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slept. Mulder says that he could not recall any of


the incidents until placed under hypnosis years later.
S E A S O N 1 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.
Pilot They return to the hotel to find their rooms have
been set ablaze, destroying all evidence gathered in
Production Code: #1X79 the case.
Original Air Date: 09/10/93 The agents are confronted by Theresa Nemman,
Written by Chris Carter daughter of the coroner who originally performed
Directed by Robert Mandel the autopsies on the victims. She admits she too
A YOUNG FBI AGENT IS ASSIGNED WATCHDOG bears the red marks on her skin, and describes how
DUTY OVER A FELLOW AGENT, BUT FINDS HERSELF a bright light appeared in the sky the evening she
DRAWN INTO HIS INVESTIGATIONS OF was hanging out with her friends Billy Miles and
PARANORMAL AND UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA. Peggy O’Dell.
Mulder hypothesizes that Billy Miles is under the
Special Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and control of an alien force. He adds his belief that
instructor at the FBI Academy in Virginia, receives Billy killed Peggy O’Dell.
instructions to report to Chief Scott Blevins in The agents return to the forest hoping to gather
Washington. Blevins assigns Scully to investigate – more evidence. Detective Miles attempts to stop
and debunk – an unassigned project dubbed “The X− them, and both he and Mulder witness Billy carrying
Files,” a burial ground for mysterious, unsolved FBI Theresa to the spot in the woods where the other
cases linked to the paranormal. bodies had been found. A mysterious light
Scully is instructed to contact Fox Mulder, an illuminates Billy, and a strong wind swirls around
agent who has become obsessed with investigating him. Moments later the light fades and the winds
the otherwise forgotten X−File cases. Mulder die, and Billy stands over Theresa not knowing
displays a particular interest in a series of where he is or how he got there. The welts having
mysterious deaths scattered across the United States vanished from his skin.
linked by one common clue: two strange red marks After returning to Washington, Scully gives her
on the victims’ skin. report. Much to the surprise of her supervisors, the
Mulder and Scully fly to Bellefleur, Oregon, to metal object removed from the corpse was not
investigate the death of Karen Swenson, a high destroyed with all of the other evidence. Scully kept
school student who died mysteriously, and whose it on her person and turns it into them as the single
corpse is marked with two red welts. The agents remaining piece of physical evidence of what had
exhume the body Ray Soames, one of Karen’s transpired. The metal object is taken by The
classmates. When Soames’ casket is opened, Cigarette−Smoking Man and filed away alongside
however, a strange humanoid carcass is discovered several others inside a massive government
inside. The corpse turns out to be that of an warehouse in the basement of the Pentagon.
orangutan, and X−rays reveal an unidentified metal
object implanted in the creature’s nasal cavity.
Mulder and Scully question Billy Miles and Deep Throat
Peggy O’Dell, classmates of Swenson and Soames
who were injured in an automobile accident and Production Code: #1X01
have since been institutionalized. Miles has been Original Air Date: 09/17/93
reduced to a near vegetable state, while O’Dell has Written by Chris Carter
been confined to a wheelchair. O’Dell suddenly Directed by Daniel Sackheim
becomes violent, and in the struggle to subdue her,
two red marks are discovered on her skin. A TEST PILOT WHO MAY HAVE BEEN FLYING
While searching the field where Karen Swenson AIRCRAFT MADE WITH ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
met her fate, the agents are confronted by a DISAPPEARS, AND MULDER AND SCULLY MUST DEFY
detective who orders them off the premises. The THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT TO FIND THE TRUTH.
pair comply, but as they drive along the highway, Mulder and Scully investigate the strange
they are blinded by a strange light from the sky. The disappearance of Lieutenant Colonel Robert
light drains the energy from their car, bringing it to Budahas, a test pilot for the military who
a halt. Mulder looks at his watch and realizes nine experienced a psychotic episode and was
minutes cannot be accounted for. supposedly hospitalized for treatment. Mulder
The pair return to their motel where Mulder tells suspects that Budahas may have met the same fate
Scully that his interest in the X−Files stems from his as six other pilots who mysteriously vanished from
childhood when his sister, who was then eight years Ellens Air Base while participating in experimental
old, was abducted from their bedroom while he
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aircraft test flights. Mulder hints to Scully that the very dangerous path and their lives are in danger
disappearance may be linked to the paranormal – now that they know the truth about the existence of
classifying it as an “X−File” case. extraterrestrial life.
Mulder is approached by a mysterious man –
dubbed “Deep Throat” – who advises that the
investigation be dropped. Squeeze
But Mulder and Scully ignore the advice and
interview Mrs. Budahas, who describes her Production Code: #1X02
husband’s unpredictable behavior, strange skin rash Original Air Date: 09/24/93
and aversion to discussing this work on the Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
military’s top secret projects. Directed by Harry Longstreet
The agents theorize the pilots may have been MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR A HUMANOID
associated with Project Aurora, a code name given KILLER WHOSE SAVAGE MURDER SPREE REOCCURS
the Pentagon’s secret testing of sub−orbital spy craft. EVERY THIRTY YEARS.
Aided by tips from reporter Paul Mossinger and
UFO buff Ladonna, the agents stake out a fenced FBI Agent Tom Colton describes to Scully a series of
area near the base. That night, Mulder and Scully murders he believes were committed by a serial
watch in amazement as two brightly lit objects killer. The victims were all murdered inside locked
shoot through the night sky maneuvering at or secured rooms. Each had their liver ripped out of
incredibly speed. their body.
The agents give chase when two teenagers, Emil Despite Colton’s discomfort, Mulder is brought
and Zoe, are spotted climbing through a hole from into the case. Mulder finds strange humanoid
the opposite side of the fence. But the hunters fingerprints at the high−security office building
become the hunted when a helicopter from the where businessman George Usher was murdered.
base bears down on the group. The foursome Mulder links the prints to similar killings that
escape, retreating to a restaurant where Zoe and occurred in the United States every thirty years,
Emil recount tales of watching the light show. going back to at least 1903. In each occurrence, five
Mulder tells a disbelieving Scully that the victims had their livers torn out.
military may be flying planes built using technology Instead of combining forces, Scully and Mulder
from a UFO. decide to take different avenues of investigating the
Mrs. Budahas phones the agents at their hotel case: Scully the traditional; Mulder the unorthodox.
when her husband suddenly reappears. But the At the scene of the Usher murder, Mulder assures
Lieutenant Colonel cannot remember any details Scully that the suspect would not return, having
having to do with his past and the military. already beaten the security system. He thinks the
Mulder tells Scully he believes Budahas’ memory killer would seek a new challenge. But as they talk,
has somehow been drained, and that he – like the Mulder discovers someone crawling inside an air
other missing pilots who tested the mysterious duct. The suspect, an Animal Control officer named
aircraft – are physiologically incapable of dealing Eugene Tooms, is taken into custody. Tooms passes a
with the stress created during the flights. polygraph test… except for those questions posed by
The agents are approached by men who seize Mulder regarding his age.
their evidence and order them to leave town. But Mulder suspects Tooms is the killer. Using a
Mulder returns to the base, and using Emil and Zoe computer, he manipulates the image of Tooms’
as guides, climbs through the hole in the fence. fingerprints, elongating them. They are compared to
Alone on the base, Mulder is spotted by a UFO and the prints from 1933. The prints match. Scully is
taken prisoner by base security that suddenly intrigued and re−teams with Mulder on the case.
arrives. He is then sedated and treated by Tooms attacks and kills another victim guarded
mysterious figures acting as doctors. by high−tech security equipment. Tooms disappears;
Scully is attacked by Mossinger, who she Scully and Mulder find that his apartment was never
discovers has been working for the military all lived in. Scully tracks down Frank Briggs, the sheriff
along. Scully overpowers him, taking him hostage at who investigated the five murders that occurred in
gunpoint. She uses Mossinger to find Mulder and 1933. Briggs describes how he tracked the murders
when she learns he is in custody of the military until the present day, never able to prove his belief
trades Mossinger in return for Mulder. But when he that Tooms was the killer.
is returned to her, he is unable to recall his The agents locate an abandoned building that
encounter with the UFO or what happened while he Tooms once listed as his address. Inside they
was on the base because of the treatment they discover a small room containing “trophies” taken
gave him. from each crime scene throughout the century.
Back in Washington, Mulder is once again Mulder speculates that Tooms may be a genetic
approached by Deep Throat while jogging. Deep mutation that hibernates for decades and eats
Throat warns Mulder that the agents have chosen a
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human livers to provide sustenance. As they leave a Brandenburg concerto. Mulder believes the boy
the scene, Tooms procures Scully’s necklace. has become a conduit for alien transmissions.
Scully arranges a stake−out of the abandoned The agents return to the site of the abduction.
building, but Colton calls it off without informing They find evidence of intense heat. They also find
Mulder. Mulder arrives at the building, and finding Greg Randall’s body buried in a shallow grave.
no undercover agents, ventures inside. He finds Mulder discovers a handwritten note in Randall’s
Scully’s necklace placed with the other trophies. wallet noting a doctor’s appointment. The
Mulder races to Scully’s apartment and finds her handwriting matches that of the mysterious girl
grappling with Tooms. Mulder draws his weapon encountered earlier.
and, with Scully’s help, manages to handcuff Tooms. By questioning the doctor, the agents locate the
He is taken to jail, where he begins assembling a mysterious girl, who turns out to be Tessa Sears.
new “nest.” 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
Conduit discovered he was having an affair with Ruby. But
she insists she did not murder Ruby.
Production Code: #1X03 Scully and Mulder return to the Morris home and
Original Air Date: 10/01/93 find it abandoned. They also find a large portrait of
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Ruby formed with binary numbers.
Directed by Daniel Sackheim The agents travel back to Lake Okoboji. Mulder
MULDER BECOMES OBSESSED WITH SOLVING A
finds Kevin floating in a strange fog. Just as Mulder
CASE THAT CLOSELY PARALLELS AN “ENCOUNTER” HE pulls Kevin away, a group of bikers drives by them
EXPERIENCED AS A CHILD. and Ruby’s unconscious body is discovered nearby.
Darlene forbids Mulder from speaking with her
In a remote region along the banks of Lake Okoboji daughter, insisting that as far as she is concerned,
in Iowa, a mysterious bright light descends from the Ruby had simply run off with bikers.
night sky. Ruby Morris, a teenage girl, vanishes from That night, Mulder listens to tape recordings of
her sleeping bag while her brother Kevin frantically his hypnosis session in which he described his belief
call out to their mother. that one day his sister will be returned to Earth
Mulder requests that the FBI investigate the Ruby unharmed.
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 The Jersey Devil
which his sister was allegedly abducted by aliens.
Mulder tells Scully that Lake Okoboji is a UFO Production Code: #1X04
“hot spot.” He presents several newspaper articles Original Air Date: 10/08/93
written over the last several decades as proof. One Written by Chris Carter
article describes a sighting reported by girl scouts, Directed by Joe Napolitano
one of whom is identified as Darlene Morris,
mother of the girl who disappeared. MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A LEGENDARY
The agents travel to Iowa to investigate further. CREATURE THAT HAS ROAMED THE NEW JERSEY
COUNTRYSIDE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS.
Darlene sticks by her story, insisting the
disappearance has nothing to do with her divorce. Mulder and Scully investigate the gruesome murder
Mulder questions Kevin Morris, who cannot of Roger Crockett, a homeless man who was
remember what happened the night of the attacked and partially eaten in a wooded area
encounter. But Kevin’s strange doodling piques outside Atlantic City. Mulder believes the death is
Mulder’s interest and he has the doodles faxed to related to a similar incident that occurred in New
Washington for analysis. The boy says his doodles Jersey in 1947, in which a motorist was attacked and
are the result of his television communicating with eaten by a half−human creature as he attempted to
him. fix a flat tire.
Scully and Mulder are contacted by a young girl The agents travel to the Atlantic City morgue to
who keeps her identity secret. The girl states that a gather more information. They clash with Detective
boy named Greg Randall got Ruby pregnant, and Thompson, the local police official in charge of the
that he couple were planning to elope together. investigation. Unphased, Mulder decides to perform
Kevin Morris’ doodles turn out to be part of a an investigation on his own. He interviews Ranger
top secret binary defense satellite transmission. The Brullet, who discovered the body, and a homeless
boy is taken into custody by NSA Agent Holtzman man named Jack, who knew the victim. Both believe
and then released. New doodles taken from the Crockett was killed by The Jersey Devil, a legendary
Morris home turn out to be digital renderings of half−human creature that roams the New Jersey
everything from Shakespeare passages to bars from countryside. Meanwhile, Scully attends her godson’s
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birthday party, where she meets Rob, a handsome with local police, they are taken to the crime scene.
divorcee. The agents realize a security camera at a nearby
Mulder stakes out a dark alley near the woods automated bank machine may have recorded the
where Jack claims the Devil has been prowling. That murders.
night, the creature makes an appearance, but before They find footage of the victims accosting
Mulder gets a good look at it, the police arrive and Lauren Kyte, an employee of HTG Industrial
arrest him, mistaking him at first for a vagrant. Technologies. Working with bank records, the agents
At the jail, Mulder again clashes with Thompson, access Lauren’s home address and pay her a visit.
accusing him of keeping the creature a secret so as Lauren claims the men tried to grab her paycheck
not to upset tourism in Atlantic City. Scully bails and she fled, escaping without injury. Coming up
Mulder out of jail and the duo travel to the empty−handed, the agents get into their car and
University of Maryland, where Dr. Roger Diamond prepare to drive away. Suddenly, the vehicle snaps
affirms Mulder’s theory that a human being might at into reverse at full speed. It careens down a street
birth revert to its most primal instincts – devolving and collides with another car. Mulder and Scully
into a carnivorous Neanderthal. Scully, meanwhile, escape with minor injuries. Mulder tells Scully that
goes on a date with Rob. he believes Lauren was somehow responsible for
Ranger Brullet finds another body in the the mishap.
backwoods, but this time the corpse appears to be While surveying Lauren’s house, Mulder
half−animal. Mulder theorizes that two such accidentally photographs a strange image at her
creatures may have roamed the countryside. He and window. Using computer enhancement, that image
Scully comb an abandoned building for the Devil as turns out to be the form of Lauren’s dead boss,
the police fan out to capture them. Mulder manages Howard Graves.
to allude police long enough to locate the second Lauren is attacked in her home by two hit men.
creature, which turns out to be female. She But before the assailants can harm Lauren, a
suddenly attacks and wounds Mulder and escapes mysterious force intervenes and kills them. Mulder
into the woods. and Scully arrive shortly thereafter and detain her
Police track the creature and kill it, despite for questioning.
Mulder’s plea to take it alive. An autopsy report Lauren finally confesses the incredible truth: her
confirms the female creature recently gave birth, boss, Howard Graves, was murdered by co−worker
leading Mulder to conclude it came to the city in Robert Dorland after he threatened to expose HTG
search of food scraps for its young after its mate Technologies for selling restricted parts to Isfahan
died. terrorists. Graves’ spirit returned from the dead, and
Some time later, a feral child roams the New has been protecting her ever since.
Jersey countryside in search of food. The FBI raids HTG Technologies, hoping to
uncover evidence of the illegal parts sales. When
the agents come up empty−handed, Graves’ psychic
Shadows force materializes and rips a hole in the wall of
Dorland’s office, exposing a hidden micro−disk. The
Production Code: #1X05 U.S. Attorney’s office uses the new evidence to
Original Air Date: 10/22/93 prosecute Dorland.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Michael Katleman
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF
Ghost in the Machine
TWO MEN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY A
POWERFUL PSYCHOKINETIC FORCE. Production Code: #1X06
Original Air Date: 10/29/93
Officials from a mysterious government agency Written by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
question Mulder and Scully about two recently Directed by Jerrold Freedman
discovered male cadavers. The victims appear to
have died after their throats were crushed from ON HALLOWEEN, MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE
inside their bodies. When the officials refuse to THE DEATH OF A CORPORATE EXECUTIVE WHO MAY
HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY A THINKING COMPUTER.
elaborate on the case, Mulder feigns ignorance and
does not link the deaths to an existing X−File. He Mulder and Scully are approached by Special Agent
later admits to Scully, however, that he lied to the Jerry Lamana, who is on probation for mishandling
government men. Mulder attributes the deaths to an important case. Lamana explains that he has
psychokinesis – the ability of a psychic force to been assigned to investigate the murder of Benjamin
manipulate matter. Drake, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company called
Without help from the government officials, Eurisko. Drake was electrocuted when he fell victim
Mulder and Scully begin an investigation on their to an elaborate boobytrap devised by someone with
own and trace the murders to Philadelphia. Working intimate knowledge of the Central Operating
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System (COS) at Eurisko’s high rise headquarters. by the United States Government. Their mission was
Afraid of mishandling yet another important case, to drill deep into the Arctic ice in search core
Lamana successfully lobbies Mulder and Scully’s samples that date the Earth’s climate as far back as
expertise. the Dawn of Man. But something went wrong
The agents are told by Peterson, the Eurisko during the expedition, and the two geophysicists
building’s system engineer, that one of the few committed suicide.
people who has access to the building’s Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate
sophisticated control center is Brad Wilczek, the 30− the case. They are teamed with Dr. Denny Murphy,
year−old founder of the company and Drake’s arch a geologist; Doctor Lawrence Hodge, a physician,
enemy. Using a voice analyzer, Scully determines and Doctor Nancy Dasilva, a toxicologist. The group
that Wilczek disguised his own voice electronically boards a plane piloted by Bear, a rugged man who
and telephoned Drake moments before his death… wears a bear claw around his neck.
playing a key role in the boobytrap. When the group arrives at the Arctic compound,
Lamana drives to the Eurisko building to make they busily set about documenting their grisly
the arrest. The elevator Lamana rides in reaches the surroundings. Scattered around the site are the
29th floor and suddenly drops at fantastic speed, bodies of scientists from the previous expedition, all
crashing into the ground. of whom died mysterious, violent deaths.
Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Wilczek A dog suddenly springs from the darkness and
had been hard at work on Artificial Intelligence – jumps onto Mulder. Bear intercedes, and in the
the development of a thinking machine. Though process of pulling the animal off Mulder, he is
Wilczek is arrested for the deaths of Drake and bitten. The dog is sedated, and during an
Lamana, and even signs a confession, Mulder examination, a worm−like organism is discovered
believes him innocent. squirming beneath its skin.
From his jail cell, Wilczek admits to Mulder that Scully’s autopsies reveal that the scientists from
COS is an intelligent machine. He explains that the previous expedition – except for the two who
when Drake made overtures to shut the system committed suicide – killed each other. Examination
down, COS eliminated him in self−defense. of ice core samples leads to the conclusion that the
Mulder convinces Wilczek to develop a first team tapped into the remnants of a meteor that
computer virus that will shut down the system. collided with the Earth thousands of years in the
Armed with the virus, Mulder and Scully gain past. When the scientists came in contact with the
entrance to the Eurisko building. COS anticipates core samples, they exposed themselves to an alien
their every move and turns the building’s electrical organism that had remained dormant beneath the
systems against them. Arctic Ice.
With Peterson’s assistance, Mulder makes his When Bear is told his blood and stool samples
way to the main control room. As Mulder is about must be analyzed to ensure the parasite has not
to insert the computer disk into the system, infected him, he refuses to cooperate. A scuffle
Peterson pulls out a gun and demands he stand ensues, and as the others pin Bear down, Hodge
back. Peterson admits he is an operative for the discovers – and surgically removes – one of the
Defense Department – a government agency eager parasites from his body. When the worm is
for Artificial Intelligence technology. Scully enters removed, however, Bear expires.
and pulls her gun, gaining the upper hand. Peterson The scientists theorize that the parasite feeds on
drops his weapon. a chemical that controls aggressive behavior, leading
Mulder inserts the computer disk and engages the first team of geophysicists to kill one another.
the virus. COS shuts down forever… or does it? Paranoia within the group builds to a fever pitch
when a severe storm ends radio contact with the
rest of the world.
Ice Mulder discovers Murphy’s body stuffed inside a
refrigerator, his throat cut. The others suspect that
Production Code: #1X07 Mulder may be the killer and padlock him inside a
Original Air Date: 11/05/93 supply room.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong While performing an experiment, Hodge
Directed by David Nutter accidentally mixes blood samples from two
MULDER AND SCULLY ARE SENT TO INVESTIGATE
different infected hosts. To his surprise, the parasitic
WHEN A TEAM OF GEOPHYSICISTS STATIONED AT A organisms attack and kill one another. The scientists
REMOTE ALASKAN OUTPOST IS KILLED BY A infect the dog that attacked Bear with a second
PARASITIC ALIEN LIFE FORM. worm. It returns to normal.
Mulder convinces Scully that he is not infected.
Mulder and Scully view a videotape recorded by When they exit the supply room, the pair are
two geophysicists who were part of the Antarctic jumped by Dasilva and Hodge, who pin Mulder to
Ice Core Project, a scientific expedition sanctioned the ground and lower the last worm to his ear. But
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Hodge is horrified when he discovers the parasite A mysterious force that resembles the famous
wriggling beneath Dasilva’s skin. The others hold “Mars Face” emanates from Belt’s body and floats
Dasilva down while Hodge inserts the parasite. into outer space. It engulfs the shuttle, creating an
The group is rescued and flown to another base. oxygen leak aboard the vessel. Belt orders the
Mulder announces he is returning to the site to shuttle astronauts to don space suits and deploy
perform more tests. Hodge informs him, however, their payload. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt
that the military burned the compound to the considers the success of the mission more important
ground. than the astronaut’s lives.
Belt begins having seizures and Mulder and
Scully rush to his aid. Generoo assumes command
Space of the mission and orders the shuttle to return to
Earth. Belt, however, insists that the ship will burn up
Production Code: #1X08 upon reentry unless it changes its trajectory by 35
Original Air Date: 11/12/93 degrees. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt is
Written by Chris Carter telling the truth. She gives the order to change
Directed by William Graham trajectory, saving the shuttle.
WHEN A SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION IS SABOTAGED,
Belt suffers another seizure. He jumps from his
MULDER SUSPECTS IT MAY BE THE WORK OF AN hospital window, plummeting to his death. Mulder
EVIL EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPIRIT THAT INHABITS THE speculates that when Belt orbited the Earth in his
BODY OF A FORMER GEMINI ASTRONAUT. Gemini capsule years earlier, he was possessed by
an alien spirit, and has been fighting to regain
Michelle Generoo, the mission control control of his body ever since. The force used Belt
communication commander for the Space Shuttle to sabotage numerous space missions. Realizing
program, arranges for a secret meeting with Mulder what was happening, Belt struggled to correct the
and Scully. She produces an X−ray of the shuttle’s alien’s sabotage before it was too late. Mulder
Auxiliary Power Unit valve that she believes was concludes that Belt sent the valve X−rays to
tampered with. A shuttle mission was scrubbed at Generoo hoping to expose the potentially disastrous
the last possible second when the valve flaw.
malfunctioned, narrowly averting disaster. Where
the X−ray came from, and how the incredibly strong
valve could have been tampered with, remains a Fallen Angel
mystery, though NASA attributes the malfunction to
simple mechanical failure. Fearing NASA might Production Code: #1X09
overlook the possibility of sabotage to maintain Original Air Date: 11/19/93
launch schedule, Generoo decided to step forward Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
on her own. Directed by Larry Shaw
The agents meet with Lieutenant Colonel
Marcus Aurelius Belt, a former astronaut who flew THE FUTURE OF THE X−FILES PROJECT IS
on the Gemini Eight mission and is now the current JEOPARDIZED AFTER MULDER SECRETLY INFILTRATES
Space Shuttle Program Director. Belt insists that THE GOVERNMENT COVER−UP OF A UFO CRASH.
because of tight security and the sophisticated Colonel Calvin Henderson is alerted by the U.S.
technology involved, it would be impossible for Space Surveillance Center that radar tracked an
anyone to sabotage the mission by tampering with unidentified object as it fell from orbit and crashed
the valve. in Townsend, Wisconsin.
When the next shuttle achieves orbit around the Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Henderson
Earth, a technical problem develops. Generoo, is the premiere reclamations expert for the Air
whose husband is one of the astronauts aboard the Force. During the Cold War, Henderson was
ship, races back to Mission Control in her car. She assigned to prevent technology from downed U.S.
loses control of her vehicle when a fog bank forms aircraft from falling into Soviet hands. Now, he is
into a sinister face and rushes toward her head of a crash retrieval team.
windshield. The government officially labels the crash site a
Mulder and Scully rescue Generoo and return quarantined area, attributing it to a toxic chemical
with her to Mission Control. They find technicians spill. Mulder sneaks passed the military units
attempting to rotate the shuttle before it overheats guarding the area and photographs the wreckage,
and burns in orbit. Belt orders telemetry signals to visible to him as an intense blue light. His presence
be halted, then instructs the astronauts to fly the is discovered, however, and Henderson has him
ship using the onboard computer. Despite some arrested.
anxious moments, the astronauts correct the Mulder is placed in Scully’s custody. She warns
problem and regain contact with Mission Control. 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 The agents interview Teena Simmons, Joel’s
project altogether. With the hearing only a day eight−year−old daughter, who was at home when
away, Mulder insists he be given the chance to the killings took place. Teena describes how “men
prove a UFO had crashed in Townsend. from the clouds” were after her father. Mulder is
The agents discover that they have been spied somewhat mystified, however, when Teena tells him
upon by Max Fenig, a member of an organization the men wanted to “exsanguinate” her father, a
that tracks UFO sightings. He acknowledges that he word far too complex for a little girl to know the
knows all about Mulder, Scully and the X−Files meaning of.
project, having accessed files through the Freedom Shortly thereafter, the agents receive word of
of Information Act. another, almost identical murder that took place in
Max’s recreational vehicle is a surveillance San Francisco, in which a man named Doug Reardon
operation on wheels. He plays for Mulder and Scully was found dead in his backyard, also drained of
a recording he intercepted moments after the UFO blood and disfigured. The agents are stunned when
crash, in which Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright, who they meet Reardon’s eight−year−old daughter, Cindy.
was the first person to arrive at the crash scene, She and Teena are identical in appearance. Teena,
radioed for fire crews. When the agents approach meanwhile, disappears from the foster home where
Mrs. Wright for information, she refuses to talk. she is temporarily housed, apparently the victim of
Dr. Jeffrey Oppenheim, who examined Deputy a kidnapping.
Wright, agrees to be interviewed. He examined the Scully investigates when it is discovered that
bodies of Wright and the firemen, all of whom died Mrs. Reardon had in−vitro fertilization at a clinic in
from severe burns the likes of which he had never San Francisco. A physician named Sally Kendrick
seen before. Suddenly, the bodies of several soldiers supervised both the Simmons’ and Reardons’ IVF
are rushed through the hospital’s corridors, each program. Kendrick, it is revealed, was fired from her
exhibiting the same burns described only moments position after she was discovered tampering with
earlier by Oppenheim. Shorthanded, Oppenheim the genetic material of fertilized ova in the lab prior
enlists Scully’s medical expertise. to implant.
Mulder aids Max when he suffers a seizure. Max Deep Throat contacts Mulder. He reveals the
blames the episode on epilepsy, but Mulder notices existence of a top secret program once run by the
a diamond−shaped scar behind Max’s ear, a scar United States government called the “Litchfield
Mulder links to UFO abductions. Experiment,” in which a group of genetically
Before Scully has a chance to examine Max, he controlled children were raised and monitored. The
disappears from his vehicle. The agents track him to boys were dubbed “Adam,” the girls “Eve.”
a warehouse, where they discover Henderson and Mulder and Scully track Eve Six to a mental
his men surrounding the building. Before Mulder can institution. To their astonishment, she looks exactly
save Max, he disappears in a blinding blue light – like Sally Kendrick. Eve admits that two other Eves
the victim of an alien abduction. besides herself are still alive. The agents realize that
At the hearing, Mulder defends his action as Sally Kendrick was continuing the Litchfield
unorthodox, but necessary, given that the toxic spill experiment at the clinic in San Francisco where she
was a government cover−up. McGrath’s decision to cloned herself into Teena, Cindy and six other little
fire Mulder and terminate the X−Files project is girls.
overruled by Deep Throat. He tells McGrath he likes One of the other Eves kidnaps Cindy. She takes
to keep his friends close… and his enemies closer. 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
Eve can raise the girls so they will not suffer from the
mental disorders that drove the other Eves mad.
Production Code: #1X10 Despite her conviction, she realizes too late that the
Original Air Date: 12/10/93 little girls, for no apparent reason, poisoned her
Written by Kenneth Biller and Chris Brancato drink.
Directed by Fred Gerber Mulder and Scully are tipped that the girls can
MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR TWO GIRLS
be found at the motel. When they arrive, they find
WHO DISAPPEARED AFTER THEIR FATHERS WERE Eve dead. The girls claim the two remaining Eves
MURDERED IN AN IDENTICAL FASHION. conspired to kill them. The agents fall for the story,
never suspecting the girls played any role in the
Mulder and Scully investigate when a man named murder.
Joel Simmons is found dead in his backyard, his Mulder and Scully transport the girls in their car.
body drained of blood, his mouth disfigured. Mulder They pull off the road at a diner so the girls can use
at first links the incident to mysterious cattle the rest room. Mulder orders four sodas, and when
mutilations that have occurred in the United States he is not looking, Cindy poisons two of the drinks.
since 1967. Mulder realizes the drinks have been tampered with
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and stops Scully from ingesting her soda just in regarding the case. She notices that the hotel
time. The girls, however, realize their scheme has security status grid is lit up, indicating a fire
been discovered. They play cat−and−mouse with the somewhere on the upper level. She interrupts
agents in the diner’s parking lot, but Mulder gains Mulder and Greene with the news, shattering an
the upper hand and arrests them. 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.
Fire Scully takes advantage of Mulder’s hospital stay
to fill him in on her research. She believes the
Production Code: #1X11 arsonist uses a highly flammable accelerant, such as
Original Air Date: 12/17/93 rocket propellant, to fuel the fires. Scully also
Written by Chris Carter suspects she may have pinpointed the arsonist, a
Directed by Larry Shaw man named Cecil L’Ively, who acted as caretaker
MULDER AND SCULLY JOIN FORCES WITH AN
for two of the victims. They come to realize that
INSPECTOR FROM SCOTLAND YARD WHEN A MAN the Marsden’s caretaker is the same man.
WITH PYROKINETIC POWERS STALKS MEMBERS OF The detectives rush to the house in Cape Cod
THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY. and evacuate the family. Mulder catches Greene
sharing a passionate kiss with Sir Marsden, ending
In England, an affluent, elderly man suddenly bursts his interest in her. Mulder and Scully encounter
into flames while walking from his front porch to Bob/Cecil, who has rigged the entire dwelling to
his car. Despite the efforts of those at the scene to catch fire. Mulder becomes paralyzed with fear
extinguish the fire, the man is burned alive. when he encounters the fire. Phoebe splashes
Mulder and Scully are approached by Phoebe accelerant on Bob and he bursts into flames. Mulder
Greene, Mulder’s ex−classmate and former lover, and the others escape from the house and watch as
who is employed as an inspector by Scotland Yard. it is consumed in fire.
Greene tells the detectives about the death of the Bob’s flesh regenerates itself, however, and he
man in England, and how it is but one of a series of soon recovers inside his heavily guarded cell.
similar murders aimed at the British aristocracy. Sir
Marsden, who narrowly escaped being burned alive
in a similar incident, has temporarily relocated his Beyond the Sea
family to Cape Cod. Mulder and Scully agree to aid
Greene with the case. Scully, however, is hard Production Code: #1X12
pressed to contain her obvious jealousy. Original Air Date: 01/07/94
Special Agent Melvin Beatty, an arson specialist, Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
examines the evidence linking the fires, but is at a Directed by David Nutter
loss as to how the blazes were started. Mulder’s
notion that it may be attributed to pyrokinetics – an SCULLY BELIEVES THAT THE PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS
individual’s ability to conduct and control a fire – is OF A DEATH ROW INMATE ARE THE ONLY HOPE IN
scoffed at by Beatty. APPREHENDING A VICIOUS MURDERER.
Mulder confesses to Scully that he is terrified by Scully receives a phone call from her mother,
fire, and admits that Phoebe is all too aware of his Margaret, relaying the tragic news that her father
phobia. He tells Scully he will handle the died of a massive coronary. Only moments earlier
investigation without her help. Scully had seen an ethereal image of her father
Unbeknownst to Sir Marsden and his family, the sitting in a chair.
caretaker at their Cape Cod home is the same man Scully returns to work anxious for a new case –
who gardened for the elderly man who was set anything to keep her mind off her father’s death.
ablaze in England. That man, who call himself Bob, Her curiosity is piqued by a report of a young
walks to a local bar and sets it ablaze using his couple’s kidnapping near Jackson University. A
pyrokinetic power. similar abduction occurred at another university
Mulder and Greene interview a survivor of the exactly one year earlier. The bodies of that couple
blaze. The are intrigued when the survivor tells were later found. Authorities believed they had been
them that a British man started the blaze by causing tortured.
himself to ignite. The only lead in the case is a man named Luther
Mulder and Greene stake out an elegant party Lee Boggs, who is scheduled for execution in North
attended by the Marsdens hoping to trap the Carolina’s gas chamber in one week. Boggs asserts
arsonist. After surveying the hotel where the party is that he knows who the serial killer is, and backs up
given, Mulder and Greene conclude the arsonist will that claim by describing a charm bracelet worn by
not strike. They take advantage of their surroundings one of the victims. He alleges that his knowledge is
for some intimate slow dancing on the ballroom obtained from psychic transmissions. He makes a
floor. Scully arrives at the party with information
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proposition: that his information be traded for a GenderBender


reprieve from death row.
Before traveling to North Carolina, Scully attends
memorial services for her father. Captain William Production Code: #1X13
Scully’s ashes are scattered at sea as the song Original Air Date: 01/21/94
“Beyond the Sea” is played. Written by Larry Barber and Paul Barber
The agents meet with Boggs at the North Directed by Rob Bowman
Carolina prison where he is interred. Mulder hands A RELIGIOUS SECT MEMBER CAPABLE OF CHANGING
Boggs a small piece of cloth and tells him it was GENDER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A
cut from the clothing worn by one of the serial MURDER SPREE.
killer’s victims. Boggs falls into a trance and A woman named Marty seduces a businessman at a
describes landmarks near the kidnapper’s hideout. trendy nightclub. The couple go to a motel and have
Mulder then reveals that the cloth was cut from one sex. Shortly thereafter the businessman begins
of his own T−shirts and has nothing to do with the convulsing and dies. Before Marty leaves the motel,
victims. Convinced Boggs is a fraud, Mulder exits, her physique changes and she metamorphoses into
leaving Scully alone with Boggs. He begins singing a man.
“Beyond the Sea,” sending a chill down Scully’s Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate
spine. the case. Mulder links the death to a series of
While driving along a roadway, Scully becomes others in which victims died in the throes of
intrigued by imagery described by Boggs during his passion. Medical tests reveal large amounts of
trance. She enters an abandoned warehouse nearby pheromones – or human sex attractants – in the
and discovers evidence that the kidnapped couple victim’s blood. He also links two of the murders to
had been interred there. a remote town in Massachusetts inhabited by The
Police are notified about the warehouse’s Kindred – a sect of religious isolationists famous for
location. But Scully cannot bring herself to tell their abstinence and pure Christian beliefs.
Mulder about her father’s ghost, or about Boggs’ The agents travel to the rural village, where sect
knowledge of the burial. Mulder concludes that members allow them access to their community
Boggs is in contact with someone involved with the only after they relinquish their guns. As Mulder and
kidnapping – not with the spirit world. But when the Scully dine with The Kindred, Brother Aaron
agents meet with Boggs a second time he tells suddenly begins choking. Scully is forbidden by the
them that the victims are being held at a boathouse other sect members from aiding Brother Aaron, and
on a lake. Agents raid the boathouse and rescue he is led away.
one of the victims, Liz Hawley. Mulder is shot at The agents perform some clandestine
close range by the kidnapper, Lucas Henry, who investigating during the night. They are intrigued by
proceeds to escape on a motorboat with the activity emanating from a cellar beneath a barn.
remaining victim, Jim Summers. Mulder makes his way inside and watches a
With Mulder recuperating in the hospital, Scully religious ceremony centering around Brother Aaron’s
concentrates on locating Lucas Henry. She again body. In his effort to keep his presence a secret,
interviews Boggs, who relives his near−death Mulder becomes trapped inside a crypt where
experience in the gas chamber when he was saved Aaron’s body is entombed in a strange, membranous
by a last minute reprieve. It was during this brief substance. He watches as Brother Aaron’s body
out−of−body experience that Boggs first came in begins transforming into a woman.
contact with the spirit world. He refuses to reveal Scully, meanwhile, has been pulled aside by
more details of Jim Summer’s whereabouts until he Brother Andrew, a handsome sect member who
is guaranteed that his execution sentence has been possesses a mysterious hypnotic power. Andrew
dropped. tells Scully he believes the murders were committed
Scully approaches the Warden for a stay of by Brother Martin. But before he reveals how Martin
execution, but the request is denied. Left with no killed, Andrew places Scully in a trance and begins
other choice, Scully lies to Boggs, telling him his kissing her. Mulder breaks out of the crypt and
sentence has been reduced to life in prison. Boggs rescues Scully before Andrew has sex with her.
channels with the spirit world and describes a Mulder and Scully are permitted to leave the
condemned brewery as Henry’s new hideout. He town. They receive a break in the case when one of
then tells Scully he knew she lied to him about the Martin’s intended victims escapes unharmed. He
pardon. describes how his attacker changed gender right
Scully and other agents converge on the before his eyes.
brewery, rescuing Jim Summers. Henry refuses to Police track Marty to a hotel after he/she orders
give himself up and is killed. Later, Scully witnesses food using a victim’s credit card. Mulder and Scully
Bogg’s execution. 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 Scully tells Dupre’s consciousness that Willis is a
Kindred members and dragged into the darkness. diabetic and that excess sugar could induce a coma.
Scully, Mulder and other FBI agents raid the When a drug store is robbed of insulin and syringes,
village where the sect lives. But they find the village Mulder suspects that Scully’s location must be close
completely deserted. Only one clue points to their by.
whereabouts: distinct geometric patterns and lines Before Willis can inject the insulin, Lula smashes
cut in a crop circle – the same markings associated the bottles. She laughs at Willis, revealing that it
with UFO landing sights. 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
Lazarus demands a million dollars ransom for Scully’s safe
return. Analyzing the phone call for clues, Mulder
Production Code: #1X14 and his fellow agents narrow the scope of their
Original Air Date: 02/04/94 search.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon Willis feigns his death and grabs Lula’s gun,
Directed by David Nutter pointing it at her. He proclaims his intense love for
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL
Lula, then pulls the trigger. FBI agents storm the
POSSESSES AN FBI AGENT WHO IS ALSO SCULLY’S house, but Willis’ body succumbs to diabetic shock
EX−BOYFRIEND. and dies. Scully is located and released unharmed.
Scully and fellow FBI agent Jack Willis stake out a
bank after an anonymous informant tips them that a Young at Heart
robbery will take place that day. That tip proves
correct when Warren Dupre and his wife Lula Production Code: #1X15
Phillips stage a hold up. Dupre is ordered to put Original Air Date: 02/11/94
down his weapon, but rather than comply he shoots Written by Scott Kauffer and Chris Carter
Willis in the chest. Scully returns fire and mortally Directed by Michael Lange
wounds Dupre. At the hospital emergency room,
doctors are able to resuscitate the badly injured A CRIMINAL BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED IN PRISON
Willis. But unbeknownst to them, Dupre’s YEARS EARLIER WAGES A VENDETTA AGAINST
MULDER.
consciousness took possession of the agent’s body
as both men died in the emergency room. Mulder and Scully are asked by Special Agent
The possessed Willis leaves his hospital room Reggie Purdue to aid in the investigation of a
and locates his former body in the morgue. He jewelry store robbery. Mulder realizes his old friend
hacks a finger off the corpse, removing a gold Purdue requested his assistance with the case
wedding ring. Meanwhile, Scully and Mulder begin because of a note found at the crime scene that
their search for the missing Willis. When Mulder reads: “Fox can’t guard the chicken coop.” Mulder
learns of the missing ring, he begins to suspect that explains to Scully that his first FBI case involved an
Willis may be possessed. armed robber named John Barnett, who left notes
Willis locates Lula’s brother, Tommy, at a seedy that taunted Mulder about the crime spree. Barnett
hotel. When Tommy claims not to know Lula’s was eventually captured and sentenced to life in
whereabouts, Willis accuses him of tipping off the prison, where he died four years earlier. But Mulder
FBI about the bank robbery. He sees Lula’s is disquieted when a lab technician analyzes the
photograph being broadcast on a local television note and concludes it was written by Barnett within
news program and grows enraged. He shoots and the last 48 hours.
kills Tommy. Meanwhile, Scully and Purdue review video
Willis reappears at the hotel during the murder surveillance footage of Barnett’s capture by the FBI
investigation. He explains his absence by claiming years earlier. In the footage, Mulder had the
he wandered from the hotel in a daze and opportunity to kill Barnett, but because a hostage
collapsed in the street. Mulder discovers a fresh was nearby he hesitated. That hesitation allowed
fingerprint on Tommy’s television set – a print left Barnett time to kill an armored car driver and an FBI
by Willis. That evidence mysteriously disappears agent. Mulder returned fire, wounding Barnett. But
soon after being given to Willis. Mulder never forgave himself for the error. During
Willis and Scully respond to a tip about Lula’s the trial Barnett swore he would “get” Mulder.
whereabouts. Scully chases and eventually arrests Mulder visits Barnett’s old prison cell mate, Joe
Lula, but Willis releases her and takes Scully Crandall, who swears Barnett was alive on the night
hostage. Dupre’s spirit attempts to convince Lula he supposedly died. He also claims he saw a prison
that he now inhabits Willis’ body, but those physician, Dr. Ridley, amputate Barnett’s right hand.
attempts are met with skepticism despite the fact Mulder phones Purdue with the news, but during the
that Willis knows intimate details about Lula’s life. conversation Purdue is attacked and strangled.
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Mulder and Scully rush to the scene but arrive too air space. But other evidence hints that the truck is
late. Another of Barnett’s notes is found on Purdue’s a decoy, and that the real wreckage is actually
body. being kept at Fort Benning in Georgia. Mulder and
The agents pay a visit to the National Institute of Scully realize that Deep Throat has been
Health, where they meet Dr. Austin. He explains deliberately leaking them misinformation.
that Dr. Ridley experimented on young children When Mulder confronts Deep Throat, he admits
afflicted with a disease called Progeria, which that he tried to lead the investigation away from the
accelerates the aging process and causes premature truck. He justifies his action by stating that the
death. Ridley lost his license to practice medicine country is not ready to comprehend a closely
and performed age−reversal experiments in secret. guarded government secret. He also confirms that
Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett was one of the agents are under constant surveillance.
Ridley’s Guinea pigs, and may now sport the Determined to uncover the truth, Mulder and
physique of a 40−year−old. Scully resume their search for the truck. Their
Mulder and Scully are approached by the now− diligence pays off, and the vehicle is located on a
ailing Dr. Ridley, who tells them that Barnett is the remote roadway. While surveying the truck from
last of his patients who is still alive. Ridley explains afar, the agents’ vehicle is suddenly engulfed by an
that he used a different technique on Barnett – he intense light. The truck comes to a stop and the
grafted the cells of a salamander onto his arm to agents open its doors. Inside, they find evidence
counter side effects of the experiment. Those cells that an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, or E.B.E., had
grew and mutated into Barrett’s new hand. been inside.
Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Barnett Mulder and Scully suspect that the E.B.E. had
stole Ridley’s secrets on age−reversal and now been shuttled to a top secret government facility
wishes to trade the medical information to the U.S. where a host of UFO sightings had been reported in
government in exchange for immunity. the previous week. With the aid of an extreme
Realizing that Scully is Barnett’s next intended government watchdog group called “The Lone
victim, Mulder and his fellow agents stake out a Gunman,” the agents gain access to the heavily−
recital hall where Scully is to meet a friend. Barnett guarded facility. The agents’ presence is detected
shoots Scully, but she is protected by a bullet proof and they are taken into custody, but not before
vest. Barnett takes a cellist hostage, but Mulder sees Mulder comes close to seeing the E.B.E.
his chance and fires, killing Barnett. 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
E.B.E. top secret treaty ordering the execution of any E.B.E.
that might survive a UFO crash. Deep Throat reveals
Production Code: #1X16 that he carried out the murder of the E.B.E., and to
Original Air Date: 02/18/94 atone for his act, he will continue to leak Mulder
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong top secret information.
Directed by William Graham Mulder is released, but he remains unsure that
MULDER AND SCULLY BECOME THE FOCUS OF A
Deep Throat is telling the truth.
MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WHEN THEY ATTEMPT
TO TRACE THE GOVERNMENT’S SECRET TRANSPORT
OF AN ALIEN LIFE FORM. Miracle Man
Mulder and Scully investigate a UFO sighting in Production Code: #1X17
Reagan, Tennessee. They interview a truck driver Original Air Date: 03/18/94
named Ranheim, who claims he fired his shotgun at Written by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter
a mysterious object in the sky. Ranheim, however, Directed by Michael Lange
changes the details of his story, prompting Mulder
to speculate that he has something to hide. The THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A MINISTRY LED BY A
agents also realize that Ranheim exhibits symptoms MAN WHOSE SON POSSESSES THE POWER TO HEAL
of Gulf War Syndrome, an illness that normally – AND TO KILL – WITH A TOUCH OF HIS HAND.
afflicts veterans of the conflict in Iraq. Ranheim Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when Scully plays him a
claims he is not a veteran of that war. video tape on which the Reverend Calvin Hartley
After further investigation, Scully discovers that and his 18−year−old adopted son Samuel hold a
Ranheim’s real name is Frank Druce, a former service for their Miracle Ministry congregation. As
Special Operations officer in Iraq who had been the tape progresses, Samuel places his hand on an
admitted to VA hospitals for treatment of his illness. ailing woman. Scully explains that the woman was
Meanwhile, Mulder receives top secret information rushed to the hospital, where she died of
from Deep Throat that Druce was transporting the undetermined causes.
wreckage of a UFO that was shot down over Iraqi
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The agents travel to a remote town in Tennessee shotgun at the creature and kills it. But when he
where Reverend Hartley and his followers began examines the body, Jim discovers he killed a Native
their base of operations. There they confer with American man known as Joseph Goodensnake.
Sheriff Daniels, who explains his belief that Samuel Mulder convinces Scully to aid him with the
literally possesses the “touch of death.” Samuel investigation, which at first glance does not appear
mysteriously disappears, but he is tracked to a bar. to be related to the supernatural, but rather, a tragic
Daniels charges him with suspicion of murder and accident. They interview Jim Parker, who explains
places him under arrest. that someone – or something – had been mutilating
At the courthouse, Samuel requests that the his cattle. He insists that he shot a wolf−like beast
judge not release him on bail, fearing he may again with his gun – not Goodensnake. Mulder’s curiosity
kill another parishioner if he let free. But the judge is piqued when he discovers a piece of translucent
concedes to a bail request, which would allow skin where Goodensnake’s body had been
Samuel to be released. Suddenly, and inexplicably, recovered.
the courtroom is engulfed by a swarm of locusts, The agents travel to Trego Indian Reservation,
creating a scene that resembles a biblical plague. where Sheriff Charlie Tskany allows them to
Once Samuel is released, Reverend Hartley examine Goodensnake’s body. They discover that
pressures Samuel to perform miracles at another Goodensnake’s front teeth are abnormally−long, not
church meeting. But as Mulder and Scully watch, the unlike that of a wild animal. But the sheriff refuses
event again turns tragic when a Multiple Sclerosis Scully’s request to perform a detailed autopsy, citing
sufferer lapses into a seizure and dies. Native American burial rituals.
A preliminary autopsy suggests the woman, As members of the tribe burn Goodensnake’s
Margaret Hohman, died of toxic poisoning. Mulder body at a burial ground, Mulder explains to Scully
suspects that Samuel is innocent, and that someone that the oldest X−File on record was created by J.
else is poisoning the parishioners of Miracle Edgar Hoover. It involved a series of murders that
Ministries. Mulder relays his conclusion to Sheriff occurred in the United States during World War II in
Daniels, and soon afterward Samuel is found dead which victims were mauled to death by what police
in his jail cell. assumed to be a wild animal. An animal was
The agents return to the courthouse where tracked and killed by police, but when they
Samuel was arraigned and find evidence that retrieved the carcass, they found only the body of a
someone dumped locust into the ventilation system. man. Scully insists it is physically impossible for a
They trace the insects – and a highly−poisonous human to change form.
cyanide – to Leonard Vance, an accident victim that Lyle Parker arrives at the burial grounds to offer
Samuel brought back to life. Before Vance is his condolences to Goodensnake’s sister, Gwen. She
arrested, Samuel returns from the dead to ask him becomes distraught and insists that he leave.
why he poisoned the parishioners. Vance angrily Not long after the cremation, Mulder and Scully
reveals his burned flesh and scar tissue, admitting discover Jim Parker’s mutilated corpse at his ranch.
that he conspired to squash the parishioner’s faith in They also find Lyle Parker, lying naked in the mud
its greatest healer. Vance ingests a lethal dose of nearby. Scully transports Lyle to the hospital for
pesticide before the agents arrive at his house, but treatment while Mulder and Sheriff Tskany continue
before he dies he tells of Samuel’s resurrection from the investigation.
the dead. This unnerves Sheriff Daniels, who had Tskany takes Mulder to the home of Ish, an
arranged Samuel’s beating inside the jail cell. elderly mystic Native American. Ish explains that
Daniels is later approached by Deputy Tyson, the attacks that occurred during World War II were
who reveals that the District Attorney is the result of a Manitou, an evil spirit capable of
investigating his role in Samuel’s death. 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
Shapes have killed Jim Parker to avenge her brother’s death.
But when Gwen is interviewed, she claims she saw
Production Code: #1X18 a wolf−like creature attack and kill Jim Parker.
Original Air Date: 04/01/94 Mulder and Tskany realize that Lyle may have
Written by Marilyn Osborn contracted the shape−shifting power after he was
Directed by David Nutter mauled by the beast. They race back to the Parker
THE AGENTS TRACK A WOLF−LIKE CREATURE LINKED
ranch, where Mulder rescues Scully by shooting and
TO NATIVE AMERICAN LEGEND. killing a wolf−creature. Moments later, the creature
reverts to Lyle’s form.
At a remote cattle ranch in the Montana
countryside, Jim Parker and his son Lyle are attacked
by a ferocious, wolf−like beast. Hampered by
darkness and a raging thunderstorm, Jim fires his
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Darkness Falls from one of the sabotaged vehicles to the


abandoned 4x4. But when they locate the 4x4, they
are horrified to discover Humphrey’s cocooned
Production Code: #1X19 corpse inside.
Original Air Date: 04/15/94 Spinney suddenly appears with the jeep as he
Written by Chris Carter had promised. He transports the others through the
Directed by Joe Napolitano forest at a high rate of speed, hoping to outrun the
A GROUP OF LOGGERS WORKING IN A REMOTE darkness. Along the way, the jeep’s tires are
FOREST UNEARTH THOUSANDS OF DEADLY INSECT− punctured by a sharp metal device Spinney himself
LIKE CREATURES THAT PARALYZE – AND THEN had planted on the dirt road to sabotage the
COCOON – THEIR VICTIMS. logger’s vehicles. A swarm of insects descends upon
Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of the jeep and everyone inside is cocooned. The
thirty loggers who were clearing trees in a remote group is rescued by military medical personnel, then
forest in Washington State. They join forces with transported to a hospital for treatment.
Larry Moore, a member of the Federal Forest
Service, and Steve Humphreys, an employee of the
lumber company. Moore and Humphreys suspect Tooms
that the loggers may have been victimized by
militant environmentalists – or eccoterrorists – who Production Code: #1X20
have waged a campaign of destruction against Original Air Date: 04/22/94
lumber companies in retaliation for ruining Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
American forests. Directed by David Nutter
As the group travels along a dirt road, a tire on EUGENE TOOMS, WHOM MULDER HELPED
their 4x4 falls victim to sabotage. Left with little INCARCERATE, IS RELEASED ON PAROLE.
choice, the foursome set out on foot. They discover
a deserted logger’s encampment, and hanging from Scully is told by her superiors that the investigation
a nearby tree, a strange cocoon−like object. When of all X−Files cases must adhere to proper FBI
the cocoon is cut open, the group finds a procedures. She counters that the extraordinary
grotesquely shrunken corpse inside. Shortly nature of the cases dictates that unorthodox means
thereafter, Doug Spinney, an eccoterrorist suspected of investigation be utilized, but her objection is
of sabotaging equipment, arrives at the camp on overruled.
foot, his jeep having run out of gasoline. He warns Meanwhile, Eugene Tooms, a serial killer with
that strange, insect−like creatures inhabit the forest, unusual abilities, is interviewed by a parole board.
and when darkness falls they descend from the sky Mulder, who helped incarcerate Tooms, testifies at
in search of prey. The only thing the creatures fear, the hearing. But those present at the review
Spinney adds, is light. question Mulder’s credibility when he claims that
Humphreys scoffs at Spinney’s story, believing it Tooms’ murder spree spanned some 100 years, and
to be a cover for the loggers’ disappearance. that Tooms is capable of elongating his body – a
Frustrated by Moore’s refusal to arrest Spinney, process achieved through the ingestion of human
Humphreys begins to hike back to town alone. livers.
Along the way, the tiny insects engulf him. Tooms is released from the sanitarium and
Mulder, Scully, Moore and Spinney examine a placed under the care of Doctor Aaron Monte.
giant tree trunk lying in the woods. Moore takes a Mulder is certain that Tooms will commit another
core sample, and finds tiny insects feeding in its murder the moment the opportunity presents itself.
center. This leads to speculation that the once While Mulder keeps constant surveillance over
dormant creatures were released when the loggers Tooms, Scully researches the earlier murders hoping
cut down the tree. to prove that Tooms was responsible.
Mulder allows Spinney to transport the Scully calls on the services of Frank Briggs, a
remaining gasoline used to fuel the cabin’s retired police detective who accumulated evidence
generator to the stalled jeep – which is two valleys surrounding the murders – a series of five killings
away. Moore chastises Mulder’s decision, certain the that occur once every 30 years. He notes that in
creatures will attack once darkness falls and the 1933, a human liver was discovered near a then−
generator runs out of fuel. Scully panics when under−construction chemical plant, but the body of
millions of the phosphorescent bugs swarm inside the victim was never recovered. Briggs believes that
the cabin, waiting for the last glow of a light bulb Tooms hid the body because something about the
to fade. corpse could tie him to the killing.
But the fuel in the generator lasts until sunrise, Scully and Briggs venture to the chemical plant
keeping one light glowing and sparing the group a and recover a body entombed deep inside the
grisly fate. Realizing they will be attacked come cement foundation. Using sophisticated computer
nightfall, the threesome decide to carry a good tire
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enhancement, a bite mark on the victim’s body is death. Michelle, a passenger aboard the bus, stares
matched to Tooms’ dental records. at Felder’s motionless body.
Tooms charges that Mulder beat him up. Mulder After further investigation, the agents piece
is arrested and interrogated. He vehemently denies together the connection between the dead men and
the false allegations but cannot disprove them. the insurance scam. They question Tony’s wife Anita,
Scully backs him up by claiming she was with him who is concerned for her husband’s safety because
when the beating allegedly transpired. Mulder is he did not return home from work. During the
released, but warned to stay far away from Tooms. course of the interview, Anita likens the incident to
Mulder and Scully discover the body of Tooms’ the disappearance of her first husband – Charlie
fifth victim – Dr. Monte. Realizing that Tooms will Morris. Scully and Mulder become intrigued by
try to hibernate for another 30 years, Mulder and origami animals found throughout the home, figures
Scully rush to the location where he had previously similar to those folded by Michelle. Mulder
“nested.” In place of the dilapidated building stands concludes that Michelle is the reincarnation of
a shopping mall. Charlie Morris, who is avenging his murder by killing
Mulder guesses that an escalator shaft is the the participants.
likeliest place Tooms would have made the new Michelle is placed under hypnosis, but when
nest. He climbs inside the darkened shaft, a Charlie’s spirit begins to relive the murder,
flashlight illuminating his path. Tooms suddenly Michelle’s mother Cynthia halts the experiment. A
springs out of the darkness and attacks Mulder. video tape of the session is analyzed using
With Scully’s help, the agent struggles free. Tooms sophisticated equipment. It reveals an image of a
becomes entangled in the escalator’s gears and is man in a diving suit. Autopsy reports indicate that
crushed to death. 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
Born Again saw was that of the deep sea diver−aerator.
The agents rush to Tony Fiore’s house. Inside,
Production Code: #1X21 Michelle uses her psychokinetic powers to hurl
Original Air Date: 04/29/94 objects at Tony with great force. Mulder and Scully
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon gain entrance to the home and calm Michelle,
Directed by Jerrold Freedman whose powers subside with her anger.
AN EIGHT−YEAR−OLD GIRL IS THE PRIME SUSPECT
Fiore is tried and convicted of Morris’ murder.
IN A SERIES OF BIZARRE, SEEMINGLY UNRELATED Michelle’s life returns to normal.
DEATHS.
Detective Sharon Lazard discovers an eight year old Roland
girl lost and shivering outside a boarded up
storefront. Lazard transports the girl to the precinct Production Code #1X22
where she is questioned by Detective Barbala. Original Air Date: 05/06/94
During the course of the interview, Barbala is Written by Chris Ruppenthal
suddenly hurled out a window. He falls six stories Directed by David Nutter
to his death.
Due to the mysterious nature of the death, WHEN TOP SCIENTISTS AT AN AERONAUTICS
Mulder and Scully are called to the scene. Lazard is RESEARCH LAB DIE UNDER MYSTERIOUS
CIRCUMSTANCES, THE AGENTS SUSPECT A
convinced that Barbala was alone with Michelle MENTALLY−CHALLENGED JANITOR MAY SOMEHOW
when the tragedy occurred. She is also convinced BE THE CULPRIT.
that Barbala did not commit suicide.
Michelle tells the agents that another man was Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Dr.
present in the room when Barbala died. The Ronald Surnow, an aeronautical scientist, who was
description Michelle provides matches the likeness developing a jet engine that could double
of Officer Charlie Morris – who died nine years supersonic speeds using half the fuel. Surnow was
earlier. The agents question Morris’ former partner, sucked into the engine when he became trapped
Tony Fiore, who states that Morris was murdered by inside a wind tunnel. Surnow’s colleagues, Drs. Keats
a gang after a drug deal soured. In reality, Fiore and and Nollette, tell the agents that another member of
an insurance salesman named Len Felder plotted to the team, Arthur Gamble, died in a car accident not
scare Morris as part of an insurance scam, but their long ago.
scheme went too far and Morris died. The agents interview Roland Fuller, a mentally−
When Felder disembarks from a city bus, his challenged janitor, who was the only other person
scarf becomes caught in the vehicle’s door. As the inside the lab at the time of the incident. Mulder is
bus continues its journey, Felder is dragged to his 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 lake, the mysterious fugitive resurfaces from beneath
blackboard at the lab prove unsuccessful. the water. Tiny gills in his neck allowed him to
Shortly thereafter, Roland murders Keats by remain submerged for a long period. The fugitive
forcing his head into a vat of liquid nitrogen and makes his way to the city, and after attempting to
smashing his frozen skull. The agents investigate, contact Berube collapses on the street. As
and realize that after Keats was murdered, the paramedics rush the fugitive to a hospital, they
perpetrator gained access to a computer file that insert a needle into his skin. Suddenly, a rush of
belonged to the late Arthur Gamble. During a visit toxic gas is emitted from the fugitive’s body. The
to the cryogenics lab where Gamble’s head is paramedics are overcome by the fumes and the
preserved, they also discover that Gamble and fugitive escapes into the night.
Roland are identical twins. With the help of Dr. Carpenter, Scully analyzes a
Mulder arranges for constant surveillance of flask taken from Dr. Berube’s lab. The bacteria
Nollette – who is most likely to be the next victim inside is suspected of being extraterrestrial in origin.
– after Roland disappears. Mulder speculates that Mulder discovers a storage room containing
the twin brothers share a psychic connection, and human bodies suspended in a clear liquid. But when
that Gamble is controlling Roland from the he returns to the room with Scully, he finds that it
Netherworld. Nollette overhears Mulder's theory and has been emptied. Deep Throat explains that Dr.
sabotages Gamble’s cryogenic unit. Berube had been experimenting with extraterrestrial
Roland gains access to a computer terminal and viruses. He used humans afflicted with terminal
completes a simulation that pushes the jet model illnesses as his guinea pigs. The experiment was
past Mach 15. Nollette suddenly appears, gun in funded by the US government, but officials were
hand. He thanks Roland/Gamble for solving the interested only in technology – not the patients’
equation, allowing him to take credit for the work. well being. One of those patients was Dr. Secare, a
Roland becomes enraged and overpowers Nollette. friend of Dr. Berube’s. When it became clear that
He locks the scientist inside the tunnel and starts the government wanted Secare eliminated, Berube
the engine. Mulder and Scully gain access to the warned his friend and gave him his car to escape.
room and ask Roland – not Gamble – to remember When Secare was hunted down by police, he used
the access code that will shut down the engine. his mutation to his advantage and hid beneath the
Roland recalls the code and disengages the lake.
machine. 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 Erlenmeyer Flask The pair are surprised by a government official who
shoots and kills Secare.
Production Code: #1X23 When Mulder disappears, Scully makes contact
Original Air Date: 05/13/94 with Deep Throat. Deep Throat arranges for Scully
Written by Chris Carter to gain access to a top secret containment facility
Directed by R.W. Goodwin in Maryland. Scully steals an alien fetus, and with
DEEP THROAT TIPS MULDER TO A CRITICALLY
Deep Throat’s help arranges for an exchange – the
IMPORTANT CASE INVOLVING A MISSING FUGITIVE fetus for Mulder. After Deep Throat makes the
AND THE CLONING OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL VIRUSES. exchange, he is shot and killed by the government
agents.
Mulder receives a cryptic tip from Deep Throat Later, Scully learns from Mulder that the
regarding an incident in which a fugitive eluded government is shutting down the X−Files project.
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, S E A S O N 2
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. Little Green Men
The agents trace the original car to a Dr. Berube,
a scientist who is not eager to cooperate with the Production Code: #2X01
FBI investigation. With the puzzling case at a dead Original Air Date: 09/16/94
end, Mulder prepares to give up. But Deep Throat Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
makes contact and convinces him that case is of Directed by David Nutter
extreme importance. Meanwhile, Dr. Berube’s dead
body is discovered inside the lab. MULDER TRAVELS TO PUERTO RICO IN ADVANCE OF
A BERET TEAM OUT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE OF AN
The police end their search for the fugitive EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCOUNTER.
without recovering a body. When they leave the
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With the X−Files project officially disbanded, Mulder the jeep. But Mulder outmaneuvers them and
and Scully return to rank and file FBI investigations. escapes down a roadway. When he returns to
But the agents, having been exposed to Washington, Mulder is reprimanded by Skinner for
extraordinary cases involving extraterrestrials and missing work. Mulder counters that his phone was
the paranormal, can hardly conceal their boredom. tapped illegally. Mulder is allowed to keep his job.
Believing that the agency has them under Later, he and Scully listen to the reel to reel tape,
surveillance, they meet in the parking garage of the only to realize it is blank.
Watergate Hotel. There Mulder confesses to Scully
that he has grown depressed about his mission in
life – finding evidence that proves his sister was The Host
abducted by aliens years earlier. He laments that
despite having numerous close encounters with Production Code: #2X02
UFOs, he still possesses no physical evidence that Original Air Date: 09/23/94
proves extraterrestrials exist. He is losing interest in Written by Chris Carter
finding “the truth.” But Mulder is later summoned to Directed by Daniel Sackheim
the Capitol Building by Senator Richard Matheson, MULDER PURSUES A HUMANOID, PARASITIC
an X−Files patron, who lets him in on a big secret: ORGANISM THAT USES SEWAGE SYSTEMS AS ITS
an abandoned radio telescope in Puerto Rico was HOME.
the site of a UFO encounter.
Mulder flies to Puerto Rico immediately, hoping The crew aboard a Russian freighter bound for New
to beat the Blue Beret UFO Retrieval Team before Jersey encounter a ferocious, humanoid monster
they can confiscate evidence that contact was lurking inside its sewage tanks. After the beast drags
made. He makes forced entry into the facility, one crewman to his death, orders are given to
where he discovers a reel to reel tape spinning purge the tanks.
unattended on a tape recorder. A terrified Puerto Sometime later, Mulder is pulled off a job
Rican man named Jorge draws Mulder an image of performing mundane surveillance work and assigned
an extraterrestrial that he witnessed at the site. to investigate a mysterious murder case in New
When Mulder does not show up for work, Scully Jersey. He is ushered beneath the streets of Newark,
begins an investigation. She searches his apartment into the sewers, where he inspects the corpse of a
and discovers a piece of paper containing a “Wow sanitation worker. Outraged at being assigned to yet
Signal,” a radio transmission from deep space another meaningless case, which he believes to be
containing a transmission code thirty times stronger a drug−related killing, Mulder confronts Assistant
than galactic background noise. Dr. Kip Troitsky tells Director Skinner. Skinner reminds him that the X−
Scully that only a handful of radio telescopes Files have been closed. Mulder later confesses to
actively search for such signals. Scully searches Scully that he is thinking of leaving the bureau and
through airline manifests and finds one containing pursuing his interest in the paranormal on his own.
Mulder’s pseudonym, “George E. Hale.” That flight While performing the autopsy on the body
was bound for Puerto Rico. Scully’s progress is recovered from the New Jersey sewer, Scully
slowed when a hurricane strikes the island. She discovers a strange, worm−like creature slithering
grows even more concerned when she realizes FBI inside the corpse. Meanwhile, another sanitation
agents are following her. worker is attacked by the creature lurking inside the
Mulder and Jorge listen to the reel to reel tapes sewer. This time, the victim survives. Mulder and a
as the force of the hurricane intensifies. Suddenly, hospital physician, Dr. Zenzola, inspect a wound on
Jorge hears noises that terrify him. He runs from the the workman’s back. Unsure about what could have
building. Mulder runs after him, but after a short made the mark, Mulder and the doctor tell the man
search discovers the man’s dead body, his he can leave the hospital. But when the workman
expression frozen in fear, as if he were frightened returns home, a parasitic worm forces its way out of
to death. Feeling more isolated than ever, Mulder his body, killing him in the process.
records his thoughts into a tape recorder. He Mulder pays a visit to the sewage processing
wonders aloud what he would do if he did indeed plant. An elderly employee named Charlie discovers
come face to face with extraterrestrial life. a humanoid creature swimming in a sedimentation
Moments later, an intense, blinding force rocks the pond. Terrified, he flushes the system, capturing the
building. Mulder watches, horrified, as an alien creature in the process. Mulder has it placed in a
being walks towards him. He is engulfed in a holding cell.
blinding light. With the creature in custody, Mulder pays a visit
When Mulder regains consciousness, Scully is at to Skinner. He states that had the case been treated
his side. But they soon realize that the Blue Beret as an X−File from the beginning, the workman’s life
team has arrived. Confident the Berets will kill might have been spared. Skinner tells Mulder that
them, the pair scramble for a nearby jeep and head the creature will be institutionalized… and he agrees
into the wilderness. The Berets open fire, striking that the case should have been labeled an X−File.
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The creature escapes and takes refuge inside a the suspects obeyed orders to surrender and were
chemical tank near a campsite. It is accidentally subsequently shot to death by police. Mulder
sucked inside a tanker truck and transported away. suspects that electronic devices found smashed at
Meanwhile, Mulder receives mysterious messages the scenes of the crimes are linked to the killings.
from a high−ranking government official who makes Another bizarre killing shakes the small town
it clear that reinstatement of the X−Files depends on when a woman attacks a lecherous automotive
his success with the assignment. mechanic at the garage where he works. Mulder
Mulder tracks the creature to a sewage inspects the murder scene and is most intrigued by
treatment plant. Scully warns him that the fluke she a smashed digital dashboard display. Accompanied
discovered inside the corpse is actually an by local police, Mulder interviews Bonnie
incubating larva – meaning that the creature is McRoberts, whose car the mechanic was working
trying to reproduce. The agent and a foreman crawl on at the time he was murdered. But McRoberts
inside a tunnel hoping to locate the creature. It suddenly goes berserk and slashes at Mulder with a
suddenly lunges out of the water and grabs hold of knife. Police open fire, killing her. Scully examines
the foreman, dragging him beneath the foul sludge. the woman’s corpse and finds evidence that a
The foreman resurfaces, gasping for air. The creature chemical similar to LSD is present in her blood. But
makes its way to an overflow pipe, which leads to that chemical is only triggered when a high amount
the sea. Mulder engages a rusty lever, causing a of adrenaline is secreted.
guillotine−like metal gate to drop from above. The Mulder discovers that the city of Franklyn sprays
creature is severed in two. orchards with dangerous insecticides in its quest to
Later, Mulder meets with Scully, who produces exterminate a particularly virulent species of cluster
photographs linking the creature to meltdown waste fly. Unfortunately, he learns this firsthand – he is
from the Chernobyl Reactor in Russia. doused by a helicopter flying a secret operation
under the cover of darkness. County Supervisor
Larry Winter defends the operation, noting that the
Blood local economy depends on crops.
But Mulder’s exposure to the chemical begins to
Production Code: #2X03 have an effect on his mind. He too sees messages
Original Air Date: 09/30/94 in electronic displays. He realizes that all of the
Teleplay by Glen Morgan and James Wong killers suffered from phobias – phobias that could be
Story by Darin Morgan exploited through subliminal means. Since the
Directed by David Nutter chemical agent used in the manufacture of the
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF
insecticide produces fear in cluster flies, Mulder
VIOLENT KILLINGS COMMITTED BY SEEMINGLY concludes the same fear is being chemically
NORMAL RESIDENTS OF A SMALL TOWN. induced and then triggered by someone using the
town of Franklyn for a controlled experiment.
Ed Funsch is an ordinary guy who performs an Mulder and Scully believe that only a small
ordinary job at the United States Post Office in percentage of the population of Franklyn – some 25
Franklyn, Pennsylvania. One day his supervisor people – are at risk of having a violent reaction to
delivers bad news: because of cutbacks, Ed has been the chemical. One of these is Ed Funsch. The agents
laid off. Depressed about his prospects for the arrive at Funsch’s home and discover an empty rifle
future, Ed nonetheless returns to his spot at the zip case. Mulder realizes that Funsch is afraid of the
code sorter machine. As he stares at the digital sight of blood. He races to a local blood drive at a
display on the device, numbers begin changing into college, where Funsch has climbed a clock tower
letters of the alphabet. They form words. Instead of armed with rifles. Mulder overpowers Funsch and
seeing postal codes, Ed views a message: “Kill ‘Em arrests him.
All.”
Shortly thereafter, a real estate agent enters a
crowded elevator in an office building. He begins Sleepless
sweating profusely, and as he stares at the
elevator’s digital display floor−indicator, he too sees Production Code: #2X04
the message “Kill ‘Em All.” The man loses control. Original Air Date: 10/07/94
He strikes out at the other passengers, killing two in Written by Howard Gordon
a wild frenzy. Directed by Rob Bowman
The senselessness of the crime, and its similarity
to other violent incidents that have rocked the small MULDER SEARCHES FOR A VIETNAM VET WHO CAN
town of Franklyn, prompts local police ask for the PROJECT HIS CONSCIOUSNESS INTO OTHER
PEOPLE’S MINDS.
FBI’s help. Mulder is assigned the case. He learns
that the real estate agent and others who suddenly In New York City, Dr. Saul Grissom, a pioneer in
went berserk did so in a busy, public area. None of sleep disorders, calls 911 to report a fire outside his
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apartment. When emergency crews arrive at experiment. But Cole projects an image into
Grissom’s building, they do not find a fire. But they Krycek’s brain, making it seem as if he is pointing a
do find Grissom’s dead body. Skinner assigns Mulder gun at Mulder. Krycek falls for the trick and shoots
and Alex Krycek, another agent for the FBI, to Cole. Later, Krycek reports to a mysterious tribunal
investigate the mysterious incident. Annoyed at the that is bent on eliminating Mulder and Scully
prospect of working with Krycek, Mulder travels to forever.
Connecticut by himself. He interviews Dr. Penelope
Charyn, who explains that Grissom revolutionized
sleep therapy, and developed a process whereby a Duane Barry (1 of 2)
person’s dreams can be altered by electric
stimulation. Production Code: #2X05
Mulder grudgingly accepts Krycek as his partner. Original Air Date: 10/14/94
They visit Scully in the autopsy bay. She explains Written and Directed by Chris Carter
that Grissom shows classic physiological responses A FORMER FBI AGENT WHO CLAIMS HE WAS
of having been burned alive in a fire… yet his flesh ABDUCTED BY ALIENS TAKES SEVERAL PEOPLE
is not charred. Interest in the case grows when HOSTAGE.
another man, Henry Willig, is found dead in his
apartment with forty−three internal hemorrhages – Mulder and Alex Krycek are assigned to a hostage
signs that he had been shot to death. But upon negotiation. They are briefed by Agent Lucy Kazdin,
examination, no bullets or signs of foul play are who explains that a mental patient named Duane
detected. Mulder realizes that both Willig and Barry has taken his psychologist, Dr. Hakkie, and
Grissom were Vietnam veterans, and that both were three other people hostage at a travel agency. Barry
stationed at Parris Island. After further checking, the demands safe passage for himself and Hakkie to an
agents determine that Augustus Cole is the only alien abduction site – although he cannot remember
surviving member of a special squad that included where the site is. Mulder phones Barry and tries
Willig. But Cole turns up missing when he is traced calming him. It soon becomes apparent that Barry is
to a psychiatric ward. well acquainted with hostage crises. Kazdin explains
A mysterious government operative, X, meets that Barry is a former FBI agent.
Mulder in a dark parking structure (as did Deep A strange light envelopes the scene. Barry
Throat). He claims that Grissom conducted sleep becomes unglued and fires his gun, wounding some
deprivation experiments as Parris Island in an of the hostages. Kazdin explains that a power
attempt to make soldiers aggressive and fearless. generator blew, but Mulder suspects otherwise.
The woman warns that Augustus Cole has not slept Mulder and Agent Janus volunteer to aid the
in twenty−four years. The agents get a break in the wounded. They are equipped with a flak jacket and
case when Cole robs a pharmacy of anti− a wire. As Janus tends to an injured man, Mulder
depressants. Mulder and Krycek are shocked when speaks with Barry in person for the first time. He
two officers shoot one another while searching the strays from the FBI script and talks about UFOs
drug store. Mulder theorizes that Cole possesses the candidly. Barry is taken aback; it’s the first time
ability to project his consciousness into the minds someone given credence to his past experiences.
of other people. He allows Mulder to trade himself for one of the
The agents locate Salvatore Matola, a former hostages. As Mulder walks Barry through his UFO
member of the special marine squad whose name encounters, the FBI agents listen in, convinced that
was not officially listed on any government Barry is being driven over the edge.
documents. Matola claims that a Dr. Girardi When Scully is updated of the situation, she
participated in the experiments. He also admits that urges the FBI to get Mulder out immediately. She
his entire squad went AWOL and massacred explains that in 1982, Barry was shot in the line of
everyone who lived in the Vietnamese village of duty. The injury effectively destroyed the moral
Phu Bai. Mulder concludes that Cole is punishing center of his brain, leaving him a pathological liar
everyone associated with the massacre for its who suffers from severe delusions. Scully speaks to
twenty−fourth anniversary. The agents rush to a train Mulder via the hidden two−way receiver wired to
station to intercept Girardi. Mulder draws his gun his body. She urges him to get the hostages away
when he sees Cole, pistol in hand, approaching from Barry. Barry concedes to Mulder’s request and
Girardi. But in reality, Mulder is reacting to images releases the remaining hostages. Soon after, an FBI
projected into his mind. Seeing that Mulder is marksman shoots Barry.
pointing his gun at innocent bystanders, Krycek Barry is rushed to a hospital. Kazdin tells Mulder
shoots at Mulder. Luckily, he misses. that x−rays revealed strange pieces of metal inside
The agents track Cole and Girardi to a train car Barry’s nasal cavity, lending credence to the man’s
in a railway yard. Girardi is badly injured, the victim claim that he was kidnapped and tortured by aliens.
of Cole’s dream projection. Mulder finds Cole and Scully discovers that the metal is encoded with
tries convincing him to testify in court about the strange symbols.
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Barry escapes from his hospital room. Without He believes that Scully got too close to the truth,
warning, he bursts into Scully’s apartment and especially when she discovered the metallic
attacks her. implant. Mulder concludes that a covert military
operation – assisted by the mysterious Smoking
Man – is behind the cover−up. Those suspicions are
Ascension (2 of 2) confirmed when Krycek vanishes without a trace.
Left with little choice, Skinner officially reopens the
Production Code: #2X06 X−Files.
Original Air Date: 10/21/94
Written by Paul Brown
Directed by Michael Lange 3
MULDER ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE SCULLY AFTER SHE IS
ABDUCTED BY A DERANGED MAN WHO BELIEVES IN Production Code: #2X07
UFOS. Original Air Date: 11/04/94
Written by Chris Ruppenthal, Glen Morgan
Mulder rushes to Scully’s apartment when he and James Wong
realizes that she was attacked by Duane Barry. Directed by David Nutter
When he arrives at the scene, a police investigation
is already in progress. There are signs of a struggle; MULDER LINKS A SERIES OF GRISLY DEATHS TO A
broken glass and human blood dot the floor. Scully’s GROUP OF MODERN−DAY VAMPIRES.
mother Margaret speaks to Mulder about the With Scully still missing, Mulder begins work on the
abduction; she describes a nightmare she newly reopened X−Files project. He investigates the
experienced that foretold the incident. FBI agents violent death of a Los Angeles businessman who
are skeptical when Mulder hints that Barry’s UFO was attacked by several people as he used his
story might be legitimate. Skinner removes Mulder jacuzzi. The murder resembles several other similar
from the investigation and sends him home. attacks believed to have been committed by the
Meanwhile, Barry makes his way to the alien Trinity Killers: the victim’s body is drained of blood,
landing site. A patrolman pulls Barry over for bite marks are discovered on the exterior jugular
speeding. He notices blood on Barry’s hands and vein, and a quotation written in blood is found near
draws his weapon. But Barry pulls a gun and kills the body.
the police officer. Mulder reviews a videotape of Mulder tracks his first suspect to the Hollywood
the incident which was recorded by a camera Blood Bank. He finds a new employee in the
mounted inside the patrolman’s car. Using video basement dining on human blood. The man, who
enhancement, Scully’s image is pinpointed – and she calls himself The Son, wants to live forever because
is alive. he believes there is no afterlife. Mulder believes the
Mulder reviews audio tapes of his hostage man is delusional and a faker. Believing his
negotiations. He realizes that Barry is heading for condition a psychological, Mulder places The Son in
Skyland Mountain in Virginia. Accompanied by a jail cell where he will come in contact with direct
Krycek, Mulder drives to the remote location. They sunlight at dawn. Mulder tells him the sunlight will
are told by a tram operator that Barry is driving up be blocked if he reveals the whereabouts of his
the mountain using back roads. Hoping to beat Barry accomplices. But as guards watch horrified, The Son
to the summit, Mulder boards the dangerous burns to death when dawn breaks.
passenger tram and journeys up the mountain. But Mulder theorizes that vampirism is, in part,
before the tram reaches its destination, Krycek kills based on a real disease called porphyria, an
the tram operator and sabotages the controls, affliction which causes blisters on the skin when a
stranding Mulder in the process. When Mulder sufferer is exposed to sunlight. With the aid of a
attempts to climb off the tram, Krycek engages the coroner, a hand stamp on The Son’s skin is
power, hoping to crush him. But Mulder deciphered. It reads “Club Tepes.” Mulder visits the
outmaneuvers Krycek and continues his search. club, where he meets a mysterious woman named
Mulder sees a blinding light pass overhead. Kristen. During an erotic encounter, Kristen tempts
When he locates Barry, Scully is nowhere to be him with a drop of her blood. But Mulder declines
found. Barry begins laughing hysterically. He to drink. An Asian man accepts Kristen’s offer and
describes how the aliens will no longer bother him the couple retreat to a secluded area. When Kristen
now that they have another guinea pig. But Mulder finishes arousing the man, three of her accomplices
remains skeptical; he questions Barry’s sanity and rush him.
lashes out at him during an interrogation. Shortly Mulder and members of the police department
after Krycek conducts his own interrogation, Barry discover the man’s corpse drained of blood. Nearby
lapses into cardiac arrest and dies. is a can of cranberry sauce and some fingerprints.
Mulder tells Skinner that Krycek poisoned Barry By matching the fingerprint with existing records,
– and that the military is aware of Scully’s location. Mulder locates Kristen’s home. Kristen recounts how
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she first met The Son, whose real name was John. shadows and shoots the mysterious man. Mulder is
During a fight with John, they tasted each other’s shocked at the senselessness of the killing. He does,
blood. From that point on they turned to “blood however, recover the blood sample. Soon after, the
sports.” They were joined by others, but Kristen Scullys honor Dana’s wish and the life support
explains how it turned unnatural. Kristen insists that system is disconnected.
with John dead, she is not in jeopardy. She refuses Mulder approaches Skinner and demands he
Mulder’s escort to the police department. Instead, have access to the mysterious Cigarette−Smoking
Mulder spends the night with Kristen, and the two Man (CSM), convinced he is responsible for the
become lovers. cover−up. But his request is denied. Some time later,
The next day, The Son appears at Kristen’s house at the hospital, a mysterious woman leaves behind a
as wild fires spread throughout the Malibu hills. The pack of cigarettes containing CSM’s address. Mulder
Son tells Kristen that he is immortal and cannot be secretly enters CSM’s apartment and puts a gun to
killed even by sunlight. He instructs Kristen to kill his head. But CSM holds all the cards; he reminds
Mulder. Instead, Kristen stabs The Father, the first of Mulder that if he dies, he takes all the secrets with
the Holy Trinity, who is hiding in the darkness. The him. Realizing he has arrived at a dead end, Mulder
Son attacks Mulder, but he is overpowered and tied gives Skinner his resignation.
up. As the fires near the house, Mulder and Kristen Skinner refuses to accept Mulder’s resignation.
attempt to make their getaway by car. Suddenly, Later, Mulder is approached by X and leaked
The Holy Spirit attacks the couple. Kristen hits the information regarding an illegal search that will
vampire with her car, impaling it against a nail. She occur at his apartment, a search that will be
returns to the house and pours gasoline around performed by government operatives. Mulder is
herself and The Son. She states her intent to instructed to kill the intruders and claim self−
become immortal and ignites the gas. Later, firemen defense. As Mulder waits in the darkness for the
tell Mulder that four corpses were discovered inside agents, Melissa appears at his door. She tells him
the house. 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
One Breath encouragement. When Mulder returns to his
apartment, he finds that it has been ransacked.
Production Code: #2X08 The next day, Mulder receives a telephone call
Original Air Date: 11/11/94 from the hospital. Dana has regained consciousness.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by R.W. Goodwin
WHEN SCULLY’S COMATOSE BODY IS DISCOVERED
Firewalker
AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL, MULDER SUSPECTS THE
GOVERNMENT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER Production Code: #2X09
DISAPPEARANCE. Original Air Date: 11/18/94
Written by Howard Gordon
Despite Mulder’s objection that it is still too soon to Directed by David Nutter
give up hope, Margaret Scully orders a gravestone
for her missing daughter, Dana. Not long afterward, A PARASITIC SILICON−BASED LIFE FORM IS
Dana’s comatose body mysteriously appears at a DISCOVERED BY A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS
local hospital. She is hooked to a life support RESEARCHING A VOLCANO.
system, her condition critical. There are no records Adam Pierce, a technician at the California Institute
indicating how she arrived at the hospital… or who of Technology’s Volcano Observatory, approaches
brought her there. Mulder is furious. A doctor Mulder and Scully with a mystery. A team of
reveals that Dana’s living will specifically requests scientists working at Mount Avalon issued a distress
termination of life support should such a situation signal requesting an immediate airlift. When contact
develop. with the team was lost, Pierce and his fellow
Melissa Scully visits the hospital. She claims that, scientists at Cal Tech activated a robotic camera,
through channeling, she can communicate with her nicknamed Firewalker, which relayed pictures from
sister. Dana also receives a visit from Frohike, one inside an active volcano. The pictures – which are
of the Lone Gunman. Frohike and his colleagues reviewed by Mulder and Scully – show Chief
discover that Dana’s DNA exhibits signs of genetic Seismologist Phil Erikson’s heat−seared corpse lying
tampering. They conclude that with her immune at the volcano’s caldera, where temperatures reach
system decimated, Dana does not have long to live. over 400 degrees Celsius. The videotape also
When Mulder returns to the hospital, he sees a captured a hulking figure near the body. Pierce
mysterious man steal a vial containing Dana’s blood suspects that his brilliant colleague, Daniel Trepkos,
sample. Mulder gives chase. A fight ensues between may somehow be responsible for the death.
the two men. Suddenly, X emerges from the
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Mulder, Scully and Pierce fly by helicopter to CATTLE RANCHERS IN A REMOTE WISCONSIN TOWN
Mount Avalon. They find scientists Jason Ludwig, SUSPECT A RELIGIOUS CULT IS TO BLAME WHEN
Jesse O’Neil and Peter Tanaka hiding inside the field LOCAL TEENAGERS ARE DRUGGED AND ABDUCTED.
base. Ludwig describes how Trepkos went berserk Gary Kane, a sixteen−year−old high school student,
and destroyed the facilities. Shortly thereafter, leaves his home suddenly after receiving a
Trepkos finds Pierce and strangles him. Mulder mysterious phone call. When Gary fails to return
uncovers Trepkos’ notes, which describe an home, his mother, Beth, notifies police. Two officers
unknown life form living inside the volcano. The on patrol notice Gary – who is clad only in his
notes suggest Trepkos possesses physical evidence underwear – wandering aimlessly in a wooded area.
that proves the existence of silicon−based life. A phrase is written on his back in marker: “He is
Scully interviews Jesse O’Neil, who had been one.”
romantically linked to Trepkos. Mulder and Scully review the facts in the case.
Tanaka begins having coughing fits. Scully insists Gary was not sexually assaulted, nor was he the
he be airlifted off the base and taken to a hospital. victim of a prank. Surprisingly, there are reports of
But the scientist runs off into the forest. Mulder and other teenagers having experienced similar ordeals.
Ludwig give chase. Tanaka loses his balance and Mulder’s curiosity is piqued when a Wisconsin
trips, falling down an embankment. Suddenly, his sheriff, Bill Mazeroski, speculates that the victims
throat swells enormously and a spike pierces his have been possessed. He explains that a religious
skin, killing him instantly. Scully’s examination of the cult called the Church of the Red Museum settled
body supports Mulder’s theory that a silicon−based into the area and purchased a cattle ranch. Being
life form, possibly a fungus, grew inside Tanaka’s vegetarians, the church members turned beef cattle
body. Believing the fungus to be communicable and into pets – much to the consternation of local
airborne, the group is quarantined. ranchers. The sheriff takes the agents to the church.
Ludwig volunteers to guide Mulder to the They watch as Richard Odin, the sect’s leader,
underground steam caves where Trepkos is believed addresses his parishioners via a computer. Mulder
to be hiding. But Trepkos surprises them and shoots explains to Scully that the church members are
Ludwig with a flare gun. He proceeds to burn the “walk ins” – believers in soul transference who have
body so that the parasitic spore living inside will taken possession of other people’s bodies.
die. Trepkos explains the Erikson inadvertently Local teenagers harass a young Red Museum
released the spore after Firewalker pulled a sample member. Mulder comes to the boy’s aid, and in the
out of the volcano. Everyone at the base – except process learns that one of the harassers is the
himself – was infected by the parasite. He crippled sheriff’s son, Rick. A girl who participated in the
the transmitter equipment, and killed Pierce, all in verbal attack on the Red Museum member is later
an effort to keep the spore from spreading. Mulder, found with the message “She is one” scrawled on
realizing Scully is in jeopardy, races back to the her back. Lab tests reveal large quantities of a
base. hallucinogen – a controlled substance – in the girl’s
O’Neil handcuffs herself to Scully and loses blood. That night, a small plane carrying Dr. Gerry
consciousness. Realizing what is about to occur, Larson crash lands in a field. Mulder, Scully and
Scully carries her body to rubber−sealed Plexiglas Sheriff Mazeroski discover a briefcase bearing
door and placed her on the other side, separating Larson’s initials filled with hundred dollar bills. They
them. O’Neil’s throat expands to grotesque also discover a vial containing a mysterious fluid,
proportions – the fungus within replicating – ready and a computer printout list containing the names
to infect a new host. Suddenly, O’Neil’s throat and credit card numbers of the victims’ families…
explodes, the organic matter spattering against the each of whom Larson delivered and treated through
Plexiglas. Mulder finds Scully safe and unharmed. childhood.
Trepkos returns to the base, where he discovers While interviewing Beth Kane, Mulder notices a
Jesse’s corpse. Mulder allows him to remove the light shining through a hole in her bathroom mirror.
body and leave the area. Meanwhile, he and Scully He smashes the glass, revealing a video camera
are quarantined for a month to ensure neither has surveillance set−up. The man behind the
been infected. 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.
Red Museum Mulder discovers that Gerd Thomas owns the
building where the Kane family lives. He is placed
Production Code: #2X10 under arrest. Numerous video tapes are recovered.
Original Air Date: 12/09/94 Thomas apologizes for his sickness but insists he did
Written by Chris Carter not murder Rick. He explains that Dr. Larson was
Directed by Win Phelps 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 The mystery deepens when Tiernan, a hospital
executed Deep Throat – driving on the street. orderly, is pushed out a window by an invisible
Mulder realizes that the mysterious fluid is alien force. A toxicological report on Hal’s blood reveals
DNA, the same substance found in the erlenmeyer trace levels of Ibotenic acid, an hallucinogenic drug.
flask months earlier. The Crew−Cut Man, Scully While searching the basement of the nursing home,
speculates, killed Rick to cover up evidence. Aware Mulder uncovers a room containing hundreds of
that other lives are in danger, Mulder asks the mushrooms. And beneath a pile of fertilizer Mulder
sheriff to round up everyone on Larson’s computer discovers the dead body of a missing orderly. Gung,
list and transport them to the Red Museum. an Asian orderly, is questioned about the room. He
Realizing that the Crew−Cut Man’s base of admits that he has been feeding herbs to the
operation is the local slaughterhouse, Mulder rushes residents – herbs that allow them to speak to the
to the scene. He finds the facility soaked with dead. Gung is convinced that the mysterious rapes
gasoline. The Crew−Cut Man suddenly springs from and murders were committed by angry spirits. Stan
the darkness and a fight ensues. Scully and overdoses on the herbs and a group of ghosts mass
Mazeroski arrive and shoot the Crew−Cut Man, for an attack against residents and visitors alike.
killing him. An investigation reveals no clues as to Michelle and Mulder become trapped inside a
who the man was or the chemical makeup of the bathroom that floods with water. Scully comes to
substance injected into the townspeople. 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
Excelsious Dei 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 Aubrey
Directed by Steven Surjik
A SERIES OF VIOLENT ATTACKS AT A CONVALESCENT Production Code: #2X12
HOME ARE LINKED TO ANGRY SPIRITS FROM Original Air Date: 01/06/95
BEYOND THE GRAVE. Written by Sara Charno
Directed by Rob Bowman
Michelle Charter works as a nurse at the Excelsis
Dei Convalescent Home. While making her rounds A PREGNANT WOMAN EXPERIENCES VISIONS OF
one night, she is suddenly and violently attacked by SERIAL KILLINGS THAT SPAN HALF A CENTURY.
an invisible entity that proceeds to rape her. News In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, Detective B.J.
of the attack reaches FBI headquarters, piquing Morrow experiences a frightening vision. In her
Mulder and Scully’s interest in the case. They travel mind’s eye, she sees a man bury a corpse in a
to Worcester, Massachusetts, the town where shallow grave. Certain of the exact location, B.J.
Michelle works. During her interview, Michelle rushes to a field, shovel in hand, and exhumes the
insists that the spirit which entered her body body.
emanated from an elderly patient afflicted with Using dental records, Mulder and Scully
Alzheimer’s disease named Hal Arden. Outraged by positively identify the remains. The victim is FBI
the incident, she initiates a lawsuit against the Agent Sam Chaney, who disappeared in the 1940s
federal government claiming that she is regularly along with his partner, Tim Ledbetter. Chaney and
subjected to sexual harassment and has no recourse Ledbetter were investigating a serial murder case at
for protection. the time. Mulder is puzzled by B.J. and her sudden
The agents speak with Hal, who assures them he knowledge of where the body was buried, so he
is not strong enough, nor possesses the sexual drive, and Scully travel to Aubrey hoping to uncover more
to rape anyone. But shortly thereafter Hal begins about the case.
choking after he secretly ingests a mysterious pill During questioning, B.J. tells the agents her car
given him by his roommate Stan. Mulder and Scully stalled near the field one night, and she noticed a
are unable to save Hal and he dies. Dr. John Grago dog digging in the ground. She claims it attracted
is upset when he learns the news; Hal’s Alzheimer’s her attention and, after some digging, she
disease had been in remission since he began taking proceeded to find the grave. But Scully senses that
an experimental drug called Depranil. Laura Kelly, B.J. is having an affair with Lieutenant Brian Tillman.
the daughter of Hal’s roommate, Stan, has her father She theorizes that B.J. made the initial phone call
discharged from the facility because of his markedly alerting police about the body from the motel
improved mental and physical state. She notes, where she was rendezvousing with Tillman. When
however, that Stan has begged her not to take him confronted about the truth, B.J. admits she not only
away from the home. 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 graveyard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Suspecting the
murder. incident might be related to UFOs, Bocks notifies
Further research reveals that the serial murderer, Mulder and Scully, hoping their expertise might help
dubbed the “Slash Killer” by the press at the time, shed some light on the bizarre incident. But Mulder
would knock female victims unconscious and carve recognizes signs of an escalating fetishist – a man
the word “sister” on their chests. Mulder suspects who collects dead things – at work. Despite her
that Chaney was a victim of the killer he was trying years of work performing autopsies, Scully is
to catch. Using a computer, the agents analyze the nonetheless repulsed by the manner in which the
victim’s bone fragments hoping to find more clues. bodies are mutilated. Hair has been snipped away in
Preliminary findings suggest that letters where clumps, and fingernails have been torn out with
carved into the corpse. Those letters, B.J. reveals, pliers. Scully is plagued by nightmares featuring a
spelled the word “brother.” demon. In the dreams, she becomes one of the
The agents are intrigued when Tillman reveals killer’s victims.
that the same serial killer who stalked Aubrey fifty When even more mutilated bodies turn up,
years earlier has apparently embarked on another Mulder fears the fetishist’s compulsion might lead to
murderous rampage. Accompanied by B.J., Mulder murder. His suspicions prove correct: Donnie
and Scully search the scene of the latest crime. B.J. employs the services of a prostitute, then murders
realizes the victim is the woman she saw in her and mutilates her. After examining how the body
dream. was defiled, Mulder suspects the killer has a deep
B.J. searches through mug shots from the 1940s hatred toward women.
and identifies the man in her dreams. He is Harry Donnie make a conscious effort to blend into
Cokely, convicted in 1945 for rape and attempted the community. He takes a job as a delivery man,
murder. He carved the word “sister” on his victim, and while working his route he wins the confidence
Linda Thibedeaux, before she escaped. The agents of Ellen Brumfield and her family. He enrolls in a
visit Cokely, now in his seventies, sickly and house mythology class at a junior college, but his attention
ridden. is drawn to a pretty coed who sits at the front of
B.J. awakens one night with blood seeping from the class. One night in the school’s parking lot
her chest. She experiences another vision and Donnie pins the girl to her car. But she strikes back
rushes to a stranger’s home, where she uncovers the by kneeing him in the groin. Donnie is arrested.
body of Ledbetter. That same night, however, a different suspect with a
The agents interview Linda Thibodeaux. She history of assault is also arrested. Mulder and Scully
admits that, as a result of being raped, she gave interview the man at the jail but determine he is
birth to Cokely’s child. She placed the baby in the not a suspect. But Donnie, who is in a cell nearby,
hands to an adoption agency. Further investigation takes note of Scully’s name.
reveals that Cokely’s son was Raymond Morrow – Bothered by her reaction to the case, Scully flies
B.J.’s father. The agents conclude that B.J. committed back to Washington and seeks the services of Karen
the latest series of killings. Kosseff, a member of the FBI’s Employee Assistance
B.J. attacks Thibodeaux, but she stops short of Program. Scully admits she has lost faith and feels
killing her. Mulder and Scully rush to Cokely’s house, vulnerable. Meanwhile, forensics lifts a fingerprint
suspecting that B.J. will attempt revenge. Cokely off the prostitute’s corpse. Mulder and Bocks trace
dies after his oxygen equipment is sabotaged. B.J. the print to Donnie, leading them to his apartment.
attacks Mulder with a razor. But Tillman arrives and They search the dwelling and discover a human
reminds B.J. who she really is. B.J. falls into a trance finger inside a freezer.
and is taken into custody. 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
Irresistible Bocks search for clues but come up empty−handed.
Mulder realizes that Donnie’s psychological profile
Production Code: #2X13 sketches the mind of a deviant who, like notorious
Original Air Date: 01/13/95 murders before him, is the embodiment of evil.
Written by Chris Carter Scully breaks free from her bonds and attempts
Directed by David Nutter to elude her captor. But Donnie gives chase, gun in
SCULLY AND MULDER HUNT DOWN A FETISHIST
hand. The two grapple for the weapon, and as
WHO COLLECTS PIECES OF THE DEAD. Scully looks at Donnie’s face, she sees the visage of
a demon, the same horrible creature from her
Donnie Pfaster lost his job at a funeral home after dream. Mulder and Bocks storm Donnie’s hideout.
his boss discovered him cutting hair from the corpse Donnie drops his weapon and is taken into custody.
of a pretty girl. Not long after Donnie’s dismissal,
Special FBI Agent Moe Bocks receives a call
regarding the mutilation of buried corpses at a
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Die Hand Die Verletzt the police and FBI investigations to end, and
realizing that Shannon makes the perfect scapegoat,
they fabricate a story in which Shannon killed Jerry
Production Code: #2X14 out of jealousy. But Jim Ausbury, disillusioned with
Original Air Date: 01/27/95 his religion and disgusted with the PTC members
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong and their lie about his daughter, tells Mulder the
Directed by Kim Manners truth: Shannon and other youngsters were forced to
THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A MURDER IN A SMALL participate in the ancient rituals against their will.
TOWN POPULATED BY DEVIL WORSHIPERS. Using post hypnotic suggestion, the memory of the
In a remote wooded area of New Hampshire, a rituals was repressed. After exposing the conspiracy,
group of teenagers – two boys and two girls – Ausbury is attacked and swallowed by a large
locate an alter that they believe is used for Black python.
Magic. One of the kids, a boy named Dave Duran, Recalling that Mrs. Paddock kept a snake in her
jokingly recites an incantation believing it will scare room, the agents decide an investigation is in order.
his girlfriend. But the joke backfires and the words But when they arrive at the school, PTC members
summon a powerful, evil force. The kids panic and take them hostage. Before the occultists can do the
run away from the alter. One of the teenagers, Jerry agents harm, they suddenly and mysteriously attack
Stevens, is attacked by the force. A hunter discovers and kill one another. Mulder and Scully escape and
his desecrated body the following morning. search for Mrs. Paddock. But she is not to be found.
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 Fresh Bones
having been cut out. Mulder’s sense that the area
has a strange feel is confirmed when toads begin Production Code: #2X15
dropping from the sky. Scully attributes the strange Original Air Date: 02/03/95
event to tornados in Northern Massachusetts. After Written by Howard Gordon
researching a local library, the agents discover that Directed by Rob Bowman
Duran checked out a book on witchcraft. When MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A VOODOO CURSE
questioned, a horrified Duran admits he never CAUSED THE DEATHS OF TWO MARINES STATIONED
thought his words would summon the Devil. AT A HAITIAN REFUGEE CAMP.
A visit to Crowley High School uncovers signs In North Carolina, Mulder and Scully investigate
that the student population suffers from repressed when two Marines stationed at the Folkstone
memory. Scully, however, attributes the town’s fear government processing center for Haitian refugees
to mass hysteria. But Mulder notes how water in the die in mysterious accidents. The Marines officially
city drains in a counter clockwise fashion – against classify the deaths as suicides, but Robin McAlpin,
the laws of gravity. He believes a powerful force is the wife of one victim, believes otherwise. Private
at work. Jack McAlpin died after he lost control of his car
During a science class, a fifteen−year−old girl and skidded into a tree. The agents comb the
named Shannon Ausbury suddenly begins screaming accident scene and discover a strange image
when asked to dissect a pig embryo. The agents painted on the tree. Mrs. McAlpin tells the agents
question the girl. Shannon recounts how her that a Marine named Harry Dunham suspects that
stepfather sexually molested her, a nearly forgotten the murders were caused by a voodoo curse.
memory. But she also recounts how her parents Mulder and Scully visit the encampment hoping
friends impregnated her three times and then killed to find answers. As they survey the deplorable
the children. She also claims that Jim murdered her conditions, a young Haitian boy, Chester, sells the
sister during a sacrifice. Mulder and Scully are agents a charm to help ward off evil. Later, the
stunned by the claims and decide to interview her agents speak with Colonel Jacob Wharton, who runs
parents. the camp. He confirms that ever since a young
The Ausburys claim one daughter died of crib Haitian boy was killed in the camp, things have
death and assure the agents their daughter has been chaotic. Wharton blames the trouble on Pierre
never been pregnant. With the town’s secret in Bauvais, a revolutionary held in an isolation cell.
danger of being exposed, a devil worshiper named Bauvais cryptically blames the deaths on loco−
Mrs. Paddock, a new teacher at the high school, miroir, the voodoo crossroads between two worlds.
places a spell on Shannon. Shortly thereafter, Scully obtains permission to examine McAlpin’s
Shannon slashes her wrists. corpse. In the temporary camp morgue, Scully and a
A group of parents – who are member of the marine physician are horrified when they discover
high school’s PTC – meet in secret. But these are no the body of a dead dog in place of McAlpin. Later
ordinary townsfolk; the parents worship Black that night, as Scully drives Mulder through the rain,
Magic. The PTC members tell Jim Ausbury that they a bedraggled man hobbles in front of the car. Scully
were responsible for Shannon’s death. Anxious for
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slams on the brakes. The agents are shocked when When Mulder’s heart stops, she insists he be
they get a good look at the man – Jack McAlpin. removed from a tub of warm water because the
A blood test reveals trace levels of a poison cold is the only thing keeping him alive. With the
called tetrodotoxin in McAlpin’s system. Mulder doctors locked in a stalemate, the sequence of
speculates that someone injected the Marine with events leading to Mulder’s condition unfolds…
the poison, thereby making him appear dead. This A research vessel sailing in the Arctic Circle
leads the agents to the grave of Manuel Guttierez, encounters what appears to be a UFO crashing into
the second Marine who allegedly committed the Beaufort Sea. But the news media reports that
suicide. The body, however, is missing. A the spacecraft was, in actuality, a Russian plane. The
gravekeeper explains how grave robbers regularly pilot of that craft, a bounty hunter, disappears, and
snatch the dead from their resting grounds. Mulder later begins killing doctors at abortion clinics across
spots Chester in the cemetery. The boy explains the United States, setting fires to cover the crime.
that he collects and sells frogs that Bauvais uses for Mulder discovers that the doctors, though unrelated
his magic. This piques Scully’s interest, as certain by birth, look identical. The mystery deepens when
frog species secrete a substance chemically similar it is discovered that officials never recovered bodies
to the toxin found in McAlpin’s blood. from the burned clinics.
Mulder questions Dunham. He insists that The agents uncover evidence that the killer ran
Bauvais threatened to take the souls of all the ads in local newspapers in an effort to locate his
Marines, one by one, unless his people are released. targets. They realize his next intended victim is a
Mulder confronts Wharton with allegations of doctor in Syracuse. Mulder notifies Agent Weiss to
prisoner mistreatment, but the Colonel insists there guard the doctor until they arrived at the scene. But
is no official policy of harassment. Wharton is Weiss discovers the bounty hunter standing over the
convinced that Bauvais told the agents about his doctor’s corpse (which is slowly dissolving – as if
illegal mistreatment of the Haitians. In response, he dipped in acid). Weiss opens fire on the bounty
has Bauvais severely beaten. hunter, but his bullets prove ineffective. When
The agents discover Dunham’s corpse floating in Mulder and Scully arrive in Syracuse, Weiss tells
a bathtub, blood oozing from a stab wound. They them there was no sign of the doctor. Unknown to
also discover McAlpin nearby holding a knife. the agents, the bounty hunter is capable of
Suspecting Bauvais is somehow responsible, the morphing into different shapes, allowing him to
agents ask Wharton for permission to speak with assume Weiss’ identity. When Mulder return to
him. Wharton, however, claims that Bauvais killed Washington to meet with Skinner, he learns that
himself by slashing his wrists with a bedspring. The Weiss has been killed.
case turns more bizarre when Robin McAlpin gives A CIA agent named Ambrose Chapel approaches
the agents a photo that Dunham wanted released in Mulder and Scully. He claims that during the Cold
the event of his death. The picture reveals Wharton war Soviet scientists discovered how to clone DNA.
engaged in a voodoo ceremony with Bauvais. They planted clones in strategic positions within
Mulder and Scully rush to the cemetery after America’s medical establishment, hoping to
learning that Wharton intends to steal Bauvais’ soul. sabotage the country’s immune system in the event
As Mulder falls victim to Wharton’s magic, Bauvais of war. Chapel believes a secret agreement exists
rises from the dead. He avenges his murder by that sent the bounty hunter to eliminate the clones
killing Wharton. Scully, meanwhile, fends off an in exchange for absolute suppression of the
attack by using the special charm that Chester sold program’s existence. The clones, Chapel suspects,
Mulder. were attempting to contact the agents, hoping they
would expose the plot.
Mulder flies home when he receives word there
Colony (1 of 2) was a family emergency – losing contact with
Scully in the process. When he arrives, he is
Production Code: #2X16 shocked to discover his sister Samantha – who had
Original Air Date: 02/10/95 been abducted by a UFO as a child – in the
Written by Chris Carter company of his parents.
Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter Samantha tells Mulder that after her abduction
Directed by Nick Marck she was placed in the care of visitors from another
AS MULDER SEARCHES FOR A KILLER CAPABLE OF
planet, and then made to forget her real family. She
ALTERING HIS SHAPE, A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO used hypnotic therapy to uncover her buried
BE HIS LONG−LOST SISTER SUDDENLY APPEARS. memories and locate her family. She asks Mulder to
help stop the bounty hunter before he kills her
Agent Mulder, unconscious and suffering from adoptive father.
severe hypothermia, is transported by helicopter to Scully discovers more of the clones hiding in an
a base in Alaska. Scully rushes to her partner’s aid, industrial building. She has them placed in maximum
and immediately clashes with doctors at the scene. protective custody. Mulder finally locates Scully and
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enters her hotel room. But Scully realizes the man Mulder travels to the address, which turns out to be
standing in her room is not the real Mulder… an abortion clinic. Inside, Mulder is shocked to
discover alien clones who look like his sister.
Suddenly, the bounty hunter appears and knocks
End Game (2 of 2) Mulder unconscious. A fire races through the
building, but Mulder is saved by firefighters.
Production Code: #2X17 X tells Mulder that all the clones, save the
Original Air Date: 02/17/95 original “Samantha,” was killed in the fire. He also
Written by Frank Spotnitz admits that the bounty hunter is inside a vessel
Directed by Rob Bowman beneath the Beaufort Sea. Meanwhile, pathologists
MULDER ATTEMPTS TO CATCH AN ALIEN BOUNTY
tell Scully that a strange retrovirus found in Agent
HUNTER WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS SISTER’S Weiss’ blood is inhibited by extreme cold. This
WHEREABOUTS. leads Scully to conclude that the bounty hunter may
have survived his fall into the icy river.
Deep beneath the frigid waters of the Beaufort Sea Mulder makes the trip to Alaska by himself in
in the Arctic Circle, crewmen aboard a submarine secret. He finds the submarine’s conning tower
investigate sonar readings that indicate a huge, protruding from the ice. Inside, he encounters the
unidentified craft is floating nearby. The submarine’s bounty hunter. During a struggle, the bounty hunter
captain receives orders to destroy the vessel bleeds green ooze onto Mulder. Mulder is pushed
without further investigation. Before torpedoes are outside the sub, and shortly thereafter the vessel
launched, however, a powerful shock wave disables descends beneath the ice. Mulder’s body is rushed
the submarine’s reactors. to a military field hospital. Scully arrives at the
Meanwhile, a bewildered Scully receives a scene. She realizes that Mulder has been infected
telephone call from Mulder as, simultaneously, a with the alien retrovirus. She convinces physicians
man who appears to be Mulder (the alien bounty to lower Mulder’s body temperature to counteract
hunter from the previous episode) shows up at her the virus. Her efforts are successful, and Mulder’s
motel room. The doppelganger overpowers Scully, life is saved.
and demands to know where he can find Mulder.
When Scully refuses to cooperate, the doppelganger
throws her across the room. Fearful Symmetry
The real Mulder and his sister, Samantha, arrive
at the motel some time later. Scully is gone, but Production Code: #2X18
signs of a struggle are evident. Samantha tells Original Air Date: 02/24/95
Mulder that the bounty hunter is interested in her, Written by Steve De Jarnatt
not Scully. Samantha explains that the only way the Directed by James Whitmore Jr.
bounty hunter can be killed is to pierce the base of
his skull. She warns, however, that his blood is toxic, ANIMALS FROM A ZOO IN IDAHO ARE SUSPECTED
and exposure to humans is fatal. OF KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE, BUT WITNESSES CLAIM
THE REAL CULPRIT IS A POWERFUL INVISIBLE FORCE.
Samantha assures her brother that the bounty
hunter will contact them. As they await word, A powerful, invisible force shakes the darkened,
Samantha explains that aliens have been attempting deserted streets of Fairfield, Idaho. Two janitors
to establish a colony on Earth since the late 1940s. watch in horror as the force smashes a plate glass
But their experiments with cloning was not window and crumples a car. A construction worker
sanctioned, and others of their race considered it a is killed as the force rumbles down a highway. Then,
dilution of the species. A bounty hunter was suddenly, a ten−foot tall Indian elephant
dispatched to terminate the colony. materializes out of thin air. The pachyderm runs off
Scully, held at gun point, telephones Mulder and until, finally, it grows exhausted and lies on the
arranges a rendezvous at a bridge. Mulder informs ground. As residents of the community watch,
Skinner of the situation, and an FBI sharpshooter is saddened, the elephant dies.
positioned nearby. The exchange is made, and the Mulder and Scully investigate the incident.
bounty hunter walks Samantha toward an awaiting Mulder believes the invisible force and the elephant
van. Suddenly, the sharpshooter’s bullet rings out. – whose name is Ganesha – are somehow
The bounty hunter is struck in the neck. He falls connected. Ed Meecham, a worker at the Fairfield
backwards over the bridge, still clinging to zoo, tells the agents that the animal’s cage is still
Samantha. The pair plummet into the dark, icy locked. At Meecham’s suggestion, the agents
waters below. question Willa Ambrose, a naturalist hired by the
Mulder relays news of his sister’s apparent death zoo’s board of supervisors. Ambrose explains she
to his father. Mr. Mulder gives his son an envelope, was hired to redesign the zoo’s restrictive pens to
which Samantha had left behind during her visit. make them more humane environments. She
Mulder opens it and finds a key and address inside. explains that Meecham is from the “old school” and
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resents her involvement. Mulder and Scully Story by Howard Gordon


