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Anasazi = "ancient
aliens"
A computer hacker gains
access to top secret Defense Department files and contacts
the Lone Gunmen to set up a meeting with Mulder. He says the
files contain info from the 1940's to the present proving
the existence of extraterrestrial life and the government's
knowledge of it.
Bill Mulder asks if his son
is in danger to which CSM replies, "I've protected him this
long, haven't I?"
... Mulder hears a shot ring
out. He runs in to find his father dying on the floor in a
pool of blood. "Forgive me," are his father's final words as
he dies in Mulder's arms.
When she tries to explain
that she doesn't think he's guilty, he accuses her of
"taking your little notes" all this time as a spy. He tells
her, "You've got my gun. You've got my files. Don't ask me
for my trust."
"He killed my father,
Scully," Mulder shouts and as he goes to shoot, Scully
shoots him in the shoulder preventing him from
firing.
When CSM has the boxcar
searched there is no sign of Mulder inside. CSM gives an
order to burn it, and as the helicopter lifts off, we see
the burning boxcar but no sign of Mulder.
But as Albert Hosteen said
about the Anasazi, "Nothing disappears without a trace."
Skinner stops her and tries
to tell her that the men that killed Mulder and his father
will be brought to justice. In a scathing response, Scully
says, "With all due respect sir, I think you overestimate
your position in the chain of command."
As Scully enters and exits
the FBI building through the main entrances, she sets off
the metal detection device and the hand scanner seems to
pin-point a spot at the base of her neck. When she has the
metal fragment removed she finds what appears to be a small,
computer chip.
... he is visited by Deep
Throat and his father who urge him to continue his
quest...not to give up if he wants to learn the truth.
Mulder asks his father if Samantha is with him and he says
no...
As she leaves the service,
she is approached by a man who is part of the shadowy,
syndicate or consortium that CSM meets with in NY. He is
known as the Well Manicured Man and seems to be the man with
the most power in the group.
Melissa, arrives at Scully's
apartment, surprising two gunmen who are waiting inside to
kill Scully. She is shot in a case of mistaken identity, by
two men, one of whom is Krycek and another man who will be
referred to as the Hispanic Man.
Albert Hosteen tell[s] of
the birth of a white buffalo. He says it is a powerful omen
in Native American stories and speaks to great changes on
the horizon.
The picture, from the
1970's, includes a man named Victor Klemper, a Nazi
scientist who was allowed to come to the US after W.W.II,
avoiding prosecution for his war crimes in return for
research knowledge. The agreement was code named Operation
Paper Clip.
They appear to contain
standard medical files including small pox vaccination
records and tissue samples. The files go back into the
fifties and Mulder locates Scully's file and Samantha's. As
he peels back the nametag on Sam's file, he finds his own
name underneath.
As he rushes to the roof, he
is in time to see a huge spaceship slowly and quietly, pass
over the building. As he gazes up into the bright lights, it
disappears overhead
He tells Mulder that
following the Roswell incident in 1947, foreign scientists
began collaborations to design an alien/human hybrid. The
files in the mountain vault, were extensive genetic records
collected through smallpox vaccines to begin creating a
catalogue of millions of people. He tells Mulder that his
father was part of the data collection until he began to
balk, at which point Samantha was taken to ensure his
silence and cooperation.
Mulder tells Scully that
they've both lost so much but that he's sure the truth still
lies in the X-Files. Scully says, "I've heard the truth. Now
what I want are the answers."
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 Anasazi (Season 2 finale, part 1 of 3)
The title refers to an tribe of Indians who disappeared from
the Southwest and are known as the Anasazi, or "ancient
aliens". They disappeared from the historical record 600
years ago and some think they were abducted by "visitors who
come here still." The episode opens on a Navajo reservation
in New Mexico with an earthquake which unearths a metallic
object buried in the ground. A local boy discovers a corpse
that looks less human than alien. An elder on the
reservation says, "They will be coming."
