she receives a phone call from someone who “wills” her to commit suicide. Mulder phones Scully, and tells her it was Linda, not Modell, who made the call. Modell possesses the mind of a police officer, who transports him to the safe house where Linda is under constant guard. Modell finds Linda and places a gentle hand upon her face. Skinner spots Modell and draws his weapon. Modell tricks Skinner into believing he is holding a revolver, drawing his fire. A badly wounded Modell is transported to a hospital. Mulder tells Scully that Modell pretended to have a gun to “take the fall” for Linda. But his theory does not explain the motive for his action. Mulder travels to the hospital, hoping to speak with Modell should he regain consciousness. But Linda uses mind control to slip past Mulder, making him believe she is a nurse. When Modell does regain consciousness, Linda wills his heart to stop beating. Mulder discovers an index card dropped by Linda. On the reverse is an address for a commercial building. Mulder travels to the structure, where he finds Scully waiting within. Scully claims Linda is inside the building, and is using mind control to act against her will. Scully raises her weapon and places it against her own temple – firing a shot. Scully’s lifeless body falls to the floor. A few moments later, Linda walks into the room, a gun in her hand. Mulder grabs the revolver from Scully’s hand and aims at Linda. But Linda claims she is Scully… and that the real Linda is standing right behind him. “Linda” suddenly aims her gun slightly to the left of Mulder and opens fire. Mulder turns to see Linda’s body behind him. Linda is transported to a hospital Later, Scully and Mulder learn that Linda and Modell were fraternal twins.

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Directed by Ralph Hemecker A TEENAGE BOY UNDERGOING PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN HIS STEPFATHER’S MURDER.

In Coats Grove, Michigan, Bobby Rich, a sixteen− year−old boy, is berated by his stepfather, Phil, for not finishing his lawn work outside the house. Bobby picks up a shovel and instructs his stepfather to keep his distance. As the dispute escalates, Bobby drops the shovel and runs into a nearby orchard. Phil gives chase. Suddenly, Phil’s feet are knocked out from underneath him. A short time later, Phil’s wife, Patti, makes her way through the darkened orchard. She discovers Phil’s body buried in mud up to his shoulders, with mud seeping from his nose and mouth. Kneeling beside Phil is Bobby, his eyes wide with terror. Scully performs an autopsy on Phil’s corpse. She discovers over twelve pounds of mud in his stomach. Her conclusion: Phil’s head was forcibly held in the mud, mostly likely by his son, Bobby. She hypothesizes that Bobby may have dug the pit that trapped Phil, and, noting a rope – like bruise on Phil’s ankle, speculates that Bobby may have had help from an accomplice. Mulder interviews Bobby, who claims his father enjoyed physically abusing him. Later, Patti tells Scully that, from her point of view, it appeared as if Bobby was attempting to help Phil out of the muddy orchard pit, not cause him harm. She also reveals that her son has been undergoing therapy for his anger since 1995. Later, the agents meet with Bobby’s therapist, Karin Matthews. She describes Bobby as the victim of physical abuse. But Mulder expresses his belief that Bobby may not be to blame for his stepfather’s death. Bobby tells a pretty fellow student, Lisa Baiocchi, that she must stand up to her father just as he had done with Phil. When Lisa returns home, her angry father demands that she stop seeing Bobby. An angry Lisa storms off to her room. Shortly thereafter, a window explodes, and a shadowy, arm – like appendage grabs Mr. Baiocchi by the throat. His lifeless body is discovered lying on the ground outside the house. Though Scully concludes that Mr. Baiocchi died as the result of being pushed out the window, Mulder discovers evidence suggesting he was pulled out the second story window. Later, the agents learn that Lisa is also one of Karin Matthews’ patients. Karin tells Mulder her approach with victims of abuse is to encourage them to empower themselves to confront and stand up against their abuser. With the aid of a town coroner, Mulder a small splinter of fresh wood embedded in Mr. Baiocchi’s neck. Mulder matches the fragment to the living tree outside the Baiocchi home. A short time later, the agents are approached by a man named Ramirez, who holds an axe at his side. He tells the

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agents that the trees are all dying because of a “bad man.” Karin invites Lisa to stay at her home until her aunt can pick her up the following day. As Lisa listens from her bedroom, she overhears an argument between Karin and a male voice. A curious Lisa makes her way to the root cellar, where she discovers the body of a man. Terrified, Lisa turns towards the door, only to hear it slam shut. A dead bolt turns, locking her within. She hears the unidentified man’s voice refer to her as “a snoop.” Later, Karin tells the trapped Lisa she must remain quiet, or the unidentified man will hear her voice. Mulder discovers that Karin’s father was pulled from the mud of an orchard twenty years earlier. He finds it strange that Karin failed to mention the coincidence. Ramirez tells Mulder that Karin Matthew’s father’s death brought about an end of a blight affecting the trees. Karin attributes the tale to her father’s stature, believing powerful men inspire fantasy. Later, Mulder digs up Mr. Matthews’ casket… and finds it empty, save for roots. When Lisa’s aunt, Linda, arrives at Karin’s house, Karin informs her that Lisa left for a bus station. Before Linda drives off, Lisa smashes the glass of a window in the basement. Linda rushes to her niece’s aid, but she is attacked and killed by an unseen force as tree branches sway in the wind above her. Later, Bobby tells Mulder that, as part of therapy, Karin made him pretend he was Phil… and that, all along, he was never a really a victim. Lisa hears the cellar door bolt slide. She stands up… only to realize the unidentified male voice has been coming from Karin all along. Scully and Mulder search Karin’s house, where they come upon the corpse Lisa discovered earlier in the root cellar. Mulder concludes the body is that of Karin’s father. Karin locks the agents in the root cellar, but Mulder forces it open. They find Lisa frightened but unharmed in a corner of the kitchen. Mulder attempts to pursue an escaping Karin, but his car crashes into an enormous tree. Karin drives to the Rich residence, where she chases Bobby into the orchard. Suddenly, Bobby is dragged downward into the mud. While attempting to rescue the teenager, Mulder simultaneously encourages Karin to break the cycle… to fight the voice inside her head. But Karin is unable. A tendon – like root snakes out of the mud and drags Mulder downward. Ramirez appears, axe in hand, and strikes Karin, killing her. Mulder and Bobby are released by the unseen force.

Chinga Production Code: #5X10 Original Air Date: 02/08/98 Written by Stephen King and Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners RESIDENTS OF A SEACOAST TOWN IN MAINE ARE TERRORIZED BY A LITTLE GIRL AND HER DOLL.

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In Amma Beach, Maine, five−year−old Polly Turner accompanies her pretty mother, Melissa, to the grocery market. Polly sits in the child−carrier seat of a shopping cart, clutching a doll, Chinga. As Melissa strolls the isles, she attracts the attention of Dave the Fishmonger. Polly notices Dave, and tells her mother she doesn’t like the store. Melissa responds by quickly pushing the cart into another area of the market. As Melissa strolls down the frozen food section, she comes upon the image of Dave, reflected in the glass of a cabinet, a knife protruding from one eye. A horrified Melissa tells Polly they are going home. But as Melissa makes her way towards the store’s exit, customers begin clawing at their eyes. Back in the butcher section, Dave’s attention is diverted by the shape of a large Chinga doll, as reflected in a metal door. Dave grabs a knife from his belt… but suddenly turns it on himself. Vacationing in Maine, Scully turns her rental car into the grocery market parking lot. An Old Man exits the store and tells Scully that a doctor is needed. Inside the store, observes Dave, a knife protruding from his eye. She telephones Mulder and describes the bizarre situation. Mulder tells his partner the event might be the result of witchcraft or sorcery. Scully, however, can find no physical evidence that might support this theory. Assisted by Police Chief Jack Bonsaint, and his deputy, Buddy Riggs, Scully reviews security camera footage of the event. She notices Melissa Turner rushing towards the exit, the only customer unaffected. Bonsaint tells Scully that some townspeople believe Melissa is a witch. Buddy Riggs telephones Melissa with news that Bonsaint will be questioning her about the occurrence at the super market. Riggs promises to help Melissa, but she warns him to stay away. In the background, unseen by Melissa, looms the shadow of the large Chinga doll. Bonsaint and Scully visit Melissa’s home, but find it unoccupied. Bonsaint tells Scully that Melissa had married a fisherman, but was widowed when the husband was killed in a boating accident. Bonsaint explains that there had been an incident between Polly and the proprietor of a daycare center, Jane Froelich. It seems that Jane slapped Polly when she became uncontrollable. Shortly thereafter, Jane claims she was thrown to the ground. Bonsaint, however, believes the little girl never touched Jane. Bonsaint then tells Scully that Dave the Butcher’s interest in Melissa was unrequited. Riggs meets Melissa and Polly at an ice cream shop. Melissa describes how she has seen images of violent deaths, such as Dave’s, before they occur. Riggs give Melissa the key to a remote cabin and suggests she leave town. Meanwhile, Polly grows upset when a girl clerk does not meet her demand for more cherries. Shortly thereafter, the clerk’s pony tail gets caught in an ice cream machine. Riggs jumps the counter and rescues the girl.

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Scully and Bonsaint pay Jane Froelich a visit. Froelich claims Melissa is the descendant of witches – and she is passing her cursed lineage to Polly. Later, while speaking with an official at a ranger station (near Riggs’ remote camp), Melissa experiences another vision, this time seeing Froelich’s bloody image reflected in the rear window of the car. Melissa turns the car around and heads back home. Meanwhile, Froelich hears the song “Hokey Pokey” emanating from the day care center. She makes her way through the darkness… and comes upon the big Chinga doll. She picks up a piece of broken phonograph record, but instead of using it as a defensive weapon, turns it upon herself. Later, Melissa experiences another vision… this time seeing Riggs’ corpse. Riggs finds Melissa at home, and convinced she had something to do with Froelich’s murder, insists she accompany him to the police station. Later, Riggs’ body lies on the kitchen floor, his nightstick covered with blood. Scully recognizes the Old Man from the supermarket aboard the boat where Melissa’s husband was killed. The Old Man tells Scully the story of how Rich Turner came upon the Chinga doll while checking lobster traps. Rich intended to give the doll to his daughter, but several days later the Old Man found Rich’s body, a grappling hook through his skull. Melissa begins nailing shut every door and window in the house. Polly tells her mother she cannot sleep, and Melissa promises the noise will stop. Moments later, Melissa sees a bloodied reflection of herself in a window, a hammer buried in her skull. Scully and Bonsaint drive to the Turner home. Scully, peering through the windows, discovers Melissa attempting to set fire to Riggs’ body. Bonsaint breaks down the door as Melissa runs to a closet and grabs hold of a hammer – which she turns upon herself. Thinking quickly, Scully grabs the Chinga doll and throws it inside a microwave oven in the kitchen. As the doll melts, Melissa drops the hammer and regains her senses. Later, another lobster fisherman pulls a trap from the water… and discovers the burned Chinga doll inside. Suddenly, its eyes open.

Kill Switch Production Code: #5X11 Original Air Date: 02/15/98 Written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox Directed by Rob Bowman A SENTIENT COMPUTER PROGRAM TARGETS ITS CREATORS FOR EXTINCTION.

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deputy marshals receive a similar anonymous tip, alerting them about a Colombian fugitive in the same diner. The marshals enter the diner and order everyone onto the floor. Drug dealers draw their weapons and a fierce gun battle ensues. As the agents observe the aftermath of the shoot−out, Mulder pulls a tarp off the face of Donald Gelman, one of the co−inventors of the Internet. Gelman had been working at his laptop inside the diner when the shooting broke out and became trapped in the cross−fire. Mulder sneaks Gelman’s laptop under his jacket and brings it back to Scully’s car. He finds a blank CD in the laptop drive, which when placed inside Scully’s CD−player emits music from The Platters’ Twilight Time. Puzzled, Mulder brings the CD to the Lone Gunmen for further analysis. When they are unable to crack the disc’s security code, Scully suggests they check Gelman’s e−mail log. They find a message containing a standard ID number for a shipping container. The message is signed by someone named Invisigoth. The agents track the number to a container yard. A figure springs from the darkness, zaps Mulder with a stun−gun, and runs off into the night. Scully apprehends the suspect, Esther Nairn, a gorgeous young woman with a nose ring, and escorts her back to the container, which is brimming with sophisticated computer equipment. Esther’s attention is diverted to one of the monitors. She tells the agents that an armed Department of Defense satellite has locked onto their location. Despite the farfetchedness of the tale, Mulder convinces Scully they must leave the area immediately. Shortly thereafter, a strange green light descends from the heavens and destroys the shipping container. Mulder concludes that Donald Gelman realized his lifelong dream: the construction of a sentient artificial intelligence, a computer program with its own consciousness. Esther confirms Mulder’s suspicion, describing how Gelman unleashed the program onto the Internet so it could evolve – much like the primordial slime from which mankind evolved. She tells the agents that the AI monitors all communication, and will destroy her the moment it locks onto her location. Esther also reveals that Gelman was in the process of creating a special virus program, nicknamed “Kill Switch,” that would hunt down and destroy the rogue system. Instead of simply destroying Gelman with a laser from above, Esther is convinced it killed its creator with a dozen crack dealers in an effort to show off its sense of humor. She also believes the virus is holed up on a computer somewhere – and the only way to kill it is to find and destroy its safe house. By accessing government files, Mulder locates a suspicious T3 line, one that would be needed by the AI to access the Internet. He traces the cable to an abandoned farm on which sits a trailer. Meanwhile, Esther gets the jump on Scully and forces her at gun

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point to drive to an isolated location where she hopes to find one of her colleagues, a man named David Markham. Esther exits the car and begins crying at the site of a demolished house. During her absence, Scully manages to unshackle her handcuffs. Esther gives Scully back her gun and asks her to “put her out of her misery.” Esther then admits to Scully that she and David had planned to download their consciousness and enter the AI. But Gelman forbade the idea. Mulder gains access to the trailer housing the T3 line. Inside he discovers David Markham’s body, his face concealed by a virtual reality mask. Suddenly, several crab−like droids spring from the jungle of cables and constrain Mulder. Mulder experiences strange visions involving nurses in a 1940s hospital who threaten to amputate him, limb by limb, unless he reveals the location of Kill Switch. Meanwhile, the AI pinpoints Scully and Esther in their car near a turntable drawbridge. The pair becomes trapped and, at Scully’s urging, Esther tosses the laptop into the water. Moments later, a green laser blasts the water. Scully and Esther climb into the trailer where Mulder is bound by the crab−droids. Several of the robotic creatures attack, and Scully dispatches them with her revolver. Scully finds Mulder, his head encased in the virtual reality mask (the source of his strange visions). Esther produces the CD, and Scully gives the AI what it wants, inserting the disk into a drive. The AI releases Mulder, and Scully drags him outside. Esther accesses a keyboard and instructs the satellite to lock onto the trailer’s coordinates. When Scully reenters the trailer, she finds Esther wearing the virtual reality helmet, the body of her beloved David nearby. Scully races from the trailer, and Esther instructs the AI to upload. Moments later, the green laser destroys the trailer. When Mulder recovers, he tells Scully that Esther’s consciousness may have joined the AI.

Bad Blood Production Code: #5X12 Original Air Date: 02/22/98 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Cliff Bole THE AGENTS RECOUNT THEIR VERSIONS OF EVENTS THAT LED TO THE KILLING OF A TEENAGER SUSPECTED OF BEING A VAMPIRE.

A dark figure chases a terrified teenage boy, Ronnie Strickland, through a field in Texas. When Ronnie trips and falls, the figure pulls out a wooden stake and plunges it through his chest. Scully’s voice calls out, and when the figure turns, we see that it is Agent Mulder. Pulling open the teenager’s mouth, Mulder shows Scully two sharp incisors, much like vampire fangs. Upon closer examination, Scully

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determines the fangs are, in fact, a set of fake plastic teeth. Mulder realizes he has made a most egregious error. When the agents return to their offices, they agree to discuss the events that led up to the killing before they speak with Skinner (as they both face potential prison sentences). Scully recounts her story first. As the tale unfolds, Mulder and Scully examine slides of dead cattle, the victims of a series of exsanguinations in a small Texas town. Mulder reveals that a vacationer from New Jersey, Mr. Funt, met the same fate, and authorities located two small puncture marks on his neck. The agents fly to Texas, where they meet with Sheriff Hartwell, a handsome man who immediately catches Scully’s attention. With Hartwell’s permission, the agents examine the victim’s body. Mulder notices that Funt’s shoes are untied, but is unsure of the clue’s meaning. While he and the sheriff stake out a local cemetery, Scully performs an autopsy on the corpse. Later that night, Scully and Mulder regroup at their motel to discuss their findings. Scully reveals that the victim was drugged with chloral hydrate, more commonly referred to as knockout drops. Scully believes someone doped Funt and then withdrew his blood using a syringe, perhaps emulating vampires seen in the movies. Mulder then reveals that there has been another victim. As a tired Scully sets out to perform yet another autopsy, Ronnie the Pizza Guy (the same teenager Mulder staked in the opening teaser) shows up with a delivery. Scully tells the teenager to deliver the pizza to Mulder as she heads for her car in the motel parking lot. During the second autopsy, Scully realizes that both victims consumed pizza as their last meal. She races back to the motel, where she finds a drugged Mulder lying on the floor. The pizza guy springs into view, prompting Scully to fire several rounds. This concludes Scully’s version of events that led up to the teenager’s death. Mulder, however, disagrees with Scully’s details, and tells his version of the story. As Mulder’s version unfolds, it becomes clear that he is painting himself in a good−natured light, while Scully is depicted as being suspicious of his every word. After examining slides of the dead cows, the agents fly to Texas, where Scully finds herself attracted to Sheriff Hartwell. In Mulder’s version, however, Hartwell is affected with large buck teeth and a substantial loss of I.Q. The agents split up: Scully performs the first autopsy, while Mulder and Sheriff Hartwell stake out the cemetery. While surveilling the cemetery, Mulder begins pouring sunflower seeds on the ground, explaining that vampires are obsessive−compulsive. Should a vampire appear, it would have to pick up the seeds – just like it would have to untie shoelaces. The sheriff is dispatched to investigate a disturbance at an RV park. Mulder tags along. There, the pair discover the body of the second victim. Tired and

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frustrated, Mulder returns to the motel, where he regroups with Scully. He informs his partner of the need for a new autopsy, and after Scully leaves, he accepts the pizza delivery from Ronnie. Later, he finds himself in a drug−induced stupor. Ronnie enters the motel room, his fangs exposed, his eyes glowing red. Thinking quickly, Mulder manages to throw sunflower seeds onto the floor. Unable to resist the obsessive−compulsive disorder, Ronnie drops to his knees and begins picking them up. Scully finishes the second autopsy, and realizing Mulder is in danger, races to the motel. She draws her weapon and fires, striking Ronnie right in the chest. Though still in a drug−induced haze, Mulder gives chase, eventually staking Ronnie. Back in the present, a coroner inadvertently reanimates Ronnie’s corpse by removing the stake. Skinner informs the agents of the new development, and the pair fly back to Texas. There, the pair meet up with Sheriff Hartwell. As Scully and the sheriff stake out the cemetery, Mulder makes his way to the RV park, certain it contains Ronnie’s resting place. Sheriff Hartwell, it turns out, is a vampire. He drugs Scully’s coffee, and she passes out. Meanwhile, Mulder discovers Ronnie’s coffin inside an RV. Using handcuffs, he traps the vampire inside the box. When the vehicle is surrounded by the undead, Mulder uses two pizza breadsticks to form a cross. The vampires shrug off the cross and pull Mulder downward. The next morning, a groggy Scully finds an unconscious Mulder inside his rental car. Mulder awakens – only to discover that the RV lot is now completely empty. The agents recount their bizarre tale to Skinner… who can only stare back at them.

Patient X (1 of 2) Production Code: #5X13 Original Air Date: 03/01/98 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN UFO ABDUCTEES GATHER EN MASSE – AND ARE BURNED ALIVE.

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through the burned out wreckage. Krycek tells Marita he knows who she works for – and to tell her superiors he has a witness (Dmitri). Back in the United States, Mulder takes part in a visiting lecturers forum. He disagrees with the opinions voiced by his fellow panelists regarding a woman referred to as “Patient X,” an apparent abductee who seeks answers as to why aliens are on Earth. Mulder maintains that there is no complicity between the military and alien abductions. Instead, he believes the government is developing biological warfare and hiding the fact by concocting stories about “little green men.” When the discussion ends, Mulder is approached by Dr. Werber, the man who performed regression hypnosis on him five years earlier (leading Mulder to believe his sister was abducted). Werber reveals that he is Patient X’s doctor. He arranges a meeting between Mulder and the woman, Cassandra, believing that she will change his mind regarding his new theory. Cassandra believes the aliens are on Earth to deliver a message. But something, she fears, has gone wrong. Krycek extracts information from Dmitri by subjecting him to a beating. He then orders a Russian doctor to expose the teenager to the alien black oil. The liquid enters Dmitri’s body through his mouth and nose. Dmitri, his eyes and mouth sewn shut, is then transported back to the US on a Russian freighter. Meanwhile, Covarrubias briefs Syndicate members on the mysterious burn site in Kazakhstan. Covarrubias believes the act was aimed at the Syndicate, and reveals that Krycek captured a witness at the site. Krycek phones the group and offers to trade Dmitri for all research information pertaining to a vaccine against the black oil. At the FBI building, Scully is approached by Agent Spender, who identifies himself as Cassandra’s son. Spender tells Scully that his mother is a very disturbed woman. Later, Scully tells Mulder about the conversation. She then peruses Cassandra’s medical file, growing intrigued when she realizes Cassandra claims to have been abducted at Skyland Mountain, the same site where Scully was taken by Duane Barry. The file also reveals that Cassandra has an implant in the base of her neck. Mulder brushes off the findings, agreeing with Spender’s conclusion. But so intrigued is Scully by the developments that she pays Cassandra a visit at the psychiatric hospital. There, she grows unnerved when Cassandra tells her that some nights she awakens feeling as though she must be somewhere, but not knowing where to go. Meanwhile, a group of abductees gather at Skyland Mountain. As an Unknown Man drives down the mountain road, he encounters faceless men chasing another man. One of the faceless men drives a metallic wand into the Running Man’s back, setting him ablaze. Later, Mulder and Scully inspect the site. The situation forces Scully in the opposite

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position she would normally take, for despite a lack of evidence, she believes the event is linked to her abduction. The agents are contacted by Cassandra, who warns “they” must be stopped. The agents are then approached by Spender, who explains that his mother was part of a UFO cult. Back at the Syndicate office, group members conclude that the latest burning is aimed at sabotaging their work. Quiet Willy is dispatched to deal with the situation. Meanwhile, Covarrubias rendezvous with Krycek at the freighter, which is docked in New York Harbor. The two share a hungry kiss, then exit so they can be alone. When Krycek returns, Dmitri has vanished. The Well− Manicured Man appears, demanding to know where the boy has gone. After examining the evidence, Mulder concludes the victims of the mass burning were led to Skyland Mountain by the government when it triggered the implant devices. But he is at a loss to explain why they were killed. Their conversation is interrupted by a call from Covarrubias, who informs Mulder of the similar incident in former Soviet Union, and of the witness, Dmitri. Suddenly, the black oil oozes from Dmitri, and Covarrubias drops the phone. Scully suffers an attack – not unlike the one Cassandra described earlier. She travels to Ruskin Dam, where a throng of people have gathered, including Cassandra, in the company of Quiet Willy, and Dmitri, the stitches having been torn from his eyes and mouth. A glowing ship passes overhead and disappears over adjacent treetops. Suddenly, screams are heard from the far edge of the congregation, where faceless men wielding alien weapons set people ablaze.

The Red and the Black (2 of 2) Production Code: #5X14 Original Air Date: 03/08/98 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Chris Carter SCULLY UNDERGOES HYPNOSIS IN AN EFFORT TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MASS BURNING SITE.

In this continuation of the previous episode… a man, his face unseen, types a letter to his son (whose identity is unknown). The man, who lives in a remote cabin, addresses the letter to the FBI and pays a boy to mail it. Meanwhile, rescue workers sift through the area near the dam where blackened bodies lie along the length of a bridge. Amongst the bodies is Quiet Willy, the Syndicate’s hit man. Skinner directs Mulder to a nearby provisional tent, where Scully is ministered by medics. Nearby is the body of Dmitri, the Russian boy, his exposed skin blackened by the fire. When Scully regains consciousness, she tells

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Mulder she has no memory of what occurred at the dam. Outside of Scully’s room, Spender tells Mulder that rescue workers were unable to locate his mother, Cassandra. The Well−Manicured Man (WMM) and a physician, Dr. Bronschweig, tend to Marita Covarrubias inside a hospital quarantine room. Later, WMM speaks with Krycek, imprisoned aboard the Russian freighter. WMM is aware that Krycek deliberately exposed Dmitri to the black oil to insure the infection of anyone who attempted to ascertain what he knows about the burnings in Russia. He also believes that Krycek possesses a vaccine that would create resistance to the alien colonists. WMM offers Krycek freedom in return for the vaccine. Meanwhile, a spacecraft crashes at Fort Wiekamp Air Force Base. A faceless alien pirate drags one of his comrades from the wreckage. Later, members of the Syndicate study photographs of the alien. They realize the man is a resistance fighter, a member of an ongoing battle against alien colonists. WMM explains that Krycek gave him the vaccine, meaning resistance may, in fact, be a possibility. But the Elder concludes that the captured fighter should be turned over to the colonists, WMM has Covarrubias injected with the vaccine to ensure it actually works. Back at the hospital, Mulder tells Scully that x− rays have revealed the presence of implants inside the people who were at the dam. Mulder recounts his belief that the U.S. government manufactured and implanted the chip as part of a bio−chemical weapons project. Scully agrees to be hypnotized by Dr. Werber in an effort to recall what happened at the dam. In a trance−like state, Scully recalls how a UFO flew overhead, and shortly thereafter, how the faceless aliens set congregants on fire. Then another craft appeared overhead, which began attacking the faceless men. Cassandra was then pulled upward, out of her wheelchair, by the ship. Afterward, Werber tells Mulder that the same event will happen yet again. Skinner reviews an audio tape of Werber’s session with Scully. Mulder tells Skinner the entire event was staged to cover up a classified military project. Skinner admits, however, that Scully’s UFO scenario is more plausible. Meanwhile, when Covarrubias fails to respond to the vaccine, the Elder informs WMM that the captured alien is being turned over to the colonists. Spender shows the agents a videotape of himself, as a young boy, answering questions while under hypnosis. As the tape plays, the young Spender describes his abduction by a UFO. Spender then pauses the tape. He tells the agents the story is untrue, a falsehood told to him by his mother many times. He maintains that Dr. Werber’s regression memory theory is without merit. Spender also points out that Mulder has expressed his UFO

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theories to Scully many times… suggesting that she has recounted the information in a similar manner. Krycek surprised Mulder inside his apartment. He explains that Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain and the site in Pennsylvania are all beacons for colonization. The burnings, Krycek explains, were the work of alien rebels attempting to foil the colonist’s plans for takeover. Krycek gives Mulder the location of the captured alien rebel. He maintains that if the captive perishes, so does the resistance. Accompanied by Scully, Mulder drives to Fort Wiekamp. As they attempt to bluff their way through the front gate, the agents notice Quiet Willy at the wheel of a military truck as it is about to exit the base. As the vehicle pulls away, Mulder sneaks aboard the cargo area. There he finds faceless alien pirate imprisoned inside. Quiet Willy brings the rig to a stop… then morphs into the alien bounty hunter. He climbs into the cargo area, but shortly thereafter, a white light illuminates the truck. A second faceless alien, armed with a firestarter weapon, enters. Mulder opens fire. Shortly thereafter, a confused Mulder is swarmed by MPs and placed inside a car with Scully. Mulder has no memory of how he got aboard the truck. Meanwhile, the envelope seen in the opening teaser is delivered to Spender. Several days later, back at the cabin, the envelope, labeled with the words “return to sender,” is delivered to the Cigarette− Smoking Man.

Travelers Production Code: #5X15 Original Air Date: 03/29/98 Written by John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Bill Graham IN THE 1950S, TWO FBI AGENTS INVESTIGATE STRANGE DEATHS SOMEHOW LINKED TO MULDER’S FATHER.

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organs were removed. When Mulder utters his own last name, a flash of recognition passes on Dales’ face. Dales makes cryptic reference to HUAC, and the communist witch hunts of the 1950s, prompting Mulder to review newsreel footage of the McCarthy hearings. While watching the tape, Mulder notices his own father sitting amidst McCarthy’s group. When Mulder returns to Dales’ apartment, Dales elaborates on Skur, who, years earlier, was labeled a communist. The story flashes back to 1952. A young Ed Skur is arrested by FBI agents Dales and Michel, and charged with contempt of Congress for failing to appear before the committee. That night, Dales relaxes at a bar called the Hoot Owl. He receives a phone call from his partner, informing him that Skur hanged himself inside his jail cell. Dales travels back to the Skur residence to inform the family of the death. But before he exits his car, he sees Skur walking down the street. An incredulous Dales gives chase. A struggle ensues, during which black tendrils creep out of Skur’s mouth. The fight attracts attention, and Skur runs off. Dales files a report about the farfetched incident. Shortly thereafter, he is summoned to the office of Special Assistant Roy Cohn. Cohn tells Dales to amend the report by removing any reference to Skur. Dales does as he is told. A short time later, he and Michel are dispatched to a homicide. They discover the body of a dead German doctor, his body flattened. Dales notices a coaster from the Hoot Owl, on the back of which is a message: “come alone.” That night at the bar, Dales is approached by a young Bill Mulder. He explains that it was he who summoned the agents to the doctor’s home. He confirms that Skur is the perpetrator. He also explains that Skur is not a communist, but a patriot. Skur, along with two other men, Gissing and Oberman, worked for the State Department. Gissing and Oberman both took their own lives. Skur was arrested, and his death faked, so that the government could cover−up what it had done to him. Bill Mulder wants the truth to be known, explaining that Skur was a colleague. But he warns that Skur believes that Dales and Michel are part of the conspiracy against him. Shortly thereafter, Skur attacks Michel. A spider−like creature crawls from Skur’s mouth and enters Michel. Cohn orders that Michel’s body be transported to Bethesda instead of allowing a county coroner to perform the autopsy. Dales protests until Cohn threatens to label him a communist. When Dales returns to the Bureau, he notices a heavily−censored document on the desk of Dorothy Bahnsen, a clerk. Dorothy explains that the document is a deposition that branded Skur and his co−workers communists. She then states that she recognized one of the men named in the document from an X−File. She explains that an X−File pertains to unsolved cases and that

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only the director’s office decides which file is designated with the “X.” She pulls out the file on the man whose named she recognized. It belongs to a German émigré, Dr. Strohman. Dales recognizes Strohman as the man found inside the house. Dales tracks down Gissing’s body and supervises an autopsy. Inside the corpse is a cocoon containing a spider−like creature, which Dales kills. Later, Dales informs Mrs. Skur that her husband, along with two co−workers, was tricked by the government. He elaborates, explaining that all three men underwent surgery for treatment of war injuries, but, in reality, received an operation called xenotransplantation, the grafting of a species into the human body. That night, Bill Mulder and Cohn’s assistant escort Dales to the bar where he is scheduled to meet Skur. Dales is equipped with a hidden microphone and told that Skur will be arrested the moment his guard is lowered. Later, Skur enters the empty bar. He tells Dales the other men will not be coming, explaining that they assumed he (Skur) would kill him. Dales sees the logic of Skur’s words. A struggle ensues, during which Dales is able to handcuff Skur to the bar. Back in 1990, Dales finishes telling his story to Mulder. But the puzzle still remains: why did Skur die saying the name of Mulder’s father? The story then flashes back to 1952… when a young Bill Mulder stopped on a road and gave Skur the keys to his handcuffs.

Mind’s Eye Production Code: #5X16 Original Air Date: 04/19/98 Written by Tim Minnear Directed by Kim Manners MULDER SUSPECTS A BLIND WOMAN POSSESSES THE ABILITY TO SEE THROUGH THE EYES OF A KILLER.

As Marty Glenn, a twenty−something woman, moves about her apartment, she suddenly experiences an internal vision. As she watches, horrorstruck, a murderer, switchblade in hand, advances on another man standing before a bathroom sink. A short time later, police are summoned to a motel, where the body of the murderer’s victim lies on the bathroom floor. Marty, a bloody sponge clutched in her hand, is discovered hiding in the shower. As the officers place Marty into handcuffs, they realize she is blind. Scully and Mulder meet with Wilmington Homicide Detective Lloyd Pennock, who has been assigned the murder case. Pennock explains that, under normal circumstances, Marty would have been charged with the murder. But since Marty has been blind since birth, he is at a loss as to how – or why – she managed to kill the heroin dealer, Paco Ordonez. Pennock states that he has 48 hours to

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prove to the District Attorney that his suspect possesses a kind of “sixth sense”… or wait until she kills someone else. The detectives meet with Marty inside her jail cell. During questioning, it becomes obvious that Marty – who has adopted an uncooperative attitude – possesses knowledge that only the murderer should know. As Mulder stays behind to supervise Marty’s polygraph test, Scully visits the scene of the crime. There she discovers a bloody leather glove hidden behind the bathroom mirror. Meanwhile, by phrasing a question in a certain manner, Mulder determines that Marty did somehow manage to witness the murder. Marty experiences another internal vision. This time, the killer makes advances on a sexy woman, Susan Forester, who sits at a bar. Marty notices the name of the bar reflected in a mirror. She requests that she be allowed to make a phone call from jail. By using an information operator, Marty phones the bar and makes contact with the murderer, a man named Gotts. She warns him to leave the woman alone. Scully brings the bloody glove to the jail. She informs Marty that her fingerprints were located on the glove, and perhaps even more importantly, the glove fits Marty perfectly. Pennock concludes that Marty is the murderer. Mulder, however, is plagued with doubt. Scully offers a possible explanation: Marty may not be blind. Scully expands upon this theory, noting disorders that would permit sight on a subconscious level. As Marty undergoes an eye exam, she is suddenly struck by another internal vision. Mulder notes a reaction on a measurement mode screen used by the ophthalmologist. But Marty refuses to explain what she saw. Though the examiner concludes that Marty is completely blind, Mulder tells Pennock and the District Attorney that there is evidence of neurological activity which caused her pupils to dilate – perhaps a physical response to images in the mind’s eye. The District Attorney concludes that it is unlikely her office could convict a blind woman based on fingerprints alone. As a result, Marty is released from custody. As Marty makes her way through the city, she is struck by another vision. This time, she witnesses Gotts attack the sexy woman from the bar. With some help from a passerby, Marty makes her way to the alley where the attack occurred. She discovers the woman’s body inside a dumpster. Marty then returns to the police station and confesses to both murders. Marty supplies Pennock with the location of a locker that contains a briefcase filled with Gotts’ heroin. Meanwhile, a lab test reveals that neither of the stains found on the leather glove match Marty’s blood type, bolstering Mulder’s suspicion that Marty is innocent. So confident is Mulder that he approaches Marty directly. He tells her he discovered the original police report detailing her

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mother’s murder – a single stab wound to the right kidney – which is identical to the manner in which Ordonez and Forester were killed. Mulder concludes that Marty gained her unique sense when her then− pregnant mother died at the murderer’s hands. Marty is released from custody after police match fingerprints on the briefcase taken from the locker to Gotts… who turns out to be Marty’s own father. Marty tells police that Gotts, who was recently paroled from prison, can be located at the Blarney Stone tavern. Mulder and Scully stake out the bar, waiting for Gotts’ appearance. Meanwhile, Pennock provides Marty with protection from harm by guarding her at her apartment. Marty experiences another vision, this time seeing Gotts reading names on mailboxes in the lobby. Using a coffee pot, Marty knocks Pennock unconscious. She pulls his gun from his holster and takes position, waiting for Gotts. Meanwhile, Mulder realizes that the blind Marty has been experiencing visions of the inside of Gotts’ prison cell for almost thirty years. He tells Scully that Marty misdirected them on purpose… to keep Gotts from going back to prison. They race to Marty’s apartment, where they find Gotts dead on the floor. Later, Marty asks for no special treatment in her defense and is sent to prison – where she is finally free of Gotts.

All Souls Production Code: #5X17 Original Air Date: 04/26/98 Story by Billy Brown and Dal Angel Written by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban Directed by Rob Bowman A PRIEST ASKS FOR SCULLY’S HELP WHEN A HANDICAPPED GIRL DIES A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Father McCue, the family priest who comforted Scully during her bout with cancer (see episode #5X03), baptizes Dara Kernof, a sixteen−year−old, severely mentally−retarded girl confined to a wheelchair. Later that night, as a thunderstorm rages, Dara somehow gains strength in her legs and leaves her house. Dara’s father, Lance, realizes something is amiss and makes his way outside. There he sees Dara in the middle of the street, her arms raised upward, kneeling before a Dark Figure. Suddenly, lightning flashes, supernaturally bright. When Lance reaches his daughter, he realizes she is dead – her eyes gone, as if having been burned out of their sockets. The Dark Figure, however, is nowhere in sight. Father McCue contacts Scully and asks for her help in solving the mystery of the girl’s death. Later, Scully visits the Kerofs, and learns that Dara was adopted six years earlier. The girl suffered from severe spinal deformities which confined her to a wheelchair her entire life. There is no explanation

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as to how Dara walked out of the house, though Lance is convinced he saw the Devil standing over her in the street. Scully and a pathologist, Vicki Belon, examine Dara’s body. Belon notes her misshapen hands and feet, which contain six digits (the extra fingers having been removed via surgery). Belon reluctantly proposes that the girl was struck down by God, as if she was a mistake. Meanwhile, a man named Father Gregory visits a psychiatric hospital hoping to visit a girl named Paula Koklos, Dara’s twin sister. But his progress is hindered by Aaron Starkey, a department of social services worker, who notes that the priest’s adoption petition lacks his approval. Upset, the priest leaves the hospital. That night, a man enters Paula’s room. An intense halo of light surrounds the figure and wings form its back. The next day, Scully examines Paula’s body, her eyes burned out, kneeling much like Dara. Mulder joins his partner and reveals he has located Dara’s birth records, which show she was one of quadruplets. Shortly thereafter, Starkey reveals that Paula was about to be adopted by Gregory. The agents pay Gregory a visit at his church. He insists he was trying to protect Paula from harm, and makes reference to an ongoing struggle between good and evil for all souls. Later, while examining Paula’s body, Scully experiences a vision of Emily. Mulder performs further research on the adoption records. He uncovers information on a third sister, who walked into a teen crisis center a week earlier and is apparently homeless. With Starkey’s help, he canvases abandoned buildings in a desolate part of town. But the Dark Figure, this time sporting a hideous lion’s face, finds the girl first. Mulder draws his weapon and orders a darkened figure to step into the light. It is revealed to be Father Gregory. Gregory laments that they are too late, as he found the third sister dead. Mulder concludes Gregory is responsible for the murders. But Gregory insists he tried to protect the girls’ souls from the Devil. He warns that the fourth sister must be located before it is too late. The agents step out of the police interrogation room where Gregory is being held when new information about the fourth sister, Roberta Dyer, comes to light. Scully urges Mulder to find the girl. Meanwhile, Starkey enters the interrogation room where Gregory is being held. He demands to know the location of the fourth girl. When Gregory does not answer, he is burned alive by the demon. Mulder makes his way to the home of George Dyer, the fourth sister’s adoptive father. Dyer eventually reveals that Father Gregory took Roberta away. Shortly thereafter, Scully is approached by the Dark Figure, whose head rotates, revealing the faces of a lion, a fierce bird, and a satyr. Stunned, Scully seeks out Father McCue for answers. He explains

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The Pine Bluff Variant Production Code #5X18 Original Air Date: 05/03/98 Written by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER GOES UNDERCOVER TO INFILTRATE A MILITIA GROUP ARMED WITH A DEADLY PATHOGEN.

Skinner, Scully, Mulder and a dozen FBI agents participate in an undercover operation in a Washington, D.C. park. Its purpose: to catch Jacob Haley, a militia group member wanted on domestic terrorism charges. As Skinner and Scully monitor events from a surveillance van, Mulder and several other undercover agents slowly close in on their suspect, who meets with a Goateed Man sitting on a park bench. Haley hands the Goatee Man an envelope, then suddenly runs off. Mulder gives chase, unaware that the skin on Goatee Man’s face and hands is slowly being eaten away. Scully jumps from the van, intending to warn her partner. But when she reaches Mulder, she is astounded to discover that the suspect eluded capture. Scully voices her concerns to her partner, looking for some explanation as to why he allowed Haley to escape. But Mulder sidesteps the issue. Shortly thereafter, the agents attend a meeting of a counter−terrorism council, which is headed by Skinner and U.S. Attorney Leamus. During the meeting, Scully states that the Goatee Man was killed by some form of bioweapon. Skinner then shows those in attendance a photo of August Bremer, the militia group’s mastermind. He notes

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that Bremer and Haley are reportedly vying for control. Her curiosity piqued, Scully begins surveilling her partner’s movements from afar. Mulder rents a room at a motel, where he has a heated telephone conversation with Haley, one that implies the pair are working together. Shortly thereafter, a BMW rolls into the motel parking lot, and Mulder climbs in. Scully tails the car, but her progress is halted when two sedans force her to stop. Four large men then approach her vehicle. Scully is escorted to a government building where, to her surprise, she is met by Skinner and Leamus. They explain that Mulder is participating in a deep cover assignment, the existence of which is known only to Skinner and Leamus. Someone in the militia group reached out to Mulder after he voiced his opinions about governmental conspiracies during a UFO conference. The BMW transports Mulder to a remote farmhouse. There, Mulder is questioned by Haley, who accuses him of spying on the group. When Mulder fails to give acceptable answers, a Skin− Head Man pushes back on his finger, causing Mulder to scream in pain. The torture session continues until Mulder suggests a mole exists within the group. Suddenly, the Skin−Head man pulls back on the finger, snapping it like a piece of celery. When Mulder passes out, Haley turns to him and says, “I believe you.” Meanwhile, Bremer tests the bioweapon on patrons at a small movie theater, killing fourteen people. But the question remains as to how the pathogen was spread to the victims. When Mulder returns to his apartment, he is surprised by Scully. She tends to his broken finger and discusses the undercover operation. Unbeknownst to them, Bremer is secretly recording their conversation. Later, Mulder reports back to Skinner and Leamus. It is determined that the militia group intends to rob a bank. Mulder also relays word that Haley demanded copies of surveillance files of militia group members (hoping to flush out the mole). Leamus reveals he anticipated such a request, and already has redacted microfilm documents prepared. Mulder returns to the motel and gives Haley the microfilm. He is then transported back to the farmhouse, where the militia group is readying its assault on the bank. Scully determines that the toxin was not developed by the Russians as previously believed. In private, she tells Skinner that the United States is operating a secret bioweapons program – and that someone in the government may have sent Mulder on a suicide mission. Later, it suddenly dawns on Scully that the source of pathogen’s distribution is money. Wearing monster masks, Mulder and the militia members storm a bank. Bremer accesses the vault and sprays the money with the pathogen. The group stages a successful getaway, and later Mulder realizes that the entire purpose of the break−in was

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to contaminate the money. Bremer pulls a gun on Mulder, announcing that his undercover work has been exposed. But Haley intercedes, noting that Bremer’s alias was discovered on the microfilm, exposing him as the mole. Bremer responds by playing back the secret tape recording he made of Mulder and Scully’s conversation. Bremer hands Haley a leather car key holder, allowing him to leave the group unharmed. But Bremer and the Skin− Head Man march Mulder away, intending to execute him. Suddenly, Bremer kills the Skin−Head Man. Bremer tells Mulder to run before they are both exposed. Mulder makes his way back to the bank, which has already been sealed off by Scully and Skinner. Scully explains that she recognized Mulder on a bank surveillance tape by the bandage on his finger. As the money is hauled out of the bank, Leamus tells the agents that the bills have tested clean. Scully accuses Leamus of having orchestrated the entire plan. Later, Haley slumps over in his car, his face eaten away by the biotoxin, which was transmitted by the key holder given him by Bremer.

Folie à Deux Production Code: #5X19 Original Air Date: 05/10/98 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER IS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY A MAN WHO CLAIMS HIS BOSS IS LITERALLY A MONSTER.

Gary Lambert works as a vinyl siding telemarketer in Oak Brook, Illinois. On the surface, Gary would seem to be a mild−mannered Everyman. But unbeknownst to his co−workers, Gary is convinced that his boss is an evil monster who preys on his own staff, turning them into the undead. One morning, Skinner summons Mulder and Scully to his office. He explains that the company Gary works for, VinylRight, received an anonymous, audio−taped manifesto, on which a man threatens to commit a violent act. As a result, the company wishes to have the threat investigated. Mulder is puzzled as to why Skinner is sending he and Scully to investigate. Skinner then explains that the maker of the tape spoke of a monster threatening employees. Somewhat irked, Mulder tells Scully he will handle the case alone, labeling himself “Monster Boy.” When Mulder arrives at the company, he is greeted by office manager Greg Pincus, who plays him the taped message. Mulder’s interest is piqued by a reference to “hiding in the light.” He telephones Scully and asks her to investigate previous X−Files cases for such a phrase. Meanwhile, Gary grows concerned when a fellow employee, Nancy Aaronson, is summoned to Greg’s office. When Nancy returns to her cubicle, Gary notices that, from his point of view, she appears to be dead.

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Scully telephones Mulder when she finishes researching the files. It turns out that the phrase “hiding in the light” was also used by a deacon at a Lakeland, Florida church. The deacon was convinced that one of his parishioners was an evil presence. One Sunday, he entered the church for mass and opened fire on his flock. When Mulder returns to VinylRight, he finds a sea of deserted cubicles. Nancy’s head peeks out from behind a wall and warns Mulder to take cover. Before he has time to react, Gary approaches – armed with an AK−47. Mulder slowly raises his hands into the air. Scully flies to Illinois and joins FBI and SWAT team members who have surrounded the building. Inside, Gary uses his co−workers to form a human barricade. A SWAT team commander overrules Scully and dials Mulder’s cell phone. Gary opens Mulder’s jacket… and notices his gun within. Gary kicks Mulder in the head, knocking him to the ground. A hostage then charges Gary, but he swivels and opens fire, killing the man. Gary then speaks with an FBI agent, and demands that a television crew be sent into the building so he can broadcast his fears to the public. Using a closed−circuit system, the FBI fools Gary into thinking his image is being broadcast throughout the city. Addressing the camera, Gary raises his gun and points it at Greg. He instructs everyone to look at Greg… to look at “it.” Mulder glances over his shoulder… and sees a monster where Pincus was standing. Suddenly, an Armored Personnel Carrier bursts through a wall. A SWAT team member opens fire, striking Gary. Mulder cannot dismiss what he saw inside the office complex. After performing additional research, Mulder determines that five previous X− Files cases involve monster that went unnoticed by all accept the claimant. Scully reacts with incredulity when Mulder suggests that Gary was not insane, but actually saw the creature he described. Scully attributes Mulder’s behavior to “folie à deux,” a madness shared by people under tense conditions. Meanwhile, Mulder follows Greg Pincus to the home of Gretchen Starns, one of his employees. As Mulder stands outside of the house, and gazes through a window, he sees the monster advance behind Gretchen, its insect−like mouth aiming for the back of her neck. The woman suddenly screams, prompting Mulder to shatter the window glass. The monster defies gravity by crawling over the house. Gretchen lodges a complaint with the FBI, accusing Mulder of breaking into her home. During a meeting with Skinner, Mulder sees Pincus, in the form of the monster, advancing. Mulder draws his gun, but Skinner, believing Mulder has lost his mind, gains the upper hand. Mulder is then admitted to a mental institution. Later, at Mulder’s prompting, Scully examines the back of the dead hostage’s neck. There she discovers tiny puncture marks. At the hospital, a restrained Mulder listens in horror as the monster approaches the window to his room.

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Mulder calls for the nurse… only to realize that she is one of the monster’s minions. Scully visits the hospital… and experiences a vision of the nurse as one of the living dead. She races to Mulder’s room, where she discovers the creature crawling on the ceiling. She opens fire, but the creature escapes. Later, Scully meets with Skinner. She voices her belief that Mulder is of sound mind. She notes that an unidentified toxin was found in the dead hostage, and notes that Pincus has disappeared, along with the nurse and several VinylRight employees. After recovering from his ordeal, Mulder returns to work. Scully informs him she told Skinner the truth: the incident can only be explained as a “folie à deux.”

The End Production Code: #5X20 Original Air Date: 05/17/98 Written by Chris Carter Directed by R.W. Goodwin A BOY POSSESSING PSYCHIC POWERS MAY HOLD THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF THE X− FILES.

Inside a sports arena, two chess masters, a Russian man and an odd−looking 12−year−old boy named Gibson Praise, engage in a battle of the minds as an audience sits in reverential silence. High above the crowd, on a catwalk overhanging the arena, a sniper aims his rifle towards the back of the child’s head. As the gunman slowly squeezes the trigger, the little boy announces “checkmate,” and slides back in his chair. A gunshot rings out… and the Russian falls to the floor, dead. Meanwhile, two armed, masked figures close in on the cabin where the Cigarette− Smoking Man (CSM) has holed up. A sensor alerts CSM to their presence, and he manages to kill one of them before making his escape into the woods. The second masked gunman gets the drop on his prey… and reveals himself as Alex Krycek. Skinner briefs Mulder on the death of the Russian chess player. It turns out that the sniper is a former member of the National Security Agency. The case was assigned to Agent Spender, who specified that Mulder be excluded from the investigation. Despite this, Mulder and Skinner crash Spender’s briefing. While viewing videotape of the assassination, Mulder reaches the conclusion that the shooter’s target was Gibson – not the Russian – as the boy reacted in an almost precognitive fashion moments before the shot rang out. Spender disagrees with the theory. Agent Diana Fowley, an attractive woman in her thirties, opines that Mulder is correct. Spender rewinds the tape… and forms the same conclusion.

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CSM meets with the Syndicate Elders. Labeling Gibson a threat, they ask for CSM’s help in orchestrating his elimination. Mulder, Scully and Diana Fowley visit Gibson inside a psychiatric hospital. The boy declines Mulder’s invitation to match wits against a cheap chess computer… giving credence to Mulder’s suspicion that the boy is not a chess master, but a mind reader. Tests on the child’s brain reveal that Gibson is, indeed, clairvoyant. Later, Mulder visits the shooter in his cell. He offers him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his cooperation. Scully cannot help but notice chemistry between Mulder and Fowley. She pays the Lone Gunman an unexpected visit. She gives them data from the tests performed on Gibson, and asks that it be analyzed. Scully also asks for information on Diana Fowley. The three men confirm that she and Mulder were an item back when Mulder graduated from the Academy and first discovered the existence of the X−Files. Scully returns to the psychiatric hospital intending to show Mulder the data she has accumulated. But when she approaches the observation room, she notices Mulder and Diana inside… and Diana holding Mulder’s hand. Scully, a confusion of emotions, both personal and professional, leaves the hospital. When Mulder enters the hospital’s parking garage to retrieve his car, he notices Spender talking to CSM. Mulder pushes Spender hard in the chest, demanding to know his business. Spender explains that he does not know the identity of the mysterious man. He then reveals that the shooter wishes to speak with Mulder. Scully meets with Skinner and Mulder to reveal the results of the psychiatric tests on Gibson. It turns out that an area of the child’s brain, dubbed the “God Module” by neurophysicists, exhibits extraordinary activity. Mulder believes the child’s life is in danger because of his gift, as it might be the key to solving the unexplained phenomena contained within the X−Files. He also suspects that the assassin holds the key to the vast conspiracy working against him. Skinner points out that the very existence of the X−Files would be put at risk if he asks the Attorney General to grant immunity to the assassin. Later, Mulder approaches the shooter and asks him for information he can corroborate. He reveals that Gibson is a missing link – genetic proof of man’s relationship to an alien race. CSM puts his plan in motion. The assassin is murdered inside his cell. Shortly thereafter, a bullet strikes Fowley as she stands watch over Gibson. CSM delivers the child to the Well−Manicured Man and Krycek. When Mulder sees Spender at the Bureau, he pushes him into a wall. He angrily accuses him of orchestrating Gibson’s disappearance in conjunction with CSM. Other agents restrain Mulder, dragging him away. Spender responds by stating that Mulder’s

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days are numbered. Later, Scully informs her partner there is talk of shutting down the X−Files. That night, CSM sneaks into Mulder’s office and steals a file on Samantha Mulder. He then addresses Spender face− to−face. He informs him that he is his father. Suddenly, a fire alarm sounds and agents make their way into the hallway. CSM disappears into the crowd. Later, Mulder inspects the damage to his office, where the cabinet containing the X−Files is a melted skeleton. Scully places her arms around her partner, offering support.

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The Beginning Production Code: #6ABX01 Original Air Date: 11/08/98 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners MULDER AND SCULLY’S ABILITY TO PURSUE THE X− FILES – AND THEIR PARTNERSHIP IS THREATENED BY THE HUNT FOR A DEADLY CREATURE IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, WHOSE CAPTURE MAY OR MAY NOT PROVE MULDER’S THEORIES ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.

Mulder and Scully are brought before a review board to justify their re−assignment on the X−Files. The board needs scientific proof of extraterrestrial life. Mulder argues that concrete evidence exists via Scully, who had earlier been infected by an alien virus. When Scully is vague regarding this infection, the board gives the team their final warning – find concrete evidence or else. On the sly, A.D. Skinner gives Mulder a lead on a strange case in Arizona that might give him the hard evidence he needs. At the crime scene, Mulder theorizes that the victim was infected by an alien virus and that this virus ultimately produced an alien entity. The entity then ripped away the victim’s chest from the inside as it birthed itself. Meantime, the Syndicate is irate that this “situation” has surfaced and is getting so much attention. Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) assures them that he is taking care of the problem. He brings Gibson Praise, the young chess prodigy, to the crime scene in hopes that Praise can divine where the creature has escaped to. The agents are drawn to a nearby power plant where another murder has occurred. They are met by agents Spender and Fowley who deny Mulder access to the new crime scene. When Mulder and Scully return to their car, they find Praise hiding in the back seat. Mulder wants to use Praise to find the alien creature, but Scully talks him out of it, explaining that Praise is the scientific evidence Mulder’s been

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looking for. Praise can corroborate everything Mulder’s been saying. Scully tells Mulder that Praise needs medical attention, and just as they’re about to drive him to the hospital, Agent Fowley arrives. Scully continues on to the hospital with Praise, while Mulder and Fowley go to the plant to find the creature. At the plant, Mulder and Fowley discover evidence that the alien is there. He calls Scully at the hospital to tell her this; in turn, she reveals that Praise has traces of the alien virus in his body. Somehow, Praise is part extraterrestrial. While Scully’s attention is diverted, Black−Haired Man kidnaps Praise and takes him to the power plant to find and destroy the alien. Mulder catches up with Praise and Black−Haired Man, but it is too late. They have locked themselves inside the core reactor room. Mulder watches helplessly as the alien kills Black−Haired Man. The alien turns on Praise just as the plant’s alarms sound and FBI agents swarm the area. Fowley, now seeming to be on Spender’s side, approaches Mulder and tells him to back off. Back at the review board, the panel tells Mulder and Scully to cease all association with the X−Files. They are put on probation and told to report to a new boss, Assistant Director Kersh.

Drive Production Code: #6ABX02 Original Air Date: 11/15/98 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman WITH MULDER TRAPPED IN A CAR BY A SEEMINGLY DERANGED MAN, SCULLY RACES TO DETERMINE IF THE MAN IS SUFFERING FROM A DEADLY ILLNESS – AND IF MULDER IS IN DANGER OF BECOMING THE NEXT VICTIM.

Via a live news report, a high−speed car chase comes to an end in the Nevada desert. Assuming it to be a kidnapping, the female passenger is pulled from the vehicle and placed into the protective custody of a police vehicle. The driver, Patrick Crump, is pushed to the asphalt and handcuffed. The woman in the police car begins violently banging her head against the car window. As the news chopper catches all of this on film, the woman’s head explodes, sending a spray of blood across the window. The agents get wind of this bizarre car chase as they’re doing scut work in Idaho. Mulder coerces Scully into taking a detour by Elko, Nevada on a hunch that this may be an X−File. Once there, however, Mulder manages to get himself kidnapped by Crump, who has escaped from the police. Mulder realizes that Crump is in a considerable amount of pain and that the only way to ease the pain is to drive west. Scully investigates the Crumps home and discovers that an antenna array emitting

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ELF waves stretches beneath their property. She deduces that an abnormal surge in these waves somehow caused a rising pressure in the inner ear of the nearby inhabitants. Westward motion seems to be the only thing to help the ease the pain of the increasing pressure. Mulder explains to Crump that Scully will meet them at the end of the highway. There she will insert a needle into Crump’s inner ear, hopefully relieving the pressure. But when Mulder arrives, it is too late. Crump has already died.

Triangle Production Code: #6ABX03 Original Air Date: 11/22/98 Written and Directed by Chris Carter A TRIP TO THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE LANDS MULDER IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIZARRE CONFLICT ON A MYSTERIOUS SHIP, WITH THE FATE OF THE WORLD IN HIS HANDS.

