| THE X-FILES CHRONOLOGY - SEASON 1 | ||
| 6
to 22 March 1992 |
Special
Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and instructor at the FBI Academy in
Virginia, receives instructions to report to Chief Scott Blevins in Washington.
Blevins assigns Scully to investigate, and debunk, an unassigned project
dubbed "The X-Files," a burial ground for mysterious, unsolved
FBI cases linked to the paranormal. The Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM) attends the meeting in Assistant Director Blevins' office in which Scully receives the assignment, but does not speak. He also uses electronic listening devices to listen in on Mulder and Scully's first meeting. (Musings...) Scully is instructed to contact Fox Mulder, an agent who has become obsessed with investigating the otherwise forgotten X-File cases. Mulder tells Scully that he has read her Senior thesis, and liked it. (Pilot) She apparently sent it to him as a partial introduction, given that it dealt with MJ-12. (Musings...) Mulder displays a particular interest in a series of mysterious deaths scattered across the United States linked by one common clue: two strange red marks on the victims' skin. Mulder and Scully fly to Bellefleur, Oregon, to investigate the death of Karen Swenson, a high school student who died mysteriously, and whose corpse is marked with two red welts. The agents exhume the body Ray Soames, one of Karen's classmates. When Soames' casket is opened, however, a strange humanoid carcass is discovered inside. The corpse turns out to be that of an orang-utan, and X-rays reveal an unidentified metal object implanted in the creature's nasal cavity. Mulder and Scully question Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell, classmates of Swenson and Soames who were injured in an automobile accident and have since been institutionalised. 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. Theresa Nemman, daughter of the coroner who originally performed the autopsies on the victims, confronts the agents. She admits she too bears the red marks on her skin, and describes how a bright light appeared in the sky the evening she was hanging out with her friends Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell. Mulder hypothesizes that Billy Miles is under the control of an alien force. He adds his belief that Billy killed Peggy O'Dell. The agents return to the forest hoping to gather more evidence. Detective Miles attempts to stop them, and both he and Mulder witness Billy carrying Theresa to the spot in the woods where the other bodies had been found. A mysterious light illuminates Billy, and a strong wind swirls around him. Moments later the light fades and the winds die, and Billy stands over Theresa not knowing where he is or how he got there, the welts having vanished from his skin. After returning to Washington, Scully gives her report. Much to the surprise of her supervisors, the metal object removed from the corpse was not destroyed with all of the other evidence. Scully kept it on her person and turns it into them as the single remaining piece of physical evidence of what had transpired. The metal object is taken by CSM and filed away alongside several others inside a massive government warehouse in the basement of the Pentagon. |
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| ?
1992 |
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 hospitalised 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", advises that the investigation be dropped. But Mulder and Scully ignore the advice and interview Mrs Budahas, who describes her husband's unpredictable behaviour, 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 manoeuvring at incredibly speed. The agents give chase when two teenagers, Emil and Zoe, are spotted climbing through a hole from the opposite side of the fence. But the hunters become the hunted when a helicopter from the base bears down on the group. The foursome escape, retreating to a restaurant where Zoe and Emil recount tales of watching the light show. Mulder tells a disbelieving Scully that the military may be flying planes built using technology from a UFO. Mrs Budahas phones the agents at their hotel when her husband suddenly reappears. But the Lieutenant Colonel cannot remember any details having to do with his past and the military. Mulder tells Scully he believes Budahas' memory has somehow been drained, and that he, like the other missing pilots who tested the mysterious aircraft, are physiologically incapable of dealing with the stress created during the flights. The agents are approached by men who seize their evidence and order them to leave town. But Mulder returns to the base, and using Emil and Zoe as guides, climbs through the hole in the fence. Alone on the base, Mulder is spotted by a UFO and taken prisoner by base security that suddenly arrives. He is then sedated and treated by mysterious figures acting as doctors. Scully is attacked by Mossinger, who she discovers has been working for the military all along. Scully overpowers him, taking him hostage at gunpoint. She uses Mossinger to find Mulder and when she learns he is in custody of the military trades Mossinger in return for Mulder. But when he is returned to her, he is unable to recall his encounter with the UFO or what happened while he was on the base because of the treatment they gave him. Back in Washington, Deep Throat once again approaches Mulder 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 the existence of extraterrestrial life. |
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| 12 October 1992 | NASA begins a high-resolution microwave survey of the sky, looking for signs of intelligent life in space. A year later, Congress will cancel the project. (Little Green Men) | |
| November 1992 | A team of geophysicists begins a project to drill deep into the arctic ice at Icy Cape, Alaska. (Ice) | |
| Circa 1993 | Scully
signs a living will, witnessed by Mulder. (One Breath) Mulder begins a series of contacts with a forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution named Arlinsky who, a few years earlier, was implicated in a UFO photo enhancement scandal. (Gethsemane) In 1998, Mulder says he bought his "I Want to Believe" poster "about five years ago" in a head shop on Washington DC's M Street. He probably actually bought it earlier than that, because is has been seen from the beginning of the series. (Chinga) Duffy Haskell writes a series of letters to Mulder, claiming that his wife, Kat, is the victim of multiple alien abductions. The letters take on a threatening tone. Agent Doggett turns up these files during Mulder's 2001 disappearance. Could they have been planted circa 2001 to support Haskell's work for the conspiracy? (Per Manum) |
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| January 1993 | Mulder takes some vacation leave. In January 1997, he comments that he has not taken any vacation for four years. (Never Again) | |
| 20
to 27 July 1993 |
FBI Agent
Tom Colton describes to Scully a series of murders he believes were committed
by a serial killer. The victims were all murdered inside locked or secured
