Season 3
THE BLESSING WAY
MULDER HANGS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AS DANA SCULLY IS OUSTEDFROM THE FBI; THE CANCER MAN CLOSES IN ON THE MISSINGDATA TAPE AS ASSASSINS TRACK SCULLY. Dana Scully visits Albert Hosteen's family, and finds them badly beaten by the Cancer Man's thugs. She immediately goes in search of Mulder but finds only a charred ruin. Believing her partner is dead, she starts home to Washington, DC, but is stopped and searched by troops demanding the DAT tape Mulder received from his informant, The Thinker. Back at the FBI, she finds herself suspended and must surrender her badge and gun. She discovers a strange implant in her neck, and visits a hypnotist to try to access memories of her abduction. Meanwhile, Albert Hosteen has found Mulder dying in the desert, and conducts a "Blessing Way" ceremony to let the Navaho Holy People heal his soul. While he hangs between worlds, Mulder experiences visions of Deep Throat and his father, urging him to complete his quest. Scully attends the funeral of Mulder's father, and there meets the Well-Manicured Man, a member of the Cancer Man's cabal, who warns her that she has been targeted for murder. Mulder returns to his father's house, where confronts his mother with old photographs showing his father, Deep Throat, and other familiar faces taken in 1972, the year his sister disappeared. The Cancer Man, increasingly desperate for the missing tape, pressures Skinner to find it. Scully's sister Melissa is gunned down by Krycek and his minion, who mistake her for Dana Scully. Events race to an explosive standoff as Scully, convinced that Skinner is intent on killing her, holds him at gunpoint in Mulder's apartment...as they hear footsteps approach the door. Part 2 of 3. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
PAPER CLIP
MULDER AND SCULLY FIND AN UGLY TRUTH FROM THE PAST--AND THE PRESENT--HIDDEN IN AN ABANDONED MINE, WHILE SKINNER AND THE CANCER MAN BARGAIN FOR THE AGENTS' LIVES. Agent Scully and Assistant Director Walter Skinner, deadlocked in an armed stalemate, are equally shocked when Mulder, whom they thought dead, stumbles into their midst. Skinner reveals that he has the missing DAT tape given to Mulder by The Thinker, and offers to bargain for their return to the FBI. The Cancer Man reassures the Well-Manicured Man and his cronies that Mulder is dead, but the Well-Manicured Man demands the tape. The Lone Gunmen help Mulder and Scully find an ex-Nazi scientist who claims to have known Mulder's father. He directs them to an abandoned mine where they find a vast filing system containing detailed medical records on millions of people--including Dana Scully and Samantha Mulder. The Well-Manicured Man, alerted by the Nazi scientist to the fact that Mulder is alive, despatches a hit squad. Before they arrive, Mulder witnesses the takeoff of a craft unlike any on earth, and Scully sees a crowd of what may be aliens rushing past her. They follow the aliens out a secret exit, escaping the Well-Manicured Man's trap. They agree to Skinner's offer to negotiate a deal for their safety, but when Skinner stops at the hospital where Melissa Scully is lying in a coma, Alex Krycek ambushes him and steals the tape. Deception piles on double-cross as events build to a tense confrontation between Skinner and the Cancer Man. The latter, knowing Skinner has no tape with which to barter, sneers at his offer, until Skinner reveals the ingenious means by which the contents of the tape have been shared and secured. Finally, in a poignant moment at Melissa Scully's bedside, Mulder and Scully share a reaffirmation of their faith in one another and their quest for the truth. Part 3 of 3. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
D.P.O.