interview Kyle Lang, an animal rights activist and Teleplay by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
member of the Wild Again Organization, who Directed by Rob Bowman
believes Ganesha was treated in an inhumane THE AGENTS BECOME STRANDED ABOARD A SHIP
fashion by Meecham. But he is just as contemptuous WHERE THE HUMAN AGING PROCESS IS GREATLY
towards Ambrose, whom he claims is attempting to ACCELERATED.
gain custody of a gorilla so it can be kept in a cage
at the zoo. Mulder receives word that a Navy destroyer, the
Believing that members of the W.A.O. are U.S.S. Ardent, vanished in the waters of the North
responsible for releasing the elephant, the agents Atlantic. Eighteen survivors were rescued by a
stake out the zoo. One night, a red−haired boy Canadian trawler, but only one, Lieutenant Richard
sneaks into the zoo with a night−vision camera. The Harper, survived the mysterious incident. Harper is
animals become enraged. As the boy watches, admitted to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in
horrified, a tiger dematerializes inside its cage. An Maryland where he placed under tight security.
invisible force strikes at the boy, ripping him to Scully gains access to Harper’s room. She is
pieces. Mulder becomes convinced that some surprised to discover that Harper – who is twenty−
invisible force – not an escaped tiger – is eight years old – looks like an elderly man. Mulder
responsible for the boy’s death. He is intrigued by is unsurprised when he hears the news. He tells
reports that no animals kept at the zoo are able to Scully about the Philadelphia Experiment, a top
reproduce. Scully performs an autopsy on the secret World War II project in which the United
elephant, and discovers that it was once pregnant. States government attempted to render battleships
Ambrose assures her that the animal could not invisible to radar. Not long afterward, the U.S.S.
possibly have given birth without her knowledge. Eldridge vanished from a Philadelphia Navy Yard
Shortly thereafter, the missing tiger turns up at a only to reappear minutes later, hundreds of miles
construction site. The agents, Ambrose and away in Norfolk, Virginia. Mulder believes these
Meecham attempt to capture the animal. But when events are linked to the Roswell Incident. He
the tiger charges Ambrose, Meecham kills it. theorizes that government physicists may have been
Mulder tells Ambrose about a theory of his trying to manipulate worm holes on earth.
involving aliens impregnating zoo animals for some The agents travel to Norway in search of
unknown purpose. Using sign language, Ambrose answers. They meet Henry Trondheim, the captain
questions Sophie. The gorilla relays her fears about of a trawler called the Zeal. Trondheim tells of a
a baby flying “into the light.” Meanwhile, the zoo’s legendary stone that Greenlanders believe is an evil
board of directors, in an effort to cut costs, god. Mulder and Scully hire Trondheim to navigate
eliminates Ambrose’s job. Sophie is prepped for her the treacherous waters and dense fog. Despite
return to the wilderness despite Ambrose’s Trondheim’s best efforts, his ship collides with the
conviction that the gorilla will be killed by Ardent. The agents, accompanied by Trondheim and
poachers. his first mate, Halvorsen, board the Ardent and
Kyle returns to the zoo one evening looking for discover dead bodies covered with a strange
Willa. Instead, he finds Sophie’s empty cage. substance. Suddenly, the sound of an engine fills the
Suddenly, a large crate crashes into Kyle, killing him. air. The foursome race onto the ship’s deck, only to
Scully discovers evidence that Kyle was murdered see the Zeal disappearing into the fog. They realize
with a cattle prod. She arrests Ambrose for his they are stranded. A man’s scream shatters the
death. Ambrose admits she and Ed Meecham joined ghostly quiet. Mulder, Scully and Trondheim race to
forces and transported Sophie to an abandoned the ship’s mess hall, where they discover Halvorsen’s
factory. dead body. More sounds in the galley lead them to
When Mulder arrives at the factory, he finds a faltering old man, Captain Phillip Barclay, who
Sophie in an uncontrollable rage. He and Meecham claims that his ship encountered a strange light that
attempt to tranquilize the animal, but suddenly stopped time itself. A short time later, Barclay dies.
Meecham runs off, leaving Mulder alone with the A man named Olafssen, a pirate whaler and wanted
gorilla. Sophie lashes out of the darkness and strikes criminal, suddenly rushes Trondheim. Mulder draws
Mulder. As Mulder loses consciousness, the animal his weapon and order Olafssen to stop. A fight
disappears in a blinding flash of light. Later, Sophie’s ensues between Trondheim and Olafssen, but
dead body is discovered on a roadside. Ambrose Mulder convinces Trondheim that Olafssen, who has
weeps and embraces the animal. 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
Dod Kalm Trondheim to speculate that Olafssen’s men stole his
boat and left their leader stranded. Not long
Production Code: #2X19 afterward, Scully, Mulder and Trondheim begin aging
Original Air Date: 03/10/95 rapidly.
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Scully develops a theory about the sudden aging. Later, the agents speak with Dr. Blockhead, who
If the ship had drifted close to another massive claims he has trained his body to accept acute pain.
metallic source – such as a meteorite – the resulting He demonstrates his abilities by driving a nail up
electromagnetic energy could excite free radicals, into his nostril. Mulder aids Blockhead by removing
the elements suspected of causing aging. The agents the nail with a pair of pliers. Before the agents
suspect that drinking desalinized water from the leave, they spot The Conundrum, a man who eats
ship’s tanks is the source of the aging. But if live animals and just about anything else he can fit
Olafssen drank recycled sewage water, which does in his mouth. Blockhead describes his friend as a
not come from the sea, it may have kept him from “geek.” Mulder keeps the nail taken from
contracting the illness. While the agents are away, Blockhead’s nose and has the blood analyzed,
Olafssen tells Trondheim that drinking the recycled hoping it will match blood found at Hepcat’s
water will save his life. Trondheim kills Olafssen workshop. The blood samples match, but both turn
and begins drinking from a toilet bowl. With the out to be O positive.
recycled water supply dwindling rapidly, tension Mulder tells Scully that he ran background
begins to escalate. Trondheim locks himself in the checks on some of the local side−show performers.
ship’s sewage hold and backflushes all the water His most interesting discovery reveals that Sheriff
into a single tank. With no water left to drink, Hamilton once performed as Jim−Jim, the Dog−Faced
Scully improvises by combining sardine juice, limes, Boy. But after surveying Hamilton, the agents
and the water from a snowglobe. But before either conclude he is not a suspect.
can consume the precious drinking water, the ship’s Soon afterward, Mr. Nutt becomes the killer’s
outer hull gives way and the vessel is flooded. latest victim. The agents conclude that the murderer
Trondheim is overcome by the freezing water and is so physically small that he was able to climb
drowns. Scully and Mulder are rescued by through the doggie door in Nutt’s trailer. When a
helicopter, and doctors are able to revive them. drunken Lanny learns of Nutt’s death, he flies into a
rage. He is arrested by Hamilton and transported to
jail.
Humbug The agents approach Dr. Blockhead for further
questioning. But Blockhead, a magician and escape
Production Code: #2X20 artist, easily eludes them. Sheriff Hamilton detains
Original Air Date: 03/31/95 Blockhead by grabbing hold of the fish hooks which
Written by Darin Morgan pierce his skin. When the agents, Hamilton, and
Directed by Kim Manners Blockhead arrive at the jail, they notice that Lanny is
THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR A KILLER IN A FLORIDA
in pain. Scully realizes that Lanny’s twin brother,
TOWN INHABITED BY SIDE−SHOW PERFORMERS. Leonard, is capable of extracting himself from his
brother’s body. Lanny admits that Leonard is seeking
Mulder tells Scully about a series of identical another brother with whom he can co−join. The
attacks that occurred over a period of twenty−eight agents track Leonard into the fun house, but their
years in almost every state in America. One of the efforts to capture him prove futile.
most recent involved Jerald Glazebrook, who Later, Blockhead laments that due to advances in
performed as The Alligator Man in carnivals and genetic engineering, people with severe
circuses. The agents travel to Gibsonton, Florida, abnormalities will not exist. Everyone in the future,
where they attend Glazebrook’s funeral. They soon he fears, will look like Mulder. Dr. Blockhead and
realize that most of the town’s residents suffer from the Conundrum, who suffers from a swollen
physical deformities, and that most work the side− stomach, pack up their belongings and prepare to
show circuit. When Mulder takes an interest in a leave town. As their vehicle hits the open road,
drawing found on a menu, Sheriff Hamilton directs Mulder and Scully realize that the Conundrum may
the agents to Hepcat Helm, who operates and have eaten Leonard.
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 Calusari
“the genuine fake” because it fooled no one. Mulder
theorizes that the Feejee Mermaid may, in fact, be Production Code: #2X21
quite real. Original Air Date: 04/14/95
The agents take rooms at a local trailer park run Written by Sara Charno
by a midget named Mr. Nutt. Lanny, a Siamese twin, Directed by Mike Vejar
helps the agents with their luggage. Later that night,
while working alone in his workshop, Hepcat is THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE WHEN A YOUNG BOY’S
FAMILY IS PLAGUED BY SEVERAL TRAGIC
murdered by a strange creature. A preliminary ACCIDENTS.
examination of Hepcat’s body produces more
questions than answers.
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Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Teddy Directed by Rob Bowman
Holvey, a two−year−old child who was run over by AS SCULLY INVESTIGATES THE SPREAD OF A DEADLY
a miniature train as he chased a floating helium CONTAGION AT A PRISON, MULDER TRACKS DOWN
balloon through a park. Photographs of the incident TWO ESCAPED CONVICTS INFECTED WITH THE
are analyzed by a laboratory. They reveal a strange DISEASE.
amorphous form – not visible to the naked eye –
that appears to be pulling the balloon in the Bobby Torence, a prisoner incarcerated at the
direction of the train. This information leads Mulder Cumberland State Correctional Facility in Virginia,
to speculate that a poltergeist was somehow receives a mysterious package containing a pig’s
responsible. leg. Shortly after his exposure to the appendage,
The agents travel to Arlington, Virginia and Bobby suffers several goiter−like protrusions on his
interview Steve and Maggie Holvey. There, Mulder’s face and neck. He is relocated to the prison
interest is piqued by a gammadion, a symbol that infirmary, where two physicians, Auerbach and
resembles a reverse swastika. As the agents Osborne, attend to his lesions. Bobby’s cell is later
question the Holveys, an elderly Romanian woman, cleaned by two other convicts, Paul and Steve, who
Golda, enters the room with their son Charlie, an realize that the laundry cart offers them an
eight−year−old boy. Golda intones that Charlie is opportunity for escape.
evil and was responsible for Teddy’s demise. But The FBI assigns Mulder and Scully to aid in the
Scully believes Charlie and Teddy are the victims of capture of the escapees. But the agents remain
Munchausen by proxy, in which a caretaker brings mystified as to why the Bureau is interested in the
harm to a child by inducing medical symptoms. case. Scully’s suspicions are aroused when Dr.
Shortly thereafter, Steve is killed in a freak Osborne claims he was sent to the facility by the
accident after his necktie is entangled in a garage Centers for Disease Control. He explains that a
door opener. While investigating the scene, the mysterious flu−like illness has taken the lives of ten
agents discover a strange ash around Steve’s corpse. prisoners, and that the escaped convicts may be
The substance, called Vibuti, is a holy ash produced carriers of the disease. Scully realizes that the
during the presence of spiritual beings. bodies of the dead prisoners are marked for
Several Rumanian men, known as Calusari, hold incineration. Osborne catches Scully sneaking about
a mysterious religious ceremony involving dead the cadavers. As Scully watches, horrified, a pustule
roosters in Golda’s room. It is interrupted when on a cadaver suddenly bursts, spraying Osborne with
Charlie suffers a seizure. Shortly thereafter, Golda is a white fluid.
attacked and killed by live roosters. Mulder suspects Meanwhile, Paul and Steve murder a man and
that Golda and the Calusari were trying to ward off steal his motor home. At a gas station, Paul places a
evil from entering the house. call to his girlfriend, Elizabeth, informing her of his
Charlie is transported to St. Matthew’s Hospital freedom. Angelo, a gas station attendant, finds Steve
for observation. A social worker, Karen Kosseff, doubled−over in pain inside a restroom. Paul knocks
questions the boy about Golda’s murder. Charlie Angelo unconscious with a tire iron and he and
claims Golda was killed by the ghost of Michael, his Steve escape. Mulder and members of the U.S.
stillborn twin. But Maggie insists Charlie was never Marshal’s office find Angelo’s unconscious body at
told about his brother. the station. Mulder traces the last phone call made
Michael’s spectre appears in the hospital and at the gas station’s pay phone to Elizabeth’s
attacks a nurse. Pretending to be Charlie, Michael residence.
tricks Maggie into believing he has been released The convicts make their way to Elizabeth’s
from the hospital. home. But Steve’s condition worsens. Without
The agents discover the truth about Michael’s warning, a pustule on Steve’s skin bursts open,
spirit. As Mulder supervises a Calusari exorcism over spraying Elizabeth with puss. Mulder and the
Charlie’s body, Scully races to the Holvey residence. marshals storm Elizabeth’s home, but they arrive too
Inside, she comes face to face with Michael, a knife late. Steve is already dead, and Paul is not to be
clutched in his hand. As the exorcism at the hospital found.
reaches its climax, Michael’s ghost suddenly Scully traces the package mailed to Bobby
disappears, leaving behind only a trace of ash. Torrence to a company called Pinck Pharmaceutical.
The Calusari leader warns Mulder and Scully While examining Bobby’s corpse, she pulls the hard
that the evil now knows who they are. 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
F. Emasculata Pharmaceutical. He explains how the company
regularly finances the exploration of rain forests for
Production Code: #2X22 potential drug application. A field entomologist sent
Original Air Date: 04/28/95 the lab samples of an insect, Faciophagia
Written by Chris Carter and Howard Gordon Emasculata, which is parasitic in nature and attacks
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the human immune syndrome. Now the company – thereafter, the agents corner Banton at the station.
and the government – are trying to cover−up the Again, he warns them to stay back. As his shadow
fact that prisoners were used as Guinea pigs for creeps towards Scully, Mulder raises his gun and
Pinck Pharmaceutical’s experiments. shoots an overhead light bulb, plunging the area into
Aided by information supplied by Elizabeth, darkness. Banton is relieved.
Mulder tracks Paul to a bus station. Realizing that Banton is transported to a psychiatric hospital
Paul is the only remaining person who can testify and imprisoned in a room with soft light. During an
against the government and Pinck Pharmaceutical, interview, Banton insists to Mulder that the
Mulder tries taking him alive. But a sniper’s bullet government is hunting him down in an effort to
rings out, killing Paul. learn his secrets. Detective Ryan then informs the
agents that their services on the case are no longer
required.
Soft Light Frustrated, Mulder seeks out X, his shadowy
government contact. But X insists he cannot be of
Production Code: #2X23 any help to him. A short time thereafter, X and
Original Air Date: 05/05/95 some paramedics attempt to kidnap Banton from
Written by Vince Gilligan the psychiatric facility. The paramedics come in
Directed by Jim Contner contact with Banton’s shadow and are vaporized.
THE AGENTS HUNT DOWN A SCIENTIST WHO IS
The scientist emerges from his room and escapes.
LITERALLY AFRAID OF HIS OWN SHADOW. Banton returns to Polarity Magnetics intent on
destroying himself inside the particle accelerator.
The agents are called to a hotel in Richmond, Detective Ryan arrives at the scene and attempts to
Virginia by Detective Kelly Ryan, one of Scully’s ex− arrest Banton, but she comes into contact with his
pupils at the academy. Ryan, who is working her shadow and is instantly vaporized. Banton convinces
first case, is stymied by the disappearance of Davey to engage the accelerator once he’s inside.
several people. The latest victim, Patrick Newirth, But once Banton enters the chamber, he realizes
vanished from his hotel room. The only clue to his Davey is a government operative. X, however, kills
whereabouts is a mysterious scorched pattern Davey, then transports Banton to a secret research
burned into the carpet beneath the door to his facility for examination and testing.
room. Mulder notices that a light bulb in the room
had been unscrewed from its socket. He had it
dusted for finger prints. Our Town
The agents travel to the residence of another
victim. There they discover another loose light bulb Production Code: #2X24
and a scorch mark. Among the items found in the Original Air Date: 05/12/95
victim’s trash is a train ticket. The agents realize Written by Frank Spotnitz
that all three victims traveled through the Richmond Directed by Rob Bowman
train station before they died. Policemen are
dispatched to stake out the station. They attempt to A MEAT PROCESSING PLANT COMES UNDER
SCRUTINY AFTER SEVERAL PEOPLE MYSTERIOUSLY
stop a man, Chester Ray Banton, for questioning, but DISAPPEAR FROM A SMALL TOWN.
Banton runs away from them. Cornered in two
bright pools of light, Banton warns the officers to The agents travel to the small town of Dudley,
stay back. When the officers step on his shadows, Arkansas after George Kearns, a Federal Poultry
they vaporize in a fiery burst of light. Inspector, mysteriously disappears. Aided by Sheriff
Mulder and Scully review video footage Arens, Mulder and Scully examine a field where a
recorded by the train station’s security system. They resident had reported sighting a foxfire burning.
discover that Banton sat around the station for days They find evidence that some sort of ceremony had
staring at the ground. An insignia on his clothing taken place in the field. George Kearns’s wife is
leads them to a company called Polarity Magnetics, then interviewed, but she believes her husband, a
where a Dr. Davey gives the agents a tour of the known womanizer, ran off with someone younger.
facility. Davey explains how Banton, who is a A visit to Chaco Chicken, the meat processing
scientist, performed research on dark matter such as plant that George had threatened to close to due
quantum particles, quarks and neutrinos. One day, repeated health violations, leads to Paula Gray, the
according to Davey, Banton became trapped inside woman George had been having an affair with. She
a particle accelerator room and was exposed to a suddenly grows violent and tries to kill Jess Harold,
massive amount of energy – which literally burned a supervisor at the plant. But the sheriff draws his
his shadow right into a wall. gun and fires, killing her before she can slash
Mulder reviews the videotaped security footage Harold’s throat.
and realizes Banton was sitting in an area where The agents interview Walter Chaco, the owner
florescent lighting did not cast any shadows. Shortly of the plant and Paula’s grandfather. He grants them
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permission to perform an autopsy on the girl’s body. sensitive information, Mulder suddenly punches him.
After the autopsy, Scully concludes that Paula Mulder is at a loss for his inexplicable behavior.
suffered from a rare degenerative illness called Skinner later informs Scully that a disciplinary
Creutzfeldt−Jacob’s disease… the same illness carried hearing will determine if Mulder is to be dismissed
by George Kearns. She also learns the youthful− without reinstatement.
looking Paula was 47 years old. The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) pays Mulder’s
After a near−miss with a chicken delivery truck father an unexpected visit on Martha’s Vineyard. He
that plunges into a polluted lake, Mulder orders that informs him about the top secret files falling into his
the water be dredged in hopes of finding George’s son’s hands. Mr. Mulder realizes his name is on
body. What the agents find beneath the lake, those files. He telephones his son and asks him to
however, is dozens of human bones. Mulder runs a come home. Later, Scully lets herself into Mulder’s
missing persons check and confirms that as many as apartment when he fails to answer his door.
87 people within a 200 mile radius of the town Suddenly, a gunshot rings out, smashing a window.
have been reported missing in the last 50 years. He Scully narrowly avoids injury.
begins to suspect that a cult of cannibals is When Mulder arrives at Martha’s Vineyard, his
systematically killing people and eating their flesh father speaks cryptically about his work for the
to stay forever young. State Department. Before he can explain the truth,
Doris Kearns approaches Walter Chaco and tells Alex Krycek shoots and kills him. When Scully
him she can no longer keep what she knows about learns of the killing, she urges Mulder to leave
the town a secret. Jesse Harold warns Chaco that Martha’s Vineyard less the authorities suspect him of
the woman is unstable; but Chaco insists it is the the murder.
FBI they should be worried about. Nonetheless, When Mulder returns home, he is very ill. Scully
Harold has Doris Kearns killed. When Scully arrives attends to his sickness. She notices a suspicious
at the Kearns’ residence, she is taken captive. delivery person carting a soft water canister to the
Mulder returns to Chaco’s estate and finds a basement of the apartment building.
multitude of human skulls stored within a cabinet. Mulder spots Alex Krycek sneaking around
When he realizes Scully has been abducted, Mulder outside his apartment building. He wrestles the
races to the site of a blazing foxfire. The agent to the ground and grabs his revolver. Certain
townspeople turn on Walter Chaco and execute that Mulder is about to kill Krycek, Scully draws her
him. As Sheriff Arens, a cult member, prepares to weapon and shoots Mulder in the chest.
eliminate Scully, a shot rings out. Mulder, gun in When Mulder regains consciousness, he is lying
hand, rushes to Scully’s aid. Pandemonium breaks in a motel room in New Mexico, his bullet wound
out, and the cult members rush from the scene, having been ministered by Scully. She explains that
trampling Jesse as he tries to retrieve a gun. lab tests revealed that water flowing into Mulder’s
Scully later concludes that the outbreak of apartment building was spiked with a strong
Creutzfeldt−Jacob’s disease was spread by hallucinogen, explaining Mulder’s aggressive
cannibalism. behavior.
An Indian man named Albert Hosteen begins
translating the encoded Defense Department files.
Anasazi (1 of 3) He explains to Mulder how a tribe of Indians who
once lived in New Mexico disappeared without a
Production Code: #2X25 trace. Their name was Anasazi, which means
Original Air Date: 05/19/95 Ancient Aliens. Albert believes they were abducted
Written by Chris Carter by visitors from another planet. Albert’s nephew Eric
Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter leads Mulder out into the desert. There, Eric shows
Directed by R.W. Goodwin the agent a railroad train boxcar buried in a rock
MULDER RECEIVES AN ENCRYPTED COMPUTER DISK
quarry. Inside the car are the corpses of what
CONTAINING THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT’S TOP appear to be alien beings. CSM calls Mulder on his
SECRET FILES ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE. cellular phone. He claims that Mulder’s father
authorized the project. But Mulder insists he will
A computer hacker nicknamed The Thinker gains expose CSM.
access to top secret Defense Department files on CSM traces Mulder’s location by pinpointing the
extraterrestrial life. He gives Mulder the files on a source of the cellular phone transmission. But when
computer diskette – with the proviso that he arrives in the desert by helicopter, Mulder is not
government officials be held responsible for UFO to be found. CSM orders his men to destroy the
cover−ups throughout the years. Mulder’s initial boxcar.
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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S E A S O N 3 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
The Blessing Way (2 of 3) approached by a Well−Manicured Man. The stranger
claims Mulder is dead, and that a hit squad is out to
Production Code: #3X01 kill her. Later, Skinner approaches Scully outside her
Original Air Date: 09/22/95 apartment. The pair drives to Mulder’s apartment,
Written by Chris Carter where a very suspicious Scully pulls out a revolver
Directed by R.W. Goodwin and demands Skinner answer her questions.
AS SCULLY FACES POSSIBLE DISMISSAL FROM THE Searching through Scully’s darkened apartment,
FBI, A MANHUNT ENSUES FOR THE MISSING AGENT Alex Krycek and his assistant encounter Melissa. A
MULDER. shot rings out and Melissa slumps to the floor.
As the standoff between Scully and Skinner
In this continuation of the previous episode… A continues, someone approaches the front door to
team of camouflaged soldiers, lead by The Mulder’s apartment. Catching Scully off−guard,
Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM), searches for Mulder Skinner pulls out a gun.
and the computer tape believed to be in his
possession. Albert Hosteen and his family are
interrogated and beaten, and Scully – whose visit to Paper Clip (3 of 3)
the smoldering boxcar produces no leads – is
detained, searched, and questioned. But CSM’s Production Code: #3X02
efforts are in vain. Original Air Date: 09/29/95
At FBI headquarters, Scully is given a mandatory Written by Chris Carter
leave of absence until a review board investigates Directed by Rob Bowman
the nature of her insubordination. Crestfallen, Scully
returns home to her family. She tells her mother she AS A GOVERNMENT HIT SQUAD CLOSES IN ON THE
erred by countermanding her superiors. When Scully AGENTS, MULDER SEARCHES FOR CLUES ABOUT HIS
returns to Washington, Frohike informs her The FATHER’S INVOLVEMENT IN A SECRET PROJECT.
Thinker – the computer hacker who accessed the As the standoff between Scully and Skinner (from
MJ files – was professionally executed by unknown the previous episode) continues… Mulder bursts
assailants. When Scully approaches Skinner with the through the front door of his apartment and orders
news, and theorizes how Mulder and The Thinker Skinner to drop his weapon. Skinner complies, then
could have been gunned down by the same produces the computer disk containing the Defense
individuals, Skinner shows interest only in the Department’s top secret files on extraterrestrial life.
missing computer tape. He realizes the disk is the only leverage the trio has
Meanwhile, Albert and his family investigate in bringing Mr. Mulder’s killers to justice, and insists
when buzzards begin circling high above the New on keeping it himself. Mulder and Scully examine an
Mexico desert. They find Mulder’s limp, lifeless old group photograph of Mr. Mulder with his
body near a tunnel in the red rock quarry. He is government colleagues. With the Lone Gunmen’s
transported to a Navajo hogan, an igloo−like dome help, Mulder and Scully identify a man named
of mud, where a healing ritual called The Blessing Victor Klemper from the group. Klemper is a Nazi
Way is performed over his body. As the ceremony War criminal and a participant in Operation Paper
progresses, Mulder’s soul encounters a bridge Clip, a U.S. government operation that provided safe
spanning two worlds. He encounters visions of haven for war criminals in exchange for their
Deep Throat, and his father, and of the aliens scientific knowledge. Before the agents interview
trapped inside the boxcar. On the third day of the Klemper, Scully learns that her sister Melissa is in
ritual, the Navajos watch as Mulder regains critical condition at a nearby hospital. But fearing an
consciousness. ambush by assassins, Scully joins Mulder in his quest
While passing through a security checkpoint at to locate Klemper.
FBI headquarters, Scully sets off a metal detector. A The agents elicit little information from the
security guard waves a magnetic wand near her elderly Klemper, except that the group photo was
neck and again trips the security alarm. Puzzled, taken at the Strughold Mining Company in West
Scully visits the medical lab, where a physician Virginia, and his mention of Napier’s Constant, the
removes a computer chip from beneath her skin. base of all natural logarithms.
Melissa convinces her sister to visit Dr. Pomerantz, When the agents visit the ramshackle mine, they
a hypnotist. While under hypnosis, Scully encounters discover heavy metal doors built into the rocky
repressed visions of men, lights and alarms. walls of the mountainside. The agents gain access
Having recovered from his close brush with by entering Napier’s Constant into an electronic
death, Mulder returns to his mother’s home in keypad. Inside, they find a seemingly endless row of
EPISODE_GUIDE 33

filing cabinets containing files and tissue samples on Teller corrects the coroner’s statement, noting four
hundreds of U.S. citizens. Their search is interrupted people died but one survived. Scully believes it is
when a UFO drops from the sky. Simultaneously, a statistically improbably for so many people in such
government hit squad surrounds the building. Mulder a small area to have been struck by lightning –
comes under fire and runs for cover. He and Scully especially when only 60 people die of being struck
find an escape route and make their way to safety. by lightning each year in the United States.
Skinner pays a visit to the hospital where Nonetheless, Mulder and Scully visit the video
Melissa is being monitored. There he meets Mrs. arcade. Darin’s friend, Zero, who works at the
Scully, and Albert Hosteen, who prays for Melissa’s arcade and witnessed the killing, acts suspiciously
recovery. Skinner is alerted to a shadowy figure and provides little help. But Mulder notices the
monitoring the room. In a darkened stairwell, he is initials “D.P.O.” logged on a video game’s list of top
attacked by Krycek and his accomplice. They scorers. The initials match those of Darin Peter
overpower Skinner and steal the computer disk. Oswald – the one victim who survived being stuck
Mulder and Scully make a second trip to by lightning.
question Klemper, but when they arrive, they are While working at a local garage, Darin
informed by the Well−Manicured Man (WMM) that approaches Sharon Kiveat, a former high school
Klemper is dead. Mulder recognizes him as one of teacher. Darin harbors a crush on the attractive
the people in his father’s group photograph. WMM woman, but he is unable to act upon his fantasies
recounts how, in 1947, a spacecraft was reportedly because Sharon is married to his boss, Frank. Later,
recovered in New Mexico. This event coincided the agents pay a visit to the garage and interview
with the formation of Operation Paper Clip. Mulder Darin about Jack’s death. Darin claims he was so
suspects that Klemper was experimenting with the wrapped up in his game he did not notice what had
creation of a super race – a hybridization of humans happened. During the interview, Mulder’s cell phone
and aliens. The files stored in the mountain, Mulder suddenly and inexplicably melts.
realizes, are vaccination records on hundreds of The next day, the agents examine a field where
millions of Americans who received smallpox several cows were killed by lightning. They discover
vaccinations – a DNA database of virtually a fulgarite, an area where the lightning fused sandy
everyone born since the 1950s. soil into glass. Imbedded within the fulgarite is a
Skinner threatens to expose the Cigarette− shoe print. Scully makes a cast of the print and
Smoking Man if any harm should befall Mulder or discovers it came from a size eight and a half
Scully. He reveals that Albert Hosteen – who read military boot. She also finds a small quantity of
the computer disks – spread the contents amongst antifreeze within the glass, which Mulder deduces
his Navajo people in the ancient oral tradition, came from the garage. The agents visit Darin’s
chapter and verse, file for file. home, and discover that his shoe size is eight and a
Later, Mulder visits Scully at the hospital, and half. They also find Sharon Kiveat’s photograph.
learns that Melissa passed away during surgery. 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
D.P.O. vehicles. Darin then causes Frank to collapse.
Paramedics rush to his aid, but find their defibrillator
Production Code: #3X03 inoperative. Darin rushes to Frank’s side and revives
Original Air Date: 10/06/95 him.
Written by Howard Gordon Scully examines Darin’s medical history and
Directed by Kim Manners discovers he suffers from a severe chemical
THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL
imbalance. Mulder theorizes how the electrolyte
YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE APPARENTLY STRUCK imbalance might enable Darin to generate
BY LIGHTNING IN THE SAME SMALL TOWN. electricity levels much higher than normal. The
agents take Darin into custody, but Sheriff Teller
Darin Oswald, a nineteen−year−old resident of releases him do to the improbable nature of the
Connerville, Oklahoma, argues with twenty−one− charges. Darin travels to the video arcade. There, a
year−old Jack Hammond over a video arcade game. terrified Zero insists he did not squeal on his friend.
The altercation escalates, and Jack, by far the bigger Zero tries to escape, but Darin kills him by
of the two, knocks Darin to the floor. Moments generating a lightning bolt.
later, the electricity within the arcade seemingly Darin proceeds to the hospital and enters Frank’s
falls under Darin’s power. Frightened, Jack runs to his room looking for Sharon. Instead, he finds Scully, her
automobile and attempts to drive away. But an gun drawn. Sharon ends the showdown by agreeing
intense electrical field engulfs the car, killing Jack. to follow Darin outside. Sharon suddenly breaks free
As Mulder and Scully examine Jack’s body, the and runs to safety. When Teller and Mulder
local coroner describes how five other young surround the teenager, he summons a lightning bolt.
people were killed in the same manner. Sheriff Jack The energy kills Teller and knocks Darin to the
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ground, unconscious. He is arrested and placed in a Scully exits from the elevator and fires her gun,
psychiatric hospital. killing The Puppet.
Later, the agents find Bruckman’s body at his
apartment. The agents realize he took his own life.
Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose
Production Code: #3X04 The List
Original Air Date: 10/13/95
Written by Darin Morgan Production Code: #3X05
Directed by David Nutter Original Air Date: 10/20/95
A MAN WITH PSYCHIC POWERS ASSISTS THE Written and Directed by Chris Carter
AGENTS WITH THE HUNT FOR A KILLER. ENEMIES OF A PRISON INMATE WHO DIED IN THE
ELECTRIC CHAIR BEGIN DYING ONE BY ONE.
A lanky, seemingly amiable man, hereon referred to
as The Puppet, pays a visit to Madame Zelma at a Napoleon “Neech” Manley, a well−liked prison
palm reader shop. When Madame Zelma seems inmate on death row, is strapped into an electric
more interested in taking The Puppet’s money than chair and killed. Several days later a prison guard is
predicting his future, The Puppet strangles her. found dead in the very cell Neech had occupied for
Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully are asked to eleven years. Mulder tells Scully that Neech strongly
assist in a murder investigation wherein several believed in reincarnation, and swore he would
“professional prognosticators” were gruesomely return from the grave to take vengeance on five
murdered – and their entrails evidentially arranged men who mistreated him.
in an attempt to divine the future. Later, a man The agents travel to the prison, where they
named Clyde Bruckman, an insurance salesman, examine the guard’s corpse and the cell where his
discovers Madame Zelma’s body in a dumpster body was discovered. The Warden suspects that
outside his apartment. As the agents interview Neech’s inmate friends are responsible for the
Bruckman, it becomes apparent he possesses murder. Mulder interviews Neech’s friend, Speranza,
detailed knowledge about the killings, leading who firmly believes Neech’s spirit killed the guard.
Mulder to believe Bruckman is a true psychic. Later, a prison guard named Parmelly pulls Scully
Bruckman suspects that the killer may also possess into the shower area and tells her about the
psychic powers. He predicts another victim will existence of a list which names the five men
surface the following day floating in a lake. Neech’s spirit intends to kill. Parmelly claims an
When Bruckman’s vision proves correct, Mulder inmate named Roque possesses the list.
asks him for assistance in finding the killer. Soon after, an inmate opens a paint can and
Bruckman fears that interfering with fate might discovers the head of prison guard Fornier inside.
adversely alter the future. Meanwhile, Scully Mulder interviews Roque, who offers to recite the
discovers that all of the victims had in their names of the men on the list in exchange for a
possession a keychain from an investment firm that transfer. The Warden balks at the idea of
provides market strategies based on astrological negotiating with prisoners. Suspecting that he might
forecasts. Bruckman accurately predicts that the be on the list, the Warden interrogates Roque in the
firm’s owner was murdered and buried in a forest. shower area, and beats him up. When Roque’s body
Later, Bruckman describes how Mulder, at some is later discovered, Mulder suspects he may not be
point in the future, will step in a pie – and then the third victim from Neech’s list. His suspicion is
meet his fate at the hands of the murderer. When a confirmed by Speranza. Mulder and Scully travel to
tarot card reader is murdered, Mulder and Scully the home of the man who engaged the power on
assign Agent Havez to guard Bruckman at a hotel, the electric chair that killed Neech. They find his
fearing the killer may sense his whereabouts. As maggot−infested body in the attic.
Scully inspects clues at the murder scene, she Scully reviews phone records indicating a man
realizes the murderer is the bellhop (The Puppet) at named Danny Charez spoke with Neech on many
the hotel. When The Puppet arrives at Bruckman’s occasions. Charez, who was once Neech’s defense
hotel room to serve him his meal, both men sense attorney, tells the agents he is now helping
each other’s psychic vibes. The Puppet kills Havez, Speranza – hoping he has some sway with Neech’s
then runs from the room. Mulder and Scully arrive spirit. Later, Charez is attacked and killed.
at the hotel and spot the bellhop racing away from Working on a tip from Charez, the agents realize
the scene. Mulder follows The Puppet into the Parmelly and Neech’s wife, Danielle, are lovers. One
hotel’s kitchen, where he steps in a pie. Recognizing night, Danielle realizes Neech has inhabited
the prophetic sign, Mulder spins around, and is able Parmelly’s body. As the agents surround the Manley
to deflect his attacker’s blow momentarily. But as home, Danielle pulls out a gun and shoots Parmelly.
The Puppet poises to strike Mulder with a knife, Later, Neech’s spirit materializes in the Warden’s car.
Neech claims his last victim by killing the Warden.
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2Shy 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
Production Code: #3X06 message and attacks Ellen. After cracking Virgil’s
Original Air Date: 11/03/95 computer hard drive, the agents contact women
Written by Jeffery Vlaming who are his potential next victims. Unable to reach
Directed by David Nutter Ellen by phone, the agents drive to her apartment.
THE AGENTS HUNT FOR A KILLER WHO USES THE Mulder and Scully, acting on a tip from a neighbor,
INTERNET TO ATTRACT HIS VICTIMS. burst into Ellen’s apartment. As Mulder searches for
Mulder and Scully assist Cleveland Detective Alan Virgil, Scully stays behind with Ellen, who is covered
Cross with the investigation into a brutal homicide with mucus but still alive. Suddenly, Virgil springs
in which a female victim’s body is so badly from the shadows and attacks Scully. Ellen, however,
decomposed, and covered with a mucus−like slime, regains consciousness, and shoots Virgil. Virgil
that positive identification is difficult. Mulder recovers from the gunshot wound, and is later
connects the case to a series of similar killings in interrogated.
which female victims – all of whom answered
personal ads in local newspapers – died in a similar
manner. When the latest victim, Lauren Mackalvey, The Walk
is identified, Mulder locates her roommate, Jennifer.
Jennifer explains how Lauren meet her date on the Production Code: #3X07
Internet, a man who went by the on−line name Original Air Date: 11/10/95
“2Shy.” Meanwhile, Scully’s autopsy on Lauren’s Written by John Shiban
body reveals that a great deal of her body fat is Directed by Rob Bowman
missing. A QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE BECOMES THE PRIME
Meanwhile, when the killer, Virgil Incanto, gets SUSPECT IN A SERIES OF BIZARRE DEATHS.
stood up by his on−line date, Ellen, he attacks and
murders a prostitute. During the struggle, the Lieutenant Colonel Victor Stans locks himself inside
prostitute scraps Virgil with her nails, leaving rake a rehabilitation room at an army hospital intent on
marks on his arm. committing suicide. The water temperature of a
Mulder examines the killer’s e−mail whirlpool tub is raised to the boiling point, and
correspondence to Lauren. He discovers quotations Stans approaches, ready to throw himself in. As a
from rare Italian poems, leading him to believe the disembodied voice speaks to Stans, glass on an
suspect is a college professor or translator. Cross alarm box smashes, and the deadbolt lock to the
assembles a list of people in the Cleveland area rehab room door slides open, as if moved by an
with such credentials. Chemical analysis of the invisible force. Stans throws himself into the
killer’s skin sample found beneath the prostitute’s scalding tub, but he is quickly rescued by a nurse
fingernails shows no oils or fatty acids – leading and firemen.
Mulder to speculate that the murderer might be Mulder and Scully turn their attention to the
using his victim’s bodies to replenish a chemical case. Stans tells them a sort of phantom soldier,
deficiency in order to survive. whom he’s never seen clearly, killed his wife and
Meanwhile, using Cross’s list, the agents child, and now wishes to see him suffer by not
interview possible suspects. But it is Cross who letting him take his own life. The agents are
ends up interviewing Virgil, and in the process, approached by Army Captain Janet Draper, who
notes a bandage on his arm. Virgil kills Cross, then requests a suspension of whatever investigation the
arranges another date using the Internet. When his FBI has begun. Protocol requires any criminal
intended victim, Ellen, drives him home, Virgil spots investigation of military personnel to be conducted
someone inside his apartment. He hastily excuses through military channels and the superior officer.
himself. Virgil’s nosy landlady, Monica, discovers Mulder and Scully turn to General Callahan, who
Cross’s decomposed body inside the apartment. accuses them of gross misconduct and labels Stans’
Virgil kills Monica before she can scream. But misfortune a tragic accident. But Scully notes a
Monica’s blind daughter, Jesse, enters Virgil’s similar case involving Staff Sergeant Kevin Aiklen,
apartment looking for her mother. Though Virgil who also served with Callahan in the Gulf War.
insists Monica is not in the apartment, Jesse smells Aiklen claimed he, too, was prevented from killing
her mother’s perfume. Jesse calls 911, and the agents himself by an unseen force after his family died in a
rush to the apartment building. But Virgil is not to tragic “accident.” After the agents leave, Callahan is
be found. visited by the phantom soldier, who appears in the
The agents access Virgil’s computer records, reflection of a window. Shortly thereafter, Draper is
hoping to find clues about his next victim. drowned when water from a swimming pool
Meanwhile, Virgil talks his way into Ellen’s assumes human form and attacks her.
apartment, apologizing for his hasty exit during their
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Mulder warns Callahan that if the pattern is at woman, Lucy Householder, had been rushed to the
all consistent, his family may be in great danger. hospital after suffering a seizure and a nosebleed.
Callahan reluctantly admits he was visited by the Records indicate that Lucy was kidnapped, at the
phantom soldier the previous night. When Callahan age of eight, while her parents slept. She was held
returns home, his wife describes how their son hostage in a basement for five years, and although
Trevor saw a stranger inside the house. Scully she eventually was released unharmed, her abductor
notices someone inside the Callahan’s backyard, but was never caught.
he escapes. A fingerprint check leads the agents to When Mulder and Scully confront Lucy about
Quentin Freely, nicknamed Roach. He is charged the incident at the restaurant, she becomes
with murder. A search of Roach’s apartment turns up uncooperative, insisting she cannot help locate the
mail from each of the victim’s homes. But shortly missing girl. Eubanks uncovers evidence of Lucy’s
thereafter, as a military MP stands guard, sand from criminal record, including prostitution and narcotics
a sandbox takes human form and attacks Trevor, convictions.
killing him. Lucy’s psychic visions into Amy’s mind continue
During interrogation, Roach claims he is merely to terrify her. She experiences temporary blindness
the “mailman” for a fellow vet named Leonard – the result of Amy’s being locked away in a
Trimble, nicknamed Rappo. The agents rush to the darkened basement room, or oubliette. Mulder again
army hospital, where they are told Rappo is a asks Lucy for her help, but she insists she cannot
quadruple amputee. When Mulder and Scully return locate Amy.
to Roach’s cell, they find his dead body, a bed sheet Scully uncovers evidence that every student from
stuffed down his throat. Mulder suspects that Rappo Amy Jacob’s class received their school photograph
is capable of astral projection – the ability to leave – except for Amy. A photographer from Larkin
his own body and travel virtually anywhere. Before Scholastic fired his assistant, Carl Wade, the day
Callahan and his wife can pack up their belongings after the shoot. Mulder shows Lucy a current
and leave, Mrs. Callahan is murdered. Despondent, photograph of Wade, and her face registers
Callahan seeks out Stans. He pulls out a gun and recognition. Wade is the same man who kidnapper
attempts to shoot himself, but the gun will not fire. Lucy years earlier. Meanwhile, Amy successfully
Stans insists he knows the identity of the killer. digs a hole through the oubliette, and escapes.
Callahan enters Rappo’s room at the hospital. But Wade gives chase – and at the same time, Mulder
after conversing with the amputee, Callahan decides chases Lucy as she flees the half−way house where
not to kill him. she lives. As Amy loses her footing and tumbles
As Callahan attempts to leave the hospital, down a rocky bank, landing on her arm, Lucy falls
steam pipes in the sub−basement rupture. Callahan and injures her arm. Lucy looks to Mulder,
is engulfed by the hissing steam, from which wondering what is happening to her.
emerges the phantom soldier. Mulder comes to the Meanwhile, Eubanks arrives at the half−way
general’s aid, but he, too, is attacked by the force. house with DNA lab results confirming that the
Meanwhile, Stans gains access to Rappo’s room. He blood found on Lucy’s clothing matches Amy’s.
locks the door, and using a pillow, smothers the Mulder insists it would be impossible for Lucy to
amputee, killing him. Back in the sub−basement, the have any connection with the crime.
invisible force dissipates. 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
Oubliette Lucy was found seventeen years earlier. Working
from an address registered at a local photography
Production Code: #3X08 store, the agents pinpoint the remote cabin where
Original Air Date: 11/17/95 Wades resides. But when they storm the cabin, the
Written by Charles Grant Craig agents find Lucy huddled in the oubliette.
Directed by Kim Manners Lucy’s words indicate Amy and Wade are in
A WOMAN EXPERIENCES A PSYCHIC CONNECTION
water. Mulder realizes this can only mean a nearby
WITH A TEENAGER HELD CAPTIVE BY A DERANGED river. Wade, realizing his time with Amy has grown
MAN. short, pushes her beneath the water. As Amy
drowns, Lucy, detained by FBI agents in the back
The agents arrive at the home of Amy Jacobs, a seat of a car, begins to suffocate. Agents call for
fifteen−year−old girl abducted from her bedroom by paramedics.
a stranger. Agent Eubanks points out several drops Mulder and Scully locate Amy’s lifeless body on
of blood found on the carpet, the result of Amy’s the riverbank and begin CPR. Their efforts prove
nosebleed. Mulder is intrigued by a report about a futile. But suddenly, Amy begins coughing, water
woman employed at a fast food restaurant who pouring from her mouth. Simultaneously, Lucy
uttered the same words spoken by the stranger at continues choking. Though Amy is successfully
the exact moment the kidnapping occurred. That revived, Lucy dies. An autopsy later reveals five
EPISODE_GUIDE 37

liters of water in Lucy’s lungs. Mulder and Scully vessels. Nearby, Mulder discovers an airplane hangar
speculate that Lucy died for Amy – and that perhaps that houses a large circular object – which the
it was the only way she could outrun her past. Talapus must have dredged from the bottom of the
sea.
Skinner tells Mulder that the Japanese diplomat
Nisei (1 of 2) was found murdered. Later, Mulder visits Senator
Matheson, who requests the return of the satellite
Production Code: #3X09 photographs. Mulder believes that doing so would
Original Air Date: 11/24/95 entangle him in the murder investigation. In a
Written by Chris Carter, Howard Gordon cryptic gesture, Matheson gives Mulder a list
and Frank Spotnitz containing the names of four murdered Japanese
Directed by Rob Bowman scientists.
AN “ALIEN AUTOPSY” VIDEOTAPE AND A JAPANESE
Scully and Mulder meet at FBI headquarters.
DIPLOMAT’S MURDER SPARK MULDER’S SEARCH FOR Mulder displays a photograph of Japanese medical
A STRANGE CREATURE ABOARD A TRAIN. SCULLY officers taken during World War II. Four of the men
ENCOUNTERS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO REVEAL are the same surgeons found murdered the previous
INFORMATION ABOUT HER DISAPPEARANCE. day. Mulder suspects that the scientists were trying
to create a human−alien hybrid, a continuation of
With great interest, Mulder views a mail order their work, and similar work done by the Nazis,
videotape which purportedly contains an actual during the war. He suspects that the U.S.
alien autopsy. The footage shows a team of government may be behind the murders. Mulder
Japanese surgeons performing the procedure. The also shows Scully a photo of train cars which he
tape suddenly ends when a group of armed soldiers believes are part of the government’s secret railroad,
storms the operating room. Mulder and Scully trace one of which was used to carry out the alien
the tape’s origin to a video piracy operation in autopsy.
Allentown, Pennsylvania. When the agents arrive at Mulder travels to Quinnimont, West Virginia,
the scene, they find a man’s body with a pillowcase where he discovers train cars from the satellite
tied over its head. Mulder chase a Japanese man photos. As Mulder prepares to jump onto one of the
fleeing the scene and takes him into custody. moving cars, Scully contacts him on his cellular
Skinner reveals that the suspect, Kazuo Takeo, is a phone. She passes on information, given to her by X,
high−ranking government official from the Japanese that his life is in great danger. Nonetheless, Mulder
diplomatic corps. jumps on top of the train car.
Mulder searches Takeo’s leather satchel,
uncovering satellite photos and a list of names
containing members of the Mutual UFO Network. 731 (2 of 2)
Mulder learns that the satellite photos contain
images of a salvage ship named the Talapus, which Production Code: #3X10
spent months searching for a Japanese sub sunk Original Air Date: 12/01/95
during World War II. The ship made port in Newport Written by Frank Spotnitz
News, Virginia, leading to speculation that perhaps Directed by Rob Bowman
the Talapus found something other than the downed
sub. WHEN MULDER BECOMES TRAPPED ABOARD A
The list of Mutual UFO Network members leads TRAIN RIGGED WITH AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE, SCULLY
the agents to a Lottie Holloway and Penny Northern. SEARCHES FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND THE
They tell Scully that she is one of them. Confused, GOVERNMENT’S INVOLVEMENT WITH SECRET
EXPERIMENTS.
Scully insists she is conducting an FBI investigation
into the murder of Steve Zinnzser (the man found In this continuation of the previous episode… X tells
with the pillow case over his head). The women tell Scully that the metallic implant (which was
the agents that Zinnzser was a member of their surgically removed from the back of her neck) is the
group. They also describe their experiences in a key to all the answers she’s been searching for.
“bright white place,” triggering Scully’s partial Meanwhile, Mulder – who clings precariously to
memory of what transpired during her the top of a train bound for Canada – makes his
disappearance. The women display small pieces of way to safety and climbs aboard one of the cars.
metal which were surgically removed from the back He the car which is quarantined and cut off from
of their necks. They bring Scully to the hospital, the rest of the train. With assistance from the train’s
where another member of their group, Betsy conductor, Mulder searches for Dr. Shiro Zama,
Hagopian, is dying of an undiagnosed cancer whom he suspects is behind the experiments. But
ailment. Penny claims everyone who was abducted the Red−Haired Man (an assassin who murdered the
will die in the same fashion. Japanese diplomat in the previous episode), kills
Meanwhile, Mulder travels to Virginia where he Zama and hides his body inside a lavoratory.
discovers the Talapus hidden between much larger
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With the aid of Agent Pendrell, Scully learns that Revelations


the implant collects information and artificially
replicates a person’s mental processes. Pendrell
discovers the name of the chip’s manufacturer, a Production Code: #3X11
Japanese firm, and traces a delivery to Dr. Zama at Original Air Date: 12/15/95
Hansen’s Disease Research Facility in Virginia. Scully Written by Kim Newton
attempts to contact Mulder by cellular phone to Directed by David Nutter
relay the information, but unknown to her, Mulder SCULLY ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT A BOY WHOSE
dropped the device when he jumped onto the train. DEATH COULD TRIGGER THE COMING OF
Scully drives to the research facility, where she ARMAGEDDON.
encounters Escalante, a hideously deformed man. The agents travel to Pennsylvania to investigate the
Escalante explains that the facility was once a leper mysterious death of Reverend Finley, a self−
colony, but the staff, including Zama, fled when proclaimed Stigmatic whose palms suddenly bled as
death squads arrived to kill the patients. Escalante his rapt congregation looked on in awe. Mulder
was being treated for leprosy, but hundreds of other recalls a series of international, religiously−
patients were interned at the camp with symptoms motivated murders in which the victims were all
that resembled the disease. The creatures were kept false Stigmatics – just like Reverend Finley. Scully
apart from the patients and apparently tortured. notes ligature marks on Finley’s neck, suggesting
Meanwhile, Mulder finds Zama’s body inside the strangulation.
lavoratory. He is suddenly attacked by the Red− Meanwhile, in Loveland, Ohio, fifth grade student
Haired Man. With the conductor’s help, Mulder Kevin Kryder begins bleeding at the palms as his
overcomes him. The Red−Haired Man claims the teacher, Mrs. Tynes, and fellow classmates look on
quarantined car is rigged with an explosive device, in horror. The agents are informed by Carina
which was installed by Zama in case he could not Maywald, a Social Services worker, that Kevin’s
escape to Canada with his creature. Mulder and his father, Michael, was institutionalized after he
captive are unable to leave the quarantined car out proclaimed the boy was the son of God. Mulder
of fear that opening the door without the proper theorizes that Kevin may have inflicted the wounds
access code might detonate the bomb. on himself in protest over his father’s incarceration.
Scully is captured by soldiers and brought before Now, Mulder fears the boy may become a target for
an Elder, a member of the Syndicate. He explains the Stigmata killer.
how Zama – a brilliant scientist whose real name is At the mental institution, Michael Kryder
Ishimaru – was hidden in the U.S. after World War II professes his belief that “Forces of Darkness” are out
so he could continue his experiments. But Ishimaru to eliminate his son and thereby trigger
kept his discoveries secret, unwilling to share his Armageddon. But he also believes that God will
knowledge with the government that had granted chose someone to protect Kevin and avert
him asylum. Scully and the Elder dial the Red−Haired catastrophe. Surprisingly, Scully places more faith in
Man’s cellular number and contact Mulder. Scully the story than does Mulder.
believes the creature aboard the train isn’t an alien Kevin is kidnapped from a social services
being after all. She’s convinced Ishimaru used the dormitory by a bald, frightening−looking man. Based
railroad to conduct secret radiation tests on lepers, on a description from children at the dormitory, Mrs.
the homeless, and the insane. As proof, she reminds Kryder identifies the man as Owen Jarvis, a
Mulder about the President’s public apology for gardener. The agents storm Jarvis’ home and take
secret radiation tests that were conducted on him into custody. But Kevin has run off. Owen
innocent people until 1974. Only those tests never claims God told him to protect the boy. Using great
ended. strength, Owen breaks his handcuffs and runs to the
The quarantined car is uncoupled from the train Kryder home. He finds the Millennium Man (the
in an isolated area. Mulder questions the Red− same man who murdered Reverend Finley) preparing
Haired Man about the creature, and theorizes how to murder Kevin. A fight ensues, and the Millennium
Zama developed a human−alien hybrid with super Man kills Owen. The agents arrive at the scene and
immunity, capable of withstanding the effects of rescue Kevin. But the Millennium Man escapes.
atomic and biological weapons. The agents trace finger prints burned into
Scully reviews the alien autopsy tape and Owen’s neck to Simon Gates (the Millennium Man),
realizes Zama was caught on video punching in the who owns a recycling plant. Records indicate Gates
proper code to open the door of the quarantine car. visited Israel. Mulder speculates Gates may be
She phones Mulder with the code. But before he suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition
can exit the car, Mulder is attacked by the Red− that causes people to suffer religious delusions
Haired Man. X arrives, shoots the Red−Haired Man, induced by the journey.
and rescues Mulder moments before the train car Susan Kryder and her son become stranded on a
explodes. 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 dead body of Dr. Newton, who expired while using
down. But she loses control of the vehicle and dies a toilet. An orderly describes how roaches
in a crash. completely covered Newton’s corpse. Mulder again
The agents take Kevin to a nearby motel and telephones Scully for advice. She attributes the
place him under surveillance. As Kevin is taking a death to an aneurysm caused by straining too
bath, Scully tells Mulder how his disbelief towards forcefully.
religious miracles is difficult to fathom given his Sheriff Frass tells Mulder the federal government
open−mindedness towards the paranormal. Suddenly, erected a facility in town to conduct experiments
a loud noise erupts from the bathroom. When the on cockroaches. Mulder sneaks onto the property,
agents enter, they find Kevin has been abducted where he encounters Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, a
through a window. voluptuous entomologist. Berenbaum, a federal
Scully notices a circular recycling logo on a agent with the USDA Agricultural Research Service,
trash bin. Suspecting she might be the person explains that cockroaches are being studied to
chosen by God to protect Kevin, she drives to determine the best method to eradicate them. She
Gates’ recycling plant. Mulder, however, believes agrees with Scully’s theory about an accidental
Gates will try to get out of town as quickly as importation of a new cockroach species – a species
possible, and heads for the airport. Scully’s hunch which is attracted to, rather than repelled by, the
proves correct; Gates throws himself into the blades sight of human beings.
of a gigantic recycling vat, taking Kevin with him. Yet another body turns up at a nearby motel.
But the boy manages to cling to a safety platform. Mulder finds one of the bugs trapped inside a roach
Scully pulls the boy to safety. The wounds on the motel, and brings it to Dr. Berenbaum for
boy’s hands miraculously heal. examination. The insect proves to be robotic, not
organic. The discovery leads Mulder to Dr.
Alexander Ivanov at the Massachusetts Institute of
War of the Coprophages Robotics. He examines the robotic insect, but is
stunned by its complexity. He suspects that,
Production Code: #3X12 perhaps, the robot cockroaches were sent to
Original Air Date: 01/05/96 explore Earth by an advanced alien race.
Written by Darin Morgan When Scully arrives in town, she finds the
Directed by Kim Manners community in a state of panic. She phones Mulder
THE AGENTS COME TO THE AID OF A TOWN
with a theory about Dr. Eckerle, who witnessed the
SEEMINGLY UNDER ATTACK BY KILLER exterminator’s death. Eckerle is an alternative fuel
COCKROACHES. researcher, who manufactures methane gas from
manure. Scully believes the new species of bugs,
Dr. Jeff Eckerle, a renowned scientist, calls an which are dung−eaters, may have accidentally
exterminator to rid his basement of cockroaches. As hitched a ride along with the manure samples.
the exterminator, Dr. Bugger, sets about his work in Mulder drives to Eckerle’s lab, where the crazed
the basement of Eckerle’s home, he suddenly grabs doctor confronts the agent with a gun. Eckerle fires
his throat, gasping for breath, and falls against a the weapon, missing Mulder but igniting methane
cement wall. Eckerle rushes to the basement, and gas. A huge explosion engulfs the research facility,
looks on, horrified, as roaches swarm Dr. Bugger, killing Eckerle.
engulfing his entire body.
Shortly thereafter, Mulder strikes up a
conversation with Sheriff Frass, who relays the news Syzygy
about the roach attack. Intrigued, Mulder inspects
the exterminator’s corpse, and phones Scully for her Production Code: #3X13
opinion regarding the bizarre incident. Scully Original Air Date: 01/26/96
suspects the man was probably allergic to Written by Chris Carter
cockroaches and died from anaphylactic shock. Directed by Kim Manners
Shortly thereafter, the sheriff receives a report about
a teenager who mutilated his own body with a A RARE ALIGNMENT OF THE PLANETS GIVES TWO
razor after he became convinced that roaches were TEENAGED GIRLS DANGEROUS TELEKINETIC
POWERS.
burrowing into his body. Scully again supplies a
logical explanation, attributing the incident to a The agents travel to the city of Comity when the
psychotic disorder caused by the victim’s drug use. body of high school teenager “Boom” Deboom is
Mulder searches the drug den and turns up a found dangling from a rope. Police Detective Angela
cockroach exoskeleton, which he believes is made White explains that it’s the third death of a high
out of metal. school boy in as many months. She suspects the
Mulder takes the skin to a nearby hospital for fatalities may be linked to a satanic cult. Scully
examination. Meanwhile, hospital staff discover the insists that the FBI’s research has proved most
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accounts false or imagined. But during Deboom’s In Washington, D.C., an artist’s model is brutally
funeral, the casket suddenly erupts into flames. slashed to death after he finishes a session posing
The agents interview two blonde teenaged girls, for a group of art students. The FBI links one of the
Terri Roberts and Margi Kleinjan, who were present students, John Mostow, to the model’s death, and to
on the night Deboom died. The girls give almost several other killings of young males over a three
identical stories… one account corroborating the year period. Agents Patterson and Nemhauser arrest
other. Shortly thereafter, the girls attend basketball an unruly Mostow in his studio apartment. During
practice at the high school gymnasium. One of the the struggle, Mostow bites Nemhauser on the arm.
players, Eric, accidentally crashes into the girls, Five days after the arrest, the body of another young
showering them with lemonade. The girls focus their male victim, bearing the same facial mutilation, is
powers on the ball, sending it bouncing beneath found six miles away.
wooden, accordion−like bleacher seats. When Eric Mulder and Scully interview Mostow in his jail
crawls beneath the bleachers, the electric motor cell. He claims he was possessed by a dark spirit,
suddenly engages, crushing him to death. an entity that forced him to kill. Afterward, the
With each passing death, the townspeople’s agents meet with Patterson, who worked on solving
anger increases. So, too, does the tension between the serial killings for three years. In private, Mulder
Mulder and Scully, who are unusually short with tells Scully that he and Patterson have held a grudge
one another. Detective White visits Mulder at his ever since his days as a student at the bureau.
motel room. The conversation shifts from the facts Patterson was well−respected and even envied by
in the case, and Mulder and White find one another many students, but Mulder failed to step in line. He
in each other’s arms. But Scully interrupts their tryst didn’t believe in Patterson’s teachings that the only
with news of another death. way to find a monster is to become one yourself.
Mulder turns to Madame Zirinka, an astrologist, The agents visit Mostow’s studio, where they
for help. Zirinka claims a rare planetary alignment, find sketch after sketch of gargoyles covering the
scheduled for January 12th, is affecting people’s room. Mostow believed the images protected him
behavior. She also believes that those people born from the demon. Mulder and Scully discover more
in 1979 will have all the energy of the cosmos bodies – covered with clay – hidden within a secret
focused on them. room. Shortly thereafter, a man employed as a
Meanwhile, Margi makes sexual advances glassblower is viciously attacked by a figure armed
towards Scott Simmons inside his garage. But their with a carpet knife.
private moment is spoiled when a jealous Terri Mulder visits a library and reads literature
interrupts. Margi and Terri engage in a bitter pertaining to gargoyles. He then returns to Mostow’s
argument. When their telekinetic powers flair, a apartment, where he draws and sculpts images of
garage door spring suddenly and unexpectedly the creatures. A dark figure emerges from the
snaps in two, impaling and killing Scott. The girls shadows. Mulder chases the figure to an industrial
turn to the police, and blame each other for the area. The creature attacks the agent, but during the
deaths that have plagued the town. But when they struggle, Mulder falls from a gangway. The figure
are brought to the police station, their anger runs off into the darkness. Later, Mulder tells Scully
towards one another wrecks havoc. Guns discharge, that the creature exists. Scully is skeptical, and as
furniture moves, and everyone ducks for cover. she leaves the scene, she discovers broken pieces of
Scully pushes Terri into an interrogation room where a knife. The crime lab finds Mulder’s finger print on
Margi is being held. She dead bolts the door, and the blade. Scully pays a visit to the FBI’s evidence
watches, amazed, as the power within builds to a room, but Mostow’s confiscated knife, seized by
crescendo. But when the clock strikes midnight, the agents, is no where to be found.
fury suddenly ends. The agents open the Mulder returns to Mostow’s studio, where he
interrogation room door and find the girls, weeping discovers Nemhauser’s dead body encased in clay.
and frightened, inside. When Patterson arrives at the studio, Mulder
accuses him of killing Nemhauser and everyone else
murdered since Mostow’s incarceration. Mulder
Grotesque describes how Patterson became so obsessed with
finding the killer, imaging everything the killer
Production Code: #3X14 imagined, sinking himself so deeply into the case
Original Air Date: 02/02/96 that finally, he became the very thing he so
Written by Howard Gordon desperately sought to catch. Scully arrives at the
Directed by Kim Manners studio, distracting Mulder. Patterson runs off and
MULDER BECOMES OBSESSED WITH A CASE
makes his way onto a rooftop. A struggle ensues,
INVOLVING AN INCARCERATED SERIAL KILLER WHO during which Patterson’s face transforms into a
CLAIMS HE WAS POSSESSED BY A GARGOYLE. 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) himself to Geraldine and breaks into her office. Alex
Krycek suddenly appears and gets the drop on
Mulder. He forces Geraldine (still handcuffed to
Production Code: #3X15 Mulder) into the hallway and dead bolts the door,
Original Air Date: 02/09/96 separating the two. Gunshots suddenly ring out, and
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Geraldine is killed. Krycek escapes through a
Directed by Rob Bowman window. Mulder unlocks the handcuffs and he, too,
THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE MYSTERY flees the scene.
SURROUNDING A SUNKEN WORLD WAR II Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Skinner is shot in
AIRCRAFT. the stomach by the Hispanic Man (Luis Cardinal)
A salvage vessel, the Piper Maru, sets anchor on the (who, with Krycek, killed Scully’s sister). Skinner is
wind−scarred waters of the Pacific Ocean. The rushed to the hospital.
French−speaking crew lowers a diver, Gauthier, into Mulder surprises Krycek at the Hong Kong
the briny depths. Gauthier discovers the wreckage airport. He punches him in the face, pulls a gun and
of a World War II fighter on the ocean floor, demands the return of the digital tape. Krycek gives
creating jubilation amongst his comrades. But as the agent a key, claiming the tape is kept inside a
Gauthier peers into the glass canopy of the aircraft, locker back in Washington. Mulder allows him to
he sees a living World War II pilot, his eyes covered use a rest room so he can remove the blood from
with a thick black membrane, trapped inside. his face. But Joan Gauthier suddenly appears inside
Certain he is hallucinating, Gauthier goes topside. the men’s room and attacks Krycek. The filmy black
But as the crew works to unsuit him, they fail to substance transfers from Gauthier to Krycek.
notice a black filmy membrane that now covers
Gauthier’s eyes.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, Skinner informs Apocrypha (2 of 2)
Scully that due of a lack of new leads or evidence,
local police have made her sister’s murder Production Code: #3X16
investigation inactive. Original Air Date: 02/16/96
Afterward, Scully joins Mulder in his office. Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Mulder shows her evidence that the Piper Maru had Directed by Kim Manners
been anchored in the exact location where the MULDER UNCOVERS MORE CLUES ABOUT A
crew of the Talapus (see episode #3X09) had GOVERNMENT COVER−UP INVOLVING AN ALIEN
performed scavenger work. He also reveals that ENTITY AND A SUNKEN WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT.
everyone aboard the Piper Maru, except Gauthier, SCULLY PURSUES THE MAN WHO MURDERED HER
suffered acute radiation burns. The agents travel to SISTER.
a ship yard and examine the vessel. Mulder notices In flashback, government agents – among them a
an oily film covering the diving suit. He and Scully young William Mulder and the Cigarette−Smoking
find videotape footage of Gauthier’s dive – and see Man (CSM) – visit the deathbed of a radiation−
the remains of the submerged World War II aircraft. scarred crewman who served aboard the submarine
Gauthier, meanwhile, returns to San Francisco Zeus Faber (see episode #3X15). The man insists the
and begins ransacking a home office. His American Navy tricked the submarine’s crew into believing
wife, Joan, catches him in the act. Gauthier attacks that their mission was to recover an atomic bomb
Joan, and shortly thereafter, her eyes become from a sunken aircraft. But he believes the real
covered by the same black film. Mulder finds purpose of the mission was to guard an alien entity
Gauthier semi−conscious, on the kitchen floor. living on the ocean floor – a life−form that invaded
Gauthier only remembers events up to his discovery the sub and killed crewmen with deadly radiation.
of the sunken aircraft, and nothing about the CSM assures the crewman that the government will
ransacked apartment. Mulder also finds a letter make the truth public.
linking J. Kallenchuk Salvage Brokers to the mystery. In present day Washington, Scully visits Skinner
Scully tracks down an old neighbor and World at a hospital. Skinner, semi−conscious, reveals that
War II vet, Commander Christopher Johansen, hoping he recognized his assailant. Fearing further attacks,
he can shed some light on the sunken aircraft. As Scully assigns guards posted outside his hospital
luck would have it, Johansen reveals he was aboard room.
the submarine Zeus Faber during its mission to Meanwhile, Mulder orders Krycek to drive him
locate the plane – which had been transporting an to the location where the digital tape is stored.
atomic bomb during the war. He recounts how the During the journey, another vehicle deliberately
sub crew took ill during the mission, and how he slams into Mulder’s car, forcing it off the road.
took over command when the Captain became Mulder is injured in the crash and loses
irrational. consciousness. Armed men confront Krycek and
Mulder follows Geraldine Kallenchuk (who runs demand the tape. Moments later, a blinding white
the salvage brokerage) to Hong Kong. He handcuffs
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light emanates from Krycek’s body and strobes the (who’s at the wheel). As the deputy waits his turn to
armed men. pull onto a busy highway, Pusher uses the sound of
Scully visits Mulder at the hospital where he’s his voice to take control of the deputy’s mind.
recuperating from injuries suffered in the car crash. Against his will, the deputy drives the cruiser
Scully produces lab tests that prove Skinner’s directly into the path of an oncoming truck, and an
assailant and her sister’s killer are one and the enormous collision ensues.
same. Later, the agents examine the diver’s suit Burst survives the impact, but the sheriff’s deputy
Gauthier wore during the salvage mission. Mulder is killed and Pusher escapes. Burst approaches
points out a layer of diesel oil covering the suit. He Mulder and Scully for help with the bizarre case. He
believes the oil is a medium used by an describes how, a month earlier, Pusher called him
extraterrestrial to jump from host to host. Krycek, and confessed to a string of contract killings going
Mulder postulates, is the alien’s latest host. back two years. The murders Pusher confessed to
With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder had all been ruled suicides by the coroner’s office.
recovers a package believed to contain the digital But he possessed intimate details known only to
tape. The tape case inside the package is empty, but police. Burst believes Pusher was bragging when he
faint pen strokes on the outside of the paper confessed to the crimes, as if he was playing a
package reveal the Well−Manicured Man’s (WMM) twisted game. Most disturbing is how Pusher
phone number. Mulder arranges a face−to−face somehow willed the sheriff’s deputy to unlock his
meeting in hopes of learning Krycek’s location. shackles.
Krycek, meanwhile, gives the tape to CSM. A clue finger−written on the wrecked police
During their meeting, WMM tells Mulder a UFO cruiser leads the agents to back issues of a
was downed by American pilots over the Pacific magazine called “American Ronin” (a ronin is a
Ocean during the second World War. Missions to samurai warrior without a master). After leafing
salvage the craft failed because of intense radiation. through several issues, the agents find “hit for hire”
Mulder realizes that WMM doesn’t know where ads they suspect were placed by Pusher. They trace
Krycek is. a telephone number listed in the ad to a pay phone,
Meanwhile, Scully guards Skinner as he is which, in turn, leads them to a driving range where
transported to another hospital. The Hispanic Man, Pusher works. Heavily−armed federal agents
Luis Cardinal, attempts to gain access to the surround the range. Pusher takes refuge inside a
ambulance. But Scully surprises him and a chase shed and is cornered by an agent. He wills the
ensues. Cardinal is struck by an automobile and falls agent to pour gasoline over his own body and set
into an alleyway. Terrified Scully will shoot him, he himself on fire. Scully extinguishes the flames, and
reveals that Krycek is headed for an abandoned Pusher is taken into custody. But during a
missile site outside Bismarck, North Dakota. preliminary court hearing, Pusher (whose real name
The agents gain access to the site, but CSM has is Robert Modell) clouds the mind of the presiding
them taken into custody before they can search all judge and is released.
the silos. Later, we see Krycek inside a silo where Using his mental powers, Modell slips by FBI
an alien spacecraft is hidden. The entity exits security and gains access to the agency’s computer
Krycek’s body, leaving him entombed within the records. Skinner spots the intruder and attempts to
silo. intercede. But Modell overpowers an office cleric’s
Later, Mulder tells Scully that Luis Cardinal was mind and wills her to spray mace in Skinner’s eyes.
found dead inside his jail cell – a death made to During the confusion, Modell escapes with the
look like a suicide. records.
Skinner recovers, and later informs the agents
that Modell fled with Mulder’s computer file. Burst,
Pusher Mulder, Scully and a team of SWAT officers storm
Modell’s apartment, but find it empty. What they do
Production Code: #3X17 find is epilepsy medication. Scully theorizes that if a
Original Air Date: 02/23/96 brain tumor triggered Modell’s powers, he might be
Written by Vince Gilligan dying… and committing murders as one last big
Directed by Rob Bowman “hurrah.” Modell phones the agents as they are
THE AGENTS PLAY A DEADLY GAME OF CAT−AND−
sifting through his apartment. As Burst tries to keep
MOUSE WITH A KILLER WHO CAN CONTROL him on the line until the call can be traced, Modell
PEOPLE’S MINDS. wills him to suffer a fatal heart attack.
The FBI tracks Modell to a nearby hospital.
At a grocery market in Virginia, Agent Frank Burst Mulder fears that Modell might focus his powers on
and a phalanx of sheriff’s deputies arrest a man one of the armed agents, so he enters the building
known only as Pusher. Pusher is shackled in leg alone, unarmed and wired with high−tech video
irons and seated in the back of a cruiser, a heavy gear that allows Scully and the other agents to see
steel screen separating him from Burst and a deputy what he sees.
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As Mulder walks through the building, shots ring frightening comments to her. Inside the woman’s
out. He finds the dead bodies of an MRI technician washroom at the museum, Mona discovers rats
and a security guard. He also finds a medical chart trapped within a toilet. But when Mulder arrives at
which confirms the tumor is fatal. Modell clouds the museum, Mona has disappeared.
Mulder’s mind and forces him to play Russian Scully, meanwhile, gains access to Bilac’s
roulette, first on himself, and then on Scully. Scully residence. She finds the liquid yaje inside a
trips a fire alarm after realizing that Modell must ceremonial bowl, and reads journal entries
concentrate all of his energy for his powers to indicating that Bilac has invoked the Amaru curse.
work. This distracts Modell long enough for agents Mulder discovers Bilac inside the woman’s
to rush him. Later, we see Modell in a hospital bed, washroom at the museum. He claims Mona is dead,
weak and near death. but insists he does not know where to find the
body. Bilac is placed in a room guarded by security
men.
Teso Dos Bichos The agents find the dead body of Mona’s dog,
Sugar. A veterinarian performs an autopsy and
Production Code: #3X18 discovers evidence that the dog had eaten a cat
Original Air Date: 03/08/96 which had devoured a poisoned rat. Mulder
Written by John Shiban concludes the rats are trying to get away from
Directed by Kim Manners something.
A CURSE BEFALLS MEMBERS OF AN ARCHEOLOGICAL
Bilac disappears. The agents suspect he escaped
TEAM AFTER A SACRED URN IS EXCAVATED IN into steam tunnels that run beneath the museum.
SOUTH AMERICA AND TRANSPORTED TO A BOSTON Pulling up a manhole cover, the agents descend into
MUSEUM. the darkness. They discover Dr. Lewton’s partially−
devoured body parts… and dozens of ravenous
At the Teso Dos Bichos excavation site in South house cats. Mulder rescues Scully after she is
America, Secona Indian diggers uncover an Amaru attacked by a cat. But the felines give chase, and
urn embedded in the wall of a burial mound. The the agents take refuge inside a room. As a sea of
urn contains the remains of a female shaman, which cats mass for another attack, the agents discover
the Indians believe is sacred to their tribe. Bilac, a Bilac’s body stuck inside an air vent. Realizing the
Brazilian−born man acting as dig coordinator, tells vent is their only means of escape, Mulder and
Dr. Roosevelt, the American leader of the Scully dislodge the body and make their way to
expedition, that the urn should be left undisturbed. safety. Animal control is dispatched to hunt down
But Roosevelt insists it be transported back to the the rampaging felines, but cannot locate them in the
United States. Later, Bilac participates in an Indian miles of steam tunnels. Mulder receives word that
tribal ceremony and consumes a strange liquid the State Department is returning the urn to
called yaje. Moments later, a jaguar−like form Ecuador.
attacks Roosevelt inside his tent, killing him.
At the Museum of Natural History in Boston, a
night watchman discovers the body of Mr. Horning, Hell Money
who participated in the archeological project. Dr.
Lewton, the museum’s coordinator, suspects that the Production Code: #3X19
murder may be an act of political terrorism. Mulder Original Air Date: 03/29/96
tells Scully that the Secona Indians believe great Written by Jeff Vlaming
evil will befall anyone who disturbs the remains of Directed by Tucker Gates
an Amaru, a woman−shaman.
The agents question Bilac, who admits he THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A DEADLY GAME IN SAN
objected to the dig from the very beginning. Scully FRANCISCO’S CHINATOWN DISTRICT.
believes it was Bilac who murdered Horning, and The agents travel to San Francisco’s Chinatown
not a mythological Jaguar spirit sent by the Seconas. district after a night watchman at a crematorium
Later, Dr. Lewton is attacked by an unseen force as discovered a man being burned alive inside an oven.
he works under the hood of his stalled Jaguar Mulder discovers a Chinese character scrawled
automobile. inside the oven door, along with a wad of currency.
The agents search the area around the museum Glen Chao, a detective of Asian descent, identifies
hoping for clues. Scully finds body parts of dead rats the writing as the Chinese word for “ghost.” He also
wedged inside the engine. She suspects the animals explains that the currency is called “hell money,”
were attracted by the car engine’s warmth. While which is used as an offering to spirits during the
searching nearby woods, Mulder discovers Lewton’s Chinese Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. The
eviscerated remains dangling from a tree. threesome learn that the victim’s name is Johnny Lo.
Mona Wustner, a grad student researcher, They search Lo’s apartment and discover blood
phones the agents with news that Bilac made
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stains beneath a newly installed wall−to−wall The agents hear the commotion and race
carpet. upstairs. They find Chao holding the Hard−Faced
Meanwhile, an Asian man, Hsin, temporarily Man – about to remove one of Hsin’s organs – at
leaves his daughter, Kim, so he can attend a gun point. Hsin is rescued and his daughter is placed
mysterious meeting. At an abandoned restaurant, on a recipient list at the organ procurement
Hsin participates in a strange game in which players organization.
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 Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space”
Man is escorted to a back room, where he is
drugged. Shortly thereafter, the agents discover his Production Code: #3X20
body in a cemetery. Original Air Date: 04/12/96
Scully’s autopsy on the Wiry Man’s corpse Written by Darin Morgan
reveals evidence that the man’s body organs had Directed by Rob Bowman
been harvested. The agents confront Chao about SCULLY RECOUNTS THE INVESTIGATION OF AN
their discovery, but they sense he is being protective ALLEGED UFO ENCOUNTER FOR A FAMOUS AUTHOR
about the goings−on within the Chinese community. RESEARCHING HIS LATEST NOVEL.
But Chao does provide the name of the man who
installed the carpet in Johnny Lo’s apartment: Hsin. Scully meets with Jose Chung, a famous author
Mulder, Scully and Chao pay a visit to Hsin’s researching a book about an alleged UFO encounter
apartment. Hsin’s eye is heavily bandaged, which he in Klass County, Washington. Scully recounts how a
claims is a work−related injury. As Chao and Hsin teenaged girl, Chrissy Giorgio, was found inside her
carry on a conversation in Chinese, Mulder boyfriend’s car on a deserted country road. Chrissy
discovers one of the colored game tiles. After the exhibited signs of physical abuse. Scully theorizes
threesome leave the apartment, Hsin tells his she may have been a victim of date rape.
daughter they need money for her leukemia Chrissy’s boyfriend, Harold Lamb, was questioned
treatments. But Kim blames her father’s eye injury by Detective Manners. Lamb claimed that he and
on the mysterious meetings. Moved by his Chrissy were abducted by aliens. Lamb passed a lie
daughter’s concern, Hsin tells the head−gamesman, a detector test, but when Mulder and Scully arrived at
Hard−Faced Man, that he no longer wishes to the scene, he changed his story and claimed he
participate. But the Hard−Faced Man insists Hsin is raped Chrissy.
close to winning a jackpot worth two million Unsatisfied with Lamb’s account, Mulder asked
dollars. Chrissy if she experienced any unusual symptoms –
Meanwhile, Chao is attacked by what appear to such as vision problems and nose bleeds – after the
be masked demons. But when Mulder visits the encounter allegedly took place. She claimed she
hospital, Chao is not to be found. By checking a saw sudden flashes of an alien’s face. Mulder
hospital chart, the agents realize Chao’s blood type became convinced the girl was suffering from “Post
matches the blood found on the carpet padding at Abduction Syndrome.” Scully, meanwhile, attributed
Johnny Lo’s apartment. Mulder suspects Chao is her ailments to stress disorder triggered by sexual
somehow involved. trauma.
The agents return to Hsin’s apartment, where Under hypnosis, Chrissy described how she and
they question Kim. She explains that the family has her boyfriend were examined by aliens aboard a
no medical insurance, and that the cost of leukemia spaceship – confirming Lamb’s original alibi.
treatments is very high. Mulder realizes Hsin is Later, the agents interviewed Roky Crikenson, an
participating in some sort of game. The agents pay electric company employee who allegedly
a visit to an organ procurement organization, where witnessed the abduction and recorded his
they are told that a number of Asian men request observations in a manuscript. Roky described how
typing and antigen work−ups, only to disappear. strange men wearing black clothing visited his home
The agents trace a phone number supplied by the previous evening and warned him not to divulge
the organization to an abandoned restaurant. Inside his story.
the kitchen, the agent’s discover human organs Mulder read Roky’s manuscript and concluded it
being stored in freezers. Unbeknownst to them, verified Lamb’s account of what occurred on the
another game is underway in a room over the night of the alleged abduction. But Mulder was
restaurant. Hsin loses and is dragged to the back puzzled by Chrissy’s story, which did not match
room. Chao, no longer willing to help cover up the Roky’s or Lamb’s versions.
activity, interrupts the game and smashes one of the Chrissy was again placed under hypnosis. During
jade vases – revealing tiles of all the same color the second session, she described how she was
within. The participants realize that the game is interrogated by men from the Air Force and CIA.
rigged, and a melee breaks out. 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 involvement. The victim is identified as Carina
a dead alien. But during an autopsy examination, Sayles, a former legal secretary who moonlighted
Scully discovered the alien was, in fact, a dead man for an escort service. The agents interview Lorraine
wearing a costume. A check of military records Kelleher, who runs the escort service. Kelleher states
revealed the deceased was Air Force Major Robert that Sayles called her from the bar and used
Vallee. Skinner’s credit card number to pay for the
When Vallee’s body disappeared, Mulder tracked “transaction.”
down Blaine Faulkner, who videotaped Scully’s Scully tells Mulder neither of them really knows
“autopsy.” But the mysterious “men in black” beat very much about Skinner’s personal life. Later, the
the agent to Faulkner’s doorstep and took possession agents meet with their boss after he is released
of the tape. After leaving Faulkner’s apartment, from jail. But he is uncooperative, and refuses to
Mulder encountered a naked man walking along a comment about the incident, or explain why he
country road. He realized the man was Lieutenant refused a polygraph test. During their conversation,
Jack Sheaffer, a missing military officer. Sheaffer it dawns on Mulder that Skinner did not know that
admitted that he piloted a fake UFO−type craft Sayles was a prostitute.
developed by the military to confuse potential Scully shows Mulder a videotape containing
invading forces. But Sheaffer was convinced that he, footage of people who suffer from REM sleep
Vallee, and the two teenagers were actually behavior disorder. The affliction causes sufferers to
abducted by a real UFO. grow violent during sleep, perhaps explaining the
Mulder then returned to his motel room, where murder. Scully learns from Skinner’s psychiatrist that
he later claimed to have encountered the “men in he had been experiencing a recurring dream in
black,” and a man who strongly resembled game which he is confronted by an old woman. Mulder
show host Alex Trebek. links the description to a succubus, a spirit that
The agents were informed that a top secret visits men during the night in just such a form.
government plane crashed in a forest nearby. Skinner’s wife, Sharon, pays a visit to Skinner’s
Detective Manners claimed that the UFO sightings apartment. Later, police discover that Sharon was
could be attributed to the strange craft – until involved in an automobile accident – and evidence
Vallee’s body is pulled from the wreckage. that someone ran her off the road. All evidence
In the present day, Mulder approaches Chung points to Skinner. Later, Skinner tells Mulder he first
and asks him not to write the book. He fears any encountered visions of the old woman during a
account of the events will only make the near−death experience in Vietnam.
participants look foolish. Chung denies his request. 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
Avatar FBI crime lab constructs a computerized image of a
facial imprint embedded in the air bag. It belongs to
Production Code: #3X21 someone other than Skinner. Mulder suspects that
Original Air Date: 04/26/96 someone within the government is trying to destroy
Story by David Duchovny and Howard Gordon Skinner (having failed in their attempts to kill him in
Teleplay by Howard Gordon a previous episode).
Directed by James Charleston A hearing is established to investigate the facts
SKINNER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE
in the case. Skinner’s accusers use Scully’s testimony
MURDER OF A PROSTITUTE. about the X−Files to dismiss him from the Bureau.
Later, the agents discover that Kelleher fell from her
Attorney Jay Cassal finalizes Skinner’s divorce condo high−rise. They question her assistant, Judy,
petition. Skinner, however, decides to wait one who identifies the computer image of the man who
more day before signing the document. stole Skinner’s car as the same man who hired
While relaxing at the Chesapeake Lounge at the Sayles to approach Skinner. The agents arrange for
Ambassador Hotel, Skinner is approached by an Judy to meet the suspect at the Ambassador.
attractive woman. The pair strike up a conversation, Skinner visits his ailing wife at the hospital.
and their apparent mutual attraction and loneliness There, he again sees the image of the old woman,
quickly escalates to lovemaking in a hotel room. who beckons to him from his wife’s bed. Skinner
During their passion, Skinner sees the woman moves closer, only to see Sharon’s form. Sharon
change from an attractive lover to an old woman. whispers something in Skinner’s ear.
Skinner suddenly awakens. When he turns to the The man whose image was reconstructed from
woman from the bar, he discovers her lifeless the air bag surprises Judy and Scully in their hotel
corpse. room. Mulder and Detective Waltos rush to their
Scully and Mulder join Homicide Detective aid, but Skinner mysteriously appears and guns
Waltos at the crime scene, where they learn details down the assailant. When Scully asks Skinner as to
about the murder and Skinner’s possible
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how he knew the assailant’s whereabouts, he a lack of manpower. But as Hindt is dragging the
cryptically declines to answer. lake for bodies, something grabs hold of his line and
yanks him into the water. Immediately, he orders
the lake closed.
Quagmire Scully gives chase when Queequeg suddenly
darts off into the woods near the lake. She
Production Code: #3X22 discovers the tattered remains of a leather dog
Original Air Date: 05/03/96 collar.
Written by Kim Newton The agents rent a boat, and using a depth finder,
Directed by Kim Manners embark on a nighttime hunt for the elusive creature.
MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A BEAST SIMILAR TO THE
Something tears a hole in the boat’s hull, causing
LOCH NESS MONSTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE the vessel to sink. Surrounded by darkness, the pair
DEATHS OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO RESIDE NEAR A take refuge on a tiny rock island. But Farraday
LARGE LAKE. emerges from the darkness and informs the agents
the shore is only a stone’s throw from their island.
Dr. Paul Farraday, a biologist, and Dr. William Bailey, Embarrassed, Mulder and Scully walk to shore.
a member of the U.S. Forestry Service, debate the Mulder takes interest in Farraday’s bag full of
cause of a rapid decline in the frog population at frogs. He realizes that the monster’s sudden attack
Heuvelmans Lake in Georgia. Shortly thereafter, on humans was provoked by a change in the lake’s
while walking near the lake’s shore, Bailey is ecosystem. Farraday becomes the creature’s next
attacked and killed by an unseen force. victim, but he escapes with a flesh wound. Mulder
Mulder and Scully drive to the lake after Bailey tracks the elusive culprit through a marsh area, firing
becomes the second person reported missing from several rounds from his pistol. What he encounters,
the area in the same week (Scully brings her dog, however, is a monstrous alligator, now bleeding
Queequeg, along for the ride). Mulder suspects the from gunshot wounds.
disappearances are linked to Big Blue, a legendary, But somewhere in the lake, a serpentine form
Loch Ness−like monster that allegedly lives in the undulates in the murky, moonlit water.
murky water.
It becomes apparent that the creature’s supposed
existence is responsible for most of Lake Wetwired
Heuvelmans’ tourism business. While speaking with
Ted Bertram, owner of a local tackle shop, the Production Code: #3X23
agents encounter Ansel Bray, a Big Blue expert who Original Air Date: 05/10/96
has devoted his life to photographing the elusive Written by Mat Beck
behemoth. The conversation is interrupted when a Directed by Rob Bowman
local fisherman barges into the shop with news that
he discovered a body floating in the lake. THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF MURDERS
The body is identified as Scott Woosley, a Boy LINKED TO A DEVICE THAT ALTERS TELEVISION
Scout leader who disappeared after he wander from SIGNALS.
his troop to relieve himself. Scully notes that A mysterious Plain−Clothed Man alerts Mulder to a
Woosley’s fly is open, a common identifier of pair of multiple−homicides in which the killers
drowning victims who consumed too much alcohol suddenly became delusional. Mulder is unsure who
and fell into the water while urinating. But Mulder the informant is working for, but he nonetheless
believes the creature is responsible for the death. follows up on the tip. He and Scully visit a
The agents interview Farraday, who quite openly psychiatric hospital, where Joseph Patnick, one of
scoffs at the notion of the existence of Big Blue. the mass murderers, suddenly goes berserk while
Shortly thereafter, Ted Bertram is killed by the watching television. The agents meet with Dr.
unseen creature. Stroman, who theorizes his patient might be
Aided by Sheriff Lance Hindt, the agents search suffering from a delusional syndrome.
the area where Bertram disappeared. They inspect The agents search Patnick’s home looking for
giant three−toed footprints imbedded in the muck clues. While combing the house, Mulder and Scully
on the lake’s shore. But the evidence is dismissed locate row upon row of video cassette tapes
when a “dinosaur boot” is uncovered near the containing cable news broadcasts. Back at the
scene. motel, Mulder views hours of the news footage but
The body count increases after a teenaged diver is unable to formulate a link between the
is killed. Based on a preliminary examination, Scully broadcasts and the murders. Scully, however, cites
attributes the death to a motor boat propeller. Not recent studies linking television violence to violent
long afterward, Ansel is also attacked and killed. behavior. Mulder dismisses the connection.
Mulder begs the Sheriff to close down the lake Out of curiosity, Scully views the rest of the
before anyone else is attacked. Hindt refuses, citing video tapes. Late that night, she sees Mulder and
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the Cigarette−Smoking Man meeting in secret in a Directed by R.W. Goodwin


