THES XFILES Episode Guide

This page is for those of you that do not watch the X-Files

I will put up information on every single episode made to date.

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Special Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and instructor at the FBI Academy

in Virginia, receives instructions to report to Chief Scott Blevins in Washington.

Blevins assigns Scully to investigate--and debunk--an unassigned project dubbed

"The X-Files," a burial ground for mysterious, unsolved FBI cases linked to the

Scully is instructed to contact Fox Mulder, an agent who has become obsessed

with investigating the otherwise forgotten X-File cases. Mulder displays a

particular interest in a series of mysterious deaths scattered across the United

States linked by one common clue: two strange red marks on the victims' skin.

Mulder and Scully fly to Bellefleur, Oregon, to investigate the death of Karen

Swenson, a high school student who died mysteriously, and whose corpse is

marked with two red welts. The agents exhume the body of Ray Soames, one of

Karen's classmates. When Soames' casket is opened, however, a strange

humanoid carcass is discovered inside. The corpse turns out to be that of an

orangutan, and X-rays reveal an unidentified metal object implanted in the

Mulder and Scully question Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell, classmates of

Swenson and Soames who were injured in an automobile accident and have

since been institutionalized. Miles has been reduced to a near vegetable state,

while O'Dell has been confined to a wheelchair. O'Dell suddenly becomes violent,

and in the struggle to subdue her, two red marks are discovered on her skin.

While searching the field where Karen Swenson met her fate, the agents are

confronted by a detective who orders them off the premises. The pair comply, but

as they drive along the highway, they are blinded by a strange light from the sky.

The light drains the energy from their car, bringing it to a halt. Mulder looks at his

watch and realizes nine minutes cannot be accounted for.

The pair return to their motel where Mulder tells Scully that his interest in the

X-Files stems from his childhood when his sister, who was then eight years old,

was abducted from their bedroom while he slept. Mulder says that he could not

recall any of the incident until placed under hypnosis years later.

An anonymous phone call tips the agents that Peggy O'Dell was killed as she

ran along the highway. While investigating the incident, the agents are informed

that the autopsy bay was vandalized. They return to the hotel to find their rooms

have been set ablaze, destroying all evidence gathered in the case.

The agents are confronted by Theresa Nemman, daughter of the coroner who

originally performed the autopsies on the victims. She admits she too bears the

red marks on her skin, and describes how a bright light appeared in the sky the

evening she was hanging out with her friends Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell.

Mulder hypothesizes that Billy Miles is under the control of an alien force. He

adds his belief that Billy killed Peggy O'Dell. The agents return to the forest

hoping to gather more evidence. Detective Miles attempts to stop them, and both

he and Mulder witness Billy carrying Theresa to the spot in the woods where the

other bodies had been found. A mysterious light illuminates Billy, and a strong

wind swirls around him. Moments later the light fades and the winds die, and

Billy stands over Theresa not knowing where he is or how he got there. The welts

After returning to Washington, Scully gives her report. Much to the surprise of her

supervisors, the metal object removed from the corpse was not destroyed with all

of the other evidence. Scully kept it on her person and turns it into them as the

single remaining piece of physical evidence of what had transpired. The metal

object is taken by The Cigarette-Smoking Man and filed away alongside several

others inside a massive government warehouse in the basement of the Pentagon.

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Mulder and Scully investigate the strange disappearance of Lieutenant Colonel

Robert Budahas, a test pilot for the military who experienced a psychotic

episode and was supposedly hospitalized for treatment. Mulder suspects that

Budahas may have met the same fate as six other pilots who mysteriously

vanished from Ellens Air Base while participating in experimental aircraft test

flights. Mulder hints to Scully that the disappearance may be linked to the

paranormal-classifying it as an "X-File" case.

Mulder is approached by a mysterious man--dubbed "Deep Throat"--who advises

that the investigation be dropped. However, Mulder and Scully ignore the advice

and interview Mrs. Budahas, who describes her husband's unpredictable

behavior, strange skin rash and aversion to discussing this work on the military's

top secret projects. The agents theorize the pilots may have been associated

with Project Aurora, a code name given the Pentagon's secret testing of

sub-orbital spy craft. Aided by tips from reporter Paul Mossinger and UFO buff

Ladonna, the agents stake out a fenced area near the base. That night, Mulder

and Scully watch in amazement as two brightly lit objects shoot through the

night sky maneuvering at incredibly speed. The agents give chase when two

teenagers, Emil and Zoe, are spotted climbing through a hole from the opposite

side of the fence. Soon the hunters become the hunted when a helicopter from

the base bears down on the group. The foursome escape, retreating to a

restaurant where Zoe and Emil recount tales of watching the light show.

Mulder tells a disbelieving Scully that the military may be flying planes built using

technology from a UFO. Mrs. Budahas phones the agents at their hotel when her

husband suddenly reappears. The Lieutenant Colonel, however cannot remember

any details having to do with his past and the military. Mulder tells Scully he

believes Budahas' memory has somehow been drained, and that he--like the

other missing pilots who tested the mysterious aircraft--are physiologically

incapable of dealing with the stress created during the flights.

The agents are approached by men who seize their evidence and order them to

leave town. Mulder instead returns to the base, and using Emil and Zoe as

guides, climbs through the hole in the fence. Alone on the base, Mulder is

spotted by an apparent UFO and taken prisoner by base security that suddenly

arrives. He is then sedated and treated by mysterious figures acting as doctors.

Scully is attacked by Mossinger, who she discovers has been working for the

military all along. Scully overpowers him, taking him hostage at gunpoint. She

uses Mossinger to find Mulder, and when she learns he is in custody of the

military, trades Mossinger in return for Mulder. When he is returned to her, he is

unable to recall his encounter with the UFO or what happened while he was on

the base seemingly because of the treatment they gave him.

Back in Washington, Mulder is once again approached by Deep Throat while

jogging. Deep Throat warns Mulder that the agents have chosen a very

dangerous path and their lives are in danger now that they know the truth about

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FBI Agent Tom Colton describes to Scully a series of murders he believes were

committed by a serial killer. The victims were all murdered inside locked or

secured rooms. Each had their liver ripped out of their body.

Despite Colton's discomfort, Mulder is brought onto the case. Mulder finds

strange humanoid fingerprints at the high-security office building where

businessman George Usher was murdered. Mulder links the prints to similar

killings that occurred in the United States every thirty years, going back to at

least 1903. In each occurrence, five victims had their livers torn out.

Instead of combining forces, Scully and Mulder decide to take different avenues

of investigating the case: Scully the traditional; Mulder the unorthodox. At the

scene of the Usher murder, Mulder assures Scully that the suspect would not

return, having already beaten the security system. He thinks the killer would

seek a new challenge. But as they talk, Mulder discovers someone crawling

inside an air duct. The suspect, an Animal Control officer named Eugene Tooms,

is taken into custody. Tooms passes a polygraph test, but not those questions

Mulder suspects Tooms is the killer. Using a computer, he manipulates the

image of Tooms' fingerprints, elongating them. They are compared to the prints

from 1933. The prints match. Scully is intrigued and re-teams with Mulder on the

Tooms attacks and kills another victim guarded by high-tech security equipment.

