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Colonel Henderson tells his underlings that they tracked a meteor which prompts Koretz to whine “but sir!”. I like her. She likes to stay with the facts, too. He orders her to report these “facts”. Male underling yessirs which prompts me not to try to find out what his name is. Koretz gives male underling a scolding look.

We cut to Henderson on the phone starting his conversation with Golf, indigo, Delta Echo niner. I looked up the military alphabet code and there is no indigo. Oh well, I’m just miffed that nobody ever starts calls with me like that. He then says: “I have a confirmed fallen angel in sector 87. Mobilize operation Falcon immediately.” Dun!

And we cut back to Deputy Wright who is walking towards the fire. When we cut to his POV, I think we’ve seen that shot of the fire before. There is a quick cut to Alien POV which moves very fast towards Deputy Wright with a screeching sound effect. The cut is so fast that it does seem somewhat threatening. Deputy Wright does notice something although I’m not sure what. The sound effect maybe? We get the obligatory close-up of the designated victim and he shines his flashlight into the woods, hesitantly calling out “hello?” He doesn’t get an answer and for some reason looks down. That’s when we get Alien POV again, moving very fast towards the deputy. He starts making faces while being bathed in a very harsh light, similar to the light we saw in the pilot when Mulder and Scully’s car broke down and they lost 9 minutes. I guess, for season 1, that counts as continuity. The deputy might be screaming but we don’t hear anything. We cut to his abandoned car to drive home the fact that the car is now all alone in the woods and in the world and cut to the credits.

We see a nice motel with the card: Budget-Rest Motel, Townsend Wisconsin, 12:57 a.m. Day 1. Wow. This is 6 minutes after the fire started. We hear the newscast on the fire already. Really fast reporters in Townsend, Wisconsin. And even faster evacuation procedures. On the other hand, when we cut to the TV screen to watch the cars slowly moving out of Townsend, it’s daylight. Do I need to point out the further disturbances in the time-space continuum here? I didn’t think so.

A Channel 5 news reporter tells us that a toxic spill in Townsend is the reason for the evacuation. We cut to Mulder’s hand turning down the volume to enable us to hear

echo-y flashback-Mulder’s voice. Artsy. Or not. You decide. I think I wouldn’t need to have the volume turned down in the present to hear a conversation of the past in my head. The following cuts back and forth between the conversation and present Mulder.

Flash-back Mulder: “Then what happened out there if it wasn’t a train wreck?”

Flashback echo-y Deep Throat: “Mulder, the continental United States are surrounded by an electronic fence which reaches 15,000 miles into space.“

And we cut to them standing outside in broad daylight. May I mention that Deep Throat is not answering Mulder’s question? Ok.

Flash-back Deep Throat: “We use it to track and monitor the 7,087 manmade objects that orbit the earth.”

That’s a fairly accurate number. Are we talking satellites, space garbage? And again, what does that have to do with anything? Is he trying to make Mulder paranoid? Has he met the guy?

“Last night at 23.17 that fence was breached.” Ah, we’re getting to the point now. Good. It takes that aircraft about an hour and 50 minutes to get to the ground from a height of 15,000 miles? I have no idea. If you like, work it out whether that makes sense. I never believed in Physics and Mulder told me in the pilot not to look for Physics anyway on this show. The echo-y sound is also not justified since they are standing outside. Maybe Mulder’s recollections have some reverb effect. Hollow skull? I’m sorry. I’ll get back to the task at hand now. We cut back to a close-up of Mulder lighting up his hand to check his flashlight. That doesn’t sound right but I don’t know why.

Deep Throat: “This morning at 01.00, operation Falcon went into effect…..”

Cut back to Mulder’s supposedly determined face but all I see is Duchovny looking sleepy.

“….led by Colonel Calvin Henderson, the air force’s reclamations expert.”

Mulder: “Reclamations?”

Deep Throat: “During the Cold War, his job was to prevent technologies from downed U.S. aircraft from getting into Soviet hands.”

So, I guess he’s out of a job now since the Cold War is over? Heh. No wonder he is so hell-bent on getting this aircraft. He’s been bored ever since the Cold War ended.

Flashback Mulder: “He’s part of a crash retrieval unit.”

Deep Throat: “Quick Response. I’d say you have about 24 hours until the area is sanitized. After that, it’ll be like nothing ever happened.”