car parked outside the motel. The next day, the AFTER HIS MOTHER SUFFERS A STROKE, MULDER
agents receive word regarding yet another strange SEARCHES FOR AN ALIEN BEING WHO POSSESSES
murder. This time, a housewife suddenly beat a MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS.
neighbor to death. The killer, Mrs. Riddock, told
authorities that her husband was having an affair At a busy fast food restaurant in Arlington, Virginia,
with a blonde woman in a hammock in their a distraught man, Galen, suddenly pulls out a gun
backyard. In reality, Mrs. Riddock attacked and and begins shooting at customers. A police
killed her next door neighbor, who was resting in a sharpshooter returns fire, severely wounding him. A
hammock with a Golden Retriever. The agents Gentle−Looking Man steps from the crowd and
search Riddock’s home and uncover a large pile of places his open palm on Galen’s wound,
VHS cassette tapes. Mulder spots a cable technician miraculously healing it in a matter of moments.
working on a utility pole nearby. When the When Scully and Mulder arrive at the scene,
technician drive off, Mulder climbs the pole and paramedics and detectives are unable to describe
removes a video trap device. He brings it to the the incident in a coherent fashion, as all of the
Lone Gunmen for analysis. customers who were struck by gunfire are now
Meanwhile, Scully grows more and more uninjured. Even more puzzling, the Gentle−Looking
suspicious about Mulder’s activities. While speaking Man disappeared from the scene without a trace.
with Scully over the telephone, Mulder notices her Meanwhile, at the Mulder’s beach front summer
paranoia and drives back to the motel. Believing she home in Rhode Island, Mrs. Mulder is approached by
is being attacked by unknown intruders, Scully the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). They become
opens fire, narrowly missing her partner. She then embroiled in a heated argument. Shortly thereafter,
runs off. Mulder receives word that his mother was rushed to
The Lone Gunmen confirm Mulder’s theory that an emergency room in serious condition.
the device somehow induces violent behavior. Using Accompanied by Scully, Mulder races to the
different colors, it acts as a sort of mind control. hospital. From her bed, Mrs. Mulder asks her son for
Mulder, who is red−green color blind, realizes why a pen. She then writes the word “palm” on a sheet
he was not affected. of note paper.
Mulder receives word that Scully’s body may The agents return to Washington, where they
have been located. Before he reaches the morgue, view unedited videotape footage of the fast food
the Plain−Clothed Man warns him to concentrate on restaurant shooting. Analyzing the footage frame by
finding the parties responsible before they destroy frame, the agents watch in astonishment as the
evidence. Mulder ignores the warning and goes to Gentle−Looking Man seemingly morphs into another
the morgue. The victim, however, is not Scully. man.
Mulder travels to Mrs. Scully’s house. Scully Shortly thereafter, a group of agents, headed by
suddenly steps into view, leveling a pistol at CSM, corner and arrest the Gentle−Looking Man at
Mulder’s head. Delusional, she claims that Mulder a Social Security Office where he is employed.
has been lying to her from their very first Almost simultaneously, Scully stops a person who
assignment. But Mrs. Scully convinces her distraught looks exactly like the Gentle−Looking Man at FBI
daughter to drop the weapon. headquarters. The man, Jeremiah Smith, claims he is
Mulder realizes that Dr. Stroman’s treatment of about to turn himself in. Smith is questioned by
Patnick was unorthodox. He tracks Stroman and the Skinner and released.
cable technician to a house on the outskirts of Back at the summer house, X shows Mulder
town. Suddenly, gunshots rings out. When Mulder photographs of his mother and CSM having an
enters the home, he finds X standing over the argument. Mulder claims he does not know what
bodies. X blames the deaths on Mulder. But Mulder the discussion was about. Mulder leaves the house,
counters he never knew who the Plain−Clothed Man then doubles back under the cover of darkness.
was working for. Using a pen, he rearranges the letters of the word
Later, Mulder and the now−recovered Scully “palm” to spell “lamp.” He then smashes a ceramic
meet with Skinner. But Mulder does not identify X lamp against a wall and uncovers a stiletto weapon
as the man who killed Stroman and the cable (the same device the Bounty Hunter used to kill
technician. alien colonists in previous episodes).
The first Jeremiah Smith (arrested at the Social
Security Offices) is thrown in prison and
Talitha Cumi (1 of 2) interrogated by CSM. During the interrogation, Smith
transforms into Deep Throat and Mr. Mulder, (both
Production Code: #3X24 of whom CSM had killed). CSM tries to hide his
Original Air Date: 05/17/96 astonishment. During the conversation, Smith tells
Teleplay by Chris Carter CSM he is dying of lung cancer.
Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter
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Meanwhile, Mulder tracks the second Smith to With his mother still in a coma, a despondent
the Social Security Offices. But Smith suddenly Mulder follows the last of his meager clues to the
breaks away and disappears into a crowd. Back at end of the line: the United Nations office of Special
the prison, the Bounty Hunter, stiletto in hand, enters Representative to the Secretary General. An
Jeremiah’s cell. But it is empty. enigmatic official denies the Colony ever existed…
At the hospital, doctors tell Mulder that his as she hands him a folder containing photographs of
mother’s condition is worse than previously thought. the farm and of Samantha.
Mulder is approached by CSM. He claims to have And finally, because “the fiercest enemy is the
information pertaining to the whereabouts of man who has nothing left to lose,” CSM directs the
Mulder’s sister. Mulder counters that he possesses Alien Bounty Hunter to heal Mulder’s mother.
what CSM is looking for.
One of the Jeremiah Smiths arrives at Scully’s
apartment unannounced. Scully drives him to a Home
secluded location and rendezvous with Mulder.
Suddenly, the Bounty Hunter arrives at the scene, Production Code: #4X03
stiletto in hand. Original Air Date: 10/11/96
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Kim Manners
S E A S O N 4 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,
Herrenvolk (2 of 2) MURDEROUS CLAN.
Production Code: #4X01 Home, Pennsylvania. An idyllic small town is the
Original Air Date: 10/04/96 last place anyone would expect to find a hideously
Written by Chris Carter malformed newborn buried in a shallow grave. This
Directed by R.W. Goodwin gruesome discovery is enough for the local sheriff,
Andy Taylor, to call in the FBI. Although the child’s
SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN deformations indicate multiple genetic
INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT A abnormalities, neither Mulder nor Scully believe this
TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD local tragedy is a matter for the X−Files: until they
THEM TO THE TRUTH… AND SAVE THE LIFE OF
MULDER’S MOTHER. learn more about Home’s reclusive Peacock clan.
For over a century, this farm family has lived on
Mulder and Scully desperately try to protect the life the outskirts of town… and the outskirts of
of Jeremiah Smith. Not only is this mysterious man a civilization. Generations of inbreeding have
link to the colonization plan – his paranormal deformed their bodies and their souls into
healing powers are Mulder’s only hope of saving his something less than human, and more than animal.
mother’s life. Close on their trail is the relentless Now that the family has dwindled down to three
alien bounty hunter: an assassin who is hard to brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect that the
escape. And harder to kill. Peacocks have devised a grotesque plan to
With the assassin close behind, Smith leads propagate their species by forcing a kidnapped
Mulder to an eerie, isolated farm community. There, woman into involuntary pregnancy.
Mulder is stunned to see clones of his sister While someone (or something) watches unseen,
Samantha, who had been abducted by aliens as a Mulder and Scully explore the Peacock farm and
child. Smith tells Mulder that these children have find the bloody evidence of a recent birth. Before
been bred as worker drones. Before Smith can they can arrest the Peacocks, the family strikes
reveal more about the “Colonization” conspiracy, back. Later that night, the Peacock boys massacre
they are set upon by the alien assassin. Mulder is the sheriff and his wife. As Mulder says, “They went
helpless to save Smith or Samantha. caveman.”
Back in Washington, Scully’s investigations into Fearing for the life of the Peacocks’ prisoner,
Smith’s background lead her to a disquieting Scully and Mulder courageously invade the
conclusion. All five of the identical men named farmhouse with only the local deputy as back−up.
Jeremiah Smith were secretly cataloguing the entire When they discover the hiding place of the clan
human population. But at whose orders? And why? matriarch, they finally comprehend the appalling
Meanwhile, the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) truth. Mrs. Peacock, a multiple amputee, is the
and the Elder have identified X as a traitor. He is mother of the murdered infant. And also the proud
ambushed and gunned down. As he dies, he leaves mother of three sons who’ll do anything for mom.
behind one last ambiguous clue: the letters “SRSG” With guile, luck, and firepower, Mulder and
scrawled in blood. Scully manage to kill two of the rampaging
Peacocks. In the confusion, the oldest boy and Mrs.
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Peacock escape in their long white Cadillac. Mother Unruhe


and son drive off in search of a new place to call
Home.
Production Code: #4X02
Original Air Date: 10/27/96
Teliko Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Rob Bowman
Production Code: #4X04 MULDER’S ONLY HOPE OF STOPPING A PSYCHOTIC
Original Air Date: 10/18/96 KILLER ARE PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHS THAT REVEAL
Written by Howard Gordon THE MADMAN’S DARKEST FANTASIES.
Directed by James Charleston Northern Michigan. A young woman is kidnapped
MULDER AND SCULLY COMBINE FOLKLORE AND and her boyfriend murdered. Her passport
SCIENCE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIOUS photographs, taken only moments earlier, don’t
DISAPPEARANCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN. show the expected smiling portraits. Instead, they
display nightmarish images of the terrified girl.
Four African−American men have vanished off the The photographs fascinate Mulder. Scully tries to
streets of Philadelphia. An FBI/Police task force has find a logical explanation: the pictures were planted,
come up with no leads… until the body of the most or the film is damaged. But to Mulder, they are an
recent victim is discovered. Surprisingly, violence example of “psychic photography”: the paranormal
isn’t the cause of death. The body’s bizarre lack of ability to create images on film with the mind.
pigmentation hints at some unknown ailment. The Mulder theorizes that the suspect doesn’t even
Centers for Disease Control calls in Scully to know he possesses this gift… and that the
unravel the medical mystery. photographs reveal the killer’s darkest fantasies.
Mulder, however, believes that more than a The kidnap victim is found: alive, but almost
simple pathogen is involved. His investigations lead brain−dead. Her abductor had given her a primitive,
to a cover−up of a similar death on a flight from botched lobotomy with an ice pick inserted through
West Africa, and the presence of a toxic plant her eyes. Her mind almost gone, she endlessly
native to that area. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that repeats the word “unruhe”: the German word for
the victim’s pituitary gland – which produces “trouble” or “unrest.” Soon, the kidnapper abducts
melanin among other hormones – has somehow and kills again.
been destroyed. Scully realizes that the same construction
While their investigation is under way, the killer company had job sites near each crime scene.
strikes again. This time a young black student is While Mulder is in Washington to examine the
stalked and kidnapped from a bus stop. The photos at the FBI labs, Scully follows up on her lead.
evidence leads Scully and Mulder to a recent West She knows foreman Gerry Schnauz is the kidnapper
African immigrant, Samuel Aboah. They arrest him by his terrified reaction to the word “unruhe.” She
when he attempts to escape. Hospital tests reveal arrests him.
that, among other peculiar abnormalities, Aboah Schnauz is a formerly institutionalized paranoid
lacks a pituitary gland. schizophrenic with a history of violence. When
A tip from his UN informant sends Mulder to confronted by the photographs of his victims, he’s
Minister Diabria, a diplomat from the West African startled at the sight of his own paranoid delusions
country of Burkina Faso. Reluctantly, Diabria admits brought to life on film. Admitting the crime, he tells
he had ordered the cover−up of the first murder – them where to find his other victim. She too has
because he knew the identity of the killer. It was been lobotomized.
one of the mythical Teliko: evil spirits of the air, Schnauz kills a guard and escapes from jail. He
who emerge at night to suck the life and color out returns to the scene of the first crime to steal the
of their victims. Who would have believed that a camera and film. Mulder’s blood runs cold when he
terrifying West African folktale could come to life in sees exposed photographs of Schnauz’s next victim:
20th century America? No one… except Mulder. Scully! Now, Mulder’s only hope of saving her is
Mulder explains his theory to a skeptical Scully: studying the photos to get deep inside Schnauz’s
the Teliko are not ghostly entities, but members of a mind.
lost African clan, who have survived over In captivity, Scully, too, must use everything she
generations by hunting down other humans to steal knows about Schnauz to keep herself alive. But she
what they lack: hormones from the pituitary gland. can’t talk him out of his delusions. It won’t be long
Aboah escapes the hospital. In the ensuing before he wields the icepick to rid Scully of the
manhunt, Aboah captures Mulder. Scully comes to “unruhe” he believes is tormenting her.
Mulder’s aid and shoots Aboah just in time to save Mulder’s insight into the madman’s mind leads
Mulder’s life. And the truth about the Teliko is him to Schnauz’s dark den. With hardly a moment
destined to die along with him. to spare, he shoots Scully’s kidnapper. And finds one
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last series of psychic photographs: Schnauz – shot play out many lifetimes together. Melissa and
dead on the floor. Mulder are soulmates fated always to be star−
crossed lovers.
The current Melissa hears Mulder’s story, but she
The Field Where I Died won’t allow herself to believe. She returns to
Ephesian. Scully doesn’t know what to think –
Production Code: #4X05 especially when she discovers photographs of Sarah
Original Air Date: 11/03/96 and Sullivan in historical archives.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong After Ephesian and his cultists are released,
Directed by Rob Bowman everyone’s worst fears come true. Ephesian leads
AN INVESTIGATION INTO A RELIGIOUS CULT TAKES
the cult in a mass suicide. Mulder discovers the
MULDER ON HIS STRANGEST JOURNEY EVER… body of Melissa… clutching the photograph of Sarah
THROUGH HIS PAST LIVES. Kavanaugh in her hand.
Apison, Tennessee, once the site of a Civil War
battle, is now the home of the Temple of the Seven Sanguinarium
Stars, a doomsday religious cult that believes in
reincarnation. A member named “Sidney” calls the Production Code: #4X06
FBI with accusations of child abuse and weapons Original Air Date: 11/10/96
stockpiling. Fearing another Waco or Jonestown, the Written by Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew
BATF and the FBI lead a joint raid on the compound. Directed by Kim Manners
No weapons are found. Neither is Vernon Ephesian,
the cult’s dangerously charismatic leader, who A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS DEATHS WHICH PLAGUE
dominates his followers with a mix of Biblical A COSMETIC SURGERY CLINIC LEAD MULDER TO
BELIEVE IT MAY NOT BE HUMAN ERROR, BUT
prophecy, New Age channeling and old−fashioned HUMAN SACRIFICE.
intimidation.
An odd compulsion leads Mulder to search a Everyone wants to be beautiful. And the Aesthetic
nearby field where he finds an underground Civil Surgery Unit of Chicago’s Greenwood Memorial
War bunker concealing Ephesian and his six wives – Hospital can make anyone more attractive… for a
all on the verge of committing mass suicide. One of price. For one patient thought to be undergoing a
the wives, Melissa, catches Mulder’s attention. She scalp−reduction the price is a grisly death, when Dr.
feels somehow familiar to him. Ephesian, his wives Lloyd goes insane during surgery and performs a
and the cultists are taken into custody. But with no violent liposuction instead… and literally sucks the
evidence of abuse or illegal weapons, the FBI can life blood out of the man.
hold them for only one day. Mulder and Scully are Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate
assigned to interrogate Ephesian and his wives. the doctor’s unusual defense: demonic possession.
Preaching fire and brimstone, Ephesian admits Scully logically assumes the doctor’s sleeping pill
nothing. addiction caused a psychotic break. When Mulder
Melissa is a different story. Under questioning, discovers evidence of a pentagram – an occult
this withdrawn and hostile girl suddenly shifts symbol of protection – on the floor of the operating
personalities into the mysterious informant Sidney, a room, he concludes that some kind of magic is at
gruff male New Yorker. But somehow Mulder knows work. Scully is dubious, to put it mildly. Another
Melissa’s case is even more unusual than Multiple surgeon goes into an uncontrollable frenzy, using a
Personality Disorder. He is certain that “Sidney” is laser to burn through the flesh of a patient’s face.
one of Melissa’s past lives. Scully, who has a hard Mulder discovers the mark of the pentagram on this
enough time with MPD let alone reincarnation, can’t body as well – placed there by Nurse Waite, a
understand why Mulder is so obsessed with Melissa, practicing witch.
and so certain he is right. Dr. Franklyn admits that Nurse Waite worked at
Then comes a revelation that surprises even the clinic ten years earlier when similar deaths had
Mulder. Melissa shifts into yet another identity: a occurred. Scully and Mulder search her house,
Civil War nurse named Sarah Kavanaugh. She tells finding a spooky den of candles, incense, herbs and
them she watched as her fiancée Sullivan Biddle witchy objects. But Nurse Waite is gone. She’s lying
died in the aftermath of the long−ago battle. And in wait for Dr. Franklin; submerged in a tub full of
that Biddle is one of Mulder’s past lives. Mulder gore in his bathroom. Her sneak knife attack fails,
unconditionally believes her. Desperate to discover and she’s arrested.
the truth Mulder has himself regressed. Before Nurse Waite can explain herself to
Scully listens as Mulder cycles through a series Mulder, she dies horribly, in what Mulder recognizes
of his past lives. He says that same souls reincarnate from Nurse Waite’s occult books as a classic case of
together over and over again: he, Samantha, Scully, death by hex.
even the Cigarette−Smoking Man are destined to
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Waite was trying to protect the patients… but still can’t get his written works published. And with
against what or whom? Maybe Dr. Franklyn – who the Soviet Union gone, he doesn’t even have any
smiles inscrutably as he levitates a few feet above more enemies.
his bed. Then it happens. A survivor is discovered in the
Putting all the clues together, Mulder deduces wreckage of an alien craft. His mysterious associate,
that Franklyn is a black magician. Cursed with the known to Mulder and Scully as Deep Throat
sin of vanity, Franklyn transforms his looks beyond executes the only alien which survived the crash.
the limits of surgery: using sorcery and human CSM has a new purpose, and new truths to conceal.
sacrifice. Ten years ago, he had escaped suspicion. He goes forth on this mission with a vengeance.
Today, he manages to escape even Mulder. Mulder Young FBI agents Fox “Spooky” Mulder and Dana
is too late to stop the final sacrifice that completes Scully take on the “X−Files.” Unknowingly they are
the spell. Dr. Franklyn slices off his own face, to part of CSM’s plans.
disappear forever… This year. CSM is jubilant when a magazine
… And the classically handsome Dr. Hartman is finally accepts one of his stories. He prepares his
welcomed aboard at a Los Angeles cosmetic resignation, and lights his last cigarette. Until he
surgery clinic. 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
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man sits on a park bench and muses about the similarity
of life to a cheap, tasteless box of chocolates.
Production Code: #4X07 Resuming his role, CSM lights up a smoke.
Original Air Date: 11/17/96 The present. CSM’s finger is on the trigger of a
Written by Glen Morgan sniper rifle, ready to repeat the act which started
Directed by James Wong his shadowy career. He watches Frohike leave the
FROHIKE PIECES TOGETHER WHAT COULD BE THE
office. Does he shoot? No. He can kill Frohike any
SECRETS BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS CIGARETTE− time he chooses, and he revels in that power.
SMOKING MAN’S PAST. HIS SPECULATION COULD
COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Tunguska (1 of 2)
In the Lone Gunmen’s office, Scully and Mulder
listen, as Frohike reveals what he suspects to be the Production Code: #4X09
chilling, secret past of the Cigarette−Smoking Man Original Air Date: 11/24/96
(CSM). Hiding in a nearby high rise, CSM eavesdrops Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
on them with electronic listening devices, his Directed by Rob Bowman
sniper’s rifle trained on the office’s front door. Who
will be his next target? SCULLY RISKS CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS WHEN SHE
Frohike believes CSM was orphaned as a baby. REFUSES TO DIVULGE MULDER’S WHEREABOUTS TO
His father, a Communist spy, was electrocuted. His A SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE.
mother died of lung cancer. In 1963, he was an While performing a random search of a suitcase
Army Captain (whose only friend is the proud father being carried by a man claiming to have diplomatic
of 1−year−old Fox Mulder). Recognizing his immunity, an airport customs agent is attacked by a
capabilities, the right−wing conspiracy that operates black oil that congeals into tiny worms which
within the shadows of the official government penetrate his skin.
recruits the young officer – his first assignment: the An anonymous tipster warns Mulder about a
assassination of JFK. In its successful aftermath, he right−wing militia organization planning a bombing
lights his first smoke… and becomes the Cigarette− which could be the next Oklahoma City. The
Smoking Man. informant turns out to be Alex Krycek, the traitor
By 1968, even J. Edgar Hoover takes orders from Mulder blames for his father’s murder. Left trapped
CSM, and no President has ever suspected he exists. in an abandoned missile silo by the Cigarette−
CSM personally takes charge of the operation Smoking Man (CSM), Krycek says he was freed by a
against Martin Luther King. Yet, even CSM has a militia group during a salvage operation. Claiming
dream. He longs to be a published author, and he wants revenge on CSM, Krycek promises Mulder
writes political potboilers under a pen name. that he can help expose CSM and the Shadowy
Despite a pile of scathing rejections, he keeps Syndicate. Despite his hatred for Krycek, Mulder
trying. reluctantly believes him.
Christmas 1991. CSM has covertly started wars, Krycek leads Mulder and Scully to intercept a
assassinated world leaders, rigged elections, the Russian courier at the airport. The courier escapes,
Oscars, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and moved but the diplomatic pouch he is carrying is recovered.
the Rodney King trial to Simi Valley. Despite his The pouch contains a four−billion−year−old rock of
power, he’s a lonely man leading an empty life. He extraterrestrial origin. Dr. Sacks, a government
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exobiologist, drills into the rock. The same black a black vermiform organism attached to his brain’s
worms which killed the customs agent emerge from pineal gland.
the rock and attack him. Scully and Pendrell St. Petersburg. A former KGB assassin, Vassily
investigate this deadly enigma. Mulder’s possession Peskow, comes out of retirement when a messenger
of the artifact alarms the Well−Manicured Man, who from “Comrade Arntzen” requests his help, and tells
orders CSM to take care of the problem. him the Cold War isn’t over. Peskow makes his way
Mulder seeks out his UN contact, Marita to a horse farm which belongs to the Well−
Covarrubias, who finds out the origin of the Russian Manicured Man (WMM) where he assassinates Dr.
courier’s flight. Mulder learns the flight originated Bonita Chung−Sayre, a well−known authority on
near Tunguska, Siberia and instantly recognizes the viruses and WMM’s personal physician.
significance. In 1908, a fireball crashed to earth in Due to testify before the Senate Subcommittee
Tunguska, igniting a series of cataclysmic hearing, Skinner presses a reluctant Scully for more
explosions. It was the most massive and most information about the pouch and its contents.
mysterious event of its kind in history. Until now, no Skinner surprises her with his news: the pouch’s
one had been able to discover what really intended recipient was the late Dr. Chung−Sayre,
happened. Maybe someone has finally found out the who was killed in a “riding accident.”
truth… Tunguska. The prisoners, including Mulder, are on
Marita helps Mulder with credentials that will the march. Nearby, Krycek is laughing it up with
get him to Tunguska. At the last minute, Mulder Mulder’s tormentors. The sight spurs Mulder to
discovers Krycek is fluent in Russian, and brings him action. Armed only with the knife, Mulder steals a
along as a translator. battered truck and makes his escape, knocking
Mulder and Krycek discover a Siberian Gulag Krycek into the back of the truck and taking him
located at the site of the crash – its hard−laboring along for the ride. The chase ends when the truck’s
prisoners sentenced to mine the extraterrestrial brakes give out. Krycek bails out before the crash,
rocks. Before they can learn any more, they are but Mulder is trapped inside. Krycek flees through
captured, beaten and jailed. Mulder realizes Krycek the woods where he runs into a group of men – all
is in league with their captors. Krycek is freed, and of which are missing their left arm. Krycek tells
Mulder is subjected to an inhuman medical them he is an escaped prisoner, and the men take
experiment. Under the most primitive of conditions, him in. Meanwhile, Mulder has survived the
Mulder and other prisoners are infected with the accident and hides in the forest from his pursuing
oily black worms, and injected on the left arm with captors.
an amber liquid. In Washington, Scully is jailed for contempt of
Congress when she refuses to reveal Mulder’s
whereabouts at the Senate hearing. As she explains
Terma (2 of 2) to Skinner, someone with a secret agenda is
deliberately obfuscating the case: focusing on a
Production Code: #4X10 missing FBI agent, rather than the existence of a
Original Air Date: 12/01/96 toxic biohazard of extra−terrestrial origin and the
Written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter deaths of those connected to it.
Directed by Rob Bowman Mulder is discovered hiding in the woods by a
A RUSSIAN ASSASSIN IS BROUGHT OUT OF
family, who explains that the villagers’ only means
RETIREMENT TO ERASE ALL LINKS TO AMERICAN of saving themselves from the fatal experiments is a
EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE MYSTERIOUS “BLACK drastic one: amputation of the left arm. Mulder must
CANCER.” persuade them to take him to St. Petersburg, or they
may amputate his arm to “save” him. Unfortunately
In Tunguska, Mulder has survived his ordeal for now, for Krycek, his rescuers “save” him as he sleeps.
but is still being held captive in a Siberian Gulag. Peskow continues his mission, paying a visit to
The prisoner in the next cell explains that all the the comatose Dr. Sacks whom he injects with the
men in the camp are injected with “black cancer” same amber fluid that had been shot into Mulder at
until the toxin finally kills them. Escape is the Gulag. The worms emerge, and he kills Sacks. At
impossible. Resistance is futile. Mulder swears he the Senate hearing, Scully is just about to be
will survive, long enough at least to kill Krycek. charged with contempt again… when Mulder
Impressed by Mulder’s will to survive, the prisoner appears, arm intact. Mulder’s presence puts the
gives Mulder his own home−made knife. Back in attention back on the rock and the biotoxin, but
Washington, Dr. Sacks is alive after being infected when Scully tries to bring up the subject of the
by the black worms from the rock that was biotoxin’s extraterrestrial origin, her claims are not
recovered in the diplomatic pouch, although he is taken seriously. Mulder interrupts the hearing,
comatose. For Scully and Agent Pendrell, the challenging the skepticism of the Senators when the
medical mystery starts to unravel when tests reveal 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 ages of 8 and 10 from their homes, strangled them,
statement, the chairman of the subcommittee and cut a heart−shaped piece of fabric from their
abruptly adjourns the hearing, calling for a recess clothes as a trophy. When captured, Roche
until the evidence can be properly evaluated. confessed to 13 murders. Mulder fears that this
Following the lead that Dr. Chung−Sayre was the discovery means there are more victims than those
supervising physician at a nursing home in Boca Roche had admitted to. When the girl is identified,
Raton, Mulder and Scully travel to Florida to it proves that Roche began his crimes as early as
investigate. She and Mulder arrive too late. Peskow 1975. Another clue from the dream helps Mulder
has already poisoned all of the patients and black locate where the killer hid his trophies. He finds a
worms have emerged from their deceased bodies. total of 16 hearts, and realizes there are two more
Mulder realizes a similar experiment to the one unknown victims.
being conducted in Russia had been conducted at Scully and Mulder interview Roche in jail. He
this nursing home. Still bent on finding a trace of won’t tell them about the missing children, and toys
evidence left behind, Mulder and Scully travel to with their questions. Oddly, he comments that he
New York where they interview the head of the understands why Mulder is taking the case
militia group Krycek was running with. The militia personally. His meaning becomes clear with
member tells them Krycek told them his name was Mulder’s next dream. Mulder goes back in time to
Arntzen, and that Krycek approached them. the terrifying night in 1973 when his sister Samantha
Everything Krycek told him was a lie. They also was abducted – except the creature who bursts
learn that the US government covered up their through door is not an alien – it is Roche.
knowledge that Soviet−developed “black cancer” Could Roche have abducted and murdered
was deployed by Saddam during the Gulf War. Samantha? Mulder tries to get the truth from Roche,
Mulder now believes the whole thing was a set up who claims that he sold a vacuum to Mulder’s
from the beginning by someone who doesn’t want father before Samantha’s disappearance. When
the rocks in American hands. Finally, he discovers Roche won’t answer Mulder directly, Mulder
where Krycek is hiding another rock: Terma, North becomes enraged and punches Roche in the face.
Dakota, in the stolen truck carrying the Militia’s Scully, who witnessed Mulder’s loss of control,
fertilizer bomb. tries to convince him the dreams are nothing but
Again, Peskow is one step ahead of Mulder and images from his subconscious. She is certain that
Scully. He drives the truck to a Canadian oil Roche is only cleverly manipulating Mulder’s
refinery, intending to destroy the remaining rock. emotions. Mulder always believed Samantha was
Mulder and Scully arrive too late to prevent Peskow abducted by aliens, and now he doesn’t know what
from igniting a fiery explosion which engulfs the to believe. His fears seem confirmed when, in the
last piece of evidence. Both barely escape with basement of his family home, Mulder discovers the
their lives. same model of vacuum that Roche claimed Mulder’s
The final report on their investigation is turned father bought for his mother.
over to the Senate subcommittee, but in vain. The When Skinner finds out Mulder struck Roche, he
Cigarette−Smoking Man controls the Senator who denies Mulder further access to the prisoner. Yet
chairs the committee. In St. Petersburg, Peskow Skinner is sympathetic when Mulder tells him his
returns home to find Krycek, sporting a prosthetic fears about Samantha, and finally allows Mulder
left arm, who commends Peskow for a job well interview Roche again, as long as Scully keeps an
done. eye on him.
Mulder finally agrees to give Roche what he had
been demanding: the heart trophies he cut out of
Paper Hearts pajamas of his victims. Now, Mulder demands to
know the truth about Samantha. Roche’s description
Production Code: #4X08 of the night Samantha was abducted is exactly the
Original Air Date: 12/15/96 same as Mulder remembers. He refuses to tell
Written by Vince Gilligan Mulder if one of the cloth hearts was taken from
Directed by Rob Bowman Samantha’s clothing. Instead, he makes Mulder
MULDER HAS HAUNTING DREAMS THAT LEAD HIM
choose one of the hearts at random, and tells them
TO QUESTION WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO HIS where to find the body. Another body is discovered
SISTER. – it’s not Samantha.
When Mulder and Scully return, Roche is fully in
Mulder experiences a series of vivid dreams that control. Refusing to divulge anything more unless
lead him to the discovery of the long−buried he’s taken to the scene of the crime. Scully can’t
skeleton of a murdered child. Mulder is shaken, stand to listen anymore, and makes Mulder leave
recognizing the M.O. of serial killer John Lee Roche, with her. She insists that Roche is playing Mulder.
one of the first killers Mulder profiled. Between Willing to risk everything to find out the truth
1979 and 1990, Roche abducted girls between the about his sister’s abduction, Mulder makes a difficult
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decision. Without notifying Scully or Skinner, he skepticism. She can’t tell much from the goat’s
releases Roche from jail and takes him to his corpse, and Maria’s body is at the morgue.
childhood home in Martha’s Vineyard. Inside the According to Flakita, Maria was killed by El
house, Roche describes everything in great detail – Chupacabra – the Goatsucker – a gray hairless
except, Mulder says they are in the wrong house. creature out of Puerto Rican folk tales with a small
He has tricked Roche by deliberately taking him to body, large head and bulging black eyes. Scully
a house 6 miles away from his childhood home. notes the amazing similarity between the
Now he now knows Roche has been lying all along. descriptions of El Chupacabra and a gray alien.
Mulder guesses that his extensive knowledge of Soledad angrily refutes Flakita’s story. He accuses
Roche enabled Roche to get into his head saying, “I his brother, Eladio, of killing Maria out of jealousy.
profiled you… maybe some connection was created This lover’s triangle convinces Scully that Eladio is
between us. And through it, you pilfered my the killer, until she examines Maria’s remains. The
memories of Samantha.” state of Maria’s corpse shocks even Scully. It’s
Mulder plans to return Roche to jail the next hardly visible beneath mounds of greenish fungal
morning. In the motel, he has one final dream of growth. Meanwhile, Mulder locates Eladio with the
Samantha – and wakes up to find himself bound in help of Conrad Lozano, a cynical Immigration agent.
his own handcuffs with Skinner and Scully pounding Eladio is in INS custody, segregated from fearful
on the motel room door. Roche is missing; and so prisoners who think he’s El Chupacabra. Eladio
are Mulder’s FBI badge and his gun. With Mulder’s denies killing Maria, claiming something or someone
ID, Roche tracks down the whereabouts of Caitlin, a unknown mutilated Maria during the yellow rain.
little girl he had spotted on their flight to Boston. Mulder believes Eladio did not kill Maria, and Scully
Mulder shoulder’s all the blame for placing Caitlin in must agree. Scully’s autopsy of the body revealed
such horrific danger. And he admits to Scully that that Maria succumbed to a massive fungal infection
she was right. Roche was just playing him. – no one, she says, could deliberately do such a
Mulder’s knowledge of Roche pays off when he thing.
correctly identifies where Roche took the girl. He Eladio escapes from INS custody, and the agents
shoots Roche to save Caitlin’s life… still plagued by discover the driver of the INS deportation bus dead
the doubts Roche planted about Samantha’s fate. from a different fungal infection. Mulder thinks there
With Roche dead, will Mulder ever find out the may be a connection between the fungi and the
truth? 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
El Mundo Gira brothers escape before Lozano and Mulder can take
them into custody. The site’s foreman is dead, his
Production Code: #4X11 body ravaged by a myriad of fungi. Scully calls
Original Air Date: 01/12/97 Mulder and warns him against touching or inhaling
Written by John Shiban the lethal lichen. A mycology professor has isolated
Directed by Tucker Gates an enzyme that acts as a catalyst, accelerating
MULDER AND SCULLY FOLLOW A TRAIL OF BODIES
fungal growth. If it escapes into the environment,
LEFT BEHIND BY WHAT COULD BE THE LEGENDARY there could be a biological hazard of frightening
CHUPACABRA. proportions.
Scully believes that Eladio is inadvertently
In a migrant workers’ shantytown in California’s San responsible for deaths by spreading the enzyme
Joaquin Valley, Eladio Buente flirts with pretty Maria which he somehow is carrying. Mulder now thinks
Dorantes while his brother Soledad watches the Fortean events could have been caused by
jealously. Flakita, a nosy neighbor, bemoans the something falling from space… which would mean
age−old story: “Two brothers. One woman. Trouble.” the enzyme is alien. Scully, on the verge of losing
Suddenly, three ear−splitting booms come from the patience with Mulder’s theories, just wants to find
sky, followed by a painfully bright flash, and a brief the man who seems to be spreading it.
but torrential downpour of hot yellow rain. In its Now quite ill, Eladio begs his cousin Gabrielle
aftermath, Flakita discovers the mutilated corpses of for help. She reluctantly agrees to lend him money.
Maria and one of her goats, their faces partially Flakita, the village gossip, warns the agents that
eaten away. Eladio is missing. Soledad is planning to kill Eladio. Eladio eludes them
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths. again, but Lozano arrests Soledad.
According to Mulder, the strange occurrences When Eladio sees his own face for the first time,
preceding Maria’s death are called Fortean events, he can’t believe the horror of it. He no longer looks
"An unusual or highly infrequent meteorological human – Eladio has indeed transformed into El
phenomenon… Fortean events have been linked to Chupacabra. Gabrielle tells Scully and Mulder that
alien encounters, and cattle mutilations…” Scully Eladio has run away to Mexico. But Mulder realizes
greets Mulder’s information with her usual it’s a lie. Speeding on their way, he alerts a hazmat
EPISODE_GUIDE 55

team to meet them at the shantytown… where it all A tissue sample taken from Betts’ head is
began. Where the two brothers will finally settle analyzed by a pathologist who determines that
their dispute over Maria. Betts was riddled with cancer, so much that a
What really happened that night? According to normal human could have never lived that way.
Flakita, Lozano brings Soledad to the camp, and Mulder hypothesizes that Betts had somehow
orders Eladio to face his brother like a man. But incorporated cancer into his body, and possessed
Eladio is no longer a man… he is El Chupacabra. unimaginable regenerative powers – perhaps the
Flakita hides as gray aliens – whom she calls next step in Man’s evolution. A fingerprint search
Chupacabras – descend on the village. They kill reveals that Betts’ real name is Albert Tanner. The
Lozano, and take Soledad up in the sky with them. agents interview his mother, Elaine, who claims that
Gabrielle weaves another tale. Lozano orders Albert died in an automobile accident six years
Eladio to face Soledad. In the horror of realizing his earlier.
brother is El Chupacabra, Soledad can’t shoot. He As Wilkes is transporting another patient, she
and Lozano struggle over the gun, and Lozano takes recognizes Betts’ voice transmitting over the
a bullet. The two brothers, now both Chupacabras, ambulance radio. She locates Betts working as an
run away to Mexico. EMT at another hospital. As the two embrace, Betts
The story Mulder and Scully report to Skinner sadly pulls out a syringe and injects Michele with a
isn’t much clearer. All they know is that by the time lethal substance. A security guard witnesses the
they got to the camp, both the brothers were gone. murder and handcuffs Betts to his car. Betts slips out
Lozano was dead… brought down by two bullets of the cuffs by tearing off his own thumb. When the
and the fungus. And Los Chupacabras? The Buente thumb is found, Mulder guesses he tore it off
brothers, their faces luridly disfigured, may have because he knew he could grow another.
hitchhiked off into the Mexican night. When the agents search the trunk of Betts’ car,
they discover plastic bags filled with human tumors.
Mulder postulates that Betts is ingesting the
Leonard Betts cancerous tissue in order to survive. They learn that
the car is registered to Albert Tanner’s mother.
Production Code: #4X14 Weak and needing sustenance, Betts attacks and
Original Air Date: 01/26/97 kills a heavy−smoking bearded man after he leaves
Written by Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban a bar. Strengthened, Betts is then able to “give birth”
and Vince Gilligan to a duplicate of himself.
Directed by Kim Manners The agents discover a storage locker key at Mrs.
A HEADLESS CORPSE WALKS OUT OF A HOSPITAL
Tanner’s home. When they open the door to the
MORGUE TRIGGERING THE SEARCH FOR A MAN locker, they find the smoking man’s body, its left
WHO POSSESSES UNIMAGINABLE REGENERATIVE lung missing. Suddenly from within the locker, a car
POWERS. roars to life, and Betts attempts to run down Mulder
and Scully. The agents dive for cover and open fire.
Michele Wilkes, an Emergency Medical Technician, The car bursts into flames, incinerating Betts.
races an ambulance through the streets of Though Mulder is convinced that something else
Philadelphia as her highly−regarded partner, Leonard is going on, Scully reminds her partner that Betts is
Betts, attends to a dying man. As the ambulance quite dead and his not coming back to life, and the
speeds through an intersection, it is broadsided by a case is over. Nonetheless, Mulder exhumes the body
truck. Wilkes survives, but she is horrified to of the man Mrs. Tanner claimed was killed in the
discover Betts’ decapitated body nearby. automobile accident. Inside the casket is a corpse
Mulder and Scully are brought into the case identical to Betts. Mulder concludes that the fiery
when Betts’ headless corpse disappears from a crash was a ruse – and the real Leonard Betts is still
hospital morgue. Scully theorizes that someone alive.
attempted to steal the body and sell it to an The agents stakeout Mrs. Tanner’s home waiting
unscrupulous medical supplier. But when security for Betts to return. When an ambulance arrives at
camera footage shows an unidentified person with the scene, Mulder and Scully race inside. They find
a strange distortion around the head area leaving Mrs. Tanner, still clinging to life, with a fresh
the hospital. Mulder suspects something strange is surgical incision on her chest. Mulder searches the
going on – perhaps the body left by itself. neighborhood while Scully accompanies Tanner to
With Mulder’s reluctant help, Scully fishes the hospital, but when the ambulance pulls into the
through the hospital’s bio−disposal unit for the hospital parking lot, she realizes Betts hitched a ride
missing corpse. The agents recover the missing by hiding on the vehicle’s roof. Betts jumps inside
head, but the whereabouts of the body remains a the ambulance and slams the rear doors behind him.
mystery. As Scully prepares to perform an autopsy Wielding a scalpel, he tells Scully she possesses
on the head, its eyes and mouth suddenly snap “something I need.” A scuffle ensues, and Scully kills
open. Betts using defibrillation pads. Later that night, as
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Scully lies in bed, she wakes up coughing and finds some type of father figure around, until she has to
a few drops of blood on her pillow. As her nose rebel. Ed observes that it looks like she’s ready to
continues to bleed, she recalls Betts’ haunting rebel again. After consuming a few drinks, Scully
words. 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
Never Again the bad weather, Ed suggests Scully spend the night.
Scully notices blood dripping from Ed’s tattoo and,
Production Code: #4X13 doctor−like, helps him pull off his shirt. A moment of
Original Air Date: 02/02/97 intimacy develops, but before Ed can act upon his
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong feelings, the Betty tattoo cries out: “Kiss her… and
Directed by Rob Bowman she’s dead.”
WHILE MULDER IS VACATIONING, SCULLY FINDS
The next morning, Ed awakens on the couch. He
HERSELF ATTRACTED TO A HANDSOME DIVORCEE leaves Scully a note that he is going to get
WHOSE BETTY PAGE−LIKE TATTOO SEEMINGLY HAS A breakfast. While Ed is away, detectives roust Scully
MIND OF ITS OWN. from her sleep. They reveal that a resident
downstairs was reported missing, and that a blood
Ed Jerse, a handsome Philadelphia resident, is type different from hers was found inside the
devastated as a judge decrees the harsh terms of his apartment. The detectives tell Scully that the blood
divorce settlement. After downing too many drinks contains chemical abnormalities. Seeing the
at a neighborhood bar, Ed enters a tattoo parlor and chemical breakdown, Scully realizes it is composed
selects a Betty Page−like design (on which is printed of the same odd ingredients the Russian tattoo artist
the words, “Never Again.”) The next day, while at used to make the ink he used in their tattoos.
work, Ed hears a female voice refer to him as a When Ed returns with breakfast, Scully tells him
“loser.” Angered, Ed picks a fight with some women about the detectives’ visit. She also reveals that the
close to his cubicle, but they don’t understand his chemical found in the blood is an ergot alkaloid that
anger. His boss sends him home for the day. can produce dangerous hallucinations. Ed confides in
Meanwhile, Mulder tells Scully he must take Scully about hearing Betty’s voice in his head,
time off for vacation or face losing several weeks’ taunting him, controlling him – but now that Scully
pay. Tension erupts between the pair when Mulder is here, the voice has gone away. Now afraid for
tells his partner what cases need her attention herself, Scully prepares to take them both to the
during his absence. Scully refuses to waste her time hospital. But when Ed learns Scully is an FBI agent,
on a dubious case involving a Russian living in he snaps. He attacks her and Scully is knocked
Philadelphia whom Mulder believes possesses unconscious. As Betty’s voice urges him on, Ed drags
valuable information on UFOs. Scully tells Mulder Scully’s body into the basement, intending to stuff it
she feels as though she has lost sight of herself – as inside the incinerator. Scully regains consciousness
if her own life does nothing but stand still. and tells Ed to “take control.” Suddenly, Ed gathers
Now in his shabby apartment, Ed hears the the strength to thrust his arm inside the incinerator,
female voice taunting him again, mocking him. Not burning off the tattoo. He is transported to a burn
realizing where the voice is coming from, he thinks center for treatment.
it’s his downstairs neighbor. The voice eventually When Mulder returns from vacation, the air
drives Ed to the point of madness. In a rage, Ed between him and Scully remains tense. Scully
bursts into the woman’s apartment and attacks her. reminds her partner that not everything revolves
Later, he drags the body into the basement and around him – and that she intends to live her own
stuffs it inside an incinerator. life.
Despite her reservations, Scully decides to keep
tabs on Mulder’s Russian. She quickly realizes the
man is an extortionist and his activities have Memento Mori
nothing to do with the X−Files. Scully follows the
Russian into a nearby tattoo parlor, where she Production Code: #4X15
strikes up a conversation with Ed (who is in the Original Air Date: 02/09/97
process of begging the tattoo artist to cover his Written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban
handiwork). They strike up a conversation and an and Vince Gilligan
undeniable chemistry develops between the pair. Ed Directed by Rob Bowman
hands Scully his business card, and suggests they
have dinner. She politely declines, but takes his card WHEN SCULLY IS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER,
anyway. MULDER HUNTS FOR RESEARCH FILES PERTAINING
After a tense phone conversation with Mulder TO A GROUP OF FEMALE ABDUCTEES WHO ALSO
CONTRACTED THE DISEASE.
about the Russian, Scully sets up a date with Ed.
Scully tells Ed how her whole life, she’s followed
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Scully shows Mulder an MRI x−ray indicating a corridors, Mulder encounters additional Crawfords
cancerous mass has been detected on the wall and realizes Kurt is a clone. He finds several of
between her sinus and cerebrum. The tumor is them dressed as doctors inside an incubator room
inoperable and if it grows, the chance for survival is housing tanks containing human forms, including
slim. Instead of requesting a leave of absence, those of Samantha. One of the Kurts shows Mulder
Scully opts to follow another avenue of a cold storage room containing vials of human ova
investigation: contacting a group of purported – including a vial with Scully’s name on it. The eggs
female abductees who experienced similar were harvested from women during their abduction,
symptoms after having implants removed from the which were later used for reproduction. Mulder
base of their necks. realizes the women are the Kurts’ birth mothers and
The agents travel to the home of Betsy Hagopian the clones are actually working to save their
in Allentown, Pennsylvania where Scully had met mothers’ lives.
these women before. A realtor informs them that The Gray−Haired Man arrives at the clinic and
Hagopian (one of the female abductees) passed traps Mulder between two security doors in a
away two weeks earlier. While searching through quarantine wing. The Gray−Haired Man opens fire,
Hagopian’s house, the agents realize someone is slowly cracking the bullet proof glass that stands
downloading computer files via phone modem. The between himself and his prey. Working feverishly,
call is traced, and the agents apprehend Kurt Frohike breaks a computer code from a remote
Crawford, the man who downloaded the files. location, allowing Mulder to open the outside door
Crawford explains that he and Hagopian were both and run to safety.
members of the same UFO network and When Mulder returns to the hospital, he finds
downloaded Hagopian’s files because the Scully at Penny’s bedside. Byers arrived in time to
government is out to destroy them. Crawford also stop Scully’s treatment, but Penny Northern had died
reveals that all of the women who claimed they and Dr. Scanlon was gone. Scully tells her partner
were abducted by aliens died of similar tumors, she has decided to fight the disease and continue
with the exception of Penny Northern, who is now her work.
hospitalized and near death from cancer.
Scully visits Northern at the hospital, who
reveals that Dr. Scanlon, who has been treating her Kaddish
cancer, may have isolated the cause. Seeing her
future self in Penny’s condition, Scully checks herself Production Code: #4X12
in and Dr. Scanlon begins treating her cancer. Original Air Date: 02/16/97
Meanwhile, Mulder and Crawford search through Written by Howard Gordon
hard files in Hagopian’s basement. They discover Directed by Kim Manners
that all of the woman abductees, including Northern, MULDER SUSPECTS THAT A GOLEM, A MAN−MADE
were treated at the same fertility clinic in MONSTER DESCRIBED IN JEWISH FOLKLORE, MAY BE
Pennsylvania. When Scully asks Mulder to bring her RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL HATE−
overnight bag to the hospital, Mulder leaves MONGERS WHO MURDERED A JEWISH MAN.
Crawford in the basement to attend to Scully. Later
that evening, the Gray−Haired Man (the same man Mourners gather at a cemetery in Brooklyn to pay
who killed X) shows up and kills Crawford, whose their last respects to Isaac Luria, a Hasidic man
body melts into a pool of green liquid. brutally murdered by three teenaged hate−mongers.
Meanwhile, Mulder breaks into a federally− Among the group is Ariel Luria, and her father, Jacob
subsidized fertility clinic where all the female UFO Weiss. When night falls, a shadowy figure enters the
network members were patients. Inside, he cemetery and shapes a man−sized sculpture out of
discovers Kurt Crawford (Mulder is unaware of the mud.
other Crawford’s death). They access a computer Mulder and Scully investigate Isaac Luria’s death.
terminal and download a directory containing Isaac, who lived in a neighborhood with a history of
Scully’s name. Near the breaking point, Mulder racial tension, was severely beaten inside his
demands that Skinner arrange a meeting with the market. Police ruled out robbery as a motive as
Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM). But Skinner refuses, nothing was stolen. They later retrieved a store
insisting CSM deals only in lies. Nonetheless, surveillance tape from the VCR of a sixteen−year−
Skinner secretly enlists CSM’s help. old named Tony Oliver, one of the teenagers who
Mulder turns to the Lone Gunmen, who tell him participated in the killing. Oliver was strangled by
that the fertility clinic’s mainframe is housed in a an unknown assailant. Most intriguing to Mulder is
high−security federal research facility. The foursome the discovery of Isaac Luria’s finger prints on
infiltrate the research facility, and once inside, Oliver’s body.
Mulder realizes Dr. Scanlon is on staff. He instructs Weiss shows them an anti−Semitic pamphlet left
Byers to find Scully and stop her treatment at his door that very morning. Mulder tells his
immediately. As he continues through the building’s partner that whoever printed the pamphlets
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probably knows who killed Isaac. The agents Unrequited


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, Production Code: #4X16
(the teenagers suspected of beating Isaac), he claims Original Air Date: 02/23/97
their faces are unfamiliar. Unbeknownst to the Written by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter
agents, Banks listens in on the conversation via a Directed by Michael Lange
security surveillance camera. Scully tells Brunjes A SEEMINGLY INVISIBLE VIETNAM VET BEGINS
there are rumors that Isaac has risen from the grave KILLING THE MILITARY’S TOP BRASS.
to avenge his murder. A crowd gathers at the U.S. Capitol Mall, near the
Spooked, Banks and Macguire dig up Isaac’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. As
coffin. As Macguire walks to the car to retrieve the re−dedication ceremony begins, General
some tools, Banks pries open the coffin lid and Benjamin Bloch steps up to a podium and delivers
discovers Isaac’s body inside. Later, Banks finds his speech. A short distance away, Mulder, Scully
Macguire’s body protruding from a mound of mud. and other FBI agents feverishly hunt down an armed
The agents are called to the crime scene. man making his way through the crowd. When
Mulder locates a slender leather book tucked Mulder attempts to focus on the suspect, he
beneath Isaac’s burial shroud. But when he touches seemingly vanishes.
the old book, it suddenly bursts into flames. The As the story unfolds in flashback, Lieutenant
agents turn to Kenneth Ungar, a scholar from the General Peter MacDougal is gunned down at close
judaic archives. Ungar explains that what Mulder range in the back seat of a limousine, a Death Card
found was a book on Jewish mysticism. He insists it at his side. Though the murder weapon is never
would never have been buried with the dead. Ungar located, the General’s driver, who has ties to a
notes a name engraved into the leather: Jacob radical paramilitary group called the Right Hand, is
Weiss. held on suspicion of murder. But the driver, who
Ariel tells the agents that although she and her maintains his innocence, passes a polygraph test,
husband received their wedding license weeks and lab tests reveal he did not fire a weapon. With
before the murder, the marriage ceremony never dozens of high−ranking military officials arriving in
transpired. Washington for the re−dedication ceremony, Skinner
The agents locate Weiss in the attic of a assigns his agents to investigate the Right Hand
synagogue. They also discover Banks’ dead body movement, and its leader, an ex−Marine named
hanging from a wooden beam. Weiss is arrested Denny Markham.
and charged with murder. He admits to both of the Markham gives the FBI a photograph of a man
murders, but Mulder believes someone – or named Nathaniel Teager, a Green Beret captured by
something – was in the attic with him. the enemy in 1971. Markham’s group liberated
Unger tells Mulder about the Golem, a creature Teager from a POW camp in 1995. When U.S.
from mystical text. He explains how early Kabbalists government commandos attempted to kidnap
believed a righteous man could create a living being Teager, he suddenly disappeared. Scully suspects
from the earth itself. A single Hebrew word, “emet,” Markham’s story is a cover−up for an elaborately
is inscribed on the back of the Golem’s hand. To orchestrated conspiracy plan. Meanwhile, Teager
destroy the Golem, Unger explains, the first letter, approaches a woman, Renee Davenport, as she
“e,” must be erased. views the Memorial. He informs Davenport her
Brunjes is found murdered. When the agents husband is still alive and gives her his dog tags as
examine the surveillance camera tape. they discover proof. Suddenly, Teager disappears.
that the Golem whose physical features match Davenport positively identifies Teager as the
those of Isaac Luria is responsible for the murder. man she saw at the memorial. Scully takes
Weiss returns to the synagogue after he is released Davenport to an ophthalmologist when her eye
from jail. There he discovers Ariel preparing for her hemorrhages. She is diagnosed with a floating blind
wedding ceremony. When Weiss attempts to stop spot – but the cause is undetermined.
his daughter, the Golem attacks him. The agents Mulder learns that MacDougal was one of the
rescue Weiss and, as Scully attends to his injuries, original military officials who signed Teager’s death
Mulder searches for Ariel. The Golem attacks certificate (even though forensic evidence was
Mulder, knocking him aside as he attempts to fend inconclusive). Mulder assigns two FBI agents to
off the being. But Ariel intercedes. When the guard General Steffan, one of MacDougal’s
wedding continues, the Golem places a ring on counterparts (who also signed the certificate). But
Ariel’s finger. Ariel expresses her love for Isaac, then Teager slips by the agents and murders Steffan.
wipes the letter “e” off the Golems’ hand. The A security camera captured Teager’s image
creature crumbles into dust. 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
EPISODE_GUIDE 59

of vision. He notes that, during the war, U.S. soldiers watches. In the distance, an investigator named
reported that Viet Cong guerrillas had the ability to Garrett sprays an acid−like substance on one of the
appear and disappear at will. He speculates that bodies, dissolving the victim’s fingertips and face. A
Teager learned this trick during his 25 years in the few moments later, other Go−Team members pull a
POW camp. survivor, Larold Rebhun, from the wreckage. Scully
Mulder believes the only way to stop Teager is concludes he was exposed to extreme radiation.
to find his next victim. Marita Covarrubias tells Mulder tells Scully that he believes Fenig was
Mulder that MacDougal, Steffan and a third general abducted from the aircraft by being sucked out of
headed a secret three−man commission that covertly the emergency exit door. However, Go−Team
disposed of South Vietnamese soldiers who members find Fenig’s body amongst the debris field.
cooperated with the U.S. government during the The agents interview Louis Frish, who, along
war. Covarrubias reveals that testimony from the with Armando Gonzales, manned the Air Force
generals could have been used in the calculation of Reserve air control tower on the night of the crash.
reparations. Mulder realizes the government wanted Louis claims there was no radio contact between
the generals dead all along. Covarrubias gives him the Air Force and the civilian plane. Later, Louis
the name of the third general: Bloch. finds Gonzales’ dead body inside the control tower.
Bloch is rushed from the podium at the re− Several government men storm the tower. Louis
dedication after the agents spot Teager in the avoids capture by hiding on the roof. Later, Sharon
crowd. Skinner escorts Bloch toward an awaiting Graffia disappears from her motel room. Mulder
limo. Mulder, however, realizes Teager is hiding concludes she was abducted by a UFO.
inside. Skinner tackles Bloch moments before Louis Frish tells Mulder, Scully, and Millar that he
gunshots flash from inside the limo. Teager puts the – not an air traffic controller in Albany – was the
limo in gear and attempts to make a getaway. last person to communicate with Flight 549. Louis
Agent Hill opens fire, killing him. 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
Tempus Fugit (1 of 2) airspace. Moments later, there was an explosion.
Mulder speculates that a third, unidentified aircraft
Production Code: #4X17 shot down the intercept craft – but is at a loss to
Original Air Date: 03/16/97 explain the absence of a second crash site. As the
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz agents drive Louis away from the Go−Team’s
Directed by Rob Bowman headquarters, two automobiles give chase. In an
THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE APPARENT DOWNING
attempt to outmaneuver his pursuers, Mulder drives
OF A COMMERCIAL JETLINER BY A UFO. onto a runway. An airliner lands on the strip,
narrowly missing Mulder’s car. The two chase cars
At the Headless Woman’s Pub, waiters singing break off their pursuit. Later, Mike Millar encounters
“Happy Birthday” approach Mulder and Scully’s a UFO hovering above the crash site. He finds
table. Scully is surprised that her partner Sharon Graffia nearby.
remembered the occasion. Before the celebration Scully and Louis await a Federal Marshal at the
continues, the agents are approached by Sharon Headless Woman’s Pub. Garrett enters with a gun.
Graffia, who identifies herself as the sister of Max Scully draws her weapon and a shoot−out ensues.
Fenig (the alien abductee seen in “Fallen Angel” Agent Pendrell, who happened to be frequenting the
#1X09). Fenig was killed in an airplane crash in bar, is shot in the chest. Scully manages to shoot
Upstate New York two hours earlier. It was Fenig’s Garrett in the leg.
wish that the agents be sought out should any harm After examining a map, Mulder concludes that
befall him. the second craft crashed into Great Sacandaga Lake.
The agents attend a Go−Team meeting He scuba dives into the murky water, where he
assembled by the National Transportation Safety encounters twisted wreckage – and the body of a
Board. Mike Millar, the man in charge of the gray alien. Suddenly, a bright beam of light
operation, plays a tape recording of the last radio emanates from the surface. Mulder shields his eyes
exchange between Flight 549 and air traffic control from the impossibly intense light.
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 Max (2 of 2)
his comments before the group are met with great
skepticism. Production Code: #4X18
The agents comb the crash site for possible Original Air Date: 03/23/97
clues. Mulder realizes there is a nine minute Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
discrepancy between the official time of the crash Directed by Kim Manners
and the time indicated on passengers’ wrist
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AS THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE CRASH OF A employer after Max insisted it could prove the
COMMERCIAL AIRLINER CONTINUES… MULDER IS existence of alien life. The object was divided into
PLACED UNDER MILITARY ARREST AFTER HE three parts. Max and Sharon each took a segment,
DISCOVERS THE EXISTENCE OF A UFO CRASH SITE but they were later confiscated.
AND SCULLY MOURNS THE LOSS OF A FELLOW Mulder finds the third piece inside Fenig’s
AGENT.
luggage at the Syracuse airport. He boards a flight
As seen in the previous episode, Mulder, clad in for Washington, but is followed by Garrett (Agent
scuba gear, inspects (what appears to be) the Pendrell’s killer). Mulder gets the jump on Garrett
wreckage of a UFO deep beneath the murky waters and confines him to a bathroom aboard the plane.
of Great Sacandaga Lake in Upstate New York. A He telephones Scully and instructs her to meet him
bright beam of light penetrates the darkness, at Dulles airport. Suddenly, Mulder’s wrist watch
illuminating the agent. The light’s source is revealed stops running. A UFO intercepts the aircraft and,
to be a team of frogmen, accompanied by an during the commotion, Garrett escapes from the
amphibious craft equipped with large searchlights. lavatory. He grabs a knapsack containing the third
Mulder attempts to make an escape, but he is stolen alien segment. As a bright light from the UFO
placed under military arrest. engulfs the plane, Mulder instructs Garrett to drop
A wounded Garrett escapes from the Headless the bag. But Garrett refuses to do so. When the
Woman Pub. Scully immediately turns her attention plane lands at Dulles airport, Garrett is not on
to Agent Pendrell, who was caught in the crossfire. board. Mulder tells Skinner that Garrett “caught a
Paramedics are called to the scene and Pendrell is connecting flight.”
transported to a nearby hospital. Skinner tells Scully
that Louis Frish is being placed under military arrest
(for suspicion of murder and providing false Synchrony
testimony to a federal investigation).
Mulder is released from jail. The Air Force Production Code: #4X19
asserts that Flight 549 collided with a military fighter Original Air Date: 04/13/97
jet when Frish and his tower co−controller made an Written by Howard Gordon and David Greenwalt
error in judgment. Based on the wreckage he saw Directed by Jim Charleston
beneath Lake Sacandaga, Mulder believes Flight 549 THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN AN
collided with a UFO (after it was shot down by a ELDERLY MAN USES A TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
military jet). Scully tells Mulder that Agent Pendrell TO COMMIT MURDER.
died of his injuries. Mulder conveys his sympathies.
Records reveal that Sharon Graffia is not Max Jason Nichols and Lucas Menand, researchers at the
Fenig’s sister, but an unemployed aeronautical Massachusetts Institute of Technology, become
engineer who spent time in mental institutions embroiled in an argument as they walk down a city
(where she met Fenig). The agents search Fenig’s street. They are approached by an elderly man, who
mobile home. They discover a videotape in which warns Menand that he will be run over by a bus at
Fenig states that the military salvaged alien exactly eleven forty−six that evening. Menand tells
technology for use in their own technological a campus security cop that the old man is harassing
applications. He claims to have undeniable, him. The guard places him in the back seat of a
irrefutable proof to back up his assertion. sedan and drives away. A few moments later,
Mulder describes for Mike Millar the sequence Menand is run down by the bus… at exactly eleven
of events that (he believes) led to the downing of forty−six.
Flight 549. According to Mulder, Max boarded the Mulder and Scully review the facts of the case.
plane carrying physical proof of the existence of Nichols was taken into custody after the bus driver
extraterrestrial life. Someone followed him aboard told police that he pushed Menand into the path of
the craft, intending to obtain the object at any cost. his vehicle. But Nichols tells authorities he was
But before the assassin could carry out his plot, attempting to save Menand – as an unidentified old
Flight 549 was intercepted by a UFO. As the UFO man had forewarned of his colleague’s impending
began to abduct Fenig, flight controllers ordered a death.
military jet into 549’s airspace on a mission to The security guard who arrested the old man is
destroy the alien craft. When the Air Force shot found frozen to death. Scully concludes guard was
down the UFO, the airliner, caught in its “tractor somehow exposed to some sort of chemical
beam,” spun out of control and crashed. refrigerant, as weather conditions are too warm to
The manager of the trailer park where Fenig explain the corpse’s frigid internal temperature.
lived gives Mulder Fenig’s undelivered mail. One Mulder interviews Nichols at the police station.
envelope contains a luggage claim ticket bearing a Nichols explains that he and Menand had been
three−letter designation for Syracuse. Meanwhile, arguing because Menand threatened to go public
Scully meets with Sharon Graffia at a mental health with a claim that he had falsified data on a research
center. She admits she stole an object from her paper.
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A short time later, the elderly man kills Dr. THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR A MAN WHO POSSESSES
Yonechi, a Japanese researcher, by pricking him with THE ABILITY TO CHANGE FORM.
a metallic stylus. Mulder and Scully examine Doctors in Martinsburg, West Virginia, attend to a
Yonechi’s frozen corpse. Lab tests reveal that the woman, Amanda Nelligan, as she goes into labor.
doctor was injected with an unidentifiable chemical When a nurse asks about the baby’s father, Amanda
compound. The agents approach Nichol’s girlfriend, tells her that the child’s father is from another
Lisa Ianelli, who is also a researcher. She recognizes planet. When the baby is delivered, those in
the chemical compound as a rapid freezing agent attendance gasp in horror when they see that the
that Nichols had been engineering for years. But she crying newborn has a four−inch tail.
points out that the chemical has not yet been Word of the strange birth is spread by
invented. Lisa tells the agents that if Yonechi was newspaper tabloids, and Mulder and Scully travel to
injected with the chemical, he may not be dead. Martinsburg to investigate. During the drive, Mulder
With Lisa’s help, Scully and a team of medical notes that five babies were born with vestigial tails
personnel successfully resuscitate Yonechi. But his over the course of three months – all within a city
body temperature suddenly and rapidly begins to of less than 15,000 people. Scully hypothesizes that
increase, until finally, he bursts into flames. Lisa the abnormalities may be attributable to ground
realizes she made an error when she recommended water contamination or prescription drug
that doctors remove Yonechi’s body from a tub interaction.
filled with yellowish fluid. At the hospital, Amanda, a Star Wars fan, tells
Lisa confesses that it was she who falsified the the agents the baby’s father is Luke Skywalker. She
data to get the research grant (Nichols is in jail recounts the tale of how Luke Skywalker came to
because he is covering for her). Those who would her home and romanced her. With the assistance of
have figured out the truth – Menand and Yonechi – a Health Department doctor, Scully determines that
are now dead. Police receive a tip that the elderly each of the five children born with tails share the
man is living at a nearby hotel. Inside the elderly same father. Mulder notes that all five women also
man’s room, the agents discover a faded color shared the same fertility specialist, Dr. Alton Pugh.
photograph picturing Nichols, Yonechi and Lisa When the agents arrive at Pugh’s office, they
toasting champagne glasses inside the cryology lab. discover several angry couples confronting the
Mulder realizes the photo was taken five years in doctor about the births. As Mulder looks around the
the future – on the day the researchers successfully doctor’s office, he encounters a janitor, Eddie Van
synthesized the freezing compound. The elderly Blundht, fixing a leaky sink inside an exam room
man is attempting to alter that future: when he and notices above his sagging pants a feint, roughly
failed to save Menand from being killed by the bus, triangular scar at the base of the man’s spine. Eddie
he killed Yonechi. Mulder also realizes the elderly tries to run, but is quickly apprehended and taken
man is none other than Jason Nichols. into custody. All of the women present swear that
Lisa locates the elderly man and confronts him. the only person they have had sex with has been
The elderly man gathers the courage to inject her their husbands. Later, a paternity test reveals that
with the chemical. But Scully successfully Eddie is the father of all five children. Scully
resuscitates Lisa, and remembering the girl’s words, hypothesizes that he may have used the tranquilizer
immediately returns her body to the tub (to prevent Rohypnol to incapacitate his victims. Eddie, a
the fire that killed Yonechi). Nichols confronts his homely man, responds defensively at the inference
elderly self in the computer mainframe room at the that the only reason a woman would have sex with
cryogenic lab, where the old man has erased all of him is if she was coerced.
Nichols’ files from the computer. Nichols lunges at While a sheriff’s deputy is filling out his arrest
the old man, choking him. Mulder, unable to open record, Eddie suddenly changes form,
the lab door, yells to Nichols. He tells him that Lisa metamorphosing into an exact duplicate of the
is alive. The old man tells Nichols that “it’s better deputy. Eddie strikes the astonished deputy on the
that we never were.” Wrapping his arms around his head and makes his getaway. After questioning the
younger self, the old man bursts into flames. The deputy, Mulder concludes that Eddie impregnated
fire consumes them both. Later, Lisa sets to work at four of the five women by making himself look like
cryonics lab, attempting to reconstruct the chemical their husbands. The fifth woman, Amanda, was
compound. tricked into believing she was making love to Luke
Skywalker.
The agents travel to the Van Blundht residence,
Small Potatoes where they meet Edward Sr. He claims he once
performed as “Eddie the Monkey Man” and still has
Production Code: #4X20 his tail intact. As they talk to him they realize the
Original Air Date: 04/20/97 old man is, in fact, Eddie Jr. in a different form.
Written by Vince Gilligan Eddie suddenly runs out of the house and disappears
Directed by Clifford Bole into the neighborhood. After searching the house
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they discover the mummified body of the real does not warrant his further involvement in the
Edward Sr. inside the attic. Scully’s autopsy reveals case.
an anomalous muscular structure beneath the Mulder pays Skinner an unexpected visit. He
surface of the corpse’s skin. Essentially the man’s states that someone has gone to great lengths to
skin was also a muscle. Mulder speculates that if keep news of the bee attack from reaching him. He
Eddie inherited this same trait, it would explain his also reveals that Detective Thomas was found dead,
ability to change form. Meanwhile, Eddie the victim of an execution−style shooting. With
metamorphoses once again – this time into a Scully undergoing tests at a hospital for the
duplicate Mulder. The real Mulder tracks him to a treatment of her cancer, Mulder asks Skinner for his
locker room at the hospital where Amanda Nelligan help in solving the mystery. Later that night, Skinner
is staying. Suddenly, Eddie bursts through the ceiling, is approached by the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM).
knocking him to the ground. He ties up the real Skinner accuses him of murdering Detective
Mulder and locks him inside the hospital’s boiler Thomas. CSM counters that Skinner “failed to
room. neutralize a potentially compromising situation.”
Pretending to be Mulder, Eddie returns to Mulder discovers that someone stole Brody’s
Washington with Scully, files a report with Assistant body from a morgue and switched her blood sample
Director Skinner and closes the case. Later, the fake at the police station. He also discovers that Thomas
Mulder shows up at Scully’s apartment with a bottle was murdered by someone using a government
of wine. After spending the evening having relaxing issue gun. Shortly thereafter, Skinner realizes his
conversation and relating in a personal rather than own weapon is missing. Skinner revisits the
professional manner, Scully tells the fake Mulder, “I women’s rest room where Brody was killed. He
really feel like I’m seeing a different side of you discovers part of a massive honeycomb inside the
tonight.” The fake Mulder leans in close, and rest room wall, and brings a piece of the
prepares to give her a kiss. Just as their lips are honeycomb to entomologist Peter Valdespino for
about to meet, the real Mulder kicks in the front analysis.
door and interrupts them. Eddie slumps back on the Mulder discovers that a bank surveillance
couch, thwarted, and transforms back to his normal camera captured a blurry image of someone talking
appearance and is taken into custody. 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
Zero Sum suspects is Thomas’ killer. Using larvae taken from
the honeycomb, Valdespino hatches more bees to
Production Code: #4X21 identify the species. The insects unexpectedly
Original Air Date: 04/27/97 swarm the entomologist, killing him. Mulder later
Written by Howard Gordon and Frank Spotnitz discovers that Valdespino died from smallpox. He
Directed by Kim Manners hypothesizes that someone has engineered a
SKINNER IS FRAMED FOR MURDER AFTER HE
method of spreading the contagion using the insects.
COVERS−UP THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN Skinner questions Brody’s co−worker, Misty
WHO WAS ATTACKED BY A SWARM OF BEES. Nagata. She reveals that a damaged overnight
package was confiscated by other investigators
Jane Brody, a mail sorter at an overnight delivery working on the case. Students at an elementary
company, sneaks into the female employee’s rest school in South Carolina are attacked by a swarm
room to smoke a cigarette. Without warning, of bees. Skinner tells doctors at a hospital
hundreds of bees creep into the stall where Jane is emergency room that the children should be treated
sitting. When the young woman attempts to swat not for bee stings, but for smallpox.
the insects so she can escape, the bees swarm and Working from surveillance camera footage, the
attack, stinging her to death. FBI photo unit produces a clear image of Skinner
An e−mail file containing photographs of the talking to Thomas shortly before his death.
victim is sent to Mulder, but Skinner intercepts and Outraged, Mulder accuses Skinner of working in
deletes the file. Skinner then covertly erases conjunction with CSM from the very beginning. But
evidence of the bee attack, and incinerates Jane Skinner insists he was framed.
Brody’s body. Identifying himself as Fox Mulder, Skinner again confronts CSM, firing several shots
Skinner visits a police forensics lab in Virginia in anger. Afterward, CSM instructs Marita
where he switches a vial containing Brody’s blood Covarrubias, in the company of Syndicate members,
with another identical container. As he is leaving, to tell Mulder whatever he wants to hear.
Skinner is approached by Detective Ray Thomas, the
man who e−mailed Mulder photographs of Brody’s
body. Skinner tells the disappointed Thomas (who Elegy
thinks he is talking to Fox Mulder) that the evidence
Production Code: #4X22
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Original Air Date: 05/04/97 Harold may be next. Scully, who also saw a victim’s
Written by John Shiban ghost, is struck by the implication.
Directed by Jim Charleston Harold is transported back to the psychiatric
THE AGENTS SUSPECT A MENTALLY−DISTURBED MAN center. There, he is tormented by Nurse Innes, who
IS CONNECTED TO THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL GIRLS ridicules his intellect and physique. Later, Mulder
WHOSE SPIRITS ATTEMPTED TO MAKE CONTACT finds Innes lying on the floor, half−conscious. Innes
WITH THE LIVING. claims Harold went berserk and attacked her. One
of the other patients, Chuck Forsch, tells Scully that
Angie Pintero, the working−class owner of a Nurse Innes was trying to poison Harold. Scully
bowling alley, tells one of his employees, a slowly realizes that Innes, not Harold, was
mentally−disturbed, compulsive man named Harold responsible for the murders. When Innes attacks
Spuller, to go home for the evening. Shortly Scully with a scalpel, Scully draws her weapon and
thereafter, Angie discovers a badly−injured blond girl fires, striking her in the shoulder. Afterward, Scully
wedged inside a pinspotter carriage. The girl tells Mulder that Innes has been ingesting Harold’s
attempts to speak, but no words come out of her medication, triggering violent and unpredictable
mouth. Angie notices police in a nearby parking lot behavior. She hypothesizes that Innes was out to
and rushes outside to get help. He realizes a crowd destroy the love Harold felt towards the young
has gathered around the dead body of the same girl women. Later, Harold’s body is discovered in a
he saw only moments earlier in the bowling alley. nearby alley, the apparent victim of respiratory
Angie relates his bizarre tale to Mulder and failure. But Scully suspects Harold died from what
Scully. Mulder suspects that Angie encountered the Innes took away from him.
dead girl’s ghost, a spirit that was attempting to Scully admits to Mulder that she saw the ghost
communicate with the living for reasons unknown. of the fourth victim shortly after she was murdered.
Three similar encounters, and three similar murders, Later, Scully sees Harold’s spirit sitting in the back
were reported in the area in as many weeks. The seat of her car.
agents discover the words, “She is me” written on
the bowling lane where Angie saw the spirit. But its
meaning remains a mystery. Demons
Detective Hudak tells Mulder and Scully that an
anonymous caller phoned 911 with a message Production Code: #4X23
regarding Penny Timmons, one of the killer’s victims. Original Air Date: 05/11/97
The caller claimed that Timmons’ last words were Written by R.W. Goodwin
“She is me.” But Hudak notes the victim’s larynx Directed by Kim Manners
was severed, making it impossible for her to utter
dying words. MULDER BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN AN
The agents trace the source of the 911 call to a APPARENT DOUBLE HOMICIDE.
payphone at the New Horizon Psychiatric Center. Mulder experiences a dreamlike vision, apparently a
Mulder notices one of the patients, Harold Spuller, memory from childhood, in which he sees his
avoiding his gaze. After viewing photographs of the mother and father reacting as if some terrible
murder victims, Scully comes to the conclusion that tragedy has entered their home. Mulder awakens in
Spuller fits the killer’s profile: a compulsive person a motel room, sweating profusely, his hands and
consumed with the desire to organize, clean and shirt stained with blood. He telephones Scully, who
reorder. drives to the motel to offer assistance. Suffering
Scully uses a rest room to attend to a nose from a mental blackout, Mulder cannot recall how
bleed. There she encounters the spirit of another he got to the motel. Scully discovers that two
blond girl. Moments later, Mulder relays word that rounds were fired from his gun. She also traces a
the body of yet another victim was found nearby. car parked outside Mulder’s room to a David and
Mulder discovers Harold holed−up in a dimly−lit Amy Cassandra. The agents travel to the Cassandra
room accessible from the bowling alley. The walls residence, where they speak with a house−keeper.
of the room are covered with score sheets, Inside the home are dozens of paintings of a white
including those of the victims. Mulder realizes that clapboard house. Mulder realizes he was inside the
Harold met each of the murdered women at the home, but cannot remember why.
bowling alley. Suddenly, Harold lapses into a The housekeeper gives the agents the address of
strange seizure. From his point of view, he sees the home depicted in the painting. As Mulder
Angie’s ghost standing behind Mulder. He rushes out approaches the dwelling, he is suddenly struck by a
of the room and makes his way to the bowling flashback in which he encounters a young
alley, where Angie lies dead, the victim of a heart Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) inside his parent’s
attack. Mulder tells Scully that every person who home. When the seizure subsides, the agents walk
saw the apparitions was about to die, implying that 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 MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
shirt. Detective Curtis places Mulder under arrest. WHEN AN ANTHROPOLOGIST DISCOVERS WHAT
But a toxicology report reveals traces of the COULD BE THE FROZEN REMAINS OF
anesthetic Ketamine in Mulder and Amy Cassandra’s EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
blood. Scully realizes the drug could account for Scully enters Mulder’s apartment, where a group of
Mulder’s memory loss. A short time later, Michael detectives and forensic technicians are waiting.
Fazekas, an admitting officer, steps inside a Detective Rempulski introduces himself, then pulls
bathroom at the police station and shoots himself in back a sheet draped over a body lying on the floor.
the head. Scully discovers a small scab on the man’s Scully positively identifies the victim. Later, Scully
scalp, similar to one found on Amy’s hairline. appears before a group of FBI officials led by
Detective Curtis reveals that Fazekas was a believer Section Chief Scott Blevins. During the meeting,
in UFOs. Inside Fazekas’ apartment, Scully discovers Scully recounts how, four years earlier, Blevins
a UFO magazine featuring a photograph of Amy, assigned her to a project known as the X−Files. She
who believed she was an alien abductee. states that the purpose of the current meeting is to
A forensics report reveals that the blood spatter report on the illegitimacy of Mulder’s work.
pattern on Mulder’s shirt does not correspond to the In flashback, a pair of anthropologists, Arlinsky
point of entry detail. Curtis concludes the and Babcock, are flown by helicopter to a
Cassandras died as the result of a murder−suicide. snowbound camp at the base of a mountain.
Further research reveals that Amy had been seeing Accompanied by a guide, the pair make their way
Dr. Charles Goldstein, a psychiatrist, in an effort to up the steep terrain. Upon reaching the summit, the
recover suppressed memories. Goldstein admits he men enter a cave where the body of a gray alien is
used unconventional therapy to stimulate electrical perfectly preserved in ice.
impulses in the brain. A group of guests gather at Mrs. Scully’s house
Mulder suffers another seizure. During the attack, for a dinner party. Amongst the attendees are
he experiences a vision in which a young CSM Dana’s brother, Bill Scully, Jr., and a Catholic Priest,
pulled Mrs. Mulder close to him, as if to kiss her. Father McCue. Scully realize McCue was invited by
Mulder and Scully drive to Mrs. Mulder’s Greenwich her mother for the purpose of discussing her faith at
home. There, Mulder confronts his mother. He a time when Scully’s health is at great risk due to
accuses her of lying to him about having been her cancer. After dinner, Father McCue and Scully
forced to choose Samantha over him. He also briefly talk about her drifting from the church before
accuses her of being unfaithful to his father. Mrs. their discussion is interrupted by a phone call from
Mulder angrily denies the allegations. Mulder storms Mulder. He has received information about a
out of the house and drives off. something that was discovered in Canada.
Mulder pulls a gun on Dr. Goldstein and forces Mulder arranges for Scully to meet he and
him to finish his treatment – to make him relive Arlinsky at the Smithsonian. Arlinsky claims that,
(what he believes to be) to his past. Goldstein drugs based upon ice core samples taken from the scene,
Mulder, then slowly lowers a spinning needle the alien body is some two hundred years old. He
towards his hairline. Police arrive at the scene and asks for the agents’ assistance in verifying the alien
place Goldstein under arrest, but Mulder’s remains. Mulder and Arlinsky fly to the base camp,
whereabouts are unknown. The psychiatrist tells which is eerily deserted. Unbeknownst to them, a
Scully that Mulder left his office “to exorcise his mysterious assassin armed with a shotgun pistol has
demons.” Scully finds him at the house in murdered the Summiteers. Upon reaching the
Quonochontaug, balled up on the floor, a gun in his summit, the men discover the bodies of Babcock
hand. Jolted by seizures, Mulder aims his gun at and a foreman. Inside the cave is a rectangular hole
Scully. She attempts to convince him that the where the alien body had been entombed. Later,
powerful hallucinogen injected into his body has Babcock, injured but alive, tells the pair that he
affected his mind and that his visions, his apparent buried the alien body beneath his tent.
memories, cannot be trusted. Mulder fires a shot, Meanwhile, Scully and lab scientist Vitagliano
but the bullet shatters a wall mirror behind Scully. examine ice core samples taken from the cave.
Breaking down into tears, Mulder lowers the Later that night, Scully returns to the Bio Lab, where
weapon. Scully’s fear changes to sympathy as she she is assaulted and thrown down a flight of stairs
comforts her partner. by an unidentified attacker. Agent Hedin matches
fingerprints found on the stairwell to a Michael
Kritschgau, who works for the Pentagon’s research
Gethsemane (1 of 3) division. After viewing a personnel file, Scully
positively identifies Kritschgau as her attacker. Later,
Production Code: #4X24 she confronts Kritschgau inside a parking garage and
Original Air Date: 05/18/97 places him under arrest. But Kritschgau warns that if
Written by Chris Carter he is taken to jail, the same people who gave Scully
Directed by R.W. Goodwin cancer will kill him.
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Mulder and Arlinsky transport the alien body to cover−up… and that they have been pawns in a
a warehouse where an autopsy can be performed. conspiratorial game since the very beginning.
Scully contacts her partner at the warehouse and Mulder suggests they create their own lie in hopes
arranges a meeting so he can hear Kritschgau’s story of uncovering the truth.
firsthand. Soon afterward, the assassin, Ostelhoff, Shortly thereafter, Scully travels to Mulder’s
shoots and kills Arlinsky and Babcock at the apartment and identifies Ostelhoff’s faceless body
warehouse. Meanwhile, Kritschgau, who claims to (the result of the shotgun blast) as that of her
have run the Department of Defense’s agitprop arm, partner. Later, during a meeting with Blevins and
tells the agents that the government has been Skinner, she is instructed to appear before a joint
orchestrating an elaborate hoax to divert attention FBI panel. Afterward, Scully traces the phone
away from itself. The alien corpse, Kritschgau number listed on Ostelhoff’s flash paper to an FBI
claims, was forged from bio−materials and frozen branch extension that includes Skinner. This leads
into place over the course of a year. He insists Scully to conclude that Skinner may be a mole.
Mulder was only meant to see the alien – to make Meanwhile, the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) tells
him believe the lie. Mulder counters that it is the Syndicate he questions reports of Mulder’s
Kritschgau who is the liar. But when Mulder returns demise.
to the warehouse, he discovers the dead bodies of Mulder uses Ostelhoff’s identification card to
Arlinsky and Babcock – and the alien specimen infiltrate DARPA, a secret research facility. There he
missing. Shortly thereafter, Scully tells him the men encounters Kritschgau, who explains that the card
behind the hoax gave her cancer all in an effort to will give him access to the entire building.
make him a believer in their lies. Mulder is stunned Kritschgau then claims the hoax Mulder has been
by the revelation. drawn into dates back to the days just after World
Back in the current day, Scully tells FBI officials War II, a time when generals were desperate to
that she received a phone call from the police continue fueling the nation’s economy via a military
department asking her to identify a body inside build−up. In 1947, Kritschgau states, the government
Mulder’s apartment. Struggling to maintain began using the Roswell incident as a cover story to
composure, Scully reveals that Mulder died of an distract the American public from the truth – and a
apparent self−inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 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
S E A S O N 5 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
Redux (2 of 3) to the one he discovered at the ice cave – giving
credence to Kritschgau’s story.
Production Code: #5X02 Dr. Vitagliano finishes his examination of the ice
Original Air Date: 11/02/97 core samples given to him by Scully. The cells
Written by Chris Carter contained within, he concludes, are the beginnings
Directed by Kim Manners of a new life form. Scully decides to perform a test
MULDER ACCESSES A SECRET RESEARCH FACILITY that will compare the strange organism to her own
THAT MAY HOLD A CURE FOR SCULLY’S ILLNESS. DNA. Before she does so, she encounters Skinner,
MEANWHILE, SCULLY PERFORMS AN EXPERIMENT IN who reveals how a pathology report concluded the
HOPES OF DETERMINING THE ORIGIN OF THE body found in Mulder’s apartment is not her partner.
DISEASE. Later, the DNA test between the samples proves a
match. Scully concludes her cancer resulted from
In flashback, twenty−four hours before Agent Scully being deliberately exposed to the organism.
told an FBI assembly that her partner was dead (see As Mulder continues his journey through the
previous season’s cliffhanger)… Mulder receives a tip facility, he discovers a warehouse – a “repository
from Kritschgau that their conversations have been for all the alien−related odds and ends that CSM has
monitored. Mulder looks upward – and notices a taken from Mulder over the years.” There he
small pinhole in the ceiling of his apartment. He discovers a gigantic index system, which contains
races upstairs, where he encounters Scott Ostelhoff, cards for Scully, Kritschgau, and a blank card for
in the apartment directly above his own, igniting Kritschgau, Jr. He also discovers a metallic vial –
flash paper. A struggle ensues, during which a shot which could contain a cure for Scully’s illness.
rings out. Scully appears before the FBI panel and
Mulder tells Scully he killed Ostelhoff. He also announces she will expose the “mechanism of
informs her that the flash paper Ostelhoff attempted deception” that drew her partner, and herself, into
to destroy contained a record of seventeen phone the government’s lies. She then informs the panel
calls placed to the PBX operator at the Bureau. The that her partner died the previous night of a self−
agents conclude their own agency is behind the
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inflicted gunshot wound to the head. As she begins abduction, she was taken to a hotel room and told
to present scientific evidence that will support her that CSM is her father. Mulder tells Samantha that
claim, she is suddenly taken ill. Meanwhile, CSM, their mother is still alive… and that she was lied to
working in the shadows, arranges Mulder’s escape by CSM. Her head spinning with confused emotions,
from the research complex. The Lone Gunmen Samantha makes her way back to CSM’s car and
analyze the contents of the vial… and conclude it disappears into the night. Later, CSM tells Mulder
contains only deionized water. that Kritschgau deceived him with a host of
“beautiful lies.” He asks Mulder to quit the Bureau
and work for him, but Mulder refuses.
Redux II (3 of 3) While watching a televised Congressional
hearing on biotechnology, the Elder notices Skinner
Production Code: #5X03 lingering in the audience. He instructs a subordinate
Original Air Date: 11/09/97 to “fix” the problem. Blevins informs Mulder that a
Written by Chris Carter ballistics test matched the bullet from Ostelhoff’s
Directed by Kim Manners body to Mulder’s service revolver. Blevins also
AS MULDER CONTINUES HIS SEARCH FOR A CURE
claims that Skinner has been working inside the
FOR SCULLY’S ILLNESS – AND THE IDENTITY OF A Bureau with a secret agenda. Mulder refuses to
MOLE OPERATING FROM WITHIN THE BUREAU – HE believe the story… and refuses to finger Skinner as a
RECEIVES HELP FROM A MOST UNLIKELY SOURCE. mole during his testimony before the FBI panel
(even though such testimony would exonerate
A frantic Mulder enters a hospital in search of himself from wrongdoing).
Scully, who had suddenly collapsed during the FBI Mulder takes his place before the FBI panel.
hearing (see previous episode). He finds her Simultaneously, Quiet Willy, rifle in hand, positions
unconscious body lying in a bed, her breathing himself inside a parking garage opposite CSM’s
aided by a ventilator. Skinner explains that Scully apartment. Before answering questions regarding his
went into shock and is close to death. When culpability in Ostelhoff’s death, Mulder announces
Mulder refuses to cooperate with Skinner, he is the name of the mole who has acted from within
escorted to the main FBI building, where he is FBI: Section Chief Scott Blevins. At almost the same
questioned by Section Chief Scott Blevins and a moment, Quiet Willy opens fire, shooting CSM.
Senior Agent. But Mulder fails to cooperate with the Blevins makes his way back to his office. There he
inquiry and leaves the room. encounters the Senior Agent, gun in hand. A shot
The Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) meets with rings out, and Blevins falls to the ground. The Senior
the Elder and fellow Syndicate member Quiet Willy. Agent then places the weapon in Blevins’ own hand.
The Elder chastises CSM for allowing Mulder to Shortly thereafter, Skinner tells Mulder that CSM is
escape from the research facility, leaving their dead. Though no body was recovered, the massive
project vulnerable to exposure. But CSM counters loss of blood found inside the apartment leaves no
that Mulder is much more valuable alive, and plots other conclusion. During their conversation, Mulder
to assure his loyalty. When CSM leaves the meeting, tells Skinner he guessed as to Blevins’ identity as a
the Elder tells Quiet Willy he can “proceed.” Scully mole. Skinner confirms that Blevins had been
regains consciousness. She tells Mulder that Skinner working for a biotechnology company called Roush
is the mole operating from within the Bureau. But for four years. Mulder then informs Skinner that
Mulder counters that Skinner is withholding Scully’s cancer has gone into remission.
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 Unusual Suspects
– and his cause – for his sister’s condition. Shortly
thereafter, CSM approaches Mulder. He informs him Production Code: #5X01
that the metallic vial contains a tiny microchip that Original Air Date: 11/16/97
will cure Scully’s illness. Later, Bill Jr. voices grave Written by Vince Gilligan
concern about the chip. But Scully tells Dr. Directed by Kim Manners
Zuckerman she is willing to give it a try.
Meanwhile, Kritschgau testifies before the FBI’s IN 1989, THE LONE GUNMEN MEET FOR THE VERY
investigative panel. He denies knowing the identity FIRST TIME WHEN THEY ASSIST A WOMAN WHO
of Ostelhoff’s killer, states that his own son died CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO USE CIVILIANS
AS GUINEA PIGS IN A SECRET EXPERIMENT.
earlier that day, and reveals that part of his
remuneration is funded by a Congressional lobbying In 1989, a SWAT team storms a darkened warehouse,
firm called Roush. its floors dotted with pools of blood. There the
In an effort to cement Mulder’s trust, CSM officers encounter a naked, paranoid Mulder lying
arranges a meeting between Mulder and his sister, on the ground. Suddenly, the three Lone Gunmen –
Samantha. She reveals that, some time after her Langly, Frohike and Byers – spring from a hiding
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place and make an unsuccessful bid for freedom. Afterward, the threesome locate Susanne at a
Byers is questioned by Detective Munch, who newspaper office. She laments that no one believes
explains that despite evidence of a bloody shoot− her story. Moments later, government men usher
out, and the involvement of a (now delusional) FBI Modeski away.
agent, he has few clues about what actually
transpired. Byers recounts the events that led up to
the warehouse shoot−out. Detour
As the story unfolds, Byers attends a computer
show at a convention center. There he meets a Production Code: #5X04
strikingly beautiful woman, “Holly,” who claims her Original Air Date: 11/23/97
psychotic ex−boyfriend kidnapped her daughter. Written by Frank Spotnitz
“Holly” gives Byers an Internet address, claiming it is Directed by Brett Dowler
her only hope in locating her child. Byers hacks his THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE WHEN SEVERAL PEOPLE
way onto government computer, where he types in DISAPPEAR IN A REMOTE REGION OF FLORIDA.
the name of “Holly’s” daughter, Susanne Modeski.
The computer opens an encrypted file. Frohike, who In a remote section of North Florida, two surveyors,
mans a nearby booth, agrees to decipher the Michael Sloan and Marty Fox, encounter a strange
document. creature with glowing red eyes. Sloan is suddenly
When “Holly” notices Mulder walking the yanked downward, disappearing beneath the dense
convention floor, she identifies him as her ex− brush. Shortly thereafter, Marty is also attacked.
boyfriend. Frohike and Byers approach Mulder, only While hunting for possum, twelve−year−old Louis
to learn he is an FBI Agent. When “Holly” Asekoff and his father discover Marty’s abandoned
disappears, Frohike and Byers ask Langly to hack surveyor’s transit. Sensing something isn’t quite right,
onto the FBI mainframe computer, hoping he can the Father sends Louis home with the dog. As the
find information on Mulder. Langly successfully boy runs home, two shotgun blasts echo through the
cracks the mainframe, and learns that “Holly” is forest.
actually Susanne Modeski, who is wanted in Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully ride with agents
connection with the bombing of an FBI lab that left Michael Kinsley and Carla Stonecypher on a
four people dead. highway stretching through rural Florida. Their
Modeski locates the threesome inside Byers’ destination: an FBI creative team seminar, in which
motel room. She claims the information contained in participants are required to use their imagination to
her file is fabricated. She admits the story about her perform constructive problem solving exercises (a
daughter was a lie… one she made up in a gathering which Mulder views as a waste of time).
desperate attempt to have the encrypted file The agents’ journey comes to a sudden halt when
deciphered. She tells the men that the government state troopers set up a roadblock on the highway.
is plotting an experiment in which the American His spirits lifted by the unexpected diversion,
public will be exposed to a paranoia−inducing gas – Mulder suddenly exits the vehicle for some
one she unwittingly helped develop. detective work. Search and Rescue leader Michele
The encrypted file reveals the address of the Fazekas tells Mulder that several people are missing,
warehouse where the paranoia−inducing gas is and that a set of tracks found at the scene could
stored. It also reveals that a surveillance device was not be identified as man nor animal. His interest
attached to Modeski’s tooth by her dentist. Using piqued, Mulder arranges for he and Scully to lodge
pliers, Modeski extracts a molar containing a tiny at a nearby motel… saving himself the torment of
transmitter. Byers, Modeski and the others break attending the teamwork seminar. That night,
inside the warehouse. There they discover asthma something sneaks into the Asekoff residence. A
inhalers containing the gas. Mulder steps forward terrified Louis tells authorities he was chased by an
and announces that everyone is under arrest. invisible creature with glowing red eyes. Though the
Moments later, government officials enter the story is dismissed as the product of a young boy’s
warehouse and instruct Modeski to follow them. imagination, Mulder discovers a set of tracks inside
When Mulder orders the men to identify the house. Mulder tells Fazekas the creature must be
themselves, they open fire, inadvertently striking the found before it can do more harm. Aided by Jeff
asthma inhalers. The liquid rains onto Mulder, Glaser, a “tech head” who possesses an infrared
triggering a psychotic episode. Modeski shoots the tracking device, Fazekas, Mulder and Scully set out
unidentified men and escapes. X steps forward and in search of the predator. During the journey,
prepares to kill the threesome execution−style. Mulder theorizes that the creature is attacking
When X lowers the weapon, Byers realizes he only humans in response to encroaching development.
intended to intimidate them. The infrared device detects two creatures in the
When Byers’ finishes his story, Munch dismisses dense brush, each moving in opposite directions.
it as fiction. Later, the Lone Gunmen are released The group splits up and a chase ensues. Suddenly,
from jail when Mulder verifies what transpired. Fazekas is yanked downward, and disappears
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beneath the undergrowth. Mulder realizes that the TOWNSPEOPLE IN RURAL INDIANA BELIEVE A
creatures deliberately separated the group into two FRANKENSTEIN−LIKE CREATURE ROAMS THE
units, allowing for easier access to the leader COUNTRYSIDE.
(Fazekas). As the threesome embark on a rescue In a rural Indiana neighborhood, Shaineh Berkowitz
mission, Mulder recounts an X−File from the early watches a daytime talk show on television. So
1950s in which a town in West Virginia was entranced is she by the interview, that she fails to
terrorized by primitive−looking men with piercing notice someone covering the home with termite
red eyes. The creatures were dubbed “moth men” tenting. A dark figure enters the kitchen and drops a
by local residents. white cake into a skillet, triggering a chemical
Mulder, Scully and Glaser accidentally stray from reaction that produces a gaseous white cloud.
the marked trail. Their journey is interrupted when Sensing a presence in the house, Shaineh
the mysterious creatures make another appearance. investigates. Suddenly, a horribly disfigured,
Guided by directions from Glaser and the infrared Frankenstein−like face emerges from the misty
device, Mulder ventures deep into the brush. darkness. Shaineh gasps in horror.
Suddenly, a creature springs from its hiding place. Later, as the agents drive through the Indiana
Mulder opens fire, but the creature disappears from farmland, Scully reads aloud a letter addressed to
view. Shortly thereafter, Glaser separates from the Mulder. In it, Shaineh describes how, eighteen−years
group and he, too, disappears. earlier, a presence entered her smoke−filled
While discussing the encounter with Scully, bedroom as, strangely, the voice of singer Cher
Mulder is suddenly yanked downward. When he filled the air. Three days later she woke up pregnant
resurfaces, like a jack−in−the−box, Scully opens fire, with her son, Izzy. Shaineh explains that she saw
shooting into the bushes nearby. Mulder goes into Mulder on the Jerry Springer show, and hopes he
shock, and Scully does her best to keep him warm will investigate her case. The agents do, indeed,
as darkness falls. The following morning, as Scully drive to Shaineh’s home. There they discover a
searches for food, she suddenly drops from view. comic book bearing the exact likeness of the
Mulder rushes to her aid‹and realizes she fell into a creature Shaineh claims attacked her. Shaineh
small cave. Inside the chamber, Scully discovers explains the monster is called The Great Mutato, a
Fazekas and Louis’ father, barely breathing and creation of Izzy’s fertile imagination. Izzy claims he,
strapped to thick poles. When Scully realizes one of and many others in the community, have seen the
the creatures is nearby, Mulder tosses her his gun. A creature – which apparently has a penchant for
few moments later, when the second creature peanut butter sandwiches. Izzy and his friends lead
approaches, he jumps from his vantage point and the detectives to a wooded area, and using
lands next to Scully in the cave. One of the sandwiches for bait, lure the creature from its hiding
creatures rushes the agents. Scully opens fire, place. The group gives chase, but the creature
striking the predator. The agents move forward for a disappears into the darkness. Mulder then
closer look and realize their attacker is a man who encounters an Old Man, who claims the real
lived like an animal. Kinsley and Stonecypher arrive monster is his own son, renowned scientist Dr.
and call for help. Mulder notices the words “Ad Francis Pollidori. The agents visit Pollidori, who
Noctum,” or “into darkness,” carved into one of the describes his experiments in genetic manipulation.
poles. He points out that Spanish conquistadors He displays a photo of a fruit fly head… with legs
carved warnings on posts in the same manner… then growing out of its mouth. Later, Pollidori bids good−
notes that Ponce De Leon sought the Fountain of bye his wife, Elizabeth, as he embarks on a trip out
Youth in the area 450 years earlier. He concludes of town. Moments later, termite tenting falls past
that the predators perceived humans as a threat to Elizabeth’s window.
their territory, and acted accordingly. Stonecypher When the agents stop by a country diner in
notes the creatures would pursue anyone who had downtown Bloomington, they are feted with
entered the woods. Fearing the worst, Mulder heaping plates of food. It turns out that the entire
suddenly rushes to Scully’s motel room. He finds his town believes Jerry Springer will do a story on the
partner safe and sound, and the pair leave the area. creature… the result of a newspaper article in which
Staring out from beneath Scully’s bed, however, is a Mulder is quoted as verifying the monster’s
pair of glowing red eyes. existence. The agents realize Izzy secretly tape
recorded their conversations.
As the agents drive along a country road, Mulder
The Post-Modern Prometheus spots Pollidori’s tented house. The pair race inside,
where they discover Elizabeth’s unconscious body.
Production Code: #5X06 Shortly thereafter, the agents also lose
Original Air Date: 11/30/97 consciousness. The Old Man, Professor Pollidori’s
Written and Directed by Chris Carter 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 Tara, who is expected their first child. Not long after
deformed man with two mouths. her arrival, Scully answers the telephone. On the
The Old Man brings the Creature a peanut other end of the line is a woman who sounds
butter sandwich as it watches the movie Mask, exactly like Scully’s deceased sister, Melissa. The
starring Cher, on television. Pollidori confronts his voice tells Scully, “she needs your help.” Unnerved,
father, and in a rage, strangles him. Scully has the FBI trace the call which, it turns out,
A mob of townspeople forms around the local was made from the Sim residence. Scully discovers
post office as a mail clerk proclaims he’s found the the home is the scene of a criminal investigation.
monster. He pulls someone wearing a rubber Detective Kresge allows her access to the
Mutato mask from the back room, then yanks off bathroom, where a dead blonde woman, Mrs.
the mask, exposing Izzy. The postal worker then Robert Sim, reclines in a tub full of bloody water,
displays a box he intercepted, which is filled with the apparent victim of a suicide. Later, Scully
identical masks. observes the victim’s husband, Marshall, and three−
Records indicate that the residue from the white year−old Emily Sim. Scully stares at the girl, intrigued
cakes is a substance used to anesthetize herds of by her face. Detective Kresge tells Scully that phone
animals. Its use is monitored by the FDA, leading the records do indeed indicate that an incoming call
agents back to the Old Man’s farm. When the was made from the Sim residence to Bill Jr.’s house.
agents arrive at the scene, a diligent newspaper girl, But at the same time, there is no record of an
who had been recording notes about the case, outgoing call. Records also indicate the phone had
describes how she witnessed the creature burying been off the hook for three hours.
the Old Man. Shortly thereafter, an angry mob Scully tells her mother she’s very happy for Bill
makes its way towards the farm. The agents realize and Tara… then admits that, as a result of her
Pollidori killed his father. They befriend the abduction, she cannot conceive a child of her own.
frightened Mutato and attempt to escape, but they Later that night, Scully experiences a dream in
are spotted by the mob and retreat into a cellar. which a young Bill Jr. kills her pet rabbit. During the
Pollidori and the townspeople burst into the same dream, she encounters little Emily Sim. Scully
basement. There, Pollidori claims the Creature was is awoken by another call from the mysterious
brought to life by his father. The Creature claims he woman. The voice tells Scully to “go to her.” The
never harmed another soul. He explains how, 25 call is again traced to the Sim residence, where
years earlier, the Old Man realized his son was Marshall assures Scully that no one used the
conducting secret experiments – of which he telephone. From Scully’s viewpoint at the front door,
(Mutato) was an unfortunate product. The Old Man she observes two dark−suited men sitting at the
grew to love the Creature, and then set out to kitchen table. The next day, Scully requests – and is
create it a mate. As the Creature continues his tale, given access to – all evidence in the Roberta Sim
the agents, putting together two and two, look case. She also phones the FBI and requests the case
around the cellar at the townspeople… one of whom file on her sister, Melissa. Noting several
resembles a horse, another a Billy goat and so on. discrepancies in the file, Scully performs an autopsy
The mob concludes Mutato is not a monster after on Roberta’s body. She discovers a complete
all. A police cruiser transport Pollidori from the absence of medicine tablets inside her stomach. She
scene. The agents take the Creature into custody, does, however, notice a puncture wound on the heal
but instead of transporting him to jail, they head for of her foot. A search of the Sim house turns up a
a Memphis nightclub, where Cher sings to Mutato, hypodermic needle in the trash. Marshall claims
her biggest fan. Emily suffers from anemia and requires daily
injections.
Scully tells her mother that a PCR test, which
Christmas Carol (1 of 2) has a sixty−percent accuracy rate, suggests that
Emily and Melissa’s DNA match (a more
Production Code: #5X05 comprehensive test will be available in several
Original Air Date: 12/07/97 days). This, and the undeniable physical resemblance
Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban between the pair, leads Scully to conclude that
and Frank Spotnitz Emily is Melissa’s daughter. She reminds her mother
Directed by Peter Markle about a period in 1994 when Melissa’s whereabouts
A MYSTERIOUS PHONE CALL AND AN APPARENT
were unknown… and speculates that she could have
SUICIDE LEAD SCULLY TO A YOUNG GIRL WHO SHE given Emily up for adoption. Later, Scully
SUSPECTS IS HER SISTER MELISSA’S DAUGHTER. experiences another dream, during which Mrs.
Scully gives her the crucifix she wears around her
Scully and her mother travel to Bill Jr.’s house – neck. When Scully awakens, Detective Kresge
located at a U.S. naval station in San Diego – informs her about large bank deposits made by
several days before the Christmas holiday. There Marshall over the previous eighteen months. The
they are greeted by Bill Jr. and his pregnant wife, money came from a pharmaceutical company called
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Prangen Industries. Scully and Kresge interview Dr. Scully receives another mysterious telephone
Ernest Calderon, who works for the company. He call. A trace reveals its origin to be the County
explains that Emily was participating in a clinical Children’s Center. When the agents arrive at the
trial. When Roberta tried to pull her daughter from scene, they discover a thick, fibrous cyst on the
the program, the company agreed to send her back of Emily’s neck. As a doctor removes a biopsy
money as a gesture of good will. Calderon also sample from the cyst, it suddenly oozes green
reveals he prescribed Marshall sumatriptan bubbling fluid. The doctor is overcome by the fumes
injections after he complained of migraines. Later, and treated at the hospital. Afterward, Dr. Calderon
Marshall is arrested for his wife’s murder. As a refuses to transfer Emily’s medical records to the
result, Emily is placed in the care of Social Services. Children’s Center. An enraged Mulder physically
Before Emily is driven away, Scully places her gold assaults Calderon and warns that unless he
cross around the girl’s neck. produces the records, he can expect more of the
Marshall Sim confesses to the murder. But Scully same. Afterward, Calderon approaches the two
finds it odd that witnesses had provided him an dark−suited men at the Dimsdale Convalescent
alibi. She and Kresge drive to the jail, where they home. The men realize Mulder tailed Calderon to
find his body hanging from a makeshift noose. Later, the building. They kill Calderon using an alien
Scully tells her brother that the death was made to gimlet, then assume his form. One of the “Dr.
look like a suicide. Susan Chambliss, a social Calderons” travels to the Children’s Center and
worker, tells Scully that her application to adopt injects Emily with a greenish fluid. A surprised Scully
Emily was rejected. Scully states that the time has chases “Calderon” through the hospital. But by the
come for her to place her personal life ahead of her time she catches up to him, the alien has morphed
career. Cambliss promises a review of Scully’s final into the form of a stranger. Mulder and Scully speak
application. On Christmas morning, Scully receives a by phone. Mulder suspects the fluid injected into
delivery from an FBI courier. The final DNA test Emily will not cause her harm, as the conspirators
results reveal that Scully is Emily’s mother. want her alive… for reasons unknown.
Mulder makes his way inside the Dimsdale
Retirement Home. There he discovers evidence that
Emily (2 of 2) the elderly women residents – including Anna
Fugazzi – were all given hormone injections. Frohike
Production Code: #5X07 uncovers evidence that the elderly women all gave
Original Air Date: 12/14/97 birth only a few years earlier.
Written by Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Emily continues undergoing therapy and medical
Shiban tests of all kinds, but her condition only deteriorates
Directed by Kim Manners further. At one point she is placed inside a
SCULLY AND MULDER SEARCH FOR A CURE TO
pressurized chamber. Suddenly, a snake−like creature
EMILY’S ILLNESS. stirs beneath her skin. Scully orders an end to the
test. Mulder discovers cylinders containing live
As seen in episode #5X05, Scully has learned she is human embryos floating in a greenish fluid. He
the biological mother of three−year−old Emily Sim. grabs three ampules of the greenish fluid and makes
Scully experiences a nightmare in which she his way into a hallway. Detective Kresge suddenly
discovers her gold cross lying on the ground as a steps forward, placing a gun to Mulder’s head.
sandstorm rages around her. Slowly, she, too, Kresge removes the ampules from Mulder’s hand.
transforms into sand and dissolves into nothingness. Suddenly, one of the “Calderons” appears at the end
Mulder travels to the San Diego County of the hallway. Mulder retrieves one of the ampules
Children’s Center, where Scully is keeping an eye and runs off, warning Kresge not to fire on the
on Emily. Scully tells Mulder she needs him to be a advancing “Calderon.” A confused Kresge shoots
witness on her behalf at a child custody hearing. nonetheless, and is then overcome by noxious
Mulder informs his partner that Frohike accessed the fumes. The alien “Calderon” then morphs into
California Social Services Adoption database. It Kresge’s form and makes his getaway.
turns out that Emily’s mother of record is one Anna Emily slips into a coma and dies. At the funeral,
Fugazzi (a slang term for “fake”). He warns Scully Scully tells Mulder there is still evidence of what
that the men behind the conspiracy will do anything the men did to Emily. But when she lifts the casket
it takes to protect Emily – including jeopardizing lid, she discovers several small sandbags inside (one
Scully’s custody of the girl. During the custody has spilled its contents onto the bottom of the
hearing, Mulder introduces a file documenting coffin). Scully retrieves her gold crucifix, the one she
Scully’s disappearance years earlier. He submits that gave to Emily, from the sand.
Emily Sim was conceived through a scientific
experiment. Despite this, he insists that Scully is
nonetheless Emily’s mother.
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Kitsunegari he didn’t kill Nathan Bowman – Scully begins to