Thrown out of his dingy by a ferocious storm in the Sargasso Sea, Mulder is fished out the ocean by hostile sailors. When he regains his wits, he realizes he’s boarded the “Queen Anne”, an English luxury liner that disappeared in the 1930s during World War II. Brought before the ship’s captain Yip Harburgh, Mulder tries to explain that the war is over and that the boat has been caught in some kind of time warp called the Devil’s Triangle for the past 50 years. But he captain and crew have very different feelings, as the reality of the moment tells us that the liner has been captured by Nazi soldiers. The Nazis believe that the boat is carrying “Thor’s Hammer”, which they assume to be an atom bomb. When Mulder accidentally reveals that “Thor’s Hammer” is the scientist who can make an atom bomb, the Nazis steer a path for Germany, hoping to use the atom bomb technology to win the war. The atom bomb scientist on board is traveling with a woman who looks identical to Scully. Mulder enlists the aid of the Scully look−alike, telling her she must turn the ship around and save the future. If she doesn’t, the Germans will win the war, and ultimately, Mulder and Scully will not exist. The Scully look−alike is confused, but Mulder is in a hurry, he’s got to get back to his own history. Realizing he may never get another chance, he gives the Scully look−alike a deep kiss, for which she repays him with a “special” kiss of her own – a right hook to his chin. Mulder jumps overboard. Meantime, the Lone Gunmen approach Scully at FBI headquarters and inform her of Mulder’s disappearance. She enlists the help of Skinner to get information from the Navy’s satellite tracking system to find the missing ship.

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Racing to the spot where Mulder disappeared, the Gunmen and Scully find the ship and rescue Mulder. At the hospital, the Lone Gunmen, Scully and Skinner visit Mulder. He tries to explain all that happened, but they downplay it as a dream. They all wish him a speedy recovery and leave. It is then that Mulder feels a bruise on his face given to him by one of the Nazis. And he realizes it wasn’t a dream after all.

Dreamland (1 of 2) Production Code: #6ABX04 Original Air Date: 11/29/98 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners AN ANONYMOUS TIP FINALLY BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY TO THE MECCA OF ALL UFO LORE – AREA 51. BUT WHEN THE AGENTS WITNESS THE FLIGHT OF A MYSTERIOUS CRAFT, THEIR LIVES ARE PROFOUNDLY – AND PERHAPS IRREVOCABLY – ALTERED.

Mulder drags Scully deep in the Nevada desert to meet a “source” who supposedly works at Area 51 and is going to give Mulder proof positive of the government’s experimentation with alien technology. Unfortunately, before they can rendezvous with the informant, they are stopped by other Area 51 officials who tell them they must turn around. As Scully tries to haul Mulder back into the car, a UFO flies overhead. It emits a massive heat ripple which switches the personalities of Mulder and Morris Fletcher, one of the Area 51 officials. Unbeknownst to anyone other than Mulder and Morris, Morris (who now inhabits Mulder’s body) climbs back into the car with Scully, leaving Mulder (who is now in Morris’ body) with the Area 51 goons. Entrenched behind the walls of the mecca of UFO lore, Mulder tries to untangle the mess he’s found himself in. Morris, on the other hand, is just happy to be given this new life as a single FBI agent; he doesn’t lift one finger to try to reverse the situation. Mulder tries to prove to Scully that he is not Morris, though Scully is skeptical at best. He tells her he will give her scientific proof via a flight data recorder which was recovered from another plane that crashed during test flights at Area 51. Unfortunately, Morris (aka Mulder) gets wind of Mulder’s plan and informs A.D. Kersh. Kersh then orders Scully to set a trap for Mulder. The Area 51 police arrive and capture Mulder. And as Scully watches the MPs drag off this man who looks like Morris Fletcher, but claims to be Mulder, she wonders if there may be any truth to the odd turn of events.

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Dreamland II (2 of 2) Production Code: #6ABX05 Original Air Date: 12/06/98 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners SCULLY BEGINS TO SUSPECT THAT HER PARTNER’S STRANGE BEHAVIOR IS MORE THAN IT APPEARS TO BE, WHILE MULDER FIGHTS TO RETURN HIS LIFE TO NORMAL BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.

Still trapped inside Man−In−Black Morris’ body, Mulder manages to evade the brig when his fellow MIB cohorts discover that the flight data recorder Mulder tried to give Scully was a fake. They come to the conclusion that Mulder was trying to run a scam on the FBI. Mulder plays along and the MIBs are relieved, but still want the original flight data recorder back. Mulder waffles, but tells them he has it and that he’ll return it. Meanwhile, Scully is put on suspension and Morris (in Mulder’s body) tries to ease her pain by inviting her to his house for a home−cooked meal. Suspicious at first, she agrees. But when she gets there, she finds an immaculate apartment and an actual bedroom she never knew Mulder had. Things are just a bit too weird. She confronts Morris about the switch and he comes clean, further explaining that he has no idea how to switch back. A reluctant Morris accompanies Scully as she reveals to Mulder that there may not be a way to reverse this process. But somehow, one of the MIBs discover that the time warp is snapping back, reversing time in the process. He positions Mulder and Morris in the right time at the right place and their personalities are returned to the rightful bodies. Their memories of the past few days are rewound as well and no one remembers a thing. This perplexes Mulder when returns home to find a spotless apartment.

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas Production Code: #6ABX08 Original Air Date: 12/13/98 Written and Directed by Chris Carter ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, MULDER CONVINCES SCULLY TO PUT ASIDE HER GIFT WRAPPING AND STAKE OUT A REPUTED HAUNTED HOUSE. BUT THEY DISCOVER A MARRIED COUPLE LIVING IN THE HOUSE, KEEPING A SECRET THE AGENTS NEVER EXPECTED.

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inside. Mulder believes it is the work of the ghosts who inhabit the house. Scully, ever the skeptic, instructs Mulder on the psychology of peoples’ need to believe in the afterlife as a means to satisfy their fear of mortality. But when a previously locked door springs open and a light shines from inside the room beyond, Mulder chalks it up to ghosts. Scully, admitting that she is afraid but that it’s an irrational fear, still sticks with the belief that people might be actually living in the house. Passing through the door, the partners find themselves in a library. And in a series of odd twists and turns, they become separated – each trapped in some parallel universe version of the library. It is here that Mulder meets Maurice The Ghost (Ed Asner), who convinces Mulder to shoot Scully. In her own parallel library, Scully meets Lyda The Ghost (Lily Tomlin), who convinces Scully to shoot Mulder. When the two agents meet back up, they follow through on the ghosts’ mischievous plan and fire their weapons on each other. As they lay gasping on the staircase landing, they realize it was only some kind of mind trick played on them by the ghosts. Safely ensconced back in their homes, the duo agree that the events of the evening never happened.

Terms of Endearment Production Code: #6ABX06 Original Air Date: 01/03/99 Written by David Amann Directed by Rob Bowman WHEN A MOTHER IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HER UNBORN CHILD, MULDER AND SCULLY BEGIN TO SUSPECT A MORE SINISTER FORCE IS AT WORK.

Wayne and Laura Weinsider are just like any other couple – they want to start a family. But when the ultrasound shows possible deformities in the baby that Laura is carrying, it is Wayne who becomes visibly upset. That night, Laura has a nightmare that a demon has come to steal her baby. When she wakes, she realizes the nightmare has come true and that her unborn baby has been taken from her. The town’s sheriff, who happens to be Laura’s brother, brings the case to Agent Spender who round−files it to the shredder. But Mulder manages to salvage the report and begins his own investigation. His primary suspect is Wayne but Scully thinks that Laura self−aborted and has her arrested. Meantime, Mulder follows Wayne and ultimately uncovers that Wayne has been living a dual life. His second wife, Betsy, lives on the other side of town and Mulder fears for her safety. As Mulder and Scully race to save Betsy, a car skids to a stop in the middle of the road. It’s Betsy, who

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exits the car bleeding, exclaiming that Wayne took her baby. Moving on to Betsy’s house, Mulder and Scully find Wayne furiously digging in the backyard. The agents think Wayne is burying Betsy’s unborn baby, but before Wayne can tell them otherwise, the sheriff arrives and shoots Wayne down. What Wayne would have told the agents is that he was actually digging up unborn normal babies – the ones Betsy had buried there. Being a demon himself, a normal baby was all Wayne ever wanted. But it seems Betsy, being even more evil than he, had always wanted just the opposite – a demon baby. And as Betsy drives into the sunset with her newborn baby, we see that’s exactly what she got.

The Rain King Production Code: #6ABX07 Original Air Date: 01/10/99 Written by Jeffrey Bell Directed by Kim Manners IN A SMALL TOWN PLAGUED BY DROUGHT, MULDER AND SCULLY COME UPON A MAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE WEATHER – AT A HEFTY PROFIT. YET THE AGENTS DISCOVER A FORCE OF NATURE AT WORK, WHICH IS EVEN MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WEATHER.

Kroner, Kansas has been experiencing a three− month drought. It’s Valentine’s Day and Sheila Fontaine waits for her boyfriend, Darryl Mootz. When he arrives home, he’s angry that Sheila has prematurely spread word of their engagement and storms out of the house, leaving Sheila alone with her tears and a box of chocolates. Shortly thereafter, Darryl is caught in a freak hailstorm which causes him to wreck his car. It’s six months later and nine months into the drought. Mulder and Scully are called to Kroner by the town’s mayor who believes that Darryl is causing the drought so he can charge people for the rain. When the agents check with Holman Hardt, the local meteorologist, Holman substantiates part of the mayor’s claim – Holman believes that Darryl can make it rain. While Mulder and Scully check out Darryl’s side−show, Sheila tells Holman she’s nervous that the FBI are poking around. Shortly thereafter, Mulder’s life is threatened when a cow is picked up by a mini−twister and hurled through the roof of the motel where he’s staying. Out of guilt, Sheila confesses that she is the one who has been causing all of the terrible weather− related catastrophes that have been occurring in Kroner for the past twenty years. Mulder, however, has another theory. He believes that Holman is the culprit and that it is the feelings he can’t express that have been affecting the weather. To wit, Holman has been pining away for Sheila since they were in high school together. But Sheila has

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divulged to Holman that she’s got a crush on Mulder. Holman, in turn, causes it to rain in flash− flood proportions. To stop the deluge, Mulder gives Holman “dating” advice, telling him that he must tell Sheila how he feels about her. After much prodding, Holman opens his heart to her. One year later finds Holman and Sheila married with a child. And the weather, as you can imagine, is perfect.

S.R. 819 Production Code: #6ABX10 Original Air Date: 01/17/99 Written by John Shiban Directed by Daniel Sackheim MULDER AND SCULLY HAVE 24 HOURS TO SAVE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER FROM BEING KILLED – BUT IN ORDER TO DO SO, THEY MUST DETERMINE WHO WANTS HIM DEAD, AND WHY.

A man is rushed into the emergency room near death. One of the doctors tells the nurse to call Agent Scully because the sick man works for the FBI. We assume that it is Agent Mulder; only to find, however, that it is actually Assistant Director Skinner. Flashback twenty−four hours. Agent Mulder finds A.D. Skinner in his office, not feeling well. He calls in Scully who posits that Skinner may have been poisoned. When asked to recall if anything out of the ordinary happened in his day, Skinner remembers that a renowned physicist named Kenneth Orgel stopped him in the hallway earlier in the day. Mulder and Skinner pay a visit to Orgel, only to find him in the process of being kidnapped. The kidnappers get away with Orgel; Mulder captures one of the fleeing bad guys, but must release him when he discovers that the man is a Tunisian with diplomatic immunity. Scully, in the meantime, examines a vial of Skinner’s blood. Upon close levels of magnification, she finds miniscule foreign bodies that seem to multiply uniformly and rapidly. These specks are forming dams in Skinner’s veins, cutting off his blood flow and building a heart attack. Mulder rifles through Orgel’s house and finds a connection to Senator Matheson. Paying the Senator a visit, he finds out about Senate Resolution 819 – a health bill which will supply medical technology for third world countries. Ripping apart Skinner’s office, Mulder finds that Skinner was doing a security check on the resolution and that, somehow, his connection to the resolution is what got him poisoned. He confronts Senator Matheson again and finds out that nanotechnology – microscopic atom− sized machines that had been previously thought of as only theoretical – have been injected into

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Skinner and someone is programming them to kill him. Meanwhile, Skinner lies on a hospital bed, his pulse flatlines. The orderly calls time of death. Moments later, Skinner gasps and comes back to life. Weeks later, Scully reports that whatever infected Skinner has gone into remission. Mulder asks for permission to continue the investigation but Skinner closes the case. At day’s end, Skinner heads for his car. In the backseat, he finds the man who had been driving the nanotechnology atoms – Krycek. Krycek glares at Skinner – he’s got Skinner under his thumb and intends to keep him there.

Tithonus Production Code: #6ABX09 Original Air Date: 01/24/99 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Michael Watkins PAIRED WITH A NEW PARTNER, AGENT SCULLY INVESTIGATES A CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE SUBJECTS MAY IN FACT BE HIS VICTIMS.

Relegated to doing background checks, Scully and Mulder are bored stiff. Assistant Director Kersh finally calls Scully up and pairs her with New York City field agent, Peyton Ritter, for a special assignment. While scanning old crime scene photos into the computer, Ritter stumbled upon inconsistencies in the times that the photos were taken. He feels that the man who took the pictures, a stringer named Alfred Fellig, is responsible. Ritter theorizes that Fellig kills people, takes their picture, then shows up later when called to do the crime scene photo job for the wire services. In a dark alley in the Bronx, a mugger tackles and kills his victim. Mid−crime, the mugger looks up to see Fellig on a fire escape, taking pictures. The mugger then turns on Fellig and knifes him in the back. Fellig falls to the concrete, dead, and the mugger takes off. Minutes after he’s gone, Fellig pulls the knife out of his back and staggers off into the night. Fellig is brought in for questioning but denies killing anyone; he was just there for “the shot”. And since they have no proof that Fellig committed the crime, they release him. But Ritter begins 24−hour surveillance on Fellig. Scully relieves Ritter late at night, only to realize shortly after Ritter leaves that Fellig is watching her. Exasperated, she confronts Fellig about his involvement in the murders that he photographs. He invites her to come for a ride and he will show Scully how he happens to be johnny− on−the−spot when a murder is committed. After driving around for hours, Fellig finally stops and points to a hooker. He tells Scully that the hooker will be dead within the hour. Not believing

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him, Scully confronts the hooker, who backs away from Scully, heads into the street and is run down by an oncoming truck. Scully, in shock at what she may have just caused, looks up in time to see Fellig drive off. Mulder does some low−tech research on his own and calls Scully to tell her that Fellig has a penchant for changing identities, the farthest one dating back to 1849. This makes Fellig 149 years old. Scully, not wanting Fellig to have another identity crisis, goes to Fellig’s apartment where he ushers her into his darkroom. He explains that he was marked for death a long time ago, but somehow Death missed him. Fellig has been taking photos of dying people ever since in hopes of capturing the visage of Death on film so that he can look into Death’s face and die as well. During the conversation, Fellig realizes that Scully is marked for Death and readies to take her picture. Agent Ritter arrives and fires instinctively into the darkened room. The bullet hits Fellig as well as Scully. As Ritter moves into the other room to call for help, Fellig takes Scully’s hand and tells her not to look into Death’s face. She closes her eyes and Death finally takes Fellig.

Two Fathers (1 of 2) Production Code: #6ABX11 Original Air Date: 02/07/99 Written by Jeffrey Bell, Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN CASSANDRA SPENDER MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARS.

Inside a stockyard in Arlington, Virginia, a surgeon escorts Dr. Openshaw inside a train car containing a surgical bay. Openshaw approaches an operating table, on which lies a patient, her face unseen. The surgeon congratulates Openshaw on his work, some 25 years in the making, which is now a success. The surgeon exits the train car, only to be lit afire by a Faceless Man. The rest of the surgical team, waiting in a nearby van, are also incinerated. A Faceless Man enters the surgical bay and thrusts his weapon at Openshaw, burning him. The creature then looks upon the operating table… where an unconscious Cassandra Spender lies. Skinner escorts Agent Spender to the stockyard. He explains that a group of people were burned alive, and that only his mother, and a critically injured man, survived. Spender sees his mother in a nearby paramedics vehicle and goes to her side. Cassandra asks to speak with Mulder. Moments later, Spender tells Skinner that he objects to the idea of Mulder’s involvement in the case. But Spender changes his mind, and reluctantly informs Mulder of his mother’s request to speak with him. Mulder tells Spender to find the truth himself.

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Meanwhile, the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM) approaches Openshaw, who miraculously survived the fire and has been confined to a plastic tent inside a hospital. Openshaw tells him that Cassandra is a success, and must be terminated before the alien colonists find out that a human/alien hybrid exists. Shortly thereafter, CSM kills Openshaw. CSM telephones Elder #1 to inform him about an emergency meeting of the Syndicate. Elder #1 promises he will make the meeting. He makes his way to the front door… only to find Openshaw standing on the other side. Elder #1 grabs at the impostor’s face, exposing a faceless rebel beneath. A struggle ensues, and the Elder is killed. Scully and Mulder decide to meet with Cassandra without informing Spender of their action. Miraculously, Cassandra pushes back the covers and lets her legs fall to the floor. Scully looks on, incredulous, as the previously wheelchair− bound Cassandra walks without assistance. Cassandra tells the agents that surgeons worked in conjunction with the aliens to cure her. She now believes that the aliens are plotting to take over the universe by infecting all life forms with a black virus. The surgeons were burned by another race of aliens – faceless rebels – who mutilated their faces so they wouldn’t be infected. Cassandra now believes that her son’s life is in danger, as he is in collusion with men who have worked with the aliens. In flashback, some 35 years earlier, Openshaw, Bill Mulder, and CSM enter a train car containing a Native American test subject. The Native American’s face, arms and body are horribly disfigured. Repulsed, Bill Mulder exits the train car. As the disfigured man is their best effort, both CSM and Openshaw believe they must ally with the aliens if they ever hope to create a human/alien hybrid. Back in the present day, the Syndicate members, including Krycek and CSM, gather for the meeting. Elder #1 suggests an alliance with the alien rebels, something completely at odds with everything the group has strived for. After the meeting, Krycek informs CSM that Mulder paid Cassandra a secret visit. Scully and Mulder sneak into Mulder’s old office, where they access computer files on Cassandra Spender, her son, and CSM, who is identified by the name “C.G.B. Spender.” But the computer has no additional information on the mysterious man. Moments later, Skinner warns the agents that they are about to get caught. Before Mulder and Scully have a chance to escape, they are confronted by Spender. Later, Spender informs his father that Mulder and Scully will be processed out of the FBI. He then asks for the truth about his mother. CSM tells him that Cassandra has been involved in a very important experiment. But he does not elaborate further, as Spender must prove himself capable of the responsibility that comes with such knowledge.

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Meanwhile, Scully performs some research. She learns that Cassandra Spender was first abducted on the night of November 27th, 1973… the same night Mulder’s sister was abducted. CSM tells Spender about Elder #1’s death. He instructs Spender to kill the imposter using a gimlet weapon. Krycek drives Spender to Elder #1’s home. Unfortunately, Spender cannot muster the nerve to carry out his assignment. The Elder #1 imposter sees the gimlet in Spender’s hand and attacks him. Krycek comes to Spender’s rescue, driving the gimlet into the imposter’s neck. Afterward, a Iago− like Krycek informs Spender that his father directed the experiments forced on Cassandra. Spender realizes he is being asked to protect his mother so the experiments can continue. Back at the hospital, Cassandra enters the bathroom to smoke a cigarette. As she looks in the mirror, her face suddenly loses its shape. Cassandra screams. The female FBI agent assigned to protect her races to her aid. She assures Cassandra that she will be all right, as she is “the one.” Cassandra stares at her, not comprehending. The female FBI agent reaches up to her own face and pulls back her flesh… revealing a male Faceless Alien beneath. Cassandra recoils in fear. Clad in the FBI agent’s clothing, she flees to Mulder’s apartment. With time running out, she begs the agents to kill her, because if she lives, there will be no stopping what is about to happen. Mulder draws his gun and aims at Cassandra.

One Son (2 of 2) Production Code: #6ABX12 Original Air Date: 02/14/99 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER LEARNS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT/ALIEN CONSPIRACY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS SISTER’S ABDUCTION, BUT NOW FACES A GREATER DILEMMA: WHAT TO DO WITH THIS NEW FOUND KNOWLEDGE.

Mulder is about to pull the trigger and end Cassandra Spender’s life, when the door to his apartment is forced open and CDC agents storm in, taking Mulder, Scully and Cassandra into custody. In a quarantined area at Ft. Marlene military base, Mulder and Scully are addressed by Diana Fowley. She explains that Cassandra Spender had contracted a highly contagious virus and needed to be put in isolation pending full medical evaluation. Scully scoffs at this notion, calling it unjustified and highly suspicious. Scully believes that Cassandra was taken so that the tests could continue. Mulder tells Scully that the tests won’t continue because they have been completed; Cassandra is, in fact, the first successful human/alien hybrid. Cassandra knew this

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and was begging Mulder to end her life so that the aliens would not start colonization. In a hallway at Ft. Marlene, Mulder finds Marita Covarrubias. She appears haggard and quite ill. She tells Mulder that they have been performing tests on her to find a vaccine against the Black Oil. She explains to Mulder that the hybrid program was in cooperation with the aliens, but the conspirators never intended to succeed. They were only buying time until a vaccine was created to fight the Black Oil. But now that Cassandra Spender is a successful human/alien hybrid, colonization will begin. Scully calls Mulder to the Lone Gunmen’s lair where she tells him of her suspicions about Diana Fowley. Scully feels that Diana is somehow working with the Syndicate, but Mulder refuses to believe her. Scully storms out and Mulder pays a visit to Diana’s apartment. He begins searching her room for any incriminating evidence when the Cigarette− Smoking Man (CSM) enters the apartment. Mulder holds him at gunpoint as CSM substantiates the entire Syndicate operation. He even explains that Mulder’s father gave over Mulder’s sister Samantha to the aliens as a guarantee of their honor. In return, the aliens gave the Syndicate the alien fetus that would allow the human/alien hybrid work to begin. CSM truly believes that what he did saved millions of lives and ultimately would bring Samantha and other family members back home. It was Mulder’s father who thought of the idea to use the alien fetus DNA to make a secret vaccine against the Black Oil. Jeffrey Spender pays a visit to his father in the Syndicate offices, only to find Krycek in the now abandoned space. Krycek tells Spender that everyone has left for El Rico Air Force Base to receive the hybrid genes and that Spender’s father, CSM, has gone to get Cassandra to turn her over to the aliens. Spender informs Scully. Meanwhile, Mulder and Diana, who has returned to her apartment, leave for the base. Mulder calls Scully to have her meet them there. Scully tells Mulder about Cassandra and the two rush to intercept the train. The train plows through their car as they escape the impact. Diana joins the Syndicate in the hangar at the base, and Cassandra is brought in. The doors open and the rebel aliens enter, incinerating the Syndicate and their families. Diana and CSM manage to slip out. Later, Spender takes responsibility for the deaths and recommends to A.D. Kersh that Mulder and Scully be reinstated on the X−Files. CSM enters Spender’s office to confront his son. Spender expresses his hatred for CSM. CSM draws his gun and points it at Spender. After firing a single shot, CSM exits.

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Agua Mala Production Code: #6ABX14 Original Air Date: 02/21/99 Written by David Amann Directed by Rob Bowman STRANDED IN FLORIDA BY A HURRICANE, MULDER AND SCULLY SEEK SAFETY IN AN OLD APARTMENT BUILDING – BUT THE AGENTS FIND THEMSELVES IN EVEN MORE DANGER WHEN THEY LEARN SOMETHING ELSE HAS COME IN FROM THE RAIN WITH THEM.

Arthur Dales, father of the X−Files, lures Mulder and Scully to Florida’s Gulf Coast in the middle of a hurricane with tales of a sea monster on the loose. Scully is not so easily convinced and after checking out a house where the monster supposedly killed a family, she begs Mulder to take the last flight out before the hurricane descends full−force. But the hurricane strikes, closing the airport and all roads out of town. Forced to take shelter in a nearby apartment building, they find a sheriff’s deputy who has been attacked by what Scully terms a water−borne parasite. Mulder, surmising that whatever attacked the deputy might be in the plumbing, decides to check out the rest of the building for inhabitants. He finds a looter, a couple – Walter and his very pregnant girlfriend, Angela, and a militant neighbor, George Vincent. Huddled in a darkened apartment together, the motley crew watch as the deputy hovers nears death. They pack him in ice in the tub, hoping to abate his rising temperature. But when the group’s not looking, the looter steals the deputy’s ring and inadvertently knocks a box of Epsom salts into the bath water. Minutes later, pregnant Angela uses the bathroom, only to emerge screaming that she had seen the creature with giant arms like an octopus. When Mulder enters the bathroom, he finds the deputy’s body gone, melted into water in the tub. Mulder theorizes that the monster doesn’t live in water, but that it is water, taking shape only when it attacks. To avoid any further attacks, Mulder decides it’s time to move everyone to another building. He goes out to the carport only to find the looter has taken the deputy’s prowler and escaped, leaving the group stranded. On his way back into the apartment, he is attacked by a coiled tentacle that extends from the ceiling and wraps its arm around Mulder’s neck. Managing to free himself from the monster, Mulder tries to get back into the apartment, but Vincent has locked him out. As he struggles for his life in the hallway, Angela goes into labor and Scully must help deliver the baby. As the new bundle arrives, Scully deduces that fresh water kills the organism and has Walter shoot the sprinkler heads. Simultaneously, Mulder has the same

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Monday Production Code: #6ABX15 Original Air Date: 02/28/99 Written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners A BAD DAY KEEPS GETTING WORSE FOR MULDER AND SCULLY, ENDING IN TRAGEDY THAT THE AGENTS SEEM POWERLESS TO PREVENT.

It’s Monday morning, and already Mulder’s having a bad day. His waterbed sprouts a leak, causing his alarm clock to short out – now he’s late for a meeting. His cell phone is busted as well, his neighbors downstairs are complaining about water damage. And to make matters worse, the check he writes to cover the damage is going to bounce unless he deposits his paycheck immediately. Mulder rushes to his office to pick up his check, telling Scully that he’ll be at the meeting as soon as he makes his deposit. Yet, as luck would have it, the very moment Mulder arrives at the bank, a disillusioned janitor named Bernard has decided that he’s going to change his own luck – by robbing the bank. Bernard whips out a gun and forces everyone – including Mulder – to drop to the floor. He’s edgy, just this side of snapping, and Mulder thinks better of trying to stop him. Meanwhile, Scully waits with increasing impatience at their meeting – she finally gets up to leave, going to the bank herself. Mulder sees her approaching from across the street and tries to get Bernard to lock the doors – too late. Scully walks in, sees the situation, pulls out her weapon. In the ensuing chaos, and to Scully’s horror, Mulder is shot squarely in the chest. As Mulder slowly bleeds to death in her arms, Scully attempts to talk Bernard down. But the burglar alarm has been tripped, Skinner has been alerted, and a SWAT team is just outside. Bernard sees all of this and realizes there is no going back – he opens his jacket, revealing dozens of sticks of dynamite. He flips the trigger – the bank explodes. There’s no way anyone could have survived. Then we’re back where we started – Monday morning, leaky waterbed, the same bad day – but it still ends with the exploding bank. The day repeats itself over and over with small variations – some days, Scully deposits Mulder’s check, some days Mulder uses the ATM. But each time, no one quite remembers that they’ve done this repeatedly – though Mulder is becoming gradually aware of a strong sense of déjà vu. And something starts to

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happen that seems to confirm this: each time, Bernard’s girlfriend Pam desperately tries to warn Mulder not to go in the bank – she seems to be the only one who remembers what is happening, and it is hell for her. She tells Mulder that she’s tried stopping Bernard, tried calling the police, but nothing ever works – Mulder is the only variable. She begs him not to go in the bank, telling him that “something went wrong on this day the first time around.” And it’s going to keep repeating until it goes right. Pam’s words sink in, finally – the next time he sees Bernard, Mulder remembers the bomb, remembers the outcome of this Monday. He calls Scully for help, asking her to bring Pam into the bank. The three attempt to talk Bernard out of it, tell him to just walk away – but Bernard reacts the same way he always does – he shoots at Mulder. Only this time, Pam jumps in front of the bullet. It hits her in the chest and she drops to the ground, saying “This never happened before.” She dies – and the day is over. Mulder awakes the next day on his couch – it’s Tuesday.

Arcadia Production Code: #6ABX13 Original Air Date: 03/07/99 Written by Daniel Arkin Directed by Michael Watkins MULDER AND SCULLY GO UNDERCOVER, POSING AS A MARRIED COUPLE, TO INVESTIGATE STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN A PLANNED SUBURBAN COMMUNITY.

Welcome to “The Falls at Arcadia”, one of the nation’s top−rated planned communities. Unfortunately, three couples have vanished from the neighborhood over the past seven years. So Mulder and Scully go undercover and pose as new home buyers to investigate the strange disappearances. Helpful residents Big Mike, a veterinarian, and next−door neighbors, Win and Cami Schroeder, help Mulder and Scully get squared away on move−in day. But Win balks when Mulder wants to erect a portable basketball hoop; this definitely goes against the community’s strict regulations. Win suggests that Mulder take up the issue with Homeowner president, Gene Gogolak. When Big Mike suddenly disappears, the Shroeders simply explain to Mulder and Scully that he went away on business. Scully and Mulder pay a visit to Gogolak, who tells them that regulations forbid the basketball hoop in the front driveway. He explains that rules are rules, and though it may seem tough to get used to, there’s is a system that works. Mulder then changes the subject to Gogolak’s decor. Gogolak explains that most of his

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antiques are Nepalese and Tibetan; he owns Pier 9 Imports and travels to the Far East often for business. The Shroeders invite Mulder and Scully to dinner and Mulder presses the issue of Big Mike’s disappearance. When Cami becomes uncomfortable with the topic and excuses herself to take the dog out, Scully accompanies her. During their walk, the dog gets loose and scrambles into a nearby storm drain. As Scully tries to fish out the lost pooch, she finds a caduceus necklace worn by Big Mike covered in what appears to be blood. Scully has the “blood” analyzed, only to find that it is basically garbage; the neighborhood was built atop an old landfill. Mulder theorizes that the Klines are buried in the yard somewhere, and while digging a hole to find them, he dredges up a Malaysian artifact with a sticker showing that it came from Pier 9 Imports. Mulder confronts Gogolak with the theory that Gogolak, while on the trips to Far East, learned of the tulpa, or Tibetan thought− form, a creature willed into existence by one who possesses the ability. He believes Gogolak created this creature formed by garbage to keep the residents in check. Meantime, back at home Scully is surprised by Big Mike – alive – who reveals that he was attacked by the creature, but managed to escape. He tells Scully that the creature is coming for her because her “husband” has broken the rules. Big Mike barricades Scully in the closet and fights off the approaching monster. The firing gunshots warn Mulder, who races home, with Gogolak in tow. Mulder stops to handcuff Gogolak to the mailbox before going inside to help Scully. But outside, Gogolak is attacked by his own creation – yet with his death, the tulpa dies as well, disintegrating at Mulder’s feet.

Alpha Production Code: #6ABX16 Original Air Date: 03/28/99 Written by Jeffrey Bell Directed by Peter Markle TWO CREW MEMBERS ABOARD THE T’IEN KOU, A CHINESE FREIGHTER BOUND FOR LOS ANGELES, SNEAK INTO THE CARGO HOLD TO INVESTIGATE A LARGE CONTAINER. ONE OF THE CREW MEMBERS POKES AT THE CONTAINER AND AGITATES THE ANIMAL INSIDE TO THE POINT THAT THEY THINK IT MAY HAVE KILLED ITSELF.

When the ship docks, an irate Dr. Ian Detweiler, the owner of the container, sees that a pool of blood has oozed out of the crate and is furious that the animal contained within may have been hurt. When they remove the outer locks and open it, however, it is the two crew members who lie dead at the bottom of the crate; the animal nowhere to be found.

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Mulder is tipped off to the event and after some preliminary investigating, finds that the ship’s manifest listed the animal as a dog. When he theorizes that a dog might have been responsible for the deaths of the two crewmen, Scully reminds Mulder that in order for that to have happened, the dog would’ve had to escape from the box, kill the two men, put them back inside and lock the crate behind them – hardly the actions of man’s best friend. On board the T’ien Kou, Fish & Wildlife Department officer Jeffrey Cahn takes Mulder and Scully to meet Detweiler, who tells them that the dog is a Wanshang Dhole, a very rare breed of canid from Asia thought to be extinct for the past 150 years. Just as Detweiler is explaining that the dog does not have a predatory nature, a US F& W officer reports that another dog attack has occurred. Mulder and Scully pay a visit to Karen Berquist, the canine behavioralist who gave Mulder the tip about the first murders – she and Mulder had been communicating via the Internet. They hope Berquist might be able to shed some light onto the behavior of the animal. As they wait in her library, Scully notes a copy of the “I WANT TO BELIEVE” poster hanging on Berquist’s wall. When Berquist finally arrives, she is less than hospitable. She tells the agents that while some canids use tricks to draw out their prey, they do not possess the intelligence to murder; murder is a human behaviorism. While Mulder believes Berquist, Scully is suspicious of her motives, thinking that Berquist may have tipped off Mulder so that she could meet him. The assaults continue – a U.S. F & W officer and a veterinarian are attacked and killed. Detweiler maintains that the dog can be captured but Cahn is incensed and wants the animal killed. Then Cahn himself is attacked but somehow manages to escape death and is rushed to the hospital. Mulder finds Detweiler in Cahn’s hospital room and confronts him with the theory that it is Detweiler who is responsible for the murders. Mulder posits that while Detweiler was in Asia hunting the Dhole, the Dhole found and attacked him instead, turning him into a shapeshifting trickster who can take the form of an animal. Detweiler denies Mulder’s outrageous theory and leaves. Mulder then repeats his ideas to Berquist who confirms them. She tells Mulder to stay at the hospital and guard Cahn; Detweiler will want to come back and put down the threat he failed to eliminate by attacking Cahn. Hours pass, but Detweiler never returns. Mulder realizes that Berquist lied to him. Detweiler, feeling a much larger threat from Berquist, has gone to Berquist’s home to kill her. Once there, he takes the shape of the wild dog and attacks. Berquist stands her ground, and as the dog leaps, Berquist falls backward through the second−story window. When

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Trevor Production Code: #6ABX17 Original Air Date: 04/11/99 Written by Ken Hawryliw and Jim Guttridge Directed by Rob Bowman THE AGENTS PURSUE AN ESCAPED CONVICT CAPABLE OF PASSING THROUGH SOLID MATTER.

Inside a prison compound in Stringer, Mississippi, two inmates, Rawls and Whaley, hurriedly board up barracks windows as stormy – and possibly tornadic – weather approaches. Rawls and Whaley get into an argument, and as a guard looks on, Rawls drives a nail through Whaley’s hand. Rawls is brought before the superintendent, Robert Fellowes, who sentences him to “the box.” As the wind howls, and the sky grows darker, Rawls begs to be let out of his tiny prison. But no one comes to his aid. After the storm passes, the guard finds that “the box” has been blown to oblivion. He makes his way to Fellowes’ office to relay the news. Inside, he discovers Fellowes’ body, which has been severed in half. Scully and Mulder examine the remains inside a morgue. Though Fellows’ body is cut across the torso, not a drop of blood was discovered inside the office. Scully is at a loss to explain his condition, except for the possibility of spontaneous combustion. The agents speak with the prison guard, who relays his theory that the ghost of Pinker Rawls is responsible for the murder. Mulder disagrees with the theory. He believes Rawls is very much alive. Shortly thereafter, Mulder discovers an irregularity in the wall of Fellowes’ office. He applies some pressure to the area causing a hole the size of a man to open. The agents then discover a photo of Rawls and his girlfriend, June, amongst his possessions. Meanwhile, June learns of Rawls’ presumed death while watching a television news broadcast. Rawls breaks into a department store to steal some clothes. A security guard catches him in the act and handcuffs him to a steal beam. But Rawls escapes from his binds and makes off in the security guard’s car. A short time later, the agents arrive at the scene. The security guard identifies Rawls as the suspect. Mulder then examines the still−closed handcuffs and whacks the ends against the steel beam. They shatter like glass. Meanwhile, Rawls makes his way to a dilapidated house rented by his

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old friend, Bo. It turns out that Rawls is looking for June, whom Bo ended up having an affair with. Bo pulls out a gun and fires, striking Rawls in the heart. But the bullets have no effect. The agents discover Bo’s faceless body inside his home. They assume that Rawls is after the $90,000 he made off with during a robbery years earlier. Mulder discovers tiny silver globules imbedded in the wall of the house. Mulder hypothesizes that the bullets travel right through Rawls without harming him and that Rawls is capable of moving through solid objects. A short time later, Rawls pays June’s sister, Jackie, a surprise visit. Jackie grabs hold of a knife and barricades herself inside her bedroom. Rawls strips off his clothes and, when Jackie isn’t looking, enters the room by passing through a wall. Mulder and Scully arrive at the house, saving Jackie from harm. The agents then head for June’s house. Unbeknownst to them, Rawls stowed away in the trunk of their car (by passing through the metal). June admits it was she who came upon Rawls’ $90,000 while he was in prison. She spent the money on a down payment for her house. Later, when Mulder opens the trunk of his car, he notices a cracking noise. He pokes the lid with his finger, and it crumples. Mulder instructs two troopers to place June under constant guard. A short time later, he and Scully reenter June’s house, where they happen upon the writing “I Want What’s Mine,” scrawled across a wall. Mulder assumes Rawls used his finger to create the message. He notices that the final “e” ends where a mirror hangs on a wall. Putting the pieces together, he realizes that Rawls’ power is electrical in nature, and can be stopped by an insulator, such as glass or rubber. He and Scully discover unpaid hospital maternity bills amongst June’s possessions. They realize that Rawls isn’t after money – he’s after his son, Trevor. Rawls morphs though the ceiling of June’s hotel room. By the time the agents arrive, June and Rawls are gone and the state trooper guarding the room is dead. Meanwhile, Rawls tells June that he heard about the existence of his son from a fellow inmate. He demands that she take him to see the child. The agents realize that Jackie is caring for June’s son. Unfortunately, Rawls arrives at Jackie’s house before they do. Jackie hurls boiling soup at Rawls’ face, but the liquid passes through it. Jackie then swings the pan and the glass connects with his head. Trevor runs out the door with Rawls in close pursuit. Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene. Mulder shoots Rawls with rubber bullets, which slows him down. Scully makes off with Trevor, but Rawls follows. Thinking quickly, Scully takes refuge in a glass phone booth. Rawls is unable to pass through it, so he begins smashing the glass with a chunk of asphalt. Suddenly, June uses her station wagon to hit Rawls. He impacts on the passenger side of the windshield and is torn apart. Later,

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Milagro Production Code: #6ABX18 Original Air Date: 04/18/99 Written by Chris Carter, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners WHILE TRACKING A KILLER WHO LEAVES NO CLUES, AGENT SCULLY FINDS HERSELF STRANGELY ATTRACTED TO AGENT MULDER’S CHIEF SUSPECT.

While on her way to Mulder’s apartment to discuss a murder case, Scully runs into Phillip Padgett, Mulder’s new next door neighbor. Padgett is an odd bird – a writer who lives in his own mind; he gives Scully a creepy feeling. The agents discuss the case and Mulder expresses his theory that the murder is a result of psychic surgery – the victim’s heart was removed without any incisions, no prints, no forensic evidence of any kind left as clues. Scully, at best, is dubious. When a similar murder occurs out on Lover’s Lane, Mulder gets a hold of Scully who happens to be in Mulder’s office where she finds that a pendant has been slipped inside an envelope under Mulder’s door. It’s a “milagro” – a lucky charm, with an image of a burning heart engraved on it. Scully feels it may be from the murderer and sets out to do some research. At a nearby church, Scully is studying a painting of Christ with a flaming heart in his hands when she is approached by Mulder’s neighbor, Padgett. He tells Scully he sent her the milagro, that he has been studying her for a character in his novel, and that he’s become enamored of her. Scully is both intrigued and disquieted by Padgett, yet is drawn to visit him on her way to Mulder’s apartment. He seems to be getting underneath her skin when Mulder barges in, gun high, and arrests Padgett. It seems that the murders which they have been investigating coincide with personal ads taken out in a local paper; Padgett used the ads to find his victims. He also wrote about each murder, in detail, in his novel. But another murder occurs while Padgett is locked up. Mulder is even more fervent in his belief that Padgett psychically communicated with a partner in crime, Dr. Ken Naciamento – the noted Brazilian psychic surgeon, and that somehow Padgett directed Naciamento to commit the crime. Mulder feels the only way to catch Padgett is to release him. Back in his apartment, Padgett is visited by Naciamento. However, Mulder and Scully, who have set up surveillance on Padgett’s apartment, see

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nothing on the screen of Naciamento. Is he only a figment of Padgett’s imagination or not? Naciamento coaxes Padgett into the realization that Scully must be killed. Padgett hurriedly finishes his novel, then heads for the basement incinerator to burn the pages. Mulder follows him there and is about to arrest Padgett when he hears a scream from above. It’s Scully, who is being attacked by Naciamento. Mulder races to her side, finds her covered in blood, but alive. Padgett, on the other hand, lies at the foot of the incinerator, his heart removed and beating in his own hand.

The Unnatural Production Code: #6ABX20 Original Air Date: 04/25/99 Written and Directed by David Duchovny ARTHUR DALES’ BROTHER RECOUNTS A TALE ABOUT A TALENTED ALIEN BASEBALL PLAYER WHO HID AMONGST AN ALL−AFRICAN−AMERICAN TEAM IN ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO DURING THE 1940s.

The time: 1947. The place: Roswell, New Mexico. Members of an all−African−American baseball team, the Roswell Grays, face off against a team of all− white players during a “cactus league” night game staged in the middle of the desert. As Josh “Ex” Exley takes his turn at bat, the outfielders play deeper, leaving little doubt that Ex is the best player on the all−black team. The white pitcher, Moose, lets fly with a pitch. Ex catches a piece of the ball, and it soars out into the darkness. Having won the game, other black players mob Ex and hoist him onto their shoulders. Moments later, a large group of Ku Klux Klansmen, some mounted on horseback, invade the makeshift baseball diamond. The group’s Grand Dragon makes it clear that his men are only interested in Ex, who, word has it, has come to the attention of the Yankees. Suddenly, Moose lets fly one of his 100−m.p.h. pitches, striking the Grand Dragon in the head and knocking him off his horse. Moose then targets the other Klansmen, knocking them unconscious. The coach of the black team pulls the hood off the Grand Dragon’s head? and reacts with horror when he discovers the face of a gray space alien beneath. One Saturday, Scully finds herself assisting Mulder as he researches “flying disc” reports made in New Mexico in the 1940s. Scully soon realizes that her partner hasn’t been researching UFOs as he had claimed, but is studying fifty−year−old baseball scores. Mulder’s attention is soon drawn to a newspaper page featuring a photograph of Ex standing near a young Arthur Dales and the alien bounty hunter. Mulder tears the page from the reference book and makes his way to Arthur Dales’ apartment building. It turns out that Arthur Dales has moved to Florida, and his brother, who is also

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Three of a Kind Production Code: #6ABX19 Original Air Date: 05/02/99 Written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban Directed by Bryan Spicer THE LONE GUNMEN ENCOUNTER SUSANNE MODESKI AS THEY ATTEMPT TO INFILTRATE A DEFENCE CONTRACTORS’ CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS.

Byers recounts a dream in which he lives in the perfect house with his two little daughters and wife, Susanne Modeski. But his dream always ends the same way: the house, children and Susanne disappear, and all he is left with is a man’s wedding ring. The Lone Gunmen go undercover in Las Vegas when a defense contractors’ convention comes to town. The threesome hope to ascertain confidential information about the industry by infiltrating its inner sphere. Byers accesses a poker game by passing himself off as an employee of Conglomerated Technologies. He receives help from Frohike, who is disguised as a casino employee. Unbeknownst to the other players, Byers’ eyeglasses contain a tiny transmitter, allowing Langly, who is surrounded by laptops in his hotel room, to feed him information whenever someone discusses the defense contracting business. Unfortunately, the dealer outsmarts and exposes Byers by inquiring about a process that doesn’t exist. As a result, Byers and Frohike are escorted out of the building by security. The Lone Gunmen regroup in their hotel room. They receive a visit from Jimmy and Timmy, two card−carrying conspiracy geeks. Both men admit that their efforts to crack the contractors’ inner circle was unsuccessful. Later, as Byers and Frohike walk through a casino floor, Byers notices Modeski off in the distance. He runs towards her, but collides with

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an older man and falls to the floor. When he rises, Modeski has disappeared. The Lone Gunmen telephone Scully and, using a synthesized voice program, trick her into believing that she is speaking to Mulder. “Mulder” requests that she fly to Las Vegas. When the call ends, Byers explains to the others that Mulder’s high−profile presence would tip off the black operatives who kidnapped Modeski in Baltimore ten years earlier. A short time later, Byers watches as the dealer from the poker game kisses Susanne Modeski outside their hotel room. Using his laptop, Frohike accesses the hotel’s records. He learns that the room in which Modeski is staying is registered to a Grant Ellis. It is determined that Ellis is linked to an advanced weapons facility located in New Mexico. Byers concludes that Modeski has been brainwashed, a victim of the “psychological warfare” gas she invented. The group splits up to find out if Byers’ theory is correct. Langly and Byers are unable to infiltrate a private event being held by the defense contractors due to their previous run−in with security. They turn to Jimmy the Geek for help. Jimmy crawls through a ventilation duct to spy on the proceedings. To his surprise, he discovers Timmy amongst the group. Jimmy is taken into custody. Timmy places a medical injection gun behind Jimmy’s ear and pulls the trigger. A short time later, the Lone Gunmen learn that Jimmy threw himself in front of a bus. Meanwhile, Frohike sneaks inside Ellis and Modeski’s room to plant a recording device. He discovers the presence of a camcorder already hidden inside an air vent. He pops out the tape and crawls to safety. Scully arrives at the hotel and, at the Lone Gunmen’s request, begins to perform an autopsy on Jimmy’s body. She comes upon a faint mark just behind Jimmy’s ear. Moments later, Timmy sneaks up behind Scully, places the injection gun behind her ear, and pulls the trigger. When Scully regains consciousness, her personality has changed to that of an airhead. Modeski pays the Lone Gunmen a visit. She tells Byers that she met and fell in love with Grant when she realized that he was working against the forces who were exploiting her work. She explains how she and Grant had intended to use the Las Vegas conference to expose the group. But the existence of the tape changes everything, as the operatives are aware of the plan. She is certain they will kill Grant and herself. Shortly thereafter, Modeski observes a red mark behind Scully’s ear. She realizes that Scully was injected with her latest creation, a derivative of the E−H gas. But only she and Grant were aware of the derivative’s existence meaning Grant is behind the scheme. Modeski injects Scully with an antidote. Frohike realizes that the operatives drugged Scully to make her forget about the autopsy findings. He also realizes that Jimmy’s death was not accidental. Unbeknownst to

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anyone, Langly has also been given an injection of the brainwashing compound. Timmy instructs the brainwashed Langly to assassinate Modeski during a conference. As participants mill about, Langly opens fire, striking Modeski in the chest. Scully rushes to Modeski’s side. She orders that Grant be detained. Moments later, Frohike and Byers, dressed as paramedics, rush Modeski away. Grant is led to a hotel room where Modeski greets him. It turns out that the “assassination” had been staged with blank bullets and fake blood. Langly, it is revealed, had been given the antidote. Unfortunately, Timmy senses something isn’t right. He leans over the “blood” on the conference room floor and tastes it. His suspicions are confirmed. He enters the hotel room and shoots Grant. He then turns the weapon towards Modeski. During the confusion, Byers presses the injector gun to Timmy’s ankle, and he falls to the floor. Later, a television news anchor reveals that Timmy was arrested for the deaths of Grant and Susanne Modeski. Byers gives Modeski her new identity: Holly Fitzgerald. Susanne asks him to come with her as she begins her new life. But Byers believes she will be safer without him. With that, Susanne gives Byers a wedding ring, which had been intended for Grant.

Field Trip Production Code: #6ABX21 Original Air Date: 05/09/99 Written by Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners A MYSTERY INVOLVING TWO SKELETONS LEADS THE AGENTS ON A JOURNEY IN WHICH NOTHING IS QUIET AS IT SEEMS.

A young couple, Angie and Wallace Schiff, return to their motel after spending the day hiking through the woods. Tired and suffering from a headache, Angie decides to take a shower. Suddenly, the white fiberglass walls begin to ooze straw−colored goo. Just as suddenly, the walls return to normal. Angie dismisses the experience as fatigue from her headache. Moments later, she finds herself inside a dark place, with goo covering her eyes and mouth. Angie finishes her shower and sits with her husband. Still shaken by the imagery, she asks him to hold her. Later, the couple’s skeletons turn up in a wilderness field. Mulder reviews the Schiff’s death with Scully. He notes that the skeletons were found three days after they disappeared from the motel. Scully hypothesizes that the Schiff’s fell victim to a ritualistic killer, one who placed the bodies in acid and stripped away the flesh, leaving behind only bone. As the bodies were found in the Brown

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Mountain region of North Carolina, Mulder suspects a connection between the deaths and strange, unexplained lights that have been seen on the peak of the mountain for some seven hundred years. Scully wonders why her partner won’t – just once – accept the simplest explanation. Mulder reminds her that ninety−nine percent of the time, his theories have proven correct. The agents travel to Asheville, North Carolina, where they observe the Schiff’s skeletal remains. Scully asks the coroner about a strange, gooey substance clinging to the bones. The coroner believes the substance is an organic material from the swampy area where the remains were discovered. Mulder leaves Scully at the morgue and travels to the wilderness area for further investigation. As Mulder’s vehicle traverses the field, the tires crush some puffball mushrooms, which emit some small spores. Moments after exiting the SUV, Mulder notices Walter Schiff, very much alive, in the distance. Schiff runs off. Mulder follows him into a cave, and soon loses sight of him. When Mulder turns around, the mouth of the cave has vanished, and in its place is solid granite. Confused, Mulder looks about for the exit. A lab analysis reveals that the gooey substance found on the Schiff’s bones is the digestive secretion of a plant. Scully borrows the coroner’s truck and sets off to find Mulder. As she traverses the field, she steps upon the mushrooms, which emit more spores. Meanwhile, as Mulder searches for the cave exit, he again encounters Wallace. He claims that the skeletons are fakes, and were planted in the field by an alien race. A short time later, Wallace points out the cave entrance, which moments earlier had been solid rock. Suddenly, a beam of light blasts through the entrance. Certain the light is emanating from the aliens, Wallace runs off into the cave. Mulder follows. In reality, the source of the light beam is the tiny flashlight in Scully’s hand. Scully calls out to her partner, but receives no reply. Mulder and Wallace happen upon Angie, her body lying on the stone floor of the cave. She claims to have been abducted by aliens and subjected to tests. Shortly thereafter, the blinding light returns. This time, Mulder heads into the light. Meanwhile, Scully makes her way to Mulder’s apartment. Upon finding her disheveled partner inside, she demands an explanation for why he deserted her in North Carolina. Mulder introduces Scully to Wallace and Angela. He tells her that he has finally discovered “the truth” he has been searching for. He then leads Scully into his bedroom, where a small gray alien sits in the darkness. Scully congratulates her partner for being right about everything all along. Mulder reacts with surprise. He cannot believe that Scully is accepting his conclusions. Moments later, Mulder watches as Scully melts away. In reality, Mulder is not in the

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apartment, but in some dark place, dreaming in a comatose state. Scully returns to the cave, this time in the company of the coroner, who is familiar with the wooded area. They discover a human skeleton, which is presumed to be Mulder’s. Dental x−rays confirm the worst. Scully believes that Mulder may have fallen victim to the digestive secretion. She makes her way to Mulder’s apartment, where mourners have gathered to pay their respects. The Lone Gunmen promise Scully they will find the man responsible for the ritualistic murder. Scully stares at them, exasperated. She insists that murder is not the “obvious answer” behind Mulder’s death. Scully demands to know where Mulder has gone. With that, Mulder shows up at the front door. Mulder informs Scully that he was abducted by aliens and teleported to his apartment. Scully points out the illogic to this scenario. She concludes that they are both experiencing some sort of hallucination, perhaps triggered by wild mushrooms growing in the North Carolina field. She fears they are both, in reality, trapped underground, being digested. With that, Mulder regains consciousness and pulls himself from the wet earth. He then rescues Scully from her nearby cocoon. The agents meet with Skinner to discuss the case. He notes that “it is a rare day” when both agents sign off on the same report. This observation troubles Mulder. He wonders how he and Scully were able to will their way to consciousness and concludes that, in reality, they are still trapped underground. To prove his point, Mulder fires his gun at Skinner. Goo oozes from Skinner’s wounds. Not a moment too soon, the real Skinner locates the agents. Scully and Mulder are placed on stretchers and loaded into an ambulance. Mulder gains enough strength to grab Scully’s hand. Scully squeezes back.

Biogenesis (1 of 3) Production Code: #6ABX22 Original Air Date: 05/16/99 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman MULDER BELIEVES THAT METALLIC OBJECTS DISCOVERED IN AFRICA ARE PROOF THAT LIFE ORIGINATED ELSEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE.

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matching artifact, which contains similar iconic symbols. As Solomon moves the pieces towards each other, they suddenly fly from his fingers and embed themselves in a bible. The rip mark made by the now−fused object highlights a passage from Genesis. Solomon makes his way to the American University in Washington, D.C. where he meets with a Dr. Sandoz inside a biology lab. As the pair converse, Solomon realizes the man standing before him is not Dr. Sandoz. Later, the real Dr. Sandoz discovers Solomon’s body. Skinner discusses Solomon’s death with Mulder and Scully. Although Solomon’s body is missing, a large amount of his blood was discovered inside the biology lab. Both Solomon and Dr. Sandoz believed that life on Earth originated elsewhere in the universe. Skinner hands Scully a piece of paper containing a carbon rubbing of the (second) artifact Solomon had in his office. A short time later, Mulder hears a cacophony of sound in his head. He quickly recovers from this mysterious episode. Scully wonders why Mulder still has any interest in pursuing “the truth” now that the Syndicate members are dead and their secrets exposed. Mulder explains that there is one more thing he hopes to find: his sister. Mulder interviews the man who had earlier posed as Dr. Sandoz. That man, Dr. Barnes, is the head of the biology department at the university. Scully hands Barnes the carbon rubbing… which causes Mulder to experience another episode. He quickly excuses himself. Meanwhile, inside a hospital, Dr. Sandoz watches over Albert Hosteen, the Native American Navajo who assisted Mulder many years earlier. Hosteen is gravely ill. Mulder meets with Scully and Chuck Burke, who analyses the symbols on the carbon rubbing. Burke declares that the writing is phonetic Navajo, but a literal interpretation is impossible. It turns out that Dr. Barnes authored an article on the manufacture of religious artifacts, and has made a career out of exposing scientific and religious fraud. Moments later, Mulder experiences another attack. He tells Scully that the attacks have given him a special “sense.” He is convinced that Barnes murdered Solomon. He and Scully travel to Dr. Sandoz’s apartment, where they find a photo of Sandoz posing with Albert Hosteen. They also find Solomon’s body inside a trash compactor. The agents discuss their findings with Skinner. Mulder believes Solomon’s body was planted in the compactor to frame Sandoz. He also believes that Sandoz possesses an actual artifact, as does Dr. Barnes. Lab tests reveal that Solomon was exposed to radiation that only exists beyond the solar system. That radiation, according to Mulder, originated from the artifact. Before the meeting concludes, Mulder accuses Skinner of secretly operating in conjunction with another party. After the agents leave the office, Skinner moves to a

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small pinhole camera mounted in the wall. He ejects a tape from a VCR… and hands it to Alex Krycek. Mulder returns to the American University. He searches Barnes’ office for the artifact, but comes up empty handed. Mulder suffers an intense attack that affects his vision. He collapses on a stairwell. Moments later, a dark figure steps over Mulder’s body. Mulder, who is unable to see or hear, cannot identify the form. The figure turns out to be Krycek. He makes his way to Barnes’ office and hands him the surveillance tape that Skinner gave him. Sandoz tells Scully that the metal piece is only a part of a much larger puzzle. Solomon found two more pieces in the tidal pool. Hosteen was given a rubbing made from those pieces. Together, the elements formed a passage from Genesis. Hosteen was working on more translations when his health deteriorated. Scully telephones Mulder’s apartment. An unidentified woman answers and hands Mulder the phone. Mulder tells his partner that the artifacts are extraterrestrial in origin… proving that mankind’s progenitors are alien. The unidentified woman turns out to be Diana Fowley. Later, she contacts the Cigarette Smoking Man and reports that Mulder is suffering from attacks. Scully and Sandoz accompany Hosteen to a place of healing in New Mexico. Skinner contacts Scully by phone and informs her of Mulder’s deteriorating condition. When Scully reaches the hospital, she learns that Mulder has been confined to a psychiatric ward. Scully becomes suspicious of Skinner and Fowley and their interest in the case. Dr. Sandoz telephones Scully. He informs her that the letters Hosteen translated from the artifact are a map to the genetic makeup of mankind. Krycek shoots and kills Dr. Sandoz. Scully stands amongst the group of fishermen. She shows them the carbon rubbing. The Yelling Man points her in a direction further up the beach. Scully reaches the tide pool… where it is revealed that she is standing on a massive craft buried in the sand, its surface covered with the strange symbols.

