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 This is a more detailed explanation of the episodes from the series 3 of
the X-Files.

 This doc is maintained by Kei^Carnage.

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 THE BLESSING WAY
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MULDER HANGS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AS DANA SCULLY IS OUSTED FROM THE FBI.
THE CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN CLOSES IN ON THE MISSING DATA TAPE AS ASSASSINS
TRACK SCULLY.

 Dana Scully visits Albert Hosteen's family, and finds them badly beaten by
the Cigarette Smoking Man's thugs. She immediately goes in search of Mulder
but finds only a charred ruin. Believing her partner is dead, she starts
home to Washington, DC, but is stopped and searched by troops demanding the
DAT tape Mulder received from his informant, The Thinker. Back at the FBI,
she finds herself suspended and must surrender her badge and gun. She
discovers a strange implant in her neck, and visits a hypnotist to try to
access memories of her abduction. Meanwhile, Albert Hosteen has found Mulder
dying in the desert, and conducts a "Blessing Way" ceremony to let the
Navaho Holy People heal his soul. While he hangs between worlds, Mulder
experiences visions of Deep Throat and his father, urging him to complete
his quest. Scully attends the funeral of Mulder's father, and there meets
the WellManicured Man, a member of the Cigarette-Smoking Man's cabal, who
warns her that she has been targeted for murder. Mulder returns to his
father's house, where confronts his mother with old photographs showing his
father, Deep Throat, and other familiar faces taken in 1972, the year his
sister disappeared. The Cigarette Smoking Man, increasingly desperate for
the missing tape, pressures Skinner to find it. Scully's sister Melissa is
gunned down by Krycek and his minion, who mistake her for Dana Scully.
Events race to an explosive standoff as Scully, convinced that Skinner is
intent on killing her, holds him at gunpoint in Mulder's apartment...as
they hear footsteps approach the door.


PAPER CLIP
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MULDER AND SCULLY FIND AN UGLY TRUTH FROM THE PAST--AND THE PRESENT--HIDDEN
IN AN ABANDONED MINE, WHILE SKINNER AND THE CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN BARGAIN
FOR THE AGENTS' LIVES.

 Agent Scully and Assistant Director Walter Skinner, deadlocked in an armed
stalemate, are equally shocked when Mulder, whom they thought dead, stumbles
into their midst. Skinner reveals that he has the missing DAT tape given to
Mulder by The Thinker, and offers to bargain for their return to the FBI.
The Cigarette-Smoking Man reassures the Well- Manicured Man and his cronies
that Mulder is dead, but the Well-Manicured Man demands the tape. The Lone
Gunmen help Mulder and Scully find an ex-Nazi scientist who claims to have
known Mulder's father. He directs them to an abandoned mine where they find
a vast filing system containing detailed medical records on millions of
people--including Dana Scully and Samantha Mulder. The Well-Manicured Man,
alerted by the Nazi scientist to the fact that Mulder is alive, despatches
a hit squad. Before they arrive, Mulder witnesses the takeoff of a craft
unlike any on earth, and Scully sees a crowd of what may be aliens rushing
past her. They follow the aliens out a secret exit, escaping the
Well-Manicured Man's trap. They agree to Skinner's offer to negotiate a deal
for their safety, but when Skinner stops at the hospital where Melissa
Scully is lying in a coma, Alex Krycek ambushes him and steals the tape.
 Deception piles on double-cross as events build to a tense confrontation
between Skinner and the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The latter, knowing Skinner
has no tape with which to barter, sneers at his offer, until Skinner reveals
the ingenious means by which the contents of the tape have been shared and
secured. Finally, in a poignant moment at Melissa Scully's bedside, Mulder
and Scully share a reaffirmation of their faith in one another and their
quest for the truth.



D.P.O.
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WHEN LIGHTNING KILLS A STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NUMBER OF TEENAGERS IN
OKLAHOMA, MULDER AND SCULLY TRACK A SERIAL KILLER WHO SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO
HARNESS THE POWER OF LIGHTNING.

