GETHSEMANE

As the episode begins, a body lays wrapped up on the floor of Mulder's apartment. There is no name mentioned as to who the dead body is, but Scully confirms its identity and leaves. The rest of the episode is seen as a flashback, as Scully is explaining past events to a committee led by Section Chief Blevins reviewing her work with Mulder on the X-Files.

The frozen body of what appears to be an extraterrestrial is found in the St. Elias range of the Canadian mountains. Mulder is contacted about this by Professor Arlinsky, who is working on the expedition, and is sent some ice core samples with DNA in them (presumably alien). Scully has the samples tested and confirms the presence of non-terrestrial DNA in the samples. However, the samples are stolen, along with the test results by a Department of Defence employee, Michael Kristchgau, who knocks Scully down a flight of stairs. When Scully, after discovering his identity tracks him to where he works she holds him at gunpoint, and he tells her that the same people who will kill him if he reveals the truth are the same people who gave her cancer.

Meanwhile Mulder and Arlinsky venture to the Canadian mountains where the alien corpse was found, but when they arrive at the site they finds that all of the people on the expedition have been shot to death, except for Babcock, who reveals that he has saved the alien corpse from theft by burying it. Together, the three of them bring the corpse back to Washington. There, Mulder and Arlinsky perform an autopsy on the alien, believing that is in fact extraterrestrial. Mulder leaves to meet with Scully, and a mysterious assassin, Ostelhoff arrives soon after and kills Arlinksy.

Mulder meets with Scully and Kritchgau. Kritchgau tells Mulder that the existence of alien life is a hoax perpetuated by the U.S. government in order to cover up the military industrial complex. Kritchgau, who is revealing this to Mulder due to his son getting sick during the Gulf War, tells Mulder that everything he knows about aliens is a lie. He tells him that his sister's abduction was fabricated, that all UFO sightings are in fact military aircraft, and that all evidence of alien biology is naturally occuring scientific anomalies. Kritchgau tells him that the alien body is a fabrication as well, and that he was meant to see it and go public with the news, but to not realize that the body was actually fake. Mulder doesn't believe Kritchau, but returns to Arlinsky's warehouse, where he finds Arlinsky and Babcock dead and the alien body missing. Mulder still refuses to believe this was a hoax until Scully tells him Kritchgau told her that she was given cancer to make him believe.

A distraught Mulder sits in his apartment watching a conference about extraterrestrial life on TV. The narrative returns to the present where Scully reveals that Mulder died the previous night of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

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