rooms. Each had their liver ripped out of their body. Despite Colton's discomfort, Mulder is brought into the case. Mulder finds strange humanoid fingerprints at the high-security office building where businessman George Usher was murdered. Mulder links the prints to similar killings that occurred in the United States every thirty years, going back to at least 1903. In each occurrence, five victims had their livers torn out. Instead of combining forces, Scully and Mulder decide to take different avenues of investigating the case: Scully the traditional, Mulder the unorthodox. At the scene of the Usher murder, Mulder assures Scully that the suspect would not return, having already beaten the security system. He thinks the killer would seek a new challenge. But as they talk, Mulder discovers someone crawling inside an air duct. The suspect, an Animal Control officer named Eugene Tooms, is taken into custody. Tooms passes a polygraph test, except for those questions posed by Mulder regarding his age. Mulder suspects Tooms is the killer. Using a computer, he manipulates the image of Tooms' fingerprints, elongating them. They are compared to the prints from 1933. The prints match. Scully is intrigued and re-teams with Mulder on the case. Tooms attacks and kills another victim guarded by high-tech security equipment. Tooms disappears; Scully and Mulder find that his apartment was never lived in. Scully tracks down Frank Briggs, the sheriff who investigated the five murders that occurred in 1933. Briggs describes how he tracked the murders until the present day, never able to prove his belief that Tooms was the killer. The agents locate an abandoned building that Tooms once listed as his address. Inside they discover a small room containing "trophies" taken from each crime scene throughout the century. Mulder speculates that Tooms may be a genetic mutation that hibernates for decades and eats human livers to provide sustenance. As they leave the scene, Tooms procures Scully's necklace. Scully arranges a stakeout of the abandoned building, but Colton calls it off without informing Mulder. Mulder arrives at the building, and finding no undercover agents, ventures inside. He finds Scully's necklace placed with the other trophies. Mulder races to Scully's apartment and finds her grappling with Tooms. Mulder draws his weapon and, with Scully's help, manages to handcuff Tooms. He is taken to jail, where he begins assembling a new "nest." |
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| 25
to 29 August 1993 |
In a remote
region along the banks of Lake Okobogee in Iowa, a mysterious bright light
descends from the night sky. Ruby Morris, a teenage girl, vanishes from
her sleeping bag while her brother Kevin frantically calls out to their
mother. Mulder requests that the FBI investigate the Ruby Morris disappearance after it is reported in a tabloid. Scully and Blevins note a similarity between the case and Mulder's own childhood "encounter" in which his sister was allegedly abducted by aliens. Mulder tells Scully that Lake Okobogee is a UFO "hot spot." He presents several newspaper articles written over the last several decades as proof. One article describes a sighting reported by girl scouts, one of whom is identified as Darlene Morris, mother of the girl who disappeared. The agents travel to Iowa to investigate further. Darlene sticks by her story, insisting the disappearance has nothing to do with her divorce. Mulder questions Kevin Morris, who cannot remember what happened the night of the encounter. But Kevin's strange doodling piques Mulder's interest and he has the doodles faxed to Washington for analysis. The boy says his doodles are the result of his television communicating with him. Scully and Mulder are contacted by a young girl who keeps her identity secret. The girl states that a boy named Greg Randall got Ruby pregnant, and that he couple were planning to elope together. Kevin Morris' doodles turn out to be part of a top-secret binary defence satellite transmission. The boy is taken into custody by NSA Agent Holtzman and then released. New doodles taken from the Morris home turn out to be digital renderings of everything from Shakespeare passages to bars from a Brandenburg concerto. Mulder believes the boy has become a conduit for alien transmissions. The agents return to the site of the abduction. They find evidence of intense heat. They also find Greg Randall's body buried in a shallow grave. Mulder discovers a handwritten note in Randall's wallet noting a doctor's appointment. The handwriting matches that of the mysterious girl encountered earlier. By questioning the doctor, the agents locate the mysterious girl, who turns out to be Tessa Sears. Scully informs Tessa that officials know that it is she-and not Ruby-who was impregnated by Greg Randall. Sears admits she shot Greg when she discovered he was having an affair with Ruby. But she insists she did not murder Ruby. Scully and Mulder return to the Morris home and find it abandoned. They also find a large portrait of Ruby formed with binary numbers. The agents travel back to Lake Okobogee. Mulder finds Kevin floating in a strange fog. Just as Mulder pulls Kevin away, a group of bikers drive by and Ruby's unconscious body is discovered nearby. Darlene forbids Mulder from speaking with her daughter, insisting that as far as she is concerned, Ruby had simply run off with bikers. That night, Mulder listens to tape recordings of his hypnosis session in which he described his belief that one day his sister will be returned to Earth unharmed. |
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| 29
August to |
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 tyre. 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 meets Rob, a handsome divorcee. Mulder stakes out a dark alley near the woods where Jack claims the Devil has been prowling. That night, the creature makes an appearance, but before Mulder gets a good look at it, the police arrive and arrest him, mistaking him at first for a vagrant. At the jail, Mulder again clashes with Thompson, accusing him of keeping the creature a secret so as not to upset tourism in Atlantic City. Scully bails Mulder out of jail and they travel to the University of Maryland, where Dr Roger Diamond affirms Mulder's theory that a human being might at birth revert to its most primal instincts devolving into a carnivorous Neanderthal. Scully, meanwhile, goes on a date with Rob. Ranger Brullet finds another body in the backwoods, but this time the corpse appears to be half-animal. Mulder theorizes that two such creatures may have roamed the countryside. He and Scully comb an abandoned building for the Devil as the police fan out to capture them. Mulder manages to allude police long enough to locate the second creature, which turns out to be female. She suddenly attacks and wounds Mulder and escapes into the woods. Police track the creature and kill it, despite Mulder's plea to take it alive. An autopsy report confirms the female creature recently gave birth, leading Mulder to conclude it came to the city in search of food scraps for its young after its mate died. Some time later, a feral child roams the New Jersey countryside in search of food. |
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| 22
September to |
Officials
from a mysterious government agency question Mulder and Scully about two
recently discovered male cadavers. The victims appear to have died after
their throats were crushed from inside their bodies. When the officials
refuse to elaborate on the case, Mulder feigns ignorance and does not link
the deaths to an existing X-File. He later admits to Scully, however, that
he lied to the government men. Mulder attributes the deaths to psychokinesis,
the ability of a psychic force to manipulate matter. Without help from the government officials, Mulder and Scully begin an investigation on their own and trace the murders to Philadelphia. Working 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 paycheque and she fled, escaping without injury. Coming up empty-handed, the agents get into their car and prepare to drive away. Suddenly, the vehicle snaps into reverse at full speed. It careens down a street and collides with another car. Mulder and Scully escape with minor injuries. Mulder tells Scully that he believes Lauren was somehow responsible for the mishap. While surveying Lauren's house, Mulder accidentally photographs a strange image at her window. Using computer enhancement, that image turns out to be the form of Lauren's dead boss, Howard Graves. Lauren is attacked in her home by two hit men. But before the assailants can harm Lauren, a mysterious force intervenes and kills them. Mulder and Scully arrive shortly after and detain her for questioning. Lauren finally confesses the incredible truth: her boss, Howard Graves, was murdered by co-worker Robert Dorland after he threatened to expose HTG Technologies for selling restricted parts to Isfahan terrorists. Graves' spirit returned from the dead, and has been protecting her ever since. The FBI raids HTG Technologies, hoping to uncover evidence of the illegal parts sales. When the agents come up empty-handed, Graves' psychic force materializes and rips a hole in the wall of Dorland's office, exposing a hidden micro-disk. The U.S. Attorney's office uses the new evidence to prosecute Dorland. |