A computer hacker gains access to top secret Defense
Department files and contacts the Lone Gunmen to set up a
meeting with Mulder. He says the files contain info from the
1940's to the present proving the existence of
extraterrestrial life and the government's knowledge of it.
When it's realized that the files have been breached, a
series of phonecalls go out internationally to alert the
break-in of the "MJ files". The US link in this phone
network is CSM who says, "It's been taken care of." The
hacker meets with Mulder and gives him the files on a
digital computer tape saying he wants Mulder to let the
truth be known. Mulder takes the tape to work but when he
tries to open the files he finds them encrypted. He flips
out in a violent over-reaction which has Scully worried but
Mulder tells her he just hasn't been sleeping much. She
tells him Skinner wants to see him. When Mulder goes to talk
to Skinner, he blows up again, getting in a few punches
right in the Bureau hallway. As Scully looks at the
encryption, she recognizes long strings of consonants and
tracks down a Navajo code talker from W.W.II who did
encryption for the government. The man is named Albert
Hosteen, and is the elder we saw at the opening of the
episode.
Scully is called in front of an FBI panel of her
superiors to answer for Mulder's behavior. She tells them
that he hasn't been sleeping. They ask about the tape and
she denies knowledge placing herself in danger of dismissal
along with Mulder. She finds Mulder asleep at his apartment
in even worse shape...edgy and irritable. She tells him the
files on this tape better be worth all this since it could
cost them their jobs. Meanwhile, we see an interesting,
unexpected development. CSM pays a visit to Bill Mulder to
inform him of the breach of the MJ files. Apparently, they
were associates in the past, involved in work that is
detailed in the Defense Department files. Bill Mulder asks
if his son is in danger to which CSM replies, "I've
protected him this long, haven't I?" Mulder has put up a
masking tape X to summon Mr. X but before any contact is
made, he receives a call from his father asking him to come
to the house to talk; that it's important. When he arrives,
his father hugs him and tells him he has things from the
past to tell him. It seems like a confession as he tries to
get the words out. He tells Mulder he'll soon hear and
understand the meaning of certain words like "the
merchandise" but before he continues, he goes into the
bathroom to take some medication. As he stands over the
sink, we see Krycek's reflection in the mirror just before
Mulder hears a shot ring out. He runs in to find his father
dying on the floor in a pool of blood. "Forgive me," are his
father's final words as he dies in Mulder's arms.
Scully goes looking for Mulder at his apartment and is
grazed by a bullet through the window, shot from the road
below as a car speeds away. Mulder calls to tell her of his
father's death and she asks him to come to her apartment.
His place isn't safe after the shooting and the cops and FBI
will think him responsible for his father's death. While
he's still asleep she takes his gun to test for ballistics
to help prove his innocence. She also goes to retrieve the
bullet from Mulder's apartment and while there discovers a
filter on his water supply which has been delivering drugs
into his drinking water. This is responsible for his erratic
behavior. Before she can tell him, Mulder awakens and calls
her, pissed off that she took his gun. When she tries to
explain that she doesn't think he's guilty, he accuses her
of "taking your little notes" all this time as a spy. He
tells her, "You've got my gun. You've got my files. Don't
ask me for my trust." Mulder heads back to his apartment and
sees someone lying in wait. Without his gun, he sneaks
around and cuts off the person knocking the gun from his
hand. It's Krycek and Mulder, holding Ratboy's own gun on
him, tells him to admit to killing his father since he's
going to kill him anyway. But Krycek doesn't give and just
as Mulder goes to shoot him, Scully arrives and tells Mulder
not to fire. "He killed my father, Scully," Mulder shouts
and as he goes to shoot, Scully shoots him in the shoulder
preventing him from firing. Krycek takes the opportunity to
make an escape.
