End Game.
In the Beaufort Sea, 87 miles north of Deadhorse, Alaska, the
nuclear submarine USS Allegiance is cruising under the arctic ice
when they locate the crashed UFO. Instructions from base order the
allegiance to destroy the craft, but before they can fire torpedoes,
the sub loses power. the Captain orders the sub to surface, but they
are under 32 feet of glacial ice.
At the motel,
Scully claims the call from Mulder was a wrong number but soon pulls
a gun on the Bounty Hunter, who is disguised as Mulder. He attacks
her, asking "where is he?" and morphs into his original
appearance. When Mulder and Samantha arrive the Bounty Hunter and
Scully are gone. Samantha says the Bounty Hunter wants to kill her
and that he will call to arrange a trade of Scully for Samantha. At
Mulder's apartment, he pressures Samantha for more details. She
claims that the Gregors are the progeny of two original visitors --
clones attempting to establish a colony since the 1940s. They
believe that our stewardship of the planet is being forsaken and
that they will soon become the natural heirs. In the meantime they
have been using hybridization of human and alien DNA to eliminate
their identical nature. But the experiments were not sanctioned and
the Bounty Hunter was dispatched to terminate the colony., all
according to Samantha. Skinner comes to the door and Samantha senses
that he is not the Bounty Hunter. Scully calls -- she is being held
by the Bounty Hunter who wants to exchange her for the woman in
Mulder's company in one hour. Skinner agrees to help and arranges a
sniper near the bridge where Mulder and Samantha meet the Bounty
Hunter. The exchange is made. Samantha attempts to stab the Bounty
Hunter in the back of the neck but he disarms her. "Tell me
where she is," he demands of Samantha. The sniper fires at the
Bounty Hunter but does not kill him. He and Samantha fall into the
river.
The next morning,
divers are searching the river near the bridge. Mulder is convinced
that the woman really was Samantha and goes off to tell his father.
Bill Mulder visits his son's apartment and Fox confesses that he has
lost Samantha again. "Do you know what losing her again is
going to do to your mother?" asks Bill, not at all sensitive to
his son's anguish. Bill leaves an envelope that Samantha left for
Fox. Inside is the address of a Rockville, MD, abortion clinic and a
note saying that if they are separated he should meet her there. As
he walks up to the clinic, Scully calls his cell phone and says that
Samantha's body has been found. After the phone call ends, Scully
sees the body fizz green and collapse. Mulder enters the clinic
which at first seems to be abandoned. but in the basement he finds a
woman who looks just like Samantha working at a tank of yellow-green
fluid. "She's dead, isn't she?" the woman asks. She is
obviously a clone, and Mulder soon meets three others. They say that
protecting "the one from which we all came," is the
important thing, although it is not clear if this is one of them.
Mulder chooses to not believe them and walk out, even though one
claims to know where the real Samantha is. The bounty Hunter arrives
and knocks Mulder unconscious.
Firemen evacuate
Mulder from the clinic. There are no other people in the building.
He is eventually treated and released from a hospital. Scully
prepares her report -- it must remain incomplete. Weiss' body was
apparently subjected to a retrovirus that caused his blood to
thicken by producing massive amounts of red blood cells. Scully
learns that this is apparently an immune system response to the
virus, which can be controlled by reducing the temperature five
degrees. Meanwhile, Mulder meets his source "X" who
describes the submarine being disabled by the Bounty Hunter's craft.
An attack fleet was dispatched from Anchorage that morning to make
sure the pilot doesn't leave. Scully goes to Mulder's apartment and
finds him gone. He left e-mail for him saying that he will not let
her jeopardize her life and her career by following him. She asks
Skinner for help -- even unofficial channels, but he tells her he
cannot help. She places the "X" of masking tape on Mulder's
window to summon "X" who arrives, but leaves as soon as he
sees that Mulder is not there. Skinner accosts X in the elevator and
they fight. Skinner appears at Mulder's door and tells Scully that
Mulder took a commercial flight to Tacoma, WA, then a military
flight to Deadhorse, Alaska. He used his FBI credentials to charter
a rolligon.