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The Sixth Extinction (2 of 3) Production Code: #7ABX03 Original Air Date: 11/07/99 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners WHILE SCULLY TRIES TO PIECE TOGETHER THE MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS ON THE SPACESHIP BEACHED IN AFRICA, MULDER IS IMPRISONED BY HIS OWN FRENETIC BRAIN ACTIVITY.

On the beach of Africa’s Ivory Coast, Scully tries to piece together the cryptic symbols on the surface of the beached spaceship, hoping to find some answers to save the life of her ailing partner. Mulder contracted his illness after coming in contact with a carbon rubbing from the craft. While working late one night she does not notice a primitive African warrior who appears and then disappears. Thousands of bugs instantly swarm inside the tent. The next morning, an African biology professor named Amina Ngebe arrives at the camp to help Scully with the research. Amina warns Scully not to tell the African men hired to unearth the spaceship about the bugs because they would consider it an omen. After that, one of the workers in the ocean screams in pain as if he had been boiled in the water. At the sight of his blistered skin, Amina tells Scully that this is another warning. Skinner goes to visit Mulder in the padded cell of a Washington hospital. He tries to speak to him, but Mulder attacks and is placed in restraints. Outside the cell, Skinner realizes he has a note in his pocket: a ripped cloth with the words “help me” written in dried blood. He sees Mulder again and manages to discern a name. Although reluctant at first, Michael Kritschgau (last seen in “Redux” #5X02 and “Redux II” #5X03) is persuaded by Skinner to see Mulder. Kritschgau explains that he has witnessed this condition before in a CIA study of ESP. The electrical impulses in Mulder’s brain are working harder than his body can sustain. Kritschgau has Skinner inject Phenytoin, causing an immediate effect in awakening Mulder. Diana Fowley attempts to intervene but Skinner, in an attempt to keep his dealings with Kritschgau secretive, dismisses her. Kritschgau puts a more responsive Mulder through a battery of tests with video monitors to determine his brain’s over−activity and psychic ability. Dr. Barnes (from “Biogenesis” #6ABX22) arrives at Scully’s tent to help her read the symbols but she is wary of him. The water around the spaceship turns into blood – another omen – and again Scully sees the manifestation of the primitive African man. Scully and Amina figure out that the symbols describe human genetics and ancient religious passages. In a delirious frenzy, Barnes claims that the spaceship is the ultimate source of power – the source of life itself – and traps the two women in the tent to ensure that he gets all the credit. Barnes’ sack rumbles underneath a table. The fish he caught have magically come back to life, but only in Barnes’ mind. This proves to him his theory that the spaceship is an animating force. Scully takes advantage of the opportunity to hit Barnes so that she and Amina can escape. The women frantically drive for help, but on the desolate road Scully sees the primitive African man in their path. She yells for Amina to stop the car, but the man has disappeared. Suddenly the man is in Amina’s place and tells Scully, “Some truths are not for you.” In the next

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instant he turns back into Amina. Scully tells her that she needs to get home. Skinner and Kritschgau inject Mulder with an even greater dose in order to free him from the hospital. But when Diana rushes in with the doctor to confront Skinner, Mulder lapses into violent convulsions. Early the next morning, Diana pledges her love to the sedate Mulder. She vows to help him and not let him die. As she leaves, Mulder’s eyes follow her – he cannot speak, but he has heard every word she said. At the beach, Barnes’ driver comes into the seemingly empty tent and Barnes slashes him in the neck with a machete. Barnes places the man’s body in the spot where the fish came to life. Later, Barnes discovers the driver’s body gone and he goes out to the shoreline to look for him. The driver has returned to life, and strikes Barnes with the same machete. Scully goes to Skinner in Washington and demands to see Mulder. Skinner tries to convey Mulder’s impending death. Scully responds that Mulder is more alive than ever, acknowledging that the cause may be extraterrestrial. Skinner warns her that the security in the hospital will deny her access. An emotional Scully pleads with Mulder to hold on. He is unresponsive. Amina returns to the beach with the police. They find Barnes’ body in the ocean, but the spacecraft has disappeared.

The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3 of 3) Production Code: #7ABX04 Original Air Date: 11/14/99 Written by David Duchovny & Chris Carter Directed by Michael Watkins AN UNCONSCIOUS MULDER’S DREAMS LEAD HIM ASTRAY FROM THE X−FILES, BUT SCULLY STAYS THE COURSE IN HER SEARCH TO FIND HIM.

Mulder dreams about a young couple teaching their son to walk on a beach. In reality, Mulder is still in the hospital, lying in a coma. His mother tries to speak to him and receives no response. Mrs. Mulder doesn’t hear her fully−alert son calling out to her in his head. But the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) knows Mulder can read his thoughts. He injects Mulder’s head with a serum that allows Mulder to move and speak. CSM offers his hand. Mulder again envisions the toddler on the beach as the words of CSM lull him: “Take my hand because I am your father.” Scully is working round−the−clock to find the cause of Mulder’s illness, when Kritschgau sneaks into the office. He explains that exposure to the spacecraft’s energy has activated the alien virus injected into Mulder two years ago. Kritschgau demands Scully’s research, but they are interrupted by a phone call from Skinner: Mulder has

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disappeared from the hospital. She hurries to the hospital and learns that it was Mulder’s mother who has checked him out. Skinner tells Scully that he must remove himself from the case and from knowledge of the agents’ whereabouts. Skinner’s position has been compromised. Mulder again sees the boy on the beach, and awakens to find himself in CSM’s car. CSM tells him that doctors have worked on him, and the only way he can be saved from death is to disappear into a kind of witness protection program. CSM pulls up to a suburban street and points out Mulder’s new life. CSM offers him the chance to return to his previous existence with the X−Files, but Mulder is curious about this new home. He is pleased to find a refrigerator stocked with his favorite sunflower seeds. As he pops one into his mouth, he is startled by the presence of an old ally – Deep Throat (killed the first season in “The Erlenmeyer Flask” #1X23). Deep Throat boasts about his peaceful life in this neighborhood and encourages Mulder to join him. But Mulder is overwhelmed with guilt for his causing this man’s supposed death. Deep Throat tells him not to feel responsible for his death or the deaths of Mulder’s father, Scully’s sister and Duane Barry. Deep Throat explains that they the two of them are merely puppets in a master plan. He coaxes Mulder to relax and enjoy his new life. Scully finds the Navajo elder Albert Hosteen (last seen dying in “Biogenesis” #6ABX22) in her apartment. Hosteen warns her that she must save Mulder for the sake of mankind. Scully returns to the hospital. She reviews a surveillance tape of Mulder’s room where she can see through the mostly covered monitors that Mulder’s mother is talking to someone with a cigarette. This convinces Scully that CSM is behind Mulder’s disappearance. At the FBI, Scully receives an inter−office envelope containing a book on Native American practices. The symbols on the book’s cover match the ones she had been studying on the spaceship in Africa. She reads a myth foretelling a mass extinction with a man who can save the world from this tragedy. She calls Skinner to question him as the source for this clue. Scully deduces that they took Mulder because they think his illness is protection against a coming plague. An apprehensive Skinner hangs up on her. Scully runs up to his office and sees Skinner doubled over in pain, while a bearded man escapes. Scully goes to Kritschgau and admonishes him for revealing the secrets about Mulder’s illness. Kritschgau has hacked into her computer files and explains that her research will prove that Mulder has biologically transformed into an alien. Mulder has another vision of the beach. The boy is sad that his sand sculpture has been washed away by the tide. Mulder comforts him and encourages the boy to build it again. Mulder is awakened by Diana Fowley who comes to his bed, convincing him of the joys of marriage. They make

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love. The next morning, Diana tries to persuade Mulder that he should become a father. She brings him to CSM’s house nearby and points out CSM’s daughter, Samantha Mulder. Suddenly we are in an operating theater. CSM tells Diana that men like Mulder have dreams of a simpler life. He says this about the real Mulder, who lies on a table with his head strapped in a surgical device. This is where Mulder really is. The illusion of domestic, suburban bliss is only in his mind. At the FBI, Scully tries to appeal to Diana for help, causing Diana to question CSM’s motivation for using Mulder in the experiments. Albert Hosteen reappears in Scully’s apartment. He tells her to look inside her heart for Mulder. The two pray together. Still in his dream, Mulder’s life progresses with Diana. He physically ages as he goes through their wedding, her pregnancy and children, and then her death. Mulder slips back into his subconscious where the sand sculpture has become a spaceship. The boy starts to smash the sculpture, telling him that it is really Mulder’s spaceship and he is the one destroying it. A now aged Mulder wakes up to CSM at his bedside. CSM tells him that he should let go. As Mulder closes his eyes, the world outside is in full apocalypse. Yet in real life, Mulder and CSM are side−by−side on a medical table for some kind of procedure transplanting Mulder’s alien genetic material into CSM. The bearded man from Skinner’s office kills Kritschgau and torches all his research. Only now is his identity revealed: it’s Alex Krycek. An envelope is slid under Scully’s door with a key card that leads Scully to the surgical facility where Mulder is being held. In Mulder’s dream he is ready to give up, but Scully forces him to persist with their mission. In reality, Scully does come to the surgery room to save Mulder. She wakes him up and he draws strength from her presence. She helps him escape. Scully checks up on the still weakened Mulder is in his apartment. He wears bandages on his head from the operation. He informs her that Albert Hosteen has died in New Mexico. This upsets Scully. She doesn’t believe that her experience was imagined. Then Scully breaks her bad news to Mulder: Diana was murdered because she helped save him. Mulder is emotional, and reveals his dreams about another life without the X−Files. He admits to Scully that she was the only one who told him the truth in his dreams and that “even when my world was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone.” She tells her partner that she feels the same way, then leaves. One more time, Mulder dreams of the boy on the beach. This time they are rebuilding a huge sandcastle spaceship together.

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Original Air Date: 11/21/99 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Kim Manners A MONSTER STARVING FOR HUMAN BRAIN MATTER TRIES TO REMEDY HIS OWN UNUSUAL EATING HABITS.

It is after midnight when an LTD pulls into the drive−through of Lucky Boy Burgers in Costa Mesa, California. The young guy at the wheel waits impatiently and receives only silence from the speaker. He calls out for service and the neon “open” sign instantly flickers out. Angered, the guy honks his horn. The microphone clicks on and a man says the restaurant is closed. The driver doesn’t give up easily and yells threats to the speaker. The voice at the other end sheepishly tells him to drive through. The guy pulls up, but no one is there. So he leans out of his car to get a better look. In one quick instant, a monster appears in the window and ferociously yanks the guy from his car. The driverless car, still in gear, creeps toward a curb. Three days later, Lucky Boy employee Rob Roberts pulls up to the restaurant and gives himself a pep talk before heading in. He works at the front register as Mulder and Scully approach, flashing their badges. They ask Rob’s manager to round up the employees for questioning. They inform the group that a Lucky Boy Burger promotional button was found on a body in the trunk of a car. The employees, including Rob, all pull out their buttons. A thuggish−looking Derwood Spinks hides in the back, claiming he left his button at home. His co− workers eye Derwood suspiciously. Mulder and Scully clear out the restaurant and search the kitchen. They don’t see Rob outside as he switches on the drive−through microphone and listens to their conversation at the menu board. Mulder theorizes that the victim’s brain was sucked out by a tongue or some kind of proboscis. Scully is not convinced. Mulder spots dried blood under a counter. He is squeamish that it is brain matter. Scully notes that it is merely ground beef. Rob isn’t settled by this news. Rob comes home and rushes into the bathroom where he pulls from the bathtub a Lucky Boy uniform soaking in pink water. He cannot scrub out the blood stains and decides to dump the shirt. He is about to remove the trash bag when there is a knock at the door. Mulder wants to ask Rob a few more questions about his closing up the restaurant on the night of the murder. Rob complies, telling him that he dumped thirty−five pounds of spoiled beef that night. Out of the corner of his eye he catches the bloody water seeping out from the trash bag but Mulder doesn’t see it. After Mulder leaves, Rob tosses the wet bag into a garbage truck outside. He realizes his hands are covered with dried blood and sucks his fingers, enjoying the taste. While doing so he notices a man parked across

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from the apartment building watching him. Rob nervously approaches, thinking the man is Mulder. The unidentified man tells Rob to get lost. Back in the apartment, Rob’s answering machine tapes a message from Dr. Mindy Rinehart, a psychiatrist assigned by Lucky Boy to aid its employees. He ignores the message, intently watching the man staked outside the building. Rob goes in the bathroom and pops out his triangle− shaped, shark teeth. As they clink in the sink, his stomach loudly growls. Later that night, Rob tries to overcome his hunger. He chomps on appetite suppressant gum and memorizes the words of a videotaped motivational speaker. But he is still starving. He goes outside to the man in the parked car and opens his toothless mouth. Needle−sharp teeth spring into place as he lunges at the man. Rob is asleep on his couch the next morning when Derwood breaks in. He tells Rob that he has been fired from Lucky Boy. He also says that he found Rob’s prescription bottle of diet pills in the restaurant the morning after the murder. He shows Rob the bottle and the bloody thumbprint on its cap. Derwood demands payment to keep his mouth shut. They are interrupted by a neighbor, Sylvia, who asks if Rob saw a man that had been parked outside. Rob dismisses her, and Derwood warns him not to skip town. Rob heads to his car and sees Mulder approaching. Although Mulder doesn’t give any indication that he suspects Rob, he does tell him that the police believe that Derwood is the killer. Rob goes to Dr. Rinehart’s office for his mandatory consultation. He can’t concentrate as his stomach growls. When the doctor gets a call from Mulder, Rob bolts out, claiming he has to be at work. Rob hallucinates that the burgers he is frying are brains. Derwood shows up at Lucky Boy to threaten Rob again. Scared of getting caught, Rob rummages through Derwood’s house for the prescription bottle. When Derwood comes home, Rob hides in the closet. As Derwood approaches the closet armed with a baseball bat, Rob starts to dismember his fake human parts to reveal the monster underneath. Derwood opens the door and the monster’s tongue lashes out, poking a hole through Derwood’s forehead. Rob goes to see Dr. Rinehart again and admits that he has an eating disorder. She writes down the location of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Rob’s stomach growls and he rushes out, saying “I really am trying to do right.” Dr. Rinehart ponders his statement. Rob returns home to find Mulder and Scully waiting to ask him about Derwood Spinks’ disappearance. Mulder tells Rob that he believes the killer is some sort of genetic freak who feeds on humans, but Rob plays dumb. With no other hope, Rob attends the Overeaters Anonymous meeting and runs into his neighbor, Sylvia. She encourages him to introduce himself. He

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describes in salacious detail his cravings for meat. The group members salivate. Rob stops when he spots a bald man in the front row. The man’s brain seems to be throbbing through the skull, causing Rob to lick his lips in hunger. Rob makes a friend in Sylvia as he walks her to her apartment after the meeting. She says goodnight and closes her door. He turns to leave but his stomach begins to growl. He turns back to her door, knocks, and removes his teeth, ready for his next meal. Rob makes a plan the next day. He demolishes his apartment with Derwood’s baseball bat and screams in terror. He beckons his neighbors to call the police. Mulder and Scully arrive and listen to Rob’s questionable story that Derwood threatened him to keep quiet. The agents ask Rob about a missing private eye hired by Sylvia’s husband who was staked out in front of the building. Rob has no answers and quickly tells them that Sylvia is not at home. Rob frantically packs his belongings when Dr. Rinehart shows up. She senses that Rob is at fault for the murders and tries to soothe him. Enraged, Rob begins to pull off his human body parts to show her his secret. Dr. Rinehart is horrified but still sympathetic. She touches his face. Suddenly, the door crashes in and Mulder and Scully enter with guns drawn. They yell for the doctor to move away, but she defends Rob and tells him to be the good person he means to be. Rob is hesitant, then lunges at the agents, knowing they will open fire. A dying Rob falls to the floor as Dr. Rinehart’s eyes tear up. She asks him why he caused his own death. He whispers, “I can’t be something I’m not.”

Millennium Production Code: #7ABX05 Original Air Date: 11/28/99 Written by Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Thomas J. Wright MULDER AND SCULLY ENLIST CRIMINAL PROFILER FRANK BLACK TO HELP PREVENT MEMBERS OF THE MILLENNIUM GROUP FROM ATTAINING AN ARMAGEDDON NEW YEAR.

At a memorial service in Tallahassee, Florida, a widow complains that her husband, Raymond Crouch, left no suicide note. She is greeted by Mark Johnson who tells her that he worked with the deceased. As the mourners file out of the funeral parlor, Johnson sneaks out from the shadows. He begins to undress the corpse and recites a passage from the Bible over and over like a mantra. Johnson switches on a cell phone and places it in the hand of the deceased, positioning the man’s thumb over the “talk” button. Eight days later, on December 29, 1999. Johnson waits outside a cemetery. The rain splashes on his truck as he stares out at a freshly−

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laid gravesite. A cell phone on his dashboard chirps and, without answering it, Johnson pulls out a shovel and heads toward the tombstone. The next day, Mulder and Scully are at the crime scene, examining the now dug up grave. The body of Raymond Crouch is gone. Scully notes the shredded lining inside the empty casket and comments that it looks like someone was trying to get out. Mulder confirms this by pointing out that the fingerprints around the grave are from the deceased Crouch. Scully concludes that the evidence is faked and that this is a grave robbery, but both are intrigued by an arc of dried blood on the nearby grass. Mulder and Scully join a briefing on the case led by A.D. Skinner. Other agents report that there are no motives for Crouch’ suicide or the grave robbery. Mulder chimes in that this is a case of necromancy – the summoning of the dead. He describes the arc of blood as part of a magic circle drawn to protect the necromancer from the conjured spirits: Mulder also believes that the necromancer may have donned the dead man’s clothes as a means of creating a bond with the deceased. Oddly, Skinner is content with Mulder’s theory and dismisses the other agents. He shows Mulder and Scully the files of three other men, all former FBI agents like Crouch, who were also recently exhumed after committing suicide. Skinner thinks these men were all members of the Millennium Group, a consulting organization of former FBI agents with a prophesy centered around the coming millennium. He tells the pair to keep a low profile as they investigate this Millennium Group. Mulder and Scully’s first stop is a psychiatric hospital to meet Frank Black, the criminal profiler who was once a consultant for the Millennium Group. Frank had apparently checked himself into the hospital for observation. The agents ask him about the Millennium Group, but Frank gives no assistance and quietly focuses on a television football game. He refers to the TV, claiming the game is at first and eighteen. Mulder corrects him and says it is actually third and ten. But Frank does not answer. Frustrated, Mulder and Scully leave him. Mark Johnson, still repeating his burial mantra, drives north with the body. He pulls over to fix a flat tire in Maryland and a sheriff stops to help him. The deputy is suspicious of the smell emanating from Johnson’s car and opens the door. As the deputy examines the vehicle, Johnson strangely makes a circle of salt around his own feet and repeats his prayer. The deputy opens the back of the van and is horrified at what he sees: the corpse of Raymond Crouch. But Crouch is not dead and rises from the van to attack the deputy. Johnson closes his eyes to the struggle. The next morning Scully and Mulder investigate the crime scene. Local police found the body of the deputy carefully buried. Stuffed in his mouth is salt

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and a message with a Biblical passage from the Book of Revelation – Chapter one, verse eighteen. Mulder makes the connection. He returns to the psychiatric hospital with Scully and asks Frank Black why, after not wanting to be involved, he dropped the hint about first and eighteen. Frank admits that he is trying to regain custody of his daughter and wants to separate himself from his past work. He reluctantly agrees to help them, explaining that a schism of the Millennium Group believed they could bring about the end of the world by killing themselves before the dawn of the new millennium. Frank profiles the necromancer as a solitary man comfortable with death. He theorizes that the note and the salt were placed in the deputy’s mouth to prevent the deputy from rising up from the dead. Frank believes that the necromancer will return to the body when he hears that the deputy has been found. Scully heads for the morgue to intercept the necromancer. Using Frank’s profile, Mulder goes on his own search for Johnson. The coroner is busy removing the salt and does not hear Scully’s repeated calls. When Scully arrives, the coroner is nearly dead. She sees Mark Johnson and raises her gun, but she is stunned to see the dead deputy lurching toward her. Although she fires three rounds to his chest, he keeps moving and attacks her. Scully’s gun is knocked aside. Skinner arrives later, and is relieved to see Scully with only scratches on her neck. She is unsure how to explain what has happened, but says that the necromancer saved her by using her gun to shoot the deputy in the head. Meanwhile, Mulder pulls up before a house in Maryland. He is going down a list fitting Frank’s description, and Mark Johnson is the last name on the list. Mulder notices an empty bag of kosher salt in the garbage can. He pockets a handful of salt and climbs the fence, searching the house. A basement door is latched with huge wood beams. He opens it and heads down the steps into the darkness. At first he doesn’t see the bodies climbing out of the ground, but when four undead creatures surround him, he makes a break up the stairs. As he reaches the door, Johnson appears and slams it shut. Mulder is trapped in the necromancer’s basement surrounded by zombies. Back at the hospital, Scully pleads with Frank for help finding the missing Mulder. She recounts her earlier attack by the resurrected deputy at the morgue and asks Frank if he believes that the Group is capable of bringing about Armageddon. Again, Frank is silent. But after she leaves, Frank checks himself out of the hospital and goes to Johnson’s house. Johnson is happy to see Frank because Mulder has killed one of the zombies and Johnson needs a fourth member. Frank says that he did not believe Johnson could resurrect the dead, but came when he heard the necromancy had succeeded. The clock strikes 10:13 when Johnson loads a five−shot

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revolver and begins reciting the familiar burial rite. Frank completes the passage and takes the gun. But instead of pointing it at his own head for the suicide pact, Frank turns the weapon on Johnson. Meanwhile, Scully receives a call from Skinner in her car. They have traced calls from Frank and the other Group members to an address in Maryland. Meanwhile, Frank ties up Johnson and opens up the basement door. He calls out to Mulder, who is standing in a small circle of salt. Although his arm is bleeding, Mulder is protected by the circle. He tells Frank to aim for their heads because it’s the only way to stop the zombies. Frank lights a flare and searches the basement. One of the zombies charges and Frank kills it with a head shot. Another zombie rises, grabs Frank and takes him down. They struggle until Mulder grabs the revolver and shoots the creature in the temple. Mulder reaches to help Frank when the last surviving zombie starts to lunge toward them. Mulder raises the gun, but it just clicks empty. The creature falls, shot from behind by Scully who has appeared at the top of the stairs. With only minutes before midnight, Frank sits alone in a waiting room watching Dick Clark on television as he celebrates the new millennium in Times Square. Scully enters to tell him that Mark Johnson has been taken for psychiatric evaluation. But she smiles and informs him that he has a visitor: his daughter Jordan, who leaps into her father’s arms. Mulder comes in with one arm in a sling, but Frank and his daughter leave with only moments before midnight. The agents stay to see the ball drop on television and blankly stare at the revelers kissing in Times Square. Mulder looks over at Scully and she catches his glance. He leans in to kiss her, and it lasts a bit longer than a kiss between two friends. Their lips part and they both smile. “The world didn’t end,” Mulder mumbles. “No, it didn’t,” she replies. And the two partners head down the hall to begin the new year.

Rush Production Code: #7ABX06 Original Air Date: 12/05/99 Written by David Amann Directed by Robert Lieberman A TEENAGE KILLER ELUDES MULDER AND SCULLY BY MOVING TOO FAST FOR THE HUMAN EYE.

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a police car interrupt the conversation, but when Max turns around, both Max and Chastity have vanished. Deputy Foster questions Tony about being on private property and goes to his car radio. Suddenly, Tony hears a sickening thud. The officer’s flashlight falls to the ground and Tony picks it up. It is covered with blood. Tony looks in the police car: Foster has been brutally murdered. The next morning Scully meets Mulder in the hospital where he shows her the body of the deputy. One blow of the flashlight was enough to drive the deputy’s eyeglasses through the back of his skull. They meet with Sheriff Harden, who is convinced that the fingerprints on the flashlight link Tony to the crime. Mulder and Scully try to get answers from Tony, but he denies any knowledge of the murder. The partners suspect that Tony is innocent, but while Mulder thinks that a spiritual force caused the violent act, Scully is more inclined to believe that Tony is covering for some friends. Back at the high school, Max strolls into science class with one minute left to take an exam. The teacher, Mr. Babbitt, is surprised when Max instantly finishes the exam with all correct answers. Mulder and Scully approach Chastity after class and ask her what she knows about Tony. They remind her that Tony could spend the rest of his life in jail. Before she can speak, Max intercedes – Mulder notes that Max is Sheriff Harden’s son. Scully’s cell phone rings with news that the murder weapon has disappeared. The agents review the security tape at the sheriff’s office and Mulder notices a blurred image over the evidence room’s locker in one video frame. They consult with paranormal expert Chuck Burks and determine that the image is a solid object and that the color of the blur matches the high school colors: purple and gold. Tony is released from jail and his mother scolds him for hanging out with the wrong crowd. He sneaks out of his house with Max for a joyride in a stolen car. Max commends him for keeping his mouth shut, then crashes the car into a tree. Tony is shocked to discover not only is unharmed, but has somehow been plucked from the car before the wreck. Max stands next to him on the road, also untouched. Max tells Tony that he too will become “one of us.” The next day, Mr. Babbitt flunks Max for “cheating” on his science exam. Max storms out of the classroom. Tony tells Chastity that he wants out, but she reluctantly says that it’s too late. At lunch, Mr. Babbitt gets pinned to the school cafeteria wall by a table that has apparently moved on its own. Tony, horrified, suspects something when he notices Max quickly disappear from the room. Then a chair flies into Babbitt, crushing him. Although eyewitnesses saw no one near Babbitt, Mulder’s theory is that Max used some paranormal ability to exert force without touching the victim. Max, however, was brought to the hospital when he

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collapsed from exhaustion. They question Max, whose defiant attitude sparks doubt in Sheriff Harden’s mind about his son’s innocence. Mulder thinks that Max feels a rush from causing these murders. Scully reviews Max’s medical charts and sees that he is suffering from some kind of withdrawal, but also exhibits signs of physical damage that might be found in a football player or race car driver. Tony secretly follows Chastity into the woods, watching as she sneaks through a seam in a boulder. As he steps inside, he sees a cave, but no Chastity. Suddenly his body starts to spasm and he discovers the “rush” that allows Max and Chastity to move faster than the eye can see. Meanwhile, Chastity uses her speed to help Max escape from the hospital unseen. She takes him back to the cave to get another dose of the “rush” and is surprised to find Tony there. He too has become addicted to the rush, but wants to warn the police about Max’s crime spree. Chastity warily tells him that Max is out of the hospital. Sheriff Harden searches his son’s room, finding the missing flashlight taken from the sheriff’s evidence room. Max instantly appears and admits to killing Deputy Foster. Moving inhumanly fast, he begins to pummel his father and is about to kill him with the same flashlight, when Tony, using the “rush” himself, suddenly arrives to intervene. The sheriff is brought to the hospital, and Mulder and Scully deduce that someone else prevented Max from murdering again. Chastity and Tony, fearing Max will kill them, try to beat him back to the cave. But he is already there when they arrive. Tony and Max struggle, and Chastity kills Max by shooting him in the back. As the bullet exits Max’s body, Chastity tells Tony that she can’t go on living without the rush and walks around Max to stand in front of him – allowing the bullet to hit her in the chest. Mulder and Scully arrive at the cave to find Tony holding Chastity’s body and Max lying nearby. Back at the hospital, Mulder reports that nothing was found in the cave to produce a physiological effect, and that the cave was sealed with concrete. He suggests to Scully that perhaps the cave only affected teenagers because of their physical and chemical difference from adults. The agents look in at a recovering Tony. He stares at the clock advancing slowly, knowing he will forever be trapped in a world at normal, slow speed.

The Goldberg Variation Production Code: #7ABX02 Original Air Date: 12/12/99 Written by Jeffrey Bell Directed by Thomas J. Wright

THE_X−FILES MULDER AND SCULLY ARE CAUGHT IN A REAL−LIFE RUBE GOLDBERG DEVICE AS THEY INVESTIGATE A MAN CURSED WITH EXTREMELY GOOD LUCK.

Tension fills the room of a high−stakes poker game in Chicago as the men place their bets. The meek Henry Weems does not belong in this group of gangsters. Henry asks for five new cards and lays them down with a perfect straight flush, winning the $100,000 pot. Mob boss Jimmy Cutrona motions to his henchmen, and Henry is taken to the roof. The thugs toss him off the building, and he falls thirty floors into an open service elevator. Miraculously, Henry pulls himself up onto the street and runs off unharmed. The next day, Scully arrives in Chicago to meet Mulder. Agents staking out Cutrona saw an unidentified man fall from the roof and walk away. Mulder believes the man may have some kind of healing power. Scully thinks the guy just got lucky. They go down through the service elevator into a basement, where they find a laundry cart that has been broken, as if something heavy had landed in it. Among the towels in the cart is an artificial eyeball. Mulder and Scully track down their suspect through an appointment he made to get fitted for a new prosthetic eye. As they enter Henry Weems’ apartment building, they are approached by Maggie Lupone shouting for help. Her sink is spraying water and she can’t find Henry, the building superintendent. She urges her young son, Richie, to go back to bed. In an attempt to assist her, Mulder breaks the valve and causes more water to spurt from the sink. Suddenly, the floor gives way from all the water and Mulder drops into the apartment below – where Henry Weems has been hiding. Mulder returns the artificial eye, and Henry discounts any dramatic description of his fall. He says it was a lucky break. Henry’s hobby is constructing complex, Rube Goldberg−like machines that perform simple tasks and Mulder admires his work. Henry admits that he lost all of his poker winnings but refuses to testify against Cutrona. Scully tries to persuade him that Cutrona will go after him. “I’ll take my chances,” he shrugs. The agents leave and narrowly miss one of Cutrona’s hit men as he enters the building. Mulder realizes he dropped his car keys and buzzes Henry. When they hear gunshots, Mulder and Scully rush back to Henry’s apartment. Henry has disappeared, but the thug is dead, suspended by the swirling ceiling fan. Mulder comes up with a complex theory of how the assassin was killed by a series of events that coincidentally occurred in the apartment, much like one of Henry’s contraptions. Scully chalks it up to dumb luck, but then notices Richie in the doorway. Seeing that he is sick, she leads him back to his bedroom. Richie shows Scully the Goldberg device that Henry made for him when he was in the hospital for liver disease. He tells her that Henry always says that everything happens for a reason.

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Scully reports back to Mulder that the boy doesn’t know of Henry’s whereabouts. She speculates that if Henry was really supernaturally lucky, then he would be out playing the lottery. Hiding in the air vent, Henry hears their conversation. He sneaks out to visit with Richie when the agents depart. Going over Henry’s file, Mulder surmises that Henry’s lucky streak began when he was the lone survivor of a plane crash, but he has since gone underground. Only recently has he tried using his lucky fortune. Henry slips out to buy a scratch−off lottery ticket and wins $100,000. However, when he learns that the payment is spread out over months, he tosses it into a garbage can. Another man in the store grabs the ticket, despite Henry’s pleadings to throw it away. The man is immediately hit by a truck. When Mulder and Scully investigate, they figure out that Henry had heard their conversation about the lottery ticket. They separate and search the building. Mulder finds Henry in the air vent and holds him while he calls Scully. As he dials, another of Cutrona’s gunmen arrive and fire a shot at Henry. The bullet ricochets off Henry, grazes Mulder’s arm, and bounces around before it lands in the chest of the thug. Scully arrives in the room just as the hit man drops, not believing that she’s seeing Henry unharmed. Later, Mulder’s wound is dressed at the hospital, where he tests Henry at playing cards. Henry draws the highest card every time, confessing that he is extremely lucky and that other people suffer. This is why he keeps a low profile. He says that he tried to get $100,000 for a liver transplant for a new experimental treatment for Richie’s liver disease. Although Henry’s life is in danger, Mulder believes that his luck will save him, and he allows Henry to leave. Scully pulls one last card and draws one higher than Henry’s. Mulder is alarmed by this and runs after Henry, who is also being followed by one of Cutrona’s men. Henry gets hit by a truck, but survives. Sensing that his luck has run out, Henry agrees to testify against Cutrona. Richie becomes seriously jaundiced and is taken to the same hospital. His mother Maggie goes to follow the ambulance, but is kidnapped by the mobsters. Henry knows that Maggie was taken to prevent him from testifying, so he goes to speak to Cutrona himself. Cutrona has him brought to the basement where Maggie is being held captive. As the men raise Henry onto a crane, a series of mishaps ensue that kill the gangsters and release Henry. Mulder arrives with the police to find Cutrona dead, and Henry and Maggie saved. It turns out that Cutrona’s rare blood type is a perfect match for Richie’s, and Richie gets his transplant after all. Henry was right when he said that everything does happen for a reason.

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Orison Production Code: #7ABX07 Original Air Date: 01/09/00 Written by Chip Johannessen Directed by Rob Bowman REVEREND ORISON HOPES TO SAVE DONNIE PFASTER’S SOUL BY HELPING HIM BREAK OUT OF PRISON. BUT PFASTER ONLY WANTS THE VICTIM THAT ONCE ESCAPED HIM – SCULLY.

Reverend Orison preaches in a small chapel in the Marion, Illinois maximum security penitentiary. Each time he exclaims the phrase “Glory, amen,” the prisoners stomp their feet in unison. However, sitting stone−faced and silent is Donnie Pfaster (last seen in “Irresistible” #2X13), a fetishist who had once kidnapped Scully. Later in the garment machine shop, Brigham, an inmate from the sermon, gets his fingers caught in an electric saw. As the guards and other prisoners rush to help him, time seems to slow down and Pfaster slips out unnoticed. In Washington, Scully is awakened by a gust of wind. She gets up to close the window, noticing the Bible on her bureau. Her clock radio blinks 6:66. She reaches for the clock, but the power switches off, and then back on. Her clock now reads 6:06. The next day, Mulder and Scully are summoned to the Marion Penitentiary to help find the escaped prisoner they had previously put behind bars – Donnie Pfaster. Mulder tries to persuade Scully to remove herself from the case, but she is adamant about staying on, saying that she has no other choice. The agents interview the inmate Brigham whose hands are now intact. He proclaims his healing a miracle of God, and reciting “Glory, amen,” he unconsciously raps his feet. Mulder recognizes the post−hypnotic suggestion and suggests a talk with the prison chaplain. A song faintly drifts in through the vents and startles Scully. She says she hasn’t heard it since high school. Teenage runaway Blueberry approaches Pfaster in a diner. He offers to give her dirty hands a manicure. Reverend Orison interrupts, telling Pfaster that it was he who helped orchestrate the prison break. Federal marshals storm the diner and Pfaster accuses Orison of turning him in. Orison quickly hands him his car keys, and with time again seeming to slow down, Pfaster inconspicuously escapes. In the parking lot, Pfaster plows down Orison, leaving him severely wounded. Later in the hospital, Orison tries to appeal to Scully’s faith, and she is unsettled when he calls her “Scout.” She is further disquieted when she hears the song from her youth again. Mulder arrives with news of Pfaster’s latest victim, calling Orison a liar. He believes that Orison is a convicted murderer who intended to kill Donnie Pfaster once he got out of prison. Scully has her doubts about Mulder’s theory. She tells him that she had been woken up at 6:06, the time Pfaster

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escaped prison. The song she keeps hearing was on the radio on the day she learned that her Sunday school teacher was murdered. This teacher had called her “Scout.” She tells Mulder that she first believed that evil existed in the world when her teacher was killed. Mulder tries to disprove her thoughts of divine intervention by pointing to a lightspeed image of Orison’s brain on a computer. Orison pierced a hole in his own skull to allow more oxygen to the brain, presumably giving him special powers to “stop” time. Mulder predicts that Orison really believes he is working as God’s tool to stop Pfaster from killing. Meanwhile, Orison uses his chant of “Glory, amen” to hypnotize the marshal guarding him, and he escapes. A red−headed prostitute visits with Pfaster, but when he realizes she is wearing a wig, he is furious and attacks her. The prostitute knocks Pfaster unconscious and leaves. Orison arrives and takes Pfaster to a cemetery. While digging him a grave, he asks Pfaster to repent for his sins. Pfaster says that Orison can not kill him. When Orison looks at Pfaster’s face, he has transformed into the Devil Incarnate. Pfaster kills Orison and buries him in the grave. The next morning, the agents inspect the gravesite and decide that their side of the case is over. They return to Washington. Scully arrives in her apartment and is getting ready for bed when her electricity turns off and her clock radio flashes the time 6:66. Suddenly, Donnie Pfaster bursts out of the closet and attacks Scully. They struggle, and Pfaster succeeds in tying Scully up. At his own bed, Mulder sets his alarm clock, and he hears Scully’s song on the radio. He thinks about this coincidence and decides to phone Scully. She doesn’t answer. Meanwhile, Scully manages to move her tied hands in front of her so that she can crawl across the floor to get to her gun. Pfaster is busy lighting candles and preparing a bath. He catches sight of Scully when Mulder breaks through the door with his gun drawn. As Pfaster is held at gunpoint, Scully breaks out of her ties and shoots Pfaster. Later as the police pour over the crime scene in the apartment, Mulder tries to comfort a shaken Scully, telling her that his report will reflect that she had no choice but to kill Pfaster. He asks if she thought God made her pull the trigger. Instead, Scully questions whether it was really Evil who made her commit an act in vengeance.

The Amazing Maleeni Production Code: #7ABX08 Original Air Date: 01/16/00 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Thomas J. Wright

THE_X−FILES A SMALL−TIME MAGICIAN IS FOUND DEAD AFTER TURNING HIS HEAD 360 DEGREES FOR AN AMAZED AUDIENCE, BUT MULDER AND SCULLY BELIEVE HE WAS MURDERED.

On the Santa Monica Pier in California, the Amazing Maleeni sits on the bumper of his dilapidated van, dressed in full performance tuxedo in anticipation of his magic act. A young boss tells him he’s ready to go on. “This will be my greatest show ever,” Maleeni says before approaching the stage. He performs a rudimentary sequence of cups and balls while reciting the history of the great magicians. A guy in the audience heckles him to do a more exciting trick. Maleeni makes a retort to the guy, Billy LaBonge, then announces that he will attempt a feat of the Egyptian Dedi by reattaching his severed head. As the crowd silences, Maleeni incredibly turns his head all the way around his neck. The audience applauds and Maleeni throws a look at LaBonge, who leaves. After the show, the young boss goes to Maleeni in his van, but the magician sits motionless. The boss taps him. Maleeni’s head rolls off his body and out the open window, as his headless corpse stays behind the wheel. Mulder and Scully peruse the crime scene the following day. She is uninterested, thinking this was merely a murder case. But Mulder believes that Maleeni’s great magic trick somehow went wrong. They examine a camcorder from a tourist who taped the show. They suspect the heckler, but do not see his face. Scully notices that the heckler throws away a soda cup. The fingerprints on the cup lead them to Billy LaBonge, another small−time magician with a criminal record. LaBonge writes off Maleeni as a hack with gambling debts. As the agents turn to leave, LaBonge stops them to return their FBI badges. They didn’t even realize they had been pickpocketed. Later, LaBonge pays a visit to loan shark Cissy Alvarez regarding Maleeni’s debts. LaBonge offers to help him make back ten times the amount of money he is owed. Alvarez is interested in hearing the proposal. Scully finishes the autopsy on Maleeni (aka Herman Pinchbeck) and finds that his head was sawed off and glued to the body with spirit gum. Pinchbeck, however, died from a heart attack and had been refrigerated for over a month. Mulder and Scully go to a Los Angeles bank to see Pinchbeck’s brother, Albert. He is an exact twin of Maleeni, and he is wearing a neck brace. Albert says he and his brother used to have a magic act together, and he proceeds to show a trick that involves Mulder pulling a card from the deck. Mulder suspects that Albert performed one last trick on the Pier in honor of his brother Herman. Albert says that he couldn’t have been at the show, revealing he is in a wheelchair with no legs. Scully apologizes. With no other leads, Mulder and Scully bring LaBonge to Maleeni’s van to look for clues. LaBonge thinks he

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will uncover a secret compartment for the body, but nothing turns up. Mulder does find one of Pinchbeck’s gambling markers. At the bank, Albert Pinchbeck admires the courier guard’s gun. He is then visited by Alvarez who threatens him. Albert notices the distinctive tattoos on Alvarez’s hand. Meanwhile, the courier guards find a masked man inside their armored car and shoot at him. The man escapes, but the guards take note of the tattoos on his hand. Out of sight, the man pulls off his mask. It is LaBonge, unharmed. He wipes the tattoos off with a towel. Mulder and Scully question Alvarez about his gambling marker, but he denies any knowledge of a murder. Mulder confides to Scully that he thinks they are being misdirected, like a sleight−of−hand trick. LaBonge watches them leave Alvarez’s pool hall and places a 911 call. He goes inside and is threatened by Alvarez. As he runs out with a gun in his hand, LaBonge is picked up by the police. The agents return to the bank where Mulder dumps Albert Pinchbeck from his wheelchair. He does have legs, hidden by holes in the wheelchair. He confesses that he is really Herman Pinchbeck/Maleeni, and he was afraid for his life because of gambling debts to Alvarez. When he went to Albert for a loan, he found his brother dead of a heart attack. He schemed to slip into his brother’s life, right after retiring with his greatest performance. Mulder doesn’t believe his sob story and has him arrested. He looks through Pinchbeck’s computer. The bank officer says that electronic transfer funds would require Mulder’s badge number and thumbprint. Scully notices a robbery attempt was made on an armored car that Pinchbeck signed out. The bank officer says that no money was stolen. Pinchbeck is taken to a holding prison, where someone in the next cell raps on the wall. It is LaBonge. Pinchbeck tells him that everything went “swimmingly.” The former rivals seem to be partners in crime. The next morning, the bank vault is emptied. Security footage shows nothing, but a previous tape shows Alvarez entering the building, and the courier guard recognizes his tattoos. The FBI raids the pool hall and finds the money. Alvarez claims he was set up by LaBonge. Mulder and Scully realize that Pinchbeck and LaBonge are working together. They get to the prison just as the magicians are about to be released on bail. The agents unravel their theory: the death of Albert Pinchbeck opened a door of opportunity for the two men. Maleeni intentionally lost money to Alvarez and then faked his own death. LaBonge, Maleeni’s protégé, set up Alvarez to take the fall for the heist, hoping to enact revenge on Alvarez, a former prison mate. Maleeni placed blanks in the courier guard’s gun, so that the masked LaBonge was not killed. While the two were locked up overnight, they used their magic tricks to escape, rob the bank, plant the money with Alvarez and return to prison by morning. Since the money has

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been returned, the agents release Maleeni and LaBonge. Afterwards, Mulder tells Scully that he was still puzzled as to why they used an elaborate set−up without a payoff. He shows her Maleeni’s wallet, pilfered from the evidence room. Framing Alvarez was merely a way to misdirect the agents’ attention. The pair’s real plan was to access the bank’s electronic transfer funds using Mulder’s badge number, obtained when LaBonge pickpocketed the ID. They would have also needed a thumbprint, and Mulder pulls out of the wallet the playing card that he picked from Pinchbeck’s card trick. The only question still lingering is how Maleeni turned his head around. Scully says she knows the trick. She turns her hand all the way around on the floor as Mulder looks in wonder. He asks her how she did it, and she merely replies, “Magic.”

Signs & Wonders Production Code: #7ABX09 Original Air Date: 01/23/00 Written by Jeffrey Bell Directed by Kim Manners SNAKES ARE KILLING THE UNRIGHTEOUS, BUT MULDER AND SCULLY DOUBT THAT THIS IS A CASE OF DIVINE INTERVENTION.

Jared Chirp scans a medical test report and, disgusted, throws it in the trash. He hurriedly packs a suitcase while mumbling some religious prayers. An unseen figure watches through the window as the rain crashes outside the home in McMinn County, Tennessee. Jared grabs one last item – a revolver – and runs through the storm to his car. Once inside the car he drops his keys, and as he reaches for them on the floor, he sees a rattlesnake hissing. He grabs the gun, but a second rattlesnake comes into view. Suddenly Jared is swarmed by dozens of snakes. He fires into the pile with all six shots. The snakes attack and kill him. In his office, Mulder reads from the report about the 116 separate bite marks from 50 different snakes. Although Jared’s car was locked, there was no trace of snakes. He informs Scully that rattlesnakes usually hibernate in the winter. She notes that serpents are symbolic of religion. They travel to the Blessing Community Church in Tennessee to talk with Reverend Mackey about Jared’s death. Jared’s pregnant girlfriend Gracie overhears the conversation. Mackey has misgivings about the tragedy, and points them in the direction of Jared and Gracie’s former church. This denomination practices snake handling. He names Reverend Enoch O’Connor as the prime source of animus toward the couple. O’Connor’s Church of Signs and Wonders is an old, run−down shack with no lights. The agents are trying to find their way around in the dark and

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are startled to see snakes loose in the building. Before they can move, O’Connor turns on the lights to reveal not one, but many snakes on the church floor. He calmly stuffs them into a burlap sack as he tells Mulder and Scully that the death was a test of Jared’s faith. Iris, a volunteer at Mackey’s church and the owner of the boarding house where Gracie is living, tells Mackey that Jared called the night he died looking for Gracie. She had kept this a secret. Mackey reassures her that he will help her deal with this later, and Iris goes into an office to work on church bulletins. Suddenly, her staple remover turns into a snake head and bites her hand. She washes the wound in the bathroom sink and notices snakes slithering from out of nowhere. She screams. Later, Iris’ body is removed as Mulder and Scully talk to Mackey. He tells them that Jared called the boarding house looking for Gracie and mentioned something about paying for his sins. They question Gracie, but she does not believe O’Connor was responsible for the murders because he is her father. When she became pregnant, O’Connor kicked her out of the house and the church. Mulder and Scully return to Signs and Wonders and split up to investigate. Scully enters a room with snakes and O’Connor appears. He forces her hand into a box of serpents, preaching that she must be judged by God. Before a snake reaches her, Mulder crashes in with his pistol raised. O’Connor is arrested. He tells Mulder that Satan is near. In his jail cell that evening, O’Connor kneels down to pray. Dozens of snakes slide into the cell between the bars. Reverend O’Connor lies in an ICU hospital bed with serious snake bites. Yet Gracie has forbid any anti−venom medicine to be given to him on the basis of religious grounds. Scully speculates that perhaps Gracie is the killer. The agents comb Jared’s room and find the medical report. Jared could not have been the father of Gracie’s child because he was sterile. They wonder if Jared was killed because he learned the truth. In the hospital, Mackey convinces Gracie to rely on medicine to save her father. He leaves her alone with the unconscious O’Connor. Mulder and Scully arrive to find that O’Connor has escaped with Gracie. Mackey tells them that O’Connor fathered Gracie’s baby, and this was the reason she wanted to leave her father’s snake church. Late that night, O’Connor brings Gracie to his church where the other members of the congregation are waiting. She struggles, but they manage to hold her down. O’Connor tells her to “resist the Devil and he will flee.” Gracie’s pregnant belly squirms and she miraculously delivers baby rattlesnakes instead of a child. O’Connor and the others are shocked. The next morning, Mulder and Scully arrive at the Church of Signs and Wonders as Gracie is being put into an ambulance. She is in deep shock and suffers from loss of blood, but there

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Sein und Zeit (1 of 2) Production Code: #7ABX10 Original Air Date: 02/06/00 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Michael Watkins THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LITTLE GIRL LEAD MULDER TO MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH PREVIOUS UNEXPLAINED KIDNAPPINGS. YET SCULLY BELIEVES HE IS ASSOCIATING THE CASE WITH THE ABDUCTION OF HIS SISTER.

Five year−old Amber Lynn LaPierre says her prayers before her parents tuck her into bed. Bud LaPierre sets in for the evening to watch television, but he hears a noise in the house. He checks Amber Lynn’s room and is horrified to see the little girl’s face has turned blue from strangulation. He recoils at the sight. Yet at second glance, she appears to perfectly fine and still asleep. Meanwhile, his wife Billie is in their bedroom. She is oddly concentrating on writing an abduction note. Bud moves down the hallway to tell his wife of the strange hallucination when Amber Lynn’s bedroom door slams shut. He struggles to open it. Blood oozes out from under the door. Bud breaks in to find Amber Lynn has vanished.

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That same evening, Skinner assembles a team of agents to find the girl. Mulder insists that he be put on the case. Although Skinner does not consider this to be an X−File, he gives Mulder until noon to file a report. The next morning, Mulder arrives at the media circus surrounding the LaPierre home in Sacramento, California. He inquires about the ransom note. Bud tells him that the note was in Amber Lynn’s room. Billie lies and says she was already in bed. Mulder is unsure what to believe. Later, Scully arrives at the motel to find Mulder deep in thought. Skinner sent her to retrieve Mulder’s report. Mulder’s cell phone interrupts their conversation. It is Mrs. Mulder, who asks her son if he is investigating the abduction case. She seems troubled, and wants him to call when he gets back. Mulder and Scully return to Washington, where Skinner is analyzing the letter with his team. Handwriting analysis seems to shows that Billie LaPierre did write the note, but there is no demand for money or ransom. Although the other agents believe that the parents are involved, Mulder knows that none of their theories explain what happened to the little girl. Scully follows him back to his office and attempts to convince him that he is identifying the case with the disappearance of his sister. Mulder rummages through old files and he finds a document from a 1987 case in Idaho. The last line of the ransom note matches the one found in the LaPierre home: “Nobody shoots at Santa Claus!” The agents visit the woman whose handwriting is on the note, Kathy Lee Tencate, who is imprisoned for kidnapping her six year−old son. Although the boy was never found, she confessed to the murder. Mulder notes that her case resembles the LaPierre situation and believes she is innocent. Kathy Lee refuses to help, so they leave. Alone in her cell, Kathy Lee has a ghostly vision of her son and summons the agents. Mrs. Mulder calls her son again, but leaves an answering machine message, saying there has been much unsaid that she hopes he will understand. She proceeds to burn photographs of Mulder and his sister. Mulder returns to Sacramento to show the LaPierres a videotaped confession by Kathy Lee. She assures them on the tape that their daughter is protected. The couple react emotionally. The LaPierres change their statements about the event on the night of the abduction, and they are released from police custody. Back in the office, Skinner scolds Mulder for bringing his paranormal ideas into the case. Scully interrupts. She informs Mulder that his mother is dead. They investigate Mrs. Mulder’s house, finding an open gas oven and a bottle of sleeping pills. Mulder believes that his mother was trying to contact him about the LaPierre case and that whoever took his sister has now killed his mother, staging a suicide. He notices the missing family photos, and pleads with Scully to do the autopsy.

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Looking for answers, Mulder goes to the Idaho prison to see Kathy Lee Tencate again. She tells him that his mother was trying to tell him that his sister Samantha is with the “walk−ins” – old souls lurking in starlight who protect other souls from harm that they would have suffered in real life. A paunchy man watches some children play in the Santa’s North Pole Village theme park. He changes into a Santa suit next to a group of television monitors taping the village. Nearby are stacks of videotapes. Mulder, meanwhile, replays his mother’s message for Scully, trying to discern what she was trying to warn him about. Scully found that Mrs. Mulder suffered from an incurable cancer and did commit suicide. She tells Mulder that his mother would want him to stop looking for Samantha. She had probably hoped to take away his pain. Mulder breaks down in Scully’s arms. Billie LaPierre sees a vision of Amber Lynn next to her bed. The little girl is mouthing something. Skinner and Scully take Mulder to Sacramento because Billie wants to see him. Billie tells Mulder that the apparition of Amber Lynn said the number seventy−four. No one understands the significance of the word. As the agents drive from the LaPierre home, a beaten and exhausted Mulder asks to be removed from the case. Scully notices a highway sign for Route 74 and she looks on the map. They head down the route toward Santa’s North Pole Village. Skinner checks the grounds while Mulder and Scully enter the building. They come upon a bank of video monitors and stacks of videotapes dating back to the 1960s. One tape has footage of Amber Lynn LaPierre. Suddenly, the paunchy man appears and locks Mulder and Scully in the office. Skinner chases the man around the property and arrests him. Mulder and Scully catch up and find themselves standing on freshly turned earth. They realize that there are dozens of unmarked plots – each the size of a child’s grave.

Closure (2 of 2) Production Code: #7ABX11 Original Air Date: 02/13/00 Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners MULDER CONTINUES TO SEARCH FOR CLUES ABOUT SAMANTHA’S ABDUCTION AND ULTIMATELY FINDS THE LONG−SOUGHT−AFTER ANSWERS TO HER FATE.

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responsibility for the disappearance of Amber Lynn LaPierre. Mulder admits to Scully that he had hoped his sister Samantha was among the dead. “I just wanted it to be over,” he says. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of police psychic Harold Piller who offers to help find Amber Lynn. Piller has previously explained cases where children were transported through spiritual intervention. Although Scully readily dismisses Piller and his theories, Mulder is interested, and notes that Piller’s claims match what Kathy Lee Tencate had told him in the prison. Disapproving of Mulder’s blind belief, Scully returns to Washington and shows Special Agent Lewis Schoniger a video of Mulder’s 1989 regression hypnotherapy session. As Mulder recalls Samantha’s abduction on the tape, the FBI expert points out that Mulder’s delusion played into his unconscious hope that his sister was still alive. This caused him to pursue her. The case file reveals that an unsuccessful search for Samantha occurred at the highest levels of government in 1973. Schoniger surmises that Samantha is probably dead, and advises Scully not to dig any deeper. Scully disagrees, saying that someone owes Mulder an explanation because “he deserves closure, like anyone.” Back in Sacramento, Mulder brings Piller to the graves. The psychic senses that Ed Truelove’s victims all died while suffering. Walk−ins, however, intervene before anything violent happens to the children. Piller believes that while Amber Lynn was not among the dead children in the graves, she has a connection to Mulder and his missing sister. That night, Piller comes to Mulder’s motel room because a “visitor” wants to speak to him. A ghostly vision of the late Mrs. Mulder appears, trying to tell Mulder something. When she quickly disappears, Mulder discredits Piller’s abilities, but then realizes that he has unknowingly written the words “April Base” on a piece of paper. Scully proceeds with her own investigation of Mrs. Mulder’s house and finds remnants of burned photos and documents. She calls Mulder to tell him that one of the documents has the Cigarette− Smoking Man’s (CSM) signature calling off the search for Samantha. Mulder discounts the importance of this lead. When Scully gets home later that night, CSM is waiting for her. He warns her to stop the search for Samantha because he believes she is dead. Although Scully pleads for the truth, CSM contends that Mulder must remain ignorant. It is the only thing that gives him hope. Meanwhile, Mulder and Piller sneak onto the decommissioned April Air Force Base. Piller has a vision of Samantha and other children given tests in train cars. Mulder is at first skeptical, but then finds a child’s handprint in the cement outside one of the base houses. Samantha’s name is etched underneath.

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Next to the small hand is another print with the name Jeffrey. Mulder refutes what CSM said to Scully, believing that Samantha was returned after her abduction to be raised by CSM and his son, Jeffrey Spender. Scully thinks that Piller is leading Mulder on. The agents confront Piller with the knowledge that he has been institutionalized for schizophrenia and is currently being investigated for the murder of his own son. Piller argues that he only wants to find his son. He tries to prove that he knows Samantha is still out there by taking them back to the base. In CSM’s abandoned house, the three hold hands for a séance to summon the spirits. Ghosts appear around them. A small boy ghost takes Mulder’s hand and leads him into an adjoining room. Inside a wall cavity, Mulder finds a diary belonging to Samantha. Later in a diner, he reads the passages to Scully. A fourteen year−old Samantha remembers another family and an older brother, but she seems to think that the doctors performing tests on her have stolen her memories. Her final entry is about running away. Outside, Mulder looks up at the night sky and ponders whether the stars are really comprised of lost souls. He tells Scully that he wonders what his mother was trying to tell him before she died. Late at night, as Mulder sleeps, the ghost of Mrs. Mulder whispers into her son’s ear. The next morning, Scully uncovers a 1979 police report on a runaway who matches Samantha’s description. The agents scour old hospital records, finding a “Jane Doe” patient with signs of paranoia. The girl also exhibited strange cuts on her limbs. They go with Piller to the house of Arbutus Ray, the emergency room nurse who signed the patient in. Mulder is hesitant to approach the woman’s front door because he somehow senses that he has reached the end of the road. Scully and Piller knock on the door as Mulder waits at the car. Ray does recall the patient and remembers that she had a vision of the girl murdered. A frightened Ray blinked, but realized the girl was sleeping safely. This story matches Bud LaPierre’s hallucination. Ray also recounts how a group of men came with the father – a smoking man – to take the girl away. When the men opened her locked room, the girl had vanished. Scully turns to Mulder, but he has disappeared. She doesn’t see him being led by the same boy from the house at the Air Force base. Mulder walks through a clearing in the woods and sees a group of ghostly children happily playing. Amber Lynn LaPierre is there. Mulder senses that his guide is Harold Piller’s son. Suddenly, Samantha runs to Mulder and jumps into her brother’s arms. The joyous reunion brings him to tears. A peaceful Mulder appears out of the darkness, walking towards Scully and Piller. Piller is in denial when Mulder assures him that his son is protected among the Walk−ins. But Scully is concerned about her partner. “I’m fine,” he calmly says. “I’m free.”