WHEN LIGHTNING KILLS A STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NUMBER OF TEENAGERS IN OKLAHOMA, MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A SERIAL KILLER WHO SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO HARNESS THE POWER OF LIGHTNING. In a noisy all-night video game parlor, two teenagers face off over a game--and minutes later one of them is dead, his very heart "cooked in his chest". What bizzare freak of nature--or statistics--can account for five people being struck by lightning in a tiny Oklahoma town? Mulder and Scully soon discover that this lightning does not strike at random, but with a deadly purpose. Darren Peter Oswald ("D.P.O") survives a lightning strike and develops the ability to focus it on the target of his choosing. Now anyone who ticks him off is in danger and Mulder and Scully must not only track down Darren but his next target. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S FINAL REPOSE
FORTUNE TELLERS WHO CANNOT PREDICT THEIR OWN MURDERS FALL VICTIM TO A SERIAL KILLER WHO MAY BE PSYCHIC, AS MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO ENLIST THE AID OF A RELUCTANT CLAIRVOYANT IN THEIR SEARCH. Mild-mannered Clyde Bruckman, insurance salesman, has one unique and useless gift: he can foresee the deaths of others. Unable to affect the outcome, he hides his ability until he stumbles across the latest in a string of murders that has drawn Mulder and Scully into the hunt for a killer who targets fortune tellers. Bruckman is unable to identify the killer, but he tells Mulder and Scully where to find the bodies of two victims. Scully thinks Bruckman may have more to do with the killings than he's telling, but Mulder is delighted to have a real psychic to analyze. The killer, however, now targets Bruckman, Mulder and Scully, forcing them to hole up in a hotel while more gruesomely mutilated corpses pile up. Bruckman foresees not only his own death, but Mulder's murder at the hands of a homicidal maniac. It's up to Scully to see if her partner's fate can be changed... Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
THE LIST
MULDER AND SCULLY MAY FINALLY HAVE PROOF OF REINCARNATION IN THEIR HANDS WHEN AN EXECUTED KILLER SEEMS TO BE MAKING GOOD ON A PROMISE TO COME BACK FOR REVENGE. Napoleon "Neech" Manley has been on Florida's Death Row more than eleven years, but tonight his imprisonment comes to an end--in the electric chair. From the chair, he vows to come back and wreak vengeance on his enemies. Only a fellow prisoner knows who is on Manley's enemies list--and he's not talking. When a guard dies mysteriously a few days later, Mulder and Scully are asked to help determine the cause of death. When another guard is murdered in grisly circumstances, Mulder begins to wonder if perhaps Manley is as good as his word, and has returned from the grave. Scully, convinced that a more earthly conspiracy is playing out, argues that the guards themselves are in on the murders. A growing pile of maggot-riddled corpses, a deceptive wife, and a hulking prison guard all hide secrets to the mysterious series of deaths, but in the end only the Warden discovers the full truth of Neech Manley's final words. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
2SHY
A SERIES OF MELTING CORPSES LEAD MULDER AND SCULLY TO A KILLER WHOSE INTEREST IN THE WOMEN HE MEETS ON THE INTERNET IS MORE THAN JUST SOCIAL. When a lonely, overweight woman with connections to Internet chat rooms turns up on the coroner's table, Mulder links her to earlier disappearances of women looking for love in all the wrong places. Despite the local detective's objections to Scully on the team, her analysis reveals strange discrepancies in the victims weight and body composition: somehow the killer removed all the fat from the corpse. But how do Mulder and Scully catch a murderer whose M.O. resembles that of a scorpion than a human being? The investigative team itself becomes the target of a killer with monstrous appetites as the agents track a bizarre stalker. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
THE WALK
SOLDIERS IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ARE TORMENTED BY AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE THAT ATTACKS THEIR LOVED ONES AND TAUNTS THEM BY THWARTING THEIR SUICIDE ATTEMPTS. Several inmates at a veteran's hospital have attempted suicide recently, with varying degrees of success. Mulder and Scully come into the case on the strength of Mulder's curiosity about the latest effort, prevented, so the inmate says, by an invisible man. The men, all veterans of the Gulf War, are afraid of something that walks where no man can walk, that sees them no matter where they hide, and seems to know all their secrets. Mulder and Scully's investigation uncovers tragedies hidden from the official record, a General more afraid of the truth than of war, and the bizarre retribution of a man whose spirit is larger than his body. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
OUBLIETTE
