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Analysis of the
number of mytharc
episodes per season, by Jim Kathan
Note: This section just outlines the main conspiracy
elements of
each episode, with little attempt to tie things together across the
whole
series. Thus, there may well be contradictions, especially between
early seasons
and later ones.
Season 1 is tricky as we don't yet have one "Project."
Instead we
are faced with a whole host of cover-ups and things, most of which
are never
linked to any others.
For most of the case, the cover-up is actually the work of the
fathers of
two of the affected people, rather than a government cover-up. It's
nice to
remember that not all conspiracies are The Conspiracy. However, we
do get some
of that too:
- A government-military body is suppressing evidence of alien
abduction.
Cigarette-Smoking Man is seen storing an implant in a vast Pentagon
warehouse,
and person or persons unknown burns Mulder and Scully's motel room
and steals a
body from the autopsy lab (though this could be the work of the
local cover-up).
As yet there is no suggestion that the government involvement goes
beyond this.
- Someone high-up in government is concerned about Mulder's work.
This is
suggested both by the very fact that Scully was assigned in the
first place, and
by the fact that Mulder says how his research is being blocked.
- Mulder has connections in Congress that may explain why he's
been allowed
to carry on.
- Mulder and Scully lose nine minutes (maybe). Did something
happen to them
in this time?
- The military, at Ellen's airbase, are flying experimental planes
that do
things no plane can supposedly do yet.
- The military is not above roughing people up to keep them away.
They use
methods that are not quite legal, both on intruders (Mulder) and the
pilots who
crack under the strain. When a pilot cracks, he's spirited away
rather than risk
him telling.
- The military - or, at least, the Air Force - possesses the
technology to
selctively wipe someone's memory.
- Mulder's phone is bugged
Mulder's theory:
- The planes are based on recovered UFO technology from Roswell.
Mulder says
Ellen's airbase is one of six bases which received Roswell wreckage.
Deep Throat
more or less backs this one up. It may also be backed up by the fact
that the "UFO"
in "Apocrypha" is the same shape as the plane Mulder
sees.
This is pretty much a straight alien abduction case with little
or no
suggestion of government involvement. However, viewing it in the
context of what
comes later may give it a different interpretation.
- NSA agents act menacingly. However, they appear more concerned
with the
secret transmissions Kevin is receiving rather than in covering
things up.
Nevertheless, whatever their motives, their methods are typical
"Them."
Also, as we see in "Nisei," NSA agents could very well be
on the "Them"
side.
- Nice treatment of the ridicule suffered by people who have seen
a UFO. If,
as is occasionally hinted later, the whole UFO business is a red-
herring so
witnesses to the top secret government stuff won't be believed, then
this could
be seen as an example of this.
- Ruby Morris has symptoms of weightlessness when she is returned,
suggesting
that at least some of the alien abductions are indeed alien and not
the work of
Japanese scientists. No steel table in a box car for her.
(References to "Nisei")
- Are the aliens broadcasting the Voyager messages back to earth?
This seem
to be the case, as Kevin receives some of the Voyager messages. This
ties in
with "Little Green Men."
Mulder and Scully are called in by some secretive "covert
organisation."
However, they end up being quite open and honest at the end and
there is no
signs of any connection with "Them." They are tracking a
group of
terrorists so of course they're rather secretive.
The Defense Department are interested in the artificial
intelligence. Deep
Throat is in a position to know about this. However, this is never
linked in to
the main Project, at least, not as far as we know. It's probably
another
secretive government agency.
Somebody - maybe the military? - torches all the evidence as soon
as Mulder
and Scully leave. It could be for legitimate medical grounds, but
could be more
sinister. Did "They" know about the whole thing in the
first place and
just want to test its effect? Have they salvaged their own samples
of the worms
and are even now working on how to use them, whole wanting to
destroy them so
no-one else can use them? Making people act odd is one of
Their
projects, as in Wetwired.
