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Season 7
1999/2000

140 The Sixth Extinction, Part II
141 The Sixth Extinction, Part III
142 The Hungry
143 Millennium
144 The Rush
145 The Goldberg Variation
146 The Orison
147 The Amazing Maleeni
148 The Signs And Wonders
149 Sein Und Zeit, Part I
150 The Closure, Part II
151 The X-Cops (150th Episode)
152 First Person Shooter
153 Theef
154 En Ami
155 Chimera
156 All things
157 Brand X
158 Hollywood A.D.
159 Fight Club
160 Je Souhaite
161 Requiem
 

7.01 "The Sixth Extinction Part II"
Episode number: 140
Original Air Date: November 07, 1999
Written by: Chris Carter
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (AD Walter Skinner)
Mimi Rogers (Agent Diana Fowley)
John Finn (Michael Kritschgau)
Michael Ensign (Dr. Barnes)
Jo Nell Kennedy (Amina Ngebe)
Conrad Roberts (Primitive African Man)
Warren Sweeney (Dr. Harriman)
Mari Weiss (ICU Nurse)
Abdoulaye N'Gom (Driver)
Anthony Okungbowa (Barnes' Driver)
In a follow-up to last season's cliffhanger, while Scully stays in Africa supervising the excavation and deciphering of what appears to be an alien spacecraft, Mulder lies in a semi-catatonic state back in Washington.

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7.02 "The Sixth Extinction, Part III"
Episode number: 141
Original Air Date: November 14, 1999
Written by: David Duchovny & Chris Carter
Directed by: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast:
William B. Davis (Cigarette-Smoking Man)
Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek)
Mitch Pileggi (AD Walter Skinner)
Mimi Rogers (Agent Diana Fowley)
Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat)
John Finn (Michael Kritschgau)
Martin Grey (Agent Flagler)
Rebecca Toolan (Mrs. Mulder)
Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Albert Hosteen)
Brian George (Project Doctor)
Warren Sweeney (Dr. Harriman)
Fritz Greve (Bearded Man)
Anthony Anselmi (Paramedic)
In the conclusion of a three-episode story arc SCULLY continues to search for ways to save her ailing partner. She faces the reality that she has no allies in her search for the truth. MULDER meanwhile is still in the hospital in a catatonic state.

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7.03 "The Hungry"
Episode number: 142
Original Air Date: November 21, 1999
Written by: Vince Gilligan
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
Chad E. Donella (Rob Roberts)
Mark Pellegrino (Derwood Spinks)
Judith Hoag (Dr. Mindy Rinehart)
Lois Foraker (Sylvia Jassey)
Bill Lee Brown (Mr. Rice)
Chasen Hampton (Hungry Guy)
Kerry Zook (Lucy)
Steve Kiziak (Steve)
Kevin Porter (Motivational Speaker)
Susan Slome (Woman at O.A.)
Mulder and Scully arrive in a typical American small town to investigate a series of murders that are bizarre even for an X-File. Someone is apparently eating human brains alive. Someone … or something. Surprisingly enough Mulder and Scully's investigation places them in harm's way.
Appearances can certainly be deceiving. Though a multitude of prosthetic disguises (fake ears, hair, nose, etc.) allow him to function in society looking like a normal human being, a seemingly average man is underneath a frightening "monster." He is unable to control his terrible flesh eating compulsion.
The man employs every means available to get control of his gruesome habit, but try as he might, he is unable to suppress the urges that not only leave people dead but also leave him with a maddeningly guilty conscience.
Many of the events that unfold are seen from the "monster's" P.O.V. as the FBI agents pursue him, this is an intriguing look (a la Crime and Punishment) into the conflicted and disturbed mind of a reluctant killer.

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7.04 "Millennium"
Episode number: 143
Original Air Date: November 28, 1999
Written by: Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (AD Walter Skinner)
Lance Henriksen (Frank Black)
Holmes Osborne (Mark Johnson)
Colby French (Deputy)
William Forward (Funeral Director)
Brittany Tiplady (Jordan Black)
Dick Clark (Himself)
Marilyn McIntyre (Widow)
Mone' Walton (Female Coroner)
Octavia L. Spencer (Nurse)
Romy Walthall (Second Agent)
Stephen Ramsey (First Agent)
Eulan Middlebrooks (Young Cop)
Michael Dempsey (Sheriff)
During the course of their investigation into a series of bizarre murders, SCULLY and MULDER discover a link between the ritualistic killings and a previously quiet and now disbanded organization, the Millennium Group (yes, from that series!). Mulder and Scully enlist the aid of former FBI agent FRANK BLACK.