suspect her partner was influenced by Modell’s will.
Later, Mulder again interviews Linda Bowman,
Production Code: #5X08 hoping to discover a reason for Modell’s interest in
Original Air Date: 01/04/98 her. He reacts with mild surprise when Linda reveals
Written by Vince Gilligan and Tim Minear she had only been married to Nathan for a little
Directed by Daniel Sackheim over two months. During the conversation, Mulder
MULDER AND SCULLY HUNT FOR ROBERT MODELL, cannot help but notice subtle clues in Linda’s words,
A.K.A. PUSHER, AFTER HE ESCAPES FROM PRISON. such as “brush with greatness” and “paint him.” He
Inside Lorton Penitentiary, a physical therapist works concludes that it was Linda who killed her husband,
with Robert Modell, otherwise known as Pusher (see not Modell. Believing Mulder is under Modell’s
episode #3X17). An older orderly tells his younger influence, Skinner demands his service weapon and
protégé that Modell is extremely dangerous and instructs him to go home.
must never be underestimated. Despite the warning, Mulder suspects that the nun who visited Modell
Modell lures the young orderly into his cell… and in prison was, in fact, Linda. He returns to the
soon after escapes. prison, hoping the therapist will verify his theory.
Skinner, Mulder and Scully brief a group of FBI But before the therapist can positively identify
agents and US marshals about the escapee. The Linda, she receives a phone call from someone who
group reacts with skepticism when Mulder reveals “wills” her to commit suicide. Mulder phones Scully,
that Pusher is able to project his will onto others, and tells her it was Linda, not Modell, who made
forcing them to do themselves harm. After the the call. Modell possesses the mind of a police
meeting, Scully and Mulder interview the physical officer, who transports him to the safe house where
therapist, who tells of a nun who visited Modell, as Linda is under constant guard. Modell finds Linda
part of a charity group, on the day before his and places a gentle hand upon her face. Skinner
escape. spots Modell and draws his weapon. Modell tricks
The ailing Modell makes his way to a sporting Skinner into believing he is holding a revolver,
goods store, where he eats several high−protein drawing his fire. A badly wounded Modell is
candy bars. He telephones Mulder from the location, transported to a hospital.
and speaks long enough for the call to be traced. Mulder tells Scully that Modell pretended to
The agents rush to the sporting goods store. Mulder have a gun to “take the fall” for Linda. But his theory
notices a man outside the building wearing prison does not explain the motive for his action. Mulder
pajamas. But when the man is caught, he turns out travels to the hospital, hoping to speak with Modell
to be the sporting goods store employee. should he regain consciousness. But Linda uses mind
The body of the prosecutor who helped convict control to slip past Mulder, making him believe she
Modell is discovered in his upscale home, his entire is a nurse. When Modell does regain consciousness,
body covered with cerulean blue paint. Surrounding Linda wills his heart to stop beating. Mulder
the body is a Japanese ideogram, repeated hundreds discovers an index card dropped by Linda. On the
of times. The agents summon a Japanese agent to reverse is an address for a commercial building.
the scene, who translates the ideogram, kitsunegari, Mulder travels to the structure, where he finds
as meaning “fox hunt.” Mulder notes a wedding Scully waiting within. Scully claims Linda is inside
band on the victim’s finger. He contacts the real the building, and is using mind control to act against
estate agency where Linda Bowman works, and her will. Scully raises her weapon and places it
obtains the address where Linda is scheduled to against her own temple – firing a shot. Scully’s
meet a “Fox Mulder.” Two police officers are lifeless body falls to the floor. A few moments later,
dispatched to the location, but they are fooled by Linda walks into the room, a gun in her hand.
Modell, and one officer “apprehends” his partner. Mulder grabs the revolver from Scully’s hand and
The reason for Modell’s interest in Linda remains a aims at Linda. But Linda claims she is Scully… and
mystery. Mulder, Scully and Skinner meet with that the real Linda is standing right behind him.
Linda, who is shaken when notified of her husband’s “Linda” suddenly aims her gun slightly to the left of
passing. The agents place her in protective custody Mulder and opens fire. Mulder turns to see Linda’s
and transport her to a safe house. Mulder suspects body behind him. Linda is transported to a hospital
Modell may still be in the general area where the Later, Scully and Mulder learn that Linda and Modell
prosecutor’s body was discovered. His hunch proves were fraternal twins.
correct: he discovers Modell inside a nearby
engineering firm. Mulder draws his weapon, ordering
Modell to remain silent. But Modell forces his will Schizogeny
onto Mulder and escapes.
Mulder tells Scully that Modell’s message was Production Code: #5X09
“don’t play the game.” When Mulder voices his Original Air Date: 01/11/98
doubts as to Modell’s motives – and the possibility Written by Jessica Scott and Mike Wollaeger
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Directed by Ralph Hemecker agents that the trees are all dying because of a “bad
A TEENAGE BOY UNDERGOING PSYCHOLOGICAL man.” Karin invites Lisa to stay at her home until her
COUNSELING BECOMES THE PRIME SUSPECT IN HIS aunt can pick her up the following day. As Lisa
STEPFATHER’S MURDER. listens from her bedroom, she overhears an
argument between Karin and a male voice. A
In Coats Grove, Michigan, Bobby Rich, a sixteen− curious Lisa makes her way to the root cellar, where
year−old boy, is berated by his stepfather, Phil, for she discovers the body of a man. Terrified, Lisa turns
not finishing his lawn work outside the house. towards the door, only to hear it slam shut. A dead
Bobby picks up a shovel and instructs his stepfather bolt turns, locking her within. She hears the
to keep his distance. As the dispute escalates, unidentified man’s voice refer to her as “a snoop.”
Bobby drops the shovel and runs into a nearby Later, Karin tells the trapped Lisa she must remain
orchard. Phil gives chase. Suddenly, Phil’s feet are quiet, or the unidentified man will hear her voice.
knocked out from underneath him. A short time Mulder discovers that Karin’s father was pulled
later, Phil’s wife, Patti, makes her way through the from the mud of an orchard twenty years earlier. He
darkened orchard. She discovers Phil’s body buried finds it strange that Karin failed to mention the
in mud up to his shoulders, with mud seeping from coincidence. Ramirez tells Mulder that Karin
his nose and mouth. Kneeling beside Phil is Bobby, Matthew’s father’s death brought about an end of a
his eyes wide with terror. blight affecting the trees. Karin attributes the tale to
Scully performs an autopsy on Phil’s corpse. She her father’s stature, believing powerful men inspire
discovers over twelve pounds of mud in his fantasy. Later, Mulder digs up Mr. Matthews’
stomach. Her conclusion: Phil’s head was forcibly casket… and finds it empty, save for roots. When
held in the mud, mostly likely by his son, Bobby. Lisa’s aunt, Linda, arrives at Karin’s house, Karin
She hypothesizes that Bobby may have dug the pit informs her that Lisa left for a bus station. Before
that trapped Phil, and, noting a rope – like bruise on Linda drives off, Lisa smashes the glass of a window
Phil’s ankle, speculates that Bobby may have had in the basement. Linda rushes to her niece’s aid, but
help from an accomplice. Mulder interviews Bobby, she is attacked and killed by an unseen force as
who claims his father enjoyed physically abusing tree branches sway in the wind above her. Later,
him. Later, Patti tells Scully that, from her point of Bobby tells Mulder that, as part of therapy, Karin
view, it appeared as if Bobby was attempting to made him pretend he was Phil… and that, all along,
help Phil out of the muddy orchard pit, not cause he was never a really a victim.
him harm. She also reveals that her son has been Lisa hears the cellar door bolt slide. She stands
undergoing therapy for his anger since 1995. Later, up… only to realize the unidentified male voice has
the agents meet with Bobby’s therapist, Karin been coming from Karin all along. Scully and
Matthews. She describes Bobby as the victim of Mulder search Karin’s house, where they come upon
physical abuse. But Mulder expresses his belief that the corpse Lisa discovered earlier in the root cellar.
Bobby may not be to blame for his stepfather’s Mulder concludes the body is that of Karin’s father.
death. Karin locks the agents in the root cellar, but Mulder
Bobby tells a pretty fellow student, Lisa Baiocchi, forces it open. They find Lisa frightened but
that she must stand up to her father just as he had unharmed in a corner of the kitchen. Mulder
done with Phil. When Lisa returns home, her angry attempts to pursue an escaping Karin, but his car
father demands that she stop seeing Bobby. An crashes into an enormous tree. Karin drives to the
angry Lisa storms off to her room. Shortly thereafter, Rich residence, where she chases Bobby into the
a window explodes, and a shadowy, arm – like orchard. Suddenly, Bobby is dragged downward into
appendage grabs Mr. Baiocchi by the throat. His the mud. While attempting to rescue the teenager,
lifeless body is discovered lying on the ground Mulder simultaneously encourages Karin to break
outside the house. Though Scully concludes that Mr. the cycle… to fight the voice inside her head. But
Baiocchi died as the result of being pushed out the Karin is unable. A tendon – like root snakes out of
window, Mulder discovers evidence suggesting he the mud and drags Mulder downward. Ramirez
was pulled out the second story window. Later, the appears, axe in hand, and strikes Karin, killing her.
agents learn that Lisa is also one of Karin Matthews’ Mulder and Bobby are released by the unseen force.
patients. Karin tells Mulder her approach with
victims of abuse is to encourage them to empower
themselves to confront and stand up against their Chinga
abuser.
With the aid of a town coroner, Mulder a small Production Code: #5X10
splinter of fresh wood embedded in Mr. Baiocchi’s Original Air Date: 02/08/98
neck. Mulder matches the fragment to the living Written by Stephen King and Chris Carter
tree outside the Baiocchi home. A short time later, Directed by Kim Manners
the agents are approached by a man named
Ramirez, who holds an axe at his side. He tells the 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 Scully and Bonsaint pay Jane Froelich a visit.
accompanies her pretty mother, Melissa, to the Froelich claims Melissa is the descendant of witches
grocery market. Polly sits in the child−carrier seat of – and she is passing her cursed lineage to Polly.
a shopping cart, clutching a doll, Chinga. As Melissa Later, while speaking with an official at a ranger
strolls the isles, she attracts the attention of Dave station (near Riggs’ remote camp), Melissa
the Fishmonger. Polly notices Dave, and tells her experiences another vision, this time seeing
mother she doesn’t like the store. Melissa responds Froelich’s bloody image reflected in the rear
by quickly pushing the cart into another area of the window of the car. Melissa turns the car around and
market. As Melissa strolls down the frozen food heads back home. Meanwhile, Froelich hears the
section, she comes upon the image of Dave, song “Hokey Pokey” emanating from the day care
reflected in the glass of a cabinet, a knife protruding center. She makes her way through the darkness…
from one eye. A horrified Melissa tells Polly they and comes upon the big Chinga doll. She picks up a
are going home. But as Melissa makes her way piece of broken phonograph record, but instead of
towards the store’s exit, customers begin clawing at using it as a defensive weapon, turns it upon herself.
their eyes. Back in the butcher section, Dave’s Later, Melissa experiences another vision… this time
attention is diverted by the shape of a large Chinga seeing Riggs’ corpse. Riggs finds Melissa at home,
doll, as reflected in a metal door. Dave grabs a and convinced she had something to do with
knife from his belt… but suddenly turns it on himself. Froelich’s murder, insists she accompany him to the
Vacationing in Maine, Scully turns her rental car police station. Later, Riggs’ body lies on the kitchen
into the grocery market parking lot. An Old Man floor, his nightstick covered with blood.
exits the store and tells Scully that a doctor is Scully recognizes the Old Man from the
needed. Inside the store, observes Dave, a knife supermarket aboard the boat where Melissa’s
protruding from his eye. She telephones Mulder and husband was killed. The Old Man tells Scully the
describes the bizarre situation. Mulder tells his story of how Rich Turner came upon the Chinga
partner the event might be the result of witchcraft doll while checking lobster traps. Rich intended to
or sorcery. Scully, however, can find no physical give the doll to his daughter, but several days later
evidence that might support this theory. the Old Man found Rich’s body, a grappling hook
Assisted by Police Chief Jack Bonsaint, and his through his skull.
deputy, Buddy Riggs, Scully reviews security camera Melissa begins nailing shut every door and
footage of the event. She notices Melissa Turner window in the house. Polly tells her mother she
rushing towards the exit, the only customer cannot sleep, and Melissa promises the noise will
unaffected. Bonsaint tells Scully that some stop. Moments later, Melissa sees a bloodied
townspeople believe Melissa is a witch. Buddy reflection of herself in a window, a hammer buried
Riggs telephones Melissa with news that Bonsaint in her skull. Scully and Bonsaint drive to the Turner
will be questioning her about the occurrence at the home. Scully, peering through the windows,
super market. Riggs promises to help Melissa, but discovers Melissa attempting to set fire to Riggs’
she warns him to stay away. In the background, body. Bonsaint breaks down the door as Melissa
unseen by Melissa, looms the shadow of the large runs to a closet and grabs hold of a hammer –
Chinga doll. which she turns upon herself. Thinking quickly,
Bonsaint and Scully visit Melissa’s home, but find Scully grabs the Chinga doll and throws it inside a
it unoccupied. Bonsaint tells Scully that Melissa had microwave oven in the kitchen. As the doll melts,
married a fisherman, but was widowed when the Melissa drops the hammer and regains her senses.
husband was killed in a boating accident. Bonsaint Later, another lobster fisherman pulls a trap from the
explains that there had been an incident between water… and discovers the burned Chinga doll inside.
Polly and the proprietor of a daycare center, Jane Suddenly, its eyes open.
Froelich. It seems that Jane slapped Polly when she
became uncontrollable. Shortly thereafter, Jane
claims she was thrown to the ground. Bonsaint, Kill Switch
however, believes the little girl never touched Jane.
Bonsaint then tells Scully that Dave the Butcher’s Production Code: #5X11
interest in Melissa was unrequited. Original Air Date: 02/15/98
Riggs meets Melissa and Polly at an ice cream Written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox
shop. Melissa describes how she has seen images of Directed by Rob Bowman
violent deaths, such as Dave’s, before they occur. A SENTIENT COMPUTER PROGRAM TARGETS ITS
Riggs give Melissa the key to a remote cabin and CREATORS FOR EXTINCTION.
suggests she leave town. Meanwhile, Polly grows
upset when a girl clerk does not meet her demand Several heavily−armed crack dealers receive an
for more cherries. Shortly thereafter, the clerk’s pony anonymous telephone call alerting them to the
tail gets caught in an ice cream machine. Riggs whereabouts of a hated enemy. The men all
jumps the counter and rescues the girl. converge on a diner, but none find their target. Two
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deputy marshals receive a similar anonymous tip, point to drive to an isolated location where she
alerting them about a Colombian fugitive in the hopes to find one of her colleagues, a man named
same diner. The marshals enter the diner and order David Markham. Esther exits the car and begins
everyone onto the floor. Drug dealers draw their crying at the site of a demolished house. During her
weapons and a fierce gun battle ensues. absence, Scully manages to unshackle her handcuffs.
As the agents observe the aftermath of the Esther gives Scully back her gun and asks her to “put
shoot−out, Mulder pulls a tarp off the face of her out of her misery.” Esther then admits to Scully
Donald Gelman, one of the co−inventors of the that she and David had planned to download their
Internet. Gelman had been working at his laptop consciousness and enter the AI. But Gelman forbade
inside the diner when the shooting broke out and the idea.
became trapped in the cross−fire. Mulder sneaks Mulder gains access to the trailer housing the T3
Gelman’s laptop under his jacket and brings it back line. Inside he discovers David Markham’s body, his
to Scully’s car. He finds a blank CD in the laptop face concealed by a virtual reality mask. Suddenly,
drive, which when placed inside Scully’s CD−player several crab−like droids spring from the jungle of
emits music from The Platters’ Twilight Time. cables and constrain Mulder. Mulder experiences
Puzzled, Mulder brings the CD to the Lone Gunmen strange visions involving nurses in a 1940s hospital
for further analysis. When they are unable to crack who threaten to amputate him, limb by limb, unless
the disc’s security code, Scully suggests they check he reveals the location of Kill Switch. Meanwhile,
Gelman’s e−mail log. They find a message the AI pinpoints Scully and Esther in their car near a
containing a standard ID number for a shipping turntable drawbridge. The pair becomes trapped
container. The message is signed by someone and, at Scully’s urging, Esther tosses the laptop into
named Invisigoth. the water. Moments later, a green laser blasts the
The agents track the number to a container yard. water.
A figure springs from the darkness, zaps Mulder Scully and Esther climb into the trailer where
with a stun−gun, and runs off into the night. Scully Mulder is bound by the crab−droids. Several of the
apprehends the suspect, Esther Nairn, a gorgeous robotic creatures attack, and Scully dispatches them
young woman with a nose ring, and escorts her with her revolver. Scully finds Mulder, his head
back to the container, which is brimming with encased in the virtual reality mask (the source of his
sophisticated computer equipment. Esther’s attention strange visions). Esther produces the CD, and Scully
is diverted to one of the monitors. She tells the gives the AI what it wants, inserting the disk into a
agents that an armed Department of Defense drive. The AI releases Mulder, and Scully drags him
satellite has locked onto their location. Despite the outside. Esther accesses a keyboard and instructs the
farfetchedness of the tale, Mulder convinces Scully satellite to lock onto the trailer’s coordinates. When
they must leave the area immediately. Shortly Scully reenters the trailer, she finds Esther wearing
thereafter, a strange green light descends from the the virtual reality helmet, the body of her beloved
heavens and destroys the shipping container. David nearby. Scully races from the trailer, and
Mulder concludes that Donald Gelman realized Esther instructs the AI to upload. Moments later, the
his lifelong dream: the construction of a sentient green laser destroys the trailer. When Mulder
artificial intelligence, a computer program with its recovers, he tells Scully that Esther’s consciousness
own consciousness. Esther confirms Mulder’s may have joined the AI.
suspicion, describing how Gelman unleashed the
program onto the Internet so it could evolve – much
like the primordial slime from which mankind Bad Blood
evolved. She tells the agents that the AI monitors all
communication, and will destroy her the moment it Production Code: #5X12
locks onto her location. Esther also reveals that Original Air Date: 02/22/98
Gelman was in the process of creating a special Written by Vince Gilligan
virus program, nicknamed “Kill Switch,” that would Directed by Cliff Bole
hunt down and destroy the rogue system. Instead of THE AGENTS RECOUNT THEIR VERSIONS OF EVENTS
simply destroying Gelman with a laser from above, THAT LED TO THE KILLING OF A TEENAGER
Esther is convinced it killed its creator with a dozen SUSPECTED OF BEING A VAMPIRE.
crack dealers in an effort to show off its sense of
humor. She also believes the virus is holed up on a A dark figure chases a terrified teenage boy, Ronnie
computer somewhere – and the only way to kill it Strickland, through a field in Texas. When Ronnie
is to find and destroy its safe house. trips and falls, the figure pulls out a wooden stake
By accessing government files, Mulder locates a and plunges it through his chest. Scully’s voice calls
suspicious T3 line, one that would be needed by the out, and when the figure turns, we see that it is
AI to access the Internet. He traces the cable to an Agent Mulder. Pulling open the teenager’s mouth,
abandoned farm on which sits a trailer. Meanwhile, Mulder shows Scully two sharp incisors, much like
Esther gets the jump on Scully and forces her at gun vampire fangs. Upon closer examination, Scully
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determines the fangs are, in fact, a set of fake frustrated, Mulder returns to the motel, where he
plastic teeth. Mulder realizes he has made a most regroups with Scully. He informs his partner of the
egregious error. need for a new autopsy, and after Scully leaves, he
When the agents return to their offices, they accepts the pizza delivery from Ronnie. Later, he
agree to discuss the events that led up to the killing finds himself in a drug−induced stupor. Ronnie
before they speak with Skinner (as they both face enters the motel room, his fangs exposed, his eyes
potential prison sentences). Scully recounts her story glowing red. Thinking quickly, Mulder manages to
first. As the tale unfolds, Mulder and Scully examine throw sunflower seeds onto the floor. Unable to
slides of dead cattle, the victims of a series of resist the obsessive−compulsive disorder, Ronnie
exsanguinations in a small Texas town. Mulder drops to his knees and begins picking them up.
reveals that a vacationer from New Jersey, Mr. Funt, Scully finishes the second autopsy, and realizing
met the same fate, and authorities located two Mulder is in danger, races to the motel. She draws
small puncture marks on his neck. The agents fly to her weapon and fires, striking Ronnie right in the
Texas, where they meet with Sheriff Hartwell, a chest. Though still in a drug−induced haze, Mulder
handsome man who immediately catches Scully’s gives chase, eventually staking Ronnie.
attention. With Hartwell’s permission, the agents Back in the present, a coroner inadvertently
examine the victim’s body. Mulder notices that reanimates Ronnie’s corpse by removing the stake.
Funt’s shoes are untied, but is unsure of the clue’s Skinner informs the agents of the new development,
meaning. While he and the sheriff stake out a local and the pair fly back to Texas. There, the pair meet
cemetery, Scully performs an autopsy on the corpse. up with Sheriff Hartwell. As Scully and the sheriff
Later that night, Scully and Mulder regroup at their stake out the cemetery, Mulder makes his way to
motel to discuss their findings. Scully reveals that the RV park, certain it contains Ronnie’s resting
the victim was drugged with chloral hydrate, more place.
commonly referred to as knockout drops. Scully Sheriff Hartwell, it turns out, is a vampire. He
believes someone doped Funt and then withdrew drugs Scully’s coffee, and she passes out.
his blood using a syringe, perhaps emulating Meanwhile, Mulder discovers Ronnie’s coffin inside
vampires seen in the movies. Mulder then reveals an RV. Using handcuffs, he traps the vampire inside
that there has been another victim. As a tired Scully the box. When the vehicle is surrounded by the
sets out to perform yet another autopsy, Ronnie the undead, Mulder uses two pizza breadsticks to form
Pizza Guy (the same teenager Mulder staked in the a cross. The vampires shrug off the cross and pull
opening teaser) shows up with a delivery. Scully Mulder downward. The next morning, a groggy
tells the teenager to deliver the pizza to Mulder as Scully finds an unconscious Mulder inside his rental
she heads for her car in the motel parking lot. car. Mulder awakens – only to discover that the RV
During the second autopsy, Scully realizes that lot is now completely empty. The agents recount
both victims consumed pizza as their last meal. She their bizarre tale to Skinner… who can only stare
races back to the motel, where she finds a drugged back at them.
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 Patient X (1 of 2)
the teenager’s death. Mulder, however, disagrees
with Scully’s details, and tells his version of the Production Code: #5X13
story. Original Air Date: 03/01/98
As Mulder’s version unfolds, it becomes clear Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
that he is painting himself in a good−natured light, Directed by Kim Manners
while Scully is depicted as being suspicious of his THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN UFO
every word. After examining slides of the dead ABDUCTEES GATHER EN MASSE – AND ARE BURNED
cows, the agents fly to Texas, where Scully finds ALIVE.
herself attracted to Sheriff Hartwell. In Mulder’s
version, however, Hartwell is affected with large In Kazakhstan, former Soviet Union, two teenage
buck teeth and a substantial loss of I.Q. The agents boys watch as a UFO disappears behind a mountain
split up: Scully performs the first autopsy, while top. The boys run off to tell their families, but as
Mulder and Sheriff Hartwell stake out the cemetery. they sprint through the woods, they come upon an
While surveilling the cemetery, Mulder begins area filled with burning automobiles. A screaming
pouring sunflower seeds on the ground, explaining man, his body ablaze, appears out of the dense
that vampires are obsessive−compulsive. Should a smoke, causing the boys to run. One of them,
vampire appear, it would have to pick up the seeds Dmitri, takes refuge in the woods. The next
– just like it would have to untie shoelaces. The morning, he is discovered by Krycek, who is in the
sheriff is dispatched to investigate a disturbance at company of a unit of Russian soldiers. With the boy
an RV park. Mulder tags along. There, the pair in custody, Krycek and his men approach Marita
discover the body of the second victim. Tired and Covarrubias, who, along with U.N. troops, is sifting
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through the burned out wreckage. Krycek tells position she would normally take, for despite a lack
Marita he knows who she works for – and to tell of evidence, she believes the event is linked to her
her superiors he has a witness (Dmitri). abduction. The agents are contacted by Cassandra,
Back in the United States, Mulder takes part in a who warns “they” must be stopped. The agents are
visiting lecturers forum. He disagrees with the then approached by Spender, who explains that his
opinions voiced by his fellow panelists regarding a mother was part of a UFO cult.
woman referred to as “Patient X,” an apparent Back at the Syndicate office, group members
abductee who seeks answers as to why aliens are conclude that the latest burning is aimed at
on Earth. Mulder maintains that there is no sabotaging their work. Quiet Willy is dispatched to
complicity between the military and alien deal with the situation. Meanwhile, Covarrubias
abductions. Instead, he believes the government is rendezvous with Krycek at the freighter, which is
developing biological warfare and hiding the fact by docked in New York Harbor. The two share a
concocting stories about “little green men.” When hungry kiss, then exit so they can be alone. When
the discussion ends, Mulder is approached by Dr. Krycek returns, Dmitri has vanished. The Well−
Werber, the man who performed regression Manicured Man appears, demanding to know where
hypnosis on him five years earlier (leading Mulder the boy has gone.
to believe his sister was abducted). Werber reveals After examining the evidence, Mulder concludes
that he is Patient X’s doctor. He arranges a meeting the victims of the mass burning were led to Skyland
between Mulder and the woman, Cassandra, Mountain by the government when it triggered the
believing that she will change his mind regarding his implant devices. But he is at a loss to explain why
new theory. Cassandra believes the aliens are on they were killed. Their conversation is interrupted
Earth to deliver a message. But something, she fears, by a call from Covarrubias, who informs Mulder of
has gone wrong. the similar incident in former Soviet Union, and of
Krycek extracts information from Dmitri by the witness, Dmitri. Suddenly, the black oil oozes
subjecting him to a beating. He then orders a from Dmitri, and Covarrubias drops the phone.
Russian doctor to expose the teenager to the alien Scully suffers an attack – not unlike the one
black oil. The liquid enters Dmitri’s body through his Cassandra described earlier. She travels to Ruskin
mouth and nose. Dmitri, his eyes and mouth sewn Dam, where a throng of people have gathered,
shut, is then transported back to the US on a including Cassandra, in the company of Quiet Willy,
Russian freighter. Meanwhile, Covarrubias briefs and Dmitri, the stitches having been torn from his
Syndicate members on the mysterious burn site in eyes and mouth. A glowing ship passes overhead
Kazakhstan. Covarrubias believes the act was aimed and disappears over adjacent treetops. Suddenly,
at the Syndicate, and reveals that Krycek captured a screams are heard from the far edge of the
witness at the site. Krycek phones the group and congregation, where faceless men wielding alien
offers to trade Dmitri for all research information weapons set people ablaze.
pertaining to a vaccine against the black oil.
At the FBI building, Scully is approached by
Agent Spender, who identifies himself as The Red and the Black (2 of 2)
Cassandra’s son. Spender tells Scully that his mother
is a very disturbed woman. Later, Scully tells Mulder Production Code: #5X14
about the conversation. She then peruses Original Air Date: 03/08/98
Cassandra’s medical file, growing intrigued when Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
she realizes Cassandra claims to have been Directed by Chris Carter
abducted at Skyland Mountain, the same site where SCULLY UNDERGOES HYPNOSIS IN AN EFFORT TO
Scully was taken by Duane Barry. The file also REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MASS
reveals that Cassandra has an implant in the base of BURNING SITE.
her neck. Mulder brushes off the findings, agreeing
with Spender’s conclusion. But so intrigued is Scully In this continuation of the previous episode… a man,
by the developments that she pays Cassandra a visit his face unseen, types a letter to his son (whose
at the psychiatric hospital. There, she grows identity is unknown). The man, who lives in a
unnerved when Cassandra tells her that some nights remote cabin, addresses the letter to the FBI and
she awakens feeling as though she must be pays a boy to mail it.
somewhere, but not knowing where to go. Meanwhile, rescue workers sift through the area
Meanwhile, a group of abductees gather at near the dam where blackened bodies lie along the
Skyland Mountain. As an Unknown Man drives length of a bridge. Amongst the bodies is Quiet
down the mountain road, he encounters faceless Willy, the Syndicate’s hit man. Skinner directs
men chasing another man. One of the faceless men Mulder to a nearby provisional tent, where Scully is
drives a metallic wand into the Running Man’s back, ministered by medics. Nearby is the body of Dmitri,
setting him ablaze. Later, Mulder and Scully inspect the Russian boy, his exposed skin blackened by the
the site. The situation forces Scully in the opposite fire. When Scully regains consciousness, she tells
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Mulder she has no memory of what occurred at the theories to Scully many times… suggesting that she
dam. Outside of Scully’s room, Spender tells Mulder has recounted the information in a similar manner.
that rescue workers were unable to locate his Krycek surprised Mulder inside his apartment. He
mother, Cassandra. explains that Kazakhstan, Skyland Mountain and the
The Well−Manicured Man (WMM) and a site in Pennsylvania are all beacons for colonization.
physician, Dr. Bronschweig, tend to Marita The burnings, Krycek explains, were the work of
Covarrubias inside a hospital quarantine room. Later, alien rebels attempting to foil the colonist’s plans
WMM speaks with Krycek, imprisoned aboard the for takeover. Krycek gives Mulder the location of
Russian freighter. WMM is aware that Krycek the captured alien rebel. He maintains that if the
deliberately exposed Dmitri to the black oil to captive perishes, so does the resistance.
insure the infection of anyone who attempted to Accompanied by Scully, Mulder drives to Fort
ascertain what he knows about the burnings in Wiekamp. As they attempt to bluff their way
Russia. He also believes that Krycek possesses a through the front gate, the agents notice Quiet
vaccine that would create resistance to the alien Willy at the wheel of a military truck as it is about
colonists. WMM offers Krycek freedom in return for to exit the base. As the vehicle pulls away, Mulder
the vaccine. sneaks aboard the cargo area. There he finds
Meanwhile, a spacecraft crashes at Fort faceless alien pirate imprisoned inside. Quiet Willy
Wiekamp Air Force Base. A faceless alien pirate brings the rig to a stop… then morphs into the alien
drags one of his comrades from the wreckage. Later, bounty hunter. He climbs into the cargo area, but
members of the Syndicate study photographs of the shortly thereafter, a white light illuminates the truck.
alien. They realize the man is a resistance fighter, a A second faceless alien, armed with a firestarter
member of an ongoing battle against alien colonists. weapon, enters. Mulder opens fire. Shortly
WMM explains that Krycek gave him the vaccine, thereafter, a confused Mulder is swarmed by MPs
meaning resistance may, in fact, be a possibility. But and placed inside a car with Scully. Mulder has no
the Elder concludes that the captured fighter should memory of how he got aboard the truck.
be turned over to the colonists, WMM has Meanwhile, the envelope seen in the opening teaser
Covarrubias injected with the vaccine to ensure it is delivered to Spender. Several days later, back at
actually works. the cabin, the envelope, labeled with the words
Back at the hospital, Mulder tells Scully that x− “return to sender,” is delivered to the Cigarette−
rays have revealed the presence of implants inside Smoking Man.
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 Travelers
weapons project. Scully agrees to be hypnotized by
Dr. Werber in an effort to recall what happened at Production Code: #5X15
the dam. In a trance−like state, Scully recalls how a Original Air Date: 03/29/98
UFO flew overhead, and shortly thereafter, how the Written by John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
faceless aliens set congregants on fire. Then another Directed by Bill Graham
craft appeared overhead, which began attacking the IN THE 1950S, TWO FBI AGENTS INVESTIGATE
faceless men. Cassandra was then pulled upward, STRANGE DEATHS SOMEHOW LINKED TO MULDER’S
out of her wheelchair, by the ship. Afterward, FATHER.
Werber tells Mulder that the same event will
happen yet again. In the year 1990, a sheriff escorts a landlord into a
Skinner reviews an audio tape of Werber’s boarded−up, dilapidated house for the purpose of
session with Scully. Mulder tells Skinner the entire evicting the tenant, Edward Skur. Once inside, the
event was staged to cover up a classified military pair smell a terrible odor, then discover a human
project. Skinner admits, however, that Scully’s UFO body, collapsed, as if all of the internal organs have
scenario is more plausible. Meanwhile, when been removed. A figure springs from the shadows
Covarrubias fails to respond to the vaccine, the and the sheriff opens fire. The attacker, an elderly
Elder informs WMM that the captured alien is being man, falls to the ground, mortally wounded. His last
turned over to the colonists. words are, “Mulder… Mulder.”
Spender shows the agents a videotape of FBI Agent Mulder, still a year away from working
himself, as a young boy, answering questions while on the X−Files, pays a visit to a man named Arthur
under hypnosis. As the tape plays, the young Dales. Mulder questions Dales, a former special
Spender describes his abduction by a UFO. Spender agent with the Bureau, about his work on an
then pauses the tape. He tells the agents the story unsolved case from 1952… one focusing on Edward
is untrue, a falsehood told to him by his mother Skur (the attacker from the opening teaser).
many times. He maintains that Dr. Werber’s According to the censored report, Skur disappeared
regression memory theory is without merit. Spender 38 years earlier before he could be arrested for a
also points out that Mulder has expressed his UFO series of killings in which the victims’ internal
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organs were removed. When Mulder utters his own only the director’s office decides which file is
last name, a flash of recognition passes on Dales’ designated with the “X.” She pulls out the file on
face. Dales makes cryptic reference to HUAC, and the man whose named she recognized. It belongs to
the communist witch hunts of the 1950s, prompting a German émigré, Dr. Strohman. Dales recognizes
Mulder to review newsreel footage of the McCarthy Strohman as the man found inside the house. Dales
hearings. While watching the tape, Mulder notices tracks down Gissing’s body and supervises an
his own father sitting amidst McCarthy’s group. autopsy. Inside the corpse is a cocoon containing a
When Mulder returns to Dales’ apartment, Dales spider−like creature, which Dales kills. Later, Dales
elaborates on Skur, who, years earlier, was labeled a informs Mrs. Skur that her husband, along with two
communist. co−workers, was tricked by the government. He
The story flashes back to 1952. A young Ed Skur elaborates, explaining that all three men underwent
is arrested by FBI agents Dales and Michel, and surgery for treatment of war injuries, but, in reality,
charged with contempt of Congress for failing to received an operation called xenotransplantation,
appear before the committee. That night, Dales the grafting of a species into the human body. That
relaxes at a bar called the Hoot Owl. He receives a night, Bill Mulder and Cohn’s assistant escort Dales
phone call from his partner, informing him that Skur to the bar where he is scheduled to meet Skur.
hanged himself inside his jail cell. Dales travels back Dales is equipped with a hidden microphone and
to the Skur residence to inform the family of the told that Skur will be arrested the moment his guard
death. But before he exits his car, he sees Skur is lowered. Later, Skur enters the empty bar. He tells
walking down the street. An incredulous Dales gives Dales the other men will not be coming, explaining
chase. A struggle ensues, during which black tendrils that they assumed he (Skur) would kill him.
creep out of Skur’s mouth. The fight attracts Dales sees the logic of Skur’s words. A struggle
attention, and Skur runs off. ensues, during which Dales is able to handcuff Skur
Dales files a report about the farfetched to the bar. Back in 1990, Dales finishes telling his
incident. Shortly thereafter, he is summoned to the story to Mulder. But the puzzle still remains: why
office of Special Assistant Roy Cohn. Cohn tells did Skur die saying the name of Mulder’s father? The
Dales to amend the report by removing any story then flashes back to 1952… when a young Bill
reference to Skur. Dales does as he is told. A short Mulder stopped on a road and gave Skur the keys to
time later, he and Michel are dispatched to a his handcuffs.
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 Mind’s Eye
message: “come alone.” That night at the bar, Dales
is approached by a young Bill Mulder. He explains Production Code: #5X16
that it was he who summoned the agents to the Original Air Date: 04/19/98
doctor’s home. He confirms that Skur is the Written by Tim Minnear
perpetrator. He also explains that Skur is not a Directed by Kim Manners
communist, but a patriot. Skur, along with two other MULDER SUSPECTS A BLIND WOMAN POSSESSES
men, Gissing and Oberman, worked for the State THE ABILITY TO SEE THROUGH THE EYES OF A
Department. Gissing and Oberman both took their KILLER.
own lives. Skur was arrested, and his death faked,
so that the government could cover−up what it had As Marty Glenn, a twenty−something woman,
done to him. Bill Mulder wants the truth to be moves about her apartment, she suddenly
known, explaining that Skur was a colleague. But he experiences an internal vision. As she watches,
warns that Skur believes that Dales and Michel are horrorstruck, a murderer, switchblade in hand,
part of the conspiracy against him. Shortly advances on another man standing before a
thereafter, Skur attacks Michel. A spider−like bathroom sink. A short time later, police are
creature crawls from Skur’s mouth and enters summoned to a motel, where the body of the
Michel. murderer’s victim lies on the bathroom floor. Marty,
Cohn orders that Michel’s body be transported a bloody sponge clutched in her hand, is discovered
to Bethesda instead of allowing a county coroner to hiding in the shower. As the officers place Marty
perform the autopsy. Dales protests until Cohn into handcuffs, they realize she is blind.
threatens to label him a communist. When Dales Scully and Mulder meet with Wilmington
returns to the Bureau, he notices a heavily−censored Homicide Detective Lloyd Pennock, who has been
document on the desk of Dorothy Bahnsen, a clerk. assigned the murder case. Pennock explains that,
Dorothy explains that the document is a deposition under normal circumstances, Marty would have
that branded Skur and his co−workers communists. been charged with the murder. But since Marty has
She then states that she recognized one of the men been blind since birth, he is at a loss as to how – or
named in the document from an X−File. She explains why – she managed to kill the heroin dealer, Paco
that an X−File pertains to unsolved cases and that Ordonez. Pennock states that he has 48 hours to
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prove to the District Attorney that his suspect mother’s murder – a single stab wound to the right
possesses a kind of “sixth sense”… or wait until she kidney – which is identical to the manner in which
kills someone else. Ordonez and Forester were killed. Mulder concludes
The detectives meet with Marty inside her jail that Marty gained her unique sense when her then−
cell. During questioning, it becomes obvious that pregnant mother died at the murderer’s hands.
Marty – who has adopted an uncooperative attitude Marty is released from custody after police
– possesses knowledge that only the murderer match fingerprints on the briefcase taken from the
should know. As Mulder stays behind to supervise locker to Gotts… who turns out to be Marty’s own
Marty’s polygraph test, Scully visits the scene of the father. Marty tells police that Gotts, who was
crime. There she discovers a bloody leather glove recently paroled from prison, can be located at the
hidden behind the bathroom mirror. Meanwhile, by Blarney Stone tavern. Mulder and Scully stake out
phrasing a question in a certain manner, Mulder the bar, waiting for Gotts’ appearance. Meanwhile,
determines that Marty did somehow manage to Pennock provides Marty with protection from harm
witness the murder. by guarding her at her apartment. Marty
Marty experiences another internal vision. This experiences another vision, this time seeing Gotts
time, the killer makes advances on a sexy woman, reading names on mailboxes in the lobby. Using a
Susan Forester, who sits at a bar. Marty notices the coffee pot, Marty knocks Pennock unconscious. She
name of the bar reflected in a mirror. She requests pulls his gun from his holster and takes position,
that she be allowed to make a phone call from jail. waiting for Gotts. Meanwhile, Mulder realizes that
By using an information operator, Marty phones the the blind Marty has been experiencing visions of
bar and makes contact with the murderer, a man the inside of Gotts’ prison cell for almost thirty
named Gotts. She warns him to leave the woman years. He tells Scully that Marty misdirected them
alone. on purpose… to keep Gotts from going back to
Scully brings the bloody glove to the jail. She prison. They race to Marty’s apartment, where they
informs Marty that her fingerprints were located on find Gotts dead on the floor. Later, Marty asks for
the glove, and perhaps even more importantly, the no special treatment in her defense and is sent to
glove fits Marty perfectly. Pennock concludes that prison – where she is finally free of Gotts.
Marty is the murderer. Mulder, however, is plagued
with doubt. Scully offers a possible explanation:
Marty may not be blind. Scully expands upon this All Souls
theory, noting disorders that would permit sight on
a subconscious level. As Marty undergoes an eye Production Code: #5X17
exam, she is suddenly struck by another internal Original Air Date: 04/26/98
vision. Mulder notes a reaction on a measurement Story by Billy Brown and Dal Angel
mode screen used by the ophthalmologist. But Written by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban
Marty refuses to explain what she saw. Though the Directed by Rob Bowman
examiner concludes that Marty is completely blind, A PRIEST ASKS FOR SCULLY’S HELP WHEN A
Mulder tells Pennock and the District Attorney that HANDICAPPED GIRL DIES A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
there is evidence of neurological activity which
caused her pupils to dilate – perhaps a physical Father McCue, the family priest who comforted
response to images in the mind’s eye. The District Scully during her bout with cancer (see episode
Attorney concludes that it is unlikely her office #5X03), baptizes Dara Kernof, a sixteen−year−old,
could convict a blind woman based on fingerprints severely mentally−retarded girl confined to a
alone. As a result, Marty is released from custody. wheelchair. Later that night, as a thunderstorm rages,
As Marty makes her way through the city, she is Dara somehow gains strength in her legs and leaves
struck by another vision. This time, she witnesses her house. Dara’s father, Lance, realizes something is
Gotts attack the sexy woman from the bar. With amiss and makes his way outside. There he sees
some help from a passerby, Marty makes her way Dara in the middle of the street, her arms raised
to the alley where the attack occurred. She upward, kneeling before a Dark Figure. Suddenly,
discovers the woman’s body inside a dumpster. lightning flashes, supernaturally bright. When Lance
Marty then returns to the police station and reaches his daughter, he realizes she is dead – her
confesses to both murders. eyes gone, as if having been burned out of their
Marty supplies Pennock with the location of a sockets. The Dark Figure, however, is nowhere in
locker that contains a briefcase filled with Gotts’ sight.
heroin. Meanwhile, a lab test reveals that neither of Father McCue contacts Scully and asks for her
the stains found on the leather glove match Marty’s help in solving the mystery of the girl’s death. Later,
blood type, bolstering Mulder’s suspicion that Marty Scully visits the Kerofs, and learns that Dara was
is innocent. So confident is Mulder that he adopted six years earlier. The girl suffered from
approaches Marty directly. He tells her he severe spinal deformities which confined her to a
discovered the original police report detailing her wheelchair her entire life. There is no explanation
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as to how Dara walked out of the house, though that the vision she experienced is a Seraphim, an
Lance is convinced he saw the Devil standing over angel who descended from the heavens and
her in the street. fathered four children with a mortal woman. The
Scully and a pathologist, Vicki Belon, examine Lord sent Seraphim to earth to return the girls, who
Dara’s body. Belon notes her misshapen hands and have the souls of angels, back to heaven to keep the
feet, which contain six digits (the extra fingers Devil from claiming them as his own.
having been removed via surgery). Belon reluctantly Later, Starkey tells Scully that the fourth girl is at
proposes that the girl was struck down by God, as if Father Gregory’s church. Once inside the church,
she was a mistake. Scully sees Starkey’s shadow, which is in the form
Meanwhile, a man named Father Gregory visits a of a demon. Scully rescues the girl from a
psychiatric hospital hoping to visit a girl named crawlspace and attempts to make her way out a
Paula Koklos, Dara’s twin sister. But his progress is back exit. A blinding white light suddenly erupts, the
hindered by Aaron Starkey, a department of social source of which is the mysterious Dark Figure. The
services worker, who notes that the priest’s fourth girl changes into the form of Emily – and
adoption petition lacks his approval. Upset, the begs Scully to let go. Scully reluctantly releases the
priest leaves the hospital. That night, a man enters girl’s hand, and she disappears into the light. When
Paula’s room. An intense halo of light surrounds the the light fades, only the girl’s body remains, her eyes
figure and wings form its back. The next day, Scully burnt away. Later, Scully tells Mulder they should
examines Paula’s body, her eyes burned out, have been protecting the girls from Starkey, not
kneeling much like Dara. Mulder joins his partner Father Gregory. She also believes that no one killed
and reveals he has located Dara’s birth records, the girls… but they are now in a place where they
which show she was one of quadruplets. Shortly were meant to be. She concludes the incident was
thereafter, Starkey reveals that Paula was about to about letting go… of Emily.
be adopted by Gregory.
The agents pay Gregory a visit at his church. He
insists he was trying to protect Paula from harm, The Pine Bluff Variant
and makes reference to an ongoing struggle
between good and evil for all souls. Later, while Production Code #5X18
examining Paula’s body, Scully experiences a vision Original Air Date: 05/03/98
of Emily. Written by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban
Mulder performs further research on the Directed by Rob Bowman
adoption records. He uncovers information on a MULDER GOES UNDERCOVER TO INFILTRATE A
third sister, who walked into a teen crisis center a MILITIA GROUP ARMED WITH A DEADLY PATHOGEN.
week earlier and is apparently homeless. With
Starkey’s help, he canvases abandoned buildings in a Skinner, Scully, Mulder and a dozen FBI agents
desolate part of town. But the Dark Figure, this time participate in an undercover operation in a
sporting a hideous lion’s face, finds the girl first. Washington, D.C. park. Its purpose: to catch Jacob
Mulder draws his weapon and orders a darkened Haley, a militia group member wanted on domestic
figure to step into the light. It is revealed to be terrorism charges. As Skinner and Scully monitor
Father Gregory. Gregory laments that they are too events from a surveillance van, Mulder and several
late, as he found the third sister dead. other undercover agents slowly close in on their
Mulder concludes Gregory is responsible for the suspect, who meets with a Goateed Man sitting on
murders. But Gregory insists he tried to protect the a park bench. Haley hands the Goatee Man an
girls’ souls from the Devil. He warns that the fourth envelope, then suddenly runs off. Mulder gives
sister must be located before it is too late. The chase, unaware that the skin on Goatee Man’s face
agents step out of the police interrogation room and hands is slowly being eaten away. Scully jumps
where Gregory is being held when new information from the van, intending to warn her partner. But
about the fourth sister, Roberta Dyer, comes to light. when she reaches Mulder, she is astounded to
Scully urges Mulder to find the girl. Meanwhile, discover that the suspect eluded capture.
Starkey enters the interrogation room where Scully voices her concerns to her partner,
Gregory is being held. He demands to know the looking for some explanation as to why he allowed
location of the fourth girl. When Gregory does not Haley to escape. But Mulder sidesteps the issue.
answer, he is burned alive by the demon. Shortly thereafter, the agents attend a meeting of a
Mulder makes his way to the home of George counter−terrorism council, which is headed by
Dyer, the fourth sister’s adoptive father. Dyer Skinner and U.S. Attorney Leamus. During the
eventually reveals that Father Gregory took Roberta meeting, Scully states that the Goatee Man was
away. Shortly thereafter, Scully is approached by the killed by some form of bioweapon. Skinner then
Dark Figure, whose head rotates, revealing the faces shows those in attendance a photo of August
of a lion, a fierce bird, and a satyr. Stunned, Scully Bremer, the militia group’s mastermind. He notes
seeks out Father McCue for answers. He explains
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that Bremer and Haley are reportedly vying for to contaminate the money. Bremer pulls a gun on
control. Mulder, announcing that his undercover work has
Her curiosity piqued, Scully begins surveilling her been exposed. But Haley intercedes, noting that
partner’s movements from afar. Mulder rents a room Bremer’s alias was discovered on the microfilm,
at a motel, where he has a heated telephone exposing him as the mole. Bremer responds by
conversation with Haley, one that implies the pair playing back the secret tape recording he made of
are working together. Shortly thereafter, a BMW Mulder and Scully’s conversation. Bremer hands
rolls into the motel parking lot, and Mulder climbs Haley a leather car key holder, allowing him to
in. Scully tails the car, but her progress is halted leave the group unharmed. But Bremer and the Skin−
when two sedans force her to stop. Four large men Head Man march Mulder away, intending to execute
then approach her vehicle. Scully is escorted to a him. Suddenly, Bremer kills the Skin−Head Man.
government building where, to her surprise, she is Bremer tells Mulder to run before they are both
met by Skinner and Leamus. They explain that exposed. Mulder makes his way back to the bank,
Mulder is participating in a deep cover assignment, which has already been sealed off by Scully and
the existence of which is known only to Skinner Skinner. Scully explains that she recognized Mulder
and Leamus. Someone in the militia group reached on a bank surveillance tape by the bandage on his
out to Mulder after he voiced his opinions about finger. As the money is hauled out of the bank,
governmental conspiracies during a UFO conference. Leamus tells the agents that the bills have tested
The BMW transports Mulder to a remote clean. Scully accuses Leamus of having orchestrated
farmhouse. There, Mulder is questioned by Haley, the entire plan. Later, Haley slumps over in his car,
who accuses him of spying on the group. When his face eaten away by the biotoxin, which was
Mulder fails to give acceptable answers, a Skin− transmitted by the key holder given him by Bremer.
Head Man pushes back on his finger, causing
Mulder to scream in pain. The torture session
continues until Mulder suggests a mole exists within Folie à Deux
the group. Suddenly, the Skin−Head man pulls back
on the finger, snapping it like a piece of celery. Production Code: #5X19
When Mulder passes out, Haley turns to him and Original Air Date: 05/10/98
says, “I believe you.” Meanwhile, Bremer tests the Written by Vince Gilligan
bioweapon on patrons at a small movie theater, Directed by Rob Bowman
killing fourteen people. But the question remains as MULDER IS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY A MAN WHO
to how the pathogen was spread to the victims. CLAIMS HIS BOSS IS LITERALLY A MONSTER.
When Mulder returns to his apartment, he is
surprised by Scully. She tends to his broken finger Gary Lambert works as a vinyl siding telemarketer
and discusses the undercover operation. in Oak Brook, Illinois. On the surface, Gary would
Unbeknownst to them, Bremer is secretly recording seem to be a mild−mannered Everyman. But
their conversation. Later, Mulder reports back to unbeknownst to his co−workers, Gary is convinced
Skinner and Leamus. It is determined that the militia that his boss is an evil monster who preys on his
group intends to rob a bank. Mulder also relays own staff, turning them into the undead. One
word that Haley demanded copies of surveillance morning, Skinner summons Mulder and Scully to his
files of militia group members (hoping to flush out office. He explains that the company Gary works
the mole). Leamus reveals he anticipated such a for, VinylRight, received an anonymous, audio−taped
request, and already has redacted microfilm manifesto, on which a man threatens to commit a
documents prepared. Mulder returns to the motel violent act. As a result, the company wishes to have
and gives Haley the microfilm. He is then the threat investigated. Mulder is puzzled as to why
transported back to the farmhouse, where the militia Skinner is sending he and Scully to investigate.
group is readying its assault on the bank. Skinner then explains that the maker of the tape
Scully determines that the toxin was not spoke of a monster threatening employees.
developed by the Russians as previously believed. In Somewhat irked, Mulder tells Scully he will handle
private, she tells Skinner that the United States is the case alone, labeling himself “Monster Boy.”
operating a secret bioweapons program – and that When Mulder arrives at the company, he is
someone in the government may have sent Mulder greeted by office manager Greg Pincus, who plays
on a suicide mission. Later, it suddenly dawns on him the taped message. Mulder’s interest is piqued
Scully that the source of pathogen’s distribution is by a reference to “hiding in the light.” He
money. telephones Scully and asks her to investigate
Wearing monster masks, Mulder and the militia previous X−Files cases for such a phrase. Meanwhile,
members storm a bank. Bremer accesses the vault Gary grows concerned when a fellow employee,
and sprays the money with the pathogen. The group Nancy Aaronson, is summoned to Greg’s office.
stages a successful getaway, and later Mulder When Nancy returns to her cubicle, Gary notices
realizes that the entire purpose of the break−in was that, from his point of view, she appears to be dead.
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Scully telephones Mulder when she finishes Mulder calls for the nurse… only to realize that she
researching the files. It turns out that the phrase is one of the monster’s minions. Scully visits the
“hiding in the light” was also used by a deacon at a hospital… and experiences a vision of the nurse as
Lakeland, Florida church. The deacon was convinced one of the living dead. She races to Mulder’s room,
that one of his parishioners was an evil presence. where she discovers the creature crawling on the
One Sunday, he entered the church for mass and ceiling. She opens fire, but the creature escapes.
opened fire on his flock. When Mulder returns to Later, Scully meets with Skinner. She voices her
VinylRight, he finds a sea of deserted cubicles. belief that Mulder is of sound mind. She notes that
Nancy’s head peeks out from behind a wall and an unidentified toxin was found in the dead
warns Mulder to take cover. Before he has time to hostage, and notes that Pincus has disappeared,
react, Gary approaches – armed with an AK−47. along with the nurse and several VinylRight
Mulder slowly raises his hands into the air. employees. After recovering from his ordeal, Mulder
Scully flies to Illinois and joins FBI and SWAT returns to work. Scully informs him she told Skinner
team members who have surrounded the building. the truth: the incident can only be explained as a
Inside, Gary uses his co−workers to form a human “folie à deux.”
barricade. A SWAT team commander overrules
Scully and dials Mulder’s cell phone. Gary opens
Mulder’s jacket… and notices his gun within. Gary The End
kicks Mulder in the head, knocking him to the
ground. A hostage then charges Gary, but he swivels Production Code: #5X20
and opens fire, killing the man. Gary then speaks Original Air Date: 05/17/98
with an FBI agent, and demands that a television Written by Chris Carter
crew be sent into the building so he can broadcast Directed by R.W. Goodwin
his fears to the public. Using a closed−circuit system, A BOY POSSESSING PSYCHIC POWERS MAY HOLD
the FBI fools Gary into thinking his image is being THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF THE X−
broadcast throughout the city. Addressing the FILES.
camera, Gary raises his gun and points it at Greg.
He instructs everyone to look at Greg… to look at Inside a sports arena, two chess masters, a Russian
“it.” Mulder glances over his shoulder… and sees a man and an odd−looking 12−year−old boy named
monster where Pincus was standing. Suddenly, an Gibson Praise, engage in a battle of the minds as an
Armored Personnel Carrier bursts through a wall. A audience sits in reverential silence. High above the
SWAT team member opens fire, striking Gary. crowd, on a catwalk overhanging the arena, a sniper
Mulder cannot dismiss what he saw inside the aims his rifle towards the back of the child’s head.
office complex. After performing additional As the gunman slowly squeezes the trigger, the little
research, Mulder determines that five previous X− boy announces “checkmate,” and slides back in his
Files cases involve monster that went unnoticed by chair. A gunshot rings out… and the Russian falls to
all accept the claimant. Scully reacts with the floor, dead. Meanwhile, two armed, masked
incredulity when Mulder suggests that Gary was not figures close in on the cabin where the Cigarette−
insane, but actually saw the creature he described. Smoking Man (CSM) has holed up. A sensor alerts
Scully attributes Mulder’s behavior to “folie à deux,” CSM to their presence, and he manages to kill one
a madness shared by people under tense conditions. of them before making his escape into the woods.
Meanwhile, Mulder follows Greg Pincus to the The second masked gunman gets the drop on his
home of Gretchen Starns, one of his employees. As prey… and reveals himself as Alex Krycek.
Mulder stands outside of the house, and gazes Skinner briefs Mulder on the death of the
through a window, he sees the monster advance Russian chess player. It turns out that the sniper is a
behind Gretchen, its insect−like mouth aiming for former member of the National Security Agency.
the back of her neck. The woman suddenly screams, The case was assigned to Agent Spender, who
prompting Mulder to shatter the window glass. The specified that Mulder be excluded from the
monster defies gravity by crawling over the house. investigation. Despite this, Mulder and Skinner crash
Gretchen lodges a complaint with the FBI, Spender’s briefing. While viewing videotape of the
accusing Mulder of breaking into her home. During assassination, Mulder reaches the conclusion that
a meeting with Skinner, Mulder sees Pincus, in the the shooter’s target was Gibson – not the Russian –
form of the monster, advancing. Mulder draws his as the boy reacted in an almost precognitive fashion
gun, but Skinner, believing Mulder has lost his mind, moments before the shot rang out. Spender
gains the upper hand. Mulder is then admitted to a disagrees with the theory. Agent Diana Fowley, an
mental institution. Later, at Mulder’s prompting, attractive woman in her thirties, opines that Mulder
Scully examines the back of the dead hostage’s is correct. Spender rewinds the tape… and forms the
neck. There she discovers tiny puncture marks. At same conclusion.
the hospital, a restrained Mulder listens in horror as
the monster approaches the window to his room.
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CSM meets with the Syndicate Elders. Labeling days are numbered. Later, Scully informs her partner
Gibson a threat, they ask for CSM’s help in there is talk of shutting down the X−Files. That night,
orchestrating his elimination. CSM sneaks into Mulder’s office and steals a file on
Mulder, Scully and Diana Fowley visit Gibson Samantha Mulder. He then addresses Spender face−
inside a psychiatric hospital. The boy declines to−face. He informs him that he is his father.
Mulder’s invitation to match wits against a cheap Suddenly, a fire alarm sounds and agents make their
chess computer… giving credence to Mulder’s way into the hallway. CSM disappears into the
suspicion that the boy is not a chess master, but a crowd. Later, Mulder inspects the damage to his
mind reader. Tests on the child’s brain reveal that office, where the cabinet containing the X−Files is a
Gibson is, indeed, clairvoyant. Later, Mulder visits melted skeleton. Scully places her arms around her
the shooter in his cell. He offers him immunity from partner, offering support.
prosecution in exchange for his cooperation.
Scully cannot help but notice chemistry between
Mulder and Fowley. She pays the Lone Gunman an S E A S O N 6
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 The Beginning
an item back when Mulder graduated from the
Academy and first discovered the existence of the Production Code: #6ABX01
X−Files. Scully returns to the psychiatric hospital Original Air Date: 11/08/98
intending to show Mulder the data she has Written by Chris Carter
accumulated. But when she approaches the Directed by Kim Manners
observation room, she notices Mulder and Diana MULDER AND SCULLY’S ABILITY TO PURSUE THE X−
inside… and Diana holding Mulder’s hand. Scully, a FILES – AND THEIR PARTNERSHIP IS THREATENED BY
confusion of emotions, both personal and THE HUNT FOR A DEADLY CREATURE IN THE
professional, leaves the hospital. When Mulder ARIZONA DESERT, WHOSE CAPTURE MAY OR MAY
enters the hospital’s parking garage to retrieve his NOT PROVE MULDER’S THEORIES ABOUT THE
car, he notices Spender talking to CSM. Mulder EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
pushes Spender hard in the chest, demanding to Mulder and Scully are brought before a review
know his business. Spender explains that he does board to justify their re−assignment on the X−Files.
not know the identity of the mysterious man. He The board needs scientific proof of extraterrestrial
then reveals that the shooter wishes to speak with life. Mulder argues that concrete evidence exists via
Mulder. Scully, who had earlier been infected by an alien
Scully meets with Skinner and Mulder to reveal virus. When Scully is vague regarding this infection,
the results of the psychiatric tests on Gibson. It the board gives the team their final warning – find
turns out that an area of the child’s brain, dubbed concrete evidence or else.
the “God Module” by neurophysicists, exhibits On the sly, A.D. Skinner gives Mulder a lead on
extraordinary activity. Mulder believes the child’s a strange case in Arizona that might give him the
life is in danger because of his gift, as it might be hard evidence he needs. At the crime scene, Mulder
the key to solving the unexplained phenomena theorizes that the victim was infected by an alien
contained within the X−Files. He also suspects that virus and that this virus ultimately produced an alien
the assassin holds the key to the vast conspiracy entity. The entity then ripped away the victim’s
working against him. Skinner points out that the chest from the inside as it birthed itself.
very existence of the X−Files would be put at risk if Meantime, the Syndicate is irate that this
he asks the Attorney General to grant immunity to “situation” has surfaced and is getting so much
the assassin. Later, Mulder approaches the shooter attention. Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) assures
and asks him for information he can corroborate. He them that he is taking care of the problem. He
reveals that Gibson is a missing link – genetic proof brings Gibson Praise, the young chess prodigy, to
of man’s relationship to an alien race. the crime scene in hopes that Praise can divine
CSM puts his plan in motion. The assassin is where the creature has escaped to.
murdered inside his cell. Shortly thereafter, a bullet The agents are drawn to a nearby power plant
strikes Fowley as she stands watch over Gibson. where another murder has occurred. They are met
CSM delivers the child to the Well−Manicured Man by agents Spender and Fowley who deny Mulder
and Krycek. access to the new crime scene. When Mulder and
When Mulder sees Spender at the Bureau, he Scully return to their car, they find Praise hiding in
pushes him into a wall. He angrily accuses him of the back seat.
orchestrating Gibson’s disappearance in conjunction Mulder wants to use Praise to find the alien
with CSM. Other agents restrain Mulder, dragging creature, but Scully talks him out of it, explaining
him away. Spender responds by stating that Mulder’s that Praise is the scientific evidence Mulder’s been
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looking for. Praise can corroborate everything ELF waves stretches beneath their property. She
Mulder’s been saying. Scully tells Mulder that Praise deduces that an abnormal surge in these waves
needs medical attention, and just as they’re about to somehow caused a rising pressure in the inner ear
drive him to the hospital, Agent Fowley arrives. of the nearby inhabitants. Westward motion seems
Scully continues on to the hospital with Praise, to be the only thing to help the ease the pain of the
while Mulder and Fowley go to the plant to find the increasing pressure.
creature. Mulder explains to Crump that Scully will meet
At the plant, Mulder and Fowley discover them at the end of the highway. There she will
evidence that the alien is there. He calls Scully at insert a needle into Crump’s inner ear, hopefully
the hospital to tell her this; in turn, she reveals that relieving the pressure. But when Mulder arrives, it is
Praise has traces of the alien virus in his body. too late. Crump has already died.
Somehow, Praise is part extraterrestrial. While
Scully’s attention is diverted, Black−Haired Man
kidnaps Praise and takes him to the power plant to Triangle
find and destroy the alien. Mulder catches up with
Praise and Black−Haired Man, but it is too late. They Production Code: #6ABX03
have locked themselves inside the core reactor Original Air Date: 11/22/98
room. Mulder watches helplessly as the alien kills Written and Directed by Chris Carter
Black−Haired Man. The alien turns on Praise just as A TRIP TO THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE LANDS MULDER
the plant’s alarms sound and FBI agents swarm the IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIZARRE CONFLICT ON A
area. Fowley, now seeming to be on Spender’s side, MYSTERIOUS SHIP, WITH THE FATE OF THE WORLD
approaches Mulder and tells him to back off. IN HIS HANDS.
Back at the review board, the panel tells Mulder
and Scully to cease all association with the X−Files. Thrown out of his dingy by a ferocious storm in the
They are put on probation and told to report to a Sargasso Sea, Mulder is fished out the ocean by
new boss, Assistant Director Kersh. 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
Drive War II.
Brought before the ship’s captain Yip Harburgh,
Production Code: #6ABX02 Mulder tries to explain that the war is over and that
Original Air Date: 11/15/98 the boat has been caught in some kind of time
Written by Vince Gilligan warp called the Devil’s Triangle for the past 50
Directed by Rob Bowman years. But he captain and crew have very different
feelings, as the reality of the moment tells us that
WITH MULDER TRAPPED IN A CAR BY A SEEMINGLY the liner has been captured by Nazi soldiers. The
DERANGED MAN, SCULLY RACES TO DETERMINE IF Nazis believe that the boat is carrying “Thor’s
THE MAN IS SUFFERING FROM A DEADLY ILLNESS – Hammer”, which they assume to be an atom bomb.
AND IF MULDER IS IN DANGER OF BECOMING THE
NEXT VICTIM. When Mulder accidentally reveals that “Thor’s
Hammer” is the scientist who can make an atom
Via a live news report, a high−speed car chase bomb, the Nazis steer a path for Germany, hoping
comes to an end in the Nevada desert. Assuming it to use the atom bomb technology to win the war.
to be a kidnapping, the female passenger is pulled The atom bomb scientist on board is traveling
from the vehicle and placed into the protective with a woman who looks identical to Scully. Mulder
custody of a police vehicle. The driver, Patrick enlists the aid of the Scully look−alike, telling her
Crump, is pushed to the asphalt and handcuffed. The she must turn the ship around and save the future. If
woman in the police car begins violently banging she doesn’t, the Germans will win the war, and
her head against the car window. As the news ultimately, Mulder and Scully will not exist. The
chopper catches all of this on film, the woman’s Scully look−alike is confused, but Mulder is in a
head explodes, sending a spray of blood across the hurry, he’s got to get back to his own history.
window. Realizing he may never get another chance, he gives
The agents get wind of this bizarre car chase as the Scully look−alike a deep kiss, for which she
they’re doing scut work in Idaho. Mulder coerces repays him with a “special” kiss of her own – a right
Scully into taking a detour by Elko, Nevada on a hook to his chin. Mulder jumps overboard.
hunch that this may be an X−File. Once there, Meantime, the Lone Gunmen approach Scully at
however, Mulder manages to get himself kidnapped FBI headquarters and inform her of Mulder’s
by Crump, who has escaped from the police. disappearance. She enlists the help of Skinner to get
Mulder realizes that Crump is in a considerable information from the Navy’s satellite tracking system
amount of pain and that the only way to ease the to find the missing ship.
pain is to drive west. Scully investigates the Crumps
home and discovers that an antenna array emitting
EPISODE_GUIDE 85

Racing to the spot where Mulder disappeared, Dreamland II (2 of 2)