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| 1 October 1993 | Congress terminates the NASA High-Resolution Microwave survey of the sky, which has been seeking signals from intelligent life in space. (Historical) | |
| 22
October to |
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
booby trap 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 and Scully's
expertise. The agents are told by Peterson, the Eurisko building's system engineer, that one of the few people who has access to the building's sophisticated control centre is Brad Wilczek, the 30-year-old founder of the company and Drake's arch enemy. Using a voice analyser, Scully determines that Wilczek disguised his own voice electronically and telephoned Drake moments before his death... playing a key role in the booby trap. 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 working on Artificial Intelligence, the development of a thinking machine. Though Wilczek is arrested for the deaths of Drake and Lamana, and even signs a confession, Mulder believes him innocent. From his jail cell, Wilczek admits to Mulder that COS is an intelligent machine. He explains that when Drake made overtures to shut the system down, COS eliminated him in self-defence. Mulder convinces Wilczek to develop a computer virus that will shut down the system. Armed with the virus, Mulder and Scully gain entrance to the Eurisko building. COS anticipates their every move and turns the building's electrical systems against them. With Peterson's assistance, Mulder makes his way to the main control room. As Mulder is about to insert the computer disk into the system, Peterson pulls out a gun and demands he stand back. Peterson admits he is an operative for the Defence Department, a government agency eager for Artificial Intelligence technology. Scully enters and pulls her gun, gaining the upper hand. Peterson drops his weapon. Mulder inserts the computer disk and engages the virus. COS shuts down forever... or does it? |
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| 9
to 11 November 1993 |
Mulder
and Scully view 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 in search core samples that date the Earth's climate as far back as
the Dawn of Man. But something went wrong during the expedition, and the
two geophysicists committed suicide. Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. They are teamed with Dr Denny Murphy, a geologist; Dr Lawrence Hodge, a physician, and Dr 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 deaths. A dog suddenly springs from the darkness and jumps onto Mulder. Bear intercedes, and in the process of pulling the animal off Mulder, he is bitten. The dog is sedated, and during an examination, a worm-like organism is discovered squirming beneath its skin. Scully's autopsies reveal that the scientists from the previous expedition, except for the two who committed suicide, killed each other. Examination of ice core samples leads to the conclusion that the first team tapped into the remnants of a meteor that collided with the Earth thousands of years in the past. When the scientists came in contact with the core samples, they exposed themselves to an alien organism that had remained dormant beneath the Arctic Ice. When Bear is told his blood and stool samples must be analysed to ensure the parasite has not infected him, he refuses to co-operate. 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 behaviour, leading the first team of geophysicists to kill one another. Paranoia within the group builds to a fever pitch when a severe storm ends radio contact with the rest of the world. Mulder discovers Murphy's body stuffed inside a refrigerator, his throat cut. The others suspect that Mulder may be the killer and padlock him inside a supply room. While performing an experiment, Hodge accidentally mixes blood samples from two different infected hosts. To his surprise, the parasitic organisms attack and kill one another. The scientists infect the dog that attacked Bear with a second worm. It returns to normal. Mulder convinces Scully that he is not infected. When they exit the supply room, the pair are jumped by Dasilva and Hodge, who pin Mulder to the ground and lower the last worm to his ear. But Hodge is horrified when he discovers the parasite wriggling beneath Dasilva's skin. The others hold Dasilva down while Hodge inserts the parasite. The group is rescued and flown to another base. Mulder announces he is returning to the site to perform more tests. Hodge informs him, however, that the military burned the compound to the ground. |
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| November
1993 |
Michelle
Generoo, the mission control communication commander for the Space Shuttle
program, arranges a secret meeting with Mulder and Scully. She produces
an X-ray of the shuttle's Auxiliary Power Unit valve that she believes was
tampered with. A shuttle mission was scrubbed at the last possible second
when the valve malfunctioned, narrowly averting disaster. Where the X-ray
came from, and how the incredibly strong valve could have been tampered
with, remains a mystery, though NASA attributes the malfunction to simple
mechanical failure. Fearing NASA might overlook the possibility of sabotage
to maintain launch schedule, Generoo decided to step forward on her own. The agents meet with Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt, a former astronaut who flew on the Gemini Eight mission and is now the current Space Shuttle Program Director. Belt insists that because of tight security and the sophisticated technology involved, it would be impossible for anyone to sabotage the mission by tampering with the valve. When the next shuttle achieves orbit around the Earth, a technical problem develops. Generoo, whose husband is one of the astronauts aboard the ship, races back to Mission Control in her car. She loses control of her vehicle when a fog bank forms into a sinister face and rushes toward her windshield. Mulder and Scully rescue Generoo and return with her to Mission Control. They find technicians attempting to rotate the shuttle before it overheats and burns in orbit. Belt orders telemetry signals to be halted, then instructs the astronauts to fly the ship using the onboard computer. Despite some anxious moments, the astronauts correct the problem and regain contact with Mission Control. 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 re-entry 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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| November
1993 |
The Space
