APOCRYPHA

            A French salvage vessel came into San Deigo...its crew dying of radiation exposure and its last                          given position was the site where we recovered the UFO

In 1953 a burned crewman talks to three government agents about his experience on the submarine Zeus Faber. He explains that he and other crew members on the submarine were locked in with their captain, who was infected by the black oil. After being knocked out from behind the black oil leaves the captain's body and exits a grate into the sea. It is revealed that the agents the burned crewman is talking to includes Bill Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man.

In the present, Mulder and Krycek arrive back in the U.S., but are run off the road by another vehicle. While Mulder is unconscious, two men from the other vehicle pull out Krycek but are severely injured by a flashing light emitted by him. The Cigarette Smoking Man sees their bodies and orders they be destroyed. Mulder awakens in the hospital with Scully there, who tells him that Skinner is in the hospital and that an analysis of the spit from the shooter reveals him to be the same man who shot her sister Melissa. The Syndicate meets to discuss the events surrounding the french salvage ship and realize that there has been an information leak. Skinner tells Scully that he recognizes his shooter as a man who was with Krycek when the digital tape was stolen from him. Mulder believes that the oil found on the diving suit and Gauthier is a medium used by an alien to transfer from body to body, and that Krycek is currently occupied by it.

Mulder and the Lone Gunmen use Krycek's key to recover the digital tape from a locker at an ice rink, but Mulder finds the case empty. Krycek returns the digital tape to the Cigarette Smoking Man in exchange for the location of the recovered U.F.O. The Syndicate is upset at the Cigarette Smoking Man for moving the U.F.O. to a new location and the fact that Skinner's shooting could expose him. Scully meanwhile identifies Skinner's shooter as a man named Luis Cardinal. By rubbing a pencil over the envelope containing the digital tape case, Mulder finds a phone number which connects him to the Syndicate's office. Mulder speaks to the Well Manicured Man who agrees to meet with him. The Well Manicured Man tells Mulder that the recovered U.F.O. was sunk during World War II and that a cover story of a sunken A-Bomb was used to cover up its attempted recovery. He reveals that anyone can be gotten to, causing Mulder to ask Scully to check on Skinner.

Scully heads to the hospital to check on Skinner and finds that he is being transported to another hospital in an ambulance. She travels along with him and when Luis Cardinal attempts to break in she tracks him down and arrests him. Cardinal tells her that Krycek has headed to an abandoned missile silo in North Dakota. The agents head there and go into one of the silos. They are soon captured by a group of armed soldiers led by the Cigarette Smoking Man and escorted away. Deep inside, Krycek sits atop the U.F.O., coughing out the black oil, which heads into the ship.

Skinner recovers and returns to work. Mulder sees Scully at Melissa's grave, telling her that Luis Cardinal was found dead in his cell. Krycek meanwhile is trapped within the silo, banging on the door in an attempt to be let out.

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