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7.05 "The Rush"
Episode number: 144
Original Air Date: December 5, 1999
Written by: David Amann
Directed by: Robert Lieberman
Guest Cast:
Rodney Scott (Tony Reed)
Scott Cooper (Max Harden)
Nicki Aycox (Chastity Raines)
Ann Dowd (Mrs. Reed)
Tom Bower (Sheriff Harden)
David Wells (Mr. Babbitt)
Les Lannom (Deputy Foster)
Christopher Wynne (Deputy)
Rachel Winfree (Nurse)
Bill Dow (Chuck Burks)
When an innocent teen recently transplanted from the big city is accused of the gruesome and unexplained murder of a Sheriff's deputy in a small Midwestern town, MULDER and SCULLY arrive on the scene to investigate the bizarre crime. The crime has supernatural underpinnings, it appears the murder is linked to people who move faster than the eye can see.
A series of frightening incidents point Mulder and Scully in the direction of the Sheriff's charismatic, but troubled, teenage son.
As MULDER and SCULLY race against time to prevent the Sheriff's son from unleashing his "speed rage" on an unsuspecting town, we see not only how quickly absolute power can corrupt an individual but also how easy it is to prey on the emotional vulnerabilities of impressionable kids.

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7.06 "The Goldberg Variation"
Episode number: 145
Original Air Date: December 12, 1999
Written by: Jeffrey Bell
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast:
Willie Garson (Henry Weems)
Alyson Reed (Maggie Lupone)
Ramy Zada (Jimmy Cutrona)
Tony Longo (Dominic)
Shia La Beouf (Richie Lupone)
Nicholas Worth (Mr. Haas)
Dom Magwili (Mr. Ng)
Marshall Manesh (Mr. Jank)
Ernie Lee Banks (Maurice)
Chip Fogleman (Billy)
Dominique DiPrima (Megan McLean)
Bobby Moynahan (Paramedic)
MULDER and SCULLY get lucky. No, not that kind of lucky. In an episode that is lighter in tone (a la last season's "Rain King"), MULDER and SCULLY investigate a man who seems to be just a little too lucky. Henry Weems repeatedly beats the odds, apparently this otherwise normal gentleman has been "cursed" with good luck.

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7.07 "The Orison"
Episode number: 146
Original Air Date: January 09, 2000
Written by: Chip Johannessen
Directed by: Rob Bowman
Guest Cast:
Scott Wilson (Orison)
Nick Chinlund (Donnie Pfaster)
Steve Rankin (U.S. Marshal Daddo)
Emilio Rivera (Inmate Brigham)
Lisa Kushell (Lady in Red)
Rick Cramer (Guard)
Tara Buck (Blueberry)
Irene Muzzy (Waitress)
Eric Buker (U.S. Marshall)
Remember way back in season two when necrophiliac, Donnie Pfaster abducted Scully? Tonight, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the unsolved disappearances of prison's death row inmates including...Donnie Pfaster.

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7.08 "The Amazing Maleeni"
Episode number: 147
Original Air Date: January 16, 2000
Written by: Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast:
Ricky Jay (The Amazing Maleeni/Albert Pinchbeck)
Jonathan Levit (Billy LaBonge)
Robert LaSardo (Cissy Alvarez)
Jim Maniaci (Bullethead)
Rick Marzan (Holding Cell Officer)
Mark Chaet (Bank Officer)
Dennis Keiffer (Bullethead)
Dan Rice (Uniform Cop)
Sherri Howard (Female Employee)
J. David (Young Boss)
Steven Barr (Courier Guard)
Adam Vernier (Driver)
An aging Los Angeles magician announces the final performance of his greatest trick. But something happens and he turns up dead
MULDER and SCULLY, called in to investigate the gruesome and unexplained death, are drawn into a world of two-bit illusionists, scary loan sharks and con men. MULDER and Scully slowly come to realize that, as with the mystery of magic itself, nothing is as it really appears to be at first glance. Making their way through a web of lies, deceits and double crosses, out heroes must race against time to unravel the real story before ''innocent'' people get caught in a larger than life ''sleight of hand''?.