Surveillance Centre alerts Colonel Calvin Henderson 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 US aircraft from falling into Soviet hands. Now, he is head of a crash retrieval team. The government officially labels the crash site a quarantined area, attributing it to a toxic chemical spill. Mulder sneaks passed the military units guarding the area and photographs the wreckage, visible to him as an intense blue light. His presence is discovered and Henderson has him arrested. Mulder is placed in Scully's custody. She warns that when McGrath learned that he infiltrated the crash site without prior approval, he recommended 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 crashed in Townsend. The agents discover that they have been spied upon by Max Fenig, a member of an organization that tracks UFO sightings. He acknowledges that he knows all about Mulder, Scully and the X-Files project, having accessed files through the Freedom of Information Act. Max's recreational vehicle is a surveillance operation on wheels. He plays for Mulder and Scully a recording he intercepted moments after the UFO crash, in which Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright, who was the first person to arrive at the crash scene, radioed for fire crews. When the agents approach Mrs Wright for information, she refuses to talk. Dr Jeffrey Oppenheim, who examined Deputy Wright, agrees to be interviewed. He examined the bodies of Wright and the firemen, all of whom died from severe burns the likes of which he had never seen before. Suddenly, the bodies of several soldiers are rushed through the hospital's corridors, each exhibiting the same burns described only moments earlier by Oppenheim. Shorthanded, Oppenheim enlists Scully's medical expertise. Mulder aids Max when he suffers a seizure. Max blames the episode on epilepsy, but Mulder notices a diamond-shaped scar behind Max's ear, a scar Mulder links to UFO abductions. Before Scully has a chance to examine Max, he disappears from his vehicle. The agents track him to a warehouse, where they discover Henderson and his men surrounding the building. Before Mulder can save Max, he disappears in a blinding blue light, the victim of an alien abduction. At the hearing, Mulder defends his action as unorthodox, but necessary, given that the toxic spill was a government cover-up. McGrath's decision to fire Mulder and terminate the X-Files project is overruled by Deep Throat. He tells McGrath he likes to keep his friends close... and his enemies closer. Max is eventually returned, and continues his efforts to learn the truth about his repeated abductions. He sends frequent letters to his sister, describing his efforts in detail. (Tempus Fugit) |
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| December
1993 |
Mulder
and Scully investigate a man named Joel Simmons who is found dead in his
backyard, his body drained of blood, his mouth disfigured. Mulder at first
links the incident to mysterious cattle mutilations that have occurred in
the United States since 1967. The agents interview Teena Simmons, Joel's eight-year-old daughter, who was at home when the killings took place. Teena describes how "men from the clouds" were after her father. Mulder is somewhat mystified, however, when Teena tells him the men wanted to "exsanguinate" her father, a word far too complex for a little girl to know the meaning of. Shortly thereafter, the agents receive word of another, almost identical murder that took place in San Francisco, in which a man named Doug Reardon was found dead in his backyard, also drained of blood and disfigured. The agents are stunned when they meet Reardon's eight-year-old daughter, Cindy. She and Teena are identical in appearance. Teena, meanwhile, disappears from the foster home where she is temporarily housed, apparently the victim of a kidnapping. Scully investigates when it is discovered that Mrs Reardon had in-vitro fertilization at a clinic in San Francisco. A physician named Sally Kendrick supervised both the Simmons' and Reardons' IVF program. Kendrick, it is revealed, was fired from her position after she was discovered tampering with the genetic material of fertilized ova in the lab prior to implant. Deep Throat contacts Mulder. He reveals the existence of a top-secret program once run by the government called the "Litchfield Experiment," in which a group of genetically controlled children were raised and monitored. The boys were called "Adam," the girls "Eve." Mulder and Scully track Eve 6 to a mental institution. To their astonishment, she looks exactly like Sally Kendrick. Eve admits that two other Eves beside herself are still alive. The agents realize that Sally Kendrick was continuing the Litchfield experiment at the clinic in San Francisco where she cloned herself into Teena, Cindy and six other little girls. One of the other Eves kidnaps Cindy. She takes the girl to a motel and introduces her to Teena. Both little girls knew of the other's existence, and they murdered their own fathers. Eve is convinced she can raise the girls so they will not suffer from the mental disorders that drove the other Eves mad. Despite her conviction, she realizes too late that the little girls, for no apparent reason, poisoned her drink. Mulder and Scully are tipped that the girls can be found at the motel. When they arrive, they find Eve dead. The girls claim the two remaining Eves conspired to kill them. The agents fall for the story; never suspecting the girls played any role in the murder. Mulder and Scully transport the girls in their car. They pull off the road at a diner so the girls can use the rest room. Mulder orders four sodas, and when he is not looking, Cindy poisons two of the drinks. Mulder realizes the drinks have been tampered with and stops Scully from drinking 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. They are taken back into custody and end up at the Whiting Institute next to Eve 6 in cells labelled Eve 9 and Eve 10. Eve 8 infiltrates the institute. Cindy and Tina say they "just knew" that Eve 8 would be coming. Although it is not seen, the implication is that all of the Eves escape. |
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| December
1993 |
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 Malcolm Marsden, who narrowly escaped being burned alive in a similar incident, has temporarily relocated his family to Cape Cod. Mulder and Scully agree to aid Greene with the case. Scully, however, is hard pressed to contain her obvious jealousy. Special Agent Melvin Beatty, an arson specialist, examines the evidence linking the fires, but is at a loss as to how the blazes were started. Mulder's notion that it may be attributed to pyrokinetics, an individual's ability to conduct and control a fire, is scoffed at by Beatty. Mulder confesses to Scully that he is terrified by fire, and admits that Phoebe is all too aware of his phobia. He tells Scully he will handle the investigation without her help. Unknown to Sir Malcolm 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 calls himself Bob, 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 ignite. Mulder and Greene stake out an elegant party attended by the Marsdens hoping to trap the arsonist. After surveying the hotel where the party is given, Mulder and Greene conclude the arsonist will not strike. They take advantage of their surroundings for some intimate slow dancing on the ballroom floor. Scully arrives at the party with information regarding the case. She notices that the hotel security status grid is lit up, indicating a fire somewhere on the upper level. She interrupts Mulder and Greene with the news, shattering an intimate moment. Mulder races upstairs but is overcome with smoke. Bob races out of the hotel with the Marsden's children and is hailed a hero. Scully takes advantage of Mulder's hospital stay to fill him in on her research. She believes the arsonist uses a highly flammable accelerant, such as rocket propellant, to fuel the fires. Scully also suspects she may have pinpointed the arsonist, a man named Cecil L'Ively, who acted as caretaker for two of the victims. They come to realize that the Marsden's caretaker is the same man. The detectives rush to the house in Cape Cod and evacuate the family. Mulder catches Greene sharing a passionate kiss with Sir Malcolm, ending his interest in her. Mulder and Scully encounter Bob/Cecil, who has rigged the entire dwelling to catch fire. Mulder becomes paralysed with fear when he encounters the fire. Phoebe splashes accelerant on Bob and he bursts into flames. Mulder and the others escape from the house and watch as it is consumed in fire. Bob's flesh regenerates itself, however, and he soon recovers inside his heavily guarded cell. |
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| December
1993 |
Scully
and fellow FBI agent Jack Willis stake out a bank after an anonymous informant
tips them that a robbery will take place that day. That tip proves correct
when Warren Dupre and his wife Lula Phillips stage a hold up. Dupre is ordered
to put down his weapon, but rather than comply he shoots Willis in the chest.
