"As Scully faces possible dismissal from the F.B.I., a manhunt ensues for the missing agent Mulder."

(Continued from 2X25)

A team of camouflaged soldiers, lead by the Cigarette-Smoking Man, searches for Mulder and the computer tape believed to be in his possession. Albert Hosteen and his family are interrogated and beaten, and Scully - whose visit to the smoldering boxcar produces no leads - is detained, searched, and questioned. But the Cigarette-Smoking Man's efforts are in vain.

At F.B.I. headquarters, Scully is given a mandatory leave of absence until a review board investigates the nature of her insubordination. Crestfallen, Scully returns home to her family. She tells her mother she erred by countermanding her superiors. When Scully returns to Washington, Frohike informs her The Thinker - the computer hacker who accessed the MJ files - was professionally executed by unknown assailants. When Scully approaches Skinner with the news, and theorizes how Mulder and The Thinker could have been gunned down by the same individuals, Skinner shows interest only in the missing computer tape.

Meanwhile, Albert and his family investigate when buzzards begin circling high above the New Mexico desert. They find Mulder's limp, lifeless body near a tunnel in the red rock quarry. He is transported to a Navajo hogan, an igloo-like dome of mud, where a healing ritual called The Blessing Way is performed over his body. As the ceremony progresses, Mulder's soul encounters a bridge spanning two worlds. He encounters visions of Deep Throat, his father, and the aliens trapped inside the boxcar. On the third day of the ritual, the Navajos watch as Mulder regains consciousness.

While passing through a security checkpoint at F.B.I. headquarters, Scully sets off a metal detector. A security guard waves a magnetic wand near her neck and again trips the security alarm. Puzzled, Scully visits the medical lab, where a physician removes a computer chip from beneath her skin. Melissa convinces her sister to visit Dr. Pomerantz, a hypnotist. While under hypnosis, Scully encounters repressed visions of men, lights and alarms.

Having recovered from his close brush with death, Mulder returns to his mother's home in Martha's Vineyard. He searches for clues about his father and the people he worked with, certain they will lead him to his missing sister.

While attending Mr. Mulder's funeral, Scully is approached by a Well-Manicured Man. The stranger claims Mulder is dead, and that a hit squad is out to kill her. Later, Skinner approaches Scully outside her apartment. The pair drive to Mulder's apartment, where a very suspicious Scully pulls out a revolver and demands Skinner answer her questions.

Searching through Scully's darkened apartment, Alex Krycek and his assistant encounter Melissa. A shot rings out and Melissa slumps to the floor.

As the standoff between Scully and Skinner continues, someone approaches the front door to Mulder's apartment. Catching Scully off guard, Skinner draws his gun.

To Be Continued.

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THE X-FILES "Blessing Way"
#3X01
Original Air Date: 09/22/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

FLOYD "RED CROW" WESTERMAN as Albert Hosteen
TIM MICHAEL as Albert's Son
DAKOTA HOUSE as Eric Hosteen
MITCH DAVIES as the Camouflage Man
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
MICHAEL DAVID SIMMS as the Senior Agent
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
DON S. WILLIAMS as the First Elder
STANLEY WALSH as the Second Elder
JOHN MOORE as the Third Elder
JOHN NEVILLE as the Well-Manicured Man
SHEILA LARKEN as Margaret Scully
MELINDA MCGRAW as Melissa Scully
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
PETER DONAT as William Mulder
JERRY HARDIN as Deep Throat
BENITA HA as the Tour Guide
ERNIE FOORT as the Security Guard
FORBES ANGUS as the Doctor
ALF HUMPHREYS as Doctor Pomerantz
REBECCA TOOLAN as Teena Mulder
NICHOLAS LEA as Special Agent Alex Krycek
LENNO BRITOS as the Hispanic Man
IAN VICTOR as the Minister

Written by:

CHRIS CARTER

Directed by:

R.W. GOODWIN

"As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a secret project."

(Continued from 3X01)

As the standoff between Scully and Skinner continues, Mulder bursts through the front door of his apartment and orders Skinner to drop his weapon. Skinner complies, then produces the computer disk containing the Defense Department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life. He realizes the disk is the only leverage the trio has in bringing Mr. Mulder's killers to justice, and insists on keeping it himself. Mulder and Scully examine an old group photograph of Mr. Mulder with his government colleagues. With the Lone Gunmen's help, Mulder and Scully identify a man named Victor Klemper from the group. Klemper is a Nazi War criminal and a participant in Operation Paper Clip, a U.S. government operation that provided safe haven for war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge. Before the agents interview Klemper, Scully learns that her sister Melissa is in critical condition at a nearby hospital. Fearing an ambush by assassins, Scully joins Mulder in his quest to locate Klemper.

The agents elicit little information from the elderly Klemper, except that the group photo was taken at the Strughold Mining Company in West Virginia, and his mention of Napier's Constant, the base of all natural logarithms.

When the agents visit the ramshackle mine, they discover heavy metal doors built into the rocky walls of the mountainside. The agents gain access by entering Napier's Constant into an electronic keypad. Inside, they find a seemingly endless row of filing cabinets containing files and tissue samples on hundreds of U.S. citizens. Their search is interrupted when a U.F.O. drops from the sky. Simultaneously, a government hit squad surrounds the building. Mulder comes under fire and runs for cover. He and Scully find an escape route and make their way to safety.

Skinner pays a visit to the hospital where Melissa is being monitored. There he meets Mrs. Scully, and Albert Hosteen, who prays for Melissa's recovery. Skinner is alerted to a shadowy figure monitoring the room. In a darkened stairwell, he is attacked by Krycek and his accomplice. They overpower Skinner and steal the computer disk.

Mulder and Scully make a second trip to question Klemper, but when they arrive, they are informed by the Well-Manicured Man that Klemper is dead. Mulder recognizes him as one of the people in his father's group photograph. The Well-Manicured Man recounts how, in 1947, a spacecraft was reportedly recovered in New Mexico. This event coincided with the formation of Operation Paper Clip. Mulder suspects that Klemper was experimenting with the creation of a super race - a hybridization of humans and aliens. The files stored in the mountain, Mulder realizes, are vaccination records on hundreds of millions of Americans who received smallpox vaccinations - a D.N.A. database of virtually everyone born since the 1950s.

Skinner threatens to expose the Cigarette-Smoking Man if any harm should befall Mulder or Scully. He reveals that Albert Hosteen-who read the computer disks-spread the contents amongst his Navajo people in the ancient oral tradition, chapter and verse, file for file.

Later, Mulder visits Scully at the hospital, and learns that Melissa passed away during surgery.

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THE X-FILES "Paper Clip"
#3X02
Original Air Date: 09/29/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
SHEILA LARKEN as Margaret Scully
ROBERT LEWIS as the E.R. Doctor
MELINDA MCGRAW as Melissa Scully
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
JOHN NEVILLE as the Well-Manicured Man
DON S. WILLIAMS as the First Elder
STANLEY WALSH as the Second Elder
JOHN MOORE as the Third Elder
WALTER GOTELL as Klemper
MARTIN EVANS as Factotum
PETA BROOKSTONE as the I.C.U. Nurse
FLOYD "RED CROW" WESTERMAN as Albert Hosteen
NICHOLAS LEA as Special Agent Alex Krycek
LENNO BRITOS as the Hispanic Man
REBECCA TOOLAN as Teena Mulder

Written by:

CHRIS CARTER

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"The agents investigate the deaths of several young people who were apparently struck by lightning in the same small town."

Darin P. Oswald, a nineteen year-old resident of Connerville, Oklahoma, argues with twenty-one year-old Jack Hammond over a video arcade game. The altercation escalates, and Jack, by far the bigger of the two, knocks Darin to the floor. Moments later, the electricity within the arcade seemingly falls under Darin's power. Frightened, Jack runs to his automobile and attempts to drive away. An intense electrical field engulfs the car, killing Jack.

As Mulder and Scully examine Jack's body, the local coroner describes how five other young people were killed in the same manner. Sheriff Jack Teller corrects the coroner's statement, noting four people died but one survived. Scully believes it is statistically improbable for so many people in such a small area to have been struck by lightning - especially when only sixty people die of being struck by lightning each year in the United States.

Nonetheless, Mulder and Scully visit the video arcade. Darin's friend, Zero, who works at the arcade and witnessed the killing, acts suspiciously and provides little help. Mulder notices the initials D.P.O. logged on a video game's list of top scorers. The initials match those of Darin Peter Oswald - the one victim who survived being stuck by lightning.

While working at a local garage, Darin approaches Sharon Kiveat, a former high school teacher. Darin harbors a crush on the attractive woman, but he is unable to act upon his fantasies because Sharon is married to his boss, Frank. Later, the agents pay a visit to the garage and interview Darin about Jack's death. Darin claims he was so wrapped up in his game he did not notice what had happened. During the interview, Mulder's cellular telephone suddenly and inexplicably melts.

The next day, the agents examine a field where several cows were killed by lightning. They discover a fulgarite, an area where the lightning fused sandy soil into glass. Imbedded within the fulgarite is a shoe print. Scully makes a cast of the print and discovers it came from a size eight and a half military boot. She also finds a small quantity of antifreeze within the glass, which Mulder deduces came from the garage. The agents visit Darin's home, and discover that his shoe size is eight and a half. They also find Sharon Kiveat's photograph.

Using his powers, Darin alters a traffic light signal and causes an automobile accident. Frank drives his tow truck to the scene to remove the vehicles. Darin then causes Frank to collapse from an apparent heart attack. Paramedics rush to his aid, but find their defibrillator inoperative. Darin rushes to Frank's side and revives him with his bare hands.

Scully examines Darin's medical history and discovers he suffers from a severe chemical imbalance. Mulder theorizes how the electrolyte imbalance might enable Darin to generate electricity levels much higher than normal. The agents take Darin into custody, but Sheriff Teller releases him due to the improbable nature of the charges. Darin travels to the video arcade. There, a terrified Zero insists he did not squeal on his friend. Zero tries to escape, but Darin kills him by generating a lightning bolt.

Darin proceeds to the hospital and enters Frank's room looking for Sharon. Instead, he finds Scully, her gun drawn. Sharon ends the showdown by agreeing to follow Darin outside. Sharon suddenly breaks free and runs to safety. When Teller and Mulder surround the teenager, he summons a lightning bolt. The energy kills Teller and knocks Darin to the ground, unconscious. He is arrested and placed in a psychiatric hospital.

