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Pilot Episode-1994
March 7, 1992
- Pilot Episode. After two years with
the FBI, Dana Scully is assigned to the X-Files. Mulder initially distrusts Scully,
believing she has been assigned to debunk his work. At face value, her assignment is to
bring a rigorous scientific perspective to them. In fact, Scully has been assigned to
debunk the X-Files by the international conspiracy that feels Mulder's work is dangerous
to them.
- Cancer Man attends the meeting in
which Scully is assigned, but does not speak. He also uses electronic listening devices to
listen in on Mulder and Scully's first meeting. (Musings...)
- Mulder tells Scully that he has read
her Senior thesis, and liked it. (Pilot)
- She apparently sent it to him as a
partial introduction, given that it dealt with MJ-12. (Musings...)
- On their first case, case in Oregon,
they discover a body that appears to not be human. Inside the nose of the body is a
fragment of metal they cannot identify.
- They also have an episode of lost
time. As they drive down a rural highway their car loses power, they experience a bright
flash of light, and clocks are nine minutes later than they had been.
- Episode concludes March 22.
- ??? 1992
- Deep Throat. Deep Throat first
approaches Mulder in the restroom of a lounge in Washington DC, where Mulder had met
Scully, warning Mulder to leave a case of a missing USAF pilot alone. Mulder infiltrates
Ellens Air Force Base in southwest Idaho. Deep Throat tells him that aliens have
"been here for a long, long time." Mulder suspects that the military is testing
aircraft based on UFO technology at Ellens AFB.
- We see a picture of a triangular
"UFO," photographed in the Ellens area. Is this the UFO recovered in West
Virginia on December 24, 1991? If not, it is certainly based in part on that UFO. It also
appears to have a shape similar to the Pacific Ocean Foo Fighter, salvaged in 1995.
- It is demonstrated that the
Conspiracy has the capability to selectively erase human memory.
- Circa June 1992
- Fox Mulder's former partner, Special
Agent Jerry Lamana loses an important piece of evidence during a hate crime investigation
in Atlanta. Before he recovers the evidence, a judge is seriously injured. Lamana is put
on six months probation, and required to file reports as if he were a beginner.(Ghost in
the Machine)
- 1992
- Billy Labonge and Cissy Alvarez serve
time together in prison in California. Labonge is sentenced for pick pocketing, which he
claims was "performance art," since he is interested in magic. Alvarez' body is
covered with tatoos. (The Amazing Maleeni)
- August 9, 1992
- A Lakeland, Florida, church deacon,
Mr. Resnick, believes there is an evil presence among his paritioners. He brings a gun to
the church service and fires on church-goers. He tells police that the evil presence is
"hiding in the light." Greg Pinkas has family living in the Lakeland area.
(Folie a Duex)
- October, 1992
- In 1997, Scully mentions that her
last date was to see Glengarry Glen Ross, released October 2, 1992, and that the
characters in the movie had a better time than she did. She apparently forgot about her
date seen in Jersey Devil, in August 1993.(Never Again)
- October 12, 1992
- NASA begins a high resolution
microwave survey of the sky, looking for signs of intelligent life in space. A year later,
the project will be canceled by Congress.(Little Green Men)
- November 1992
- A team of geophysicists begins a
project to drill deep into the arctic ice at Icy Cape, Alaska.(Ice)
- Late 1992
- Jack Willis begins trailing a pair of
bank robbers who commit repeated crimes, killing seven people. He becomes consumed with
catching the criminals.(Lazarus)
- Circa 1993
- Scully signs a living will, that
Mulder witnesses.(One Breath)
- Mulder begins a series of contacts
with a forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution named Arlinsky who, a few
years earlier, was implicated in a UFO photo enhancement scandal. (Gethsemane)
- In 1998, Mulder says he bought his
"I Want to Believe" poster "about five years ago" in a head shop on
Washington DC's M Street. He probably actually bought it earlier than that, because we
have seen it from the beginning of the series.(Chinga)
- The Falls at Arcadia planned
community, near San Diego, is named the number one planned community in California, a
distinction it will receive each year until at least 1999. The honor is the result of
radical efforts taken by the original home owners, conjuring up a Talpa, a Tibetan folk
monster, to enforce the homeowner's rules. They are surprised, however, when the Talpa
begins killing violators of the rules, and they cannot control it.
- January 1993
- Mulder takes some vacation leave. In
January 1997, he comments that he has not taken any vacation for four years.(Never Again)
- February 1993
- A male "Jersey Devil" dies,
leaving his mate alone. She begins scavenging for food on the outskirts of Atlantic City.
- May 2, 1993
- Lula Phillips is released from the
Maryland Women's Corectional Facility where she has been serving a ten year sentence for
manslaughter. She moves in with guard Warren Dupre, with whom she had an affair in prison.
He considers himself to be very lucky to be in lover with her. She seduces him into a life
of crime. A week after her release, they committed their first robbery at Anapolis Savings
and loan. A 65 year old female teller is pistol whipped and killed. Over the next several
months they kill seven people during robberies. FBI agent Jack Willis, of the Washington
DC Violent Crimes unit, is assigned to the case and begins trailing the robbers. Dupre and
Lula are married in Atlantic City during May.(Lazarus)
- July 23, 1993
- Squeeze. Tooms begins a new series of
murders. Agent Tom Colton, an FBI Academy classmate of Scully, calls in the X-Files team.