Scully returns fire and mortally wounds Dupre. At the hospital emergency
room, doctors are able to resuscitate the badly injured Willis. But unknown
to them, Dupre's consciousness took possession of the agent's body as both
men died in the emergency room. The possessed Willis leaves his hospital room and locates his former body in the morgue. He hacks a finger off the corpse, removing a gold wedding ring. Meanwhile, Scully and Mulder begin their search for the missing Willis. When Mulder learns of the missing ring, he begins to suspect that Willis may be possessed. Willis locates Lula's brother, Tommy, at a seedy hotel. When Tommy claims not to know Lula's whereabouts, Willis accuses him of tipping off the FBI about the bank robbery. He sees Lula's photograph being broadcast on a local television news program and grows enraged. He shoots and kills Tommy. Willis reappears at the hotel during the murder investigation. He explains his absence by claiming he wandered from the hotel in a daze and collapsed in the street. Mulder discovers a fresh fingerprint on Tommy's television set, a print left by Willis. That evidence mysteriously disappears soon after being given to Willis. Willis and Scully respond to a tip about Lula's whereabouts. Scully chases and eventually arrests Lula, but Willis releases her and takes Scully hostage. Dupre's spirit attempts to convince Lula that he now inhabits Willis' body, but those attempts are met with scepticism despite the fact that Willis knows 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. Analysing the phone call for clues, Mulder and his fellow agents narrow the scope of their search. Willis feigns his death and grabs Lula's gun, pointing it at her. He proclaims his intense love for Lula, and then pulls the trigger. FBI agents storm the house, but Willis' body succumbs to diabetic shock and dies. Scully is located and released unharmed. |
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| 26
December 1993 to |
Scully
receives a phone call from her mother, Margaret, relaying the tragic news
that her father died of a massive coronary. Only moments earlier Scully
had seen an ethereal image of her father sitting in a chair. Scully returns to work anxious for a new case, anything to keep her mind off her father's death. Her curiosity is piqued by a report of a young couple's kidnapping near Jackson University. A similar abduction occurred at another university exactly one year earlier. The bodies of that couple were later found. Authorities believed they had been tortured. The only lead in the case is a man named Luther Lee Boggs, who is scheduled for execution in North Carolina's gas chamber in one week. Boggs asserts that he knows who the serial killer is, and backs up that claim by describing a charm bracelet worn by one of the victims. He alleges that his knowledge is obtained from psychic transmissions. He makes a proposition: that his information be traded for a reprieve from death row. Before travelling to North Carolina, Scully attends a memorial service for her father. Captain William Scully's ashes are scattered at sea as the song "Beyond the Sea" is played. The agents meet with Boggs at the North Carolina prison where he is interred. Mulder hands Boggs a small piece of cloth and tells him it was cut from the clothing worn by one of the serial killer's victims. Boggs falls into a trance and describes landmarks near the kidnapper's hideout. Mulder then reveals that the cloth was cut from one of his own T-shirts and has nothing to do with the victims. Convinced Boggs is a fraud, Mulder exits, leaving Scully alone with Boggs. He begins singing "Beyond the Sea," sending a chill down Scully's spine. While driving along a roadway, Scully becomes intrigued by imagery described by Boggs during his trance. She enters an abandoned warehouse nearby and discovers evidence that the kidnapped couple had been interred there. Police are notified about the warehouse's location. But Scully cannot bring herself to tell Mulder about her father's ghost, or about Boggs' knowledge of the burial. Mulder concludes that Boggs is in contact with someone involved with the kidnapping-not with the spirit world. But when the agents meet with Boggs a second time he tells them that the victims are being held at a boathouse on a lake. Agents raid the boathouse and rescue one of the victims, Liz Hawley. Mulder is shot at close range by the kidnapper, Lucas Henry, who proceeds to escape on a motorboat with the remaining victim, Jim Summers. With Mulder recuperating in the hospital, Scully concentrates on locating Lucas Henry. She again interviews Boggs, who relives his near-death experience in the gas chamber when he was saved by a last minute reprieve. It was during this brief out-of-body experience that Boggs first came in contact with the spirit world. He refuses to reveal more details of Jim Summer's whereabouts until he is guaranteed that his execution sentence has been dropped. Scully approaches the Warden for a stay of execution, but the request is denied. Left with no other choice, Scully lies to Boggs, telling him his sentence has been reduced to life in prison. Boggs channels with the spirit world and describes a condemned brewery as Henry's new hideout. He then tells Scully he knew she lied to him about the pardon. Scully and other agents converge on the brewery, rescuing Jim Summers. Henry refuses to give himself up and is killed. Later, Scully witnesses Bogg's execution. |
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| January
1994 |
A woman
named Marty seduces a businessman at a trendy nightclub. The couple go to
a motel and have sex. Shortly after the businessman begins convulsing and
dies. Before Marty leaves the motel, her physique changes and she metamorphoses
into a man. Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the case. Mulder links the death to a series of others in which victims died in the throes of passion. Medical tests reveal large amounts of pheromones, or human sex attractants, in the victim's blood. He also links two of the murders to a remote town in Massachusetts inhabited by The Kindred, a sect of religious isolationists famous for their abstinence and pure Christian beliefs. The agents travel to the rural village, where sect members allow them access to their community only after they relinquish their guns. As Mulder and Scully dine with The Kindred, Brother Aaron suddenly begins choking. Scully is forbidden by the other sect members from aiding Brother Aaron, and he is led away. The agents perform some clandestine investigating during the night. They are intrigued by activity emanating from a cellar beneath a barn. Mulder makes his way inside and watches a religious ceremony centring around Brother Aaron's body. In his effort to keep his presence a secret, Mulder becomes trapped inside a crypt where Aaron's