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X-Cops Production Code: #7ABX12 Original Air Date: 02/20/00 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Michael Watkins MULDER AND SCULLY ARE FOLLOWED DOCUMENTARY−STYLE BY A “COPS” CAMERA CREW AS THEY INVESTIGATE A MONSTER ON THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES.

Willow Park, California. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. 6:48 pm. Deputy Keith Wetzel cruises the streets, but he’s not alone in his patrol car – a camera crew from the television show “Cops” follows his every move. He responds to a call about a possible “monster” prowler. Wetzel finds huge scrapes on the front door of the house, and a quick search corners the suspect in the backyard. As Wetzel advances toward the perpetrator, something startles him. He bolts back toward the squad car, shrieking in terror. The frightened camera crew follows. As Wetzel frantically radios for assistance, an unseen force attacks the police car and flips it completely over. The terrified occupants scream. Backup arrives in the form of Sergeant Paula Duthie. She is astounded by the upside−down vehicle and questions Wetzel about the incident. Although the camera crew is no help in confirming his story, Wetzel lies to his superior, telling her that a street gang was responsible for the wreck. They are interrupted by the radio squawking with a report of two armed suspects fleeing on foot. The officers on the scene rush to apprehend a very surprised pair of FBI agents investigating the same “monster”: Mulder and Scully. Mulder asks Wetzel to describe what it was that attacked him. Although Wetzel attempts to downplay the incident, Mulder believes that they are really chasing a werewolf. He speculates that the bite marks on Wetzel’s wrists may indicate that he will soon become a werewolf himself. When Mulder suggests that the deputy be quarantined, Sgt. Duthie skeptically asks, “Could I see your badge again?” Scully tries to avoid the camera crew when discussing the case, but Mulder is giddy with the prospect of solving an X−File under the watchful eyes of a worldwide audience. She is merely trying to keep herself and her partner from looking ridiculous in a werewolf hunt. Police sketch artist Ricky draws the attacker described by a resident. The perpetrator seems to closely resemble horror movie character Freddy Krueger. Although Ricky begins to fear the “claw monster” that the woman described, Mulder is no longer certain that the werewolf theory still stands. Scully confirms this by reporting that the marks on Wetzel’s wrists are merely insect bites.

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The police radio reports another attack nearby, and the team runs to the scene. Ricky’s body lies dead, savagely clawed through his protective Kevlar vest with five parallel slashes. Scully combs the crime area and uncovers a long, fake fingernail, painted bubblegum pink and covered in blood. The agents interview Steve and Edy, a colorful couple who heard Ricky’s cries and called 911. They recognize the nail polish on the fake fingernail as the signature hair and nail color of local prostitute Chantara Gomez. 9:26 pm. The agents search for Chantara. Mulder drives and addresses the camera, cheerfully updating the audience on the case. Scully, still ignoring the camera crew, easily spots the prostitute’s pink hair. Chantara confesses that it was not Freddy Krueger but her boyfriend, Chuco, who killed Ricky. She is afraid that Chuco will twist her neck when he learns that she ratted on him. The police raid Chuco’s house and find that he has overdosed. Dead for several days, Chuco is ruled out as a suspect. Suddenly, gunshots blast outside. Dep. Wetzel is blindly firing at an invisible assailant. Although he was assigned to protect Chantara, she was somehow killed in the locked squad car. Her neck was snapped. Wetzel describes to Mulder a childhood story about a monster with a head like a wasp. He says that what he shot at was the same Wasp Man. 1:32 am. Mulder switches theories about the nature of the case. He now believes that the suspect is really a single entity that, when it attacks, appears as the victim’s worst nightmare. It appears at a full moon and feeds on fear, jumping to various sources like a chain reaction. Scully still does not buy his claims, but returns with him to the home of Steve and Edy. They are the only people to not fall prey to this killer. But after talking with Steve and Edy, it becomes clear that the couple does not fear their neighborhood or any killer on the loose. Mulder decides that they are not in any danger. He heads off with Wetzel to scour the streets, and Scully goes to the morgue to examine Chantara’s body. 2:47 am. Much to Scully’s chagrin, half the camera crew has followed her, but she works earnestly to find any clues before sunrise. The nervous medical examiner assisting her has heard that some kind of contagion killed the prostitute. Scully assures her that the victim was murdered and not exposed to the Hantavirus. As the assistant asks more questions about the Hantavirus, she sneezes blood and faints. She convulses on the floor, exhibiting symptoms of Hantavirus. Scully yells at the camera crew to call 911. 4:41 am. At the morgue, Mulder assimilates this latest incident into his theory, realizing that the Hantavirus only affected the examiner after she began fearing it. Mulder suddenly realizes that Deputy Wetzel, who was not afraid while Mulder

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was with him, is now on his own again and at risk of another attack. Wetzel, meanwhile, has returned to the previously raided house with the camera crew. He is determined to search it one more time. Unfortunately for Wetzel, his fears begin to overwhelm him and he is locked inside the house with the cameras. Mulder and Scully arrive quickly and break down the door. Behind a locked closet, Wetzel screams in pain. Mulder yells at him to “cowboy up” and not show any fear. Suddenly, the screaming stops, and Mulder breaks in to find an injured Wetzel sitting dazed on the floor, cradling his bloody arm. Mulder realizes that the sun has risen, meaning that the terror is gone. With no concrete proof to back up Mulder’s theories, one question hangs over the case: is the entity gone for good, or only to return at the next full moon?

First Person Shooter Production Code: #7ABX13 Original Air Date: 02/27/00 Written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox Directed by Chris Carter A MURDER INSIDE THE HIGH−TECH WORLD OF A VIRTUAL REALITY GAME LEADS SCULLY TO BATTLE A DEADLY DIGITAL CHARACTER IN ORDER TO SAVE MULDER’S LIFE.

Three teen guerrillas, bursting with testosterone, buckle up their stun suits in a dimly lit equipment bunker. They rack their futuristic, automatic weapons in preparation for war. But their battlefield is a virtual reality game, where they are pitted against imaginary gunmen. Game controllers Ivan and Phoebe monitor the players’ vital statistics from an outside console. One of the players is “shot” and another waits as Retro moves farther into the depths of the virtual environment to encounter a beautiful female warrior in leather and stilettos. “I am Maitreya,” she tells him, slinking closer. “This is my game.” She brandishes an antique flintlock pistol and aims it at him. Retro can only watch as sparks flash from the powder−pan when she pulls the trigger. Later that night, Mulder and Scully enter the FPS corporate building amid stringent security. They are met by the Lone Gunmen, who are uncharacteristically enthusiastic about the company. The trio explains that they serve as consultants to the game, but that Retro’s death has put a damper on the company’s upcoming initial public stock offering. Scully checks Retro’s body and notes that the man was obviously shot. Ivan vehemently refutes the visual proof, saying there is no way a real gun could have gotten into the highly−secured complex. The entire scenario, Phoebe explains, is digital. Nothing exists outside the game space. Mulder

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reviews the videotape of the game that shows nothing out of the ordinary. Yet when they switch the game environment to wire mode and all the textures and surfaces are stripped, the tape reveals a female pointing a gun at Retro. Mulder and the Lone Gunmen are shocked, but Phoebe’s face shows a spark of recognition. After the men leave the room, she stares at the cyber−vixen on the monitor. “Goddess,” she whispers in disbelief. Mulder gives a detective the printout of Maitreya as the suspect, but Scully remains skeptical that a fictional female character could commit a real murder. Their ensuing discussion is cut short by the entrance of Darryl Musashi, a revered virtual programmer and game−playing legend. Like fan− crazed little boys, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen leave to watch Musashi take on the game and its unexpected female challenger. They are shocked when Musashi meets a gruesome end in a matter of minutes, decapitated by the Samurai sword−wielding Maitreya. Completing her preliminary examination of Retro, Scully is confused about how his wound left no trace of evidence. She and Mulder argue lightly about the merits of computer games, questioning whether they add to a culture of violence or provide a necessary outlet. As the remains of Darryl Musashi are brought into the autopsy bay, Mulder receives a call from the Sheriff’s Department that their female suspect is in custody at the station house. At the station, Mulder and Scully must maneuver around the many male officers hovering over the sexy suspect, an exotic dancer who goes by the name Jade Blue Afterglow. Confronted by the printed image of her likeness, she tells them that she was paid for allowing a medical imaging company make a computer scan of her body. The agents release the woman. Back in the offices of FPS, the Lone Gunmen prepare to enter the game space to implement a patch program that will override the software problem. Before they are ready, the game begins on its own and the Gunmen are shot at. Mulder rushes to enter the game space in order to rescue the trio, but he is unable to follow them out before the module closes. He is trapped inside the game. Phoebe and Scully watch as Mulder’s image disappears from their monitor. His vitals are still registering on the console, and they realize that even though Mulder isn’t physically in the game space, he is lost somewhere inside the game. Scully angrily confronts Ivan about putting the female figure into the game, but it’s Phoebe who runs out of the room with a guilty sob. As Scully follows her into the hall, the young woman admits that she created Maitreya to be her own game character in an attempt to make her mark as a woman in the gaming world. Yet, she maintains, she has no idea how the character moved from her computer to the game mainframe.

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Inside the game, Mulder and Maitreya square off. She is able to move and disappear at will, but Mulder manages to survive against her. Maitreya multiplies herself and continues to fire at him. Her electronic advantage takes its toll on Mulder, and he quickly loses ammunition. Finally, in desperation, Scully suits up and enters the game space herself, brandishing her own high−powered weapon. Round after round, she overpowers Maitreya, but the confrontations continue to grow difficult. Maitreya comes after them with a tank. Phoebe finally decides that she must enact the game’s kill switch. Ivan tries to stop her, because the kill switch will erase the whole game, but she succeeds. With the push of a few buttons, the game completely evaporates. For a brief moment, it appears that Mulder and Scully have been erased with the game, but when the module opens, the two agents are safely inside, battle−worn and weary. Later, while Ivan sits working at his computer, a new female figure suddenly appears that resembles a warrior who once mastered the game – Special Agent Dana Scully.

Theef Production Code: #7ABX14 Original Air Date: 03/12/00 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners MULDER AND SCULLY SUSPECT THAT HEXCRAFT IS THE SOURCE OF THREAT AGAINST A DOCTOR’S FAMILY.

Dr. Robert Wieder and his family return home from a banquet honoring him as the San Francisco Bay Area Doctor of the Year. Feeling joyous and celebratory, Dr. Wieder, his wife Nan and daughter Lucy prepare for bed, and invite the doctor’s father− in−law, Dr. Irving Thalbro to stay the night. Dr. Thalbro is startled in his room by a haggard, rough− looking man standing behind him. The security alarm’s motion sensor wakens the Wieders. Dr. Wieder goes downstairs to investigate, and finds Thalbro’s body, hanging from the skylight, covered in blood. Scrawled in blood on the wall is the word “THEEF.” The agents are called to the crime scene, where Mulder ponders the word’s meaning. There is no evidence that it is a case of murder. Mulder theorizes that the cause is hexcraft when he finds dirt splayed on the victim’s bed, since dirt is commonly used to cast spells. Scully uncharacteristically agrees that this is a possibility. Mulder is surprised at her acquiescence. Across town, in a run−down building, the landlady smells something suspicious in one of the

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apartments. She knocks on the door of its tenant, Mr. Peattie, who is the same man from the Wieder break−in. He tells her that he is cooking medicine and offers her a poultice for her sore back. She goes, leaving Peattie to finish sewing a number of crudely designed voodoo dolls. One of them hangs by the neck in the same manner as Dr. Thalbro. Mulder finds out that the mysterious dirt was from a graveyard, meaning that it is conjure dust, a powerful tool for magick arts practitioners. Scully tells Mulder that Dr. Thalbro suffered from Kuru, a New Guinea disease that is extremely rare. Since Kuru causes irrational behavior, Scully concludes that Thalbro must have killed himself. Mulder believes that the disease was intentionally inflicted on the man so that he would kill himself. Nan Wieder is disturbed when she discovers that a family photo was removed from the house. Dr. Wieder tries to console his wife, but when he pulls back the covers of their bed, dirt in the shape of a stick figure is on the sheets. Suddenly, Nan lapses into convulsions, and cyst−like sores erupt all over her body. As the doctor attends his wife, he doesn’t notice Peattie standing outside the house, clutching one of his voodoo dolls with Nan’s photo sewn inside. At the hospital, Dr. Wieder tells Mulder and Scully that his wife has contracted a rare disease common only in central Africa. Angered by Mulder’s folk magick theory, Wieder ignores Scully’s offer of protection. The agents inquire at a magic shop about the use of conjure dust for murder. The proprietor tells them that in order to kill someone the magickian must draw power from a charm that holds great personal significance. The only way to prevent his power is to separate him from such a source. Dr. Wieder studies his wife’s MRI results and is shocked to see the word “THEEF” inscribed in the scan. Suddenly, Peattie appears behind him. “Truth hurts, don’t it?” the man laughs. When the doctor asks why he is harming his family, Peattie utters “Lynette Peattie.” Wieder does not recognize the name, and Peattie disappears. Confused, Dr. Wieder runs a record search, but no Lynette Peattie turns up. Then he looks for “Jane Does” under his care and finds one patient’s file has a personal effect in it. It is a hand−woven wristband, with the inscription “Flax hair lamb, theef of mans heart.” This triggers Wieder’s memory. Later that night, Peattie buys a bag of popcorn from a hospital vending machine and cooks it in a machine he’s never seen before – a microwave. Meanwhile, Nan recovers, but must go through another MRI exam. As she slides into the radiology tube, Peattie removes the popcorn from the microwave and replaces it with a poppet doll. Inside the cylinder chamber, Nan begins to convulse and her body burns to a charred black. Peattie pulls

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the Nan doll out of the microwave and calmly says “All done.” When Dr. Wieder sees that the word “THEEF” was branded into his dead wife’s chest, he tells Mulder and Scully about the strange man who confronted him. He also recounts the story of Lynette Peattie, a dying girl he had treated after a bus accident. Wieder had deliberately upped her morphine dosage to ease her pain even though the overdose would take the last twenty minutes of her life. Mulder realizes the killer must be Lynette’s father, so he and Scully track down the girl’s gravesite. They exhume the coffin, but it is empty. Back at Peattie’s apartment, the landlady lets herself in to look for another poultice. She gasps at Lynette’s skeletal remains in the bed. She turns to leave and runs into Peattie. The agents send Dr. Wieder and his daughter off to a safe house cabin, with Scully accompanying. Unseen, Peattie watches them go. The news reports a woman suffering from a sudden onset of a rare, flesh−eating disease, and Mulder quickly connects it to Peattie. When he reaches the apartment, Lynette’s skull has been removed from the body. He phones Scully to warn her that their suspect may be heading towards the Wieders. Outside the cabin, Peattie waits. His daughter’s head rests in a box on his lap. Peattie breaks into Scully’s car and takes her ID photo and a strand of hair from the seat. He puts them into a poppet and pokes the doll’s eyes with coffin nails. Scully becomes blinded and her eyes are cataracted milky white. She stumbles about, and shoots blindly at Peattie when he bursts through the door. He merely knocks her gun aside, heading upstairs after the doctor and his daughter. Dr. Wieder tells Peattie that he did everything medically possible for the man’s daughter and that he eased her suffering when he could do no more. Peattie says that if he had been there, he could have saved her himself. He pulls out another cloth doll and twists a knife into it. Dr. Wieder falls to the floor, clutching his heart. Mulder arrives at the cabin, finding the hex doll used to blind Scully. Scully’s sight returns instantly and she shoots Peattie to save Dr. Wieder. The next day at the hospital, Scully admits that she would have followed the same procedure as Wieder had she been faced with Lynette’s prognosis. However, she wonders whether Peattie really could have saved his daughter. Mulder is once again surprised and appreciative of Scully’s admission of belief. Nearby, Peattie lies comatose on a hospital bed, dependent on the marvels of modern science and medicine.

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Original Air Date: 03/19/00 Written by William B. Davis Directed by Rob Bowman THE CIGARETTE−SMOKING MAN OFFERS TO SHOW SCULLY THE CURE FOR CANCER IF SHE TRAVELS WITH HIM – AND HIDES HER TRIP FROM MULDER.

A sick young boy is awakened at night by a storm and a bright light. He watches in awe as figures walk out of the light. Scully finds a copy of the Goochland Guardian newspaper on her doorstep. An article about the young boy is on the front page. Although his family had refused medical treatment for him because of their beliefs, the boy had miraculously been cured. At the office, Mulder receives an anonymous e−mail from someone at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency about the same incident. Someone is insistent that they investigate the case. Mulder goes to DARPA, while Scully visits the boy. The McPeck family is grateful for their son’s miracle cure. The boy tells Scully he saw “angels” who looked like men, and one of them pinched his neck. Scully sees that he has a mark similar to her own implant scar. The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) waits outside the McPeck home in Scully’s car. He claims that he was responsible for saving the boy’s life, as well as hers. He questions why she is not curious about his technology since he went to considerable trouble to prove his intentions. Scully is not swayed in her distrust. CSM admits that he is dying, but hopes to pass his knowledge and power onto her. This knowledge includes the cure for cancer. He chose her because he has grown tired of Mulder’s stubbornness. He leaves his card with the warning that one word to Mulder will rescind the offer. Scully traces the phone number on CSM’s card and finds the address. It is a large, unmarked office building. The security guard demands her ID, and sends her to an office where the door’s nameplate reads “Spender, C.G.B.” As if expecting her, CSM cordially welcomes her in. He tries once again to appeal to Scully. He is dying of a cerebral inflammation caused by brain surgery and wants to leave a legacy. To retrieve the cure for cancer, they must take a trip. Intrigued, Scully agrees. She leaves a message on Mulder’s answering machine, saying that she will be out of town for a family emergency. CSM watches her pack when Mulder phones back. Although she ignores Mulder’s call, she manages to discreetly conceal a small microphone in her bra. The mood in the car is tense, but Scully drives CSM to an undisclosed location. She protests when he begins to light a cigarette, and he agrees to quit smoking in order to gain her trust. He then directs her to the home of Marjorie Butters, a sprightly, energetic older woman. Scully is shocked to hear that Marjorie is actually 118 years old, and that CSM

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is the reason for her overcoming cancer. He comments that a miracle such as Marjorie must be the reason Scully became a doctor. Worried about Scully, Mulder questions her building manager. The man says that she left with a man who smoked cigarettes, and Mulder immediately makes the connection. Skinner tells Mulder that Scully requisitioned a fleet sedan, but there have been no gas charges to track her whereabouts. Mulder is concerned because Scully’s mother knew nothing about a supposed family emergency. Suddenly, Skinner’s private phone line rings. It is Scully, who asks her boss to relay to Mulder that she is okay. When Skinner offers to let her speak to Mulder herself, she refuses. Mulder is even more convinced that she is in danger. When CSM and Scully stop at a gas station, she speaks frantically into her hidden microphone, asking Mulder to comprehend what she’s recorded. She drops the tape into a mailbox and gets back in the car with CSM. As they drive away from the station, it is revealed that the Black−Haired Man (last seen in “The X−Files” feature film) has followed the pair. He reaches into the mailbox and pulls out the envelope she attempted to mail Mulder. Late that evening, CSM pulls up to a lakeside cabin. With black leather gloves, he reaches for the sleeping Scully. The next morning, Scully wakes in the cabin. She’s been changed into pajamas, and she quickly reaches for the microphone still taped to her chest. Scully accuses CSM of drugging her, but he humbly says that she was tired and delirious when he put her to bed. He even admits to dressing her in the dark. Scully is determined to leave, but when CSM tells her she has always been free to go, she hesitates. From a distance, the Black−Haired Man watches the exchange in the cabin. Meanwhile, Byers, Frohike and Langly show Mulder the e−mails they uncovered on Scully’s computer from a “Cobra” at the Department of Defense. They suspect she had been hiding this correspondence from him, but Mulder does not believe their theory. He and the Lone Gunmen inform Skinner that someone hacked into her computer to arrange a meeting between Cobra and Scully. CSM brings Scully a dress for a dinner meeting with their contact. She hides her revulsion for the man and is somewhat alarmed to see that the low− cut dress can not accommodate her hidden microphone. At the restaurant, CSM tells Scully that he involved her because Cobra was skittish about his research falling into the wrong hands. He then confesses that he has not been forthcoming with all the facts about this secret research. Not only is it a cure for cancer, but a cure for all human disease. Its origin is extraterrestrial. Excusing himself, CSM heads outside for a cigarette. The Black−Haired Man approaches him. Troubled, CSM reports to him that Cobra has not shown. Scully, alone at the table,

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discovers a note under her plate. It reads “Calico Cove. First light of day.” At sunrise, CSM instructs Scully to take a small motorboat from the dock. She speeds away to meet Cobra. Scully cuts the engine and sits idle in the middle of the inlet. Another boat approaches and parks alongside her. The man driving the boat is Cobra, and he speaks to her as if they had been corresponding for a while. He hands her a black computer disk. Scully tells Cobra that they have never corresponded before and then asks about the information on the disk. This unsettles Cobra, but before he can speak a gunshot rings out. The Black− Haired Man shoots Cobra out of the boat and sets his sight on Scully. She scrambles to restart the boat, but another shot fires. This time CSM kills the Black−Haired Man with a pistol at point blank range. Scully returns to the dock, furious, and hands the disk to CSM. He hesitates, and then gives it back to Scully. She takes it and storms off. An angry Mulder is silent to Scully while the Lone Gunmen check the disk. It is completely blank. She takes Mulder back to the building of CSM’s office. It has been vacated. Mulder says that CSM used her, but can not figure out why she is still alive. Scully is incredulous, believing that CSM had told her the truth. She questions why CSM would use her to save himself at the expense of the human race. At the cabin, CSM stands on the dock, holding the disk. He contemplates it for a second, tosses it into the water, and then lights up a cigarette.

Chimera Production Code: #7ABX16 Original Air Date: 04/02/00 Written by David Amann Directed by Cliff Bole AS MULDER LOOKS FOR A MENACING RAVEN, HE LEARNS TO ENJOY THE CREATURE COMFORTS OF A WELL−TENDED HOME. SCULLY, MEANWHILE, MUST TOUGH IT OUT ON AN UNCOMFORTABLE STAKEOUT.

At an Easter day picnic in a picture−perfect town, little Michelle Crittendon is startled by a raven in the woods. Her mother, Martha Crittendon, isn’t happy when her husband won’t cut short his business trip to tend his distraught daughter. Forced to stay home alone that night, Martha’s worry turns to fear at the sight of the raven on her mantle. Suddenly, a mirror shatters and a large, monstrous creature appears from nowhere and attacks Martha. Mulder is called away from a strip club stakeout, leaving Scully to handle the surveillance alone. Skinner wants Mulder to investigate Martha Crittendon’s disappearance since the presence of ravens suggests an oddness about the case. The fact

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that Martha’s father is a federal judge certainly makes the case a priority. Sheriff Phil Adderly fills Mulder in at the crime scene. There is no ransom note, prints or blood evidence, but there are four deep scratches on the mantle in the otherwise pristine house. Mulder wonders if raven talons could have made the marks and carefully notes the broken mirror. Howard Crittendon, Martha’s husband, shows Mulder birth control pills in Martha’s name. Since he has had a vasectomy, Howard thinks Martha has run off with a lover, and he produces an unknown key he found among Martha’s things. Ellen Adderly, the Sheriff’s wife and a close friend of Martha’s, posts flyers regarding Martha’s disappearance. A tough−looking woman named Jenny approaches her as Martha spots a raven nearby. Although they have a mutual dislike, Jenny tells Ellen that they have more in common than she knows. Ellen turns away from Jenny to see a monstrous reflection in a car window. The window shatters instantly. Scully phones Mulder from the stakeout. She’s cold, hungry and not finding anything of substance on her surveillance. Mulder has no time to sympathize with her plight as he digs in to Ellen Adderly’s home cooked meal. Ellen invites him to stay at her home while he works on the case. Young Michelle Crittendon sees the raven again outside her house, and her father Howard follows the bird into the garden to find a siege of ravens pecking at the flesh of a human hand. It is Martha’s body, buried in her own backyard. Later, the coroner tells Mulder the gashes on her body resemble a bear attack, although bears don’t generally bury their prey. Sheriff Adderly and Mulder both agree that Howard Crittendon murdered his wife. Ellen arrives at the crime scene, devastated. She admits that she may have seen the creature earlier that day. As the Sheriff calms his wife at their house, Mulder theorizes that reflective surfaces act as doorways to the spirit world. An evil entity might be summoned through that portal, taking the form of a raven. Mulder is lead to Jenny as a possible enemy to Martha, but she denies any connection to the murder. Mulder doesn’t question her innocence, but is suspicious when she says that she was alone all night. Ellen is puzzled to find a key in her carpet that matches the one Howard Crittendon gave to Mulder. Suddenly, a noise emanates from her baby’s room and distracts her. She runs in to see a raven sitting on the edge of the crib. Ellen shoos it away, but then sees a reflection of the creature in a mirror, which shatters. Terrified, she grabs the baby and hides in a closet. After her husband rescues her, she tells Mulder that the creature had chased her. The sheriff takes Mulder aside and asks him not to encourage his wife in what he feels are her stress− induced delusions. Mulder spots the key on the floor

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and asks Ellen about it. She says she found it right before the raven attacked her. Late that night, the sheriff rises from his and Ellen’s bed and dresses to leave. He goes to a motel and unlocks a room with the key his wife uncovered. Inside is Jenny, awaiting her lover. Although Sheriff Adderly protests that they need to discontinue their affair, Jenny lures him into bed. The next morning, Mulder is up early and finds that Ellen has laundered his shirt and prepared a huge breakfast for him. She senses that he likes to be taken care of, and asks why he has no one in his life. The sheriff returns home, interrupting their conversation. He makes up an excuse that he had to cover for another deputy. Mulder lets him know that the medical examiner found that Martha had been four weeks pregnant when she died, in spite of taking birth control pills. Since her husband had a vasectomy, Mulder questions whom the sheriff may suspect. When Adderly has no answer, Mulder calmly asks for the motel key. Jenny hears ravens cawing outside the motel room and she dresses. The mirror above the bed suddenly shatters, and Jenny is attacked. She manages to slash at the creature’s shoulder with a bit of broken glass before it kills her. At this newest crime scene, Mulder discovers the key fits the lock to the motel room. He confronts the sheriff about an affair with both Martha and Jenny. Now a suspect, Adderly is finally ready to listen to Mulder’s theories about the ravens. Ellen gets ready to take a bath and discovers a bloody gash on the back of her shoulder. Distressed, she flashes back to her struggles with Jenny. Mulder heads back to the Adderly house, but takes a phone call from Scully about wrapping up her stakeout. The perpetrator they were looking for had been right under their noses, dressed like a woman. Mulder makes a connection to the Crittendon monster and rushes to the house. He tries coaxing Ellen from the bathroom, telling her that he knows what she’s done. She tells him that her whole marriage was a lie, and she wished Mulder had never come there. Suddenly, the creature bursts through the door and attacks Mulder, pushing him under the bathtub’s water. As he struggles for air, the creature sees its reflection in the water and stumbles back, releasing Mulder. Ellen, having transformed from the creature back to her normal self, is curled up in the corner of the bathroom weeping. Mulder visits Ellen later at a psychiatric facility. The sheriff says that his wife has a dissociative disorder, or split personality, but that he doesn’t understand how it that is responsible for the turn of events. Mulder thinks that Ellen found a way to rationalize her husbands’ affairs to protect her family. He suggests that this may be as close as science can get to an explanation for what

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happened. In her cell, Ellen stares at a raven outside her window.

all things Production Code: #7ABX17 Original Air Date: 04/09/00 Written and Directed by Gillian Anderson A SERIES OF COINCIDENCES PUTS SCULLY IN CONTACT WITH SOMEONE FROM HER PAST, CAUSING HER TO QUESTION HER ROMANTIC AND PROFESSIONAL CHOICES.

Scully dresses in front of a bathroom mirror and quietly heads in to the bedroom to grab her jacket. She pauses for a brief moment, looking towards the bed, and heads out the door. Sound asleep in the bed is Mulder. Sixty−three hours earlier: It’s Saturday afternoon when Scully enters Mulder’s office with lunch. He rambles on with a slide presentation of fractal crop circles and notices that she’s only listening half− heartedly. When he says that he’s booked two plane tickets to investigate the crop circles in England, Scully bemoans the fact that she has plenty of work to finish over the weekend. Mulder is annoyed, muttering that he can cancel her ticket. “Why can’t you ever just stay still?” she asks. “I wouldn’t know what I’d be missing,” he answers as he leaves. Scully waits at the nurse’s station in the Washington National Hospital for autopsy results on a case, but when she’s given a folder, she realizes it’s for the wrong patient. Coincidentally, she recognizes the name on the x−ray – Dr. Daniel Waterston, her former medical school teacher with whom she had a romantic relationship. She is drawn to check up on him in the coronary unit, and is intercepted by his doctor, Dr. Kopeikan, who tells Scully that Waterston mentioned her. She is briefed on his heart condition, but declines the doctor’s offer to speak with Waterston. She returns home to a phone call from Waterston’s daughter Maggie, who has openly hostile feelings towards Scully’s relationship with her father. Maggie reluctantly invites Scully to visit on her father’s behalf. While Scully mulls over the invitation, Mulder beeps in to ask her to pick up a folder of crop circle information from a research facility near the hospital. She is flustered from Maggie’s call, but agrees to help her partner. Scully goes to the hospital and accidentally walks into the wrong room. She notices a red−headed woman, and apologizes for her mistake. She visits Waterston next door, and he is quick to question her leaving medicine for the FBI. She says that he truly understands why she left. Waterston was married, and Scully refused to be responsible for breaking up his family.

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As Scully drives away from the hospital, Mulder calls on her cell phone to inquire about his documents. As they speak, Scully slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a female pedestrian, and she narrowly avoids an even more catastrophic collision with a truck. The woman continues on without pause, but looks back and smiles serenely at a stunned Scully. Scully runs Mulder’s errand and is startled to see the contact for the crop circle information is Colleen, the red−headed woman from the hospital. Scully is a little galled when Colleen tells her that her near−accident may have been a sign to slow down and pay attention to the larger picture of her life. She walks out of Colleen’s house and drops the folder of information. As she picks up the papers, her eyes zero in on a heart chakra formation. Her phone rings; it is the hospital with news on Waterston’s worsening heart condition. Back at the hospital, Scully helps the doctors decide on a course of treatment, and she and Waterston have a heart−to−heart discussion. He tells her that his marriage broke up after she left him, which resulted in Maggie’s anger toward her. He then admits that he has been in Washington for ten years, following her trail. Scully becomes emotional and reveals that she sometimes wonders if she chose the right course in her life. She rests her head on his chest as he comforts her. Suddenly, his heart monitor rings in alarm. Waterston goes into cardiac arrest, and Scully goes into emergency medical mode to revive him. He lapses into a coma. With nowhere else to turn, Scully is compelled to visit Colleen again for more answers. She tells Scully, “You may be more open to things than you think.” Colleen says that Waterston’s condition is most likely caused by pain in need of healing. Later, Scully walks through the streets deep in thought. She notices the female pedestrian who prevented her car accident across the street. Scully follows the woman into a Buddhist temple, but inside finds herself alone. She falls to her knees before the Buddha statue, overwhelmed with sadness and confusion. Her life rushes before her eyes, ending abruptly at the dying body of Waterston. Scully snaps awake. She returns to the hospital to conduct a holistic healing ritual in the hopes of bringing Waterston out of his coma. Although the process works, Waterston scoffs at the notion that anything other than practical medicine might have saved his life. Scully tells him that he should be more open to other possibilities, but when he suggests that the two of them discuss their future together, Scully cuts him off. She says that it’s time he took responsibility for the hurt he caused in his family and that he should stop running from the truth. “I’m not the same person,” she confesses. “I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t seen you again.” Outside the hospital, Scully sees the female pedestrian a third time. She runs up to the woman,

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but realizes the person is really Mulder. He has returned from England unsuccessful and was looking for Scully. Noting with a smile that “everything happens for a reason,” Scully and Mulder return to his apartment. She recounts for him the past two days’ events on his couch. Mulder is surprised and amused at Scully’s epiphany in the Buddhist temple. She wonders aloud if all the choices in a person’s life are simply random, or if there is a greater force at work. Mulder considers this, but before he can reply, he realizes that Scully has fallen asleep. He covers her gently with a blanket gets up from the couch to leave her sleeping. Coincidentally, under Mulder’s fish tank, a small Buddha statue sits, smiling.

Brand X Production Code: #7ABX19 Original Air Date: 04/16/00 Written by Steven Maeda & Greg Walker Directed by Kim Manners AN INSIDER HOLDS THE SECRET TO THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S LATEST DEADLY DEVELOPMENT.

Smoke emanates from the chimney at the Scobie house in Winston−Salem, North Carolina. Skinner runs the team of FBI agents keeping protective custody of Dr. Jim Scobie, who will testify before a grand jury against his former employer, Morley Tobacco, the next morning. Although no one knows the specifics of his research or what he will say in court, the doctor has received death threats. Dr. Scobie lets out a ragged cough into his fist and takes a sip of water. He doesn’t notice the small amount of blood and the lone beetle squirming inside the glass he drank from. Later that night, Joan Scobie awakens to find that her husband is not in bed. She knocks on the locked bathroom door, calling out to Skinner for help. Skinner breaks down the door to reveal Dr. Scobie’s body on the floor. The flesh from the man’s nose to his throat has been stripped away. The following morning, Mulder and Scully arrive at the Scobie residence to examine the crime scene. There is no signs of a break−in and no fingerprints. Scully infers that acid may have caused the damage to Scobie’s face, but Mulder is not convinced, asserting that the man’s screams would have alerted the many agents surrounding the house. Skinner has been ordered to quickly solve the case, and asks Scully to perform the autopsy. Mulder notes the lack of ashtrays in the house of a tobacco company executive, finding it odd that Scobie did not smoke. He requests to accompany Skinner in questioning Dr. Peter Voss, Scobie’s supervisor at Morley. On the way out, Mulder notices the beetle in Scobie’s water glass.

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Skinner and Mulder are met with a cold reception as they flash their FBI badges at Morley Tobacco headquarters. Daniel Brimley, head of corporate security, amiably escorts them to Dr. Voss. The team of lawyers flanking Voss prohibits him from answering any of Skinner’s questions. Mulder produces a baggie with the beetle and asks Voss if he can identify it. Voss replies that it is a tobacco beetle, common to the area surrounding Morley. Visibly shaken, Voss returns home and is met by Daryl Weaver, a man with a sickly complexion, yellow teeth and nicotine−stained fingertips. Weaver demands that Voss continue Scobie’s arrangement in supplying cigarettes, figuring that his silence is in demand. Unnerved, Voss hands him unmarked packages of cigarettes and a wad of cash, and begs the man to leave. Concluding her autopsy, Scully explains to Mulder and Skinner that Dr. Scobie choked to death. Mulder asks about any traces of beetles, but Scully has found none. Meanwhile, in a skid row hotel, Weaver puffs away as his neighbor, Thomas Gastall, complains through the air vent about the smoke that has reached the next room. The man coughs violently into his hand, but Weaver ignores his pleas. Suddenly quiet, Gastall sees that his fingers are flecked with blood and he falls to the floor. Several tobacco beetles scamper across the floor near his face, which is eaten away like Dr. Scobie’s. The agents observe that Gastall died in the same manner as Scobie, but Skinner and Scully can not conceive of a motive for the transient’s death. Finding more beetles, Mulder is convinced that no murders were actually committed. Scully surmises that there may be some sort of insect−borne contagion, and Mulder goes door−to−door to investigate. He finds Weaver, who tells him that Gastall was annoyed at his smoking. As Weaver speaks, he lights up a cigarette and blows smoke on Mulder. Having found nothing, Mulder decides to pay another visit to Dr. Voss. Although he is sorry that another victim has surfaced, Voss is still uncooperative and heads into his house to a ringing phone. It is Brimley, who has been watching Voss from outside the house, wanting to know what Mulder talked about. Voss is shaken and begs to go forward with what he knows. Brimley tells him to sit tight, and he asks where Weaver is. Voss replies that he does not know. Later, he goes to the skid row motel to pay off Weaver to leave town. Knowing that Morley Tobacco won’t kill him, Weaver is adamant about staying put and getting more of his special cigarettes. Voss is unaware that he has led Brimley right to Weaver. Skinner and Scully consult with an entomologist, who examines the beetles from the dead bodies and explains that the insects are not normal. Scully thinks that perhaps the tobacco plants were genetically altered, which affected the beetles that fed off the plants. Back at the morgue, Scully tells

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Mulder that the beetles had nested in the dead men’s lungs. As she explains, Mulder begins coughing uncontrollably. He looks into his hands. They are covered in blood. He is brought to surgery, where doctors attempt to suction the beetle larvae from his lungs. Scully informs Skinner that although the procedure is working, it will only buy time until more beetles are gestated. The two surmise that the beetles may have hatched from eggs that were transported through smoke. Outraged, Skinner obtains a search warrant for the Morley facility and demands answers. Out of guilt, Voss finally gives in, telling Skinner that they had tried to engineer a safer tobacco that killed all but one of its test subjects – Darryl Weaver. Skinner breaks into Weaver’s hotel room, but finds only Brimley, bound and gagged. As the knot is loosened, beetles swarm out of Brimley’s mouth and his face is quickly covered with the insects. After the operation, Scully informs Mulder there is a hunt for Darryl Weaver so that they can learn something from his immunity to the tobacco. Suddenly, Mulder gasps for air and he goes into arrest. The doctor wants to open up Mulder’s chest, but Scully protests, saying that he is too weak for such a surgery. She is frustrated and helpless, but makes the decision to wait for more answers from the investigation. Skinner, meanwhile, finds Voss held at bay by Weaver, who wants more of his cigarettes. Skinner draws his gun on Weaver and the two are at a standoff. Yet when Weaver attempts to light up a cigarette, Skinner shoots him in the shoulder. They bring him into the hospital for testing, and Scully notices Weaver’s nicotine−stained fingers. She gets an idea, and immediately orders that Mulder be injected with nicotine. Two weeks later, Scully welcomes the recovering Mulder back to the office. She explains that the high levels of nicotine in Weaver’s blood acted as an insecticide and kept him alive. The same happened to Mulder when he was given high doses of nicotine. Unfortunately, he has become addicted and pulls out a pack of Morley Red cigarettes. Scully is surprised, and insists that he can’t start smoking. He surrenders, and tosses the pack in the trash can. She exits, and Mulder looks longingly at the red and white pack, fighting off the temptation.

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A gunfight ensues in a makeshift graveyard, as actor Garry Shandling, dressed in the requisite FBI suit, checks the clip on his gun and clutches at a pottery bowl under his arm. A priest in the flowing robes of a Catholic Cardinal holds red−wigged actress Tea Leoni at gunpoint. This “Cigarette−Smoking Pontiff” (CSP) addresses Shandling as “Mulder,” offering to trade “Scully” for the bowl. Shandling warns the CSP that if the Lazarus Bowl is smashed, then all the sniper zombies that the CSP has ready to attack will revert back to being corpses. A zombie steps forward to plead with Shandling: “C’mon man, don’t break the bowl. We don’t wanna go back to being dead – no food, no women, no dancing.” The zombie offers to make Shandling the king of the dead, but Shandling refuses, stating that he’d “rather serve in heaven than rule in hell.” And with that nod to Milton, he throws the Lazarus Bowl high in the air to allow Leoni to disarm the CSP. As Shandling leaps toward her, a zombie dives for the falling bowl. Shandling and Leoni tumble down the hill and fall into an open casket. Lying on top of “Scully,” “Mulder” professes his love after seven years of waiting and passionately kisses her. The graveyard scene, it is revealed, is really only a movie. The well−dressed audience watching the film includes Shandling and Leoni, as well as the real Scully, who stares up at the screen with wide− mouthed disbelief. Next to her is the real Mulder, his head held low in abject humiliation. He looks across the aisle to Skinner, who is beaming from ear to ear. Skinner raises his hands and shrugs innocently at Mulder. Eighteen months earlier: Skinner briefs Mulder and Scully in his office about a bombing in the crypt of a D.C. church. Wayne Federman, a screenwriter and college friend of Skinner’s, listens to the conversation, but his ringing cell phone and commentary into a tape recorder disrupts the meeting. Skinner instructs the agents to allow Federman to tail their investigation for research on his latest script. With Federman on his heels in the crypt of the church, Mulder questions Cardinal O’Fallon about the incident. The crypt contained only relics and documents, but nothing of any monetary value. Suddenly a cell phone rings, and Mulder immediately looks disapprovingly to Federman. The ringing, however, is coming from a phone held by a body beneath the rubble. Mulder identifies the corpse as one of his idols, Micah Hoffman, a counterculture revolutionary from the 1960s. Federman follows Mulder and Scully to Hoffman’s apartment, where they find not only bomb−making materials, but forging instruments and fake religious documents describing an account of Christ’s life on earth after his resurrection. As they return to the crypt, Federman tells Mulder that he admires the agents’ underhanded way of working. “No warrants, no permission, no research – you’re

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like studio executives with guns,” he says. While Mulder discovers remnants of Hoffman’s forgeries, Federman watches in astonishment as human bones animatedly try to reassemble broken pottery. He recounts the scene over breakfast at a diner, and Scully acknowledges that he must have been hallucinating the events. Yet Federman, filled with enough “flavor” for his movie, decides he’s had enough and leaves. Scully admits that his story reminded her of an old Catholic school tale about the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. His incantations were engraved on a bowl being spun on a wheel nearby, like the grooves on a record. Mulder is intrigued by this idea, and sends Scully to consult with their expert friend Chuck Burks. Chuck analyzes the bowl and finds that all the notes vibrate in exactly the same key – a feat unheard of in music. Meanwhile, the Cardinal despondently tells Mulder that he purchased the forgeries from Hoffman and intended to hide them because he believed they were real. The Cardinal had hoped to protect others from the despair and anger he felt when he read the documents. Mulder phones Scully to ask her to do Hoffman’s autopsy, suspecting that the Cardinal may have murdered Hoffman for blackmail over the forged papers. Federman beeps into Mulder’s phone and invites him to Hollywood to watch the filming of the movie based on their X− File. Mulder is somewhat flattered, but his interest is tempered when he learns that while Tea Leoni and Richard Gere have been cast to play Scully and Skinner, Garry Shandling will play Mulder. In the autopsy bay, Scully dissects Hoffman’s heart when, suddenly, the corpse sits up. “I’m gonna need that when you’re done with it,” Hoffman says as he hops off the gurney and gives himself a shake. Scully gapes, reaching out to touch him with her scalpel. Hoffman warns her off and she drops the scalpel. She reaches for it and looks up again, but the body is back on the table. She brushes off her hallucination to fatigue. Mulder arrives later and Scully informs him that Hoffman’s stomach was filled with red wine and strychnine. Mulder theorizes that the Cardinal must have poisoned him with Communion wine. Cardinal O’Fallon is conducting Mass when Mulder and Scully arrive with an arrest warrant. Scully asks her partner to allow the Cardinal his dignity and the two wait. She goes to kneel before a crucifix and sees Micah Hoffman on the cross. He looks directly at Scully and says “Consummatum est.” When she turns around, the crucifix is back to normal. Disturbed, she leads Mulder to arrest the Cardinal. As Mulder reads the Miranda Rights, a man walks into the church. It is Micah Hoffman, very much alive. Skinner angrily censures the agents for misidentification of a corpse and false arrest, while Mulder and Scully seem scared to meet his gaze. Skinner forces them to take four weeks’

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probationary leave while their actions are investigated. They head back to their office to find Chuck Burks waiting. The clay bowl’s vibrations rendered into actual words in ancient Aramaic, the language that Christ spoke. He says that the first part roughly translates into “I am the walrus, I am the walrus, Paul is dead, coocoocachoo.” The second part seems to be one man commanding another to rise from the dead. Mulder and Scully decide to visit Hoffman, who announces that he has become Jesus Christ. Off their skeptical expressions, he explains that in order to forge Christ’s words, he immersed himself in Christ’s life and actually converted into the deity. He bombed the crypt because the blasphemous forgeries had to be destroyed. When Mulder asks how his cell phone got on the dead body, Hoffman smiles. “God works in mysterious ways,” he answers. Scully stops by Mulder’s apartment later that night and finds him watching Plan Nine from Outer Space for the forty−second time. Scully wonders whether true faith might be a form of insanity, and Mulder convinces her to take up Federman’s invitation. The agents arrive at the Twentieth Century Fox lot in Los Angeles to see the movie’s filming, and Federman introduces them to their acting counterparts – Shandling and Leoni. They watch a scene being shot in a graveyard with zombies. Back at their luxurious hotel, Scully calls Mulder from her bubble bath. Sitting in his own bubble bath, Mulder tells her that he thinks the undead really just miss the life they had when they were alive. They merely want to eat and dance and make love. Skinner clicks into Mulder’s phone call to apologize for being hard on the agents. He tells him that Federman arranged for Skinner to get an associate producer credit on the movie. Sixteen months later: The movie premiere from the beginning resumes. On screen, Shandling’s Mulder professes his love for Leoni’s Scully. She pulls away from his kiss and tells him she’s really in love with Assistant Director Walter Skinner. The real Mulder shoots up from his theater seat, waving his arms like a referee stopping a fight. “That’s it! I just can’t take it anymore!” he shouts. The real Scully shushes him, but he storms out past Federman, Shandling and Leoni. Scully finds him moping on the graveyard movie set, munching popcorn out of the plastic Lazarus Bowl from the concession stand. She tells him that earlier in the evening, Cardinal O’Fallon murdered Micah Hoffman and then hanged himself. Mulder bemoans the fate of the two complex and flawed men who would now be remembered as caricatures from The Lazarus Bowl movie. He wonders how they themselves will be remembered. Scully philosophically predicts that the movie will tank at the box office, but Mulder is preoccupied with the notion that dead people will be represented through history in such an oversimplified way. Scully teases him out of his sulk,

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Fight Club Production Code: #7ABX20 Original Air Date: 05/07/00 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Paul Shapiro THE AGENTS CROSS PATHS WITH A PAIR OF DOPPELGANGERS WHOSE CLOSE PROXIMITY LEAVES A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION.

Two neatly dressed missionaries ride their bikes up to a blue house in Kansas City, Kansas. The license plate on the red sports car in the driveway reads “Betty.” At the front door, Betty Templeton shoos them away and says that she just moved in. A short while later, the missionaries ride to a pink house similar to the first house. The blue sports car in the driveway has a license plate that says “Lulu.” When Lulu Pfeiffer opens the door, she is eerily identical to Betty. Surprised, the two men inform her that she has a twin who just moved in several blocks away. Lulu slams the door angrily, telling them to leave. All of a sudden, the two men begin to viciously shove each other, even though they are surprised by their own actions. Later, two FBI agents, bearing a striking resemblance to Mulder and Scully, interview Betty about the incident. They recount the explanation about her supposed twin, and the male agent brings up the possibility of a paranormal explanation. They turn to see Lulu drive past the house with a moving truck. The twins glare at one another, and without warning, the two agents begin to fight. At the FBI, Mulder is showing a slideshow of the FBI agents’ wrecked car and their tractioned bodies in a hospital room. He explains to Scully that the two agents have identical stories, and yet they can’t explain their odd behavior. He does his usual play of throwing out several explanations, and Scully counters with her own theory: the missionaries and the agents, both similar, came into contact with doppelgangers that represent a person’s secret desires and impulses. Back in Kansas City, Lulu applies for a job at Koko’s Copy Center. The manager notes her varied work history and many residences. Betty’s car pulls up in front of the store and the copy machines go haywire. In a state of panic, the manager hires Lulu.

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Betty moves on as the manager takes the help wanted sign out of the window. Nearby, at a different branch of Koko’s Copy Center, Betty applies for a job. This manager also notes her wide range of work history and addresses. Betty’s resume parallels Lulu’s. Later that evening, Bert Zupanic loads a briefcase with money at the Porcherie Motel. Mulder and Scully arrive, brandishing a photo of him with Betty Templeton. Scully tells him that Betty abruptly moved, and when he asks if she lived in a pink house on Moreton Bay, Scully responds that she lived in a blue house on Alderwood. Bert denies knowledge of her whereabouts. The agents leave, but Scully insists that he knew Betty. Mulder disagrees, and Scully goes to check out the pink house. Mulder stays back to search Zupanic’s room. Bert takes his briefcase of cash to Froggy’s Bar and sees Betty at the bar. Believing she is Lulu, he orders her favorite drink and inquires about her legal trouble. Betty is amazed that this stranger knows what she drinks, and introduces herself. Bert makes the connection just as Lulu enters the bar. Everything in the bar instantly begins to rattle. The ground shakes, glasses shatter and chairs topple over. Betty and Bert make a dash out the back door. Scully arrives at Pat Devine’s Kansas City auditorium to find Mulder having a conversation with promoter Argyle Saperstein. Mulder tells Scully that Betty will be at the auditorium in two days to watch Bert in a wrestling match. Scully says that they must also find Lulu. The two women have traveled across seventeen states with one alternately trailing the other, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. After the agents leave, Saperstein calls Bert to demand money for the fight. Bert, in bed with Betty, assures Saperstein that he’ll get his money. Betty, meanwhile, realizes she is late for work and runs into the bathroom. Lulu arrives at the motel and accuses Bert of cheating on her. She finds Betty’s hair clip in the bed and forgives Bert, thinking the clip is a gift for her. She leaves, and Betty comes out of the bathroom. Gunshots fling through the ceiling and the sound of a body thumps down on the floor in the room above. At the bar, Saperstein is eating lunch when Betty comes in. He tells her that Bert is coming and she goes to the bathroom to freshen up. Bert arrives with the money, followed by Lulu. Saperstein looks puzzled to see her in the front door. Bert realizes both women are in the same building and convinces Lulu to leave. Betty exits the bathroom and sees Lulu. The glass and mirror in the bar shatters and people take cover. Bert is knocked unconscious, and Saperstein grabs the suitcase of money. Later, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate the scene and wake Bert up. Mulder goes to Koko’s to see Betty. She blames it on Lulu and demands to stay in Kansas City. Mulder calls Scully at the other Koko’s. She gets the exact same story from Lulu. Both agents watch their targets get in their vehicles.

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Mulder is standing in the middle of the street as Lulu drives by on one side with Betty on the other. All of a sudden, he gets sucked into a manhole. Scully pulls up to where he was but doesn’t see him. Later that evening, Scully visits the Kansas City Penitentiary to see Bob Damphouse, a very angry inmate who screams back to all of her questions. She informs the man that he is the biological father of Lulu and Betty via a donation to a sperm bank. She requests his genealogical history to prevent further harm. He responds that “a big, ugly dog lifted its leg on my family tree.” Meanwhile, Betty goes to Bert’s room. He admits that he lost his financing for his last chance to fight that evening. She agrees to help him and leaves. Immediately, the door knocks again. It is Lulu, who also consents to aid Bert. Both women break into their respective Koko’s stores to color photocopy money. Mulder finally crawls out of the manhole and calls Scully at the penitentiary. Scully tells him that she has found Lulu and Betty’s father. Mulder surmises that both women are in love with Bert and won’t leave Kansas City for that same reason. As Scully walks down the cellblock, she is surprised to find an inmate who looks exactly like Bert Zupanik. Back at the auditorium, Saperstein asks for his money and Betty shows up just in time with the counterfeit currency. As Bert begins to wrestle, Mulder approaches Betty. Lulu comes up behind Mulder, who grabs Betty to carry her out of the arena. Everyone in the audience instantaneously starts to fight each other. Upon seeing Scully enter with Bert’s twin, Mulder stops and puts Betty down. The auditorium immediately goes quiet. Scully smiles, proud of herself. Bert is the last one to notice his doppelganger, and when he does, all hell breaks loose again. Sometime later, back in Mulder’s office, Scully shows slides of bruised and bandaged people: Bert, his twin, Lulu, and Betty. She summarizes their arrests for Saperstein, who asks her what it means. She responds, in Mulder−esque fashion, that when two originals meet the result is unpredictable. Yet if four should meet, she says, “well, these encounters are best avoided at all costs.” She is beaten, bruised and bandaged like the people in the pictures. She turns to Mulder, who is also battered. He mumbles a response, and barely opens his mouth to reveal that his broken jaw is wired shut.

Je Souhaite Production Code: #7ABX21 Original Air Date: 05/14/00 Written and Directed by Vince Gilligan AN INDIFFERENT GENIE GRANTS THREE WISHES, BUT HER OFFERINGS BRING MORE MAYHEM THAN FORTUNE.

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Jay Gilmore is annoyed. His employee, Anson Stokes, won’t respond to calls on the walkie−talkie and is nowhere to be found on the self−storage lot in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Anson is hiding out, idly reading a yachting magazine. Jay spots the slacker and orders him to clean out the unit numbered 407. Muttering under his breath when the boss leaves, Anson opens up the unit to find it filled with dusty furniture and molding cardboard boxes. Groaning at the task ahead of him, he grabs a rolled−up Persian rug but it moves by itself. Anson unravels it and a dark−haired woman flops out. Underneath her right eye is embedded an emerald teardrop. When Jay pulls up to the opened door of unit 407, no one is in sight. He shouts for Anson, but his voice suddenly strangles off and goes silent. His mouth has disappeared. Scully enters the office, and Mulder is interviewing Jay. A monstrosity of stitches has created the man’s mouth. He has difficulty talking, but tells them that Anson Stokes is somehow responsible because he told his boss to “shut up.” The agents pay a visit to Anson in Missouri. His small trailer is overshadowed by the huge yacht parked in its driveway. When they approach the front door, Anson hides from what he believes to be tax collectors. He sends his paraplegic brother, Leslie, to answer the door. Mulder and Scully identify themselves to Leslie, noting his motorized Rascal scooter. He tells them his brother is not home. In the back room of the trailer, they notice that a dark−haired woman. The agents go to the storage lot and find a photograph of a large man. In the background is the dark−haired woman from Anson’s trailer. Although the picture is more than twenty years old, the woman looks the same as she did earlier that day. Anson tries to come up with a third wish. He is clearly not happy with his first two – Gilmore’s mouth and the boat. He argues with the genie about not putting the yacht in the water. She replies that he didn’t “specify” water. As the two brothers make suggestions for the third wish, the genie gestures to Leslie’s wheelchair. The boys don’t understand her subtlety, and Anson finally chooses to be made invisible. She acknowledges his command and he disappears. In his transparent state, Anson runs out of the trailer, is hit by a truck and dies. A bicyclist runs into the invisible obstacle and Anson is brought to the morgue. Scully is amazed at what has been found, and dusts Anson’s body with yellow fingerprint powder in order to make the body discernible. Mulder arrives with news of the man in the photograph. Henry Flanken died in 1978 of chronic tumescence after mysteriously coming into a wealth of money. Mulder believes that the dark− haired woman is the link to their case and he leaves to see Anson’s brother. Leslie tells him that the dark−haired woman is gone, but he gives Mulder a brass knickknack, saying that it is the genie’s home.

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Leslie retrieves the rug from the storage unit. Meanwhile, Mulder drags Scully from the morgue to show her the dark−haired woman’s appearance in historical videos. She stands next to Mussolini and Nixon, two men who received extreme power only to have it stripped away. The next morning, Scully gets ready to present the invisible body to experts from around the country but Anson’s body has disappeared. Alive and still covered with the fingerprint powder, Anson sits silently in his trailer. Leslie wished for his brother to come back, but instead received a zombie−like Anson whose body is still suffering from the road accident. Leslie asks the genie to give Anson a voice. When the wish is granted, Anson only complains of being deathly cold. Leslie is miffed at his selection of wishes and searches for a third one. He doesn’t notice Anson looking for warmth by turning on the gas stove. Leslie announces that his final wish is for legs at the same time Anson strikes a match. The trailer explodes in a big fireball. Mulder and Scully, who had been approaching outside, are thrown to the ground by the blast. They rise to look at the destruction, and the rolled−up Persian rug lands near them. From inside the rug, a faint, muffled voice says “Ow.” Mulder and Scully interrogate the genie in the trailer park’s office, as the fire trucks corral outside for the explosion. Mulder calls her Jenn, which is short for “jinniyah” – the term for a spirit or demon of Middle Eastern folklore. In her five hundred years of practice, Jenn has found that people use greed to make their wishes. She asks the agents if she is under arrest and Scully says that, with no evidence, she is free to go. Unfortunately, she can’t. She is beholden to Mulder because he released her from the rug. He now has three wishes. Taking her back to his apartment in Washington, Mulder asks Jenn what she would wish for if she were in his shoes. She dreams of being released from her genie binds to be a normal person again. “I’d sit down somewhere with a great cup of coffee and I’d watch the world go by,” she sighs. Hoping he has the solution, Mulder thinks of something more universal and asks Jenn for peace on earth. He is alarmed when his wish truly comes true. The deserted city outside is eerily quiet, with no signs of life. Remembering his partner, Mulder rushes to the FBI. It, too, is completely empty. He calls out for Jenn, who rescinds his initial wish. The office returns to normal. With one wish left, Mulder decides to cover all his bases. He types up a document that clearly and specifically states his third wish for a safer and happier world. Yet, when Scully doubts the wish, he reconsiders. Later that night, Mulder invites Scully over to watch a video. Since he never asked for world peace, Scully asks about his final request of the genie. At a diner somewhere, Jenn sits at a lunch counter, sipping coffee. The emerald teardrop has

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Requiem (1 of 3) Production Code: #7ABX22 Original Air Date: 05/21/00 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THEIR FIRST INVESTIGATION SEVEN YEARS AGO, MULDER AND SCULLY ENCOUNTER A UFO THAT MAY SPELL THE END OF THEIR PARTNERSHIP.