Tooms is captured by Mulder and Scully, after consulting retired law officer Frank Briggs.
He is institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital. (Date taken from computer display of
Tooms' finger prints.)
- After Tooms steals Scully's necklace
and locket, she begins wearing a necklace her mother gave her when she was a teenager.
(The necklace appears in many succeeding episodes.)
- August 9, 1993
- The Jersey Devil. An Atlantic City
homeless man, Roger Crocket, is found dead in the woods a mile from town, apparently
partially eaten by a human. (Date from toe tag.)
- Mulder discovers an animal-woman
scavenging on the outskirts of town, and consults one of Scully's former professors, at
the University of Maryland. The woman is killed by police, leaving a feral child behind.
- Scully attends a birthday party for
her six year old God-son, son of her friend Ellen and decides that kids are not high on
her priority list. She indicates she doesn't date much, and bails out early of one she
does have in this episode.
- Circa August 1993
- In a North Carolina prison, serial
killer Luther Boggs, convicted based on a criminal profile written by Mulder, is strapped
into the gas chamber, but is granted a stay. He claims that the experience puts him in
contact with the spirit world.(Beyond the Sea)
- August 7, 1993
- Ruby Morris disappears from her home
in Sioux City, Iowa. Her mother, Darlene, claims she was taken by aliens on a camping
trip. (Conduit)
- ??? 1993
- Mulder has an article published in
Omni magazine about the alleged Gulf Breeze UFO, under the name M.F. Luder. He concludes
that the photos are faked.
- August 22, 1993
- The Mars Observer spacecraft fails to
respond to radio signals. Marcus Auremius Belt may have been involved in sabotage.(Space,
and Historical)
- August 26, 1993
- Conduit. Mulder and Scully visit Lake
Okoboji, in northwest Iowa. Mention is made of the "Sioux City County Sheriff,"
although Sioux City is over an hour drive from Lake Okoboji, in a different county. The
article from the tabloid newspaper projected on the screen in Mulder's office incorrectly
spells the lake "Okobogee."
- Darlene Morris tells them of her
experience as a Girl Scout in 1967, and of the abduction of her daughter, Ruby. Her son,
Kevin, seems to be receiving binary data from the static on his television, which the NSA
operative Holtzman tells Mulder is a classified defense satellite transmission. Scully
recognizes a portion of J.S. Bach's Brandenberg Concertos. A biker bartender displays
evidence of severe radiation burns on his ear. Ruby is eventually found in a coma,
displaying evidence of prolonged weightlessness.
- September 22, 1993
- Shadows. A recently deceased business
executive seems to be protecting a secretary from beyond the grave. (Date taken from ATM
picture display.)
- October 1993
- Congress terminates the NASA High
Resolution Microwave survey of the sky, which has been seeking signals from intelligent
life in space.
- October 24, 1993
- Ghost in the Machine. Mulder's former
partner in the Violent Crimes division, Jerry Lamana, who is still on FBI probation, is
killed in a freefall elevator accident by a self-aware Computer Operating System, COS, in
the EURISKO Company building. Brad Wilczek, who created COS, is the foremost artificial
intelligence programmer in the western world. Wilczek refuses to share his technology with
the government, but the conspiracy takes him captive.
- November 1, 1993
- At Icy Cape, Alaska, the drilling
team passes the record drilling depth, bringing up ice cores a quarter of a million years
old. Within a few days, however, all of the team members suffer violent deaths.(Ice)
- November 7, 1993
- Ice. At Icy Cape, Alaska, all of the
members of an ice drilling team kill each other, or themselves, leaving behind the cryptic
warning, "we're not who we are." Mulder and Scully join a team heading for the
drilling station to investigate. They discover a worm-like organism that infects bodies,
driving the hosts insane. The worms came from ice cores that were drilled deep into an
ancient meteor crater under the ice. It seems that they came from space a quarter of a
million years ago, where they were used to an ammonia environment.
The pilot, named Bear, becomes infected by
the bite of a dog they find at the drilling station. The man dies when the worm is
extracted from his body. During the night another team member is killed, and it is clear
that one of the remaining four team members is also infected. Suspicion centers on Mulder,
who found the body. Scully discovers that the larvae of two worms will not coexist in the
same human body, proving it with the infected dog. When the real infected team member is
identified, the other woman, a second worm is placed in her body, and the worms kill each
other. The team is evacuated and Mulder and Scully are pronounced uninfected. Mulder wants
to return to the drilling station with a team better equipped for genetic study of the
worms, but he is informed that 45 minutes after they were evacuated, the entire complex
was burned by the government. As a result of the events of this episode, Mulder and Scully
come to realize how much they have come to trust each other.
Note: The worms in this episode may
well have been the genesis for the X-Files writers of the concept of the Black Oil.
- Mid/Late 1993????
