THE X-FILES CHRONOLOGY - SEASON 2
6 to 8 July 1994 2X01 Little Green Men Date from airline passenger manifest for Mulder's flight to Puerto Rico.	With the X-Files officially disbanded, Mulder and Scully return to mundane FBI investigations. The agents, having been exposed to extraordinary cases involving extraterrestrials and the paranormal, can hardly conceal their boredom. Believing that the agency has them under surveillance, they meet in the garage of the Watergate Hotel. There Mulder confesses to Scully that he has grown depressed about his mission in life, finding evidence that proves his sister was abducted by aliens years earlier. He laments that despite having numerous close encounters with UFOs, he still possesses no physical evidence that proves extraterrestrials exist. He is losing interest in finding "the truth." Mulder is later summoned to the Capitol Building by Senator Richard Matheson, an X-Files patron, who lets him in on a big secret: a radio telescope in Puerto Rico was the site of a UFO encounter. Mulder flies to Puerto Rico immediately, hoping to beat the Blue Beret UFO Retrieval Team before they can confiscate evidence that contact was made. He makes a forced entry into the facility, where he discovers a tape spinning unattended on a tape recorder. A terrified Puerto Rican named Jorge draws Mulder an image that seems to be extraterrestrial that he witnessed at the site. When Mulder does not show up for work, Scully begins an investigation. She searches his apartment and discovers a piece of paper containing a "Wow Signal," a radio transmission from deep space containing a transmission code thirty times stronger than galactic background noise. Dr Kip Troitsky tells Scully that only a handful of radio telescopes actively search for such signals. Scully searches through airline manifests and finds one containing Mulder's pseudonym, George E Hale, a reference to the famous astronomer. That flight was bound for Puerto Rico. Scully's progress is slowed when a hurricane strikes the island. She grows even more concerned when she realises other FBI agents are following her. Mulder and Jorge listen to the tapes as the force of the hurricane intensifies. Suddenly, Jorge hears noises that terrify him. He runs from the building. Mulder runs after him, but after a short search discovers the man's dead body, his expression frozen in fear. Feeling more isolated than ever, Mulder records his thoughts into a tape recorder. He wonders aloud what he would do if he did indeed come face to face with extraterrestrial life. Moments later, an intense, blinding force rocks the building. Mulder watches, horrified, as what appears to be an alien being walks towards him. He is engulfed in a blinding light. When Mulder regains consciousness, Scully is at his side. They soon realise that the Blue Beret team has arrived. Confident the Berets will kill them, the pair scramble for a nearby jeep and head into the wilderness. The Berets open fire, striking the jeep. Mulder outmanoeuvres them and escapes down a roadway. When he returns to Washington, Mulder is reprimanded by Skinner for missing work. Mulder counters that his phone was tapped illegally. Mulder is allowed to keep his job. Later, he and Scully listen to the tape, only to find it is blank.
July 1994 2X02 The Host	The crew aboard a Russian freighter bound for New Jersey encounter a ferocious monster lurking inside its sewage tanks. After the beast drags one crewman to his death, orders are given to purge the tanks. Sometime later, Mulder is pulled off a job performing surveillance work and assigned to investigate a mysterious murder case in New Jersey. He is ushered into the sewers of Newark, where he inspects the corpse of a sanitation worker. Outraged at being assigned to yet another meaningless case, which he believes to be a drug-related killing, Mulder confronts Assistant Director Skinner. Skinner reminds him that the X-Files have been closed. Mulder later confesses to Scully that he is thinking of leaving the bureau and pursuing his interest in the paranormal on his own. While performing the autopsy on the body recovered from the New Jersey sewer, Scully discovers a strange, worm-like creature slithering inside the corpse. Meanwhile, another sanitation worker is attacked by something lurking inside the sewer. This time, the victim survives. Mulder and a hospital physician, Dr Zenzola, inspect a wound on the workman's back. Unsure about what could have made the mark, Mulder and the doctor tell the man he can leave the hospital. When the workman returns home, a parasitic worm forces its way out of his body, killing him in the process. Mulder pays a visit to the sewage processing plant. An employee named Charlie discovers a humanoid creature swimming in a sedimentation pond. Terrified, he flushes the system, capturing the creature in the process. Mulder has it placed in a holding cell. With the creature in custody, Mulder pays a visit to Skinner. He states that had the case been treated as an X-File from the beginning, the workman's life might have been spared. Skinner tells Mulder that the creature will be institutionalised, and he agrees that the case should have been labelled an X-File. The creature escapes and takes refuge inside a portable toilet near a campsite. It is accidentally sucked inside a tanker truck and transported away. Meanwhile, Mulder receives mysterious messages from a high-ranking government official who makes it clear that reinstatement of the X-Files depends on his success with the assignment. Mulder tracks the creature to a sewage treatment plant. Scully warns him that the fluke she discovered inside the corpse is actually an incubating larva. This indicates that the creature is trying to reproduce. The agent and a foreman crawl inside a tunnel hoping to locate the creature. It suddenly lunges out of the water and grabs hold of the foreman, dragging him beneath the foul sludge. The foreman resurfaces, gasping for air. The creature makes its way to an overflow pipe, which leads to the sea. Mulder engages a rusty lever, causing a guillotine-like metal gate to drop from above. The creature is severed in two. Later, Mulder meets with Scully, who produces photographs linking the creature to meltdown waste from the Chernobyl Reactor in Russia.
1 to 4 August and 30 September 1994 2X03 Blood Date from autopsy report. Final date from banner at college.	Ed Funsch is a seemingly ordinary guy who performs a mundane job at the United States Post Office in Franklyn, Pennsylvania. One day his supervisor delivers bad news. Because of cutbacks, Ed has been laid off. Depressed about his prospects for the future, Ed returns to his spot at the zip code sorter machine. As he stares at the digital display on the device, numbers begin changing into letters of the alphabet to form words. Instead of seeing postal codes, Ed views the message, "Kill 'Em All." A real estate agent enters a crowded elevator in an office building. He begins sweating profusely, and as he stares at the elevator's digital display floor-indicator, he too sees the message "Kill 'Em All." The man loses control. He strikes out at the other passengers, killing two in a wild frenzy. The senselessness of the crime, and its similarity to other violent incidents that have rocked the small town of Franklyn, prompts local police to ask for the FBI's help. Mulder is assigned to the case. He learns that the real estate agent and others who suddenly went berserk did so in busy, public areas. None of the suspects obeyed orders to surrender and were subsequently shot to death by police. Mulder suspects that electronic devices found smashed at the scenes of the crimes are linked to the killings. Another bizarre killing shakes the small town when a woman attacks a automotive mechanic at the garage where he works. Mulder inspects the murder scene and is most intrigued by a smashed digital dashboard display. Accompanied by local police, Mulder interviews Bonnie McRoberts, whose car the mechanic was working on at the time he was murdered. McRoberts suddenly goes berserk and slashes at Mulder with a knife. Police open fire, killing her. Scully examines the woman's corpse and finds evidence that a chemical similar to LSD is present in her blood. That chemical, however, is only triggered when a high amount of adrenaline is secreted. Mulder discovers firsthand that the city of Franklyn sprays orchards with dangerous insecticides to exterminate a particularly virulent species of cluster fly when he is doused by a helicopter. County Supervisor Larry Winter defends the operation, noting that the local economy depends on crops. Mulder's exposure to the chemical begins to have an effect on his mind. He too sees messages in electronic displays. He realises that all of the killers suffered from phobias that could be exploited through subliminal means. Since the chemical agent used in the manufacture of the insecticide produces fear in cluster flies, Mulder concludes the same fear is being chemically induced and then triggered by someone using the town of Franklyn for a controlled experiment. Mulder and Scully believe that only a small percentage of the population of Franklyn, some 25 people, are at risk of having a violent reaction to the chemical. One of these is Ed Funsch. The agents arrive at Funsch's home and discover an empty rifle case. Mulder realises that Funsch is afraid of the sight of blood. He races to a local blood drive at a college, where Funsch has climbed a clock tower armed with rifles. Mulder overpowers Funsch and arrests him.