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THE X-FILES "D.P.O."
#3X03
Original Air Date: 10/06/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MAR ANDERSON as Jack Hammond
GIOVANNI RIBISI as Darren Oswald
JACK BLACK as Bart Liquori ("Zero")
PETER ANDERSON as Stan Buxton
ERNIE LIVELY as Sherrif Teller
KAREN WITTER as Sharon Kiveat
STEVE MAKAJ as Frank Kiveat
KATE ROBBINS as Darren's Mom
BRENT CHAPMAN as the Traffic Cop
JASON ANTHONY GRIFFITH as the First Paramedic
CAVAN CUNNINGHAM as the Second Paramedic
BONNIE HAY as the Night Nurse

Written by:

HOWARD GORDON

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"A man with psychic powers assists the agents with the hunt for a killer."

A lanky, seemingly amiable man, The Puppet, pays a visit to Madame Zelma at a palm reader shop. When Madame Zelma seems more interested in taking The Puppet's money than predicting his future, The Puppet strangles her.

Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully are asked to assist in a murder investigation wherein several professional prognosticators were gruesomely murdered-and their entrails evidentally arranged in an attempt to divine the future. Later, a man named Clyde Bruckman, an insurance salesman, discovers Madame Zelma's body in a dumpster outside his apartment. As the agents interview Bruckman, it becomes apparent he possesses detailed knowledge about the killings, leading Mulder to believe Bruckman is a true psychic. Bruckman suspects that the killer may also possess psychic powers. He predicts another victim will surface the following day floating in a lake.

When Bruckman's vision proves correct, Mulder asks him for assistance in finding the killer. Bruckman fears that interfering with fate might adversely alter the future. Meanwhile, Scully discovers that all of the victims had in their possession a keychain from an investment firm that provides market strategies based on astrological forecasts. Bruckman accurately predicts that the firm's owner was murdered and buried in a forest.

Later, Bruckman describes how Mulder, at some point in the future, will step in a pie-and then meet his fate at the hands of the murderer. When a tarot card reader is murdered, Mulder and Scully assign Agent Havez to guard Bruckman at a hotel, fearing the killer may sense his whereabouts. As Scully inspects clues at the murder scene, she realizes the murderer is the bellhop (The Puppet) at the hotel. When The Puppet arrives at Bruckman's hotel room to serve him his meal, both men sense each other's psychic vibes. The Puppet kills Havez, then runs from the room. Mulder and Scully arrive at the hotel and spot the bellhop racing away from the scene. Mulder follows The Puppet into the hotel's kitchen, where he steps in a pie. Recognizing the prophetic sign, Mulder spins around, and is able to deflect his attacker's blow momentarily. But as The Puppet poises to strike Mulder with a knife, Scully exits from the elevator and fires her gun, killing The Puppet.

Later, the agents find Bruckman's body at his apartment. He took his own life.

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THE X-FILES "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
#3X04
Original Air Date: 10/13/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

PETER BOYLE as Clyde Bruckman
KEN ROBERTS as the Clerk
STU CHARNO as The Puppet
KARIN KONOVAL as Zelma
FRANK CASSINI as Cline
DWIGHT MCFEE as Havez
JAAP BROEKER as Yappi
DAVID MACKAY as the Young Husband
DORIS RANDS as Mrs. Lowe
ALEX DIAKUN as the Tarot Dealer
GREG ANDERSON as the Photgrapher

Written by:

Darin Morgan

Directed by:

David Nutter

"Enemies of a prison inmate who died in the electric chair begin dying one by one."

Napoleon Neech Manley, a well-liked prison inmate on death row, is strapped into an electric chair and killed. Several days later a prison guard is found dead in the very cell Neech had occupied for eleven years. Mulder tells Scully that Neech believed heavily in reincarnation, and swore he would return from the grave to take vengeance on five men who mistreated him.

The agents travel to the prison, where they examine the guard's corpse and the cell where the body was discovered. The Warden suspects that Neech's inmate friends are responsible for the murder. Mulder interviews Neech's friend, Speranza, who firmly believes Neech's spirit killed the guard. Later, a prison guard named Parmelly pulls Scully into the shower area and tells her about the existence of a list which names the five men Neech's spirit intends to kill. Parmelly claims an inmate named Roque possesses the list.

Soon after, an inmate opens a paint can and discovers the head of prison guard Fornier inside. Mulder interviews Roque, who offers to recite the names of the men on the list in exchange for a transfer. The Warden balks at the idea of negotiating with prisoners. Suspecting that he might be on the list, the Warden interrogates Roque in the shower area, and beats him up. When Roque's body is later discovered, Mulder suspects he may not be the third victim from Neech's list. His suspicion is confirmed by Speranza. Mulder and Scully travel to the home of the man who engaged the power on the electric chair that killed Neech. They find his maggot-infested body in the attic.

Scully reviews phone records indicating a man named Danny Charez spoke with Neech on many occasions. Charez, who was once Neech's defense attorney, tells the agents he is now helping Speranza-hoping he has some sway with Neech's spirit. Later, Charez is attacked and killed.

Working on a tip from Charez, the agents learn that Parmelly and Neech's wife, Danielle, are lovers. One night, Danielle realizes Neech has inhabited Parmelly's body. As the agents surround the Manley home, Danielle pulls out a gun and shoots Parmelly. Later, Neech's spirit materializes in the Warden's car. He claims his last victim by killing the Warden.

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THE X-FILES "The List"
#3X05
Original Air Date: 10/20/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

J.T. WALSH as Warden Brodeur
DENNY ARNOLD as the Key Guard
BRUCE PINARD as the Executioner
BOKEEM WOODBINE as Sammom Roque
JOHN TOLES-BEY as John Speranza
BADJA DJOLA as "Neech" Manley
APRIL GRACE as Danielle Manley
GREG ROGERS as Daniel Charez
DON MACKAY as Oates
KEN FOREE as Parmelly
MITCH KOSTERMAN as Fornier
MICHAEL ANDALUZ as the Tattooed Prisoner
PAUL RASKIN as Ullrich
CRAIG BRUNANSKI as the Guard

Written and Directed by

CHRIS CARTER

"The agents hunt for a killer who uses the internet to attract his victims."

Mulder and Scully assist Cleveland Detective Alan Cross with the investigation of a brutal homicide in which a female victim's body is so badly decomposed, and covered with a mucus-like slime, that positive identification is difficult. Mulder connects the case to a series of similar killings in which female victims - all of whom answered personal ads in local newspapers - died a similar way. When the latest victim, Lauren Mackalvey, is identified, Mulder locates her roommate, Jennifer. Jennifer explains how Lauren meet her date on the Internet, a man who went by the online name 2Shy. Meanwhile, Scully's autopsy on Lauren's body reveals that a great deal of her body fat is missing.

Meanwhile, when the killer, Virgil Incanto, gets stood up by his online date, Ellen, he attacks and murders a prostitute. During the struggle, the prostitute scraps Virgil with her nails, leaving rake marks on his arm.

Mulder examines the killer's e-mail correspondence to Lauren. He discovers quotations from rare Italian poems, leading him to believe the suspect is a college professor or translator. Cross assembles a list of people in the Cleveland area with such credentials. Chemical analysis of the killer's skin sample found beneath the prostitute's fingernails shows no oils or fatty acids. This leads Mulder to speculate that the murderer might be using his victim's bodies to replenish a chemical deficiency in order to survive.

Meanwhile, using Cross's list, the agents interview possible suspects. It is Cross who ends up interviewing Virgil, and in the process, notes a bandage on his arm. Virgil kills Cross, then arranges another date using the Internet. When his intended victim, Ellen, drives him home, Virgil spots someone inside his apartment. He hastily excuses himself. Virgil's nosy landlady, Monica, discovers Cross's decomposed body inside the apartment. Virgil kills Monica before she can scream. Monica's blind daughter, Jesse, enters Virgil's apartment looking for her mother. Though Virgil insists Monica is not in the apartment, Jesse smells her mother's perfume. Jesse calls 911, and the agents rush to the apartment building. Virgil, however, is nowhere to be found.

The agents access Virgil's computer records, hoping to find clues about his next victim. Meanwhile, Virgil talks his way into Ellen's apartment, apologizing for his hasty exit during their date. As Ellen sends a computer message to an online friend, a message from the F.B.I. with a warning about Virgil pops up on her screen. Virgil sees the message and attacks Ellen. After cracking Virgil's computer hard drive, the agents contact women who may be his potential next victims. Unable to reach Ellen by phone, the agents drive to her apartment. Mulder and Scully, acting on a tip from a neighbor, burst into Ellen's apartment. As Mulder searches for Virgil, Scully stays behind with Ellen, who is covered with mucus but still alive. Suddenly, Virgil springs from the shadows and attacks Scully. Ellen, however, regains consciousness, and shoots Virgil. Virgil recovers from the gunshot wound, and is later interrogated.

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THE X-FILES "2SHY"
#3X06
Original Air Date: 11/03/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

RANDI LYNNE as Lauren
BRAD WATTUM as the Patrolman
TIMOTHY CARHART as Virgil Incanto
JAMES HARDY as Detective Cross
CATHERINE PAOLONE as Ellen
GLYNIS DAVIES as Monica
SUZY JOACHIM as Jennifer
KERRY SANDOMIRSKY as Joanne
BEVERLY ELLIOT as Raven
ALOKA McLEAN as Jesse
DEAN McKENSIE as Lieutenant Blaine
WILLIAM MACDONALD as Special Agent Kazanjian
P.J. PRINSLOO as Tagger
JAN BAILY MATTIA as the Hooker
LINDSAY BOURNE as the Hooker's John

Written by:

JEFFERY VLAMING

Directed by:

DAVID NUTTER

"A quadruple amputee becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre deaths."

Lieutenant Colonel Victor Stans locks himself inside a rehabilitation room at an Army hospital intent on committing suicide. The water temperature of a whirlpool tub is raised to the boiling point, and Stans approaches, ready to throw himself in. As a disembodied voice speaks to Stans, glass on an alarm box smashes, and the deadbolt lock to the rehab room door slides open, as if moved by an invisible force. Stans throws himself into the scalding tub, but he is quickly rescued by a nurse and firemen.

Mulder and Scully focus their attention on the case. Stans tells them a sort of phantom soldier, whom he's never seen clearly, killed his wife and child, and now wishes to see him suffer by not letting him take his own life. The agents are approached by Army Captain Janet Draper, who requests a suspension of whatever investigation the F.B.I. has begun. Protocol requires any criminal investigation of military personnel to be conducted through military channels and the superior officer.