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7.09 "The Signs And Wonders"
Episode number: 148
Original Air Date: January 23, 2000
Written by: Jeffrey Bell
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
Randy Oglesby (Reverend Mackey)
Tracy Middendorf (Gracie)
Michael Childers (Reverend O'Connor)
Eric Nenninger (Jared Chirp)
Beth Grant (Iris Finster)
Philip Lenkowsky (Holy Spirit Man #1)
Clement E. Blake (Holy Spirit Man #2)
Stevie Johnson (EMT)
Phyllis Franklin (Middle Aged Woman)
Dan Manning (Deputy)
Elyse Donalson (Elderly Woman)
Donna May (Holy Spirit Woman #1)
MULDER and SCULLY are asked to investigate a series of bizarre and unexplained snake-bite related deaths. So they travel to the deep South to seek out religious groups that combine poisonous rattlesnakes into their ''holy'' rituals. Gambling on the notion that only ''true belief'' in God will prevent one from being bitten, MULDER and SCULLY find themselves exposed knee deep in the poisonous reptiles. MULDER faces the ultimate test of his faith when he finds himself battling a strong disciple of the prince of darkness himself.

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7.10 "Sein Und Zeit, Part I"
Episode number: 149
Original Air Date: February 06, 2000
Written by: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (AD Walter Skinner)
Mark Rolston (Bud LaPierre)
Rebecca Toolan (Mrs. Teena Mulder)
Shareen Mitchell (Billie LaPierre)
Megan Corletto (Amber Lynn LaPierre)
Spencer Garrett (Harry Bring)
Kim Darby (Kathy Lee Tencate)
Martin Grey (Agent Flagler)
Randall Bosley (Paunchy Man)
John Harnagel (World Weary Dad)
Marie Chambers (Guard)
John Bisom (News Anchor #2)
Nancy Tiballi (News Anchor #1)
Dylan Stjepovic (Kathy Lee's Son)
MULDER investigates the bizarre and unexplained disappearance of a child from right under her parents' noses. He discovers eerie similarities between the case and the supposed alien abduction of his sister more than twenty-five years earlier.

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7.11 "The Closure, Part II"
Episode number: 150
Original Air Date: February 13, 2000
Written by: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
William B. Davis (Cigarette-Smoking Man)
Mitch Pileggi (AD Walter Skinner)
Anthony Heald (Harold Piller)
Stanley Anderson (Agent Schoniger)
Rebecca Toolan (Mrs. Teena Mulder)
Patience Cleveland (Arbutus Ray)
Christopher Wynne (Base Cop)
Ed Beechner (Deputy)
Megan Corletto (Amber Lynn LaPierre)
Nicholas Stratton (Appearing Boy)
Mimi Paley (Young Samantha)
Fort Atkinson (Detective #1)
Jeff Xander (Detective #2)
Norman Smith (Detective #3)
In the conclusion to this mythology two-parter, MULDER goes on a spiritual journey of self-discovery and confronts the demons from his past and present as he searches for clues to his sister's abduction. Along the way he discovers that the Cigarette Smoking Man is sick.
Aided by a number of individuals, including SCULLY, MULDER must fight deep seeded personal suspicions and race against time to find the emotional and metaphysical ''answers'' to his sister's whereabouts.

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7.12 "The X-Cops"
Episode number: 151
Original Air Date: February 20, 2000
Written by: Vince Gilligan
Directed by: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast:
Judson Mills (Deputy Keith Wetzel)
Dee Freeman (Sgt. Paula Duthie)
Michael Maher (Redhead Deputy)
Perla Walter (Mexican Lady)
J.W. Smith (Steve)
Curtis C. (Edy)
Tara Karsian (Coroner's Assistant)
Lombardo Boyar (Spanish Speaking Deputy)
Maria Celedonio (Chantara Gomez)
John Michael Vaughn (Soundman)
Daniel Emmett (Cameraman)
Frankie Ray (Crackhead)
Solomon Eversol (Sketch Artist Ricky)
Cheryl Comstock (Sheriff #1)
Ron Gilbert (Sheriff #2)
Diane Harris (Sheriff #3)
Boris Nikolof (Sheriff #4)
Scott Arger (Sheriff #5)
Kevin Beggs (Sheriff #6)
Esther Myare (Sheriff #7)
Steve Sciacca (Sheriff #8)
Mary Campbell (Sheriff #9)
150th Episode Milestone
The long running and highly successful series ''Cops'' follows MULDER and SCULLY documentary style throughout the course of their investigation into a deadly shapeshifting monster who prays on it victim's deepest fears.

