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1996
- 1996
- Sometime in 1996, June Gerwich
disappears, changing her identity and hoping for a second chance. She uses some of Pinker
Rawls' $90,000 robbery money to make a down payment on a house, finds a new middle class
boyfriend and begins making a fresh start.(Trevor)
- January 12, 1996
- SYZYGY. Two high school girls, Terri
and Margi, seem to be possessed during an astronomical confluence, and kill off several of
their high school classmates. (The episode title, Syzygy, is defined as "the nearly
straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitationsl system, such as
the sun, moon and earth during a solar eclipse." It is pronounced SIZ-eh-gee. It
comes from the Greek word for "yoked together.")
- ??? 1996
- Grotesque. William Patterson is now
head of the Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy at Quantico. When the
particularly gruesome serial murderer, John Mostow, being trailed by Patterson is
arrested, Patterson develops a split personality resulting from identifying with the
murderer and he begins a series of copycat murders. Mulder and Scully capture him.
- ??? 1996
- Jose Chung's "From Outer
Space." Nobody really knows what happened in this episode. Because the episode is
told from many different perspectives, the truth is even more ambiguous than usual. It
appears to tell the story of how US military pilots are flying advanced craft, possibly
based on captured UFO technology. It also appears to show how the military inserts false
memories in people's minds to make them think they have encountered aliens. One character
also suggests that the "aliens" are from inner space, from inside the Earth.
- March 7, 1996
- Avatar. Walter Skinner is set up for
discreditation to remove his support for the X-Files on the eve of his divorce, and is
briefly suspended from his job. His wife, Sharon, is seriously injured, and they decide
not to divorce. He repeatedly sees the old woman who has appeared to him on occasion
during his life to give warning or aid.
- ??? 1996
- Quagmire. Scully's pet dog, Queequeg,
(named after the harpoonist in Moby Dick) is eaten by an alligator. She and Mulder
discover the large alligator in Heuvelman's Lake, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia,
but miss an aquatic dinosaur that inhabits the lake, known by the locals as Big Blue.
Scully mentions that she has lost weight recently.
- April 27, 1996
- Wetwired. A Braddock Heights, MD, man
kills his wife and four people, claiming they were all the same man. In fact, the Lone
Gunmen discover that signals sent through cable television lines contain subliminal
signals causing psychotic reactions. This is similar to the signals that caused psychotic
reactions in 1994, seen in Blood. It becomes clear that X and Cancer Man are associates.
Episode concludes May 2.
- May 1996
- Eddie Van Blundht, Junior, begins
using his shape changing ability to have sex with several married women, making each think
he is her husband (or Luke Skywalker, in one case), in Martinsburg. West Virginia, a town
with less than 15,000 people. (Small Potatoes)
- May 17, 1996
- Initial airline scenes in Telico.
- June 1996
- Transgen Pharmaceuticals begins
making payments to Roberta Sim in connection with experiments on her adopted daughter,
Emily. Emily has been diagnosed with a rare form of autoimmune hemolytic anemia. The
company uses her in double-blind tests, but Roberta is not satisfied that Emily is being
properly cared for. The cash payments are $30,000 each. (Christmas Carol)
- ??? 1996
- Talitha Cumi. Tina Mulder has a
stroke after talking with her old acquaintance Cancer Man, and is hospitalized in
Providence, RI. Multiple IRS employees named Jeremiah Smith are discovered to be working
in offices around the country, storing huge amounts of data on smallpox vaccinations.
Smith also has the power to heal sickness or wounds, just by touching the victim. (Season
Three Finale)
- ??? 1996
- Herrenvolk. Scully is taken captive
for at least the sixth time since becoming an FBI agent, the second time by the Bounty
Hunter, however he releases her unharmed. Jeremiah Smith shows Mulder a Canadian farm
where human "drones," some apparently clones of Samantha Mulder, raise bees
among ginseng plants.
- Smith tells Mulder that the bees are
deadly poison to humans, but not to his people. The Bounty Hunter kills Smith, but
complies with Cancer Man's request to cure Mrs. Mulder of her stroke. Meanwhile, X is
assassinated when the Conspiracy traces an information leak to him. Before he dies, he
leaves word for Mulder to contact a Special Representative to the Secretary General of the
UN.
- ??? 1996
- One month after the main events in
Herrenvolk, Mulder meets Marita Covarrubias, Assistant to one of the Special
Representative to the Secretary General of the UN. She tells him that the bee farm has
been abandoned, and no evidence of bees or bee husbandry is left. However, she gives him
photographic proof of the ginseng plants and the Samantha clones.
- Cancer Man convinces the Bounty
Hunter to bring Mrs. Mulder out of the coma from her stroke. He argues that if Mulder
loses his mother, he would become more dangerous.