A police car races down the highway in Bellefleur, Oregon. In the driver’s seat is Detective Miles (last seen in the “Pilot” episode), who radios to his deputy, Ray Hoese, that he is approaching with backup on a downed aircraft in the woods. Suddenly, the digital clock scrolls backwards. The car loses power as it careens into another sheriff’s cruiser, parked on the side of the road. A dazed and injured Detective Miles gets out of his car. A big fire burns in the distance through the trees. He notices the hands on his wristwatch are spinning backwards, as he approaches the other vehicle. An unconscious Ray Hoese slumps over the wheel. The deputy’s eyes are swollen shut, the lids and membranes blistered and burned. Detective Miles looks down to see he has stepped in a bubbling, green substance. When he turns around, another Deputy Hoese stands before him. The man’s eyes are unscathed. This Hoese has three bullet holes in his chest with the same green substance oozing out of him. Miles recoils in horror. In Washington, Mulder sits before a large pile of receipts. Agent Chesty Short, the deputy chief auditor of the FBI, admonishes both Mulder and Scully for the extravagant expenses racked up by the X−Files. He questions what they are investigating, now that the Samantha case has been resolved. Back in their office, the agents receive a call from Billy Miles (from the “Pilot”), who reports that the abduction experiences are occurring again. This time, however, they are not happening to him. Two teenagers scour the Oregon forest in an excited search for a UFO. One of the boys steps into an invisible force field and gets shaken at warp speed. Spooked by this sudden disappearance, the boy’s friend Richie drops his flashlight, which has suddenly become red hot, and runs out of the woods. Marita Covarrubias releases Krycek from a Tunisian prison on orders from the Cigarette− Smoking Man. The pair find CSM near death, in a wheelchair, and attended by a nurse. Krycek is furious with the old man for sentencing him to a foreign jail. CSM is eager to report that an alien ship collided with a military aircraft in Oregon. He

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needs them to recover it. “Our chance to rebuild the project,” he whispers with a faint voice squeezed through a neck shunt. Determined to rebuke Agent Short and spend more of the FBI’s money, Mulder and Scully set off to Oregon to meet with Billy Miles, who is now a sheriff’s deputy. The unidentified craft has yet to be found, and Deputy Hoese is still missing. Billy’s father, Detective Miles, claims that there was never another craft. The agents follow the Miles officers to the scene. At the spot where Detective Miles’ car went dead, Mulder sees an “X” spray painted on the pavement. It is the same mark he made on the road seven years prior to designate an anomalous electrical disturbance. Scully locates shells on the ground from Hoese’s gun, but there is no indication of what he might have been shooting at. The agents drive off, and Detective Miles puts the evidence bag in his trunk – next to the body of Ray Hoese. Mulder and Scully visit Hoese’s wife, Teresa, and are surprised to find she is an abduction victim who approached them for help seven years ago. She says that her husband is also an abductee who had been taken and tested many times. As Scully holds Teresa’s baby, Mulder watches his partner. The sight of Scully with a child seemingly has an effect on him. Scully comes to Mulder’s motel room later that evening, pale and perspiring, suffering from chills. He covers her up in his bed and lies with his arms around her for warmth. “It’s not worth it, Scully,” he says. He’s been thinking that her personal costs are too high when motherhood and her health have been taken away from her. He demands that there has to be an end. Outside the motel, Krycek sits behind the wheel of a parked car. He is on the phone to CSM, telling him that no one can find the spaceship, even as Mulder and Scully search for the deputy. CSM assures him that the ship is really there. Finding the deputy will uncover the ship. CSM hangs up with Krycek, and Marita asks why he has him on a goose chase. “The ship is rebuilding itself,” CSM says. Ever faithful that his minion will be successful, CSM is only wary of Krycek’s true intentions once he finds the ship. Across town, Teresa Hoese is awakened by the return of her missing husband. When Ray doesn’t speak to her, she realizes that he is only an imposter. She gashes him with a pair of scissors, but the stabs don’t faze him. Green ooze bubbles from the holes in his chest, causing Teresa’s eyes to burn and blister. She stumbles and is grabbed by the imposter. The next morning, Billy reports to Mulder and Scully that Teresa is missing. They immediately recognize the green acid burn on the floor, and as Scully touches it, she experiences another wave of vertigo. Outside the Hoese home, Mulder and Billy spot Richie eyeing the crime scene. Richie admits that “they” took his friend, and that Detective Miles does know what’s going on because he was there.

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Richie leads the agents to the area in the forest where his friend vanished. Scully is quickly jerked into a force field and shook at a high frequency. Noticing Scully is missing, Mulder calls out for her. She lies on the ground semi−conscious, as if from another bout of vertigo. As Mulder cradles his partner’s head, Scully questions why this is happening to her. Mulder determines that these aren’t merely random abductions, but a case of abductees not coming back. A suspicious Billy returns home and draws his gun on the man that appears to be his father. “I don’t know who you are, but you’re not going to take me,” he proclaims. Detective Miles calms his son before morphing into the Alien Bounty Hunter. At the same time, Mulder and Scully enter the house to warn Billy. Both men have instantly vanished. Mulder sits in his FBI office two days later, when Skinner enters with Krycek and Marita. There is a moment of complete surprise, but Mulder’s quickly out of his chair to attack his nemesis. They explain that CSM is dying, but his final wish is to revive the conspiracy. While the Bounty Hunter eliminates proof of testing on abductees, the spaceship, cloaked in an energy field, rebuilds itself. That evening, the Lone Gunmen are brought in to Skinner’s office to consult. They determine the ship’s location even though the military has not picked it up on satellites. Mulder listens suspiciously to Krycek and Marita in silence. Scully abruptly leaves the room and Mulder follows her into the hallway. Since they are reclaiming abductees, he refuses to allow her go back to Oregon. “I won’t risk losing you, Scully,” he says. She hugs him, vowing that she won’t let him make the journey alone. Scully remains in Washington with the Lone Gunmen, scrutinizing the abductee reports. Each one has reported experiencing the same irregular brain activity that struck Mulder earlier in the year. She concludes that Mulder is really the one in danger of being taken. Without warning, Scully collapses, and the Gunmen jump to save her. Meanwhile, Mulder and Skinner enter the Oregon forest. They lay out a series of laser pointers to detect any abnormal movements. As Mulder follows the red beams, something catches his eye. The red lines deflect in space and define the rough shape of a dome, but it seems as if they are colliding with an energy field. Mulder reaches out to touch the field and his hand vibrates at a high speed. Looking up from laying down the last laser pointer, Skinner notices that Mulder is gone. Inside the field, a bright cone of light reflects on Mulder. His expression is full of awe. The other abductees are there to greet him with gentle smiles. A spaceship hovers overhead, and the Bounty Hunter enters the circle of abductees. The light grows in intensity and Mulder’s look of awe turns to fear. Outside the force field, Skinner is unaware of this activity and calls out for

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Mulder. All of a sudden, a spaceship appears from out of nowhere and Skinner watches it rise into the night sky. He is left alone in the darkness. Krycek reports back to CSM that he failed his mission, but CSM suggests that perhaps Krycek never meant to succeed. As Marita watches, Krycek shoves CSM’s wheelchair down a flight of stairs. CSM’s body lies on the ground, motionless and apparently dead. The next morning, Skinner is awkward when he visits Scully in her hospital room. She is better, but waiting on more tests. Skinner tries to hold back his emotion in telling her that he lost Mulder. She takes his hand and says she already heard the news. “What I saw I can’t deny. I won’t,” he promises. They both begin to cry, and Scully assures him that she must find her partner. “There is something else,” she says to Skinner. Although she can’t explain it or believe it herself, she is pregnant.

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Within (2 of 3) Production Code: #8ABX01 Original Air Date: 11/05/00 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners SCULLY AND SKINNER BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR MULDER, BUT A NEW AGENT ASSIGNED TO FIND HIM INTERFERES WITH THEIR INVESTIGATION.

A man’s naked body floats in honey−colored liquid. He is wracked by sporadic spasms. An umbilical− type cord is pulled from his mouth and he struggles for air. The man is Mulder. Scully’s eyes immediately open, and she gasps in horror. She sits up in her hospital bed, realizing that the vision of Mulder was only a nightmare. The next morning, she dresses for work but is paralyzed in front of the mirror. She stares at herself as if at an unfamiliar person. Later, she walks down the FBI corridors, lost in those same troubling thoughts, when she enters Mulder’s office. Seeing the group of agents emptying the X−File cabinets wakes her. She is incredulous that they are even attempting to rummage for clues about Mulder’s disappearance. She and Skinner go straight to the person instructing the manhunt – Kersh, newly promoted to the office of Deputy Director. He expects their cooperation as the two primary witnesses in making statements to Agent John Doggett, the leader of the search’s task force. Kersh orders them not to mention anything about aliens because doing so will cost them their jobs. The two walk toward the task force operations office. Although Skinner is reluctant to lie, Scully convinces

him that staying in the FBI is the only way to help Mulder. As Scully waits for her inquisition, the agent sitting next to her strikes up a conversation. After admitting that he previously knew Mulder, the agent tries to place doubt in Scully’s mind about her partner and the secret life he hid from her. She figures out that the agent is Doggett, the task force leader himself. Back at her apartment, Scully examines Doggett’s bio on the FBI intranet. His career is marked with commendations as a Marine and Detective in the New York Police Department. While reading this information, her face is stricken with a funny look. Scully immediately darts for the bathroom to relieve herself of her nausea. While later leaving a phone message for her mother, she hears a clicking noise in the receiver and becomes suspicious when she notices a man watching her from the street. Scully dials Doggett to blame him for the surveillance, but he is confused by her accusations. Noticing the shadow of feet under her door, she grabs her gun to take chase but bumps into her landlord who had just seen Mulder in the building. Scully runs back to her apartment. Although he is not there, she realizes that her computer has been stolen off her desk. She then goes to Mulder’s apartment, which is quiet and empty. His computer is, strangely, also missing. She picks up one of his wrinkled shirts, as if trying to make a connection with Mulder himself, and lies down on his unmade bed, still clutching it. In her melancholy, she closes her eyes. The image of Mulder reappears, but this time he is held in a chair with his head and limbs restrained. His cheeks are pulled taut. A two− pronged metal device telescopes down into each of his nostrils as another spinning drill bit pierces the roof of his upper palate. He fights helplessly against the torture, screaming out in pain. Skinner, meanwhile, has a nighttime clandestine meeting with the Lone Gunmen under a trio of satellite dishes, to which they are plugged in. They have charted UFO activity across the Pacific Northwest, and while they attempt to pinpoint the spaceship’s course after abducting Mulder, they unfortunately can not determine its next port of call. The next morning, Scully awakes in Mulder’s bed to see Doggett standing over her. She reproaches him for following her, but he has really come there for evidence. He hands over car rental receipts that he found in Mulder’s drawers and asks her where her partner might have been travelling to. Their conversation is interrupted by a call. Mulder has reportedly entered the FBI building the previous night. Back at the FBI, Doggett’s men question Skinner about Mulder’s pass−card entry. The agents open a crate to reveal a Mulder family tombstone. William, Teena and Samantha’s dates are marked. However, a new addition has been added: “FOX MULDER 1961− 2000.” Scully is shaken, and stares at the headstone

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in disbelief and dull grief. Doggett reads from Mulder’s medical records that abnormal brain activity (from #7ABX04) had been killing him. Mulder was seeing doctors for a year to treat his deteriorating health. Doggett presumes that, with his work and life threatened, Mulder stole the computers and files and then staged his disappearance to cover up his failure in the X−Files. When Skinner argues that he witnessed the abduction, Scully begs Doggett not to report Skinner’s tale. In Skinner’s office, the Gunmen’s maps show that the ship may now be in the Arizona desert, but provide no other answers. Langly surmises that perhaps the ship may be looking for the next abductee, and that remark triggers Scully with an idea. Next in line will be Gibson Praise (last seen in #6ABX01) because the aliens are gathering proof to cover up their existence. In another office at the same time, a folder is slipped under Doggett’s door. Inside is Gibson Praise’s file. Doggett rounds up his crew to revise the search. He thinks that Mulder is after Gibson. The way to find Mulder is to find the boy, last seen in Arizona. Once again, Mulder lies bound on the exam table. A spinning blade descends into his chest. As he screams, Scully wakes from her nap. She is in a car with Skinner, driving aimlessly through the Arizona desert. They do not see the helicopter fluttering overhead. Inside the chopper, Doggett gets a radio alert from one of his agents that Gibson has been traced to the Flemingtown School for the Deaf. Meanwhile, Scully notices the air tremble in the Arizona heat. Although she thinks she’s imagining it, she doesn’t realize that what she is seeing is real and is the spacecraft. Skinner uncovers that a school for the deaf is nearby and they take off. The principal is notified that the FBI is looking for Gibson. Doggett lands at the school, but Gibson has disappeared. Scully and Skinner arrive, and are startled to see Doggett. She asks him what he is doing there, and Doggett replies, “I’m trying to find Mulder.” Gibson sneaks out the back but is stopped by an unidentified man. Doggett follows the two sets of footprints in the sand, finding the man clutching Gibson. Doggett draws his gun and yells “Let him go!” The man holding Gibson turns around to face Doggett. It is Mulder.

Without (3 of 3) Production Code: #8ABX02 Original Air Date: 11/12/00 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners AS THE SEARCH FOR MULDER INTENSIFIES IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, GIBSON PRAISE LEADS SCULLY TO BELIEVE THAT SHE IS TRULY CLOSER TO HER TARGET.

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Continued from #8ABX01 – In the Arizona desert, Mulder tugs at Gibson Praise, who cries for his release. Doggett follows the pair, warning Mulder that he is prepared to shoot. Mulder eyes him mysteriously, not saying a word, and Gibson breaks away from him. Mulder still doesn’t comply with Doggett’s command to stop. He steps backward to fall off the mountain’s lip, just out of Doggett’s grasp. The other field agents run up to the ledge as Doggett explains Mulder’s actions. Although he lies motionless on the ground, Mulder coughs out a breath and opens his eyes. At the bottom of the ravine, Scully pulls up with Skinner and demands to know the location of her downed partner. Doggett has no answer. The body is gone and there are footprints showing he ran off into the dust. Scully is convinced that it wasn’t Mulder. She tries to explain that what seems like a man is really an Alien Bounty Hunter looking to capture Gibson Praise because he is part alien and proof of alien life. He will be brought back to the ship where Mulder is being held. Doggett walks off, dubious and remarks, “You know, Agent Scully, you’re starting to remind me a lot of Mulder yourself.” The children are evacuated from the school, as the FBI SWAT team reports no sign of Mulder. Doggett orders a search of the school, unaware that Mulder has entered a classroom. Mulder readjusts his twisted arm before morphing back into the Alien Bounty Hunter. Outside, Scully catches sight of Gibson’s friend, Thea, jumping on her bike. Skinner distracts the other agents to allow Scully to follow the girl into the desert twilight. She is lead to a secret underground cavern where Gibson is hiding. “You shouldn’t have come here,” he warns Scully. “You’ll lead them to me.” He knows that the aliens took Mulder and are now after him. After Doggett gets chewed out by Kersh for losing Mulder, Skinner laughs and tells the agent that Kersh has made him a pawn. He has ultimately been set up to fail. A frustrated Doggett asks his team to locate Scully, and she is spotted in the school’s bunkhouse. The real Scully, however, walks toward Doggett and Skinner. They look at her incredulously. In the bunkhouse, what appears to be Scully is really the Alien Bounty Hunter, who chokes another agent. When Scully and Doggett run in, the Bounty Hunter morphs into an agent in the crowd. Thea notices blood on that agent’s hand and recognizes him as the attacker. Once again, Mulder is seen on the alien table. Gibson is shuddered awake by this vision. Scully attempts to take the car and is suspicious of Skinner when he stops her. The two hold their guns on each other in a standoff, ending only when Skinner admits to knowing her secret. She relents, afraid that they are not going far enough to find Mulder. “I can’t take the chance that I’m never going to see him again,” she says. Their only hope is

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Gibson Praise, and they drive out to the desert cavern to find him. He is suffering from a fever, but manages to persuade Scully that he can hear Mulder nearby. “You’re so close now,” Gibson says. As Skinner takes the boy to the hospital, Scully wanders the desert, calling for Mulder in the empty night. Suddenly, something catches her eye in the black sky. A light slowly descends and she is transfixed, believing it is a spaceship. Yet as it gets closer and lands, the light reveals itself to be the searchlight of a helicopter. Doggett gets out and questions Scully’s truthfulness in the investigation. He knows that Skinner and Gibson are at the hospital because he had his men follow them. “How do you know that they are your men?” Scully demands before getting in the chopper herself. It flies off, within feet of the spaceship hidden by a force field. On the alien table, Mulder cries out for Scully. At the hospital, Skinner watches the boy when Thea enters Gibson’s room. Gibson knows that she is the Bounty Hunter. Scully and Doggett arrive to find Skinner and Gibson missing. They search the hospital. Doggett has located the real Skinner. The A.D. is blinded and trapped in the air duct. Scully sees who she thinks is Skinner. When he claims to be protecting the boy, she pulls her gun on him. Gibson shakes his head to warn her. All of a sudden, the man grabs Scully by the throat and throws her across the room. She manages to find her gun and shoot the Skinner look−alike in the back of the neck. Green ooze flows out of him, and the body dissolves into a puddle. Doggett hears the gunshot and comes to Scully’s rescue, stepping over the puddle. She is weeping and bloodied. Back at the FBI, Doggett presents his report to Kersh. The Deputy Director is furious, asking for real answers to Doggett’s elusive−sounding report and failure to find Mulder. Doggett accuses Kersh of intending for the report to sound like an X−File. Later, Doggett visits Scully in the hospital. He briefs her on Skinner’s and the other agent’s recoveries, as well as Gibson being remanded to the state’s protection. She is astonished when he informs her that he has been assigned to the X−Files. He is equally bewildered. “Whatever you and I may differ on,” he says, “I’ll find him, Agent Scully.” Mulder lies silently on the alien table. Many Alien Bounty Hunters surround him.

Patience Production Code: #8ABX04 Original Air Date: 11/19/00 Written and Directed by Chris Carter WHILE TRACKING HIS FIRST X−FILE CASE ABOUT A SERIES OF GRUESOME MURDERS SURROUNDING A BAT−LIKE CREATURE, DOGGETT QUICKLY LEARNS

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Lightning crashes as a car pulls up to an old house in Burley, Idaho. A man named George gets out and creeps inside the house. His wife bolts up in bed and yells at him for waking her. George, a mortician, is sent out to remove his clothes that are soaked with embalming fluid. As he changes, he sees something on the ceiling above him. It appears to be a large bat. The creature quickly leaps onto George. George’s wife hears his cries and treads downstairs. She screams at the bloody sight of her husband, and the bat attacks her. At the FBI, Scully looks sadly at Mulder’s desk nameplate when she is startled by voices in the hallway. Doggett walks in with two other agents, laughing. At her glare, he dismisses them. Doggett asks Scully about their lack of desk furniture in the basement. “This is my partner’s office,” she says, placing the nameplate back in its rightful spot. “You and I will just be using it for a while.” She clicks on the slide projector with photos of the two homicides. Scully begins to describe the case, sliding easily into Mulder’s role of the lecturer. The bites on the wife appear to have come from a human. Scully and Doggett travel to the couple’s home, and are met outside by Detective Abbott. The detective speaks directly to Doggett, turning his back to Scully. Although the footprints on the porch look neither human nor animal, Scully gathers that it may very well be from a human. The detective, believing that the prints came from an animal, doubts Scully’s credibility. Inside the house, Doggett finds another print and suggests that the suspect is a deranged killer with a deformed foot. Scully quashes those thoughts. Two of George’s fingers are in the attic, and their odor convinces Scully that they were regurgitated. The nail marks in the board above the fingers resemble the ones found on the porch. Scully says that it looks like someone was “hanging there.” Meanwhile, at the McKesson residence, an elderly woman looks at a photo album in her attic as the monster watches. The creature jumps out from the cobwebs and kills her. Later, at the morgue, Scully details how the scratches on the previous victims’ bodies match the nail marks on the wood. Enzymes found in the saliva from the bites suggest that a bat killed the couple. Doggett produces a Montana newspaper headline from 1956 about a human bat that was shot by hunters after it killed several people. The next day, the agents investigate the McKesson murder. The woman’s daughter, Ariel, was found dead, her body burned, a week before. This woman last saw her daughter in 1956 – the same year as the newspaper clipping. Scully is convinced that Ariel is the connection to all the murders, while Abbott lashes out at her for her outrageous theories. After Doggett pulls Abbott aside, the detective agrees to follow Scully’s order to exhume Ariel’s

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body. She is angry with Doggett for humoring her, even though her notions are far−fetched. “Maybe I’m just an old fashioned cop,” he says, “But I don’t take leaps.” She humbles him by pointing out that he is taking a leap himself by believing the article about a bat man. Detective Abbott goes to the cemetery, but Ariel’s casket has already been dug up. He orders the body to the morgue, but something catches his eye in a nearby tree. A man with the wings of a bat flies out from the tree and mauls Abbott to death. His bloodied body is later rolled into Scully’s morgue, as Doggett looks on solemnly. The other policemen tell Doggett that they mistrust her theories and blame her for the Detective’s death. Scully’s autopsy of Ariel finds that, although her body had been burned, she died of natural causes. The bat creature had killed people who had come into contact with her body. Myron Stefaniuk, the man who had found Ariel’s body, is still alive. Scully and Doggett, fearing for his life, rush to see him. Myron is not interested. His brother Ernie was one of the hunters who shot the bat creature over 40 years ago, and when Myron refuses their protection, they watch him from the car. Yet Scully begins to doubt herself, thinking she is trying too hard to act like Mulder. Doggett defends her judgement, and notes that “I’m no Fox Mulder, but I can tell when a man’s hiding something.” Oblivious to their surveillance, Myron loads up his truck as the bat creature lies in wait overhead. He loads a raft with supplies and pushes them out to Bird Island. Later that night, a mysterious masked man goes to retrieve the supplies, but is caught by Scully and Doggett. They remove his mask to reveal he is Ernie Stefaniuk. He has been in hiding all these years, in fear for his life from the bat man. Ernie’s wife was Ariel, the burned woman that Myron found in the water. The bat monster killed everyone who had the trace of Ernie’s scent from the wife’s body. Ernie is afraid for his brother’s life, telling the agents that the creature has the habits of a bat and will only attack at night. Doggett runs off to save Myron, but is assaulted from behind by the bat man. Waiting with Scully, Ernie tells her that now she is a marked woman. They hear noises on the roof of the shack, and Scully shoots blindly toward the ceiling. She goes outside to investigate, but the creature charges at Ernie inside the shack. She runs in and shoots at the bat, but it takes off. Doggett stumbles in, bloody and scarred. He too, shoots at the bat. It flies into the night. Back at the FBI, Scully once again looks at Mulder’s nameplate. Doggett brings in a fax from Myron, who has gone into hiding. She asks Doggett if he believes that this monster will now be hunting the two of them. “I’m pretty sure I hit it, Agent Scully,” he assures her. “I’m pretty sure you hit it too.” She is hesitant, but thanks Doggett for watching her back. “I never saw it as an option,” he

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Roadrunners Production Code: #8ABX05 Original Air Date: 11/26/00 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rod Hardy SCULLY EVADES DOGGETT’S HELP IN PURSUING A RELIGIOUS CULT THAT WORSHIPS A SLUG−LIKE CREATURE.

Hank Gulatarski waits for what seems like hours at a Roadrunners bus stop on a deserted road in Juab County, Utah. The faint rumble of a bus in the night stirs him, but it nearly passes him until he flags it down. The unmarked bus stops and he walks on, past the passengers who eye him suspiciously. Their silence puts him off a little, but he plops down in a seat and shuts his eyes. All of a sudden, the bus stops and the people file out in an orderly fashion. Confused, Hank follows them. The Bus Driver and the other passengers begin to bash a disabled man’s skull with rocks. They turn and approach Hank, who yells as they swarm over him. Days later, Scully collects evidence from the desert crime scene. She calls Doggett from a pay phone to say that she is consulting on a murder case where a traveler with a deteriorated body was beaten to death. She asks Doggett for help in tracking down an old X−File that mentions mucus. Although Doggett is somewhat put off about being left behind, he agrees to do her research. Scully pulls into an almost abandoned filling station for some gas. The pumps are empty, but when she mentions that she is a doctor, the Gas Station Man kindly fills her tank with a reserve in a can. After Scully pulls away, the Gas Station Man walks into the nearby boarding house where the Bus Driver is tending to the ailing Hank. “Help is coming,” he says. Further on up the road, Scully’s car putters to a halt. She walks back to the gas station to find the can of gas was really full of water. The Attendant sends her to the boarding house to use their phone. There, Mr. Milsap greets Scully by telling her his phone is out of order. He offers her a room for rent, but she is dubious of his intentions. She storms outside, unconsciously touching her stomach as if trying to protect her unborn child. She sees a woman who ignores her calls and Scully notices people inside the houses holding religious services. With no other option, Scully takes Milsap’s room for the night. She waits in her bed with her gun cocked at the ready. Back in Washington, Agent Doggett calls the local Juab sheriff’s office, but Scully has not turned up there. He asks the local police to send out a cruiser to look for her.

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The next morning, Milsap asks her medical help for another man. Scully finds Hank shaking with grand mal seizures and she notices a wound on his lower back that is bleeding badly. Thinking he is maybe diabetic, Scully tries to raise Hank’s blood sugar, but this does not work. The Bus Driver sobs. Suddenly, Hank awakens and asks to speak with Scully privately. He doesn’t remember who he is or how he got there. She tells him about the murder in the area and her suspicion of the townspeople to be part of a cult. When she tries to lift him, Scully finds that the hole in his back has something moving under his skin. She uses tweezers to pull out a part of a slug, but the remainder of the creature crawls over his spine. Suspecting that the people put the slug inside him, she fears for Hank’s life. Leaving Hank her gun, she escapes through a window to find a car. Milsap and the Bus Driver enter Hank’s room. Hank recounts Scully’s diagnosis that he is dying. He tells them that they need another swap. Doggett discovers that Scully’s phone call was made from a payphone that Hank had used before his disappearance. Doggett goes to Utah with case files about others killed by stoning with the same wounds on their lower backs. Scully finds the bus inside a shed, but doesn’t notice the townspeople following her. They surround her. Hank bends over and the others stone him, all the while shouting “Amen!” They remove the giant slug from his body and approach Scully. She screams for mercy, exclaiming that she’s pregnant. They lift her shirt and bring the creature to the small of her back. After it enters her body, they return to the boarding house and tie her to a bed. Milsap softly says that she will soon be one with Him. A light shines through the window as Doggett pulls up in a car. Milsap and the Bus Driver greet him, but say that they haven’t seen Scully. Scully manages to kick a gas lamp off the table to start a fire and the Gas Station Man kicks out the flame, but Doggett doesn’t notice. Doggett radios the sheriff, suspicious of the people, and goes back to the boarding house. He finds Scully, unties her and carries her to the bus. She screams in pain, begging Doggett to cut out the creature climbing up her spine. The townspeople find them and attack the locked bus. Doggett yanks the slug out of Scully’s neck, throws it on the floor and shoots it. The mob quiets down and stares at the obliterated creature. Milsap asks “Why?” The people begin to cry. Doggett carries Scully out of the shed, as a hoard of police cars raid the building. One week later, Scully packs her bag in a Salt Lake City hospital. Doggett tells her that all of the forty−seven cult members are sticking together in the face of a grand jury hearing. They believe that the creature was the Second Coming of Christ. Scully apologizes for leaving him out of the case, citing that it was nearly a fatal mistake. She promises not to do it again.

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Invocation Production Code: #8ABX06 Original Air Date: 12/03/00 Written by David Amann Directed by Richard Compton HAVING BEEN KIDNAPPED FOR TEN YEARS, A LITTLE BOY MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARS BUT HASN’T AGED ONE BIT.

September 21, 1990 – Dexter, Oklahoma Children play at Bethune Elementary’s school carnival. Seven year−old Billy Underwood calls out to his mother, Lisa, from the swing set, but she is busy chatting with another woman. When she looks at the swing again, her son has vanished. Panicked, she searches the fair but cannot find her son. A dark−haired and mysterious young man who had been watching the swings stands to the side. He is clutching Billy’s backpack. Ten years later, Lisa Underwood arrives at the elementary school to pick up her other son, Josh. The principal brings her to the playground where a young boy is playing on the swing set. It is her missing son, Billy, who has not aged a day in the ten years he disappeared. Scully and Doggett discuss the case in the Oklahoma hospital where Billy has been checked out. The boy is healthy, but he refuses to speak. Doggett, believing this to be merely a case of kidnapping, attempts to interrogate Billy about his abductor. Lisa is incensed and pulls her son out of the room to take him home. Scully is convinced that this Billy is not the same boy who was taken, but his medical records prove her wrong. Doggett looks over the original case file and finds the sealed records of a young man who was questioned at the crime scene. Ronnie Purnell is the same dark−haired boy who was holding Billy’s backpack. Doggett goes to Ronnie’s trailer to investigate, but when he proposes that Ronnie see Billy face to face, Ronnie refuses. Alone in his car, Doggett pulls a photo of a boy out of his wallet. He stares at it and then drives off. Back at home, the Underwood dog growls at Billy. That night, Lisa argues with her husband, Doug, about Billy not really being their son. Billy overhears his parents, and then enters his brother’s room with a hunting knife. The next morning, Lisa is startled to find the knife wedged in Josh’s bed. He is covered with blood, but has not been cut. Billy stands in his brother’s room, motionless. Tests show that the fingerprints and the blood belong to Billy’s, but he too is unharmed. Neither parent has ever seen the knife before. It has a five−pointed symbol on it that was identified by a police psychic in the investigation ten years prior. This same symbol matched a drawing that Billy made while being questioned. Lisa pleas with Billy to talk, but Doug insists on bringing him to a psychiatrist. He loads his

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son in the car, but the boy disappears from the back seat. He immediately appears in Josh’s room. Ronnie walks into the woods and begins to dig where a surveyor’s stake is planted. He unearths a human skull. When Ronnie returns to his trailer, his mother’s boyfriend Cal Jeppy comes after him. Cal threatens Ronnie about knowing what he did to that little boy and what is buried in the woods. Ronnie pulls away from him. Sharon Pearl, meanwhile, pays a visit to the Underwood home at the behest of Scully. She is the police psychic, and she senses forces flowing through Doggett because he once lost someone like Billy. Suddenly, she lapses into convulsions and begins speaking in tongues. The five−pointed symbol appears on her forehead in bulging subsurface veins. After she is taken away in an ambulance, Scully confront Doggett about the psychic turn of events. He thinks it is all an act, but Scully plays the tape of Sharon’s voice backwards – it is the voice of a child singing a lullaby. Later that night, Scully and Doggett sit in surveillance outside the Underwood house. Ronnie pulls up. All of a sudden and without warning, Billy appears in his front seat. When Doggett approaches the car and sees Billy, Ronnie panics and tears off. Doggett chases on foot, while Scully follows in her car. When they catch him, the boy is gone. Josh, meanwhile, waits for his father to pay at a gas station. A pony being loaded into a nearby trailer distracts the kid. He gets out of the car to see the animal, but his hand is sucked into the trailer. The five−pointed drawing on the trailer matches the symbol from the knife and Sharon Pearl’s forehead. The police question Ronnie, but he has no answer for them. He tries telling Doggett that he went to the house because he didn’t believe that Billy was there. Doggett is sure that he saw Billy in the car, despite the fact that the boy was in his home. Ronnie says that he took care of Billy and sang to him so that he wouldn’t be scared, but Doggett demands to know what the boy would be afraid of. Ronnie can only say that “He made me do it.” The agents are informed that Josh has now disappeared, and they go with the police to raid the Purnell trailer where the horse trailer is stored. The five−pointed symbol makes up the shape of the pony ride used at the school carnival. Josh is found. He is bound, but safe. Cal runs out, chased by Doggett. Cal denies that he kidnapped Billy. Doggett sees Billy in the woods but the boy vanishes. At that same spot, Doggett sees the surveyor’s stake in the ground and finds the remains of the body. The next morning at the gravesite, Scully tells Doggett that the clothes and condition of the bones will prove that the skeleton belongs to Billy Underwood. Although Doggett won’t accept the outcome and is not convinced that this was some kind of justice from beyond, Scully tries to persuade him that he saved Josh’s life and has succeeded in more ways than he was meant to know.

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Redrum Production Code: #8ABX03 Original Air Date: 12/10/00 Teleplay by Steven Maeda Story by Steven Maeda & Daniel Arkin Directed by Peter Markle AFTER HIS WIFE IS MURDERED, A LAWYER TRIES TO CLEAN HIS NAME OF THE CRIME BUT THE DAYS REGRESS BACKWARD.

A spider scurries over its web, as Martin Wells awakes beneath it. He glances around and is confused to be inside a prison cell with a deep gash over his right eye. He watches the spider, and then smashes it, as a radio voice announces that the day is Friday. A prison guard takes him out of the cage and Martin spots his good friend, John Doggett, in the corridor. He calls out to the Agent, but Doggett barely glances at him. Instead, Doggett, along with Scully, falls into step beside Martin, as he is led outside the jail into the throng of waiting reporters and cameras. Martin spots a familiar face in the crowd and looks hopeful upon seeing him. He shouts over the commotion to his father−in−law who pulls out a gun and shoots Martin. Doggett leaps for the weapon. As Scully tends to him, Martin can only hear the sound of his own heartbeat, echoing the ticking of Scully’s watch. His eyes go blank and he passes out. The watch’s second hand comes to a stop, and then ticks backwards. Martin wakes once again in the prison cell. The same spider crawls over the web, and the injury is still over his eye. Doggett and Scully bring him evidence, but Martin is confused by the whole situation. He doesn’t understand why he is in jail. Doggett is furious, and accuses Martin of murdering his own wife. In the evidence file are photos of Vicky Wells’ bloodied corpse. Martin is shocked and overwhelmed. While he is brought into court, his co−workers stare at him with scorn. As the bailiff proclaims that court for Thursday is in session, Martin seems confused. He thought it was Saturday, the day after he was shot. Martin is denied bail and ordered to transfer to another prison, but he approaches the bench to beg for a stay. He claims that his father−in−law will kill him on Friday. Doggett and Scully talk to Martin in the holding cell, and he tells them that he may be having premonitions about the future. The last thing he remembers is visiting Washington three days ago, but he is adamant about not killing his wife. “If you truly don’t remember, how do you know you didn’t?” Scully asks him. Martin sees a vision of breaking glass, but is unsure of what his memory is telling him. Later, his two young daughters are brought into the jail, but they are cold to him. He gets another vision of broken glass, but this time it moves backwards. He sees his wife fall through a coffee table. Martin asks Trina, the children’s nanny,

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to bring him a stuffed animal from the apartment. Hidden inside it is a camera used to spy on the nanny. Martin reviews the video footage with his lawyer to see who was in the apartment during the time of the murder. He is the only person on the tape. Once more, Martin wakes in the jail cell. The spider is still there, but his face is unharmed. He is brought into a room to see his lawyers. When the female attorney introduces herself, Martin is already familiar with her from the trial the day before. They inform him that it is Wednesday, and Martin figures out that his days are regressing backwards. Later in the prison yard, the other inmates pick him out as the lawyer who once put them away. A prisoner with a spider web tattooed on his hand slices Martin’s face over his right eye. Doggett and Scully come to see Martin, and Doggett is noticeably friendlier towards him. Martin tells them about his regression of time and Doggett is skeptical of the story. Scully asks Martin why he thinks this is happening to him. He assumes that it is something he is meant to understand, so he reviews his own case files to find the truth. He sees more flashbacks of the murder in reverse time. The arm of the killer has a tattoo of a spider web. “I know who did it,” he whispers to himself. In the morning, Martin wakes. Yet on this day he is in Doggett’s apartment. He watches himself on the news, which marks the day as Tuesday. He describes the murderer for Doggett as someone already in prison, but when Doggett checks, the man hasn’t been incarcerated. Although Doggett is confused by Martin’s rationale, he goes with him to Baltimore to get the videotape from the stuffed animal in the apartment. Martin is again the only suspect on the tape, but Doggett notices that the sun is rising in the background. Since it would not match the timing of the murder, this would clear Martin of the crime. Doggett and Martin go to the nanny’s house and find the man with the tattoo there. His name is Cesar Ocampo. Trina admits that he forced her to give him the keycard to Martin’s apartment. Martin talks to Ocampo to find out why he killed his wife. Ocampo’s brother Hector had been wrongly convicted by Martin and the boy hung himself in prison. Martin is arrested because his fingerprints are on the knife that killed Vicky Wells. Martin awakes in a hotel in Washington, DC. It is Monday – the day of the murder. Still two hours before the crime was to have been committed, he tries to warn his wife. She doesn’t answer the phone. He goes to Doggett’s house for help and Doggett is surprised to see him. Martin believes that this is happening for a reason so that he will be given a second chance. He admits to Doggett that he suppressed evidence in Hector Ocampo’s case and gets Doggett to call the police to his house in Baltimore. Martin returns home. The police are

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waiting, but neither his wife nor Cesar Ocampo is there so the police leave. Vicky Wells returns home, and Martin sends her into the bedroom when he hears someone coming in. Cesar attacks Martin and then tosses Vicky into a shattering coffee table. Cesar brings a knife to her throat and is about to kill her, when suddenly Doggett and Scully storm in. They shoot and kill him. Martin notices the second hand on Scully’s watch tick forward. Martin sits once again in jail. Yet this is a new day and a different prison cell. As he pays penance for breaking the law in Hector Ocampo’s trial, he has been given a second chance to atone for his transgression.

Via Negativa Production Code: #8ABX07 Original Air Date: 12/17/00 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Tony Wharmby WORKING WITHOUT SCULLY’S INPUT, DOGGETT AND SKINNER TRY TO AVERT THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER SPREE OF A DRUG−INDUCED, RELIGIOUS CULT LEADER WHO LEAVES NO TRACE OF EVIDENCE AT THE CRIME SCENES.

Agent Jim Leeds is fast asleep in his government sedan when his partner, Angus Stedman, raps on the window to wake him. There has been movement in the house they are watching. They quietly creep inside to find twenty slain bodies whose skulls have all been bashed in. Stedman senses a presence behind him, and turns to see a man holding a primitive axe. Leeds hears his cry and runs toward the hallway. Stedman lies in a pool of blood. His head has the same fatal wound as the other bodies. Leeds sees the man, who now has a third eye in the center of his forehead. The man hoists the axe and swings it over Leeds. That same night, Doggett is awakened by Scully’s phone call at 4:24 am. Skinner wants his help on a case. An agent was killed while on surveillance of a religious cult in Pittsburgh. She can not join him because “something unexpected’s come up.” Scully does not tell him that she is being admitted into a hospital. Early the next morning, Doggett arrives at the crime scene to meet Skinner. Agent Leeds’ body is in his car, which was locked from the inside. The clues lead Doggett to believe that the murder did not occur in the car. “This is damn weird,” he says. They take in the ghastly scene inside the house, where all twenty members of the cult were killed with a single blow to the head. The cult’s leader, Anthony Tipet, is missing. Agent Crane reports that Leeds’ partner has not been found. Doggett and Skinner break into Stedman’s condo, but the agent has been killed with the same head blow as Leeds. Stedman’s door was chain locked from the inside.

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Back in Washington, Skinner and Doggett brief Deputy Director Kersh on the case. The perpetrator left no traces of evidence. Skinner proposes that perhaps Tipet’s use of an Iboga hallucinogen drug may have allowed the man’s consciousness to be removed from his body. This might have allowed him to attack unnoticed. Kersh assumes that this far− fetched theory belongs to Scully. Meanwhile, Tipet walks past a homeless man on a Pittsburgh street. He uses a payphone to call Andre Bormanis’ lab. “You did this,” Tipet says on the machine. Bormanis listens, petrified. Bormanis then takes a razor and slices a cross into his own forehead. Tipet walks past the homeless man again, but this time Tipet’s third eye appears. Suddenly the sidewalk morphs into quicksand and the homeless man sinks. Tipet raises the axe and strikes him. When Skinner tells him that Scully is taking personal leave from work, Doggett becomes angry. He believes that Scully and Skinner are hiding something from him. Skinner has news of the homeless man’s death by the same head injury. Although Doggett is skeptical, Skinner asks him to suppose that this drug really does allow Tipet’s spirit to be in one place while his body is in another. They trace the payphone’s last call to Andre Bormanis, a convicted drug dealer. Skinner and Doggett go to Bormanis’ lab and question him about Tipet. They notice that he has a scar on his forehead. According to Bormanis, Tipet was the only one able to take the drug in order to reach the depths of the soul. Bormanis screams for protection when he is thrown in a jail cell. Doggett finds bloodstained footprints in the jail corridor, and he follows them to a lotus−sitting Tipet hovering in the air. Tipet opens all three of his eyes and looks straight at Doggett. Doggett glances down to see that the footprints lead to his own shoes. He looks at his hands and realizes that he is holding the decapitated head of Scully. Skinner wakes him – it was only a dream. Scully is on the phone to tell Doggett to trust his instincts. It hits Doggett that Bormanis was trying to not fall asleep. Bormanis sees Tipet at his prison cell. Suddenly rats swarm Bormains and he is eaten alive. Doggett runs to the cell, but Bormanis has been killed from the same blow to the skull. Doggett finds the Lone Gunmen in Mulder’s office. Scully sent them to help out on the case. They explain the idea that a third eye would bring one closer to God. Doggett formulates the theory that Tipet truly believes he has opened his third eye, and that by invading other people’s dreams, he could make their worst nightmares come true. Doggett insists that Tipet would want more of the Iboga drug to continue killing. He smiles at the Gunmen. “That’s what Mulder would think, right?” he says, before leaving for Bormanis’ lab. Doggett and Skinner arrive at the lab to find Tipet standing over a rotating table saw. They order

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him away from the blade. “I want this to end, but I just can’t stop it,” he bemoans. Tipet says that Doggett understands, and Doggett realizes that Tipet knows about his dream. Tipet leans over the table saw and the blade cuts into his skin. Doggett pulls him off and brings him to the hospital. While signing Tipet in, he sees Scully’s name on the roster. She has been admitted for acute abdominal pain. Doggett reports to Kersh that Tipet made people’s worst nightmares come true with the use of the drug. Since Tipet is in custody, Kersh closes out the case, but Doggett pleads for it to remain open. He explains that no evidence has been found. Yet Kersh wants nothing to do with an unexplained case and closes it. Confused by his own dreams, Doggett leaves a message on Scully’s machine, telling her that he knows the case doesn’t really add up. While looking at a mirror, Doggett sees Tipet standing behind him. When he turns around, the man is gone. Doggett gets into bed and doesn’t see Tipet waiting by the stairs with the axe. Doggett wakes in the morning and dresses for work. His reflection looking back at him shows the third eye on Doggett’s forehead. His eyes widen with shock, and all three eyes blink with disbelief. Then the eye disappears. He goes to the FBI and walks into Skinner’s office in somewhat of a daze. “I’m not sure I’m awake,” he tells the A.D. Doggett recounts seeing Tipet in his house with an axe, and feels that the man can see inside his dreams. Skinner tries to convince him that he needs to go home and get some sleep. Doggett walks through a strangely deserted FBI hallway on the second floor. The ends of the corridor seem to disappear into infinity. The sound of echoing footsteps reveals Tipet, who whispers in reverse−speak “She’s going to die.” Doggett, who also speaks in reverse, tells him that he won’t let him do that. Tipet replies that it is Doggett who will kill Scully. Doggett closes his eyes, bringing his hands to his face in great distress. He drops his hands to see that he is now in Scully’s apartment building. His hands, stained with blood, hold the axe. A deep, blue light strobes in and out from the windows, and a baby’s endless cry fills the room. Tears well in Doggett’s eyes as he realizes why he is dreaming this. Scully is asleep in the bed and Doggett holds the axe over her. He makes a decision, and lets the axe fall. Then he raises it over his own head and swings it at himself. Before it strikes him, he is woken up by Scully in his house. He lets out a deep, ragged sigh and tells her that she just saved his life. She says that she merely woke him up to tell him that Tipet died. Doggett was scared by the violent images in his nightmare, but thinks that maybe someone else put them there. “It was a bad dream, Agent Doggett,” Scully says. “But that’s all it was.”

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Surekill Production Code: #8ABX09 Original Air Date: 01/07/01 Written by Greg Walker Directed by Terrence O’Hara A MARKSMAN WITH X−RAY VISION IS KILLING PEOPLE, AND ODDLY, TWO EXTERMINATORS ARE INVOLVED.

Carlton Chase runs up to a pay phone on a nighttime street in Worcester, MA. “Pick up!” he barks into the recording answering machine. “Call him off, give me chance to explain,” he begs, before a shadow appears behind him. Afraid, Chase runs off and dashes into a nearby police station. The officers on duty stare at him strangely when he cries “Help me! Somebody wants to kill me!” Chase reaches for the cop’s gun, and the police tackle him, tossing him into an empty cell. Chase pleads for his safety, saying that “He can get me.” Suddenly, Chase’s head explodes and his blood splatters against the small window of the cell. The next morning, Scully examines the x−ray and determines that Chase was shot through the top of his head. A small dent in the air vent louver above proves this, but no one in the station heard the gunshot. Scully and Doggett climb into the air duct, where a small bullet hole leads a beam of light to a tiny hole on the roof. After Doggett finds a scrap of fabric that muffled the gun, they determine that the shooter fired once through two floors to reach his target. Yet they can’t figure out how someone could make such a lucky shot. The agents search Chase’s real estate office. The walls are rife with bullet holes, but the shells on the floor do not match the ones that killed Chase. On his desk are a stack of invoices from AAA−1 Surekill Extermination. Tammi Peyton arrives for work at AAA−1 Surekill Extermination and plays back the answering machine’s messages. Chase’s frantic phone call from the previous night plays and she quickly erases it. She notices Chase’s photo on the front page of the newspaper reporting his death. Tammi reaches for a lock box and is interrupted by her boss, Dwight Cooper. He ignores her questions about Chase’s murder. Dwight confronts his brother, Randall, about the previous night’s events. Randall defends himself by saying that Chase had been stealing from Dwight. Dwight warns him to ask first before he does anything else. Later that night, Dwight enters the warehouse of two drug dealers and demands their money and drugs. He points his finger at one of the gang members and calmly says “Bang.” The guy immediately falls down, shot. Dwight does the same to the second one. Randall enters from outside. He is holding a smoking gun wrapped in a towel. Scully and Doggett investigate the crime scene, finding that the shots came from behind a wall,

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landing perfectly on their targets. Scully theorizes that the killer could see through the wall and Doggett dismisses her claims. She conjectures that maybe this man’s eyes are somehow different than normal. Doggett believes that it was merely a drug hit. Yet after finding sulfuryl fluoride, an exterminator’s chemical, on the towel scrap, he suggests they go to the exterminators named on Chase’s invoices. Meanwhile, Dwight takes Tammi into a back office and she begins to undress. She senses that Randall is always watching her, and Dwight laughs her off. “How’s he watching you now?” he asks. Randall stares at the door to the office, but then turns away when he hears someone coming into the building. Doggett and Scully enter, and Dwight greets them. They show him an invoice from Chase’s office, but Dwight is unable to read it because he has been legally blind since childhood. He calls for Tammi, and she comes out of the office buttoning her blouse. Doggett asks why Chase called their office 14 minutes before he was killed. Tammi looks away shamefully. Dwight seems surprised, but he tells them that no message was left that night. The agents leave and Dwight confronts Tammi about the message. She admits that there was a message that she accidentally erased. Scully and Doggett research Dwight’s criminal record. He was arrested for grand theft auto, but since he is almost blind, they assume he had used a partner. They search for Randall’s record and find that the two brothers are twins. In her apartment that night, Tammi is frightened by her next door neighbor’s shadow on the window outside. She can’t see that it is really Randall, watching her undress through the walls. Early the next morning, Tammi rushes into the office. Dwight and Randall catch her grabbing the lock box, but Scully and Doggett storm in with a search warrant. Although the lock box is empty, Scully finds a ledger with Chase Realty information in it. They bring the brothers in for questioning. As Scully interrogates Randall, he stares at the wall behind her and reads his brother’s lips in the room next door. Randall repeats Dwight’s statement that he is just a “regular Joe, providing a public service.” Scully opines that he can see through the walls. She says that she knows about him shooting drug dealers through walls to steal their money. As the agents bring in Tammi for questioning, Dwight nods toward the girl and tells Randall that they have a problem that needs to be “taken care of.” In the interview room, Tammi offers that she only keeps the books for the brothers and doesn’t know anything about the drug dealers. Surmising the case, the agents believe that Chase was Dwight’s fence for the drugs and was killed because he had a relationship with Tammi. Her phone records indicate she called him late at night. Tammi again sees the shadow outside her apartment, and it moves when she calls out to Randall. She tells him that she knows he protected

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her and that he snatched her secret ledger book so Dwight wouldn’t find it. She still, however, needs his help. She asks Randall to meet her at the 3:00 bus, and he gives her the missing ledger that holds a key. Finding Tammi’s apartment emptied out, Doggett hits redial on her phone and reaches the bus station. Tammi uses the key to grab a duffel full of cash in a safe deposit box at the bank. When she returns to her car, Dwight is waiting in the backseat. He forces her to drive to the office. Left at the station, Randall believes he’s been stood up. At the exterminator’s office, Dwight accuses Tammi of skimming from the books with Chase. He questions why Randall would kill Chase, and then figures out that his brother has a crush on Tammi. Randall enters, and Dwight orders him to kill her. Randall points the gun at Tammi as she pleads for her life. He fires, but the bullet sails inches from her head to hit Dwight, who is outside having a cigarette. Scully and Doggett arrest Randall, but he will not speak. He sits motionless in a cell, eyes focused on a blank wall. Randall stares at a computer monitor located many rooms away. On it is an all− points bulletin for the arrest of Tammi Peyton, with her image emblazoned on the screen.

Salvage Production Code: #8ABX10 Original Air Date: 01/14/01 Written by Jeffrey Bell Directed by Rod Hardy A MAN MADE OF METAL ENACTS REVENGE ON THOSE WHO CREATED HIM.

Curt Delario comforts Nora Pearce as she mourns her husband. “How does a 41 year−old man just wither away and die?” she asks. Since no one can provide her an explanation for Ray’s death, she is convinced that he suffered from Gulf War Syndrome, and she wants someone to pay. Leaving her house, Curt turns his car out of the driveway but skids when he sees something in his path. He plows right into a man, but instead of crushing him, the car splits around the man. Curt looks through the shattered glass to see his friend, Ray Pearce, standing in the middle of the hood, unharmed. Ray shoves his fist through the windshield to grab Curt, who screams out in terror. The next morning, Doggett and Scully scan the crime scene. The car is torn in half and Curt Delario is missing. They find him in a trash can with five deep puncture marks in his head. The autopsy reveals that he was not killed by the impact, but rather by the wounds inflicted when he was pulled through the windshield. Blood and fingerprints on the car are from the recently deceased Ray Pierce. Ray wakes up at St. Clare’s Halfway House, unharmed. He pulls shards of metal out of his face.

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Doggett goes to the Pearce house. Harry Odell, the owner of the Southside Salvage yard where Ray and Curt both worked, is there. Doggett asks Nora about Ray’s cremation because no record of the event exists. He wonders if Ray might still be alive and is somehow involved in Curt’s death. Nora rebukes this, insisting that Ray was so sick before he died that he couldn’t even walk or lift his head. At the salvage yard, Harry is hurriedly feeding Ray Pearce’s employee records into a shredder when Ray himself enters the trailer office. Harry grabs a gun from his desk and shoots. Ray is blown clear out of the trailer. Outside, Harry sees Ray’s severed hand, which twitches. Small, interlocking metal pieces begin to repair the limb. Ray comes up behind him, unfazed by his bloody gut and missing arm. He grabs Harry’s head and punctures the man’s skull with his fingers. In checking out the aftermath, Doggett notices blue paint on Harry’s fingernails. He pulls a half−torn paper out of the shredder – an invoice from Chambers Technologies. The person on the invoice, Dr. David Clifton, no longer works there. His successor, Dr. Puvogel, tells Doggett that Clifton was working on a smart metal that can regenerate itself. He also says that their company would have no use of any local salvage yards. Scully phones Doggett from the morgue, informing him that Ray’s cell makeup was affected by exposure to a non− identifiable metal. Tests show that his blood has enough metal alloy to kill an elephant. At the halfway house, volunteer social worker Larina sees a news report on Harry Odell’s murder, recognizes Ray and phones Ray’s wife. Ray pursues Dr. Puvogel, and the agents lure him to Chambers Technologies. Ray gets captured in a test chamber and his fists dent the four−inch metal doors. He escapes by ripping open the thick metal of the back wall. Blood left on the jagged wall begins to turn itself into metal. Remanding Dr. Puvogel to safety, Doggett notices that a row of stacked barrels are painted the same color blue found on Harry Odell’s fingers. Nora waits for her husband at the halfway house, and asks him why he didn’t contact her. “I’m not me,” he responds, before showing her that his body is a mix of flesh and metal. He tells her that the people who did this to him must pay. At Southside Salvage, Doggett uncovers blue barrels with the Chambers Technology logo underneath the paint. When he turns one over, a think river of silver liquid pours out with a human body made of metal. It is the missing Dr. Clifton. Scully and Doggett question Puvogel, who tells them that Clifton got poisoned from working on an alloy with genetic material in it. Puvogel was aware that Clifton was dying, but did not know how his body was sent to the salvage yard. Suddenly, Doggett sees Nora Pearce sneaking around the Chambers hallway. She is searching for the name of the person responsible

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for her husband’s disfigurement, but is caught before she gave the name to Ray. A SWAT team is sent to the halfway house, but they are too late. Ray kills Larina and escapes. Scully and Doggett beg Nora for her help in preventing Ray from hurting anyone else, and she agrees to have her house watched by the police. Ray slips in and persuades Nora to tell him the name of the person from Chambers Technologies who made him inhuman. When he leaves, Nora rushes out of the house, hysterical. She tells the police that her husband had just been there and that he is going to kill a man named Owen Harris. Ray intercepts Harris’ car, pulls him from the driver’s seat and says “You made me.” The man’s wife and child scream in terror. Harris doesn’t understand because he’s only an accountant and had waste transferred to Southside Salvage because he was told to do so. As Harris’ son cries in the backseat, Ray’s eyes blink with the last light of kindness left in him. He lets the man go. Later, Doggett and Scully arrive at the scene. Harris is alive, being treated by a medic. The agents are puzzled as to why Ray didn’t kill him, but Scully surmises that Ray’s body had died, and what was left was a machine. Whatever bit of humanity was still in him may have saved Harris. At Southside Salvage, a car gets dumped into a compactor. Ray is inside the crushed car, calmly accepting his inevitable conclusion.

Badlaa Production Code: #8ABX12 Original Air Date: 01/21/01 Written by John Shiban Directed by Tony Wharmby A MYSTIC SMUGGLES HIMSELF OUT OF INDIA AND PLAGUES TWO FAMILIES IN SUBURBAN WASHINGTON, D.C.