Mulder and Scully turn to General Callahan, who accuses them of gross misconduct and labels Stans' misfortune a tragic accident. But Scully notes a similar case involving Staff Sergeant Kevin Aiklen, who also served with Callahan in the Gulf War. Aiklen claimed he, too, was prevented from killing himself by an unseen force after his family died in a tragic accident. After the agents leave, Callahan is visited by the phantom soldier, who appears in the reflection of a window. Shortly thereafter, Draper is drowned when water from a swimming pool assumes human form and attacks her.

Mulder warns Callahan that if the pattern is at all consistent, his family may be in great danger. Callahan reluctantly admits he was visited by the phantom soldier the previous night. When Callahan returns home, his wife describes how their son Trevor saw a stranger inside the house. Scully notices someone inside the Callahan's backyard, but he escapes. A fingerprint check leads the agents to Quentin Freely, nicknamed Roach. He is charged with murder. A search of Roach's apartment turns up mail from each of the victim's homes. Shortly thereafter, as a military MP stands guard, sand from a sandbox takes human form and attacks Trevor, killing him.

During interrogation, Roach claims he is merely the mailman for a fellow vet named Leonard Trimble, nicknamed Rappo. The agents rush to the Army hospital, where they are told Rappo is a quadruple amputee. When Mulder and Scully return to Roach's cell, they find his dead body, a bed sheet stuffed down his throat. Mulder suspects that Rappo is capable of astral projection-the ability to leave his own body and travel virtually anywhere. Before Callahan and his wife can pack up their belongings and leave, Mrs. Callahan is murdered. Despondent, Callahan seeks out Stans. He pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot himself, but the gun will not fire. Stans insists he knows the identity of the killer. Callahan enters Rappo's room at the hospital. After conversing with the amputee, Callahan decides not to kill him.

As Callahan attempts to leave the hospital, steam pipes in the sub-basement rupture. Callahan is engulfed by the hissing steam, from which emerges the phantom soldier. Mulder comes to the general's aid, but he, too, is attacked by the force. Meanwhile, Stans gains access to Rappo's room. He locks the door, and using a pillow, smothers the amputee, killing him. Back in the sub-basement, the invisible force dissipates.

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THE X-FILES "The Walk"
#3X07
Original Air Date: 11/10/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

DERYL HAYES as the Army Doctor
DON THOMPSON as Lieutenant Colonel Stans
BEATRICE ZEILINGER as the Burly Nurse
NANCY SOREL as Captain Draper
THOMAS KOPACHE as General Callahan
WILLIE GARSON as Quinton "Roach" Freely
IAN TRACEY as Sergeant "Rappo" Trimble
ROB LEE as the Amputee
PAT BERMEL as the Therapist
BRENNAN KOTOWICH as Trevor Callahan
ANDREA BARCLAY as Mrs. Callahan
PAUL DICKSON as the Uniformed Guard
PAULA SHAW as the Ward Nurse
D. HARLAN CUTSHALL as the Guard

Written by:

JOHN SHIBAN

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"A woman experiences a psychic connection with a teenager held captive by a deranged man."

The agents arrive at the home of Amy Jacobs, a fifteen year-old girl abducted from her bedroom by a stranger. Agent Eubanks points out several drops of blood found on the carpet, the result of Amy's nosebleed. Mulder is intrigued by a report about a woman employed at a fast food restaurant who uttered the same words spoken by the stranger at the exact moment the kidnapping occurred. That woman, Lucy Householder, had been rushed to the hospital after suffering a seizure and a nosebleed. Records indicate that Lucy was kidnapped, at the age of eight, while her parents slept. She was held hostage in a basement for five years, and although she eventually was released unharmed, her abductor was never caught.

When Mulder and Scully confront Lucy about the incident at the restaurant, she becomes uncooperative, insisting she cannot help locate the missing girl. Eubanks uncovers evidence of Lucy's criminal record, including prostitution and narcotics convictions.

Lucy's psychic visions into Amy's mind continue to terrify her. She experiences temporary blindness, which is the result of Amy's being locked away in a darkened basement room, or oubliette. Mulder again asks Lucy for her help, but she insists she cannot locate Amy.

Scully uncovers evidence that every student from Amy Jacob's class received their school photograph - except for Amy. A photographer from Larkin Scholastic fired his assistant, Carl Wade, the day after the shoot. Mulder shows Lucy a current photograph of Wade, and her face registers recognition. Wade is the same man who kidnapped Lucy years earlier. Meanwhile, Amy successfully digs a hole through the oubliette, and escapes. Wade gives chase, and at the same time, Mulder chases Lucy who flees the half-way house where she lives. As Amy loses her footing and tumbles down a rocky bank, landing on her arm, Lucy falls and injures her arm. Lucy looks to Mulder, wondering what is happening to her.

Meanwhile, Eubanks arrives at the half-way house with D.N.A. lab results confirming that the blood found on Lucy's clothing matches Amy's. Mulder insists it would be impossible for Lucy to have any connection with the crime.

A tow truck driver comes forward and identifies Wade as a stranded motorist he encountered on a rural road. The tip leads agents to the town where Lucy was found seventeen years earlier. Working from an address registered at a local photography store, the agents pinpoint the remote cabin where Wades resides. But when they storm the cabin, the agents find Lucy huddled in the oubliette.

Lucy's words indicate Amy and Wade are in water. Mulder realizes this can only mean a nearby river. Wade, realizing his time with Amy has grown short, pushes her beneath the water. As Amy drowns, Lucy, detained by F.B.I. agents in the back seat of a car, begins to suffocate. Agents call for paramedics.

Mulder and Scully locate Amy's lifeless body on the riverbank and begin CPR. Their efforts prove futile. But suddenly, Amy begins coughing, water pouring from her mouth. Simultaneously, Lucy continues choking. Though Amy is successfully revived, Lucy dies. An autopsy later reveals that five liters of water were in Lucy's lungs. Mulder and Scully speculate that Lucy died for Amy. Perhaps it was the only way she could outrun her past.

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THE X-FILES "Oubliette"
#3X08
Original Air Date: 11/17/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MICHAEL CHIEFFO as John Wade
JEWEL STAITE as Amy
TRACEY ELLIS as Lucy Householder
KEN RYAN as Eubanks
SIDONIE BOLL as Mrs. Jacobs
DAVID FREDERICKS as the Photographer
ALEXA MARDON as Sadie
DOLLIE SCARR as the Supervisor
DEAN WRAY as the Tow Truck Driver
JAQUES LaLONDE as Henry

Written by:

CHARLES GRANT CRAIG

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"An alien autopsy videotape and a Japanese diplomat's murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature aboard a train. Scully encounters a group of people who reveal information about her disappearance."

With great interest, Mulder views a mail order videotape which purportedly contains an actual alien autopsy. The footage shows a team of Japanese surgeons performing the procedure. The tape suddenly ends when a group of armed soldiers storms the operating room. Mulder and Scully trace the tape's origin to a video piracy operation in Allentown, Pennsylvania. When the agents arrive at the scene, they find a man's body with a pillowcase tied over its head. Mulder chases a Japanese man fleeing the scene and takes him into custody. Skinner reveals that the suspect, Kazuo Takeo, is a high-ranking government official from the Japanese diplomatic corps.

Mulder searches Takeo's leather satchel, uncovering satellite photos and a list of names containing members of the Mutual U.F.O. Network. Mulder learns that the satellite photos contain images of a salvage ship named the Talapus, which spent months searching for a Japanese sub sunk during World War II. The ship made port in Newport News, Virginia, leading to speculation that perhaps the Talapus found something other than the downed sub.

The list of Mutual U.F.O. Network members leads the agents to Lottie Holloway and Penny Northern. They tell Scully that she is one of them. Confused, Scully insists she is conducting an F.B.I. investigation into the murder of Steve Zinnzser (the man found with the pillow case over his head). The women tell the agents that Zinnzser was a member of their group. They also describe their experiences in a bright white place, triggering Scully's partial memory of what transpired during her disappearance. The women display small pieces of metal which were surgically removed from the back of their necks. They bring Scully to the hospital, where another member of their group, Betsy Hagopian, is dying of an undiagnosed cancer ailment. Penny claims everyone who was abducted will die in the same fashion.

Meanwhile, Mulder travels to Virginia where he discovers the Talapus hidden between much larger vessels. Nearby, Mulder discovers an airplane hangar that houses a large circular object that the Talapus must have dredged from the bottom of the sea.

Skinner tells Mulder that the Japanese diplomat was found murdered. Later, Mulder visits Senator Matheson, who requests the return of the satellite photographs. Mulder believes that doing so would entangle him in the murder investigation. In a cryptic gesture, Matheson gives Mulder a list containing the names of four murdered Japanese scientists.

Scully and Mulder meet at F.B.I. headquarters. Mulder displays a photograph of Japanese medical officers taken during World War II. Four of the men are the same surgeons found murdered the previous day. Mulder suspects that the scientists were trying to create a human-alien hybrid, a continuation of their work, and similar work done by the Nazis, during the war. He suspects that the U.S. government may be behind the murders. Mulder also shows Scully a photo of train cars which he believes are part of the government's secret railroad, one of which was used to carry out the alien autopsy.

Mulder travels to Quinnimont, West Virginia, where he discovers train cars from the satellite photos. As Mulder prepares to jump onto one of the moving cars, Scully contacts him on his cellular phone. She passes on information, given to her by X, that his life is in great danger. Nonetheless, Mulder jumps on top of the train car.

To Be Continued.

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THE X-FILES "Nisei"
#3X09
Original Air Date: 11/24/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

YASUO SAKURAI as Kazeo Takeo
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X
CORRINE KOSLO as Lottie Holloway
GILLIAN BARBER as Penny Northern
ROGER ALLFORD as the Harbourmaster
PAUL MCLEAN as the Coast Guard Officer
LORI TRIOLO as Diane
RAYMOND J. BARRY as Senator Richard Matheson
BRENDAN BEISER as Special Agent Comox
ROBERT ITO as Doctor Ishimaru
WARREN TAKEUCHI as the Japanese Escort
CARRIE CAIN SPARKS as the Train Station Clerk
BOB WILDE as the Limo Driver

Written by:

CHRIS CARTER & HOWARD GORDON & FRANK SPOTNITZ

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"When Mulder becomes trapped aboard a train rigged with an explosive device, Scully searches for the truth behind the government's involvement with secret experiments."

(Continued from 3X09)

X tells Scully that the metallic implant surgically removed from the back of her neck is the key to all the answers she's been searching for.