Mulder's theory:
- The failure of the Hubble telescope and the Mars observor are
attempts to
keep the truth from us. They can not let us see evidence of alien
civilisation.
- The ghosty thing from space is trying to keep us away so we
don't discover
anything else. This is why it is sabotaging the shuttle. However,
there is no
suggestion it is in league with Them in any way, though this is the
same sort of
thing as They get up to.
- Deep Throat saves Mulder's job. Section Chief Joseph MacGrath,
in charge of
discipline within the FBI, seems to be one of "Them." He
tells Deep
Throat how "we" have always wanted to get Mulder
disgraced. (This
raises the question of how Mulder manages to get away with so many
discliplinary
breaches later, if the boss of the disclipine section is a
"Them."
Maybe Skinner has something to do with it.)
- Max Fenig has a scar that other alleged abductees also have
(presumably an
implant). He inexplicably started suffering from epilepsy after a
past incident,
that Mulder thinks was an abduction. He seems to be acting under the
control of
something else. At the end, he floats up into the air and disappears.
Mulder, of course, thinks Max Fenig was abducted by aliens, both
in the past
and in the present
- There is something running around that is invisible, can throw
people
around, and can cause awful radiation burns.
Mulder's theory is that a UFO crashed, stranding an alien. (This
is not like
an alien we see later - not a shape-shifter or a grey). The military
want to
catch it. A bigger alien ship comes to retrieve it, and takes Max
Fenig too.
- Whatever it is that is happening here, the military are very
concerned to
stop it, and keep it secret. However, this doesn't appear to be too
close to the
Conspiracy. They are trying to catch the alien and kill it. There's no
suggestion yet of being in league with them.
- The Eves are identical and have heightened powers. They also
have the urge
to kill.
- The Eves were created by genetic engineering. Deep Throat says
it's a
government project called the Lichfield Project, designed to create
the perfect
human. It is thus similar to what "They" were getting up
to in
episodes like "Red Museum" and "Young at Heart."
- Cloning: Is this anything to do with the alien clones seen in
Colony etc?
Is it some sort of human counterpart to the aliens' cloning
experiments? A
side-project? Did Deep Throat only tell Mulder about it as They had
decided it
was time to end the experiment?
- The Government has sponsored Dr Ridley's research and are
attempting to
deal with Barnett, a criminal, to get the papers of the research. At
the end of
the episde, despite the attempts of the Smoking Man, the research
hasn't been
recovered.
- The research deals with reversing the ageing process and
regrowing severed
limbs.
- Mulder assumes at this point that the character played by
William B Davis
(it's not clear whether we are supposed to see him as the same
character, or as
an early example of the reusing of the same actor for two roles)
works with the
CIA
- Something crashes at the start. It seems to have been a UFO of
some sort.
The contents, which are probably alive, were then transported by
truck across
America, ending up a high-security base. The truck driver was a
military Blue
Beret, though he was supposed to look like a simple civilian,
- During this time people reported heightened UFO activity. Mulder
thinks
this is a rescue party, rather like in "Fallen Angel."
- News of the crash was sent to the "Majestic Project"
- Some UFO photos are deliberately faked to put people off the
scent. Deep
Throat gets pictures faked for Mulder, and says he used their best
experts,
implying this has been done before.
Theories
- Deep Throat's story: After Roswell an international conference
decided that
any live alien who came to earth would be killed. Deep Throat did
this once, and
has been haunted by guilt.
This claim is more or less supported by later episodes. However,
we later
learn that the government is certainly not exterminating some sorts
of aliens -
the shapeshifters.
- Mulder suggests that humans with sonic weapons and things can
simulate many
of the characteristics of alien encounters, but they can't mess
about with time.
He uses this as proof that the alien in the truck was spirited away
by humans,
in the end, rather than an alien rescue mission.
From this, we must wonder just how many of the characteristics of
alien
abduction can be faked? Can human technology make people levitate?
