MEMENTO MORI

                 Come on back. The truth will save you, Scully. I think it'll save both of us.

Dana Scully finds out that she has a tumour between her sinus and cerebrum. She tells only Mulder and her boss Assistant Director Skinner of the news, and is determined to continue to work. Mulder and Scully head to Allenstown, Virginia to see Betsy Haggopian, whom was discovered to be suffering from similar symptoms in the episode "Nisei". When they arrive they are told that Betsy has died, yet they find someone using her phone line. Tracing it, they track down Kurt Crawford, a member of the MUFON network that Betsy belong to. Crawford tells them that of the women Scully met a year earlier, all have died from cancer except for Penny Northern, who is in the hospital as they speak. Scully is skeptical of Mulder and Crawford's claims that a government conspiracy and her abduction is behind her illness.

Scully goes to see Penny Northern at the hospital, who tells her of treatment she is receiving from a Dr. Scanlon. Mulder discovers that all the abductees were childless but had been treated at a nearby fertility clinic. When Mulder is called away by Scully, the Gray Haired Man arrives and kills Crawford with a stiletto, revealing him to be an alien human hybrid. After meeting Dr. Scanlon, Scully starts undergoing treatment, which involves heavy doses of radiation. During this time she starts keeping a diary of her thoughts. Mulder sneaks into the fertility clinic and finds another Kurt Crawford there. The two are able to hack into the clinic's computer database. After finding evidence that Scully had been treated at the fertility clinic, Mulder goes to see Skinner, wanting to deal with the Cigarette Smoking Man to save Scully. Skinner convinces him not to do so.

Mulder recruits the Lone Gunmen to help him break into the Lombard Research facility where he thinks he may be able to find more information on how to save Scully.

Meanwhile Skinner tries to deal with the Cigarette Smoking Man for Scully' life, who tells him he'll get back to him. Mulder and Byers head into the Lombard Facility; when Mulder discovers that Dr. Scanlon works there he sends Byers away to warn Scully. Mulder continues through the facility, discovering several clones of Kurt Crawford working on clones of a young boy (previously seen in "Herrenwolk"). The clones show Mulder ova harvested by Scully during her abduction and tell Mulder they're trying to save the abducted women's lives since they acted as their birth mothers. Mulder takes Scully's ova and leaves, being pursued by the Gray-Haired Man as he escapes. Mulder returns to the hospital to see Scully, who has told him that Penny has died. Meanwhile, Skinner has made the deal with the Cigarette Smoking Man that he warned Mulder against making.

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