When Mulder regains consciousness, he's in New Mexico
where Scully has driven him to speak with the Navajo code
talker, Albert Hosteen. She tells Mulder about the drugs in
his water and that she shot him to prevent him from shooting
Ratboy since if he did, and Ratboy's gun was the same one
that killed his father, there would be no way to prove that
he wasn't responsible for both shootings. [Smart Scully and
a good shot too.] She tells Mulder that she's returning to
Washington since she skipped a meeting with Skinner so he's
on his own with the MJ files. Albert has already unencrypted
some of the files and she has seen her own name in them
along with Duane Barry's. Her name is in reference to some
test and she tells Mulder that she needs him to find out
what it means. Albert tells Mulder that he knew he was
coming and that he has something to show him that might help
him. Mulder receives a phonecall from CSM warning him off
and telling him that whatever he finds, he should keep in
mind that his father authorized the project. What Mulder
finds is a buried refrigerator train car with a pile of
alien corpses inside. At least they look more alien than
human although some appear to have a vaccination scar on
their arms. He calls Scully from inside the boxcar to tell
her what he's discovered. She says that Albert has decoded
more words from the files, words like "vaccination" and
"merchandise". As Mulder is forming a horrible realization,
he hears a helicopter and CSM arrives on the scene and his
phonecall to Scully is cutoff. When CSM has the boxcar
searched there is no sign of Mulder inside. CSM gives an
order to burn it, and as the helicopter lifts off, we see
the burning boxcar but no sign of Mulder. To Be
Continued...
The
Blessing Way (part 2 of 3)
Season 2 left us with CSM zipping off in a helicopter over
the burning remains of the refrigeration car and Mulder
nowhere to be found...disappeared without a trace. But as
Albert Hosteen said about the Anasazi, "Nothing disappears
without a trace." Having her phone conversation with Mulder
cut-off, Scully drives out to the reservation and finds the
burnt remains of the boxcar, but no Mulder. When she heads
to the Hosteen residence, she finds that CSM and his
black-ops team have beat her there and the bruised and
bloodied Hosteen family tell her that they told him nothing,
but don't know Mulder's whereabouts either. As Scully drives
out of town, she is stopped by a helicopter which lands on
the road in front of her and black-ops lackeys get out and
demand for her to turn over her files and the DAT tape. She
tells them that Mulder has the tape but turns over her hard
copy. When she returns to Washington, she is called in to a
meeting in front of her superiors where they question her
and threaten her over Mulder's disappearance. She tells them
that to her knowledge, Agent Mulder is dead and he died for
the info on the DAT. They suspend her and as she exits,
Skinner stops her and tries to tell her that the men that
killed Mulder and his father will be brought to justice. In
a scathing response, Scully says, "With all due respect sir,
I think you overestimate your position in the chain of
command." Ouch. When Scully checks the hiding place where
Mulder stashed the tape in his office, she finds the tape
missing.
Meanwhile, CSM meets up in a shadowy, smoky room in NY
with a group of men as they discuss the missing tape and its
effect on their work. CSM assures the others that the tape
will be recovered, costing only a few entries on the
obituary page. Frohike, one of the Lone Gunmen, shows up a
bit tipsy at Scully's door in the middle of the night to
share his loss of Mulder. He shows her a newspaper clipping
that reports the execution style killing of the man who
hacked into the Defense Department files in the first place.
Thinking that ballistics and other forensic evidence could
link the murder with Bill Mulder's thereby clearing Mulder,
Scully asks for a meeting with Skinner. He accuses her of
trying to bring in evidence to clear the partners and ensure
her re-instatement. She says she only wants the truth and
thought he would too...to which he replies that she
"underestimates his position in the chain of command."
Skinner tells her to go home and let the FBI do its job. As
Scully enters and exits the FBI building through the main
entrances, she sets off the metal detection device and the
hand scanner seems to pin-point a spot at the base of her
neck. When she has the metal fragment removed she finds what
appears to be a small, computer chip.