Tooms disappears; Scully and Mulder find that his apartment was never lived in.

Scully tracks down Frank Briggs, the sheriff who investigated the five murders

that occurred in 1933. Briggs describes how he tracked the murders until the

present day, but was never able to prove his belief that Tooms was the killer.

The agents locate an abandoned building that Tooms once listed as his address.

Inside they discover a small room containing "trophies" taken from each crime

scene throughout the century. Mulder speculates that Tooms may be a genetic

mutation that hibernates for decades and eats human livers to provide

sustenance. As they leave the scene, Tooms procures Scully's necklace.

Scully arranges a stake-out of the abandoned building, but Colton calls it off

without informing Mulder. Mulder arrives at the building, and finding no undercover

agents, ventures inside. He finds Scully's necklace placed with the other

Mulder races to Scully's apartment and finds her grappling with Tooms. Mulder

draws his weapon and, with Scully's help, manages to handcuff Tooms. He is

taken to jail, where he begins assembling a new "nest.

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When a teenaged girl, Ruby, is mysteriously abducted from a campsite in Iowa,

Mulder has a particular emotional investment in the case -- especially in light of

his belief that his own sister was abducted. Ruby's brother Kevin has been

behaving strangely ever since the abduction, and has taken to continuously

writing down series of 1's and 0's. Mulder sends the writing to some analysts

back in Washington, and the boy and his mother are promptly taken into

custody. Kevin's scribblings are actually the binary transmissions of a defense

Scully thinks Ruby may have been murdered, and she believes that Mulder is

allowing his personal feelings to cloud his judgment. Yet when the agents return

to Ruby's home, they find Kevin arranging countless pages of binary code on the

floor. When Scully looks down from a stairway, she is shocked to see that the

numbers have formed a giant portrait of Ruby.

Ruby suddenly reappears in the woods and is unconscious. In the hospital, she

exhibits symptoms of having been weightless for a prolonged period of time. But

instead of subjecting her daughter to scrutiny, their mother takes the children

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Mulder and Scully investigate the gruesome murder of Roger Crockett, a

homeless man who was attacked and partially eaten in a wooded area outside

Atlantic City. Mulder believes the death is related to a similar incident that

occurred in New Jersey in 1947, in which a motorist was attacked and eaten by

a half-human creature as he attempted to fix a flat tire.

The agents travel to the Atlantic City morgue to gather more information. They

clash with Detective Thompson, the local police official in charge of the

investigation. Unphased, Mulder decides to perform an investigation on his own.

He interviews Ranger Brullet, who discovered the body, and a homeless man

named Jack, who knew the victim. Both believe Crockett was killed by The

Jersey Devil, a legendary half-human creature that roams the New Jersey

countryside. Meanwhile, Scully attends her godson's birthday party, where she

Mulder stakes out a dark alley near the woods where Jack claims the Devil has

been prowling. That night, the creature makes an appearance, but before Mulder

gets a good look at it, the police arrive and arrest him, mistaking him at first for a

At the jail, Mulder again clashes with Thompson, accusing him of keeping the

creature a secret so as not to upset tourism in Atlantic City. Scully bails Mulder

out of jail and the duo travel to the University of Maryland, where Dr. Roger

Diamond affirms Mulder's theory that a human being might at birth revert to its

most primal instincts-devolving into a carnivorous Neanderthal. Scully,

Ranger Brullet finds another body in the backwoods, but this time the corpse

appears to be half-animal. Mulder theorizes that two such creatures may have

roamed the countryside. He and Scully comb an abandoned building for the Devil

as the police fan out to capture them. Mulder manages to allude police long

enough to locate the second creature, which turns out to be female. She

suddenly attacks and wounds Mulder and escapes into the woods.

Police track the creature and kill it, despite Mulder's plea to take it alive. An

autopsy report confirms the female creature recently gave birth, leading Mulder to

conclude it came to the city in search of food scraps for its young after its mate

died. Some time later, a feral child peeks out from a small den as hikers pass

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.Officials from a mysterious government agency question Mulder and Scully about

two recently discovered male cadavers. The victims appear to have died after

their throats were crushed from inside their bodies. When the officials refuse to

elaborate on the case, Mulder feigns ignorance and does not link the deaths to

an existing X-File. He later admits to Scully, however, that he lied to the

government men. Mulder attributes the deaths to psychokinesis-the ability of a

Without help from the government officials, Mulder and Scully begin an

investigation on their own and trace the murders to Philadelphia. Working with

local police, they are taken to the crime scene. The agents realize a security

camera at a nearby automated bank machine may have recorded the murders.

They find footage of the victims accosting Lauren Kyte, an employee of HTG

Industrial Technologies. Working with bank records, the agents access Lauren's

home address and pay her a visit. Lauren claims the men tried to grab her

paycheck and she fled, escaping without injury. Coming up empty-handed, the

agents get into their car and prepare to drive away. Suddenly, the vehicle snaps

into reverse at full speed. It careens down a street and collides with another car.

Mulder and Scully escape with minor injuries. Mulder tells Scully that he believes

Lauren was somehow responsible for the mishap.

While surveying Lauren's house, Mulder accidentally photographs a strange

image at her window. Using computer enhancement, the image turns out to be

the form of Lauren's dead boss, Howard Graves.

Lauren is attacked in her home by two hit men. Before the assailants can harm

Lauren, a mysterious force intervenes and kills them. Mulder and Scully arrive

shortly thereafter and detain her for questioning. Lauren finally confesses the

incredible truth: her boss, Howard Graves, was murdered by co-worker Robert

Dorland after he threatened to expose HTG Technologies for selling restricted

parts to Isfahan terrorists. Graves' spirit returned from the dead, and has been

The F.B.I. raids HTG Technologies, hoping to uncover evidence of the illegal parts

sales. When the agents come up empty-handed, Graves' psychic force

materializes and rips a hole in the wall of Dorland's office, exposing a hidden

diskette. The U.S. Attorney's office uses the new evidence to prosecute Dorland.

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Mulder and Scully are approached by Special Agent Jerry Lamana, who is on

probation for mishandling an important case. Lamana explains that he has been

assigned to investigate the murder of Benjamin Drake, the CEO of a Fortune 500

company called Eurisko. Drake was electrocuted when he fell victim to an

elaborate boobytrap devised by someone with intimate knowledge of the Central

Operating System (COS) at Eurisko's high rise headquarters. Afraid of

mishandling yet another important case, Lamana successfully lobbies Mulder

The agents are told by Peterson, the Eurisko building's system engineer, that

one of the few people who has access to the building's sophisticated control

center is Brad Wilczek, the 30-year-old founder of the company and Drake's arch

enemy. Using a voice analyzer, Scully determines that Wilczek disguised his

own voice electronically and telephoned Drake moments before his death...