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 Production Code: #6ABX05
happened, but they downplay it as a dream. They all Original Air Date: 12/06/98
wish him a speedy recovery and leave. It is then Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank
that Mulder feels a bruise on his face given to him Spotnitz
by one of the Nazis. And he realizes it wasn’t a Directed by Kim Manners
dream after all. 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
Dreamland (1 of 2) NORMAL BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
Still trapped inside Man−In−Black Morris’ body,
Production Code: #6ABX04 Mulder manages to evade the brig when his fellow
Original Air Date: 11/29/98 MIB cohorts discover that the flight data recorder
Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban Mulder tried to give Scully was a fake. They come
and Frank Spotnitz to the conclusion that Mulder was trying to run a
Directed by Kim Manners scam on the FBI. Mulder plays along and the MIBs
AN ANONYMOUS TIP FINALLY BRINGS MULDER AND are relieved, but still want the original flight data
SCULLY TO THE MECCA OF ALL UFO LORE – AREA 51. recorder back. Mulder waffles, but tells them he has
BUT WHEN THE AGENTS WITNESS THE FLIGHT OF A it and that he’ll return it.
MYSTERIOUS CRAFT, THEIR LIVES ARE PROFOUNDLY Meanwhile, Scully is put on suspension and
– AND PERHAPS IRREVOCABLY – ALTERED. Morris (in Mulder’s body) tries to ease her pain by
Mulder drags Scully deep in the Nevada desert to inviting her to his house for a home−cooked meal.
meet a “source” who supposedly works at Area 51 Suspicious at first, she agrees. But when she gets
and is going to give Mulder proof positive of the there, she finds an immaculate apartment and an
government’s experimentation with alien actual bedroom she never knew Mulder had. Things
technology. Unfortunately, before they can are just a bit too weird. She confronts Morris about
rendezvous with the informant, they are stopped by the switch and he comes clean, further explaining
other Area 51 officials who tell them they must turn that he has no idea how to switch back.
around. As Scully tries to haul Mulder back into the A reluctant Morris accompanies Scully as she
car, a UFO flies overhead. It emits a massive heat reveals to Mulder that there may not be a way to
ripple which switches the personalities of Mulder reverse this process. But somehow, one of the MIBs
and Morris Fletcher, one of the Area 51 officials. discover that the time warp is snapping back,
Unbeknownst to anyone other than Mulder and reversing time in the process. He positions Mulder
Morris, Morris (who now inhabits Mulder’s body) and Morris in the right time at the right place and
climbs back into the car with Scully, leaving Mulder their personalities are returned to the rightful bodies.
(who is now in Morris’ body) with the Area 51 Their memories of the past few days are rewound
goons. as well and no one remembers a thing. This
Entrenched behind the walls of the mecca of perplexes Mulder when returns home to find a
UFO lore, Mulder tries to untangle the mess he’s spotless apartment.
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 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
situation.
Mulder tries to prove to Scully that he is not Production Code: #6ABX08
Morris, though Scully is skeptical at best. He tells Original Air Date: 12/13/98
her he will give her scientific proof via a flight data Written and Directed by Chris Carter
recorder which was recovered from another plane ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, MULDER
that crashed during test flights at Area 51. CONVINCES SCULLY TO PUT ASIDE HER GIFT
Unfortunately, Morris (aka Mulder) gets wind of WRAPPING AND STAKE OUT A REPUTED HAUNTED
Mulder’s plan and informs A.D. Kersh. Kersh then HOUSE. BUT THEY DISCOVER A MARRIED COUPLE
orders Scully to set a trap for Mulder. The Area 51 LIVING IN THE HOUSE, KEEPING A SECRET THE
police arrive and capture Mulder. And as Scully AGENTS NEVER EXPECTED.
watches the MPs drag off this man who looks like It’s late Christmas Eve. Telling tales of star−crossed
Morris Fletcher, but claims to be Mulder, she lovers who forged a pact to be together for eternity,
wonders if there may be any truth to the odd turn Mulder lures Scully into the darkened mansion that
of events. the ghost couple purportedly haunts. Once inside,
the front door locks behind the duo and traps them
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inside. Mulder believes it is the work of the ghosts exits the car bleeding, exclaiming that Wayne took
who inhabit the house. Scully, ever the skeptic, her baby.
instructs Mulder on the psychology of peoples’ need Moving on to Betsy’s house, Mulder and Scully
to believe in the afterlife as a means to satisfy their find Wayne furiously digging in the backyard. The
fear of mortality. But when a previously locked door agents think Wayne is burying Betsy’s unborn baby,
springs open and a light shines from inside the room but before Wayne can tell them otherwise, the
beyond, Mulder chalks it up to ghosts. Scully, sheriff arrives and shoots Wayne down. What
admitting that she is afraid but that it’s an irrational Wayne would have told the agents is that he was
fear, still sticks with the belief that people might be actually digging up unborn normal babies – the ones
actually living in the house. Betsy had buried there. Being a demon himself, a
Passing through the door, the partners find normal baby was all Wayne ever wanted. But it
themselves in a library. And in a series of odd seems Betsy, being even more evil than he, had
twists and turns, they become separated – each always wanted just the opposite – a demon baby.
trapped in some parallel universe version of the And as Betsy drives into the sunset with her
library. It is here that Mulder meets Maurice The newborn baby, we see that’s exactly what she got.
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 The Rain King
shoot Mulder. When the two agents meet back up,
they follow through on the ghosts’ mischievous plan Production Code: #6ABX07
and fire their weapons on each other. As they lay Original Air Date: 01/10/99
gasping on the staircase landing, they realize it was Written by Jeffrey Bell
only some kind of mind trick played on them by the Directed by Kim Manners
ghosts. IN A SMALL TOWN PLAGUED BY DROUGHT, MULDER
Safely ensconced back in their homes, the duo AND SCULLY COME UPON A MAN WHO CLAIMS TO
agree that the events of the evening never BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE WEATHER – AT A HEFTY
happened. PROFIT. YET THE AGENTS DISCOVER A FORCE OF
NATURE AT WORK, WHICH IS EVEN MORE
POWERFUL THAN THE WEATHER.
Terms of Endearment Kroner, Kansas has been experiencing a three−
month drought. It’s Valentine’s Day and Sheila
Production Code: #6ABX06 Fontaine waits for her boyfriend, Darryl Mootz.
Original Air Date: 01/03/99 When he arrives home, he’s angry that Sheila has
Written by David Amann prematurely spread word of their engagement and
Directed by Rob Bowman storms out of the house, leaving Sheila alone with
WHEN A MOTHER IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HER her tears and a box of chocolates. Shortly
UNBORN CHILD, MULDER AND SCULLY BEGIN TO thereafter, Darryl is caught in a freak hailstorm
SUSPECT A MORE SINISTER FORCE IS AT WORK. which causes him to wreck his car.
Wayne and Laura Weinsider are just like any other It’s six months later and nine months into the
couple – they want to start a family. But when the drought. Mulder and Scully are called to Kroner by
ultrasound shows possible deformities in the baby the town’s mayor who believes that Darryl is
that Laura is carrying, it is Wayne who becomes causing the drought so he can charge people for the
visibly upset. That night, Laura has a nightmare that rain. When the agents check with Holman Hardt,
a demon has come to steal her baby. When she the local meteorologist, Holman substantiates part
wakes, she realizes the nightmare has come true of the mayor’s claim – Holman believes that Darryl
and that her unborn baby has been taken from her. can make it rain. While Mulder and Scully check
The town’s sheriff, who happens to be Laura’s out Darryl’s side−show, Sheila tells Holman she’s
brother, brings the case to Agent Spender who nervous that the FBI are poking around. Shortly
round−files it to the shredder. But Mulder manages thereafter, Mulder’s life is threatened when a cow is
to salvage the report and begins his own picked up by a mini−twister and hurled through the
investigation. His primary suspect is Wayne but roof of the motel where he’s staying.
Scully thinks that Laura self−aborted and has her Out of guilt, Sheila confesses that she is the one
arrested. Meantime, Mulder follows Wayne and who has been causing all of the terrible weather−
ultimately uncovers that Wayne has been living a related catastrophes that have been occurring in
dual life. His second wife, Betsy, lives on the other Kroner for the past twenty years. Mulder, however,
side of town and Mulder fears for her safety. As has another theory. He believes that Holman is the
Mulder and Scully race to save Betsy, a car skids to culprit and that it is the feelings he can’t express
a stop in the middle of the road. It’s Betsy, who 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 Skinner and someone is programming them to kill
Mulder. Holman, in turn, causes it to rain in flash− him.
flood proportions. Meanwhile, Skinner lies on a hospital bed, his
To stop the deluge, Mulder gives Holman pulse flatlines. The orderly calls time of death.
“dating” advice, telling him that he must tell Sheila Moments later, Skinner gasps and comes back to
how he feels about her. After much prodding, life. Weeks later, Scully reports that whatever
Holman opens his heart to her. One year later finds infected Skinner has gone into remission. Mulder
Holman and Sheila married with a child. And the asks for permission to continue the investigation but
weather, as you can imagine, is perfect. Skinner closes the case.
At day’s end, Skinner heads for his car. In the
backseat, he finds the man who had been driving
S.R. 819 the nanotechnology atoms – Krycek. Krycek glares
at Skinner – he’s got Skinner under his thumb and
Production Code: #6ABX10 intends to keep him there.
Original Air Date: 01/17/99
Written by John Shiban
Directed by Daniel Sackheim Tithonus
MULDER AND SCULLY HAVE 24 HOURS TO SAVE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER FROM BEING KILLED Production Code: #6ABX09
– BUT IN ORDER TO DO SO, THEY MUST Original Air Date: 01/24/99
DETERMINE WHO WANTS HIM DEAD, AND WHY. Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Michael Watkins
A man is rushed into the emergency room near
death. One of the doctors tells the nurse to call PAIRED WITH A NEW PARTNER, AGENT SCULLY
Agent Scully because the sick man works for the INVESTIGATES A CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHER
FBI. We assume that it is Agent Mulder; only to find, WHOSE SUBJECTS MAY IN FACT BE HIS VICTIMS.
however, that it is actually Assistant Director Relegated to doing background checks, Scully and
Skinner. Mulder are bored stiff. Assistant Director Kersh
Flashback twenty−four hours. Agent Mulder finds finally calls Scully up and pairs her with New York
A.D. Skinner in his office, not feeling well. He calls City field agent, Peyton Ritter, for a special
in Scully who posits that Skinner may have been assignment. While scanning old crime scene photos
poisoned. When asked to recall if anything out of into the computer, Ritter stumbled upon
the ordinary happened in his day, Skinner inconsistencies in the times that the photos were
remembers that a renowned physicist named taken. He feels that the man who took the pictures,
Kenneth Orgel stopped him in the hallway earlier in a stringer named Alfred Fellig, is responsible. Ritter
the day. Mulder and Skinner pay a visit to Orgel, theorizes that Fellig kills people, takes their picture,
only to find him in the process of being kidnapped. then shows up later when called to do the crime
The kidnappers get away with Orgel; Mulder scene photo job for the wire services.
captures one of the fleeing bad guys, but must In a dark alley in the Bronx, a mugger tackles
release him when he discovers that the man is a and kills his victim. Mid−crime, the mugger looks up
Tunisian with diplomatic immunity. to see Fellig on a fire escape, taking pictures. The
Scully, in the meantime, examines a vial of mugger then turns on Fellig and knifes him in the
Skinner’s blood. Upon close levels of magnification, back. Fellig falls to the concrete, dead, and the
she finds miniscule foreign bodies that seem to mugger takes off. Minutes after he’s gone, Fellig
multiply uniformly and rapidly. These specks are pulls the knife out of his back and staggers off into
forming dams in Skinner’s veins, cutting off his the night.
blood flow and building a heart attack. Fellig is brought in for questioning but denies
Mulder rifles through Orgel’s house and finds a killing anyone; he was just there for “the shot”. And
connection to Senator Matheson. Paying the Senator since they have no proof that Fellig committed the
a visit, he finds out about Senate Resolution 819 – a crime, they release him. But Ritter begins 24−hour
health bill which will supply medical technology for surveillance on Fellig. Scully relieves Ritter late at
third world countries. Ripping apart Skinner’s office, night, only to realize shortly after Ritter leaves that
Mulder finds that Skinner was doing a security Fellig is watching her. Exasperated, she confronts
check on the resolution and that, somehow, his Fellig about his involvement in the murders that he
connection to the resolution is what got him photographs. He invites her to come for a ride and
poisoned. He confronts Senator Matheson again and he will show Scully how he happens to be johnny−
finds out that nanotechnology – microscopic atom− on−the−spot when a murder is committed.
sized machines that had been previously thought of After driving around for hours, Fellig finally stops
as only theoretical – have been injected into 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 Meanwhile, the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM)
from Scully, heads into the street and is run down approaches Openshaw, who miraculously survived
by an oncoming truck. Scully, in shock at what she the fire and has been confined to a plastic tent
may have just caused, looks up in time to see Fellig inside a hospital. Openshaw tells him that Cassandra
drive off. is a success, and must be terminated before the
Mulder does some low−tech research on his alien colonists find out that a human/alien hybrid
own and calls Scully to tell her that Fellig has a exists. Shortly thereafter, CSM kills Openshaw.
penchant for changing identities, the farthest one CSM telephones Elder #1 to inform him about an
dating back to 1849. This makes Fellig 149 years old. emergency meeting of the Syndicate. Elder #1
Scully, not wanting Fellig to have another identity promises he will make the meeting. He makes his
crisis, goes to Fellig’s apartment where he ushers her way to the front door… only to find Openshaw
into his darkroom. He explains that he was marked standing on the other side. Elder #1 grabs at the
for death a long time ago, but somehow Death impostor’s face, exposing a faceless rebel beneath.
missed him. Fellig has been taking photos of dying A struggle ensues, and the Elder is killed.
people ever since in hopes of capturing the visage Scully and Mulder decide to meet with
of Death on film so that he can look into Death’s Cassandra without informing Spender of their
face and die as well. action. Miraculously, Cassandra pushes back the
During the conversation, Fellig realizes that covers and lets her legs fall to the floor. Scully
Scully is marked for Death and readies to take her looks on, incredulous, as the previously wheelchair−
picture. Agent Ritter arrives and fires instinctively bound Cassandra walks without assistance.
into the darkened room. The bullet hits Fellig as Cassandra tells the agents that surgeons worked in
well as Scully. As Ritter moves into the other room conjunction with the aliens to cure her. She now
to call for help, Fellig takes Scully’s hand and tells believes that the aliens are plotting to take over the
her not to look into Death’s face. She closes her universe by infecting all life forms with a black
eyes and Death finally takes Fellig. virus. The surgeons were burned by another race of
aliens – faceless rebels – who mutilated their faces
so they wouldn’t be infected. Cassandra now
Two Fathers (1 of 2) believes that her son’s life is in danger, as he is in
collusion with men who have worked with the
Production Code: #6ABX11 aliens.
Original Air Date: 02/07/99 In flashback, some 35 years earlier, Openshaw,
Written by Jeffrey Bell, Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Bill Mulder, and CSM enter a train car containing a
Directed by Kim Manners Native American test subject. The Native American’s
THE AGENTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS WHEN
face, arms and body are horribly disfigured.
CASSANDRA SPENDER MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARS. Repulsed, Bill Mulder exits the train car. As the
disfigured man is their best effort, both CSM and
Inside a stockyard in Arlington, Virginia, a surgeon Openshaw believe they must ally with the aliens if
escorts Dr. Openshaw inside a train car containing a they ever hope to create a human/alien hybrid.
surgical bay. Openshaw approaches an operating Back in the present day, the Syndicate members,
table, on which lies a patient, her face unseen. The including Krycek and CSM, gather for the meeting.
surgeon congratulates Openshaw on his work, some Elder #1 suggests an alliance with the alien rebels,
25 years in the making, which is now a success. The something completely at odds with everything the
surgeon exits the train car, only to be lit afire by a group has strived for. After the meeting, Krycek
Faceless Man. The rest of the surgical team, waiting informs CSM that Mulder paid Cassandra a secret
in a nearby van, are also incinerated. A Faceless visit.
Man enters the surgical bay and thrusts his weapon Scully and Mulder sneak into Mulder’s old office,
at Openshaw, burning him. The creature then looks where they access computer files on Cassandra
upon the operating table… where an unconscious Spender, her son, and CSM, who is identified by the
Cassandra Spender lies. name “C.G.B. Spender.” But the computer has no
Skinner escorts Agent Spender to the stockyard. additional information on the mysterious man.
He explains that a group of people were burned Moments later, Skinner warns the agents that they
alive, and that only his mother, and a critically are about to get caught. Before Mulder and Scully
injured man, survived. Spender sees his mother in a have a chance to escape, they are confronted by
nearby paramedics vehicle and goes to her side. Spender. Later, Spender informs his father that
Cassandra asks to speak with Mulder. Moments Mulder and Scully will be processed out of the FBI.
later, Spender tells Skinner that he objects to the He then asks for the truth about his mother. CSM
idea of Mulder’s involvement in the case. But tells him that Cassandra has been involved in a very
Spender changes his mind, and reluctantly informs important experiment. But he does not elaborate
Mulder of his mother’s request to speak with him. further, as Spender must prove himself capable of
Mulder tells Spender to find the truth himself. the responsibility that comes with such knowledge.
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Meanwhile, Scully performs some research. She and was begging Mulder to end her life so that the
learns that Cassandra Spender was first abducted on aliens would not start colonization.
the night of November 27th, 1973… the same night In a hallway at Ft. Marlene, Mulder finds Marita
Mulder’s sister was abducted. Covarrubias. She appears haggard and quite ill. She
CSM tells Spender about Elder #1’s death. He tells Mulder that they have been performing tests on
instructs Spender to kill the imposter using a gimlet her to find a vaccine against the Black Oil. She
weapon. Krycek drives Spender to Elder #1’s home. explains to Mulder that the hybrid program was in
Unfortunately, Spender cannot muster the nerve to cooperation with the aliens, but the conspirators
carry out his assignment. The Elder #1 imposter sees never intended to succeed. They were only buying
the gimlet in Spender’s hand and attacks him. time until a vaccine was created to fight the Black
Krycek comes to Spender’s rescue, driving the Oil. But now that Cassandra Spender is a successful
gimlet into the imposter’s neck. Afterward, a Iago− human/alien hybrid, colonization will begin.
like Krycek informs Spender that his father directed Scully calls Mulder to the Lone Gunmen’s lair
the experiments forced on Cassandra. Spender where she tells him of her suspicions about Diana
realizes he is being asked to protect his mother so Fowley. Scully feels that Diana is somehow working
the experiments can continue. with the Syndicate, but Mulder refuses to believe
Back at the hospital, Cassandra enters the her. Scully storms out and Mulder pays a visit to
bathroom to smoke a cigarette. As she looks in the Diana’s apartment. He begins searching her room for
mirror, her face suddenly loses its shape. Cassandra any incriminating evidence when the Cigarette−
screams. The female FBI agent assigned to protect Smoking Man (CSM) enters the apartment. Mulder
her races to her aid. She assures Cassandra that she holds him at gunpoint as CSM substantiates the
will be all right, as she is “the one.” Cassandra entire Syndicate operation. He even explains that
stares at her, not comprehending. The female FBI Mulder’s father gave over Mulder’s sister Samantha
agent reaches up to her own face and pulls back to the aliens as a guarantee of their honor. In return,
her flesh… revealing a male Faceless Alien beneath. the aliens gave the Syndicate the alien fetus that
Cassandra recoils in fear. Clad in the FBI agent’s would allow the human/alien hybrid work to begin.
clothing, she flees to Mulder’s apartment. With time CSM truly believes that what he did saved millions
running out, she begs the agents to kill her, because of lives and ultimately would bring Samantha and
if she lives, there will be no stopping what is about other family members back home. It was Mulder’s
to happen. Mulder draws his gun and aims at father who thought of the idea to use the alien
Cassandra. fetus DNA to make a secret vaccine against the
Black Oil.
Jeffrey Spender pays a visit to his father in the
One Son (2 of 2) Syndicate offices, only to find Krycek in the now
abandoned space. Krycek tells Spender that
Production Code: #6ABX12 everyone has left for El Rico Air Force Base to
Original Air Date: 02/14/99 receive the hybrid genes and that Spender’s father,
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz CSM, has gone to get Cassandra to turn her over to
Directed by Rob Bowman the aliens. Spender informs Scully. Meanwhile,
MULDER LEARNS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
Mulder and Diana, who has returned to her
GOVERNMENT/ALIEN CONSPIRACY RESPONSIBLE apartment, leave for the base. Mulder calls Scully to
FOR HIS SISTER’S ABDUCTION, BUT NOW FACES A have her meet them there. Scully tells Mulder about
GREATER DILEMMA: WHAT TO DO WITH THIS NEW Cassandra and the two rush to intercept the train.
FOUND KNOWLEDGE. The train plows through their car as they escape the
impact.
Mulder is about to pull the trigger and end Diana joins the Syndicate in the hangar at the
Cassandra Spender’s life, when the door to his base, and Cassandra is brought in. The doors open
apartment is forced open and CDC agents storm in, and the rebel aliens enter, incinerating the
taking Mulder, Scully and Cassandra into custody. Syndicate and their families. Diana and CSM
In a quarantined area at Ft. Marlene military manage to slip out. Later, Spender takes
base, Mulder and Scully are addressed by Diana responsibility for the deaths and recommends to
Fowley. She explains that Cassandra Spender had A.D. Kersh that Mulder and Scully be reinstated on
contracted a highly contagious virus and needed to the X−Files. CSM enters Spender’s office to confront
be put in isolation pending full medical evaluation. his son. Spender expresses his hatred for CSM. CSM
Scully scoffs at this notion, calling it unjustified and draws his gun and points it at Spender. After firing a
highly suspicious. Scully believes that Cassandra was single shot, CSM exits.
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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Agua Mala realization when he sees a cat sitting out in the rain
rather than finding shelter in the apartment building.
The storm passes and Mulder and Scully wrap
Production Code: #6ABX14 up their visit with Dales, who takes great delight in
Original Air Date: 02/21/99 ribbing Mulder that Scully saved his life.
Written by David Amann
Directed by Rob Bowman
STRANDED IN FLORIDA BY A HURRICANE, MULDER Monday
AND SCULLY SEEK SAFETY IN AN OLD APARTMENT
BUILDING – BUT THE AGENTS FIND THEMSELVES IN Production Code: #6ABX15
EVEN MORE DANGER WHEN THEY LEARN Original Air Date: 02/28/99
SOMETHING ELSE HAS COME IN FROM THE RAIN Written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban
WITH THEM.
Directed by Kim Manners
Arthur Dales, father of the X−Files, lures Mulder and A BAD DAY KEEPS GETTING WORSE FOR MULDER
Scully to Florida’s Gulf Coast in the middle of a AND SCULLY, ENDING IN TRAGEDY THAT THE
hurricane with tales of a sea monster on the loose. AGENTS SEEM POWERLESS TO PREVENT.
Scully is not so easily convinced and after checking
out a house where the monster supposedly killed a It’s Monday morning, and already Mulder’s having a
family, she begs Mulder to take the last flight out bad day. His waterbed sprouts a leak, causing his
before the hurricane descends full−force. But the alarm clock to short out – now he’s late for a
hurricane strikes, closing the airport and all roads meeting. His cell phone is busted as well, his
out of town. neighbors downstairs are complaining about water
Forced to take shelter in a nearby apartment damage. And to make matters worse, the check he
building, they find a sheriff’s deputy who has been writes to cover the damage is going to bounce
attacked by what Scully terms a water−borne unless he deposits his paycheck immediately.
parasite. Mulder, surmising that whatever attacked Mulder rushes to his office to pick up his check,
the deputy might be in the plumbing, decides to telling Scully that he’ll be at the meeting as soon as
check out the rest of the building for inhabitants. He he makes his deposit. Yet, as luck would have it, the
finds a looter, a couple – Walter and his very very moment Mulder arrives at the bank, a
pregnant girlfriend, Angela, and a militant neighbor, disillusioned janitor named Bernard has decided that
George Vincent. he’s going to change his own luck – by robbing the
Huddled in a darkened apartment together, the bank. Bernard whips out a gun and forces everyone
motley crew watch as the deputy hovers nears – including Mulder – to drop to the floor. He’s edgy,
death. They pack him in ice in the tub, hoping to just this side of snapping, and Mulder thinks better
abate his rising temperature. But when the group’s of trying to stop him.
not looking, the looter steals the deputy’s ring and Meanwhile, Scully waits with increasing
inadvertently knocks a box of Epsom salts into the impatience at their meeting – she finally gets up to
bath water. Minutes later, pregnant Angela uses the leave, going to the bank herself. Mulder sees her
bathroom, only to emerge screaming that she had approaching from across the street and tries to get
seen the creature with giant arms like an octopus. Bernard to lock the doors – too late. Scully walks in,
When Mulder enters the bathroom, he finds the sees the situation, pulls out her weapon. In the
deputy’s body gone, melted into water in the tub. ensuing chaos, and to Scully’s horror, Mulder is shot
Mulder theorizes that the monster doesn’t live in squarely in the chest. As Mulder slowly bleeds to
water, but that it is water, taking shape only when death in her arms, Scully attempts to talk Bernard
it attacks. down. But the burglar alarm has been tripped,
To avoid any further attacks, Mulder decides it’s Skinner has been alerted, and a SWAT team is just
time to move everyone to another building. He goes outside. Bernard sees all of this and realizes there is
out to the carport only to find the looter has taken no going back – he opens his jacket, revealing
the deputy’s prowler and escaped, leaving the group dozens of sticks of dynamite. He flips the trigger –
stranded. On his way back into the apartment, he is the bank explodes. There’s no way anyone could
attacked by a coiled tentacle that extends from the have survived.
ceiling and wraps its arm around Mulder’s neck. Then we’re back where we started – Monday
Managing to free himself from the monster, morning, leaky waterbed, the same bad day – but it
Mulder tries to get back into the apartment, but still ends with the exploding bank. The day repeats
Vincent has locked him out. As he struggles for his itself over and over with small variations – some
life in the hallway, Angela goes into labor and days, Scully deposits Mulder’s check, some days
Scully must help deliver the baby. As the new Mulder uses the ATM. But each time, no one quite
bundle arrives, Scully deduces that fresh water kills remembers that they’ve done this repeatedly –
the organism and has Walter shoot the sprinkler though Mulder is becoming gradually aware of a
heads. Simultaneously, Mulder has the same strong sense of déjà vu. And something starts to
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happen that seems to confirm this: each time, antiques are Nepalese and Tibetan; he owns Pier 9
Bernard’s girlfriend Pam desperately tries to warn Imports and travels to the Far East often for
Mulder not to go in the bank – she seems to be the business.
only one who remembers what is happening, and it The Shroeders invite Mulder and Scully to dinner
is hell for her. She tells Mulder that she’s tried and Mulder presses the issue of Big Mike’s
stopping Bernard, tried calling the police, but disappearance. When Cami becomes uncomfortable
nothing ever works – Mulder is the only variable. with the topic and excuses herself to take the dog
She begs him not to go in the bank, telling him that out, Scully accompanies her. During their walk, the
“something went wrong on this day the first time dog gets loose and scrambles into a nearby storm
around.” And it’s going to keep repeating until it drain. As Scully tries to fish out the lost pooch, she
goes right. finds a caduceus necklace worn by Big Mike
Pam’s words sink in, finally – the next time he covered in what appears to be blood.
sees Bernard, Mulder remembers the bomb, Scully has the “blood” analyzed, only to find that
remembers the outcome of this Monday. He calls it is basically garbage; the neighborhood was built
Scully for help, asking her to bring Pam into the atop an old landfill. Mulder theorizes that the Klines
bank. The three attempt to talk Bernard out of it, are buried in the yard somewhere, and while
tell him to just walk away – but Bernard reacts the digging a hole to find them, he dredges up a
same way he always does – he shoots at Mulder. Malaysian artifact with a sticker showing that it
Only this time, Pam jumps in front of the bullet. It came from Pier 9 Imports. Mulder confronts Gogolak
hits her in the chest and she drops to the ground, with the theory that Gogolak, while on the trips to
saying “This never happened before.” She dies – and Far East, learned of the tulpa, or Tibetan thought−
the day is over. form, a creature willed into existence by one who
Mulder awakes the next day on his couch – it’s possesses the ability. He believes Gogolak created
Tuesday. 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
Arcadia he was attacked by the creature, but managed to
escape. He tells Scully that the creature is coming
Production Code: #6ABX13 for her because her “husband” has broken the rules.
Original Air Date: 03/07/99 Big Mike barricades Scully in the closet and fights
Written by Daniel Arkin off the approaching monster. The firing gunshots
Directed by Michael Watkins warn Mulder, who races home, with Gogolak in
MULDER AND SCULLY GO UNDERCOVER, POSING AS
tow. Mulder stops to handcuff Gogolak to the
A MARRIED COUPLE, TO INVESTIGATE STRANGE mailbox before going inside to help Scully. But
HAPPENINGS IN A PLANNED SUBURBAN outside, Gogolak is attacked by his own creation –
COMMUNITY. yet with his death, the tulpa dies as well,
disintegrating at Mulder’s feet.
Welcome to “The Falls at Arcadia”, one of the
nation’s top−rated planned communities.
Unfortunately, three couples have vanished from the Alpha
neighborhood over the past seven years. So Mulder
and Scully go undercover and pose as new home Production Code: #6ABX16
buyers to investigate the strange disappearances. Original Air Date: 03/28/99
Helpful residents Big Mike, a veterinarian, and Written by Jeffrey Bell
next−door neighbors, Win and Cami Schroeder, help Directed by Peter Markle
Mulder and Scully get squared away on move−in
day. But Win balks when Mulder wants to erect a TWO CREW MEMBERS ABOARD THE T’IEN KOU, A
portable basketball hoop; this definitely goes against CHINESE FREIGHTER BOUND FOR LOS ANGELES,
the community’s strict regulations. Win suggests that SNEAK INTO THE CARGO HOLD TO INVESTIGATE A
LARGE CONTAINER. ONE OF THE CREW MEMBERS
Mulder take up the issue with Homeowner POKES AT THE CONTAINER AND AGITATES THE
president, Gene Gogolak. ANIMAL INSIDE TO THE POINT THAT THEY THINK IT
When Big Mike suddenly disappears, the MAY HAVE KILLED ITSELF.
Shroeders simply explain to Mulder and Scully that
he went away on business. Scully and Mulder pay a When the ship docks, an irate Dr. Ian Detweiler, the
visit to Gogolak, who tells them that regulations owner of the container, sees that a pool of blood
forbid the basketball hoop in the front driveway. He has oozed out of the crate and is furious that the
explains that rules are rules, and though it may animal contained within may have been hurt. When
seem tough to get used to, there’s is a system that they remove the outer locks and open it, however, it
works. Mulder then changes the subject to is the two crew members who lie dead at the
Gogolak’s decor. Gogolak explains that most of his bottom of the crate; the animal nowhere to be
found.
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Mulder is tipped off to the event and after some Mulder and Scully arrive, they find both Berquist and
preliminary investigating, finds that the ship’s Detweiler dead.
manifest listed the animal as a dog. When he Yet Berquist leaves somewhat of a legacy to
theorizes that a dog might have been responsible Mulder. Upon his return to Washington, he receives
for the deaths of the two crewmen, Scully reminds a package in the mail – her copy of the symbolic “I
Mulder that in order for that to have happened, the WANT TO BELIEVE” poster that Mulder had lost in
dog would’ve had to escape from the box, kill the the fire.
two men, put them back inside and lock the crate
behind them – hardly the actions of man’s best
friend. Trevor
On board the T’ien Kou, Fish & Wildlife
Department officer Jeffrey Cahn takes Mulder and Production Code: #6ABX17
Scully to meet Detweiler, who tells them that the Original Air Date: 04/11/99
dog is a Wanshang Dhole, a very rare breed of Written by Ken Hawryliw and Jim Guttridge
canid from Asia thought to be extinct for the past Directed by Rob Bowman
150 years. Just as Detweiler is explaining that the THE AGENTS PURSUE AN ESCAPED CONVICT
dog does not have a predatory nature, a US F& W CAPABLE OF PASSING THROUGH SOLID MATTER.
officer reports that another dog attack has occurred.
Mulder and Scully pay a visit to Karen Berquist, Inside a prison compound in Stringer, Mississippi,
the canine behavioralist who gave Mulder the tip two inmates, Rawls and Whaley, hurriedly board up
about the first murders – she and Mulder had been barracks windows as stormy – and possibly tornadic
communicating via the Internet. They hope Berquist – weather approaches. Rawls and Whaley get into
might be able to shed some light onto the behavior an argument, and as a guard looks on, Rawls drives
of the animal. As they wait in her library, Scully a nail through Whaley’s hand. Rawls is brought
notes a copy of the “I WANT TO BELIEVE” poster before the superintendent, Robert Fellowes, who
hanging on Berquist’s wall. When Berquist finally sentences him to “the box.” As the wind howls, and
arrives, she is less than hospitable. She tells the the sky grows darker, Rawls begs to be let out of
agents that while some canids use tricks to draw his tiny prison. But no one comes to his aid. After
out their prey, they do not possess the intelligence the storm passes, the guard finds that “the box” has
to murder; murder is a human behaviorism. While been blown to oblivion. He makes his way to
Mulder believes Berquist, Scully is suspicious of her Fellowes’ office to relay the news. Inside, he
motives, thinking that Berquist may have tipped off discovers Fellowes’ body, which has been severed in
Mulder so that she could meet him. half.
The assaults continue – a U.S. F & W officer and Scully and Mulder examine the remains inside a
a veterinarian are attacked and killed. Detweiler morgue. Though Fellows’ body is cut across the
maintains that the dog can be captured but Cahn is torso, not a drop of blood was discovered inside the
incensed and wants the animal killed. Then Cahn office. Scully is at a loss to explain his condition,
himself is attacked but somehow manages to except for the possibility of spontaneous
escape death and is rushed to the hospital. combustion. The agents speak with the prison guard,
Mulder finds Detweiler in Cahn’s hospital room who relays his theory that the ghost of Pinker Rawls
and confronts him with the theory that it is is responsible for the murder. Mulder disagrees with
Detweiler who is responsible for the murders. the theory. He believes Rawls is very much alive.
Mulder posits that while Detweiler was in Asia Shortly thereafter, Mulder discovers an irregularity in
hunting the Dhole, the Dhole found and attacked the wall of Fellowes’ office. He applies some
him instead, turning him into a shapeshifting pressure to the area causing a hole the size of a
trickster who can take the form of an animal. man to open. The agents then discover a photo of
Detweiler denies Mulder’s outrageous theory and Rawls and his girlfriend, June, amongst his
leaves. Mulder then repeats his ideas to Berquist possessions. Meanwhile, June learns of Rawls’
who confirms them. She tells Mulder to stay at the presumed death while watching a television news
hospital and guard Cahn; Detweiler will want to broadcast.
come back and put down the threat he failed to Rawls breaks into a department store to steal
eliminate by attacking Cahn. some clothes. A security guard catches him in the
Hours pass, but Detweiler never returns. Mulder act and handcuffs him to a steal beam. But Rawls
realizes that Berquist lied to him. Detweiler, feeling escapes from his binds and makes off in the security
a much larger threat from Berquist, has gone to guard’s car. A short time later, the agents arrive at
Berquist’s home to kill her. Once there, he takes the the scene. The security guard identifies Rawls as the
shape of the wild dog and attacks. Berquist stands suspect. Mulder then examines the still−closed
her ground, and as the dog leaps, Berquist falls handcuffs and whacks the ends against the steel
backward through the second−story window. When 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 Mulder remarks that all Rawls really wanted was
June, whom Bo ended up having an affair with. Bo another chance.
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 Milagro
home. They assume that Rawls is after the $90,000
he made off with during a robbery years earlier. Production Code: #6ABX18
Mulder discovers tiny silver globules imbedded in Original Air Date: 04/18/99
the wall of the house. Mulder hypothesizes that the Written by Chris Carter, John Shiban
bullets travel right through Rawls without harming & Frank Spotnitz
him and that Rawls is capable of moving through Directed by Kim Manners
solid objects. WHILE TRACKING A KILLER WHO LEAVES NO CLUES,
A short time later, Rawls pays June’s sister, AGENT SCULLY FINDS HERSELF STRANGELY
Jackie, a surprise visit. Jackie grabs hold of a knife ATTRACTED TO AGENT MULDER’S CHIEF SUSPECT.
and barricades herself inside her bedroom. Rawls
strips off his clothes and, when Jackie isn’t looking, While on her way to Mulder’s apartment to discuss
enters the room by passing through a wall. Mulder a murder case, Scully runs into Phillip Padgett,
and Scully arrive at the house, saving Jackie from Mulder’s new next door neighbor. Padgett is an odd
harm. The agents then head for June’s house. bird – a writer who lives in his own mind; he gives
Unbeknownst to them, Rawls stowed away in the Scully a creepy feeling.
trunk of their car (by passing through the metal). The agents discuss the case and Mulder
June admits it was she who came upon Rawls’ expresses his theory that the murder is a result of
$90,000 while he was in prison. She spent the psychic surgery – the victim’s heart was removed
money on a down payment for her house. Later, without any incisions, no prints, no forensic
when Mulder opens the trunk of his car, he notices evidence of any kind left as clues. Scully, at best, is
a cracking noise. He pokes the lid with his finger, dubious.
and it crumples. Mulder instructs two troopers to When a similar murder occurs out on Lover’s
place June under constant guard. A short time later, Lane, Mulder gets a hold of Scully who happens to
he and Scully reenter June’s house, where they be in Mulder’s office where she finds that a pendant
happen upon the writing “I Want What’s Mine,” has been slipped inside an envelope under Mulder’s
scrawled across a wall. Mulder assumes Rawls used door. It’s a “milagro” – a lucky charm, with an image
his finger to create the message. He notices that the of a burning heart engraved on it. Scully feels it may
final “e” ends where a mirror hangs on a wall. be from the murderer and sets out to do some
Putting the pieces together, he realizes that Rawls’ research.
power is electrical in nature, and can be stopped by At a nearby church, Scully is studying a painting
an insulator, such as glass or rubber. He and Scully of Christ with a flaming heart in his hands when she
discover unpaid hospital maternity bills amongst is approached by Mulder’s neighbor, Padgett. He
June’s possessions. They realize that Rawls isn’t after tells Scully he sent her the milagro, that he has been
money – he’s after his son, Trevor. studying her for a character in his novel, and that
Rawls morphs though the ceiling of June’s hotel he’s become enamored of her.
room. By the time the agents arrive, June and Rawls Scully is both intrigued and disquieted by
are gone and the state trooper guarding the room is Padgett, yet is drawn to visit him on her way to
dead. Meanwhile, Rawls tells June that he heard Mulder’s apartment. He seems to be getting
about the existence of his son from a fellow inmate. underneath her skin when Mulder barges in, gun
He demands that she take him to see the child. high, and arrests Padgett. It seems that the murders
The agents realize that Jackie is caring for June’s which they have been investigating coincide with
son. Unfortunately, Rawls arrives at Jackie’s house personal ads taken out in a local paper; Padgett
before they do. Jackie hurls boiling soup at Rawls’ used the ads to find his victims. He also wrote
face, but the liquid passes through it. Jackie then about each murder, in detail, in his novel.
swings the pan and the glass connects with his But another murder occurs while Padgett is
head. Trevor runs out the door with Rawls in close locked up. Mulder is even more fervent in his belief
pursuit. Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene. that Padgett psychically communicated with a
Mulder shoots Rawls with rubber bullets, which partner in crime, Dr. Ken Naciamento – the noted
slows him down. Scully makes off with Trevor, but Brazilian psychic surgeon, and that somehow
Rawls follows. Thinking quickly, Scully takes refuge Padgett directed Naciamento to commit the crime.
in a glass phone booth. Rawls is unable to pass Mulder feels the only way to catch Padgett is to
through it, so he begins smashing the glass with a release him.
chunk of asphalt. Suddenly, June uses her station Back in his apartment, Padgett is visited by
wagon to hit Rawls. He impacts on the passenger Naciamento. However, Mulder and Scully, who have
side of the windshield and is torn apart. Later, set up surveillance on Padgett’s apartment, see
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nothing on the screen of Naciamento. Is he only a named Arthur, now resides in his apartment. Mulder
figment of Padgett’s imagination or not? Naciamento shows Dales (Dales’ brother will be referred to as
coaxes Padgett into the realization that Scully must “Dales” from here on) the old photograph. Dales, it
be killed. Padgett hurriedly finishes his novel, then turns out, worked as a police officer in Roswell
heads for the basement incinerator to burn the during the 1940s. He identifies himself as the man
pages. Mulder follows him there and is about to standing next to Exley. Dales infers that both he and
arrest Padgett when he hears a scream from above. his brother have known about the bounty hunter’s
It’s Scully, who is being attacked by Naciamento. existence – and plans for the colonization of Earth –
Mulder races to her side, finds her covered in blood, for some 40 years. He then begins to tell the tale
but alive. Padgett, on the other hand, lies at the foot he has kept secret for all those years.
of the incinerator, his heart removed and beating in In flashback, a young Arthur Dales enters a
his own hand. Roswell baseball stadium, carrying with him a racist
pamphlet offering a reward for Exley’s assassination.
The pamphlet reads, “Keep Baseball Pure? Keep It
The Unnatural White.” Dales approaches Exley and informs him
that he has been assigned to provide him
Production Code: #6ABX20 protection. Dales accompanies the team to a
Original Air Date: 04/25/99 baseball stadium. As the game gets underway, the
Written and Directed by David Duchovny pitcher deliberately hurls a ball at Ex’s head. Ex falls
ARTHUR DALES’ BROTHER RECOUNTS A TALE ABOUT
to the ground, dazed. Dales notices the pitcher’s
A TALENTED ALIEN BASEBALL PLAYER WHO HID mitt nearby, the leather being eaten away by a
AMONGST AN ALL−AFRICAN−AMERICAN TEAM IN greenish bubbling fluid. The still−dazed Ex states that
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO DURING THE 1940s. he is from Macon, Georgia. Intrigued, Dales places a
call to the Macon Police Department. He learns
The time: 1947. The place: Roswell, New Mexico. from a Macon Officer (his face unseen) that a six−
Members of an all−African−American baseball team, year−old boy named Josh Exley disappeared fives
the Roswell Grays, face off against a team of all− years earlier from the town. As Dales finishes the
white players during a “cactus league” night game call, the Unseen Macon Officer is revealed to be
staged in the middle of the desert. As Josh “Ex” the alien bounty hunter. Dales then gives the
Exley takes his turn at bat, the outfielders play catcher’s mitt to a police chemist for analysis.
deeper, leaving little doubt that Ex is the best player As the game gets underway, Ex realizes that a
on the all−black team. The white pitcher, Moose, group of Yankee scouts are sitting in the stands. He
lets fly with a pitch. Ex catches a piece of the ball, deliberately plays a poor game, and the scouts
and it soars out into the darkness. Having won the finally give up and exit the stands. Once they leave,
game, other black players mob Ex and hoist him Ex again plays like his old self. Afterward, Dales
onto their shoulders. Moments later, a large group approaches Ex and promises to find out what he is
of Ku Klux Klansmen, some mounted on horseback, hiding. Later that night, Dales is awakened in his
invade the makeshift baseball diamond. The group’s motel room by a banging from the room next door.
Grand Dragon makes it clear that his men are only Dales jimmies open the door connecting the two
interested in Ex, who, word has it, has come to the rooms and discovers an alien clad in boxer shorts
attention of the Yankees. Suddenly, Moose lets fly and a baseball cap swinging a bat. Dales faints.
one of his 100−m.p.h. pitches, striking the Grand When Dales regains consciousness, he realizes
Dragon in the head and knocking him off his horse. that the alien is, in fact, Josh Exley. Exley tells Dales
Moose then targets the other Klansmen, knocking that he lived in Macon until the day he fell
them unconscious. The coach of the black team hopelessly in love with the game of baseball. From
pulls the hood off the Grand Dragon’s head? and that day forward, he could not go home again.
reacts with horror when he discovers the face of a Meanwhile, the bounty hunter, having assumed
gray space alien beneath. Exley’s form, kills the police chemist and destroys
One Saturday, Scully finds herself assisting his lab work. A short time later, Dales informs the
Mulder as he researches “flying disc” reports made real Exley about the murder. Dales is certain Exley is
in New Mexico in the 1940s. Scully soon realizes not the killer, this despite an eyewitness account of
that her partner hasn’t been researching UFOs as he the attack. Dales tells Exley to leave town. With
had claimed, but is studying fifty−year−old baseball that, Exley announces his retirement from the game.
scores. Mulder’s attention is soon drawn to a Before he disappears, Exley asks Dales to tell people
newspaper page featuring a photograph of Ex about how he played the game. A short time later,
standing near a young Arthur Dales and the alien Dales discovers a paper nearby, one addressed to
bounty hunter. Mulder tears the page from the him in Exley’s handwriting. Inside is a map of
reference book and makes his way to Arthur Dales’ Roswell, which contains a drawing of a baseball
apartment building. It turns out that Arthur Dales has diamond. Home plate is some thirty miles from the
moved to Florida, and his brother, who is also town.
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The story picks up where it left off in the an older man and falls to the floor. When he rises,
opening teaser: people reacting in horror at the Modeski has disappeared. The Lone Gunmen
sight of the unhooded KKK gray alien. Suddenly, the telephone Scully and, using a synthesized voice
alien morphs into the bounty hunter. Armed with a program, trick her into believing that she is speaking
stiletto, the bounty hunter approaches Exley. Dales to Mulder. “Mulder” requests that she fly to Las
drives to the baseball diamond in the desert. But he Vegas. When the call ends, Byers explains to the
arrives too late: the bounty hunter plunges the blade others that Mulder’s high−profile presence would tip
into Exley’s neck. Exley warns Dales to stay away off the black operatives who kidnapped Modeski in
from him, fearful that his bubbling green blood will Baltimore ten years earlier. A short time later, Byers
burn his skin. But Dales shows Exley that the blood watches as the dealer from the poker game kisses
isn’t green or caustic: it is very much human red Susanne Modeski outside their hotel room.
blood. Exley smiles softly, then dies. Using his laptop, Frohike accesses the hotel’s
When the Older Dales finishes telling his story, records. He learns that the room in which Modeski
Mulder telephones Scully and arranges for her to is staying is registered to a Grant Ellis. It is
meet him at a public ball field in Washington. As an determined that Ellis is linked to an advanced
early birthday present, Mulder shows Scully how to weapons facility located in New Mexico. Byers
hit a baseball. The pair laugh, knocking ball after concludes that Modeski has been brainwashed, a
ball into the dark sky. victim of the “psychological warfare” gas she
invented. The group splits up to find out if Byers’
theory is correct.
Three of a Kind Langly and Byers are unable to infiltrate a
private event being held by the defense contractors
Production Code: #6ABX19 due to their previous run−in with security. They turn
Original Air Date: 05/02/99 to Jimmy the Geek for help. Jimmy crawls through a
Written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban ventilation duct to spy on the proceedings. To his
Directed by Bryan Spicer surprise, he discovers Timmy amongst the group.
THE LONE GUNMEN ENCOUNTER SUSANNE MODESKI
Jimmy is taken into custody. Timmy places a
AS THEY ATTEMPT TO INFILTRATE A DEFENCE medical injection gun behind Jimmy’s ear and pulls
CONTRACTORS’ CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS. the trigger. A short time later, the Lone Gunmen
learn that Jimmy threw himself in front of a bus.
Byers recounts a dream in which he lives in the Meanwhile, Frohike sneaks inside Ellis and Modeski’s
perfect house with his two little daughters and wife, room to plant a recording device. He discovers the
Susanne Modeski. But his dream always ends the presence of a camcorder already hidden inside an
same way: the house, children and Susanne air vent. He pops out the tape and crawls to safety.
disappear, and all he is left with is a man’s wedding Scully arrives at the hotel and, at the Lone
ring. Gunmen’s request, begins to perform an autopsy on
The Lone Gunmen go undercover in Las Vegas Jimmy’s body. She comes upon a faint mark just
when a defense contractors’ convention comes to behind Jimmy’s ear. Moments later, Timmy sneaks
town. The threesome hope to ascertain confidential up behind Scully, places the injection gun behind
information about the industry by infiltrating its her ear, and pulls the trigger. When Scully regains
inner sphere. Byers accesses a poker game by consciousness, her personality has changed to that
passing himself off as an employee of of an airhead.
Conglomerated Technologies. He receives help from Modeski pays the Lone Gunmen a visit. She tells
Frohike, who is disguised as a casino employee. Byers that she met and fell in love with Grant when
Unbeknownst to the other players, Byers’ eyeglasses she realized that he was working against the forces
contain a tiny transmitter, allowing Langly, who is who were exploiting her work. She explains how
surrounded by laptops in his hotel room, to feed she and Grant had intended to use the Las Vegas
him information whenever someone discusses the conference to expose the group. But the existence
defense contracting business. Unfortunately, the of the tape changes everything, as the operatives
dealer outsmarts and exposes Byers by inquiring are aware of the plan. She is certain they will kill
about a process that doesn’t exist. As a result, Byers Grant and herself. Shortly thereafter, Modeski
and Frohike are escorted out of the building by observes a red mark behind Scully’s ear. She
security. realizes that Scully was injected with her latest
The Lone Gunmen regroup in their hotel room. creation, a derivative of the E−H gas. But only she
They receive a visit from Jimmy and Timmy, two and Grant were aware of the derivative’s existence
card−carrying conspiracy geeks. Both men admit that meaning Grant is behind the scheme. Modeski
their efforts to crack the contractors’ inner circle injects Scully with an antidote. Frohike realizes that
was unsuccessful. Later, as Byers and Frohike walk the operatives drugged Scully to make her forget
through a casino floor, Byers notices Modeski off in about the autopsy findings. He also realizes that
the distance. He runs towards her, but collides with Jimmy’s death was not accidental. Unbeknownst to
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anyone, Langly has also been given an injection of Mountain region of North Carolina, Mulder suspects
the brainwashing compound. a connection between the deaths and strange,
Timmy instructs the brainwashed Langly to unexplained lights that have been seen on the peak
assassinate Modeski during a conference. As of the mountain for some seven hundred years.
participants mill about, Langly opens fire, striking Scully wonders why her partner won’t – just once –
Modeski in the chest. Scully rushes to Modeski’s accept the simplest explanation. Mulder reminds her
side. She orders that Grant be detained. Moments that ninety−nine percent of the time, his theories
later, Frohike and Byers, dressed as paramedics, rush have proven correct.
Modeski away. Grant is led to a hotel room where The agents travel to Asheville, North Carolina,
Modeski greets him. It turns out that the where they observe the Schiff’s skeletal remains.
“assassination” had been staged with blank bullets Scully asks the coroner about a strange, gooey
and fake blood. Langly, it is revealed, had been substance clinging to the bones. The coroner
given the antidote. Unfortunately, Timmy senses believes the substance is an organic material from
something isn’t right. He leans over the “blood” on the swampy area where the remains were
the conference room floor and tastes it. His discovered. Mulder leaves Scully at the morgue and
suspicions are confirmed. He enters the hotel room travels to the wilderness area for further
and shoots Grant. He then turns the weapon investigation. As Mulder’s vehicle traverses the field,
towards Modeski. During the confusion, Byers the tires crush some puffball mushrooms, which emit
presses the injector gun to Timmy’s ankle, and he some small spores. Moments after exiting the SUV,
falls to the floor. Later, a television news anchor Mulder notices Walter Schiff, very much alive, in the
reveals that Timmy was arrested for the deaths of distance. Schiff runs off. Mulder follows him into a
Grant and Susanne Modeski. cave, and soon loses sight of him. When Mulder
Byers gives Modeski her new identity: Holly turns around, the mouth of the cave has vanished,
Fitzgerald. Susanne asks him to come with her as and in its place is solid granite. Confused, Mulder
she begins her new life. But Byers believes she will looks about for the exit. A lab analysis reveals that
be safer without him. With that, Susanne gives Byers the gooey substance found on the Schiff’s bones is
a wedding ring, which had been intended for Grant. 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
Field Trip mushrooms, which emit more spores. Meanwhile, as
Mulder searches for the cave exit, he again
Production Code: #6ABX21 encounters Wallace. He claims that the skeletons
Original Air Date: 05/09/99 are fakes, and were planted in the field by an alien
Written by Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan race. A short time later, Wallace points out the cave
and John Shiban entrance, which moments earlier had been solid
Directed by Kim Manners rock. Suddenly, a beam of light blasts through the
A MYSTERY INVOLVING TWO SKELETONS LEADS THE
entrance. Certain the light is emanating from the
AGENTS ON A JOURNEY IN WHICH NOTHING IS aliens, Wallace runs off into the cave. Mulder
QUIET AS IT SEEMS. follows. In reality, the source of the light beam is
the tiny flashlight in Scully’s hand. Scully calls out to
A young couple, Angie and Wallace Schiff, return to her partner, but receives no reply. Mulder and
their motel after spending the day hiking through the Wallace happen upon Angie, her body lying on the
woods. Tired and suffering from a headache, Angie stone floor of the cave. She claims to have been
decides to take a shower. Suddenly, the white abducted by aliens and subjected to tests. Shortly
fiberglass walls begin to ooze straw−colored goo. thereafter, the blinding light returns. This time,
Just as suddenly, the walls return to normal. Angie Mulder heads into the light.
dismisses the experience as fatigue from her Meanwhile, Scully makes her way to Mulder’s
headache. Moments later, she finds herself inside a apartment. Upon finding her disheveled partner
dark place, with goo covering her eyes and mouth. inside, she demands an explanation for why he
Angie finishes her shower and sits with her husband. deserted her in North Carolina. Mulder introduces
Still shaken by the imagery, she asks him to hold Scully to Wallace and Angela. He tells her that he
her. Later, the couple’s skeletons turn up in a has finally discovered “the truth” he has been
wilderness field. searching for. He then leads Scully into his bedroom,
Mulder reviews the Schiff’s death with Scully. He where a small gray alien sits in the darkness. Scully
notes that the skeletons were found three days after congratulates her partner for being right about
they disappeared from the motel. Scully everything all along. Mulder reacts with surprise. He
hypothesizes that the Schiff’s fell victim to a cannot believe that Scully is accepting his
ritualistic killer, one who placed the bodies in acid conclusions. Moments later, Mulder watches as
and stripped away the flesh, leaving behind only Scully melts away. In reality, Mulder is not in the
bone. As the bodies were found in the Brown
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apartment, but in some dark place, dreaming in a matching artifact, which contains similar iconic
comatose state. symbols. As Solomon moves the pieces towards
Scully returns to the cave, this time in the each other, they suddenly fly from his fingers and
company of the coroner, who is familiar with the embed themselves in a bible. The rip mark made by
wooded area. They discover a human skeleton, the now−fused object highlights a passage from
which is presumed to be Mulder’s. Dental x−rays Genesis. Solomon makes his way to the American
confirm the worst. Scully believes that Mulder may University in Washington, D.C. where he meets with
have fallen victim to the digestive secretion. She a Dr. Sandoz inside a biology lab. As the pair
makes her way to Mulder’s apartment, where converse, Solomon realizes the man standing before
mourners have gathered to pay their respects. The him is not Dr. Sandoz. Later, the real Dr. Sandoz
Lone Gunmen promise Scully they will find the man discovers Solomon’s body.
responsible for the ritualistic murder. Scully stares at Skinner discusses Solomon’s death with Mulder
them, exasperated. She insists that murder is not the and Scully. Although Solomon’s body is missing, a
“obvious answer” behind Mulder’s death. Scully large amount of his blood was discovered inside the
demands to know where Mulder has gone. With biology lab. Both Solomon and Dr. Sandoz believed
that, Mulder shows up at the front door. Mulder that life on Earth originated elsewhere in the
informs Scully that he was abducted by aliens and universe. Skinner hands Scully a piece of paper
teleported to his apartment. Scully points out the containing a carbon rubbing of the (second) artifact
illogic to this scenario. She concludes that they are Solomon had in his office. A short time later, Mulder
both experiencing some sort of hallucination, hears a cacophony of sound in his head. He quickly
perhaps triggered by wild mushrooms growing in recovers from this mysterious episode. Scully
the North Carolina field. She fears they are both, in wonders why Mulder still has any interest in
reality, trapped underground, being digested. With pursuing “the truth” now that the Syndicate
that, Mulder regains consciousness and pulls himself members are dead and their secrets exposed.
from the wet earth. He then rescues Scully from her Mulder explains that there is one more thing he
nearby cocoon. The agents meet with Skinner to hopes to find: his sister.
discuss the case. He notes that “it is a rare day” Mulder interviews the man who had earlier
when both agents sign off on the same report. This posed as Dr. Sandoz. That man, Dr. Barnes, is the
observation troubles Mulder. He wonders how he head of the biology department at the university.
and Scully were able to will their way to Scully hands Barnes the carbon rubbing… which
consciousness and concludes that, in reality, they causes Mulder to experience another episode. He
are still trapped underground. To prove his point, quickly excuses himself. Meanwhile, inside a
Mulder fires his gun at Skinner. Goo oozes from hospital, Dr. Sandoz watches over Albert Hosteen,
Skinner’s wounds. Not a moment too soon, the real the Native American Navajo who assisted Mulder
Skinner locates the agents. Scully and Mulder are many years earlier. Hosteen is gravely ill.
placed on stretchers and loaded into an ambulance. Mulder meets with Scully and Chuck Burke, who
Mulder gains enough strength to grab Scully’s hand. analyses the symbols on the carbon rubbing. Burke
Scully squeezes back. 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
Biogenesis (1 of 3) of religious artifacts, and has made a career out of
exposing scientific and religious fraud. Moments
Production Code: #6ABX22 later, Mulder experiences another attack. He tells
Original Air Date: 05/16/99 Scully that the attacks have given him a special
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz “sense.” He is convinced that Barnes murdered
Directed by Rob Bowman Solomon. He and Scully travel to Dr. Sandoz’s
MULDER BELIEVES THAT METALLIC OBJECTS
apartment, where they find a photo of Sandoz
DISCOVERED IN AFRICA ARE PROOF THAT LIFE posing with Albert Hosteen. They also find
ORIGINATED ELSEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. Solomon’s body inside a trash compactor. The
agents discuss their findings with Skinner. Mulder
On a beach in West Africa, a Yelling Man alerts a believes Solomon’s body was planted in the
group of fishermen to the discovery of a piece of compactor to frame Sandoz. He also believes that
metal embedded in some rock. The object, which is Sandoz possesses an actual artifact, as does Dr.
the size of a candy bar, contains a series of Barnes. Lab tests reveal that Solomon was exposed
symbols. Its edges suggest that is has broken off a to radiation that only exists beyond the solar
larger chunk of metal. system. That radiation, according to Mulder,
Dr. Solomon Merkmallen makes his way to the originated from the artifact. Before the meeting
tide pool, where the same group of fishermen await. concludes, Mulder accuses Skinner of secretly
Inside his university office, Solomon extracts the operating in conjunction with another party. After
metal piece from the rock. He places it next to a the agents leave the office, Skinner moves to a
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small pinhole camera mounted in the wall. He On the beach of Africa’s Ivory Coast, Scully tries to
ejects a tape from a VCR… and hands it to Alex piece together the cryptic symbols on the surface of
Krycek. the beached spaceship, hoping to find some answers
Mulder returns to the American University. He to save the life of her ailing partner. Mulder
searches Barnes’ office for the artifact, but comes up contracted his illness after coming in contact with a
empty handed. Mulder suffers an intense attack that carbon rubbing from the craft. While working late
affects his vision. He collapses on a stairwell. one night she does not notice a primitive African
Moments later, a dark figure steps over Mulder’s warrior who appears and then disappears.
body. Mulder, who is unable to see or hear, cannot Thousands of bugs instantly swarm inside the tent.
identify the form. The figure turns out to be Krycek. The next morning, an African biology professor
He makes his way to Barnes’ office and hands him named Amina Ngebe arrives at the camp to help
the surveillance tape that Skinner gave him. Scully with the research. Amina warns Scully not to
Sandoz tells Scully that the metal piece is only a tell the African men hired to unearth the spaceship
part of a much larger puzzle. Solomon found two about the bugs because they would consider it an
more pieces in the tidal pool. Hosteen was given a omen. After that, one of the workers in the ocean
rubbing made from those pieces. Together, the screams in pain as if he had been boiled in the
elements formed a passage from Genesis. Hosteen water. At the sight of his blistered skin, Amina tells
was working on more translations when his health Scully that this is another warning.
deteriorated. Scully telephones Mulder’s apartment. Skinner goes to visit Mulder in the padded cell
An unidentified woman answers and hands Mulder of a Washington hospital. He tries to speak to him,
the phone. Mulder tells his partner that the artifacts but Mulder attacks and is placed in restraints.
are extraterrestrial in origin… proving that mankind’s Outside the cell, Skinner realizes he has a note in
progenitors are alien. The unidentified woman turns his pocket: a ripped cloth with the words “help me”
out to be Diana Fowley. Later, she contacts the written in dried blood. He sees Mulder again and
Cigarette Smoking Man and reports that Mulder is manages to discern a name. Although reluctant at
suffering from attacks. first, Michael Kritschgau (last seen in “Redux” #5X02
Scully and Sandoz accompany Hosteen to a and “Redux II” #5X03) is persuaded by Skinner to
place of healing in New Mexico. Skinner contacts see Mulder. Kritschgau explains that he has
Scully by phone and informs her of Mulder’s witnessed this condition before in a CIA study of
deteriorating condition. When Scully reaches the ESP. The electrical impulses in Mulder’s brain are
hospital, she learns that Mulder has been confined working harder than his body can sustain. Kritschgau
to a psychiatric ward. Scully becomes suspicious of has Skinner inject Phenytoin, causing an immediate
Skinner and Fowley and their interest in the case. effect in awakening Mulder. Diana Fowley attempts
Dr. Sandoz telephones Scully. He informs her to intervene but Skinner, in an attempt to keep his
that the letters Hosteen translated from the artifact dealings with Kritschgau secretive, dismisses her.
are a map to the genetic makeup of mankind. Kritschgau puts a more responsive Mulder through a
Krycek shoots and kills Dr. Sandoz. battery of tests with video monitors to determine
Scully stands amongst the group of fishermen. his brain’s over−activity and psychic ability.
She shows them the carbon rubbing. The Yelling Dr. Barnes (from “Biogenesis” #6ABX22) arrives
Man points her in a direction further up the beach. at Scully’s tent to help her read the symbols but she
Scully reaches the tide pool… where it is revealed is wary of him. The water around the spaceship
that she is standing on a massive craft buried in the turns into blood – another omen – and again Scully
sand, its surface covered with the strange symbols. sees the manifestation of the primitive African man.
Scully and Amina figure out that the symbols
describe human genetics and ancient religious
S E A S O N 7 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’
The Sixth Extinction (2 of 3) sack rumbles underneath a table. The fish he caught
have magically come back to life, but only in
Production Code: #7ABX03 Barnes’ mind. This proves to him his theory that the
Original Air Date: 11/07/99 spaceship is an animating force. Scully takes
Written by Chris Carter advantage of the opportunity to hit Barnes so that
Directed by Kim Manners she and Amina can escape. The women frantically
WHILE SCULLY TRIES TO PIECE TOGETHER THE drive for help, but on the desolate road Scully sees
MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS ON THE SPACESHIP the primitive African man in their path. She yells for
BEACHED IN AFRICA, MULDER IS IMPRISONED BY Amina to stop the car, but the man has disappeared.
HIS OWN FRENETIC BRAIN ACTIVITY. 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 disappeared from the hospital. She hurries to the
that she needs to get home. hospital and learns that it was Mulder’s mother who
Skinner and Kritschgau inject Mulder with an has checked him out. Skinner tells Scully that he
even greater dose in order to free him from the must remove himself from the case and from
hospital. But when Diana rushes in with the doctor knowledge of the agents’ whereabouts. Skinner’s
to confront Skinner, Mulder lapses into violent position has been compromised. Mulder again sees
convulsions. Early the next morning, Diana pledges the boy on the beach, and awakens to find himself
her love to the sedate Mulder. She vows to help in CSM’s car. CSM tells him that doctors have
him and not let him die. As she leaves, Mulder’s worked on him, and the only way he can be saved
eyes follow her – he cannot speak, but he has heard from death is to disappear into a kind of witness
every word she said. At the beach, Barnes’ driver protection program. CSM pulls up to a suburban
comes into the seemingly empty tent and Barnes street and points out Mulder’s new life. CSM offers
slashes him in the neck with a machete. Barnes him the chance to return to his previous existence
places the man’s body in the spot where the fish with the X−Files, but Mulder is curious about this
came to life. Later, Barnes discovers the driver’s new home. He is pleased to find a refrigerator
body gone and he goes out to the shoreline to look stocked with his favorite sunflower seeds. As he
for him. The driver has returned to life, and strikes pops one into his mouth, he is startled by the
Barnes with the same machete. presence of an old ally – Deep Throat (killed the
Scully goes to Skinner in Washington and first season in “The Erlenmeyer Flask” #1X23). Deep
demands to see Mulder. Skinner tries to convey Throat boasts about his peaceful life in this
Mulder’s impending death. Scully responds that neighborhood and encourages Mulder to join him.
Mulder is more alive than ever, acknowledging that But Mulder is overwhelmed with guilt for his
the cause may be extraterrestrial. Skinner warns her causing this man’s supposed death. Deep Throat
that the security in the hospital will deny her tells him not to feel responsible for his death or the
access. An emotional Scully pleads with Mulder to deaths of Mulder’s father, Scully’s sister and Duane
hold on. He is unresponsive. Barry. Deep Throat explains that they the two of
Amina returns to the beach with the police. them are merely puppets in a master plan. He
They find Barnes’ body in the ocean, but the coaxes Mulder to relax and enjoy his new life.
spacecraft has disappeared. Scully finds the Navajo elder Albert Hosteen (last
seen dying in “Biogenesis” #6ABX22) in her
apartment. Hosteen warns her that she must save
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3 of 3) Mulder for the sake of mankind. Scully returns to
the hospital. She reviews a surveillance tape of
Production Code: #7ABX04 Mulder’s room where she can see through the
Original Air Date: 11/14/99 mostly covered monitors that Mulder’s mother is
Written by David Duchovny & Chris Carter talking to someone with a cigarette. This convinces
Directed by Michael Watkins Scully that CSM is behind Mulder’s disappearance.
AN UNCONSCIOUS MULDER’S DREAMS LEAD HIM
At the FBI, Scully receives an inter−office envelope
ASTRAY FROM THE X−FILES, BUT SCULLY STAYS THE containing a book on Native American practices.
COURSE IN HER SEARCH TO FIND HIM. The symbols on the book’s cover match the ones
she had been studying on the spaceship in Africa.
Mulder dreams about a young couple teaching their She reads a myth foretelling a mass extinction with
son to walk on a beach. In reality, Mulder is still in a man who can save the world from this tragedy.
the hospital, lying in a coma. His mother tries to She calls Skinner to question him as the source for
speak to him and receives no response. Mrs. Mulder this clue. Scully deduces that they took Mulder
doesn’t hear her fully−alert son calling out to her in because they think his illness is protection against a
his head. But the Cigarette−Smoking Man (CSM) coming plague. An apprehensive Skinner hangs up
knows Mulder can read his thoughts. He injects on her. Scully runs up to his office and sees Skinner
Mulder’s head with a serum that allows Mulder to doubled over in pain, while a bearded man escapes.
move and speak. CSM offers his hand. Mulder again Scully goes to Kritschgau and admonishes him for
envisions the toddler on the beach as the words of revealing the secrets about Mulder’s illness.
CSM lull him: “Take my hand because I am your Kritschgau has hacked into her computer files and
father.” explains that her research will prove that Mulder
Scully is working round−the−clock to find the has biologically transformed into an alien.
cause of Mulder’s illness, when Kritschgau sneaks Mulder has another vision of the beach. The boy
into the office. He explains that exposure to the is sad that his sand sculpture has been washed
spacecraft’s energy has activated the alien virus away by the tide. Mulder comforts him and
injected into Mulder two years ago. Kritschgau encourages the boy to build it again. Mulder is
demands Scully’s research, but they are interrupted awakened by Diana Fowley who comes to his bed,
by a phone call from Skinner: Mulder has convincing him of the joys of marriage. They make
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love. The next morning, Diana tries to persuade Original Air Date: 11/21/99
Mulder that he should become a father. She brings Written by Vince Gilligan
him to CSM’s house nearby and points out CSM’s Directed by Kim Manners
daughter, Samantha Mulder. Suddenly we are in an A MONSTER STARVING FOR HUMAN BRAIN MATTER
operating theater. CSM tells Diana that men like TRIES TO REMEDY HIS OWN UNUSUAL EATING
Mulder have dreams of a simpler life. He says this HABITS.
about the real Mulder, who lies on a table with his
head strapped in a surgical device. This is where It is after midnight when an LTD pulls into the
Mulder really is. The illusion of domestic, suburban drive−through of Lucky Boy Burgers in Costa Mesa,
bliss is only in his mind. California. The young guy at the wheel waits
At the FBI, Scully tries to appeal to Diana for impatiently and receives only silence from the
help, causing Diana to question CSM’s motivation speaker. He calls out for service and the neon
for using Mulder in the experiments. Albert Hosteen “open” sign instantly flickers out. Angered, the guy
reappears in Scully’s apartment. He tells her to look honks his horn. The microphone clicks on and a
inside her heart for Mulder. The two pray together. man says the restaurant is closed. The driver doesn’t
Still in his dream, Mulder’s life progresses with give up easily and yells threats to the speaker. The
Diana. He physically ages as he goes through their voice at the other end sheepishly tells him to drive
wedding, her pregnancy and children, and then her through. The guy pulls up, but no one is there. So he
death. Mulder slips back into his subconscious leans out of his car to get a better look. In one
where the sand sculpture has become a spaceship. quick instant, a monster appears in the window and
The boy starts to smash the sculpture, telling him ferociously yanks the guy from his car. The
that it is really Mulder’s spaceship and he is the one driverless car, still in gear, creeps toward a curb.
destroying it. A now aged Mulder wakes up to CSM Three days later, Lucky Boy employee Rob
at his bedside. CSM tells him that he should let go. Roberts pulls up to the restaurant and gives himself
As Mulder closes his eyes, the world outside is in a pep talk before heading in. He works at the front
full apocalypse. Yet in real life, Mulder and CSM are register as Mulder and Scully approach, flashing
side−by−side on a medical table for some kind of their badges. They ask Rob’s manager to round up
procedure transplanting Mulder’s alien genetic the employees for questioning. They inform the
material into CSM. group that a Lucky Boy Burger promotional button
The bearded man from Skinner’s office kills was found on a body in the trunk of a car. The
Kritschgau and torches all his research. Only now is employees, including Rob, all pull out their buttons.
his identity revealed: it’s Alex Krycek. An envelope A thuggish−looking Derwood Spinks hides in the
is slid under Scully’s door with a key card that leads back, claiming he left his button at home. His co−
Scully to the surgical facility where Mulder is being workers eye Derwood suspiciously. Mulder and
held. In Mulder’s dream he is ready to give up, but Scully clear out the restaurant and search the
Scully forces him to persist with their mission. In kitchen. They don’t see Rob outside as he switches
reality, Scully does come to the surgery room to on the drive−through microphone and listens to their
save Mulder. She wakes him up and he draws conversation at the menu board. Mulder theorizes
strength from her presence. She helps him escape. that the victim’s brain was sucked out by a tongue
Scully checks up on the still weakened Mulder is or some kind of proboscis. Scully is not convinced.
in his apartment. He wears bandages on his head Mulder spots dried blood under a counter. He is
from the operation. He informs her that Albert squeamish that it is brain matter. Scully notes that it
Hosteen has died in New Mexico. This upsets is merely ground beef. Rob isn’t settled by this
Scully. She doesn’t believe that her experience was news.
imagined. Then Scully breaks her bad news to Rob comes home and rushes into the bathroom
Mulder: Diana was murdered because she helped where he pulls from the bathtub a Lucky Boy
save him. Mulder is emotional, and reveals his uniform soaking in pink water. He cannot scrub out
dreams about another life without the X−Files. He the blood stains and decides to dump the shirt. He
admits to Scully that she was the only one who told is about to remove the trash bag when there is a
him the truth in his dreams and that “even when my knock at the door. Mulder wants to ask Rob a few
world was falling apart, you were my constant, my more questions about his closing up the restaurant
touchstone.” She tells her partner that she feels the on the night of the murder. Rob complies, telling
same way, then leaves. One more time, Mulder him that he dumped thirty−five pounds of spoiled
dreams of the boy on the beach. This time they are beef that night. Out of the corner of his eye he
rebuilding a huge sandcastle spaceship together. 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
Hungry outside. He realizes his hands are covered with
dried blood and sucks his fingers, enjoying the taste.
Production Code: #7ABX01 While doing so he notices a man parked across
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from the apartment building watching him. Rob describes in salacious detail his cravings for meat.
nervously approaches, thinking the man is Mulder. The group members salivate. Rob stops when he
The unidentified man tells Rob to get lost. spots a bald man in the front row. The man’s brain
Back in the apartment, Rob’s answering machine seems to be throbbing through the skull, causing
tapes a message from Dr. Mindy Rinehart, a Rob to lick his lips in hunger. Rob makes a friend in
psychiatrist assigned by Lucky Boy to aid its Sylvia as he walks her to her apartment after the
employees. He ignores the message, intently meeting. She says goodnight and closes her door.
watching the man staked outside the building. Rob He turns to leave but his stomach begins to growl.
goes in the bathroom and pops out his triangle− He turns back to her door, knocks, and removes his
shaped, shark teeth. As they clink in the sink, his teeth, ready for his next meal.
stomach loudly growls. Later that night, Rob tries to Rob makes a plan the next day. He demolishes
overcome his hunger. He chomps on appetite his apartment with Derwood’s baseball bat and
suppressant gum and memorizes the words of a screams in terror. He beckons his neighbors to call
videotaped motivational speaker. But he is still the police. Mulder and Scully arrive and listen to
starving. He goes outside to the man in the parked Rob’s questionable story that Derwood threatened
car and opens his toothless mouth. Needle−sharp him to keep quiet. The agents ask Rob about a
teeth spring into place as he lunges at the man. missing private eye hired by Sylvia’s husband who
Rob is asleep on his couch the next morning was staked out in front of the building. Rob has no
when Derwood breaks in. He tells Rob that he has answers and quickly tells them that Sylvia is not at
been fired from Lucky Boy. He also says that he home.
found Rob’s prescription bottle of diet pills in the Rob frantically packs his belongings when Dr.
restaurant the morning after the murder. He shows Rinehart shows up. She senses that Rob is at fault
Rob the bottle and the bloody thumbprint on its for the murders and tries to soothe him. Enraged,
cap. Derwood demands payment to keep his mouth Rob begins to pull off his human body parts to show
shut. They are interrupted by a neighbor, Sylvia, her his secret. Dr. Rinehart is horrified but still
who asks if Rob saw a man that had been parked sympathetic. She touches his face. Suddenly, the
outside. Rob dismisses her, and Derwood warns him door crashes in and Mulder and Scully enter with
not to skip town. Rob heads to his car and sees guns drawn. They yell for the doctor to move away,
Mulder approaching. Although Mulder doesn’t give but she defends Rob and tells him to be the good
any indication that he suspects Rob, he does tell person he means to be. Rob is hesitant, then lunges
him that the police believe that Derwood is the at the agents, knowing they will open fire. A dying
killer. Rob goes to Dr. Rinehart’s office for his Rob falls to the floor as Dr. Rinehart’s eyes tear up.
mandatory consultation. He can’t concentrate as his She asks him why he caused his own death. He
stomach growls. When the doctor gets a call from whispers, “I can’t be something I’m not.”
Mulder, Rob bolts out, claiming he has to be at
work.
Rob hallucinates that the burgers he is frying are Millennium
brains. Derwood shows up at Lucky Boy to threaten
Rob again. Scared of getting caught, Rob rummages Production Code: #7ABX05
through Derwood’s house for the prescription bottle. Original Air Date: 11/28/99
When Derwood comes home, Rob hides in the Written by Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz
closet. As Derwood approaches the closet armed Directed by Thomas J. Wright
with a baseball bat, Rob starts to dismember his MULDER AND SCULLY ENLIST CRIMINAL PROFILER
fake human parts to reveal the monster underneath. FRANK BLACK TO HELP PREVENT MEMBERS OF THE
Derwood opens the door and the monster’s tongue MILLENNIUM GROUP FROM ATTAINING AN
lashes out, poking a hole through Derwood’s ARMAGEDDON NEW YEAR.
forehead.
Rob goes to see Dr. Rinehart again and admits At a memorial service in Tallahassee, Florida, a
that he has an eating disorder. She writes down the widow complains that her husband, Raymond
location of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Crouch, left no suicide note. She is greeted by Mark
Rob’s stomach growls and he rushes out, saying “I Johnson who tells her that he worked with the
really am trying to do right.” Dr. Rinehart ponders deceased. As the mourners file out of the funeral
his statement. Rob returns home to find Mulder and parlor, Johnson sneaks out from the shadows. He
Scully waiting to ask him about Derwood Spinks’ begins to undress the corpse and recites a passage
disappearance. Mulder tells Rob that he believes the from the Bible over and over like a mantra. Johnson
killer is some sort of genetic freak who feeds on switches on a cell phone and places it in the hand
humans, but Rob plays dumb. of the deceased, positioning the man’s thumb over
With no other hope, Rob attends the Overeaters the “talk” button. Eight days later, on December 29,
Anonymous meeting and runs into his neighbor, 1999. Johnson waits outside a cemetery. The rain
Sylvia. She encourages him to introduce himself. He 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 a message with a Biblical passage from the
and, without answering it, Johnson pulls out a shovel Book of Revelation – Chapter one, verse eighteen.
and heads toward the tombstone. Mulder makes the connection. He returns to the
The next day, Mulder and Scully are at the crime psychiatric hospital with Scully and asks Frank Black
scene, examining the now dug up grave. The body why, after not wanting to be involved, he dropped
of Raymond Crouch is gone. Scully notes the the hint about first and eighteen. Frank admits that
shredded lining inside the empty casket and he is trying to regain custody of his daughter and
comments that it looks like someone was trying to wants to separate himself from his past work. He
get out. Mulder confirms this by pointing out that reluctantly agrees to help them, explaining that a
the fingerprints around the grave are from the schism of the Millennium Group believed they could
deceased Crouch. Scully concludes that the bring about the end of the world by killing
evidence is faked and that this is a grave robbery, themselves before the dawn of the new millennium.
but both are intrigued by an arc of dried blood on Frank profiles the necromancer as a solitary man
the nearby grass. Mulder and Scully join a briefing comfortable with death. He theorizes that the note
on the case led by A.D. Skinner. Other agents report and the salt were placed in the deputy’s mouth to
that there are no motives for Crouch’ suicide or the prevent the deputy from rising up from the dead.
grave robbery. Mulder chimes in that this is a case Frank believes that the necromancer will return to
of necromancy – the summoning of the dead. He the body when he hears that the deputy has been
describes the arc of blood as part of a magic circle found. Scully heads for the morgue to intercept the
drawn to protect the necromancer from the necromancer. Using Frank’s profile, Mulder goes on
conjured spirits: Mulder also believes that the his own search for Johnson.
necromancer may have donned the dead man’s The coroner is busy removing the salt and does
clothes as a means of creating a bond with the not hear Scully’s repeated calls. When Scully arrives,
deceased. Oddly, Skinner is content with Mulder’s the coroner is nearly dead. She sees Mark Johnson
theory and dismisses the other agents. He shows and raises her gun, but she is stunned to see the
Mulder and Scully the files of three other men, all dead deputy lurching toward her. Although she fires
former FBI agents like Crouch, who were also three rounds to his chest, he keeps moving and
recently exhumed after committing suicide. Skinner attacks her. Scully’s gun is knocked aside. Skinner
thinks these men were all members of the arrives later, and is relieved to see Scully with only
Millennium Group, a consulting organization of scratches on her neck. She is unsure how to explain
former FBI agents with a prophesy centered around what has happened, but says that the necromancer
the coming millennium. He tells the pair to keep a saved her by using her gun to shoot the deputy in
low profile as they investigate this Millennium the head.
Group. Meanwhile, Mulder pulls up before a house in
Mulder and Scully’s first stop is a psychiatric Maryland. He is going down a list fitting Frank’s
hospital to meet Frank Black, the criminal profiler description, and Mark Johnson is the last name on
who was once a consultant for the Millennium the list. Mulder notices an empty bag of kosher salt
Group. Frank had apparently checked himself into in the garbage can. He pockets a handful of salt and
the hospital for observation. The agents ask him climbs the fence, searching the house. A basement
about the Millennium Group, but Frank gives no door is latched with huge wood beams. He opens it
assistance and quietly focuses on a television and heads down the steps into the darkness. At first
football game. He refers to the TV, claiming the he doesn’t see the bodies climbing out of the
game is at first and eighteen. Mulder corrects him ground, but when four undead creatures surround
and says it is actually third and ten. But Frank does him, he makes a break up the stairs. As he reaches
not answer. Frustrated, Mulder and Scully leave him. the door, Johnson appears and slams it shut. Mulder
Mark Johnson, still repeating his burial mantra, is trapped in the necromancer’s basement
drives north with the body. He pulls over to fix a surrounded by zombies.
flat tire in Maryland and a sheriff stops to help him. Back at the hospital, Scully pleads with Frank for
The deputy is suspicious of the smell emanating help finding the missing Mulder. She recounts her
from Johnson’s car and opens the door. As the earlier attack by the resurrected deputy at the
deputy examines the vehicle, Johnson strangely morgue and asks Frank if he believes that the Group
makes a circle of salt around his own feet and is capable of bringing about Armageddon. Again,
repeats his prayer. The deputy opens the back of the Frank is silent. But after she leaves, Frank checks
van and is horrified at what he sees: the corpse of himself out of the hospital and goes to Johnson’s
Raymond Crouch. But Crouch is not dead and rises house. Johnson is happy to see Frank because
from the van to attack the deputy. Johnson closes Mulder has killed one of the zombies and Johnson
his eyes to the struggle. needs a fourth member. Frank says that he did not
The next morning Scully and Mulder investigate believe Johnson could resurrect the dead, but came
the crime scene. Local police found the body of the when he heard the necromancy had succeeded. The
deputy carefully buried. Stuffed in his mouth is salt clock strikes 10:13 when Johnson loads a five−shot
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revolver and begins reciting the familiar burial rite. a police car interrupt the conversation, but when
Frank completes the passage and takes the gun. But Max turns around, both Max and Chastity have
instead of pointing it at his own head for the vanished. Deputy Foster questions Tony about being
suicide pact, Frank turns the weapon on Johnson. on private property and goes to his car radio.
Meanwhile, Scully receives a call from Skinner in Suddenly, Tony hears a sickening thud. The officer’s
her car. They have traced calls from Frank and the flashlight falls to the ground and Tony picks it up. It
other Group members to an address in Maryland. is covered with blood. Tony looks in the police car:
Meanwhile, Frank ties up Johnson and opens up the Foster has been brutally murdered.
basement door. He calls out to Mulder, who is The next morning Scully meets Mulder in the
standing in a small circle of salt. Although his arm is hospital where he shows her the body of the
bleeding, Mulder is protected by the circle. He tells deputy. One blow of the flashlight was enough to
Frank to aim for their heads because it’s the only drive the deputy’s eyeglasses through the back of his
way to stop the zombies. Frank lights a flare and skull. They meet with Sheriff Harden, who is
searches the basement. One of the zombies charges convinced that the fingerprints on the flashlight link
and Frank kills it with a head shot. Another zombie Tony to the crime. Mulder and Scully try to get
rises, grabs Frank and takes him down. They struggle answers from Tony, but he denies any knowledge of
until Mulder grabs the revolver and shoots the the murder. The partners suspect that Tony is
creature in the temple. Mulder reaches to help Frank innocent, but while Mulder thinks that a spiritual
when the last surviving zombie starts to lunge force caused the violent act, Scully is more inclined
toward them. Mulder raises the gun, but it just clicks to believe that Tony is covering for some friends.
empty. The creature falls, shot from behind by Back at the high school, Max strolls into science
Scully who has appeared at the top of the stairs. class with one minute left to take an exam. The
With only minutes before midnight, Frank sits teacher, Mr. Babbitt, is surprised when Max instantly
alone in a waiting room watching Dick Clark on finishes the exam with all correct answers. Mulder
television as he celebrates the new millennium in and Scully approach Chastity after class and ask her
Times Square. Scully enters to tell him that Mark what she knows about Tony. They remind her that
Johnson has been taken for psychiatric evaluation. Tony could spend the rest of his life in jail. Before
But she smiles and informs him that he has a visitor: she can speak, Max intercedes – Mulder notes that
his daughter Jordan, who leaps into her father’s Max is Sheriff Harden’s son. Scully’s cell phone rings
arms. Mulder comes in with one arm in a sling, but with news that the murder weapon has disappeared.
Frank and his daughter leave with only moments The agents review the security tape at the sheriff’s
before midnight. The agents stay to see the ball office and Mulder notices a blurred image over the
drop on television and blankly stare at the revelers evidence room’s locker in one video frame. They
kissing in Times Square. Mulder looks over at Scully consult with paranormal expert Chuck Burks and
and she catches his glance. He leans in to kiss her, determine that the image is a solid object and that
and it lasts a bit longer than a kiss between two the color of the blur matches the high school colors:
friends. Their lips part and they both smile. “The purple and gold.
world didn’t end,” Mulder mumbles. “No, it didn’t,” Tony is released from jail and his mother scolds
she replies. And the two partners head down the him for hanging out with the wrong crowd. He
hall to begin the new year. 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
Rush shocked to discover not only is unharmed, but has
somehow been plucked from the car before the
Production Code: #7ABX06 wreck. Max stands next to him on the road, also
Original Air Date: 12/05/99 untouched. Max tells Tony that he too will become
Written by David Amann “one of us.”
Directed by Robert Lieberman The next day, Mr. Babbitt flunks Max for
A TEENAGE KILLER ELUDES MULDER AND SCULLY BY
“cheating” on his science exam. Max storms out of
MOVING TOO FAST FOR THE HUMAN EYE. the classroom. Tony tells Chastity that he wants out,
but she reluctantly says that it’s too late. At lunch,
High−school student Tony Reed drives into a Mr. Babbitt gets pinned to the school cafeteria wall
wooded area of Pittsfield, Virginia passing “No by a table that has apparently moved on its own.
Trespassing” signs along the way. It is late at night Tony, horrified, suspects something when he notices
and he is spooked by the eerie quietness of the Max quickly disappear from the room. Then a chair
woods. He meets up with two other teenagers, Max flies into Babbitt, crushing him. Although
Harden and girlfriend, Chastity Raines. Chastity is eyewitnesses saw no one near Babbitt, Mulder’s
hesitant about letting Tony in on their secret, but theory is that Max used some paranormal ability to
Max makes Tony swear never to reveal anything exert force without touching the victim. Max,
about what he sees in the forest. Lights glaring from however, was brought to the hospital when he
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collapsed from exhaustion. They question Max, MULDER AND SCULLY ARE CAUGHT IN A REAL−LIFE
whose defiant attitude sparks doubt in Sheriff RUBE GOLDBERG DEVICE AS THEY INVESTIGATE A
Harden’s mind about his son’s innocence. Mulder MAN CURSED WITH EXTREMELY GOOD LUCK.
thinks that Max feels a rush from causing these Tension fills the room of a high−stakes poker game
murders. Scully reviews Max’s medical charts and in Chicago as the men place their bets. The meek
sees that he is suffering from some kind of Henry Weems does not belong in this group of
withdrawal, but also exhibits signs of physical gangsters. Henry asks for five new cards and lays
damage that might be found in a football player or them down with a perfect straight flush, winning the
race car driver. $100,000 pot. Mob boss Jimmy Cutrona motions to
Tony secretly follows Chastity into the woods, his henchmen, and Henry is taken to the roof. The
watching as she sneaks through a seam in a thugs toss him off the building, and he falls thirty
boulder. As he steps inside, he sees a cave, but no floors into an open service elevator. Miraculously,
Chastity. Suddenly his body starts to spasm and he Henry pulls himself up onto the street and runs off
discovers the “rush” that allows Max and Chastity to unharmed.
move faster than the eye can see. Meanwhile, The next day, Scully arrives in Chicago to meet
Chastity uses her speed to help Max escape from Mulder. Agents staking out Cutrona saw an
the hospital unseen. She takes him back to the cave unidentified man fall from the roof and walk away.
to get another dose of the “rush” and is surprised to Mulder believes the man may have some kind of
find Tony there. He too has become addicted to the healing power. Scully thinks the guy just got lucky.
rush, but wants to warn the police about Max’s They go down through the service elevator into a
crime spree. Chastity warily tells him that Max is basement, where they find a laundry cart that has
out of the hospital. been broken, as if something heavy had landed in it.
Sheriff Harden searches his son’s room, finding Among the towels in the cart is an artificial eyeball.
the missing flashlight taken from the sheriff’s Mulder and Scully track down their suspect through
evidence room. Max instantly appears and admits to an appointment he made to get fitted for a new
killing Deputy Foster. Moving inhumanly fast, he prosthetic eye. As they enter Henry Weems’
begins to pummel his father and is about to kill him apartment building, they are approached by Maggie
with the same flashlight, when Tony, using the “rush” Lupone shouting for help. Her sink is spraying water
himself, suddenly arrives to intervene. The sheriff is and she can’t find Henry, the building
brought to the hospital, and Mulder and Scully superintendent. She urges her young son, Richie, to
deduce that someone else prevented Max from go back to bed. In an attempt to assist her, Mulder
murdering again. Chastity and Tony, fearing Max breaks the valve and causes more water to spurt
will kill them, try to beat him back to the cave. But from the sink. Suddenly, the floor gives way from all
he is already there when they arrive. Tony and Max the water and Mulder drops into the apartment
struggle, and Chastity kills Max by shooting him in below – where Henry Weems has been hiding.
the back. As the bullet exits Max’s body, Chastity Mulder returns the artificial eye, and Henry
tells Tony that she can’t go on living without the discounts any dramatic description of his fall. He
rush and walks around Max to stand in front of him says it was a lucky break. Henry’s hobby is
– allowing the bullet to hit her in the chest. Mulder constructing complex, Rube Goldberg−like machines
and Scully arrive at the cave to find Tony holding that perform simple tasks and Mulder admires his
Chastity’s body and Max lying nearby. work. Henry admits that he lost all of his poker
Back at the hospital, Mulder reports that nothing winnings but refuses to testify against Cutrona.
was found in the cave to produce a physiological Scully tries to persuade him that Cutrona will go
effect, and that the cave was sealed with concrete. after him. “I’ll take my chances,” he shrugs. The
He suggests to Scully that perhaps the cave only agents leave and narrowly miss one of Cutrona’s hit
affected teenagers because of their physical and men as he enters the building. Mulder realizes he
chemical difference from adults. The agents look in dropped his car keys and buzzes Henry. When they
at a recovering Tony. He stares at the clock hear gunshots, Mulder and Scully rush back to
advancing slowly, knowing he will forever be Henry’s apartment. Henry has disappeared, but the
trapped in a world at normal, slow speed. 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
The Goldberg Variation coincidentally occurred in the apartment, much like
one of Henry’s contraptions. Scully chalks it up to
Production Code: #7ABX02 dumb luck, but then notices Richie in the doorway.
Original Air Date: 12/12/99 Seeing that he is sick, she leads him back to his
Written by Jeffrey Bell bedroom. Richie shows Scully the Goldberg device
Directed by Thomas J. Wright 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 Orison