August 1994 2X04 Sleepless	In New York City, Dr Saul Grissom, a pioneer in sleep disorders, calls 911 to report a fire outside his apartment. When emergency crews arrive at Grissom's building, they find Grissom's dead body, but no evidence of a fire. Skinner assigns Mulder and Alex Krycek, another agent for the FBI, to investigate the mysterious incident. Annoyed at the prospect of working with Krycek, Mulder travels to Connecticut by himself. He interviews Dr Penelope Charyn, who explains that Grissom revolutionized sleep therapy and developed a process whereby a person's dreams can be altered by electric stimulation. Mulder grudgingly accepts Krycek as his partner. They visit Scully in the autopsy bay. She explains that Grissom shows classic physiological responses of having been burned alive in a fire, yet his flesh is not charred. Interest in the case grows when another man, Henry Willig, is found dead in his apartment with forty-three internal haemorrhages - signs that he had been shot to death. Upon examination, no bullets or signs of foul play are detected. Mulder realises that both Willig and Grissom were Vietnam veterans and that both were stationed at Parris Island. After further checking, the agents determine that Augustus Cole is the only surviving member of a special squad that included Willig. Cole turns up missing when he is traced to a psychiatric ward. A mysterious government operative, X, meets Mulder. He claims that Grissom conducted sleep eradication experiments at Parris Island in an attempt to make soldiers aggressive and fearless. He warns Mulder that Augustus Cole has not slept in twenty-four years. The agents get a break in the case when Cole steals antidepressants from a pharmacy. Mulder and Krycek are shocked when two officers shoot one another while searching the drug store. Mulder theorises that Cole possesses the ability to project his consciousness into the minds of other people. The agents locate Salvatore Matola, a former member of the special marine squad whose name was not officially listed on any government documents. Matola claims that a Dr Girardi participated in the experiments. He also admits that his entire squad went AWOL and massacred everyone who lived in the Vietnamese village of Phu Bai. Mulder concludes that Cole is punishing everyone associated with the massacre for its twenty-fourth anniversary. The agents rush to a train station to intercept Girardi. Mulder draws his gun when he sees Cole, pistol in hand, approaching Girardi. In reality, Mulder is actually reacting to images projected into his mind. Seeing that Mulder is pointing his gun at innocent bystanders, Krycek shoots at Mulder and misses. The agents track Cole and Girardi to a train car in a railway yard. Girardi is badly injured as a result of Cole's dream projection. Mulder finds Cole and tries to convince him to testify in court about the experiment. Cole projects an image into Krycek's brain, making it seem as if Cole is pointing a gun at Mulder. Krycek falls for the trick and shoots Cole. Later, Krycek reports to a mysterious tribunal that is bent on eliminating Mulder and Scully forever.
7 August to October 1994 2X05 Duane Barry Opening scene dated 7 August 1994. This episode continued into October – see remarks in Ascension.	Mulder and Krycek are assigned to a hostage negotiation. They are briefed by Agent Lucy Kazdin, who explains that a mental patient named Duane Barry has taken his psychologist, Dr Hakkie, and three other people hostage at a travel agency. Barry demands safe passage for himself and Hakkie to an alien abduction site, but he cannot remember where the site is. Mulder phones Barry and tries calming him. It soon becomes apparent that Barry is well acquainted with hostage crises. Kazdin explains that Barry is a former FBI agent. A strange light envelops the scene. Barry becomes unglued and fires his gun, wounding some of the hostages. Kazdin explains that a power generator blew, but Mulder suspects otherwise. Mulder and Agent Janus volunteer to aid the wounded. They are equipped with flak jackets and a wire. As Janus tends to an injured man, Mulder speaks with Barry in person for the first time. He strays from the FBI script and talks about UFOs candidly. Barry is taken aback; it's the first time someone has given credence to his past experiences. He allows Mulder to trade himself for one of the hostages. As Mulder walks Barry through his UFO encounters, the FBI agents listen in, convinced that Barry is being driven over the edge. When Scully is updated of the situation, she urges the FBI to get Mulder out immediately. She explains that in 1982, Barry was shot in the line of duty. The injury effectively destroyed the moral centre of his brain, leaving him a pathological liar who suffers from severe delusions. Scully speaks to Mulder via the hidden two-way receiver wired to his body. She urges him to get the hostages away from Barry. Barry concedes to Mulder's request and releases the remaining hostages. Soon after, an FBI marksman shoots Barry. Barry is rushed to a hospital. Kazdin tells Mulder that x-rays revealed strange pieces of metal inside Barry's nasal cavity, lending credence to the man's claim that he was kidnapped and tortured by aliens. Scully discovers that the metal is encoded with strange symbols. Barry escapes from his hospital room. Without warning, he bursts into Scully's apartment and attacks her.
October 1994 2X06 Ascension In order for the statement in Emily to fit, that Scully was missing for four weeks, this episode must be set at the end of October.	Mulder rushes to Scully's apartment when he realises that she was attacked by Duane Barry. When he arrives at the scene, a police investigation is already in progress. There are signs of a struggle; broken glass and human blood dot the floor. Scully's mother Margaret speaks to Mulder about the abduction; she describes a nightmare she experienced that foretold the incident. FBI agents are sceptical when Mulder hints that Barry's UFO story may be legitimate. Skinner removes Mulder from the investigation and sends him home. Meanwhile, Barry makes his way to the alien landing site. A patrolman pulls Barry over for speeding. He notices blood on Barry's hands and draws his weapon. Barry pulls a gun and shoots the police officer. Mulder reviews a videotape of the incident that was recorded by a camera mounted inside the patrolman's car. Using video enhancement, Scully's image is pinpointed, confirming she is alive. Mulder listens to audiotapes of his hostage negotiations. He realises that Barry is heading for Skyland Mountain in Virginia. Accompanied by Krycek, Mulder drives to the remote location. They are told by a cable car operator that Barry is driving up the mountain using back roads. Hoping to beat Barry to the summit, Mulder boards the cable car and journeys up the mountain. But before the it reaches its destination, Krycek kills the operator and sabotages the controls, stranding Mulder in the process. When Mulder climbs onto the cable car, Krycek engages the power, hoping to shake him off. Mulder outmanoeuvres Krycek and continues his search. Mulder sees a blinding light pass overhead. When he locates Barry, Scully is nowhere to be found. Barry begins laughing hysterically. He describes how the aliens will no longer bother him now that they have another guinea pig. Mulder remains sceptical; he questions Barry's sanity and lashes out at him during an interrogation. Krycek then conducts his own interrogation but Barry lapses into cardiac arrest and dies. Mulder tells Skinner that Krycek poisoned Barry, and that the military is aware of Scully's location. He believes that Scully got too close to the truth when she discovered the metallic implant. Mulder concludes that a covert military operation, assisted by the mysterious CSM, is behind the cover-up. Those suspicions are strengthened when Krycek vanishes without a trace. Left with little choice, Skinner officially reopens the X-Files.
Mid to late 1994	Melissa Scully "takes off" and travels up and down the west coast. Her family does not hear from her for long periods of time. In Christmas Carol, Dana speculates that this may have been to hide a pregnancy.
2 November 1994	"Emily" is born, according to state records. She is soon adopted by Marshall and Roberta Sim, and named Emily Christine Sim. (Christmas Carol)
November 1994 2X07 3 In this episode, Mulder re-enters his X-Files office, apparently for the first time in weeks. He turns a calendar in his office from May to November.	With Scully still missing, Mulder begins work on the newly reopened X-Files. He investigates the violent death of a Los Angeles businessman who was attacked by several people as he used his jacuzzi. The murder resembles several other similar attacks believed to have been committed by a group called the Trinity Killers. They are known to leave a victim's body drained of blood, bite marks on the exterior jugular vein, and a quotation written in blood near the body. Mulder tracks his first suspect to the Hollywood Blood Bank. He finds a new employee in the basement dining on human blood. The man, who calls himself The Son, wants to live forever because he believes there is no afterlife. Mulder thinks the man is a delusional fraud and, believing his condition psychological, places The Son in a cell where he will come in contact with direct sunlight at dawn. Mulder tells him the sun will be blocked if he reveals the whereabouts of his accomplices. As guards watch horrified, The Son burns to death when dawn breaks. Mulder theorises that vampirism is, in part, based on a real disease called porphyria, an affliction which causes blisters on the skin when a sufferer is exposed to sunlight. With the aid of a coroner, a hand stamp on The Son's skin is deciphered. It reads "Club Tepes." Mulder visits the nightclub and meets a mysterious woman named Kristen. During their encounter, Kristen tempts him with a drop of her blood. Mulder declines to drink, citing his fear of contracting a disease. An Asian man accepts Kristen's offer, and the couple retreat to a secluded area. When Kristen finishes entertaining the man, three of her accomplices rush him. Mulder and members of the police department discover the man's corpse drained of blood. Nearby is a can of cranberry sauce and some fingerprints. By matching the fingerprint with existing records, Mulder locates Kristen's home. Kristen recounts how she first met The Son, whose real name was John. During a fight with John, they tasted each other's blood. From that point on they turned to "blood sports." They were joined by others, but Kristen explains how it turned unnatural. Kristen insists that with John dead, she is not in jeopardy. She refuses Mulder's escort to the police department, but instead, spends the night with him. The next day, The Son appears at Kristen's house as wild fires spread throughout the Malibu hills. The Son tells Kristen that he is immortal and cannot be killed even by sunlight. He instructs Kristen to kill Mulder, but Kristen stabs The Father, the first of the Holy Trinity, who is hiding in the darkness. The Son attacks Mulder, but he is overpowered and tied up. As the fires near the house, Mulder and Kristen attempt to make their getaway by car. Suddenly, The Holy Spirit attacks the couple. Kristen impales the vampire with her car, and she returns to the house to pour Petrol around herself and The Son. Because only a vampire can kill another vampire, she tastes her own blood, the blood of a believer, to become a vampire herself. She sets the place on fire. Later, firemen tell Mulder that four corpses were discovered inside the house.