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7.13 "First Person Shooter"
Episode number: 152
Original Air Date: February 27, 2000
Written by: William Gibson & Tom Maddox
Directed by: Chris Carter
Guest Cast:
Krista Allen (Maitreya)
Jamie Marsh (Ivan Martinez)
Constance Zimmer (Phoebe)
Billy Ray Gallion (Retro)
Tom Braidwood (Frohike)
Dean Haglund (Langly)
Bruce Harwood (Byers)
Michael Ray Bower (Lo-Fat)
Ryan Todd (Moxie)
James Geraldne (Detective Lacoeur)
John Marrott (Security Guard)
Christopher Ng (Darryl Musashi)
The author of the novel ''Neuromancer'' and the father of the cyberpunk movement, William Gibson along with Tomm Maddox, wrote this episode.
Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate after a teenager is murdered while playing a high-tech virtual reality game. Lone Gunmen own pre-IPO stock in the gaming company and are on hand to look out for their financial interests.
Mulder and Scully discover that a virtual female character, created by a company ''techie,'' has figured out a way to break free from her virtual bonds and affect the real world.
When Mulder accidentally gets ''sucked'' into the game, Scully must race against time, going mano and mano with the deadly digital character to save her partner's life.

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7.14 "Theef"
Episode number: 153
Original Air Date: March 12, 2000
Written by: Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
Billy Drago (Mr. Peattie)
James Morrison (Dr. Robert Wieder)
Kate McNeil (Nan Wieder)
Cara Jedell (Lucy Wieder)
Tom Dahlgren (Dr. Irving Thalbro)
Sage Allen (Landlady)
Michael Sidney (Security Guard)
Matthew Sutherland (Records Clerk)
Dylan Kussman (Med Student)
Aaron Braxton (Radiology Tech)
Leah Sanders (Reporter #1)
Mark Thompson (Reporter #2)
An episode that explores the chasm between the frontiers of new medicine and the folklore of old medicine. Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate a series of murders where the victims are all in some way related to a wealthy, well-educated doctor.
As they search for clues our FBI agents discover the apparent motive is revenge. Years ago the doctor was involved in the euthanasia of a young girl on the verge of death.
Once again, Mulder must race against time to find who is behind the killings before the doctor and (more importantly) Scully become the next victims.

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7.15 "En Ami"
Episode number: 154
Original Air Date: March 19, 2000
Written by: William B. Davis
Directed by: Rob Bowman
Guest Cast:
William B. Davis (the Cigarette-Smoking Man)
Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Walter Skinner)
Michael Shamus Wiles (the Black-Haired Man)
Louise Latham (Marjorie Butters)
Tom Braidwood (Frohike)
Dean Haglund (Langly)
Bruce Harwood (Byers)
Timothy Landfield (Cobra)
Cory Parravano (Jason McPeck)
Michael Canavan (Cameron McPeck)
Jacqueline Schultz (Irene McPeck)
Thomas Roe (Guard)
Tom Bailey (Apartment Manager)
After a somewhat contrite cigarette smoking man comes to Scully with dramatic news, he is rapidly dying from an untreatable brain disorder. He offers the skeptical FBI agent something he believes will atone for all the horrible things he has done over the years: a cure for cancer.
Predictably, Scully is reluctant to trust him. She is especially suspicious because CSM agrees to deliver the cure on the condition that Scully must not tell Mulder what is happening. CSM ends up reminding Scully that he apparently cured her of cancer two years ago with a secret chip implant and eventually she relents and agrees to cooperate. On the surface everything seems to be going well.