- Space. Mulder and Scully investigate
the space program after receiving information that someone knew about a sabotaged
component. The Space Shuttle Discovery suffers an oxygen leak in orbit, apparently after
encountering an unidentified craft in orbit. Astronaut Maruc Aurelius Belt, Shuttle
program chief, fears the space program will be killed if the shuttle does not launch its
payload. He has apparently been brainwashed by aliens or the Conspiracy. While he is
involved in sabotage of the shuttle and the Mars Observer, he also attempts to leak
information to allow the sabotage to be discovered.
- Belt has a recurring dream in which
he remembers being approached by alother craft during a space walk. He remembers a face
that is very similar to the alleged face seen from orbit on the surface of Mars. He is
also briefly seen to morph uncontrolably so that his face resembles that face. He ends up
jumping to his death from an upper floor of a hospital. The Shuttle lands safely, because
of information he given to Mulder. (Interpretation of this episode is very difficult. Your
author's best guess is that the Conspiracy sent a spacecraft based on alien technology to
intercept the shuttle. They may have used hypnosis to make Belt participate in sabotage,
and alien DNA therapy to cause him to morph. He could have been an early experiment in
morphing. While we did not see his his body after the fall, might it have bled green
ooze?)
- ??? 1993
- Fallen Angel. A UFO, first detected
by Air Force tracking over Connecticut, crashes near Townsend, in eastern Wisconsin.
"Fallen Angel" is identified as the term for a downed UFO, and UFO recovery is
identified as "Operation Falcon," commanded by Colonel Calvin Henderson. The
public is told a train derailment has released toxic waste. An invisible survivor of the
crash kills several people, by severe radiation burns (similar to burns associated with
the entity in Piper Maru, et al). Epileptic Max Fenig, of NICAP, a South Dakota native,
disappears, apparently taken by a second, larger UFO. Deep Throat blocks an investigative
committee from closing the X-Files.
- Max is eventually returned, and
continues his efforts to learn the truth about his repeated abductions. He sends frequent
letters to his sister, describing his efforts in detail.(Tempus Fugit)
- ??? 1993
- Eve. In Greenwich, Connecticut,
joggers find Joel Simmons dead. His daughter Tina says she was only away from him for a
few minutes, and remembers nothing, but most of his blood is missing. Mulder suspects a
phenomenon similar to cattle mutilations. Digitalis was found in his system. Tina's mother
died two years earlier, so Tina is taken to the Fairfield County Social Services Hostel.
She tells Mulder and Scully that "there was red lightning" and that "men
from the clouds" were after her father. That night, Tina's room is broken into and
she disappears.
- An almost identical case is reported
in Marin County, California. Doug Reardon also died from loss of blood, had digitalis in
his system, and died at the exact same moment as Joel Simmons. His daughter, Cindy, is
identical to Tina, but she was not adopted. The Reardons tried for years to have a baby,
and finally succeed with the help of the Luther Stape Center for Reproductive Medicine in
San Francisco. The agents learn that the Simmons were also treated there, before moving to
Connecticut in 1991. Dr. Sally Kendrick was their doctor -- a resident there in 1985 after
graduating first in her class at Yale Medical School. She had previously received a PhD in
Biogenetics. She was fired for suspicion of experimenting with eugenics, censured by the
AMA and disappeared.
- Deep Throat tells Mulder about the
Litchfield Experiment, begun in the early 1950s. A group of "geneticly
controlled" children was raised in a secure compound. The boys were called Adam and
the girls Eve. He directs Mulder to the Whiting Institute for the Criminally Insane, where
they meet Eve 6 in a darkened, padded room. She is in restraints because she attacked a
guard. She says her IQ is around 265, and she has 56 chromosomes, resulting in heightened
strength, intelligence and psychosis. She has pictures of all of the Eve clones as
children, and they all look like Tina and Cindy. It is clear Eve 7, as Sally Kendrick,
cloned herself.
- Cindy is abducted by Eve 7. They
arrive at the Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco where Tina is waiting.
Eve 7 explains that she escaped and was raised by caring foster parents and that proper
upbringing can reduce the psychosis, but Tina and Cindy kill her by putting digitalis in
her drink. They raised the foxglove and made the digitalis themselves. They have not been
in contact with each other but "just knew" about each other. The motel manager
reports the suspicious girls and Mulder and Scully find Tina and Cindy in the motel room
with the dead Eve. Driving them back to San Francisco at night, Mulder and Scully stop
with the girls at a truckstop and the girls almost escape. They are taken back into
custody and end up at the Whiting Institute next to Eve 6 in cells labled Eve 9 and Eve
10. Eve 8 infiltrates the institute. Cindy and Tina say they "just knew" that
Eve 8 would be coming. While we do not see it, the implication is that all of the Eves
escape.
- Fall, 1993
- Young at Heart. Mulder and Scully
investigate murders that appear to be committed by John Irvin Barnett, who reportedly died
in 1989. Mulder's friend from violent crimes, Reggie Purdue, calls them in. He and Mulder
have a joke between them, "Reggie, Reggie." Mulder receives a note that appears
to be from John Irvin Barnett, who died in 1989. Barnett kills Purdue, as well.