November 1994  2X08 One Breath	Despite Mulder's objection that it is still too soon to give up hope, Margaret Scully orders a gravestone for her missing daughter, Dana. Not long afterward, Dana's comatose body mysteriously appears at a local hospital. She is hooked on to a life support system and her condition is deemed critical. There are no records indicating how she arrived at the hospital or who brought her there. Mulder is furious. A doctor reveals that Dana's living will specifically requests termination of life support should such a situation develop. Melissa Scully visits the hospital. She claims that, through channelling, she can communicate with her sister. Dana also receives a visit from Frohike, one of the Lone Gunmen. Frohike and his colleagues discover that Dana's DNA exhibits signs of genetic tampering. They conclude that with her immune system decimated, Dana does not have long to live. When Mulder returns to the hospital, he sees a mysterious man steal a vial containing Dana's blood sample. Mulder gives chase. A fight ensues between the two men. Suddenly, X emerges from the shadows and shoots the mysterious man. Mulder is shocked at the senselessness of the killing. He does, however, recover the blood sample. Dana's wish is honoured and the life support system is disconnected. Mulder approaches Skinner and demands access to the mysterious CSM, convinced he is responsible for the cover-up. His request is denied. Some time later, at the hospital, a mysterious woman leaves a pack of cigarettes containing CSM’s address. Mulder enters CSM’s apartment and puts a gun to his head. CSM reminds Mulder that if he dies, he takes all the secrets with him. Realising he has arrived at a dead end, Mulder turns in his resignation. Skinner refuses to accept it. Later, Mulder is approached by X and given information that an illegal search by government operatives will occur at his apartment. Mulder is instructed to kill the intruders and claim self-defence. As Mulder waits in the darkness for the agents, Melissa appears at his door. She tells him that Dana's condition is deteriorating and that now, more than ever, Dana needs him at her side. Mulder visits Scully's bedside and gives her words of encouragement. When Mulder returns to his apartment, he finds that it has been ransacked. The next day, Mulder visits the hospital where Dana has regained consciousness. "I had the strength of your beliefs," she tells him.
11 to 13 November 1994 2X09 Firewalker Dates from Mulder's final narration.	Adam Pierce, a technician at the California Institute of Technology's Volcano Observatory, approaches Mulder and Scully with a mystery. A team of scientists working at Mount Avalon issued a distress signal requesting an immediate airlift. When contact with the team was lost, Pierce and his fellow scientists at Cal Tech activated a robotic camera, nicknamed Firewalker, which relayed pictures from inside an active volcano. The pictures, which are reviewed by Mulder and Scully, show Chief Seismologist Phil Erikson's heat-seared corpse lying at the volcano's caldera, where temperatures reach over 400 degrees Celsius. The videotape also captured a hulking figure near the body. Pierce suspects that his colleague, Daniel Trepkos, may somehow be responsible for the death. Mulder, Scully and Pierce fly by helicopter to Mount Avalon. They find scientists Jason Ludwig, Jesse O'Neil and Peter Tanaka hiding inside the field base. Ludwig describes how Trepkos went berserk and destroyed the facilities. Shortly after, Trepkos finds Pierce and strangles him. Mulder uncovers Trepkos' notes, which describe an unknown life form living inside the volcano. The notes suggest Trepkos possesses physical evidence that proves the existence of silicon-based life. Scully interviews Jesse O'Neil, who had been romantically linked to Trepkos. Tanaka begins having coughing fits. Scully insists he be airlifted off the base and taken to a hospital. However, the scientist runs off into the forest. Mulder and Ludwig give chase. Tanaka loses his balance and trips, falling down an embankment. Suddenly, his throat swells enormously and a spike-shaped protrusion pierces his skin, killing him instantly. Scully's examination of the body supports Mulder's theory that a silicon-based life form, possibly a fungus, grew inside Tanaka's body. Believing the fungus to be communicable and airborne, the group is quarantined. Ludwig volunteers to guide Mulder to the underground steam caves where Trepkos is believed to be hiding. Trepkos surprises them and shoots Ludwig with a flare gun. He proceeds to burn the body so that the parasitic spore living inside will die. Trepkos explains the Erikson inadvertently released the spore after Firewalker pulled a sample out of the volcano. Everyone at the base, except himself, was infected by the parasite. He crippled the transmitter equipment, and killed Pierce in an effort to keep the spore from spreading. Mulder, sensing Scully is in jeopardy, races back to the base. O'Neil handcuffs herself to Scully and loses consciousness. Realising what is about to occur, Scully carries her body to the rubber-sealed Plexiglass door and places her on the other side to separate them. O'Neil's throat expands to grotesque proportions. Suddenly, her throat explodes, the organic matter spattering against the Plexiglass. Mulder finds Scully safe and unharmed. Trepkos returns to the base, where he discovers Jesse's corpse. Mulder allows him to remove the body and leave the area. Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully are quarantined for a month to ensure neither has been infected.
12 to 15 November 1994 2X13 Irresistible Date given by Scully during the autopsy represents a continuity error with respect to Firewalker.	Donnie Pfaster loses his job at a funeral home after his boss discovered him cutting hair from the corpse of a pretty girl. Not long after Donnie's dismissal, Special FBI Agent Moe Bocks receives a call regarding the mutilation of buried corpses at a graveyard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Suspecting the incident might be related to UFOs, Bocks notifies Mulder and Scully, hoping their expertise may help shed some light on the bizarre incident. Mulder, however, recognises signs of an escalating death fetishist. Despite her years of work performing autopsies, Scully is nonetheless severely disturbed by the manner in which the bodies are mutilated. Hair has been snipped away in clumps, and fingernails have been torn out with pliers. Scully is plagued by nightmares featuring a demon. In the dreams, she becomes one of the killer's victims. When more mutilated bodies turn up, Mulder fears the fetishist's compulsion might lead to murder. His suspicions prove correct: Donnie employs the services of a prostitute, then murders and mutilates her. After examining how the body was defiled, Mulder suspects the killer has a deep hatred toward women. Donnie makes an effort to blend into the community. He takes a job as a deliveryman, and while working his route he wins the confidence of Ellen Brumfield and her family. He enrols in a mythology class at a junior college, but his attention is drawn to a pretty girl who sits at the front of the class. At night in the school's car park Donnie pins the girl to her car. She strikes back by kneeing him in the groin, and Donnie is arrested. That same night, however, a different suspect with a history of assault is also arrested. Mulder and Scully interview the man at the jail but determine he is not a suspect. In a nearby cell, Donnie takes note of Scully's name. Bothered by her reaction to the case, Scully flies back to Washington and seeks the services of Karen Kosseff, a member of the FBI's Employee Assistance Program. Scully admits her recent abduction and the elements of the case combined to affect her judgement. Meanwhile, forensics lifts a fingerprint off the prostitute's corpse. Mulder and Bocks trace the print to Donnie, leading them to his apartment. They search the dwelling and discover a human finger inside a freezer. Donnie begins stalking Scully after she flies back to Minneapolis. He forces her rental car off the road and kidnaps her. Police locate the car. Mulder and Bocks search for clues but come up empty-handed. Mulder realises that Donnie's psychological profile sketches the mind of a deviant who, like notorious murders before him, is the embodiment of evil. Scully breaks free from her bonds and attempts to elude her captor. Donnie gives chase, gun in hand. The two grapple for the weapon, and as Scully looks at Donnie's face, she sees the visage of a demon, the same horrible creature from her dream. Mulder and Bocks storm Donnie's hideout. Donnie drops his weapon and is taken into custody.