Lamana drives to the Eurisko building to make the arrest. The elevator Lamana

rides in reaches the 29th floor and suddenly drops at fantastic speed, crashing

into the ground. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Wilczek had been hard at

work on developing a computer possessing Artificial Intelligence - a thinking

machine. Though Wilczek is arrested for the deaths of Drake and Lamana, and

even signs a confession, Mulder believes him innocent. From his jail cell,

Wilczek admits to Mulder that COS is an intelligent machine. He explains that

when Drake made overtures to shut the system down, COS eliminated him in

Mulder convinces Wilczek to develop a computer virus that will shut down the

system. Armed with the virus, Mulder and Scully gain entrance to the Eurisko

building. COS anticipates their every move and turns the building's electrical

With Peterson's assistance, Mulder makes his way to the main control room. As

Mulder is about to insert the computer disk into the system, Peterson pulls out a

gun and demands he stand back. Peterson admits he is an operative for the

Defense Department-a government agency eager for Artificial Intelligence

technology. Scully enters and pulls her gun, gaining the upper hand. Peterson

drops his weapon. Mulder inserts the computer disk and engages the virus. COS

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Mulder and Scully view a videotape recorded by two geophysicists who were part

of the Antarctic Ice Core Project, a scientific expedition sanctioned by the United

States Government. Their mission was to drill deep into the Arctic ice and collect

core samples that date the Earth's climate as far back as the Dawn of Man.

Something went wrong during the expedition, leaving the team dead and the two

Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. They are teamed with

Dr. Denny Murphy, a geologist; Doctor Lawrence Hodge, a physician, and Doctor

Nancy Da Silva, a toxicologist. The group boards a plane piloted by Bear, a

rugged man who wears a bear claw around his neck.

When the group arrives at the Arctic compound, they busily set about

documenting their grisly surroundings. Scattered around the site are the bodies

of scientists from the previous expedition, all of whom died mysterious, violent

A dog suddenly springs from the darkness and jumps onto Mulder. Bear

intercedes, and in the process of pulling the animal off Mulder, he is bitten. The

dog is sedated, and during an examination, a worm-like organism is discovered

Scully's autopsies reveal that the scientists from the previous expedition-except

for the two who committed suicide-killed each other. Examination of ice core

samples leads to the conclusion that the first team tapped into the remnants of a

meteor that collided with the Earth thousands of years in the past. When the

scientists came in contact with the core samples, they exposed themselves to

an alien organism that had remained dormant beneath the Arctic Ice.

When Bear is told his blood and stool samples must be analyzed to ensure the

parasite has not infected him, he refuses to cooperate. A scuffle ensues, and as

the others pin Bear down, Hodge discovers-and surgically removes-one of the

parasites from his body. When the worm is removed, however, Bear dies.

The scientists theorize that the parasite feeds on a chemical that controls

aggressive behavior, leading the first team of geophysicists to kill one another.

Paranoia within the group builds to a fever pitch when a severe storm ends radio

Mulder discovers Murphy's body stuffed inside a refrigerator, his throat cut. The

others suspect that Mulder may be the killer and padlock him inside a supply

While performing an experiment, Hodge accidentally mixes blood samples from

two different infected hosts. To his surprise, the parasitic organisms attack and

kill one another. The scientists infect the dog that attacked Bear with a second

Mulder convinces Scully that he is not infected. When they exit the supply room,

the pair are jumped by Da Silva and Hodge, who pin Mulder to the ground and

lower the last worm to his ear. But Hodge is horrified when he discovers the

parasite wriggling beneath Da Silva's skin. The others hold Da Silva down while

The group is rescued and flown to another base. Mulder announces he is

returning to the site to perform more tests. Hodge informs him that the military

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Michelle Generoo, the mission control communication commander for the Space

Shuttle program, arranges for a secret meeting with Mulder and Scully. She

produces an X-ray of the shuttle's Auxiliary Power Unit valve that she believes

was tampered with. A shuttle mission was scrubbed at the last possible second

when the valve malfunctioned, narrowly averting disaster. Where the X-ray came

from, and how the incredibly strong valve could have been tampered with,

remains a mystery, though NASA attributes the malfunction to simple

mechanical failure. Fearing NASA might overlook the possibility of sabotage to

maintain launch schedule, Generoo decided to step forward on her own.

The agents meet with Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt, a former

astronaut who flew on the Gemini Eight mission and is now the current Space

Shuttle Program Director. Belt insists that because of tight security and the

sophisticated technology involved, it would be impossible for anyone to sabotage

When the next shuttle achieves orbit around the Earth, a technical problem

develops. Generoo, whose husband is one of the astronauts aboard the ship,

races back to Mission Control in her car. She loses control of her vehicle when a

fog bank forms into a sinister face and rushes toward her windshield.

Mulder and Scully rescue Generoo and return with her to Mission Control. They

find technicians attempting to rotate the shuttle before it overheats and burns in

orbit. Belt orders telemetry signals to be halted, then instructs the astronauts to

fly the ship using the onboard computer. Despite some anxious moments, the

astronauts correct the problem and regain contact with Mission Control.

A mysterious force that resembles the famous "Mars Face" emanates from

Belt's body and floats into outer space. It engulfs the shuttle, creating an oxygen

leak aboard the vessel. Belt orders the shuttle astronauts to don space suits and

deploy their payload. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt considers the

success of the mission more important than the astronaut's lives.

Belt begins having seizures and Mulder and Scully rush to his aid. Generoo

assumes command of the mission and orders the shuttle to return to Earth. Belt,

however, insists that the ship will burn up upon reentry unless it changes its

trajectory by 35 degrees. Generoo becomes convinced that Belt is telling the

truth. She gives the order to change trajectory, saving the shuttle.

Belt suffers another seizure. He jumps from his hospital window, plummeting to

his death. Mulder speculates that when Belt orbited the Earth in his Gemini

capsule years earlier, he was possessed by an alien spirit, and has been fighting

to regain control of his body ever since. The force used Belt to sabotage

numerous space missions. Realizing what was happening, Belt struggled to

correct the alien's sabotage before it was too late. Mulder concludes that Belt

sent the valve X-rays to Generoo hoping to expose the potentially disastrous flaw.

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Colonel Calvin Henderson is alerted by the U.S. Space Surveillance Center that

radar tracked an unidentified object as it fell from orbit and crashed in Townsend,

Wisconsin. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Henderson is the premiere

reclamations expert for the Air Force. During the Cold War, Henderson was

assigned to prevent technology from downed U.S. aircraft from falling into Soviet

hands. Now, he is head of a crash retrieval team.