- Barnett, the subject of human
experiments by Dr. Joseph Ridley, and has become younger. He steals Ridley's research
notes and bargains with the Conspiracy. He also threatens Scully. Before a cello recital
by Scully's friend, Cathy, at Janie Taylor Memorial Recital Hall, Barnett shoots Scully
and Mulder kills Barnett. Scully is protected by her Kevlar vest. Ridley's research notes
are lost.
- (Kids are playing football in this
episode, implying fall.) (William B. Davis is credited in this episode as a CIA agent, but
is not recognizable on screen.)
- December 5, 1993
- Harry Cokley is released from
McAlister Penitentiary and takes up residence in Gainsville, Nebraska. He suffers from an
extreme respiratory condition, requiring oxygen.(Aubrey)
- 1993????
- Fire. Mulder's former British lover,
Inspector Phoebe Green, escorts a British Parliament member and his family who take up
temporary residence on Cape Cod to avoid a terrorist who burns his victims. The terrorist,
using the name Cecil L'Ively, has the power to cause spontaneous combustion. Scully
exhibits significant jealousy of Phoebe. Phoebe, while tempting Mulder and playing mind
games with him, appears to also be having an affair with the M.P.
- December 1993
- Lazarus. At Maryland Marine Bank,
Dana Scully and her former lover, FBI agent Jack Willis, are undercover, waiting for bank
robbers. The robbers, Warren Dupre and Lula Phillips are outside in a car. They kiss,
Dupre pledges his love for Lula, and they enter the bank, guns drawn, resulting in a
gunbattle. Dupre and Willis are both shot. Lula escapes. At Bethesda Naval Hospital
emergency room, Willis' heart is not beating. Scully insists on resuscitation, and after
13 minutes without a heart beat, Willis is brought back to life. Meanwhile on the next bed
in the emergency room, Dupre dies. The image of a large tatoo on Dupre's arm appears on
Willis' arm.
- Two days later Willis wakes up from
his coma. He gets out of bed, steals clothes, goes to the Morgue where he cuts the wedding
ring off of the hand of Dupre's body, and leaves the hospital. Mulder and Scully
investigate the mutilated body and find Willis' fingerprints. Willis had been chasing the
robbers for months, and had become obsessed with the hunt. Mulder notes that the ring was
cut off the hand by a left-handed person but Willis is right-handed. He says Willis and
Dupre went into cardiac arrest at the same time and Mulder wonders which one came back. At
the University of Maryland, Professor Vaars tells Mulder and Scully that people often come
back from near-death experiences with ESP and heightened zest for life. He tells a story
of two people who shared a near-death experience and exchanged memories, and have huge
electrical discharges.
- Willis goes to where Dupre and Lula
have been living, but nobody is there. He goes to the home of Lula's brother, Tommy, in
the Desmond Arms Resident Hotel. He accuses Tommy of selling out Dupre and Lula to the
FBI, and kills Tommy. Willis appears have Dupre's memories and consciousness. The hotel
manager calls police and Mulder and Scully arrive. Willis arrives as they are
investigating the crime scene, saying he wasn't himself when he woke up. Mulder finds a
fingerprint that is not the victims' and gives it to Willis to take back to headquarters.
It disappears and Willis has no explanation. Willis passes physical and psychological
tests and is returned to duty. In a secret test by Mulder, Willis does not remember that
he and Scully have the same birthday and signs a fake birthday card with his left hand.
- A landlord calls Willis -- he thinks
he saw Lula. Scully goes along with Willis, expecting backup that Willis never orders.
They find Lula and give chase, cornering her in a basement. Lula attacks Scully who
overcomes and cuffs Lula but Willis releases Lula and shackles Scully, telling Lula,
"Baby, you ain't gonna believe where I've been." This represents the first time
on-screen that Scully is taken hostage or abducted. Jack tells the correct story of what
Dupre and Lula did after their wedding. Lula is somewhat convinced, but thinks it is
"too weird." A law enforcement task force mobilizes to find Scully. Willis/Dupre
calls Mulder to taunt him. Willis/Dupre claims he saw Scully trying to save Jack, saw Jack
leave and entered Jack's body. Willis/Dupre is drinking soda pop and Scully warns that
Jack is diabetic and is beginning to react to too much sugar. A drug store in Catonsville,
MD, for NPH insulin and syringes but then Lula stops Scully from administring insulin. It
wasn't Tommy who set them up. Lula did, to get rid of Dupre. Willis/Dupre blacks out.
- Lula telephones Mulder to demand one
million dollars ransom. The call is from Scully's cell phone so it cannot be traced, but
background sounds in the call reveal they are near a civilian airport. A task force
cavasses the area, pretending to be Bible salesmen. Lula is identified and officers move
in. Willis/Dupre revives and grabs Lula's gun. He tells her that there is nothing to be
afraid of in death, kills her and dies himself, following hr into death. As this happens,
the task force breaks down the door, rescuing Scully. Later, Scully cleans up Jack's deak.
Mulder brings her the wristwatch Scully gave Willis in 1990. It stopped at the moment of
his cardiac arrest.
- 1994
- Sometime in 1994, at the VinalRight
plant in Kansas City, Missouri, a warehouse employee threatens other workers with a gun.