As Mulder nears the
coordinates apparently given top him by X, he finds the conning
tower of a submarine sticking through the ice. He boards the ship
and finds only one man alive, hiding. He says he is a lieutenant and
that the Bounty Hunter killed all the others on the ship. Mulder
realizes that he is the Bounty Hunter and holds his gun to the base
of the man's neck. As he uses handcuffs to connect the two of them
together, the Bounty Hunter bolts and attacks Mulder, who keeps
pleading "tell me how to find my sister." "She's
alive -- can you die now?" the Bounty Hunter asks. Mulder
shoots the Bounty Hunter and is distressed by the noxious gas that
emerges from the wounds. The Bounty Hunter shoves Mulder out a hatch,
which snaps the chain of the handcuff when the hatch slams shut on
the chain. Mulder barely escapes as the submarine sinks into the sea.
In scenes seen both
at the beginning of Colony and at the end of End Game, Mulder is
found by a Navy recon team and brought to a hospital facility by
helicopter. His heart is stopped and he has hypothermia, so the
doctors place him in a vat of warm water to raise his body
temperature. Scully bursts into the emergency room and demands that
they remove him from the water bath. She says he has been exposed to
a retrovirus and the only think keeping him alive is his reduced
body temperature. Mulder is removed from the water and his heart
started by electric shock. Intensive transfusions and antiviral
drugs pull him through. He wakes up to find Scully at his bedside.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" she asks.
"No," he answers. "But I found something I thought
I'd lost -- faith to keep looking."
Note: Mulder's
Global Positioning System receiver indicated February 3, 1995. After
the opening scene, previewing the final scenes of End Game, the text
indicated that Colony began two weeks earlier.
Circa Feb. 20, 1995
Dr. Chester Banton is
accidentally exposed to dark matter, and is not seen by his business
associates for weeks. (Soft Light)
February 15, 1995
Humbug. In
Gibsonton, Florida, Mulder and Scully investigate 48 deaths over two
decades, traced to a group of circus sideshow. It turns out the
culprit is a Siamese twin that can disconnect from its twin. (Date on
The Conundrum's check is only partially visible -- February 2?, along
with a mention about paying the rent early. A full moon occurred
during this episode. Reader Edgar Governo sends the information that
the only full moon in February 1995 occurred on the 15th. By the 22nd,
it was already the last quarter. Conundrum must pay his rent very
early, and maybe post date his checks.)
??? 1995
Fearful Symmetry.
An invisible elephant, escaped from the Fairfield Idaho Zoo, near
Boise, goes on a rampage, causing Mulder and Scully to investigate.
Mountain Home AFB is not far away, which the Lone Gunmen say is a UFO
hot spot. This would also put them not far from Ellens AFB, mentioned
in Deep Throat as being in southwest Idaho. They meet Sophie, a
lowland gorilla capable of speaking sign language who is "afraid
of the light." It turns out the animals have been abductees, for
impregnation and harvesting of the tissue.
March 12, 1995
Dod Kalm. At
65 degrees north latitude, 8 degrees east longitude, the US Navy
destroyer escort USS Ardent has an encounter with a glowing underwater
object, and the crew discovers itself be aging rapidly. They desert,
and are found a few hours later by the Canadian fishing vessel Lizette.
All 18 survivors appear to be about 90 years old. Mulder believes this
event is an extension of the Philadelphia Experiment, of 1947.
When he and Scully
board the Ardent, still in the north Atlantis, it appears to have been
derelict for decades. Mulder and Scully begin aging, because of a
contamination in the ship's water supply. Scully tells Mulder about
meeting her father while she was unconscious (In One Breath) and that
she is sure there is nothing to fear after death.
They are rescued just
before death from old age, apparently by a helicopter (based on the
orange flight suit of the rescuer). Dialysis and treatment with
synthetic hormones helps them to de-age. The USS Ardent sinks. Note:
Mulder gets seasick, and comments that it is lucky Scully inherited
her father's legs -- sea legs. (Date taken from Scully log entry.)
March 17, 1995
Soft Light mentions a
death on this date, with Mulder and Scully brought in several days
later.
??? 1995
The Calusari.
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of an Arlington, Virginia two
year old who has an American father and a Romanian mother. When the
father is later killed, an ash appears that has no organic or
inorganic components-- supposedly the result in the presence of spirit
beings, or during bilocation, when a person's energy is transported to
a different location. Older brother, nine year old Charlie appears
possessed, but it is really his evil twin, Michael, who died at birth.
Mulder eventually helps a group of Romanian elders exorcise Charlie.
The elders say they
are dealing with an evil that has always been present, as Cain,
Lucifer and Hitler, that now knows Mulder and Scully.
In this episode,
Scully calls in an FBI social worker, Karen Kosseff, the psychiatric
social worker Scully saw in Irresistible, when she visited the
Employee Assistance office.
??? 1995
F.