 In a noisy all-night video game parlor, two teenagers face off over a
game--and minutes later one of them is dead, his very heart "cooked in his
chest". What bizzare freak of nature--or statistics--can account for five
people being struck by lightning in a tiny Oklahoma town? Mulder and Scully
soon discover that this lightning does not strike at random, but with a
deadly purpose. Darren Peter Oswald ("D.P.O") survives a lightning strike
and develops the ability to focus it on the target of his choosing. Now
anyone who ticks him off is in danger and Mulder and Scully must not only
track down Darren but his next target.



CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S FINAL REPOSE
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FORTUNE TELLERS WHO CANNOT PREDICT THEIR OWN MURDERS FALL VICTIM TO A
SERIAL KILLER WHO MAY BE PSYCHIC, AS MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO ENLIST THE
AID OF A RELUCTANT CLAIRVOYANT IN THEIR SEARCH.

 Mild-mannered Clyde Bruckman, insurance salesman, has one unique and
useless gift: he can foresee the deaths of others. Unable to affect the
outcome, he hides his ability until he stumbles across the latest in a
string of murders that has drawn Mulder and Scully into the hunt for a
killer who targets fortune tellers. Bruckman is unable to identify the
killer, but he tells Mulder and Scully where to find the bodies of two
victims. Scully thinks Bruckman may have more to do with the killings than
he's telling, but Mulder is delighted to have a real psychic to analyze. The
killer, however, now targets Bruckman, Mulder and Scully, forcing them to
hole up in a hotel while more gruesomely  mutilated corpses pile up.
Bruckman foresees not only his own death, but Mulder's murder at the hands
of a homicidal maniac. It's up to Scully to see if her partner's fate can be
changed...



THE LIST
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MULDER AND SCULLY MAY FINALLY HAVE PROOF OF REINCARNATION IN THEIR HANDS
WHEN AN EXECUTED KILLER SEEMS TO BE MAKING GOOD ON A PROMISE TO COME BACK
FOR REVENGE.

 Napoleon "Neech" Manley has been on Florida's Death Row more than eleven
years, but tonight his imprisonment comes to an end--in the electric chair.
 From the chair, he vows to come back and wreak vengeance on his enemies.
Only  a fellow prisoner knows who is on Manley's enemies list--and he's not
talking. When a guard dies mysteriously a few day slater, Mulder and Scully
are asked to help determine the cause of death. When another guard is
murdered in grisly circumstances, Mulder begins to wonder if perhaps Manley
is as good as his word, and has returned from the grave. Scully, convinced
that a more earthly conspiracy is playing out, argues that the guards
themselves are in on the murders. A growing pile of maggot-riddled corpses,
a deceptive wife, and a hulking prison guard all hide secrets to the
mysterious series of deaths, but in the end only the Warden discovers the
full truth of Neech Manley's final words.



2SHY
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A SERIES OF MELTING CORPSES LEAD MULDER AND SCULLY TO A KILLER WHOSE
INTEREST IN THE WOMEN HE MEETS ON THE INTERNET IS MORE THAN JUST SOCIAL.

 When a lonely, overweight woman with connections to Internet chat rooms
turns up on the coroner's table, Mulder links her to earlier disappearances
of women looking for love in all the wrong places. Despite the local
detective's objections to Scully on the team, her analysis reveals strange
discrepancies in the victims weight and body composition: somehow the
killer removed all the fat from the corpse. But how do Mulder and Scully
catch a murderer whose M.O. resembles that of a scorpion than a human
being? The investigative team itself becomes the target of a killer with
monstrous appetites as the agents track a bizarre stalker.



THE WALK
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SOLDIERS IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ARE TORMENTED BY AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE THAT
ATTACKS THEIR LOVED ONES AND TAUNTSTHEM BY THWARTING THEIR SUICIDE
ATTEMPTS.