MULDER PROTECTS A SUSPECT IN A KIDNAPPING CASE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE AN UNUSUAL LINK TO THE VICTIM, WHILE SCULLY INSISTS THAT THE WOMAN KNOWS MORE THAN SHE IS TELLING. A young girl is kidnapped out of her own bedroom; at the same time, another former victim twenty miles away bleeds the girl's blood and echoes the kidnapper's words. Mulder suspects a psychic link between the two and tries to persuade the woman, Lucy Householder, to help him find the newest victim. Reluctant to relive the nightmare of her five-year captivity, she resists even as it affects her more and more deeply. Scully suspects that Lucy may in fact be part of the kidnap plan, a suspicion confirmed when DNA analysis bears out her doubts. She is further concerned that Mulder may be becoming too personally involved in a case that has taken on overtones of his sister's abduction. When the kidnapper diverts the FBI's attention with a decoy, only Mulder, Scully and the unwilling Lucy can save young Amy from a cold death at the hands of a perverse killer. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
NISEI
ATROCITIES DATING FROM JAPANESE ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II COME TO LIFE AGAIN AS MULDER INVESTIGATES A MYSTERIOUS TAPE CLAIMING TO SHOW AN ACTUAL ALIEN AUTOPSY. A mail-order tape purporting to show an actual alien body being dissected leads Mulder to a Pennsylvania murder site, where he apprehends a Japanese diplomat carrying secret spy satellite photographs. While he tracks down a salvage ship that may have brought an alien ship up from the deep, Scully looks up a woman whose name was in the diplomat's papers. She is astonished to discover a group of women who claim to have recognized her from her abduction. Deeply disturbed at this, she is even more troubled to learn that all of the women claim to have been abducted and to have had implants similar to her own removed. Mulder, meanwhile, uncovers evidence leading to a railroad car en route to Canada which may be carrying a living alien being. In a desperate attempt to board the train, he jumps from an overpass onto the train even as Scully, alerted by X, is warning him not to board the train. Part 1 of 2. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
731
MULDER BOARDS A TRAIN CARRYING A BOMB AND A MYSTERIOUS QUARANTINE SUBJECT AS SCULLY LEARNS MORE DETAILS OF HER ABDUCTION. At a remote leper colony in West Virginia, leprosy victims watch in hiding as other patients are rounded up by a death squad and systematically murdered. Aboard a speeding train, Mulder searches for the Japanese doctor in charge of the mysterious being he saw loaded on a quarantine car -- a doctor whom Scully identifies from photographs as having been present during her abduction. When Mulder finds the man garroted in a bathroom, he goes in search of the killer still on the train. Scully links the Japanese doctor to a West Virginia leper colony, and discovers a mysterious informant with a tale of human medical experimentation dating back to World War II. Mulder's belief in alien hybridization experiments is tested against Scully's conviction that the evidence points to extensive medical atrocities. Only Scully's memories and cryptic messages from X can save Mulder who is trapped in a sealed train car with a bomb, a cold-blooded killer, and an occupant who may or may not be a human/alien hybrid. Part 2 of 2. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
REVELATIONS
AFTER ELEVEN FALSE PROPHETS ARE MURDERED, MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO PROTECT A LITTLE BOY SHOWINGTHE MARKS OF CRUCIFIXION ON HIS BODY FROM A KILLER TARGETING STIGMATICS. Shortly after the murder of a man claiming to bear the wounds of Christ (stigmata), a little boy in Ohio exhibits similar wounds. Mulder tells Scully of eleven previous cases of people claiming to have stigmata, but that all eleven were murdered by someone who relentlessly stalk them. To protect young Kevin from a similar fate, Mulder and Scully sifted through Biblical tradition, religious beliefs, and the shattered past of Kevin's own family. Mulder refuses to believe that the case actually involves religious phenomena, while Scully suspects that the evidence before them points to divine intervention. A strange groundskeeper, a wealthy industrialist and a man committed to an insane asylum for his religious beliefs lead Scully to a crisis of faith that may spell life or death for an innocent child. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
WAR OF THE COPROPHAGES
INSECTS SWARM AND SIGHT GAGS FLY IN A SMALL NORTHEASTERN TOWN ASMULDER AND SCULLY ENCOUNTER A TOWN PANICKED BY A PLAGUE OFCOCKROACHES. Is an alien race disguised as cockroaches invading the earth? Or is a pest controlexperiment gone awry threatening the populace of Miller's Grove, Massachusetts? Mulder goes to the small town in pursuit of UFO reports but finds instead a townterrorized by roaches, in this darkly humorous send-up. Mulder pursues both a theoryon alien robotic probes and a lovely entemologist named Bambi, while Scully faces downa panicked, fleeing mob. Cockroaches with metallic exoskeletons mix with insectoid automatons,a synthetic fuels researcher with a license to import dung, and walls that literally undulatewith insects to render a creepy, funny, and very strange night for Mulder and Scully. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