Emasculata. In the Guanacaste
Rain Forest of Costa Rica, Dr. Robert Torrence of the Biodiversity
Project is infected by a beetle. Subsequently inmates in a prison are
secretly infected by an extremely contagious disease, but two escape.
Mulder and Scully are called in to help capture them. It is
established that Pink Pharmaceuticals, a huge drug company, is
conducting unethical research via this means.
March 31, 1995
Soft Light.
Mulder and Scully are called to Richmond, Virginia, by Scully's former
student, Kelly Ryan, who has just been promoted to detective, to
investigate the death of an executive of Morley Tobacco Company. The
man, Patrick Neuharth, apparently was totally incinerated, leaving
only a small burn mark on the floor of his hotel room. In fact,
research scientist Dr. Chester Banton, at Polarity Magnetics, has been
exposed to dark matter with the unusual side effect that any living
thing touching his shadow gets reduced into component atoms.
Conspiracy forces, lead by X, attempt to kidnap Banton, but fail when
all but X step on his shadow. After Banton's shadow kills Ryan, X
captures Banton and the Conspiracy has his memory unreeled for study.
(Date given by Mulder for Neuharth's death.)
??? 1995
Our Town.
Mulder and Scully discover that much of the town of Dudley, Arkansas,
has been engaging in cannibalism, as taught the practices of New
Guinea by 92 year old Walter Chaco. One victim has the deadly
Creutzfeldt-Jakob prion disease that can be transmitted by contact
between cells. 27 people in Dudley eventually contract the condition.
Scully is taken captive by the cannibals and almost beheaded, but is
rescued by Mulder. Ten weeks before this episode, Agriculture
Department inspector George Kearns is lured into the forest by Paula
Gray and killed for a cannibal ceremony. Paula herself dies during the
episode, shot by the county sheriff when she takes the chicken
processing plant floor manager hostage while under the effects of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
April 9, 1995
Anasazi.
A Navaho youth finds a metal object underground and discover bodies
inside that appear to be alien. He is a member of the family of elder
Albert Hosteen. Meanwhile, a computer hacker breaks into the "MJ
Documents," triggering government executives of many countries,
including the Cigarette Smoking Man, to react. The Lone Gunmen warn
Mulder that an international commando "black" organization
is trying to recover the materials from their friend, who they call
"The Thinker." Lone Gunmen call the commando group "Garnet."
While they talk, a neighbor woman unaccountably shoots and kills her
husband. Mulder obtains the tape from The Thinker, who believes it to
be the original Defense Department file on UFOs. The computer file, on
a DAT tape, turns out to be written in Navaho. Scully recognizes the
Navaho text and takes the text to a language specialist. Navaho was
used during World War II because it was a code the Japanese could not
break. Mulder has not been sleeping well and gets into a scuffle with
Skinner when asked about possibly receiving sensitive material.
Scully is called in
to testify on Mulder's assault on Skinner. The Cigarette Smoking Man
pays a call on Bill Mulder on Martha's Vinyard. They clearly had an
agreement that the Smoking Man would never visit or seek him out, but
the Smoking Man says that was a long time ago and this business is
pressing. He explains that Bill Mulder's name may be found in the MJ
documents, and encourages him to "Deny Everything." Bill
complains that the files should have been destroyed. The Cigarette
Smoking Man says he is protecting Fox Mulder.
Scully finds Mulder
at home -- he is running a fever. She lied about knowing about the
files and wants assurance that she is doing the right thing. Mulder
doesn't know why he attacked Skinner. He puts an "x" in the
window to summon the man known as X. William Mulder calls his son to
Martha's Vineyard. In Mulder's apartment a rifle shot comes through
the window, barely missing Scully. Arriving at his father's home,
Mulder's father tells him that the choices made in he past seemed
complicated then but are clear now, and he regrets them now. He
encourages his son to not give in, and tells him he will learn the
meaning of the important words "the Merchandise." Bill then
is killed by Alex Krycek, who is hiding in the bathroom. His final
words ask forgiveness from his son, although for exactly what remain
unclear.