- ??? 1996
- Scully babysits her nephew, one week
before the episode "Home." He watches the movie "Babe" several times.
It is unclear who this nephew is. Siblings Bill, Jr. and Melissa have no children as of
this date. Apparently this is a reference to a son of Charles Scully.(Home)
- ??? 1996
- Home. Members of the Peacock family,
of Home Pennsylvania, murder Sheriff Andy Taylor, his wife and Deputy Barney. Mulder and
Scully conduct a raid on their home, and two males of the family are killed. The remaining
Peacock family members leave their farm to begin a new family, apparently planning to use
their long tradition of genetic inbreeding, (which is not unlike the Peacock Network's
creation of the series Dark Skies in 1996).
- In a conversation with Mulder, Scully
expresses the desire to have children, foreshadowing Never Again, where she expresses
dissatisfaction that the X-Files have become her entire life.
- August 1996
- Telico. Date given as three months
after May 17th events.
- Circa August 1996
- Cancer Man is notified by Walden Ross
of Pivotal Publications that his story "Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt
Adventure" dealing with alien assassinations will be serialized beginning in the
November 12, 1996, in Roman A'Clef Magazine. He still receives mail at the same address as
in 1991, 555 Brooksbank Avenue, Apartment 24, Washington DC 20091, which is not the
address where Mulder found him living in One Breath. (Musings...)
- 11 October 1996
- Unruhe. Dana Scully is taken captive
for at least the seventh time since becoming an FBI agent -- this time as she is about to
get into her Ford Explorer four-wheel drive -- by Gerald Schnaus, Jr. (Date is date of
Scully's final report. If the episodes of this season had been broadcast in the order
produced, this would have been the actual broadcast date. Instead, "Home,"
intended as the Holloween episode, was broadcast two weeks early.)
- November 12, 1996
- Unrequited. The Vietnam Veterans
Memorial on the Washington DC mall is rededicated. At Fort Evanston, Maryland, Nathaniel
Teager kills Lieutenant General Peter MacDougal and Steffan -- two of the three officers
who secretly authorized leaving American POWs behind in Vietnam, and authorized listing
Teager as dead. Teager, using the ability he learned in Vietnam to cloud people's minds
and appear invisible, also stalks Major General Benjamin Block. He is killed by an FBI
agent shortly after giving a list of American survivors in Vietnam to a friend, Leo
Danziger. Skinner receives a bullet wound on the arm. The Defense Department reports that
the dead man is Thomas Lynch, who has a history of mental illness.(Unrequited)
- November 1996
- The Field Where I Died. Mulder and
Scully investigate the Temple of the Seven Stars, a cult in Hamilton County, Tennessee,
lead by Vernon Ephesian, who believes in reincarnation. They meet Melissa Riedel Ephesian
who is 25 and seems to suffer multiple personality disorder, with each personality seeming
to be a previous life. One personality claims to have been a nurse who watched Mulder die
on November 26, 1863, as a Confederate soldier in a Civil War battle.
- Under regression hypnosis Mulder
relates previous lives and claims souls live together again and again. He feels he was a
Jewish woman in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, Samantha was his son, his father
was Scully, Melissa was his husband and Cancer Man was a Gestapo officer (even though
Cancer Man and William Mulder were was likely alive during the Warsaw ghetto uprising). He
also states that in the Civil War, he was Sullivan Biddle, Melissa was Sarah Kavanaugh,
and Scully was his sergeant.
- The cult commits suicide, including
Melissa. Mulder believes he may have known Scully in many lifetimes.
- ??? 1996
- Sanguinarium. An apparent demon or
devil worshiper causes several people to die during plastic surgery at Greenwood Memorial
Hospital, Chicago. Nurse Rebecca Waite, a practicing witch, attempts to stop him, but is
killed by his causing dozens of straight pins to appear in her throat. Ten years earlier,
at the same hospital, he had caused four deaths, and them changed his appearance and
identity. He changes his appearance again, by surgically removing his facial skin, and
secures a job in Los Angeles under a new identity. Note that Waite wore a red cord around
her wrist to help protect her, similar to the red string used in The Clausari.
- November 1, 1996
- Walter Skinner moves to a new
apartment on the seventeenth floor of a building in Crystal City, Virginia. His wife,
Sharon Skinner, does not appear to be in residence although she and Skinner partially
reconciled in The Avatar.
- Krycek sends Mulder anonymous
information about members of a right wing militia planning a bombing. The information,
delivered over the next two weeks, consists of receipts for detonation cord, diesel fuel
and 80 bags of ammonium nitrate, paid for in cash and over three different signatures. The
timeframe given for these deliveries is "over the last several weeks" prior to
November 25th.