Meanwhile, Mulder - clinging precariously to the top of a train bound for Canada - makes his way to safety and climbs aboard one of the cars. With assistance from the train's conductor, Mulder searches for Dr. Shiro Zama, whom he suspects is behind the experiments. But the Red-Haired Man (an assassin who murdered the Japanese diplomat in the previous episode), kills Zama and hides his body inside a lavoratory.

With the aid of Agent Pendrell, Scully learns that the implant collects information and artificially replicates a person's mental processes. Pendrell discovers the name of the chip's manufacturer, a Japanese firm, and traces a delivery to Dr. Zama at Hansen's Disease Research Facility in Virginia. Scully attempts to contact Mulder by cellular phone to relay the information, but unknown to her, Mulder dropped the device when he jumped onto the train. Scully drives to the research facility, where she encounters Escalante, a hideously deformed man. Escalante explains that the facility was once a leper colony, but the staff, including Zama, fled when death squads arrived to kill the patients. Escalante was being treated for leprosy, but hundreds of other patients were interned at the camp with symptoms that resembled the disease. The creatures were kept apart from the patients and apparently tortured.

Meanwhile, Mulder finds Zama's body inside the lavoratory. He is suddenly attacked by the Red-Haired Man. With the conductor's help, Mulder overcomes him. The Red-Haired Man claims the quarantined car is rigged with an explosive device, which was installed by Zama in case he could not escape to Canada with his creature. Mulder and his captive are unable to leave the quarantined car out of fear that opening the door without the proper access code might detonate the bomb.

Scully is captured by soldiers and brought before an Elder, a member of the Syndicate. He explains how Zama - actually a brilliant scientist whose real name is Ishimaru - was hidden in the U.S. after World War II so he could continue his experiments. Ishimaru kept his discoveries secret, unwilling to share his knowledge with the government that had granted him asylum. Scully and the Elder dial the Red-Haired Man's cellular number and contact Mulder. Scully believes the creature aboard the train isn't an alien being after all. She is convinced that Ishimaru used the railroad to conduct secret radiation tests on lepers, the homeless, and the insane. As proof, she reminds Mulder about the President's public apology for secret radiation tests that were conducted on innocent people until 1974.

The quarantined car is uncoupled from the train in an isolated area. Mulder questions the Red-Haired Man about the creature, and theorizes how Zama developed a human-alien hybrid with super immunity, capable of withstanding the effects of atomic and biological weapons.

Scully reviews the alien autopsy tape and realizes Zama was caught on video punching in the proper code to open the door of the quarantine car. She phones Mulder with the code. Before he can exit the car, Mulder is attacked by the Red-Haired Man. X arrives, shoots the Red-Haired Man, and rescues Mulder only moments before the train car explodes.

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THE X-FILES "731"
#3X10
Original Air Date: 12/01/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

ROBERT ITO as Doctor Zama
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X

STEPHEN MCHATTIE as the Red-Haired Man
BRENDEN BEISER as Special Agent Pendrell
COLIN CUNNINGHAM as Escalante
MIKE PUTTONEN as the Conductor
DON S. WILLIAMS as the First Elder
VICTORIA MAXWELL as the Mother
SEAN CAMPBELL as the Soldier

Written by:

FRANK SPOTNITZ

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"Scully attempts to protect a boy whose death could trigger the coming of Armageddon."

The agents travel to Pennsylvania to investigate the mysterious death of Reverend Finley, a self-proclaimed Stigmatic whose palms suddenly bled as his rapt congregation looked on in awe. Mulder recalls a series of international, religiously-motivated murders in which the victims were all false Stigmatics like Reverend Finley. Scully notes ligature marks on Finley's neck, suggesting strangulation.

Meanwhile, in Loveland, Ohio, fifth grade student Kevin Kryder begins bleeding at the palms. His teacher, Mrs. Tynes, and fellow classmates look on in horror. The agents are informed by Carina Maywald, a Social Services worker, that Kevin's father, Michael, was institutionalized after he proclaimed the boy was the son of God. Mulder theorizes that Kevin may have inflicted the wounds on himself in protest over his father's incarceration. Now, Mulder fears the boy may become a target for the Stigmata killer.

At the mental institution, Michael Kryder professes his belief that Forces of Darkness are out to eliminate his son and thereby trigger Armageddon. He also believes that God will chose someone to protect Kevin and avert catastrophe. Surprisingly, Scully places more faith in the story than does Mulder.

Kevin is kidnapped from a social services dormitory by a bald, frightening-looking man. Based on a description from children at the dormitory, Mrs. Kryder identifies the man as Owen Jarvis, a gardener. The agents storm Jarvis' home and take him into custody. Kevin has run off. Owen claims God told him to protect the boy. Using great strength, Owen breaks his handcuffs and runs to the Kryder home. He finds the Millennium Man (the same man who murdered Reverend Finley) preparing to murder Kevin. A fight ensues, and the Millennium Man kills Owen. The agents arrive at the scene and rescue Kevin, but the Millennium Man escapes.

The agents trace finger prints burned into Owen's neck to Simon Gates (the Millennium Man), the owner of a recycling plant. Records indicate Gates visited Israel, and Mulder speculates that Gates may be suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition that causes people to suffer religious delusions induced by the journey.

Susan Kryder and her son become stranded on a remote road after their car breaks down. Gates appears at the scene and chases after Kevin. Susan climbs into Gates' car and attempts to run him down. She loses control of the vehicle and dies in a crash.

The agents take Kevin to a nearby motel and place him under surveillance. As Kevin is taking a bath, Scully tells Mulder how his disbelief towards religious miracles is difficult to fathom given his open-mindedness towards the paranormal. Suddenly, a loud noise erupts from the bathroom. When the agents enter, they find Kevin has been abducted.

Scully notices a circular recycling logo on a trash bin. Suspecting she might be the person chosen by God to protect Kevin, she drives to Gates' recycling plant. Mulder, however, believes Gates will try to get out of town as quickly as possible, and heads for the airport. Scully's hunch proves correct; Gates throws himself into the blades of a gigantic recycling vat, taking Kevin with him. The boy, however, manages to cling to a safety platform and Scully pulls him to safety. The wounds on Kevin's hands miraculously heal.

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THE X-FILES "Revelations"
#3X11
Original Air Date: 12/15/95

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

R. LEE ERMEY as Reverend Findley
KENNETH WELSH as the Millennium Man
NICOLE ROBERT as Mrs. Tynes
KEVIN ZEGERS as Kevin Kryder
SELINA WILLIAMS as the School Nurse
HAYLEY TYSON as Susan Kryder

Written by:

KIM NEWTON

Directed by:

DAVID NUTTER

"The agents come to the aid of a town seemingly under attack by killer cockroaches."

Dr. Jeff Eckerle, a renowned scientist, calls an exterminator to rid his basement of cockroaches. As the exterminator, Dr. Bugger, sets about his work in the basement of Eckerle's home, he suddenly grabs his throat, gasping for breath, and falls against a cement wall. Eckerle rushes to the basement, and looks on, horrified, as roaches swarm Dr. Bugger.

Shortly thereafter, Mulder strikes up a conversation with Sheriff Frass, who relays the news about the roach attack. Intrigued, Mulder inspects the exterminator's corpse, and phones Scully for her opinion regarding the bizarre incident. Scully suspects the man was probably allergic to cockroaches and died from anaphylactic shock. Shortly thereafter, the sheriff receives a report about a teenager who mutilated his own body with a razor after he became convinced that roaches were burrowing into his body. Scully again supplies a logical explanation, attributing the incident to a psychotic disorder caused by the victim's drug use. Mulder searches the drug den and turns up a cockroach exoskeleton, which he believes is made out of metal.

Mulder takes the skin to a nearby hospital for examination. Meanwhile, hospital staff discover the dead body of Dr. Newton, who expired while using a toilet. An orderly describes how roaches completely covered Newton's corpse. Mulder again telephones Scully for advice. She attributes the death to an aneurysm caused by straining too forcefully.

Sheriff Frass tells Mulder the federal government erected a facility in town to conduct experiments on cockroaches. Mulder sneaks onto the property, where he encounters Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, a voluptuous entomologist. Berenbaum, a federal agent with the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service, explains that cockroaches are being studied to determine the best method to eradicate them. She agrees with Scully's theory about an accidental importation of a new cockroach species - a species which is attracted to, rather than repelled by, the sight of human beings.

Yet another body turns up at a nearby motel. Mulder finds one of the bugs trapped inside a roach motel, and brings it to Dr. Berenbaum for examination. The insect proves to be robotic, not organic. The discovery leads Mulder to Dr. Alexander Ivanov at the Massachusetts Institute of Robotics. He examines the robotic insect, but is stunned by its complexity. He suspects that, perhaps, the robot cockroaches were sent to explore Earth by an advanced alien race.

When Scully arrives in town, she finds the community in a state of panic. She phones Mulder with a theory about Dr. Eckerle, who witnessed the exterminator's death. Eckerle is an alternative fuel researcher, who manufactures methane gas from manure. Scully believes the new species of bugs, which are dung-eaters, may have accidentally hitched a ride along with the manure samples.

Mulder drives to Eckerle's lab, where the crazed doctor confronts the agent with a gun.

Eckerle fires the weapon, missing Mulder but igniting methane gas. A huge explosion engulfs the research facility, killing Eckerle.

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THE X-FILES "War of the Coprophages"
#3X12
Original Air Date: 1/05/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

ALEX BRUHANSKI as Doctor Bugger
RAYE BIRK as Doctor Eckerle
DION ANDERSON as Sheriff Frass
BILL DOW as Doctor Newton
ALAN BUCKLEY as the "Dude"
TYLER LABINE as the "Stoner"
NICOLE PARKER as the "Chick"
WREN ROBERTZ as the Orderly
BOBBIE PHILLIPS as Doctor Bambi Berenbaum
TONY MARR as the Motel Manager
NORMA JEAN WICK as the Reporter
TOM HEATON as Resident #1
BOBBY STEWART as Resident #2
KEN KRAMER as Doctor Inanov

Written by:

DARIN MORGAN

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"A rare alignment of the planets gives two teenaged girls dangerous telekinetic powers."

The agents travel to the city of Comity when the body of high school teenager Boom Deboom is found dangling from a rope. Police Detective Angela White explains that it's the third death of a high school boy in as many months. She suspects the fatalities may be linked to a satanic cult. Scully insists that the F.B.I.'s research has proved most accounts false or imagined. But during Deboom's funeral, the casket suddenly erupts into flames.