Was Max Fenig
abducted by humans? Was Samantha?
Cancerman's first words. The FBI authorities are beginning to
question the
legitimacy of the X-Files. The X-Files division is now the personal
responsibility of the Assistant Director. Skinner seems to defer to
Cancerman.
Nice example of how "They" can use totally unrelated
incidents as
an excuse to get at Mulder. There is no suggestion at all that
"They"
had anything to do with Tooms, yet he nearly caused the X-Files to
be shut down.
Deep Throat's tale
- :Alien DNA has been in the hands of certain covert groups within
the
government since 1947. However, until recently they haven't had the
technology
to do anything exciting with it. (This seems to be contradicted by
Paper Clip.)
However, they have been performing experiments with alien viruses
for years.
- There have been half a dozen better salvage operations than
Roswell
- Dr Berube was injecting the alien DNA into terminally ill
volunteers. They
were kept in green vats for a while, but when the process was
finished they had
super human powers, green blood and their illnesses (eg cancer) were
gone. This
suggests they might be used in some future war.
- The Project was just an experiment to see that the process would
work.
Actually having living, breathing hybrids on the loose wasn't
desired, so
everyone concerned with the project is being killed. This suggests
that, if they
are to be used in a war, no-one expects it to be soon.
- The Project is called Purity Control - or, at least, the flask
has this
label and it's the password Scully has to guive to get into the High
Containment
facility.
- The cloned DNA is taken from an alien foetus, like the one
Scully has. It
has been already injected into people to see what happens. He tells
Scully of a
case in 1987 when lots of children were injected.
- Mulder is too high-profile to kill.
What we actually see
- The hybrid's blood is green and toxic, though not as toxic as the
shapeshifter's in End Game. It causes the eyes, nose and mouth to go
all red and
makes people cough.
- The stuff labelled "Purity Control" contains the fifth
and sixth
nucleotides, which do not exist in nature on this earth. It also has
some
viruses that have been cloned.
- Scully holds what is said to be an alien-human hybrid foetus.
- Mulder and Scully got close enough to the truth for the X-Files
to be shut
down and Deep Throat to be killed
- The Pentagon vault has lots of similar jars to the one Scully
finds.
- For some reason, something is sending the Voyager messages back
to earth.
Why? Is this an odd way of sending a greeting? Why do they erase the
evidence
later? Were they expecting something more of a reception committee
at Aricebo
than one cowering and terrified FBI agent?
- The Blue Berets are a retrieval force. They can kill civilians,
and don't
even seem to require secrecy about it. They can operate in daylight
in Puerto
Rico.
- Mulder's memories of Samantha's abduction are different again.
This could
be evidence that his memories are being tampered with, or as a
suggestion that
all his recovered memories are of doubtful accuracy. (And, yes, I
know it's just
bad writing really)
- The SETI program and the Voyager follow-ups are being suppressed
by "Them"
who don't want us to know about extraterrestrial life. Or maybe they
don't want
the SETI program to pick up their own transmissions to their
friendly aliens the
shapeshifters.
- Mulder (probably) sees one of the grey type of aliens, who come
with very
bright white light and time distortion. He may have lost time.
- The Blue Beret team are trying to stop Mulder from
contacting
these aliens. This suggests that these aliens are not in league with
Them.
- Somebody is sending subliminal messages to people, making them
act oddly.
It's never explained who is doing it. However, the link with
Wetwired suggests
it could very well be an early version of that project, and that is
a side-line
of Them.
- X's first appearance. He mentions being a friend of Deep Throat,
and says
he doesn't really want to help Mulder.
- The whole Krycek plot, and the debriefing at the end, show that
Mulder and
Scully are still getting too close to things that "They"
would rather
were kept quiet.
- The plot concerns a Vietnam War project to build a better
solider by
eliminating the need to sleep. It's more on Their use of humans as
test
subjects, and the military motives behind a lot of their
actions.