In New Mexico, vultures alert the residents of the
reservation that something is close to death on the desert
floor. Albert, remembering a similar situation when he was a
boy, finds Mulder's body at the mouth of a tunnel leading
away from the boxcar, all but covered with rocks and debris.
His body is laying next to the corpse of one of the boxcar's
earlier, alien occupants who was not as lucky. Near death,
Mulder is carried to a shelter and undergoes a ritual known
as the Blessing Way. In a dream state, he is visited by Deep
Throat and his father who urge him to continue his
quest...not to give up if he wants to learn the truth.
Mulder asks his father if Samantha is with him and he says
no...that Mulder must go and continue his search for the
truth. Eventually, Mulder awakes from the healing sleep and
slowly regains his strength with the help of Albert Hosteen.
Scully, worried about the implant she has found in her
neck, talks with her sister Melissa about the implications
and is encouraged to go to a session of hypnotherapy to
recover the memories of her abduction. She resists but
succumbs to her sister's wishes, at least to give it a
chance. When she attends her first session, she seems to be
on the verge of some memory of her abduction and the place
where she was held, but she's frightened and resists,
finally apologizing to the therapist before walking out. As
she arrives back at her apartment, she sees Skinner coming
down the walkway and driving off in his car. That night,
Scully awakens from a dream where Mulder appeared to her and
told her that he was returning to her and their work. Scully
attends a burial service for Bill Mulder and takes a moment
to tell Mrs. Mulder that she has a "feeling" that Mulder is
alive. As she leaves the service, she is approached by a man
who is part of the shadowy, syndicate or consortium that CSM
meets with in NY. He is known as the Well Manicured Man and
seems to be the man with the most power in the group. He
tells Scully that her life is in danger. That they will try
to kill her one of two ways...two men will come to her
apartment and kill her, or it will be someone she knows and
trusts. When asked by Scully who he is, he tells her he is
part of a consortium representing global interests and he is
"helping" her because he feels some of the members are
acting impulsively. She doubts the altruistic nature of his
interference. He tells her their business is to predict the
future, "And the best way to predict the future, is to
invent it."
Mrs. Mulder returns from her husband's funeral to find
Mulder at her house. She is overjoyed at his safe return but
after a brief hug he is more interested in learning about
his father's business and his associates from the past.
Mulder finds a box of pictures from years ago that show a
younger version of his father with several other men, some
of whom are recognizable as CSM, Well Manicured Man, Deep
Throat and other consortium members. When pressed, Mulder's
mother says it was too long ago and that she doesn't
remember anything. When Scully gets home from the funeral,
there is a message from Melissa on her machine saying she's
curious how her hypnotherapy went. Scully calls her back and
tells her she can come over to talk. Just after hanging up,
Scully's phone rings again and thinking it's Melissa she is
surprised to hear an empty connection. Remembering the
warnings from WMM, she quickly calls Melissa back and
getting no answer, leaves a message telling her that they
should meet at Melissa's instead and that she is on her way
and will try to intercept her. But as she exits her
building, she is met with Skinner who demands that Scully
get in his car so that they can go somewhere to talk.
Recalling the warning that it might be somebody she trusts
who is sent to kill her, Scully gets in Skinner's car with
her gun in easy reach. Melissa, arrives at Scully's
apartment, surprising two gunmen who are waiting inside to
kill Scully. She is shot in a case of mistaken identity, by
two men, one of whom is Krycek and another man who will be
referred to as the Hispanic Man. When they realize their
mistake, they drop the weapon at the scene and beat a hasty
retreat. Scully takes Skinner to Mulder's apartment as
neutral territory, but as she lets him into the apartment,
forcing him to enter first, she pulls her gun on him and
forces him with his hands up to enter and sit on the couch.
As she trains her gun on him, Scully asks who sent him, who
is he a trigger-man for. He says nobody sent him, that he
didn't come to kill her. He says he has the tape Mulder had
hidden in his office. Just then, they both are distracted by
the sound of footsteps outside Mulder's door, and as
Scully's attention is diverted, Skinner pulls his gun and
the episode ends in a tense stand-off, with Scully and
Skinner aiming guns at each other's heads. To be
continued...