He believes that the plant manager, Greg Pinkas, is really a monster. (Folie a Duex)
- January 1994
- Beyond the Sea. William Scully, US
Navy Retired, dies of a massive coronary at about 47 minutes past midnight. Just before
her mother informs her of his death, Dana believes she sees her father sitting in her
living room. The Bobby Darrin song "Beyond the Sea" is played as his ashes are
scattered at sea -- the same song that played when he returned from the Cuban blockade,
and that played at William and Margaret's wedding. Other family members are seen at the
service in which the ashes are scattered -- presumably the two brothers some sources say
Scully has. Scully looks at X-File X-167512, Visionary Encounters with the Dead.
- Luther Boggs claims to have psychic
information on a serial killer, and asks to talk to Mulder, because he has read Mulder's
criminal profile of him. Mulder suspects that Boggs has an outside accomplice who is
committing the murders.
- Mulder is shot while rescuing one
victim, located with information from Boggs. Scully locates the murderer, Lukas Henry,
based on information from Boggs, but he dies without revealing whether he was in league
with Boggs.
- Boggs claims to have a message for
Scully from her dead father, but she cannot bring herself to believe in messages from the
spirit world, and declines to hear it. (Date estimated from Scully telling her father she
is leaving her Christmas decorations up. Mulder holds a criminal profile dated August. My
tape is not clear enough to determine the year. Mulder may have been reading his own
criminal profile that put Luther Boggs on death row months or years earlier.)
- January 1994???
- Genderbender. Outside Germantown,
Maryland, a man dies after having sex with a woman he picked up in a bar. After his death,
the woman transforms into a man. Mulder has been tracking four similar deaths. Each victim
was swamped with phemerones containing human DNA -- possibly enough to trigger
anaphalactic shock. The first death was near a colony of religious isolationists called
the Kindred. They are famous for pottery, and traces of the native clay of that area were
found on the latest murder victim. Mulder and Scully travel to Steveston, Massachusetts,
to learn more about the Kindred.
In town, Scully talks with Brother Andrew, a male member of the
Kindred. When she shakes hands with him she is strongly affected. The agents visit the
sect, having to walk the last mile because of the primitive road. The Kindred intercept
them along the road, escort them to the farm, and feed then supper. They pray "for
the day of the coming, the moment of our release." The Kindred tell the agents little
of importance. An older man at the table chokes to death, and nobody helps him. Many of
the faces of the Kindred are the same as on photographs taken in the 1930s. Scully says
they have probably been inbreeding, but Mulder thinks there may be something stranger
going on.
Mulder and Scully sneak back to the
Kindred farm after dark and witness a strange ritual in which the man who died is covered
with clay in an underground tunnel. The man appears to return to life. Mulder is almost
caught in the tunnel by the Kindred, but escapes. Meanwhile Scully meets Brother Andrew.
He tells her that the killer is Brother Martin, his best friend, who has left the farm.
Andrew knows that Martin poisons the victims with phemerones. Her judgement is overwhelmed
by the phemerones Andrew emits and Mulder narrowly saves her from having sex with Brother
Andrew.
Meanwhile, the killer kills again,
and as a women selects yet another victim. A police officer interupts, however, saving the
man's life. The murder quickly transforms into a man and punches out the cop. Mulder and
Scully track Martin to a hotel and find another victim. They capture Martin, but the
Kindred intercept them in a back alley near the hotel and take Martin away. As soon as
they round a corner they disappear. Back at the Kindred farm, Mulder and Scully find the
property abandoned, the tunnels filled in and nothing but a large crop circle in one of
the fields.
(The implication is that the Kindred
are aliens, and leave on an alien spacecraft. In one scene, the female version of Martin
says that the Kindred are different from humans and that he/she will be punished by the
Kindred, but that the date of their departure is approaching and that they will not leave
Martin behind. There is no firm date given in this episode. It is after Beyond the Sea,
which was set after Christmas, and was first broadcast January 21, 1994.)
- Spring 1994
- E.B.E. An Iraqi jet shoots down a
UFO. The Fallen Angel team recovers the wreckage, and ships it cross country by semi
truck. Near Reagan, Tennessee, the driver sights a UFO, and Mulder and Scully are called
in to investigate.
- We meet the staff of Lone Gunman,
Frohike, Langly and Byers. They publish "The Magic Bullet Newsletter," working
in an office in a warehouse, and tell Mulder and Scully about a dark network behind the
government. Scully discovers an electronic eavesdropping device.
- Deep Throat lies to Mulder to steer
him away from actually finding the UFO. In spite of this, Mulder and Scully locate a
secret installation near Mattawa, Washington, where the Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
from the crashed UFO was taken. Deep Throat tells Mulder the E.B.E has died (been killed).
- Deep Throat tells Mulder that after
the Roswell incident in 1947, an ultra secret conference of many nations agreed that
should any EBE survive a crash, the nation recovering the EBE would have the
responsibility of killing it. Deep Throat claims to have been one of the three men to have
exterminated an alien, with the CIA in Vietnam. He says the death of that innocent alien
haunts him and that is why he sought out Mulder, so that some day, through him, the truth
may be known. Mulder, though, is not sure he believes Deep Throat's story. (Deep Throat
mentions that pitchers and catchers report for spring training this week.)
