Official Summary #2

From the hardcover novelization and audio book.

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Beneath the surface of North Texas, something has been sleeping for more than thirty-five thousand years, since the last ice age until the present, when a group of young boys stumble upon something unspeakable deep inside a cavern. Their discovery draws the attention of the mysterious group known only as the Syndicate--but will the Syndicate save humanity, or bring on a viral Armageddon?

In nearby Dallas, FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully save hundreds of lives from a terrorist attack on a federal building. But in the government investigation that follows, their careers--and lives--are on the line, as the bureau attempts to pin the blame on them.

Why?

Mulder and Scully's search for answers takes them from FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., to a hidden laboratory on the Texas border and finally to a frozen wilderness, where their worst suspicions about a global conspiracy are confirmed. And when Scully is kidnapped and infected with an extraterrestrial virus, Mulder has only hours to find the antidote and his partner before it's too late--for all of us.

Will one man be able to fight the future?

The X-Files movie and this text is copyright 20th Century Fox.