- November 12, 1996
- Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man.
Cancer Man writes a letter of resignation, and takes it with him to buy the weekly issue
of Roman A'Clef containing the first installment of his story. He leaves his cigarettes
home. The magazine cover headline says, "warm up to the cold war barnburner Second
Chance."
- He is devastated to learn that the
ending (presumably of the first installment?) has been rewritten completely. It causes him
to tear up his resignation letter, and buy more Cigarettes.
- Frohike reads the Roman A'Clef story,
and puts two and two together, concluding that Second Chance is Cancer Man's
autobiographical story, where in fact it is only semiautobiographical. Cancer Man sets up
a rifle and scope to kill Frohike, but for the moment at least, gives himself a minor
second chance by letting Frohike live. (Date from the resignation letter. Frohike events
may be same day or shortly thereafter.)
- November 23, 1996 -- Saturday
- At Honolulu International Airport, a
US government operative is detained by Customs officials in spite of his diplomatic visa.
He is carrying what he calls toxic soil samples in a diplomatic case that originated in
Georgia, Russia. Accidentally broken, the sample container contains organisms that enter
human bodies and immobilize them. They also give the appearance of oil within the human
eyeball, similar to the entities from the Pacific Ocean Foo Fighter. (Tunguska)
- November 24, 1996 -- Sunday
- Paper Hearts. Mulder has a series of
dreams in which he sees a blonde girl, dead in the forest. He actually finds a skeleton
where he saw in the dream, and recognizes the M.O. of John Lee Roche. The victim is
identified as Addie Sparks, but Mulder soon comes to suspect that Roche may have kidnapped
Samantha. Roche actually claims to Mulder to have killed Samantha, after Mulder finds the
trophy hearts, although there are several other ways Roche could have learned about
Mulder's memories of Samantha's abduction.
- Mulder takes Roche to Martha's
Vineyard. In spite of Roche's detailed memory of each crime, he does not realize that
Mulder has taken him to the wrong house. Roche escapes Mulder and almost kills a new
victim, Caitlin Ross, before Mulder kills Roche -- without learning the identity or
location of the 16th victim.
- (Date November 24 is given on
evidence tags containing the hearts. These events are difficult to resolve with Tunguska.
Scully says clearly that Abbie is found on a Sunday morning, which is consistent with the
24th of November. Two nights pass in this episode, however, meaning Roche was killed on
November 26th, while Mulder and Krycek are otherwise reported to be flying to Russia.)
- On November 24th, Mulder receives
another anonymous nighttime delivery of receipts -- one for first and last month's rent
for a warehouse in Flushing, Queens, New York and one for rent of a two ton truck,
purchased with the same signature. Mulder fears "we could be looking at the next
Oklahoma City." (Tunguska)
- Note: The events of November 25
through December 6 are depicted in Tunguska and Terma. There is significant intermixing of
events. Particularly, the events experienced by Mulder in Russia, and Scully in America,
while depicted as happening simultaneously, may be offset by a few days.
- November 25, 1996 -- Monday
- Tunguska and Terma. Mulder organizes
an FBI raid in Queens that stops an apparent plot by American revolutionaries to stage a
major bombing. Mulder and Scully take Krycek into custody. He volunteers to help them get
the man who tried to kill him, and was responsible for the deaths of Bill Mulder and
Melissa Scully. He tips them to a diplomat bringing a pouch into the country. The pouch,
when recovered, contains an ancient Mars rock. How Krycek knows about the diplomatic
couriers is unclear, and neither Scully nor Mulder asks, on camera, at least.
- Mulder leaves Krycek at Skinner's.
While Skinner is away, the man who lost the pouch comes searching for it and Krycek kills
him. The man falls from Skinners balcony, attracting police attention.
- At the Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland, Department of Exobiology, a core sample is drilled into the Mars
rock. It releases what appears to be oil, coalescing into worm-like organisms that enters
the body of the scientist, Dr. Sacks, and puts him in a coma state.
- Cancer Man tells Skinner that he
needs the pouch, and who told Scully and Mulder to intercept it. He says "wars have
broken out over less."
- Marita, who Mulder locates at her
home on the upper West Side of New York City and spends almost four hours in her
apartment, leaving Krycek handcuffed in the car. Marita tells Mulder where the pouch
originated, in Russia, near Tunguska. Marita provides Mulder cover credentials, and he and
Krycek depart for Russia. (Krycek claims his parents were cold war immigrants and he
speaks Russian.) The Well Manicured Man later tells Cancer Man that Mulder's travel to
Tunguska represents a crisis.
- Scully, Mulder and Skinner are
subpoenaed by Senator Sorenson to testify before a Senate subcommittee, because of the
murder at Skinner's apartment and related events. (Date of these events taken from
Mulder's wrist watch display.)