The government officially labels the crash site a quarantined area, attributing it to

a toxic chemical spill. Mulder sneaks past the military units guarding the area

and photographs the wreckage. His presence is soon discovered and Henderson

Mulder is placed in Scully's custody. She warns that when McGrath learned that

he infiltrated the crash site without prior approval, he recommended that a

hearing be held to discontinued the X-Files project altogether. With the hearing

only a day away, Mulder insists he be given the chance to prove a UFO had

While held in custody, Mulder meets another would-be spy, Max Fenig, a

member of an organization that tracks UFO sightings. He acknowledges that he

knows all about Mulder, Scully and the X-Files project, having accessed files

Max's recreational vehicle is a surveillance operation on wheels. He plays for

Mulder and Scully a recording he intercepted moments after the UFO crash, in

which Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright, who was the first person to arrive at the crash

scene and was killed in the aftermath, radioed for fire crews. When the agents

approach Mrs. Wright for information, she refuses to talk.

Dr. Jeffrey Oppenheim, who examined Deputy Wright, agrees to be interviewed.

He examined the bodies of Wright and the firemen, who were also killed in the

moments after the crash, all of whom died from severe burns the likes of which

he had never seen before. Suddenly, the bodies of several soldiers are rushed

through the hospital's corridors, each exhibiting the same burns described only

moments earlier by Oppenheim. Shorthanded, Oppenheim enlists Scully's

Mulder aids Max when he suffers a seizure. Max blames the episode on

epilepsy, but Mulder notices a diamond-shaped scar behind Max's ear which

Before Scully has a chance to examine Max, he disappears from his vehicle. The

agents track him to a warehouse, where they discover Henderson and his men

surrounding the building. Before Mulder can save Max, he disappears in a

blinding blue light, the presumable victim of an alien abduction.

At the hearing, Mulder defends his action as unorthodox, but necessary, given

that the toxic spill was a government cover-up. McGrath's decision to fire Mulder

and terminate the X-Files project is overruled by Deep Throat. He tells McGrath

he likes to keep his friends close and his enemies closer.

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Mulder and Scully investigate when a man named Joel Simmons is found dead in

his backyard - his body drained of blood. Mulder at first links the incident to

mysterious cattle mutilations that have occurred in the United States since 1967.

The agents interview Teena Simmons, Joel's eight-year-old daughter, who was at

home when the killings took place. Teena describes how "men from the clouds"

were after her father. Mulder is somewhat mystified, however, when Teena tells

him the men wanted to "exsanguinate" her father, a word far too complex for a

Shortly thereafter, the agents receive word of another, almost identical murder

that took place in San Francisco, in which a man named Doug Reardon was

found dead in his backyard, also drained of blood. The agents are stunned when

Reardon's eight-year-old daughter, Cindy. She and Teena are identical in

appearance. Teena, meanwhile, disappears from the foster home where she is

temporarily housed, apparently the victim of a kidnapping.

Scully investigates when it is discovered that Mrs. Reardon had in-vitro

fertilization at a clinic in San Francisco. A physician named Sally Kendrick

supervised both the Simmons' and Reardons' IVF program. Kendrick, it is

revealed, was fired from her position after she was discovered tampering with the

genetic material of fertilized ova in the lab prior to implant.

Deep Throat contacts Mulder. He reveals the existence of a top secret program

once run by the United States government called the "Litchfield Experiment," in

which a group of genetically controlled children were raised and monitored. The

boys were dubbed "Adam" and the girls "Eve."

Mulder and Scully track Eve Six to a mental institution. To their astonishment,

she looks exactly like Sally Kendrick. Eve admits that two other Eves besides

herself are still alive. The agents realize that Sally Kendrick was continuing the

Litchfield experiment at the clinic in San Francisco where she cloned Teena and

One of the other Eves kidnaps Cindy. She takes the girl to a motel and

introduces her to Teena. Both little girls knew of the other's existence, and they

murdered their own fathers. Eve is convinced she can raise the girls so they will

not suffer from the mental disorders that drove the other Eves mad. Despite her

conviction, she realizes too late that the little girls, for no apparent reason,

Mulder and Scully are tipped that the girls can be found at the motel. When they

arrive, they find Eve dead. The girls claim the two remaining Eves conspired to

kill them. The agents fall for the story, never suspecting the girls played any role

Mulder and Scully transport the girls in their car. They pull off the road at a diner

so the girls can use the rest room. Mulder orders four sodas, and when he is not

looking, Cindy poisons two of the drinks. Mulder realizes the drinks have been

Scully from ingesting her soda just in time. The girls, however, realize their

scheme has been discovered. They play cat-and-mouse with the agents in the

diner's parking lot, but Mulder gains the upper hand and arrests them.

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In England, an affluent, elderly man suddenly bursts into flames while walking

from his front porch to his car. Despite the efforts of those at the scene to

extinguish the fire, the man is burned alive.

Mulder and Scully are approached by Phoebe Greene, Mulder's ex-classmate

and former lover, who is employed as an inspector by Scotland Yard. Greene

tells the detectives about the death of the man in England, and how it is but one

of a series of similar murders aimed at the British aristocracy. Sir Marsden, who

narrowly escaped being burned alive in a similar incident, has temporarily

relocated his family to Cape Cod. Mulder and Scully agree to aid Greene with the

case. Scully, however, is hard pressed to contain her dislike for Greene.

Special Agent Melvin Beatty, an arson specialist, examines the evidence linking

the fires, but is at a loss as to how the blazes were started. Mulder's notion that

it may be attributed to pyrokinetics-an individual's ability to conduct and control a

Mulder confesses to Scully that he is terrified of fire, and admits that Phoebe is

all too aware of his phobia. He tells Scully he will handle the investigation without

Unbeknownst to Sir Marsden and his family, the caretaker at their Cape Cod

home is the same man who gardened for the elderly man who was set ablaze in

England. That man, who has murdered the actual caretaker and assumed his

identity, walks to a local bar and sets it ablaze using his pyrokinetic power.

Mulder and Greene interview a survivor of the blaze. They are intrigued when the

survivor tells them that a British man started the blaze by causing himself to

Mulder and Greene stake out an elegant party attended by the Marsdens hoping

to trap the arsonist. After surveying the hotel where the party is given, Mulder and

Greene conclude the arsonist will not strike. They take advantage of their

surroundings for some intimate slow dancing on the ballroom floor. Scully arrives

at the party with information regarding the case. She notices that the hotel

security status grid is lit up, indicating a fire somewhere on the upper level. She

interrupts Mulder and Greene with the news, shattering an intimate moment.

Mulder races upstairs but is overcome with smoke. The caretaker who

chauffeured the Marsdens to the party races out of the hotel with the children and

Scully takes advantage of Mulder's hospital stay to fill him in on her research.

She believes the arsonist uses a highly flammable accelerant, such as rocket

propellant, to fuel the fires. Scully also suspects she may have pinpointed the

arsonist, a man named Cecil L'Ively, who acted as caretaker for two of the

victims. They come to realize that the Marsden's caretaker is the same man.