The agents interview two blonde teenaged girls, Terri Roberts and Margi Kleinjan, who were present on the night Deboom died. The girls give almost identical stories...one account corroborating the other. Shortly thereafter, the girls attend basketball practice at the high school gymnasium. One of the players, Eric, accidentally crashes into the girls, showering them with lemonade. The girls focus their powers on the ball, sending it bouncing beneath wooden, accordion-like bleacher seats. When Eric crawls beneath the bleachers, the electric motor suddenly engages, crushing him to death.

With each passing death, the townspeople's anger increases. So, too, does the tension between Mulder and Scully, who are unusually short with one another. Detective White visits Mulder at his motel room. The conversation shifts from the facts in the case, and Mulder and White find one another in each other's arms. But Scully interrupts their tryst with news of another death.

Mulder turns to Madame Zirinka, an astrologist, for help. Zirinka claims a rare planetary alignment, scheduled for January 12th, is affecting people's behavior. She also believes that those people born in 1979 will have all the energy of the cosmos focused on them.

Meanwhile, Margi makes sexual advances towards Scott Simmons inside his garage. But their private moment is spoiled when a jealous Terri interrupts. Margi and Terri engage in a bitter argument. When their telekinetic powers flair, a garage door spring suddenly and unexpectedly snaps in two, impaling and killing Scott. The girls turn to the police, and blame each other for the deaths that have plagued the town. But when they are brought to the police station, their anger towards one another wrecks havoc. Guns discharge, furniture moves, and everyone ducks for cover. Scully pushes Terri into an interrogation room where Margi is being held. She dead bolts the door, and watches, amazed, as the power within builds to a crescendo. But when the clock strikes midnight, the fury suddenly ends. The agents open the interrogation room door and find the girls, weeping and frightened, inside.

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THE X-FILES "Syzygy"
#3X13
Original Air Date: 1/26/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

RYAN REYNOLDS as Jay "Boom" DeBoom
LISA ROBIN KELLY as Terri Roberts
WENDY BENSON as Margi Kleinjan
DANA WHEELER-NICHOLSON as Detective White
RYK BROWN as the Minister
GARRY DAVEY as Bob Spitz
DENALDA WILLIAMS as Zirinka
RUSSELL PORTER as Scott Williams
GABRIELLE MILLER as Brenda J. Summerfield
TIM DIXON as Doctor Richard Godfrey

Written by:

CHRIS CARTER

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"Mulder becomes obsessed with a case involving an incarcerated serial killer who claims he was possessed by a gargoyle."

In Washington, D.C., an artist's model is brutally slashed to death after he finishes a session posing for a group of art students. The F.B.I. links one of the students, John Mostow, to the model's death, and to several other killings of young males over a three year period. Agents Patterson and Nemhauser arrest an unruly Mostow in his studio apartment. During the struggle, Mostow bites Nemhauser on the arm. Five days after the arrest, the body of another young male victim, bearing the same facial mutilation, is found six miles away.

Mulder and Scully interview Mostow in his jail cell. He claims he was possessed by a dark spirit, an entity that forced him to kill. Afterward, the agents meet with Patterson, who worked on solving the serial killings for three years. In private, Mulder tells Scully that he and Patterson have held a grudge ever since his days as a student at the bureau. Patterson was well-respected and even envied by many students, but Mulder failed to step in line. He didn't believe in Patterson's teachings that the only way to find a monster is to become one yourself.

The agents visit Mostow's studio, where they find sketch after sketch of gargoyles covering the room. Mostow believed the images protected him from the demon. Mulder and Scully discover more bodies - covered with clay - hidden within a secret room. Shortly thereafter, a man employed as a glassblower is viciously attacked by a figure armed with a carpet knife.

Mulder visits a library and reads literature pertaining to gargoyles. He then returns to Mostow's apartment, where he draws and sculpts images of the creatures. A dark figure emerges from the shadows. Mulder chases the figure to an industrial area. The creature attacks the agent, but during the struggle, Mulder falls from a gangway. The figure runs off into the darkness. Later, Mulder tells Scully that the creature exists. Scully is skeptical, and as she leaves the scene, she discovers broken pieces of a knife. The crime lab finds Mulder's finger print on the blade. Scully pays a visit to the F.B.I.'s evidence room, but Mostow's confiscated knife, seized by agents, is no where to be found.

Mulder returns to Mostow's studio, where he discovers Nemhauser's dead body encased in clay. When Patterson arrives at the studio, Mulder accuses him of killing Nemhauser and everyone else murdered since Mostow's incarceration. Mulder describes how Patterson became so obsessed with finding the killer, imaging everything the killer imagined, sinking himself so deeply into the case that finally, he became the very thing he so desperately sought to catch. Scully arrives at the studio, distracting Mulder. Patterson runs off and makes his way onto a rooftop. A struggle ensues, during which Patterson's face transforms into a hideous gargoyle. Mulder manages to grab his gun. He shoots Patterson, wounding him. Patterson is taken to jail.

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THE X-FILES "Grotesque"
#3X14
Original Air Date: 2/02/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
LEVANI OUTCHANEICHVILI as John Mostow
KURTWOOD SMITH as Special Agent Bill Patterson
GREG THIRLOWAY as Special Agent Nemhauser
SUSAN BAIN as Special Agent Sheherlis
ZORAN VUKELIC as the Model
JOHN MILTON BRANDON as Aguirre
JAMES MCDONNELL as the Glass Blower
PAUL J. ANDERSON as the Paramedic
AMANDA O'LEARY as the Doctor
KASPER MICHAELS as the Young Agent

Written by:

HOWARD GORDON

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"The agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft."

A salvage vessel, the Piper Maru, sets anchor on the wind-scarred waters of the Pacific Ocean. The French-speaking crew lowers a diver, Gauthier, into the briny depths. Gauthier discovers the wreckage of a World War II fighter on the ocean floor, creating jubilation amongst his comrades. But as Gauthier peers into the glass canopy of the aircraft, he sees a living World War II pilot, his eyes covered with a thick black membrane, trapped inside. Certain he is hallucinating, Gauthier goes topside. But as the crew works to unsuit him, they fail to notice a black filmy membrane that now covers Gauthier's eyes.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, Skinner informs Scully that due of a lack of new leads or evidence, local police have made her sister's murder investigation inactive.

Afterward, Scully joins Mulder in his office. Mulder shows her evidence that the Piper Maru had been anchored in the exact location where the crew of the Talapus (see episode 3X09) had performed scavenger work. He also reveals that everyone aboard the Piper Maru, except Gauthier, suffered acute radiation burns. The agents travel to a ship yard and examine the vessel. Mulder notices an oily film covering the diving suit. He and Scully find videotape footage of Gauthier's dive-and see the remains of the submerged World War II aircraft.

Gauthier, meanwhile, returns to San Francisco and begins ransacking a home office. His American wife, Joan, catches him in the act. Gauthier attacks Joan, and shortly thereafter, her eyes become covered by the same black film. Mulder finds Gauthier semi-conscious, on the kitchen floor. Gauthier only remembers events up to his discovery of the sunken aircraft, and nothing about the ransacked apartment. Mulder also finds a letter linking J. Kallenchuk Salvage Brokers to the mystery.

Scully tracks down an old neighbor and World War II vet, Commander Christopher Johansen, hoping he can shed some light on the sunken aircraft. As luck would have it, Johansen reveals he was aboard the submarine Zeus Faber during its mission to locate the plane - which had been transporting an atomic bomb during the war. He recounts how the sub crew took ill during the mission, and how he took over command when the Captain became irrational.

Mulder follows Geraldine Kallenchuk (who runs the salvage brokerage) to Hong Kong. He handcuffs himself to Geraldine and breaks into her office. Alex Krycek suddenly appears and gets the drop on Mulder. He forces Geraldine (still handcuffed to Mulder) into the hallway and dead bolts the door, separating the two. Gunshots suddenly ring out, and Geraldine is killed. Krycek escapes through a window. Mulder unlocks the handcuffs and he, too, flees the scene.

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Skinner is shot in the stomach by the Hispanic Man (Luis Cardinal) (who, with Krycek, killed Scully's sister). Skinner is rushed to the hospital. Mulder surprises Krycek at the Hong Kong airport. He punches him in the face, pulls a gun and demands the return of the digital tape. Krycek gives the agent a key, claiming the tape is kept inside a locker back in Washington. Mulder allows him to use a rest room so he can remove the blood from his face. But Joan Gauthier suddenly appears inside the men's room and attacks Krycek. The filmy black substance transfers from Gauthier to Krycek.

To Be Continued...

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THE X-FILES "Piper Maru"
#3X15
Original Air Date: 2/09/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
NICHOLAS LEA as Alex Krycek
LENNO BRITOS as the Hispanic Man
JOEL SILVERSTONE as the First Engineer
ARI SOLOMON as Gauthier
DARCY LAURIE as the Second Engineer
ROBBIE MAIERI as the WWII Pilot
PAUL BATTEN as Doctor Seizer
STEPHEN L. MILLER as Wayne Morgan
KIMBERLY UNGER as Joan Gauthier
ROBERT CLOTHIER as Chris Johansen
RUSSELL FERRIER as the Medic
RICHARD HERSLEY as Captain Kyle Sanford
PETER SCOULAR as the Sick Crewman
JO BATES as Jeraldine Kallenchuk
ROCHELLE GREENWOOD as the Waitress
MORRIS PANYCH as the Gray-Haired Man
TOM SCHOLTE as Young Johansen
DAVID NEALE as the Guard
TEGAN MOSS as Young Dana
CHRISTINE VINER as Young Melissa

Written by:

CHRIS CARTER & FRANK SPOTNITZ

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"Mulder uncovers more clues about a government cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister."

(Continued from 3X15)

In flashback, government agents (among them a young William Mulder and The Cigarette-Smoking Man) visit the deathbed of a radiation-scarred crewman who served aboard the submarine Zeus Faber (see episode 3X15). The man insists the Navy tricked the submarine's crew into believing that their mission was to recover an atomic bomb from a sunken aircraft. But he believes the real purpose of the mission was to guard an alien entity living on the ocean floor - a life-form that invaded the sub and killed crewmen with deadly radiation. The Cigarette-Smoking Man assures the crewman that the government will make the truth public.

In present day Washington, Scully visits Skinner at a hospital. Skinner, semi-conscious, reveals that he recognized his assailant. Fearing further attacks, Scully assigns guards posted outside his hospital room.

Meanwhile, Mulder orders Krycek to drive him to the location where the digital tape is stored. During the journey, another vehicle deliberately slams into Mulder's car, forcing it off the road. Mulder is injured in the crash and loses consciousness. Armed men confront Krycek and demand the tape. Moments later, a blinding white light emanates from Krycek's body and strobes the armed men.