[In this episode, Fox
seems shocked that his father might have been part of the conspiracy
Fox is chasing, even though in 1989 former FBI agent Arthur Dale told
Fox that Bill Mulder was involved. Does this mean Mulder did not
believe Dale? (Travelers)]
Mulder comes to
Scully's apartment where she puts him to bed because he has a
temperature of 102. On April 14, Mulder awakes, but Scully is gone,
having a ballistic test done on his gun. By phone, Mulder verbally
abuses Scully. Scully discovers that Fox has been drugged with a
psychoactive agent in his apartment water system. Mulder ignores a
disciplinary hearing. Mulder catches Krycek lurking outside his
building and Scully is forced to shoot Mulder, grazing him on the
shoulder, to keep him from killing Krycek. She drugs Mulder and takes
him to Farmington, New Mexico. He wakes up on April 16 (apparently in
a motel). Albert Hosteen is with them -- he was a Navaho code talker
during World War II. The MJ documents, translated by Albert, mention
an international conspiracy and mention experimentation by Axis
scientists in the US after World War II. Scully is shaken that her
name is also in the documents, mentioned in connection with tests.
Scully must return to Washington because she missed a hearing and may
be in disciplinary trouble.
Albert takes Mulder
home -- he feels that Mulder is prepared to accept the truth. He tells
Mulder about the Anasazi, the "ancient aliens" who once
lived in the Southwest. Albert feels they were abducted, "by
visitors who come here still." Mulder is taken to the quarry
where the boxcar is buried. The Smoking Man phones Mulder's cell phone
as Mulder approaches the boxcar. He warns Mulder not to take his
father's words seriously and says "expose anything and you only
expose your father." The Smoking Man enters a helicopter to fly
to the quarry. Entering through a hatch in the roof, he finds it is an
old refrigeration car, filled with piles of bodies, all looking alien.
Mulder phones Scully. The files refer to human experiment subjects
referred to as The Merchandise, she tells him. In spite of the alien
appearance of the bodies, they have smallpox vaccination scars, so
apparently are human victims of experimentation.
The helicopter
approaches but the troopers on board cannot find Mulder. The Smoking
Man orders "Burn it" and a satchel charge is thrown into the
boxcar. It explodes and the car is engulfed in flame. To be continued.....(Anasazi)
The Blessing Way.
Albert Hosteen
provides an opening narration -- there is an old Indian saying that
something survives only as long as someone remembers it. There are
those who are trying to withhold the truth. Troops lead by the
Cigarette Smoking Man break into Albert's home, looking for Mulder.
The Smoking Man is almost frantic to find the tape. Scully returns to
Albert's home and when she hears his story she goes to the quarry.
Later, as she drives at night, a helicopter stops her car and troops
pull her out of the car at gunpoint. They find Albert's translations
in the trunk of her car and also demand the DAT tape, but she says
Mulder has it, after which they leave.
Back in Washington,
the board of review suspends Scully from duty, without pay or benefits.
She surrenders her gun and her badge, saying that as far as she knows,
Mulder is dead. She goes to the X-Files office and looks in a hiding
place, but the tape is not there. On 46th Street in New York, the
Consortium meets. The Smoking Man reports that the matter has been
contained and the minor problem in the FBI will soon be solved. He
reports Mulder as dead, and claims that the DAT tape has been
recovered.
Scully apparently has
no transportation available and is forced to walk to her mother's
house, barefoot for part of the way because her shoes begin to give
her blisters. She is ashamed to have been suspended. Meanwhile, Albert
Hosteen and his family see buzzards flying over the quarry, as if
waiting for something to die. They find Mulder under some rocks --
apparently he found some sort of tunnel out of the boxcar and escaped
the fire. There are also alien-like bodies in the opening in the
ground. Albert knows that death, from exposure to the intense heat, is
near for Mulder and attempts to call holy spirits to save Mulder's
life in a ritual known as "The Blessing Way." The songs and
prayers must be done exactly in order to summon the "holy people."
He is afraid that Mulder does not have the will to live.
We see Mulder, as if
in a vision, surrounded by spirits. The spirit of Deep Throat comes
forward and speaks to Mulder about the afterlife, encouraging him to
return to life. He says in the afterlife Mulder would know the truth,
but there would be no justice. We then see the deaths of the bodies in
the boxcar, from hydrogen cyanide gas. Bill Mulder comes forward to
address his son. He hoped to broker fate with Mulder's life. The lies
he told were a poison to his soul, and he is ashamed of the choices he
made when Fox was just a boy. If Fox dies now, the truth will die with
him. He says Samantha is not there with the spirits.
Scully is at home
late at night when Frohike comes to call. He has been drinking and
wants to share his loss. He says the torch has been passed to Scully,
but she tells him about her suspension. He, in turn, tells her that
The Thinker has been killed, execution style, after Mulder disappeared.