American Hugh Potocki enters the airport in Mumbai, India on his way back home. A local beggar with no legs follows him on a wheeled cart into the restroom. Potocki is yanked out from under the bathroom stall by an unseen force. Later, Potocki arrives at his hotel in Washington, DC. A bellboy brings his luggage with the beggar’s cart strapped on. Potocki sits on the bed and his eyes glaze over with blood. Another pool of blood flows from his body, staining the bedspread. Scully and Doggett investigate the crime scene at the hotel where Potocki’s body was found. The agents spot a small, bloodied handprint, about the size of a child’s, on the bed. An autopsy reveals Potocki suffered massive abdominal tissue damage. Scully is unsure whether something went in or came out of his rectal wall. There is no evidence that the man had been smuggling drugs, but a decay analysis does

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prove that he had already been dead before he left India. Mrs. Holt, the principal of Fairmont Elementary in Maryland, interviews a normal−looking man for a potential job as a custodian. Yet she does not really see that the person sitting across from her is the legless beggar. A fight breaks out in front of the school between seventh−grader Trevor and the younger Quinton. Quinton’s father arrives in time to break up the squabble. The mysterious new custodian watches from nearby. Meanwhile, Doggett traces a similar death in India several days earlier that involves another heavyset American businessman. Scully introduces the idea that a living being is using these victims to stowaway by freely entering the bodies. Doggett doesn’t readily accept this notion. Later that night, Quinton sees the beggar’s reflection in his bedroom mirror, but his father dismisses the boy’s fears as merely a nightmare. When the father goes back downstairs, the beggar man is there. Hearing a scream, Quinton runs down the stairs to find his father dead. The man’s eyes are filled with blood. Scully and Doggett investigate and Quinton tells them that he saw a man with no legs. Finding the identical small handprints as in Potocki’s hotel room, the agents suspect the same killer. Yet Quinton’s father showed no sign of abdominal damage. At the autopsy, the man’s stomach is distended. Scully slices into the body, and a tiny hand reaches out through the incision. Scully jumps back, and grabs her gun. Whatever was in the body has disappeared, leaving a trail of coagulated blood across the floor. Scully follows it to a closet, but sees nothing inside. However, the beggar man is in the closet. Somehow he hides his presence from Scully. When Scully and Doggett consult with Chuck Burks, he explains that there are siddhi mystics who have the power to manipulate reality. These Indian mystics, however, are religious and committing murder would endanger their souls. Scully shows him a report of an American chemical plant that killed many people in India, one of whom is the son of a holy man. Because siddhi mystics pass their skills from father to son, and his only son’s death effectively ends his legacy, Scully questions whether this man is out for revenge. Trevor tells Quinton that he may know who killed his father. As he walks down the street, Trevor hears the squeaking of the beggar’s wheeled cart, but no one is around. His mother, meanwhile, sees her son’s body floating in the backyard pool and dives in after him. As she gets closer, she realizes that it is not Trevor but the beggar man. Scully and Doggett later scrutinize the woman’s blood−filled eyes and question how her death fits into the case. Trevor returns home and tells the agents that the “little man” followed him. They call the janitor in for questioning, but he does not speak. Chuck sets up a video camera and focuses it on the janitor. The

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camera shows there is no one sitting in the interrogation room. They realize their suspect may be anywhere. Mrs. Holt sees the custodian at the school later that night, but he does not answer her when she calls out to him. The principal immediately calls Scully. Trevor and Quinton lie in wait in the school building. When the beggar enters the janitorial closet, Trevor tosses bottles of chemicals on him. Yet the shattered glass seems to have hit nothing and the beggar disappears. Instead, the beggar chases Quinton in to a classroom with windows that won’t budge open. Trevor is outside the window, yelling to his friend that he will get help. Suddenly, Scully and Mrs. Holt enter the classroom but they can’t see the beggar man. He has transformed himself into Trevor. Quinton pleads with Scully to shoot at what she thinks is Trevor, but she is unable to fire at a child. Doggett arrives outside and hears gunshots. He runs in the classroom, with Trevor following him. The little beggar man lies dead on the floor. Later, Scully is still shaken by the experience. She tells Doggett that she was unable to trust her own eyes, but fired her gun because the boys saw the truth. She realizes that it is what Mulder’s open mind would have seen. “Maybe if I could see through Mulder’s eyes I could understand,” she says. The beggar man, still alive, rolls his cart in an airport in pursuit of another passenger.

The Gift Production Code: #8ABX11 Original Air Date: 02/04/01 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners DOGGETT COMES UPON AN OLD CASE THAT MULDER KEPT SECRET FROM SCULLY.

In a flashback, a car drives up to a semi−rural house in the middle of a rainstorm. A man gets out and enters the house, which is marked with a strange symbol in blood. Inside are Marie and Paul Hangemuhl, hiding a creature with ruined skin and cataracted eyes. The unseen man raises his gun and fires at the mysterious creature. It falls to the ground. He goes back to his car and drives away. The man is Mulder. It is present day when Doggett arrives at the Sheriff’s Station in Squamash, Pennsylvania to dig up clues about Mulder’s disappearance. Sheriff Frey tells him that Mulder had been there the past spring to investigate the disappearance of Marie Hangemuhl, who was later found to have never been absent from her house. Although Mulder left no trace of this investigation in his files, Doggett uncovered cell phone records indicating he had been to the town the week before his abduction. The Sheriff brings

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Doggett to the Hangemuhl home, where they find a sickly Marie Hangemuhl suffering from kidney failure. She admits to meeting Mulder the previous spring, when he had asked about her disappearance. Her husband, Paul, quickly interjects that nothing out of the ordinary had gone on and that they never saw Mulder again. He claims that Mulder had been interested in an Indian folk legend about a creature from the woods that eats people. When they leave, Doggett mentions to the Sheriff that he spotted patches in the wall of the Hangemuhl house that could be bullet holes. Returning to Washington, Doggett searches Mulder’s apartment. He overturns every drawer and finds a pistol underneath the sink. He later asks Skinner about the mystery case, as well as an unreported three rounds discharged from the gun. Test results show that blood had splattered back, meaning Mulder had fired at close range. Although Skinner tries to defend Mulder and dismiss Doggett’s claims, the paperwork proves that Scully had signed off on the falsified report. Doggett pledges that he will not take the situation to a review board, but will investigate further. Back in Pennsylvania, a lynch mob converges on a rundown house in the woods. Paul Hangemuhl is among them. The leader of the group, Sheriff Frey, demands that “it” be sent outside. An old woman in the cabin tells the men that “it” is dead. Suddenly, a side door bursts open and a figure bolts out of the house into the woods. The men chase it, capturing what appears to be a deformed man. “Don’t do this to him!” the woman cries. Later, Doggett and Skinner confront the Sheriff about the body of an unidentified transient found the day after Mulder’s visit to the Hangemuhl home. The Sheriff is resistant to their charges, but they discover that the transient’s grave has been unearthed. The casket is empty, and it appears that someone dug themselves out of the grave. Doggett becomes even more suspicious of the townspeople. Paul Hangemuhl is painting the strange symbol on his front door with chicken’s blood when the Sheriff arrives, inquiring about Marie’s readiness. The deformed creature is taken from a cage and brought into the house, where Marie lies naked on the floor. It unhinges its jaw and rips into her body. She screams, as her husband silently prays in the next room. Doggett and Skinner return to the Hangemuhl home, looking for the missing Marie. Skinner spots a pool of blood seeping from under the couch. Doggett suggests that Mulder had been trying to protect Marie from whoever was buried in that coffin. Meanwhile, in a secret cave, the creature regurgitates a murky liquid into an outline of a human figure dug in the ground. The remnants of a blood symbol are found on the Hangemuhl home. The Lone Gunmen analyze the symbol, via an internet feed, and tell Doggett and Skinner that it may summon a shaman to the

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house to aid the sick. Legend has it that a “soul eater” consumes illnesses. Doggett thinks that maybe it was connected to Marie’s kidney disease and that maybe there wasn’t really a transient buried in that coffin. The agents visit the old woman in the cabin because she had originally found the transient’s body. Doggett tells her his theory that Mulder tried to kill the creature to protect Marie Hangemuhl, but the woman says he’s got it all backwards. Doggett sees a cellar door in her house and goes down. He finds a fully−formed Marie on the ground, naked, covered in a gooey substance. He wraps her up and takes her to the hospital. She successfully recovers, and her kidneys have spontaneously healed. The “soul eater” actually took her to cure her, and Doggett realizes that Mulder was not trying to protect Marie when he shot at the creature. Doggett returns to the home of the old woman, and she explains that people do not understand the creature’s gift. It looks deformed because it takes on people’s sicknesses. Mulder had come to Pennsylvania to try to save himself from his own illness. When he saw the creature’s suffering, he couldn’t go through with it. Mulder decided to shoot the creature to take its pain away. It was then buried, but didn’t die. The townspeople know it is still alive and want it to help their sick, causing the creature to continue to suffer. Doggett carefully puts the creature in his car when the Sheriff and other townspeople show up. They demand the creature be given back because there are sick people who need to be healed. The Sheriff shoots Doggett in the chest and the creature escapes. The townspeople bury Doggett’s dead body and leave. Later, the creature brings Doggett back to life in the cave. He awakes in the human outline, covered in goo. The old woman is tending to the dying creature that took away Doggett’s death. “You freed it,” she cries. Back at the FBI, Doggett sits at his computer. He’s at a loss on what to write in his case report. He tells Skinner that he’s not any closer to finding Mulder. “You got inside his head,” Skinner says, advising him not to write up a report. Doggett, however, wants the truth to be told. “You and I both know what happened out there,” the A.D. says. “No one else needs to.” As Skinner leaves, Doggett imagines that Mulder is standing in the office, watching him.

Medusa Production Code: #8ABX13 Original Air Date: 02/11/01 Written by Frank Spotnitz Directed by Richard Compton SCULLY AND DOGGETT RACE TO FIGHT OFF A CONTAGION LURKING UNDER THE SUBWAY TUNNELS OF BOSTON.

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A man waits alone on the Clay Street train platform in Boston. He is an undercover transit cop who, speaking into a microphone on his lapel, describes a gangbanger that has jumped the turnstile. The train arrives, and the cop steps in the empty car as it moves into a tunnel. The gangbanger enters from another car. Suddenly, the train lurches to an abrupt stop and loses its power. Strobes of bright light fill the car, and a man’s scream is heard. The gangbanger jumps down on the tracks and runs off into the tunnel. At the next stop, incoming passengers see the officer’s body on the floor of the car. Huge chunks of his face and body have been eaten away, revealing sections of skull and skeleton. At the Boston Transit Operations Center, Scully and Doggett talk with Deputy Transit Police Chief Karras, who wants to reopen the line in time for the afternoon rush hour. Scully insists on keeping the train closed until the man’s cause of death can be determined. Armed and wearing a flak jacket, Doggett proceeds into the tunnel, joined by Police Lieutenant Bianco, Center for Disease Control pathogen expert Hellura Lyle and transit engineer Steven Melnick. Scully, manning the expedition from above ground, communicates with Doggett by radio and video camera. As they venture into the tunnel, they find it to be unusually hot because ventilation was shut down. Suddenly, Melnick screams, indicating a burn on his neck. Dr. Lyle does a sample analysis on a puddle that the group had passed, but finds that the liquid is only seawater. In the darkness, Lt. Bianco sees a figure move. Doggett chases after it into an unused and obsolete tunnel, and gets attacked by a man with horrifyingly decayed features. The man is the gangbanger who previously ran off into the tunnels. Lt. Bianco is ready to end the search when Melnick spots three bodies wrapped in plastic. Dr. Lyle sees a shadow run off, but, upon investigation, the team can’t find anyone. Scully, believing a contagion is still a risk factor, directs them to leave the bodies and continue into the main tunnel. Melnick screams again, this time with burns on his arms and hands. Scully orders them to pour fresh water on Melnick from their canteens. She guesses that they may be facing some kind of bio−chemical agent. While Dr. Lyle stays with Melnick, Doggett and Bianco start into a side tunnel. No one notices Lt. Bianco’s hand glowing faintly green. Scully meets the hazmat team as they bring out Dr. Lyle, the deteriorating Melnick and the three dead victims. She orders that the bodies be taken to the CDC and accuses Karras of hiding dead bodies that he knew were down there. Doggett and Bianco trudge into the next tunnel. Bianco’s face and hands begin to glow green, but it has no other effect on him. He tries to leave, but Doggett pulls a gun on him. Bianco kicks him in the face, knocking Doggett out, and he escapes. Doggett now has the green fluorescent glow on his skin. Scully, meanwhile, gets a visit from Dr. Kai Bowe, a

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marine biologist. She has analyzed the water from the tunnel, and has found that it contains a sea creature, called a medusa, which is why the CDC missed it when they inspected the liquid. The medusas glow with bioelectricity, but do not burn people on contact. Something triggers it. Scully fears the worst for her partner. Doggett wakes up and speaks to Scully on the radio. If he is to stop the spread of the contaminant, he needs to find Lt. Bianco. Karras tells Scully that he has reopened the subway and there are already passengers on the platform. It is now becoming urgent to protect the thousands of passengers. Doggett locates Bianco, lying in the tunnel. Scully tells Doggett to get out, but Bianco begs him to stay. Doggett helps Bianco walk, and they see a child’s shadow. The boy, who is unaffected, points to a wall. Scully figures out that sweat triggers the electricity. Since the boy’s sweat glands aren’t fully developed, he has not been affected. The boy motions Doggett toward a big leak in the ceiling with water running from the bay. He leads him to a main track, where trains from the reopened system are about to cross. Doggett is faced with a train heading towards him. He places Bianco’s gun on the third rail, which triggers a spark when the train hits it. The electricity charges into the puddles of seawater, killing the medusa. It vanishes from Doggett’s and Bianco’s skin. Doggett is later treated at Boston General Hospital. Scully tells him that he is rid of the organism and is perfectly fine. The boy is with social services. Plastic surgeons are working on Melnick and Bianco, and the three bodies’ deaths are being attributed to an unknown pathogen. Since there is no proof that Karras endangered people’s lives, he can’t be criminally charged for keeping the trains running. He was merely doing his job. Scully congratulates Doggett for saving all those people’s lives. “You figured it out,” he tells her. “I was just your eyes and ears.”

Per Manum Production Code: #8ABX08 Original Air Date: 02/18/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners WHEN SCULLY DIGS DEEPER INTO REPORTS OF ALIEN FERTILIZATION ON HUMANS, SHE QUESTIONS HER OWN PREGNANCY AND ITS CONCEPTION.

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her drug−induced haze, McCready can barely see the baby being pulled out of her stomach. It is an alien. In her apartment, Scully scans her own ultrasound image and strokes her growing belly. Later, she heads into the office to find Doggett talking to Duffy Haskell. The man had contacted Mulder eight years ago about his wife, who is now dead. “They killed her,” he tells the agents. He says that Kath was a multiple abductee, and aliens had performed procedures on her that gave her cancer. Although she was subsequently cured, she was left barren. She was later implanted with an embryo and gave birth to an alien. All the doctors who were in cahoots with this procedure murdered Kath and stole her alien baby because it was proof. Although his story rings a bell with Scully, she dismisses Haskell. Doggett says that his tale sounds familiarly like Scully’s case, “except for the pregnancy.” Walking out of the office, she chastens Doggett and tells him to stay out of her personal files. Scully’s head is spinning with fear and confusion when she enters the elevator. She thinks back to a prior conversation with Mulder where she acknowledged that she wasn’t ready to accept that she will never have children. “There’s something I haven’t told you,” Mulder confesses. He admits to having found her ova in a lab (seen in #4X15) and after taking them to a specialist, learned that they were not viable. Still in the elevator, Scully wakes from her daydream to find Doggett staring at her. She tells him that there is nothing to do about Haskell’s case. Scully roams the stark white interior of Zeus Genetics in Germantown, MD looking for somebody to assist her. Suddenly she hears screaming from an examination room. It is a woman begging for another opinion. Scully ducks into a door to prevent being caught spying, and finds herself in a room with scores of jars. The jars are filled with deformed fetuses. Dr. Lev startles her, and she tells him she is worried about her friend. “You’re here with Mrs. Hendershot?” he asks, before ushering her out the office. Scully rushes back to her apartment to call her personal geneticist, Dr. Parenti. She asks him to compare her own ultrasound against the one that Duffy Haskell provided. Parenti assures her that she will be fine and hangs up, but Parenti is standing in Zeus Genetics’ room of fetus jars. He unwraps a small alien corpse on a dissecting table. It is the baby that Kath McCready gave birth to. Flashback to the previous year: In his waiting room, Dr. Parenti notifies Scully that her ova can be successfully used to impregnate her. He asks if she has someone in mind as a donor, and Scully nods thoughtfully, saying that she has to figure out how to ask the person. Scully sits in the same waiting room, present day. After reviewing the images, Dr. Parenti certifies that both her ultrasound as well as the Haskell results are both normal. Yet he advises

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her to let the FBI know about her condition. When Scully returns to the office, Doggett says that Parenti’s office called about an ultrasound she dropped off, and since Parenti was the doctor who Duffy Haskell consulted, Doggett questions Scully’s investigating the Haskell case when she specifically told him not to. Later, Skinner and Doggett interrogate Haskell about his threatening letters to doctors. He tells them that Dr. Lev was the one who stole Kath’s baby. The agents warn him not to keep up with the threats, and Haskell says “there are other women out there, just like Kath.” Haskell leaves them and dials Dr. Lev at Zeus Genetics, revealing that he too is involved in the conspiracy. Regarding Mrs. Hendershot, the doctor tells Haskell that “it’s time to let her go.” Scully returns to her apartment and remembers another Mulder discussion from the year before. She is nervously awkward when he arrives at her door with an answer to her request. “I wouldn’t want this to come between us,” Mulder says, in response to his being her sperm donor. “But the answer is yes.” Scully cries tears of joy and hugs him. Scully resumes present day, when there is a knock on her door. It is a distraught Mary Hendershot from the genetic clinic. “My baby is in danger,” she says. “So is yours.” Doggett pulls up to a diner in downtown Washington at 3:33 am where Skinner and Scully are waiting. Scully has asked for a leave of absence from the FBI, but is cryptic about her reasons. Smarting from the disrespect, Doggett gets up, saying offhandedly “Drop me a line if you get a chance.” Mary Hendershot is in Scully’s front seat, but neither Skinner nor Doggett know who she is. The women go to the Walden−Freedman Research Center and are met by Dr. Miryum. Scully explains that Mrs. Hendershot’s life may be in danger and that she believes this baby is not hers. Mrs. Hendershot’s conception dates do not add up and she is sure that her pregnancy was caused by an abduction. Dr. Miryum performs an ultrasound test on Scully that proves her child is normal and healthy, but to be sure she suggests an amniocentesis test. Meanwhile, Doggett learns that Duffy Haskell has gone under a different first name and was buried as a Marine in 1970. He assumes that Haskell is really working for an underground conspiracy and he approaches an old friend, Knowle Rohrer, about Haskell’s identity. Although Rohrer’s job is not apparent, he assures Doggett that there is no conspiracy at work and he will look further into Haskell’s files. Dr. Miryum withdraws the amnio needle, warning Scully to be still. After the doctor leaves the room, Scully notices that her ultrasound image is being retrieved from a VCR. She removes the videotape and realizes she has been viewing someone else’s fetus. Scully goes into the delivery

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room for Mrs. Hendershot, clutching the wound from the amnio needle on her stomach. “I have to get you out of here,” she tells her, putting the woman’s baby and her own health at risk. That same night, Doggett rushes to the FBI, demanding Skinner to locate Scully. He believes that she may be in danger, knowing that Haskell can not be trusted. Scully and Mrs. Hendershot escape the research center and run right into Knowle Rohrer, who claims that Doggett sent him. A team of armed men described as experienced field medics throw the women into a black truck. When police cars intercept the truck, it travels off−road into the woods. Suddenly, Mrs. Hendershot goes into labor, and Scully orders the truck to stop so as not to endanger the pregnant woman’s life. As the men lay down Mrs. Hendershot, Rohrer drugs Scully and prevents her from witnessing the birth. In her haze, she hears the distorted cry of an alien baby. Scully awakes the next morning in a hospital room. Doggett is at her side, assuring her that she and her child are both healthy. He also tells her that Mary Hendershot is fine and delivered a normal baby boy. Scully contends that the men switched the babies, but Doggett thinks she has overreacted to everything. The tape that showed her ultrasound was recorded onto an old cassette, and Rohrer’s men say that they saved her life. Scully insists that, from the minute Duffy Haskell walked into their office, they were set up to get Mary Hendershot’s baby and cover it up. Doggett asks why she didn’t reveal her pregnancy, and Scully reluctantly responds that she was afraid that the FBI would take her off the X−Files. “Then I couldn’t find Mulder,” she says. Doggett comforts her, and promises that he will help her find Mulder. Scully thinks back again to the previous year, finding Mulder in her apartment. She tells him that the artificial insemination – her last chance to get pregnant – did not work. “Never give up on a miracle,” Mulder says, and gently kisses her forehead.

This Is Not Happening (1 of 2) Production Code: #8ABX14 Original Air Date: 02/25/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners DOGGETT CALLS ON ANOTHER AGENT TO ASSIST THE MULDER CASE, BUT SCULLY’S FEARS ABOUT FINDING HIM COME TO HEAD WITH THE SUDDEN RECOVERY OF ABDUCTEES SEIZED AT THE SAME TIME.

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speechless. The craft gets away before he can take its picture, and Richie yells “This is not happening!” in frustration to himself. He notices a man walking toward the spot where the spaceship landed and Richie calls out to him. As the man runs away, Richie follows, but he stumbles over a woman’s body lying naked on the ground. Back at the FBI, Doggett opens up a desk drawer to find Mulder’s nameplate inside. He is somewhat troubled, but is startled by Scully rushing in the office. He won’t tell her why he called her, but instead takes her up to Skinner. Both men are reluctant to tell Scully whatever news they are hiding. Skinner finally reveals that there was a UFO encounter in Montana and the man who reported it is Richie Szalay, whom Mulder and Scully met the previous spring in Oregon. “Are you trying to tell me this has something to do with Mulder?” she asks. Richie found Teresa Hoese, the woman abducted the same time as Mulder. She was returned, but she is barely alive. The agents travel to Montana to see Teresa. Her doctor describes her condition as if someone was performing torturous experiments. She has scars on her cheeks, and there is damage to her soft palette and abdomen, but there are no foreign implants in her body. Scully, Doggett and Skinner pay a visit to Richie, who had been trying to find his friend Gary. Gary was also abducted right before Mulder. Richie had followed UFO sightings to Montana where he came across the craft. Doggett shows Richie plaster castings of footprints from the scene. The prints are of Nike sneakers, and Doggett doubts that the man Richie saw was actually an alien. After the questioning, Scully confronts Doggett about his refusal to accept any explanations outside of the ordinary. Doggett says that she is the one who is afraid to confront the truth about what might have happened to Mulder. Mulder lies bound in the alien chair, but no experiments are being done. His body has decayed so much that he appears to be dead. Suddenly Scully awakes from her sleep and realizes that it was merely a nightmare. She knocks on Skinner’s motel room door, teary−eyed. “What if he’s dead?” she cries. Skinner tries to comfort her, assuring her that they still might find Mulder alive. Meanwhile, Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer last seen in #4X01, walks into the hospital wearing Nike sneakers. When a nurse approaches him, he immediately morphs into Teresa Hoese’s doctor and tells the nurse that he wants Teresa transferred. The phone wakes Scully in her motel room. She is notified about Teresa Hoese being moved. Scully meets Doggett and Skinner in the field where Teresa was found. Doggett asks that they listen to another point of view, and introduces them to Special Agent Monica Reyes, who is standing alone on a cliff, smoking. Doggett thinks Reyes has some expertise that might come in handy. Reyes explains

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that she has been briefed of the case and describes it as “interesting.” She characterizes Teresa’s injuries as similar to what has been found in cult abuse cases, wondering if perhaps there was some kind of abduction group of followers that Mulder got caught up with. Much to the consternation of Scully and Skinner, Doggett insists that they go after the cult leader. Based on a hunch, Reyes believes that Teresa was meant to be left alive. Scully walks away, telling Doggett that Reyes makes no sense, but Doggett insists that he will not go on a wild goose chase after another Alien Bounty Hunter. Meanwhile, a man named Absalom walks into a small boarding house where Jeremiah Smith is treating the ailing Teresa Hoese. Absalom watches as the alien healer places his hand over Teresa’s face. Her bruising magically disappears. In the hospital, Scully catches Reyes examining Teresa’s brain scans. Reyes admits that she is looking for alien implants. Scully questions why a disbeliever like her would be looking for such a thing. Reyes disputes the claim. “Let’s just say I don’t not believe,” Reyes says. “I try to stay open.” Reyes explains that she has certain spiritual notions, and although she doesn’t have any feelings about Mulder she does sense Scully’s fear. She advises Scully to try and stay open too. Later, Reyes drives along a Montana highway. Her car putters off and then immediately turns back on. She sees a bright light in the sky above her. “No freakin’ way,” she mutters and sets off after it. The light disappears over the mountain, and she sees Jeremiah Smith (wearing Nike sneakers) and Absalom pick up a body stranded in the field. Reyes pulls out her gun and orders them to halt. They manage to escape in a pickup truck, but Reyes sees another body lying on the ground. It is Gary Cory, Richie’s friend who was abducted in #7ABX22. Scully performs the autopsy on Gary, finding radial scarring on his ankles, wrist and face. This matches what she dreamed Mulder had been exposed to. Skinner and Doggett look on, but she becomes emotional and stops the autopsy. Richie is brought into the medical bay and is stunned by the sight of his friend’s body. Scully breaks down. Waiting outside, Doggett is approached by Reyes. She senses that he is hurting for his partner. Reyes compares this to a past case where they unsuccessfully looked for Doggett’s missing son. She believes that this is why Doggett is so determined to find Mulder. Reyes shows him a police wanted poster of Absalom, the man she saw in the field. He was the leader of a doomsday cult and the license plate on the pickup truck they were driving is registered to a nearby farm. At the farm, Jeremiah Smith orders Absalom to move the legion of followers out. “They’re coming,” he says. “You can’t let them find him.” Federal agents swarm the farm and round up the people. Skinner, Scully, Doggett and Reyes are among the

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SWAT team. They find Teresa Hoese, fully healed, in one of the beds. While interrogated by Doggett, Absalom says that he can’t explain why it happens. The spaceship drops off the injured abductees, and he comes to retrieve them with the sole purpose of helping them. Doggett doubts his intentions. Although there are cameras on the compound, there is no footage of Teresa being healed. Scully shows Absalom a photo of Mulder and asks if there is videotape of him. Absalom has no answer. That night, Scully returns to the motel, but the lights in her room do not work. She is amazed to see Mulder standing by the window of her room. Reyes approaches and the image of Mulder disappears. Reyes brings her to see tapes from the compound. Scully recognizes the other man on the tapes as Jeremiah Smith, the Alien Healer. On the videotape recorded during the FBI raid, Smith morphs into Agent Doggett. The agents return to the farm compound to look for Jeremiah Smith. Scully pulls out one unrecognizable man who is wearing the Nike sneakers and he morphs into Jeremiah Smith. He tells her that by exposing him she is putting abductees in danger. “Where’s Mulder?” she pleads with the healer, but before he can answer, Skinner asks her to come outside. “You must protect me,” Smith says to her. Skinner tells Scully that they found Mulder and she takes off for the field. Mulder is lying on the ground, dead. She runs back to get Jeremiah Smith for his healing powers, but the lights of a spacecraft shine overhead. The ship hovers over the compound and the other agents watch as the light radiates the building. Scully rushes into the room where she had just interrogated Smith. He is gone. Scully cries out in frustration and horror: “This is not happening!”

DeadAlive (2 of 2) Production Code: #8ABX15 Original Air Date: 04/01/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Tony Wharmby WHEN A FORMER ABDUCTEE AWAKENS FROM THE DEAD, SCULLY PINS HER HOPES ON RESURRECTING THE RECENTLY BURIED MULDER.

White snow covers the cemetery ground in Raleigh, NC as mourners gather for the funeral of Fox Mulder. Scully stares straight ahead, seemingly lost in her thoughts, surrounded by Skinner, Doggett, Kersh and the Lone Gunmen. She is unaware of the many stolen glances her way. Three months later, Doggett is called into Kersh’s office where Skinner is waiting. Doggett has been recommended for advancement and transfer off the X−Files, but Doggett asks for more time to consider such a move. He goes back down to the X−Files office where a noticeably pregnant Scully is poring

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over case files. She tells him to accept the transfer, noting that if he doesn’t get out now he may never get out at all. Although he has found Mulder, Doggett feels he still has more questions about the case and is reluctant to leave. Meanwhile, a fishing boat in Wilmington, NC catches sight of a body in the water. The body has scarring that is reminiscent of the alien tests. When a coroner goes to examine the body, he is astonished to see the dead man’s lips move. Skinner awakes Doggett to tell him that the body found in the water is Billy Miles, who was presumed dead for months and is now alive. Doggett advises Skinner not to relay this information to Scully. They go to the graveyard in Raleigh to unearth Mulder’s body. Scully runs into the US Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD distraught and full of wide−eyed emotion, demanding to see Mulder. “Tell me it’s true,” she pleads with Skinner. Although he has thin life signs and is clinically alive, Mulder’s body is in a full state of decomposition. Scully is teary as she approaches Mulder, and she rests her head on his chest as it rises and falls with each breath. She then goes into the hospital room of Billy Miles, whose body begins to convulse. The heart monitor briefly shows two heartbeats, and Scully notifies the nurse that the equipment may be malfunctioning. Kersh summons Doggett to his office and orders him to drop the Mulder investigation. Doggett is wary of his superior’s intentions. Walking down the FBI hallway, Skinner almost loses consciousness when the familiar black veins suddenly appear on his face and neck. He opens the elevator doors to find Krycek with the handheld device that controls the nanotechnology. “What do you want from me?” Skinner asks. Krycek says that he has the vaccine developed by Bill Mulder that will save Mulder’s life. “You found him and you don’t even know what you’ve got,” Krycek says elusively before leaving Skinner empty−handed. Meanwhile, Billy Miles wakes up in his hospital bed. He pulls out the life support tubing and, still bloated, walks into the shower. As the water covers him, his hardened skin peels off leaving a perfectly fine human body underneath. Down the hall, Scully sits with Mulder while Doggett conveys his concern about reopening this case. She wants to know the truth about what caused this to Mulder. Suddenly, a nurse interrupts them. A healthy Billy Miles is walking naked in the corridor, looking like a recently hatched chick. Doggett goes to see Absalom. “You ask for my help but you refuse to believe in me,” the alien healer says to the skeptical agent. Back at the hospital, Skinner looks in on Mulder but finds Krycek lurking in the corner. When Skinner asks for the vaccine, Krycek tells him he only has to make sure that Scully doesn’t come to term. Skinner refuses to sacrifice Scully’s baby, but considers the deal. Doggett passes Krycek in the hospital hallway, but doesn’t know who the man is. He stops to talk

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to Scully, who believes that Mulder was infected with a virus that transforms the body into an alien. Doggett notes that Absalom had said the same thing. They now believe that Billy Miles is somehow alien, and she asks Skinner to do whatever it takes to retrieve a vaccine. When Doggett returns to Mulder’s room, the door is locked. He finds Skinner has pulled out all the life support tubes, intending to kill Mulder. An enraged Doggett attacks Skinner, who admits that he couldn’t trust Krycek’s claims of a virus if it meant jeopardizing Scully. With gun drawn, Doggett takes off after Krycek in the parking garage. He latches on to Krycek’s moving car, grabbing for Krycek at the wheel, but lets go before the car narrowly escapes. Krycek puts the car in reverse and comes back. He holds up a vial and asks Doggett if he is looking for the vaccine to save Mulder. Doggett takes one step forward and Krycek drops the vial, splattering the brown−colored liquid on the ground. Doggett goes back upstairs and finds that Mulder was taken into the operating room. Dressed in scrubs and watching the procedure, Scully comes out to tell Doggett that they had been incubating the virus by keeping Mulder on life support. Skinner actually saved him when he pulled off the machines. She has faith that a course of anti−virals will work. Doggett is once again called to Kersh’s office where he gets sent back to work on the X−Files. In the recovery room, Scully takes Mulder’s hand and he flinches. His eyes flutter open. “Who are you?” he jokes. Scully laughs for the first time in a while and leans across his body, holding him. “Anybody miss me?” he says. Doggett sees this reunion through the window, and Scully looks up at him, not knowing what to say. Doggett relieves her of the trouble and walks away, alone.

Three Words Production Code: #8ABX18 Original Air Date: 04/08/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Tony Wharmby WRANGLING HIS WAY BACK ONTO AN X−FILE, MULDER GETS IN OVER HIS HEAD TRYING TO EXPOSE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF COLONIZATION.

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when she tells him that he is completely healthy and miraculously healed of whatever brain disorder he may have suffered. She takes him back to his apartment, which is still intact. “I don’t know if you’ll ever understand what it was like,” a visibly moved Scully acknowledges. Mulder, however, is still unsettled, not knowing how he fits in his newly restored life. Skinner and Doggett are summoned to Kersh’s office to be briefed about Mulder’s reinstatement to the X−Files. Because of Doggett’s success rate of arrests, Kersh is prepared to deny Mulder’s application. He orders the two to tell Mulder that he is off the X−Files. Doggett resists and Kersh threatens to shut down the X−Files altogether. Skinner and Scully come to Mulder’s apartment to bring him the bad news. Mulder first learns of Agent Doggett’s assignment to the X−Files and realizes that they have all become pawns in some larger conspiracy. He gets up to get dressed, telling Scully and Skinner, “For the first time, I feel like getting back to work.” At a Federal Correction Facility in West Virginia, a trusty brings Absalom a book entitled “The Coming Apocalypse.” Inside is a newspaper clipping about Howard Salt being killed when he jumped the White House gate. Later, as the prisoners work on a roadside gang, Absalom breaks away and escapes into the woods. That night, Doggett returns home to find Absalom waiting for him. Absalom checks the back of the agent’s neck for traces of reptilian− looking alien vertebrae. “You’re going to spread the word,” he tells Doggett before kidnapping him. From the FBI, Scully tries unsuccessfully to reach Doggett while Skinner briefs his task force on the hunt for Absalom. Skinner tells the agents that the man’s claims of alien invasion are to be taken seriously. He shows them a photo of the words “Fight the Future” scrawled on Absalom’s cell wall. Scully and Skinner find Mulder in the X−Files office. He has picked out Howard Salt’s face in an Absalom cult photo and informs them that Salt was a multiple abductee. Mulder is convinced that the man was killed for what he knew. Mulder and Scully sneak into the FBI Evidence Room to discover Howard Salt’s laptop computer has its entire memory filled with an encrypted program. Mulder removes the hard drive. With a gun taped to the small of his back, Doggett enters the Federal Statistics Center. Absalom’s hand is on the trigger. When passing the security guard, Doggett notices the x−ray scanner and warns Absalom that they will be stopped. Absalom pushes Doggett on, saying that he is looking for proof that aliens are “already here, among us.” Security guards quickly surround them, and Doggett is shocked when they shoot Absalom, nearly missing Doggett’s head. Later, when Doggett briefs Skinner on the previous events, Mulder bursts into the office. Doggett is about to introduce

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himself when Mulder attacks him. He blames Doggett for getting Absalom killed, suspecting that he is part of the conspiracy to hide the truth. At Scully’s apartment, the Lone Gunmen tap into Salt’s hard drive and unearth file directories from the Statistics Center. Fifteen minutes after Salt’s death, computer firewalls had gone up around the facility. Mulder is convinced that he is onto something in those files. However, even if they were to uncover a password, the firewalls would block them from opening the files. The pass code can only be used in the secured facility itself. Much to the consternation of Mulder, the Gunmen agree with Scully that they have hit a dead end. Meanwhile, Doggett secretly meets with his informant Knowle Rohrer (last seen in #8ABX08) to ask why Absalom was shot in cold blood. Doggett suspects that he was merely used to get the man killed. Rohrer tells him that there are three words he should know. Doggett meets Scully outside Mulder’s apartment, asking her to give Mulder information he has recently learned. Salt was carrying a diskette that he wanted to give to the President. The password on it contains three words: Fight the Future. Scully goes back into Mulder’s apartment but is hesitant to tell him what Doggett told her. She fears that he will get in over his head. Skinner rushes to Doggett’s house that night with urgent news about Mulder having some kind of password to access names tracked by the government. When Doggett admits to giving Scully the password, Skinner begins to question whose side Doggett is on. He is even more concerned because he can’t contact either Scully or Mulder. “You’re gonna have to trust me on this,” Doggett tells the Assistant Director and sets out after them alone. Doggett finds Scully outside the Statistics Center and orders her to leave. “I may have set you up,” he pleads. He runs inside to get Mulder out. The Gunmen, meanwhile, have bypassed the security system to allow Mulder access to the building undetected. They lead him into the databank and Mulder types the words “Fight the Future” in the computer. Doggett bangs on the glass door, but Mulder ignores him. “Your life’s in danger!” Doggett yells and blows out the window with his gun. Doubting Doggett’s intentions, Mulder says that he believes the government is using the census to protect aliens in hiding. Armed military troops storm the building, and Mulder accuses Doggett of setting him up. Doggett tries to convince him that really they have both been set up and are in danger. The Gunmen direct Mulder and Doggett toward an air duct in the ceiling, and they escape. Doggett again covertly meets with Rohrer and accuses the informant of manipulating him. “You need me worse than you know,” Rohrer says emphatically. He tells Doggett that the truth lies in the X−Files. An angry Doggett walks away. When

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Empedocles Production Code: #8ABX17 Original Air Date: 04/22/01 Written by Greg Walker Directed by Barry K. Thomas AGENT REYES ENLISTS MULDER’S HELP INVESTIGATING A KILLER’S CONNECTION TO THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF DOGGETT’S SON.

Mild−mannered Jeb Dukes gets fired from his job in New Orleans, while his boss, Gary Garber, apologizes profusely. Jeb calmly strolls out of the office and out on to the street where, coincidentally, he witnesses a police chase that ends in a fatal auto accident. Jeb stays back, but is approached by a man awash in flames from the burning wreckage. The man seemingly walks into Jeb’s body and then disappears. Suddenly, Jeb’s eyes turn flaming red. That night, Jeb enters his office building and goes right up to his boss. He lifts a gun and fires at Garber. Detective Franklin Potter is examining the crime scene when Agent Monica Reyes arrives. He shows her some artwork from Jeb Dukes’ desk, but Reyes tells him that it is merely the insert from a popular rock CD. She dismisses the case as being satanic− based. Yet when she sees the victim’s body, it appears to be charred from a fire. A second glance proves that it was only in her imagination. She is still unsettled by what she saw. Meanwhile, Mulder visits Scully and brings her a present. Before opening it, she doubles over in pain and Mulder rushes her to the hospital. Reyes calls Mulder on his cell phone, saying it is important she see him. Jeb Dukes sits alone in a motel room, staring in fear at his gun. He raises it to his own head, but it gets hot and burns his hand. His face suddenly crackles. He rips at his skin, revealing flames underneath. Mulder meets Reyes in an FBI file room. Showing him the file, Reyes asks if he is familiar with Doggett’s son’s case, which was the most emotional case she has ever worked on. When they found the boy, she had a vision of the body as ashes. Doggett also admitted to seeing the ashen body, but convinced himself that it meant nothing. Reyes once again saw the vision on a new case and senses that there is a reason for it happening a second time. At the hospital, Doggett checks in on a sleeping Scully. He envisions himself in a crime scene in a field, but a nurse enters the hospital room and shakes him out of it. Later, Mulder is in the FBI hallway when Doggett attacks him. “Stay out of my life!” he yells. Mulder tries to cool him down, saying that he was asked to investigate. Reyes approaches the men and

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explains about the recent case where she had a recurring vision similar to what they both saw in Luke Doggett’s case. A suspect in Luke’s case was killed in a car accident in New Orleans right outside of where the Jeb Dukes shooting took place. Doggett again warns her to leave it alone. Reyes goes to the home of Jeb’s sister, Katha Dukes, to plead for her help. Jeb calls Katha from South Carolina, claiming that someone else killed those people. A woman knocks on his phone booth door because she needs help with her flat tire. The next morning, Jeb wanders in a daze to a car pulled over with tire trouble. He is unaware of any events that may have taken place. He sees flames in the reflection of the car window, gets in and throws out the woman’s purse. When he pulls off, the tire iron falls to the side of the road. Scully awakes and sees Doggett in her hospital room. He asks her what changed her mind about not believing any of the paranormal on the X−Files. She admits to being afraid to believe. Suddenly Doggett sees a vision of Reyes in a field at the familiar crime scene. She is surrounded by sheriffs and looking at a body on the ground. Meanwhile, Reyes comes to Mulder in the X−Files office. He has found no connection to other cases with the same kind of visions. Reyes tells him he is wrong because she believes there are patterns. Doggett arrives at a crime scene in Spartanburg, SC where Mulder is waiting for him. Reyes’ case has another murder victim. Doggett’s reoccurring hallucination turns into reality when he sees her standing over a body, surrounded by sheriffs. He looks at the woman lying on the ground and tells Reyes that he does not see the ashen remains. Reyes is insistent that there are connections and that it may be a thread of evil. Mulder asks her to leave Doggett alone if the man really doesn’t see anything. Later, Mulder stops by the hospital to see Scully. She had a partial abruption in the uterus wall but she will be fine. He places his hand on her belly and they smile. Scully tells him that she likes Agent Reyes. Mulder is surprised. “You’re nothing at all alike.” “Neither are you and I,” Scully responds. He says that he can’t help Doggett if he doesn’t want to be helped. She is convinced that Doggett is worth the effort. Jeb Dukes is at his sister’s house. Although he claims he hasn’t committed any murders, Katha sees blood on his face and doesn’t believe him. Jeb asks her for help, but Katha’s fears deepen over the safety of her daughter. Doggett, meanwhile, submits to investigating the Jeb Dukes case when Monica enters the office. She wants him to be honest with himself about what he saw at the Spartanburg crime scene, but he says that feelings don’t solve crimes. “What are you scared of?” she asks. Reyes assures Doggett that he did everything he could to save his son. She receives a call from Katha who says that

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Vienen Production Code: #8ABX16 Original Air Date: 04/29/01 Written by Steven Maeda Directed by Rod Hardy MULDER AND DOGGETT ARE BEGRUDGINGLY THROWN TOGETHER TO INVESTIGATE SEVERAL DEATHS ABOARD AN OIL RIG, BUT MULDER IS CONVINCED THAT THE SHIP IS REALLY CARRYING THE ALIEN BLACK OIL.

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mess hall, Chief Bo Taylor goes to the Comm Shack to find De La Cruz smashing all the radio equipment. He notices the fallen engineer’s eyes have welled with the alien black oil. “Now you’ve gone and done it,” Bo says. His face lights up in a blinding white glow that overtakes his entire body. Simon screams in Spanish. Back at the FBI, Doggett finds Mulder rummaging through the X−File cabinets. Although he is no longer assigned to the office, Mulder believes that a recent death of an oilrig worker exposed to radiation is extraterrestrial−related. Scully calls Doggett to remind him that she is waiting with Kersh and an executive from Galpex Petroleum, who had come when contacted by Mulder. Kersh sends Doggett to the rig. When he arrives, Doggett is angry to see Mulder is already there. In Washington, Scully’s autopsy on Simon shows that he was infected with the black oil, but that his body had some sort of immunity to it. She tells Skinner that they need to evacuate the ship for Doggett’s safety, fearful that others may be infected. Scully shows the body to the Galpex executive and orders him to shut down the rig. She is alarmed when he chooses to bring the ship and its crew back to shore. Meanwhile, another sailor named Yuri notices that the radio on the boat is intercepting some strange frequency. Bo attacks Yuri and leaks the black oil on him. Scully tries to radio Doggett on the oilrig and is surprised when Mulder answers. Doggett orders quarantine from a possible contagion, and Mulder finds that there is one man missing from the ship’s manifest. While Mulder and Doggett go out looking for this man, Diego Garza, Doggett attempts to wrestle control of the investigation, and demands to know what the crew might possibly be protecting. Mulder admits to having seen the alien black oil substance. He also believes that the Galpex executive was lying to the FBI because the ship’s crew has already drilled the oil that the ship was supposedly looking for. Suddenly, an alarm goes off and the agents see a fire in the Comm Shack. Mulder comes upon the remnants of a molotov cocktail in the Comm Shack, and he is convinced that the fire was set purposefully. Doggett runs to seek another extinguisher and gets pelted over the head by the hiding Diego Garza. Garza slices Doggett’s arm and is relieved that the agent’s blood is indeed red. He tells Doggett in Spanish that the “flying ships” are coming. Despite Scully’s pleas, Kersh orders the quarantine to be lifted as soon as radio transmission is renewed. In her autopsy, Scully realizes that De La Cruz’s Mexican Indian background may have caused his immunity to the alien virus. The crew probably irradiated him because he knew something, and they could not control him. Doggett convinces Garza that he can help him get off the ship without the crew finding out. Looking for Garza himself is Bo, who attacks

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Doggett. The chief is about to infect Doggett with the black oil when Mulder saves him. The agents lock themselves in the Comm Shack and try to fix the radio as the black oil infected crew bangs on the door. Mulder holds them off, and Doggett somehow fixes the radio. Scully is waiting on the other end of the transmission to tell them that choppers are on the way. Doggett says that he, Mulder and Garza are the only ones not infected, so the helicopter should not land on the ship. Suddenly, Mulder smashes the radio. Doggett isn’t sure if he too is infected, but Mulder explains that the radio is actually making contact with the mother ship. Mysteriously, the crew stops banging on the door. Doggett goes back to find Garza after promising the man he would help him. Garza is dead, charred from radiation. The crew begins to demolish the rig, and Mulder and Doggett run to escape the fires. The agents get to the side of the rig and see the helicopter in the distance. The pilot is mouthing something to them, and they think they’re being told to jump. As the rig explodes, Mulder and Doggett leap off into the water. In Washington, Mulder is in the X−Files office when Doggett enters. Galpex still intends to keep drilling, and Doggett is prepared to take responsibility for the mishandled case. Yet Mulder says that he has been fired from the FBI, taking the fall for both Doggett and the X−Files. “You’ve seen it,” Mulder says, urging Doggett to prevent any more drilling. Whereas on the oilrig, Doggett wanted Mulder off the case, now he tries to convince him to stay. Mulder leaves the office, telling Doggett “You’re in charge here now.”

Alone Production Code: #8ABX19 Original Air Date: 05/06/01 Written and Directed by Frank Spotnitz TEAMED WITH A NEW PARTNER WHILE SCULLY’S ON MATERNITY LEAVE, DOGGETT INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO MEN. AFTER HE DISAPPEARS AS WELL, MULDER DEFIES ORDERS AND SEARCHES FOR HIM.

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over the past year. She exits the office. Moments later, Agent Leyla Harrison enters, having been assigned to partner with Doggett on the X−Files during Scully’s leave. Harrison, a fan of Mulder and Scully’s work, is excited about being on an actual X−File and accompanies Doggett in examining the crime scene at the Sacks’ home. There are some remnants of slime in the home and near where Arlen’s body was found. Based on her study of Mulder and Scully’s past cases, Harrison immediately jumps to otherworldly conclusions about the nature of the slime. Doggett shoots down her theories. Doggett wanders alone toward a deserted mansion near the crime scene, and after entering, finds a book on the Sixth Extinction on a desk. He hears a noise and pulls out his gun, only to find Agent Harrison. He tells her that “it” is here and orders her to wait outside. Gunshots ring outside, and he looks for Agent Harrison, but she has disappeared. He goes into the nearby woods and accidentally falls through a trap door on the ground. He finds himself in some sort of underground wine cellar. Mulder assists Scully in going to her Lamaze class. She admits to feeling like she has deserted her work. Mulder assures her that Doggett can take care of himself. Skinner, meanwhile, leads a pack of agents to search for Doggett. Scully is worried, and expresses a desire to go back to work to help the search. She performs an autopsy on Arlen Sacks’ body and discovers that the slime on his body is actually venom that has been excreted by a reptile. Mulder tries to convince her to stop working as he steps in to conduct his own investigation. In the underground lair, Doggett is wondering what to make of an amber−colored shell of a dog when he sees something quickly move past him. A giant, snake−like creature attacks him and sprays venom in his eyes. With his sight impaired, Doggett shoots blindly at the creature, and it manages to get away. Harrison hears his gunshots and finds Doggett. Her eyes are also affected, but she brings him to the sickly body of Gary Sacks. Mulder arrives at the crime scene where Skinner is redirecting the search farther away. Mulder, no longer an FBI agent, takes off into the woods on his own and comes upon the mansion. He sees something in the brush and picks it up, but is startled by Herman Stites who claims to own the property. Mulder asks him if he has seen a reptile and the man bristles at any accusations. Mulder walks away and misses Doggett, who has climbed up to a grating and is calling out to Stites from below. “I need a hand,” he begs Stites, who ignores the plea. Stites steps on Doggett’s outstretched hand, and the agent falls back down in the cellar. Doggett and Harrison hear Stites seal the trap door closed. They then realize that Gary Sacks’ body is gone.

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Scully calls Mulder to tell him that Skinner is angry that he is tampering with a federal investigation. Mulder believes that it may be a man and not a reptile that they are looking for. He found the Apollo medallion and believes that Doggett is probably still nearby and that Stites is somehow involved. Doggett and Harrison blindly walk through the tunnel in the cellar. She fears that she is afflicted with the same thing as Sacks, because she has become completely blind. The creature appears once again and Doggett wildly shoots at it, but it gets away. Harrison finds Sacks’ body. It has deteriorated even more. Mulder sits in his car near the mansion, waiting. Scully discovers that the venom hardens the body’s skin to form a shell. Then, its organs liquefy. She tells Mulder that Stites had been working on creating a new species of reptile. Mulder takes off after something moving in the woods. He watches as a human−sized reptile climbs up the house and into the window of the mansion. As Mulder bangs on the front door, he does not see the creature morph into Stites. Mulder confronts Stites, and Stites brings him into the underground wine cellar. There, Mulder sees Doggett and Harrison, who senses that Stites is really the creature. Suddenly, Stites disappears and the creature crawls along the ceiling. Without an issued gun, Mulder orders a blinded Doggett to shoot at the monster, but Doggett can’t see what he’s shooting at. Mulder demands that Doggett aim for the sound of his own voice. Although Doggett is hesitant about firing towards Mulder, he shoots and hits the creature. It transforms into Herman Stites, who lies there dead. At the hospital, a healed Doggett checks in on Harrison. She will not return to the X−Files. Mulder hands Doggett the Apollo medallion, but he asks that they give it to Agent Harrison. Mulder and Scully visit with Harrison, who asks them about a past investigation. As they reminisce with the agent, Doggett walks away down the long hallway, heading back to work – alone.

Essence (1 of 2) Production Code: #8ABX20 Original Air Date: 05/20/01 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners A SECRETIVE INVESTIGATION BY MULDER AND DOGGETT LEADS TO NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT THE NATURE OF SCULLY’S PREGNANCY AND THE PLOT AGAINST HER UNBORN CHILD.

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reluctant Scully. During the party, Lizzy goes into the bathroom undetected. She opens one of Scully’s prescription bottles and dumps its contents down the toilet. Then she removes a packet of pills from her pocket and pours them into the bottle. Dr. Lev (last seen in #8ABX08) is working late at night in the Zeus Genetics lab, clutching an alien baby when Billy Miles (last seen in #8ABX15) enters. “Your work here is done,” Billy says. He beheads the doctor with his hand and sets fire to the body. The next day, Doggett is home when Mulder pays him a surprise visit. He shows Doggett a news report on television of a fire at Zeus Genetics. Mulder believes that somebody is covering up whatever was going on in that lab, and Doggett sends Agent Crane to sift through the ashes at the crime scene. The only person not accounted for is Dr. Lev, a partner in Zeus with Dr. Parenti, Scully’s former obstetrician. Mulder and Doggett break into Parenti’s office and are surprised to see the doctor there. When Doggett finds racks of specimen jars with abnormal fetuses, Mulder accuses the doctor of experimenting with alien embryos. Lizzy Gill leaves Scully’s apartment and is picked up by Duffy Haskell, who was last seen in #8ABX08 as part of the conspiracy surrounding implanting alien fetuses into abducted women. “I think she trusts me,” Lizzy tells him. In his office, Dr. Parenti packs up the specimen jars when he hears someone come in. It is Billy Miles. Parenti tells him that the office is closed. “Yes, it is,” Billy says calmly. Mulder and Doggett sneak into Parenti’s office in the middle of the night, suspecting foul play when the doctor does not answer their calls. Amid the fetuses, Doggett finds the head of Dr. Parenti in a specimen jar. Suddenly, Billy Miles surprises Mulder and throws him through a glass window. Doggett, seeing the alien vertebrae on Billy, shoots at him but Billy escapes. Later, Scully tends to Mulder’s injured head at her apartment. He tries to explain that Billy has transformed into an alien, but that he himself was somehow prevented from this through Scully’s procedure in the hospital. Yet Billy is no ordinary alien, because Doggett saw red blood when he shot at him. Mulder determines that Billy is now a hybrid, and fears for the safety of Scully’s baby. Lizzy, overhearing their conversation, phones Duffy. Duffy, however, is face−to−face with Billy Miles, and the alien slices off Duffy’s head with one clean chop of his hand. Duffy’s body is found in an illegal medical facility used for cloning. There, Skinner locates prenatal records on Scully, as monitored by Dr. Lev and Dr. Parenti. Skinner takes Mulder aside and asks about the nature of Scully’s conception, but Mulder, surprisingly, doesn’t have any answers. Mulder calls Scully and says it is important that he immediately see her regarding interference with her pregnancy. Yet she hears a noise in her apartment and catches Lizzy tampering with her prescription bottle. “Who

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are you?” she demands. Later, after a checkup, the doctor assures Scully that the pills she had been taking were only harmless vitamin supplements. Doggett interrogates Lizzy, who recounts how she worked as a research scientist on human cloning. Her research team had been successful at birthing an alien egg in a human mother. Mulder is outraged. “What did you do to Scully?” he screams. Lizzy tells them that there is nothing wrong with Scully’s child. In fact, it is perfectly human, and she had tried to protect it. Agent Crane informs Doggett that Billy Miles phoned in and offered to give himself up. A SWAT team storms Dr. Parenti’s office, but Billy is not there. Sensing danger, Mulder orders Scully to quickly pack and leave her apartment. Doggett calls with news of Billy’s disappearance, and mysteriously, the lights go off in Scully’s apartment. Billy misses Mulder and Scully as they escape outside. Their car, however, is blocked in, and the approaching Billy Miles traps them like sitting ducks. Suddenly, another car screeches from out of nowhere and plows over Billy. Mulder and Scully watch in shock as its driver – Krycek – orders them to get in. Billy Miles gets up, unhurt, and watches the car speed off. At the FBI, Krycek informs the assembled agents that the aliens are afraid of Scully’s child because it is greater than they are. Doggett is suspicious of Krycek and calls Agent Monica Reyes, who has flown into Washington, for help. Skinner and Mulder take Scully into the elevator, but as they approach the garage, Doggett calls to say that Billy Miles is down there. They put Scully back in the elevator, and Billy goes up the stairs. Krycek takes Scully while Skinner and Mulder proceed in the elevator, with Billy in pursuit. Doggett puts Scully in a car with Reyes. On the roof, Billy is about to strike Skinner when Mulder comes up from behind to push Billy off the roof. He lands in a garbage truck and its compactor crushes him. As Scully and Reyes speed out of the garage, Agent Crane blocks their path. He watches as the garbage truck rids of Billy, and then waves the women safely by. They do not see that Agent Crane too has the alien vertebrae on his neck.

Existence (2 of 2) Production Code: #8ABX21 Original Air Date: 05/27/01 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners WITH OTHERWORLDLY FACTIONS IN PURSUIT, MULDER AND THE AGENTS RACE TO SAFEGUARD THE BIRTH OF SCULLY’S CHILD.

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thinking it is most likely trash, places it on a nearby lab tray. He leaves the office with plans to continue the autopsy in the morning. The metal magically spins on the tray and reproduces itself, progressively growing larger. At the FBI, Mulder produces a video grab of a healthy and re−formed Billy Miles walking out of the morgue the previous night. Krycek explains to Skinner and Doggett that Billy is a human replacement – a new kind of alien created to repopulate the planet. Although Billy may not find the hiding Scully, Krycek warns that others like him will. Agent Crane interrupts to tell Doggett that Knowle Rohrer is in the building to see him. Rohrer fabricates a story to Doggett that his investigation is military in nature and stemmed from a plan to create a super soldier. He explains that Billy is a prototype who is now after Scully because she was abducted by the military and impregnated with such a prototype. The chip in her neck was used to monitor her. When Rohrer asks where Scully is, Doggett claims ignorance. Meanwhile, Billy Miles enters the FBI hallway, unnoticed by everyone but Krycek. When Krycek bolts out of Skinner’s office, Skinner follows him into an elevator to flee Billy. As the doors shut out Billy, his hand penetrates the metal and goes straight into the elevator chamber. Billy swings his arm and cuts into the top of Skinner’s head, which knocks out the A.D. While Skinner later recuperates in the hospital with a concussion, Doggett tells Mulder that his informant Rohrer tipped him off that this would happen. Doggett is concerned that his knowledge of Scully’s whereabouts may eventually catch up with him. Scully and Reyes drive through the night into Democrat Hot Springs, Georgia. Although it was once the city where Doggett was born, it is now a deserted ghost town. They set up camp in an abandoned house of worship that has no running water. That evening, Reyes goes outside to have a nerve−settling cigarette, when a light in the sky catches her eye. While too low and bright to be a star, it is unidentifiable. She ignores it and goes back inside. Seeing the newly cleaned building, Scully thanks Reyes for her kindness and tells the agent that she reminds her of her late sister, Melissa. Reyes sees someone lurking outside and draws her gun. A truck driven by a female game warden comes barreling toward her. The agents explain that Scully’s life is in danger and that they are in hiding. The warden kindly gives them her first aid kit and a camp stove before leaving. Reyes admits to Scully that her vibrations are inclining that “something feels off” about the abandoned place. When she goes outside to get more water, she again sees the light in the distant sky. While she is watching it, Billy Miles appears and throws her against a wall. Before he can attack her, a gunshot blows a hole through his chest. The game warden stands aside, her rifle still smoking. Reyes sees the

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men who were presumed dead – Crane and Rohrer. Later, Mulder comes to Scully’s apartment where the Lone Gunmen are bearing gifts. They learned from Doggett that he never told Mulder exactly where to find Scully. “There was a light. I followed it,” Mulder says. The Gunmen depart, and Scully shows Mulder the baby, whom she named William, after Mulder’s father. Although the baby is completely human, they comment that he is still a miracle. Mulder believes that the aliens did not take him because they thought he would be otherwise. “I think we feared the possibility,” he tells Scully. “The truth we both know.” And as he cradles their son, he leans in and kisses her.