- March 7, 1994
- Miracle Man. A teenage faith healer
and mysterious deaths. Mulder relives the disappearance of his sister.
- ??? 1994
- Shapes. After several cattle are
killed on Two Medicine Ranch, near Browning Montana, Joseph Goodensnake is killed by
rancher Jim Parker and his wounded son Lyle, who think they are shooting a wolf. Scully
and Mulder visit the Trego Indian Reservation in Northwest Montana to investigate, because
it appears to be a recurrence of unexplained murders that are the subject of the very
first X-File. Jim Parker is later killed, as if by a large animal. His son, Lyle, wounded
in the earlier attack, transforms into a werewolf but is shot by the local deputy. The
Trego elder called Ish predicts more killings in "about eight years."
- ??? 1994
- Darkness Falls. A crew of 30 loggers,
working a clear cut contract for Ship Evercut Lumber at a remote site report by radio that
two Monkey-wrenchers, or eco-terrorists, have been conducting sabotage in the area. A week
later, all radio contact with the crew is cut off.
- Scully and Mulder discover that the
loggers have accidentally released a swarm of insects, sealed inside a 500 year old tree.
The insects are kept from swarming by light. The FBI agents, trapped by the insects in a
jeep at night, are cocooned, but survive because a biocontainment team arrives. They are
treated in a high containment facility in Winthrup, Washington. The government begins a
program to eradicate the insects.
- Mulder believes that the insects were
mutated by the radiation released by a volcanic eruption. The insects, however, are
covered by, or take the form of a film of what appears to be diesel oil, similar to the
entity that emerged from a Foo Fighter in 1945.
- March 1994
- Tooms. Eugene Victor Tooms is
released from sanitarium custody. Retired law officer Frank Briggs helps Scully look for
the remains of a 1933 victim that Briggs believes can implicate Tooms while Mulder tails
Tooms to keep him from killing. Tooms sets Mulder up with an accusation that Mulder beat
him.
- Mulder and Scully trace Tooms to 66
Exeter Street, where he has hibernated for decades. Now an apartment store, Tooms attacks
Mulder, who kills him by catching him in the mechanism of an escalator. Skinner asks
Cancer Man if he believes Mulder's report about Tooms, and the reply is "of course I
do." (Could Tooms have been an early alien crossbreed?)
- Scully claims a 75% resolution rate
for X- Files cases, but Assistant Director Skinner reprimands her for using unconventional
techniques of investigation.
- March 27, 1994
- Born Again. A dead cop appears to
live again in the body of a young girl. Episode ends April 19.
- April 1994
- Robert Patrick Modell is diagnosed
with a brain tumor. At about the same time he begins to be able to force his will on other
people. A believer in Ninja philosophy, he declines to have the tumor treated. About this
time, his fraternal twin, Linda, also develops a tumor and "Pusher" powers. They
are not aware of each other, because they were separated in infancy.(Pusher &
Kitsunegari)
- April 25, 1994
- Roland. At the Mahan Propulsion
Laboratory, Washington Institute of Technology, Colson, Washington, a scientist dies in a
wind tunnel accident, causing Scully and Mulder to be called in. The laboratory is working
on the Icarus Project, an effort to greatly increase jet engine. Custodian Roland Fuller
is autistic.
- Mulder suspects that Dr. Arthur
Grable, reported dead months earlier, is controlling Roland. In fact, Grable's head has
been frozen in hopes of someday being revived. He appears to be continuing his work
through his twin.
- Scully mentions having an older and a
younger brother.
- (Date taken from computer directory
display.)
- May 8, 1994
- The Erlenmeyer Flask. After a 60 mile
high speed car chase, a man disappears in a harbor at Ardis, Maryland, after being shot,
and bleeding blue-green blood. Dr. Terrance Berube, owner of the stolen car, is a
researcher in the Human Genome Project, and is killed by a "man in black." Phone
records leads Mulder to Zeus Storage, at 1616 Pandora Street, where he finds what appears
to be human clones growing in vats of liquid. When he returns, however, the vats have been
removed, by forces other than those of Deep Throat.
- Deep Throat says while alien DNA
samples have been available since 1947, only recently has the technology existed to
manipulate it, run from Los Alamos.
- He says Zeus Storage is where the
first DNA transplant was made, and the first human/alien hybrid created, with six
terminally ill human subjects volunteering. Dr. William Sakar recovers as the result of ET
gene therapy, developing inhuman strength and the ability to breath under water. Deep
Throat says Sakar fled an effort to kill him, because the conspiracy does not want
crossbreeds living among society, ending up in the car chase.
- Sakar survives under water for three
days, severely wounded. Mulder locates him, but Sakar is killed, and his body releases
toxic fumes. Mulder is captured by the murderer, the Man in Black who killed Berube. Deep
Throat offers exchange of Mulder for the original alien tissue, stored at Fort Marlene,
Maryland. Scully obtains what appears to be an alien fetus, and exchanges it for Mulder,
but Deep Throat is killed during the exchange. His final words are "Trust no
one."