Scully enters the FBI through the civilian lobby entrance. When she
goes through the metal detector, she is surprised that the detector
does off. The guard, however, knows her and waves her through. Scully
asks Skinner to have a ballistics test done on the slug that killed
The Thinker to see if it was the same weapon that killed Bill Mulder.
Skinner has been asked to execute a search warrant at Scully's
apartment to look for the DAT tape. When she leaves Skinner's office,
the Smoking Man enters. As she leaves the building, Scully steps
through the metal detector again, and "the wand" finds metal
in the back of her neck. X-Rays detect a fragment of metal in the back
of her neck.
The Blessing Way
ceremony continues for three days, at the end of which Mulder opens
his eyes and asks for water. He is given a ritual bath and food, and
Albert senses a rebirth in him. The metal is removed from Scully's
neck and it appears to be a computer chip. Her sister, Melissa,
encourages her to use hypnotic regression to learn how the chip got
there. She goes to Dr. Mark Pomerantz. She remembers her abduction
-- there were men, a light and loud sounds, including some kind of
alarm. She was powerless and could not resist them...but she wakes
up with a start. As she arrives home, she observes Skinner leaving
her apartment. Meanwhile, Mulder is released from the ceremony and
is given a leather "medicine bag" pouch containing
sunflower seeds.
Scully phones Skinner
who denies that he was at her apartment, lieing to her because the
Smoking Man is in his office. That night, Scully dreams that Mulder is
speaking to her, assuring her that he is alive. At Bill Mulder's
burial, Scully introduces herself to Teena Mulder and tells Teena that
she has a strong feeling that Fox is still alive. The Well Manicured
Man is there and approaches Scully. He says he is a member of a
Consortium that has various interests that are threatened by the DAT
tape. He warns her that she may be killed, possibly someone close to
her who she trusts. They are ready to kill her because they are
convinced that she does not have a copy of the tape. He feels that her
death would attract too much attention. "We feel that the best
way to predict the future is to invent it." This causes Scully to
distrust Skinner.
Mulder goes to his
mother's home and asks her to remember. She resists remembering and
claims to not know. Finally she admits that sometimes brought other
men home with him -- men who can be seen in an old picture Mulder
shows her. Melissa phones Scully and agrees to come over and keep her
sister company. Immediately after that call, the phone rings again and
no one is on the line. Scully calls Melissa back, leaving a message on
her answering machine telling Melissa to stay home and Dana will come
to her home. As Scully heaves her apartment building, Skinner pulls up
and asks Scully to get in so they can go somewhere safe and talk.
Scully is mistrustful, but gets in knowing that she has a hidden gun.
They go to Mulder's apartment but once inside she pulls the gun on
Skinner. Melissa arrives at her sister's apartment and is killed by
two assassins -- Krycek and another man -- who mistake her for Dana.
Skinner claims to Scully that he has the DAT tape in his pocket. When
the doorknob turns, Scully is distracted, Skinner pulls his gun and
they face each other down. To be continued...
Paper Clip.
Albert narrates that to the Navaho the stories passed from one
generation to another are important and tells that when Mulder was
healed, another tribe reported that a sacred white buffalo calf was
born, a powerful omen that great changes are coming.
Mulder bursts into
his apartment as Scully and Skinner are holding their weapons on each
other and the situation diffuses. Skinner produces the DAT tape.
Mulder says the Smoking Man killed his father for that tape. Skinner
says the tape is the only leverage they have to bring these men to
justice. Mulder and Scully leave Skinner in the apartment. Maggie
Scully rushes into the hospital -- Melissa just got out of surgery
with a gunshot wound to the head. The Lone Gunmen examine the 1973
photographs and identify Victor Klemper, who conducted terrible
experiments on Jewish prisoners. Bill Mulder is also in the picture.
They tell Mulder and Scully about Operation Paperclip, that brought
NAZI scientists to America where they worked on the space program.
Frohike arrives -- he just heard the police radio call about Melissa.
Scully rushes off but Mulder convinces her that if "they"
are trying to kill Dana, the hospital is the first place they would
look.
The members of the
Consortium meet and critisize the shooting of Melissa as a bungled
operation. The Well Manicured Man demands to see the DAT tape, and the
Smoking Man promises to have it at their meeting the next day. Mulder
and Scully visit Victor Klemper. Klemper recognizes the name Mulder
but doesn't want to discuss history. He says "they" would
kill anyone if it were in the best interests of their work. All he
will tell them is that the photo was taken at the Strughold Mining
Company in West Virginia. After they leave, Klemper phones the Well
Manicured Man, revealing that Mulder is alive.