- Duane Barry's flashbacks suggest he was repeatedly abducted by
aliens, of
the bright white light / grey variety. He also has implants of a
metal not known
on earth. However, his mind is disturbed and we know that They can
implant
memories. He could have been abducted onto a plane like we saw in
Deep Throat
and experimented on by the Japanese.
- Barry says the government knows about it, and are often there in
the same
room where the tests take place.
- Barry was probably directed by Them to Scully's home. Krycek and
Smoking
Man exchange a meaningful look when the question of how Barry found
her is
raised. She was then taken and handed over by him to either the
aliens (as he
believes) or the Japanese scientists (as we see in Nisei and 731).
Barry thinks
he sees a UFO but Mulder insists it was only a helicopter. (Remember
EBE as well
- how "they" can fake certain UFO characteristics.)
- Scully is eventually returned. Smoking Man says it is because he
"likes
her," and likes Mulder. Maybe it's because they've done all
they could with
her. Maybe it's because they've fitted her with an implant (Blessing
Way) and
want her back with Mulder so they can monitor their doings via the
implant.
- Why do They steal Scully's blood in the hospital, when they've
had three
months to take samples? Are they testing her even now - monitoring
her possible
recovery?
- Scully has been gentically experimented on. Her DNA has been
mutated. The
Lone Gunmen suggest it could be some sort of biological tracking
device, or else
attempts to merge human DNA with something inhuman - ie some sort of
hybridisation experiment.
- A doctor is being paid to inject local children with Purity
Control
substance. This is just like the 1987 experiment Deep Throat tells
Scully about
in the Erlenmeyer Flask.
- The substance makes them immune to disease but also makes the
act violently
and out of character.
- Bovine growth hormone comes into it somewhere too. It may or may
not be
related.
- When the cover is blown, Crewcut man comes in to erase all
evidence of what
has happened. Alternatively, we could see the experiments as the
"Colony"
aliens' own hybridisation experiments, which were never approved of
by "Them"
anyway. Maybe....
The Fake Samantha's story:
- The clones are the progeny of two original settlers who came to
Earth in
the 40s (Roswell?). They have green blood and corrode after death.
The survival
of the original two is more important than the survival of the clones.
- They all look the same, so have to live apart. They have been
using human
tissue, obtained from abortion clinics, to try and ensure that, in
future, the
clones don't look the same.
- The Colony believes that humans are surrendering their
stewardship of the
planet and they will be able to step in and inherit it. There is no
mention of
military action here.
- These hybridisation experiments weren't authorised and are
condemned as a
dilution of the blood. A bounty hunter has been dispatched to kill
them. He also
has green blood. The implication here is that he is sent by the home
planet (he
arrives in a craft from the sky) who are the ones who disapprove of
the dilution
of the blood. As yet there is no suggestion that the government is
in league
with the bounty hunter. However, given later revelations, maybe it
is them
who have sent him, objecting to the unauthorised dilution of human
blood.
Other theories and facts:
- Another visit by the aliens who appear in great flashes of light
and who
make time go all funny. This time they appear to be taking animals and
harvesting their babies, in some sort of conservation project, or
extra-terrestrial zoo.
- According to Mulder, the scientists on the Philadelphia Project
(making
ships invisible to radar) were all relocated to Roswell where they
continued
their work using alien technology. After a bit of work here, they
were able to
make a ship disappear into a wormhole on earth - reappearing miles
away in
minutes.
- Cancerman's justification for covering up disease - the truth
would cause
panic and panic would cost lives.
- References to haemorrhagic fever, which the "hybrid"
in Nisei and
731 is supposed to be infected with. Cancerman talks about an
outbreak in 1988.
Was this another escaped hybrid?
- Pinck Pharmaceuticals have been experimenting with the new
contagion. The
government, or the Consortium, have either helped cover up the
tracks, or have
been behind it from the start.
