"Two Fathers"

Well, my favourite sport is now basketball...

While we generously sacrificed a great deal of shippiness for some answers, it seems the writers have been kind to us in this mother of all mythology episodes, part one.  I was bracing myself for one of those cold, sterile episodes, but it actually had some cute parts.

The first came when Scully visits the courts to find Mulder and interrupts his game.  He sees her out of the corner of his eye, makes an impressive play and then, smiling slightly, cheats to get out of the game so he can go see her.  He greets her with a flirtatious, "Hey home girl, word up."  The corners of her mouth upturn as she acknowledges his comment.  I don't recall very many other FBI Agents visiting each other at the courts to reveal information...but these aren't your typical agents, as we all know.

Also notable was Scully's ease in changing Mulder's mind about Spender's offer.  He is completely, blatantly against questioning Cassandra Spender, but as soon as Scully mentions that the burned bodies were like what she recollected during her hypnosis last year (which she notes Mulder was with her for...holding her hand) the tune changes from we can't do that to we'll have to be careful doing that.  Any notion that he could help her in understanding and getting answers about her abduction come above all else.  Her opinion carries great weight with him.

Finally, after learning the alias of Cigarette-Smoking Man (C.G.B. Spender) and looking up all available information on him, Scully visits the courts yet again to find her partner shooting hoops alone.  She reveals that CSM knew his father along with some other information.  While looking Scully up and down, Mulder says:

Quote of the Week:

Mulder: Scully, how bout a little one-on-one?

Now I don't need to tell you what he really meant by that, especially while checking out Scully while saying it.  If that wasn't blatant flirting, I don't know what is.  FBI partners and "just friends" playing basketball together and flirting?  Hmmm...I think not.

And what other presents did the writers send us with love?  Diana Fowley is working with CSM, the ultimate in evil and Mulder's arch nemesis!  As if we needed any more reasons to hate her.  May she have a slow and torturous death brought on by Mulder, when he reveals her true nature.  Ugh, she makes my toes curl, she's so evil.  We even got to see a personal side of Krycek we hadn't before...that little character insight was delightful.

Okay, and I wanted to let you know my hypothesis after these answers they gave us.  My friend and I were discussing how metaphorical this plot has been...like a puzzle you've been working on for six years and finally you've found all these pieces that connect all the little bits and pieces you've put together that you found hidden under your bed, but it's still hard to see the big picture. So here goes:

|| The grays are the dominant alien race that plans to take over the world/universe/whatever by infecting everyone with the black oil which is the essence of themselves, like their blood.  Only when we are infested by their lifeforce, we become slaves under their control and gradually, if enough is administered or absorbed an alien fetus grows within.  It bursts forth, killing the human body.  

The Roswell crash was the first encounter our government had had with the greys.  Realizing their strength, our government signed a deal saying that they would develop a race of alien-human hybrids to become their slaves when they took over our world at a later date if they would spare the lives of the government people involved.  This was fine and if alien-human hybridization was successful, essentially it could become available to everyone and we would simply step down from our position as the dominant race on Earth.

Unfortunately, a rebel group of aliens from somewhere else that didn't want to give in that easily thankyouverymuch have mutilated their faces to protect themselves and have been killing off all of the alien-human hybrids the government has gotten to (that's why some of the people survived the bridge incident...Scully hadn't been hybridized yet because CSM intervened and let her be returned for reasons unknown), thereby making it difficult for the greys to take over.  This was the nature of the alien bounty hunter (an original rebel) and now more have come like him.  They have powerful means of disguise.

CSM has been using Mulder's deep emotional connection with the case of his sister to make him believe that it is as simple as her being abducted when, in fact, she has long been being cloned.  I don't think either are CSM's children (I have my suspicions about Diana after his little trust tell-all).  

So the greys are still planning taking over some national holiday coming soon after getting word that Cassandra has been successfully hybridized (hence her insistence that Mulder kill her to prevent the takeover from beginning), and therefore they can do that to other people, but the rebels are screwing things up and trying to expose the government for what they really are because they won't side with them.  This is why the doctors were killed and the investigations have followed that the government are so nervous about.  They are now taking drastic measures to keep from being found out. ||

That's my theory...I'd love to hear yours.  Don't miss next week when even more secrets are revealed and MULDER AND SCULLY SHOWER TOGETHER!!!  Okay, well it looks like they've got their clothes on when it happens, but nevermind.  I can't wait!

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