 Several inmates at a veteran's hospital have attempted suicide recently,
with varying degrees of success. Mulder and Scully come into the case on the
strength of Mulder's curiosity about the latest effort, prevented, so the
inmate says, by an invisible man. The men, all veterans of the Gulf War,
are afraid of something that walks where no man can walk, that sees them
no matter where they hide, and seems to know all their secrets. Mulder and
Scully's investigation uncovers tragedies hidden from the official record,
a General more afraid of the truth than of war, and the bizarre retribution
of a man whose spirit is larger than his body.



OUBLIETTE
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MULDER PROTECTS A SUSPECT IN A KIDNAPPING CASE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE AN UNUSUAL
LINK TO THE VICTIM, WHILE SCULLY INSISTS THAT THE WOMAN KNOWS MORE THAN SHE
IS TELLING.

 A young girl is kidnapped out of her own bedroom; at the same time, another
former victim twenty miles away bleeds the girl's blood and echoes the
kidnapper's words. Mulder suspects a psychic link between the two and tries
to persuade the woman, Lucy Householder, to help him find the newest victim.
Reluctant to relive the nightmare of her five-year captivity, she resists
even as it affects her more and more deeply. Scully suspects that Lucy may
in fact be part of the kidnap plan, a suspicion confirmed when DNA analysis
bears out her doubts. She is further concerned that Mulder may be becoming
too personally involved in a case that has taken on overtones of his
sister's abduction. When the kidnapper diverts the FBI's attention with a
decoy, only Mulder, Scully and the unwilling Lucy can save young Amy from a
cold death at the hands of a perverse killer.



NISEI
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ATROCITIES DATING FROM JAPANESE ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II COME TO LIFE AGAIN
AS MULDER INVESTIGATES A MYSTERIOUS TAPE CLAIMING TO SHOW AN ACTUAL ALIEN
AUTOPSY.

 A mail-order tape purporting to show an actual alien body being dissected
leads Mulder to a Pennsylvania murder site, where he apprehends a Japanese
diplomat carrying secret spy satellite photographs. While he tracks down a
salvage ship that may have brought an alien ship up from the deep, Scully
looks up a woman whose name was in the diplomat's papers. She is astonished
to discover a group of women who claim to have recognized her from her
abduction. Deeply disturbed at this, she is even more troubled to learn
that all of the women claim to have been abducted and to have had implants
similar to her own removed. Mulder, meanwhile, uncovers evidence leading to
a railroad car en route to Canada which may be carrying a living alien
being. In a desperate attempt to board the train, he jumps from an overpass
onto the train even as Scully, alerted by X, is warning him not to board
the train.

     Part 1 of 2.



731
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MULDER BOARDS A TRAIN CARRYING A BOMB AND A MYSTERIOUS QUARANTINE SUBJECT
AS SCULLY LEARNS MORE DETAILS OF HER ABDUCTION.

 At a remote leper colony in West Virginia, leprosy victims watch in hiding
as other patients are rounded up by a death squad and systematically
murdered. Aboard a speeding train, Mulder searches for the Japanese doctor
in charge of the mysterious being he saw loaded on a quarantine car -- a
doctor whom Scully identifies from photographs as having been present
during her abduction. When Mulder finds the man garroted in a bathroom, he
goes in search of the killer still on the train. Scully links the Japanese
doctor to a West Virginia leper colony, and discovers a mysterious
informant with a tale of human medical experimentation dating back to World
War II. Mulder's belief in alien hybridization experiments is tested against
Scully's conviction that the evidence points to extensive medical
atrocities. Only Scully's memories and cryptic messages from X can save
Mulder who is trapped in a sealed train car with a bomb, a cold-blooded
killer, and an occupant who may or may not be a human/alien hybrid.

     Part 2 of 2.