- Dr Banton has experimented with dark matter and has accidentally
ansured
that his shadow is lethal. A government agency that X is involved in
wants to
use this - presumably as a weapon. They seem to have known about the
potential
all along as one of Banton's colleagues is a "Them."
- Banton fears a "brain suck." At the end we see
something like
this happening. Is looks as if They can download someone's memories.
Maybe...
Anasazi
See season 3, as it's best explained in the context of its two
sequels
The Consortium:
- The Consortium involves America, Japan, Germany, Italy, and
maybe many
more. Well Manicured Man sounds English. They represent global
interests, so
aren't really "the government" at all.
- There are divisions within the Consortium. Bill Mulder wanted
out long ago.
Cancerman ("our friend in Washington"), and Well Manicured
Man seem to
have some sort of power struggle. Cancerman keeps lying to his
colleagues,
saying everything is under control. He also denies having ordered
Bill Mulder's
murder. Maybe this was one of his colleagues, fed up at Cancerman
protecting his
friends? However, at other times the colleagues seem to disapprove of
Cancerman's violent methods.
- The American branch of the Consortium meets in New York in a
gentlemen's
club.
- The Consortium can handle to FBI internally and influence
judges. They kill
people in one of two ways - leaving an unregistered weapon at the
scene and then
fleeing the country (as they do to Melissa), or having the victim
killed by
someone they trust. Does this mean a shapeshifter - someone who
looks like
someone they trust?.
The Project
- After the war, Axis scientists were let off their crimes if they
worked for
the government (Operation Paperclip). This work (the Project) involved
experimenting on "merchandise" - though whether this was
aliens,
hybrids or deformed humans is not yet known. From the smallpox scars
we are
probably to deduce it's maybe humans who have been experimented upon
until they
become deformed hybrids.
- The Project dates from the 1940s or 50s (as we hear in the
Erlenmeyer
Flask, EBE, End Game etc) Cancerman says Bill Mulder was the
originator of the
Project, though this is not confirmed.
- The people / hybrids / aliens experimented upon were called
"merchandise"
and were killed when the experiment was over. The ones in the boxcar
were killed
with hydrogen cyanide. The vultures won't touch them, suggesting
they have
something nasty in them - radiation? Is this why they were buried in
New Mexico
near Los Alamos, so no-one would notice?
- The file that has information on everything is called MJ. It is
encrypted
in Navajo.
- Scully has an implant in her neck, and her name is in the MJ
files, in
connection with Duane Barry, and a test. There is also a recent
tissue sample of
hers in the mines.
Well Manicured Man's story:
Other stuff
- Albert Hosteen says the Anasazi were abducted hundreds of years
ago and the
aliens still come back.
- What was that great ship Mulder saw, and the alien Scully saw?
- One of the men brought into the US by Operation Paperclip was Dr
Ishimaru.
He was involved in Unit 731, which experimented on captives in the
war. He has
been carrying out similar experiments ever since.
- Many people who think they have been abducted by aliens have in
fact been
taken to steel tables in boxcars and experimented upon by Ishimaru
and his
colleagues. Scully remembers his face from her abduction.
- The people who have been abducted in the same way as Scully all
had
implants in their necks and all end up getting cancer, due, perhaps,
to the
radiation experiments. They also all seem to be women at this point.
They
remember a "bright white place" and can remember Scully
from there.
The implant was manufactured in Japan.
- Scully's implant is a neural network that can possibly transmit
her
thoughts. However it is doubtful if it ever did that, given that
They didn't
know about X's connection with Mulder as soon as Scully found out.
- A ship called the Talapus has salvaged a WWII plane from the
ocean. Mulder
sees this and thinks it's a UFO. He also thinks the EBE from the UFO
is the one
Dr Ishimaru and his friends were working on, in their attempts to
create an
alien-human hybrid.