November 1994 2X10 Red Museum This is apparently similar to the project Deep Throat mentioned in The Erlenmeyer Flask about school children in a southern state injected with alien DNA in 1987.	Gary Kane, a sixteen-year-old high school student, leaves his home suddenly after receiving a mysterious phone call. When Gary fails to return home, his mother Beth notifies police. Two officers on patrol recognise Gary, clad only in his underwear, wandering aimlessly in a wooded area. A phrase is written on his back in marker: "He is one." Mulder and Scully review the facts in the case. Gary was not sexually assaulted, nor was he the victim of a prank. Surprisingly, there are reports of other teenagers having experienced similar ordeals. Mulder's curiosity is piqued when a Wisconsin sheriff, Bill Mazeroski, speculates that the victims have been possessed. He explains that a religious cult called the Church of the Red Museum settled into the area and purchased a cattle ranch. Being vegetarians, the church members turned beef cattle into pets, much to the consternation of local ranchers. The sheriff takes the agents to the church. They watch as Richard Odin, the sect's leader, addresses his parishioners via a computer. Mulder explains to Scully that the church members are "walk ins", believers in soul transference who have taken possession of other people's bodies. Local teenagers harass a young Red Museum member. Mulder comes to the boy's aid, and in the process learns that one of the harassers is the sheriff's son, Rick. A girl who participated in the verbal attack on the Red Museum member is later found with the message "She is one" scrawled on her back. Lab tests reveal large quantities of a hallucinogen in the girl's blood. That night, a small plane carrying Dr Gerry Larson crash-lands in a field. Mulder, Scully and Sheriff Mazeroski discover a briefcase bearing Larson's initials filled with hundred dollar bills. They also discover a vial containing a mysterious fluid, and a computer printout list containing the names and credit card numbers of the victims' families. Larson delivered and treated each of the victims through childhood. While interviewing Beth Kane, Mulder notices a light shining through a hole in her bathroom mirror. He smashes the glass, revealing a video camera surveillance set-up. The man behind the surveillance, Gerd Thomas, abducts Rick, the sheriff's son, just as he abducted all the previous victims. Yet instead of turning up dazed, Rick is found dead. Mulder discovers that Gerd Thomas owns the building where the Kane family lives. He is placed under arrest. Numerous videotapes are recovered. Thomas apologises for his sickness but insists he did not murder Rick. He explains that Dr Larson was paying him to inject cattle with a mysterious liquid. The same liquid Larson used to "inoculate" his young patients. Scully sees the mysterious Crew-cut Man, who executed Deep Throat, driving on the road. Mulder realises that the mysterious fluid is alien DNA, the same substance found in the Erlenmeyer flask months earlier. The Crew-cut Man, Scully speculates, killed Rick to cover up evidence. Aware that other lives are in danger, Mulder asks the sheriff to round up everyone on Larson's computer list and transport them to the Red Museum. Realising that the Crew-cut Man's base of operation is the local slaughterhouse, Mulder rushes to the scene. He finds the facility soaked with petrol. The Crew-cut Man suddenly springs from the darkness and a fight ensues. Scully and Mazeroski arrive and shoot the Crew-cut Man, killing him. An investigation reveals no clues as to who the man was or the chemical makeup of the substance injected into the townspeople.
29 November 1994	The date on the vial of Scully's ova found by Mulder in the facility run by the Kurt Crawford clone. (Memento Mori)
December 1994 2X11 Excelsis Dei	Michelle Charter works as a nurse at the Excelsis Dei Convalescent Home. While making her rounds one night, she is suddenly and violently attacked by an invisible entity that proceeds to rape her. News of the attack reaches FBI headquarters, arousing Mulder and Scully's interest in the case. They travel to Worcester, Massachusetts, the town where Michelle works. During her interview, Michelle insists that the spirit that entered her body emanated from an elderly patient afflicted with Alzheimer's disease named Hal Arden. Outraged by the incident, she initiates a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that she is regularly subjected to sexual harassment and has no recourse for protection. The agents speak with Hal, who assures them he is not strong enough, nor possesses the sexual drive, to rape anyone. Soon after, Hal begins choking after he secretly ingests a mysterious pill given to him by his roommate Stan. Mulder and Scully are unable to save Hal, and he dies. Dr John Grago is upset when he learns the news; Hal's Alzheimer's disease had been in remission since he began taking an experimental drug called Depranil. Laura Kelly, Stan's daughter, has her father discharged from the facility because of his markedly improved mental and physical state. However, Stan begged her not to take him away from the home. The mystery deepens when Tiernan, a hospital orderly, is pushed out of a window by an invisible force. A toxicological report on Hal's blood reveals trace levels of Ibotenic acid, an hallucinogenic drug. While searching the basement of the nursing home, Mulder uncovers a room containing hundreds of mushrooms. Beneath a pile of fertiliser Mulder discovers the dead body of a missing orderly. Gung, an Asian orderly, is questioned about the room. He admits that he has been feeding herbs to the residents that allow them to speak to the dead. Gung is convinced that the mysterious rapes and murders were committed by angry spirits. Stan overdoses on the herbs and a group of ghosts mass for an attack against residents and visitors alike. Michelle and Mulder become trapped inside a bathroom that floods with water. Scully comes to their aid. Grego finds Stan and drugs him. Suddenly, the attacks end and the ghosts disappear. The door to the bathroom suddenly bursts open, sending Mulder and Michelle sliding to the floor in a great rush of water.
13 December 1994	Mulder gets his driver's license renewed. His license number is 123-32-132? (Small Potatoes)
1995	A right wing militia organisation known as The Right Hand and lead by Denny Markham, organises a POW rescue mission to Vietnam and rescues Sergeant Nathaniel J Teager. Several other prisoners, however, are left behind. Teager is brought back to the United States in a cargo plane. In order to preserve the secret of POWs still in Vietnam, government commandos board the plane in San Diego. Teager, however, disappears. Mulder later concludes that Teager has learned how to cause himself to be invisible to people, similar to how Viet Cong soldiers sometimes seemed to appear and disappear. This would also be similar to the radio drama series The Shadow, in which the hero had learned in the orient how to "cloud men's minds" and seem invisible. (Unrequited) Sometime in 1995, New York City police detective John Doggett graduates from the FBI Academy and assumes the position of FBI Special Agent, Criminal Investigation. (Within)
January 1995 2X12 Aubrey	In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, Detective B J Morrow experiences a frightening vision. In her mind's eye, she sees a man bury a corpse in a shallow grave. Certain of the exact location, BJ rushes to a field, shovel in hand, and exhumes the body. Using dental records, Mulder and Scully positively identify the remains. The victim is FBI Agent Sam Chaney, who disappeared in the 1940s along with his partner, Tim Ledbetter. Chaney and Ledbetter were investigating a serial murder case at the time. Mulder is puzzled by BJ and her sudden knowledge of where the body was buried, so he and Scully travel to Aubrey hoping to uncover more about the case. During questioning, BJ tells the agents her car stalled near the field one night, and she noticed a dog digging in the ground. She claims it attracted her attention and, after some digging, she proceeded to find the grave. But Scully senses that BJ is having an affair with Lieutenant Brian Tillman. She theorises that BJ made the initial phone call alerting police about the body from the motel where she was rendezvousing with Tillman. When confronted about the truth, BJ admits she not only is having an affair with the married Tillman, but that she is also pregnant. She reveals how the pregnancy has triggered strange dreams in which she sees another murder. Further research reveals that the serial murderer, dubbed the "Slash Killer" by the press at the time, would rape and murder female victims and carve the word "sister" on their chests. Mulder suspects that Chaney was a victim of the killer he was trying to catch. Using a computer, the agents analyse the victim's bone fragments hoping to find more clues. Preliminary findings suggest that letters were carved into the corpse. Those letters spelled the word "brother." The agents are intrigued when Tillman reveals that the same serial killer who stalked Aubrey fifty years earlier has apparently embarked on another murderous rampage. Accompanied by BJ, Mulder and Scully search the scene of the latest crime. BJ realises the victim is the woman she saw in her dream. BJ searches through mug shots from the 1940s and identifies the man in her dreams. He is Harry Cokely, convicted in 1945 for rape and attempted murder. He carved the word "sister" on his victim, Linda Thibodeaux, before she escaped. The agents visit Cokely, now in his seventies, sickly and house ridden. BJ wakes one night with blood seeping from her chest. She experiences another vision and rushes to a stranger's home, where she uncovers the body of Ledbetter. The agents interview Linda Thibodeaux. She admits that, as a result of being raped, she gave birth to Cokely's child. She placed the baby in the hands to an adoption agency. Further investigation reveals that Cokely's son was Raymond Morrow, BJ's father. The agents conclude that BJ committed the latest series of killings. Mulder believes BJ is working from some genetic imprint left by Cokely. BJ goes to Thibodeaux's home and attacks her, but she stops short of killing her. Mulder and Scully rush to Cokely's house, suspecting that BJ will attempt revenge. Cokely dies after his oxygen equipment is sabotaged. BJ attacks Mulder with a razor. Tillman arrives and reminds BJ who she really is. BJ falls into a trance and is taken into custody.