Scully visits Mulder at the hospital where he's recuperating from injuries suffered in the car crash. Scully produces lab tests that prove Skinner's assailant and her sister's killer are one and the same. Later, the agents examine the diver's suit Gauthier wore during the salvage mission. Mulder points out a layer of diesel oil covering the suit. He believes the oil is a medium used by an extraterrestrial to jump from host to host. Krycek, Mulder postulates, is the alien's latest host.

With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder recovers a package believed to contain the digital tape. The tape case inside the package is empty, but faint pen strokes on the outside of the paper package reveal the Well-Manicured Man's phone number. Mulder arranges a face-to-face meeting in hopes of learning Krycek's location. Krycek, meanwhile, gives the tape to the Cigarette-Smoking Man. During their meeting, the Well-Manicured Man tells Mulder a U.F.O. was downed by American pilots over the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. Missions to salvage the craft failed because of intense radiation. Mulder realizes that the Well-Manicured Man doesn't know where Krycek is.

Meanwhile, Scully guards Skinner as he is transported to another hospital. The Hispanic Man, Luis Cardinal, attempts to gain access to the ambulance. But Scully surprises him and a chase ensues. Cardinal is struck by an automobile and falls into an alleyway. Terrified Scully will shoot him, he reveals that Krycek is headed for an abandoned missile site outside Bismarck, North Dakota.

The agents gain access to the site, but the Cigarette-Smoking Man has them taken into custody before they can search all the silos. Later, we see Krycek inside a silo where an alien spacecraft is hidden. The entity exits Krycek's body, leaving him entombed within the silo.

Later, Mulder tells Scully that Luis Cardinal was found dead inside his jail cell-a death made to look like a suicide.

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THE X-FILES "Apocrypha"
#3X16
Original Air Date: 2/16/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
NICHOLAS LEA as Alex Krycek
LENNO BRITOS as Hispanic Man
PETER SCOULAR as the Sick Crewman
CRAIG WARKENTOIN as Young Cigarette-Smoking Man
HARRISON R. COE as the Third Government Man
RICHARD HERSLEY as Captain Kyle Sanford
KEVIN MCNULTY as Special Agent Fuller
SUE MATHEW as Special Agent Caleca
DAVID KAYE as the Doctor
BRENDAN BEISER as Special Agent Pendrell
FRANCIS FLANAGAN as the Nurse
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
BRIAN LEVY as the Navy Doctor
JOHN NEVILLE as the Well-Manicured Man
DON S. WILLIAMS as the First Elder
STANLEY WALSH as the Second Elder
MARTIN EVANS as the Major Domo
ERIC BREKER as the Ambulance Driver
JEFF CHIVERS as Armed Man #1

Written by:

FRANK SPOTNITZ & CHRIS CARTER

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"The agents play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a killer who can control people's minds."

At a grocery market in Virginia, Agent Frank Burst and a phalanx of sheriff's deputies arrest a man known only as Pusher. Pusher is shackled in leg irons and seated in the back of a cruiser, a heavy steel screen separating him from Burst and a deputy (who's at the wheel). As the deputy waits his turn to pull onto a busy highway, Pusher uses the sound of his voice to take control of the deputy's mind. Against his will, the deputy drives the cruiser directly into the path of an oncoming truck, and an enormous collision ensues.

Burst survives the impact, but the sheriff's deputy is killed and Pusher escapes. Burst approaches Mulder and Scully for help with the bizarre case. He describes how, a month earlier, Pusher called him and confessed to a string of contract killings going back two years. The murders Pusher confessed to had all been ruled suicides by the coroner's office. But he possessed intimate details known only to police. Burst believes Pusher was bragging when he confessed to the crimes, as if he was playing a twisted game. Most disturbing is how Pusher somehow willed the sheriff's deputy to unlock his shackles.

A clue finger-written on the wrecked police cruiser leads the agents to back issues of a magazine called American Ronin (a ronin is a samurai warrior without a master). After leafing through several issues, the agents find "hit for hire" ads they suspect were placed by Pusher. They trace a telephone number listed in the ad to a pay phone, which, in turn, leads them to a driving range where Pusher works. Heavily-armed federal agents surround the range. Pusher takes refuge inside a shed and is cornered by an agent. He wills the agent to pour gasoline over his own body and set himself on fire. Scully extinguishes the flames, and Pusher is taken into custody. But during a preliminary court hearing, Pusher (whose real name is Robert Modell) clouds the mind of the presiding judge and is released.

Using his mental powers, Modell slips by F.B.I. security and gains access to the agency's computer records. Skinner spots the intruder and attempts to intercede. But Modell overpowers an office cleric's mind and wills her to spray mace in Skinner's eyes. During the confusion, Modell escapes with the records.

Skinner recovers, and later informs the agents that Modell fled with Mulder's computer file. Burst, Mulder, Scully and a team of S.W.A.T. officers storm Modell's apartment, but find it empty. What they do find is epilepsy medication. Scully theorizes that if a brain tumor triggered Modell's powers, he might be dying... and committing murders as one last big hurrah. Modell phones the agents as they are sifting through his apartment. As Burst tries to keep him on the line until the call can be traced, Modell wills him to suffer a fatal heart attack.

The F.B.I. tracks Modell to a nearby hospital. Mulder fears that Modell might focus his powers on one of the armed agents, so he enters the building alone, unarmed and wired with high-tech video gear that allows Scully and the other agents to see what he sees.

As Mulder walks through the building, shots ring out. He finds the dead bodies of an MRI technician and a security guard. He also finds a medical chart which confirms the tumor is fatal. Modell clouds Mulder's mind and forces him to play Russian roulette, first on himself, and then on Scully. Scully trips a fire alarm after realizing that Modell must concentrate all of his energy for his powers to work. This distracts Modell long enough for agents to rush him. Later, we see Modell in a hospital bed, weak and near death.

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THE X-FILES "Pusher"
#3X17
Original Air Date: 2/23/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
ROBERT WISDEN as Pusher (Robert Modell)
VIC POLIZOS as Special Agent Frank Burst
STEVE BACIC as Special Agent Collins
D. NEIL MARK as Deputy Scott Kerber
JULIA ARKOS as Holly
DON MACKAY as the Judge
MEREDITH BAIN-WOODWARD as Defense Attorney Brent
J.D. SHEPPARD as the Prosecutor
DARREN LUCAS as the Lead S.W.A.T. Cop
ROGER R. CROSS as the S.W.A.T. Lieutenant
JANYSE JAUD as the Nurse
ERNIE FOOT as the Lobby Guard
HENRY WATSON as the Baliff

Written by:

VINCE GILLIGAN

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"A curse befalls members of an archeological team after a sacred urn is excavated in South America and transported to a Boston museum."

At the Teso Dos Bichos excavation site in South America, Secona Indian diggers uncover an Amaru urn embedded in the wall of a burial mound. The urn contains the remains of a female shaman, which the Indians believe is sacred to their tribe. Bilac, a Brazilian-born man acting as dig coordinator, tells Dr. Roosevelt, the American leader of the expedition, that the urn should be left undisturbed. But Roosevelt insists it be transported back to the United States. Later, Bilac participates in an Indian tribal ceremony and consumes a strange liquid called yaje. Moments later, a jaguar-like form attacks Roosevelt inside his tent, killing him.

At the Museum of Natural History in Boston, a night watchman discovers the body of Mr. Horning, who participated in the archeological project. Dr. Lewton, the museum's coordinator, suspects that the murder may be an act of political terrorism. Mulder tells Scully that the Secona Indians believe great evil will befall anyone who disturbs the remains of an Amaru, a woman-shaman.

The agents question Bilac, who admits he objected to the dig from the very beginning. Scully believes it was Bilac who murdered Horning, and not a mythological Jaguar spirit sent by the Seconas. Later, Dr. Lewton is attacked by an unseen force as he works under the hood of his stalled Jaguar automobile.

The agents search the area around the museum hoping for clues. Scully finds body parts of dead rats wedged inside the engine. She suspects the animals were attracted by the car engine's warmth. While searching nearby woods, Mulder discovers Lewton's eviscerated remains dangling from a tree.

Mona Wustner, a grad student researcher, phones the agents with news that Bilac made frightening comments to her. Inside the woman's washroom at the museum, Mona discovers rats trapped within a toilet. But when Mulder arrives at the museum, Mona has disappeared.

Scully, meanwhile, gains access to Bilac's residence. She finds the liquid yaje inside a ceremonial bowl, and reads journal entries indicating that Bilac has invoked the Amaru curse.

Mulder discovers Bilac inside the woman's washroom at the museum. He claims Mona is dead, but insists he does not know where to find the body. Bilac is placed in a room guarded by security men.

The agents find the dead body of Mona's dog, Sugar. A veterinarian performs an autopsy and discovers evidence that the dog had eaten a cat which had devoured a poisoned rat. Mulder concludes the rats are trying to get away from something.

Bilac disappears. The agents suspect he escaped into steam tunnels that run beneath the museum. Pulling up a manhole cover, the agents descend into the darkness. They discover Dr. Lewton's partially-devoured body parts... and dozens of ravenous house cats. Mulder rescues Scully after she is attacked by a cat. But the felines give chase, and the agents take refuge inside a room. As a sea of cats mass for another attack, the agents discover Bilac's body stuck inside an air vent. Realizing the vent is their only means of escape, Mulder and Scully dislodge the body and make their way to safety. Animal control is dispatched to hunt down the rampaging felines, but cannot locate them in the miles of steam tunnels. Mulder receives word that the State Department is returning the urn to Ecuador.

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THE X-FILES "Teso Dos Bichos"
#3X18
Original Air Date: 3/08/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

GORDON TOOTOOSIS as Shaman
VIC TREVINO as Bilac
ALAN ROBERTSON as Roosevelt
RON SAUVE as Mr. Decker
TOM MCBEATH as Doctor Lewton
JANNE MORTIL as Mona Wustner
GARRISON CHRISJOHN as Doctor Winters

Written by:

JOHN SHIBAN

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"The agents investigate a deadly game in San Francisco's Chinatown district."

The agents travel to San Francisco's Chinatown district after a night watchman at a crematorium discovered a man being burned alive inside an oven. Mulder discovers a Chinese character scrawled inside the oven door, along with a wad of currency. Glen Chao, a detective of Asian descent, identifies the writing as the Chinese word for ghost. He also explains that the currency is called hell money, which is used as an offering to spirits during the Chinese Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. The threesome learn that the victim's name is Johnny Lo. They search Lo's apartment and discover blood stains beneath a newly installed wall-to-wall carpet.