The detectives rush to the house in Cape Cod and evacuate the family. Mulder

catches Greene sharing a passionate kiss with Sir Marsden, ending his interest

in her. Mulder and Scully encounter Bob/Cecil, who has rigged the entire dwelling

to catch fire. Mulder confronts Cecil, overcoming his fear to some extent. Cecil

rushes down the stairs, where Phoebe splashes accelerant on him and he bursts

into flames. Mulder and the others escape from the house and watch as it is

Cecil's flesh regenerates itself, however, and he soon recovers inside his heavily

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Scully receives a phone call from her mother, Margaret, relaying the tragic news

that her father died of a massive coronary. Only moments earlier, Scully had

seen an ethereal image of her father sitting in a chair.

Scully returns to work anxious for a new case to keep her mind off her father's

death. Her curiosity is piqued by a report of a young couple's kidnapping near

Jackson University. A similar abduction occurred at another university exactly

one year earlier. The bodies of that couple were later found. Authorities believed

The only lead in the case is a man named Luther Lee Boggs, who is scheduled

for execution in North Carolina's gas chamber in one week. Boggs asserts that

he knows who the serial killer is, and backs up that claim by describing a charm

bracelet worn by one of the victims. He alleges that his knowledge is obtained

from psychic transmissions. He makes a proposition: that his information be

traded for a reprieve from death row. Before traveling to North Carolina, Scully

attends memorial services for her father. Captain William Scully's ashes are

scattered at sea as the song "Beyond the Sea" is played.

The agents meet with Boggs at the North Carolina prison where he is interred.

Mulder hands Boggs a small piece of cloth from an evidence bag. Boggs falls into

a trance and describes landmarks near the kidnapper's hideout. Mulder then

reveals that the cloth was cut from one of his own T-shirts and has nothing to do

with the victims. Convinced Boggs is a fraud, Mulder exits, leaving Scully alone

with Boggs. He begins singing "Beyond the Sea," causing a reaction from Scully.

While driving along a roadway, Scully becomes intrigued by imagery described

by Boggs during his trance. She enters an abandoned warehouse nearby and

discovers evidence that the kidnapped couple had been held there.

Police are notified about the warehouse's location. Scully cannot bring herself to

tell Mulder about her father's ghost, or about Boggs' singing. Mulder concludes

that Boggs is in contact with someone involved with the kidnapping rather than

the spirit world. When the agents meet with Boggs a second time he tells them

that the victims are being held at a boathouse on a lake. Agents raid the

boathouse and rescue one of the victims, Liz Hawley. Mulder is shot at close

range by the kidnapper, Lucas Henry, who proceeds to escape on a motorboat

With Mulder recuperating in the hospital, Scully concentrates on locating Lucas

Henry. She again interviews Boggs, who relives his near-death experience in the

gas chamber when he was saved by a last minute reprieve. It was during this

brief out-of-body experience that Boggs first came in contact with the spirit world.

He refuses to reveal more details of Jim Summer's whereabouts until he is

guaranteed that his execution sentence has been dropped.

Scully approaches the Warden for a stay of execution, but the request is denied.

Left with no other choice, Scully lies to Boggs, telling him his sentence has been

reduced to life in prison. Boggs channels with the spirit world and describes a

condemned brewery as Henry's new hideout. He then tells Scully he knew she

lied to him about the pardon. Scully and other agents converge on the brewery,

rescuing Jim Summers. Henry refuses to give himself up and is killed. Later,

Scully breaks her promise to witness Boggs' execution, struggling even in the

end between her desire to believe and her determination to remain rational.

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A woman named Marty seduces a businessman at a trendy nightclub. The

couple go to a motel and have sex. Shortly thereafter the businessman begins

convulsing and dies. Before Marty leaves the motel, her physique changes and

Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. Mulder links the death to

a series of others in which victims died in the throes of passion. Medical tests

reveal large amounts of pheromones in the victim's blood. He also links two of the

murders to a remote town in Massachusetts inhabited by The Kindred-a sect of

religious isolationists famous for their abstinence and pure Christian beliefs.

The agents travel to the rural village, where sect members allow them access to

their community only after they relinquish their guns. As Mulder and Scully dine

with The Kindred, Brother Aaron suddenly begins choking. Scully is forbidden by

the other sect members from aiding Brother Aaron, and he is led away.

The agents perform some clandestine investigating during the night. They are

intrigued by activity emanating from a cellar beneath a barn. Mulder makes his

way inside and watches a ceremony centering around Brother Aaron's body. In

his effort to keep his presence a secret, Mulder becomes trapped inside a crypt

where Aaron's body is entombed in a strange, membranous substance. He

watches as Brother Aaron's body begins transforming into a woman.

Scully, meanwhile, has been pulled aside by Brother Andrew, a handsome sect

member who possesses a mysterious hypnotic power. Andrew tells Scully he

believes the murders were committed by Brother Martin. But before he reveals

how Martin killed, Andrew places Scully in a trance and begins kissing her.

Mulder breaks out of the crypt and rescues Scully before Andrew takes further

Mulder and Scully are permitted to leave the town. They receive a break in the

case when one of Martin's intended victims escapes harmed, but alive. He

describes how his attacker changed gender right before his eyes.

Police track Marty to a hotel after he/she orders food using a victim's credit card.

Mulder and Scully raid a hotel room and encounter Marty and his latest victim.

Marty flees but agents give chase. Before they can apprehend Marty, however,

he/she is surrounded by fellow Kindred members and dragged into the darkness.

Scully, Mulder and other FBI agents raid the village where the sect lives. But

they find the village completely deserted. The only clue left is a distinctive crop

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Scully and fellow FBI agent Jack Willis stake out a bank after an anonymous

informant tips them that a robbery will take place that day. That tip proves correct

when Warren Dupre and his wife Lula Phillips stage a hold up. Dupre is ordered

to put down his weapon, but instead he shoots Willis in the chest. Scully returns

fire and mortally wounds Dupre. At the hospital emergency room, doctors are

able to resuscitate the badly injured Willis. Unbeknownst to them, Dupre's

consciousness takes possession of the agent's body as he dies beside Willis.

The possessed Willis leaves his hospital room and locates his former body in the

morgue. He cuts a finger off the corpse, removing a gold wedding ring.

Meanwhile, Scully and Mulder begin their search for the missing Willis. When

Mulder learns of the missing ring, he begins to suspect that Willis may be

Willis locates Lula's brother, Tommy, at a seedy hotel. When Tommy claims not

to know Lula's whereabouts, Willis accuses him of tipping off the FBI about the

bank robbery. He sees Lula's photograph being broadcast on a local television

news program and grows enraged. He shoots and kills Tommy.

Willis reappears at the hotel during the murder investigation. He explains his

absence by claiming he wandered from the hotel in a daze and collapsed in the

street. Mulder discovers a fresh fingerprint on Tommy's television set-a print left

by Willis. That evidence mysteriously disappears soon after being given to Willis.

Willis and Scully respond to a tip about Lula's whereabouts. Scully chases and

eventually arrests Lula, but Willis releases her and takes Scully hostage. Dupre's

spirit attempts to convince Lula that he now inhabits Willis' body. Those attempts

are met with skepticism until Willis reveals intimate details about Lula's life.