body is entombed in a strange, membranous substance. He watches as Brother Aaron's body begins transforming into a woman. Scully, meanwhile, has been pulled aside by Brother Andrew, a handsome sect member who possesses a mysterious hypnotic power. Andrew tells Scully he believes the murders were committed by Brother Martin. But before he reveals how Martin killed, Andrew places Scully in a trance and begins kissing her. Mulder breaks out of the crypt and rescues Scully before Andrew has sex with her. Mulder and Scully are permitted to leave the town. They receive a break in the case when one of Martin's intended victims escapes unharmed. He describes how his attacker changed gender right before his eyes. Police track Marty to a hotel after he/she orders food using a victim's credit card. Mulder and Scully raid a hotel room and encounter Marty and his latest victim, who is very dead. Marty flees but agents give chase. Before they can apprehend Marty, however, he/she is surrounded by fellow Kindred members and dragged into the darkness. Scully, Mulder and other FBI agents raid the village where the sect lives. But they find the village completely deserted. Only one clue points to their whereabouts: distinct geometric patterns and lines cut in a crop circle, the same markings associated with UFO landing sites. The implication is that the Kindred are aliens, and leave on an alien spacecraft. In one scene, the female version of Martin says that the Kindred are different from humans and that he/she will be punished by the Kindred, but that the date of their departure is approaching and that they will not leave Martin behind. |
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| February
1994 |
Mulder
and Scully are asked by Special Agent Reggie Purdue to aid in the investigation
of a jewellery store robbery. Mulder realizes his old friend Purdue requested
his assistance with the case because of a note found at the crime scene
that reads: "Fox can't guard the chicken coop." Mulder explains
to Scully that his first FBI case involved an armed robber named John Barnett,
who left notes that taunted Mulder about the crime spree. Barnett was eventually
captured and sentenced to life in prison, where he died four years earlier.
But Mulder is disquieted when a lab technician analyses the note and concludes
it was written by Barnett within the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, Scully and Purdue review video surveillance footage of Barnett's capture by the FBI years earlier. In the footage, Mulder had the opportunity to kill Barnett, but because a hostage was nearby he hesitated. That hesitation allowed Barnett time to kill an armoured car driver and an FBI agent. Mulder returned fire, wounding Barnett. But Mulder never forgave himself for the error. During the trial Barnett swore he would "get" Mulder. Mulder visits Barnett's old prison cellmate, 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 40-year-old. Mulder and Scully are approached by the now-ailing Dr Ridley, who tells them that Barnett is the last of his patients who is still alive. Ridley explains that he used a different technique on Barnett, he grafted the cells of a salamander onto his arm to counter side effects of the experiment. Those cells grew and mutated into Barrett's new hand. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Barnett stole Ridley's secrets on age-reversal and now wishes to trade the medical information to the US government in exchange for immunity. Realising that Scully is Barnett's next intended victim, Mulder and his fellow agents stake out a concert hall where Scully is to meet a friend. Barnett shoots Scully, but a bulletproof vest protects her. Barnett takes a cellist hostage, but Mulder sees his chance and fires, killing Barnett. |
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| February
1994 |
Mulder
and Scully investigate a UFO sighting in Reagan, Tennessee. They interview
a truck driver named Ranheim, who claims he fired his shotgun at a mysterious
object in the sky. Ranheim, however, changes the details of his story, prompting
Mulder to speculate that he has something to hide. The agents also realize
that Ranheim exhibits symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, an illness that normally
afflicts veterans of the conflict in Iraq. Ranheim claims he is not a veteran
of that war. After further investigation, Scully discovers that Ranheim's real name is Frank Druce, a former Special Operations officer in Iraq who had been admitted to hospital 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 leaking them misinformation. When Mulder confronts Deep Throat, he admits that he tried to lead the investigation away from the truck. He justifies his action by stating that the country is not ready to comprehend a closely guarded government secret. He also confirms that the agents are under constant surveillance. Determined to uncover the truth, Mulder and Scully resume their search for the truck. Their diligence pays off, and the vehicle is located on a remote roadway. While surveying the truck from afar, the agents' vehicle is suddenly engulfed by an intense light. The truck comes to a stop and the agents open its doors. Inside, they find evidence that an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, or EBE, had been inside. Mulder and Scully suspect that the EBE 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 Frohike, Langly and Byers, "The Lone Gunmen", the agents gain access to the heavily guarded facility. The agents' presence is detected and they are taken into custody, but not before Mulder comes close to seeing the EBE. 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 EBE that may survive a UFO crash. Deep Throat reveals that he carried out the murder of an EBE, 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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| 5
to 9 March 1994 |
Mulder's
curiosity is piqued when Scully plays him a videotape 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 kill again if he is set free. But the judge concedes to a bail request, which would allow Samuel to be released. Suddenly, and inexplicably, the courtroom is engulfed by a swarm of locusts, creating a scene that resembles a biblical plague. Once Samuel is released, Reverend Hartley pressures Samuel to perform miracles at another church meeting. But as Mulder and Scully watch, the event again turns tragic when a Multiple Sclerosis sufferer lapses into a seizure and dies. A preliminary autopsy suggests the woman, Margaret Hohman, died of toxic poisoning. Mulder suspects that Samuel is innocent, and that someone else is poisoning the parishioners of Miracle Ministries. Mulder relays his conclusion to Sheriff Daniels, and soon afterward Samuel is found dead in his jail cell. The agents return to the courthouse where Samuel was arraigned and find evidence that someone dumped locusts into the ventilation system. They trace the insects, and highly poisonous cyanide, to Leonard Vance, an accident victim that Samuel brought back to life. Before Vance is arrested, Samuel returns from the dead to ask him why he poisoned the parishioners. Vance angrily reveals his burned flesh and scar tissue, admitting that he conspired to squash the parishioner's faith in its greatest healer. Vance ingests a lethal dose of pesticide before the agents arrive at his house, but before he dies he tells of Samuel's resurrection from the dead. This unnerves Sheriff Daniels, who had arranged Samuel's beating inside the jail cell. Daniels is later approached by Deputy Tyson, who reveals that the District Attorney is investigating his role in Samuel's death. |