- The term "Purity Control"
is first used, on the label of a flask of fluid in Berube's lab, that contains a bacteria.
Each Bacteria contains a virus and cloned chloroplasts, constituting alien DNA, because it
contains two nucleotides not found among the four in human DNA. "Purity Control"
is also the name used at Fort Marlene for the project password, and the storage container
for the alien body.
- The allegiance of the Man in Black is
confusing. The Conspiracy would have access to the alien tissue from Fort Marlene. This
would suggest that the Man in Black was not a Conspiracy operative. On the other hand, the
alien fetus taken by the Man in Black ended up in the hands of the Cancer Man, who is part
of the Conspiracy.
- Note: In this episode, Mulder watches
channel 8, WDF, apparently a local Washington DC station.
- May 21, 1994
- 13 days after Deep Throat is killed,
Mulder is informed by Skinner that the X-Files project is being closed, on orders from the
top of the executive branch. Scully is assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy.
Mulder is assigned various "garbage" cases.
- The Cancer Man ends up in possession
of the alien fetus, which he places in storage in a vault in the Pentagon. (The Erlenmeyer
Flask)
- June, 1994
- Alice O'Connor dies of a snake bite,
received during a fundamentalist religious ceremony conducted by her husband, Enod
O'Connor, in his rural Blessing, Tennessee, "Church of God with Signs and
Wonders." (Signs and Wonders)
- July 7, 1994
- Little Green Men. Based on
information from Senator Matheson, Mulder goes to Puerto Rico to attempt to obtain data
intercepted from space by the Arecibo Observatory, failing to report for FBI duty as a
result. The Cigarette Smoking Man directs FBI Assistant Director Skinner to watch Scully,
because she will lead them to Mulder. At an abandoned facility associated with the Arecibo
radio-telescope, Mulder finds evidence of a signal from space, and believes he has a
visitation from an extraterresterial that looks just like one he saw when his sister was
abducted. Scully eludes the agents following her and finds Mulder unconscious at the
facility. Scully and Mulder barely avoid a Green Beret UFO recovery team by some
heavy-duty off-road driving by Mulder in a Chevy Blazer. Skinner reprimands Mulder, and
sends him back to his stakeout duty. A tape containing the signals from space, which
Mulder brought back with him, is blank. (Date from airline passenger manifest for Mulder's
flight to Puerto Rico, using the name "George Hale," a reference to the famous
astronomer. As is so often true, this episode leaves us with the question "what
really happened?" The Conspiracy has demonstrated that it can change memories. Did
Mulder really see anything? Did he ever really have evidence, or were his memories changed
while he was unconscious?)
- July 1994??
- The Host. A liver fluke, mutated by
radiation from Chernobyl, becomes the size of a man and runs amok, or oozes amok, killing
people. Mulder ends up cutting it in half in the sewers, but half escapes to sea, and
grows back.
- July 1994
- Blood. Electronic devices in
Franklin, PA, cause psychotic reactions among users, similar to the way television signals
are used in 1996 in Wetwired. (Mulder mentions the O.J. Simpson car chase.)
- ??? 1994
- Sleepless. Augustus Cole escapes the
VA Hospital, and begins killing he other surviving members of the squad that had sleep
banishment surgery performed on them in 1970. Alex Krycek is assigned to work with Mulder.
Krycek, however, is actually a subordinate of the Cancer Man.
- A man who comes to be known as X
approaches Mulder to tell him about the experiment to end the need for sleep in 1970. X
indicates he knew Deep Throat, and does not want to die as he did.
- Mulder discovers that Cole has the
ability to cause others to experience hallucinations. Krycek kills Cole. The reports on
the surgery provided by X are stolen, leaving no evidence. (There is a reference in
Sleepless to a stock market closing figure that *might* be used to identify a more precise
date.)
- August 7, 1994
- Duane Barry. After a lengthy hostage
drama, Dana Scully is kidnapped from her apartment by Duane Barry. He believes that if he
offers a replacement abductee, he can escape further abductions.(Date given on-screen in
the swimming pool scenes.) This represents the second time on-screen that Scully is
abducted or held hostage.
- Ascension. Scully is taken captive,
kidnapped by aliens or the governmental conspiracy. Skinner reopens the X-Files. Krycek
disappears, after sabotaging Mulder's effort on a tramway to save Scully, and killing
Duane Barry. Note that Krycek stops the tram to keep Mulder from getting to the summit,
notifies his superiors that Mulder has been stopped, and then turns the tram back on,
allowing Mulder to get to the summit.
- Mulder recovers Scully's gold cross
necklace from the trunk of her car, where Duane Barry had confined her. Margaret Scully
tells Mulder to keep the necklace, until he finds her daughter.
- Skinner reopens the X-Files. (It is
unclear how many days pass during the course of these two episodes. In order for the
statement in Emily to fit, that Scully was missing for four weeks, it is hard to explain
the dates given in the episodes of August to November.)
