"Purity Control"
"Purity Control" refers to the codename of the project in which experiments
are performed with the human/alien DNA. These experiments seek to create
a human/alien hybrid, thereby creating an army immune to genetic warfare.
It remains unsure, however, whether these experiments are known by the
shapeshifter race (who are in league with the government) as they are clearly
against human/alien DNA (See "Colony"), and aim to preserve the purity
of the shapeshifter race.
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We are first introduced to the project codenamed "Purity Control" in Season
One's final episode, "The Erlenmeyer Flask". According to "Deep Throat"
the alien DNA is being held at the Fort Marlene High Containment Facility.
Since the shapeshifters would get pretty angry if they found out their
DNA was being mixed with that of humans it is probably safe to assume that
the conspiracy is performing the tests for "Purity Control" in secret,
and that the name "Purity Control" is an ironic joke. Or Dr Berube could
have been part of "Purity Control" (which wants to prevent the alien DNA
from being mixed) and rebelled with the flask and experimented on the shapeshifter
blood for his own reasons.
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The next time we hear of operation "Purity Control" is in "Red Museum".
Here the conspiracy rebels pay the local doctor to inject specific children
with regular doses of alien genetic material. Perhaps here the conspiracy
find out about this experimentation and object to it so they send Crew
Cut Man to deal with it. Here more information has been found about the
mixing of alien and human DNA that it renders the subject immune to disease
(a step closer to creating the human/alien hybrid immune to genetic warfare).
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Possibly the next event related to "Purity Control" would be the events
that look place in "Nisei/731". The NSA man tells Mulder that the "leper"
in the boxcar is suffering from haemorrhagic fever, although it remains
clear that the "leper" is a test subject, a soldier prototype immune to
radiation poisoning and biological warfare. However haemorrhagic fever
is a blood transmitted disease so is the conspiracy trying to make human
blood have the same qualities of the shapeshifter blood (which is shown
to be very deadly)? So if the conspiracy is creating these 'super soldiers'
are they preparing for a war? To battle the grey aliens or conquer the
world? The death of Japanese scientists and ''leper" victims are because
the shapeshifter race ordered these killings because they want the purity
of their race to be maintained, so the killings are the result of "Purity
Control".
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Purity Control is also testing on Emily and Emily seems to be a valuable
asset to the operation (perhaps Emily is very close to being the ultimate
soldier immune to biological warfare etc) as the shapeshifters, working
for the conspiracy (I think we can now safely assume that the shapeshifters
don't have a problem with mixing DNA and that Purity Control's role is
to create a alien/human hybrid), try to keep her alive by injecting her
with greenish fluid. As Mulder says: Emily "was born to...serve an agenda".
The tests on Emily are run by Dr Calderon who works for the Prangren company,
however this man is quickly executed by the shapeshifters for stuffing
up and in case he reveals anything about their plans. Any success attained
with Emily diminishes as Scully lets her die so the project can not be
furthered.
In summary, "Purity Control" is quite possibly a control body created
by the conspiracy to monitor any experimentation with shapeshifter DNA
and to prevent it. Dr Berube was a rebel scientist who took some of the
alien DNA and experimented it upon human subjects, hoping to create the
ultimate soldier and to possibly sell his 'weapon' to another country.
These experiments continued in "Red Museum" using thechurch of the Red
Museum as a control group. The conspiracy, while monitoring Mulder and
Scully's investigations, found out about it and sent the Crew Cut Man to
'punish' the people involved in the testing and wiping out evidence of
alien life in the process. Again Nisei/731 had the same scenario which
resulted in the deaths of the scientists and the victims. As long as the
shapeshifters are strict about the purity of their race "Purity Control"
will remain operational.