Scully tells Dupre's consciousness that Willis is a diabetic and that excess

sugar could induce a coma. When a drug store is robbed of insulin and syringes,

Mulder suspects that Scully's location must be close by.

Before Willis can inject the insulin, Lula smashes the bottles. She laughs at

Willis, revealing that it was she-and not her brother Tommy-who tipped off the FBI

about the bank robbery. With Willis now gravely ill, Lula phones FBI

headquarters and demands a million dollars ransom for Scully's safe return.

Analyzing the phone call for clues, Mulder and his fellow agents narrow the

Willis feigns his death and grabs Lula's gun, pointing it at her. He proclaims his

intense love for Lula, then pulls the trigger. FBI agents storm the house, but

Willis' body succumbs to diabetic shock and dies. Scully is located and released

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Mulder and Scully are asked by Special Agent Reggie Purdue to aid in the

investigation of a jewelry store robbery. Mulder realizes his old friend Purdue

requested his assistance with the case because of a note found at the crime

scene that reads: "Fox can't guard the chicken coop." Mulder explains to Scully

that his first FBI case involved an armed robber named John Barnett, who left

notes that taunted Mulder about the crime spree. Barnett was eventually

captured and sentenced to life in prison, where he died four years earlier. Mulder

is disquieted when a lab technician analyzes the note and concludes it was most

likely written by Barnett within the last 48 hours.

Meanwhile, Scully and Purdue review video surveillance footage of Barnett's

capture by the FBI years earlier. In the footage, Mulder had the opportunity to kill

Barnett, but hesitated because of FBI procedures regarding hostage situations.

That hesitation allowed Barnett time to kill an armored car driver and an FBI

agent. Mulder returned fire, wounding Barnett. Mulder never forgave himself for

the error. During the trial, Barnett swore he would "get" Mulder.

Scully and Mulder visit Barnett's old prison cell mate, Joe Crandall, who swears

Barnett was alive on the night he supposedly died. He also claims he saw a

prison physician, Dr. Ridley, amputate Barnett's right hand. Mulder phones

Purdue with the news, but during the conversation Purdue is attacked and

strangled. Mulder and Scully rush to the scene but arrive too late. Another of

Barnett's notes is found on Purdue's body.

The agents pay a visit to the National Institute of Health, where they meet Dr.

Austin. He explains that Dr. Ridley experimented on young children afflicted with

a disease called Progeria, which accelerates the aging process and causes

premature death. Ridley lost his license to practice medicine and performed

age-reversal experiments in secret. Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett was

one of Ridley's guinea pigs, and may now sport the physique of a younger man.

Mulder and Scully are approached by the now-ailing Dr. Ridley, who tells them

that Barnett is the last of his patients who is still alive. Ridley explains that he

used a different technique on Barnett. He grafted the cells of a salamander onto

his arm. Those cells grew and mutated into Barrett's new hand. Mulder learns

from Deep Throat that Barnett stole Ridley's secrets on age-reversal and now

wishes to trade the medical information to the U.S. government in exchange for

Realizing that Scully is Barnett's next intended victim, Mulder and his fellow

agents stake out a recital hall where Scully is to meet a friend. Barnett shoots

Scully, but she is protected by a bullet proof vest. Barnett takes a cellist

hostage, but Mulder sees his chance and fires, killing Barnett.

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Mulder and Scully investigate a UFO sighting in Reagan, Tennessee. They

interview a truck driver named Ranheim, who claims he fired his shotgun at a

mysterious object in the sky. Ranheim, however, changes the details of his

story, prompting Mulder to speculate that he has something to hide. The agents

also realize that Ranheim exhibits symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, an illness

that normally afflicts veterans of the conflict in Iraq. Ranheim claims he is not a

After further investigation, Scully discovers that Ranheim's real name is Frank

Druce, a former Special Operations officer in Iraq who had been admitted to VA

hospitals for treatment of his illness. Meanwhile, Mulder receives top secret

information from Deep Throat that Druce was transporting the wreckage of a UFO

that was shot down over Iraqi air space. But other evidence hints that the truck is

a decoy, and that the real wreckage is actually being kept at Fort Benning in

Georgia. Mulder and Scully realize that Deep Throat has been deliberately

When Mulder confronts Deep Throat, he admits that he tried to lead the

investigation away from the truck. He justifies his action by stating that the

country is not ready to comprehend a closely guarded government secret. He

also confirms that the agents are under constant surveillance.

Determined to uncover the truth, Mulder and Scully resume their search for the

truck. Their diligence pays off, and the vehicle is located on a remote roadway.

While surveying the truck from afar, the agents' vehicle is suddenly engulfed by

an intense light. The truck comes to a stop and the agents open its doors.

Inside, they find evidence that suggests an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, or

Mulder and Scully suspect that the E.B.E. had been shuttled to a top secret

government facility where a host of UFO sightings had been reported in the

previous week. With the aid of an extreme government watchdog group called

"The Lone Gunman," the agents gain access to the heavily-guarded facility. The

agents' presence is detected and they are taken into custody, but not before

Deep Throat comes to Mulder's aid. He reveals that after the Roswell UFO

incident in 1947, the most powerful governments in the world signed a top secret

treaty ordering the execution of any E.B.E. that might survive a UFO crash. Deep

Throat reveals that he carried out the murder of the E.B.E., and to atone for his

act, he will continue to leak Mulder top secret information. Mulder is released,

but he remains unsure that Deep Throat is telling the truth.

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Mulder's curiosity is piqued when Scully plays him a video tape on which the

Reverend Calvin Hartley and his 18-year-old adopted son Samuel hold a service

for their Miracle Ministry congregation. As the tape progresses, Samuel places

his hand on an ailing woman. Scully explains that the woman was rushed to the

hospital, where she died of undetermined causes.

The agents travel to a remote town in Tennessee where Reverend Hartley and his

followers began their base of operations. There they confer with Sheriff Daniels,

who explains his belief that Samuel literally possesses the "touch of death."

Samuel mysteriously disappears, but he is tracked to a bar. Daniels charges him

with suspicion of murder and places him under arrest. At the courthouse, Samuel

requests that the judge not release him on bail, fearing he may again kill another

parishioner if he is let free. But the judge concedes to a bail request, which would

allow Samuel to be released. Suddenly, and inexplicably, the courtroom is

engulfed by a swarm of locusts, which Samule cries is a sign from God that he

Once Samuel is released, Reverend Hartley pressures Samuel to perform

miracles at another church meeting. But as Mulder and Scully watch, the event

again turns tragic when a Multiple Sclerosis sufferer lapses into a seizure and

A preliminary autopsy suggests the woman, Margaret Hohman, died of cyanide

poisoning. Mulder suspects that Samuel is innocent, and that someone else is

poisoning the parishioners of Miracle Ministries. Mulder relays his conclusion to

Sheriff Daniels, and soon afterward Samuel is found dead in his jail cell, victim of

The agents return to the courthouse where Samuel was arraigned and find

evidence that someone dumped locusts into the ventilation system. They trace

the insects-and a highly-poisonous cyanide-to Leonard Vance, an accident victim

that Samuel brought back to life. Before Vance is arrested, he has a vision of

Samuel returning from the dead to ask him why he poisoned the parishioners.