16 to 18 January 1995 2X14 Die Hand Die Verleitz Date from checkout date of book from Library, presumably the day of the murder.	In a remote wooded area of New Hampshire, a group of teenagers, two boys and two girls, locate an alter that they believe is used for Black Magic. One of the kids, Dave Duran, jokingly recites an incantation believing it will scare his girlfriend. The joke backfires and the words summon a powerful, evil force. The kids panic and run away from the altar. One of the teenagers, Jerry Stevens, is attacked by the force. A hunter discovers his desecrated body the following morning. Believing the murder to be the work of a witch cult, Sheriff John Oakes asks the FBI for help. Mulder and Scully examine the corpse from which the eyes and heart have been removed. Mulder's sense that the area has a strange feel is confirmed when toads begin dropping from the sky. Scully attributes the strange event to tornadoes in northern Massachusetts. After researching at a local library, the agents discover that Duran checked out a book on witchcraft. When questioned, a horrified Duran admits he never thought his words would summon the Devil. A visit to Crowley High School uncovers signs that the student population suffers from repressed memory. Scully, however, attributes the town's fear to mass hysteria. Mulder notes how water drains in a counter clockwise fashion against the laws of gravity. He believes a powerful force is at work. During a science class, a fifteen-year-old girl named Shannon Ausbury suddenly begins screaming when asked to dissect a pig embryo. The agents question the girl. Shannon recounts how her stepfather sexually molested her, a nearly forgotten memory. But she also recounts how her parents’ friends impregnated her three times and then killed the children. She also claims that Jim murdered her sister during a sacrifice. Mulder and Scully are stunned by the claims and decide to interview her parents. The Ausburys claim one daughter died of cot death and assure the agents their daughter has never been pregnant. With the town's secret in danger of being exposed, a devil worshiper named Mrs Paddock, a new teacher at the high school, places a spell on Shannon. Shortly after, Shannon slashes her wrists. A group of parents, who are members of the high school's PTC, meet in secret. These are no ordinary townsfolk; the parents worship Black Magic. The PTC members tell Jim Ausbury that they were responsible for Shannon's death. Anxious for the police and FBI investigations to end, and realising that Shannon makes the perfect scapegoat, they fabricate a story in which Shannon killed Jerry out of jealousy. But Jim Ausbury, disillusioned with his religion and disgusted with the PTC members and their lie about his daughter, tells Mulder the truth, Shannon and other youngsters were forced to participate in the ancient rituals against their will. Using post hypnotic suggestion, the memory of the rituals was repressed. After exposing the conspiracy, Ausbury is attacked and swallowed by a large python. Recalling that Mrs Paddock kept a snake in her room, the agents decide an investigation is in order. But when they arrive at the school, PTC members take them hostage. Before the occultists can do the agents harm, they suddenly and mysteriously attack and kill one another. Mulder and Scully escape and search unsuccessfully for Mrs Paddock.
20 to 23 January 1995 2X15 Fresh Bones This episode takes place over 4 days between Die Hand Die Verleitz and Colony.	In North Carolina, Mulder and Scully investigate when two Marines stationed at the Folkstone government processing centre for Haitian refugees die in mysterious accidents. The Marines officially classify the deaths as suicides, but Robin McAlpin, the wife of one victim, believes otherwise. Private Jack McAlpin died after he lost control of his car and skidded into a tree. The agents comb the accident scene and discover a strange image painted on the tree. Mrs McAlpin tells the agents that a Marine named Harry Dunham suspects that the murders were caused by a voodoo curse. Mulder and Scully visit the encampment hoping to find answers. As they survey the deplorable conditions, a young Haitian boy, Chester, sells the agents a charm to help ward off evil. Later, the agents speak with Colonel Jacob Wharton, who runs the camp. He confirms that ever since a young Haitian boy was killed in the camp, things have been chaotic. Wharton blames the trouble on Pierre Bauvais, a revolutionary held in an isolation cell. Bauvais cryptically blames the deaths on loco-miroir, the voodoo crossroads between two worlds. Scully obtains permission to examine McAlpin's corpse. In the temporary camp morgue, Scully and a marine physician are horrified when they discover the body of a dead dog in place of McAlpin. Later that night, as Scully drives Mulder through the rain, a bedraggled man hobbles in front of the car. Scully slams on the brakes. The agents are shocked when they get a good look at the man and realise it is Jack McAlpin. A blood test reveals trace levels of a poison called tetrodotoxin in McAlpin's system. Mulder speculates that someone injected the Marine with the poison, which made him appear dead. This leads the agents to the grave of Manuel Guttierez, the second Marine who allegedly committed suicide. The body, however, is missing. A grave keeper explains how grave robbers regularly snatch the dead from their resting grounds. Mulder spots Chester in the cemetery. The boy explains that he collects and sells frogs that Bauvais uses for his magic. This piques Scully's interest, as certain frog species secrete a substance chemically similar to the toxin found in McAlpin's blood. Mulder questions Dunham. He insists that Bauvais threatened to take the souls of all the Marines, one by one, unless his people were released. Mulder confronts Wharton with allegations of prisoner mistreatment, but the Colonel insists there is no official policy of harassment. Wharton is convinced that Bauvais told the agents about his illegal mistreatment of the Haitians. In response, he has Bauvais severely beaten. The agents discover Dunham's corpse floating in a bathtub, blood oozing from a stab wound. They also discover McAlpin nearby holding a knife. Suspecting Bauvais is somehow responsible, the agents ask Wharton for permission to speak with him. Wharton, however, claims that Bauvais killed himself by slashing his wrists with a bedspring. The case turns more bizarre when Robin McAlpin gives the agents a photo that Dunham wanted released in the event of his death. The picture reveals Wharton engaged in a voodoo ceremony with Bauvais. Mulder and Scully rush to the cemetery after learning that Wharton intends to steal Bauvais' soul. As Mulder falls victim to Wharton's magic, Bauvais rises from the dead. He avenges his murder by killing Wharton.
25 to 28 January 1995 2X16 Colony	A research vessel sailing in the Arctic Circle encounters what appears to be a UFO crashing into the Beaufort Sea. But the news media reports that the spacecraft was, in actuality, a Russian plane. The pilot of that craft, a Bounty Hunter, disappears and later begins killing doctors at abortion clinics across the United States and setting fires to cover the crime. Mulder discovers that the doctors, though unrelated by birth, look identical. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that officials never recovered bodies from the burned clinics. The agents uncover evidence that the killer ran ads in local newspapers in an effort to locate his targets. They realise his next intended victim is a doctor in Syracuse. Mulder notifies Agent Weiss to guard the doctor until they arrived at the scene. But Weiss discovers the Bounty Hunter standing over the doctor's corpse (which is slowly dissolving as if dipped in acid). Weiss opens fire on the Bounty Hunter, but his bullets prove ineffective. When Mulder and Scully arrive in Syracuse, Weiss tells them there was no sign of the doctor. Unknown to the agents, the Bounty Hunter is capable of morphing into different shapes, allowing him to assume Weiss' identity. When Mulder returns to Washington to meet with Skinner, he learns that Weiss has been killed. The Bounty Hunter, posing as CIA agent Ambrose Chapel, approaches Mulder and Scully. He claims that during the Cold war Soviet scientists discovered how to clone DNA. They planted clones in strategic positions within America's medical establishment, hoping to sabotage the country's immune system in the event of war. Chapel believes a secret agreement exists that sent the bounty hunter to eliminate the clones in exchange for absolute suppression of the program's existence. The clones, Chapel suspects, were attempting to contact the agents, hoping they would expose the plot. Mulder flies home when he receives word there was a family emergency, losing contact with Scully in the process. When he arrives, he is shocked to discover his sister Samantha, who had been abducted by a UFO as a child, in the company of his parents. Samantha tells Mulder that after her abduction she was placed in the care of visitors from another planet, and then made to forget her real family. She used hypnotic therapy to uncover her buried memories and locate her family. She asks Mulder to help stop the Bounty Hunter before he kills her adoptive father. Scully discovers more of the "Gregor" clones hiding in an industrial building. She has them placed in maximum protective custody. Mulder finally locates Scully and enters her hotel room, but she realises the man standing in her room is not the real Mulder.