Paper
Clip (part 3 of 3)
The third part of this trilogy opens with a voice-over by
Albert Hosteen telling of the birth of a white buffalo. He
says it is a powerful omen in Native American stories and
speaks to great changes on the horizon. Scully and Skinner
are in the stand-off we left them in at the end of part two.
Skinner is demanding that Scully lower her gun and she is
refusing. Very tense. Suddenly, the door burst open
revealing Mulder with his gun drawn and trained on Skinner.
Taking only time to ask the shocked Scully if she is all
right, Mulder demands that Skinner give Scully his weapon
and turn over the tape. Mulder tells Skinner that his
cigarette-smoking friend killed his father for that tape,
and tried to kill him...that he was a dead man, but now he's
back. Skinner eventually turns over his weapon, but tells
Mulder that if the tape is so important, they need to be
careful it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Mulder agrees
to leave the tape in Skinner's care, then leaves with a
shell-shocked Scully to find "answers that aren't on that
tape." Mulder and Scully take the picture of the consortium
members found at the Mulder home to the Lone Gunmen to see
if they can identify any of the men. The picture, from the
1970's, includes a man named Victor Klemper, a Nazi
scientist who was allowed to come to the US after W.W.II,
avoiding prosecution for his war crimes in return for
research knowledge. The agreement was code named Operation
Paper Clip. The Lone Gunmen tell Mulder and Scully that the
project was supposedly scrapped in the 1950's but some form
of it appeared to be underway as late as the date of the
picture. Mulder wonders aloud what his father was doing with
these men. Just then, the absent Frohike arrives with the
bad news that Melissa Scully has been admitted to the
hospital in critical condition. Scully starts to rush off to
the hospital until Mulder stalls her telling her that if
they truly are trying to kill her, she will be walking right
into a trap.
Meanwhile, CSM is being called on the carpet at a meeting
of the consortium. How could he let an innocent civilian be
killed as a result of an incompetent mistake...and where is
the tape he said would be retrieved? Mulder and Scully are
simultaneously visiting the consortium's old colleague,
Klemper, who is unwilling to reminisce but tells them they
should look at an old mining company (the backdrop for the
picture Mulder found at his parents') and provides them with
a clue to an access code. After they leave, Klemper calls
WMM and tells him that Mulder has just visited him. WMM now
knows that CSM has lied about Mulder being dead and
questions him about the DAT tape. CSM tells them he has the
tape hidden away safely and can bring it to show them the
next day. They all seem eager to see proof of this tape, no
longer trusting CSM. At the hospital, Mrs. Scully arrives
having heard that her daughter was shot but, expecting to
find Dana, is shocked to hear that it is her other daughter
Melissa who lies in critical condition with a gunshot wound
to the head. Albert Hosteen arrives, carrying a message to
Mrs. Scully from her daughter and prays over Melissa.
Skinner calls a meeting with CSM and tells him he "may have
located the tape" and CSM tells him he doesn't work deals.
When Mulder and Scully arrive at the mining company, they
find that it now houses in its depths, a mountain vault
filled with row upon row of filing cabinets. They appear to
contain standard medical files including small pox
vaccination records and tissue
samples. The files go back into the fifties and Mulder
locates Scully's file and Samantha's. As he peels back the
nametag on Sam's file, he finds his own name underneath.
Also of note, the tissue sample containers are of two types
depending on the time they were taken. The older files
contain cassettes from the fifties, but both Scully's and
Samantha's contain the more recent sample container. As they
sit perusing Sam's file, the lights in the vault suddenly
dim and go out. Mulder rushes back to the entrance, leaving
Scully among the files. As she shouts after Mulder, she is
suddenly aware of a noise as several small, alien appearing
creatures rush past her in the dark, knocking her flashlight
from her hand and exiting at a door at the far end of the
corridor. Mulder, meanwhile, reaches the front of the mine
and sees a bright light cruising over the building. As he
rushes to the roof, he is in time to see a huge spaceship
slowly and quietly, pass over the building. As he gazes up
into the bright lights, it disappears overhead and he is
simultaneously aware of the approach of a fleet of cars.