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 Production Code: #7ABX07
vent, Henry hears their conversation. He sneaks out Original Air Date: 01/09/00
to visit with Richie when the agents depart. Written by Chip Johannessen
Going over Henry’s file, Mulder surmises that Directed by Rob Bowman
Henry’s lucky streak began when he was the lone REVEREND ORISON HOPES TO SAVE DONNIE
survivor of a plane crash, but he has since gone PFASTER’S SOUL BY HELPING HIM BREAK OUT OF
underground. Only recently has he tried using his PRISON. BUT PFASTER ONLY WANTS THE VICTIM
lucky fortune. Henry slips out to buy a scratch−off THAT ONCE ESCAPED HIM – SCULLY.
lottery ticket and wins $100,000. However, when he Reverend Orison preaches in a small chapel in the
learns that the payment is spread out over months, Marion, Illinois maximum security penitentiary. Each
he tosses it into a garbage can. Another man in the time he exclaims the phrase “Glory, amen,” the
store grabs the ticket, despite Henry’s pleadings to prisoners stomp their feet in unison. However, sitting
throw it away. The man is immediately hit by a stone−faced and silent is Donnie Pfaster (last seen in
truck. When Mulder and Scully investigate, they “Irresistible” #2X13), a fetishist who had once
figure out that Henry had heard their conversation kidnapped Scully. Later in the garment machine
about the lottery ticket. They separate and search shop, Brigham, an inmate from the sermon, gets his
the building. Mulder finds Henry in the air vent and fingers caught in an electric saw. As the guards and
holds him while he calls Scully. As he dials, another other prisoners rush to help him, time seems to slow
of Cutrona’s gunmen arrive and fire a shot at Henry. down and Pfaster slips out unnoticed.
The bullet ricochets off Henry, grazes Mulder’s arm, In Washington, Scully is awakened by a gust of
and bounces around before it lands in the chest of wind. She gets up to close the window, noticing the
the thug. Scully arrives in the room just as the hit Bible on her bureau. Her clock radio blinks 6:66. She
man drops, not believing that she’s seeing Henry reaches for the clock, but the power switches off,
unharmed. and then back on. Her clock now reads 6:06.
Later, Mulder’s wound is dressed at the hospital, The next day, Mulder and Scully are summoned
where he tests Henry at playing cards. Henry draws to the Marion Penitentiary to help find the escaped
the highest card every time, confessing that he is prisoner they had previously put behind bars –
extremely lucky and that other people suffer. This is Donnie Pfaster. Mulder tries to persuade Scully to
why he keeps a low profile. He says that he tried to remove herself from the case, but she is adamant
get $100,000 for a liver transplant for a new about staying on, saying that she has no other
experimental treatment for Richie’s liver disease. choice. The agents interview the inmate Brigham
Although Henry’s life is in danger, Mulder believes whose hands are now intact. He proclaims his
that his luck will save him, and he allows Henry to healing a miracle of God, and reciting “Glory,
leave. Scully pulls one last card and draws one amen,” he unconsciously raps his feet. Mulder
higher than Henry’s. Mulder is alarmed by this and recognizes the post−hypnotic suggestion and
runs after Henry, who is also being followed by one suggests a talk with the prison chaplain. A song
of Cutrona’s men. Henry gets hit by a truck, but faintly drifts in through the vents and startles Scully.
survives. Sensing that his luck has run out, Henry She says she hasn’t heard it since high school.
agrees to testify against Cutrona. Richie becomes Teenage runaway Blueberry approaches Pfaster
seriously jaundiced and is taken to the same in a diner. He offers to give her dirty hands a
hospital. His mother Maggie goes to follow the manicure. Reverend Orison interrupts, telling Pfaster
ambulance, but is kidnapped by the mobsters. Henry that it was he who helped orchestrate the prison
knows that Maggie was taken to prevent him from break. Federal marshals storm the diner and Pfaster
testifying, so he goes to speak to Cutrona himself. accuses Orison of turning him in. Orison quickly
Cutrona has him brought to the basement where hands him his car keys, and with time again
Maggie is being held captive. As the men raise seeming to slow down, Pfaster inconspicuously
Henry onto a crane, a series of mishaps ensue that escapes. In the parking lot, Pfaster plows down
kill the gangsters and release Henry. Mulder arrives Orison, leaving him severely wounded. Later in the
with the police to find Cutrona dead, and Henry hospital, Orison tries to appeal to Scully’s faith, and
and Maggie saved. It turns out that Cutrona’s rare she is unsettled when he calls her “Scout.” She is
blood type is a perfect match for Richie’s, and further disquieted when she hears the song from her
Richie gets his transplant after all. Henry was right youth again. Mulder arrives with news of Pfaster’s
when he said that everything does happen for a latest victim, calling Orison a liar. He believes that
reason. 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 A SMALL−TIME MAGICIAN IS FOUND DEAD AFTER
the radio on the day she learned that her Sunday TURNING HIS HEAD 360 DEGREES FOR AN AMAZED
school teacher was murdered. This teacher had AUDIENCE, BUT MULDER AND SCULLY BELIEVE HE
called her “Scout.” She tells Mulder that she first WAS MURDERED.
believed that evil existed in the world when her On the Santa Monica Pier in California, the Amazing
teacher was killed. Mulder tries to disprove her Maleeni sits on the bumper of his dilapidated van,
thoughts of divine intervention by pointing to a dressed in full performance tuxedo in anticipation of
lightspeed image of Orison’s brain on a computer. his magic act. A young boss tells him he’s ready to
Orison pierced a hole in his own skull to allow go on. “This will be my greatest show ever,”
more oxygen to the brain, presumably giving him Maleeni says before approaching the stage. He
special powers to “stop” time. Mulder predicts that performs a rudimentary sequence of cups and balls
Orison really believes he is working as God’s tool while reciting the history of the great magicians. A
to stop Pfaster from killing. Meanwhile, Orison uses guy in the audience heckles him to do a more
his chant of “Glory, amen” to hypnotize the marshal exciting trick. Maleeni makes a retort to the guy,
guarding him, and he escapes. Billy LaBonge, then announces that he will attempt
A red−headed prostitute visits with Pfaster, but a feat of the Egyptian Dedi by reattaching his
when he realizes she is wearing a wig, he is furious severed head. As the crowd silences, Maleeni
and attacks her. The prostitute knocks Pfaster incredibly turns his head all the way around his
unconscious and leaves. Orison arrives and takes neck. The audience applauds and Maleeni throws a
Pfaster to a cemetery. While digging him a grave, he look at LaBonge, who leaves. After the show, the
asks Pfaster to repent for his sins. Pfaster says that young boss goes to Maleeni in his van, but the
Orison can not kill him. When Orison looks at magician sits motionless. The boss taps him.
Pfaster’s face, he has transformed into the Devil Maleeni’s head rolls off his body and out the open
Incarnate. Pfaster kills Orison and buries him in the window, as his headless corpse stays behind the
grave. The next morning, the agents inspect the wheel.
gravesite and decide that their side of the case is Mulder and Scully peruse the crime scene the
over. They return to Washington. following day. She is uninterested, thinking this was
Scully arrives in her apartment and is getting merely a murder case. But Mulder believes that
ready for bed when her electricity turns off and her Maleeni’s great magic trick somehow went wrong.
clock radio flashes the time 6:66. Suddenly, Donnie They examine a camcorder from a tourist who
Pfaster bursts out of the closet and attacks Scully. taped the show. They suspect the heckler, but do
They struggle, and Pfaster succeeds in tying Scully not see his face. Scully notices that the heckler
up. At his own bed, Mulder sets his alarm clock, and throws away a soda cup. The fingerprints on the cup
he hears Scully’s song on the radio. He thinks about lead them to Billy LaBonge, another small−time
this coincidence and decides to phone Scully. She magician with a criminal record. LaBonge writes off
doesn’t answer. Meanwhile, Scully manages to Maleeni as a hack with gambling debts. As the
move her tied hands in front of her so that she can agents turn to leave, LaBonge stops them to return
crawl across the floor to get to her gun. Pfaster is their FBI badges. They didn’t even realize they had
busy lighting candles and preparing a bath. He been pickpocketed. Later, LaBonge pays a visit to
catches sight of Scully when Mulder breaks through loan shark Cissy Alvarez regarding Maleeni’s debts.
the door with his gun drawn. As Pfaster is held at LaBonge offers to help him make back ten times the
gunpoint, Scully breaks out of her ties and shoots amount of money he is owed. Alvarez is interested
Pfaster. in hearing the proposal.
Later as the police pour over the crime scene in Scully finishes the autopsy on Maleeni (aka
the apartment, Mulder tries to comfort a shaken Herman Pinchbeck) and finds that his head was
Scully, telling her that his report will reflect that she sawed off and glued to the body with spirit gum.
had no choice but to kill Pfaster. He asks if she Pinchbeck, however, died from a heart attack and
thought God made her pull the trigger. Instead, had been refrigerated for over a month. Mulder and
Scully questions whether it was really Evil who Scully go to a Los Angeles bank to see Pinchbeck’s
made her commit an act in vengeance. 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
The Amazing Maleeni proceeds to show a trick that involves Mulder
pulling a card from the deck. Mulder suspects that
Production Code: #7ABX08 Albert performed one last trick on the Pier in honor
Original Air Date: 01/16/00 of his brother Herman. Albert says that he couldn’t
Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban have been at the show, revealing he is in a
and Frank Spotnitz wheelchair with no legs. Scully apologizes. With no
Directed by Thomas J. Wright 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 been returned, the agents release Maleeni and
nothing turns up. Mulder does find one of LaBonge.
Pinchbeck’s gambling markers. Afterwards, Mulder tells Scully that he was still
At the bank, Albert Pinchbeck admires the puzzled as to why they used an elaborate set−up
courier guard’s gun. He is then visited by Alvarez without a payoff. He shows her Maleeni’s wallet,
who threatens him. Albert notices the distinctive pilfered from the evidence room. Framing Alvarez
tattoos on Alvarez’s hand. Meanwhile, the courier was merely a way to misdirect the agents’
guards find a masked man inside their armored car attention. The pair’s real plan was to access the
and shoot at him. The man escapes, but the guards bank’s electronic transfer funds using Mulder’s badge
take note of the tattoos on his hand. Out of sight, number, obtained when LaBonge pickpocketed the
the man pulls off his mask. It is LaBonge, unharmed. ID. They would have also needed a thumbprint, and
He wipes the tattoos off with a towel. Mulder and Mulder pulls out of the wallet the playing card that
Scully question Alvarez about his gambling marker, he picked from Pinchbeck’s card trick. The only
but he denies any knowledge of a murder. Mulder question still lingering is how Maleeni turned his
confides to Scully that he thinks they are being head around. Scully says she knows the trick. She
misdirected, like a sleight−of−hand trick. LaBonge turns her hand all the way around on the floor as
watches them leave Alvarez’s pool hall and places a Mulder looks in wonder. He asks her how she did it,
911 call. He goes inside and is threatened by and she merely replies, “Magic.”
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 Signs & Wonders
Pinchbeck from his wheelchair. He does have legs,
hidden by holes in the wheelchair. He confesses Production Code: #7ABX09
that he is really Herman Pinchbeck/Maleeni, and he Original Air Date: 01/23/00
was afraid for his life because of gambling debts to Written by Jeffrey Bell
Alvarez. When he went to Albert for a loan, he Directed by Kim Manners
found his brother dead of a heart attack. He SNAKES ARE KILLING THE UNRIGHTEOUS, BUT
schemed to slip into his brother’s life, right after MULDER AND SCULLY DOUBT THAT THIS IS A CASE
retiring with his greatest performance. Mulder OF DIVINE INTERVENTION.
doesn’t believe his sob story and has him arrested.
He looks through Pinchbeck’s computer. The bank Jared Chirp scans a medical test report and,
officer says that electronic transfer funds would disgusted, throws it in the trash. He hurriedly packs
require Mulder’s badge number and thumbprint. a suitcase while mumbling some religious prayers.
Scully notices a robbery attempt was made on an An unseen figure watches through the window as
armored car that Pinchbeck signed out. The bank the rain crashes outside the home in McMinn
officer says that no money was stolen. Pinchbeck is County, Tennessee. Jared grabs one last item – a
taken to a holding prison, where someone in the revolver – and runs through the storm to his car.
next cell raps on the wall. It is LaBonge. Pinchbeck Once inside the car he drops his keys, and as he
tells him that everything went “swimmingly.” The reaches for them on the floor, he sees a rattlesnake
former rivals seem to be partners in crime. hissing. He grabs the gun, but a second rattlesnake
The next morning, the bank vault is emptied. comes into view. Suddenly Jared is swarmed by
Security footage shows nothing, but a previous tape dozens of snakes. He fires into the pile with all six
shows Alvarez entering the building, and the courier shots. The snakes attack and kill him.
guard recognizes his tattoos. The FBI raids the pool In his office, Mulder reads from the report about
hall and finds the money. Alvarez claims he was set the 116 separate bite marks from 50 different snakes.
up by LaBonge. Mulder and Scully realize that Although Jared’s car was locked, there was no trace
Pinchbeck and LaBonge are working together. They of snakes. He informs Scully that rattlesnakes
get to the prison just as the magicians are about to usually hibernate in the winter. She notes that
be released on bail. The agents unravel their theory: serpents are symbolic of religion. They travel to the
the death of Albert Pinchbeck opened a door of Blessing Community Church in Tennessee to talk
opportunity for the two men. Maleeni intentionally with Reverend Mackey about Jared’s death. Jared’s
lost money to Alvarez and then faked his own pregnant girlfriend Gracie overhears the
death. LaBonge, Maleeni’s protégé, set up Alvarez to conversation. Mackey has misgivings about the
take the fall for the heist, hoping to enact revenge tragedy, and points them in the direction of Jared
on Alvarez, a former prison mate. Maleeni placed and Gracie’s former church. This denomination
blanks in the courier guard’s gun, so that the masked practices snake handling. He names Reverend Enoch
LaBonge was not killed. While the two were locked O’Connor as the prime source of animus toward the
up overnight, they used their magic tricks to escape, couple. O’Connor’s Church of Signs and Wonders is
rob the bank, plant the money with Alvarez and an old, run−down shack with no lights. The agents
return to prison by morning. Since the money has are trying to find their way around in the dark and
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are startled to see snakes loose in the building. was no baby found with her. O’Connor has also
Before they can move, O’Connor turns on the lights disappeared. They see the snake tracks in the
to reveal not one, but many snakes on the church amniotic fluid, and an elderly woman in the church
floor. He calmly stuffs them into a burlap sack as he says that the “Devil was cast out.” Scully gets in the
tells Mulder and Scully that the death was a test of ambulance and Mulder goes to rescue Mackey from
Jared’s faith. O’Connor.
Iris, a volunteer at Mackey’s church and the O’Connor confronts Mackey with a knife, but
owner of the boarding house where Gracie is living, Mulder bursts in and fires at O’Connor. In the
tells Mackey that Jared called the night he died ambulance, Gracie tells Scully that her father did
looking for Gracie. She had kept this a secret. not harm her. He was the one who saved her.
Mackey reassures her that he will help her deal Meanwhile, O’Connor lies bleeding on the floor. He
with this later, and Iris goes into an office to work tells Mulder that he does not realize which side he
on church bulletins. Suddenly, her staple remover is on, and, as he points to Mulder’s heart, says to be
turns into a snake head and bites her hand. She “smart down here.” Mulder considers this and
washes the wound in the bathroom sink and notices approaches Mackey in the outer church office.
snakes slithering from out of nowhere. She screams. Mulder accuses Mackey of being the father of
Later, Iris’ body is removed as Mulder and Scully Gracie’s child and wanting to destroy O’Connor. He
talk to Mackey. He tells them that Jared called the draws his weapon, but Mackey asks if Mulder would
boarding house looking for Gracie and mentioned do well if put to the test. Snakes suddenly appear
something about paying for his sins. They question and swarm Mulder. He falls to the ground as they
Gracie, but she does not believe O’Connor was crawl in his clothes and bite him. Scully hurries to
responsible for the murders because he is her father. the church and hears Mulder cry out. She breaks
When she became pregnant, O’Connor kicked her down the door just as the last snake escapes. Later
out of the house and the church. Mulder and Scully at the hospital, Mulder recuperates as Scully reports
return to Signs and Wonders and split up to that police have not yet found Reverend Mackey.
investigate. Scully enters a room with snakes and At a church in Connecticut, a woman welcomes
O’Connor appears. He forces her hand into a box of a Reverend Wells to the parish. Wells is really
serpents, preaching that she must be judged by God. Reverend Mackey. He pulls out a mouse from the
Before a snake reaches her, Mulder crashes in with desk drawer. He opens his mouth as if to put it in,
his pistol raised. O’Connor is arrested. He tells but a snake rises out of Mackey’s mouth. The snake
Mulder that Satan is near. In his jail cell that swallows the mouse in a single gulp and slips back
evening, O’Connor kneels down to pray. Dozens of inside Mackey’s throat.
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 Sein und Zeit (1 of 2)
anti−venom medicine to be given to him on the
basis of religious grounds. Scully speculates that Production Code: #7ABX10
perhaps Gracie is the killer. The agents comb Jared’s Original Air Date: 02/06/00
room and find the medical report. Jared could not Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
have been the father of Gracie’s child because he Directed by Michael Watkins
was sterile. They wonder if Jared was killed THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LITTLE GIRL
because he learned the truth. In the hospital, LEAD MULDER TO MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH
Mackey convinces Gracie to rely on medicine to PREVIOUS UNEXPLAINED KIDNAPPINGS. YET SCULLY
save her father. He leaves her alone with the BELIEVES HE IS ASSOCIATING THE CASE WITH THE
unconscious O’Connor. Mulder and Scully arrive to ABDUCTION OF HIS SISTER.
find that O’Connor has escaped with Gracie.
Mackey tells them that O’Connor fathered Gracie’s Five year−old Amber Lynn LaPierre says her prayers
baby, and this was the reason she wanted to leave before her parents tuck her into bed. Bud LaPierre
her father’s snake church. sets in for the evening to watch television, but he
Late that night, O’Connor brings Gracie to his hears a noise in the house. He checks Amber Lynn’s
church where the other members of the room and is horrified to see the little girl’s face has
congregation are waiting. She struggles, but they turned blue from strangulation. He recoils at the
manage to hold her down. O’Connor tells her to sight. Yet at second glance, she appears to perfectly
“resist the Devil and he will flee.” Gracie’s pregnant fine and still asleep. Meanwhile, his wife Billie is in
belly squirms and she miraculously delivers baby their bedroom. She is oddly concentrating on
rattlesnakes instead of a child. O’Connor and the writing an abduction note. Bud moves down the
others are shocked. The next morning, Mulder and hallway to tell his wife of the strange hallucination
Scully arrive at the Church of Signs and Wonders as when Amber Lynn’s bedroom door slams shut. He
Gracie is being put into an ambulance. She is in struggles to open it. Blood oozes out from under the
deep shock and suffers from loss of blood, but there door. Bud breaks in to find Amber Lynn has
vanished.
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That same evening, Skinner assembles a team of Looking for answers, Mulder goes to the Idaho
agents to find the girl. Mulder insists that he be put prison to see Kathy Lee Tencate again. She tells him
on the case. Although Skinner does not consider this that his mother was trying to tell him that his sister
to be an X−File, he gives Mulder until noon to file a Samantha is with the “walk−ins” – old souls lurking
report. The next morning, Mulder arrives at the in starlight who protect other souls from harm that
media circus surrounding the LaPierre home in they would have suffered in real life.
Sacramento, California. He inquires about the A paunchy man watches some children play in
ransom note. Bud tells him that the note was in the Santa’s North Pole Village theme park. He
Amber Lynn’s room. Billie lies and says she was changes into a Santa suit next to a group of
already in bed. Mulder is unsure what to believe. television monitors taping the village. Nearby are
Later, Scully arrives at the motel to find Mulder stacks of videotapes. Mulder, meanwhile, replays his
deep in thought. Skinner sent her to retrieve mother’s message for Scully, trying to discern what
Mulder’s report. Mulder’s cell phone interrupts their she was trying to warn him about. Scully found that
conversation. It is Mrs. Mulder, who asks her son if Mrs. Mulder suffered from an incurable cancer and
he is investigating the abduction case. She seems did commit suicide. She tells Mulder that his mother
troubled, and wants him to call when he gets back. would want him to stop looking for Samantha. She
Mulder and Scully return to Washington, where had probably hoped to take away his pain. Mulder
Skinner is analyzing the letter with his team. breaks down in Scully’s arms.
Handwriting analysis seems to shows that Billie Billie LaPierre sees a vision of Amber Lynn next
LaPierre did write the note, but there is no demand to her bed. The little girl is mouthing something.
for money or ransom. Although the other agents Skinner and Scully take Mulder to Sacramento
believe that the parents are involved, Mulder knows because Billie wants to see him. Billie tells Mulder
that none of their theories explain what happened that the apparition of Amber Lynn said the number
to the little girl. Scully follows him back to his seventy−four. No one understands the significance of
office and attempts to convince him that he is the word. As the agents drive from the LaPierre
identifying the case with the disappearance of his home, a beaten and exhausted Mulder asks to be
sister. Mulder rummages through old files and he removed from the case. Scully notices a highway
finds a document from a 1987 case in Idaho. The sign for Route 74 and she looks on the map. They
last line of the ransom note matches the one found head down the route toward Santa’s North Pole
in the LaPierre home: “Nobody shoots at Santa Village. Skinner checks the grounds while Mulder
Claus!” The agents visit the woman whose and Scully enter the building. They come upon a
handwriting is on the note, Kathy Lee Tencate, who bank of video monitors and stacks of videotapes
is imprisoned for kidnapping her six year−old son. dating back to the 1960s. One tape has footage of
Although the boy was never found, she confessed to Amber Lynn LaPierre. Suddenly, the paunchy man
the murder. Mulder notes that her case resembles appears and locks Mulder and Scully in the office.
the LaPierre situation and believes she is innocent. Skinner chases the man around the property and
Kathy Lee refuses to help, so they leave. Alone in arrests him. Mulder and Scully catch up and find
her cell, Kathy Lee has a ghostly vision of her son themselves standing on freshly turned earth. They
and summons the agents. realize that there are dozens of unmarked plots –
Mrs. Mulder calls her son again, but leaves an each the size of a child’s grave.
answering machine message, saying there has been
much unsaid that she hopes he will understand. She
proceeds to burn photographs of Mulder and his Closure (2 of 2)
sister. Mulder returns to Sacramento to show the
LaPierres a videotaped confession by Kathy Lee. She Production Code: #7ABX11
assures them on the tape that their daughter is Original Air Date: 02/13/00
protected. The couple react emotionally. The Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
LaPierres change their statements about the event Directed by Kim Manners
on the night of the abduction, and they are released MULDER CONTINUES TO SEARCH FOR CLUES ABOUT
from police custody. SAMANTHA’S ABDUCTION AND ULTIMATELY FINDS
Back in the office, Skinner scolds Mulder for THE LONG−SOUGHT−AFTER ANSWERS TO HER FATE.
bringing his paranormal ideas into the case. Scully
interrupts. She informs Mulder that his mother is Small bodies are excavated from graves outside the
dead. They investigate Mrs. Mulder’s house, finding Santa’s North Pole Workshop in Sacramento
an open gas oven and a bottle of sleeping pills. (discovered in #7ABX10). The ghosts of the children
Mulder believes that his mother was trying to rise up out of the earth, look up to the heavens and
contact him about the LaPierre case and that fade into starlight.
whoever took his sister has now killed his mother, Mulder pores over the tapes found at the crime
staging a suicide. He notices the missing family scene. Scully reports that Ed Truelove confessed to
photos, and pleads with Scully to do the autopsy. all the children’s murders, but did not take
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responsibility for the disappearance of Amber Lynn Next to the small hand is another print with the
LaPierre. Mulder admits to Scully that he had hoped name Jeffrey.
his sister Samantha was among the dead. “I just Mulder refutes what CSM said to Scully,
wanted it to be over,” he says. Their conversation is believing that Samantha was returned after her
interrupted by the arrival of police psychic Harold abduction to be raised by CSM and his son, Jeffrey
Piller who offers to help find Amber Lynn. Piller has Spender. Scully thinks that Piller is leading Mulder
previously explained cases where children were on. The agents confront Piller with the knowledge
transported through spiritual intervention. Although that he has been institutionalized for schizophrenia
Scully readily dismisses Piller and his theories, and is currently being investigated for the murder of
Mulder is interested, and notes that Piller’s claims his own son. Piller argues that he only wants to find
match what Kathy Lee Tencate had told him in the his son. He tries to prove that he knows Samantha
prison. is still out there by taking them back to the base. In
Disapproving of Mulder’s blind belief, Scully CSM’s abandoned house, the three hold hands for a
returns to Washington and shows Special Agent séance to summon the spirits. Ghosts appear around
Lewis Schoniger a video of Mulder’s 1989 regression them. A small boy ghost takes Mulder’s hand and
hypnotherapy session. As Mulder recalls Samantha’s leads him into an adjoining room. Inside a wall
abduction on the tape, the FBI expert points out that cavity, Mulder finds a diary belonging to Samantha.
Mulder’s delusion played into his unconscious hope Later in a diner, he reads the passages to Scully. A
that his sister was still alive. This caused him to fourteen year−old Samantha remembers another
pursue her. The case file reveals that an family and an older brother, but she seems to think
unsuccessful search for Samantha occurred at the that the doctors performing tests on her have stolen
highest levels of government in 1973. Schoniger her memories. Her final entry is about running away.
surmises that Samantha is probably dead, and Outside, Mulder looks up at the night sky and
advises Scully not to dig any deeper. Scully ponders whether the stars are really comprised of
disagrees, saying that someone owes Mulder an lost souls. He tells Scully that he wonders what his
explanation because “he deserves closure, like mother was trying to tell him before she died. Late
anyone.” at night, as Mulder sleeps, the ghost of Mrs. Mulder
Back in Sacramento, Mulder brings Piller to the whispers into her son’s ear.
graves. The psychic senses that Ed Truelove’s victims The next morning, Scully uncovers a 1979 police
all died while suffering. Walk−ins, however, report on a runaway who matches Samantha’s
intervene before anything violent happens to the description. The agents scour old hospital records,
children. Piller believes that while Amber Lynn was finding a “Jane Doe” patient with signs of paranoia.
not among the dead children in the graves, she has The girl also exhibited strange cuts on her limbs.
a connection to Mulder and his missing sister. That They go with Piller to the house of Arbutus Ray, the
night, Piller comes to Mulder’s motel room because emergency room nurse who signed the patient in.
a “visitor” wants to speak to him. A ghostly vision Mulder is hesitant to approach the woman’s front
of the late Mrs. Mulder appears, trying to tell door because he somehow senses that he has
Mulder something. When she quickly disappears, reached the end of the road. Scully and Piller knock
Mulder discredits Piller’s abilities, but then realizes on the door as Mulder waits at the car. Ray does
that he has unknowingly written the words “April recall the patient and remembers that she had a
Base” on a piece of paper. vision of the girl murdered. A frightened Ray
Scully proceeds with her own investigation of blinked, but realized the girl was sleeping safely.
Mrs. Mulder’s house and finds remnants of burned This story matches Bud LaPierre’s hallucination. Ray
photos and documents. She calls Mulder to tell him also recounts how a group of men came with the
that one of the documents has the Cigarette− father – a smoking man – to take the girl away.
Smoking Man’s (CSM) signature calling off the When the men opened her locked room, the girl
search for Samantha. Mulder discounts the had vanished. Scully turns to Mulder, but he has
importance of this lead. When Scully gets home disappeared. She doesn’t see him being led by the
later that night, CSM is waiting for her. He warns same boy from the house at the Air Force base.
her to stop the search for Samantha because he Mulder walks through a clearing in the woods and
believes she is dead. Although Scully pleads for the sees a group of ghostly children happily playing.
truth, CSM contends that Mulder must remain Amber Lynn LaPierre is there. Mulder senses that his
ignorant. It is the only thing that gives him hope. guide is Harold Piller’s son. Suddenly, Samantha runs
Meanwhile, Mulder and Piller sneak onto the to Mulder and jumps into her brother’s arms. The
decommissioned April Air Force Base. Piller has a joyous reunion brings him to tears.
vision of Samantha and other children given tests in A peaceful Mulder appears out of the darkness,
train cars. Mulder is at first skeptical, but then finds walking towards Scully and Piller. Piller is in denial
a child’s handprint in the cement outside one of the when Mulder assures him that his son is protected
base houses. Samantha’s name is etched underneath. 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 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
Production Code: #7ABX12 vest with five parallel slashes. Scully combs the
Original Air Date: 02/20/00 crime area and uncovers a long, fake fingernail,
Written by Vince Gilligan painted bubblegum pink and covered in blood. The
Directed by Michael Watkins agents interview Steve and Edy, a colorful couple
MULDER AND SCULLY ARE FOLLOWED who heard Ricky’s cries and called 911. They
DOCUMENTARY−STYLE BY A “COPS” CAMERA CREW recognize the nail polish on the fake fingernail as
AS THEY INVESTIGATE A MONSTER ON THE STREETS the signature hair and nail color of local prostitute
OF LOS ANGELES. Chantara Gomez.
Willow Park, California. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 9:26 pm. The agents search for Chantara. Mulder
Department. 6:48 pm. Deputy Keith Wetzel cruises drives and addresses the camera, cheerfully updating
the streets, but he’s not alone in his patrol car – a the audience on the case. Scully, still ignoring the
camera crew from the television show “Cops” camera crew, easily spots the prostitute’s pink hair.
follows his every move. He responds to a call about Chantara confesses that it was not Freddy Krueger
a possible “monster” prowler. Wetzel finds huge but her boyfriend, Chuco, who killed Ricky. She is
scrapes on the front door of the house, and a quick afraid that Chuco will twist her neck when he
search corners the suspect in the backyard. As learns that she ratted on him. The police raid
Wetzel advances toward the perpetrator, something Chuco’s house and find that he has overdosed. Dead
startles him. He bolts back toward the squad car, for several days, Chuco is ruled out as a suspect.
shrieking in terror. The frightened camera crew Suddenly, gunshots blast outside. Dep. Wetzel is
follows. As Wetzel frantically radios for assistance, blindly firing at an invisible assailant. Although he
an unseen force attacks the police car and flips it was assigned to protect Chantara, she was
completely over. The terrified occupants scream. somehow killed in the locked squad car. Her neck
Backup arrives in the form of Sergeant Paula was snapped. Wetzel describes to Mulder a
Duthie. She is astounded by the upside−down childhood story about a monster with a head like a
vehicle and questions Wetzel about the incident. wasp. He says that what he shot at was the same
Although the camera crew is no help in confirming Wasp Man.
his story, Wetzel lies to his superior, telling her that 1:32 am. Mulder switches theories about the
a street gang was responsible for the wreck. They nature of the case. He now believes that the
are interrupted by the radio squawking with a report suspect is really a single entity that, when it attacks,
of two armed suspects fleeing on foot. The officers appears as the victim’s worst nightmare. It appears
on the scene rush to apprehend a very surprised at a full moon and feeds on fear, jumping to various
pair of FBI agents investigating the same “monster”: sources like a chain reaction. Scully still does not
Mulder and Scully. buy his claims, but returns with him to the home of
Mulder asks Wetzel to describe what it was that Steve and Edy. They are the only people to not fall
attacked him. Although Wetzel attempts to prey to this killer. But after talking with Steve and
downplay the incident, Mulder believes that they are Edy, it becomes clear that the couple does not fear
really chasing a werewolf. He speculates that the their neighborhood or any killer on the loose.
bite marks on Wetzel’s wrists may indicate that he Mulder decides that they are not in any danger. He
will soon become a werewolf himself. When heads off with Wetzel to scour the streets, and
Mulder suggests that the deputy be quarantined, Sgt. Scully goes to the morgue to examine Chantara’s
Duthie skeptically asks, “Could I see your badge body.
again?” 2:47 am. Much to Scully’s chagrin, half the
Scully tries to avoid the camera crew when camera crew has followed her, but she works
discussing the case, but Mulder is giddy with the earnestly to find any clues before sunrise. The
prospect of solving an X−File under the watchful nervous medical examiner assisting her has heard
eyes of a worldwide audience. She is merely trying that some kind of contagion killed the prostitute.
to keep herself and her partner from looking Scully assures her that the victim was murdered and
ridiculous in a werewolf hunt. Police sketch artist not exposed to the Hantavirus. As the assistant asks
Ricky draws the attacker described by a resident. more questions about the Hantavirus, she sneezes
The perpetrator seems to closely resemble horror blood and faints. She convulses on the floor,
movie character Freddy Krueger. Although Ricky exhibiting symptoms of Hantavirus. Scully yells at
begins to fear the “claw monster” that the woman the camera crew to call 911.
described, Mulder is no longer certain that the 4:41 am. At the morgue, Mulder assimilates this
werewolf theory still stands. Scully confirms this by latest incident into his theory, realizing that the
reporting that the marks on Wetzel’s wrists are Hantavirus only affected the examiner after she
merely insect bites. 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 reviews the videotape of the game that shows
of another attack. Wetzel, meanwhile, has returned nothing out of the ordinary. Yet when they switch
to the previously raided house with the camera the game environment to wire mode and all the
crew. He is determined to search it one more time. textures and surfaces are stripped, the tape reveals
Unfortunately for Wetzel, his fears begin to a female pointing a gun at Retro. Mulder and the
overwhelm him and he is locked inside the house Lone Gunmen are shocked, but Phoebe’s face shows
with the cameras. Mulder and Scully arrive quickly a spark of recognition. After the men leave the
and break down the door. Behind a locked closet, room, she stares at the cyber−vixen on the monitor.
Wetzel screams in pain. Mulder yells at him to “Goddess,” she whispers in disbelief.
“cowboy up” and not show any fear. Suddenly, the Mulder gives a detective the printout of
screaming stops, and Mulder breaks in to find an Maitreya as the suspect, but Scully remains skeptical
injured Wetzel sitting dazed on the floor, cradling that a fictional female character could commit a
his bloody arm. Mulder realizes that the sun has real murder. Their ensuing discussion is cut short by
risen, meaning that the terror is gone. With no the entrance of Darryl Musashi, a revered virtual
concrete proof to back up Mulder’s theories, one programmer and game−playing legend. Like fan−
question hangs over the case: is the entity gone for crazed little boys, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen
good, or only to return at the next full moon? 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
First Person Shooter minutes, decapitated by the Samurai sword−wielding
Maitreya.
Production Code: #7ABX13 Completing her preliminary examination of
Original Air Date: 02/27/00 Retro, Scully is confused about how his wound left
Written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox no trace of evidence. She and Mulder argue lightly
Directed by Chris Carter about the merits of computer games, questioning
A MURDER INSIDE THE HIGH−TECH WORLD OF A
whether they add to a culture of violence or
VIRTUAL REALITY GAME LEADS SCULLY TO BATTLE A provide a necessary outlet. As the remains of Darryl
DEADLY DIGITAL CHARACTER IN ORDER TO SAVE Musashi are brought into the autopsy bay, Mulder
MULDER’S LIFE. receives a call from the Sheriff’s Department that
their female suspect is in custody at the station
Three teen guerrillas, bursting with testosterone, house. At the station, Mulder and Scully must
buckle up their stun suits in a dimly lit equipment maneuver around the many male officers hovering
bunker. They rack their futuristic, automatic weapons over the sexy suspect, an exotic dancer who goes
in preparation for war. But their battlefield is a by the name Jade Blue Afterglow. Confronted by
virtual reality game, where they are pitted against the printed image of her likeness, she tells them that
imaginary gunmen. Game controllers Ivan and she was paid for allowing a medical imaging
Phoebe monitor the players’ vital statistics from an company make a computer scan of her body. The
outside console. One of the players is “shot” and agents release the woman.
another waits as Retro moves farther into the Back in the offices of FPS, the Lone Gunmen
depths of the virtual environment to encounter a prepare to enter the game space to implement a
beautiful female warrior in leather and stilettos. “I patch program that will override the software
am Maitreya,” she tells him, slinking closer. “This is problem. Before they are ready, the game begins on
my game.” She brandishes an antique flintlock pistol its own and the Gunmen are shot at. Mulder rushes
and aims it at him. Retro can only watch as sparks to enter the game space in order to rescue the trio,
flash from the powder−pan when she pulls the but he is unable to follow them out before the
trigger. module closes. He is trapped inside the game.
Later that night, Mulder and Scully enter the FPS Phoebe and Scully watch as Mulder’s image
corporate building amid stringent security. They are disappears from their monitor. His vitals are still
met by the Lone Gunmen, who are registering on the console, and they realize that
uncharacteristically enthusiastic about the company. even though Mulder isn’t physically in the game
The trio explains that they serve as consultants to space, he is lost somewhere inside the game.
the game, but that Retro’s death has put a damper Scully angrily confronts Ivan about putting the
on the company’s upcoming initial public stock female figure into the game, but it’s Phoebe who
offering. runs out of the room with a guilty sob. As Scully
Scully checks Retro’s body and notes that the follows her into the hall, the young woman admits
man was obviously shot. Ivan vehemently refutes that she created Maitreya to be her own game
the visual proof, saying there is no way a real gun character in an attempt to make her mark as a
could have gotten into the highly−secured complex. woman in the gaming world. Yet, she maintains, she
The entire scenario, Phoebe explains, is digital. has no idea how the character moved from her
Nothing exists outside the game space. Mulder computer to the game mainframe.
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Inside the game, Mulder and Maitreya square apartments. She knocks on the door of its tenant,
off. She is able to move and disappear at will, but Mr. Peattie, who is the same man from the Wieder
Mulder manages to survive against her. Maitreya break−in. He tells her that he is cooking medicine
multiplies herself and continues to fire at him. Her and offers her a poultice for her sore back. She
electronic advantage takes its toll on Mulder, and goes, leaving Peattie to finish sewing a number of
he quickly loses ammunition. Finally, in desperation, crudely designed voodoo dolls. One of them hangs
Scully suits up and enters the game space herself, by the neck in the same manner as Dr. Thalbro.
brandishing her own high−powered weapon. Round Mulder finds out that the mysterious dirt was
after round, she overpowers Maitreya, but the from a graveyard, meaning that it is conjure dust, a
confrontations continue to grow difficult. Maitreya powerful tool for magick arts practitioners. Scully
comes after them with a tank. tells Mulder that Dr. Thalbro suffered from Kuru, a
Phoebe finally decides that she must enact the New Guinea disease that is extremely rare. Since
game’s kill switch. Ivan tries to stop her, because Kuru causes irrational behavior, Scully concludes
the kill switch will erase the whole game, but she that Thalbro must have killed himself. Mulder
succeeds. With the push of a few buttons, the game believes that the disease was intentionally inflicted
completely evaporates. For a brief moment, it on the man so that he would kill himself.
appears that Mulder and Scully have been erased Nan Wieder is disturbed when she discovers that
with the game, but when the module opens, the a family photo was removed from the house. Dr.
two agents are safely inside, battle−worn and Wieder tries to console his wife, but when he pulls
weary. back the covers of their bed, dirt in the shape of a
Later, while Ivan sits working at his computer, a stick figure is on the sheets. Suddenly, Nan lapses
new female figure suddenly appears that resembles into convulsions, and cyst−like sores erupt all over
a warrior who once mastered the game – Special her body. As the doctor attends his wife, he doesn’t
Agent Dana Scully. notice Peattie standing outside the house, clutching
one of his voodoo dolls with Nan’s photo sewn
inside.
Theef At the hospital, Dr. Wieder tells Mulder and
Scully that his wife has contracted a rare disease
Production Code: #7ABX14 common only in central Africa. Angered by Mulder’s
Original Air Date: 03/12/00 folk magick theory, Wieder ignores Scully’s offer of
Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban protection. The agents inquire at a magic shop
and Frank Spotnitz about the use of conjure dust for murder. The
Directed by Kim Manners proprietor tells them that in order to kill someone
MULDER AND SCULLY SUSPECT THAT HEXCRAFT IS
the magickian must draw power from a charm that
THE SOURCE OF THREAT AGAINST A DOCTOR’S holds great personal significance. The only way to
FAMILY. prevent his power is to separate him from such a
source.
Dr. Robert Wieder and his family return home from Dr. Wieder studies his wife’s MRI results and is
a banquet honoring him as the San Francisco Bay shocked to see the word “THEEF” inscribed in the
Area Doctor of the Year. Feeling joyous and scan. Suddenly, Peattie appears behind him. “Truth
celebratory, Dr. Wieder, his wife Nan and daughter hurts, don’t it?” the man laughs. When the doctor
Lucy prepare for bed, and invite the doctor’s father− asks why he is harming his family, Peattie utters
in−law, Dr. Irving Thalbro to stay the night. Dr. “Lynette Peattie.” Wieder does not recognize the
Thalbro is startled in his room by a haggard, rough− name, and Peattie disappears. Confused, Dr. Wieder
looking man standing behind him. The security runs a record search, but no Lynette Peattie turns up.
alarm’s motion sensor wakens the Wieders. Dr. Then he looks for “Jane Does” under his care and
Wieder goes downstairs to investigate, and finds finds one patient’s file has a personal effect in it. It
Thalbro’s body, hanging from the skylight, covered in is a hand−woven wristband, with the inscription
blood. Scrawled in blood on the wall is the word “Flax hair lamb, theef of mans heart.” This triggers
“THEEF.” Wieder’s memory.
The agents are called to the crime scene, where Later that night, Peattie buys a bag of popcorn
Mulder ponders the word’s meaning. There is no from a hospital vending machine and cooks it in a
evidence that it is a case of murder. Mulder machine he’s never seen before – a microwave.
theorizes that the cause is hexcraft when he finds Meanwhile, Nan recovers, but must go through
dirt splayed on the victim’s bed, since dirt is another MRI exam. As she slides into the radiology
commonly used to cast spells. Scully tube, Peattie removes the popcorn from the
uncharacteristically agrees that this is a possibility. microwave and replaces it with a poppet doll.
Mulder is surprised at her acquiescence. Inside the cylinder chamber, Nan begins to convulse
Across town, in a run−down building, the and her body burns to a charred black. Peattie pulls
landlady smells something suspicious in one of the
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the Nan doll out of the microwave and calmly says Original Air Date: 03/19/00
“All done.” Written by William B. Davis
When Dr. Wieder sees that the word “THEEF” Directed by Rob Bowman
was branded into his dead wife’s chest, he tells THE CIGARETTE−SMOKING MAN OFFERS TO SHOW
Mulder and Scully about the strange man who SCULLY THE CURE FOR CANCER IF SHE TRAVELS
confronted him. He also recounts the story of WITH HIM – AND HIDES HER TRIP FROM MULDER.
Lynette Peattie, a dying girl he had treated after a
bus accident. Wieder had deliberately upped her A sick young boy is awakened at night by a storm
morphine dosage to ease her pain even though the and a bright light. He watches in awe as figures
overdose would take the last twenty minutes of her walk out of the light.
life. Mulder realizes the killer must be Lynette’s Scully finds a copy of the Goochland Guardian
father, so he and Scully track down the girl’s newspaper on her doorstep. An article about the
gravesite. They exhume the coffin, but it is empty. young boy is on the front page. Although his family
Back at Peattie’s apartment, the landlady lets had refused medical treatment for him because of
herself in to look for another poultice. She gasps at their beliefs, the boy had miraculously been cured.
Lynette’s skeletal remains in the bed. She turns to At the office, Mulder receives an anonymous e−mail
leave and runs into Peattie. from someone at the Defense Advanced Research
The agents send Dr. Wieder and his daughter off Projects Agency about the same incident. Someone
to a safe house cabin, with Scully accompanying. is insistent that they investigate the case. Mulder
Unseen, Peattie watches them go. The news reports goes to DARPA, while Scully visits the boy.
a woman suffering from a sudden onset of a rare, The McPeck family is grateful for their son’s
flesh−eating disease, and Mulder quickly connects it miracle cure. The boy tells Scully he saw “angels”
to Peattie. When he reaches the apartment, Lynette’s who looked like men, and one of them pinched his
skull has been removed from the body. He phones neck. Scully sees that he has a mark similar to her
Scully to warn her that their suspect may be own implant scar. The Cigarette−Smoking Man
heading towards the Wieders. Outside the cabin, (CSM) waits outside the McPeck home in Scully’s
Peattie waits. His daughter’s head rests in a box on car. He claims that he was responsible for saving
his lap. the boy’s life, as well as hers. He questions why she
Peattie breaks into Scully’s car and takes her ID is not curious about his technology since he went to
photo and a strand of hair from the seat. He puts considerable trouble to prove his intentions. Scully
them into a poppet and pokes the doll’s eyes with is not swayed in her distrust. CSM admits that he is
coffin nails. Scully becomes blinded and her eyes dying, but hopes to pass his knowledge and power
are cataracted milky white. She stumbles about, and onto her. This knowledge includes the cure for
shoots blindly at Peattie when he bursts through the cancer. He chose her because he has grown tired of
door. He merely knocks her gun aside, heading Mulder’s stubbornness. He leaves his card with the
upstairs after the doctor and his daughter. warning that one word to Mulder will rescind the
Dr. Wieder tells Peattie that he did everything offer.
medically possible for the man’s daughter and that Scully traces the phone number on CSM’s card
he eased her suffering when he could do no more. and finds the address. It is a large, unmarked office
Peattie says that if he had been there, he could have building. The security guard demands her ID, and
saved her himself. He pulls out another cloth doll sends her to an office where the door’s nameplate
and twists a knife into it. Dr. Wieder falls to the reads “Spender, C.G.B.” As if expecting her, CSM
floor, clutching his heart. cordially welcomes her in. He tries once again to
Mulder arrives at the cabin, finding the hex doll appeal to Scully. He is dying of a cerebral
used to blind Scully. Scully’s sight returns instantly inflammation caused by brain surgery and wants to
and she shoots Peattie to save Dr. Wieder. leave a legacy. To retrieve the cure for cancer, they
The next day at the hospital, Scully admits that must take a trip. Intrigued, Scully agrees. She leaves
she would have followed the same procedure as a message on Mulder’s answering machine, saying
Wieder had she been faced with Lynette’s that she will be out of town for a family
prognosis. However, she wonders whether Peattie emergency. CSM watches her pack when Mulder
really could have saved his daughter. Mulder is once phones back. Although she ignores Mulder’s call, she
again surprised and appreciative of Scully’s manages to discreetly conceal a small microphone
admission of belief. Nearby, Peattie lies comatose in her bra.
on a hospital bed, dependent on the marvels of The mood in the car is tense, but Scully drives
modern science and medicine. 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
En Ami her to the home of Marjorie Butters, a sprightly,
energetic older woman. Scully is shocked to hear
Production Code: #7ABX15 that Marjorie is actually 118 years old, and that CSM
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is the reason for her overcoming cancer. He discovers a note under her plate. It reads “Calico
comments that a miracle such as Marjorie must be Cove. First light of day.”
the reason Scully became a doctor. At sunrise, CSM instructs Scully to take a small
Worried about Scully, Mulder questions her motorboat from the dock. She speeds away to meet
building manager. The man says that she left with a Cobra. Scully cuts the engine and sits idle in the
man who smoked cigarettes, and Mulder middle of the inlet. Another boat approaches and
immediately makes the connection. Skinner tells parks alongside her. The man driving the boat is
Mulder that Scully requisitioned a fleet sedan, but Cobra, and he speaks to her as if they had been
there have been no gas charges to track her corresponding for a while. He hands her a black
whereabouts. Mulder is concerned because Scully’s computer disk. Scully tells Cobra that they have
mother knew nothing about a supposed family never corresponded before and then asks about the
emergency. Suddenly, Skinner’s private phone line information on the disk. This unsettles Cobra, but
rings. It is Scully, who asks her boss to relay to before he can speak a gunshot rings out. The Black−
Mulder that she is okay. When Skinner offers to let Haired Man shoots Cobra out of the boat and sets
her speak to Mulder herself, she refuses. Mulder is his sight on Scully. She scrambles to restart the boat,
even more convinced that she is in danger. but another shot fires. This time CSM kills the
When CSM and Scully stop at a gas station, she Black−Haired Man with a pistol at point blank range.
speaks frantically into her hidden microphone, Scully returns to the dock, furious, and hands the
asking Mulder to comprehend what she’s recorded. disk to CSM. He hesitates, and then gives it back to
She drops the tape into a mailbox and gets back in Scully. She takes it and storms off.
the car with CSM. As they drive away from the An angry Mulder is silent to Scully while the
station, it is revealed that the Black−Haired Man (last Lone Gunmen check the disk. It is completely blank.
seen in “The X−Files” feature film) has followed the She takes Mulder back to the building of CSM’s
pair. He reaches into the mailbox and pulls out the office. It has been vacated. Mulder says that CSM
envelope she attempted to mail Mulder. used her, but can not figure out why she is still
Late that evening, CSM pulls up to a lakeside alive. Scully is incredulous, believing that CSM had
cabin. With black leather gloves, he reaches for the told her the truth. She questions why CSM would
sleeping Scully. The next morning, Scully wakes in use her to save himself at the expense of the human
the cabin. She’s been changed into pajamas, and she race.
quickly reaches for the microphone still taped to her At the cabin, CSM stands on the dock, holding
chest. Scully accuses CSM of drugging her, but he the disk. He contemplates it for a second, tosses it
humbly says that she was tired and delirious when into the water, and then lights up a cigarette.
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 Chimera
hesitates. From a distance, the Black−Haired Man
watches the exchange in the cabin. Production Code: #7ABX16
Meanwhile, Byers, Frohike and Langly show Original Air Date: 04/02/00
Mulder the e−mails they uncovered on Scully’s Written by David Amann
computer from a “Cobra” at the Department of Directed by Cliff Bole
Defense. They suspect she had been hiding this AS MULDER LOOKS FOR A MENACING RAVEN, HE
correspondence from him, but Mulder does not LEARNS TO ENJOY THE CREATURE COMFORTS OF A
believe their theory. He and the Lone Gunmen WELL−TENDED HOME. SCULLY, MEANWHILE, MUST
inform Skinner that someone hacked into her TOUGH IT OUT ON AN UNCOMFORTABLE
computer to arrange a meeting between Cobra and STAKEOUT.
Scully.
CSM brings Scully a dress for a dinner meeting At an Easter day picnic in a picture−perfect town,
with their contact. She hides her revulsion for the little Michelle Crittendon is startled by a raven in
man and is somewhat alarmed to see that the low− the woods. Her mother, Martha Crittendon, isn’t
cut dress can not accommodate her hidden happy when her husband won’t cut short his
microphone. At the restaurant, CSM tells Scully that business trip to tend his distraught daughter. Forced
he involved her because Cobra was skittish about to stay home alone that night, Martha’s worry turns
his research falling into the wrong hands. He then to fear at the sight of the raven on her mantle.
confesses that he has not been forthcoming with all Suddenly, a mirror shatters and a large, monstrous
the facts about this secret research. Not only is it a creature appears from nowhere and attacks Martha.
cure for cancer, but a cure for all human disease. Its Mulder is called away from a strip club stakeout,
origin is extraterrestrial. Excusing himself, CSM leaving Scully to handle the surveillance alone.
heads outside for a cigarette. The Black−Haired Man Skinner wants Mulder to investigate Martha
approaches him. Troubled, CSM reports to him that Crittendon’s disappearance since the presence of
Cobra has not shown. Scully, alone at the table, ravens suggests an oddness about the case. The fact
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that Martha’s father is a federal judge certainly and asks Ellen about it. She says she found it right
makes the case a priority. before the raven attacked her.
Sheriff Phil Adderly fills Mulder in at the crime Late that night, the sheriff rises from his and
scene. There is no ransom note, prints or blood Ellen’s bed and dresses to leave. He goes to a motel
evidence, but there are four deep scratches on the and unlocks a room with the key his wife
mantle in the otherwise pristine house. Mulder uncovered. Inside is Jenny, awaiting her lover.
wonders if raven talons could have made the marks Although Sheriff Adderly protests that they need to
and carefully notes the broken mirror. Howard discontinue their affair, Jenny lures him into bed.
Crittendon, Martha’s husband, shows Mulder birth The next morning, Mulder is up early and finds
control pills in Martha’s name. Since he has had a that Ellen has laundered his shirt and prepared a
vasectomy, Howard thinks Martha has run off with a huge breakfast for him. She senses that he likes to
lover, and he produces an unknown key he found be taken care of, and asks why he has no one in his
among Martha’s things. life. The sheriff returns home, interrupting their
Ellen Adderly, the Sheriff’s wife and a close conversation. He makes up an excuse that he had to
friend of Martha’s, posts flyers regarding Martha’s cover for another deputy. Mulder lets him know that
disappearance. A tough−looking woman named the medical examiner found that Martha had been
Jenny approaches her as Martha spots a raven four weeks pregnant when she died, in spite of
nearby. Although they have a mutual dislike, Jenny taking birth control pills. Since her husband had a
tells Ellen that they have more in common than she vasectomy, Mulder questions whom the sheriff may
knows. Ellen turns away from Jenny to see a suspect. When Adderly has no answer, Mulder
monstrous reflection in a car window. The window calmly asks for the motel key.
shatters instantly. Jenny hears ravens cawing outside the motel
Scully phones Mulder from the stakeout. She’s room and she dresses. The mirror above the bed
cold, hungry and not finding anything of substance suddenly shatters, and Jenny is attacked. She
on her surveillance. Mulder has no time to manages to slash at the creature’s shoulder with a
sympathize with her plight as he digs in to Ellen bit of broken glass before it kills her. At this newest
Adderly’s home cooked meal. Ellen invites him to crime scene, Mulder discovers the key fits the lock
stay at her home while he works on the case. to the motel room. He confronts the sheriff about
Young Michelle Crittendon sees the raven again an affair with both Martha and Jenny. Now a
outside her house, and her father Howard follows suspect, Adderly is finally ready to listen to Mulder’s
the bird into the garden to find a siege of ravens theories about the ravens.
pecking at the flesh of a human hand. It is Martha’s Ellen gets ready to take a bath and discovers a
body, buried in her own backyard. Later, the coroner bloody gash on the back of her shoulder. Distressed,
tells Mulder the gashes on her body resemble a she flashes back to her struggles with Jenny. Mulder
bear attack, although bears don’t generally bury heads back to the Adderly house, but takes a phone
their prey. Sheriff Adderly and Mulder both agree call from Scully about wrapping up her stakeout.
that Howard Crittendon murdered his wife. Ellen The perpetrator they were looking for had been
arrives at the crime scene, devastated. She admits right under their noses, dressed like a woman.
that she may have seen the creature earlier that day. Mulder makes a connection to the Crittendon
As the Sheriff calms his wife at their house, monster and rushes to the house. He tries coaxing
Mulder theorizes that reflective surfaces act as Ellen from the bathroom, telling her that he knows
doorways to the spirit world. An evil entity might what she’s done. She tells him that her whole
be summoned through that portal, taking the form of marriage was a lie, and she wished Mulder had
a raven. Mulder is lead to Jenny as a possible never come there. Suddenly, the creature bursts
enemy to Martha, but she denies any connection to through the door and attacks Mulder, pushing him
the murder. Mulder doesn’t question her innocence, under the bathtub’s water. As he struggles for air,
but is suspicious when she says that she was alone the creature sees its reflection in the water and
all night. stumbles back, releasing Mulder. Ellen, having
Ellen is puzzled to find a key in her carpet that transformed from the creature back to her normal
matches the one Howard Crittendon gave to self, is curled up in the corner of the bathroom
Mulder. Suddenly, a noise emanates from her baby’s weeping.
room and distracts her. She runs in to see a raven Mulder visits Ellen later at a psychiatric facility.
sitting on the edge of the crib. Ellen shoos it away, The sheriff says that his wife has a dissociative
but then sees a reflection of the creature in a disorder, or split personality, but that he doesn’t
mirror, which shatters. Terrified, she grabs the baby understand how it that is responsible for the turn of
and hides in a closet. After her husband rescues her, events. Mulder thinks that Ellen found a way to
she tells Mulder that the creature had chased her. rationalize her husbands’ affairs to protect her
The sheriff takes Mulder aside and asks him not to family. He suggests that this may be as close as
encourage his wife in what he feels are her stress− science can get to an explanation for what
induced delusions. Mulder spots the key on the floor
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happened. In her cell, Ellen stares at a raven outside As Scully drives away from the hospital, Mulder
her window. 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
all things narrowly avoids an even more catastrophic collision
with a truck. The woman continues on without
Production Code: #7ABX17 pause, but looks back and smiles serenely at a
Original Air Date: 04/09/00 stunned Scully. Scully runs Mulder’s errand and is
Written and Directed by Gillian Anderson startled to see the contact for the crop circle
A SERIES OF COINCIDENCES PUTS SCULLY IN
information is Colleen, the red−headed woman from
CONTACT WITH SOMEONE FROM HER PAST, the hospital. Scully is a little galled when Colleen
CAUSING HER TO QUESTION HER ROMANTIC AND tells her that her near−accident may have been a
PROFESSIONAL CHOICES. sign to slow down and pay attention to the larger
picture of her life. She walks out of Colleen’s house
Scully dresses in front of a bathroom mirror and and drops the folder of information. As she picks up
quietly heads in to the bedroom to grab her jacket. the papers, her eyes zero in on a heart chakra
She pauses for a brief moment, looking towards the formation. Her phone rings; it is the hospital with
bed, and heads out the door. Sound asleep in the news on Waterston’s worsening heart condition.
bed is Mulder. Back at the hospital, Scully helps the doctors
Sixty−three hours earlier: It’s Saturday afternoon decide on a course of treatment, and she and
when Scully enters Mulder’s office with lunch. He Waterston have a heart−to−heart discussion. He tells
rambles on with a slide presentation of fractal crop her that his marriage broke up after she left him,
circles and notices that she’s only listening half− which resulted in Maggie’s anger toward her. He
heartedly. When he says that he’s booked two plane then admits that he has been in Washington for ten
tickets to investigate the crop circles in England, years, following her trail. Scully becomes emotional
Scully bemoans the fact that she has plenty of work and reveals that she sometimes wonders if she
to finish over the weekend. Mulder is annoyed, chose the right course in her life. She rests her head
muttering that he can cancel her ticket. “Why can’t on his chest as he comforts her. Suddenly, his heart
you ever just stay still?” she asks. “I wouldn’t know monitor rings in alarm. Waterston goes into cardiac
what I’d be missing,” he answers as he leaves. arrest, and Scully goes into emergency medical
Scully waits at the nurse’s station in the mode to revive him. He lapses into a coma.
Washington National Hospital for autopsy results on With nowhere else to turn, Scully is compelled
a case, but when she’s given a folder, she realizes to visit Colleen again for more answers. She tells
it’s for the wrong patient. Coincidentally, she Scully, “You may be more open to things than you
recognizes the name on the x−ray – Dr. Daniel think.” Colleen says that Waterston’s condition is
Waterston, her former medical school teacher with most likely caused by pain in need of healing. Later,
whom she had a romantic relationship. She is drawn Scully walks through the streets deep in thought.
to check up on him in the coronary unit, and is She notices the female pedestrian who prevented
intercepted by his doctor, Dr. Kopeikan, who tells her car accident across the street. Scully follows the
Scully that Waterston mentioned her. She is briefed woman into a Buddhist temple, but inside finds
on his heart condition, but declines the doctor’s herself alone. She falls to her knees before the
offer to speak with Waterston. Buddha statue, overwhelmed with sadness and
She returns home to a phone call from confusion. Her life rushes before her eyes, ending
Waterston’s daughter Maggie, who has openly abruptly at the dying body of Waterston. Scully
hostile feelings towards Scully’s relationship with snaps awake.
her father. Maggie reluctantly invites Scully to visit She returns to the hospital to conduct a holistic
on her father’s behalf. While Scully mulls over the healing ritual in the hopes of bringing Waterston out
invitation, Mulder beeps in to ask her to pick up a of his coma. Although the process works, Waterston
folder of crop circle information from a research scoffs at the notion that anything other than
facility near the hospital. She is flustered from practical medicine might have saved his life. Scully
Maggie’s call, but agrees to help her partner. Scully tells him that he should be more open to other
goes to the hospital and accidentally walks into the possibilities, but when he suggests that the two of
wrong room. She notices a red−headed woman, and them discuss their future together, Scully cuts him
apologizes for her mistake. She visits Waterston off. She says that it’s time he took responsibility for
next door, and he is quick to question her leaving the hurt he caused in his family and that he should
medicine for the FBI. She says that he truly stop running from the truth. “I’m not the same
understands why she left. Waterston was married, person,” she confesses. “I wouldn’t have known that
and Scully refused to be responsible for breaking up if I hadn’t seen you again.”
his family. 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 Skinner and Mulder are met with a cold
returned from England unsuccessful and was looking reception as they flash their FBI badges at Morley
for Scully. Noting with a smile that “everything Tobacco headquarters. Daniel Brimley, head of
happens for a reason,” Scully and Mulder return to corporate security, amiably escorts them to Dr. Voss.
his apartment. She recounts for him the past two The team of lawyers flanking Voss prohibits him
days’ events on his couch. Mulder is surprised and from answering any of Skinner’s questions. Mulder
amused at Scully’s epiphany in the Buddhist temple. produces a baggie with the beetle and asks Voss if
She wonders aloud if all the choices in a person’s he can identify it. Voss replies that it is a tobacco
life are simply random, or if there is a greater force beetle, common to the area surrounding Morley.
at work. Mulder considers this, but before he can Visibly shaken, Voss returns home and is met by
reply, he realizes that Scully has fallen asleep. He Daryl Weaver, a man with a sickly complexion,
covers her gently with a blanket gets up from the yellow teeth and nicotine−stained fingertips. Weaver
couch to leave her sleeping. Coincidentally, under demands that Voss continue Scobie’s arrangement in
Mulder’s fish tank, a small Buddha statue sits, supplying cigarettes, figuring that his silence is in
smiling. demand. Unnerved, Voss hands him unmarked
packages of cigarettes and a wad of cash, and begs
the man to leave.
Brand X Concluding her autopsy, Scully explains to
Mulder and Skinner that Dr. Scobie choked to death.
Production Code: #7ABX19 Mulder asks about any traces of beetles, but Scully
Original Air Date: 04/16/00 has found none. Meanwhile, in a skid row hotel,
Written by Steven Maeda & Greg Walker Weaver puffs away as his neighbor, Thomas Gastall,
Directed by Kim Manners complains through the air vent about the smoke that
AN INSIDER HOLDS THE SECRET TO THE TOBACCO
has reached the next room. The man coughs
INDUSTRY’S LATEST DEADLY DEVELOPMENT. violently into his hand, but Weaver ignores his pleas.
Suddenly quiet, Gastall sees that his fingers are
Smoke emanates from the chimney at the Scobie flecked with blood and he falls to the floor. Several
house in Winston−Salem, North Carolina. Skinner tobacco beetles scamper across the floor near his
runs the team of FBI agents keeping protective face, which is eaten away like Dr. Scobie’s.
custody of Dr. Jim Scobie, who will testify before a The agents observe that Gastall died in the same
grand jury against his former employer, Morley manner as Scobie, but Skinner and Scully can not
Tobacco, the next morning. Although no one knows conceive of a motive for the transient’s death.
the specifics of his research or what he will say in Finding more beetles, Mulder is convinced that no
court, the doctor has received death threats. Dr. murders were actually committed. Scully surmises
Scobie lets out a ragged cough into his fist and that there may be some sort of insect−borne
takes a sip of water. He doesn’t notice the small contagion, and Mulder goes door−to−door to
amount of blood and the lone beetle squirming investigate. He finds Weaver, who tells him that
inside the glass he drank from. Later that night, Joan Gastall was annoyed at his smoking. As Weaver
Scobie awakens to find that her husband is not in speaks, he lights up a cigarette and blows smoke on
bed. She knocks on the locked bathroom door, Mulder. Having found nothing, Mulder decides to
calling out to Skinner for help. Skinner breaks down pay another visit to Dr. Voss. Although he is sorry
the door to reveal Dr. Scobie’s body on the floor. that another victim has surfaced, Voss is still
The flesh from the man’s nose to his throat has uncooperative and heads into his house to a ringing
been stripped away. phone. It is Brimley, who has been watching Voss
The following morning, Mulder and Scully arrive from outside the house, wanting to know what
at the Scobie residence to examine the crime scene. Mulder talked about. Voss is shaken and begs to go
There is no signs of a break−in and no fingerprints. forward with what he knows. Brimley tells him to
Scully infers that acid may have caused the damage sit tight, and he asks where Weaver is. Voss replies
to Scobie’s face, but Mulder is not convinced, that he does not know. Later, he goes to the skid
asserting that the man’s screams would have alerted row motel to pay off Weaver to leave town.
the many agents surrounding the house. Skinner has Knowing that Morley Tobacco won’t kill him,
been ordered to quickly solve the case, and asks Weaver is adamant about staying put and getting
Scully to perform the autopsy. Mulder notes the lack more of his special cigarettes. Voss is unaware that
of ashtrays in the house of a tobacco company he has led Brimley right to Weaver.
executive, finding it odd that Scobie did not smoke. Skinner and Scully consult with an entomologist,
He requests to accompany Skinner in questioning who examines the beetles from the dead bodies
Dr. Peter Voss, Scobie’s supervisor at Morley. On the and explains that the insects are not normal. Scully
way out, Mulder notices the beetle in Scobie’s thinks that perhaps the tobacco plants were
water glass. 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 A gunfight ensues in a makeshift graveyard, as actor
men’s lungs. As she explains, Mulder begins Garry Shandling, dressed in the requisite FBI suit,
coughing uncontrollably. He looks into his hands. checks the clip on his gun and clutches at a pottery
They are covered in blood. He is brought to surgery, bowl under his arm. A priest in the flowing robes of
where doctors attempt to suction the beetle larvae a Catholic Cardinal holds red−wigged actress Tea
from his lungs. Scully informs Skinner that although Leoni at gunpoint. This “Cigarette−Smoking Pontiff”
the procedure is working, it will only buy time until (CSP) addresses Shandling as “Mulder,” offering to
more beetles are gestated. The two surmise that the trade “Scully” for the bowl. Shandling warns the CSP
beetles may have hatched from eggs that were that if the Lazarus Bowl is smashed, then all the
transported through smoke. Outraged, Skinner sniper zombies that the CSP has ready to attack will
obtains a search warrant for the Morley facility and revert back to being corpses. A zombie steps
demands answers. Out of guilt, Voss finally gives in, forward to plead with Shandling: “C’mon man, don’t
telling Skinner that they had tried to engineer a break the bowl. We don’t wanna go back to being
safer tobacco that killed all but one of its test dead – no food, no women, no dancing.” The
subjects – Darryl Weaver. Skinner breaks into zombie offers to make Shandling the king of the
Weaver’s hotel room, but finds only Brimley, bound dead, but Shandling refuses, stating that he’d “rather
and gagged. As the knot is loosened, beetles swarm serve in heaven than rule in hell.” And with that nod
out of Brimley’s mouth and his face is quickly to Milton, he throws the Lazarus Bowl high in the
covered with the insects. air to allow Leoni to disarm the CSP. As Shandling
After the operation, Scully informs Mulder there leaps toward her, a zombie dives for the falling
is a hunt for Darryl Weaver so that they can learn bowl. Shandling and Leoni tumble down the hill and
something from his immunity to the tobacco. fall into an open casket. Lying on top of “Scully,”
Suddenly, Mulder gasps for air and he goes into “Mulder” professes his love after seven years of
arrest. The doctor wants to open up Mulder’s chest, waiting and passionately kisses her.
but Scully protests, saying that he is too weak for The graveyard scene, it is revealed, is really only
such a surgery. She is frustrated and helpless, but a movie. The well−dressed audience watching the
makes the decision to wait for more answers from film includes Shandling and Leoni, as well as the
the investigation. real Scully, who stares up at the screen with wide−
Skinner, meanwhile, finds Voss held at bay by mouthed disbelief. Next to her is the real Mulder,
Weaver, who wants more of his cigarettes. Skinner his head held low in abject humiliation. He looks
draws his gun on Weaver and the two are at a across the aisle to Skinner, who is beaming from ear
standoff. Yet when Weaver attempts to light up a to ear. Skinner raises his hands and shrugs
cigarette, Skinner shoots him in the shoulder. They innocently at Mulder.
bring him into the hospital for testing, and Scully Eighteen months earlier: Skinner briefs Mulder
notices Weaver’s nicotine−stained fingers. She gets and Scully in his office about a bombing in the
an idea, and immediately orders that Mulder be crypt of a D.C. church. Wayne Federman, a
injected with nicotine. screenwriter and college friend of Skinner’s, listens
Two weeks later, Scully welcomes the to the conversation, but his ringing cell phone and
recovering Mulder back to the office. She explains commentary into a tape recorder disrupts the
that the high levels of nicotine in Weaver’s blood meeting. Skinner instructs the agents to allow
acted as an insecticide and kept him alive. The Federman to tail their investigation for research on
same happened to Mulder when he was given high his latest script. With Federman on his heels in the
doses of nicotine. Unfortunately, he has become crypt of the church, Mulder questions Cardinal
addicted and pulls out a pack of Morley Red O’Fallon about the incident. The crypt contained
cigarettes. Scully is surprised, and insists that he only relics and documents, but nothing of any
can’t start smoking. He surrenders, and tosses the monetary value. Suddenly a cell phone rings, and
pack in the trash can. She exits, and Mulder looks Mulder immediately looks disapprovingly to
longingly at the red and white pack, fighting off the Federman. The ringing, however, is coming from a
temptation. phone held by a body beneath the rubble. Mulder
identifies the corpse as one of his idols, Micah
Hoffman, a counterculture revolutionary from the
Hollywood A.D. 1960s.
Federman follows Mulder and Scully to
Production Code: #7ABX18 Hoffman’s apartment, where they find not only
Original Air Date: 04/30/00 bomb−making materials, but forging instruments and
Written and Directed by David Duchovny fake religious documents describing an account of
AN X−FILE BECOMES THE PLOT OF A HOLLYWOOD
Christ’s life on earth after his resurrection. As they
MOVIE, BUT MULDER AND SCULLY FIND THEIR CASE return to the crypt, Federman tells Mulder that he
– AND THEMSELVES DISTORTED ON THE BIG SCREEN. 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 probationary leave while their actions are
Mulder discovers remnants of Hoffman’s forgeries, investigated. They head back to their office to find
Federman watches in astonishment as human bones Chuck Burks waiting. The clay bowl’s vibrations
animatedly try to reassemble broken pottery. He rendered into actual words in ancient Aramaic, the
recounts the scene over breakfast at a diner, and language that Christ spoke. He says that the first
Scully acknowledges that he must have been part roughly translates into “I am the walrus, I am
hallucinating the events. Yet Federman, filled with the walrus, Paul is dead, coocoocachoo.” The
enough “flavor” for his movie, decides he’s had second part seems to be one man commanding
enough and leaves. Scully admits that his story another to rise from the dead. Mulder and Scully
reminded her of an old Catholic school tale about decide to visit Hoffman, who announces that he has
the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. His become Jesus Christ. Off their skeptical expressions,
incantations were engraved on a bowl being spun he explains that in order to forge Christ’s words, he
on a wheel nearby, like the grooves on a record. immersed himself in Christ’s life and actually
Mulder is intrigued by this idea, and sends Scully to converted into the deity. He bombed the crypt
consult with their expert friend Chuck Burks. Chuck because the blasphemous forgeries had to be
analyzes the bowl and finds that all the notes destroyed. When Mulder asks how his cell phone
vibrate in exactly the same key – a feat unheard of got on the dead body, Hoffman smiles. “God works
in music. in mysterious ways,” he answers.
Meanwhile, the Cardinal despondently tells Scully stops by Mulder’s apartment later that
Mulder that he purchased the forgeries from night and finds him watching Plan Nine from Outer
Hoffman and intended to hide them because he Space for the forty−second time. Scully wonders
believed they were real. The Cardinal had hoped to whether true faith might be a form of insanity, and
protect others from the despair and anger he felt Mulder convinces her to take up Federman’s
when he read the documents. Mulder phones Scully invitation. The agents arrive at the Twentieth
to ask her to do Hoffman’s autopsy, suspecting that Century Fox lot in Los Angeles to see the movie’s
the Cardinal may have murdered Hoffman for filming, and Federman introduces them to their
blackmail over the forged papers. Federman beeps acting counterparts – Shandling and Leoni. They
into Mulder’s phone and invites him to Hollywood watch a scene being shot in a graveyard with
to watch the filming of the movie based on their X− zombies. Back at their luxurious hotel, Scully calls
File. Mulder is somewhat flattered, but his interest is Mulder from her bubble bath. Sitting in his own
tempered when he learns that while Tea Leoni and bubble bath, Mulder tells her that he thinks the
Richard Gere have been cast to play Scully and undead really just miss the life they had when they
Skinner, Garry Shandling will play Mulder. were alive. They merely want to eat and dance and
In the autopsy bay, Scully dissects Hoffman’s make love. Skinner clicks into Mulder’s phone call
heart when, suddenly, the corpse sits up. “I’m gonna to apologize for being hard on the agents. He tells
need that when you’re done with it,” Hoffman says him that Federman arranged for Skinner to get an
as he hops off the gurney and gives himself a shake. associate producer credit on the movie.
Scully gapes, reaching out to touch him with her Sixteen months later: The movie premiere from
scalpel. Hoffman warns her off and she drops the the beginning resumes. On screen, Shandling’s
scalpel. She reaches for it and looks up again, but Mulder professes his love for Leoni’s Scully. She
the body is back on the table. She brushes off her pulls away from his kiss and tells him she’s really in
hallucination to fatigue. Mulder arrives later and love with Assistant Director Walter Skinner. The real
Scully informs him that Hoffman’s stomach was Mulder shoots up from his theater seat, waving his
filled with red wine and strychnine. Mulder arms like a referee stopping a fight. “That’s it! I just
theorizes that the Cardinal must have poisoned him can’t take it anymore!” he shouts. The real Scully
with Communion wine. Cardinal O’Fallon is shushes him, but he storms out past Federman,
conducting Mass when Mulder and Scully arrive Shandling and Leoni. Scully finds him moping on the
with an arrest warrant. Scully asks her partner to graveyard movie set, munching popcorn out of the
allow the Cardinal his dignity and the two wait. She plastic Lazarus Bowl from the concession stand. She
goes to kneel before a crucifix and sees Micah tells him that earlier in the evening, Cardinal
Hoffman on the cross. He looks directly at Scully O’Fallon murdered Micah Hoffman and then hanged
and says “Consummatum est.” When she turns himself. Mulder bemoans the fate of the two
around, the crucifix is back to normal. Disturbed, she complex and flawed men who would now be
leads Mulder to arrest the Cardinal. As Mulder reads remembered as caricatures from The Lazarus Bowl
the Miranda Rights, a man walks into the church. It movie. He wonders how they themselves will be
is Micah Hoffman, very much alive. remembered. Scully philosophically predicts that the
Skinner angrily censures the agents for movie will tank at the box office, but Mulder is
misidentification of a corpse and false arrest, while preoccupied with the notion that dead people will
Mulder and Scully seem scared to meet his gaze. be represented through history in such an
Skinner forces them to take four weeks’ oversimplified way. Scully teases him out of his sulk,
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telling him that Skinner was so pleased with the Betty moves on as the manager takes the help
movie he gave her a Bureau credit card for the wanted sign out of the window. Nearby, at a
night. She takes Mulder’s arm and pulls him to his different branch of Koko’s Copy Center, Betty
feet, joking that she’s got a confession to make: she applies for a job. This manager also notes her wide
is in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner. range of work history and addresses. Betty’s resume
Mulder tosses the plastic Lazarus Bowl and quips, parallels Lulu’s. Later that evening, Bert Zupanic
“Me too.” As they walk away, a tree branch loads a briefcase with money at the Porcherie
scratches against the bowl’s surface like a record Motel. Mulder and Scully arrive, brandishing a photo
needle. Samba music swells, and wispy apparitions of him with Betty Templeton. Scully tells him that
begin to dance joyfully around the graveyard set. 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
Fight Club denies knowledge of her whereabouts. The agents
leave, but Scully insists that he knew Betty. Mulder
Production Code: #7ABX20 disagrees, and Scully goes to check out the pink
Original Air Date: 05/07/00 house. Mulder stays back to search Zupanic’s room.
Written by Chris Carter Bert takes his briefcase of cash to Froggy’s Bar and
Directed by Paul Shapiro sees Betty at the bar. Believing she is Lulu, he orders
THE AGENTS CROSS PATHS WITH A PAIR OF
her favorite drink and inquires about her legal
DOPPELGANGERS WHOSE CLOSE PROXIMITY LEAVES trouble. Betty is amazed that this stranger knows
A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION. what she drinks, and introduces herself. Bert makes
the connection just as Lulu enters the bar.
Two neatly dressed missionaries ride their bikes up Everything in the bar instantly begins to rattle. The
to a blue house in Kansas City, Kansas. The license ground shakes, glasses shatter and chairs topple
plate on the red sports car in the driveway reads over. Betty and Bert make a dash out the back door.
“Betty.” At the front door, Betty Templeton shoos Scully arrives at Pat Devine’s Kansas City
them away and says that she just moved in. A short auditorium to find Mulder having a conversation
while later, the missionaries ride to a pink house with promoter Argyle Saperstein. Mulder tells Scully
similar to the first house. The blue sports car in the that Betty will be at the auditorium in two days to
driveway has a license plate that says “Lulu.” When watch Bert in a wrestling match. Scully says that
Lulu Pfeiffer opens the door, she is eerily identical they must also find Lulu. The two women have
to Betty. Surprised, the two men inform her that she traveled across seventeen states with one
has a twin who just moved in several blocks away. alternately trailing the other, leaving a path of
Lulu slams the door angrily, telling them to leave. destruction in their wake. After the agents leave,
All of a sudden, the two men begin to viciously Saperstein calls Bert to demand money for the fight.
shove each other, even though they are surprised by Bert, in bed with Betty, assures Saperstein that he’ll
their own actions. Later, two FBI agents, bearing a get his money. Betty, meanwhile, realizes she is late
striking resemblance to Mulder and Scully, interview for work and runs into the bathroom. Lulu arrives at
Betty about the incident. They recount the the motel and accuses Bert of cheating on her. She
explanation about her supposed twin, and the male finds Betty’s hair clip in the bed and forgives Bert,
agent brings up the possibility of a paranormal thinking the clip is a gift for her. She leaves, and
explanation. They turn to see Lulu drive past the Betty comes out of the bathroom. Gunshots fling
house with a moving truck. The twins glare at one through the ceiling and the sound of a body thumps
another, and without warning, the two agents begin down on the floor in the room above.
to fight. At the bar, Saperstein is eating lunch when Betty
At the FBI, Mulder is showing a slideshow of the comes in. He tells her that Bert is coming and she
FBI agents’ wrecked car and their tractioned bodies goes to the bathroom to freshen up. Bert arrives
in a hospital room. He explains to Scully that the with the money, followed by Lulu. Saperstein looks
two agents have identical stories, and yet they can’t puzzled to see her in the front door. Bert realizes
explain their odd behavior. He does his usual play of both women are in the same building and
throwing out several explanations, and Scully convinces Lulu to leave. Betty exits the bathroom
counters with her own theory: the missionaries and and sees Lulu. The glass and mirror in the bar
the agents, both similar, came into contact with shatters and people take cover. Bert is knocked
doppelgangers that represent a person’s secret unconscious, and Saperstein grabs the suitcase of
desires and impulses. money. Later, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate
Back in Kansas City, Lulu applies for a job at the scene and wake Bert up. Mulder goes to Koko’s
Koko’s Copy Center. The manager notes her varied to see Betty. She blames it on Lulu and demands to
work history and many residences. Betty’s car pulls stay in Kansas City. Mulder calls Scully at the other
up in front of the store and the copy machines go Koko’s. She gets the exact same story from Lulu.
haywire. In a state of panic, the manager hires Lulu. Both agents watch their targets get in their vehicles.
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Mulder is standing in the middle of the street as Jay Gilmore is annoyed. His employee, Anson
Lulu drives by on one side with Betty on the other. Stokes, won’t respond to calls on the walkie−talkie
All of a sudden, he gets sucked into a manhole. and is nowhere to be found on the self−storage lot
Scully pulls up to where he was but doesn’t see in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Anson is hiding out, idly
him. reading a yachting magazine. Jay spots the slacker
Later that evening, Scully visits the Kansas City and orders him to clean out the unit numbered 407.
Penitentiary to see Bob Damphouse, a very angry Muttering under his breath when the boss leaves,
inmate who screams back to all of her questions. Anson opens up the unit to find it filled with dusty
She informs the man that he is the biological father furniture and molding cardboard boxes. Groaning at
of Lulu and Betty via a donation to a sperm bank. the task ahead of him, he grabs a rolled−up Persian
She requests his genealogical history to prevent rug but it moves by itself. Anson unravels it and a
further harm. He responds that “a big, ugly dog lifted dark−haired woman flops out. Underneath her right
its leg on my family tree.” Meanwhile, Betty goes to eye is embedded an emerald teardrop. When Jay
Bert’s room. He admits that he lost his financing for pulls up to the opened door of unit 407, no one is
his last chance to fight that evening. She agrees to in sight. He shouts for Anson, but his voice suddenly
help him and leaves. Immediately, the door knocks strangles off and goes silent. His mouth has
again. It is Lulu, who also consents to aid Bert. Both disappeared.
women break into their respective Koko’s stores to Scully enters the office, and Mulder is
color photocopy money. interviewing Jay. A monstrosity of stitches has
Mulder finally crawls out of the manhole and created the man’s mouth. He has difficulty talking,
calls Scully at the penitentiary. Scully tells him that but tells them that Anson Stokes is somehow
she has found Lulu and Betty’s father. Mulder responsible because he told his boss to “shut up.”
surmises that both women are in love with Bert and The agents pay a visit to Anson in Missouri. His
won’t leave Kansas City for that same reason. As small trailer is overshadowed by the huge yacht
Scully walks down the cellblock, she is surprised to parked in its driveway. When they approach the
find an inmate who looks exactly like Bert Zupanik. front door, Anson hides from what he believes to be
Back at the auditorium, Saperstein asks for his tax collectors. He sends his paraplegic brother,
money and Betty shows up just in time with the Leslie, to answer the door. Mulder and Scully
counterfeit currency. As Bert begins to wrestle, identify themselves to Leslie, noting his motorized
Mulder approaches Betty. Lulu comes up behind Rascal scooter. He tells them his brother is not
Mulder, who grabs Betty to carry her out of the home. In the back room of the trailer, they notice
arena. Everyone in the audience instantaneously that a dark−haired woman. The agents go to the
starts to fight each other. Upon seeing Scully enter storage lot and find a photograph of a large man. In
with Bert’s twin, Mulder stops and puts Betty down. the background is the dark−haired woman from
The auditorium immediately goes quiet. Scully Anson’s trailer. Although the picture is more than
smiles, proud of herself. Bert is the last one to twenty years old, the woman looks the same as she
notice his doppelganger, and when he does, all hell did earlier that day.
breaks loose again. Anson tries to come up with a third wish. He is
Sometime later, back in Mulder’s office, Scully clearly not happy with his first two – Gilmore’s
shows slides of bruised and bandaged people: Bert, mouth and the boat. He argues with the genie about
his twin, Lulu, and Betty. She summarizes their not putting the yacht in the water. She replies that
arrests for Saperstein, who asks her what it means. he didn’t “specify” water. As the two brothers make
She responds, in Mulder−esque fashion, that when suggestions for the third wish, the genie gestures to
two originals meet the result is unpredictable. Yet if Leslie’s wheelchair. The boys don’t understand her
four should meet, she says, “well, these encounters subtlety, and Anson finally chooses to be made
are best avoided at all costs.” She is beaten, bruised invisible. She acknowledges his command and he
and bandaged like the people in the pictures. She disappears. In his transparent state, Anson runs out
turns to Mulder, who is also battered. He mumbles of the trailer, is hit by a truck and dies. A bicyclist
a response, and barely opens his mouth to reveal runs into the invisible obstacle and Anson is brought
that his broken jaw is wired shut. 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
Je Souhaite discernible. Mulder arrives with news of the man in
the photograph. Henry Flanken died in 1978 of
Production Code: #7ABX21 chronic tumescence after mysteriously coming into
Original Air Date: 05/14/00 a wealth of money. Mulder believes that the dark−
Written and Directed by Vince Gilligan haired woman is the link to their case and he leaves
AN INDIFFERENT GENIE GRANTS THREE WISHES, BUT
to see Anson’s brother. Leslie tells him that the
HER OFFERINGS BRING MORE MAYHEM THAN dark−haired woman is gone, but he gives Mulder a
FORTUNE. brass knickknack, saying that it is the genie’s home.
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Leslie retrieves the rug from the storage unit. disappeared from her face. Mulder wished for her
Meanwhile, Mulder drags Scully from the morgue to freedom.
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 Requiem (1 of 3)
to have it stripped away. The next morning, Scully
gets ready to present the invisible body to experts Production Code: #7ABX22
from around the country but Anson’s body has Original Air Date: 05/21/00
disappeared. Alive and still covered with the Written by Chris Carter
fingerprint powder, Anson sits silently in his trailer. Directed by Kim Manners
Leslie wished for his brother to come back, but RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THEIR FIRST
instead received a zombie−like Anson whose body INVESTIGATION SEVEN YEARS AGO, MULDER AND
is still suffering from the road accident. Leslie asks SCULLY ENCOUNTER A UFO THAT MAY SPELL THE
the genie to give Anson a voice. When the wish is END OF THEIR PARTNERSHIP.
granted, Anson only complains of being deathly
cold. Leslie is miffed at his selection of wishes and A police car races down the highway in Bellefleur,
searches for a third one. He doesn’t notice Anson Oregon. In the driver’s seat is Detective Miles (last
looking for warmth by turning on the gas stove. seen in the “Pilot” episode), who radios to his
Leslie announces that his final wish is for legs at the deputy, Ray Hoese, that he is approaching with
same time Anson strikes a match. The trailer backup on a downed aircraft in the woods.
explodes in a big fireball. Mulder and Scully, who Suddenly, the digital clock scrolls backwards. The
had been approaching outside, are thrown to the car loses power as it careens into another sheriff’s
ground by the blast. They rise to look at the cruiser, parked on the side of the road. A dazed and
destruction, and the rolled−up Persian rug lands near injured Detective Miles gets out of his car. A big
them. From inside the rug, a faint, muffled voice fire burns in the distance through the trees. He
says “Ow.” notices the hands on his wristwatch are spinning
Mulder and Scully interrogate the genie in the backwards, as he approaches the other vehicle. An
trailer park’s office, as the fire trucks corral outside unconscious Ray Hoese slumps over the wheel. The
for the explosion. Mulder calls her Jenn, which is deputy’s eyes are swollen shut, the lids and
short for “jinniyah” – the term for a spirit or demon membranes blistered and burned. Detective Miles
of Middle Eastern folklore. In her five hundred years looks down to see he has stepped in a bubbling,
of practice, Jenn has found that people use greed to green substance. When he turns around, another
make their wishes. She asks the agents if she is Deputy Hoese stands before him. The man’s eyes
under arrest and Scully says that, with no evidence, are unscathed. This Hoese has three bullet holes in
she is free to go. Unfortunately, she can’t. She is his chest with the same green substance oozing out
beholden to Mulder because he released her from of him. Miles recoils in horror.
the rug. He now has three wishes. Taking her back In Washington, Mulder sits before a large pile of
to his apartment in Washington, Mulder asks Jenn receipts. Agent Chesty Short, the deputy chief
what she would wish for if she were in his shoes. auditor of the FBI, admonishes both Mulder and
She dreams of being released from her genie binds Scully for the extravagant expenses racked up by
to be a normal person again. “I’d sit down the X−Files. He questions what they are
somewhere with a great cup of coffee and I’d investigating, now that the Samantha case has been
watch the world go by,” she sighs. Hoping he has resolved. Back in their office, the agents receive a
the solution, Mulder thinks of something more call from Billy Miles (from the “Pilot”), who reports
universal and asks Jenn for peace on earth. He is that the abduction experiences are occurring again.
alarmed when his wish truly comes true. The This time, however, they are not happening to him.
deserted city outside is eerily quiet, with no signs of Two teenagers scour the Oregon forest in an
life. Remembering his partner, Mulder rushes to the excited search for a UFO. One of the boys steps
FBI. It, too, is completely empty. He calls out for into an invisible force field and gets shaken at warp
Jenn, who rescinds his initial wish. The office returns speed. Spooked by this sudden disappearance, the
to normal. With one wish left, Mulder decides to boy’s friend Richie drops his flashlight, which has
cover all his bases. He types up a document that suddenly become red hot, and runs out of the
clearly and specifically states his third wish for a woods.
safer and happier world. Yet, when Scully doubts Marita Covarrubias releases Krycek from a
the wish, he reconsiders. Tunisian prison on orders from the Cigarette−
Later that night, Mulder invites Scully over to Smoking Man. The pair find CSM near death, in a
watch a video. Since he never asked for world wheelchair, and attended by a nurse. Krycek is
peace, Scully asks about his final request of the furious with the old man for sentencing him to a
genie. At a diner somewhere, Jenn sits at a lunch foreign jail. CSM is eager to report that an alien
counter, sipping coffee. The emerald teardrop has ship collided with a military aircraft in Oregon. He
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needs them to recover it. “Our chance to rebuild the Richie leads the agents to the area in the forest
project,” he whispers with a faint voice squeezed where his friend vanished. Scully is quickly jerked
through a neck shunt. into a force field and shook at a high frequency.
Determined to rebuke Agent Short and spend Noticing Scully is missing, Mulder calls out for her.
more of the FBI’s money, Mulder and Scully set off She lies on the ground semi−conscious, as if from
to Oregon to meet with Billy Miles, who is now a another bout of vertigo. As Mulder cradles his
sheriff’s deputy. The unidentified craft has yet to be partner’s head, Scully questions why this is
found, and Deputy Hoese is still missing. Billy’s happening to her. Mulder determines that these
father, Detective Miles, claims that there was never aren’t merely random abductions, but a case of
another craft. The agents follow the Miles officers abductees not coming back.
to the scene. At the spot where Detective Miles’ car A suspicious Billy returns home and draws his
went dead, Mulder sees an “X” spray painted on the gun on the man that appears to be his father. “I
pavement. It is the same mark he made on the road don’t know who you are, but you’re not going to
seven years prior to designate an anomalous take me,” he proclaims. Detective Miles calms his
electrical disturbance. Scully locates shells on the son before morphing into the Alien Bounty Hunter.
ground from Hoese’s gun, but there is no indication At the same time, Mulder and Scully enter the
of what he might have been shooting at. The agents house to warn Billy. Both men have instantly
drive off, and Detective Miles puts the evidence bag vanished.
in his trunk – next to the body of Ray Hoese. Mulder sits in his FBI office two days later, when
Mulder and Scully visit Hoese’s wife, Teresa, and are Skinner enters with Krycek and Marita. There is a
surprised to find she is an abduction victim who moment of complete surprise, but Mulder’s quickly
approached them for help seven years ago. She says out of his chair to attack his nemesis. They explain
that her husband is also an abductee who had been that CSM is dying, but his final wish is to revive the
taken and tested many times. As Scully holds conspiracy. While the Bounty Hunter eliminates
Teresa’s baby, Mulder watches his partner. The sight proof of testing on abductees, the spaceship,
of Scully with a child seemingly has an effect on cloaked in an energy field, rebuilds itself. That
him. evening, the Lone Gunmen are brought in to
Scully comes to Mulder’s motel room later that Skinner’s office to consult. They determine the ship’s
evening, pale and perspiring, suffering from chills. location even though the military has not picked it
He covers her up in his bed and lies with his arms up on satellites. Mulder listens suspiciously to
around her for warmth. “It’s not worth it, Scully,” he Krycek and Marita in silence. Scully abruptly leaves
says. He’s been thinking that her personal costs are the room and Mulder follows her into the hallway.
too high when motherhood and her health have Since they are reclaiming abductees, he refuses to
been taken away from her. He demands that there allow her go back to Oregon. “I won’t risk losing
has to be an end. Outside the motel, Krycek sits you, Scully,” he says. She hugs him, vowing that she
behind the wheel of a parked car. He is on the won’t let him make the journey alone.
phone to CSM, telling him that no one can find the Scully remains in Washington with the Lone
spaceship, even as Mulder and Scully search for the Gunmen, scrutinizing the abductee reports. Each one
deputy. CSM assures him that the ship is really has reported experiencing the same irregular brain
there. Finding the deputy will uncover the ship. CSM activity that struck Mulder earlier in the year. She
hangs up with Krycek, and Marita asks why he has concludes that Mulder is really the one in danger of
him on a goose chase. “The ship is rebuilding itself,” being taken. Without warning, Scully collapses, and
CSM says. Ever faithful that his minion will be the Gunmen jump to save her. Meanwhile, Mulder
successful, CSM is only wary of Krycek’s true and Skinner enter the Oregon forest. They lay out a
intentions once he finds the ship. Across town, series of laser pointers to detect any abnormal
Teresa Hoese is awakened by the return of her movements. As Mulder follows the red beams,
missing husband. When Ray doesn’t speak to her, something catches his eye. The red lines deflect in
she realizes that he is only an imposter. She gashes space and define the rough shape of a dome, but it
him with a pair of scissors, but the stabs don’t faze seems as if they are colliding with an energy field.
him. Green ooze bubbles from the holes in his Mulder reaches out to touch the field and his hand
chest, causing Teresa’s eyes to burn and blister. She vibrates at a high speed. Looking up from laying
stumbles and is grabbed by the imposter. down the last laser pointer, Skinner notices that
The next morning, Billy reports to Mulder and Mulder is gone. Inside the field, a bright cone of
Scully that Teresa is missing. They immediately light reflects on Mulder. His expression is full of
recognize the green acid burn on the floor, and as awe. The other abductees are there to greet him
Scully touches it, she experiences another wave of with gentle smiles. A spaceship hovers overhead,
vertigo. Outside the Hoese home, Mulder and Billy and the Bounty Hunter enters the circle of
spot Richie eyeing the crime scene. Richie admits abductees. The light grows in intensity and Mulder’s
that “they” took his friend, and that Detective Miles look of awe turns to fear. Outside the force field,
does know what’s going on because he was there. Skinner is unaware of this activity and calls out for
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Mulder. All of a sudden, a spaceship appears from him that staying in the FBI is the only way to help
out of nowhere and Skinner watches it rise into the Mulder. As Scully waits for her inquisition, the agent
night sky. He is left alone in the darkness. sitting next to her strikes up a conversation. After
Krycek reports back to CSM that he failed his admitting that he previously knew Mulder, the agent
mission, but CSM suggests that perhaps Krycek tries to place doubt in Scully’s mind about her
never meant to succeed. As Marita watches, Krycek partner and the secret life he hid from her. She
shoves CSM’s wheelchair down a flight of stairs. figures out that the agent is Doggett, the task force
CSM’s body lies on the ground, motionless and leader himself.
apparently dead. Back at her apartment, Scully examines
The next morning, Skinner is awkward when he Doggett’s bio on the FBI intranet. His career is
visits Scully in her hospital room. She is better, but marked with commendations as a Marine and
waiting on more tests. Skinner tries to hold back his Detective in the New York Police Department.
emotion in telling her that he lost Mulder. She takes While reading this information, her face is stricken
his hand and says she already heard the news. with a funny look. Scully immediately darts for the
“What I saw I can’t deny. I won’t,” he promises. bathroom to relieve herself of her nausea. While
They both begin to cry, and Scully assures him that later leaving a phone message for her mother, she
she must find her partner. “There is something else,” hears a clicking noise in the receiver and becomes
she says to Skinner. Although she can’t explain it or suspicious when she notices a man watching her
believe it herself, she is pregnant. 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
S E A S O N 8 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
Within (2 of 3) been stolen off her desk. She then goes to Mulder’s
apartment, which is quiet and empty. His computer
Production Code: #8ABX01 is, strangely, also missing. She picks up one of his
Original Air Date: 11/05/00 wrinkled shirts, as if trying to make a connection
Written by Chris Carter with Mulder himself, and lies down on his unmade
Directed by Kim Manners bed, still clutching it. In her melancholy, she closes
SCULLY AND SKINNER BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR her eyes. The image of Mulder reappears, but this
MULDER, BUT A NEW AGENT ASSIGNED TO FIND time he is held in a chair with his head and limbs
HIM INTERFERES WITH THEIR INVESTIGATION. restrained. His cheeks are pulled taut. A two−
pronged metal device telescopes down into each of
A man’s naked body floats in honey−colored liquid. his nostrils as another spinning drill bit pierces the
He is wracked by sporadic spasms. An umbilical− roof of his upper palate. He fights helplessly against
type cord is pulled from his mouth and he struggles the torture, screaming out in pain.
for air. The man is Mulder. Scully’s eyes Skinner, meanwhile, has a nighttime clandestine
immediately open, and she gasps in horror. She sits meeting with the Lone Gunmen under a trio of
up in her hospital bed, realizing that the vision of satellite dishes, to which they are plugged in. They
Mulder was only a nightmare. have charted UFO activity across the Pacific
The next morning, she dresses for work but is Northwest, and while they attempt to pinpoint the
paralyzed in front of the mirror. She stares at herself spaceship’s course after abducting Mulder, they
as if at an unfamiliar person. Later, she walks down unfortunately can not determine its next port of
the FBI corridors, lost in those same troubling call. The next morning, Scully awakes in Mulder’s
thoughts, when she enters Mulder’s office. Seeing bed to see Doggett standing over her. She
the group of agents emptying the X−File cabinets reproaches him for following her, but he has really
wakes her. She is incredulous that they are even come there for evidence. He hands over car rental
attempting to rummage for clues about Mulder’s receipts that he found in Mulder’s drawers and asks
disappearance. She and Skinner go straight to the her where her partner might have been travelling to.
person instructing the manhunt – Kersh, newly Their conversation is interrupted by a call. Mulder
promoted to the office of Deputy Director. He has reportedly entered the FBI building the previous
expects their cooperation as the two primary night.
witnesses in making statements to Agent John Back at the FBI, Doggett’s men question Skinner
Doggett, the leader of the search’s task force. Kersh about Mulder’s pass−card entry. The agents open a
orders them not to mention anything about aliens crate to reveal a Mulder family tombstone. William,
because doing so will cost them their jobs. The two Teena and Samantha’s dates are marked. However, a
walk toward the task force operations office. new addition has been added: “FOX MULDER 1961−
Although Skinner is reluctant to lie, Scully convinces 2000.” Scully is shaken, and stares at the headstone
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in disbelief and dull grief. Doggett reads from Continued from #8ABX01 – In the Arizona desert,
Mulder’s medical records that abnormal brain Mulder tugs at Gibson Praise, who cries for his
activity (from #7ABX04) had been killing him. release. Doggett follows the pair, warning Mulder
Mulder was seeing doctors for a year to treat his that he is prepared to shoot. Mulder eyes him
deteriorating health. Doggett presumes that, with his mysteriously, not saying a word, and Gibson breaks
work and life threatened, Mulder stole the away from him. Mulder still doesn’t comply with
computers and files and then staged his Doggett’s command to stop. He steps backward to
disappearance to cover up his failure in the X−Files. fall off the mountain’s lip, just out of Doggett’s
When Skinner argues that he witnessed the grasp. The other field agents run up to the ledge as
abduction, Scully begs Doggett not to report Doggett explains Mulder’s actions. Although he lies
Skinner’s tale. In Skinner’s office, the Gunmen’s motionless on the ground, Mulder coughs out a
maps show that the ship may now be in the Arizona breath and opens his eyes.
desert, but provide no other answers. Langly At the bottom of the ravine, Scully pulls up with
surmises that perhaps the ship may be looking for Skinner and demands to know the location of her
the next abductee, and that remark triggers Scully downed partner. Doggett has no answer. The body
with an idea. Next in line will be Gibson Praise (last is gone and there are footprints showing he ran off
seen in #6ABX01) because the aliens are gathering into the dust. Scully is convinced that it wasn’t
proof to cover up their existence. In another office Mulder. She tries to explain that what seems like a
at the same time, a folder is slipped under Doggett’s man is really an Alien Bounty Hunter looking to
door. Inside is Gibson Praise’s file. Doggett rounds capture Gibson Praise because he is part alien and
up his crew to revise the search. He thinks that proof of alien life. He will be brought back to the
Mulder is after Gibson. The way to find Mulder is to ship where Mulder is being held. Doggett walks off,
find the boy, last seen in Arizona. dubious and remarks, “You know, Agent Scully,
Once again, Mulder lies bound on the exam you’re starting to remind me a lot of Mulder
table. A spinning blade descends into his chest. As yourself.”
he screams, Scully wakes from her nap. She is in a The children are evacuated from the school, as
car with Skinner, driving aimlessly through the the FBI SWAT team reports no sign of Mulder.
Arizona desert. They do not see the helicopter Doggett orders a search of the school, unaware that
fluttering overhead. Inside the chopper, Doggett gets Mulder has entered a classroom. Mulder readjusts
a radio alert from one of his agents that Gibson has his twisted arm before morphing back into the Alien
been traced to the Flemingtown School for the Bounty Hunter. Outside, Scully catches sight of
Deaf. Meanwhile, Scully notices the air tremble in Gibson’s friend, Thea, jumping on her bike. Skinner
the Arizona heat. Although she thinks she’s distracts the other agents to allow Scully to follow
imagining it, she doesn’t realize that what she is the girl into the desert twilight. She is lead to a
seeing is real and is the spacecraft. Skinner uncovers secret underground cavern where Gibson is hiding.
that a school for the deaf is nearby and they take “You shouldn’t have come here,” he warns Scully.
off. The principal is notified that the FBI is looking “You’ll lead them to me.” He knows that the aliens
for Gibson. Doggett lands at the school, but Gibson took Mulder and are now after him.
has disappeared. Scully and Skinner arrive, and are After Doggett gets chewed out by Kersh for
startled to see Doggett. She asks him what he is losing Mulder, Skinner laughs and tells the agent
doing there, and Doggett replies, “I’m trying to find that Kersh has made him a pawn. He has ultimately
Mulder.” Gibson sneaks out the back but is stopped been set up to fail. A frustrated Doggett asks his
by an unidentified man. Doggett follows the two team to locate Scully, and she is spotted in the
sets of footprints in the sand, finding the man school’s bunkhouse. The real Scully, however, walks
clutching Gibson. Doggett draws his gun and yells toward Doggett and Skinner. They look at her
“Let him go!” The man holding Gibson turns around incredulously. In the bunkhouse, what appears to be
to face Doggett. It is Mulder. 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.
Without (3 of 3) Thea notices blood on that agent’s hand and
recognizes him as the attacker. Once again, Mulder
Production Code: #8ABX02 is seen on the alien table. Gibson is shuddered
Original Air Date: 11/12/00 awake by this vision.
Written by Chris Carter Scully attempts to take the car and is suspicious
Directed by Kim Manners of Skinner when he stops her. The two hold their
AS THE SEARCH FOR MULDER INTENSIFIES IN THE
guns on each other in a standoff, ending only when
ARIZONA DESERT, GIBSON PRAISE LEADS SCULLY TO Skinner admits to knowing her secret. She relents,
BELIEVE THAT SHE IS TRULY CLOSER TO HER TARGET. 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 THAT HIS INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES ARE
cavern to find him. He is suffering from a fever, but SOMEWHAT DISSIMILAR TO SCULLY’S.
manages to persuade Scully that he can hear Mulder Lightning crashes as a car pulls up to an old house
nearby. “You’re so close now,” Gibson says. As in Burley, Idaho. A man named George gets out and
Skinner takes the boy to the hospital, Scully creeps inside the house. His wife bolts up in bed
wanders the desert, calling for Mulder in the empty and yells at him for waking her. George, a
night. Suddenly, something catches her eye in the mortician, is sent out to remove his clothes that are
black sky. A light slowly descends and she is soaked with embalming fluid. As he changes, he
transfixed, believing it is a spaceship. Yet as it gets sees something on the ceiling above him. It appears
closer and lands, the light reveals itself to be the to be a large bat. The creature quickly leaps onto
searchlight of a helicopter. Doggett gets out and George. George’s wife hears his cries and treads
questions Scully’s truthfulness in the investigation. downstairs. She screams at the bloody sight of her
He knows that Skinner and Gibson are at the husband, and the bat attacks her.
hospital because he had his men follow them. “How At the FBI, Scully looks sadly at Mulder’s desk
do you know that they are your men?” Scully nameplate when she is startled by voices in the
demands before getting in the chopper herself. It hallway. Doggett walks in with two other agents,
flies off, within feet of the spaceship hidden by a laughing. At her glare, he dismisses them. Doggett
force field. On the alien table, Mulder cries out for asks Scully about their lack of desk furniture in the
Scully. basement. “This is my partner’s office,” she says,
At the hospital, Skinner watches the boy when placing the nameplate back in its rightful spot. “You
Thea enters Gibson’s room. Gibson knows that she and I will just be using it for a while.” She clicks on
is the Bounty Hunter. Scully and Doggett arrive to the slide projector with photos of the two
find Skinner and Gibson missing. They search the homicides. Scully begins to describe the case, sliding
hospital. Doggett has located the real Skinner. The easily into Mulder’s role of the lecturer. The bites
A.D. is blinded and trapped in the air duct. Scully on the wife appear to have come from a human.
sees who she thinks is Skinner. When he claims to Scully and Doggett travel to the couple’s home,
be protecting the boy, she pulls her gun on him. and are met outside by Detective Abbott. The
Gibson shakes his head to warn her. All of a detective speaks directly to Doggett, turning his
sudden, the man grabs Scully by the throat and back to Scully. Although the footprints on the porch
throws her across the room. She manages to find look neither human nor animal, Scully gathers that it
her gun and shoot the Skinner look−alike in the back may very well be from a human. The detective,
of the neck. Green ooze flows out of him, and the believing that the prints came from an animal,
body dissolves into a puddle. Doggett hears the doubts Scully’s credibility. Inside the house, Doggett
gunshot and comes to Scully’s rescue, stepping over finds another print and suggests that the suspect is a
the puddle. She is weeping and bloodied. deranged killer with a deformed foot. Scully quashes
Back at the FBI, Doggett presents his report to those thoughts. Two of George’s fingers are in the
Kersh. The Deputy Director is furious, asking for real attic, and their odor convinces Scully that they were
answers to Doggett’s elusive−sounding report and regurgitated. The nail marks in the board above the
failure to find Mulder. Doggett accuses Kersh of fingers resemble the ones found on the porch. Scully
intending for the report to sound like an X−File. says that it looks like someone was “hanging there.”
Later, Doggett visits Scully in the hospital. He briefs Meanwhile, at the McKesson residence, an elderly
her on Skinner’s and the other agent’s recoveries, as woman looks at a photo album in her attic as the
well as Gibson being remanded to the state’s monster watches. The creature jumps out from the
protection. She is astonished when he informs her cobwebs and kills her. Later, at the morgue, Scully
that he has been assigned to the X−Files. He is details how the scratches on the previous victims’
equally bewildered. “Whatever you and I may differ bodies match the nail marks on the wood. Enzymes
on,” he says, “I’ll find him, Agent Scully.” found in the saliva from the bites suggest that a bat
Mulder lies silently on the alien table. Many killed the couple. Doggett produces a Montana
Alien Bounty Hunters surround him. newspaper headline from 1956 about a human bat
that was shot by hunters after it killed several
people.
Patience The next day, the agents investigate the
McKesson murder. The woman’s daughter, Ariel, was
Production Code: #8ABX04 found dead, her body burned, a week before. This
Original Air Date: 11/19/00 woman last saw her daughter in 1956 – the same
Written and Directed by Chris Carter year as the newspaper clipping. Scully is convinced
WHILE TRACKING HIS FIRST X−FILE CASE ABOUT A that Ariel is the connection to all the murders, while
SERIES OF GRUESOME MURDERS SURROUNDING A Abbott lashes out at her for her outrageous theories.
BAT−LIKE CREATURE, DOGGETT QUICKLY LEARNS 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, says. She tells Doggett she will make sure he gets a
even though her notions are far−fetched. “Maybe I’m desk in the office, and she places Mulder’s
just an old fashioned cop,” he says, “But I don’t take nameplate into the desk drawer.
leaps.” She humbles him by pointing out that he is
taking a leap himself by believing the article about
a bat man. Roadrunners
Detective Abbott goes to the cemetery, but
Ariel’s casket has already been dug up. He orders Production Code: #8ABX05
the body to the morgue, but something catches his Original Air Date: 11/26/00
eye in a nearby tree. A man with the wings of a bat Written by Vince Gilligan
flies out from the tree and mauls Abbott to death. Directed by Rod Hardy
His bloodied body is later rolled into Scully’s SCULLY EVADES DOGGETT’S HELP IN PURSUING A
morgue, as Doggett looks on solemnly. The other RELIGIOUS CULT THAT WORSHIPS A SLUG−LIKE
policemen tell Doggett that they mistrust her CREATURE.
theories and blame her for the Detective’s death.
Scully’s autopsy of Ariel finds that, although her Hank Gulatarski waits for what seems like hours at
body had been burned, she died of natural causes. a Roadrunners bus stop on a deserted road in Juab
The bat creature had killed people who had come County, Utah. The faint rumble of a bus in the night
into contact with her body. Myron Stefaniuk, the stirs him, but it nearly passes him until he flags it
man who had found Ariel’s body, is still alive. Scully down. The unmarked bus stops and he walks on,
and Doggett, fearing for his life, rush to see him. past the passengers who eye him suspiciously. Their
Myron is not interested. His brother Ernie was one silence puts him off a little, but he plops down in a
of the hunters who shot the bat creature over 40 seat and shuts his eyes. All of a sudden, the bus
years ago, and when Myron refuses their protection, stops and the people file out in an orderly fashion.
they watch him from the car. Yet Scully begins to Confused, Hank follows them. The Bus Driver and
doubt herself, thinking she is trying too hard to act the other passengers begin to bash a disabled man’s
like Mulder. Doggett defends her judgement, and skull with rocks. They turn and approach Hank, who
notes that “I’m no Fox Mulder, but I can tell when a yells as they swarm over him.
man’s hiding something.” Oblivious to their Days later, Scully collects evidence from the
surveillance, Myron loads up his truck as the bat desert crime scene. She calls Doggett from a pay
creature lies in wait overhead. He loads a raft with phone to say that she is consulting on a murder
supplies and pushes them out to Bird Island. case where a traveler with a deteriorated body was
Later that night, a mysterious masked man goes beaten to death. She asks Doggett for help in
to retrieve the supplies, but is caught by Scully and tracking down an old X−File that mentions mucus.
Doggett. They remove his mask to reveal he is Ernie Although Doggett is somewhat put off about being
Stefaniuk. He has been in hiding all these years, in left behind, he agrees to do her research. Scully
fear for his life from the bat man. Ernie’s wife was pulls into an almost abandoned filling station for
Ariel, the burned woman that Myron found in the some gas. The pumps are empty, but when she
water. The bat monster killed everyone who had mentions that she is a doctor, the Gas Station Man
the trace of Ernie’s scent from the wife’s body. Ernie kindly fills her tank with a reserve in a can. After
is afraid for his brother’s life, telling the agents that Scully pulls away, the Gas Station Man walks into
the creature has the habits of a bat and will only the nearby boarding house where the Bus Driver is
attack at night. Doggett runs off to save Myron, but tending to the ailing Hank. “Help is coming,” he
is assaulted from behind by the bat man. Waiting says. Further on up the road, Scully’s car putters to a
with Scully, Ernie tells her that now she is a marked halt. She walks back to the gas station to find the
woman. They hear noises on the roof of the shack, can of gas was really full of water. The Attendant
and Scully shoots blindly toward the ceiling. She sends her to the boarding house to use their phone.
goes outside to investigate, but the creature charges There, Mr. Milsap greets Scully by telling her his
at Ernie inside the shack. She runs in and shoots at phone is out of order. He offers her a room for rent,
the bat, but it takes off. Doggett stumbles in, bloody but she is dubious of his intentions. She storms
and scarred. He too, shoots at the bat. It flies into outside, unconsciously touching her stomach as if
the night. trying to protect her unborn child. She sees a
Back at the FBI, Scully once again looks at woman who ignores her calls and Scully notices
Mulder’s nameplate. Doggett brings in a fax from people inside the houses holding religious services.
Myron, who has gone into hiding. She asks Doggett With no other option, Scully takes Milsap’s room for
if he believes that this monster will now be hunting the night. She waits in her bed with her gun cocked
the two of them. “I’m pretty sure I hit it, Agent at the ready. Back in Washington, Agent Doggett
Scully,” he assures her. “I’m pretty sure you hit it calls the local Juab sheriff’s office, but Scully has not
too.” She is hesitant, but thanks Doggett for turned up there. He asks the local police to send
watching her back. “I never saw it as an option,” he out a cruiser to look for her.
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The next morning, Milsap asks her medical help Invocation