REVELATIONS
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AFTER ELEVEN FALSE PROPHETS ARE MURDERED, MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO PROTECT
A LITTLE BOY SHOWINGTHE MARKS OF CRUCIFIXION ON HIS BODY FROM A KILLER
TARGETING STIGMATICS.

 Shortly after the murder of a man claiming to bear the wounds of Christ
(stigmata), a little boy in Ohio exhibits similar wounds. Mulder tells
Scully of eleven previous cases of people claiming to have stigmata, but
that all eleven were murdered by someone who relentlessly stalk them. To
protect young Kevin from a similar fate, Mulder and Scully sifted through
Biblical tradition, religious beliefs, and the shattered past of Kevin's
own family. Mulder refuses to believe that the case actually involves
religious phenomena, while Scully suspects that the evidence before them
points to divine intervention. A strange groundskeeper, a wealthy
industrialist and a man committed to an insane asylum for his religious
beliefs lead Scully to a crisis of faith that may spell life or death for
an innocent child.



WAR OF THE COPROPHAGES
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INSECTS SWARM AND SIGHT GAGS FLY IN A SMALL NORTHEASTERN TOWN ASMULDER AND
SCULLY ENCOUNTER A TOWN PANICKED BY A PLAGUE OFCOCKROACHES.

 Is an alien race disguised as cockroaches invading the earth? Or is a pest
control experiment gone awry threatening the populace of Miller's Grove,
Massachusetts? Mulder goes to the small town in pursuit of UFO reports but
finds instead a town terrorized by roaches, in this darkly humorous send-up.
Mulder pursues both a theory on alien robotic probes and a lovely
entemologist named Bambi, while Scully faces down a panicked, fleeing mob.
Cockroaches with metallic exoskeletons mix with insectoid automatons, a
synthetic fuels researcher with a license to import dung, and walls that
literally undulate with insects to render a creepy, funny, and very strange
night for Mulder and Scully.



SYZYGY
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MULDER AND SCULLY FIND THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIP AFFECTED BY THE MYSTERIOUS
COSMIC FORCE THAT IS CAUSING THE DEATHS OF TEENAGERS IN THE SMALL TOWN OF
COMITY.

 When several teenagers meet untimely deaths in a small town swept by rumors
of a satanic cult, Mulder and Scully answer a local investigator's call for
help. Detective Angela White is convinced that evil is stalking the town's
high school students, but Scully soon wonders if Detective White is not
stalking Agent Mulder. Mulder, in turn, searches for the answer to the
mystery of the horned beast found burned in a local boy's body, and Scully
doubts the story of two sobbing teenage girls who fear that the local cult
wants to sacrifice blonde virgins. The local astrologer warns Mulder and
Scully that a once-in-every-84-years planetary alignment is about to focus
the energies of the cosmos on this town, whose local geography makes it a
"cosmic G-spot".



GROTESQUE
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MULDER'S FORMER MENTOR IN THE BUREAU ENLISTS HIS AND SCULLY'S AID IN A
SERIAL MURDER CASE, WHOSE BIZARRE MUTILATION MURDERS CONTINUE EVEN AFTER
THE KILLER IS CAUGHT.

 Assistant Director Walter Skinner assigns Mulder and Scully to a serial
killer case, where Mulder finds his old mentor in charge. Special Agent Bill
Patterson of the Behavioral Sciences unit has already caught the killer, but
when another murder following the same pattern occurs, he needs the "cracked
genius" of Fox Mulder to solve the case. Was confessed murderer John Mostow
working with an accomplice, who now continues the killing spree? Or was the
murder committed by a copycat? Patterson and Scully hope to resolve the
question either way, but Mulder believes in a third possibility: demonic
possession.



PIPER MARU
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WHEN A FRENCH SALVAGE SHIP FINDS A LIVING BEING TRAPPED IN A 50 YEAR OLD
SUNKEN AIRCRAFT, THE CREW BEGINS TO DIE. MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A DEADLY
SECRET DATING BACK TO HIROSHIMA.