Meanwhile, an Asian man, Hsin, temporarily leaves his daughter, Kim, so he can attend a mysterious meeting. At an abandoned restaurant, Hsin participates in a strange game in which players draw colored tiles from jade vases. A Wiry Man draws a tile that elicits great excitement from the crowd - and a sense of relief from Hsin. The Wiry Man is escorted to a back room, where he is drugged. Shortly thereafter, the agents discover his body in a cemetery.

Scully's autopsy on the Wiry Man's corpse reveals evidence that the man's body organs had been harvested. The agents confront Chao about their discovery, but they sense he is being protective about the goings-on within the Chinese community. But Chao does provide the name of the man who installed the carpet in Johnny Lo's apartment: Hsin.

Mulder, Scully, and Chao pay a visit to Hsin's apartment. Hsin's eye is heavily bandaged, which he claims is a work-related injury. As Chao and Hsin carry on a conversation in Chinese, Mulder discovers one of the colored game tiles. After the threesome leave the apartment, Hsin tells his daughter they need money for her leukemia treatments. But Kim blames her father's eye injury on the mysterious meetings. Moved by his daughter's concern, Hsin tells the head-gamesman, a Hard-Faced Man, that he no longer wishes to participate. But the Hard-Faced Man insists Hsin is close to winning a jackpot worth two million dollars.

Meanwhile, Chao is attacked by what appear to be masked demons. But when Mulder visits the hospital, Chao is not to be found. By checking a hospital chart, the agents realize Chao's blood type matches the blood found on the carpet padding at Johnny Lo's apartment. Mulder suspects Chao is somehow involved.

The agents return to Hsin's apartment, where they question Kim. She explains that the family has no medical insurance, and that the cost of leukemia treatments is very high. Mulder realizes Hsin is participating in some sort of game. The agents pay a visit to an organ procurement organization, where they are told that a number of Asian men request typing and antigen work-ups, only to disappear.

The agents trace a phone number supplied by the organization to an abandoned restaurant. Inside the kitchen, the agent's discover human organs being stored in freezers. Unbeknownst to them, another game is underway in a room over the restaurant. Hsin loses and is dragged to the back room. Chao, no longer willing to help cover up the activity, interrupts the game and smashes one of the jade vases - revealing tiles of all the same color within. The participants realize that the game is rigged, and a melee breaks out.

The agents hear the commotion and race upstairs. They find Chao holding the Hard-Faced Man - about to remove one of Hsin's organs - at gun point. Hsin is rescued and his daughter is placed on a recipient list at the organ procurement organization.

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THE X-FILES "Hell Money"
#3X19
Original Air Date: 3/29/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

B.D. WONG as Detective Chao
MICHAEL YAMA as Hsin
GRAHAM SHIELS as the Night Watchman
DOUG ABRAHAMS as Lieutenant Neary
LUCY LIU as Kim
STEPHEN CHANG as the Large Man
DONALD FONG as the Vase Man
PAUL WONG as the Wiry Man
DINA HA as Doctor Wu
JAMES HONG as the Hard Faced Man
ED HONG-LOUIE as the Money Man

Written by:

JEFF VLAMING

Directed by:

TUCKER GATES

"Scully recounts the investigation of an alleged ufo encounter for a famous author researching his latest novel."

Scully meets with Jose Chung, a famous author researching a book about an alleged U.F.O. encounter in Klass County, Washington. Scully recounts how a teenaged girl, Chrissy Giorgio, was found inside her boyfriend's car on a deserted country road. Chrissy exhibited signs of physical abuse. Scully theorizes she may have been a victim of date rape.

Chrissy's boyfriend, Harold Lamb, was questioned by Detective Manners. Lamb claimed that he and Chrissy were abducted by aliens. Lamb passed a lie detector test, but when Mulder and Scully arrived at the scene, he changed his story and claimed he raped Chrissy.

Unsatisified with Lamb's account, Mulder asked Chrissy if she experienced any unusual symptoms-such as vision problems and nose bleeds-after the encounter allegedly took place. She claimed she saw sudden flashes of an alien's face. Mulder became convinced the girl was suffering from Post Abduction Syndrome. Scully, meanwhile, attributed her ailments to stress disorder triggered by sexual trauma. Under hypnosis, Chrissy described how she and her boyfriend were examined by aliens aboard a spaceship - confirming Lamb's original alibi.

Later, the agents interviewed Roky Crikenson, an electric company employee who allegedly witnessed the abduction and recorded his observations in a manuscript. Roky described how strange men wearing black clothing visited his home the previous evening and warned him not to divulge his story.

Mulder read Roky's manuscript and concluded it verified Lamb's account of what occurred on the night of the alleged abduction. But Mulder was puzzled by Chrissy's story, which did not match Roky's or Lamb's versions.

Chrissy was again placed under hypnosis. During the second session, she described how she was interrogated by men from the Air Force and C.I.A. This led Mulder to speculate that the case might not have anything to do with aliens after all.

The agents were alerted about the discovery of a dead alien. But during an autopsy examination, Scully discovered the alien was, in fact, a dead man wearing a costume. A check of military records revealed the deceased was Air Force Major Robert Vallee.

When Vallee's body disappeared, Mulder tracked down Blaine Faulkner, who videotaped Scully's autopsy. But the mysterious men in black beat the agent to Faulkner's doorstep and took possession of the tape. After leaving Faulkner's apartment, Mulder encountered a naked man walking along a country road. He realized the man was Lieutenant Jack Sheaffer, a missing military officer. Sheaffer admitted that he piloted a fake U.F.O.-type craft developed by the military to confuse potential invading forces. But Sheaffer was convinced that he, Vallee, and the two teenagers were actually abducted by a real U.F.O.

Mulder then returned to his motel room, where he later claimed to have encountered the men in black, and a man who strongly resembled game show host Alex Trebek.

The agents were informed that a top secret government plane crashed in a forest nearby. Detective Manners claimed that the U.F.O. sightings could be attributed to the strange craft - until Vallee's body is pulled from the wreckage.

In the present day, Mulder approaches Chung and asks him not to write the book. He fears any account of the events will only make the participants look foolish. Chung denies his request.

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THE X-FILES "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"
#3X20
Original Air Date: 4/12/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

CHARLES NELSON REILLY as Jose Chung
WILLIAM LUCKING as Roky
JASON GAFFNEY as Harold
SARAH SAWATSKY as Chrissy
JESSE VENTURE as the First Man in Black
LARRY MUSSER as Detective Manners
ALEX DIAKUN as Doctor Fingers
TERRY ARROWSMITH as the Air Force Man
ANDREW TURNER as the C.I.A. Man
MINA MINA as Doctor Hand
ALLAN ZINYK as Blaine
MICHAEL DOBSON as Lieutenant Schaeffer
JAAP BROEKER as Yappi

Written by:

DARIN MORGAN

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"Skinner becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute."

Attorney Jay Cassal finalizes Skinner's divorce petition. Skinner, however, decides to wait one more day before signing the document. While relaxing at the Chesapeake Lounge at the Ambassador Hotel, Skinner is approached by an attractive woman. The pair strike up a conversation, and their apparent mutual attraction and loneliness quickly escalates to lovemaking in a hotel room. During their passion, Skinner sees the woman change from an attractive lover to an old woman. Skinner suddenly awakens. When he turns to the woman from the bar, he discovers her lifeless corpse.

Scully and Mulder join Homicide Detective Waltos at the crime scene, where they learn details about the murder and Skinner's possible involvement. The victim is identified as Carina Sayles, a former legal secretary who moonlighted for an escort service. The agents interview Lorraine Kelleher, who runs the escort service. Kelleher states that Sayles called her from the bar and used Skinner's credit card number to pay for the transaction.

Scully tells Mulder neither of them really knows very much about Skinner's personal life. Later, the agents meet with their boss after he is released from jail. But he is uncooperative, and refuses to comment about the incident, or explain why he refused a polygraph test. During their conversation, it dawns on Mulder that Skinner did not know that Sayles was a prostitute.

Scully shows Mulder a videotape containing footage of people who suffer from R.E.M. sleep behavior disorder. The affliction causes sufferers to grow violent during sleep, perhaps explaining the murder. Scully learns from Skinner's psychiatrist that he had been experiencing a recurring dream in which he is confronted by an old woman. Mulder links the description to a succubus, a spirit that visits men during the night in just such a form.

Skinner's wife, Sharon, pays a visit to Skinner's apartment. Later, police discover that Sharon was involved in an automobile accident-and evidence that someone ran her off the road. All evidence points to Skinner. Later, Skinner tells Mulder he first encountered visions of the old woman during a near-death experience in Vietnam.

Mulder searches Skinner's damaged car for clues. He cuts away the automobile's exploded air bag from the steering wheel and has it analyzed. The F.B.I. crime lab constructs a computerized image of a facial imprint embedded in the air bag. It belongs to someone other than Skinner. Mulder suspects that someone within the government is trying to destroy Skinner (having failed in their attempts to kill him in a previous episode).

A hearing is established to investigate the facts in the case. Skinner's accusers use Scully's testimony about the X-files to dismiss him from the Bureau. Later, the agents discover that Kelleher fell from her condo high-rise. They question her assistant, Judy, who identifies the computer image of the man who stole Skinner's car as the same man who hired Sayles to approach Skinner. The agents arrange for Judy to meet the suspect at the Ambassador.

Skinner visits his ailing wife at the hospital. There, he again sees the image of the old woman, who beckons to him from his wife's bed. Skinner moves closer, only to see Sharon's form. Sharon whispers something in Skinner's ear.

The man who's image was reconstructed from the air bag surprises Judy and Scully in their hotel room. Mulder and Detective Waltos rush to their aid, but Skinner mysteriously appears and guns down the assailant. When Scully asks Skinner as to how he knew the assailant's whereabouts, he cryptically declines to answer.

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THE X-FILES "Avatar"
#3X21
Original Air Date: 4/26/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
TASHA SIMMS as Jay Cassal
AMANDA TAPPING as Carina Sayles
BETHOE SHIRKOFF as the Old Woman
TOM MASON as Detective Waltos
CAL TRAVERSY as the Young Detective
STACY GRANT as Judy Fairly
JANIE WOODS-MORRIS as Lorraine Kelleher
JENNIFER HETRICK as Sharon Skinner
MALCOLM STEWART as Special Agent Bonnecaze
BRENDAN BEISER as Doctor Rick Newton
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
MICHAEL DAVID SIMMS as the Senior Agent
MORRIS PAYNCH as the Gray-Haired Man

Story by:

DAVID DUCHOVNY & HOWARD GORDON

Teleplay by:

HOWARD GORDON

Directed by:

JAMES CHARLESTON

"Mulder suspects that a beast similar to the Loch Ness monster is responsible for the deaths of several people who reside near a large lake."