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 Production Code: #8ABX06
maybe diabetic, Scully tries to raise Hank’s blood Original Air Date: 12/03/00
sugar, but this does not work. The Bus Driver sobs. Written by David Amann
Suddenly, Hank awakens and asks to speak with Directed by Richard Compton
Scully privately. He doesn’t remember who he is or HAVING BEEN KIDNAPPED FOR TEN YEARS, A LITTLE
how he got there. She tells him about the murder in BOY MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARS BUT HASN’T AGED
the area and her suspicion of the townspeople to be ONE BIT.
part of a cult. When she tries to lift him, Scully finds September 21, 1990 – Dexter, Oklahoma Children
that the hole in his back has something moving play at Bethune Elementary’s school carnival. Seven
under his skin. She uses tweezers to pull out a part year−old Billy Underwood calls out to his mother,
of a slug, but the remainder of the creature crawls Lisa, from the swing set, but she is busy chatting
over his spine. Suspecting that the people put the with another woman. When she looks at the swing
slug inside him, she fears for Hank’s life. Leaving again, her son has vanished. Panicked, she searches
Hank her gun, she escapes through a window to the fair but cannot find her son. A dark−haired and
find a car. Milsap and the Bus Driver enter Hank’s mysterious young man who had been watching the
room. Hank recounts Scully’s diagnosis that he is swings stands to the side. He is clutching Billy’s
dying. He tells them that they need another swap. backpack.
Doggett discovers that Scully’s phone call was Ten years later, Lisa Underwood arrives at the
made from a payphone that Hank had used before elementary school to pick up her other son, Josh.
his disappearance. Doggett goes to Utah with case The principal brings her to the playground where a
files about others killed by stoning with the same young boy is playing on the swing set. It is her
wounds on their lower backs. Scully finds the bus missing son, Billy, who has not aged a day in the
inside a shed, but doesn’t notice the townspeople ten years he disappeared.
following her. They surround her. Hank bends over Scully and Doggett discuss the case in the
and the others stone him, all the while shouting Oklahoma hospital where Billy has been checked
“Amen!” They remove the giant slug from his body out. The boy is healthy, but he refuses to speak.
and approach Scully. She screams for mercy, Doggett, believing this to be merely a case of
exclaiming that she’s pregnant. They lift her shirt kidnapping, attempts to interrogate Billy about his
and bring the creature to the small of her back. abductor. Lisa is incensed and pulls her son out of
After it enters her body, they return to the boarding the room to take him home. Scully is convinced that
house and tie her to a bed. Milsap softly says that this Billy is not the same boy who was taken, but
she will soon be one with Him. A light shines his medical records prove her wrong. Doggett looks
through the window as Doggett pulls up in a car. over the original case file and finds the sealed
Milsap and the Bus Driver greet him, but say that records of a young man who was questioned at the
they haven’t seen Scully. Scully manages to kick a crime scene. Ronnie Purnell is the same dark−haired
gas lamp off the table to start a fire and the Gas boy who was holding Billy’s backpack. Doggett goes
Station Man kicks out the flame, but Doggett to Ronnie’s trailer to investigate, but when he
doesn’t notice. proposes that Ronnie see Billy face to face, Ronnie
Doggett radios the sheriff, suspicious of the refuses. Alone in his car, Doggett pulls a photo of a
people, and goes back to the boarding house. He boy out of his wallet. He stares at it and then drives
finds Scully, unties her and carries her to the bus. off.
She screams in pain, begging Doggett to cut out the Back at home, the Underwood dog growls at
creature climbing up her spine. The townspeople Billy. That night, Lisa argues with her husband, Doug,
find them and attack the locked bus. Doggett yanks about Billy not really being their son. Billy overhears
the slug out of Scully’s neck, throws it on the floor his parents, and then enters his brother’s room with
and shoots it. The mob quiets down and stares at a hunting knife. The next morning, Lisa is startled to
the obliterated creature. Milsap asks “Why?” The find the knife wedged in Josh’s bed. He is covered
people begin to cry. Doggett carries Scully out of with blood, but has not been cut. Billy stands in his
the shed, as a hoard of police cars raid the building. brother’s room, motionless. Tests show that the
One week later, Scully packs her bag in a Salt fingerprints and the blood belong to Billy’s, but he
Lake City hospital. Doggett tells her that all of the too is unharmed. Neither parent has ever seen the
forty−seven cult members are sticking together in knife before. It has a five−pointed symbol on it that
the face of a grand jury hearing. They believe that was identified by a police psychic in the
the creature was the Second Coming of Christ. investigation ten years prior. This same symbol
Scully apologizes for leaving him out of the case, matched a drawing that Billy made while being
citing that it was nearly a fatal mistake. She questioned. Lisa pleas with Billy to talk, but Doug
promises not to do it again. 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 Redrum
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 Production Code: #8ABX03
human skull. When Ronnie returns to his trailer, his Original Air Date: 12/10/00
mother’s boyfriend Cal Jeppy comes after him. Cal Teleplay by Steven Maeda
threatens Ronnie about knowing what he did to that Story by Steven Maeda & Daniel Arkin
little boy and what is buried in the woods. Ronnie Directed by Peter Markle
pulls away from him. Sharon Pearl, meanwhile, pays AFTER HIS WIFE IS MURDERED, A LAWYER TRIES TO
a visit to the Underwood home at the behest of CLEAN HIS NAME OF THE CRIME BUT THE DAYS
Scully. She is the police psychic, and she senses REGRESS BACKWARD.
forces flowing through Doggett because he once A spider scurries over its web, as Martin Wells
lost someone like Billy. Suddenly, she lapses into awakes beneath it. He glances around and is
convulsions and begins speaking in tongues. The confused to be inside a prison cell with a deep gash
five−pointed symbol appears on her forehead in over his right eye. He watches the spider, and then
bulging subsurface veins. After she is taken away in smashes it, as a radio voice announces that the day
an ambulance, Scully confront Doggett about the is Friday. A prison guard takes him out of the cage
psychic turn of events. He thinks it is all an act, but and Martin spots his good friend, John Doggett, in
Scully plays the tape of Sharon’s voice backwards – the corridor. He calls out to the Agent, but Doggett
it is the voice of a child singing a lullaby. barely glances at him. Instead, Doggett, along with
Later that night, Scully and Doggett sit in Scully, falls into step beside Martin, as he is led
surveillance outside the Underwood house. Ronnie outside the jail into the throng of waiting reporters
pulls up. All of a sudden and without warning, Billy and cameras. Martin spots a familiar face in the
appears in his front seat. When Doggett approaches crowd and looks hopeful upon seeing him. He
the car and sees Billy, Ronnie panics and tears off. shouts over the commotion to his father−in−law who
Doggett chases on foot, while Scully follows in her pulls out a gun and shoots Martin. Doggett leaps for
car. When they catch him, the boy is gone. Josh, the weapon. As Scully tends to him, Martin can only
meanwhile, waits for his father to pay at a gas hear the sound of his own heartbeat, echoing the
station. A pony being loaded into a nearby trailer ticking of Scully’s watch. His eyes go blank and he
distracts the kid. He gets out of the car to see the passes out. The watch’s second hand comes to a
animal, but his hand is sucked into the trailer. The stop, and then ticks backwards.
five−pointed drawing on the trailer matches the Martin wakes once again in the prison cell. The
symbol from the knife and Sharon Pearl’s forehead. same spider crawls over the web, and the injury is
The police question Ronnie, but he has no still over his eye. Doggett and Scully bring him
answer for them. He tries telling Doggett that he evidence, but Martin is confused by the whole
went to the house because he didn’t believe that situation. He doesn’t understand why he is in jail.
Billy was there. Doggett is sure that he saw Billy in Doggett is furious, and accuses Martin of murdering
the car, despite the fact that the boy was in his his own wife. In the evidence file are photos of
home. Ronnie says that he took care of Billy and Vicky Wells’ bloodied corpse. Martin is shocked and
sang to him so that he wouldn’t be scared, but overwhelmed. While he is brought into court, his
Doggett demands to know what the boy would be co−workers stare at him with scorn. As the bailiff
afraid of. Ronnie can only say that “He made me do proclaims that court for Thursday is in session,
it.” The agents are informed that Josh has now Martin seems confused. He thought it was Saturday,
disappeared, and they go with the police to raid the the day after he was shot. Martin is denied bail and
Purnell trailer where the horse trailer is stored. The ordered to transfer to another prison, but he
five−pointed symbol makes up the shape of the approaches the bench to beg for a stay. He claims
pony ride used at the school carnival. Josh is found. that his father−in−law will kill him on Friday.
He is bound, but safe. Cal runs out, chased by Doggett and Scully talk to Martin in the holding
Doggett. Cal denies that he kidnapped Billy. Doggett cell, and he tells them that he may be having
sees Billy in the woods but the boy vanishes. At premonitions about the future. The last thing he
that same spot, Doggett sees the surveyor’s stake in remembers is visiting Washington three days ago,
the ground and finds the remains of the body. but he is adamant about not killing his wife. “If you
The next morning at the gravesite, Scully tells truly don’t remember, how do you know you
Doggett that the clothes and condition of the bones didn’t?” Scully asks him. Martin sees a vision of
will prove that the skeleton belongs to Billy breaking glass, but is unsure of what his memory is
Underwood. Although Doggett won’t accept the telling him. Later, his two young daughters are
outcome and is not convinced that this was some brought into the jail, but they are cold to him. He
kind of justice from beyond, Scully tries to persuade gets another vision of broken glass, but this time it
him that he saved Josh’s life and has succeeded in moves backwards. He sees his wife fall through a
more ways than he was meant to know. coffee table. Martin asks Trina, the children’s nanny,
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to bring him a stuffed animal from the apartment. waiting, but neither his wife nor Cesar Ocampo is
Hidden inside it is a camera used to spy on the there so the police leave. Vicky Wells returns home,
nanny. Martin reviews the video footage with his and Martin sends her into the bedroom when he
lawyer to see who was in the apartment during the hears someone coming in. Cesar attacks Martin and
time of the murder. He is the only person on the then tosses Vicky into a shattering coffee table.
tape. Cesar brings a knife to her throat and is about to
Once more, Martin wakes in the jail cell. The kill her, when suddenly Doggett and Scully storm in.
spider is still there, but his face is unharmed. He is They shoot and kill him. Martin notices the second
brought into a room to see his lawyers. When the hand on Scully’s watch tick forward.
female attorney introduces herself, Martin is already Martin sits once again in jail. Yet this is a new
familiar with her from the trial the day before. They day and a different prison cell. As he pays penance
inform him that it is Wednesday, and Martin figures for breaking the law in Hector Ocampo’s trial, he
out that his days are regressing backwards. Later in has been given a second chance to atone for his
the prison yard, the other inmates pick him out as transgression.
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 Via Negativa
come to see Martin, and Doggett is noticeably
friendlier towards him. Martin tells them about his Production Code: #8ABX07
regression of time and Doggett is skeptical of the Original Air Date: 12/17/00
story. Scully asks Martin why he thinks this is Written by Frank Spotnitz
happening to him. He assumes that it is something Directed by Tony Wharmby
he is meant to understand, so he reviews his own WORKING WITHOUT SCULLY’S INPUT, DOGGETT
case files to find the truth. He sees more flashbacks AND SKINNER TRY TO AVERT THE MYSTERIOUS
of the murder in reverse time. The arm of the killer MURDER SPREE OF A DRUG−INDUCED, RELIGIOUS
has a tattoo of a spider web. “I know who did it,” CULT LEADER WHO LEAVES NO TRACE OF EVIDENCE
he whispers to himself. AT THE CRIME SCENES.
In the morning, Martin wakes. Yet on this day he
is in Doggett’s apartment. He watches himself on Agent Jim Leeds is fast asleep in his government
the news, which marks the day as Tuesday. He sedan when his partner, Angus Stedman, raps on the
describes the murderer for Doggett as someone window to wake him. There has been movement in
already in prison, but when Doggett checks, the the house they are watching. They quietly creep
man hasn’t been incarcerated. Although Doggett is inside to find twenty slain bodies whose skulls have
confused by Martin’s rationale, he goes with him to all been bashed in. Stedman senses a presence
Baltimore to get the videotape from the stuffed behind him, and turns to see a man holding a
animal in the apartment. Martin is again the only primitive axe. Leeds hears his cry and runs toward
suspect on the tape, but Doggett notices that the the hallway. Stedman lies in a pool of blood. His
sun is rising in the background. Since it would not head has the same fatal wound as the other bodies.
match the timing of the murder, this would clear Leeds sees the man, who now has a third eye in the
Martin of the crime. Doggett and Martin go to the center of his forehead. The man hoists the axe and
nanny’s house and find the man with the tattoo swings it over Leeds.
there. His name is Cesar Ocampo. Trina admits that That same night, Doggett is awakened by
he forced her to give him the keycard to Martin’s Scully’s phone call at 4:24 am. Skinner wants his
apartment. Martin talks to Ocampo to find out why help on a case. An agent was killed while on
he killed his wife. Ocampo’s brother Hector had surveillance of a religious cult in Pittsburgh. She can
been wrongly convicted by Martin and the boy not join him because “something unexpected’s come
hung himself in prison. Martin is arrested because up.” Scully does not tell him that she is being
his fingerprints are on the knife that killed Vicky admitted into a hospital. Early the next morning,
Wells. Doggett arrives at the crime scene to meet Skinner.
Martin awakes in a hotel in Washington, DC. It Agent Leeds’ body is in his car, which was locked
is Monday – the day of the murder. Still two hours from the inside. The clues lead Doggett to believe
before the crime was to have been committed, he that the murder did not occur in the car. “This is
tries to warn his wife. She doesn’t answer the damn weird,” he says. They take in the ghastly
phone. He goes to Doggett’s house for help and scene inside the house, where all twenty members
Doggett is surprised to see him. Martin believes that of the cult were killed with a single blow to the
this is happening for a reason so that he will be head. The cult’s leader, Anthony Tipet, is missing.
given a second chance. He admits to Doggett that Agent Crane reports that Leeds’ partner has not
he suppressed evidence in Hector Ocampo’s case been found. Doggett and Skinner break into
and gets Doggett to call the police to his house in Stedman’s condo, but the agent has been killed with
Baltimore. Martin returns home. The police are 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 him away from the blade. “I want this to end, but I
Deputy Director Kersh on the case. The perpetrator just can’t stop it,” he bemoans. Tipet says that
left no traces of evidence. Skinner proposes that Doggett understands, and Doggett realizes that
perhaps Tipet’s use of an Iboga hallucinogen drug Tipet knows about his dream. Tipet leans over the
may have allowed the man’s consciousness to be table saw and the blade cuts into his skin. Doggett
removed from his body. This might have allowed pulls him off and brings him to the hospital. While
him to attack unnoticed. Kersh assumes that this far− signing Tipet in, he sees Scully’s name on the roster.
fetched theory belongs to Scully. Meanwhile, Tipet She has been admitted for acute abdominal pain.
walks past a homeless man on a Pittsburgh street. Doggett reports to Kersh that Tipet made people’s
He uses a payphone to call Andre Bormanis’ lab. worst nightmares come true with the use of the
“You did this,” Tipet says on the machine. Bormanis drug. Since Tipet is in custody, Kersh closes out the
listens, petrified. Bormanis then takes a razor and case, but Doggett pleads for it to remain open. He
slices a cross into his own forehead. Tipet walks explains that no evidence has been found. Yet Kersh
past the homeless man again, but this time Tipet’s wants nothing to do with an unexplained case and
third eye appears. Suddenly the sidewalk morphs closes it. Confused by his own dreams, Doggett
into quicksand and the homeless man sinks. Tipet leaves a message on Scully’s machine, telling her
raises the axe and strikes him. that he knows the case doesn’t really add up.
When Skinner tells him that Scully is taking While looking at a mirror, Doggett sees Tipet
personal leave from work, Doggett becomes angry. standing behind him. When he turns around, the
He believes that Scully and Skinner are hiding man is gone. Doggett gets into bed and doesn’t see
something from him. Skinner has news of the Tipet waiting by the stairs with the axe. Doggett
homeless man’s death by the same head injury. wakes in the morning and dresses for work. His
Although Doggett is skeptical, Skinner asks him to reflection looking back at him shows the third eye
suppose that this drug really does allow Tipet’s spirit on Doggett’s forehead. His eyes widen with shock,
to be in one place while his body is in another. and all three eyes blink with disbelief. Then the eye
They trace the payphone’s last call to Andre disappears. He goes to the FBI and walks into
Bormanis, a convicted drug dealer. Skinner and Skinner’s office in somewhat of a daze. “I’m not
Doggett go to Bormanis’ lab and question him about sure I’m awake,” he tells the A.D. Doggett recounts
Tipet. They notice that he has a scar on his seeing Tipet in his house with an axe, and feels that
forehead. According to Bormanis, Tipet was the only the man can see inside his dreams. Skinner tries to
one able to take the drug in order to reach the convince him that he needs to go home and get
depths of the soul. Bormanis screams for protection some sleep. Doggett walks through a strangely
when he is thrown in a jail cell. Doggett finds deserted FBI hallway on the second floor. The ends
bloodstained footprints in the jail corridor, and he of the corridor seem to disappear into infinity. The
follows them to a lotus−sitting Tipet hovering in the sound of echoing footsteps reveals Tipet, who
air. Tipet opens all three of his eyes and looks whispers in reverse−speak “She’s going to die.”
straight at Doggett. Doggett glances down to see Doggett, who also speaks in reverse, tells him that
that the footprints lead to his own shoes. He looks he won’t let him do that. Tipet replies that it is
at his hands and realizes that he is holding the Doggett who will kill Scully. Doggett closes his
decapitated head of Scully. Skinner wakes him – it eyes, bringing his hands to his face in great distress.
was only a dream. Scully is on the phone to tell He drops his hands to see that he is now in Scully’s
Doggett to trust his instincts. It hits Doggett that apartment building. His hands, stained with blood,
Bormanis was trying to not fall asleep. hold the axe. A deep, blue light strobes in and out
Bormanis sees Tipet at his prison cell. Suddenly from the windows, and a baby’s endless cry fills the
rats swarm Bormains and he is eaten alive. Doggett room. Tears well in Doggett’s eyes as he realizes
runs to the cell, but Bormanis has been killed from why he is dreaming this. Scully is asleep in the bed
the same blow to the skull. Doggett finds the Lone and Doggett holds the axe over her. He makes a
Gunmen in Mulder’s office. Scully sent them to help decision, and lets the axe fall. Then he raises it over
out on the case. They explain the idea that a third his own head and swings it at himself. Before it
eye would bring one closer to God. Doggett strikes him, he is woken up by Scully in his house.
formulates the theory that Tipet truly believes he He lets out a deep, ragged sigh and tells her that
has opened his third eye, and that by invading other she just saved his life. She says that she merely
people’s dreams, he could make their worst woke him up to tell him that Tipet died. Doggett
nightmares come true. Doggett insists that Tipet was scared by the violent images in his nightmare,
would want more of the Iboga drug to continue but thinks that maybe someone else put them there.
killing. He smiles at the Gunmen. “That’s what “It was a bad dream, Agent Doggett,” Scully says.
Mulder would think, right?” he says, before leaving “But that’s all it was.”
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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Surekill landing perfectly on their targets. Scully theorizes


that the killer could see through the wall and
Doggett dismisses her claims. She conjectures that
Production Code: #8ABX09 maybe this man’s eyes are somehow different than
Original Air Date: 01/07/01 normal. Doggett believes that it was merely a drug
Written by Greg Walker hit. Yet after finding sulfuryl fluoride, an
Directed by Terrence O’Hara exterminator’s chemical, on the towel scrap, he
A MARKSMAN WITH X−RAY VISION IS KILLING suggests they go to the exterminators named on
PEOPLE, AND ODDLY, TWO EXTERMINATORS ARE Chase’s invoices. Meanwhile, Dwight takes Tammi
INVOLVED. into a back office and she begins to undress. She
Carlton Chase runs up to a pay phone on a senses that Randall is always watching her, and
nighttime street in Worcester, MA. “Pick up!” he Dwight laughs her off. “How’s he watching you
barks into the recording answering machine. “Call now?” he asks. Randall stares at the door to the
him off, give me chance to explain,” he begs, before office, but then turns away when he hears someone
a shadow appears behind him. Afraid, Chase runs off coming into the building. Doggett and Scully enter,
and dashes into a nearby police station. The officers and Dwight greets them. They show him an invoice
on duty stare at him strangely when he cries “Help from Chase’s office, but Dwight is unable to read it
me! Somebody wants to kill me!” Chase reaches for because he has been legally blind since childhood.
the cop’s gun, and the police tackle him, tossing him He calls for Tammi, and she comes out of the office
into an empty cell. Chase pleads for his safety, buttoning her blouse. Doggett asks why Chase
saying that “He can get me.” Suddenly, Chase’s head called their office 14 minutes before he was killed.
explodes and his blood splatters against the small Tammi looks away shamefully. Dwight seems
window of the cell. surprised, but he tells them that no message was
The next morning, Scully examines the x−ray and left that night. The agents leave and Dwight
determines that Chase was shot through the top of confronts Tammi about the message. She admits that
his head. A small dent in the air vent louver above there was a message that she accidentally erased.
proves this, but no one in the station heard the Scully and Doggett research Dwight’s criminal
gunshot. Scully and Doggett climb into the air duct, record. He was arrested for grand theft auto, but
where a small bullet hole leads a beam of light to a since he is almost blind, they assume he had used a
tiny hole on the roof. After Doggett finds a scrap of partner. They search for Randall’s record and find
fabric that muffled the gun, they determine that the that the two brothers are twins. In her apartment
shooter fired once through two floors to reach his that night, Tammi is frightened by her next door
target. Yet they can’t figure out how someone could neighbor’s shadow on the window outside. She can’t
make such a lucky shot. The agents search Chase’s see that it is really Randall, watching her undress
real estate office. The walls are rife with bullet through the walls. Early the next morning, Tammi
holes, but the shells on the floor do not match the rushes into the office. Dwight and Randall catch her
ones that killed Chase. On his desk are a stack of grabbing the lock box, but Scully and Doggett storm
invoices from AAA−1 Surekill Extermination. in with a search warrant. Although the lock box is
Tammi Peyton arrives for work at AAA−1 Surekill empty, Scully finds a ledger with Chase Realty
Extermination and plays back the answering information in it. They bring the brothers in for
machine’s messages. Chase’s frantic phone call from questioning. As Scully interrogates Randall, he stares
the previous night plays and she quickly erases it. at the wall behind her and reads his brother’s lips in
She notices Chase’s photo on the front page of the the room next door. Randall repeats Dwight’s
newspaper reporting his death. Tammi reaches for a statement that he is just a “regular Joe, providing a
lock box and is interrupted by her boss, Dwight public service.” Scully opines that he can see
Cooper. He ignores her questions about Chase’s through the walls. She says that she knows about
murder. Dwight confronts his brother, Randall, about him shooting drug dealers through walls to steal
the previous night’s events. Randall defends himself their money. As the agents bring in Tammi for
by saying that Chase had been stealing from questioning, Dwight nods toward the girl and tells
Dwight. Dwight warns him to ask first before he Randall that they have a problem that needs to be
does anything else. Later that night, Dwight enters “taken care of.” In the interview room, Tammi offers
the warehouse of two drug dealers and demands that she only keeps the books for the brothers and
their money and drugs. He points his finger at one doesn’t know anything about the drug dealers.
of the gang members and calmly says “Bang.” The Surmising the case, the agents believe that Chase
guy immediately falls down, shot. Dwight does the was Dwight’s fence for the drugs and was killed
same to the second one. Randall enters from because he had a relationship with Tammi. Her
outside. He is holding a smoking gun wrapped in a phone records indicate she called him late at night.
towel. Tammi again sees the shadow outside her
Scully and Doggett investigate the crime scene, apartment, and it moves when she calls out to
finding that the shots came from behind a wall, Randall. She tells him that she knows he protected
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her and that he snatched her secret ledger book so Doggett goes to the Pearce house. Harry Odell,
Dwight wouldn’t find it. She still, however, needs his the owner of the Southside Salvage yard where Ray
help. She asks Randall to meet her at the 3:00 bus, and Curt both worked, is there. Doggett asks Nora
and he gives her the missing ledger that holds a key. about Ray’s cremation because no record of the
Finding Tammi’s apartment emptied out, Doggett hits event exists. He wonders if Ray might still be alive
redial on her phone and reaches the bus station. and is somehow involved in Curt’s death. Nora
Tammi uses the key to grab a duffel full of cash in a rebukes this, insisting that Ray was so sick before he
safe deposit box at the bank. When she returns to died that he couldn’t even walk or lift his head. At
her car, Dwight is waiting in the backseat. He forces the salvage yard, Harry is hurriedly feeding Ray
her to drive to the office. Left at the station, Randall Pearce’s employee records into a shredder when
believes he’s been stood up. At the exterminator’s Ray himself enters the trailer office. Harry grabs a
office, Dwight accuses Tammi of skimming from the gun from his desk and shoots. Ray is blown clear
books with Chase. He questions why Randall would out of the trailer. Outside, Harry sees Ray’s severed
kill Chase, and then figures out that his brother has hand, which twitches. Small, interlocking metal
a crush on Tammi. Randall enters, and Dwight pieces begin to repair the limb. Ray comes up
orders him to kill her. Randall points the gun at behind him, unfazed by his bloody gut and missing
Tammi as she pleads for her life. He fires, but the arm. He grabs Harry’s head and punctures the man’s
bullet sails inches from her head to hit Dwight, who skull with his fingers.
is outside having a cigarette. In checking out the aftermath, Doggett notices
Scully and Doggett arrest Randall, but he will blue paint on Harry’s fingernails. He pulls a half−torn
not speak. He sits motionless in a cell, eyes focused paper out of the shredder – an invoice from
on a blank wall. Randall stares at a computer Chambers Technologies. The person on the invoice,
monitor located many rooms away. On it is an all− Dr. David Clifton, no longer works there. His
points bulletin for the arrest of Tammi Peyton, with successor, Dr. Puvogel, tells Doggett that Clifton
her image emblazoned on the screen. 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
Salvage Doggett from the morgue, informing him that Ray’s
cell makeup was affected by exposure to a non−
Production Code: #8ABX10 identifiable metal. Tests show that his blood has
Original Air Date: 01/14/01 enough metal alloy to kill an elephant. At the
Written by Jeffrey Bell halfway house, volunteer social worker Larina sees a
Directed by Rod Hardy news report on Harry Odell’s murder, recognizes
A MAN MADE OF METAL ENACTS REVENGE ON
Ray and phones Ray’s wife.
THOSE WHO CREATED HIM. Ray pursues Dr. Puvogel, and the agents lure him
to Chambers Technologies. Ray gets captured in a
Curt Delario comforts Nora Pearce as she mourns test chamber and his fists dent the four−inch metal
her husband. “How does a 41 year−old man just doors. He escapes by ripping open the thick metal
wither away and die?” she asks. Since no one can of the back wall. Blood left on the jagged wall
provide her an explanation for Ray’s death, she is begins to turn itself into metal. Remanding Dr.
convinced that he suffered from Gulf War Puvogel to safety, Doggett notices that a row of
Syndrome, and she wants someone to pay. Leaving stacked barrels are painted the same color blue
her house, Curt turns his car out of the driveway but found on Harry Odell’s fingers.
skids when he sees something in his path. He plows Nora waits for her husband at the halfway
right into a man, but instead of crushing him, the car house, and asks him why he didn’t contact her. “I’m
splits around the man. Curt looks through the not me,” he responds, before showing her that his
shattered glass to see his friend, Ray Pearce, body is a mix of flesh and metal. He tells her that
standing in the middle of the hood, unharmed. Ray the people who did this to him must pay. At
shoves his fist through the windshield to grab Curt, Southside Salvage, Doggett uncovers blue barrels
who screams out in terror. with the Chambers Technology logo underneath the
The next morning, Doggett and Scully scan the paint. When he turns one over, a think river of silver
crime scene. The car is torn in half and Curt Delario liquid pours out with a human body made of metal.
is missing. They find him in a trash can with five It is the missing Dr. Clifton. Scully and Doggett
deep puncture marks in his head. The autopsy question Puvogel, who tells them that Clifton got
reveals that he was not killed by the impact, but poisoned from working on an alloy with genetic
rather by the wounds inflicted when he was pulled material in it. Puvogel was aware that Clifton was
through the windshield. Blood and fingerprints on dying, but did not know how his body was sent to
the car are from the recently deceased Ray Pierce. the salvage yard. Suddenly, Doggett sees Nora
Ray wakes up at St. Clare’s Halfway House, Pearce sneaking around the Chambers hallway. She
unharmed. He pulls shards of metal out of his face. is searching for the name of the person responsible
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for her husband’s disfigurement, but is caught before prove that he had already been dead before he left
she gave the name to Ray. A SWAT team is sent to India.
the halfway house, but they are too late. Ray kills Mrs. Holt, the principal of Fairmont Elementary in
Larina and escapes. Scully and Doggett beg Nora for Maryland, interviews a normal−looking man for a
her help in preventing Ray from hurting anyone else, potential job as a custodian. Yet she does not really
and she agrees to have her house watched by the see that the person sitting across from her is the
police. Ray slips in and persuades Nora to tell him legless beggar. A fight breaks out in front of the
the name of the person from Chambers school between seventh−grader Trevor and the
Technologies who made him inhuman. When he younger Quinton. Quinton’s father arrives in time to
leaves, Nora rushes out of the house, hysterical. She break up the squabble. The mysterious new
tells the police that her husband had just been there custodian watches from nearby. Meanwhile,
and that he is going to kill a man named Owen Doggett traces a similar death in India several days
Harris. earlier that involves another heavyset American
Ray intercepts Harris’ car, pulls him from the businessman. Scully introduces the idea that a living
driver’s seat and says “You made me.” The man’s being is using these victims to stowaway by freely
wife and child scream in terror. Harris doesn’t entering the bodies. Doggett doesn’t readily accept
understand because he’s only an accountant and this notion.
had waste transferred to Southside Salvage because Later that night, Quinton sees the beggar’s
he was told to do so. As Harris’ son cries in the reflection in his bedroom mirror, but his father
backseat, Ray’s eyes blink with the last light of dismisses the boy’s fears as merely a nightmare.
kindness left in him. He lets the man go. When the father goes back downstairs, the beggar
Later, Doggett and Scully arrive at the scene. man is there. Hearing a scream, Quinton runs down
Harris is alive, being treated by a medic. The agents the stairs to find his father dead. The man’s eyes are
are puzzled as to why Ray didn’t kill him, but Scully filled with blood. Scully and Doggett investigate and
surmises that Ray’s body had died, and what was Quinton tells them that he saw a man with no legs.
left was a machine. Whatever bit of humanity was Finding the identical small handprints as in Potocki’s
still in him may have saved Harris. hotel room, the agents suspect the same killer. Yet
At Southside Salvage, a car gets dumped into a Quinton’s father showed no sign of abdominal
compactor. Ray is inside the crushed car, calmly damage. At the autopsy, the man’s stomach is
accepting his inevitable conclusion. 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
Badlaa has disappeared, leaving a trail of coagulated blood
across the floor. Scully follows it to a closet, but
Production Code: #8ABX12 sees nothing inside. However, the beggar man is in
Original Air Date: 01/21/01 the closet. Somehow he hides his presence from
Written by John Shiban Scully. When Scully and Doggett consult with Chuck
Directed by Tony Wharmby Burks, he explains that there are siddhi mystics who
A MYSTIC SMUGGLES HIMSELF OUT OF INDIA AND
have the power to manipulate reality. These Indian
PLAGUES TWO FAMILIES IN SUBURBAN mystics, however, are religious and committing
WASHINGTON, D.C. murder would endanger their souls. Scully shows
him a report of an American chemical plant that
American Hugh Potocki enters the airport in killed many people in India, one of whom is the son
Mumbai, India on his way back home. A local of a holy man. Because siddhi mystics pass their
beggar with no legs follows him on a wheeled cart skills from father to son, and his only son’s death
into the restroom. Potocki is yanked out from under effectively ends his legacy, Scully questions whether
the bathroom stall by an unseen force. Later, this man is out for revenge.
Potocki arrives at his hotel in Washington, DC. A Trevor tells Quinton that he may know who
bellboy brings his luggage with the beggar’s cart killed his father. As he walks down the street, Trevor
strapped on. Potocki sits on the bed and his eyes hears the squeaking of the beggar’s wheeled cart,
glaze over with blood. Another pool of blood flows but no one is around. His mother, meanwhile, sees
from his body, staining the bedspread. Scully and her son’s body floating in the backyard pool and
Doggett investigate the crime scene at the hotel dives in after him. As she gets closer, she realizes
where Potocki’s body was found. The agents spot a that it is not Trevor but the beggar man. Scully and
small, bloodied handprint, about the size of a child’s, Doggett later scrutinize the woman’s blood−filled
on the bed. An autopsy reveals Potocki suffered eyes and question how her death fits into the case.
massive abdominal tissue damage. Scully is unsure Trevor returns home and tells the agents that the
whether something went in or came out of his “little man” followed him. They call the janitor in for
rectal wall. There is no evidence that the man had questioning, but he does not speak. Chuck sets up a
been smuggling drugs, but a decay analysis does video camera and focuses it on the janitor. The
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camera shows there is no one sitting in the Doggett to the Hangemuhl home, where they find a
interrogation room. They realize their suspect may sickly Marie Hangemuhl suffering from kidney
be anywhere. failure. She admits to meeting Mulder the previous
Mrs. Holt sees the custodian at the school later spring, when he had asked about her disappearance.
that night, but he does not answer her when she Her husband, Paul, quickly interjects that nothing out
calls out to him. The principal immediately calls of the ordinary had gone on and that they never
Scully. Trevor and Quinton lie in wait in the school saw Mulder again. He claims that Mulder had been
building. When the beggar enters the janitorial interested in an Indian folk legend about a creature
closet, Trevor tosses bottles of chemicals on him. from the woods that eats people. When they leave,
Yet the shattered glass seems to have hit nothing Doggett mentions to the Sheriff that he spotted
and the beggar disappears. Instead, the beggar patches in the wall of the Hangemuhl house that
chases Quinton in to a classroom with windows could be bullet holes.
that won’t budge open. Trevor is outside the Returning to Washington, Doggett searches
window, yelling to his friend that he will get help. Mulder’s apartment. He overturns every drawer and
Suddenly, Scully and Mrs. Holt enter the classroom finds a pistol underneath the sink. He later asks
but they can’t see the beggar man. He has Skinner about the mystery case, as well as an
transformed himself into Trevor. Quinton pleads unreported three rounds discharged from the gun.
with Scully to shoot at what she thinks is Trevor, but Test results show that blood had splattered back,
she is unable to fire at a child. Doggett arrives meaning Mulder had fired at close range. Although
outside and hears gunshots. He runs in the Skinner tries to defend Mulder and dismiss
classroom, with Trevor following him. The little Doggett’s claims, the paperwork proves that Scully
beggar man lies dead on the floor. had signed off on the falsified report. Doggett
Later, Scully is still shaken by the experience. pledges that he will not take the situation to a
She tells Doggett that she was unable to trust her review board, but will investigate further.
own eyes, but fired her gun because the boys saw Back in Pennsylvania, a lynch mob converges on
the truth. She realizes that it is what Mulder’s open a rundown house in the woods. Paul Hangemuhl is
mind would have seen. “Maybe if I could see among them. The leader of the group, Sheriff Frey,
through Mulder’s eyes I could understand,” she says. demands that “it” be sent outside. An old woman in
The beggar man, still alive, rolls his cart in an the cabin tells the men that “it” is dead. Suddenly, a
airport in pursuit of another passenger. 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
The Gift to him!” the woman cries. Later, Doggett and
Skinner confront the Sheriff about the body of an
Production Code: #8ABX11 unidentified transient found the day after Mulder’s
Original Air Date: 02/04/01 visit to the Hangemuhl home. The Sheriff is resistant
Written by Frank Spotnitz to their charges, but they discover that the
Directed by Kim Manners transient’s grave has been unearthed. The casket is
DOGGETT COMES UPON AN OLD CASE THAT
empty, and it appears that someone dug themselves
MULDER KEPT SECRET FROM SCULLY. out of the grave. Doggett becomes even more
suspicious of the townspeople.
In a flashback, a car drives up to a semi−rural house Paul Hangemuhl is painting the strange symbol
in the middle of a rainstorm. A man gets out and on his front door with chicken’s blood when the
enters the house, which is marked with a strange Sheriff arrives, inquiring about Marie’s readiness. The
symbol in blood. Inside are Marie and Paul deformed creature is taken from a cage and brought
Hangemuhl, hiding a creature with ruined skin and into the house, where Marie lies naked on the floor.
cataracted eyes. The unseen man raises his gun and It unhinges its jaw and rips into her body. She
fires at the mysterious creature. It falls to the screams, as her husband silently prays in the next
ground. He goes back to his car and drives away. room. Doggett and Skinner return to the Hangemuhl
The man is Mulder. home, looking for the missing Marie. Skinner spots a
It is present day when Doggett arrives at the pool of blood seeping from under the couch.
Sheriff’s Station in Squamash, Pennsylvania to dig up Doggett suggests that Mulder had been trying to
clues about Mulder’s disappearance. Sheriff Frey tells protect Marie from whoever was buried in that
him that Mulder had been there the past spring to coffin. Meanwhile, in a secret cave, the creature
investigate the disappearance of Marie Hangemuhl, regurgitates a murky liquid into an outline of a
who was later found to have never been absent human figure dug in the ground.
from her house. Although Mulder left no trace of The remnants of a blood symbol are found on
this investigation in his files, Doggett uncovered cell the Hangemuhl home. The Lone Gunmen analyze
phone records indicating he had been to the town the symbol, via an internet feed, and tell Doggett
the week before his abduction. The Sheriff brings 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 A man waits alone on the Clay Street train platform
eater” consumes illnesses. Doggett thinks that in Boston. He is an undercover transit cop who,
maybe it was connected to Marie’s kidney disease speaking into a microphone on his lapel, describes a
and that maybe there wasn’t really a transient gangbanger that has jumped the turnstile. The train
buried in that coffin. The agents visit the old arrives, and the cop steps in the empty car as it
woman in the cabin because she had originally moves into a tunnel. The gangbanger enters from
found the transient’s body. Doggett tells her his another car. Suddenly, the train lurches to an abrupt
theory that Mulder tried to kill the creature to stop and loses its power. Strobes of bright light fill
protect Marie Hangemuhl, but the woman says he’s the car, and a man’s scream is heard. The
got it all backwards. Doggett sees a cellar door in gangbanger jumps down on the tracks and runs off
her house and goes down. He finds a fully−formed into the tunnel. At the next stop, incoming
Marie on the ground, naked, covered in a gooey passengers see the officer’s body on the floor of the
substance. He wraps her up and takes her to the car. Huge chunks of his face and body have been
hospital. She successfully recovers, and her kidneys eaten away, revealing sections of skull and skeleton.
have spontaneously healed. The “soul eater” actually At the Boston Transit Operations Center, Scully
took her to cure her, and Doggett realizes that and Doggett talk with Deputy Transit Police Chief
Mulder was not trying to protect Marie when he Karras, who wants to reopen the line in time for the
shot at the creature. afternoon rush hour. Scully insists on keeping the
Doggett returns to the home of the old woman, train closed until the man’s cause of death can be
and she explains that people do not understand the determined. Armed and wearing a flak jacket,
creature’s gift. It looks deformed because it takes on Doggett proceeds into the tunnel, joined by Police
people’s sicknesses. Mulder had come to Lieutenant Bianco, Center for Disease Control
Pennsylvania to try to save himself from his own pathogen expert Hellura Lyle and transit engineer
illness. When he saw the creature’s suffering, he Steven Melnick. Scully, manning the expedition from
couldn’t go through with it. Mulder decided to shoot above ground, communicates with Doggett by radio
the creature to take its pain away. It was then and video camera. As they venture into the tunnel,
buried, but didn’t die. The townspeople know it is they find it to be unusually hot because ventilation
still alive and want it to help their sick, causing the was shut down. Suddenly, Melnick screams,
creature to continue to suffer. Doggett carefully puts indicating a burn on his neck. Dr. Lyle does a
the creature in his car when the Sheriff and other sample analysis on a puddle that the group had
townspeople show up. They demand the creature be passed, but finds that the liquid is only seawater.
given back because there are sick people who need In the darkness, Lt. Bianco sees a figure move.
to be healed. The Sheriff shoots Doggett in the Doggett chases after it into an unused and obsolete
chest and the creature escapes. The townspeople tunnel, and gets attacked by a man with horrifyingly
bury Doggett’s dead body and leave. Later, the decayed features. The man is the gangbanger who
creature brings Doggett back to life in the cave. He previously ran off into the tunnels. Lt. Bianco is
awakes in the human outline, covered in goo. The ready to end the search when Melnick spots three
old woman is tending to the dying creature that bodies wrapped in plastic. Dr. Lyle sees a shadow
took away Doggett’s death. “You freed it,” she cries. run off, but, upon investigation, the team can’t find
Back at the FBI, Doggett sits at his computer. anyone. Scully, believing a contagion is still a risk
He’s at a loss on what to write in his case report. factor, directs them to leave the bodies and
He tells Skinner that he’s not any closer to finding continue into the main tunnel. Melnick screams
Mulder. “You got inside his head,” Skinner says, again, this time with burns on his arms and hands.
advising him not to write up a report. Doggett, Scully orders them to pour fresh water on Melnick
however, wants the truth to be told. “You and I both from their canteens. She guesses that they may be
know what happened out there,” the A.D. says. “No facing some kind of bio−chemical agent. While Dr.
one else needs to.” As Skinner leaves, Doggett Lyle stays with Melnick, Doggett and Bianco start
imagines that Mulder is standing in the office, into a side tunnel. No one notices Lt. Bianco’s hand
watching him. 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
Medusa bodies be taken to the CDC and accuses Karras of
hiding dead bodies that he knew were down there.
Production Code: #8ABX13 Doggett and Bianco trudge into the next tunnel.
Original Air Date: 02/11/01 Bianco’s face and hands begin to glow green, but it
Written by Frank Spotnitz has no other effect on him. He tries to leave, but
Directed by Richard Compton Doggett pulls a gun on him. Bianco kicks him in the
SCULLY AND DOGGETT RACE TO FIGHT OFF A
face, knocking Doggett out, and he escapes. Doggett
CONTAGION LURKING UNDER THE SUBWAY now has the green fluorescent glow on his skin.
TUNNELS OF BOSTON. Scully, meanwhile, gets a visit from Dr. Kai Bowe, a
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marine biologist. She has analyzed the water from her drug−induced haze, McCready can barely see
the tunnel, and has found that it contains a sea the baby being pulled out of her stomach. It is an
creature, called a medusa, which is why the CDC alien.
missed it when they inspected the liquid. The In her apartment, Scully scans her own
medusas glow with bioelectricity, but do not burn ultrasound image and strokes her growing belly.
people on contact. Something triggers it. Scully fears Later, she heads into the office to find Doggett
the worst for her partner. talking to Duffy Haskell. The man had contacted
Doggett wakes up and speaks to Scully on the Mulder eight years ago about his wife, who is now
radio. If he is to stop the spread of the contaminant, dead. “They killed her,” he tells the agents. He says
he needs to find Lt. Bianco. Karras tells Scully that that Kath was a multiple abductee, and aliens had
he has reopened the subway and there are already performed procedures on her that gave her cancer.
passengers on the platform. It is now becoming Although she was subsequently cured, she was left
urgent to protect the thousands of passengers. barren. She was later implanted with an embryo
Doggett locates Bianco, lying in the tunnel. Scully and gave birth to an alien. All the doctors who
tells Doggett to get out, but Bianco begs him to were in cahoots with this procedure murdered Kath
stay. Doggett helps Bianco walk, and they see a and stole her alien baby because it was proof.
child’s shadow. The boy, who is unaffected, points Although his story rings a bell with Scully, she
to a wall. Scully figures out that sweat triggers the dismisses Haskell. Doggett says that his tale sounds
electricity. Since the boy’s sweat glands aren’t fully familiarly like Scully’s case, “except for the
developed, he has not been affected. The boy pregnancy.” Walking out of the office, she chastens
motions Doggett toward a big leak in the ceiling Doggett and tells him to stay out of her personal
with water running from the bay. He leads him to a files. Scully’s head is spinning with fear and
main track, where trains from the reopened system confusion when she enters the elevator. She thinks
are about to cross. Doggett is faced with a train back to a prior conversation with Mulder where she
heading towards him. He places Bianco’s gun on the acknowledged that she wasn’t ready to accept that
third rail, which triggers a spark when the train hits she will never have children. “There’s something I
it. The electricity charges into the puddles of haven’t told you,” Mulder confesses. He admits to
seawater, killing the medusa. It vanishes from having found her ova in a lab (seen in #4X15) and
Doggett’s and Bianco’s skin. after taking them to a specialist, learned that they
Doggett is later treated at Boston General were not viable. Still in the elevator, Scully wakes
Hospital. Scully tells him that he is rid of the from her daydream to find Doggett staring at her.
organism and is perfectly fine. The boy is with She tells him that there is nothing to do about
social services. Plastic surgeons are working on Haskell’s case.
Melnick and Bianco, and the three bodies’ deaths Scully roams the stark white interior of Zeus
are being attributed to an unknown pathogen. Since Genetics in Germantown, MD looking for somebody
there is no proof that Karras endangered people’s to assist her. Suddenly she hears screaming from an
lives, he can’t be criminally charged for keeping the examination room. It is a woman begging for
trains running. He was merely doing his job. Scully another opinion. Scully ducks into a door to prevent
congratulates Doggett for saving all those people’s being caught spying, and finds herself in a room
lives. “You figured it out,” he tells her. “I was just with scores of jars. The jars are filled with
your eyes and ears.” 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
Per Manum out the office. Scully rushes back to her apartment
to call her personal geneticist, Dr. Parenti. She asks
Production Code: #8ABX08 him to compare her own ultrasound against the one
Original Air Date: 02/18/01 that Duffy Haskell provided. Parenti assures her that
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz she will be fine and hangs up, but Parenti is
Directed by Kim Manners standing in Zeus Genetics’ room of fetus jars. He
WHEN SCULLY DIGS DEEPER INTO REPORTS OF
unwraps a small alien corpse on a dissecting table.
ALIEN FERTILIZATION ON HUMANS, SHE QUESTIONS It is the baby that Kath McCready gave birth to.
HER OWN PREGNANCY AND ITS CONCEPTION. Flashback to the previous year: In his waiting
room, Dr. Parenti notifies Scully that her ova can be
Pregnant Kath McCready is in labor. She sweats in successfully used to impregnate her. He asks if she
the delivery room as Duffy Haskell coaches her has someone in mind as a donor, and Scully nods
breathing. “You’re in safe hands now,” he says. The thoughtfully, saying that she has to figure out how
baby’s heart registers unusually high on the monitor, to ask the person. Scully sits in the same waiting
and the doctor orders an emergency C−section. room, present day. After reviewing the images, Dr.
When Haskell goes out to scrub up for the surgery, Parenti certifies that both her ultrasound as well as
a nurse locks him out of the delivery room. Through the Haskell results are both normal. Yet he advises
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her to let the FBI know about her condition. When room for Mrs. Hendershot, clutching the wound
Scully returns to the office, Doggett says that from the amnio needle on her stomach. “I have to
Parenti’s office called about an ultrasound she get you out of here,” she tells her, putting the
dropped off, and since Parenti was the doctor who woman’s baby and her own health at risk.
Duffy Haskell consulted, Doggett questions Scully’s That same night, Doggett rushes to the FBI,
investigating the Haskell case when she specifically demanding Skinner to locate Scully. He believes that
told him not to. Later, Skinner and Doggett she may be in danger, knowing that Haskell can not
interrogate Haskell about his threatening letters to be trusted. Scully and Mrs. Hendershot escape the
doctors. He tells them that Dr. Lev was the one research center and run right into Knowle Rohrer,
who stole Kath’s baby. The agents warn him not to who claims that Doggett sent him. A team of armed
keep up with the threats, and Haskell says “there men described as experienced field medics throw
are other women out there, just like Kath.” Haskell the women into a black truck. When police cars
leaves them and dials Dr. Lev at Zeus Genetics, intercept the truck, it travels off−road into the
revealing that he too is involved in the conspiracy. woods. Suddenly, Mrs. Hendershot goes into labor,
Regarding Mrs. Hendershot, the doctor tells Haskell and Scully orders the truck to stop so as not to
that “it’s time to let her go.” endanger the pregnant woman’s life. As the men lay
Scully returns to her apartment and remembers down Mrs. Hendershot, Rohrer drugs Scully and
another Mulder discussion from the year before. She prevents her from witnessing the birth. In her haze,
is nervously awkward when he arrives at her door she hears the distorted cry of an alien baby.
with an answer to her request. “I wouldn’t want this Scully awakes the next morning in a hospital
to come between us,” Mulder says, in response to room. Doggett is at her side, assuring her that she
his being her sperm donor. “But the answer is yes.” and her child are both healthy. He also tells her that
Scully cries tears of joy and hugs him. Scully Mary Hendershot is fine and delivered a normal
resumes present day, when there is a knock on her baby boy. Scully contends that the men switched
door. It is a distraught Mary Hendershot from the the babies, but Doggett thinks she has overreacted
genetic clinic. “My baby is in danger,” she says. “So to everything. The tape that showed her ultrasound
is yours.” was recorded onto an old cassette, and Rohrer’s
Doggett pulls up to a diner in downtown men say that they saved her life. Scully insists that,
Washington at 3:33 am where Skinner and Scully are from the minute Duffy Haskell walked into their
waiting. Scully has asked for a leave of absence office, they were set up to get Mary Hendershot’s
from the FBI, but is cryptic about her reasons. baby and cover it up. Doggett asks why she didn’t
Smarting from the disrespect, Doggett gets up, reveal her pregnancy, and Scully reluctantly
saying offhandedly “Drop me a line if you get a responds that she was afraid that the FBI would take
chance.” Mary Hendershot is in Scully’s front seat, her off the X−Files. “Then I couldn’t find Mulder,” she
but neither Skinner nor Doggett know who she is. says. Doggett comforts her, and promises that he
The women go to the Walden−Freedman Research will help her find Mulder.
Center and are met by Dr. Miryum. Scully explains Scully thinks back again to the previous year,
that Mrs. Hendershot’s life may be in danger and finding Mulder in her apartment. She tells him that
that she believes this baby is not hers. Mrs. the artificial insemination – her last chance to get
Hendershot’s conception dates do not add up and pregnant – did not work. “Never give up on a
she is sure that her pregnancy was caused by an miracle,” Mulder says, and gently kisses her
abduction. Dr. Miryum performs an ultrasound test forehead.
on Scully that proves her child is normal and
healthy, but to be sure she suggests an
amniocentesis test. This Is Not Happening (1 of 2)
Meanwhile, Doggett learns that Duffy Haskell
has gone under a different first name and was Production Code: #8ABX14
buried as a Marine in 1970. He assumes that Haskell Original Air Date: 02/25/01
is really working for an underground conspiracy and Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
he approaches an old friend, Knowle Rohrer, about Directed by Kim Manners
Haskell’s identity. Although Rohrer’s job is not DOGGETT CALLS ON ANOTHER AGENT TO ASSIST
apparent, he assures Doggett that there is no THE MULDER CASE, BUT SCULLY’S FEARS ABOUT
conspiracy at work and he will look further into FINDING HIM COME TO HEAD WITH THE SUDDEN
Haskell’s files. RECOVERY OF ABDUCTEES SEIZED AT THE SAME
Dr. Miryum withdraws the amnio needle, TIME.
warning Scully to be still. After the doctor leaves
the room, Scully notices that her ultrasound image is A car chases a white light as it moves through the
being retrieved from a VCR. She removes the sky in Helena, Montana. The driver, Richie Szalay
videotape and realizes she has been viewing (last seen in #7ABX22), snaps photographs of the
someone else’s fetus. Scully goes into the delivery light until it comes to a halt. It is a UFO, hovering
above the trees. Richie gets out of the car and is
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speechless. The craft gets away before he can take that she has been briefed of the case and describes
its picture, and Richie yells “This is not happening!” it as “interesting.” She characterizes Teresa’s injuries
in frustration to himself. He notices a man walking as similar to what has been found in cult abuse
toward the spot where the spaceship landed and cases, wondering if perhaps there was some kind of
Richie calls out to him. As the man runs away, abduction group of followers that Mulder got caught
Richie follows, but he stumbles over a woman’s up with. Much to the consternation of Scully and
body lying naked on the ground. Skinner, Doggett insists that they go after the cult
Back at the FBI, Doggett opens up a desk drawer leader. Based on a hunch, Reyes believes that Teresa
to find Mulder’s nameplate inside. He is somewhat was meant to be left alive. Scully walks away,
troubled, but is startled by Scully rushing in the telling Doggett that Reyes makes no sense, but
office. He won’t tell her why he called her, but Doggett insists that he will not go on a wild goose
instead takes her up to Skinner. Both men are chase after another Alien Bounty Hunter.
reluctant to tell Scully whatever news they are Meanwhile, a man named Absalom walks into a
hiding. Skinner finally reveals that there was a UFO small boarding house where Jeremiah Smith is
encounter in Montana and the man who reported it treating the ailing Teresa Hoese. Absalom watches
is Richie Szalay, whom Mulder and Scully met the as the alien healer places his hand over Teresa’s
previous spring in Oregon. “Are you trying to tell face. Her bruising magically disappears.
me this has something to do with Mulder?” she asks. In the hospital, Scully catches Reyes examining
Richie found Teresa Hoese, the woman abducted the Teresa’s brain scans. Reyes admits that she is
same time as Mulder. She was returned, but she is looking for alien implants. Scully questions why a
barely alive. disbeliever like her would be looking for such a
The agents travel to Montana to see Teresa. Her thing. Reyes disputes the claim. “Let’s just say I don’t
doctor describes her condition as if someone was not believe,” Reyes says. “I try to stay open.” Reyes
performing torturous experiments. She has scars on explains that she has certain spiritual notions, and
her cheeks, and there is damage to her soft palette although she doesn’t have any feelings about Mulder
and abdomen, but there are no foreign implants in she does sense Scully’s fear. She advises Scully to
her body. Scully, Doggett and Skinner pay a visit to try and stay open too. Later, Reyes drives along a
Richie, who had been trying to find his friend Gary. Montana highway. Her car putters off and then
Gary was also abducted right before Mulder. Richie immediately turns back on. She sees a bright light in
had followed UFO sightings to Montana where he the sky above her. “No freakin’ way,” she mutters
came across the craft. Doggett shows Richie plaster and sets off after it. The light disappears over the
castings of footprints from the scene. The prints are mountain, and she sees Jeremiah Smith (wearing
of Nike sneakers, and Doggett doubts that the man Nike sneakers) and Absalom pick up a body
Richie saw was actually an alien. After the stranded in the field. Reyes pulls out her gun and
questioning, Scully confronts Doggett about his orders them to halt. They manage to escape in a
refusal to accept any explanations outside of the pickup truck, but Reyes sees another body lying on
ordinary. Doggett says that she is the one who is the ground. It is Gary Cory, Richie’s friend who was
afraid to confront the truth about what might have abducted in #7ABX22.
happened to Mulder. Scully performs the autopsy on Gary, finding
Mulder lies bound in the alien chair, but no radial scarring on his ankles, wrist and face. This
experiments are being done. His body has decayed matches what she dreamed Mulder had been
so much that he appears to be dead. Suddenly exposed to. Skinner and Doggett look on, but she
Scully awakes from her sleep and realizes that it becomes emotional and stops the autopsy. Richie is
was merely a nightmare. She knocks on Skinner’s brought into the medical bay and is stunned by the
motel room door, teary−eyed. “What if he’s dead?” sight of his friend’s body. Scully breaks down.
she cries. Skinner tries to comfort her, assuring her Waiting outside, Doggett is approached by Reyes.
that they still might find Mulder alive. Meanwhile, She senses that he is hurting for his partner. Reyes
Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer last seen in #4X01, compares this to a past case where they
walks into the hospital wearing Nike sneakers. unsuccessfully looked for Doggett’s missing son. She
When a nurse approaches him, he immediately believes that this is why Doggett is so determined
morphs into Teresa Hoese’s doctor and tells the to find Mulder. Reyes shows him a police wanted
nurse that he wants Teresa transferred. poster of Absalom, the man she saw in the field. He
The phone wakes Scully in her motel room. She was the leader of a doomsday cult and the license
is notified about Teresa Hoese being moved. Scully plate on the pickup truck they were driving is
meets Doggett and Skinner in the field where registered to a nearby farm.
Teresa was found. Doggett asks that they listen to At the farm, Jeremiah Smith orders Absalom to
another point of view, and introduces them to move the legion of followers out. “They’re coming,”
Special Agent Monica Reyes, who is standing alone he says. “You can’t let them find him.” Federal
on a cliff, smoking. Doggett thinks Reyes has some agents swarm the farm and round up the people.
expertise that might come in handy. Reyes explains Skinner, Scully, Doggett and Reyes are among the
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SWAT team. They find Teresa Hoese, fully healed, in over case files. She tells him to accept the transfer,
one of the beds. While interrogated by Doggett, noting that if he doesn’t get out now he may never
Absalom says that he can’t explain why it happens. get out at all. Although he has found Mulder,
The spaceship drops off the injured abductees, and Doggett feels he still has more questions about the
he comes to retrieve them with the sole purpose of case and is reluctant to leave. Meanwhile, a fishing
helping them. Doggett doubts his intentions. boat in Wilmington, NC catches sight of a body in
Although there are cameras on the compound, there the water. The body has scarring that is reminiscent
is no footage of Teresa being healed. Scully shows of the alien tests. When a coroner goes to examine
Absalom a photo of Mulder and asks if there is the body, he is astonished to see the dead man’s
videotape of him. Absalom has no answer. lips move. Skinner awakes Doggett to tell him that
That night, Scully returns to the motel, but the the body found in the water is Billy Miles, who was
lights in her room do not work. She is amazed to presumed dead for months and is now alive.
see Mulder standing by the window of her room. Doggett advises Skinner not to relay this
Reyes approaches and the image of Mulder information to Scully. They go to the graveyard in
disappears. Reyes brings her to see tapes from the Raleigh to unearth Mulder’s body.
compound. Scully recognizes the other man on the Scully runs into the US Naval Hospital in
tapes as Jeremiah Smith, the Alien Healer. On the Bethesda, MD distraught and full of wide−eyed
videotape recorded during the FBI raid, Smith emotion, demanding to see Mulder. “Tell me it’s
morphs into Agent Doggett. The agents return to the true,” she pleads with Skinner. Although he has thin
farm compound to look for Jeremiah Smith. Scully life signs and is clinically alive, Mulder’s body is in
pulls out one unrecognizable man who is wearing a full state of decomposition. Scully is teary as she
the Nike sneakers and he morphs into Jeremiah approaches Mulder, and she rests her head on his
Smith. He tells her that by exposing him she is chest as it rises and falls with each breath. She then
putting abductees in danger. “Where’s Mulder?” she goes into the hospital room of Billy Miles, whose
pleads with the healer, but before he can answer, body begins to convulse. The heart monitor briefly
Skinner asks her to come outside. “You must protect shows two heartbeats, and Scully notifies the nurse
me,” Smith says to her. Skinner tells Scully that they that the equipment may be malfunctioning.
found Mulder and she takes off for the field. Mulder Kersh summons Doggett to his office and orders
is lying on the ground, dead. She runs back to get him to drop the Mulder investigation. Doggett is
Jeremiah Smith for his healing powers, but the lights wary of his superior’s intentions. Walking down the
of a spacecraft shine overhead. The ship hovers over FBI hallway, Skinner almost loses consciousness
the compound and the other agents watch as the when the familiar black veins suddenly appear on
light radiates the building. Scully rushes into the his face and neck. He opens the elevator doors to
room where she had just interrogated Smith. He is find Krycek with the handheld device that controls
gone. Scully cries out in frustration and horror: “This the nanotechnology. “What do you want from me?”
is not happening!” 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
DeadAlive (2 of 2) you’ve got,” Krycek says elusively before leaving
Skinner empty−handed. Meanwhile, Billy Miles
Production Code: #8ABX15 wakes up in his hospital bed. He pulls out the life
Original Air Date: 04/01/01 support tubing and, still bloated, walks into the
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz shower. As the water covers him, his hardened skin
Directed by Tony Wharmby peels off leaving a perfectly fine human body
WHEN A FORMER ABDUCTEE AWAKENS FROM THE
underneath. Down the hall, Scully sits with Mulder
DEAD, SCULLY PINS HER HOPES ON RESURRECTING while Doggett conveys his concern about reopening
THE RECENTLY BURIED MULDER. this case. She wants to know the truth about what
caused this to Mulder. Suddenly, a nurse interrupts
White snow covers the cemetery ground in Raleigh, them. A healthy Billy Miles is walking naked in the
NC as mourners gather for the funeral of Fox corridor, looking like a recently hatched chick.
Mulder. Scully stares straight ahead, seemingly lost Doggett goes to see Absalom. “You ask for my
in her thoughts, surrounded by Skinner, Doggett, help but you refuse to believe in me,” the alien
Kersh and the Lone Gunmen. She is unaware of the healer says to the skeptical agent. Back at the
many stolen glances her way. hospital, Skinner looks in on Mulder but finds
Three months later, Doggett is called into Kersh’s Krycek lurking in the corner. When Skinner asks for
office where Skinner is waiting. Doggett has been the vaccine, Krycek tells him he only has to make
recommended for advancement and transfer off the sure that Scully doesn’t come to term. Skinner
X−Files, but Doggett asks for more time to consider refuses to sacrifice Scully’s baby, but considers the
such a move. He goes back down to the X−Files deal. Doggett passes Krycek in the hospital hallway,
office where a noticeably pregnant Scully is poring but doesn’t know who the man is. He stops to talk
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to Scully, who believes that Mulder was infected when she tells him that he is completely healthy
with a virus that transforms the body into an alien. and miraculously healed of whatever brain disorder
Doggett notes that Absalom had said the same he may have suffered. She takes him back to his
thing. They now believe that Billy Miles is somehow apartment, which is still intact. “I don’t know if
alien, and she asks Skinner to do whatever it takes you’ll ever understand what it was like,” a visibly
to retrieve a vaccine. When Doggett returns to moved Scully acknowledges. Mulder, however, is
Mulder’s room, the door is locked. He finds Skinner still unsettled, not knowing how he fits in his newly
has pulled out all the life support tubes, intending to restored life.
kill Mulder. An enraged Doggett attacks Skinner, Skinner and Doggett are summoned to Kersh’s
who admits that he couldn’t trust Krycek’s claims of office to be briefed about Mulder’s reinstatement to
a virus if it meant jeopardizing Scully. With gun the X−Files. Because of Doggett’s success rate of
drawn, Doggett takes off after Krycek in the parking arrests, Kersh is prepared to deny Mulder’s
garage. He latches on to Krycek’s moving car, application. He orders the two to tell Mulder that
grabbing for Krycek at the wheel, but lets go before he is off the X−Files. Doggett resists and Kersh
the car narrowly escapes. Krycek puts the car in threatens to shut down the X−Files altogether.
reverse and comes back. He holds up a vial and Skinner and Scully come to Mulder’s apartment to
asks Doggett if he is looking for the vaccine to save bring him the bad news. Mulder first learns of Agent
Mulder. Doggett takes one step forward and Krycek Doggett’s assignment to the X−Files and realizes that
drops the vial, splattering the brown−colored liquid they have all become pawns in some larger
on the ground. conspiracy. He gets up to get dressed, telling Scully
Doggett goes back upstairs and finds that Mulder and Skinner, “For the first time, I feel like getting
was taken into the operating room. Dressed in back to work.”
scrubs and watching the procedure, Scully comes At a Federal Correction Facility in West Virginia,
out to tell Doggett that they had been incubating a trusty brings Absalom a book entitled “The
the virus by keeping Mulder on life support. Skinner Coming Apocalypse.” Inside is a newspaper clipping
actually saved him when he pulled off the machines. about Howard Salt being killed when he jumped the
She has faith that a course of anti−virals will work. White House gate. Later, as the prisoners work on a
Doggett is once again called to Kersh’s office where roadside gang, Absalom breaks away and escapes
he gets sent back to work on the X−Files. into the woods. That night, Doggett returns home to
In the recovery room, Scully takes Mulder’s hand find Absalom waiting for him. Absalom checks the
and he flinches. His eyes flutter open. “Who are back of the agent’s neck for traces of reptilian−
you?” he jokes. Scully laughs for the first time in a looking alien vertebrae. “You’re going to spread the
while and leans across his body, holding him. word,” he tells Doggett before kidnapping him. From
“Anybody miss me?” he says. Doggett sees this the FBI, Scully tries unsuccessfully to reach Doggett
reunion through the window, and Scully looks up at while Skinner briefs his task force on the hunt for
him, not knowing what to say. Doggett relieves her Absalom. Skinner tells the agents that the man’s
of the trouble and walks away, alone. 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
Three Words Skinner find Mulder in the X−Files office. He has
picked out Howard Salt’s face in an Absalom cult
Production Code: #8ABX18 photo and informs them that Salt was a multiple
Original Air Date: 04/08/01 abductee. Mulder is convinced that the man was
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz killed for what he knew. Mulder and Scully sneak
Directed by Tony Wharmby into the FBI Evidence Room to discover Howard
WRANGLING HIS WAY BACK ONTO AN X−FILE,
Salt’s laptop computer has its entire memory filled
MULDER GETS IN OVER HIS HEAD TRYING TO with an encrypted program. Mulder removes the
EXPOSE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF COLONIZATION. hard drive.
With a gun taped to the small of his back,
Federal census worker Howard Salt hops over the Doggett enters the Federal Statistics Center.
fence at the White House, and a squadron of Secret Absalom’s hand is on the trigger. When passing the
Service agents ambushes him. “The aliens are taking security guard, Doggett notices the x−ray scanner
over the United States!” he exclaims. Suddenly a and warns Absalom that they will be stopped.
gunshot goes off, and the agents realize Salt has Absalom pushes Doggett on, saying that he is
accidentally shot himself. Before succumbing to looking for proof that aliens are “already here,
death, he hands one agent a CD−ROM with the among us.” Security guards quickly surround them,
words “Fight the Future” written on it. and Doggett is shocked when they shoot Absalom,
In his hospital room, Mulder puts his hand on his nearly missing Doggett’s head. Later, when Doggett
face and chest scars, seeing flashbacks of the alien briefs Skinner on the previous events, Mulder bursts
torture he endured. Scully interrupts these visions into the office. Doggett is about to introduce
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himself when Mulder attacks him. He blames Rohrer leans over to the water fountain, enlarged
Doggett for getting Absalom killed, suspecting that alien vertebrae pop up under the skin on his neck.
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 Empedocles
the Statistics Center. Fifteen minutes after Salt’s
death, computer firewalls had gone up around the Production Code: #8ABX17
facility. Mulder is convinced that he is onto Original Air Date: 04/22/01
something in those files. However, even if they were Written by Greg Walker
to uncover a password, the firewalls would block Directed by Barry K. Thomas
them from opening the files. The pass code can AGENT REYES ENLISTS MULDER’S HELP
only be used in the secured facility itself. Much to INVESTIGATING A KILLER’S CONNECTION TO THE
the consternation of Mulder, the Gunmen agree UNSOLVED MURDER OF DOGGETT’S SON.
with Scully that they have hit a dead end.
Meanwhile, Doggett secretly meets with his Mild−mannered Jeb Dukes gets fired from his job in
informant Knowle Rohrer (last seen in #8ABX08) to New Orleans, while his boss, Gary Garber,
ask why Absalom was shot in cold blood. Doggett apologizes profusely. Jeb calmly strolls out of the
suspects that he was merely used to get the man office and out on to the street where,
killed. Rohrer tells him that there are three words he coincidentally, he witnesses a police chase that
should know. Doggett meets Scully outside Mulder’s ends in a fatal auto accident. Jeb stays back, but is
apartment, asking her to give Mulder information he approached by a man awash in flames from the
has recently learned. Salt was carrying a diskette burning wreckage. The man seemingly walks into
that he wanted to give to the President. The Jeb’s body and then disappears. Suddenly, Jeb’s eyes
password on it contains three words: Fight the turn flaming red. That night, Jeb enters his office
Future. Scully goes back into Mulder’s apartment but building and goes right up to his boss. He lifts a gun
is hesitant to tell him what Doggett told her. She and fires at Garber.
fears that he will get in over his head. Skinner Detective Franklin Potter is examining the crime
rushes to Doggett’s house that night with urgent scene when Agent Monica Reyes arrives. He shows
news about Mulder having some kind of password her some artwork from Jeb Dukes’ desk, but Reyes
to access names tracked by the government. When tells him that it is merely the insert from a popular
Doggett admits to giving Scully the password, rock CD. She dismisses the case as being satanic−
Skinner begins to question whose side Doggett is based. Yet when she sees the victim’s body, it
on. He is even more concerned because he can’t appears to be charred from a fire. A second glance
contact either Scully or Mulder. “You’re gonna have proves that it was only in her imagination. She is
to trust me on this,” Doggett tells the Assistant still unsettled by what she saw. Meanwhile, Mulder
Director and sets out after them alone. visits Scully and brings her a present. Before
Doggett finds Scully outside the Statistics Center opening it, she doubles over in pain and Mulder
and orders her to leave. “I may have set you up,” he rushes her to the hospital. Reyes calls Mulder on his
pleads. He runs inside to get Mulder out. The cell phone, saying it is important she see him.
Gunmen, meanwhile, have bypassed the security Jeb Dukes sits alone in a motel room, staring in
system to allow Mulder access to the building fear at his gun. He raises it to his own head, but it
undetected. They lead him into the databank and gets hot and burns his hand. His face suddenly
Mulder types the words “Fight the Future” in the crackles. He rips at his skin, revealing flames
computer. Doggett bangs on the glass door, but underneath.
Mulder ignores him. “Your life’s in danger!” Doggett Mulder meets Reyes in an FBI file room. Showing
yells and blows out the window with his gun. him the file, Reyes asks if he is familiar with
Doubting Doggett’s intentions, Mulder says that he Doggett’s son’s case, which was the most emotional
believes the government is using the census to case she has ever worked on. When they found the
protect aliens in hiding. Armed military troops storm boy, she had a vision of the body as ashes. Doggett
the building, and Mulder accuses Doggett of setting also admitted to seeing the ashen body, but
him up. Doggett tries to convince him that really convinced himself that it meant nothing. Reyes once
they have both been set up and are in danger. The again saw the vision on a new case and senses that
Gunmen direct Mulder and Doggett toward an air there is a reason for it happening a second time. At
duct in the ceiling, and they escape. the hospital, Doggett checks in on a sleeping Scully.
Doggett again covertly meets with Rohrer and He envisions himself in a crime scene in a field, but
accuses the informant of manipulating him. “You a nurse enters the hospital room and shakes him out
need me worse than you know,” Rohrer says of it. Later, Mulder is in the FBI hallway when
emphatically. He tells Doggett that the truth lies in Doggett attacks him. “Stay out of my life!” he yells.
the X−Files. An angry Doggett walks away. When 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 Jeb is at her house. Doggett wants to know what
recurring vision similar to what they both saw in link Jeb may have to his son, and the agents race off
Luke Doggett’s case. A suspect in Luke’s case was to the Dukes home. When they arrive, Katha tells
killed in a car accident in New Orleans right outside her brother that Reyes only wants to talk to him,
of where the Jeb Dukes shooting took place. but Jeb is scared and takes Katha’s daughter as
Doggett again warns her to leave it alone. hostage. Doggett holds him at the stairs, but puts
Reyes goes to the home of Jeb’s sister, Katha down his gun when Jeb threatens to kill the little
Dukes, to plead for her help. Jeb calls Katha from girl. Reyes shoots Jeb from the other side and
South Carolina, claiming that someone else killed Doggett calls for help.
those people. A woman knocks on his phone booth Jeb is transported to Washington Memorial
door because she needs help with her flat tire. The Hospital and the agents follow. Reyes surmises that
next morning, Jeb wanders in a daze to a car pulled perhaps saving the little girl was the connection to
over with tire trouble. He is unaware of any events Doggett’s son. She tells Doggett that there is
that may have taken place. He sees flames in the nothing more for him to do, and he goes down to
reflection of the car window, gets in and throws out Scully’s room. Watching her sleep, he again sees the
the woman’s purse. When he pulls off, the tire iron vision in the field where Reyes is surrounded by the
falls to the side of the road. sheriffs. The men back away to reveal that Luke
Scully awakes and sees Doggett in her hospital Doggett is the unseen body lying at their feet. The
room. He asks her what changed her mind about body turns to ash. Mulder interrupts him and asks if
not believing any of the paranormal on the X−Files. he thought there really was a connection to his
She admits to being afraid to believe. Suddenly son’s death. Mulder wonders whether evil is like a
Doggett sees a vision of Reyes in a field at the random disease: while most people have immunity,
familiar crime scene. She is surrounded by sheriffs others may catch it at a weak moment. In the ICU,
and looking at a body on the ground. Meanwhile, Katha witnesses her brother’s body seizing. The
Reyes comes to Mulder in the X−Files office. He has doctors try to revive him but his heart stops, and Jeb
found no connection to other cases with the same Dukes is declared dead. Katha stands crying over
kind of visions. Reyes tells him he is wrong because him, accusing Reyes of killing him. An invisible spirit
she believes there are patterns. floats from Jeb to Katha, causing her body to
Doggett arrives at a crime scene in Spartanburg, convulse and her eyes turn to flame red. She strikes
SC where Mulder is waiting for him. Reyes’ case has Reyes and grabs the agent’s gun. Doggett arrives in
another murder victim. Doggett’s reoccurring time to capture Katha. “It’s over,” he tells Reyes. “It’s
hallucination turns into reality when he sees her never over,” she says.
standing over a body, surrounded by sheriffs. He Mulder comes once again to Scully’s house and
looks at the woman lying on the ground and tells reminds her to open his gift. It is an heirloom doll
Reyes that he does not see the ashen remains. from his family. She thanks him for the other gift he
Reyes is insistent that there are connections and gave her – the courage to believe. “I hope it’s a gift
that it may be a thread of evil. Mulder asks her to I can pass on,” she says, tearfully.
leave Doggett alone if the man really doesn’t see Back at the hospital, Katha Dukes is alive and
anything. strapped to her bed. Doggett stares intensely at the
Later, Mulder stops by the hospital to see Scully. woman, wanting to believe that this will prevent the
She had a partial abruption in the uterus wall but evil from spreading again.
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 Vienen
alike.” “Neither are you and I,” Scully responds. He
says that he can’t help Doggett if he doesn’t want Production Code: #8ABX16
to be helped. She is convinced that Doggett is Original Air Date: 04/29/01
worth the effort. Written by Steven Maeda
Jeb Dukes is at his sister’s house. Although he Directed by Rod Hardy
claims he hasn’t committed any murders, Katha sees MULDER AND DOGGETT ARE BEGRUDGINGLY
blood on his face and doesn’t believe him. Jeb asks THROWN TOGETHER TO INVESTIGATE SEVERAL
her for help, but Katha’s fears deepen over the DEATHS ABOARD AN OIL RIG, BUT MULDER IS
safety of her daughter. Doggett, meanwhile, submits CONVINCED THAT THE SHIP IS REALLY CARRYING
to investigating the Jeb Dukes case when Monica THE ALIEN BLACK OIL.
enters the office. She wants him to be honest with
himself about what he saw at the Spartanburg crime As the Galpex Petroleum Orpheus oilrig sits in the
scene, but he says that feelings don’t solve crimes. Gulf of Mexico, its crew eats dinner in front of the
“What are you scared of?” she asks. Reyes assures television. They don’t notice Mexican worker Simon
Doggett that he did everything he could to save his De La Cruz steal a knife from the kitchen. He slips
son. She receives a call from Katha who says that out to the ship’s communication shack and stabs the
engineer. When the television fizzles out in the
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mess hall, Chief Bo Taylor goes to the Comm Shack Doggett. The chief is about to infect Doggett with
to find De La Cruz smashing all the radio the black oil when Mulder saves him. The agents
equipment. He notices the fallen engineer’s eyes lock themselves in the Comm Shack and try to fix
have welled with the alien black oil. “Now you’ve the radio as the black oil infected crew bangs on
gone and done it,” Bo says. His face lights up in a the door. Mulder holds them off, and Doggett
blinding white glow that overtakes his entire body. somehow fixes the radio. Scully is waiting on the
Simon screams in Spanish. other end of the transmission to tell them that
Back at the FBI, Doggett finds Mulder rummaging choppers are on the way. Doggett says that he,
through the X−File cabinets. Although he is no longer Mulder and Garza are the only ones not infected, so
assigned to the office, Mulder believes that a recent the helicopter should not land on the ship. Suddenly,
death of an oilrig worker exposed to radiation is Mulder smashes the radio. Doggett isn’t sure if he
extraterrestrial−related. Scully calls Doggett to too is infected, but Mulder explains that the radio is
remind him that she is waiting with Kersh and an actually making contact with the mother ship.
executive from Galpex Petroleum, who had come Mysteriously, the crew stops banging on the door.
when contacted by Mulder. Kersh sends Doggett to Doggett goes back to find Garza after promising the
the rig. When he arrives, Doggett is angry to see man he would help him. Garza is dead, charred
Mulder is already there. In Washington, Scully’s from radiation. The crew begins to demolish the rig,
autopsy on Simon shows that he was infected with and Mulder and Doggett run to escape the fires.
the black oil, but that his body had some sort of The agents get to the side of the rig and see the
immunity to it. She tells Skinner that they need to helicopter in the distance. The pilot is mouthing
evacuate the ship for Doggett’s safety, fearful that something to them, and they think they’re being told
others may be infected. Scully shows the body to to jump. As the rig explodes, Mulder and Doggett
the Galpex executive and orders him to shut down leap off into the water.
the rig. She is alarmed when he chooses to bring In Washington, Mulder is in the X−Files office
the ship and its crew back to shore. Meanwhile, when Doggett enters. Galpex still intends to keep
another sailor named Yuri notices that the radio on drilling, and Doggett is prepared to take
the boat is intercepting some strange frequency. Bo responsibility for the mishandled case. Yet Mulder
attacks Yuri and leaks the black oil on him. says that he has been fired from the FBI, taking the
Scully tries to radio Doggett on the oilrig and is fall for both Doggett and the X−Files. “You’ve seen
surprised when Mulder answers. Doggett orders it,” Mulder says, urging Doggett to prevent any more
quarantine from a possible contagion, and Mulder drilling. Whereas on the oilrig, Doggett wanted
finds that there is one man missing from the ship’s Mulder off the case, now he tries to convince him
manifest. While Mulder and Doggett go out looking to stay. Mulder leaves the office, telling Doggett
for this man, Diego Garza, Doggett attempts to “You’re in charge here now.”
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 Alone
substance. He also believes that the Galpex
executive was lying to the FBI because the ship’s Production Code: #8ABX19
crew has already drilled the oil that the ship was Original Air Date: 05/06/01
supposedly looking for. Suddenly, an alarm goes off Written and Directed by Frank Spotnitz
and the agents see a fire in the Comm Shack. TEAMED WITH A NEW PARTNER WHILE SCULLY’S ON
Mulder comes upon the remnants of a molotov MATERNITY LEAVE, DOGGETT INVESTIGATES THE
cocktail in the Comm Shack, and he is convinced MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO MEN. AFTER
that the fire was set purposefully. Doggett runs to HE DISAPPEARS AS WELL, MULDER DEFIES ORDERS
seek another extinguisher and gets pelted over the AND SEARCHES FOR HIM.
head by the hiding Diego Garza. Garza slices
Doggett’s arm and is relieved that the agent’s blood In a small house in Ellicot, NY, Gary Sacks tends to
is indeed red. He tells Doggett in Spanish that the his ailing father, Arlen. Gary goes into the kitchen,
“flying ships” are coming. and Arlen panics when he sees something on the
Despite Scully’s pleas, Kersh orders the ceiling. Gary hears the heart monitor flatline in the
quarantine to be lifted as soon as radio transmission other room and sees that his father has disappeared
is renewed. In her autopsy, Scully realizes that De from his wheelchair. Gary looks for him and hears a
La Cruz’s Mexican Indian background may have hissing sound. Suddenly, a huge reptilian face lunges
caused his immunity to the alien virus. The crew at him, and he is sprayed with venom.
probably irradiated him because he knew At the FBI, Scully cleans out her desk in
something, and they could not control him. preparation for maternity leave. She finds
Doggett convinces Garza that he can help him memorabilia from past cases, and gives Doggett an
get off the ship without the crew finding out. Apollo 11 key chain that was given to her by Mulder
Looking for Garza himself is Bo, who attacks (in #4X17). The medallion symbolizes teamwork and
partnership, and she thanks Doggett for his help
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over the past year. She exits the office. Moments Scully calls Mulder to tell him that Skinner is
later, Agent Leyla Harrison enters, having been angry that he is tampering with a federal
assigned to partner with Doggett on the X−Files investigation. Mulder believes that it may be a man
during Scully’s leave. Harrison, a fan of Mulder and and not a reptile that they are looking for. He found
Scully’s work, is excited about being on an actual the Apollo medallion and believes that Doggett is
X−File and accompanies Doggett in examining the probably still nearby and that Stites is somehow
crime scene at the Sacks’ home. There are some involved. Doggett and Harrison blindly walk through
remnants of slime in the home and near where the tunnel in the cellar. She fears that she is
Arlen’s body was found. Based on her study of afflicted with the same thing as Sacks, because she
Mulder and Scully’s past cases, Harrison has become completely blind. The creature appears
immediately jumps to otherworldly conclusions once again and Doggett wildly shoots at it, but it
about the nature of the slime. Doggett shoots down gets away. Harrison finds Sacks’ body. It has
her theories. deteriorated even more.
Doggett wanders alone toward a deserted Mulder sits in his car near the mansion, waiting.
mansion near the crime scene, and after entering, Scully discovers that the venom hardens the body’s
finds a book on the Sixth Extinction on a desk. He skin to form a shell. Then, its organs liquefy. She
hears a noise and pulls out his gun, only to find tells Mulder that Stites had been working on
Agent Harrison. He tells her that “it” is here and creating a new species of reptile. Mulder takes off
orders her to wait outside. Gunshots ring outside, after something moving in the woods. He watches
and he looks for Agent Harrison, but she has as a human−sized reptile climbs up the house and
disappeared. He goes into the nearby woods and into the window of the mansion. As Mulder bangs
accidentally falls through a trap door on the ground. on the front door, he does not see the creature
He finds himself in some sort of underground wine morph into Stites. Mulder confronts Stites, and Stites
cellar. brings him into the underground wine cellar. There,
Mulder assists Scully in going to her Lamaze Mulder sees Doggett and Harrison, who senses that
class. She admits to feeling like she has deserted Stites is really the creature. Suddenly, Stites
her work. Mulder assures her that Doggett can take disappears and the creature crawls along the ceiling.
care of himself. Skinner, meanwhile, leads a pack of Without an issued gun, Mulder orders a blinded
agents to search for Doggett. Scully is worried, and Doggett to shoot at the monster, but Doggett can’t
expresses a desire to go back to work to help the see what he’s shooting at. Mulder demands that
search. She performs an autopsy on Arlen Sacks’ Doggett aim for the sound of his own voice.
body and discovers that the slime on his body is Although Doggett is hesitant about firing towards
actually venom that has been excreted by a reptile. Mulder, he shoots and hits the creature. It
Mulder tries to convince her to stop working as he transforms into Herman Stites, who lies there dead.
steps in to conduct his own investigation. At the hospital, a healed Doggett checks in on
In the underground lair, Doggett is wondering Harrison. She will not return to the X−Files. Mulder
what to make of an amber−colored shell of a dog hands Doggett the Apollo medallion, but he asks
when he sees something quickly move past him. A that they give it to Agent Harrison. Mulder and
giant, snake−like creature attacks him and sprays Scully visit with Harrison, who asks them about a
venom in his eyes. With his sight impaired, Doggett past investigation. As they reminisce with the agent,
shoots blindly at the creature, and it manages to get Doggett walks away down the long hallway,
away. Harrison hears his gunshots and finds Doggett. heading back to work – alone.
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 Essence (1 of 2)
farther away. Mulder, no longer an FBI agent, takes
off into the woods on his own and comes upon the Production Code: #8ABX20
mansion. He sees something in the brush and picks Original Air Date: 05/20/01
it up, but is startled by Herman Stites who claims to Written by Chris Carter
own the property. Mulder asks him if he has seen a Directed by Kim Manners
reptile and the man bristles at any accusations. A SECRETIVE INVESTIGATION BY MULDER AND
Mulder walks away and misses Doggett, who has DOGGETT LEADS TO NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT THE
climbed up to a grating and is calling out to Stites NATURE OF SCULLY’S PREGNANCY AND THE PLOT
from below. “I need a hand,” he begs Stites, who AGAINST HER UNBORN CHILD.
ignores the plea. Stites steps on Doggett’s
outstretched hand, and the agent falls back down in Mrs. Scully sets up decorations in Scully’s apartment
the cellar. Doggett and Harrison hear Stites seal the in preparation for a baby shower. She pesters her
trap door closed. They then realize that Gary Sacks’ secretive daughter about whether the baby is a boy
body is gone. or a girl. Yet Mrs. Scully has a surprise of her own –
she has hired Lizzy Gill, a baby nurse, to tend to the
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reluctant Scully. During the party, Lizzy goes into are you?” she demands. Later, after a checkup, the
the bathroom undetected. She opens one of Scully’s doctor assures Scully that the pills she had been
prescription bottles and dumps its contents down taking were only harmless vitamin supplements.
the toilet. Then she removes a packet of pills from Doggett interrogates Lizzy, who recounts how she
her pocket and pours them into the bottle. worked as a research scientist on human cloning.
Dr. Lev (last seen in #8ABX08) is working late at Her research team had been successful at birthing
night in the Zeus Genetics lab, clutching an alien an alien egg in a human mother. Mulder is outraged.
baby when Billy Miles (last seen in #8ABX15) enters. “What did you do to Scully?” he screams. Lizzy tells
“Your work here is done,” Billy says. He beheads the them that there is nothing wrong with Scully’s child.
doctor with his hand and sets fire to the body. The In fact, it is perfectly human, and she had tried to
next day, Doggett is home when Mulder pays him a protect it. Agent Crane informs Doggett that Billy
surprise visit. He shows Doggett a news report on Miles phoned in and offered to give himself up.
television of a fire at Zeus Genetics. Mulder A SWAT team storms Dr. Parenti’s office, but
believes that somebody is covering up whatever Billy is not there. Sensing danger, Mulder orders
was going on in that lab, and Doggett sends Agent Scully to quickly pack and leave her apartment.
Crane to sift through the ashes at the crime scene. Doggett calls with news of Billy’s disappearance,
The only person not accounted for is Dr. Lev, a and mysteriously, the lights go off in Scully’s
partner in Zeus with Dr. Parenti, Scully’s former apartment. Billy misses Mulder and Scully as they
obstetrician. Mulder and Doggett break into Parenti’s escape outside. Their car, however, is blocked in,
office and are surprised to see the doctor there. and the approaching Billy Miles traps them like
When Doggett finds racks of specimen jars with sitting ducks. Suddenly, another car screeches from
abnormal fetuses, Mulder accuses the doctor of out of nowhere and plows over Billy. Mulder and
experimenting with alien embryos. Scully watch in shock as its driver – Krycek – orders
Lizzy Gill leaves Scully’s apartment and is picked them to get in. Billy Miles gets up, unhurt, and
up by Duffy Haskell, who was last seen in #8ABX08 watches the car speed off. At the FBI, Krycek
as part of the conspiracy surrounding implanting informs the assembled agents that the aliens are
alien fetuses into abducted women. “I think she afraid of Scully’s child because it is greater than
trusts me,” Lizzy tells him. In his office, Dr. Parenti they are. Doggett is suspicious of Krycek and calls
packs up the specimen jars when he hears someone Agent Monica Reyes, who has flown into
come in. It is Billy Miles. Parenti tells him that the Washington, for help. Skinner and Mulder take
office is closed. “Yes, it is,” Billy says calmly. Mulder Scully into the elevator, but as they approach the
and Doggett sneak into Parenti’s office in the garage, Doggett calls to say that Billy Miles is down
middle of the night, suspecting foul play when the there. They put Scully back in the elevator, and Billy
doctor does not answer their calls. Amid the fetuses, goes up the stairs. Krycek takes Scully while Skinner
Doggett finds the head of Dr. Parenti in a specimen and Mulder proceed in the elevator, with Billy in
jar. Suddenly, Billy Miles surprises Mulder and pursuit. Doggett puts Scully in a car with Reyes. On
throws him through a glass window. Doggett, seeing the roof, Billy is about to strike Skinner when
the alien vertebrae on Billy, shoots at him but Billy Mulder comes up from behind to push Billy off the
escapes. Later, Scully tends to Mulder’s injured head roof. He lands in a garbage truck and its compactor
at her apartment. He tries to explain that Billy has crushes him. As Scully and Reyes speed out of the
transformed into an alien, but that he himself was garage, Agent Crane blocks their path. He watches
somehow prevented from this through Scully’s as the garbage truck rids of Billy, and then waves
procedure in the hospital. Yet Billy is no ordinary the women safely by. They do not see that Agent
alien, because Doggett saw red blood when he shot Crane too has the alien vertebrae on his neck.
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, Existence (2 of 2)
however, is face−to−face with Billy Miles, and the
alien slices off Duffy’s head with one clean chop of Production Code: #8ABX21
his hand. Original Air Date: 05/27/01
Duffy’s body is found in an illegal medical Written by Chris Carter
facility used for cloning. There, Skinner locates Directed by Kim Manners
prenatal records on Scully, as monitored by Dr. Lev WITH OTHERWORLDLY FACTIONS IN PURSUIT,
and Dr. Parenti. Skinner takes Mulder aside and asks MULDER AND THE AGENTS RACE TO SAFEGUARD
about the nature of Scully’s conception, but Mulder, THE BIRTH OF SCULLY’S CHILD.
surprisingly, doesn’t have any answers. Mulder calls
Scully and says it is important that he immediately A pathologist is called in late at night to examine
see her regarding interference with her pregnancy. the gnarled body of Billy Miles (crushed in the
Yet she hears a noise in her apartment and catches garbage truck in #8ABX20). The doctor pulls from
Lizzy tampering with her prescription bottle. “Who the remains a piece of metallic vertebrae and,
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thinking it is most likely trash, places it on a nearby alien vertebrae on Billy’s neck, and she and the
lab tray. He leaves the office with plans to continue warden carry his limp body to show Scully that he’s
the autopsy in the morning. The metal magically dead. Scully, still worried that he can never be
spins on the tray and reproduces itself, progressively killed, announces that she is going into labor.
growing larger. Sitting in the FBI garage, Doggett asks Mulder
At the FBI, Mulder produces a video grab of a when his quest is going to end. Mulder responds
healthy and re−formed Billy Miles walking out of that perhaps it never will. They see Krycek pulling
the morgue the previous night. Krycek explains to into the garage. His passenger is the ubiquitous
Skinner and Doggett that Billy is a human Knowle Rohrer. Doggett follows Rohrer into the FBI
replacement – a new kind of alien created to building, finding him surreptitiously meeting with
repopulate the planet. Although Billy may not find Agent Crane. Hiding from them, he meets up with
the hiding Scully, Krycek warns that others like him Skinner, and they call Mulder with news about
will. Agent Crane interrupts to tell Doggett that Crane. Mulder, still in the garage watching Krycek,
Knowle Rohrer is in the building to see him. Rohrer says that Krycek, Rohrer and Crane are all in it
fabricates a story to Doggett that his investigation is together, fooling the agents into believing that they
military in nature and stemmed from a plan to are protecting Scully. Mulder tells Doggett to get
create a super soldier. He explains that Billy is a out of there and asks him to reveal where Reyes
prototype who is now after Scully because she was took Scully. Suddenly, the car window smashes and
abducted by the military and impregnated with such Krycek holds Mulder at gunpoint. Krycek says that
a prototype. The chip in her neck was used to he tried to stop the aliens but it is now too late.
monitor her. When Rohrer asks where Scully is, Although he has protected Mulder’s life in the past,
Doggett claims ignorance. Meanwhile, Billy Miles Krycek explains that he is forced to kill him now
enters the FBI hallway, unnoticed by everyone but because the conspiracy goes deep into the FBI.
Krycek. When Krycek bolts out of Skinner’s office, Krycek cocks his gun trigger and aims at Mulder, but
Skinner follows him into an elevator to flee Billy. As Skinner shoots him in the arm. Krycek pleads with
the doors shut out Billy, his hand penetrates the the A.D. to kill Mulder, insisting that he can save
metal and goes straight into the elevator chamber. more lives that way. Skinner listens, but then shoots
Billy swings his arm and cuts into the top of Krycek squarely between the eyes, killing him.
Skinner’s head, which knocks out the A.D. While Mulder takes off to the airport in pursuit of Scully.
Skinner later recuperates in the hospital with a Upstairs in the building, Doggett pulls his gun on
concussion, Doggett tells Mulder that his informant Rohrer and Crane, and they chase him. Doggett runs
Rohrer tipped him off that this would happen. into Skinner, and the two break for their car. They
Doggett is concerned that his knowledge of Scully’s run over Crane, but he is still alive, hanging onto the
whereabouts may eventually catch up with him. side of the vehicle. Crane smashes through the
Scully and Reyes drive through the night into window, while Rohrer follows in another car.
Democrat Hot Springs, Georgia. Although it was Skinner sideswipes a concrete pole, ridding him of
once the city where Doggett was born, it is now a Crane. When Crane gets up, Rohrer’s car hits him
deserted ghost town. They set up camp in an and swerves out of control. Rohrer crashes into a
abandoned house of worship that has no running wall, and his car explodes.
water. That evening, Reyes goes outside to have a Reyes is preparing for Scully’s birth when she
nerve−settling cigarette, when a light in the sky notices the alien vertebrae on the game warden’s
catches her eye. While too low and bright to be a neck. She throws boiling water on the warden,
star, it is unidentifiable. She ignores it and goes screaming “Who are you?” Suddenly, a number of
back inside. Seeing the newly cleaned building, cars pull up to the abandoned town and a perfectly
Scully thanks Reyes for her kindness and tells the healthy Billy Miles gets up off the ground. “This
agent that she reminds her of her late sister, baby will be born,” the replicant game warden says.
Melissa. Reyes sees someone lurking outside and Scully screams in pain, watching as a crowd of
draws her gun. A truck driven by a female game aliens walk into the building and surround her. “This
warden comes barreling toward her. The agents is my baby! Please don’t let them take it,” she
explain that Scully’s life is in danger and that they pleads to Reyes. The aliens watch silently as Scully
are in hiding. The warden kindly gives them her first gives birth with Reyes’ assistance. Mulder flies
aid kit and a camp stove before leaving. Reyes overhead in a helicopter and the aliens pull away in
admits to Scully that her vibrations are inclining that their cars. He lands, and runs toward the building,
“something feels off” about the abandoned place. calling out for Scully. Reyes orders him to take
When she goes outside to get more water, she Scully to the hospital.
again sees the light in the distant sky. While she is Back at the FBI, Kersh reprimands Doggett and
watching it, Billy Miles appears and throws her Reyes for the report they have filed. Doggett has
against a wall. Before he can attack her, a gunshot personally assigned Reyes to the X−Files because
blows a hole through his chest. The game warden the Deputy Director’s office is under investigation.
stands aside, her rifle still smoking. Reyes sees the Doggett accuses Kersh of meeting with two missing
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men who were presumed dead – Crane and Rohrer. Follmer greets her warmly and asks her to stop by
Later, Mulder comes to Scully’s apartment where his office. When she arrives, he plants a firm kiss on
the Lone Gunmen are bearing gifts. They learned her mouth. Reyes pulls away. Although they have not
from Doggett that he never told Mulder exactly seen each other in years, they had previously been
where to find Scully. “There was a light. I followed involved in a romantic relationship while working at
it,” Mulder says. The Gunmen depart, and Scully the Bureau’s New York office. He gives her
shows Mulder the baby, whom she named William, videotape from the security camera in the Hoover
after Mulder’s father. Although the baby is Building garage. Although the date stamp is the
completely human, they comment that he is still a same night Scully gave birth, the garage is empty.
miracle. Mulder believes that the aliens did not take Doggett and Skinner are not seen defending their
him because they thought he would be otherwise. “I lives against Knowle Rohrer, nor is Rohrer’s
think we feared the possibility,” he tells Scully. “The exploding car in the garage. Reyes tells Doggett that
truth we both know.” And as he cradles their son, no scrap of evidence even remains at the crime
he leans in and kisses her. 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
S E A S O N 9 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
Nothing Important Happened Today (1 of 2) case against Kersh and the FBI. Doggett accuses the
A.D. of backing down under pressure, but Skinner
Production Code: #9ABX01 only fears for the safety of Mulder, Scully and their
Original Air Date: 11/11/01 baby. Doggett and Reyes must continue their
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz investigation alone, without Skinner’s help.
Directed by Kim Manners At the Greater Maryland Water Reclamation
WHILE FORCES INSIDE THE ESTABLISHMENT Facility, worker Roland McFarland places a call to a
ATTEMPT TO STIFLE THEM, THE AGENTS FIND A naval ship after reading about Wormus’ death. The
CONNECTION TO THEIR CASE WITH SUSPICIOUS dark−haired woman from the bar inexplicably swims
MURDERS RELATED TO WATER. up in one of the tanks. Before McFarland can speak
into the phone, he notices the woman walk through
Carl Wormus drinks alone at a bar in Baltimore, MD. the plant naked and he follows her tracks. She
He notices a dark−haired woman in a low−cut dress surprises him from behind, pulls him into a tank and
walk in, and he approaches her. They get into a drowns him.
discussion about the ice in his drink. As a water Reyes meets with A.D. Follmer at the bar in
expert, he knows that the government−added Maryland. She informs him that Doggett’s
Chloramine in the water is actually not as healthy investigation has been dropped. Showing feelings
as has been reported. Intrigued, the woman entices for her, Follmer is interested in keeping Reyes
him into leaving, and they drive off in his assigned to the X−Files in Washington. Doggett,
convertible. He slows down at an opening meanwhile, tries to appeal to Scully. He is unsure
drawbridge, but the woman clamps down on his why she won’t trust him, but she does not reveal
right leg, forcing his foot on the accelerator. The car anything about Mulder. Doggett returns to his
flies off the open bridge and plunges into the apartment and tries to contact some of his old
Potomac River. Deep underwater, Wormus wiggles Marine buddies that were in his squadron with
out of his seatbelt and begins to swim to the Rohrer. No one has information on Rohrer’s
surface. The woman is lifeless next to him. activities after the military. One of them, Shannon
Suddenly, the woman opens her eyes, grabs his McMahon, is the mysterious dark−haired woman.
ankle and pulls him deeper under the water. Reyes sees McMahon in the FBI hallway. She senses
Two days later, Scully calms the crying William. something, but ignores her intuition. In the X−Files
She looks uneasily at Mulder’s packed bags in her office, Reyes hears someone creeping outside the
apartment, and shuts the bathroom door so that he door. The person disappears into the elevator, but
does not hear the baby. Doggett, meanwhile, leaves behind a folder with Wormus’ obituary inside.
prepares for work as the television news reports the Scully puts William down for a nap, and the
death of Environmental Protection Agency Deputy mobile over his bassinet eerily moves on its own.
Administrator Carl Wormus. The man was found Scared, she phones Doggett and asks him not to
dead and alone in his car under the water. At the drop his investigation. He and Reyes summon her to
FBI, Doggett shares an elevator with Kersh. The Quantico to perform an autopsy on Wormus’ body.
Deputy Director smugly asks if he has found any Scully finds fingerprints on Wormus’ ankle, as if
incriminating evidence against him. someone had been holding him down. Doggett has
A ringing phone awakens Reyes in her the Lone Gunmen hack into Wormus’ files, but all
Washington hotel. FBI Assistant Director Brad
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they recover are reports on water. Follmer briefs lungs. The next morning, Reyes and Skinner are
Kersh on Doggett’s investigation, and he asks the summoned to Follmer’s office. They are being reined
Deputy Director for swift punishment. Kersh, in on the X−File case they are pursuing. Follmer
however, puts the burden on Follmer to reprimand warns Reyes to distance herself from Doggett to
Doggett. save her career, but she accuses Follmer of having
While Mrs. Scully watches William, Shannon his own agenda against her partner. Doggett,
McMahon comes looking for Scully. Mrs. Scully meanwhile, wakes up in his bed, alive. McMahon is
refrains from opening the door, and McMahon in his apartment. She tells him that she and Knowle
vanishes without leaving her name. As Scully and Rohrer were both transformed into “Super Soldiers”
Reyes leave the morgue at Quantico late that night, who can’t be killed. Although they were the original
they see McMahon. Reyes is suspicious, but experiments, the program has since expanded to
McMahon disappears. The two agents are surprised produce many more of their kind. She, however,
by the arrival of Follmer, who swarms the Quantico hates what she has become, and she asks Doggett
morgue with a team of agents. He tells Reyes that for help in exposing the men who are altering the
he is trying to uphold her reputation in the face of water supply.
Doggett’s career−ending investigation. However, Skinner asks Scully why she is getting herself
when they enter the autopsy bay, Wormus’ body is mixed up in Doggett’s investigation when she was
gone. Reyes pretends that there never was a body, the one who specifically requested that Skinner let
and she accuses Follmer of sending her the obituary it lie. She admits that something unexplainable
to throw them on a wild goose chase. Reyes goes happened with her baby. She is afraid to tell
to Doggett’s apartment, and the Lone Gunmen show Mulder, because he will want to come back, and
her Wormus’ encrypted e−mails from Roland that will place him in danger. Doggett and Reyes
McFarland. call Scully to Doggett’s apartment. McMahon
That same night, Doggett and Skinner go to the explains to her that a chemical called chloramine
Maryland water plant and rifle through McFarland’s has been added to public water supplies. Although
desk. They find a number of files labeled the substance is usually harmless, the molecular
“Chloramine.” Follmer and his crew approach, so structure of this chloramine has been altered to
Doggett grabs the files, and he and Skinner run out. promote the mutation of offspring. This mutation
Follmer chases them, catching Skinner. Doggett will breed a generation of Super Soldiers. Scully is
hides underwater in one of the tanks, holding his at first hesitant to accept the woman’s claims, but
breath. Suddenly, McMahon swims up from below then she sees the familiar reptilian ridge at the top
and grabs Doggett’s ankle. She pulls him farther of McMahon’s spine. However, a medical
down into the tank. examination shows that McMahon is, by all
accounts, a normal human being.
After waiting at the Baltimore port with no word
Nothing Important Happened Today II (2 of 2) from his superiors, the Captain unsuccessfully tries
to contact Carl Wormus at the Environmental
Production Code: #9ABX02 Protection Agency. He then finds that Officer
Original Air Date: 11/18/01 Bamford has been replaced – by the presumed
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz deceased Knowle Rohrer. Bamford’s body is found
Directed by Tony Wharmby floating nearby. Meanwhile, Follmer suspends
SCULLY UNOFFICIALLY ASSISTS DOGGETT AND
Doggett from the FBI, and Doggett lashes out at
REYES IN UNCOVERING THE SECRETS RELATING TO both Follmer and Deputy Director Kersh over a turf
WATER CONTAMINATION THAT ARE HIDDEN IN A war for the X−Files. The Lone Gunmen show Reyes
CLANDESTINE LABORATORY ON BOARD A NAVAL that they have tapped into the EPA’s phone system
SHIP. and found calls to Carl Wormus. The calls were
made after the man drowned. As they flip open
A naval captain on a vintage World War II Merchant their laptop, another call comes in, and Frohike
marine vessel passes through a sequence of tight answers as Wormus. It is the Captain, instructing
security checkpoints. He approaches a door that Wormus to notify the FBI about the lab on board his
hides a science lab where cells are being ship. As the Captain asks for Wormus’ help in
manipulated. Dr. Nordlinger opens the door to exposing the inhumanity, Rohrer uses his
receive the Captain’s communiqué, but he is extrasensory hearing to listen to the conversation
somewhat unsettled by the note’s request. The from far away.
Captain returns to his bridge and orders Petty Office After finding that McMahon works for the Justice
Bamford to bring the ship to shore. Department, Reyes pleads with Follmer to obtain
At the Greater Maryland Water Reclamation the woman’s files. She then reports to Doggett and
Plant, Follmer does not see Doggett, getting pulled Scully that McMahon is not to be trusted. The two
further into the water tank by a naked Shannon men she killed were actually trying to expose the
McMahon. When Follmer is out of view, McMahon water contamination program. McMahon is using
places her mouth over Doggett’s to blow air into his
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Doggett to get to the third whistleblower – the behind him. They are voices, whispering backwards.
Captain. The three agents go down to the Baltimore Darren turns to see two men with demonic−looking
docks to meet the Captain, but they find Knowle faces coming towards him.
Rohrer instead. Scully and Reyes run off while The next morning, Agents Reyes and Doggett
Doggett tries to defend himself against the Super look over the crime scene at the Mountjoy home in
Soldier. Rohrer is about to kill Doggett, when Weston, West Virginia. The couple’s bodies are
McMahon appears and slices off Rohrer’s head. sitting upright at the kitchen table, and Evelyn has a
Suddenly, Rohrer’s bloodied hand rips through her gun posed in her hand. The Scrabble board is laid
torso, and she and Rohrer’s headless body both fall out in front of them, blank, except for
off the pier into the water. Doggett goes onto the “DAEMONICUS” spelled out in the center. The word
ship with Scully and Reyes in search of the Captain. means “Satan” or “demon possession.” Doggett tries
They see the Captain’s decapitated head on the to fend the case off as merely some kind of Satanic
ground, but the ship is otherwise empty. Doggett ritual, but Reyes has other ideas beyond those based
stumbles upon an already detonated bomb, and he in reality. Her theories are confounded when three
hurriedly gathers up Reyes and Scully in the ship’s blood−slicked snakes squirm out of the bullet holes
lab. Scully is reluctant to leave when she sees that in Evelyn’s chest.
whoever was on the boat was manipulating ova for Although Scully is on leave and serving as an
transplantation. Doggett forcibly pulls her out before instructor at Quantico, the agents ask her to perform
the ship explodes. the autopsies. Evidence proves that Darren was
Two days later, Kersh reads Doggett’s report on most likely tricked into shooting his wife, and that
the case. Although he accounts for Super Soldiers, a he was held down and shot in a chair. The snakes
naval ship and a conspiracy in the government, he were sewn into the body post−mortem. The facts
does not mention Kersh in the investigation. Doggett show that the murders were man−made, but Reyes
admits that he could not find any wrongdoing on still believes that she felt the presence of evil in the
the Deputy Director’s part, but he knows that his house. With a lead about an escapee from a nearby
hands are indeed dirty. Kersh tells Doggett that he mental institution, Reyes and Doggett question Dr.
warned Mulder to leave to protect his life. Knowing Monique Sampson about her patient, Kenneth
that Mulder wouldn’t leave only on Kersh’s Richman. Richman was a doctor who brutally
recommendation, Doggett realizes that Scully was murdered his own patients, but he had no prior
the one who pushed Mulder to go. knowledge of Satanic ritual. Dr. Sampson tips them
Under the dark water, Shannon McMahon’s body off to a possible accomplice – Paul Gerlach, a
lays at the bottom the ocean. Although she appears hospital guard who has recently gone missing.
to be lifeless, her eyes pop open. Reyes and Doggett question Josef Kobold, a
Scully is woken by William’s cries, and she former professor who is now an inmate in the cell
soothes him back to sleep. When she turns out the next to Richman’s. Kobold’s cryptic answers lead the
light to go back to bed, the mobile over his crib agents to believe that he knows more than he is
slowly turns on its own. 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
Dæmonicus with a gun, then wipes the blood from his hands.
The backwards whispers echo once more, but seem
Production Code: #9ABX03 to be coming instead from Kobold. Dr. Sampson
Original Air Date: 12/02/01 summons the agents back to the institution when
Written and Directed by Frank Spotnitz Kobold asks for Doggett. The professor was also
WITH SCULLY REASSIGNED TO THE QUANTICO
repeating the phrase, “Prince of the Apostles.”
TRAINING ACADEMY, DOGGETT AND REYES Kobold tells them that “He” is speaking and has
INVESTIGATE THEIR FIRST X−FILE TOGETHER – A killed again. He leads the agents to the woods,
SERIES OF SATANIC RITUAL MURDERS WHOSE where Paul Gerlach’s body is found hanging upside
VICTIMS MAY INCLUDE THE AGENTS THEMSELVES. down from a tree. He is wearing the demon mask
and is staged in a mock−crucifixion pose,
A pickup truck parks unnoticed outside Evelyn and presumably put into such post−mortem. The “Prince
Darren Mountjoy’s house, while the couple plays of the Apostles” phrase refers to St. Peter, who was
Scrabble inside. When the Mountjoy’s dog barks at crucified upside down. This is known as the symbol
the front door, Evelyn lets it out to run into the marking the power of the anti−Christ.
woods. They hear the dog’s yelping outside, and the Although Doggett believes Kobold is a master
lights mysteriously go out. Darren orders his wife to manipulator toying with them, Reyes is convinced
hide in the basement while he loads his revolver. that Kobold can somehow help them find the real
From the stairs, he sees the intruder approaching, perpetrator – Richman. They turn to Kobold again,
and he fires. However, Darren soon realizes that the and he requests a larger cell with windows. Doggett
person he shot is his wife. Her hands and mouth are is frustrated that Reyes wants to give in to the
bound with duct tape. Suddenly, strange sounds rise
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psychopath’s every whim, but Kobold is moved to police car. Doggett shoots at the fleeing prisoner,
another room, and Officer Custer is assigned to and Kobold, hit, falls into the water.
guard him. Kobold confronts Doggett with personal Back at Quantico, Reyes and Doggett tell Scully
intimations about his own life that no one else that their case is not completely solved. It is
would know. Doggett is uncomfortable, but before understood that Kobold designed the crimes so that
he can leave the cell room, Kobold’s eyes roll back they would be on the case, and then researched all
and a strange sound emanates from his mouth – of their backgrounds on the internet. However,
voices, whispering backwards. Doggett calls for Kobold’s body has not been found, even though they
Reyes, who translates the word as “medicus,” or saw him get shot. The body in the water is actually
physician. The agents rush to the home of Dr. Officer Custer, the guard assigned to his cell. Kobold
Sampson, who unbeknownst to anyone, has been had selected his victims so that parts of their names
followed home by the looming pickup truck. spelled out the word “Daemonicus.” He wanted the
However, they are too late to save her, finding her agents to see how brilliantly he could beat them at
body with a dozen hypodermic needles jammed his game. By the time they realized it, Kobold would
into her face. be too far away to get caught. Reyes is still
Scully reports that the needles contained the unsettled. She did feel the presence of evil and
same medication that Dr. Sampson had treated believes that Doggett had the same premonition as
Richman with, and he is determined to still be a well.
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 4-D
tries to calm Doggett. The backwards whispers
swell once more. Back at the mental institution, Production Code: #9ABX05
Doggett attempts to interrogate Kobold about his Original Air Date: 12/09/01
past knowledge of Satanism. Kobold lobs back Written by Steven Maeda
insinuations that Doggett is competing with the Directed by Tony Wharmby
long−lost Agent Mulder for Scully’s affection. A VICIOUS MURDERER THREATENS DOGGETT AND
Angrily, Doggett grabs hold of Kobold, but a thick REYES, OR DOES HE? THE ONLY THING CERTAIN IS
orange goo violently spews from Kobold’s mouth. It THAT HE’S ONE STEP AHEAD OF EVERYONE ELSE.
keeps gushing uncontrollably as Doggett calls for a
medic. Erwin Lukesh enters his apartment building foyer,
After an examination, Scully concludes that while Reyes fiddles with the derailleur of a bicycle
Kobold is completely normal. Reyes suspects that in the hallway. This is a stakeout being recorded by
the orange bile is spiritual ectoplasm, but Doggett a hidden camera, as Doggett and Follmer watch
won’t be swayed by any more unexplainable from a surveillance van nearby. Lukesh is a wanted
theories. He is convinced that Kobold is a liar who killer who removes women’s tongues. This makes
is playing games with them. As Officer Custer Doggett nervous for Reyes’ safety. In order to
guards Kobold’s room, a lightning storm competes positively ID Lukesh, the agents wait for him to
with the ever−present whispers. Custer is drawn to open the mailbox for Apartment 4−D. Doggett,
the source of those whispers, and looks in Kobold’s however, is eager to nab him sooner. Lukesh senses
room. Kobold’s face suddenly changes into the that something is not right, and he moves away
demonic mask. from the mailboxes. Reyes takes out her gun and
Doggett calls Scully in her car. Kobold has begins to follow him, talking to the agents in the
identified something called “Happy Landing” as the van as she heads into a stairwell. Suddenly, Lukesh
place to find Richman. Scully recognizes it as an old appears and slashes a straight razor at her. Doggett
marina she passes on her commute to Quantico, and Follmer bolt out of the van when they hear
and she heads there alone. At the marina, Scully is Reyes’ screams. They find her throat cut, and
attacked by a demon mask−wearing man. When Doggett goes to apprehend Lukesh. Follmer warns
Doggett and Reyes arrive with a pack of troopers, him that the killer has Reyes’ gun. Doggett goes
Scully is nowhere to be found. Kobold is held in outside into a dead−end alley and corners Lukesh,
shackles in a police car, and Doggett threatens him who calmly raises his bloody hands in surrender.
to tell where she is being hidden. All the professor Police cars approach from behind, and Doggett turns
can say is “Game’s over, Mr. Doggett. You’ve lost.” slightly to let them know his location. When he
A gunshot rings out over the marina, and the agents turns back, Lukesh has disappeared. Doggett walks
find Scully unharmed, in an abandoned warehouse. forward into the dead−end alley. The police cars
Richman, having held her at gunpoint until Doggett have vanished, and Lukesh is now behind him. He
arrived, shot himself. Reyes can’t figure out why he holds Reyes’ gun pointed at Doggett’s head. When
would do that, but Doggett quickly understands, and Doggett swerves around, Lukesh fires.
he runs after Kobold, who is escaping from the 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 investigating Lukesh. Yet here, she doesn’t even
housewarming gift – polish sausage sandwiches know the man’s name.
from a nearby stand. Reyes goes into the kitchen to Follmer and Skinner interrogate Lukesh, informing
get plates, and her phone rings. It is Skinner, with him that Doggett named him as the shooter. They
news that Doggett has been shot in an alley. Reyes ask to speak to Lukesh’s mother in order to
is confused when she sees that Doggett is no longer corroborate his alibi. Lukesh refuses the request,
in her apartment. which alerts Skinner and Follmer that he is hiding
Follmer and Scully meet Reyes at the hospital. something. As Lukesh walks out, he passes Reyes in
She is convinced they are mistaken about Doggett, the police station hallway. She boldly asks how he
since she knows he was just at her apartment. moves between worlds to act out his fantasies. He
However, she sees for herself that Doggett lies inches close to her face, calmly saying, “God, I
paralyzed in a coma. Reyes tries to make sense of enjoyed you. You bled just like a pig.” Lukesh
this impossible situation, and Scully recounts her returns home to find that Reyes’ gun is missing from
own story of her father’s visitation to her after his a drawer. His mother confronts him about the gun,
death. Reyes is certain that this is not what as well as his sneaking out of the house. She tells
happened to her. Skinner learns from ballistics that him that the FBI has left messages for her, and that
the bullets came from Reyes’ weapon, and he has she intends to speak to them. Lukesh begins crying,
Scully bring Reyes to the police station. Follmer and pulls out his razor. He approaches his mother’s
questions Reyes. As he brings up the evidence bed and strikes her.
against her, she stands by her story. From the At the hospital, Doggett types out the message
observation room, an eyewitness to the crime “2 Doggetts cant be in 1 world – U can fix.” He
identifies Reyes as the shooter. The eyewitness is begs Reyes to pull his life support plug, believing in
Lukesh. her theory about the parallel universes. If one of
At the hospital, Scully and Skinner explain to him is removed, the other Doggett will enter this
Reyes that the case against her has some world. Their conversation is interrupted by Skinner,
weaknesses. When Skinner called earlier, Reyes was calling to tell her that Lukesh killed his mother and
at home, putting her fourteen miles from the crime then disappeared. Reyes returns to her apartment
scene. However, while her gun was never fired, the with a radio wired to Scully, Follmer, and Skinner in
bullets do match her weapon. Doggett awakes from a surveillance van outside. They are watching
his coma, tapping on the bed rail. Skinner everything in her apartment over video monitors.
recognizes the tapping as Morse code. Doggett Suddenly, Lukesh appears from nowhere and grabs
spells out “Lukesh.” Reyes, however, has no idea Reyes from behind. He pulls the earwig radio from
what the word means. Back at his home, Lukesh her ear and holds his razor to her throat, fully aware
tends to his bed−ridden mother. When she’s not that a van is outside. When the agents lose Reyes
looking, he fingers the Sig Sauer pistol he grabbed on the video, Scully is sure that Lukesh is inside the
from Reyes. Mrs. Lukesh asks for her favorite apartment. Lukesh blames Reyes for making him kill
sandwich, and Lukesh pulls the secret ingredient his mother. He is about to slit her throat, when
from the refrigerator – a human tongue. Later that Follmer storms in and shoots him, saving Reyes.
night, Lukesh slips out of the house, but his mother Late that night, Reyes goes to the hospital with
hears him leave. He walks into the alley with a her decision made. She turns off Doggett’s
straight razor in his hand. He mysteriously vanishes respirator, and he takes his last breath. Crying, she
into thin air. closes her eyes. When she opens them again, she is
At Reyes’ apartment, Skinner shows her a file on no longer in the hospital. She is in her unpacked
Erwin Lukesh. Lukesh claims to have seen Reyes exit apartment, as she was before, and Doggett tells her
the alley after Doggett was shot. She believes that to forget the plates for the polish sausages. She is
Lukesh might somehow be involved. Follmer has stunned and overwhelmed at the sight of him. He
Skinner bring Reyes to the hospital, because she is wonders what is wrong with her, as she tearfully
the only one Doggett will speak to. As Doggett hugs him. “I’m good,” she happily cries.
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 Lord of the Flies
Lukesh not only tried to kill him, but Lukesh also
murdered Reyes. The next day, Reyes asks Doggett Production Code: #9ABX06
if he knows of a food stand near her new Original Air Date: 12/16/01
apartment. He immediately recognizes it as the best Written by Thomas Schnauz
polish sausages in the city. With renewed hope in Directed by Kim Manners
his answer, she proposes a theory to him. Perhaps A TEENAGER DIES WHILE PERFORMING A DAREDEVIL
Lukesh can move freely between parallel universes, FEAT FOR A CABLE ACCESS SHOW, BUT HIS DEATH
and somehow Doggett followed him through that MAY BE CAUSED BY SOMETHING MORE SINISTER
door. In this other world, Reyes was killed while THAN THE STUNT ITSELF.
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With a gaggle of onlookers, teenagers “Sky to Syd Barrett and looking longingly at a picture of
Commander Winky” and “Cap’n Dare” are Natalie. Mrs. Lokensgard knocks on his locked door,
videotaping their latest stunts for the cable access which makes him only raise his music louder. As he
“Dumb Ass” show. Cap’n Dare (otherwise known as shuts his eyes to cry, bugs swarm over his window
Bill) slips on a helmet, as Winky (David Winkle) and begin to fill up his room.
pelts him with balls from a pitching machine. Cap’n The next morning, Dr. Bronzino informs the
Dare’s girlfriend, Natalie Gordon, watches unhappily. agents that the flies that ate Bill’s brain and skull
So does another boy, Dylan Lokensgard. The boys happened to all be female. This suggests that
move on to their next feat, and Cap’n Dare sits something chemical or hormonal might have
inside a portable toilet that is pulled by a car across triggered the attack. Yet since lice had also caused
a parking lot at a high speed. The car skids to a Winky’s wounds, they wonder whether someone
stop, and Cap’n Dare and the toilet roll down an was somehow directing the bugs to act. They
embankment. Cap’n Dare emerges unharmed, and decide to question Dylan Lokensgard, who was
the crowd laughs. Natalie is again, not amused. They present for every stunt and had a run−in with Winky
move onto their third stunt, where Cap’n Dare will just before the lice injured his back.
roll down a hill in a shopping cart, onto a ramp that Dylan sees Natalie leave his front door. He
will sail him over Natalie, who waits on the ground. rushes out the window, but his mother intercepts
When the stunt goes awry, Cap’n Dare is thrown to him and warns Dylan to stay away from Natalie.
the ground. Natalie and Winky are horrified to see She tries to talk to him about the changes his body
that Cap’n Dare’s head has collapsed inside his is going through, but Dylan brushes her off and
undamaged helmet. heads for school. Meanwhile, Dr. Bronzino and
Doggett and Reyes arrive at the Medical Scully revisit the scene of Cap’n Dare’s death,
Examiner’s Office in Ocean County, New Jersey. Dr. tracking the atmosphere with an electro−
Fountain has requested help because he is unable to antennogram device. While not−so−subtly hitting on
explain Bill’s cause of death. Suddenly, the corpse’s Scully, Bronzino surmises that the bugs are
eyelid flutters. Reyes gently opens the eye with somehow being driven crazy with desire. Suddenly,
forceps, revealing a hollow socket from which a the device’s signal loudly blares. They don’t see
swarm of flies emerge. They immediately call Scully Dylan, the cause of the device’s alarm, peddling past
in to make an assessment, and she concludes that them on his bike. Dylan finds Natalie at school, and
the flies fed at such a furious rate that it caused the she apologizes for Winky’s behavior in the cafeteria
boy’s head to collapse from within. The helmet the day before. They reminisce about their
actually protected his head in the crash. Yet Scully childhood. Feeling uncomfortable, Natalie leaves
pronounces that no fly would act so aggressively. abruptly. Reyes and Doggett accost Dylan, and
Dr. Rocky Bronzino, an entomologist who appears in question him in his mother’s office. They show him
the doorway, quickly refutes her conclusion. He the “Dumb Ass” video, and he nervously begins to
informs the agents that the Australian bush fly and perspire. Doggett hands him a tissue to wipe his
the New Zealand screwworm fly are both sweat. Mrs. Lokensgard enters, refusing to let their
aggressive insects. However, these varieties are not interrogation continue, when flies begin to gather
the flies that apparently killed Bill. Reyes says that on the office ceiling. Dylan’s entire body is
they are not investigating a murder by an insect, but suddenly and mysteriously covered in flies.
a human. A Vector Control team evacuates the school, but
At Garfield High School in nearby Manahawkin, all the bugs have disappeared. The paramedics
New Jersey, Natalie sits in the cafeteria, saddened examine Dylan, who is unharmed with no bites on
by her boyfriend’s death. Dylan watches her from him. Reyes believes that Dylan staged the attack to
afar, as Winky approaches Natalie with a camera. make himself look like a victim instead of a
He wants her to speak on the “Cap’n Dare perpetrator. Mrs. Lokensgard drags Dylan to the car,
Memorial Video,” but she refuses, blaming him for while Winky eyes him suspiciously. Dr. Bronzino
making Bill do the stunts. Winky notices that Dylan examines the tissue that Dylan used to wipe his
has stood up to defend Natalie. He threatens Dylan, sweat, finding that the boy is actually secreting bug
and spreads food on his head. Dylan’s mother, an pheromones. Although that notion is preposterous,
Administrator at the school, sees this and summons Reyes theorizes that Dylan is using the bugs to act
Winky to her office. Waiting for him are Reyes and out against anyone who might harm Natalie. Later
Doggett, who believe that Winky may have killed that night, Dylan is surprised to see Natalie climb up
his friend in order to sell the video to television to his bedroom window. She hasn’t been there since
networks. Winky denies the claim, and jumps out of they were in the fourth grade. She apologizes for
his chair while violently scratching his back. Reyes not being a friend to him over the years, realizing
and Doggett see that on his back is written DUMB only now how important he really is to her. He is
ASS in red, bloody welts. ecstatic that his dream girl has opened her heart to
Dylan returns home, ignoring his mother to him. They kiss, but she pulls away when Dylan’s
retreat to his bedroom. He lies on his bed, listening tongue causes her mouth to bleed. Natalie cries and
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quickly leaves, as Dylan tries to explain. He runs Trust No 1