 The French salvage ship "Piper Maru" finds the remains of a World War II
squadron on the bottom of the Pacific ocean -- but not everything trapped
inside is dead. The ship takes aboard a being of deadly force, who walks
among them in the guise of a human. Mulder and Scully are called in when
the Piper Maru's crew begin to die of radiation exposure. Back in
Washington, Assistant Director Walter Skinner is warned by members of the
"intelligence community" to shut down the investigation into Melissa
Scully's murder, but refuses. Scully visits an old family friend and
uncovers an old and shameful mystery from the Pacific war. Mulder tracks an
enigmatic "salvage broker" to the Far East, where he finds Alex Krycek
selling government secrets from the DAT tape he stole from Skinner. Even as
Mulder prepares to bring Krycek back to the States, Walter Skinner is
gunned down in a DC restaurant -- apparently as a means of closing Melissa
Scully's case for good.

     Part 1 of 2



APOCRYPHA
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MULDER PURSUES AN ALIEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS SHIP, WHILE SCULLY
INVESTIGATES THE SHOOTING OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER.

 Assistant Director Walter Skinner warns Scully as he is wheeled into
surgery that he recognized the man who shot him. Although the Bureau is
ready to write the incident off as a random shooting, Scully presses the
investigation and discovers that the man who shot Skinner. Luis Cardinal,
is the same one who shot her sister. Mulder, meanwhile, is unknowingly
escorting an alien life form into the United States, one which is "hiding"
inside Alex Krycek. When the pair is run off the road into a ditch by
agents of the Cigarette Smoking Man, Mulder is too dazed to see Krycek kill
their assailants by irradiation. Although Krycek flees, Mulder still has
the key to Krycek's locker. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, he recovers--an
empty digital tape box. But he discovers a phone number on the package:
the phone number of the Well Manicured Man. Scully meanwhile fears for
Skinner's life; she foils an attempt on his life by Luis Cardinal. Mulder,
meanwhile, has learned that the cargo salvaged from the sea floor by the
"Piper Maru" is being stored in a missile silo in North Dakota; he and
Scully arrive and find dead, irradiated soldiers. Knowing Krycek (and the
alien inside him) is in the silo, they stalk him through the darkened halls,
but are ambushed by the Cigarette Smoking Man's agents and hustled away.
As they are driven off, Krycek kneels on top of a UFO, the alien entity
pouring from his eyes and mouth, re-entering its craft. Krycek, still
alive, beats on the locked doors in terror, begging to be released.



PUSHER
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A KILLER WHO INFLUENCES PEOPLE WITH HIS MIND PLAYS CAT AND MOUSE GAMES WITH
THE FBI, AND ZEROES IN ON MULDER AS A WORTHY OPPONENT.

 Was it murder or suicide? A man claims to have committed fourteen "perfect"
murders by making them look like suicides, and his confessions include so
much crime-scene detail that he convinces the FBI. But when he escapes
from custody by mesmerizing a young deputy into driving into the path of an
oncoming truck, the agent in charge of the case calls on Agents Mulder and
Scully for help. Mulder is convinced that Robert Modell, who calls himself
"Pusher", is exerting psychic control over people through his voice. Using
his ability to cloud people's minds, Pusher is able to walk freely into the
heart of the FBI, seeking an opponent worthy of his mettle. He settles on
Oxford-trained Fox Mulder as his adversary, and taunts him by inducing a
heart attack in another agent in front of Mulder's own eyes. Scully
discovers a deadly secret about Pusher that tells the agents that their
quarry has nothing to lose. But just when Mulder thinks he has Pusher
trapped, the tables are turned on him and he finds himself in a deadly game,
in which the stakes are his and Scully's lives.



TESO DOS BICHOS
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A CURSE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A STRING OF
MURDERS COMMITTED BY AN UNSEEN FORCE IN A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.