Vance angrily reveals his burned flesh and scar tissue, admitting that he

conspired to squash the parishioner's faith in its greatest healer. Vance ingests a

lethal dose of pesticide before the agents arrive at his house. That same night, a

morgue nurse witnesses Samuel walk out of the morgue. His body, upon

investigation, is nowhere to be found. Daniels is later approached by Deputy

Tyson, who reveals that the District Attorney is investigating his role in Samuel's

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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 shotgun at the creature and kills it. When he

examines the body, Jim discovers he actually killed a Native American man

Mulder convinces Scully to aid him with the investigation, which at first glance

does not appear to be related to the supernatural, but rather, a tragic accident.

They interview Jim Parker, who explains that someone-or something-had been

mutilating his cattle. He insists that he shot a wolf-like beast with his gun-not

Goodensnake. Mulder's curiosity is piqued when he discovers a piece of

translucent skin where Goodensnake's body had been recovered.

The agents travel to Trego Indian Reservation, where Sheriff Charlie Tskany

allows them to examine Goodensnake's body. They discover that Goodensnake's

front teeth are abnormally-long, not unlike that of a wild animal. But the sheriff

refuses Scully's request to perform a detailed autopsy, citing Native American

As members of the tribe burn Goodensnake's body at a burial ground, Mulder

explains to Scully that the oldest X-File on record was created by J. Edgar

Hoover. It involved a series of murders that occurred in the United States during

World War II in which victims were mauled to death by what police assumed to

be a wild animal. An animal was tracked and killed by police, but when they

retrieved the carcass, they found only the body of a man. Scully insists it is

physically impossible for a human to change form.

Lyle Parker arrives at the burial grounds to offer his condolences to

Goodensnake's sister, Gwen. She becomes distraught and insists that he leave.

Not long after the cremation, Mulder and Scully discover Jim Parker's mutilated

corpse at his ranch. They also find Lyle Parker, lying naked in the mud nearby.

Scully transports Lyle to the hospital for treatment while Mulder and Sheriff

Tskany takes Mulder to the home of Ish, an elderly mystic Native American. Ish

explains that the attacks that occurred during World War II were the result of a

Manitou, an evil spirit capable of changing a man into a beast. Tskany

speculates that because the power is passed through bloodlines, Gwen too may

be a shape-shifter, and she may have killed Jim Parker to avenge her brother's

death. But when Gwen is interviewed, she claims she saw a wolf-like creature

Mulder and Tskany realize that Lyle may have contracted the shape-shifting

power after he was mauled by the beast. They race back to the Parker ranch,

where Mulder rescues Scully by shooting and killing a wolf-creature. Moments

later, the creature reverts to Lyle's form.

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Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of thirty loggers who were

clearing trees in a remote forest in Washington State. They join forces with Larry

Moore, a member of the Federal Forest Service, and Steve Humphreys, an

employee of the lumber company. Moore and Humphreys suspect that the

loggers may have been victimized by militant environmentalists-or

ecoterrorists-who have waged a campaign of destruction against lumber

companies in retaliation for ruining American forests.

As the group travels along a dirt road, a tire on their 4 x 4 falls victim to

sabotage. Left with little choice, the foursome set out on foot. They discover a

deserted logger's encampment, and hanging from a nearby tree, a strange

cocoon-like object. When the cocoon is cut open, the group finds a grotesquely

shrunken corpse inside. Shortly thereafter, Doug Spinney, an ecoterrorist

suspected of sabotaging equipment, arrives at the camp on foot, his jeep having

run out of gasoline. He warns that strange, insect-like creatures inhabit the

forest, and when darkness falls they descend from the sky in search of prey. The

only thing the creatures fear, Spinney adds, is light.

Humphreys scoffs at Spinney's story, believing it to be a cover for the loggers'

disappearance. Frustrated by Moore's refusal to arrest Spinney, Humphreys

begins to hike back to town alone. Along the way, the tiny insects engulf him.

Mulder, Scully, Moore and Spinney examine a giant tree trunk lying in the

woods. Moore takes a core sample, and finds tiny insects feeding in its center.

This leads to speculation that the once dormant creatures were released when

Mulder allows Spinney to transport the remaining gasoline used to fuel the

cabin's generator to the stalled jeep-which is two valleys away. Moore chastises

Mulder's decision, certain the creatures will attack once darkness falls and the

generator runs out of fuel. Scully panics when millions of the phosphorescent

bugs swarm inside the cabin, waiting for the last glow of a lightbulb to fade.

However, the fuel in the generator lasts until sunrise, keeping one light glowing,

and sparing the group a grisly fate. Realizing they will be attacked come nightfall,

the threesome decide to carry a good tire from one of the sabotaged vehicles to

the abandoned 4 x 4. When they locate the 4 x 4, they are horrified to discover

Spinney suddenly appears with the jeep as he had promised. He transports the

others through the forest at a high rate of speed, hoping to outrun the darkness.

Along the way, the jeep's tires are punctured by a sharp metal device Spinney

himself had planted on the dirt road to sabotage the logger's vehicles. A swarm of

insects descends upon the jeep. The group is rescued by military medical

personnel, then transported to a hospital for treatment.

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Scully is told by her superiors that the investigation of all X-Files cases must

adhere to proper FBI procedures. She counters that the extraordinary nature of

the cases dictates that unorthodox means of investigation be utilized, but her

Meanwhile, Eugene Tooms, a serial killer with unusual abilities, is interviewed by

a parole board. Mulder, who helped incarcerate Tooms, testifies at the hearing.

Those present at the review question Mulder's credibility when he claims that

Tooms' murder spree spanned some 100 years, and that Tooms is capable of

elongating his body - a genetic mutation also dictating that he ingest human

Tooms is released from the sanitarium and placed under the care of Doctor

Aaron Monte. Mulder is certain that Tooms will commit another murder the

moment the opportunity presents itself. While Mulder keeps constant

surveillance over Tooms, Scully researches the earlier murders hoping to prove

Scully calls on the services of Frank Briggs, a retired police detective who

accumulated evidence surrounding the murders-a series of five killings that occur

once every 30 years. He notes that in 1933, a human liver was discovered near a

then-under-construction chemical plant, but the body of the victim was never

recovered. Briggs believes that Tooms hid the body because something about

Scully and Briggs venture to the chemical plant and recover a body entombed

deep inside the cement foundation. Using sophisticated computer enhancement,

a bite mark on the victim's body is matched to Tooms' dental records.

Tooms charges that Mulder beat him up. Mulder is arrested and interrogated. He

vehemently denies the false allegations but cannot disprove them. Scully backs

him up by claiming she was with him when the beating allegedly transpired.

Mulder is released, but warned to stay far away from Tooms.