- At the Harrow Convalescent Home, Boca
Raton Florida, several patients in the infirmary are used a test subjects for a vaccine
against the "black cancer."
- November 26, 1996 -- Tuesday
- Mulder and Krycek reach Tunguska and
find a gulag, with mining in progress by slave labor.
Both are captured by men on horseback. Another
prisoner claims to Mulder that Krycek is speaking Russian to the guards as an equal, and
that he is deceiving Mulder. Mulder finds that he has received an injection in his
smallpox vaccination scar.
- Scully and Skinner meet with the
Congressional subcommittee chair. (Tunguska)
- November 27, 1996 -- Wednesday
- Mulder and several other involuntary
experimental subjects are infected with the Black Cancer organisms from the Martian rocks.
- In St. Petersburg, Russia, a retired
intelligence operative, Vassily Peskow, is recruited by "Comrad Arntzen" in
Krasnoyarsk. Arntzen is actually Krycek, or vice versa. (Terma)
- November 28, 1996 -- Thanksgiving
- At Goddard, Scully finds some sort of
worm growing inside Dr. Sacks' blood stream. (Date based on Scully's comment about Dr.
Sacks not receiving anything but fluids for 48 hours, with 48 hours counted from his
infection.)
- November 29, 1996 -- Friday
- Mulder awakes from the experiment,
apparently none the worse for wear. A former geologist tells Mulder that hundreds of
people have died as the result of the experiments. Mulder subsequently escapes in a
delivery truck, briefly taking Krycek captive.
- Mulder is assisted by the wife of the
delivery truck driver. He begins making his way back to America -- a task made more
difficult by his loss of his passport and other papers.
- November 30, 1996 -- Saturday
- Krycek is given sanctuary by Russian
civilians who then forcibly amputate his left arm, to remove his smallpox vaccination
scar.
- December 1, 1996 -- Sunday
- Peskow arrives in America and kills
Dr. Bonita Charre-Sayre at her horse farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. He does this to
short- circuit Conspiracy research into the Black Cancer.
- he Well Manicured Man asks Cancer Man
to find the killer of his lover, Dr. Charre-Sayre. Cancer Man convinces the congressional
majority and minority leaders to create a red herring and question Scully about Mulder's
location, rather than the crimes themselves.
- December 2, 1996 -- Monday
- Scully spends the day at Goddard,
learning that organisms with the appearance of worms are growing in Dr. Sacks bloodstream.
(Terma)
- December 3, 1996 -- Tuesday
- Dana Scully testifies before a Senate
Select Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism. She attempts to warn the subcommittee
about the conspiracy, but committee members demand that she reveal Mulder's location. She
does not, and is jailed for Contempt of Congress . (Tunguska)
- Note: Scully mentions that she left
behind a career in medicine for one in law enforcement four years ago. December 1992 would
be several months after she was assigned to the X-Files, and at that point she had already
been employed by the FBI for a couple of years. She may mean that her assignment to the
X-Files marked the transition from a career in which her job was mostly medicine --
teaching at the FBI Academy, to one in which medicine was more incidental.
- Peskow kills Dr. Sack and steals the
meteorite fragment. Cancer Man reveals Peskow's identity to the Well Manicured Man.
(Terma)
- December 4, 1996 -- Wednesday
- Mulder walks in on a Congressional
hearing, short circuiting the committee's pressure on Scully for Mulder's location. Scully
and Mulder travel to Boca Raton and learn of the infection of convalescent home patients
with Black Cancer. Peskow kills the test patients with poison.
- Mulder and Scully then interview
militia leader Timothy Edward Meyhew, who reveals that Krycek planned to explode another
bomb in North Dakota. The truck rented by Krycek is traced to Canada and Scully and Mulder
follow. (Terma)
- December 5, 1996
- At an abandoned refinery in Alberta,
Peskow plants Krycek's remaining bomb and the Tunguska rock at a well head. With the well
spouting oil, the bomb explodes, causing an oil well fire. The rock is either burned, or
pulled deep into the earth. Mulder is injured by the blast. Scully encounters Pescow, but
is not injured. (Terma)
- December 6, 1996
- Scully and Mulder testify before the
congressional subcommittee, but are left with no hard evidence of any of the crimes.
Cancer Man and a congressional committee member destroy the documents and interview
reports submitted by Scully.
- Krycek visits Pescow's apartment to
congratulate him on a fine job in America. He uses a prosthetic left arm. (Terma)
- December 1996
- Transgen Pharmaceuticals makes its
second payment of $30,000 to Roberta Sim in connection with experiments on her adopted
daughter, Emily. (Christmas Carol)
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