- August 1994
- 3. Mulder meets some vampires in
California, as well as their human associate Kristen Kilar. In this episode, Mulder is
actually wearing Scully's necklace. (In this episode, Mulder reenters his X-Files office,
apparently for the first time in weeks. He turns a girlie calendar in his office from May
to November, pausing at August. Because Duane Barry is clearly dated as August, Mulder
must have just liked the November picture.)
- Mid to late 1994
- Melissa Scully "takes off"
and travels up and down the west coast. Her family does not hear from her for long periods
of time. In Christmas Carol Dana speculates that this may have been to hide a pregnancy.
- November 2, 1994
- "Emily" is born, according
to state records. She is soon adopted by Marshall and Roberta Sim, and named Emily
Christine Sim.(Christmas Carol)
- One Breath. Dana Scully appears at a
hospital, in a coma. Scully's blood is found to contain protein chains that contain
branched DNA that could be a biological marker, but it is inactive.
- X tells Mulder that he used to be
where Mulder is now, an apparent reference to pursuing the conspiracy. Now, of course, he
has become an operative of the conspiracy.
- In a coma, Scully is seen as adrift
in a rowboat, until her father speaks to her from beyond the grave. He tells her he loves
her and they will soon be together again. Nurse Owens, who is unknown to and unseen by
hospital staff, watches over Scully in the intensive care ward.
- Cancer Man's address is given as 900
W. Georgia Street, and Mulder locates him at home. He tells Mulder he has watched
Presidents die, and that Scully was returned because he likes both Scully and Mulder. He
is in the game because he believes what he is doing is right. "If people were to know
the things that I know, it would all fall apart." (This address is not the address
given in Musings as the long-time address of Cancer Man. On the other hand, that may be a
blind mail drop and not his actual residence.)
- Mulder passes up a chance to solve
the conspiracy in order to be with the unconscious Scully. Scully wakes up, and Mulder
returns her necklace to her. (In Emily, Mulder says Scully was missing for four weeks.
This cannot be resolved with Duane Barry being clearly set in August, and other details
showing Scully's return to be in November.)
- November 11, 1994
- Firewalker. At Mount Avalon, in the
cascade range, a California Institute of Technology volcano research team, lead by Dr.
Daniel Trepkos, operating a robot capable of descending into active volcanoes, releases a
silicon-based organism that lives deep inside the Earth. The spores of the organism infect
several of the team members, who Trepkos kills to prevent its spread. Scully and Mulder
barely escape contamination. Concludes November 13, with Mulder and Scully in quarantine
for 30 days. (Date taken from Mulder's final narration.)
- November 14, 1994
- Irresistible. Mulder and Scully visit
Minneapolis to investigating a series of desecrated human bodies, contacted by Agent Bocks
of the Minneapolis FBI field office, who is a UFO buff. Scully is disturbed by the crimes,
and consults her employee assistance program. Later, Scully is taken captive for the third
time in her career, by Donald Pfaster, who has a death fetish, and who repeatedly calls
her "girlie girl." While captive, she imagines seeing her captor morph from
appearance to appearance. Scully visits a social worker in the FBI Employee Assistance
Program. the actress returns later in the season, playing the same role in The Calusari.
(Date given by Scully during autopsy represents a continuity error with respect to
Firewalker.)
- 1994????
- Red Museum. In Delta Glen in eastern
Wisconsin, local doctor, Dr. Larson, has been injecting the teenagers and cattle with
alien DNA and keeping records of the children by the numbers on credit cards registered to
family members. (This is apparently similar to the project Deep Throat mentioned in The
Erlenmeyer Flask about school children in a southern state injected with alien DNA in
1987.) The man who killed Deep Throat is in the area, covering their tracks.
A local cult of vegetarians called The Church
of the Red Museum (which believes they are 18 years away from the New Kingdom) helps
Mulder protect the children and may have served as a control group for the experiment.
There is a confrontation with the killer in a meat packing plant. He is killed, and he
cannot be traced. While not mentioned verbally, many of the children who had received
alien DNA look very similar to each other. The FBI leaves the case open and unsolved.
(Note that eastern Wisconsin is also where Fallen Angel took place.)
- Fall 1994
- The FBI concludes a seven-year study
and finds that there is little evidence to support claims of devil worship influencing
American children.
- November 1994
- Excelsis Dei. In Worchester, Mass.,
an aid in a nursing home gives oriental medicines based on mushrooms to Alzheimer's
disease victims, improving their mental functions, but creating unpredictable mental side
effects, including seeing ghosts and out of body experiences. (There are still leaves on
the ground in outdoor scenes, indicating a late autumn date.)
- 1994????
- Aubrey. The body of FBI special agent
Sam Chaney, missing since 1942, is found, buried in a field at Aubrey, Missouri. A few
days later, the body of Tim Ledbetter is found buried in the basement of a house. B.J.
Morrow, who is pregnant, appears to have inherited Harry Cokley's psychosis, and attempts
to kill her grandmother. She then kills Cokley and is arrested by Mulder and Scully, and
placed in the Shamrock Women's Prison psyche ward, leaving the possibility that the
psychosis could be passed on to her son. (Aubrey)
- December 13, 1994
- Mulder gets his driver's license
renewed. His license number is 123-32-132?. (Small Potatoes)
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