28 January to 4 February 1995  2X17 End Game Mulder's Global Positioning System receiver showed 3 February 1995.	Deep beneath the frigid waters of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Circle, crewmen aboard a submarine investigate sonar readings that indicate a huge, unidentified craft is floating nearby. The submarine's captain receives orders to destroy the vessel without further investigation. Before torpedoes are launched, however, a powerful shock wave disables the submarine's reactors. Meanwhile, a bewildered Scully receives a telephone call from Mulder as, simultaneously, a man who appears to be Mulder shows up at her motel room. The doppelganger overpowers Scully and demands to know where he can find Mulder. When Scully refuses to co-operate, the doppelganger throws her across the room. The real Mulder and his sister, Samantha, arrive at the motel some time later. Scully is gone, but signs of a struggle are evident. Samantha tells Mulder that the Bounty Hunter is interested in her, not Scully. Samantha explains that the only way the Bounty Hunter can be killed is to pierce the base of his skull. She warns, however, that his blood is toxic, and exposure to humans is fatal. Samantha assures her brother that the Bounty Hunter will contact them. As they wait, Samantha explains that aliens have been attempting to establish a colony on Earth since the late 1940s. Their experiments with cloning was not sanctioned, and others of their race considered it a dilution of the species. A Bounty Hunter was dispatched to terminate the colony. Scully, held at gunpoint, telephones Mulder and arranges a rendezvous at a bridge. Mulder informs Skinner of the situation, and an FBI sharpshooter is positioned nearby. The exchange is made, and the bounty hunter walks Samantha toward an awaiting van. Suddenly, the sharpshooter's bullet rings out. The Bounty Hunter is struck in the neck. He falls backwards over the bridge, still clinging to Samantha. The pair plummet into the dark, icy waters below. Mulder relays news of his sister's apparent death to his father. Mr Mulder gives his son an envelope, which Samantha had left behind during her visit. Mulder opens it and finds a key and address inside. Mulder travels to the address, which turns out to be an abortion clinic. Inside, Mulder is shocked to discover alien clones who look like his sister. Suddenly, the bounty hunter appears and knocks Mulder unconscious. A fire races through the building, but Mulder is saved by fire fighters. X tells Mulder that all the clones, save the original "Samantha," were killed in the fire. He also admits that the Bounty Hunter is inside a vessel beneath the Beaufort Sea. Meanwhile, pathologists tell Scully that a strange retrovirus found in Agent Weiss's blood is inhibited by extreme cold. This leads Scully to conclude that the Bounty Hunter may have survived his fall into the icy river. Mulder makes the trip to Alaska by himself in secret. He finds the submarine's conning tower protruding from the ice. Inside, he encounters the Bounty Hunter. During a struggle, the Bounty Hunter bleeds green ooze onto Mulder. He is pushed outside the sub as the vessel descends beneath the ice. Mulder, unconscious and suffering from severe hypothermia, is transported by helicopter to a base in Alaska. Scully rushes to her partner's aid, and immediately clashes with doctors at the scene. When Mulder's heart stops, she insists he be removed from a tub of warm water because the cold is the only thing keeping him alive. Her efforts are successful, and Mulder's life is saved.
February 1995 2X18 Fearful Symmetry	Something unseen shakes the darkened, deserted streets of Fairfield, Idaho. Two janitors watch in horror as the force smashes a plate glass window and crumples a car. A construction worker is killed as the force rumbles down a highway. Suddenly, an Indian elephant materialises out of thin air. The pachyderm runs off until, finally, it grows exhausted and lies on the ground. As saddened residents of the community watch, the elephant dies. Mulder and Scully investigate the incident. Mulder believes the invisible force and the mysterious elephant named Ganesha are somehow connected. Ed Meecham, a worker at the Fairfield Zoo, tells the agents that the animal's cage is still locked. At Meecham's suggestion, the agents question Willa Ambrose, a naturalist hired by the zoo's board of supervisors. Ambrose explains she was hired to redesign the zoo's restrictive pens to make them more humane environments. She explains that Meecham is from the "old school" and resents her involvement. Mulder and Scully interview Kyle Lang, an animal rights activist and member of the Wild Again Organization, who believes Ganesha was treated in an inhumane fashion by Meecham. Yet he is just as contemptuous towards Ambrose, who he claims is attempting to gain custody of a gorilla so it can be kept in a cage at the zoo. Believing that members of the WAO are responsible for releasing the elephant, the agents stake out the zoo. A red-haired boy sneaks into the zoo with a night-vision camera. The animals become enraged. As the boy watches, horrified, a tiger dematerialises inside its cage. An invisible force strikes at the boy, ripping him to pieces. Mulder becomes convinced that some invisible force, not an escaped tiger, is responsible for the boy's death. He is intrigued by reports that no animals kept at the zoo are able to reproduce. Scully performs an autopsy on the elephant, and discovers that it was once pregnant. Ambrose assures her that the animal could not possibly have given birth without her knowledge. Soon after, the missing tiger turns up at a construction site. The agents, Ambrose and Meecham attempt to capture the animal. When the tiger charges Ambrose, Meecham kills it. Mulder tells Ambrose about a theory of his involving aliens impregnating zoo animals for some unknown purpose. Using sign language, Ambrose questions Sophie. The gorilla relays her fears about a baby flying "into the light." Meanwhile, the zoo's board of directors, in an effort to cut costs, eliminates Ambrose's job. Sophie is prepped for her return to the wilderness despite Ambrose's conviction that the gorilla will be killed by poachers. Kyle returns to the zoo one evening and finds Sophie's empty cage. Suddenly, a large crate crashes into Kyle, killing him. Scully discovers evidence that Kyle was murdered with a cattle prod. She arrests Ambrose for his death. Ambrose admits she and Ed Meecham joined forces and transported Sophie to an abandoned factory. When Mulder arrives at the factory, he finds Sophie in an uncontrollable rage. He and Meecham attempt to tranquillise the animal, but suddenly Meecham runs off, leaving Mulder alone with the gorilla. Sophie lashes out of the darkness and strikes Mulder. As Mulder loses consciousness, the animal disappears in a blinding flash of light. Later, Sophie's dead body is discovered on the roadside. Ambrose weeps and embraces the animal.
14 to 16 February 1995 2X20 Humbug Date on The Conundrum's cheque is 28 February, along with a mention about paying the rent early. A full moon occurred during this episode. The only full moon in February 1995 occurred on the 15th.	Mulder tells Scully about a series of identical attacks that occurred over a period of twenty-eight years in almost every state in America. One of the most recent involved Jerald Glazebrook, who performed as The Alligator Man in carnivals and circuses. The agents travel to Gibsonton, Florida, where they attend Glazebrook's funeral. They soon realise that most of the town's residents suffer from physical deformities, and that most work the sideshow circuit. When Mulder takes an interest in a drawing found on a menu, Sheriff Hamilton directs the agents to Hepcat Helm, who operates and designs exhibits for a carnival fun house. Hepcat explains that the drawing on the menu depicts the Fiji Mermaid, an exhibit that Barnum called "the genuine fake" because it fooled no one. Mulder theorizes that the Fiji Mermaid may, in fact, be quite real. The agents take rooms at a local trailer park run by a midget named Mr Nutt. Lanny, a Siamese twin, helps the agents with their luggage. Later that night, while working alone in his workshop, Hepcat is murdered by a strange creature. A preliminary examination of Hepcat's body produces more questions than answers. Later, the agents speak with Dr Blockhead, who claims he has trained his body to accept acute pain. He demonstrates his abilities by driving a nail up into his nostril. Mulder aids Blockhead by removing the nail with a pair of pliers. Before the agents leave, they spot The Conundrum, a man who eats live animals and just about anything else he can fit in his mouth. Blockhead describes his friend as a "geek." Mulder keeps the nail taken from Blockhead's nose and has the blood analysed, hoping it will match blood found at Hepcat's workshop. The blood samples match, but both turn out to be O positive. Mulder tells Scully that he ran background checks on some of the local sideshow performers. His most interesting discovery reveals that Sheriff Hamilton once performed as Jim-Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy. That night, Mr Nutt becomes the killer's latest victim. The agents conclude that the murderer is so physically small that he was able to climb through the doggie door in Nutt's trailer. When a drunken Lanny learns of Nutt's death, he flies into a rage. He is taken by Hamilton to jail for his safety. The agents approach Dr Blockhead for further questioning. But Blockhead, a magician and escape artist, easily eludes them. Sheriff Hamilton detains Blockhead by grabbing hold of the fishhooks that pierce his skin. When the agents, Hamilton and Blockhead arrive at the jail, they notice that Lanny is in pain. Scully realises that Lanny's twin brother, Leonard, is capable of extracting himself from his brother's body. Lanny admits that Leonard is seeking another brother with whom he can co-join. The agents track Leonard into the fun house, but their efforts to capture him prove futile. Later, Blockhead laments that due to advances in genetic engineering, people with severe abnormalities will not exist. Everyone in the future, he fears, will look like Mulder. Dr Blockhead and the Conundrum, who suffers from a swollen stomach, pack up their belongings and prepare to leave town. As their vehicle hits the open road, Mulder and Scully look questionably at each other, perhaps realizing that the Conundrum may have eaten Leonard.