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7.16 "Chimera"
Episode number: 155
Original Air Date: April 02, 2000
Written by: David Amann
Directed by: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Walter Skinner)
Michelle Joyner (Ellen Adderly)
Gina Mastrogiacomo (Jenny Gurgich)
F. William Parker (Dr. Blankenship)
John Mese (Sheriff Adderly)
Wendy Schaal (Martha Crittendon)
Charles Hoyes (Howard Crittendon)
Ashley Edner (Michelle Crittendon)
The story mixes elements of the famous ''Jekyll and Hyde'' tale with those of the recent movie ''Pleasantville.'' Mulder and Scully explore the often large schism between perception and reality, delving into the notion that even in darkness there is good, while in the light evil still exists.
Mulder and Scully are busy investigating one more routine case. They're interrupted by a number of unexplained murders in a seemingly idyllic small town. Their search takes them deeper and deeper into the dark underbelly lurking beneath the town's almost too perfect exterior. Mulder discovers a husband's marital infidelities at the center of a widening ring of murder.

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7.17 "All Things"
Episode number: 156
Original Air Date: April 09, 2000
Written by: Gillian Anderson
Directed by: Gillian Anderson
Guest Cast:
Nicolas Survoy (Dr. Daniel Waterston)
Colleen Flynn (Colleen Azar/Red-Headed Woman)
Stacy Haiduk (Maggie Waterston)
Stephen Hornyak (Dr. Kopeikan)
Victoria Faerber (Woman with Hat/Nurse #1)
Carol Banker (Carol)
Elayn Taylor (Nurse #2)
Cheryl White (Nurse #3)
Scott Vance (Healer)
Mulder travels to Europe to investigate the discovery of new complex crop circles.
Scully, the skeptic stays in town to do an autopsy on an old case. As the show unfolds, a series of random twists and coincidences come together and cause Scully to reexamine her strong aversion to eastern medicine and its practices. She also reexamines her life after seven years of working on the X-Files.

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7.18 "Brand X"
Episode number: 157
Original Air Date: April 16, 2000
Written by: Steven Maeda & Greg Walker
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Walter Skinner)
Dennis Boutsikaris (Dr. Peter Voss)
Richard Cox (Daniel Brimley)
Tobin Bell (Darryl Weaver)
Mike Hungerford (Thomas Gastall)
Shannon O'Hurley (Ann Voss)
Arthur Rosenberg (Lead Counsel)
Ron Marasco (Doctor)
Pat Destro (Joan Scobie)
Caryn West (Dr. Libby Nance)
Rick Deats (Dr. Jim Scobie)
David Sawyer (Security Man)
Greg Poland (Second Windbreaker Man)
Matthew T. Wilson (Manager)
Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the unexplained death of a tobacco industry scientist on the verge of revealing sensitive and potentially economically damaging trade secrets.

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7.19 "Hollywood A.D."
Episode number: 158
Original Air Date: April 30, 2000
Written by: David Duchovny
Directed by: David Duchovny
Guest Cast:
Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Walter Skinner)
Garry Shandling (Garry Shandling)
Tea Leoni (Tea Leoni)
Harris Yullin (Cardinal Augustine O'Fallon)
Wayne Federman (Wayne Federman)
Paul Lieber (Micah Hoffman)
Bill Dow (Chuck Burks)
Tim Roe (Zombie)
Barry K. Thomas (Sugar Bear)
Tina M. Ameduri (Tina)
Bill Millar (the Director)
In this episode, sometimes large divide between reality and myth is adequate because it necessary and supportive fantasies in people's everyday lives. Mulder and Scully are followed around during a murder investigation by a stereotypical Hollywood producer determined on researching the FBI for his next movie.