Albert Hosteen
arrives at Melissa's hospital room saying he has been asked to come (although
it is never clear who asked him) and help Melissa, and that Dana is
very sorry she cannot be there. He asks permission to pray over her.
Mulder and Scully arrive at the abandoned West Virginia mine. Inside
they find a series of locked doors. They gain entrance to one. In a
tunnel Mulder and Scully find an apparently endless row of filing
cabinets containing standard medical records. Each contains a standard
tissue sample container. They look for a file on Dana and find it --
containing a recent tissue sample. (Scully knows it is recent because
the container is plastic.) Samantha's file also contains a recent
tissue sample, although this fact is not mentioned in the dialogue.
Mulder discovers that under the file folder label bearing Samantha's
name is one with his own name on it. He suspects that he was
originally intended to be abducted. Suddenly the lights go out. Mulder
rushes outside and sees a huge UFO. In the tunnel, Scully encounters a
group of short, large headed beings who rush past her in the dark. The
UFO flys off as Mulder watches but Scully does not see it.
Several cars that
look like government fleet vehicles drive up to the mine and men get
out, firing weapons at Mulder as he runs from them. Mulder and Scully
find a back way out of the tunnel and slip off. They call Skinner to
meet them at a country cafe the next morning. He wants to trade the
tape for the agents' reinstatement. Mulder is opposed, but Scully
argues that they have to have the access of being in the FBI in order
to continue their work -- and she needs to see her sister. Skinner
claims he couldn't copy or print out the file. If "they"
double cross him, he will turn state's evidence and testify.
Albert prays for
Melissa for two days, but receives word that the mother of the white
buffalo calf has died. Albert fears that it is the way of nature that
for one thing to live, another must die. Skinner arrives at Melissa's
hospital room. He delivers a message from Dana and sees a stranger
watching the room. Skinner chases him -- there are actually three of
them, including Krycek and the man who was with him when Melissa was
shot. Krycek gets the DAT tape from Skinner and leaves him wounded in
a stairwell. Later, in a car, the other two leave Krycek alone when
they go into a store. He has a premonition and jumps out of the car,
just before it explodes. He runs off.
Mulder and Scully go
to Klemper's greenhouse and find the Well Manicured Man, who reports
that Victor has died of a heart attack. He says in 1947 a spacecraft
was reportedly recovered in New Mexico, including a body. The
Operation Paperclip scientists, he says, became involved. Mulder has
the leap of understanding that Klemper was trying to create a
human-alien hybrid. The Well Manicured Man says when Bill Mulder
discovered the plans, he objected. Scully, however, feels that it is
all a lie, to protect the continuation of the NAZI agenda of unethical
human experimentation. The records in the mine, Mulder says, are of
abductees. Samantha was taken to keep Bill Mulder from revealing the
truth, the Well Manicured Man says, and that Fox's life is now in
danger. He says there is more than Mulder will ever know.
Krycek telephones the
Smoking Man at the Consortium office and threatens blackmail because
he has the tape. The Smoking Man covers up the conversation and
reports to the group that the DAT tape has been destroyed in a car
explosion. In Greenwich, CT, Mulder again questions his mother -- did
Dad ever ask her to make a choice? She couldn't choose. Bill chose and
she hated him for it. The Smoking Man and Skinner meet and Skinner
claims to have the tape. The Smoking Man knows he does not, so Skinner
calls Albert into his office. Albert knows what is on the tape and has
told 20 other men the information on the files who will be able to
testify, if Albert is killed. It may be a bluff, but it allows Skinner
to reinstate Mulder and Scully.
Melissa dies. Mulder
is convinced that Melissa knows that Dana is sorry. They have both
lost so much that they have to go back to work. Mulder is convinced
that the truth is in the X-Files. Scully has heard the truth -- she
wants the answers.
[Note that in Anasazi,
Mulder did not have much trouble displaying the contents of the DAT
tape. Was Skinner lying about not being able to copy it? Would he have
a reason to copy the tape but not tell Mulder and Scully? Was this
wonderful document lost because Skinner is inept with computers?]
May 1995
Esther Nairn revives
her PhD from MIT, having specialized in automata theory. She begins
post doctoral work at the Santa Fe Institute. Donald Gelman is her
secret mentor. Sometime around now may be when she meets David Markham
and falls in love. They begin developing a plan to upload the human
mind into cyberspace. Donald Gelman, however, forbids it.(Kill Switch)
June? 1995
Krycek sells
information from the MJ documents about a UFO that crashed in the
Pacific Ocean during W.W.II to the French government. French agents
plan to recover the nuclear weapon.(Nisei)
July 1995
The Walk. A
quadriplegic appears to travel out of his body when he is asleep,
committing murders. (Date taken from mail postmark.)