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Nothing Important Happened Today (1 of 2) Production Code: #9ABX01 Original Air Date: 11/11/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners WHILE FORCES INSIDE THE ESTABLISHMENT ATTEMPT TO STIFLE THEM, THE AGENTS FIND A CONNECTION TO THEIR CASE WITH SUSPICIOUS MURDERS RELATED TO WATER.

Carl Wormus drinks alone at a bar in Baltimore, MD. He notices a dark−haired woman in a low−cut dress walk in, and he approaches her. They get into a discussion about the ice in his drink. As a water expert, he knows that the government−added Chloramine in the water is actually not as healthy as has been reported. Intrigued, the woman entices him into leaving, and they drive off in his convertible. He slows down at an opening drawbridge, but the woman clamps down on his right leg, forcing his foot on the accelerator. The car flies off the open bridge and plunges into the Potomac River. Deep underwater, Wormus wiggles out of his seatbelt and begins to swim to the surface. The woman is lifeless next to him. Suddenly, the woman opens her eyes, grabs his ankle and pulls him deeper under the water. Two days later, Scully calms the crying William. She looks uneasily at Mulder’s packed bags in her apartment, and shuts the bathroom door so that he does not hear the baby. Doggett, meanwhile, prepares for work as the television news reports the death of Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Carl Wormus. The man was found dead and alone in his car under the water. At the FBI, Doggett shares an elevator with Kersh. The Deputy Director smugly asks if he has found any incriminating evidence against him. A ringing phone awakens Reyes in her Washington hotel. FBI Assistant Director Brad

Follmer greets her warmly and asks her to stop by his office. When she arrives, he plants a firm kiss on her mouth. Reyes pulls away. Although they have not seen each other in years, they had previously been involved in a romantic relationship while working at the Bureau’s New York office. He gives her videotape from the security camera in the Hoover Building garage. Although the date stamp is the same night Scully gave birth, the garage is empty. Doggett and Skinner are not seen defending their lives against Knowle Rohrer, nor is Rohrer’s exploding car in the garage. Reyes tells Doggett that no scrap of evidence even remains at the crime scene, which means that they no longer have a case. Doggett goes to seek the advice of Mulder, but his apartment has been cleaned out. Scully tells him that Mulder is gone. Back at the FBI, Skinner and Reyes find no traces of Mulder, and Doggett suspects that perhaps someone got to him. With no credible evidence, Skinner asks Doggett to drop the case against Kersh and the FBI. Doggett accuses the A.D. of backing down under pressure, but Skinner only fears for the safety of Mulder, Scully and their baby. Doggett and Reyes must continue their investigation alone, without Skinner’s help. At the Greater Maryland Water Reclamation Facility, worker Roland McFarland places a call to a naval ship after reading about Wormus’ death. The dark−haired woman from the bar inexplicably swims up in one of the tanks. Before McFarland can speak into the phone, he notices the woman walk through the plant naked and he follows her tracks. She surprises him from behind, pulls him into a tank and drowns him. Reyes meets with A.D. Follmer at the bar in Maryland. She informs him that Doggett’s investigation has been dropped. Showing feelings for her, Follmer is interested in keeping Reyes assigned to the X−Files in Washington. Doggett, meanwhile, tries to appeal to Scully. He is unsure why she won’t trust him, but she does not reveal anything about Mulder. Doggett returns to his apartment and tries to contact some of his old Marine buddies that were in his squadron with Rohrer. No one has information on Rohrer’s activities after the military. One of them, Shannon McMahon, is the mysterious dark−haired woman. Reyes sees McMahon in the FBI hallway. She senses something, but ignores her intuition. In the X−Files office, Reyes hears someone creeping outside the door. The person disappears into the elevator, but leaves behind a folder with Wormus’ obituary inside. Scully puts William down for a nap, and the mobile over his bassinet eerily moves on its own. Scared, she phones Doggett and asks him not to drop his investigation. He and Reyes summon her to Quantico to perform an autopsy on Wormus’ body. Scully finds fingerprints on Wormus’ ankle, as if someone had been holding him down. Doggett has the Lone Gunmen hack into Wormus’ files, but all

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they recover are reports on water. Follmer briefs Kersh on Doggett’s investigation, and he asks the Deputy Director for swift punishment. Kersh, however, puts the burden on Follmer to reprimand Doggett. While Mrs. Scully watches William, Shannon McMahon comes looking for Scully. Mrs. Scully refrains from opening the door, and McMahon vanishes without leaving her name. As Scully and Reyes leave the morgue at Quantico late that night, they see McMahon. Reyes is suspicious, but McMahon disappears. The two agents are surprised by the arrival of Follmer, who swarms the Quantico morgue with a team of agents. He tells Reyes that he is trying to uphold her reputation in the face of Doggett’s career−ending investigation. However, when they enter the autopsy bay, Wormus’ body is gone. Reyes pretends that there never was a body, and she accuses Follmer of sending her the obituary to throw them on a wild goose chase. Reyes goes to Doggett’s apartment, and the Lone Gunmen show her Wormus’ encrypted e−mails from Roland McFarland. That same night, Doggett and Skinner go to the Maryland water plant and rifle through McFarland’s desk. They find a number of files labeled “Chloramine.” Follmer and his crew approach, so Doggett grabs the files, and he and Skinner run out. Follmer chases them, catching Skinner. Doggett hides underwater in one of the tanks, holding his breath. Suddenly, McMahon swims up from below and grabs Doggett’s ankle. She pulls him farther down into the tank.

Nothing Important Happened Today II (2 of 2) Production Code: #9ABX02 Original Air Date: 11/18/01 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Tony Wharmby SCULLY UNOFFICIALLY ASSISTS DOGGETT AND REYES IN UNCOVERING THE SECRETS RELATING TO WATER CONTAMINATION THAT ARE HIDDEN IN A CLANDESTINE LABORATORY ON BOARD A NAVAL SHIP.

A naval captain on a vintage World War II Merchant marine vessel passes through a sequence of tight security checkpoints. He approaches a door that hides a science lab where cells are being manipulated. Dr. Nordlinger opens the door to receive the Captain’s communiqué, but he is somewhat unsettled by the note’s request. The Captain returns to his bridge and orders Petty Office Bamford to bring the ship to shore. At the Greater Maryland Water Reclamation Plant, Follmer does not see Doggett, getting pulled further into the water tank by a naked Shannon McMahon. When Follmer is out of view, McMahon places her mouth over Doggett’s to blow air into his

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lungs. The next morning, Reyes and Skinner are summoned to Follmer’s office. They are being reined in on the X−File case they are pursuing. Follmer warns Reyes to distance herself from Doggett to save her career, but she accuses Follmer of having his own agenda against her partner. Doggett, meanwhile, wakes up in his bed, alive. McMahon is in his apartment. She tells him that she and Knowle Rohrer were both transformed into “Super Soldiers” who can’t be killed. Although they were the original experiments, the program has since expanded to produce many more of their kind. She, however, hates what she has become, and she asks Doggett for help in exposing the men who are altering the water supply. Skinner asks Scully why she is getting herself mixed up in Doggett’s investigation when she was the one who specifically requested that Skinner let it lie. She admits that something unexplainable happened with her baby. She is afraid to tell Mulder, because he will want to come back, and that will place him in danger. Doggett and Reyes call Scully to Doggett’s apartment. McMahon explains to her that a chemical called chloramine has been added to public water supplies. Although the substance is usually harmless, the molecular structure of this chloramine has been altered to promote the mutation of offspring. This mutation will breed a generation of Super Soldiers. Scully is at first hesitant to accept the woman’s claims, but then she sees the familiar reptilian ridge at the top of McMahon’s spine. However, a medical examination shows that McMahon is, by all accounts, a normal human being. After waiting at the Baltimore port with no word from his superiors, the Captain unsuccessfully tries to contact Carl Wormus at the Environmental Protection Agency. He then finds that Officer Bamford has been replaced – by the presumed deceased Knowle Rohrer. Bamford’s body is found floating nearby. Meanwhile, Follmer suspends Doggett from the FBI, and Doggett lashes out at both Follmer and Deputy Director Kersh over a turf war for the X−Files. The Lone Gunmen show Reyes that they have tapped into the EPA’s phone system and found calls to Carl Wormus. The calls were made after the man drowned. As they flip open their laptop, another call comes in, and Frohike answers as Wormus. It is the Captain, instructing Wormus to notify the FBI about the lab on board his ship. As the Captain asks for Wormus’ help in exposing the inhumanity, Rohrer uses his extrasensory hearing to listen to the conversation from far away. After finding that McMahon works for the Justice Department, Reyes pleads with Follmer to obtain the woman’s files. She then reports to Doggett and Scully that McMahon is not to be trusted. The two men she killed were actually trying to expose the water contamination program. McMahon is using

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Doggett to get to the third whistleblower – the Captain. The three agents go down to the Baltimore docks to meet the Captain, but they find Knowle Rohrer instead. Scully and Reyes run off while Doggett tries to defend himself against the Super Soldier. Rohrer is about to kill Doggett, when McMahon appears and slices off Rohrer’s head. Suddenly, Rohrer’s bloodied hand rips through her torso, and she and Rohrer’s headless body both fall off the pier into the water. Doggett goes onto the ship with Scully and Reyes in search of the Captain. They see the Captain’s decapitated head on the ground, but the ship is otherwise empty. Doggett stumbles upon an already detonated bomb, and he hurriedly gathers up Reyes and Scully in the ship’s lab. Scully is reluctant to leave when she sees that whoever was on the boat was manipulating ova for transplantation. Doggett forcibly pulls her out before the ship explodes. Two days later, Kersh reads Doggett’s report on the case. Although he accounts for Super Soldiers, a naval ship and a conspiracy in the government, he does not mention Kersh in the investigation. Doggett admits that he could not find any wrongdoing on the Deputy Director’s part, but he knows that his hands are indeed dirty. Kersh tells Doggett that he warned Mulder to leave to protect his life. Knowing that Mulder wouldn’t leave only on Kersh’s recommendation, Doggett realizes that Scully was the one who pushed Mulder to go. Under the dark water, Shannon McMahon’s body lays at the bottom the ocean. Although she appears to be lifeless, her eyes pop open. Scully is woken by William’s cries, and she soothes him back to sleep. When she turns out the light to go back to bed, the mobile over his crib slowly turns on its own.

Dæmonicus Production Code: #9ABX03 Original Air Date: 12/02/01 Written and Directed by Frank Spotnitz WITH SCULLY REASSIGNED TO THE QUANTICO TRAINING ACADEMY, DOGGETT AND REYES INVESTIGATE THEIR FIRST X−FILE TOGETHER – A SERIES OF SATANIC RITUAL MURDERS WHOSE VICTIMS MAY INCLUDE THE AGENTS THEMSELVES.

A pickup truck parks unnoticed outside Evelyn and Darren Mountjoy’s house, while the couple plays Scrabble inside. When the Mountjoy’s dog barks at the front door, Evelyn lets it out to run into the woods. They hear the dog’s yelping outside, and the lights mysteriously go out. Darren orders his wife to hide in the basement while he loads his revolver. From the stairs, he sees the intruder approaching, and he fires. However, Darren soon realizes that the person he shot is his wife. Her hands and mouth are bound with duct tape. Suddenly, strange sounds rise

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behind him. They are voices, whispering backwards. Darren turns to see two men with demonic−looking faces coming towards him. The next morning, Agents Reyes and Doggett look over the crime scene at the Mountjoy home in Weston, West Virginia. The couple’s bodies are sitting upright at the kitchen table, and Evelyn has a gun posed in her hand. The Scrabble board is laid out in front of them, blank, except for “DAEMONICUS” spelled out in the center. The word means “Satan” or “demon possession.” Doggett tries to fend the case off as merely some kind of Satanic ritual, but Reyes has other ideas beyond those based in reality. Her theories are confounded when three blood−slicked snakes squirm out of the bullet holes in Evelyn’s chest. Although Scully is on leave and serving as an instructor at Quantico, the agents ask her to perform the autopsies. Evidence proves that Darren was most likely tricked into shooting his wife, and that he was held down and shot in a chair. The snakes were sewn into the body post−mortem. The facts show that the murders were man−made, but Reyes still believes that she felt the presence of evil in the house. With a lead about an escapee from a nearby mental institution, Reyes and Doggett question Dr. Monique Sampson about her patient, Kenneth Richman. Richman was a doctor who brutally murdered his own patients, but he had no prior knowledge of Satanic ritual. Dr. Sampson tips them off to a possible accomplice – Paul Gerlach, a hospital guard who has recently gone missing. Reyes and Doggett question Josef Kobold, a former professor who is now an inmate in the cell next to Richman’s. Kobold’s cryptic answers lead the agents to believe that he knows more than he is letting on. Meanwhile, the two demonic−appearing men from the Mountjoy attacks get out of their pickup truck in the woods. One shoots the other with a gun, then wipes the blood from his hands. The backwards whispers echo once more, but seem to be coming instead from Kobold. Dr. Sampson summons the agents back to the institution when Kobold asks for Doggett. The professor was also repeating the phrase, “Prince of the Apostles.” Kobold tells them that “He” is speaking and has killed again. He leads the agents to the woods, where Paul Gerlach’s body is found hanging upside down from a tree. He is wearing the demon mask and is staged in a mock−crucifixion pose, presumably put into such post−mortem. The “Prince of the Apostles” phrase refers to St. Peter, who was crucified upside down. This is known as the symbol marking the power of the anti−Christ. Although Doggett believes Kobold is a master manipulator toying with them, Reyes is convinced that Kobold can somehow help them find the real perpetrator – Richman. They turn to Kobold again, and he requests a larger cell with windows. Doggett is frustrated that Reyes wants to give in to the

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psychopath’s every whim, but Kobold is moved to another room, and Officer Custer is assigned to guard him. Kobold confronts Doggett with personal intimations about his own life that no one else would know. Doggett is uncomfortable, but before he can leave the cell room, Kobold’s eyes roll back and a strange sound emanates from his mouth – voices, whispering backwards. Doggett calls for Reyes, who translates the word as “medicus,” or physician. The agents rush to the home of Dr. Sampson, who unbeknownst to anyone, has been followed home by the looming pickup truck. However, they are too late to save her, finding her body with a dozen hypodermic needles jammed into her face. Scully reports that the needles contained the same medication that Dr. Sampson had treated Richman with, and he is determined to still be a suspect. Doggett furiously looks over at Kobold, held in restraints, knowing that he is really the one responsible for the crimes. Kobold watches as Scully tries to calm Doggett. The backwards whispers swell once more. Back at the mental institution, Doggett attempts to interrogate Kobold about his past knowledge of Satanism. Kobold lobs back insinuations that Doggett is competing with the long−lost Agent Mulder for Scully’s affection. Angrily, Doggett grabs hold of Kobold, but a thick orange goo violently spews from Kobold’s mouth. It keeps gushing uncontrollably as Doggett calls for a medic. After an examination, Scully concludes that Kobold is completely normal. Reyes suspects that the orange bile is spiritual ectoplasm, but Doggett won’t be swayed by any more unexplainable theories. He is convinced that Kobold is a liar who is playing games with them. As Officer Custer guards Kobold’s room, a lightning storm competes with the ever−present whispers. Custer is drawn to the source of those whispers, and looks in Kobold’s room. Kobold’s face suddenly changes into the demonic mask. Doggett calls Scully in her car. Kobold has identified something called “Happy Landing” as the place to find Richman. Scully recognizes it as an old marina she passes on her commute to Quantico, and she heads there alone. At the marina, Scully is attacked by a demon mask−wearing man. When Doggett and Reyes arrive with a pack of troopers, Scully is nowhere to be found. Kobold is held in shackles in a police car, and Doggett threatens him to tell where she is being hidden. All the professor can say is “Game’s over, Mr. Doggett. You’ve lost.” A gunshot rings out over the marina, and the agents find Scully unharmed, in an abandoned warehouse. Richman, having held her at gunpoint until Doggett arrived, shot himself. Reyes can’t figure out why he would do that, but Doggett quickly understands, and he runs after Kobold, who is escaping from the

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police car. Doggett shoots at the fleeing prisoner, and Kobold, hit, falls into the water. Back at Quantico, Reyes and Doggett tell Scully that their case is not completely solved. It is understood that Kobold designed the crimes so that they would be on the case, and then researched all of their backgrounds on the internet. However, Kobold’s body has not been found, even though they saw him get shot. The body in the water is actually Officer Custer, the guard assigned to his cell. Kobold had selected his victims so that parts of their names spelled out the word “Daemonicus.” He wanted the agents to see how brilliantly he could beat them at his game. By the time they realized it, Kobold would be too far away to get caught. Reyes is still unsettled. She did feel the presence of evil and believes that Doggett had the same premonition as well.

4-D Production Code: #9ABX05 Original Air Date: 12/09/01 Written by Steven Maeda Directed by Tony Wharmby A VICIOUS MURDERER THREATENS DOGGETT AND REYES, OR DOES HE? THE ONLY THING CERTAIN IS THAT HE’S ONE STEP AHEAD OF EVERYONE ELSE.

Erwin Lukesh enters his apartment building foyer, while Reyes fiddles with the derailleur of a bicycle in the hallway. This is a stakeout being recorded by a hidden camera, as Doggett and Follmer watch from a surveillance van nearby. Lukesh is a wanted killer who removes women’s tongues. This makes Doggett nervous for Reyes’ safety. In order to positively ID Lukesh, the agents wait for him to open the mailbox for Apartment 4−D. Doggett, however, is eager to nab him sooner. Lukesh senses that something is not right, and he moves away from the mailboxes. Reyes takes out her gun and begins to follow him, talking to the agents in the van as she heads into a stairwell. Suddenly, Lukesh appears and slashes a straight razor at her. Doggett and Follmer bolt out of the van when they hear Reyes’ screams. They find her throat cut, and Doggett goes to apprehend Lukesh. Follmer warns him that the killer has Reyes’ gun. Doggett goes outside into a dead−end alley and corners Lukesh, who calmly raises his bloody hands in surrender. Police cars approach from behind, and Doggett turns slightly to let them know his location. When he turns back, Lukesh has disappeared. Doggett walks forward into the dead−end alley. The police cars have vanished, and Lukesh is now behind him. He holds Reyes’ gun pointed at Doggett’s head. When Doggett swerves around, Lukesh fires. Reyes, unharmed, unpacks boxes as she moves into her new apartment. Doggett pays her a visit.

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He is also unharmed, and he has brought her a housewarming gift – polish sausage sandwiches from a nearby stand. Reyes goes into the kitchen to get plates, and her phone rings. It is Skinner, with news that Doggett has been shot in an alley. Reyes is confused when she sees that Doggett is no longer in her apartment. Follmer and Scully meet Reyes at the hospital. She is convinced they are mistaken about Doggett, since she knows he was just at her apartment. However, she sees for herself that Doggett lies paralyzed in a coma. Reyes tries to make sense of this impossible situation, and Scully recounts her own story of her father’s visitation to her after his death. Reyes is certain that this is not what happened to her. Skinner learns from ballistics that the bullets came from Reyes’ weapon, and he has Scully bring Reyes to the police station. Follmer questions Reyes. As he brings up the evidence against her, she stands by her story. From the observation room, an eyewitness to the crime identifies Reyes as the shooter. The eyewitness is Lukesh. At the hospital, Scully and Skinner explain to Reyes that the case against her has some weaknesses. When Skinner called earlier, Reyes was at home, putting her fourteen miles from the crime scene. However, while her gun was never fired, the bullets do match her weapon. Doggett awakes from his coma, tapping on the bed rail. Skinner recognizes the tapping as Morse code. Doggett spells out “Lukesh.” Reyes, however, has no idea what the word means. Back at his home, Lukesh tends to his bed−ridden mother. When she’s not looking, he fingers the Sig Sauer pistol he grabbed from Reyes. Mrs. Lukesh asks for her favorite sandwich, and Lukesh pulls the secret ingredient from the refrigerator – a human tongue. Later that night, Lukesh slips out of the house, but his mother hears him leave. He walks into the alley with a straight razor in his hand. He mysteriously vanishes into thin air. At Reyes’ apartment, Skinner shows her a file on Erwin Lukesh. Lukesh claims to have seen Reyes exit the alley after Doggett was shot. She believes that Lukesh might somehow be involved. Follmer has Skinner bring Reyes to the hospital, because she is the only one Doggett will speak to. As Doggett maneuvers a joystick attached to a communicator, he asks how Reyes is actually alive when he saw her throat cut. Doggett tells Reyes and Follmer that Lukesh not only tried to kill him, but Lukesh also murdered Reyes. The next day, Reyes asks Doggett if he knows of a food stand near her new apartment. He immediately recognizes it as the best polish sausages in the city. With renewed hope in his answer, she proposes a theory to him. Perhaps Lukesh can move freely between parallel universes, and somehow Doggett followed him through that door. In this other world, Reyes was killed while

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investigating Lukesh. Yet here, she doesn’t even know the man’s name. Follmer and Skinner interrogate Lukesh, informing him that Doggett named him as the shooter. They ask to speak to Lukesh’s mother in order to corroborate his alibi. Lukesh refuses the request, which alerts Skinner and Follmer that he is hiding something. As Lukesh walks out, he passes Reyes in the police station hallway. She boldly asks how he moves between worlds to act out his fantasies. He inches close to her face, calmly saying, “God, I enjoyed you. You bled just like a pig.” Lukesh returns home to find that Reyes’ gun is missing from a drawer. His mother confronts him about the gun, as well as his sneaking out of the house. She tells him that the FBI has left messages for her, and that she intends to speak to them. Lukesh begins crying, and pulls out his razor. He approaches his mother’s bed and strikes her. At the hospital, Doggett types out the message “2 Doggetts cant be in 1 world – U can fix.” He begs Reyes to pull his life support plug, believing in her theory about the parallel universes. If one of him is removed, the other Doggett will enter this world. Their conversation is interrupted by Skinner, calling to tell her that Lukesh killed his mother and then disappeared. Reyes returns to her apartment with a radio wired to Scully, Follmer, and Skinner in a surveillance van outside. They are watching everything in her apartment over video monitors. Suddenly, Lukesh appears from nowhere and grabs Reyes from behind. He pulls the earwig radio from her ear and holds his razor to her throat, fully aware that a van is outside. When the agents lose Reyes on the video, Scully is sure that Lukesh is inside the apartment. Lukesh blames Reyes for making him kill his mother. He is about to slit her throat, when Follmer storms in and shoots him, saving Reyes. Late that night, Reyes goes to the hospital with her decision made. She turns off Doggett’s respirator, and he takes his last breath. Crying, she closes her eyes. When she opens them again, she is no longer in the hospital. She is in her unpacked apartment, as she was before, and Doggett tells her to forget the plates for the polish sausages. She is stunned and overwhelmed at the sight of him. He wonders what is wrong with her, as she tearfully hugs him. “I’m good,” she happily cries.

Lord of the Flies Production Code: #9ABX06 Original Air Date: 12/16/01 Written by Thomas Schnauz Directed by Kim Manners A TEENAGER DIES WHILE PERFORMING A DAREDEVIL FEAT FOR A CABLE ACCESS SHOW, BUT HIS DEATH MAY BE CAUSED BY SOMETHING MORE SINISTER THAN THE STUNT ITSELF.

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With a gaggle of onlookers, teenagers “Sky Commander Winky” and “Cap’n Dare” are videotaping their latest stunts for the cable access “Dumb Ass” show. Cap’n Dare (otherwise known as Bill) slips on a helmet, as Winky (David Winkle) pelts him with balls from a pitching machine. Cap’n Dare’s girlfriend, Natalie Gordon, watches unhappily. So does another boy, Dylan Lokensgard. The boys move on to their next feat, and Cap’n Dare sits inside a portable toilet that is pulled by a car across a parking lot at a high speed. The car skids to a stop, and Cap’n Dare and the toilet roll down an embankment. Cap’n Dare emerges unharmed, and the crowd laughs. Natalie is again, not amused. They move onto their third stunt, where Cap’n Dare will roll down a hill in a shopping cart, onto a ramp that will sail him over Natalie, who waits on the ground. When the stunt goes awry, Cap’n Dare is thrown to the ground. Natalie and Winky are horrified to see that Cap’n Dare’s head has collapsed inside his undamaged helmet. Doggett and Reyes arrive at the Medical Examiner’s Office in Ocean County, New Jersey. Dr. Fountain has requested help because he is unable to explain Bill’s cause of death. Suddenly, the corpse’s eyelid flutters. Reyes gently opens the eye with forceps, revealing a hollow socket from which a swarm of flies emerge. They immediately call Scully in to make an assessment, and she concludes that the flies fed at such a furious rate that it caused the boy’s head to collapse from within. The helmet actually protected his head in the crash. Yet Scully pronounces that no fly would act so aggressively. Dr. Rocky Bronzino, an entomologist who appears in the doorway, quickly refutes her conclusion. He informs the agents that the Australian bush fly and the New Zealand screwworm fly are both aggressive insects. However, these varieties are not the flies that apparently killed Bill. Reyes says that they are not investigating a murder by an insect, but a human. At Garfield High School in nearby Manahawkin, New Jersey, Natalie sits in the cafeteria, saddened by her boyfriend’s death. Dylan watches her from afar, as Winky approaches Natalie with a camera. He wants her to speak on the “Cap’n Dare Memorial Video,” but she refuses, blaming him for making Bill do the stunts. Winky notices that Dylan has stood up to defend Natalie. He threatens Dylan, and spreads food on his head. Dylan’s mother, an Administrator at the school, sees this and summons Winky to her office. Waiting for him are Reyes and Doggett, who believe that Winky may have killed his friend in order to sell the video to television networks. Winky denies the claim, and jumps out of his chair while violently scratching his back. Reyes and Doggett see that on his back is written DUMB ASS in red, bloody welts. Dylan returns home, ignoring his mother to retreat to his bedroom. He lies on his bed, listening

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to Syd Barrett and looking longingly at a picture of Natalie. Mrs. Lokensgard knocks on his locked door, which makes him only raise his music louder. As he shuts his eyes to cry, bugs swarm over his window and begin to fill up his room. The next morning, Dr. Bronzino informs the agents that the flies that ate Bill’s brain and skull happened to all be female. This suggests that something chemical or hormonal might have triggered the attack. Yet since lice had also caused Winky’s wounds, they wonder whether someone was somehow directing the bugs to act. They decide to question Dylan Lokensgard, who was present for every stunt and had a run−in with Winky just before the lice injured his back. Dylan sees Natalie leave his front door. He rushes out the window, but his mother intercepts him and warns Dylan to stay away from Natalie. She tries to talk to him about the changes his body is going through, but Dylan brushes her off and heads for school. Meanwhile, Dr. Bronzino and Scully revisit the scene of Cap’n Dare’s death, tracking the atmosphere with an electro− antennogram device. While not−so−subtly hitting on Scully, Bronzino surmises that the bugs are somehow being driven crazy with desire. Suddenly, the device’s signal loudly blares. They don’t see Dylan, the cause of the device’s alarm, peddling past them on his bike. Dylan finds Natalie at school, and she apologizes for Winky’s behavior in the cafeteria the day before. They reminisce about their childhood. Feeling uncomfortable, Natalie leaves abruptly. Reyes and Doggett accost Dylan, and question him in his mother’s office. They show him the “Dumb Ass” video, and he nervously begins to perspire. Doggett hands him a tissue to wipe his sweat. Mrs. Lokensgard enters, refusing to let their interrogation continue, when flies begin to gather on the office ceiling. Dylan’s entire body is suddenly and mysteriously covered in flies. A Vector Control team evacuates the school, but all the bugs have disappeared. The paramedics examine Dylan, who is unharmed with no bites on him. Reyes believes that Dylan staged the attack to make himself look like a victim instead of a perpetrator. Mrs. Lokensgard drags Dylan to the car, while Winky eyes him suspiciously. Dr. Bronzino examines the tissue that Dylan used to wipe his sweat, finding that the boy is actually secreting bug pheromones. Although that notion is preposterous, Reyes theorizes that Dylan is using the bugs to act out against anyone who might harm Natalie. Later that night, Dylan is surprised to see Natalie climb up to his bedroom window. She hasn’t been there since they were in the fourth grade. She apologizes for not being a friend to him over the years, realizing only now how important he really is to her. He is ecstatic that his dream girl has opened her heart to him. They kiss, but she pulls away when Dylan’s tongue causes her mouth to bleed. Natalie cries and

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quickly leaves, as Dylan tries to explain. He runs after her into the street, when another car stops behind him. It is Winky with a group of friends, who capture Dylan. They ask how he killed Cap’n Dare. Dylan responds angrily, “I just have to open my mouth.” And when he does, a set of bug mandibles appears between his lips, spraying an opaque mist. The car loses control, turning upside down before it rolls to a stop. Doggett and Reyes come upon the car wreck, where Winky and his friends are stuck under a thick spider web. He tells them that Dylan is the one responsible, and that he chewed his way out the back window. Reyes finds Natalie at home, curled up on her bed and crying. Reyes asks Natalie to talk to Dylan and convince him not to hurt anyone else. Yet Dylan is already standing in Natalie’s bedroom. At the Lokensgard home, Scully and Dr. Bronzino arrive to question Dylan, but the house is empty and dark. They enter through the open front door, and Bronzino finds high readings of pheromone levels. After Scully leaves to join Doggett at the crime scene, Bronzino continues to scan the Lokensgard home with his electroantennogram. Mrs. Lokensgard surprises him, and she shoots a stream of webbing at Bronzino from the insect mandibles in her mouth. Dylan returns to his house with Natalie, and Mrs. Lokensgard confronts her son. He is upset when she tells him that he is not like the other kids and never will be. Doggett arrives at Natalie’s to find Reyes completely wrapped in layers of webbing, barely able to breathe. She tells Doggett that Dylan took Natalie to his house, which is where Scully is headed when she lost contact with Dr. Bronzino. Scully creeps in the Lokensgard home and sees Natalie sobbing. Scully cautiously goes into the attic with her weapon ready. Her flashlight beam locates a cocoon, from which comes the voice of Dr. Bronzino. Scully frees him. Paramedics arrive soon after, followed by Doggett and Reyes. The agents discover that the other cocoon in the attic was a crude coffin for four bodies, one of whom was Dylan’s father, long reported missing. Mrs. Lokensgard had killed her husband for not being what she and Dylan were – neither human nor insect, but an anomaly in between. Although Dylan had tried to fit in with his peers and was in love with Natalie, he could not hide from his true nature. Mrs. Lokensgard escapes with her saddened son. Natalie lies awake in her bed, when her attention is drawn to a light in the night sky. She goes to her window and sees a swarm of fireflies, their lights twinkling and forming a message that reads, “I Love You.”

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Trust No 1 Production Code: #9ABX08 Original Air Date: 01/06/02 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Tony Wharmby SCULLY IS HOPEFUL ABOUT REUNITING WITH MULDER WHEN A COMPLETE STRANGER OFFERS NEW INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT DROVE HIM INTO HIDING. YET HER TRUST IN THIS STRANGER MAY PLACE MULDER IN EVEN MORE DANGER.

In a montage of surveillance images, Mulder and Scully are seen throughout the years. They are not only captured on investigations, but during private moments in their homes. More recent surveillance footage shows Scully on the platform of a train station, crying over a slain man’s body. Scully enters an internet cafe with William and logs onto a private mail box. Waiting for her is a message from Mulder, who expresses his desire to return home to her and to William. As Scully begins her reply, a woman who has entered the cafe with a baby leaves to argue with a man outside. Scully goes to the unattended baby, and the woman comes back to reclaim her child. Later, at Quantico, Doggett and Reyes tell Scully that a source has been trying to contact Mulder with information about the Super Soldiers. Unfortunately, the man will talk to no one but Mulder. Scully says that she doesn’t know how to contact him, and Doggett questions why she still refuses to trust him or anybody else. Later that night, Scully returns home and sees the woman from the internet cafe on her street. The woman is again fighting with the same Man on the Street, but this time he takes her baby and drives off. Scully approaches the woman, who introduces herself as Patti. Feeling sorry for her, Scully offers to Patti to stay the night. Meanwhile, Doggett and Reyes watch a nondescript building that has been traced to the source that had sought out Mulder. A car pulls up, and the driver heads into the building. It is the Man on the Street who had been fighting with Patti. Inside the building is a room full of surveillance monitors. A Shadow Man at an adjacent monitor asks the Man on the Street about his wife and child. As he exchanges pleasantries, the Shadow Man calmly watches on his monitor as Doggett and Reyes break into the Man on the Street’s car outside. At 5:41 a.m., the Man on the Street finally leaves the building, and Doggett and Reyes follow him. At Scully’s apartment, Patti rises, turns off the baby monitor and picks up William. Scully’s cell phone vibrates, waking her up. It is Doggett, telling her that he and Reyes have followed a strange man to her building. Suddenly alarmed, Scully pulls her gun on Patti, and orders the woman to put down William. Doggett accosts the Man on the Street

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before he is about to break into Scully’s apartment. The Man will not reveal anything, only muttering, “They’re watching.” Scully suspects that both the Man and Patti had conned her to get to her son. Scully closes her blinds, and the Man finally divulges that he works for the National Security Agency. He can not be traced. Patti confesses that her daughter, like William, is somehow different. The Man knows that William affected movement of the mobile over his crib. He admits that he has not only been watching Scully, but Doggett and Reyes as well. The Man had told his supervisor about the oddities surrounding both his daughter and William. The supervisor believes that they are related to the Super Soldiers, and the Man had hoped that Mulder could somehow make the connection to find out what their children really are. Suddenly, the Shadow Man from the nondescript building phones Scully. He says that he has been listening to the conversation. As he watches their every movement, he does not tell her that he has cameras inside her apartment. The Shadow Man knows that Scully had sent Mulder an e−mail the previous day. She refuses to give him any information on Mulder unless she can see him personally. He instructs her to come alone to the internet cafe. Although Doggett protests, Scully leaves William with them to meet her secret contact. As she waits outside the cafe, Scully is called by the Shadow Man. He directs her to a green car while he watches her from a camera on the street. She is told to start the car and drive into an alley. Then she gets out, and enters another waiting car. As the Shadow Man watches from a camera inside the second car, she drives onto the highway. At nightfall, the Shadow Man has her stop in the middle of a desolate field. He orders her to leave the car running and open the trunk. She is told to change into the clothes inside the trunk. Suddenly, the Shadow Man appears. He has her put her gun and her old clothes inside the car, which he explodes by remote control. He inspects her watch for microphones. Believing her to be free of bugs, the Shadow Man admits that he knows everything about her – her blood type, childhood fears, pet peeves, etc. – and has risked his life to talk to her in order to get to Mulder. He warns her that she must contact Mulder. Then he hands her a set of keys to another waiting car. At Quantico the next day, Doggett expresses his worries that both Scully and Mulder are in danger. He fears that these men are using her to lure Mulder out in order to kill him. Scully reveals that Mulder is already travelling on a prearranged train, arriving at midnight. She can’t call him off. At 10:48 p.m., Scully waits on the train platform, as Reyes backs her up from a distance. The Shadow Man is also watching her through a security camera. The Man on the Street walks onto the train platform and sprays black paint on a security camera above.

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Doggett, meanwhile, brings Scully’s clothes from the car to an FBI lab. He asks the technician to quickly look for any traces of a man’s DNA on the clothes. Just before the midnight train approaches, the Man on the Street sees Scully. Reyes catches sight of the Man on the Street pulling out a gun. Reyes calls out for Scully’s attention, but the Man is not pointing at Scully. Scully notices the Shadow Man come toward her with a gun from the other side. Although the Man on the Street is aiming at the Shadow Man, the Shadow Man fires first and hits the Man on the Street. Reyes pulls Scully to the ground, and the Shadow Man points his gun at them. Suddenly, Doggett arrives on the platform and shoots the Shadow Man repeatedly, sending his body onto the tracks of the incoming train. Seeing the gunfire, the station manager orders the train to keep moving. Scully begs for it to be stopped, calling out for Mulder as the train quickly passes. The Man on the Street dies at Scully’s feet. She is grief−stricken and unsure she will ever see Mulder again. Police later scan the tracks, but the Shadow Man’s body has vanished. Patti arrives at the station, asking Scully for forgiveness. They had only sought answers, and her husband was trying to protect Scully from the man he worked for. Scully comforts Patti over the death of her husband. Doggett tells Scully and Reyes that the fabric on the clothes from the car show that the Shadow Man has a DNA that is complexed with iron and can not be tested. This seems to prove that the Shadow Man is a Super Soldier who is unstoppable. Scully fears for Mulder’s life, believing that the Shadow Man jumped on the train after him. The station manager is alerted that a man jumped off the train into a rock quarry. The agents drive to where the jump took place, and Doggett and Reyes walk down into the quarry. They see a man running away, and Doggett, believing it is Mulder, calls out to him. Although Doggett identifies himself, the man runs off. Scully drives deeper into the quarry, and calls out for Mulder. Suddenly, the Shadow Man comes out from the fog and chases her. She runs into the quarry, becoming trapped. With nowhere else to turn, she pulls her gun on the Shadow Man, asking him why he intends to kill them. The Shadow Man says that either Mulder or William must die. Suddenly, the Shadow Man struggles as a force wracks his body. His face becomes contorted, and he is magnetically pulled to the quarry wall, flying past Scully and knocking her down. As his body impacts the red quarry wall, it disintegrates into a cloud of dust. Scully gets up and runs off. The next day, Scully e−mails Mulder with hopes that he is still alive and will someday see her again.

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John Doe Production Code: #9ABX07 Original Air Date: 01/13/02 Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Michelle MacLaren WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF HIS IDENTITY OR HIS PAST, DOGGETT IS FOUND WANDERING A DUSTY MEXICAN TOWN. HE STRUGGLES TO PIECE TOGETHER HIS MEMORY, HOW HE LOST IT, AND WHY HE IS STUCK IN A FOREIGN PLACE.

DAY ONE. Doggett wakes up on the floor of an abandoned building to find a Crackhead stealing a sneaker from his foot. He chases the guy out onto the street, and realizes he is on the main drag of a dilapidated town. All the signs are in Spanish. He accosts the Crackhead for the shoe, but the man calls in Spanish for the police. Doggett tries to explain to the Spanish−speaking policeman that it was his shoe that was taken. Hearing an American accent, the cop requests Doggett’s passport. Doggett is empty−handed. The cop then asks Doggett his name. Doggett, however, does not know the answer. DAY TWO. Doggett sits in a grimy but packed jail cell. He still only has one sneaker. A big man in the cell laughs at Doggett’s predicament, informing him that he is in Sangradura, Mexico. Although Doggett does not remember his own name, he is sure that he will somehow get out of jail. The big man tells him that Americans come to this town to hide because they are on the run. For all he knows, a call to the American Embassy might just put him in an American jail. Later, Doggett has a vision of himself sleeping next to a woman. A little boy jumps on the bed, calling Doggett, “Daddy.” Doggett jerks awake, finding himself still in the Mexican prison. DAY EIGHT. The big man, named Domingo Salmeron, is released from prison by his cohort, Nestor. Domingo offers to pay for Doggett’s release with a job proposal. However, out on the street in complete freedom, Doggett turns Domingo down and starts to walk away. Nestor pulls a revolver on him, but Doggett disarms him and tosses the gun away. He walks off alone. Doggett goes back to the abandoned building and asks the Crackhead if he also took his wallet or papers. The Crackhead produces a silver skull that looks like it was pulled from a piece of jewelry, and mutters the word “Desaparecido.” Desperate, Doggett then goes to a cantina to inquire about Domingo’s job. Domingo tells him that they smuggle immigrants over the American border and then gives Doggett money to rent a room over the bar. Doggett pulls out the skull charm, but Domingo claims he doesn’t know what it means. After Doggett leaves, Domingo tells Nestor that Doggett only wants to remember, “same as all the rest.”

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In the dingy room, Doggett finds a crescent scar at each temple of his hairline. He does not know where they came from. He also sees a Marine Corps tattoo on his left arm, realizing he was once a Marine. Outside the boarding house, an old caballero watches Doggett through the window. The man is wearing a bracelet with the familiar silver skulls dangling off it. One of these skulls is missing. DAY TWELVE. At the FBI, Scully and Skinner apprise Kersh that, after two weeks of looking in Texas, Doggett was seen crossing the Mexican border. Reyes, who was raised in Mexico, is already in Texas investigating his disappearance. Against Scully and Skinner’s wishes, Kersh decides to dismantle the search party and leave it to the Mexican officials. In San Antonio, Reyes interrogates a shady tractor dealer who may have been questioned by Doggett when he was investigating the disappearance of Hollis Rice, a bank vice president. Although the man feigns innocence, Reyes is convinced that he is part of a drug smuggling operation for which Rice laundered money. There may be some connection to Doggett’s disappearance. Doggett, meanwhile, has another memory flash of his son jumping on his bed. Doggett is snapped back into reality, finding himself in a Larga Distencia office where locals make long distance calls. He contacts a Staff Sgt. of the Marine Corps Public Affairs, pretending to be a Detective Ladatel who is trying to identify a victim. Doggett describes the tattoo, and the Staff Sgt. recognizes the regiment, promising to try to pin down the Marine’s name. Suddenly, two Federales come into the building. Before the Staff Sgt. can say another word, Doggett bolts out of the phone office. At a rusty garage on the outskirts of town, Doggett fixes an old bus for Domingo. Nestor eyes him warily. Domingo gives Doggett a Mexican APB flyer describing an American named Henry Bruck accused of murder. The description matches Doggett, and Domingo warns him to stay away from the Federales. Later, Nestor approaches the caballero who wears the silver skull bracelet at the cantina. They both work for the Cartel. Nestor senses that Doggett, whom he refers to as one of the “Disappeared Ones,” is different. The caballero informs Nestor that Doggett is an FBI agent. Although he was not ordered to kill him, the caballero would look the other way if something were to happen to Doggett. Scully eludes Kersh and goes to Reyes in San Antonio. They learn that someone in Mexico has been trying to track down a former Marine with amnesia who matches Doggett’s description. When Reyes recognizes the name Ladatel as the Mexican telephone calling card, they run a trace on the call. Later that night, Nestor comes to the garage where Doggett is working alone, underneath the bus that is suspended by a lever jack. Nestor looks at

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him and says, “See you in hell, FBI.” Doggett reacts to this, but Nestor pulls a revolver out. Doggett quickly flips the lever and rolls out from under the bus. The bus falls on Nestor’s foot, and he screams in pain. He manages to pull his bloodied foot out and looks under the bus for Doggett, who is gone. Doggett jumps out from the roof of the bus, and Nestor is shot in the resulting struggle. Domingo arrives at the garage an hour later and finds Nestor’s body. Doggett asks if Domingo had sent Nestor to kill him. After Doggett pulls the revolver on him, Domingo reveals that Doggett is a “Desaparecido,” one of the Cartel’s disappeared ones. Doggett realizes that they took away his memory, and Domingo tells him that it can never be retrieved. Suddenly, Doggett experiences another memory flash of his son jumping on his bed. This vision, however, is speeded up. It ends abruptly, and Doggett winces in pain. Domingo notices this and grabs the gun from Doggett’s hand, putting it aside. He then begins to mercilessly beat up Doggett. On Ciudad Street in Mexico, Reyes bribes a police officer for information on Doggett. He leads her to a funeral parlor, but the body there is not Doggett’s. Reyes sees the same crescent scars that Doggett has on this dead man’s head. DAY THIRTEEN. At the cantina, Domingo reports Nestor’s death to the caballero, knowing that this man most likely gave Nestor the permission to kill Doggett. The caballero does not believe that Domingo said nothing to Doggett. Suddenly, the caballero’s eyes glow reflectively like a cat’s in the dark. He sinks his long thumbnails into Domingo’s temples, in the same spot as Doggett’s crescent scars. A beaten Doggett wakes up on the floor of the garage and sees Nestor’s dead body next to him. A rental sedan pulls up, and Reyes comes in. Doggett, who doesn’t recognize her, grabs her gun arm in a lock and spins her face first into the bus. She identifies him, and herself as his partner, but he is still unsure of her. A group of Mexican police cars pull up. The local officers draw their weapons on the garage, ordering the agents to exit the building. One of them is the policeman that Reyes had bribed. As they wait, Doggett asks Reyes what his son’s name is. He can see the boy’s face, but can’t place his name. From the look on Reyes’ face, Doggett remembers that Luke was kidnapped and killed. He breaks down just as the police begin to fire. Reyes tries to hold them off, but she must revive Doggett from his emotional breakdown. He tells her to get in the bus, which he backs out and smashes into the police cars. The bus topples over, and the policemen descend upon them. Suddenly, the Federales arrive with Skinner and arrest the Mexican police. Doggett and Reyes are saved. Doggett returns to the cantina and questions the caballero. He knows that the man works for the Cartel and somehow stole his memory. Doggett

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Hellbound Production Code: #9ABX04 Original Air Date: 01/27/02 Written by David Amann Directed by Kim Manners CONVINCED IT IS AN X−FILE, REYES IS DRAWN TO A MURDER WHERE THE VICTIM HAS BEEN SKINNED ALIVE. YET SHE IS UNSURE WHY SHE HAS SUCH A STRANGE CONNECTION TO THE CASE.

Terry Pruit talks to a group of assembled ex− convicts at an anger management meeting inside a church in Novi, Virginia. One of the ex−cons, Ed Kelso, shakes his head in disgust at the topics of conversation. Afterwards, Kelso gives his buddy, Victor Dale Potts, a hard time about the group. Potts, who had been having bad dreams, suddenly has a strange vision of Kelso – his skin is stripped from his body. Five days later, Reyes briefs Doggett and Scully about the murder of Victor Dale Potts. He was skinned alive, but had a premonition of his death in a dream. He told his dream to Dr. Lisa Holland, the therapist who runs the anger management group. Although the case itself is odd, neither Scully nor Doggett understand why it is an X−File. Reyes is also unsure, but she knows that she must solve the crime. Doggett and Reyes are led by Detective Van Allen to speak with Dr. Holland at the Virginia church. She tells them that Potts had been to the meeting with a friend named Ed who felt negatively toward what the group was trying to accomplish. As they are leaving the church, Detective Van Allen tells Reyes that she looks familiar, but Reyes has never been to the town before. Meanwhile, at a meat packing plant where they both work, Terry Pruit confronts Ed Kelso about Potts’ death. Although Pruit says that the FBI will probably want to question him as well, Kelso pulls out his carving knife and threatens Pruit. As Kelso walks away, Pruit is shocked when he sees a skinless Kelso. Outside the plant, however, Kelso looks completely normal.

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At Quantico, Scully pulls old files on other skinning cases. One body found in 1960 matches the manner in which Victor Potts was killed. Scully visits Dr. Mueller, the coroner who autopsied the body in 1960. Although the man is now retired, he remembers the case vividly. Since the victim was not identified and no suspect was ever arrested, the case was dropped. The sheriff then committed suicide. However, Dr. Mueller reveals that the victim was the first in a string of skinning murders. Terry Pruit is working alone at night in the meat packing plant when the lights shut off. He suspects that Kelso has come to start trouble, but he sees no one among the rows of hanging pig carcasses. Suddenly, someone wearing a butcher’s apron hits him over the head and straps him upside down on a meat hook. The unseen person pulls out a knife and begins to carve into the screaming Pruit. Meanwhile, Reyes has a dream in which she goes to the church looking for Dr. Holland and finds a skinless man there. She is startled awake by Doggett, who heard her cries through the wall of the hotel room. Dr. Holland called him with news that Terry Pruit’s skinned body was found. The sight of the body at the plant unsettles Reyes, but she listens intently when Scully shows her similar case files dating back to 1960. Kelso is quickly packing up clothes and knives when Doggett and Detective Van Allen storm in and take him into custody. At the police station, Reyes gets the sense that Kelso is not really responsible for the murders. She tells him that she sees the same bad things that he is now seeing in his dreams. Doggett is unsure of her line of questioning, but she doesn’t let on to what she is hiding. Detective Van Allen informs them that Kelso’s girlfriend vouches for his whereabouts at the time of the murder. As Kelso leaves the police station, he sees that Dr. Holland is now skinned. The vision terrifies Kelso. Scully calls Reyes to Quantico, where she had two bodies dug up with the same forensic details as the current murders. The men who had died in 1960 had both been ex−cons. Oddly, the dates of their deaths match the birthdates of Potts and Pruit. Since Scully has four old case files, Reyes fears that there may be two more victims. She calls Doggett, who is running surveillance outside Ed Kelso’s house, and asks him to find out the man’s birthday. When Doggett goes up to the front window, he is shocked to see Kelso’s body completely stripped of its skin. Reyes meets Doggett at the crime scene at Kelso’s house. Since the birthdates do match the 1960 murders, Doggett believes that it is merely a serial killer. Yet Reyes is convinced that she is somehow involved in these connecting cases. She is certain that these men’s souls are murdered over and over, from one lifetime to the next. She even knows that there was a rag stuck in Kelso’s mouth that was covered in coal dust. Doggett and Reyes

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go to an abandoned mining camp to look for clues on the possible fourth victim. As Doggett discovers the remains of a sheriff in the office, Reyes comes upon old newspaper clippings inside the mine that detail unsolved skinnings. The oldest article is about four men who got away with the murder of a prospector in a mining claim dispute. In the photo, the body of the prospector is skinned. Also in the mine are the hides of a number of humans. Suddenly, Reyes hears footsteps. She draws her gun, but someone grabs her from behind and holds a knife at her throat. It is Detective Van Allen. Doggett comes into the mine, but Reyes is alone and unhurt. She explains that Van Allen is the reincarnation of a man killed in a mining dispute. His four killers were never punished. He continues to avenge that injustice. After skinning four people, he commits suicide so that he can be reborn to start it up again. The cases never get solved because he returns as the cop who investigates the skinnings. Reyes notifies Dr. Holland that she is the next victim, and warns her about Detective Van Allen. The doctor runs when Van Allen comes for her with his carving knife. He chants, “It always ends the same.” Doggett and Reyes arrive in the nick of time and shoot Van Allen. As Van Allen lies in a hospital bed, Reyes still can’t figure out why she knew the things she did. She wonders if perhaps she was someone involved in the past cases who had let justice slip by. Her biggest fear was of failing, but Scully suggests that maybe in this life she actually succeeded. Van Allen goes into cardiac arrest, and he dies with look of vengeance still in his eyes. At the same time, a baby is born whose eyes are the same as Van Allen’s.

Provenance (1 of 2) Production Code: #9ABX10 Original Air Date: 03/03/02 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners WHEN RUBBINGS FROM THE SPACESHIP RESURFACE, THE FBI HIDES ITS INVESTIGATION FROM THE X− FILES AND THE ONE PERSON WHO IS FAMILIAR WITH THE SYMBOLS’ SIGNIFICANCE – SCULLY.

Border police chase a man on a motorcycle as he illegally crosses into North Dakota from Canada. As the man comes to the edge of a cliff, he continues into the ravine. The motorcycle crashes at the bottom, bursting into a ball of flames. The man lies unconscious on the ground. Next to him, several pieces of folded paper fall out of his backpack. On the paper are symbols that resemble the ones Mulder and Scully found on a spaceship in “Biogenesis” (#6ABX22).

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At the FBI, Scully is summoned to Kersh’s office, where she is met by Kersh, Skinner, Follmer and an unidentified man standing silently in the corner with a toothpick in his mouth. Kersh shows her the paper from the motorcyclist’s bag and asks if she recognizes it. Although she knows exactly what it is, Scully is hesitant to answer for fear that she is under suspicion. She storms into the X−Files office and asks Doggett and Reyes whether Follmer had been in their files. Scully pulls out a case folder from two years ago, showing them a rubbing she took from the hull of a spacecraft. The symbols in the rubbing are like the ones in the evidence bag in Kersh’s office. Although she did not tell the senior staff about her old case, she wonders if the FBI is fully aware of the power that these symbols represent. Doggett goes to the crime scene in North Dakota, finding that Follmer is already there, leading the investigation. He admits that the body of the motorcyclist has not been recovered. While revealing nothing else, Follmer warns Doggett not to get involved in the case. Unseen, the motorcyclist crawls out from a nearby hiding place. His exposed skin is blistered and burned, and he struggles to move. He grabs from his jacket pocket a metallic object that has the symbols on it. His burns begin to miraculously heal. In her apartment, Reyes pieces together the rubbings from the old case file. She asks Scully what she had interpreted in the symbols. Carbon dating of the fossils on the ship proved that it was millions of years old, but Scully found the text to contain religious passages and scientific equations. This would put into question everything in which mankind believes. Although she refused to accept this at first, Scully is now under the impression that she was meant to find these rubbings. It may contain answers about William’s existence. However, she does not know what the FBI wants with these rubbings and why they are keeping it a secret from her. Later that night, Doggett waits for Skinner outside his office. He questions why the A.D. has been avoiding him and Reyes. Skinner refuses to say anything, telling Doggett it is for his own good that he doesn’t know. After Skinner leaves, Doggett breaks into the A.D.’s office. Rummaging through his boss’ desk, Doggett finds the evidence bag with the rubbing from the spaceship. He brings it to Reyes, with the news that the missing motorcyclist is actually an FBI agent named Robert Comer who was working undercover on a UFO cult in Canada. Scully leaves William with her mother to meet with the agents at Reyes’ apartment. Doggett fills her in on Comer’s disappearance and the FBI’s conclusion that he may have gone crazy. They are under the impression that Comer started to follow the UFO cult himself. Reyes comes to the conclusion that the FBI doesn’t even know about Scully’s case files because the rubbings

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from Comer’s backpack do not match the two−year old rubbings from the ship. The UFO cult may have uncovered a second spaceship. Under a large tent in a deserted field in Alberta, Canada, a group of people excavate something out of the ground. What they are carefully digging up is a full−sized spaceship. The mysterious symbols are on its hull. At a rest stop in Maryland, Comer hijacks a moving van and heads towards the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The next morning, Comer is waiting inside Scully’s apartment. He attacks Mrs. Scully when she comes in with William. Scully returns home to find her mother on the ground. Scully battles Comer, but he locks her out of William’s room. As he is about to suffocate the baby with a pillow, Scully finds her pistol and shoots Comer in the chest. Doggett and Reyes rush over, and Scully asks Reyes to take her mother and son to safety. Scully demands answers from the bleeding Comer. Before he loses consciousness, Comer manages to tell her, “Your son has to die.” The EMTs arrive and take Comer to the hospital. Scully notices that the man’s jacket is still in William’s room. In the pocket is a metallic piece of the spaceship with the symbols on it. On a Calgary street, a woman in an overcoat picks up the morning newspaper with a headline about Comer’s injury in a shooting. The overcoat woman drives out to the tent in the field and shows the newspaper to another man. “He can expose all of this,” she tells him. “He’s got proof he can show them.” They nod in solemn agreement about what they must do. Scully is once again called in to appear before the senior FBI staff. This time, Doggett accompanies her. She refuses to give them any information until they provide her with some answers. Kersh explains that Comer was sent to infiltrate the cult based on a series of threats against Mulder. Before the FBI lost contact with Comer, he sent out a communication that Mulder was already dead. Unfortunately, they can not confirm the validity of his information. Scully goes home, and Reyes brings William back to her. When she hears a rattling noise, Scully puts William into his crib, and she and Reyes go into her bedroom. A drawer in her bureau is somehow shaking. Inside it is the piece of the spacecraft from Comer’s jacket. Scully slowly opens the drawer, and the object flies across her apartment and into William’s room. It slices through the wood bars of the crib and comes to a halt, hovering right over William’s head. Scully is stunned as William calmly watches the piece rotate silently in mid−air above him. Reyes calls Doggett to Scully’s apartment and tries to describe to him the strange events she just witnessed. The baby has some connection to this object. Although Doggett may not believe in extraterrestrials, she and Scully fear that the cult is willing to kill for their belief in alien life. Scully

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comes down with William and they get into her car. Doggett, however, notices a car parked on the street with the overcoat woman inside. He becomes suspicious, and tells Reyes that he will follow them in his car. Reyes pulls away, and Doggett approaches the parked car. Despite his drawn weapon and orders to stop, the overcoat woman drives directly at Doggett. He fires at her windshield, and she plows right into him, sending him over the car and onto the street. The overcoat woman speeds away as Doggett lies unconscious. Reyes drives Scully’s car into an alley where the Lone Gunmen are waiting in their van. Scully gives William to them for safekeeping, and when she and Reyes return to her apartment, there are police cars and ambulances outside. Reyes runs to Doggett’s side. Scully gets back in the car to find William. Meanwhile, the overcoat woman ambushes the Gunmen’s van and fires at their tires. They crash into a pole. The woman opens the van door and forces Byers to hand over the baby.

