Teaser - Phoenix, Arizona
A man, Sandy, and another man get into a van. Sandy is shivering when he gets dropped off at his house. He goes in looking quite ill. Sandy collapses onto his sofa and stares in horror at his hand, which is gel-like, like the victims in FTF.
7:04 next morning
The other man from the truck enters and calls out his name. He goes to the couch and looks shocked. Although he doesnt know it, we know that an alien has "been born." Suddenly there is blood everywhere because the alien attacks the man. He tries to get away but is killed.
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Mulder pieces together burnt X-files on a screen, restoring them. Next, we see him speaking to the review committee. {Have you ever seen Just Shoot Me? It is a sitcom over here. Anyway, there is a character on it called Nina. That actress plays a committee member whose name I dont know.}
This is a very comical scene. The committee keeps calling the aliens spacelings. Mulder says Scully has scientific proof about the virus but she says nothing and looks embarrassed.
Afterward, in the hall, Mulder and Scully argue. They take their usual roles. Scully says that she cant identify the virus but that it originated on Earth. What a surprise.
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In New York City, New York
CSM tells Strughold that there has been sloppiness and two men are dead. Strughold replies that the alien must be disposed of. CSM says he will see to it that it is done.
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Back in Washington
Mulder is still restoring X-files when Skinner comes in and informs him that the committee voted for Mulder and Scully not to be reassigned to the X-files. Mulder is very angry. Skinner tells him that if he goes to his old office, there is a file that will help him very much. Mulder goes down to his office and sees a picture of the dead Sandy.
Spencer comes in. He has evidently been assigned to the X-files in Mulders place. They argue and Diana Fowley comes in. She has also been assigned to the X-files, which makes Mulder doubly angry since he feels she has betrayed him.
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We see a no smoking sign, but CSM lights up anyway. He strolls through a large room filled with doctors. CSM says the patient must be moved and the doctors say it is too dangerous. CSM insists and we see that it is Gibson Praise, the psychic little boy from The End.
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Phoenix - 4:58 p.m.
Scully and Mulder are investigating Sandys home, though illegally. They find deep scratches in the wall, which the official report says, were made with someones bare hands. The two find a large fingernail on the floor. Mulders theory, correct but unbelievable, is that the alien gestated and later killed the second man. Scully is doubtful.
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We see CSM and Gibson riding in a car. Gibson says that it was there but has gone. They argue a but and CSM says that he must find it.
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Mulder and Scully are now outside of Sandys residence, deep into one of their typical science vs. paranormal arguments. Well, theres a new one.
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Rolling Hills Nuclear Power Plant
A lone worker walks down to the control room and tells the second to wake up. They joke around and the second worker, Homer, does a systems check. He finds a problem and goes to check it out. (There was his first mistake.)
We see a long shot of the employee, as if we are the alien. Homer hears a noise and turns to investigate. (Strike two.) Next, Homer sticks his wrench behind some bars in an attempt to figure out what is there. (Strike three, hes dead!) The alien attacks and Homer dies.
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12:14 the next day
Mulder, Scully, and a large group of people are gathered outside the plant. The two agents try to enter, but Spender stops them. Diana comes over, but also keeps them from entering. They argue, and Scully and Mulder leave. Back in the car, they find that Gibson is in the backseat, his head in bandages. Scully tries to revive him but he doesnt stir.
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Camelback View Motel
Scully removes the bandages from Gibsons head as Mulder comes in. They discover that Gibson was operated on because of his ability to read minds and the fact that he could help the men find the alien. Gibson snuck into Mulder and Scullys car to get away. "What is it?" Scully asks.
Gibson replies, "You already know, you just dont want to admit it."
Scully tells Mulder that Gibson needs to be taken to a hospital and after a little hesitation, he agrees. Scully and Mulder put Gibson in the car and another car drives up. Diana Fowley gets out of it and she says shes there to help him. They argue a little, but he ends up going with her to the nuclear power plant.
In the car on the way, Diana tells Mulder about the case and says that the body was gone before she got there. The two are worried that the alien might cause an outbreak of the virus.
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The hospital
Gibson is taken in on a stretcher. He tells Scully he doesnt want anymore tests, but she says he needs them. She looks like she is very sorry.
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Rolling Hills Nuclear Power Plant
11:42 <What, not 11:21?>
Diana and Mulder run down a long hall, up some stairs, and to where the body was found. Mulder steps in a gooey substance. He follows it down a row of goo-covered pipes, to the wrench, and finally to where the alien was hiding before. Mulder reaches in and pulls out a dead skin, like the alien has shed its skin. His phone rings.
Its Scully, who says that Gibson has the virus. As Scully is talking, a doctor ominously approaches Gibson.
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Scully sees that Gibson is gone and becomes frantic. The doctor (a different one) tells her that he cant be gone, but Gibson is in a van with the evil doctor, speeding away.
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Diana and Mulder hide as Gibson and the doctor come into the nuclear plant, then follow them as the doctor pushes Gibson along the twisted passageways. They end up in an icy blue-lit room. It has a huge vat in the middle where the blue glow is coming from. It is filled with a blue liquid and lots of shiny, metal poles. The doctor tries to get Gibson to tell him where the alien is but he does not. Mulder and Diana burst into and adjoining room and Mulder bangs helplessly on the door as he watches the doctor being killed.
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Later, the committee decrees that Mulder and Scully will be allowed no contact with the X-files. Mulders angry face fades to Spenders angry face as he argues with CSM. The two discuss Mulder. <Note: Mulders I Want to Believe poster is replaced by a framed photograph of Bill Clinton, the US president. Clinton was recently involved in a huge scandal.>
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Mulder, defying orders, is still attempting to restore X-files. Scully enters and the two argue about Diana. Scully says that Diana betrayed Mulder in her report. "I dont doubt what you saw Mulder. I dont doubt you." BUT, and then the big but, she still believes in what science has proven. Scully gives Mulder an ultimatum: her or me.
Furthermore, the virus and DNA from the fingernail match - as does part of Gibsons DNA - as does part of everyones DNA. Its just that in most people, this DNA is inactive - in Gibson, it was turned on.
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Gibson is still in the small blue-lit room, looking warily at the vat. We look inside, and deep beneath the surface in the alien, shedding its skin, preparing for another kill.
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