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7.20 "Fight Club"
Episode number: 159
Original Air Date:
Written by: Chris Carter
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Guest Cast:

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7.21 "Je Souhaite"
Episode number: 160
Original Air Date:
Written by: Vince Gilligan
Directed by: Vince Gilligan
Guest Cast:

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7.22 "Requiem"
Episode number: 161
Original Air Date: May 21, 2000
Written by: Chris Carter
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Cast:
William B. Davis (the Cigarette-Smoking Man)
Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Walter Skinner)
Nicholas Lea (Krycek)
Leon Russom (Detective Miles)
Zachary Ansley (Billy Miles)
Andy Umberger (Agent Chesty Short)
Laurie Holden (Marita Covarrubias)
Tom Braidwood (Frohike)
Dean Haglund (Langly)
Bruce Harwood (Byers)
Brian Thompson (the Bounty Hunter)
Sarah Koskoff (Teresa Hoese)
Gretchen Becker (Greta)
Darin Cooper (Deputy Ray Hoese)
Eddie Kaye Thomas (1st Young Man)
Judd Trichter (2nd Young Man)
Peter MacDissi (Prison Guard)
Grace Demontesquiou (Baby)
Kelly Demontesquiou (Baby)
A police car races down the highway in Bellefleur, Oregon. In the driver's seat is Detective Miles (last seen in the "Pilot" episode), who radios to his deputy, Ray Hoese, that he is approaching with backup on a downed aircraft in the woods. Suddenly, the digital clock scrolls backwards. The car loses power as it careens into another sheriff's cruiser, parked on the side of the road. A dazed and injured Detective Miles gets out of his car. A big fire burns in the distance through the trees. He notices the hands on his wristwatch are spinning backwards, as he approaches the other vehicle. An unconscious Ray Hoese slumps over the wheel. The deputy's eyes are swollen shut, the lids and membranes blistered and burned. Detective Miles looks down to see he has stepped in a bubbling, green substance. When he turns around, another Deputy Hoese stands before him. The man's eyes are unscathed. This Hoese has three bullet holes in his chest with the same green substance oozing out of him. Miles recoils in horror.
In Washington, Mulder sits before a large pile of receipts. Agent Chesty Short, the deputy chief auditor of the FBI, admonishes both Mulder and Scully for the extravagant expenses racked up by the X-files. He questions what they are investigating, now that the Samantha case has been resolved. Back in their office, the agents receive a call from Billy Miles (from the "Pilot"), who reports that the abduction experiences are occurring again. This time, however, they are not happening to him.
Two teenagers scour the Oregon forest in an excited search for a UFO. One of the boys steps into an invisible force field and gets shaken at warp speed. Spooked by this sudden disappearance, the boy's friend Richie drops his flashlight, which has suddenly become red hot, and runs out of the woods.
Marita Covarrubias releases Krycek from a Tunisian prison on orders from the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The pair find the CSM near death, in a wheelchair, and attended by a nurse. Krycek is furious with the old man for sentencing him to a foreign jail. The CSM is eager to report that an alien ship collided with a military aircraft in Oregon. He needs them to recover it. "Our chance to rebuild the project," he whispers with a faint voice squeezed through a neck shunt.
Determined to rebuke Agent Short and spend more of the FBI's money, Mulder and Scully set off to Oregon to meet with Billy Miles, who is now a sheriff's deputy. The unidentified craft has yet to be found, and Deputy Hoese is still missing. Billy's father, Detective Miles, claims that there was never another craft. The agents follow the Miles officers to the scene. At the spot where Detective Miles' car went dead, Mulder sees an "X" spray painted on the pavement. It is the same mark he made on the road seven years prior to designate an anomalous electrical disturbance. Scully locates shells on the ground from Hoese's gun, but there is no indication of what he might have been shooting at. The agents drive off, and Detective Miles puts the evidence bag in his trunk -- next to the body of Ray Hoese. Mulder and Scully visit Hoese's wife, Teresa, and are surprised to find she is an abduction victim who approached them for help seven years ago. She says that her husband is also an abductee who had been taken and tested many times. As Scully holds Teresa's baby, Mulder watches his partner. The sight of Scully with a child seemingly has an effect on him.