Providence (2 of 2) Production Code: #9ABX11 Original Air Date: 03/10/02 Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Chris Carter AFTER LEARNING THAT MULDER MIGHT BE DEAD, SCULLY’S FEARS ARE HEIGHTENED WHEN WILLIAM IS KIDNAPPED BY THE ALIEN CULT.

Captain Zeke Josepho remembers a moment during the 1991 Desert Storm campaign that changed his life forever. Josepho’s unit had been overtaken by an Iraqi troop, and although all of the men were killed, Josepho was still alive. He watched as a group of four combat−ready soldiers ran through the desert into the Iraqi encampment. The gunfire that struck them had no effect. The soldiers pulled the pins on their grenades and headed directly into the desert hideout of the enemy. The building exploded, and the soldiers marched out unharmed. Josepho knew then that his life was spared in order to deliver the message of the “God who came before all other Gods” responsible for these miraculous men. Now a civilian, Josepho recalls this tale as he stands upon the unearthed spaceship housed in the Canadian tent (last seen in #9ABX10). The symbols on the craft represent all the religions of the world. At the FBI, the Toothpick Man watches as the Lone Gunmen scan the mug shots of suspects who may have taken Scully’s baby. Meanwhile, A.D. Follmer briefs a task force about William’s kidnapping and Doggett’s near death in the ensuing attack. Scully is appalled at Follmer whitewashing the investigation, and she leaves in a huff. When Skinner stops her, she accuses the FBI of attempting to rid any element of the X−Files – which includes

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not only Doggett and Mulder, but also her son. Skinner bristles at her allegations, but he is still concerned for Scully. Reyes stands vigil as Doggett lays in a coma at St. Mary’s Hospital. When Skinner visits, Reyes gets a call from Scully. Scully asks to meet her, but not tell Skinner. Reyes arrives at Scully’s apartment, where the Gunmen are working at a laptop. They identified the overcoat woman kidnapper, but did not tell the FBI. Byers had been able to tuck a cell phone into William’s car seat, and they hope to track the phone’s signal and find the baby. The signal is coming from Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, and Scully sets off with her gun in pursuit of William. Reyes follows. In Pennsylvania, the overcoat woman leaves William in the car to make a call at a pay phone. She dials Josepho, who is watching a group of cult members try to pry open the spaceship’s hull from underneath its fins. When she informs Josepho that she has the child, the fins of the spaceship interlock, trapping the workers under a dome on the craft. Scully and Reyes finally arrive at the pay phone location, and while the car is still there, the overcoat woman and William have disappeared. The baby seat and cell phone remain in the back of the car. Reyes returns to St. Mary’s, and prays in the hospital chapel for Doggett’s recovery. Follmer finds here there, and informs her that he knows that she went after the kidnapper. He is aware that there are forces within the FBI working against them, but Follmer swears that he is indeed on her side. Follmer now needs her help. Robert Comer, the FBI agent who Scully shot in #9ABX10, has woken up and has written the word “jacket” on a notepad. Follmer wants Reyes to find out from Scully what that word means. Reyes approaches Scully with the paper, but Scully refuses to tell the FBI what she knows. Comer had been carrying the artifact from the spaceship in his jacket. That artifact may have healed his wounds from the motorcycle accident at the Canada border. Reyes follows Scully back to the hospital, where they sneak into Comer’s room. Scully waves the artifact over Comer’s gunshot wounds, and his heartbeat spikes. He awakens, and grabs Scully’s arm. She threatens to kill him unless he explains why he wanted her baby. Comer explains that Josepho is the leader of a cult whose followers believe that an alien race will rule the world. The spaceship they found is a physical manifestation of God. God spoke to Josepho, and told him that William is a future savior who will try to prevent the aliens’ return – just like his father attempted. William will succeed at stopping this colonization unless his father, Mulder, is put to death. To fulfill the prophecy, Mulder was killed. Josepho now wants to protect William, but Comer has come to rid of William with his own plans to prevent the aliens from taking over the world.

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Comer reaches for the artifact to complete his healing when a nurse walks in with the Toothpick Man. Scully covers the bed sheet over the artifact. The Toothpick Man orders Scully and Reyes’ removal. As the others leave, he ominously remains in Comer’s room. At the tent in Canada, Josepho’s men try to open the spaceship to save the cult members inside. When the overcoat woman enters the tent with William, the fins of the spaceship inexplicably open. The men who were trapped are revealed to be burned and smoking corpses. Scully and Reyes hide out in the hospital’s chapel, and Scully admits her fears to Reyes that her son is an abomination meant to die. Reyes convinces Scully that this perception is only one man’s belief that may not even be true. Skinner comes in with news of Comer’s death. Because they are suspects, he advises them to leave immediately. Reyes rushes back to Comer’s room. Reyes pulls off Comer’s sheet, but the artifact is missing. Reyes wants the Toothpick Man searched for the artifact, and she looks to Scully to backup her account of the events. Scully, however, has gone to Doggett’s room. Doggett suddenly awakes from his coma, and tells Scully that he heard someone talking. Doggett warns Scully that someone is going to come to her, but that she shouldn’t trust him. Scully’s cell phone rings. It is Josepho, giving her strict instructions that she must obey in order to see her son. Scully meets Josepho alone in a diner outside Calgary, Canada. He tells her that he has witnessed Super Soldiers, and that they are the true sons of God. Josepho believes that William will be the leader of the alien race that will rule the Earth. Although Josepho once believed that Mulder was dead, he now has doubts. He offers to give her William when she brings him confirmation of Mulder’s death. Mulder being alive is the one thing that will prevent William from leading the aliens. Scully accuses Josepho of lying, and he demands that she bring him the head of Mulder. Josepho walks out, and Scully quickly calls Reyes in a nearby van. She is with the Gunmen, who have wired Josepho’s car. As the Gunmen track Josepho, Reyes and Scully follow him. Yet the Gunmen lose the signal, and Scully is forced to blindly pull over. She sees a white tent in the distance and runs toward it. Meanwhile, inside the tent, William begins to cry. At the sound of his voice, the bezels on the spacecraft suddenly turn and drop into the ground. The ship then blasts a shaft of white light into the sky, and begins to vibrate and hum. The cult members watch as the spaceship starts to surface. Scully and Reyes see the ship take off into the night. The tent explodes into flames. They run to the tent’s remains, discovering charred bodies among the wreckage. They suddenly hear a baby’s cry. William is lying on the ground, unharmed.

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Reyes finds Doggett in the chapel at St. Mary’s Hospital. He says that when he was in the coma, a voice told him to get up and warn Scully about this man. Doggett asks Reyes if it was she who was talking to him. She says no. At the FBI, Follmer tells Kersh that he has recently learned that the monitors in Comer’s room show that the man’s vital signs returned back to normal right before his death. Follmer is befuddled, and has no explanation for this. The Toothpick Man is waiting in Kersh’s office, and Kersh hands him the case folder. Kersh then congratulates him because it now appears that everything from the case is dead. However, the case itself seems to still be active. “I’m sure I can take care of that,” the Toothpick Man replies. Unseen on the Toothpick Man’s neck is the familiar spiny ridges of an alien replacement.

Audrey Pauley Production Code: #9ABX13 Original Air Date: 03/17/02 Written by Steven Maeda Directed by Kim Manners DOGGETT AND SCULLY LOOK FOR ANSWERS THAT WILL SAVE REYES’ LIFE AFTER SHE IS INJURED IN A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT. YET REYES IS ALSO FIGHTING TO STAY ALIVE IN THE NETHERWORLD BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.

Reyes drops Doggett off after work, and he laments that he is thinking about getting a cat to subsidize his lonely existence. “You are a dog person, John,” she laughs. There is an awkward moment between them, but Doggett gets out of the car and goes into his house. Reyes pulls away and her car is suddenly hit in a crash. She is rushed to the hospital where she is examined by the trauma team. When Dr. Preijers flashes his penlight in her eyes, Reyes wakes up. Yet she is in another hospital’s emergency room and she is all alone. There are no doctors around, and this doppel hospital seems abandoned and quiet. Although there is one trickle of blood on her forehead, Reyes is otherwise fine. She walks to the entrance of the ER and stops short. The hospital building is floating in a dark void of nothingness. Reyes goes back inside and wipes the blood from her forehead. Stephen Murdoch, a patient who doesn’t know why he too is in this doppel hospital, greets her and introduces her to another patient, Mr. Barreiro. Both Murdoch and Barreiro are convinced that they are dead, but Reyes doesn’t believe it. She roams the doppel hospital, realizing that there are no signs on any of the walls and that all of the paperwork on the charts is written in gibberish. Murdoch tells her that he has gotten used to this fact, figuring that he is in some kind of in−between state on his way to Heaven. Reyes wonders if maybe she is merely hallucinating. She again goes to the door of the hospital and drops a coffee mug

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into the void. It is caught in a flash of electricity and vanishes. At the regular hospital, Reyes lies in a coma− state attached to ventilators. Her heart still beats. Doggett does not want to accept that Reyes is brain dead. Dr. Preijers states that Reyes signed an organ donor card, but Doggett refuses to let her go just yet. Reyes sees a woman in the doppel hospital. The woman runs away and disappears into a blank wall. Suddenly, Barreiro’s body is overcome with electrical sparks. He fades away, just like Reyes’ coffee mug. Reyes explains to Murdoch that she believes that they are not really dead. Whatever happened to Barreiro caused him to die. Meanwhile, in the regular hospital, Dr. Preijers shuts off the life support unit keeping the real body of Mr. Barreiro alive. The doctor apologizes to Barreiro’s family, as the mystery woman in the doppel hospital watches. She is a patient’s aide by the name of Audrey Pauley, and she goes about her rounds delivering flowers. Doggett begs Scully for help in buying time for Reyes. He points out on Reyes’ EEG chart that she had brain activity up until one distinct point. Doggett is determined to find out what happened. He questions Dr. Preijers whether there was a change in Reyes’ condition at that time. Preijers gives Doggett Reyes’ chart. Doggett goes to Reyes’ room and finds Audrey Pauley there. She comfortingly tells him that Reyes’ soul is not gone. He says that he wishes he could talk to her. Audrey then goes down to the hospital basement to her own private room. There’s a small−scale model of the hospital there. She peers inside the model and concentrates. In the doppel hospital, Reyes and Murdoch are trying to open all the locked doors when Reyes sees Audrey. She begs her not to run away again. Reyes asks Audrey to show them the way out, but Audrey tells them that she can’t. Audrey informs Reyes that her friend loves her very much. Reyes gives Audrey a message for Doggett: “Tell him he’s a dog person.” Audrey rounds a corner and disappears. Back at the hospital, Nurse Edwards helpfully tells Dr. Preijers that he neglected to put an injection on Reyes’ notes before handing them over to Doggett. Preijers asks if anyone else noticed, and then lunges at her. He stabs her with a needle in the neck. The nurse falls to the ground. Doggett sadly remembers his last conversation with Reyes about pets. Yet he imagines that this time, he kisses her. He is snapped back to reality by the commotion in the hospital. Nurse Edwards has been found dead. Doggett tells Scully that this nurse worked on Reyes, and perhaps foul play is involved. He has her autopsy Edwards’ body for signs of murder. Scully suggests that he not believe this will bring Reyes back to life. Audrey delivers Reyes’ message to Doggett, explaining that she is “not

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gone.” She takes him to her room and shows him her model hospital, explaining that she made it so that she can enter it in her head. She used to have it all to herself, until hospital patients showed up – including Reyes. Doggett asks her for the names of the other patients inside. Reyes theorizes that the doppel hospital resembles a movie set, created by someone who didn’t get it quite right. Suddenly, Murdoch falls to the floor. His body begins to crackle with electricity. In the real world, Dr. Preijers has clicked off Murdoch’s life support system. Doggett hands Scully the charts of Barreiro and Murdoch, who had both been declared brain dead by Dr. Preijers. Doggett is convinced that Preijers injected them and Reyes with something to cause their bodies to shut down. Although Barreiro has passed, they can still save Murdoch and Reyes. Yet Doggett and Scully find that Murdoch is already dead. Doggett goes to Audrey’s room and begs for her help. He asks her to go back into her model and explain the situation to Reyes. Doggett breaks down in tears, saying that he needs Reyes to fight and prove that she’s still alive. Dr. Preijers secretly watches as Doggett leaves Audrey’s room. Audrey goes into the doppel hospital and warns Reyes. She is upset because she can’t help Reyes escape. Yet Reyes realizes that Audery is dyslexic, and that the doppel hospital and all its gibberish charts are her creation. She convinces Audrey that since it is her hospital, she can make the rules work any way she wants. Audrey disappears, and returns to her real room. Dr. Preijers is there, holding a needle. He blames her for what he’s being accused of. In the doppel hospital, Reyes sees the walls warble and finds that Audrey has returned. Audrey leads her to the front door and tells Reyes to jump into the abyss. Although Reyes is afraid she will die, Audrey assures her that she will be safe. Audrey serenely says that she now knows who told her to build the fake hospital. With a leap of faith, Reyes falls into the void. Audrey evaporates along with the doppel hospital. In Reyes’s hospital room, Scully tells Doggett that the transplant teams are in place. Doggett still refuses to let them take Reyes. Scully wants him to convince her and the doctors that Reyes is still alive. Suddenly, Reyes awakes and says, “Audrey.” Doggett rushes to the basement and grabs Preijers. He is saddened to see Audrey dead on the floor. Three days later, Doggett drives Reyes home from the hospital. They say goodnight to each other, and Reyes goes into her apartment, alone.

Underneath Production Code: #9ABX09 Original Air Date: 03/31/02 Written and Directed by John Shiban

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Flashback to 1989: On a rainy night, a Triboro Cable repairman named Bob Fassl pulls up to a house in Brooklyn, New York. A male voice from the back of the van tells him to “do his job.” After kissing his rosary, Fassl timidly goes to the front door and tells the teenage girl of the house that he her cable is out. Believing that her father may have called the cable company, she lets the man in. The father questions whether Fassl made a mistake, and he asks to see the work order. Yet when Fassl looks down at his empty work order, a spray of dark red blood splatters onto the paper. The father is suddenly lying on the ground, dead. A bloody screwdriver is in his neck. Fassl is horrified to see that both the mother and daughter are also lying in pools of blood on the kitchen floor. The front door immediately opens and two NYPD cops burst through and apprehend him. One of the policemen is Doggett. In present day, Doggett is furious to learn that, after thirteen years, DNA tests cleared Fassl of being the “screwdriver killer” who had murdered seven people. Doggett is insistent that he caught the right man. Although Scully has verified the DNA tests, Doggett still wants answers to back up his police work. He asks both Scully and Reyes for their help. Fassl, meanwhile, is released from Sing Sing Prison in New York. The world around him seems to blur when he sees a scraggly bearded man near the courthouse. Fassl becomes disoriented, and the man mysteriously disappears. In New York, Scully and Doggett convince Damon Kaylor, the Assistant District Attorney, to hand over his case files. Kaylor reluctantly agrees, and Doggett and Scully pore through the numerous boxes of evidence. Doggett summons his old partner, Duke Tomasick, to meet him at the Brooklyn courthouse. Unlike Doggett, Duke accepts the DNA test’s acquittal of Fassl. Fassl’s lawyer, Jana Fain, brings Fassl to stay at her house. That night, as he prays silently with his rosary beads, blood appears on his hands. The words “Kill Her” have been scrawled in blood on the wall. He is terrified. Fain then catches Fassl praying, and leaves him in his solemnity. Suddenly, Fassl sees the bearded man in his room. He begs the man not to hurt Fain, but the bearded man slaps Fassl across the face. The man follows Fain. A screwdriver is in his hand. The next morning, Fain confronts Fassl because, when she left to see another client, her dresser drawers had been rifled through. Fassl is relieved that she is still alive. When Fain goes to work, Fassl finds her maid’s body stuffed into a dumbwaiter chute. Fassl removes the body and cleans the blood. He chops up the woman’s remains and places them in a plastic tarp.

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Reyes meets with the Sing Sing superintendent, and he informs her that Fassl’s cellmate had also been murdered with evidence pointing to Fassl. The security camera caught the murderer on tape, but instead of Fassl it was a bearded man. This man did not fit the description of any prisoner, so the case was never solved. The superintendent, however, believes that Fassl had something to do with this killing. Scully, meanwhile, finds that the hair samples found at the scene of the crime do not exactly match Fassl, but to someone who is his blood relative. Yet Fassl is an only child whose parents are dead. Kaylor is furious at Doggett for ordering a re− test on Fassl’s DNA. Kaylor gets a settlement for Fassl from the county and retrieves his case files from Doggett. Reyes shows Doggett and Scully the picture of the bearded man from the Sing Sing file. The man has no identity, but he materialized in a federal prison and then disappeared. Reyes is convinced that this bearded man is responsible for all the murders attributed to Fassl. They can prove it by comparing the evidence from the Sing Sing murder to the ones in 1989. Yet Scully reveals that the 1989 DNA evidence needs to be thrown out. It had been planted to convict Bob Fassl. Doggett confronts Duke, who admits to framing Fassl in their initial investigation. Duke is troubled that he helped put an innocent man behind bars. Damon Kaylor comes to Fain’s house to tell Fassl about the settlement, but Fassl asks to be sent back to prison. The bearded man appears, and stabs Kaylor with a screwdriver. Fassl dismembers Kaylor, wraps the body parts in a tarp and hides the remains in an underground sewer tunnel. The next day, Reyes questions Fassl about Kaylor. Fain interjects that her client had nothing to do with the Assistant District Attorney’s disappearance. Reyes shows Fassl the photograph of the bearded man, and Fassl begins frantically praying with his rosary beads. Scully tries to appeal to his faith, asking Fassl to tell them about the bearded man in the photo. Fassl begins to cry, and Fain quickly ushers him out of the room. Reyes suggests to Scully and Doggett that perhaps Fassl is such a devout Catholic that he can’t even admit that he has a sinful side. That other side of him may have manifested itself into a whole different personality that has its own physical traits. This might explain the DNA profiles not matching perfectly. Back at Fain’s house, the bearded man beats up Fassl in an attempt to have him kill Fain. When Fain enters the room, the bearded man is gone. She turns around, and the bearded man appears. She gasps in fear. Doggett and Reyes sit outside Fain’s house in surveillance. He sees the bearded man leaving through the front door and chases him to the backyard. Fain tells Reyes that somehow Fassl disappeared and the bearded man was there. Doggett comes upon a manhole cover used for cable access, and he and Reyes descend into the

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underground tunnel. Suddenly, the bearded man appears and strikes Reyes to the ground. Doggett fires as the man runs off. Doggett and Reyes follow him, but separate at a fork in the tunnel. Reyes falls through a grate and lands in a culvert filled with water. With her flashlight, she spots the head of Damon Kaylor. She also sees the skulls and bones of well more than the seven victims known about. Reyes calls out for Doggett. When he turns around, Doggett is stabbed in the shoulder by a screwdriver. Doggett drops his gun. Reyes rushes up and finds the bearded man holding a screwdriver at Doggett’s neck. She tells the bearded man that she knows that he is Fassl, and that Fassl is a murderer and a sinner. The bearded man tells Reyes to shut up, and Doggett escapes his grasp. Reyes fires a shot at the bearded man, who falls into the water. Doggett turns over the body – it is Bob Fassl. Scully informs Fain that the maid, Kaylor and many other bodies were found in the sewer. Fain can’t understand why she saw a bearded man. Doggett tells Reyes that he can not accept everything that has surfaced with the Fassl case because it’s not the way his mind works. Reyes says that what he believed was enough to close the case. “What happens next time?” Doggett asks.

Improbable Production Code: #9ABX14 Original Air Date: 04/07/02 Written and Directed by Chris Carter THE AGENTS RELY ON NUMEROLOGY, THEIR POWERS OF DEDUCTION AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER TO HELP CATCH A SERIAL KILLER.

At a casino, a dealer shuffles a deck for a group of hard−core gamblers. One of the gamblers with a prison−style tattoo on his hand, Mad Wayne, reaches for his hand and folds angrily. He gets up from the table and walks through the casino, approaching a woman at a slot machine. Mad Wayne only stares at her and moves off. Watching from across the room is Mr. Burt, playing solitaire at the bar. Mr. Burt nonchalantly says to the bartender, “Seven seven, pack of Morleys.” Mad Wayne sits next to him at the bar and orders exactly what Mr. Burt predicted. Mr. Burt strikes up a conversation parceled with gambling odds and motions to the woman at the slot machine. When she heads for the ladies room, Wayne gets off the barstool to follow her. Mr. Burt stops him, indirectly cautioning him to not do what he’s intending to do, but Wayne ignores this and goes to her. A casino patron screams that a woman has been murdered in the bathroom. Mr. Burt doesn’t even flinch at the turn of events. He flips another card in his solitaire game to reveal the Ace of spades – the death card.

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Agent Reyes reads a newspaper article about the casino murder in the X−Files office. She is staring at some case files and rambling numbers when Scully enters. Reyes shows Scully a photo of a murdered woman and lists the woman’s birthdate. Then she does the same for two other similar cases, informing Scully that the victims all had significant karmic numbers. Scully dismisses numerology as child’s play, but she sees a connection in the photos – all the women had the same mark on their bodies. It could be from the killer’s ring. Mad Wayne gets dressed in his dark apartment, putting on a large ring with a devil’s face. He sees out of his window that Mr. Burt is on the street working a three−card Monte scam. Mr. Burt smiles and nods at Wayne, lip−synching to music. The other people on the street are clustered in threes, moving to the beat of the music in an accidental symphony. Wayne threatens Mr. Burt to stop following him, but Mr. Burt is confident that it doesn’t fit Wayne’s “pattern.” When Mr. Burt implores Wayne to “choose better,” Wayne becomes agitated and turns over the card table. Reyes visits with a numerologist named Vicki Burdick who resides in a hotel suite numbered 33. Although reluctant to get involved, Burdick agrees to help when Reyes shows her photos of the murdered women. Reyes gets a call from Doggett with news that two more victims surfaced with the distinctive ring marks. She meets him and Scully at the FBI’s behavioral science office, where Special Agent Fordyce briefs his task force. After three murders in 1999 and the three current ones, they have determined that the killer is working in patterns. Yet they don’t know how he chooses his victims, why he kills and if he’ll kill again or disappear like he did previously. They call him the Triple Zero killer because of the three circular marks on the victims. When Fordyce asks for Reyes’ insight, she begins to list the numerological characteristics of the suspect. The room of agents stares at her dumbfounded. The silent room is awakened Reyes’ cell phone rings, and Burdick tells her that she has uncovered something strange in the numerology charts. Suddenly, Burdick’s front door opens. It’s Mad Wayne. Later, Fordyce questions Reyes at the crime scene of Burdick’s hotel room. Although Reyes told no one else about consulting Burdick, how did the killer find her and kill her? Fordyce chides Reyes for consulting with a numerologist because a killer acts on incomprehensible impulses. Yet Reyes questions whether these impulses may be the result of otherworldly things that no one understands. Outside the hotel, Mr. Burt is holding a domino tile with six dots when Mad Wayne approaches. As Doggett passes the table, Mr. Burt sets the chain reaction of dominos to fall. Mad Wayne asks Mr. Burt why he is trying to get him caught. Annoyed

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with Mr. Burt’s insouciance, Wayne walks off to avoid the police surrounding the hotel. Scully begins her autopsy of Burdick’s body at 6:06 pm. The tools of her trade have been laid out for her in groups of six. She notices that Burdick’s bangs are in the shape of three “6”s on her forehead. Six freckles on Burdick’s chest are in the formation of dots on a domino. Scully grabs her microcassette recorder and is spooked that the counter reads “666.” Scully rushes to the hotel to inform Reyes that the markings on the victims are not three zeros, but the numbers “666,” which is the sign of the devil. Reyes has discovered that the victims’ numerology charts actually matched Burdick’s chart. However, none of this information gets them any closer to find the killer. Fordyce’s profile is no help either, matching every serial killer the FBI has hunted. Doggett starts to believe Reyes’ numerology claims when he notices on a map that the path of the murders forms the number 6. As Scully and Reyes leave the hotel, they share an elevator car with Mad Wayne. As they step out, Scully notices the large devil ring on his finger and pulls her gun. Wayne darts back into the elevator, and the agents follow him on the stairs to the underground parking garage. A car exits as they are left trapped in the locked garage. They try to use their cell phones, but can’t get reception in the garage. Scully and Reyes come upon Mr. Burt, who has no identification on him. However, his car trunk is filled with thousands of compact disks and a checkerboard. After failed attempts to shoot the lock off the garage door, they agree to his invitation to play checkers and listen to music. While the agents play each other, they realize that the red and black checkers match their hair colors. It then occurs to them that the suspect has been killing in a succession of three hair colors: blond, redhead, then brunette. Reyes wonders if they will be his next victims, and Scully instinctively pulls her gun on Mr. Burt. While Scully and Reyes debate about numerology’s role in these murders and the theory that higher forces move the universe, Mr. Burt only eggs on their discourse. When Reyes suggests that perhaps the killer is still in the garage, the lights suddenly go out. They separate, and Scully does not hear Reyes struggle with Mad Wayne. Three shots ring out, and the lights go back on to reveal that Doggett has fired at Mad Wayne and saved Reyes. He figured out from Wayne’s pattern that Scully and Reyes would be the next victims. Scully tries to ask Wayne about his motive, but the man dies. Mr. Burt, however, has vanished. Later, at 9:09 pm, Scully calls Reyes to ask what her karmic number is. Reyes tells her that she’s a 9, meaning she is a spiritually evolved person. Yet Scully has one other burning question: who was Mr. Burt? “God knows,” Reyes answers. Outside the hotel, an Italian feast is being celebrated as the people happily dance in the

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Scary Monsters Production Code: #9ABX12 Original Air Date: 04/14/02 Written by Tom Schnauz Directed by Dwight Little MONSTERS HIDING UNDER A LITTLE BOY’S BED MAY BE MORE THAN JUST THE PRODUCT OF A VIVID IMAGINATION.

Eight−year old Tommy Conlon lies awake at night in Fairhope, Pennsylvania, when he hears a scratching noise coming from underneath his bed. He yells for his father, who comes into the bedroom. Jeffrey Conlon checks under the bed and sees something scurry across the floor. Yet he assures his son that there is nothing there, and Conlon leaves. Tommy hears the noise again and darts for the door. Despite Tommy’s cries, Conlon holds the doorknob on the outside to keep his son from opening it. At Quantico, Scully is approached by Agent Leyla Harrison (from #8ABX19) who wants to discuss a case that she thinks might be an X−File. A boy named Tommy Conlon told his grandmother that he believes a monster had killed his mother and that his father is well aware of this. Harrison questions why the coroner had found that the mother stabbed herself sixteen times. Strangely, Tommy’s cat was also killed. Despite Harrison’s plea, Scully dismisses her. Later, Scully receives a call from Reyes who is headed to Pennsylvania with Doggett and Harrison. When Scully tells her that there is no case, Doggett turns the car around and heads back home. Harrison persists, however, and asks them to at least check out whether the little boy is in danger. Doggett turns the car around once again toward the Conlon home. When the agents pull up, Conlon, who has been digging, hides the shovel in his pickup truck. Reyes asks to speak with Tommy, but Conlon is resistant. Hearing voices, Tommy comes out of the house. Harrison mentions that his grandmother told her about the monsters. “No such thing as monsters,” Tommy says meekly, and Conlon sends the agents away. As Harrison apologizes, Doggett and Reyes conclude that something is indeed suspicious. Doggett had noticed blood on the man’s hand and an evidence of digging. The agents get in the car to seek a search warrant, but the car does not start. Suddenly, blood spits out from the air vents and splatters them. They check under the hood. All of the wiring is mangled and covered in blood. Inside the house, Tommy tells his father that the monsters won’t let the agents leave. Later that night, Harrison’s friend Gabe Rotter brings Tommy’s dead cat to Scully’s apartment. On

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Harrison’s behest, Rotter had dug it up from Conlon’s previous house. Scully begins to wonder if Harrison really does have an X−File. She autopsies the animal and learns that it took its own life. Yet it appears as if the cat were trying to get at something in its stomach to chew it out. Scully manages to contact a sheriff in Fairhope and asks him to check on the safety of her colleagues who are missing. The sheriff knows the Conlon house because he was asked by the grandmother to check up on Tommy the previous week. Conlon had threatened the sheriff off his property. Inside the Conlon house, Reyes can not make a call from her cell phone even though it has full reception. With their car inoperative, the agents are stuck there for the night, but they believe that being there will help protect the boy. When they hear Tommy’s cries, they find Conlon holding a door closed with Tommy trapped inside. They open the door to find three creatures crawling on the floor. Although Doggett fires at one, it regenerates into two new creatures. The creatures disappear into the tiny seam beneath the wall’s molding, and Doggett can’t find any trace of them in the house. Later, as Tommy calmly draws a picture of him standing next to Reyes, he tells the agents that those creatures are what hurt his mother. Doggett interrogates Conlon, who explains that the creatures attacked him as well and that they won’t stop until they have killed everyone. Doggett orders Conlon to pack up his son so that they can all escape the house, but Conlon is insistent that the monsters will not let them leave. The sheriff arrives, but tells the agents that they can’t go because of the cold. Suddenly, the sheriff pulls out a gun, and Doggett fights him off. Yet when Doggett throws a punch to the man’s ribs, his fist punctures right through the sheriff’s chest and leaves a gaping hole. The dead sheriff, however, has no internal organs and the blood in his body is not real. Doggett questions Conlon, but the man says that he locked Tommy in the room with the creatures because he knew they wouldn’t hurt him. Upstairs, Tommy shows Reyes a picture that he made of the monsters attacking her. She asks why he would draw such a thing. “Because I’m afraid,” he says. Scully becomes alarmed when she can’t get through to the sheriff and she drives to Pennsylvania with Gabe. She finds the sheriff very much alive. He tells her that he tried to get to the Conlon house but that the roads were too dangerous. As Doggett and Harrison realize that the body of the sheriff has disappeared, Reyes comes down the stairs clutching her belly. The creatures writhe around under the skin of her abdomen. She tells them that it is Tommy doing it. Conlon explains that he can’t make his son stop imagining things when he is afraid. Doggett heads upstairs to confront Tommy, but when he follows the boy to his closed

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room, Doggett falls into a black void. He lands at the bottom and is attacked by dozens of the creatures. They cover his body. While Reyes squirms in pain, Harrison begs Conlon for help. She suddenly bleeds from her eyes. Conlon goes upstairs to his son and is stopped by Doggett. Doggett tells him that none of these things are really happening. Conlon’s wife believed it was real and stabbed herself to death. Since Doggett did not believe it entirely, he could not be harmed. Tommy calls for his father, but Conlon does not respond. Tommy looks out the window to see Conlon and Doggett aiding Reyes and Harrison to the car. Doggett returns to the house and spreads gasoline on the floor. Tommy comes downstairs and accuses Doggett of trying to scare him. Yet Doggett tosses a match on the ground to taunt the boy, and the living room lights up in flames. For the first time, Tommy begins to feel fear. At the same time, Reyes and Harrison are miraculously healed. As they rush to the house, Scully arrives with Gabe in a snowplow. The house is unharmed and Tommy has passed out. Doggett had only drenched the room with water, but Tommy imagined otherwise. Back at the FBI, Harrison innocently praises Doggett for saving their lives with his lack of imagination. Reyes tells Scully and Harrison that psychiatrists have figured out a way to stifle Tommy’s imagination. In the hospital, Tommy sits in a cell before a bank of television sets playing a cacophony of shows at the same time. He has a blank stare, watching as if he has been lobotomized.

Jump the Shark Production Code: #9ABX15 Original Air Date: 04/21/02 Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Cliff Bole WHEN MORRIS FLETCHER APPROACHES THE AGENTS WITH INFORMATION RELATED TO SUPERSOLDIERS, THEY TURN TO THE LONE GUNMEN. THE GUNMEN, HOWEVER, ARE KNEE−DEEP IN A BIO TERRORIST’S PLOT TO RELEASE A DEADLY TOXIN.

Aboard a private yacht anchored in the Caribbean, former Man in Black Morris Fletcher charms a beautiful but empty−headed woman and pulls at the knot securing her bikini. Suddenly, the sound of a racing engine is heard in the distance. Three Bahamian men board Fletcher’s boat, abduct the girl and pour gasoline on the deck. One of the men ignites a road flare and tosses it on board. Fletcher dives into the water moments before a massive explosion destroys the craft. Fluttering down in the debris are schematics for a flying saucer. The Coast Guard rescues Fletcher, who requests Reyes and Doggett’s presence. Fletcher claims to have been

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freelancing for a foreign billionaire after convincing him that the Air Force lost a UFO over the Bermuda Triangle. In reality, Fletcher was only interested in cruising the Bahamas. The billionaire found out about Fletcher’s scheme and now wants him dead. The agents don’t believe his story and begin to leave. But when Fletcher claims to have information about a Super Soldier, the agents’ interests are piqued. Reyes and Doggett show up at the Lone Gunmen offices with a photograph of Fletcher’s alleged Super Soldier. The stunned Gunmen immediately identify her as Yves Adele Harlow, a fellow hacker who disappeared a year earlier, and they refuse to believe the tale about her being a Super Soldier. They become even more outraged when they realize that Fletcher – a scam artist who used them to track down Yves once before – is behind it all. But Reyes and Doggett are less reluctant to dismiss Fletcher’s story. If true, it would make it more difficult for Mulder to return and would place Scully’s baby in further jeopardy. On a college campus, Yves enters the office of biology Professor Houghton. She fires a futuristic− looking pistol at him, then disappears out a window. An administrator named John Gillnitz finds Houghton’s body with a gaping wound across the middle of its chest. Jimmy Bond shows up at the Gunmen offices unexpectedly. He tells the group that he’d been tracking Yves for some time. He confirms Fletcher’s claim that Yves’ real name is Lois Runce. But Jimmy is saddened to give them the news that Yves murdered a college professor. Meanwhile, Yves uses a furnace to incinerate an unidentified human organ that is vacuum−packed in plastic. The agents speak with Gillnitz, who explains that Houghton was a marine immunologist experimenting with sharks because their remarkable immune system allows poisons to pass right through them. Meanwhile, Kimmy the Geek helps the Gunmen out by using his hacking expertise. He is trying to pinpoint Yves’ whereabouts. A medical examiner tells Reyes and Doggett that he discovered some type of cartilage grafted into Houghton’s body. The Gunmen locate Yves inside a hotel where they believe she is stalking a bald man. The Gunmen rush into the man’s room, alerting the apparent victim. The man escapes. The Gunmen handcuff Yves, only to be told they’ve “mucked up” her operation. She confirms that she is not a Super Soldier. Unless she’s allowed to finish what she started, innocent people will die. The Gunmen then realize that Fletcher is wearing a homing device which he planned to activate once Yves was found. Fletcher had been out to find her from the very beginning at the behest of her father, an international arms dealer and renowned “scum of the earth.” Yves explains that the man she killed

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was a terrorist whose research was funded by her father. It turns out that Houghton developed a means of keeping himself alive after having been infected with an engineered virus meant to kill many people. Only one other such terrorist remains alive – the bald man that Yves tried to kill and the Gunmen helped escape. The vessel inside the bald man will decay at precisely eight o’clock that evening. With some help from Kimmy, the Gunmen are able to determine where the bald man named Leonard Southhall is headed. When the bald man is captured, Doggett runs extensive medical testing, but he can find no sign of a virus−carrying vessel within his body. Yves insists, however, that there must be a second man carrying the virus. The bald man was only a decoy. The second man, it turns out, is John Gillnitz, who is about to attend an international bioethics forum at eight o’clock that evening. Yves, Jimmy and the Gunmen race to the forum. When they are stopped by a security guard, Jimmy calls out Gillnitz’s name. Gillnitz leaves his seat and makes his way to a far exit. The Gunmen and the others give chase. The Lone Gunmen get to Gillnitz first, and because it is nearly time for the virus to be detonated, they take him to a secure area with locked exits. The virus can not escape. Unfortunately, they are locked in with him. Jimmy and Yves come up, in time to see the lockdown, and they frantically try to get the boys out. They know this and are resolved to their fate. Jimmy’s eyes well with tears as everyone says their last good byes. Three caskets lay atop their burial plots in Arlington Cemetery. Skinner had pulled some strings to get the Gunmen in there because he felt it was the least he could do. Skinner, Doggett, Reyes, Scully, Jimmy and Yves are all there, paying their last respects. Kimmy the Geek is also saddened by the loss. Scully stands alone beside Yves and Jimmy. She wonders if the Gunmen really knew how much they meant to her. Jimmy states that nobody knew what heroes they truly were. Scully asks Jimmy and Yves whether they consider themselves better persons for having known the Gunmen. They nod. Scully says that the Gunmen will always be with them.

William Production Code: #9ABX17 Original Air Date: 04/28/02 Teleplay by Chris Carter Story by David Duchovny, Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by David Duchovny SCULLY QUESTIONS WHETHER A DISFIGURED MAN IS REALLY MULDER, BUT THINGS BECOME EVEN

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At a remote farm house, a husband and wife eager to adopt a child meet with two social workers. As the husband finishes signing documents finalizing the process, the social workers introduce the couple to their son: Baby William. Outside Scully’s apartment, a figure with raspy inhalations (“The Breather”), watches from afar as Scully lifts her son William out of the car and carries him into the apartment building. Later, at the Bureau, Agent Doggett enters the darkened X−Files office only to encounter The Breather. A fight ensues, during which The Breather gains the upper hand. But before The Breather can escape, Doggett grabs his gun and orders the mysterious man to place his hands in the air. The Breather complies, and for the first time we get a good look at his disfigured face. Scully is called to the office, where Doggett briefs her on the case. The Breather says that his real name is Daniel Miller. He also claims that he entered the FBI building by using an access card that Mulder gave to him. He is searching for answers about his disfigurement, which he blames on the government’s secret research. The agents quiz their captive about Mulder, and it soon becomes apparent that he’s intimately familiar with Mulder’s life. Scully removes various prostheses covering The Breather’s face. The Breather tells her that his scars are the result of being injected with an unknown substance. Meanwhile, Doggett attempts to verify The Breather’s claim that his name is Daniel Miller. When he is unable to do so, he begins to suspect that the Breather may in fact be Mulder. Scully, however, refuses to believe this is true. Scully tells The Breather that the FBI knows his name isn’t Daniel Miller. He confirms this is true – but refuses to divulge his real name. Scully runs a DNA test, hoping it will definitively answer questions about The Breather’s identity. The Breather then claims that his scars are the result of the government’s failed attempt to turn him into an alien. When The Breather tells the agents the files he was looking for were not in the X−Files office, Scully admits that she removed them. Scully, Reyes and The Breather make their way to Scully’s apartment, where The Breather asks to hold Scully’s baby. She allows him to do so. Later, Scully tells Reyes and Doggett that Mulder knew that the files were stored in her apartment – casting doubt on Doggett’s theory that Mulder is The Breather. Later, Doggett shows up at the apartment with results from the DNA test – which prove that Mulder is The Breather. But Scully refuses to believe this. The Breather suddenly runs off and Doggett gives chase. The Breather briefly takes refuge behind a dumpster before he’s caught. Doggett and Reyes bring The Breather back to Scully’s apartment, where he’s handed two pills to help him sleep. But The Breather doesn’t swallow them. Instead, he

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sneaks into the baby’s room and injects William with an unknown liquid. Later, Scully discovers a little blood on William’s sheets and she and realizes something’s wrong. She rushes the child to a hospital, but doctors cannot find anything out of the ordinary. Scully puts the pieces of the puzzle together and confronts The Breather. He reveals that he is not Mulder, but Mulder’s half−brother, Jeffrey Spender, whom the Cigarette−Smoking Man shot in the X−Files office years earlier. Spender’s relation to Mulder explains why the DNA test was fooled. The Breather explains that he injected William with a metallic liquid that turned off his alien qualities. As William is the one thing the aliens need, Spender achieved revenge against his father by transforming the child into a normal human being. But The Breather warns that, as long as the aliens know where William lives, he will never be safe. The scene returns to the opening teaser, where the couple is adjusting to their newest addition. The husband hangs a hand−carved mobile of some buffalo over the baby’s crib. After the father leaves the room, William reaches up, but the mobile does not spin on its own.

Release Production Code: #9ABX16 Original Air Date: 05/05/02 Teleplay by David Amann Story by David Amann and John Shiban Directed by Kim Manners ONE OF SCULLY’S STUDENTS DISPLAYS AN INORDINATE ABILITY TO PROFILE SERIAL KILLERS, AND HIS INSIGHTS RE−OPEN THE MURDER CASE OF DOGGETT’S SON.

Doggett makes his way inside an abandoned apartment building in a deserted part of town. A figure bolts out of one of the rooms and flees into the night. Shortly thereafter, Doggett hears a scratching sound and steps up to a wall, which is wet with plaster. He claws away at the plaster until ribbons of red blood begin streaming downward. With some help from morgue assistant Diener, Scully performs an autopsy on the body Doggett found behind the wet plaster. She reviews her findings with her class of FBI cadets. One of the cadets, Rudolph Hayes, accurately surmises that the victim, a female with a large quantity of alcohol in her bloodstream, hooked up with the wrong man at a bar. Using Hayes’ uncanny insights, Scully realizes that the Jane Doe’s murder is connected to another killing that took place two weeks earlier. When Doggett learns this, he wonders why someone would have tipped him off about the murder to begin with, as it is clearly not an X−Files case. Later, Doggett and Reyes approach Hayes at an FBI facility designed for studying body composition. Hayes tells

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them the killer they are looking for is a felon linked to organized crime. This contradicts the profile that the agents had put together. Aided by Hayes’ profile, Reyes and Doggett travel to a bar where they question Nicholas Regali, a tough mobster who claims he’s in town looking for work. Hayes’ intuition about Regali proves correct. Meanwhile, Hayes returns to his apartment, the walls of which are covered with crime scene photos of murder victims. One of them is Doggett’s son. Doggett is so impressed by Hayes’ gift for solving crimes that he asks him to look into his son’s murder. Hayes takes Doggett to his apartment and shows him the photographs that cover the walls. He tells Doggett that if he sits very quietly, the photographs tell him things. Hayes also admits that he has been following the case of Doggett’s son for a very long time. He then shows Doggett a mug shot of a man named Robert Harvey, a suspect in the murder. Hayes believes that Harvey abducted Doggett’s son, but that Regali killed him. A short time later, Doggett approaches Brad Follmer, who used to work in the FBI’s New York organized crime division, and asks him to look into any connection between Regali and Robert Harvey. Doggett goes to his ex−wife, Barbara. Since she was nearby when their son was abducted, Doggett hopes that she will be able to identify the killer from a police lineup. Barbara is reluctant, but nonetheless complies. However, she does not recognize Regali. Meanwhile, Scully finds similarities between the wounds inflicted on Doggett’s son nine years earlier and those found on the bodies of the two women. Later, Follmer arranges for Doggett to have access to files pulled from the New York task force investigation of Regali. Doggett finds it odd that despite Regali’s connection to numerous illegal activities, he has served little jail time since the late 80s. Doggett begins to suspect that someone within the FBI is on the take. Later, Reyes approaches Follmer and tells him that she witnessed him taking money from a mobster many years earlier. Follmer insists that what Reyes saw was him giving money to a police informant, a transaction documented in FBI files. Follmer then tells Reyes and Doggett that Rudolph Hayes died in an automobile accident in 1978. Cadet Hayes’ real name is really Stuart Mimms, a mental patient. Follmer also uncovers evidence that Mimms had been living in New York City at the time Doggett’s son was murdered. A SWAT team storms Mimm’s apartment and takes him into custody. Mimms is placed in a police lineup. Barbara identifies him. Follmer has a secret meeting with Regali. As they converse, it becomes clear that Follmer took money from Regali to make an indictment go away. Mimms tells Scully that he was drawn to the Doggett case only after he noticed an article about the boy’s murder in a newspaper. He claims he lied to the FBI to become a cadet so that he could have access to the Bureau’s

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inner workings and help them solve the case. He then tells Doggett that Regali murdered young Luke Doggett. Doggett approaches Regali at the bar. Regali tells him a “hypothetical” story, one in which a pedophile walks off with a young boy and brings him back to a mobster’s home. The mobster walks in on the pedophile, and the young boy sees the mobster’s face. Fearing the young boy might associate him with the crime, the mobster has him killed. Regali then rises and walks towards the exit. Filled with rage, Doggett unsnaps his holster. As Regali steps outside, a gunshot rings out. But it turns out that Follmer – not Doggett – fired the round, which kills Regali. The mystery of their son’s death now closed, Doggett and his wife make their way to a beach and scatter their son’s ashes into the water.

Sunshine Days Production Code: #9ABX18 Original Air Date: 05/12/02 Written and Directed by Vince Gilligan. ONE MAN’S OBSESSION WITH A 1970s SITCOM COMBINED WITH HIS REMARKABLE TELEKINETIC ABILITY LEAD THE AGENTS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE DISCOVERED PROOF FOR THE ULTIMATE X− FILE.

In Van Nuys, California, two young slackers, Blake and Mike, sit on the hood of an old car and enjoy a beer. Blake tells his friend that nearby is the house used to shoot the 1970s television series The Brady Bunch. Mike strongly disagrees with the claim, and a few moments later both men sneak inside the house for a better look. Mike is stunned to realize that the interior of the house is exactly like the home from the TV show. A football bounces down the staircase. Blake picks it up, remembering an episode in which the character Marcia broke her nose after being hit in the face with a football. Freaked out, Mike runs off. But Blake walks up the staircase, where he comes face to face with two young children who resemble two other character, Bobby and Cindy. Suddenly, Blake’s body crashes down onto the roof of the car Mike is sitting in. Doggett and Reyes investigate the strange death, made all the more bizarre by Mike’s claim that his friend was murdered after venturing inside the Brady Bunch house. The agents escort Mike to the front door of the home, where they speak with the owner, Oliver Martin. At first, Martin does not give them permission to enter the dwelling. But when Doggett threatens to get a search warrant, Martin relents and allows the agents to enter. Mike is flabbergasted when he realizes the inside of the house looks nothing like the Bradys’ place. Sensing something is amiss, Doggett makes his way to

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Martin’s trash can, which contains a pile of asphalt shingles. Doggett realizes that the roof of the home has been freshly patched. He begins to speculate that Blake somehow flew through the roof. While performing an autopsy on Blake’s body, Scully notices static electricity emanating from a steel scalpel. She informs Doggett and Reyes that she hooked an EEG machine to Blake’s body and found evidence of residual electricity, but that she isn’t sure what that means. Mike sneaks to the front of Martin’s house and peers through a small crack between the curtains. He sees six kids – three girls and three boys – having dinner with a mother and a father. A woman in blue carries a casserole dish to the table. Mike bursts through the front door, but the family has disappeared. Mike then advances on Oliver, only to find himself floating in the air. Suddenly, he rockets upward and crashes through the ceiling. Scully arranges a meeting with Dr. John Rietz, a parapsychologist who documented the strange case of “Oliver Martin” in 1970. Oliver’s name then was Anthony Fogelman. Fogelman was dubbed the “Mozart of psychokinesis.” He possesses otherworldly powers that allow him to move objects with his mind. Rietz describes Fogelman as “a lonely little boy.” As Fogelman grew up, his powers faded. Rietz phones Fogleman’s home in an attempt to set up a meeting with him. Instead, the answering machine picks up. A short time later, the agents realize that “Oliver Martin” was the name of Carol Brady’s nephew, who lived with the Brady family during the show’s last season. The character was something of a pest and jinx. Scully wonders if that’s how Fogelman views himself. Before the case goes any further, Scully suggests that Fogelman needs to be studied because his powers could help expand human knowledge and change the world. Doggett and Reitz enter Fogleman’s house and Doggett is levitated off the floor before crashing through the ceiling. When Doggett regains consciousness, he realizes he’s stuck upside down in the attic of the house, which served as Greg Brady’s bedroom in the show. As Doggett calls for help, Rietz tries reasoning with Fogelman and urges him to relax. Suddenly, Doggett crashes through the hallway ceiling. Later, the agents meet with Oliver, who says he simply thinks about things and places. They then appear in real life. To prove his point, Oliver concentrates for a few seconds and the Brady Bunch living room transforms into scenic grasslands. Amazed, Scully asks Oliver to come to Washington so that scientists can learn more about him. But as Oliver prepares to leave the house, a wave of electricity crawls over his wrist and hand, indicating something is very wrong. The agents escort Oliver to the FBI, where Oliver demonstrates his enormous power by levitating Skinner in the air. A scientist, Dr. Henry Jacocks, looks on, amazed at the sight. Skinner tells

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the agents that Oliver’s discovery will ensure that the X−Files will never be shut down. But later, Oliver experiences a seizure and is rushed to a hospital. It turns out that Oliver actually suffers from a multi− system organ failure. Doctors try everything in their power to save him, but nothing seems to work. When Doggett wonders why Fogelman chose the Brady Bunch, Reyes concludes that the Bradys are the family that everyone wishes they had. Eventually, Rietz realizes that Fogelman was happiest when he was around. Rietz represented a father figure to him. Rietz apologizes to Fogelman for treating him like a lab rat, and he makes Fogelman promise to never again use his powers.

The Truth Production Codes: #9ABX19/20 Original Air Date: 05/19/02 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Kim Manners MULDER’S RETURN LEADS TO HIS BEING TRIED BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL THAT SEEKS TO JUSTIFY AND PROVE THE VERY EXISTENCE OF AN ALIEN CONSPIRACY – AND THE X−FILES.

At the Mount Weather complex in Bluemont, Virginia, Mulder surreptitiously makes his way through a maze of corridors until he locates a data room containing a computer terminal. Mulder punches in an access code, but before he’s able to proceed much further, super−soldier Knowle Rohrer appears and a fight ensues. The superhumanly strong Rohrer tosses Mulder through a large glass screen. Mulder picks himself up and heads for an exit, only to encounter Alex Krycek, who was formerly thought to be dead. Krycek helps Mulder escape, but during another encounter with Rohrer, Mulder gains the advantage and tosses Rohrer over a railing, sending the Super Soldier crashing into electrical wires. Moments later, military officers take Mulder into custody. Mulder is placed in a military brig and brutally interrogated by a guard. Meanwhile, Scully and Skinner receive word that Mulder is being held indefinitely for Rohrer’s murder. When Scully and Skinner meet with Mulder, it appears as if he’s been beaten into submission. On Scully’s behalf, Kersh approaches General Suveg and asks that Mulder be treated fairly and humanely. Suveg responds by allowing the FBI to conduct its own hearing within the confines of a military court. Later, Scully and Skinner return to Mulder’s cell, only to realize that Mulder has returned with his usual wit. He had only been putting on an act during her first visit. Mulder kisses Scully passionately. He asks Skinner to act as his defense attorney because he is intimately familiar with the details of both the government conspiracy and the alien invasion. Moments later,

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Reyes and Doggett join the group. Doggett relays word that the government has possession of Rohrer’s body. Scully asks Mulder why he was inside the secret facility at Mount Weather. Mulder refuses to shed light on the subject. Mulder’s trial gets underway in the military courtroom. The prosecution is headed by Special Agent Kallenbrunner, who worked as a federal prosecutor before joining the FBI. Kallenbrunner does not call any witnesses. Instead, he offers the sworn testimony of thirty witnesses who saw Mulder kill Rohrer. Since Skinner’s central witness, Marita Covarrubias, cannot be immediately located, he calls Scully to the stand. She describes how a meteor crashed to earth in prehistoric times, bringing with it not only the building blocks of life, but an alien virus that lay dormant for thousands of years. The U.S. government learned of its existence in 1947 when a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The virus, which thrived in petroleum oil deposits, communicated with spacecrafts. When the government studied the alien technology in the crashed UFO, it learned of the alien plan to colonize Earth. The government then set about creating a breed of human/alien hybrids that the aliens would use as a slave race. Skinner then calls Mulder’s half−brother, Jeffrey Spender, to the stand. He explains that the aliens distrusted their human collaborators and forced members of the conspiracy to hand over family members as human collateral. Mulder’s sister, Samantha, vanished as a result. Mulder spent many years attempting to track her down, but she was experimented upon and died in 1987. Meanwhile, in the New Mexico desert, a young boy warns Gibson Praise that Mulder is in serious trouble. Back at the military brig, X shows up unexpectedly. He gives Mulder a piece of paper containing Marita Covarrubias’ address. Covarrubias is brought to the court and testifies that she conspired with members of the Syndicate to develop an alien virus vaccine before the Russians developed one. But Covarrubias was turned into a test subject and grew to hate the men she once worked for. She explains that a group of renegade, faceless aliens destroyed a vaccine that the Syndicate was creating. These same renegades killed off members of the once−powerful Syndicate. Despite protests from Mulder, Skinner introduces Gibson Praise as a witness. Skinner explains that Gibson possesses the ability to read people’s minds, caused by the byproduct of functional junk DNA believed to be of alien origin. Gibson turns his attention to a panel judge and tells everyone in attendance that the man is not human. Guards surround an irate Mulder and pull him from the courtroom. Skinner calls Doggett to the witness stand. Though a self−described skeptic, Doggett believes in the existence of a secret military project that

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developed Super Soldiers, a group of seemingly indestructible men. Knowle Rohrer was one of them. Doggett also believes that Rohrer cannot be dead because a Super Solider can only be killed using a form of magnetite brought to Earth by a falling meteor. Monica Reyes takes the witness stand next. She describes how she protected a pregnant Scully by driving her to a remote location in Georgia. Reyes later came to learn that Scully was one of a number of random women who had been abducted by the government as part of a program to secretly manipulate their biology in hopes of producing a slave race of aliens. Scully later gave up her baby for adoption in hopes of protecting it. Doggett informs Scully and Reyes that Knowle Rohrer’s body is being sent to Quantico. Scully performs a preliminary examination of the badly− burned corpse. She requests medical records so that she can identify the body. Later, Scully enters the military courtroom and presents her findings. The corpse is not Rohrer, but another man whose neck was broken. Kersh rules that Scully did not have authorization to perform such an autopsy, and he orders her removed from the courtroom. Shortly thereafter, Mulder is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die by lethal injection. Skinner and Doggett gain access to Mulder’s cell and help Mulder escape. But the very−much−alive Knowle Rohrer discovers the plan, and orders the building be sealed off. Kersh comes to their aid, and once Mulder has escaped from the building, Kersh tells him to head north to Canada with Scully. They instead drive south. Meanwhile, Doggett and Reyes discover that the X−Files office has been emptied. Skinner concludes that the government is punishing them for taking Mulder’s side during the trial. A short time later, Gibson Praise tells Reyes, Doggett and Skinner that the aliens working within the government are aware that Mulder is not headed to Canada. When this faction finds Mulder and Scully, they will kill them. With some help from the presumed−dead Lone Gunmen, Mulder and Scully drive to the Texas−New Mexico border and head for some Pueblo ruins, mysteriously abandoned by Anasazi Indians two thousand years earlier. Mulder explains that he had been sent a message and a key to the government facility at Mount Weather by an Indian. The Indian said it came from a wise man who lives among in the ruins – the keeper of the truth. An old woman leads the agents to a room, where the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM) sits. CSM explains that aliens fear the ruins for its geology. It contains high levels of magnetite, the same metal that brought down the original UFO in Roswell decades earlier. Indian wise men hid on the site to protect themselves from the aliens. CSM says that the date of the final alien invasion will be December 22, 2012 – the same date

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that Mayan calendars stopped at some ten centuries earlier. Doggett and Reyes arrive at the site, only to see Knowle Rohrer step out of a nearby van. Doggett shoots at Rohrer repeatedly, but the bullets are ineffective. Suddenly, Rohrer begins to vibrate and his body is hurled to the magnetite wall. Rohrer disintegrates. Military helicopters appear on the horizon as Mulder and Scully jump into Rohrer’s van and drive off. Doggett and Reyes also make their escape while the helicopters blast the pueblo with rockets, killing CSM in the process. Inside a Roswell motel room, Mulder and Scully discuss their situation. Mulder believes that, although he succeeded in showing Scully the truth and changed her from skeptic to believer, he’s failed at everything else he set out to do. He wants to believe that the dead speak to the living, which is apparently what he encountered with Krycek, X and the Lone Gunmen. He believes that if he and Scully can listen to what’s being said, then it can give them the power to save themselves. Scully tells Mulder that she believes the same thing. Mulder holds Scully’s cross in his hand and lies down next to her. He tells her that maybe there’s reason to have hope after all.

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