8 to 14 March 1995 2X19 Død Kalm Date taken from Scully’s log entry.	Mulder receives word that a Navy destroyer, the USS Ardent, vanished in the waters of the North Atlantic. Eighteen survivors were rescued by a Canadian trawler, but only one, Lieutenant Richard Harper, survived the mysterious incident. Harper is admitted to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland where he is placed under tight security. Scully gains access to Harper's room. She is surprised to discover that Harper, who is twenty-eight years old, looks like an elderly man. Mulder is unsurprised when he hears the news. He tells Scully about the Philadelphia Experiment, a top secret World War II project in which the United States government attempted to render battleships invisible to radar. Not long afterward, the USS Eldridge vanished from a Philadelphia naval yard only to reappear minutes later, hundreds of miles away in Norfolk, Virginia. Mulder believes these events are linked to the Roswell Incident. He theorises that government physicists may have been trying to manipulate wormholes on earth. The agents travel to Norway in search of answers. They meet Henry Trondheim, the captain of a trawler called the Zeal. Trondheim tells of a legendary stone that Greenlanders believe is an evil god. Mulder and Scully hire Trondheim to navigate the treacherous waters and dense fog. Despite Trondheim's best efforts, his ship collides with the Ardent. The agents, accompanied by Trondheim and his first mate, Halvorsen, board the Ardent and discover dead bodies covered with a strange substance. Suddenly, the sound of an engine fills the air. The foursome race onto the ship's deck, only to see the Zeal disappearing into the fog. They realise they are stranded. A man's scream shatters the ghostly quiet. Mulder, Scully and Trondheim race to the ship's mess hall, where they discover Halvorsen's dead body. More sounds in the galley lead them to a faltering old man, Captain Phillip Barclay, who claims that his ship encountered a strange light that stopped time itself. A short time later, Barclay dies. A man named Olafssen, a pirate whaler and wanted criminal, suddenly rushes Trondheim. Mulder draws his weapon and orders Olafssen to stop. A fight ensues between Trondheim and Olafssen, but Mulder convinces Trondheim that Olafssen, who has not aged, may hold clues to the mystery. The Ardent's log describes how four Norwegian sailors were rescued after their ship had sunk. This leads Trondheim to speculate that Olafssen's men stole his boat and left their leader stranded. Not long afterward, Scully, Mulder and Trondheim begin ageing rapidly. Scully develops a theory about the sudden ageing. If the ship had drifted close to another massive metallic source, such as a meteorite, the resulting electromagnetic energy could excite free radicals, the elements suspected of causing ageing. The agents suspect that drinking desalinated water from the ship's tanks is the source of the ageing. If Olafssen drank recycled sewage water, which does not come from the sea, it may have kept him from contracting the illness. While the agents are away, Olafssen tells Trondheim that drinking the recycled water will save his life. Trondheim kills Olafssen and begins drinking from a toilet bowl. With the recycled water supply dwindling rapidly, tension begins to escalate. Trondheim locks himself in the ship's sewage hold and back flushes all the water into a single tank. With no water left to drink, Scully improvises by combining sardine juice, lemons and the water from a snow globe. Before either can consume the precious drinking water, the ship's outer hull gives way and the vessel is flooded. Trondheim is overcome by the freezing water and drowns. Scully and Mulder are rescued by helicopter, and doctors are able to revive them.
March 1995 2X21 The Calusari	Mulder and Scully investigate the death of Teddy Holvey, a two-year-old child who was run over by a miniature train as he chased a floating helium balloon through a park. Photographs of the incident are analysed by a laboratory. They reveal a strange amorphous form, not visible to the naked eye that appears to be pulling the balloon in the direction of the train. This information leads Mulder to speculate that a poltergeist was somehow responsible. The agents travel to Arlington, Virginia and interview Steve and Maggie Holvey. There, Mulder's interest is piqued by a gammadion, a symbol that resembles a reverse swastika. As the agents question the Holveys, an elderly Romanian woman, Golda, enters the room with their son Charlie, an eight-year-old boy. Golda intones that Charlie is evil and was responsible for Teddy's demise. Scully believes Charlie and Teddy are the victims of Munchausen by proxy, in which a caretaker brings harm to a child by inducing medical symptoms. Shortly after, Steve is killed in a freak accident after his necktie is tangled in a garage door opener. While investigating the scene, the agents discover a strange ash around Steve's corpse. The substance, called Vibuti, is a holy ash produced during the presence of spiritual beings. Several Romanian men, known as Calusari, hold a mysterious religious ceremony involving dead roosters in Golda's room. It is interrupted when Charlie suffers a seizure. Shortly after, Golda is attacked and killed by live roosters. Mulder suspects that Golda and the Calusari were trying to ward off evil from entering the house. Charlie is transported to St Matthew's Hospital for observation. A social worker, Karen Kosseff, questions the boy about Golda's murder. Charlie claims Golda was killed by the ghost of Michael, his stillborn twin. But Maggie insists Charlie was never told about his brother. Michael's spectre appears in the hospital and attacks a nurse. Pretending to be Charlie, Michael tricks Maggie into believing he has been released from the hospital. The agents discover the truth about Michael's spirit. As Mulder supervises a Calusari exorcism over Charlie's body, Scully races to the Holvey residence. Inside, she comes face to face with Michael, a knife clutched in his hand. As the exorcism at the hospital reaches its climax, Michael's ghost suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a trace of ash. The Calusari leader warns Mulder and Scully that the evil now knows who they are.
March 1995  2X22 F Emasculata	Robert "Bobby" Torrence, a prisoner at the Cumberland State Correctional Facility in Virginia, receives a mysterious package containing a pig's leg. Shortly after his exposure to it, Bobby suffers several goitre-like protrusions on his face and neck. He is relocated to the prison infirmary, where two physicians, Auerbach and Osborne, attend to his lesions. Bobby's cell is later cleaned by two other convicts, Paul and Steve, who realise that the laundry cart offers them an opportunity for escape. The FBI assigns Mulder and Scully to aid in the capture of the escapees. However, the agents remain mystified as to why the Bureau is interested in the case. Scully's suspicions are aroused when Dr Osborne claims he was sent to the facility by the Centres for Disease Control. He explains that a mysterious flu-like illness has taken the lives of ten prisoners, and that the escaped convicts may be carriers of the disease. Scully realises that the bodies of the dead prisoners are marked for incineration. Osborne catches Scully sneaking about the cadavers. As Scully watches, horrified, a pustule on a cadaver suddenly bursts, spraying Osborne with a white fluid. Meanwhile, Paul and Steve murder a man and steal his motor home. At a petrol station, Paul places a call to his girlfriend, Elizabeth, informing her of his freedom. Angelo, a petrol station attendant, finds Steve doubled-over in pain inside a restroom. Paul knocks Angelo unconscious with a tyre iron, and he and Steve escape. Mulder and members of the US Marshal's office find Angelo's unconscious body at the station. Mulder traces the last phone call made at the petrol station's pay phone to Elizabeth's home. The convicts make their way to Elizabeth's home. Steve's condition worsens. Without warning, a pustule on Steve's skin bursts open, spraying Elizabeth with puss. Mulder and the Marshals storm Elizabeth's home, but they arrive too late. Steve is already dead, and Paul is not to be found. Scully traces the package mailed to Bobby Torrence to a company called Pinck Pharmaceutical. While examining Bobby's corpse, she pulls the hard slender carapace of a dead insect from an open boil. Osborne, who is near death, tells Scully that he works not for the CDC, but for Pinck Pharmaceutical. He explains how the company regularly finances the exploration of rain forests for potential drug applications. A field entomologist sent the lab samples of an insect, Faciphaga Emasculata, which is parasitic in nature and attacks the human immune syndrome. Now the company, and the government, are trying to cover-up the fact that prisoners were used as guinea pigs for Pinck Pharmaceutical's experiments. Aided by information supplied by Elizabeth, Mulder tracks Paul to a bus station. Realising that Paul is the only remaining person who can testify against the government and Pinck Pharmaceutical, Mulder attempts to take him alive. A sniper's bullet rings out, and Paul is killed.