 When an archaeological expedition forcibly removes the remains of a South
American shamaness against the wishes of the tribes people, members of the
expedition and the sponsoring museum begin to disappear from blood-soaked
sites. Is it the working out of an ancient curse, or an act of political
terrorism? Suspicion falls on Dr. Bilac, a member of the expedition who
opposed the removal and who has become a raving recluse since the
expedition's return to Boston. But before Mulder and Scully can find any
evidence against him, two more museum members disappear in a welter of
blood. A toilet choked with rats, a piece of small intestine gnawed by
vermin, and a long-closed maze of steam tunnels lead the team to a horrible
discovery far below the museum, where the fanged menace they seek turns on
them in the darkness.



HELL MONEY
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MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF CHINATOWN MURDERS AND DISCOVER A
LOTTERY WHERE THE PRICE OF A TICKET IS LIFE ITSELF.

 When a young Chinese immigrant is burned alive in a crematorium, the
X-Files team go to Chinatown in search of a ring of masked killers. During
the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts, they are aided by a handsome young
Chinese-American police detective as they delve into the secrets of the
close-knit community, where outsiders are viewed with suspicion and
centuries-old traditions still rule. A clandestine burial is uncovered and
Scully finds a living frog in a dead man. Finally, a father's desperate
sacrifice for his dying daughter leads Mulder and Scully to a secret room, a
cold-blooded surgeon, and a lottery from hell.


JOSE CHUNG'S 'FROM OUTER SPACE'
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A WRITER'S ATTEMPT TO GET AT THE TRUTH OF AN ALIEN ABDUCTION LEADS HIM INTO
A MAZE OF CONFLICTING STORIES, WHERE EVEN SCULLY AND MULDER FIND THEMSELVES
DUPED.

 When writer Jose Chung interviews Dana Scully for a book about alien
abductions, he asks her about a case involving two teenagers who claim to
have been abducted while out on a date. Were they really abducted, or are
they lying? If they were carried off, who took them: extraterrestrials or
very human conspirators? The victims' and witnesses' stories grow
increasingly confused, as even hypnosis reveals deeper and deeper layers of
deceit and manipulation. Is the Air Force engaged in an ongoing coverup of
covert intelligence operations, using UFOs as camouflage? Or is that yet
another elaborate lie told to discredit witnesses of real abductions? Who
are the mysterious Men In Black who warn witnesses against spreading the
word--and why do they look so familiar? One of the most bizarre X-Files of
all twists and turns as witnesses contradict one another, Mulder discovers
strange visitors in Scully's bedroom, and Scully dissects an alien body. In
the end, it is up to writer Jose Chung to reveal it all in his book--unless
he, too, is part of an elaborate conspiracy on the part of the
military-industrial-entertainment complex...


AVATAR
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DID WALTER SKINNER KILL THE STRANGE WOMAN IN HIS BED? NOT EVEN HE KNOWS, AS
MULDER AND SCULLY WORK TO CLEAR HIM WHEN A MURDER INVESTIGATION TARGETS THE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

 When Assistant Director Walter Skinner wakes up in bed next to a murdered
prostitute, Mulder and Scully go to work trying to prove his innocence. But
the more evidence they uncover, the worse things look for their boss. He is
separating from his wife, seeing a psychiatrist for a dangerous sleep
disorder, and refused to cooperate with the murder investigation. Perhaps
Skinner's unstable frame of mind is linked to the dissolution of his 17 year
marriage. And when his wife is run off the road and nearly killed, it looks
like Skinner may be responsible. Scully tries to hold off her own suspicions
even as Skinner confesses his bewilderment to Mulder. Only Mulder, convinced
that Skinner has been visited by an apparition known to medieval scholars,
can clear his superior of the charge. His investigation uncovers new layers
of deceit in the case against Skinner, leading him to a frightened call girl,
a deflated air bag, and a connection to a deeper conspiracy involving
Skinner.