Early August 1995
Fearing publicity,
Cancer Man has the triangular-shaped UFO that crashed in the Pacific
Ocean during W.W.II salvaged. A tramp steamer/salvage vessel
registered in San Diego, the Talapus, is used to recover the UFO,
allegedly looking for a sunken Japanese W.W.II submarine with gold on
board.
Note: The name
Talapus may be taken from Mount Talapus, near Portland, Oregon.
A Japanese medical
team, conducting an autopsy of a body found on board the UFO is
murdered by a military special forces team. An Allentown, PA, member
of the Mutual UFO Network, Steven Zinter, intercepts an alien autopsy
video feel on a satellite circuit, and sells it by mail order. (Nisei
and 731)
??? 1995
Oubliette. In
the Seattle, Washington area, Lucy Householder, who was kidnapped as a
child and held captive in a basement for five years, experiences a
psychic connection to Amy Jacobs, a new kidnap victim of the same man.
She drowns to death while sitting in the back seat of a police car,
preventing Amy from drowning in a river.
August 29, 1995
2Shy. Date
taken from Scully's dictated autopsy notes.
September 12, 1995
D.P.O. Several
people seem to have been killed by lightning in Connerville, Oklahoma.
One person, Darrin Peter Oswald, who survives a lightning strike in
the area, gains the power to generate electricity, like lightning.
Unfortunately, he is mentally unstable, and actually killed the other
victims. He has a crush on his pretty remedial reading teacher, Sharon
Kvietz. Oswald is confined to a mental institution. Note: At one point,
Darrin watches a music video featuring The Rosemarys. (Date taken from
top ranking on video game.)
September 16, 1995
Clyde
Bruckman's Final Repose. In
Saint Paul, General Mutual insurance agent Clyde Bruckman is
sporadically psychic, being able to predict a person's death. A
psychic serial killer kills several fortune tellers, and targets
Bruckman. On September 21 in Le Damfino Hotel, the killer attacks
Mulder, and Scully kills the serial killer. Bruckman commits suicide.
Scully acquires a pet dog, after Bruckman's neighbor dies. Bruckman
tells Scully she will never die. He tells Mulder that Mulder doesn't
want to know how he will die, although at one point he mentions "autoerotic
asphyxiation." We first meet The Stupendous Yappi, a "professional"
psychic. First broadcast on Friday the 13th.
??? 1995
The List. Napoleon
"Neech" Manley is executed at Eastpoint State Penitentiary,
Leon County, Florida. Twice before he has been strapped into the
electric chair, but a last minute stay of execution had arrived. A
strong believer in reincarnation, he vows to return and kill five
people to revenge himself on the cruelty he has suffered. When
multiple deaths occur, Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate.
Manley's wife,
Danielle, believes her husband has taken over the body of a guard,
which whom she is having an affair, and she shoots him. This concept
is similar to the walk-ins" belief of the Church of the Red
Museum. The five men die who are on Manley's list.
October 1995
Nisei. Seven
weeks after he intercepts the video feed, Steven Zinter is killed by a
Japanese diplomat who carries a briefcase with satellite photos of the
Talapus. Senator Matheson helps Mulder locate the warehouse where the
UFO is stored, and he sees what he believes to be an alien loaded onto
a railroad quarantine car. Mulder boards the train. Scully meets
several other women who claim to be abductees, and has a flashback in
which she sees herself on an operating table, pregnant.
Robert Patrick Modell,
calling himself Pusher, contacts FBI agent Frank Burst and confesses
to several murders which had been classified as suicides. He eludes
capture for some weeks. (Pusher)
October 1995
731. In
Perkey, WV, a military team executes dozens of malformed humans from
Dr. Zama's closed hospital.
Scully finds evidence
that the chip implanted in her neck was recording thoughts, for later
playback. The manufacturer is Japanese, connected by paperwork Dr.
Shiro Zama's hospital in WV. Scully talks with a member of the
Conspiracy, the Elder, also known to fans as the Fat Man, who tells
her Zama kept his experimentation secret from his American patrons.
A man who claims to
be an NSA operative kills Dr. Shiro Zama, under orders from the
Conspiracy, but is himself killed by X. Scully concludes that she was
tested in a similar rail car during her 1994 abduction, and that Zama
tested subjects with diseases and radiation tests.