Dr. Paul Farraday, a biologist, and Dr. William Bailey, a member of the U.S. Forestry Service, debate the cause of a rapid decline in the frog population at Heuvelmans Lake in Georgia. Shortly thereafter, while walking near the lake's shore, Bailey is attacked and killed by an unseen force.

Mulder and Scully drive to the lake after Bailey becomes the second person reported missing from the area in the same week (Scully brings her dog, Queequeg, along for the ride). Mulder suspects the disappearances are linked to Big Blue, a legendary, Loch Ness-like monster that allegedly lives in the murky water.

It becomes apparent that the creature's supposed existence is responsible for most of Lake Heuvelmans' tourism business. While speaking with Ted Bertram, owner of a local tackle shop, the agents encounter Ansel Bray, a Big Blue expert who has devoted his life to photographing the elusive behemoth. The conversation is interrupted when a local fisherman barges into the shop with news that he discovered a body floating in the lake.

The body is identified as Scott Woosley, a Boy Scout leader who disappeared after he wander from his troop to relieve himself. Scully notes that Woosley's fly is open, a common identifier of drowning victims who consumed too much alcohol and fell into the water while urinating. But Mulder believes the creature is responsible for the death.

The agents interview Farraday, who quite openly scoffs at the notion of the existence of Big Blue. Shortly thereafter, Ted Bertram is killed by the unseen creature.

Aided by Sheriff Lance Hindt, the agents search the area where Bertram disappeared. They inspect giant three-toed footprints imbedded in the muck on the lake's shore. But the evidence is dismissed when a dinosaur boot is uncovered near the scene.

The body count increases after a teenaged diver is killed. Based on a preliminary examination, Scully attributes the death to a motor boat propeller. Not long afterward, Ansel is also attacked and killed.

Mulder begs the Sheriff to close down the lake before anyone else is attacked. Hindt refuses, citing a lack of manpower. But as Hindt is dragging the lake for bodies, something grabs hold of his line and yanks him into the water. Immediately, he orders the lake closed. Scully gives chase when Queequeg suddenly darts off into the woods near the lake. She discovers the tattered remains of a leather dog collar.

The agents rent a boat, and using a depth finder, embark on a nighttime hunt for the elusive creature. Something tears a hole in the boat's hull, causing the vessel to sink. Surrounded by darkness, the pair take refuge on a tiny rock island. But Farraday emerges from the darkness and informs the agents the shore is only a stone's throw from their island. Embarrassed, Mulder and Scully walk to shore.

Mulder takes interest in Farraday's bag full of frogs. He realizes that the monster's sudden attack on humans was provoked by a change in the lake's ecosystem. Farraday becomes the creature's next victim, but he escapes with a flesh wound. Mulder tracks the elusive culprit through a marsh area, firing several rounds from his pistol. What he encounters, however, is a monstrous alligator, now bleeding from gunshot wounds. But somewhere in the lake, a serpentine form undulates in the murky, moonlit water.

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THE X-FILES "Quagmire"
#3X22
Original Air Date: 5/03/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

TIMOTHY WEBBER as Doctor Farraday
PETER HANLON as Doctor Bailey
MURRAY LOWRY as the Fisherman
R. NELSON BROWN as Ansel Bray
MARK ACHESON as Ted
CHRIS ELLIS as the Sheriff
NICOLE PARKER as the Chick
TERRANCE LEIGH as the Snorkel Dude

Written by:

KIM NEWTON

Directed by:

KIM MANNERS

"The agents investigate a series of murders linked to a device that alters television signals."

A mysterious Plain-Clothed Man alerts Mulder to a pair of multiple-homicides in which the killers suddenly became delusional. Mulder is unsure who the informant is working for, but he nonetheless follows up on the tip. He and Scully visit a psychiatric hospital, where

Joseph Patnick, one of the mass murderers, suddenly goes berserk while watching television. The agents meet with Dr. Stroman, who theorizes his patient might be suffering from a delusional syndrome.

The agents search Patnick's home looking for clues. While combing the house, Mulder and Scully locate row upon row of video cassette tapes containing cable news broadcasts. Back at the motel, Mulder views hours of the news footage but is unable to formulate a link between the broadcasts and the murders. Scully, however, cites recent studies linking television violence to violent behavior. Mulder dismisses the connection.

Out of curiosity, Scully views the rest of the video tapes. Late that night, she sees Mulder and the Cigarette-Smoking Man meeting in secret in a car parked outside the motel. The next day, the agents receive word regarding yet another strange murder. This time, a housewife suddenly beat a neighbor to death. The killer, Mrs. Riddock, told authorities that her husband was having an affair with a blonde woman in a hammock in their backyard. In reality, Mrs. Riddock attacked and killed her next door neighbor, who was resting in a hammock with a Golden Retriever. The agents search Riddock's home and uncover a large pile of V.H.S. cassette tapes. Mulder spots a cable technician working on a utility pole nearby. When the technician drive off, Mulder climbs the pole and removes a video trap device. He brings it to the Lone Gunmen for analysis.

Meanwhile, Scully grows more and more suspicious about Mulder's activities. While speaking with Scully over the telephone, Mulder notices her paranoia and drives back to the motel. Believing she is being attacked by unknown intruders, Scully opens fire, narrowly missing her partner. She then runs off.

The Lone Gunman confirm Mulder's theory that the device somehow induces violent behavior. Using different colors, it acts as a sort of mind control. Mulder, who is red-green color blind, realizes why he was not affected.

Mulder receives word that Scully's body may have been located. Before he reaches the morgue, the Plain-Clothed Man warns him to concentrate on finding the parties responsible before they destroy evidence. Mulder ignores the warning and goes to the morgue. The victim, however, is not Scully.

Mulder travels to Mrs. Scully's house. Scully suddenly steps into view, leveling a pistol at Mulder's head. Delusional, she claims that Mulder has been lying to her from their very first assignment. But Mrs. Scully convinces her distraught daughter to drop the weapon.

Mulder realizes that Dr. Stroman's treatment of Patnick was unorthodox. He tracks Stroman and the cable technician to a house on the outskirts of town. Suddenly, gunshots rings out. When Mulder enters the home, he finds X standing over the bodies. X blames the deaths on Mulder. But Mulder counters he never knew who the Plain-Clothed Man was working for.

Later, Mulder and the now-recovered Scully meet with Skinner. But Mulder does not identify X as the man who killed Stroman and the cable technician.

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THE X-FILES "Wetwired"
#3X23
Original Air Date: 5/10/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

Written by:

MAT BECK

Directed by:

ROB BOWMAN

"After his mother suffers a stroke, Mulder searches for an alien being who possesses miraculous healing powers."

At a busy fast food restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, a distraught man, Galen, suddenly pulls out a gun and begins shooting at customers. A police sharpshooter returns fire, severely wounding him. A Gentle-Looking Man steps from the crowd and places his open palm on Galen's wound, miraculously healing it in a matter of moments. When Scully and Mulder arrive at the scene, paramedics and detectives are unable to describe the incident in a coherent fashion, as all of the customers who were struck by gunfire are now uninjured. Even more puzzling, the Gentle-Looking Man disappeared from the scene without a trace.

Meanwhile, at the Mulder's beach front summer home in Rhode Island, Mrs. Mulder is approached by The Cigarette-Smoking Man. They become embroiled in a heated argument. Shortly thereafter, Mulder receives word that his mother was rushed to an emergency room in serious condition. Accompanied by Scully, Mulder races to the hospital. From her bed, Mrs. Mulder asks her son for a pen. She then writes the word "palm" on a sheet of note paper.

The agents return to Washington, where they view unedited videotape footage of the fast food restaurant shooting. Analyzing the footage frame by frame, the agents watch in astonishment as the Gentle-Looking Man seemingly morphs into another man.

Shortly thereafter, a group of agents, headed by the Cigarette-Smoking Man, corner and arrest the Gentle-Looking Man at a Social Security Office where he is employed. Almost simultaneously, Scully stops a person who looks exactly like the Gentle-Looking Man at F.B.I. headquarters. The man, Jeremiah Smith, claims he is about to turn himself in. Smith is questioned by Skinner and released.

Back at the summer house, X shows Mulder photographs of his mother and The Cigarette-Smoking Man having an argument. Mulder claims he does not know what the discussion was about. Mulder leaves the house, then doubles back under the cover of darkness. Using a pen, he rearranges the letters of the word palm to spell lamp. He then smashes a ceramic lamp against a wall and uncovers a stiletto weapon (the same device the Bounty Hunter used to kill alien colonists in previous episodes).

The first Jeremiah Smith (arrested at the Social Security Offices) is thrown in prison and interrogated by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. During the interrogation, Smith transforms into Deep Throat and Mr. Mulder, (both of whom the Cigarette-Smoking Man had killed). The Cigarette-Smoking Man tries to hide his astonishment. During the conversation, Smith tells the Smoking Man he is dying of lung cancer.

Meanwhile, Mulder tracks the second Smith to the Social Security Offices. But Smith suddenly breaks away and disappears into a crowd. Back at the prison, the Bounty Hunter, stiletto in hand, enters Jeremiah's cell. But it is empty.

At the hospital, doctors tell Mulder that his mother's condition is worse than previously thought. Mulder is approached by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. He claims to have information pertaining to the whereabouts of Mulder's sister. Mulder counters that he possesses what the Smoking Man is looking for.

One of the Jeremiah Smiths arrives at Scully's apartment unannounced. Scully drives him to a secluded location and rendezvous with Mulder. Suddenly, the Bounty Hunter arrives at the scene, stiletto in hand.

To Be Continued...

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THE X-FILES "Talitha Cumi"
#3X24
Original Air Date: 5/17/96

Starring:

DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

Also Starring:

HROTHGAR MATHEWS as Galen
ROY THINNES as Jeremiah Smith
ANGELO VACCO as the Door Man
STEPHEN DIMOPOULOS as the Detective
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X
BONNIE HAY as the Night Nurse
BRIAN BARRY as the Last Man
ROSS CLARKE as Pleasant Man

Teleplay by:

CHRIS CARTER

Story by:

DAVID DUCHOVNY & CHRIS CARTER