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| March
1994 |
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. But when
he examines the body, Jim discovers he killed a Native American man known
as Joseph Goodensnake. Mulder convinces Scully to aid him with the investigation, which at first glance does not appear to be related to the supernatural, but rather, a tragic accident. They interview Jim Parker, who explains that someone, or something, had been mutilating his cattle. He insists that he shot a wolf-like beast with his gun, not Goodensnake. Mulder's curiosity is piqued when he discovers a piece of translucent skin where Goodensnake's body had been recovered. The agents travel to the Trego Indian Reservation, where Sheriff Charlie Tskany allows them to examine Goodensnake's body. They discover that Goodensnake's front teeth are abnormally long, not unlike that of a wild animal. But the sheriff refuses Scully's request to perform a detailed autopsy, citing Native American burial rituals. As members of the tribe burn Goodensnake's body at a burial ground, Mulder explains to Scully that the oldest X-File on record was created by J Edgar Hoover. It involved a series of murders that occurred in the United States during World War II in which victims were mauled to death by what police assumed to be a wild animal. An animal was tracked and killed by police, but when they retrieved the carcass, they found only the body of a man. Scully insists it is physically impossible for a human to change form. Lyle Parker arrives at the burial grounds to offer his condolences to Goodensnake's sister, Gwen. She becomes distraught and insists that he leave. Not long after the cremation, Mulder and Scully discover Jim Parker's mutilated corpse at his ranch. Scully finds Lyle Parker, lying naked in the mud nearby and she takes him to the hospital for treatment while Mulder and Sheriff Tskany continue the investigation. Tskany takes Mulder to the home of Ish, an elderly mystic Native American. Ish explains that the attacks that occurred in 1946 were the result of a Manitou, an evil spirit capable of changing a man into a beast. Tskany speculates that because the power is passed through bloodlines, Gwen too may be a shape-shifter, and she may have killed Jim Parker to avenge her brother's death. But when Gwen is interviewed, she claims she saw a wolf-like creature attack and kill Jim Parker. Mulder and Tskany realize that Lyle may have contracted the shape-shifting power after the beast mauled him. 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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| March
1994 |
Mulder
and Scully investigate the disappearance of thirty loggers who were clearing
trees in a remote forest in Washington State. They join forces with Larry
Moore, a member of the Federal Forest Service, and Steve Humphreys, an employee
of the lumber company. Moore and Humphreys suspect that the loggers may
have been victimized by militant environmentalists, or eccoterrorists, who
have waged a campaign of destruction against lumber companies in retaliation
for ruining American forests. As the group travels along a dirt road, a tyre 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. Doug Spinney, an eccoterrorist suspected of sabotaging equipment, arrives at the camp on foot, his jeep having run out of petrol. 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 centre. This leads to speculation that the once dormant creatures were released when the loggers cut down the tree. Mulder allows Spinney to take the remaining petrol used to fuel the cabin's generator to the stalled jeep, which is two valleys away. Moore criticises Mulder's decision, certain the creatures will attack once darkness falls and the generator runs out of fuel. Scully panics when millions of the phosphorescent bugs swarm inside the cabin, waiting for the last glow of a light bulb to fade. But the fuel in the generator lasts until sunrise, keeping one light glowing and sparing the group a grisly fate. Realizing they will be attacked come nightfall, the threesome decide to carry a good tyre from one of the sabotaged vehicles to the abandoned 4 x 4. But when they locate the 4 x 4, they are horrified to discover Humphrey's cocooned corpse inside. Spinney suddenly appears with the jeep as he had promised. He transports the others through the forest at high speed, hoping to outrun the darkness. Along the way, the jeep's tyres are punctured by a sharp metal device Spinney himself had planted on the dirt road to sabotage the logger's vehicles. A swarm of insects descends upon the jeep and everyone inside is cocooned. The group is rescued by military medical personnel, and then transported to a hospital for treatment. |
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| March
1994 |
Scully
is told by Assistant Director Blevins that the investigation of all X-Files
cases must adhere to proper FBI procedures. She counters that the extraordinary
nature of the cases dictates that unorthodox means of investigation be utilized,