Mulder suspects that
Zama was working to develop a alien/human hybrid intended as a weapon,
to be immune to biological weapons.
The rail car explodes
and the bodies at Zama's hospital are removed, leaving no traces. The
Cancer Man obtains Zama's records. (Scully notes that two weeks
earlier, the President apologized for secret radiation testing
conducted on civilians up to 1974. The President's commission was
appointed in January 1994 and presented its report in October 95.)
October 1995
News accounts report
when the United States evacuated Vietnam almost 25 years earlier,
Vietnamese commandos and spies were left behind enemy lines. The
government is greatly embarrassed, and begins an investigation. Those
pursuing the cover-up of American POWs left in Vietnam grow concerned.(Unrequited)
October 1995
Piper Maru.
An alien life form, waiting in a sunken P-51 Mustang takes control of
a French salvage crew diver from the ship Piper Maru at the location
where a Foo Fighter crashed in 1945 and where the Talapus salvaged a
UFO earlier in the year. The entire crew suffers from extreme
radiation poisoning, except for the infected diver, Gautier. The
entity occupies other people, including Krycek.
FBI Assistant
Director Skinner, is shot and wounded by an agent of the Cancer Man --
shown by evidence to be the same man who shot Melissa Scully,
Argentine citizen Louis Cardinale. (Date based on Skinner saying it
has been five months since Melissa was shot, which would really be
September, but this episode has to follow Nisei and 731.)
Scully meets several
women who claim to be abduction victims. Some are suffering from
strange forms of cancer that does not respond to treatment. Some claim
to recognize Scully from the "bright white place."
November 1995
Apocrypha. The
Cancer Man takes Krycek into custody, while he is occupied by the
alien entity. The entity is allowed to return to its UFO, placed for
safe storage in an abandoned in missile silo 1013, at Black Crow,
North Dakota, unlike other UFOs stored in Nevada. Krycek is left alive
but sealed in the silo.
Skinner returns to
work, limping from his gunshot wound. Cardinale is found dead in his
cell, made to look like suicide.
The Conspiracy meets
on 46th Street, New York, preserving the secrecy and future of its
project.
Circa November, the
events happen that are investigated by Jose Chung for his book "From
Outer Space."
Melissa Riedel takes
up residence at the Temple of the Seven Stars in Hamilton County,
Tennessee. (The Field Where I Died)
??? 1995
Pusher. In
Loudoun County, Virginia, Robert Modell is arrested following his
claim to have committed 14 murders, but escapes by causing the police
car driver to not see a semi truck. Scully and Mulder later learn that
Modell is dying and looking for a worth opponent, which he considers
Mulder to be. They corner him in a hospital where Modell forces Mulder
into a game of Russian Roulette with a loaded gun. Scully pulls a fire
alarm, breaking Modell's concentration, and Mulder shoots Modell.
Modell is hospitalized in a deep coma.
The World Weekly
Informer, a supermarket tabloid, publishes a story about the
quasi-human liver fluke from The Host. Also in the issue, according to
the headlines, are stories about a "girl raised by squirrels for
15 years found begging for peanuts in park," and "depravity
rampant on hit TV show."
??? 1995
Teso Dos Bichos. When
a Sokona Indian burial urn from the Ecuadorian highlands is returned
to the Boston Museum of Natural History a series of deaths follows
three weeks later. Mulder believes the deaths are the result of a
curse of the jaguar spirit. The urn is eventually returned to Ecuador
and reburied.
??? 1995
Hell Money. In
China town, an unscrupulous doctor uses an elaborate lottery to obtain
human organs for transplant.
November 28, 1995
Revelations. Scully
believes she may have been chosen by God to protect a young boy's life.
The boy is stigmatic, and is pursued by a serial killer. (Date taken
from medication log. Christmas episode, broadcast December 15, the
final X-File of 1995.)
??? 1995
War of the
Coprophages. Computerized
mechanical insects are discovered in Miller's Grove Massachusetts (not
to be confused with Grover's Mill in "The War of the Worlds")
that could be alien probes. Dr. Bambi Barenbaum expresses the opinion
that UFOs are actually glowing nocturnal insect swarms.
December 1995
Krycek either escapes from the
North Dakota missile silo, or is found by anti-government militia
members, lead by Timothy Edward Mayhew. Krycek works with them to
build two bombs. He plans to use one to decoy Mulder into a complex
scheme. (Tunguska)