31 March to 3 April 1995 2X23 Soft Light Date given by Mulder for Newirth's death.	The agents are called to a hotel in Richmond, Virginia by Detective Kelly Ryan, one of Scully's ex-pupils at the academy. Ryan, who is working her first case, is stymied by the disappearance of several people. The latest victim, Patrick Newirth, vanished from his hotel room. The only clue to his whereabouts is a mysterious scorched pattern burned into the carpet beneath the door to his room. Mulder notices that a light bulb in the room had been unscrewed from its socket. He has it dusted for fingerprints. The agents travel to the residence of another victim. There they discover another loose light bulb and a scorch mark. Among the items found in the victim's rubbish is a train ticket. The agents realise that all three victims travelled through the Richmond train station before they died. Policemen are dispatched to stake out the station. They attempt to stop a man, Chester Banton, for questioning, but Banton runs away from them. Cornered in two bright pools of light, Banton warns the officers to stay back. When the officers step on his shadows, they vaporise in a fiery burst of light. Mulder and Scully review video footage recorded by the train station's security system. They discover that Banton sat around the station for days staring at the ground. An insignia on his clothing leads them to a company called Polarity Magnetics, where a Dr Davey gives the agents a tour of the facility. Davey explains how Banton, who is a scientist, performed research on dark matter such as quantum particles, quarks and neutrinos. One day, according to Davey, Banton became trapped inside a particle accelerator room and was exposed to a massive amount of energy, which literally burned his shadow right into a wall. Mulder reviews the videotaped security footage and realises Banton was sitting in an area where florescent lighting did not cast any shadows. Shortly after, the agents corner Banton at the station. Again, he warns them to stay back. As his shadow creeps towards Scully, Mulder raises his gun and shoots two overhead light bulbs, plunging the area into darkness. Banton is transported to a psychiatric hospital and imprisoned in a room with soft light. During an interview, Banton insists to Mulder that the government is hunting him down in an effort to learn his secrets. Detective Ryan then informs the agents that their services on the case are no longer required. Frustrated, Mulder seeks out X, his shadowy government contact. X insists he cannot be of any help to him. X and some paramedics then attempt to kidnap Banton from the psychiatric facility. The paramedics come in contact with Banton's shadow and are vaporized. The scientist emerges from his room and escapes. Banton returns to Polarity Magnetics intent on destroying himself inside the particle accelerator. Detective Ryan arrives at the scene and attempts to arrest Banton, but she comes into contact with his shadow and is instantly vaporised. Banton convinces Davey to engage the accelerator once he is inside, but once he enters the chamber, he realises Davey is really a government operative. X kills Davey and then transports Banton to a secret research facility for examination and testing.
April 1995 2X24 Our Town The Missing Person's Report had a date of 12 April but this does not fit in with the dates in Anasazi.	The agents travel to the small town of Dudley, Arkansas after George Kearns, a Federal Poultry Inspector, mysteriously disappears. Aided by Sheriff Arens, Mulder and Scully examine a field where a resident had reported sighting a foxfire burning. They find evidence that some sort of ceremony had taken place in the field. George Kearns's wife is then interviewed, but she believes her husband, a known womaniser, ran off with someone younger. A visit to Chaco Chicken, the meat processing plant that George had threatened to close due to repeated health violations, leads to Paula Gray, the woman with whom George had been having an affair. She suddenly grows violent and tries to kill Jess Harold, a supervisor at the plant. The sheriff draws his gun and fires, killing her before she can slash Harold's throat. The agents interview Walter Chaco, the owner of the plant and Paula's grandfather. He grants them permission to perform an autopsy on the girl's body. After the autopsy, Scully concludes that Paula suffered from a rare degenerative illness called Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease, the same illness carried by George Kearns. She also learns the youthful looking Paula was actually 47 years old. After a near miss with a chicken delivery truck that plunges into a polluted lake, Mulder orders that the water be dredged in hopes of finding George's body. What the agents find beneath the lake, however, is dozens of human bones. Mulder runs a missing persons check and confirms that as many as 87 people within a 200 mile radius of the town have been reported missing in the last 50 years. He begins to suspect that a cult of cannibals is systematically killing people and eating their flesh to prolong youth. Doris Kearns approaches Walter Chaco and tells him she can no longer keep what she knows about the town a secret. Jesse Harold warns Chaco that the woman is unstable; but Chaco insists that it is the FBI they should be worried about. Nonetheless, Harold has Doris Kearns killed. When Scully arrives at the Kearns' residence, she is taken captive. Mulder returns to Chaco's estate and finds a multitude of human skulls stored in a cabinet. When he realizes Scully has been abducted, Mulder races to the site of a blazing foxfire. The townspeople turn on Walter Chaco and execute him. As Sheriff Arens, a cult member, prepares to eliminate Scully, a shot rings out. Mulder, gun in hand, rushes to Scully's aid. Pandemonium breaks out, and the cult members rush from the scene, trampling Jesse as he tries to retrieve a gun. Scully later concludes that the outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease was spread by cannibalism.
9 to 16 April 1995 2X25 Anasazi Episode dated 9 to 16 April.	A computer hacker nicknamed The Thinker gains access to top secret Defence Department files on extraterrestrial life. He gives Mulder the files on a computer disk with one provision, that government officials be held responsible for UFO cover-ups throughout the years. Mulder's initial enthusiasm is dampened when he realises the files are encoded in Navajo. Scully promises to find a translator as soon as possible. When Skinner questions Mulder about the rumour he possesses sensitive information, Mulder suddenly punches him. Mulder is at a loss to explain his inexplicable behaviour. Skinner later informs Scully that a disciplinary hearing will determine if Mulder is to be dismissed without reinstatement. CSM pays Mulder's father an unexpected visit on Martha's Vineyard. He informs him about the top-secret files falling into his son's hands. Mr Mulder realises his name is on those files. He telephones his son and asks him to come home. Later, Scully lets herself into Mulder's apartment when he fails to answer his door. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out, smashing a window. Scully narrowly avoids injury. When Mulder arrives at Martha's Vineyard, his father speaks cryptically about his work for the State Department. Before he can explain the truth, Alex Krycek shoots and kills him. When Scully learns of the killing, she urges Mulder to leave Martha's Vineyard less the authorities suspect him of the murder. When Mulder returns home, he is very ill. Scully attends to his sickness. She notices a delivery person taking a gas cylinder from the apartment building. Mulder spots Alex Krycek sneaking around outside his apartment building. He wrestles the agent to the ground and grabs his revolver. Certain that Mulder is about to kill Krycek, Scully draws her weapon and shoots Mulder in the shoulder. When Mulder regains consciousness, he is lying in a motel room in New Mexico, his bullet wound having been attended to by Scully. She explains that lab tests revealed that water flowing into Mulder's apartment building was spiked with a strong hallucinogen, explaining Mulder's aggressive behaviour. An Indian man named Albert Hosteen begins translating the encoded Defence Department files. He explains to Mulder how a tribe of Indians who once lived in New Mexico disappeared without a trace. Their name was Anasazi, which means Ancient Aliens. Albert believes they were abducted by visitors from another planet. Albert's nephew Eric leads Mulder out into the desert. There, Eric shows the agent a railroad train boxcar buried in a rock quarry. Inside the car are the corpses of what appear to be alien beings. CSM calls Mulder on his cell phone, claiming that Mulder's father authorized the project. Mulder insists he will expose CSM. CSM traces Mulder's location by pinpointing the source of the cell phone transmission, but when he arrives in the desert by helicopter, Mulder is not to be found. CSM orders his men to destroy the boxcar.
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