Rushing back to the vault entrance, he avoids crossfire from
a black-ops team and meets up with Scully who points them in
the direction of the rear entrance as they make their escape
into the night. On the run, Mulder and Scully set up a meet
with Skinner at an out of the way cafe. He tells them that
he can trade the tape for their lives, future safety and
reinstatement to the FBI. Mulder says no, that everything he
has worked for is on that tape. Scully says that the truth
isn't worth much if it costs them their lives...they will
always be on the run, outside the law. More importantly, she
needs to see her sister. Mulder leaves the decision up to
Scully, and she tells Skinner to make the deal. Skinner
stops by the hospital to tell Scully's mother that she is
safe and should return home soon. While there, Albert tells
him that men have been watching Melissa's room just as one
of the men cruises past. Skinner follows the man to a
stairwell, where he is ambushed by the man and two others,
Krycek and the Hispanic Man. He is garroted and beaten as
they steal the DAT tape off him. As Krycek and his
compatriots leave the hospital, one of them makes an excuse
to stop and the two leave Krycek in the car alone. He
suddenly feels a set-up and, looking at the car clock,
notices it's blinking "12:00". Realizing the car is wired,
he leaps from the car and runs, escaping the explosion by
mere seconds. Krycek is now on the run.
The partners return to see Klemper, but find WMM instead
and are informed that the ex-Nazi is dead. Without admitting
any guilt in Klemper's death, WMM says he will answer
Mulder's questions. He tells Mulder that following the
Roswell incident in 1947, foreign scientists began
collaborations to design an alien/human hybrid. The files in
the mountain vault, were extensive genetic records collected
through smallpox vaccines to begin creating a catalogue of
millions of people. Scully tells him not to trust WMM, that
he's telling him exactly what he wants and expects to hear.
She claims that the scientific knowledge didn't exist to
conduct such experiments that long ago...and besides, why
would her file be there. Mulder claims the recent files,
including Scully's, are from abductions. She does not want
to listen to what he is suggesting and walks away. Mulder
goes to his mother's house and wakes her up to ask if his
father ever forced her to make a choice. She doesn't want to
speak of it, but when forced to, she says no...she couldn't
choose. That Bill chose, and she hates him for it...even
now, she hates him in his grave. Krycek calls CSM to tell
him that he's alive and that he has the DAT tape. He warns
CSM to steer clear of him and cease any further attempts on
his life. CSM lies to the consortium, telling them that
Krycek has been eliminated and that the tape was destroyed
in the car bomb. CSM then meets with Skinner who tells him
he will deal; the tape for the safety of Mulder and Scully.
CSM tells him he won't deal and that he knows Skinner
doesn't have the tape anyway. He threatens Skinner's life by
mysterious circumstances, but as he turns to go, Skinner
tells him he's not through yet. Shocked at this statement,
CSM asks "What is this?" Skinner replies, "This is where you
pucker up and kiss my ass." He tells CSM that he may not
have the tape but that Albert Hosteen has read all the
information from the un-encrypted files and has passed it on
to 20 members of his community in the oral tradition. With
this dissemination of the information, CSM can never be sure
of its existence or eradication. CSM thinks Skinner is
bluffing but can't be sure. Skinner tells him, "Welcome to
the wonderful world of high technology." Meanwhile, Scully
sits in Melissa's empty hospital room. Melissa has died and
Scully is afraid that Melissa doesn't know how sorry she
is...that it should have been her. Mulder tells Scully that
they've both lost so much but that he's sure the truth still
lies in the X-Files. Scully says, "I've heard the truth. Now
what I want are the answers."
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