QUAGMIRE
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MULDER JUMPS IN WITH BOTH FEET WHEN A MISSING PERSONS CASE IN GEORGIA TIES
IN WITH AN OLD AND PERSISTENT LEGEND OF A LAKE-DWELLING MONSTER. SCULLY
REMAINS SKEPTICAL UNTIL AN ACCIDENT STRANDS THEM IN THE MONSTER'S TERRITORY
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

Scully can hardly believe that even Mulder would be gullible enough to take
on a Nessie-type lake monster legend when a Federal Forest Service worker
is killed along a lakeshore in Georgia. They find that the area has been
experiencing a "frog holocaust", a steady and disastrous decline in the
native frog population. The local fishing and boating population begins to
decline as well, with parts of bodies turning up in remote areas. Mulder
pleads with the local sheriff to close the lake to tourists. Scully is more
inclined to believe in a human serial killer, but when her beloved dog gets
involved in the hunt and people are attacked before their eyes, she joins
Mulder in tracking down the prehistoric creature who is feeding on the
locals. They find themselves trapped in the middle of a fog-shrouded lake,
with something very, very big closing in on their position.


WETWIRED
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A CASE INVOLVING SEVERAL MURDERS LINKED TO TELEVISION SETS BREEDS HOSTILITY
AND PARANOIA BETWEEN MULDER AND SCULLY.

Otherwise stable individuals in Braddock Heights, Maryland are killing right
and left in sudden outbursts of homicidal mania. The only link Scully can
find is that all of the victims watched a lot of television, and taped their
favorite shows. Mulder isn't buying this link until the mysterious behavior
of a cable repairman catches his eye. Meanwhile, Scully is drawn deeper and
deeper into a psychotic nightmare, where she learns she can trust no one.
When she finally loses it and fires on her own partner, Assistant Director
Walter Skinner launches a manhunt, calling her armed and dangerous. Mulder
consults the Lone Gunmen for help in solving the puzzle. Their analysis of a
mysterious cable trap is interrupted by a phone call from Maryland police
asking him to come down to the morgue and identify Scully's body. An evasive
informant forces Mulder to choose between loyalty to his partner and the
case he is working on. Mrs. Scully lies to Fox Mulder about her daughter's
whereabouts. Finally, a shady doctor leads Mulder to a showdown where we
learn that Mulder's erstwhile ally is playing an even deeper game than we
imagined.


TALITHA CUMI
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MULDER AND SCULLY'S SEARCH FOR A MAN WHO CAN HEAL WITH A TOUCH IS MADE MORE
URGENT BY THE APPARENT INVOLVEMENT OF SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO MULDER.

A deranged man goes postal in a restaurant with a handgun, shooting several
victims before he is himself shot by a SWAT team. But a serene and gentle
man speaks soothingly to him, heals him and all the shooting victims with a
touch of his hand, and then disappears from in front of a police detective
while he is being questioned. Mulder starts a full-scale search for this
elusive "Jeremiah Smith", racing the Cigarette-Smoking Man to find a wonder
worker. The investigation is hampered by the re-appearance of the Alien
Assassin we saw in "Colony" and "End Game", who is also looking for
Jeremiah Smith. As Scully searches Social Security files and finds a myriad
of Jeremiah Smiths, Mulder hastens to the bedside of his stricken mother,
whose last conversation appears to have been with The Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Alerted by his mother to a secret hidden in an old vacation home, Mulder
finds evidence that she has known more than she is telling for a long, long
time. A battle between Mulder and X, a metaphysical dialogue between The
Cigarette-Smoking Man and the real Jeremiah Smith, and hints that some
deadline fast approaches us leaves Mulder facing a deadly warrior from
another world, and Scully caught between two mysteries...

To Be Continued


]-----------------------| X-FILES SEASON THREE ]-----------------------|