- Scully, however, is told by the Elder that the whole thing is
medical
experiments on the under-class of humans. There is no alien
involvement at all,
she says. The "hybrid" is a human leper.
She is also told that Ishimaru's experiments were done without
the knowledge
of the government and that he (the Elder and therefore the
Consortium) are
trying to stop them.
- The Japanese doctors are killed and the hybrid / mutant is to be
destroyed
with a bomb. This is probably (or so Mulder's told) because the
American side of
the Consortium don't want to Japanese government to know, nor for
them to get
their hands on the hybrid / mutant.
Alternatively it could be yet more of the clean-up operation
we see in
the Erlenmeyer Flask, by which the Project only wants to see that the
experiments work and don't actually want to have to deal with the
possible
security risk of living and breathing evidence and witnesses.
Or it could even be more of the Colony style attempts to stop
"dilution
of the blood."
- The assassin on the train claims to be an NSA agent.
- The Red-Haired Man tells Mulder the hybrid has been created as a
weapon - a
person who is immune to most ordinary weapons.
- The "hybrid" is supposedly infected with haemorrhagic
fever,
tying in with Cancerman's account, in F Emasculata, of his role in
suppressing a
past outbreak.
- The cover story: A B-52 carrying a nuclear bomb crashed in the
ocean. The
Zeus Faber was sent to retrieve it and all the crew suffered
radiation burns. It
is still there, until recently salvaged.
- The truth: There was a black oily thing in the wreckage that
possessed the
captain of the ship. Eventually it left him and dripped back into
the sea. It
could kill by radiation in a bright flash of light.
- Young Cancerman, Bill Mulder and Deep Throat interviewed a
survivor and
learnt of this. This suggests that the Consortium were surprised by
the presence
of this particular alien.
- The report of the 1950s case was in the MJ files that Krycek
obtained at
the end of Paper Clip. He has been selling the secrets to the
highest bidder.
This is how the French have come to know about the wreckage. This
suggests the
French aren't in on the Project.
- The black alien's craft was raised by the Americans in
"Nisei."
However the black thing seems to have evacuated somehow and taken
residence in
another crashed plane. Why? I don't know.
- The black gloopy thing appears to take people over completely so
they have
no memory of the time in which they were possessed. It can
theatrically cloud
over their eyes. When it is in someone's body it can walk and talk
English, so
presumably accesses their memories. It can kill people in a flash on
blinding
light which burns them severely. It seems to need physical contact
to pass from
person to person.
Is this it's natural form or just a convenient one for
travelling? If it's
natural form is black goo, why would it need a large triangular
ship? The black
goo is supposed to be diesel oil, suggesting the alien has yet
another form and
the black oily form is in itself just a convenient form it assumes.
However, it
does seem to stick with this oily form quite a bit.
- The black thingy is concerned only to get back to its ship. It
is not
in league with the Consortium. When Krycek is taken over, the alien
in his body
confronts Cancerman, blackmailing him to get him to tell him where
his ship is.
- The black alien's craft is triangular, just like the military
UFOs seen in
Deep Throat.
- The black alien can survive at the bottom of the ocean for 50
years.
- The Consortium used to keep downed UFOs at a base in Nevada
(Area 51?), but
this has recently become unviable. They are now kept at abandoned
missile silos
in North Dakota.
Disclaimer: Due to the nature of this episode, nothing can really
be
believed.
- The military is using post-hypnotic suggestion to fill people's
heads with
the idea that they have been abducted by aliens. (Maybe)
- Secret planes are being disguised as UFOs to confuse the enemy.
(Maybe)
- Weird things like Lord Kimbote, Men in Black, Alex Trebeck etc
are added so
witnesses won't be believed, even if something of what they see is
the truth.
(Maybe)
- The alien autopsy tape is edited by the Men in Black (or their
masters)
then issued on video in such as way as to make the whole affair look
ridiculous.