SYZYGY
MULDER AND SCULLY FIND THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIP AFFECTED BY THE MYSTERIOUS COSMIC FORCE THAT IS CAUSING THE DEATHS OF TEENAGERS IN THE SMALL TOWN OF COMITY. When several teenagers meet untimely deaths in a small town swept by rumors of a satanic cult, Mulder and Scully answer a local investigator's call for help. Detective Angela White is convinced that evil is stalking the town's high school students, but Scully soon wonders if Detective White is not stalking Agent Mulder. Mulder, in turn, searches for the answer to the mystery of the horned beast found burned in a local boy's body, and Scully doubts the story of two sobbing teenage girls who fear that the local cult wants to sacrifice blonde virgins. The local astrologer warns Mulder and Scully that a once-in-every-84-years planetary alignment is about to focus the energies of the cosmos on this town, whose local geography makes it a "cosmic G-spot". Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
GROTESQUE
MULDER'S FORMER MENTOR IN THE BUREAU ENLISTS HIS AND SCULLY'S AID IN A SERIAL MURDER CASE, WHOSE BIZARRE MUTILATION MURDERS CONTINUE EVEN AFTER THE KILLER IS CAUGHT. Assistant Director Walter Skinner assigns Mulder and Scully to a serial killer case, where Mulder finds his old mentor in charge. Special Agent Bill Patterson of the Behavioral Sciences unit has already caught the killer, but when another murder following the same pattern occurs, he needs the "cracked genius" of Fox Mulder to solve the case. Was confessed murderer John Mostow working with an accomplice, who now continues the killing spree? Or was the murder committed by a copycat? Patterson and Scully hope to resolve the question either way, but Mulder believes in a third possibility: demonic possession. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
PIPER MARU
WHEN A FRENCH SALVAGE SHIP FINDS A LIVING BEING TRAPPED IN A 50 YEAR OLD SUNKEN AIRCRAFT, THE CREW BEGINS TO DIE. MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A DEADLY SECRET DATING BACK TO HIROSHIMA. The French salvage ship "Piper Maru" finds the remains of a World War II squadron on the bottom of the Pacific ocean -- but not everything trapped inside is dead! The ship takes aboard a being of deadly force, who walks among them in the guise of a human but whose eyes are not of this world. Mulder and Scully are called in when the "Piper Maru"'s crew begin to die of radiation exposure, caused by exposures that rival those of Hiroshima. Back in Washington, Assistant Director Walter Skinner is warned by members of the "intelligence community" to shut down the investigation into Melissa Scully's murder, but refuses. Scully visits a family friend and uncovers an old and shameful mystery from the Pacific war. Mulder tracks an enigmatic "salvage broker" to the Far East, where he finds Alex Krycek selling secrets from the DAT tape he stole from Skinner. The mysterious life form stalks Mulder through Hong Kong unawares. Even as Mulder prepares to bring Krycek back to the States, Walter Skinner is gunned down in a DC restaurant... Part 1 of 2 Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
APOCRYPHA
MULDER PURSUES AN ALIEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS SHIP, WHILE SCULLY INVESTIGATES THE SHOOTING OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER. Assistant Director Walter Skinner warns Scully as he is wheeled into surgery that he recognized the man who shot him. Although the Bureau is ready to write the incident off as a random shooting, Scully presses the investigation and discovers that the man who shot Skinner. Luis Cardinal, is the same one who shot her sister. Mulder, meanwhile, is unknowingly escorting an alien life form into the United States, one which is "hiding" inside Alex Krycek. When the pair is run off the road into a ditch by agents of the Cancer Man, Mulder is too dazed to see Krycek kill their assailants by irradiation. Although Krycek flees, Mulder still has the key to Krycek's locker. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, he recovers--an empty digital tape box. But he discovers a phone number on the package: the phone number of the Well-Manicured Man. Scully meanwhile fears for Skinner's life; she foils an attempt on his life by Luis Cardinal. Mulder, meanwhile, has learned that the cargo salvaged from the sea floor by the "Piper Maru" is being stored in a missile silo in North Dakota; he and Scully arrive and find dead, irradiated soldiers. Knowing Krycek (and the alien inside him) is in the silo, they stalk him through the darkened halls, but are ambushed by the Cancer Man's agents and hustled away. As they are driven off, Krycek kneels on top of a UFO, the alien entity pouring from his eyes and mouth, re-entering its craft. Krycek, still alive, beats on the locked doors in terror, begging to be released. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