Mulder and Scully discover the body of Dr. Monte. Realizing that Tooms will try

to hibernate for another 30 years, Mulder and Scully rush to the location where

he had previously "nested." In place of the dilapidated building stands a shopping

Mulder guesses that an escalator shaft is the likeliest place Tooms would have

made the new nest. He climbs inside the darkened shaft, a flashlight illuminating

his path. Tooms suddenly springs out of the darkness and attacks Mulder. With

Scully's help, the agent struggles free. Tooms becomes entangled in the

escalator's gears and is crushed to death.

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Detective Sharon Lazard discovers an eight year old girl lost and shivering

outside a boarded up storefront. Lazard transports the girl to the precinct where

she is questioned by Detective Barbala. During the course of the interview,

Barbala is suddenly hurled out a window. He falls six stories to his death. Due to

the mysterious nature of the death, Mulder and Scully are called to the scene.

Lazard is convinced that Barbala was alone with Michelle when the tragedy

occurred. She is also convinced that Barbala did not commit suicide. Michelle

tells the agents that another man was present in the room when Barbala died.

The description Michelle provides matches the likeness of Officer Charlie

Morris-who died nine years earlier. The agents question Morris' former partner,

Tony Fiore, who states that Morris was murdered by a gang after a drug deal

soured. In reality, Fiore and an insurance salesman named Len Felder plotted to

kill Morris as part of an insurance scam. When Felder disembarks from a city

bus, his scarf becomes caught in the vehicle's door. As the bus continues its

journey, Felder is dragged to his death. Michelle, a passenger aboard the bus,

stares at Felder's motionless body. After further investigation, the agents piece

together the connection between the dead men and the insurance scam. They

question Tony's wife Anita, who is concerned for her husband's safety because

he did not return home from work. During the course of the interview, Anita likens

the incident to the disappearance of her first husband-Charlie Morris. Scully and

Mulder become intrigued by origami animals found throughout the home, figures

similar to those folded by Michelle. Mulder concludes that Michelle is the

reincarnation of Charlie Morris, who is avenging his murder by killing the

participants. Michelle is placed under hypnosis, but when Charlie's spirit begins

to relive the murder, Michelle's mother Cynthia halts the experiment. A video tape

of the session is analyzed using sophisticated equipment. It reveals an image of

a man in a diving suit. Autopsy reports indicate that Morris drowned, then his

body was beaten to cover up the truth. Mulder concludes that Morris was

drowned in his own fish tank, and the last image he saw was that of the deep

sea diver-aerator. The agents rush to Tony Fiore's house. Inside, Michelle uses

her psychokinetic powers to hurl objects at Tony with great force. Mulder and

Scully gain entrance to the home and calm Michelle, whose powers subside with

her anger. Fiore is tried and convicted of Morris' murder. Michelle's life returns to

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Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Dr. Ronald Surnow, an aeronautical

scientist, who was developing a jet engine that could double supersonic speeds

using half the fuel. Surnow was sucked into the engine when he became trapped

inside a wind tunnel. Surnow's colleagues, Drs. Keats and Nollette, tell the

agents that another member of the team, Arthur Gamble, died in a car accident

The agents interview Roland Fuller, a mentally-challenged janitor, who was the

only other person inside the lab at the time of the incident. Mulder is intrigued by

Roland's ability to manipulate complex numbers. However, his attempt to link

Roland's handwriting with some unidentified equations on a blackboard at the lab

Shortly thereafter, Roland murders Keats by forcing his head into a vat of liquid

nitrogen and smashing his frozen skull. The agents investigate, and realize that

after Keats was murdered, the perpetrator gained access to a computer file that

belonged to the late Arthur Gamble. During a visit to the cryogenics lab where

Gamble's head is preserved, they also discover that Gamble and Roland are

Mulder arranges for constant surveillance of Nollette-who is most likely to be the

next victim-after Roland disappears. Mulder speculates that the twin brothers

share a psychic connection, and that Gamble is controlling Roland. Nollette

overhears Mulder's theory and sabotages Gamble's cryogenic unit.

Roland gains access to a computer terminal and completes a simulation that

pushes the jet model past Mach 15. Nollette suddenly appears, gun in hand. He

thanks Roland/Gamble for solving the equation, allowing him to take credit for the

work. Roland becomes enraged and overpowers Nollette. He locks the scientist

inside the tunnel and starts the engine. Mulder and Scully gain access to the

room and appeal to Roland - not Gamble - to remember the access code that will

shut down the engine. Roland recalls the code and disengages the machine.

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Mulder receives a cryptic tip from Deep Throat regarding an incident in which a

fugitive eluded police after a high speed chase. During the escape, the suspect

was shot and wounded by police before he fell into a lake. Despite many hours of

dredging, the fugitive's body is not recovered. After some investigating, Mulder

realizes that someone deliberately switched the car the suspect was driving with

The agents trace the original car to a Dr. Berube, a scientist who is not eager to

cooperate with the FBI investigation. With the puzzling case at a dead end,

Mulder prepares to give up. Yet Deep Throat makes contact and convinces him

that the case is of extreme importance. Meanwhile, Dr. Berube's dead body is

The police end their search for the fugitive without recovering a body. When they

leave the lake, the mysterious fugitive resurfaces from beneath the water. Tiny

gills in his neck allowed him to remain submerged for a long period. The fugitive

makes his way to the city, and after attempting to contact Berube collapses on

the street. As paramedics rush the fugitive to a hospital, they insert a needle into

his skin. Suddenly, a rush of toxic gas is emitted from the fugitive's body. The

paramedics are overcome by the fumes and the fugitive escapes.

With the help of Dr. Carpenter, Scully analyzes a flask taken from Dr. Berube's

lab. The bacteria inside is suspected of being extraterrestrial in origin.

Mulder discovers a storage room containing human bodies suspended in a clear

liquid. When he returns to the room with Scully, he finds that it has been

emptied. Deep Throat explains that Dr. Berube had been experimenting with

extraterrestrial viruses. He used humans afflicted with terminal illnesses as his

guinea pigs. The experiment was funded by the US government, but officials were

interested only in technology-not the patients' well being. One of those patients

was Dr. Secare, a friend of Dr. Berube's. When it became clear that the

government wanted Secare eliminated, Berube warned his friend and gave him

his car to escape. When Secare was hunted down by police, he used his

mutation to his advantage and hid beneath the lake.

Scully is stunned to learn that Dr. Carpenter was killed in a car accident. Shortly

thereafter, Mulder locates Dr. Secare hiding in the attic of his house. The pair are

surprised by a government official who shoots and kills Secare.

When Mulder disappears, Scully makes contact with Deep Throat. Deep Throat

arranges for Scully to gain access to a top secret containment facility in

Maryland. Scully steals an alien fetus, and with Deep Throat's help, arranges to

exchange the fetus for Mulder. After Deep Throat makes the exchange, he is

shot and killed by the government agents.

Later, Mulder tells Scully that the government is shutting down the X-files.

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