Mulder and Scully can't therefore go public on what really happened
as they'd
look silly. (Maybe)
- People are getting their memory wiped (Definitely!. Scully loses
a whole
evening)
- Are the Men in Black shapeshifters like we see in Colony? Or is
the whole
thing about them looking like celebrities caused by witnesses'
memories being
interfered with later?
- We can never believe any witness, no matter how convincing.
Truth is
subjective. Memories get altered. Oh dear...
- Skinner has been protecting Mulder and Scully too much. This is
Their
attempt to discredit him.
- X is Cancerman's inferior, and his cover hasn't been blown. He
uses one if
his own subordinates to leak information to Mulder then has to kill
him to cover
his tracks. However, Cancerman does know that there is a leak from
somewhere.
- Mulder and Scully's discoveries compromise the security of the
experiment
so everyone involved in it is killed. X is the one who has to lead
the cover up,
though he tries to do it slowly and give Mulder a chance to find the
truth
first.
- The whole thing is a project to see if people can be influenced
via
subliminal messages in television. According to X, it goes much
further than
commerce or politics. Is this a tool to make everyone docile and
accepting when
the colonisation happens? Or is it to make everyone violent in the
event of a
war - or a hostile invasion of aliens?
- Jeremiah Smith is a clone and a shapeshifter. He has "gone
bad"
on the Project. He has decided to use his powers to the betterment
of the human
lot and offer them "hope." Cancerman says people are too
stupid and
must be ruled and manipulated. He wants them to lose their faith in
everything
but science. Why? Is this because the revelation of the
"truth," when
it comes, will then shatter their last belief, leaving them weak and
helpless?
(We only have to look at Scully to see that, in her eyes, what we
suspect to be
the "truth" is contary to her science).
- "The date has been set" for colonisation. According to
Smith,
Cancerman wants to be a part of it - to be one of the commandants
when the
process begins
- Smith hints that healing and morphing are not the full extent of
his
powers. Well, he can also make bullets disappear and clean blood-
stained
clothing. He can maybe read minds when he knows exactly who to morph
into in
order to worry Cancerman (but this may come from knowledge of the
records) and
can diagnose Cancerman as having cancer, presumably just by looking
at him.
- Cancerman, for all his rhetoric, puts his own life before the
project. He
also puts Mrs Mulder's life before the Project too, for all his
pseudo-justification about it being because Mulder mustn't be pushed
too far.
- The Bounty Hunter from Colony is now working at the beck and
call of the
Consortium. He is sent to kill Smith - presumably because only he
(and Mulder,
now) has the right weapon, or because he alone is immune to the
effects of the
toxic blood.
- A possible suggestion that Smith has hypnotic powers when he
talks down the
gun man.
- Smith works at the social security offices. He is collecting
data on the
people in the form on genetic information derived from smallpox
vaccinations.
Scully suggests these are some sort of genetic marker and has been
going on for
fifty years. The human race has all been inventoried, in preperation
for the
colonisation.
- Some alien plant is grown, and bees make honey from it. These
bee stings
are deadly. Do the aliens need this for food, or something? Or is
the plant just
there in order to maintain the killer bees, vital in the
colonisation plan?
- The plants are tended by "drones." These are clones,
without
words. The girl looks like eight-year old Samantha but doesn't
remember Fox.
Smith himself is a drone, but in his case he can speak. The drones
are immune to
bee stings, but the Bounty Hunter isn't, though they don't kill him.
(And why do
his bee stings bleed red?)
- Why do the clones look like Samantha? Why is Mrs Mulder called
"the
mother." Why is Fox so important to the project? Are the Mulder
children
not entirely human? Or is it just that Bill Mulder used his
daughter's genetic
material when it came to starting the cloning project, just because
it was
convenient?
- Smith says they are creating a "new order of species."
He calls
it "the process." It is not clear how much of this is the
work of the
aliens on their own and how much is the work of the
Consortium.
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