PUSHER
A KILLER WHO INFLUENCES PEOPLE WITH HIS MIND PLAYS CAT AND MOUSE GAMES WITH THE FBI, AND ZEROES IN ON MULDER AS A WORTHY OPPONENT. Was it murder or suicide? A man claims to have committed fourteen "perfect" murders by making them look like suicides, and his confessions include so much crime-scene detail that he convinces the FBI. But when he escapes from custody by inveigling a young deputy to drive into the path of an oncoming truck, the agent in charge of the case calls on Agents Mulder and Scully for help. Mulder is convinced that Robert Modell, who calls himself "Pusher", is exerting psychic control over people through his voice. Using his ability to cloud people's minds, Pusher is able to walk freely into the heart of the FBI, seeking an opponent worthy of his mettle. He settles on Oxford-trained Fox Mulder as his adversary, and taunts him by inducing a heart attack in another agent in front of Mulder's own eyes. Scully discovers a deadly secret about Pusher that tells the agents that their quarry has nothing to lose. But just when Mulder thinks he has Pusher trapped, the tables are turned on him and he finds himself in a deadly game, in which the stakes are his and Scully's lives. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
TESO DOS BICHOS
A CURSE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A STRING OF MURDERS COMMITTED BY AN UNSEEN FORCE IN A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. When an archaeological expedition forcibly removes the remains of a South American shamaness against the wishes of the tribespeople, members of the expedition and the sponsoring museum begin to disappear from blood-soaked sites. Is it the working out of an ancient curse, or an act of political terrorism? Suspicion falls on Dr. Bilac, a member of the expedition who opposed the removal and who has become a raving recluse since the expedition's return to Boston. But before Mulder and Scully can find any evidence against him, two more museum members disappear in a welter of blood. A toilet choked with rats, a piece of small intestine gnawed by vermin, and a long-closed maze of steam tunnels lead the team to a horrible discovery far below the museum, where the fanged menace they seek turns on them in the darkness. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
HELL MONEY
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF CHINATOWN MURDERS AND DISCOVER A LOTTERY WHERE THE PRICE OF A TICKET IS LIFE ITSELF When a young Chinese immigrant is burned alive in a crematorium, the X-Files team go to Chinatown in search of a ring of masked killers. During the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts, they are aided by a handsome young Chinese-American police detective as they delve into the secrets of the close-knit community, where outsiders are viewed with suspicion and centuries-old traditions still rule. A clandestine burial is uncovered and Scully finds a living frog in a dead man. Finally, a father's desperate sacrifice for his dying daughter leads Mulder and Scully to a secret room, a cold-blooded surgeon, and a lottery from hell. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
JOSE CHUNG'S "FROM OUTER SPACE"
A WRITER'S ATTEMPT TO GET AT THE TRUTH OF AN ALIEN ABDUCTION LEADS HIM INTO A MAZE OF CONFLICTING STORIES, WHERE EVEN SCULLY AND MULDER FIND THEMSELVES DUPED When writer Jose Chung interviews Dana Scully for a book about alien abductions, she begins to tell him about a case involving two teenagers who claim to have been abducted while out on a date. Were they really abducted, or are they lying? If they were carried off, who took them: extraterrestrials or very human conspirators? The victims' and witnesses' stories grow increasingly confused, as even hypnosis reveals deeper and deeper layers of deceit and manipulation. Is the Air Force engaged in an ongoing coverup of covert intelligence operations, using UFOs as camouflage? Or is that yet another elaborate lie told to discredit witnesses to real abductions? Who are the mysterious Men In Black who warn witnesses against spreading the word--and why do they look so familiar? One of the most bizarre X-Files of all twists and turns like an eel in the mind as witnesses contradict one another, Mulder discovers strange visitors in Scully's bedroom, and Scully dissects an alien body. In the end, it is up to writer Jose Chung to reveal it all in his book--unless he, too, is part of an elaborate conspiracy on the part of the military-industrial- entertainment complex... Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
AVATAR