but her objection is overruled. CSM is in the room, but says nothing. Meanwhile, Eugene Tooms, a serial killer with unusual abilities, is interviewed by a parole board. Mulder, who helped incarcerate Tooms, testifies at the hearing. But those present at the review question Mulder's credibility when he claims that Tooms' murder spree spanned some 100 years, and that Tooms is capable of elongating his body, a process achieved through the ingestion of human livers. Tooms is released from the sanatorium and placed under the care of Dr Aaron Monte. Mulder is certain that Tooms will commit another murder the moment the opportunity presents itself. While Mulder keeps constant surveillance over Tooms, Scully researches the earlier murders hoping to prove that Tooms was responsible. Scully calls on the services of Frank Briggs, a retired police detective who accumulated evidence surrounding the murders, a series of five killings that occur once every 30 years. He notes that in 1933, a human liver was discovered near a chemical plant then, under-construction, but the body of the victim was never recovered. Briggs believes that Tooms hid the body because something about the corpse could tie him to the killing. Scully and Briggs go to the chemical plant and recover a body entombed deep inside the concrete 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 took place. Mulder is released, but warned to stay away from Tooms. Mulder and Scully discover the body of Tooms' fifth victim, Dr Monte. Realizing that Tooms will try to hibernate for another 30 years, Mulder and Scully rush to the location where he had previously "nested." In place of the dilapidated building stands a shopping mall. Mulder guesses that an escalator shaft is the likeliest place Tooms would have made the new nest. He climbs inside the darkened shaft, a flashlight illuminating his path. Tooms suddenly springs out of the darkness and attacks Mulder. With Scully's help, the agent struggles free. Tooms becomes entangled in the escalator's gears and is crushed to death. |
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| 28
to 31 March 1994 |
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
Detective Barbala questions her. During the course of the interview, Barbala
is suddenly hurled out a window. He falls six stories to his death. Due to the mysterious nature of the death, Mulder and Scully are called to the scene. Lazard is convinced that Barbala was alone with Michelle when the tragedy occurred. She is also convinced that Barbala did not commit suicide. Michelle tells the agents that another man was present in the room when Barbala died. The description Michelle provides matches the likeness of Officer Charlie Morris, who died nine years earlier. The agents question Morris' former partner, Tony Fiore, who states that Morris was murdered by a gang after a drug deal soured. In reality, Fiore and an insurance salesman named Len Felder plotted to scare Morris as part of an insurance scam, but their scheme went too far and Morris died. When Felder disembarks from a city bus, his scarf becomes caught in the vehicle's door. As the bus continues its journey, Felder is dragged to his 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 videotape of the session is analysed using sophisticated equipment. It reveals an image of a man in a diving suit. Autopsy reports indicate that Morris drowned, and then his body was beaten to cover up the truth. Mulder concludes that Morris was drowned in his own fish tank, and the last image he saw was that of the deep-sea diver aerator. The agents rush to Tony Fiore's house. Inside, Michelle uses her psychokinetic powers to hurl objects at Tony with great force. Mulder and Scully gain entrance to the home and calm Michelle, whose powers subside with her anger. Fiore is tried and convicted of Morris' murder. Michelle's life returns to normal. |
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| 24
to 27 April 1994 |
Mulder
and Scully investigate the death of Dr Ronald Surnow, an aeronautical scientist,
who was developing a jet engine that could double supersonic speeds using
half the fuel. Surnow was sucked into the engine when he became trapped
inside a wind tunnel. Surnow's colleagues, Drs Keats and Nollette, tell
the agents that another member of the team, Arthur Gamble, died in a car
accident not long ago. The agents interview Roland Fuller, a mentally challenged janitor, who was the only other person inside the lab at the time of the incident. Mulder is intrigued by Roland's ability to manipulate complex numbers. But his attempt to link Roland's handwriting with some unidentified equations on a blackboard at the lab prove unsuccessful. Shortly thereafter, Roland murders Keats by forcing his head into a vat of liquid nitrogen and smashing his frozen skull. The agents investigate, and realize that after Keats was murdered, the perpetrator gained access to a computer file that belonged to the late Arthur Gamble. During a visit to the cryogenics lab where Gamble's head is preserved, they also discover that Gamble and Roland are identical twins. Mulder arranges for constant surveillance of Nollette, who is most likely to be the next victim after Roland disappears. Mulder speculates that the twin brothers share a psychic connection, and that Gamble is controlling Roland from the Netherworld. Nollette overhears Mulder's theory and sabotages Gamble's cryogenic unit. Roland gains access to a computer terminal and completes a simulation that pushes the jet model past Mach 15. Nollette suddenly appears, gun in hand. He thanks Roland/Gamble for solving the equation, allowing him to take credit for the work. Roland becomes enraged and overpowers Nollette. He locks the scientist inside the tunnel and starts the engine. Mulder and Scully gain access to the room and ask Roland, not Gamble, to remember the access code that will shut down the engine. Roland recalls the code and disengages the machine. |
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| 8
to 27 May 1994 |
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. After
some investigating, Mulder realizes that someone deliberately switched the
car the suspect was driving with another vehicle. The agents trace the original car to a Dr Berube, a scientist who is not eager to co-operate with the FBI investigation. With the puzzling case at a dead end, Mulder prepares to give up. But Deep Throat makes contact and convinces him that case is of extreme importance. Meanwhile, Dr Berube's dead body is discovered inside the lab. The police end their search for the fugitive without recovering a body. When they leave the 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. Fumes overcome the paramedics and the fugitive escapes into the night. With the help of Dr Carpenter, Scully analyses a flask taken from Dr Berube's lab. The bacterium inside is suspected of being extraterrestrial in origin. Mulder discovers a storage room containing human bodies suspended in a clear liquid. But when he returns to the room with Scully, he finds that it has been emptied. Deep Throat explains that Dr Berube had been experimenting with extraterrestrial viruses to make human/alien hybrids. 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 foetus, and with Deep Throat's help arranges for an exchange, the foetus for Mulder. After Deep Throat makes the exchange, he is shot and killed by the government agents. Thirteen days after Deep Throat is killed, Skinner informs Mulder that the X-Files project is being closed, on orders from the top of the executive branch. Scully is assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy. Mulder is assigned various "garbage" cases. CSM ends up in possession of the alien foetus, which he places in storage in a vault in the Pentagon. |
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