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. Production Code: #9ABX08
Dylan responds angrily, “I just have to open my Original Air Date: 01/06/02
mouth.” And when he does, a set of bug mandibles Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
appears between his lips, spraying an opaque mist. Directed by Tony Wharmby
The car loses control, turning upside down before it SCULLY IS HOPEFUL ABOUT REUNITING WITH
rolls to a stop. MULDER WHEN A COMPLETE STRANGER OFFERS
Doggett and Reyes come upon the car wreck, NEW INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT DROVE HIM
where Winky and his friends are stuck under a thick INTO HIDING. YET HER TRUST IN THIS STRANGER
spider web. He tells them that Dylan is the one MAY PLACE MULDER IN EVEN MORE DANGER.
responsible, and that he chewed his way out the In a montage of surveillance images, Mulder and
back window. Reyes finds Natalie at home, curled Scully are seen throughout the years. They are not
up on her bed and crying. Reyes asks Natalie to talk only captured on investigations, but during private
to Dylan and convince him not to hurt anyone else. moments in their homes. More recent surveillance
Yet Dylan is already standing in Natalie’s bedroom. footage shows Scully on the platform of a train
At the Lokensgard home, Scully and Dr. Bronzino station, crying over a slain man’s body.
arrive to question Dylan, but the house is empty and Scully enters an internet cafe with William and
dark. They enter through the open front door, and logs onto a private mail box. Waiting for her is a
Bronzino finds high readings of pheromone levels. message from Mulder, who expresses his desire to
After Scully leaves to join Doggett at the crime return home to her and to William. As Scully begins
scene, Bronzino continues to scan the Lokensgard her reply, a woman who has entered the cafe with
home with his electroantennogram. Mrs. Lokensgard a baby leaves to argue with a man outside. Scully
surprises him, and she shoots a stream of webbing goes to the unattended baby, and the woman
at Bronzino from the insect mandibles in her mouth. comes back to reclaim her child. Later, at Quantico,
Dylan returns to his house with Natalie, and Mrs. Doggett and Reyes tell Scully that a source has
Lokensgard confronts her son. He is upset when she been trying to contact Mulder with information
tells him that he is not like the other kids and never about the Super Soldiers. Unfortunately, the man
will be. will talk to no one but Mulder. Scully says that she
Doggett arrives at Natalie’s to find Reyes doesn’t know how to contact him, and Doggett
completely wrapped in layers of webbing, barely questions why she still refuses to trust him or
able to breathe. She tells Doggett that Dylan took anybody else.
Natalie to his house, which is where Scully is Later that night, Scully returns home and sees
headed when she lost contact with Dr. Bronzino. the woman from the internet cafe on her street. The
Scully creeps in the Lokensgard home and sees woman is again fighting with the same Man on the
Natalie sobbing. Scully cautiously goes into the attic Street, but this time he takes her baby and drives
with her weapon ready. Her flashlight beam locates off. Scully approaches the woman, who introduces
a cocoon, from which comes the voice of Dr. herself as Patti. Feeling sorry for her, Scully offers to
Bronzino. Scully frees him. Paramedics arrive soon Patti to stay the night. Meanwhile, Doggett and
after, followed by Doggett and Reyes. Reyes watch a nondescript building that has been
The agents discover that the other cocoon in the traced to the source that had sought out Mulder. A
attic was a crude coffin for four bodies, one of car pulls up, and the driver heads into the building.
whom was Dylan’s father, long reported missing. It is the Man on the Street who had been fighting
Mrs. Lokensgard had killed her husband for not with Patti. Inside the building is a room full of
being what she and Dylan were – neither human surveillance monitors. A Shadow Man at an
nor insect, but an anomaly in between. Although adjacent monitor asks the Man on the Street about
Dylan had tried to fit in with his peers and was in his wife and child. As he exchanges pleasantries, the
love with Natalie, he could not hide from his true Shadow Man calmly watches on his monitor as
nature. Mrs. Lokensgard escapes with her saddened Doggett and Reyes break into the Man on the
son. Street’s car outside.
Natalie lies awake in her bed, when her At 5:41 a.m., the Man on the Street finally leaves
attention is drawn to a light in the night sky. She the building, and Doggett and Reyes follow him. At
goes to her window and sees a swarm of fireflies, Scully’s apartment, Patti rises, turns off the baby
their lights twinkling and forming a message that monitor and picks up William. Scully’s cell phone
reads, “I Love You.” 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. Doggett, meanwhile, brings Scully’s clothes from the
The Man will not reveal anything, only muttering, car to an FBI lab. He asks the technician to quickly
“They’re watching.” Scully suspects that both the look for any traces of a man’s DNA on the clothes.
Man and Patti had conned her to get to her son. Just before the midnight train approaches, the
Scully closes her blinds, and the Man finally Man on the Street sees Scully. Reyes catches sight
divulges that he works for the National Security of the Man on the Street pulling out a gun. Reyes
Agency. He can not be traced. Patti confesses that calls out for Scully’s attention, but the Man is not
her daughter, like William, is somehow different. pointing at Scully. Scully notices the Shadow Man
The Man knows that William affected movement of come toward her with a gun from the other side.
the mobile over his crib. He admits that he has not Although the Man on the Street is aiming at the
only been watching Scully, but Doggett and Reyes Shadow Man, the Shadow Man fires first and hits
as well. The Man had told his supervisor about the the Man on the Street. Reyes pulls Scully to the
oddities surrounding both his daughter and William. ground, and the Shadow Man points his gun at
The supervisor believes that they are related to the them. Suddenly, Doggett arrives on the platform and
Super Soldiers, and the Man had hoped that Mulder shoots the Shadow Man repeatedly, sending his
could somehow make the connection to find out body onto the tracks of the incoming train. Seeing
what their children really are. Suddenly, the Shadow the gunfire, the station manager orders the train to
Man from the nondescript building phones Scully. keep moving. Scully begs for it to be stopped,
He says that he has been listening to the calling out for Mulder as the train quickly passes.
conversation. As he watches their every movement, The Man on the Street dies at Scully’s feet. She is
he does not tell her that he has cameras inside her grief−stricken and unsure she will ever see Mulder
apartment. The Shadow Man knows that Scully had again.
sent Mulder an e−mail the previous day. She refuses Police later scan the tracks, but the Shadow
to give him any information on Mulder unless she Man’s body has vanished. Patti arrives at the station,
can see him personally. He instructs her to come asking Scully for forgiveness. They had only sought
alone to the internet cafe. Although Doggett answers, and her husband was trying to protect
protests, Scully leaves William with them to meet Scully from the man he worked for. Scully comforts
her secret contact. Patti over the death of her husband. Doggett tells
As she waits outside the cafe, Scully is called by Scully and Reyes that the fabric on the clothes from
the Shadow Man. He directs her to a green car the car show that the Shadow Man has a DNA that
while he watches her from a camera on the street. is complexed with iron and can not be tested. This
She is told to start the car and drive into an alley. seems to prove that the Shadow Man is a Super
Then she gets out, and enters another waiting car. Soldier who is unstoppable. Scully fears for Mulder’s
As the Shadow Man watches from a camera inside life, believing that the Shadow Man jumped on the
the second car, she drives onto the highway. At train after him. The station manager is alerted that a
nightfall, the Shadow Man has her stop in the man jumped off the train into a rock quarry. The
middle of a desolate field. He orders her to leave agents drive to where the jump took place, and
the car running and open the trunk. She is told to Doggett and Reyes walk down into the quarry. They
change into the clothes inside the trunk. Suddenly, see a man running away, and Doggett, believing it is
the Shadow Man appears. He has her put her gun Mulder, calls out to him. Although Doggett identifies
and her old clothes inside the car, which he himself, the man runs off. Scully drives deeper into
explodes by remote control. He inspects her watch the quarry, and calls out for Mulder. Suddenly, the
for microphones. Believing her to be free of bugs, Shadow Man comes out from the fog and chases
the Shadow Man admits that he knows everything her. She runs into the quarry, becoming trapped.
about her – her blood type, childhood fears, pet With nowhere else to turn, she pulls her gun on the
peeves, etc. – and has risked his life to talk to her in Shadow Man, asking him why he intends to kill
order to get to Mulder. He warns her that she must them. The Shadow Man says that either Mulder or
contact Mulder. Then he hands her a set of keys to William must die. Suddenly, the Shadow Man
another waiting car. struggles as a force wracks his body. His face
At Quantico the next day, Doggett expresses his becomes contorted, and he is magnetically pulled to
worries that both Scully and Mulder are in danger. the quarry wall, flying past Scully and knocking her
He fears that these men are using her to lure down. As his body impacts the red quarry wall, it
Mulder out in order to kill him. Scully reveals that disintegrates into a cloud of dust. Scully gets up and
Mulder is already travelling on a prearranged train, runs off.
arriving at midnight. She can’t call him off. The next day, Scully e−mails Mulder with hopes
At 10:48 p.m., Scully waits on the train platform, that he is still alive and will someday see her again.
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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John Doe 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
Production Code: #9ABX07 Corps tattoo on his left arm, realizing he was once
Original Air Date: 01/13/02 a Marine. Outside the boarding house, an old
Written by Vince Gilligan caballero watches Doggett through the window. The
Directed by Michelle MacLaren man is wearing a bracelet with the familiar silver
WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF HIS IDENTITY OR HIS skulls dangling off it. One of these skulls is missing.
PAST, DOGGETT IS FOUND WANDERING A DUSTY DAY TWELVE. At the FBI, Scully and Skinner
MEXICAN TOWN. HE STRUGGLES TO PIECE apprise Kersh that, after two weeks of looking in
TOGETHER HIS MEMORY, HOW HE LOST IT, AND Texas, Doggett was seen crossing the Mexican
WHY HE IS STUCK IN A FOREIGN PLACE. border. Reyes, who was raised in Mexico, is already
DAY ONE. Doggett wakes up on the floor of an in Texas investigating his disappearance. Against
abandoned building to find a Crackhead stealing a Scully and Skinner’s wishes, Kersh decides to
sneaker from his foot. He chases the guy out onto dismantle the search party and leave it to the
the street, and realizes he is on the main drag of a Mexican officials. In San Antonio, Reyes interrogates
dilapidated town. All the signs are in Spanish. He a shady tractor dealer who may have been
accosts the Crackhead for the shoe, but the man questioned by Doggett when he was investigating
calls in Spanish for the police. Doggett tries to the disappearance of Hollis Rice, a bank vice
explain to the Spanish−speaking policeman that it president. Although the man feigns innocence, Reyes
was his shoe that was taken. Hearing an American is convinced that he is part of a drug smuggling
accent, the cop requests Doggett’s passport. Doggett operation for which Rice laundered money. There
is empty−handed. The cop then asks Doggett his may be some connection to Doggett’s
name. Doggett, however, does not know the answer. disappearance.
DAY TWO. Doggett sits in a grimy but packed Doggett, meanwhile, has another memory flash
jail cell. He still only has one sneaker. A big man in of his son jumping on his bed. Doggett is snapped
the cell laughs at Doggett’s predicament, informing back into reality, finding himself in a Larga Distencia
him that he is in Sangradura, Mexico. Although office where locals make long distance calls. He
Doggett does not remember his own name, he is contacts a Staff Sgt. of the Marine Corps Public
sure that he will somehow get out of jail. The big Affairs, pretending to be a Detective Ladatel who is
man tells him that Americans come to this town to trying to identify a victim. Doggett describes the
hide because they are on the run. For all he knows, tattoo, and the Staff Sgt. recognizes the regiment,
a call to the American Embassy might just put him promising to try to pin down the Marine’s name.
in an American jail. Later, Doggett has a vision of Suddenly, two Federales come into the building.
himself sleeping next to a woman. A little boy Before the Staff Sgt. can say another word, Doggett
jumps on the bed, calling Doggett, “Daddy.” Doggett bolts out of the phone office.
jerks awake, finding himself still in the Mexican At a rusty garage on the outskirts of town,
prison. Doggett fixes an old bus for Domingo. Nestor eyes
DAY EIGHT. The big man, named Domingo him warily. Domingo gives Doggett a Mexican APB
Salmeron, is released from prison by his cohort, flyer describing an American named Henry Bruck
Nestor. Domingo offers to pay for Doggett’s release accused of murder. The description matches
with a job proposal. However, out on the street in Doggett, and Domingo warns him to stay away from
complete freedom, Doggett turns Domingo down the Federales. Later, Nestor approaches the caballero
and starts to walk away. Nestor pulls a revolver on who wears the silver skull bracelet at the cantina.
him, but Doggett disarms him and tosses the gun They both work for the Cartel. Nestor senses that
away. He walks off alone. Doggett, whom he refers to as one of the
Doggett goes back to the abandoned building “Disappeared Ones,” is different. The caballero
and asks the Crackhead if he also took his wallet or informs Nestor that Doggett is an FBI agent.
papers. The Crackhead produces a silver skull that Although he was not ordered to kill him, the
looks like it was pulled from a piece of jewelry, and caballero would look the other way if something
mutters the word “Desaparecido.” Desperate, were to happen to Doggett.
Doggett then goes to a cantina to inquire about Scully eludes Kersh and goes to Reyes in San
Domingo’s job. Domingo tells him that they smuggle Antonio. They learn that someone in Mexico has
immigrants over the American border and then gives been trying to track down a former Marine with
Doggett money to rent a room over the bar. amnesia who matches Doggett’s description. When
Doggett pulls out the skull charm, but Domingo Reyes recognizes the name Ladatel as the Mexican
claims he doesn’t know what it means. After telephone calling card, they run a trace on the call.
Doggett leaves, Domingo tells Nestor that Doggett Later that night, Nestor comes to the garage
only wants to remember, “same as all the rest.” 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 pieces together his still−hazy memories, explaining
to this, but Nestor pulls a revolver out. Doggett that he tracked banker Hollis Rice there. Doggett
quickly flips the lever and rolls out from under the knows that the caballero did the same thing to Rice
bus. The bus falls on Nestor’s foot, and he screams as he did to Doggett, but the caballero does not
in pain. He manages to pull his bloodied foot out understand why Doggett would want to remember
and looks under the bus for Doggett, who is gone. his pain. Defiantly, Doggett says, “Because it’s mine.”
Doggett jumps out from the roof of the bus, and He walks out. Out on the street, Doggett
Nestor is shot in the resulting struggle. Domingo remembers Luke waking him up to show that he
arrives at the garage an hour later and finds Nestor’s could ride his bike. Reyes comforts her partner
body. Doggett asks if Domingo had sent Nestor to about having to relive his son’s history. Doggett tells
kill him. After Doggett pulls the revolver on him, her that it was Luke’s memory that saved him, and
Domingo reveals that Doggett is a “Desaparecido,” he will take the bad memories as long as he can
one of the Cartel’s disappeared ones. Doggett also have the good ones.
realizes that they took away his memory, and
Domingo tells him that it can never be retrieved.
Suddenly, Doggett experiences another memory Hellbound
flash of his son jumping on his bed. This vision,
however, is speeded up. It ends abruptly, and Production Code: #9ABX04
Doggett winces in pain. Domingo notices this and Original Air Date: 01/27/02
grabs the gun from Doggett’s hand, putting it aside. Written by David Amann
He then begins to mercilessly beat up Doggett. Directed by Kim Manners
On Ciudad Street in Mexico, Reyes bribes a CONVINCED IT IS AN X−FILE, REYES IS DRAWN TO A
police officer for information on Doggett. He leads MURDER WHERE THE VICTIM HAS BEEN SKINNED
her to a funeral parlor, but the body there is not ALIVE. YET SHE IS UNSURE WHY SHE HAS SUCH A
Doggett’s. Reyes sees the same crescent scars that STRANGE CONNECTION TO THE CASE.
Doggett has on this dead man’s head.
DAY THIRTEEN. At the cantina, Domingo reports Terry Pruit talks to a group of assembled ex−
Nestor’s death to the caballero, knowing that this convicts at an anger management meeting inside a
man most likely gave Nestor the permission to kill church in Novi, Virginia. One of the ex−cons, Ed
Doggett. The caballero does not believe that Kelso, shakes his head in disgust at the topics of
Domingo said nothing to Doggett. Suddenly, the conversation. Afterwards, Kelso gives his buddy,
caballero’s eyes glow reflectively like a cat’s in the Victor Dale Potts, a hard time about the group.
dark. He sinks his long thumbnails into Domingo’s Potts, who had been having bad dreams, suddenly
temples, in the same spot as Doggett’s crescent has a strange vision of Kelso – his skin is stripped
scars. from his body.
A beaten Doggett wakes up on the floor of the Five days later, Reyes briefs Doggett and Scully
garage and sees Nestor’s dead body next to him. A about the murder of Victor Dale Potts. He was
rental sedan pulls up, and Reyes comes in. Doggett, skinned alive, but had a premonition of his death in
who doesn’t recognize her, grabs her gun arm in a a dream. He told his dream to Dr. Lisa Holland, the
lock and spins her face first into the bus. She therapist who runs the anger management group.
identifies him, and herself as his partner, but he is Although the case itself is odd, neither Scully nor
still unsure of her. A group of Mexican police cars Doggett understand why it is an X−File. Reyes is
pull up. The local officers draw their weapons on also unsure, but she knows that she must solve the
the garage, ordering the agents to exit the building. crime.
One of them is the policeman that Reyes had Doggett and Reyes are led by Detective Van
bribed. As they wait, Doggett asks Reyes what his Allen to speak with Dr. Holland at the Virginia
son’s name is. He can see the boy’s face, but can’t church. She tells them that Potts had been to the
place his name. From the look on Reyes’ face, meeting with a friend named Ed who felt negatively
Doggett remembers that Luke was kidnapped and toward what the group was trying to accomplish. As
killed. He breaks down just as the police begin to they are leaving the church, Detective Van Allen
fire. Reyes tries to hold them off, but she must tells Reyes that she looks familiar, but Reyes has
revive Doggett from his emotional breakdown. He never been to the town before. Meanwhile, at a
tells her to get in the bus, which he backs out and meat packing plant where they both work, Terry
smashes into the police cars. The bus topples over, Pruit confronts Ed Kelso about Potts’ death. Although
and the policemen descend upon them. Suddenly, Pruit says that the FBI will probably want to
the Federales arrive with Skinner and arrest the question him as well, Kelso pulls out his carving
Mexican police. Doggett and Reyes are saved. knife and threatens Pruit. As Kelso walks away, Pruit
Doggett returns to the cantina and questions the is shocked when he sees a skinless Kelso. Outside
caballero. He knows that the man works for the the plant, however, Kelso looks completely normal.
Cartel and somehow stole his memory. Doggett
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At Quantico, Scully pulls old files on other go to an abandoned mining camp to look for clues
skinning cases. One body found in 1960 matches the on the possible fourth victim. As Doggett discovers
manner in which Victor Potts was killed. Scully the remains of a sheriff in the office, Reyes comes
visits Dr. Mueller, the coroner who autopsied the upon old newspaper clippings inside the mine that
body in 1960. Although the man is now retired, he detail unsolved skinnings. The oldest article is about
remembers the case vividly. Since the victim was four men who got away with the murder of a
not identified and no suspect was ever arrested, the prospector in a mining claim dispute. In the photo,
case was dropped. The sheriff then committed the body of the prospector is skinned. Also in the
suicide. However, Dr. Mueller reveals that the victim mine are the hides of a number of humans.
was the first in a string of skinning murders. Suddenly, Reyes hears footsteps. She draws her gun,
Terry Pruit is working alone at night in the meat but someone grabs her from behind and holds a
packing plant when the lights shut off. He suspects knife at her throat. It is Detective Van Allen.
that Kelso has come to start trouble, but he sees no Doggett comes into the mine, but Reyes is alone
one among the rows of hanging pig carcasses. and unhurt. She explains that Van Allen is the
Suddenly, someone wearing a butcher’s apron hits reincarnation of a man killed in a mining dispute.
him over the head and straps him upside down on a His four killers were never punished. He continues
meat hook. The unseen person pulls out a knife and to avenge that injustice. After skinning four people,
begins to carve into the screaming Pruit. Meanwhile, he commits suicide so that he can be reborn to start
Reyes has a dream in which she goes to the church it up again. The cases never get solved because he
looking for Dr. Holland and finds a skinless man returns as the cop who investigates the skinnings.
there. She is startled awake by Doggett, who heard Reyes notifies Dr. Holland that she is the next
her cries through the wall of the hotel room. Dr. victim, and warns her about Detective Van Allen.
Holland called him with news that Terry Pruit’s The doctor runs when Van Allen comes for her with
skinned body was found. The sight of the body at his carving knife. He chants, “It always ends the
the plant unsettles Reyes, but she listens intently same.” Doggett and Reyes arrive in the nick of time
when Scully shows her similar case files dating back and shoot Van Allen.
to 1960. As Van Allen lies in a hospital bed, Reyes still
Kelso is quickly packing up clothes and knives can’t figure out why she knew the things she did.
when Doggett and Detective Van Allen storm in She wonders if perhaps she was someone involved
and take him into custody. At the police station, in the past cases who had let justice slip by. Her
Reyes gets the sense that Kelso is not really biggest fear was of failing, but Scully suggests that
responsible for the murders. She tells him that she maybe in this life she actually succeeded.
sees the same bad things that he is now seeing in Van Allen goes into cardiac arrest, and he dies
his dreams. Doggett is unsure of her line of with look of vengeance still in his eyes. At the same
questioning, but she doesn’t let on to what she is time, a baby is born whose eyes are the same as
hiding. Detective Van Allen informs them that Van Allen’s.
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 Provenance (1 of 2)
vision terrifies Kelso. Scully calls Reyes to Quantico,
where she had two bodies dug up with the same Production Code: #9ABX10
forensic details as the current murders. The men Original Air Date: 03/03/02
who had died in 1960 had both been ex−cons. Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Oddly, the dates of their deaths match the Directed by Kim Manners
birthdates of Potts and Pruit. Since Scully has four WHEN RUBBINGS FROM THE SPACESHIP RESURFACE,
old case files, Reyes fears that there may be two THE FBI HIDES ITS INVESTIGATION FROM THE X−
more victims. She calls Doggett, who is running FILES AND THE ONE PERSON WHO IS FAMILIAR
surveillance outside Ed Kelso’s house, and asks him WITH THE SYMBOLS’ SIGNIFICANCE – SCULLY.
to find out the man’s birthday. When Doggett goes
up to the front window, he is shocked to see Kelso’s Border police chase a man on a motorcycle as he
body completely stripped of its skin. illegally crosses into North Dakota from Canada. As
Reyes meets Doggett at the crime scene at the man comes to the edge of a cliff, he continues
Kelso’s house. Since the birthdates do match the into the ravine. The motorcycle crashes at the
1960 murders, Doggett believes that it is merely a bottom, bursting into a ball of flames. The man lies
serial killer. Yet Reyes is convinced that she is unconscious on the ground. Next to him, several
somehow involved in these connecting cases. She is pieces of folded paper fall out of his backpack. On
certain that these men’s souls are murdered over the paper are symbols that resemble the ones
and over, from one lifetime to the next. She even Mulder and Scully found on a spaceship in
knows that there was a rag stuck in Kelso’s mouth “Biogenesis” (#6ABX22).
that was covered in coal dust. Doggett and Reyes
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At the FBI, Scully is summoned to Kersh’s office, from Comer’s backpack do not match the two−year
where she is met by Kersh, Skinner, Follmer and an old rubbings from the ship. The UFO cult may have
unidentified man standing silently in the corner with uncovered a second spaceship.
a toothpick in his mouth. Kersh shows her the paper Under a large tent in a deserted field in Alberta,
from the motorcyclist’s bag and asks if she Canada, a group of people excavate something out
recognizes it. Although she knows exactly what it is, of the ground. What they are carefully digging up is
Scully is hesitant to answer for fear that she is a full−sized spaceship. The mysterious symbols are
under suspicion. She storms into the X−Files office on its hull. At a rest stop in Maryland, Comer
and asks Doggett and Reyes whether Follmer had hijacks a moving van and heads towards the
been in their files. Scully pulls out a case folder Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The next
from two years ago, showing them a rubbing she morning, Comer is waiting inside Scully’s apartment.
took from the hull of a spacecraft. The symbols in He attacks Mrs. Scully when she comes in with
the rubbing are like the ones in the evidence bag in William. Scully returns home to find her mother on
Kersh’s office. Although she did not tell the senior the ground. Scully battles Comer, but he locks her
staff about her old case, she wonders if the FBI is out of William’s room. As he is about to suffocate
fully aware of the power that these symbols the baby with a pillow, Scully finds her pistol and
represent. shoots Comer in the chest. Doggett and Reyes rush
Doggett goes to the crime scene in North over, and Scully asks Reyes to take her mother and
Dakota, finding that Follmer is already there, leading son to safety. Scully demands answers from the
the investigation. He admits that the body of the bleeding Comer. Before he loses consciousness,
motorcyclist has not been recovered. While Comer manages to tell her, “Your son has to die.”
revealing nothing else, Follmer warns Doggett not to The EMTs arrive and take Comer to the hospital.
get involved in the case. Unseen, the motorcyclist Scully notices that the man’s jacket is still in
crawls out from a nearby hiding place. His exposed William’s room. In the pocket is a metallic piece of
skin is blistered and burned, and he struggles to the spaceship with the symbols on it.
move. He grabs from his jacket pocket a metallic On a Calgary street, a woman in an overcoat
object that has the symbols on it. His burns begin to picks up the morning newspaper with a headline
miraculously heal. about Comer’s injury in a shooting. The overcoat
In her apartment, Reyes pieces together the woman drives out to the tent in the field and shows
rubbings from the old case file. She asks Scully what the newspaper to another man. “He can expose all
she had interpreted in the symbols. Carbon dating of this,” she tells him. “He’s got proof he can show
of the fossils on the ship proved that it was millions them.” They nod in solemn agreement about what
of years old, but Scully found the text to contain they must do.
religious passages and scientific equations. This Scully is once again called in to appear before
would put into question everything in which the senior FBI staff. This time, Doggett accompanies
mankind believes. Although she refused to accept her. She refuses to give them any information until
this at first, Scully is now under the impression that they provide her with some answers. Kersh explains
she was meant to find these rubbings. It may that Comer was sent to infiltrate the cult based on
contain answers about William’s existence. a series of threats against Mulder. Before the FBI
However, she does not know what the FBI wants lost contact with Comer, he sent out a
with these rubbings and why they are keeping it a communication that Mulder was already dead.
secret from her. Later that night, Doggett waits for Unfortunately, they can not confirm the validity of
Skinner outside his office. He questions why the his information. Scully goes home, and Reyes brings
A.D. has been avoiding him and Reyes. Skinner William back to her. When she hears a rattling
refuses to say anything, telling Doggett it is for his noise, Scully puts William into his crib, and she and
own good that he doesn’t know. After Skinner Reyes go into her bedroom. A drawer in her bureau
leaves, Doggett breaks into the A.D.’s office. is somehow shaking. Inside it is the piece of the
Rummaging through his boss’ desk, Doggett finds the spacecraft from Comer’s jacket. Scully slowly opens
evidence bag with the rubbing from the spaceship. the drawer, and the object flies across her
He brings it to Reyes, with the news that the apartment and into William’s room. It slices through
missing motorcyclist is actually an FBI agent named the wood bars of the crib and comes to a halt,
Robert Comer who was working undercover on a hovering right over William’s head. Scully is stunned
UFO cult in Canada. Scully leaves William with her as William calmly watches the piece rotate silently
mother to meet with the agents at Reyes’ in mid−air above him.
apartment. Doggett fills her in on Comer’s Reyes calls Doggett to Scully’s apartment and
disappearance and the FBI’s conclusion that he may tries to describe to him the strange events she just
have gone crazy. They are under the impression that witnessed. The baby has some connection to this
Comer started to follow the UFO cult himself. Reyes object. Although Doggett may not believe in
comes to the conclusion that the FBI doesn’t even extraterrestrials, she and Scully fear that the cult is
know about Scully’s case files because the rubbings willing to kill for their belief in alien life. Scully
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comes down with William and they get into her car. not only Doggett and Mulder, but also her son.
Doggett, however, notices a car parked on the street Skinner bristles at her allegations, but he is still
with the overcoat woman inside. He becomes concerned for Scully.
suspicious, and tells Reyes that he will follow them Reyes stands vigil as Doggett lays in a coma at
in his car. Reyes pulls away, and Doggett St. Mary’s Hospital. When Skinner visits, Reyes gets
approaches the parked car. Despite his drawn a call from Scully. Scully asks to meet her, but not
weapon and orders to stop, the overcoat woman tell Skinner. Reyes arrives at Scully’s apartment,
drives directly at Doggett. He fires at her where the Gunmen are working at a laptop. They
windshield, and she plows right into him, sending identified the overcoat woman kidnapper, but did
him over the car and onto the street. The overcoat not tell the FBI. Byers had been able to tuck a cell
woman speeds away as Doggett lies unconscious. phone into William’s car seat, and they hope to
Reyes drives Scully’s car into an alley where the track the phone’s signal and find the baby. The
Lone Gunmen are waiting in their van. Scully gives signal is coming from Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania,
William to them for safekeeping, and when she and and Scully sets off with her gun in pursuit of
Reyes return to her apartment, there are police cars William. Reyes follows.
and ambulances outside. Reyes runs to Doggett’s In Pennsylvania, the overcoat woman leaves
side. Scully gets back in the car to find William. William in the car to make a call at a pay phone.
Meanwhile, the overcoat woman ambushes the She dials Josepho, who is watching a group of cult
Gunmen’s van and fires at their tires. They crash members try to pry open the spaceship’s hull from
into a pole. The woman opens the van door and underneath its fins. When she informs Josepho that
forces Byers to hand over the baby. 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
Providence (2 of 2) location, and while the car is still there, the
overcoat woman and William have disappeared. The
Production Code: #9ABX11 baby seat and cell phone remain in the back of the
Original Air Date: 03/10/02 car.
Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Reyes returns to St. Mary’s, and prays in the
Directed by Chris Carter hospital chapel for Doggett’s recovery. Follmer finds
AFTER LEARNING THAT MULDER MIGHT BE DEAD,
here there, and informs her that he knows that she
SCULLY’S FEARS ARE HEIGHTENED WHEN WILLIAM IS went after the kidnapper. He is aware that there are
KIDNAPPED BY THE ALIEN CULT. forces within the FBI working against them, but
Follmer swears that he is indeed on her side.
Captain Zeke Josepho remembers a moment during Follmer now needs her help. Robert Comer, the FBI
the 1991 Desert Storm campaign that changed his agent who Scully shot in #9ABX10, has woken up
life forever. Josepho’s unit had been overtaken by an and has written the word “jacket” on a notepad.
Iraqi troop, and although all of the men were killed, Follmer wants Reyes to find out from Scully what
Josepho was still alive. He watched as a group of that word means. Reyes approaches Scully with the
four combat−ready soldiers ran through the desert paper, but Scully refuses to tell the FBI what she
into the Iraqi encampment. The gunfire that struck knows. Comer had been carrying the artifact from
them had no effect. The soldiers pulled the pins on the spaceship in his jacket. That artifact may have
their grenades and headed directly into the desert healed his wounds from the motorcycle accident at
hideout of the enemy. The building exploded, and the Canada border. Reyes follows Scully back to the
the soldiers marched out unharmed. Josepho knew hospital, where they sneak into Comer’s room.
then that his life was spared in order to deliver the Scully waves the artifact over Comer’s gunshot
message of the “God who came before all other wounds, and his heartbeat spikes. He awakens, and
Gods” responsible for these miraculous men. Now a grabs Scully’s arm. She threatens to kill him unless
civilian, Josepho recalls this tale as he stands upon he explains why he wanted her baby. Comer
the unearthed spaceship housed in the Canadian explains that Josepho is the leader of a cult whose
tent (last seen in #9ABX10). The symbols on the followers believe that an alien race will rule the
craft represent all the religions of the world. world. The spaceship they found is a physical
At the FBI, the Toothpick Man watches as the manifestation of God. God spoke to Josepho, and
Lone Gunmen scan the mug shots of suspects who told him that William is a future savior who will try
may have taken Scully’s baby. Meanwhile, A.D. to prevent the aliens’ return – just like his father
Follmer briefs a task force about William’s attempted. William will succeed at stopping this
kidnapping and Doggett’s near death in the ensuing colonization unless his father, Mulder, is put to
attack. Scully is appalled at Follmer whitewashing death. To fulfill the prophecy, Mulder was killed.
the investigation, and she leaves in a huff. When Josepho now wants to protect William, but Comer
Skinner stops her, she accuses the FBI of attempting has come to rid of William with his own plans to
to rid any element of the X−Files – which includes prevent the aliens from taking over the world.
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Comer reaches for the artifact to complete his Reyes finds Doggett in the chapel at St. Mary’s
healing when a nurse walks in with the Toothpick Hospital. He says that when he was in the coma, a
Man. Scully covers the bed sheet over the artifact. voice told him to get up and warn Scully about this
The Toothpick Man orders Scully and Reyes’ man. Doggett asks Reyes if it was she who was
removal. As the others leave, he ominously remains talking to him. She says no.
in Comer’s room. At the FBI, Follmer tells Kersh that he has
At the tent in Canada, Josepho’s men try to open recently learned that the monitors in Comer’s room
the spaceship to save the cult members inside. show that the man’s vital signs returned back to
When the overcoat woman enters the tent with normal right before his death. Follmer is befuddled,
William, the fins of the spaceship inexplicably open. and has no explanation for this. The Toothpick Man
The men who were trapped are revealed to be is waiting in Kersh’s office, and Kersh hands him the
burned and smoking corpses. case folder. Kersh then congratulates him because it
Scully and Reyes hide out in the hospital’s now appears that everything from the case is dead.
chapel, and Scully admits her fears to Reyes that her However, the case itself seems to still be active.
son is an abomination meant to die. Reyes “I’m sure I can take care of that,” the Toothpick Man
convinces Scully that this perception is only one replies. Unseen on the Toothpick Man’s neck is the
man’s belief that may not even be true. Skinner familiar spiny ridges of an alien replacement.
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 Audrey Pauley
Comer’s sheet, but the artifact is missing. Reyes
wants the Toothpick Man searched for the artifact, Production Code: #9ABX13
and she looks to Scully to backup her account of Original Air Date: 03/17/02
the events. Scully, however, has gone to Doggett’s Written by Steven Maeda
room. Doggett suddenly awakes from his coma, and Directed by Kim Manners
tells Scully that he heard someone talking. Doggett DOGGETT AND SCULLY LOOK FOR ANSWERS THAT
warns Scully that someone is going to come to her, WILL SAVE REYES’ LIFE AFTER SHE IS INJURED IN A
but that she shouldn’t trust him. Scully’s cell phone HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT. YET REYES IS ALSO
rings. It is Josepho, giving her strict instructions that FIGHTING TO STAY ALIVE IN THE NETHERWORLD
she must obey in order to see her son. BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
Scully meets Josepho alone in a diner outside
Calgary, Canada. He tells her that he has witnessed Reyes drops Doggett off after work, and he laments
Super Soldiers, and that they are the true sons of that he is thinking about getting a cat to subsidize
God. Josepho believes that William will be the his lonely existence. “You are a dog person, John,”
leader of the alien race that will rule the Earth. she laughs. There is an awkward moment between
Although Josepho once believed that Mulder was them, but Doggett gets out of the car and goes into
dead, he now has doubts. He offers to give her his house. Reyes pulls away and her car is suddenly
William when she brings him confirmation of hit in a crash. She is rushed to the hospital where
Mulder’s death. Mulder being alive is the one thing she is examined by the trauma team. When Dr.
that will prevent William from leading the aliens. Preijers flashes his penlight in her eyes, Reyes wakes
Scully accuses Josepho of lying, and he demands up. Yet she is in another hospital’s emergency room
that she bring him the head of Mulder. Josepho and she is all alone. There are no doctors around,
walks out, and Scully quickly calls Reyes in a nearby and this doppel hospital seems abandoned and
van. She is with the Gunmen, who have wired quiet. Although there is one trickle of blood on her
Josepho’s car. As the Gunmen track Josepho, Reyes forehead, Reyes is otherwise fine. She walks to the
and Scully follow him. Yet the Gunmen lose the entrance of the ER and stops short. The hospital
signal, and Scully is forced to blindly pull over. She building is floating in a dark void of nothingness.
sees a white tent in the distance and runs toward it. Reyes goes back inside and wipes the blood
Meanwhile, inside the tent, William begins to cry. from her forehead. Stephen Murdoch, a patient who
At the sound of his voice, the bezels on the doesn’t know why he too is in this doppel hospital,
spacecraft suddenly turn and drop into the ground. greets her and introduces her to another patient, Mr.
The ship then blasts a shaft of white light into the Barreiro. Both Murdoch and Barreiro are convinced
sky, and begins to vibrate and hum. The cult that they are dead, but Reyes doesn’t believe it. She
members watch as the spaceship starts to surface. roams the doppel hospital, realizing that there are
Scully and Reyes see the ship take off into the night. no signs on any of the walls and that all of the
The tent explodes into flames. They run to the tent’s paperwork on the charts is written in gibberish.
remains, discovering charred bodies among the Murdoch tells her that he has gotten used to this
wreckage. They suddenly hear a baby’s cry. William fact, figuring that he is in some kind of in−between
is lying on the ground, unharmed. 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 gone.” She takes him to her room and shows him
and vanishes. her model hospital, explaining that she made it so
At the regular hospital, Reyes lies in a coma− that she can enter it in her head. She used to have
state attached to ventilators. Her heart still beats. it all to herself, until hospital patients showed up –
Doggett does not want to accept that Reyes is brain including Reyes. Doggett asks her for the names of
dead. Dr. Preijers states that Reyes signed an organ the other patients inside.
donor card, but Doggett refuses to let her go just Reyes theorizes that the doppel hospital
yet. resembles a movie set, created by someone who
Reyes sees a woman in the doppel hospital. The didn’t get it quite right. Suddenly, Murdoch falls to
woman runs away and disappears into a blank wall. the floor. His body begins to crackle with
Suddenly, Barreiro’s body is overcome with electricity. In the real world, Dr. Preijers has clicked
electrical sparks. He fades away, just like Reyes’ off Murdoch’s life support system. Doggett hands
coffee mug. Reyes explains to Murdoch that she Scully the charts of Barreiro and Murdoch, who had
believes that they are not really dead. Whatever both been declared brain dead by Dr. Preijers.
happened to Barreiro caused him to die. Meanwhile, Doggett is convinced that Preijers injected them and
in the regular hospital, Dr. Preijers shuts off the life Reyes with something to cause their bodies to shut
support unit keeping the real body of Mr. Barreiro down. Although Barreiro has passed, they can still
alive. The doctor apologizes to Barreiro’s family, as save Murdoch and Reyes. Yet Doggett and Scully
the mystery woman in the doppel hospital watches. find that Murdoch is already dead. Doggett goes to
She is a patient’s aide by the name of Audrey Audrey’s room and begs for her help. He asks her to
Pauley, and she goes about her rounds delivering go back into her model and explain the situation to
flowers. Reyes. Doggett breaks down in tears, saying that he
Doggett begs Scully for help in buying time for needs Reyes to fight and prove that she’s still alive.
Reyes. He points out on Reyes’ EEG chart that she Dr. Preijers secretly watches as Doggett leaves
had brain activity up until one distinct point. Audrey’s room.
Doggett is determined to find out what happened. Audrey goes into the doppel hospital and warns
He questions Dr. Preijers whether there was a Reyes. She is upset because she can’t help Reyes
change in Reyes’ condition at that time. Preijers escape. Yet Reyes realizes that Audery is dyslexic,
gives Doggett Reyes’ chart. Doggett goes to Reyes’ and that the doppel hospital and all its gibberish
room and finds Audrey Pauley there. She charts are her creation. She convinces Audrey that
comfortingly tells him that Reyes’ soul is not gone. since it is her hospital, she can make the rules work
He says that he wishes he could talk to her. Audrey any way she wants. Audrey disappears, and returns
then goes down to the hospital basement to her to her real room. Dr. Preijers is there, holding a
own private room. There’s a small−scale model of needle. He blames her for what he’s being accused
the hospital there. She peers inside the model and of. In the doppel hospital, Reyes sees the walls
concentrates. In the doppel hospital, Reyes and warble and finds that Audrey has returned. Audrey
Murdoch are trying to open all the locked doors leads her to the front door and tells Reyes to jump
when Reyes sees Audrey. She begs her not to run into the abyss. Although Reyes is afraid she will die,
away again. Reyes asks Audrey to show them the Audrey assures her that she will be safe. Audrey
way out, but Audrey tells them that she can’t. serenely says that she now knows who told her to
Audrey informs Reyes that her friend loves her very build the fake hospital. With a leap of faith, Reyes
much. Reyes gives Audrey a message for Doggett: falls into the void. Audrey evaporates along with the
“Tell him he’s a dog person.” Audrey rounds a corner doppel hospital.
and disappears. In Reyes’s hospital room, Scully tells Doggett
Back at the hospital, Nurse Edwards helpfully that the transplant teams are in place. Doggett still
tells Dr. Preijers that he neglected to put an refuses to let them take Reyes. Scully wants him to
injection on Reyes’ notes before handing them over convince her and the doctors that Reyes is still
to Doggett. Preijers asks if anyone else noticed, and alive. Suddenly, Reyes awakes and says, “Audrey.”
then lunges at her. He stabs her with a needle in Doggett rushes to the basement and grabs Preijers.
the neck. The nurse falls to the ground. He is saddened to see Audrey dead on the floor.
Doggett sadly remembers his last conversation Three days later, Doggett drives Reyes home
with Reyes about pets. Yet he imagines that this from the hospital. They say goodnight to each other,
time, he kisses her. He is snapped back to reality by and Reyes goes into her apartment, alone.
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. Underneath
He has her autopsy Edwards’ body for signs of
murder. Scully suggests that he not believe this will Production Code: #9ABX09
bring Reyes back to life. Audrey delivers Reyes’ Original Air Date: 03/31/02
message to Doggett, explaining that she is “not Written and Directed by John Shiban
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WHEN A CASE FROM HIS PAST IS RE−OPENED, Reyes meets with the Sing Sing superintendent,
DOGGETT HOLDS STEADFAST TO HIS INITIAL and he informs her that Fassl’s cellmate had also
CONCLUSIONS, WHICH PUTS HIM AT ODDS WITH been murdered with evidence pointing to Fassl. The
SCULLY AND REYES’ THEORIES. security camera caught the murderer on tape, but
Flashback to 1989: On a rainy night, a Triboro Cable instead of Fassl it was a bearded man. This man did
repairman named Bob Fassl pulls up to a house in not fit the description of any prisoner, so the case
Brooklyn, New York. A male voice from the back of was never solved. The superintendent, however,
the van tells him to “do his job.” After kissing his believes that Fassl had something to do with this
rosary, Fassl timidly goes to the front door and tells killing. Scully, meanwhile, finds that the hair samples
the teenage girl of the house that he her cable is found at the scene of the crime do not exactly
out. Believing that her father may have called the match Fassl, but to someone who is his blood
cable company, she lets the man in. The father relative. Yet Fassl is an only child whose parents are
questions whether Fassl made a mistake, and he dead. Kaylor is furious at Doggett for ordering a re−
asks to see the work order. Yet when Fassl looks test on Fassl’s DNA. Kaylor gets a settlement for
down at his empty work order, a spray of dark red Fassl from the county and retrieves his case files
blood splatters onto the paper. The father is from Doggett. Reyes shows Doggett and Scully the
suddenly lying on the ground, dead. A bloody picture of the bearded man from the Sing Sing file.
screwdriver is in his neck. Fassl is horrified to see The man has no identity, but he materialized in a
that both the mother and daughter are also lying in federal prison and then disappeared. Reyes is
pools of blood on the kitchen floor. The front door convinced that this bearded man is responsible for
immediately opens and two NYPD cops burst all the murders attributed to Fassl. They can prove it
through and apprehend him. One of the policemen by comparing the evidence from the Sing Sing
is Doggett. murder to the ones in 1989. Yet Scully reveals that
In present day, Doggett is furious to learn that, the 1989 DNA evidence needs to be thrown out. It
after thirteen years, DNA tests cleared Fassl of being had been planted to convict Bob Fassl. Doggett
the “screwdriver killer” who had murdered seven confronts Duke, who admits to framing Fassl in their
people. Doggett is insistent that he caught the right initial investigation. Duke is troubled that he helped
man. Although Scully has verified the DNA tests, put an innocent man behind bars.
Doggett still wants answers to back up his police Damon Kaylor comes to Fain’s house to tell Fassl
work. He asks both Scully and Reyes for their help. about the settlement, but Fassl asks to be sent back
Fassl, meanwhile, is released from Sing Sing Prison to prison. The bearded man appears, and stabs
in New York. The world around him seems to blur Kaylor with a screwdriver. Fassl dismembers Kaylor,
when he sees a scraggly bearded man near the wraps the body parts in a tarp and hides the
courthouse. Fassl becomes disoriented, and the man remains in an underground sewer tunnel. The next
mysteriously disappears. day, Reyes questions Fassl about Kaylor. Fain
In New York, Scully and Doggett convince interjects that her client had nothing to do with the
Damon Kaylor, the Assistant District Attorney, to Assistant District Attorney’s disappearance. Reyes
hand over his case files. Kaylor reluctantly agrees, shows Fassl the photograph of the bearded man, and
and Doggett and Scully pore through the numerous Fassl begins frantically praying with his rosary beads.
boxes of evidence. Doggett summons his old Scully tries to appeal to his faith, asking Fassl to tell
partner, Duke Tomasick, to meet him at the Brooklyn them about the bearded man in the photo. Fassl
courthouse. Unlike Doggett, Duke accepts the DNA begins to cry, and Fain quickly ushers him out of the
test’s acquittal of Fassl. room. Reyes suggests to Scully and Doggett that
Fassl’s lawyer, Jana Fain, brings Fassl to stay at perhaps Fassl is such a devout Catholic that he can’t
her house. That night, as he prays silently with his even admit that he has a sinful side. That other side
rosary beads, blood appears on his hands. The of him may have manifested itself into a whole
words “Kill Her” have been scrawled in blood on different personality that has its own physical traits.
the wall. He is terrified. Fain then catches Fassl This might explain the DNA profiles not matching
praying, and leaves him in his solemnity. Suddenly, perfectly. Back at Fain’s house, the bearded man
Fassl sees the bearded man in his room. He begs the beats up Fassl in an attempt to have him kill Fain.
man not to hurt Fain, but the bearded man slaps When Fain enters the room, the bearded man is
Fassl across the face. The man follows Fain. A gone. She turns around, and the bearded man
screwdriver is in his hand. The next morning, Fain appears. She gasps in fear.
confronts Fassl because, when she left to see Doggett and Reyes sit outside Fain’s house in
another client, her dresser drawers had been rifled surveillance. He sees the bearded man leaving
through. Fassl is relieved that she is still alive. When through the front door and chases him to the
Fain goes to work, Fassl finds her maid’s body backyard. Fain tells Reyes that somehow Fassl
stuffed into a dumbwaiter chute. Fassl removes the disappeared and the bearded man was there.
body and cleans the blood. He chops up the Doggett comes upon a manhole cover used for
woman’s remains and places them in a plastic tarp. cable access, and he and Reyes descend into the
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underground tunnel. Suddenly, the bearded man Agent Reyes reads a newspaper article about the
appears and strikes Reyes to the ground. Doggett casino murder in the X−Files office. She is staring at
fires as the man runs off. Doggett and Reyes follow some case files and rambling numbers when Scully
him, but separate at a fork in the tunnel. Reyes falls enters. Reyes shows Scully a photo of a murdered
through a grate and lands in a culvert filled with woman and lists the woman’s birthdate. Then she
water. With her flashlight, she spots the head of does the same for two other similar cases,
Damon Kaylor. She also sees the skulls and bones of informing Scully that the victims all had significant
well more than the seven victims known about. karmic numbers. Scully dismisses numerology as
Reyes calls out for Doggett. When he turns around, child’s play, but she sees a connection in the photos
Doggett is stabbed in the shoulder by a screwdriver. – all the women had the same mark on their
Doggett drops his gun. Reyes rushes up and finds bodies. It could be from the killer’s ring.
the bearded man holding a screwdriver at Doggett’s Mad Wayne gets dressed in his dark apartment,
neck. She tells the bearded man that she knows that putting on a large ring with a devil’s face. He sees
he is Fassl, and that Fassl is a murderer and a sinner. out of his window that Mr. Burt is on the street
The bearded man tells Reyes to shut up, and working a three−card Monte scam. Mr. Burt smiles
Doggett escapes his grasp. Reyes fires a shot at the and nods at Wayne, lip−synching to music. The other
bearded man, who falls into the water. Doggett people on the street are clustered in threes, moving
turns over the body – it is Bob Fassl. to the beat of the music in an accidental symphony.
Scully informs Fain that the maid, Kaylor and Wayne threatens Mr. Burt to stop following him, but
many other bodies were found in the sewer. Fain Mr. Burt is confident that it doesn’t fit Wayne’s
can’t understand why she saw a bearded man. “pattern.” When Mr. Burt implores Wayne to
Doggett tells Reyes that he can not accept “choose better,” Wayne becomes agitated and turns
everything that has surfaced with the Fassl case over the card table.
because it’s not the way his mind works. Reyes says Reyes visits with a numerologist named Vicki
that what he believed was enough to close the Burdick who resides in a hotel suite numbered 33.
case. “What happens next time?” Doggett asks. 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
Improbable that two more victims surfaced with the distinctive
ring marks. She meets him and Scully at the FBI’s
Production Code: #9ABX14 behavioral science office, where Special Agent
Original Air Date: 04/07/02 Fordyce briefs his task force. After three murders in
Written and Directed by Chris Carter 1999 and the three current ones, they have
THE AGENTS RELY ON NUMEROLOGY, THEIR
determined that the killer is working in patterns. Yet
POWERS OF DEDUCTION AND A MYSTERIOUS they don’t know how he chooses his victims, why
STRANGER TO HELP CATCH A SERIAL KILLER. he kills and if he’ll kill again or disappear like he did
previously. They call him the Triple Zero killer
At a casino, a dealer shuffles a deck for a group of because of the three circular marks on the victims.
hard−core gamblers. One of the gamblers with a When Fordyce asks for Reyes’ insight, she begins to
prison−style tattoo on his hand, Mad Wayne, reaches list the numerological characteristics of the suspect.
for his hand and folds angrily. He gets up from the The room of agents stares at her dumbfounded. The
table and walks through the casino, approaching a silent room is awakened Reyes’ cell phone rings,
woman at a slot machine. Mad Wayne only stares and Burdick tells her that she has uncovered
at her and moves off. Watching from across the something strange in the numerology charts.
room is Mr. Burt, playing solitaire at the bar. Mr. Suddenly, Burdick’s front door opens. It’s Mad
Burt nonchalantly says to the bartender, “Seven Wayne.
seven, pack of Morleys.” Mad Wayne sits next to Later, Fordyce questions Reyes at the crime
him at the bar and orders exactly what Mr. Burt scene of Burdick’s hotel room. Although Reyes told
predicted. Mr. Burt strikes up a conversation no one else about consulting Burdick, how did the
parceled with gambling odds and motions to the killer find her and kill her? Fordyce chides Reyes for
woman at the slot machine. When she heads for consulting with a numerologist because a killer acts
the ladies room, Wayne gets off the barstool to on incomprehensible impulses. Yet Reyes questions
follow her. Mr. Burt stops him, indirectly cautioning whether these impulses may be the result of
him to not do what he’s intending to do, but Wayne otherworldly things that no one understands.
ignores this and goes to her. A casino patron Outside the hotel, Mr. Burt is holding a domino tile
screams that a woman has been murdered in the with six dots when Mad Wayne approaches. As
bathroom. Mr. Burt doesn’t even flinch at the turn of Doggett passes the table, Mr. Burt sets the chain
events. He flips another card in his solitaire game to reaction of dominos to fall. Mad Wayne asks Mr.
reveal the Ace of spades – the death card. Burt why he is trying to get him caught. Annoyed
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with Mr. Burt’s insouciance, Wayne walks off to streets. From above, the lights of the world have
avoid the police surrounding the hotel. formed the shape of a familiar face: the smiling Mr.
Scully begins her autopsy of Burdick’s body at Burt.
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 Scary Monsters
forehead. Six freckles on Burdick’s chest are in the
formation of dots on a domino. Scully grabs her Production Code: #9ABX12
microcassette recorder and is spooked that the Original Air Date: 04/14/02
counter reads “666.” Scully rushes to the hotel to Written by Tom Schnauz
inform Reyes that the markings on the victims are Directed by Dwight Little
not three zeros, but the numbers “666,” which is the MONSTERS HIDING UNDER A LITTLE BOY’S BED MAY
sign of the devil. Reyes has discovered that the BE MORE THAN JUST THE PRODUCT OF A VIVID
victims’ numerology charts actually matched IMAGINATION.
Burdick’s chart. However, none of this information
gets them any closer to find the killer. Fordyce’s Eight−year old Tommy Conlon lies awake at night in
profile is no help either, matching every serial killer Fairhope, Pennsylvania, when he hears a scratching
the FBI has hunted. Doggett starts to believe Reyes’ noise coming from underneath his bed. He yells for
numerology claims when he notices on a map that his father, who comes into the bedroom. Jeffrey
the path of the murders forms the number 6. Conlon checks under the bed and sees something
As Scully and Reyes leave the hotel, they share scurry across the floor. Yet he assures his son that
an elevator car with Mad Wayne. As they step out, there is nothing there, and Conlon leaves. Tommy
Scully notices the large devil ring on his finger and hears the noise again and darts for the door.
pulls her gun. Wayne darts back into the elevator, Despite Tommy’s cries, Conlon holds the doorknob
and the agents follow him on the stairs to the on the outside to keep his son from opening it.
underground parking garage. A car exits as they are At Quantico, Scully is approached by Agent
left trapped in the locked garage. They try to use Leyla Harrison (from #8ABX19) who wants to discuss
their cell phones, but can’t get reception in the a case that she thinks might be an X−File. A boy
garage. Scully and Reyes come upon Mr. Burt, who named Tommy Conlon told his grandmother that he
has no identification on him. However, his car trunk believes a monster had killed his mother and that
is filled with thousands of compact disks and a his father is well aware of this. Harrison questions
checkerboard. After failed attempts to shoot the why the coroner had found that the mother stabbed
lock off the garage door, they agree to his invitation herself sixteen times. Strangely, Tommy’s cat was
to play checkers and listen to music. While the also killed. Despite Harrison’s plea, Scully dismisses
agents play each other, they realize that the red and her. Later, Scully receives a call from Reyes who is
black checkers match their hair colors. It then headed to Pennsylvania with Doggett and Harrison.
occurs to them that the suspect has been killing in a When Scully tells her that there is no case, Doggett
succession of three hair colors: blond, redhead, then turns the car around and heads back home. Harrison
brunette. Reyes wonders if they will be his next persists, however, and asks them to at least check
victims, and Scully instinctively pulls her gun on Mr. out whether the little boy is in danger. Doggett
Burt. While Scully and Reyes debate about turns the car around once again toward the Conlon
numerology’s role in these murders and the theory home. When the agents pull up, Conlon, who has
that higher forces move the universe, Mr. Burt only been digging, hides the shovel in his pickup truck.
eggs on their discourse. When Reyes suggests that Reyes asks to speak with Tommy, but Conlon is
perhaps the killer is still in the garage, the lights resistant. Hearing voices, Tommy comes out of the
suddenly go out. They separate, and Scully does not house. Harrison mentions that his grandmother told
hear Reyes struggle with Mad Wayne. Three shots her about the monsters. “No such thing as monsters,”
ring out, and the lights go back on to reveal that Tommy says meekly, and Conlon sends the agents
Doggett has fired at Mad Wayne and saved Reyes. away. As Harrison apologizes, Doggett and Reyes
He figured out from Wayne’s pattern that Scully and conclude that something is indeed suspicious.
Reyes would be the next victims. Scully tries to ask Doggett had noticed blood on the man’s hand and
Wayne about his motive, but the man dies. Mr. Burt, an evidence of digging. The agents get in the car to
however, has vanished. seek a search warrant, but the car does not start.
Later, at 9:09 pm, Scully calls Reyes to ask what Suddenly, blood spits out from the air vents and
her karmic number is. Reyes tells her that she’s a 9, splatters them. They check under the hood. All of
meaning she is a spiritually evolved person. Yet the wiring is mangled and covered in blood. Inside
Scully has one other burning question: who was Mr. the house, Tommy tells his father that the monsters
Burt? “God knows,” Reyes answers. won’t let the agents leave.
Outside the hotel, an Italian feast is being Later that night, Harrison’s friend Gabe Rotter
celebrated as the people happily dance in the brings Tommy’s dead cat to Scully’s apartment. On
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Harrison’s behest, Rotter had dug it up from room, Doggett falls into a black void. He lands at
Conlon’s previous house. Scully begins to wonder if the bottom and is attacked by dozens of the
Harrison really does have an X−File. She autopsies creatures. They cover his body.
the animal and learns that it took its own life. Yet it While Reyes squirms in pain, Harrison begs
appears as if the cat were trying to get at Conlon for help. She suddenly bleeds from her eyes.
something in its stomach to chew it out. Scully Conlon goes upstairs to his son and is stopped by
manages to contact a sheriff in Fairhope and asks Doggett. Doggett tells him that none of these things
him to check on the safety of her colleagues who are really happening. Conlon’s wife believed it was
are missing. The sheriff knows the Conlon house real and stabbed herself to death. Since Doggett did
because he was asked by the grandmother to check not believe it entirely, he could not be harmed.
up on Tommy the previous week. Conlon had Tommy calls for his father, but Conlon does not
threatened the sheriff off his property. respond. Tommy looks out the window to see
Inside the Conlon house, Reyes can not make a Conlon and Doggett aiding Reyes and Harrison to
call from her cell phone even though it has full the car. Doggett returns to the house and spreads
reception. With their car inoperative, the agents are gasoline on the floor. Tommy comes downstairs and
stuck there for the night, but they believe that being accuses Doggett of trying to scare him. Yet Doggett
there will help protect the boy. When they hear tosses a match on the ground to taunt the boy, and
Tommy’s cries, they find Conlon holding a door the living room lights up in flames. For the first time,
closed with Tommy trapped inside. They open the Tommy begins to feel fear. At the same time, Reyes
door to find three creatures crawling on the floor. and Harrison are miraculously healed. As they rush
Although Doggett fires at one, it regenerates into to the house, Scully arrives with Gabe in a
two new creatures. The creatures disappear into the snowplow. The house is unharmed and Tommy has
tiny seam beneath the wall’s molding, and Doggett passed out. Doggett had only drenched the room
can’t find any trace of them in the house. Later, as with water, but Tommy imagined otherwise.
Tommy calmly draws a picture of him standing next Back at the FBI, Harrison innocently praises
to Reyes, he tells the agents that those creatures are Doggett for saving their lives with his lack of
what hurt his mother. Doggett interrogates Conlon, imagination. Reyes tells Scully and Harrison that
who explains that the creatures attacked him as psychiatrists have figured out a way to stifle
well and that they won’t stop until they have killed Tommy’s imagination. In the hospital, Tommy sits in
everyone. a cell before a bank of television sets playing a
Doggett orders Conlon to pack up his son so cacophony of shows at the same time. He has a
that they can all escape the house, but Conlon is blank stare, watching as if he has been
insistent that the monsters will not let them leave. lobotomized.
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 Jump the Shark
when Doggett throws a punch to the man’s ribs, his
fist punctures right through the sheriff’s chest and Production Code: #9ABX15
leaves a gaping hole. The dead sheriff, however, has Original Air Date: 04/21/02
no internal organs and the blood in his body is not Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban
real. Doggett questions Conlon, but the man says and Frank Spotnitz
that he locked Tommy in the room with the Directed by Cliff Bole
creatures because he knew they wouldn’t hurt him. WHEN MORRIS FLETCHER APPROACHES THE AGENTS
Upstairs, Tommy shows Reyes a picture that he WITH INFORMATION RELATED TO SUPERSOLDIERS,
made of the monsters attacking her. She asks why THEY TURN TO THE LONE GUNMEN. THE GUNMEN,
he would draw such a thing. “Because I’m afraid,” he HOWEVER, ARE KNEE−DEEP IN A BIO TERRORIST’S
says. PLOT TO RELEASE A DEADLY TOXIN.
Scully becomes alarmed when she can’t get
through to the sheriff and she drives to Pennsylvania Aboard a private yacht anchored in the Caribbean,
with Gabe. She finds the sheriff very much alive. He former Man in Black Morris Fletcher charms a
tells her that he tried to get to the Conlon house beautiful but empty−headed woman and pulls at the
but that the roads were too dangerous. knot securing her bikini. Suddenly, the sound of a
As Doggett and Harrison realize that the body of racing engine is heard in the distance. Three
the sheriff has disappeared, Reyes comes down the Bahamian men board Fletcher’s boat, abduct the girl
stairs clutching her belly. The creatures writhe and pour gasoline on the deck. One of the men
around under the skin of her abdomen. She tells ignites a road flare and tosses it on board. Fletcher
them that it is Tommy doing it. Conlon explains that dives into the water moments before a massive
he can’t make his son stop imagining things when explosion destroys the craft. Fluttering down in the
he is afraid. Doggett heads upstairs to confront debris are schematics for a flying saucer. The Coast
Tommy, but when he follows the boy to his closed 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 was a terrorist whose research was funded by her
him that the Air Force lost a UFO over the Bermuda father. It turns out that Houghton developed a
Triangle. In reality, Fletcher was only interested in means of keeping himself alive after having been
cruising the Bahamas. The billionaire found out infected with an engineered virus meant to kill
about Fletcher’s scheme and now wants him dead. many people. Only one other such terrorist remains
The agents don’t believe his story and begin to alive – the bald man that Yves tried to kill and the
leave. But when Fletcher claims to have information Gunmen helped escape. The vessel inside the bald
about a Super Soldier, the agents’ interests are man will decay at precisely eight o’clock that
piqued. evening.
Reyes and Doggett show up at the Lone With some help from Kimmy, the Gunmen are
Gunmen offices with a photograph of Fletcher’s able to determine where the bald man named
alleged Super Soldier. The stunned Gunmen Leonard Southhall is headed. When the bald man is
immediately identify her as Yves Adele Harlow, a captured, Doggett runs extensive medical testing,
fellow hacker who disappeared a year earlier, and but he can find no sign of a virus−carrying vessel
they refuse to believe the tale about her being a within his body. Yves insists, however, that there
Super Soldier. They become even more outraged must be a second man carrying the virus. The bald
when they realize that Fletcher – a scam artist who man was only a decoy. The second man, it turns
used them to track down Yves once before – is out, is John Gillnitz, who is about to attend an
behind it all. But Reyes and Doggett are less international bioethics forum at eight o’clock that
reluctant to dismiss Fletcher’s story. If true, it would evening. Yves, Jimmy and the Gunmen race to the
make it more difficult for Mulder to return and forum. When they are stopped by a security guard,
would place Scully’s baby in further jeopardy. Jimmy calls out Gillnitz’s name. Gillnitz leaves his
On a college campus, Yves enters the office of seat and makes his way to a far exit. The Gunmen
biology Professor Houghton. She fires a futuristic− and the others give chase. The Lone Gunmen get to
looking pistol at him, then disappears out a window. Gillnitz first, and because it is nearly time for the
An administrator named John Gillnitz finds virus to be detonated, they take him to a secure
Houghton’s body with a gaping wound across the area with locked exits. The virus can not escape.
middle of its chest. Jimmy Bond shows up at the Unfortunately, they are locked in with him. Jimmy
Gunmen offices unexpectedly. He tells the group and Yves come up, in time to see the lockdown,
that he’d been tracking Yves for some time. He and they frantically try to get the boys out. They
confirms Fletcher’s claim that Yves’ real name is Lois know this and are resolved to their fate. Jimmy’s
Runce. But Jimmy is saddened to give them the eyes well with tears as everyone says their last
news that Yves murdered a college professor. good byes.
Meanwhile, Yves uses a furnace to incinerate an Three caskets lay atop their burial plots in
unidentified human organ that is vacuum−packed in Arlington Cemetery. Skinner had pulled some strings
plastic. to get the Gunmen in there because he felt it was
The agents speak with Gillnitz, who explains the least he could do. Skinner, Doggett, Reyes,
that Houghton was a marine immunologist Scully, Jimmy and Yves are all there, paying their
experimenting with sharks because their remarkable last respects. Kimmy the Geek is also saddened by
immune system allows poisons to pass right through the loss. Scully stands alone beside Yves and Jimmy.
them. Meanwhile, Kimmy the Geek helps the She wonders if the Gunmen really knew how much
Gunmen out by using his hacking expertise. He is they meant to her. Jimmy states that nobody knew
trying to pinpoint Yves’ whereabouts. A medical what heroes they truly were. Scully asks Jimmy and
examiner tells Reyes and Doggett that he Yves whether they consider themselves better
discovered some type of cartilage grafted into persons for having known the Gunmen. They nod.
Houghton’s body. Scully says that the Gunmen will always be with
The Gunmen locate Yves inside a hotel where them.
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 William
handcuff Yves, only to be told they’ve “mucked up”
her operation. She confirms that she is not a Super Production Code: #9ABX17
Soldier. Unless she’s allowed to finish what she Original Air Date: 04/28/02
started, innocent people will die. The Gunmen then Teleplay by Chris Carter
realize that Fletcher is wearing a homing device Story by David Duchovny, Chris Carter
which he planned to activate once Yves was found. and Frank Spotnitz
Fletcher had been out to find her from the very Directed by David Duchovny
beginning at the behest of her father, an SCULLY QUESTIONS WHETHER A DISFIGURED MAN
international arms dealer and renowned “scum of IS REALLY MULDER, BUT THINGS BECOME EVEN
the earth.” Yves explains that the man she killed
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MORE COMPLICATED WHEN THE MYSTERIOUS sneaks into the baby’s room and injects William
STRANGER POSES A THREAT TO HER SON. with an unknown liquid. Later, Scully discovers a
At a remote farm house, a husband and wife eager little blood on William’s sheets and she and realizes
to adopt a child meet with two social workers. As something’s wrong. She rushes the child to a
the husband finishes signing documents finalizing hospital, but doctors cannot find anything out of the
the process, the social workers introduce the couple ordinary. Scully puts the pieces of the puzzle
to their son: Baby William. Outside Scully’s together and confronts The Breather. He reveals that
apartment, a figure with raspy inhalations (“The he is not Mulder, but Mulder’s half−brother, Jeffrey
Breather”), watches from afar as Scully lifts her son Spender, whom the Cigarette−Smoking Man shot in
William out of the car and carries him into the the X−Files office years earlier. Spender’s relation to
apartment building. Later, at the Bureau, Agent Mulder explains why the DNA test was fooled. The
Doggett enters the darkened X−Files office only to Breather explains that he injected William with a
encounter The Breather. A fight ensues, during metallic liquid that turned off his alien qualities. As
which The Breather gains the upper hand. But before William is the one thing the aliens need, Spender
The Breather can escape, Doggett grabs his gun and achieved revenge against his father by transforming
orders the mysterious man to place his hands in the the child into a normal human being. But The
air. The Breather complies, and for the first time we Breather warns that, as long as the aliens know
get a good look at his disfigured face. Scully is where William lives, he will never be safe.
called to the office, where Doggett briefs her on the The scene returns to the opening teaser, where
case. The Breather says that his real name is Daniel the couple is adjusting to their newest addition. The
Miller. He also claims that he entered the FBI husband hangs a hand−carved mobile of some
building by using an access card that Mulder gave buffalo over the baby’s crib. After the father leaves
to him. He is searching for answers about his the room, William reaches up, but the mobile does
disfigurement, which he blames on the government’s not spin on its own.
secret research. The agents quiz their captive about
Mulder, and it soon becomes apparent that he’s
intimately familiar with Mulder’s life. Release
Scully removes various prostheses covering The
Breather’s face. The Breather tells her that his scars Production Code: #9ABX16
are the result of being injected with an unknown Original Air Date: 05/05/02
substance. Meanwhile, Doggett attempts to verify Teleplay by David Amann
The Breather’s claim that his name is Daniel Miller. Story by David Amann and John Shiban
When he is unable to do so, he begins to suspect Directed by Kim Manners
that the Breather may in fact be Mulder. Scully, ONE OF SCULLY’S STUDENTS DISPLAYS AN
however, refuses to believe this is true. Scully tells INORDINATE ABILITY TO PROFILE SERIAL KILLERS,
The Breather that the FBI knows his name isn’t AND HIS INSIGHTS RE−OPEN THE MURDER CASE OF
Daniel Miller. He confirms this is true – but refuses DOGGETT’S SON.
to divulge his real name. Scully runs a DNA test, Doggett makes his way inside an abandoned
hoping it will definitively answer questions about apartment building in a deserted part of town. A
The Breather’s identity. The Breather then claims figure bolts out of one of the rooms and flees into
that his scars are the result of the government’s the night. Shortly thereafter, Doggett hears a
failed attempt to turn him into an alien. When The scratching sound and steps up to a wall, which is
Breather tells the agents the files he was looking for wet with plaster. He claws away at the plaster until
were not in the X−Files office, Scully admits that she ribbons of red blood begin streaming downward.
removed them. Scully, Reyes and The Breather make With some help from morgue assistant Diener,
their way to Scully’s apartment, where The Breather Scully performs an autopsy on the body Doggett
asks to hold Scully’s baby. She allows him to do so. found behind the wet plaster. She reviews her
Later, Scully tells Reyes and Doggett that Mulder findings with her class of FBI cadets. One of the
knew that the files were stored in her apartment – cadets, Rudolph Hayes, accurately surmises that the
casting doubt on Doggett’s theory that Mulder is victim, a female with a large quantity of alcohol in
The Breather. Later, Doggett shows up at the her bloodstream, hooked up with the wrong man at
apartment with results from the DNA test – which a bar. Using Hayes’ uncanny insights, Scully realizes
prove that Mulder is The Breather. But Scully refuses that the Jane Doe’s murder is connected to another
to believe this. killing that took place two weeks earlier. When
The Breather suddenly runs off and Doggett Doggett learns this, he wonders why someone
gives chase. The Breather briefly takes refuge would have tipped him off about the murder to
behind a dumpster before he’s caught. Doggett and begin with, as it is clearly not an X−Files case. Later,
Reyes bring The Breather back to Scully’s apartment, Doggett and Reyes approach Hayes at an FBI facility
where he’s handed two pills to help him sleep. But designed for studying body composition. Hayes tells
The Breather doesn’t swallow them. Instead, he
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them the killer they are looking for is a felon linked inner workings and help them solve the case. He
to organized crime. This contradicts the profile that then tells Doggett that Regali murdered young Luke
the agents had put together. Aided by Hayes’ profile, Doggett. Doggett approaches Regali at the bar.
Reyes and Doggett travel to a bar where they Regali tells him a “hypothetical” story, one in which
question Nicholas Regali, a tough mobster who a pedophile walks off with a young boy and brings
claims he’s in town looking for work. Hayes’ him back to a mobster’s home. The mobster walks
intuition about Regali proves correct. Meanwhile, in on the pedophile, and the young boy sees the
Hayes returns to his apartment, the walls of which mobster’s face. Fearing the young boy might
are covered with crime scene photos of murder associate him with the crime, the mobster has him
victims. One of them is Doggett’s son. killed. Regali then rises and walks towards the exit.
Doggett is so impressed by Hayes’ gift for Filled with rage, Doggett unsnaps his holster. As
solving crimes that he asks him to look into his Regali steps outside, a gunshot rings out. But it turns
son’s murder. Hayes takes Doggett to his apartment out that Follmer – not Doggett – fired the round,
and shows him the photographs that cover the which kills Regali.
walls. He tells Doggett that if he sits very quietly, The mystery of their son’s death now closed,
the photographs tell him things. Hayes also admits Doggett and his wife make their way to a beach
that he has been following the case of Doggett’s and scatter their son’s ashes into the water.
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 Sunshine Days
Doggett’s son, but that Regali killed him. A short
time later, Doggett approaches Brad Follmer, who Production Code: #9ABX18
used to work in the FBI’s New York organized crime Original Air Date: 05/12/02
division, and asks him to look into any connection Written and Directed by Vince Gilligan.
between Regali and Robert Harvey. Doggett goes to ONE MAN’S OBSESSION WITH A 1970s SITCOM
his ex−wife, Barbara. Since she was nearby when COMBINED WITH HIS REMARKABLE TELEKINETIC
their son was abducted, Doggett hopes that she will ABILITY LEAD THE AGENTS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY
be able to identify the killer from a police lineup. HAVE DISCOVERED PROOF FOR THE ULTIMATE X−
Barbara is reluctant, but nonetheless complies. FILE.
However, she does not recognize Regali.
Meanwhile, Scully finds similarities between the In Van Nuys, California, two young slackers, Blake
wounds inflicted on Doggett’s son nine years earlier and Mike, sit on the hood of an old car and enjoy a
and those found on the bodies of the two women. beer. Blake tells his friend that nearby is the house
Later, Follmer arranges for Doggett to have used to shoot the 1970s television series The Brady
access to files pulled from the New York task force Bunch.
investigation of Regali. Doggett finds it odd that Mike strongly disagrees with the claim, and a
despite Regali’s connection to numerous illegal few moments later both men sneak inside the house
activities, he has served little jail time since the late for a better look. Mike is stunned to realize that the
80s. Doggett begins to suspect that someone within interior of the house is exactly like the home from
the FBI is on the take. Later, Reyes approaches the TV show.
Follmer and tells him that she witnessed him taking A football bounces down the staircase. Blake
money from a mobster many years earlier. Follmer picks it up, remembering an episode in which the
insists that what Reyes saw was him giving money character Marcia broke her nose after being hit in
to a police informant, a transaction documented in the face with a football. Freaked out, Mike runs off.
FBI files. Follmer then tells Reyes and Doggett that But Blake walks up the staircase, where he comes
Rudolph Hayes died in an automobile accident in face to face with two young children who resemble
1978. Cadet Hayes’ real name is really Stuart two other character, Bobby and Cindy. Suddenly,
Mimms, a mental patient. Follmer also uncovers Blake’s body crashes down onto the roof of the car
evidence that Mimms had been living in New York Mike is sitting in.
City at the time Doggett’s son was murdered. Doggett and Reyes investigate the strange death,
A SWAT team storms Mimm’s apartment and made all the more bizarre by Mike’s claim that his
takes him into custody. Mimms is placed in a police friend was murdered after venturing inside the
lineup. Barbara identifies him. Follmer has a secret Brady Bunch house. The agents escort Mike to the
meeting with Regali. As they converse, it becomes front door of the home, where they speak with the
clear that Follmer took money from Regali to make owner, Oliver Martin. At first, Martin does not give
an indictment go away. Mimms tells Scully that he them permission to enter the dwelling. But when
was drawn to the Doggett case only after he Doggett threatens to get a search warrant, Martin
noticed an article about the boy’s murder in a relents and allows the agents to enter. Mike is
newspaper. He claims he lied to the FBI to become flabbergasted when he realizes the inside of the
a cadet so that he could have access to the Bureau’s 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 the agents that Oliver’s discovery will ensure that
shingles. Doggett realizes that the roof of the home the X−Files will never be shut down. But later, Oliver
has been freshly patched. He begins to speculate experiences a seizure and is rushed to a hospital. It
that Blake somehow flew through the roof. While turns out that Oliver actually suffers from a multi−
performing an autopsy on Blake’s body, Scully system organ failure. Doctors try everything in their
notices static electricity emanating from a steel power to save him, but nothing seems to work.
scalpel. She informs Doggett and Reyes that she When Doggett wonders why Fogelman chose the
hooked an EEG machine to Blake’s body and found Brady Bunch, Reyes concludes that the Bradys are
evidence of residual electricity, but that she isn’t the family that everyone wishes they had.
sure what that means. Mike sneaks to the front of Eventually, Rietz realizes that Fogelman was
Martin’s house and peers through a small crack happiest when he was around. Rietz represented a
between the curtains. He sees six kids – three girls father figure to him. Rietz apologizes to Fogelman
and three boys – having dinner with a mother and a for treating him like a lab rat, and he makes
father. A woman in blue carries a casserole dish to Fogelman promise to never again use his powers.
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. The Truth
Suddenly, he rockets upward and crashes through
the ceiling. Production Codes: #9ABX19/20
Scully arranges a meeting with Dr. John Rietz, a Original Air Date: 05/19/02
parapsychologist who documented the strange case Written by Chris Carter
of “Oliver Martin” in 1970. Oliver’s name then was Directed by Kim Manners
Anthony Fogelman. Fogelman was dubbed the MULDER’S RETURN LEADS TO HIS BEING TRIED
“Mozart of psychokinesis.” He possesses BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL THAT SEEKS TO
otherworldly powers that allow him to move JUSTIFY AND PROVE THE VERY EXISTENCE OF AN
objects with his mind. Rietz describes Fogelman as ALIEN CONSPIRACY – AND THE X−FILES.
“a lonely little boy.” As Fogelman grew up, his
powers faded. Rietz phones Fogleman’s home in an At the Mount Weather complex in Bluemont,
attempt to set up a meeting with him. Instead, the Virginia, Mulder surreptitiously makes his way
answering machine picks up. A short time later, the through a maze of corridors until he locates a data
agents realize that “Oliver Martin” was the name of room containing a computer terminal. Mulder
Carol Brady’s nephew, who lived with the Brady punches in an access code, but before he’s able to
family during the show’s last season. The character proceed much further, super−soldier Knowle Rohrer
was something of a pest and jinx. Scully wonders if appears and a fight ensues. The superhumanly
that’s how Fogelman views himself. Before the case strong Rohrer tosses Mulder through a large glass
goes any further, Scully suggests that Fogelman screen. Mulder picks himself up and heads for an
needs to be studied because his powers could help exit, only to encounter Alex Krycek, who was
expand human knowledge and change the world. formerly thought to be dead. Krycek helps Mulder
Doggett and Reitz enter Fogleman’s house and escape, but during another encounter with Rohrer,
Doggett is levitated off the floor before crashing Mulder gains the advantage and tosses Rohrer over
through the ceiling. a railing, sending the Super Soldier crashing into
When Doggett regains consciousness, he realizes electrical wires. Moments later, military officers
he’s stuck upside down in the attic of the house, take Mulder into custody.
which served as Greg Brady’s bedroom in the show. Mulder is placed in a military brig and brutally
As Doggett calls for help, Rietz tries reasoning with interrogated by a guard. Meanwhile, Scully and
Fogelman and urges him to relax. Suddenly, Doggett Skinner receive word that Mulder is being held
crashes through the hallway ceiling. Later, the agents indefinitely for Rohrer’s murder. When Scully and
meet with Oliver, who says he simply thinks about Skinner meet with Mulder, it appears as if he’s been
things and places. They then appear in real life. To beaten into submission. On Scully’s behalf, Kersh
prove his point, Oliver concentrates for a few approaches General Suveg and asks that Mulder be
seconds and the Brady Bunch living room transforms treated fairly and humanely. Suveg responds by
into scenic grasslands. Amazed, Scully asks Oliver to allowing the FBI to conduct its own hearing within
come to Washington so that scientists can learn the confines of a military court. Later, Scully and
more about him. But as Oliver prepares to leave the Skinner return to Mulder’s cell, only to realize that
house, a wave of electricity crawls over his wrist Mulder has returned with his usual wit. He had only
and hand, indicating something is very wrong. been putting on an act during her first visit. Mulder
The agents escort Oliver to the FBI, where kisses Scully passionately. He asks Skinner to act as
Oliver demonstrates his enormous power by his defense attorney because he is intimately
levitating Skinner in the air. A scientist, Dr. Henry familiar with the details of both the government
Jacocks, looks on, amazed at the sight. Skinner tells conspiracy and the alien invasion. Moments later,
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Reyes and Doggett join the group. Doggett relays developed Super Soldiers, a group of seemingly
word that the government has possession of indestructible men. Knowle Rohrer was one of
Rohrer’s body. Scully asks Mulder why he was them. Doggett also believes that Rohrer cannot be
inside the secret facility at Mount Weather. Mulder dead because a Super Solider can only be killed
refuses to shed light on the subject. using a form of magnetite brought to Earth by a
Mulder’s trial gets underway in the military falling meteor. Monica Reyes takes the witness
courtroom. The prosecution is headed by Special stand next. She describes how she protected a
Agent Kallenbrunner, who worked as a federal pregnant Scully by driving her to a remote location
prosecutor before joining the FBI. Kallenbrunner in Georgia. Reyes later came to learn that Scully
does not call any witnesses. Instead, he offers the was one of a number of random women who had
sworn testimony of thirty witnesses who saw been abducted by the government as part of a
Mulder kill Rohrer. Since Skinner’s central witness, program to secretly manipulate their biology in
Marita Covarrubias, cannot be immediately located, hopes of producing a slave race of aliens. Scully
he calls Scully to the stand. She describes how a later gave up her baby for adoption in hopes of
meteor crashed to earth in prehistoric times, protecting it.
bringing with it not only the building blocks of life, Doggett informs Scully and Reyes that Knowle
but an alien virus that lay dormant for thousands of Rohrer’s body is being sent to Quantico. Scully
years. The U.S. government learned of its existence performs a preliminary examination of the badly−
in 1947 when a UFO crashed in Roswell, New burned corpse. She requests medical records so that
Mexico. The virus, which thrived in petroleum oil she can identify the body. Later, Scully enters the
deposits, communicated with spacecrafts. When the military courtroom and presents her findings. The
government studied the alien technology in the corpse is not Rohrer, but another man whose neck
crashed UFO, it learned of the alien plan to was broken. Kersh rules that Scully did not have
colonize Earth. The government then set about authorization to perform such an autopsy, and he
creating a breed of human/alien hybrids that the orders her removed from the courtroom. Shortly
aliens would use as a slave race. Skinner then calls thereafter, Mulder is found guilty of murder and
Mulder’s half−brother, Jeffrey Spender, to the stand. sentenced to die by lethal injection. Skinner and
He explains that the aliens distrusted their human Doggett gain access to Mulder’s cell and help
collaborators and forced members of the conspiracy Mulder escape. But the very−much−alive Knowle
to hand over family members as human collateral. Rohrer discovers the plan, and orders the building
Mulder’s sister, Samantha, vanished as a result. be sealed off. Kersh comes to their aid, and once
Mulder spent many years attempting to track her Mulder has escaped from the building, Kersh tells
down, but she was experimented upon and died in him to head north to Canada with Scully. They
1987. instead drive south. Meanwhile, Doggett and Reyes
Meanwhile, in the New Mexico desert, a young discover that the X−Files office has been emptied.
boy warns Gibson Praise that Mulder is in serious Skinner concludes that the government is punishing
trouble. Back at the military brig, X shows up them for taking Mulder’s side during the trial. A
unexpectedly. He gives Mulder a piece of paper short time later, Gibson Praise tells Reyes, Doggett
containing Marita Covarrubias’ address. Covarrubias and Skinner that the aliens working within the
is brought to the court and testifies that she government are aware that Mulder is not headed to
conspired with members of the Syndicate to Canada. When this faction finds Mulder and Scully,
develop an alien virus vaccine before the Russians they will kill them.
developed one. But Covarrubias was turned into a With some help from the presumed−dead Lone
test subject and grew to hate the men she once Gunmen, Mulder and Scully drive to the Texas−New
worked for. She explains that a group of renegade, Mexico border and head for some Pueblo ruins,
faceless aliens destroyed a vaccine that the mysteriously abandoned by Anasazi Indians two
Syndicate was creating. These same renegades thousand years earlier. Mulder explains that he had
killed off members of the once−powerful Syndicate. been sent a message and a key to the government
Despite protests from Mulder, Skinner introduces facility at Mount Weather by an Indian. The Indian
Gibson Praise as a witness. Skinner explains that said it came from a wise man who lives among in
Gibson possesses the ability to read people’s minds, the ruins – the keeper of the truth. An old woman
caused by the byproduct of functional junk DNA leads the agents to a room, where the Cigarette
believed to be of alien origin. Gibson turns his Smoking Man (CSM) sits. CSM explains that aliens
attention to a panel judge and tells everyone in fear the ruins for its geology. It contains high levels
attendance that the man is not human. Guards of magnetite, the same metal that brought down the
surround an irate Mulder and pull him from the original UFO in Roswell decades earlier. Indian wise
courtroom. men hid on the site to protect themselves from the
Skinner calls Doggett to the witness stand. aliens. CSM says that the date of the final alien
Though a self−described skeptic, Doggett believes in invasion will be December 22, 2012 – the same date
the existence of a secret military project that
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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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