DID WALTER SKINNER KILL THE STRANGE WOMAN IN HIS BED? NOT EVEN HE KNOWS, AS MULDER AND SCULLY WORK TO CLEAR HIM WHEN A MURDER INVESTIGATION TARGETS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. When Assistant Director Walter Skinner wakes up in bed next to a murdered prostitute, Mulder and Scully go to work trying to prove his innocence. But the more evidence they uncover, the worse things look for their boss. He is separating from his wife, seeing a psychiatrist for a dangerous sleep disorder, and refused to cooperate with the murder investigation. Perhaps Skinner's unstable frame of mind is linked to the dissolution of his 17 year marriage. And when his wife is run off the road and nearly killed, it looks like Skinner may be responsible. Scully tries to hold off her own suspicions even as Skinner confesses his bewilderment to Mulder. Only Mulder, convinced that Skinner has been visited by an apparition known to medieval scholars, can clear his superior of the charge. His investigation uncovers new layers of deceit in the case against Skinner, leading him to a frightened call girl, a deflated air bag, and a connection to a deeper conspiracy involving Skinner. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
QUAGMIRE
MULDER JUMPS IN WITH BOTH FEET WHEN A MISSING PERSONS CASE IN GEORGIA TIES IN WITH AN OLD AND PERSISTENT LEGEND OF A LAKE-DWELLING MONSTER. SCULLY REMAINS SKEPTICAL UNTIL AN ACCIDENT STRANDS THEM IN THE MONSTER'S TERRITORY IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. Scully can hardly believe that even Mulder would be gullible enough to take on a Nessie-type lake monster legend when a Federal Forest Service worker is killed along a lakeshore in Georgia. They find that the area has been experiencing a "frog holocaust", a steady and disastrous decline in the native frog population. The local fishing and boating population begins to decline as well, with parts of bodies turning up in remote areas. Mulder pleads with the local sheriff to close the lake to tourists. Scully is more inclined to believe in a human serial killer, but when her beloved dog gets involved in the hunt and people are attacked before their eyes, she joins Mulder in tracking down the prehistoric creature who is feeding on the locals. They find themselves trapped in the middle of a fog-shrouded lake, with something very, very big closing in on their position. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Wetwired
A CASE INVOLVING SEVERAL MURDERS LINKED TO TELEVISION SETS BREEDS HOSTILITY AND PARANOIA BETWEEN MULDER AND SCULLY. Otherwise stable individuals in Braddock Heights, Maryland are killing right and left in sudden outbursts of homicidal mania. The only link Scully can find is that all of the victims watched a lot of television, and taped their favorite shows. Mulder isn't buying this link until the mysterious behavior of a cable repairman catches his eye. Meanwhile, Scully is drawn deeper and deeper into a psychotic nightmare, where she learns she can trust no one. When she finally loses it and fires on her own partner, Assistant Director Walter Skinner launches a manhunt, calling her armed and dangerous. Mulder consults the Lone Gunmen for help in solving the puzzle. Their analysis of a mysterious cable trap is interrupted by a phone call from Maryland police asking him to come down to the morgue and identify Scully's body. An evasive informant forces Mulder to choose between loyalty to his partner and the case he is working on. Mrs. Scully lies to Fox Mulder about her daughter's whereabouts. Finally, a shady doctor leads Mulder to a showdown where we learn that Mulder's erstwhile ally is playing an even deeper game than we imagined. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Talitha Cumi
MULDER AND SCULLY'S SEARCH FOR A MAN WHO CAN HEAL WITH A TOUCH IS MADE MORE URGENT BY THE APPARENT INVOLVEMENT OF SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO MULDER. A deranged man goes postal in a restaurant with a handgun, shooting several victims before he is himself shot by a SWAT team. But a serene and gentle man speaks soothingly to him, heals him and all the shooting victims with a touch of his hand, and then disappears from in front of a police detective while he is being questioned. Mulder starts a full-scale search for this elusive "Jeremiah Smith", racing the Cigarette-Smoking Man to find a wonder worker. The investigation is hampered by the re-appearance of the Alien Assassin we saw in "Colony " and "End Game", who is also looking for Jeremiah Smith. As Scully searches Social Security files and finds a myriad of Jeremiah Smiths, Mulder hastens to the bedside of his stricken mother, whose last conversation appears to have been with The Cigarette-Smoking Man. Alerted by his mother to a secret hidden in an old vacation home, Mulder finds evidence that she has known more than she is telling for a long, long time. A battle between Mulder and X, a metaphysical dialogue between The Cigarette-Smoking Man and the real Jeremiah Smith, and hints that some deadline fast approaches us leaves Mulder facing a deadly warrior from another world, and Scully caught between two mysteries... To Be Continued Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