Scully comes to Mulder's motel room later that evening, pale and perspiring, suffering from chills. He covers her up in his bed and lies with his arms around her for warmth. "It's not worth it, Scully," he says. He's been thinking that her personal costs are too high when motherhood and her health have been taken away from her. He demands that there has to be an end. Outside the motel, Krycek sits behind the wheel of a parked car. He is on the phone to the CSM, telling him that no one can find the spaceship, even as Mulder and Scully search for the deputy. The CSM assures him that the ship is really there. Finding the deputy will uncover the ship. The CSM hangs up with Krycek, and Marita asks why he has him on a goose chase. "The ship is rebuilding itself," the CSM says. Ever faithful that his minion will be successful, the CSM is only wary of Krycek's true intentions once he finds the ship. Across town, Teresa Hoese is awakened by the return of her missing husband. When Ray doesn't speak to her, she realizes that he is only an imposter. She gashes him with a pair of scissors, but the stabs don't faze him. Green ooze bubbles from the holes in his chest, causing Teresa's eyes to burn and blister. She stumbles and is grabbed by the imposter.
The next morning, Billy reports to Mulder and Scully that Teresa is missing. They immediately recognize the green acid burn on the floor, and as Scully touches it, she experiences another wave of vertigo. Outside the Hoese home, Mulder and Billy spot Richie eyeing the crime scene. Richie admits that "they" took his friend, and that Detective Miles does know what's going on because he was there. Richie leads the agents to the area in the forest where his friend vanished. Scully is quickly jerked into a force field and shook at a high frequency. Noticing Scully is missing, Mulder calls out for her. She lies on the ground semi-conscious, as if from another bout of vertigo. As Mulder cradles his partner's head, Scully questions why this is happening to her. Mulder determines that these aren't merely random abductions, but a case of abductees not coming back.
A suspicious Billy returns home and draws his gun on the man that appears to be his father. "I don't know who you are, but you're not going to take me," he proclaims. Detective Miles calms his son before morphing into the Alien Bounty Hunter. At the same time, Mulder and Scully enter the house to warn Billy. Both men have instantly vanished.
Mulder sits in his FBI office two days later, when Skinner enters with Krycek and Marita. There is a moment of complete surprise, but Mulder's quickly out of his chair to attack his nemesis. They explain that the CSM is dying, but his final wish is to revive the conspiracy. While the Bounty Hunter eliminates proof of testing on abductees, the spaceship, cloaked in an energy field, rebuilds itself. That evening, the Lone Gunmen are brought in to Skinner's office to consult. They determine the ship's location even though the military has not picked it up on satellites. Mulder listens suspiciously to Krycek and Marita in silence. Scully abruptly leaves the room and Mulder follows her into the hallway. Since they are reclaiming abductees, he refuses to allow her go back to Oregon. "I won't risk losing you, Scully," he says. She hugs him, vowing that she won't let him make the journey alone.
Scully remains in Washington with the Lone Gunmen, scrutinizing the abductee reports. Each one has reported experiencing the same irregular brain activity that struck Mulder earlier in the year. She concludes that Mulder is really the one in danger of being taken. Without warning, Scully collapses, and the Gunmen jump to save her. Meanwhile, Mulder and Skinner enter the Oregon forest. They lay out a series of laser pointers to detect any abnormal movements. As Mulder follows the red beams, something catches his eye. The red lines deflect in space and define the rough shape of a dome, but it seems as if they are colliding with an energy field. Mulder reaches out to touch the field and his hand vibrates at a high speed. Looking up from laying down the last laser pointer, Skinner notices that Mulder is gone. Inside the field, a bright cone of light reflects on Mulder. His expression is full of awe. The other abductees are there to greet him with gentle smiles. A spaceship hovers overhead, and the Bounty Hunter enters the circle of abductees. The light grows in intensity and Mulder's look of awe turns to fear. Outside the force field, Skinner is unaware of this activity and calls out for Mulder. All of a sudden, a spaceship appears from out of nowhere and Skinner watches it rise into the night sky. He is left alone in the darkness.
Krycek reports back to the CSM that he failed his mission, but the CSM suggests that perhaps Krycek never meant to succeed. As Marita watches, Krycek shoves the CSM's wheelchair down a flight of stairs. The Cigarette-Smoking Man's body lies on the ground, motionless and apparently dead.
The next morning, Skinner is awkward when he visits Scully in her hospital room. She is better, but waiting on more tests. Skinner tries to hold back his emotion in telling her that he lost Mulder. She takes his hand and says she already heard the news. "What I saw I can't deny. I won't," he promises. They both begin to cry, and Scully assures him that she must find her partner. "There is something else," she says to Skinner. Although she can't explain it or believe it herself, she is pregnant.
TO BE CONTINUED

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