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Cut to Mulder running through the woods. It looks like dawn, so from about 1 am at the motel, it took him quite some time to get close to the crash site. Couldn’t he have driven there? Come to think of it, that’s probably not possible, with the evacuation going on. On the other hand, how did he get to the motel which is in Townsend? Oh well. Recapping these things makes mistakes even more glaring and numerous. How come this seems so difficult on TV? Alex Gansa and Howard Gordoin wrote this; the former was writing for Beauty and the Beast which I’ve never seen, and Howard Gordon is, I think, best known for X-files and 24. Insert your own traffic jam, bathroom, and continuity jokes here.

Mulder comes up to a laser grid in the middle of the woods which looks just like a quadrangle. From where I’m sitting, he could just walk around it. I’m not sure what this is supposed to do other than giving us a way to see Alien walk through it. Oh well, better a bad reason than no reason. We look upon some military guys, jeeps, trucks, a roadblock on a path which is apparently Mulder’s POV from the woods. They’re blocking their own military personnel. Nobody else is there. Well, except Mulder and he cannot be deterred!

We cut to operation Falcon headquarters, a truck enters and some other underling meets Henderson. He reprimands the underling that they’re late and that it is going to be dark in half an hour. Ok, so either I was mistaken and it was dusk when we saw Mulder last time, which makes him even slower than I thought, or I was right and he just spent a whole day Spoiler! underneath that truck. Sigh.

Other underling reports that they had a flat outside the perimeter. Aah, that’s where the perimeter problems on 24 originate. If you don’t know what I mean, read M. Giant’s 24 recaps. Every time the perimeter is being secured, someone gets through. Henderson: “There is a general briefing at 22.00 hours.” Ok, it’s not dark yet, they’re running late for whatever they’re doing (not that that aircraft is going anywhere) and they’re just gonna hang until the meeting? Recall, it’s not even dark yet. How did Gordon get to produce a show like 24 again?

To underline the seriousness of the situation Henderson ordered live rounds. Yes, survivors are very likely at this point, whenever this point is, so live rounds it is! Henderson must have been bored out of his mind. Other underling obviously seems to think this is a little excessive, since he’s been told that this was just a drill. He is obviously too scared of Henderson to say anything more. Well, Henderson is scary, so I don’t blame him. The soldiers were told this is a drill? Why would they do that? Because it’s them ways. I guess. Not because this is a retrieval unit and they need practice retrieving. Whatever. If I keep going like this, I might regret recapping one of my favourite episodes. Where is Scully?!

Other underling yells at soldiers to get out of the truck and we see Mulder crawling out from under the truck. I think I’ve made my problems with this clear already. Maybe being under the truck was like being in another time-space continuum.

It’s dark now. We are in the woods again and there is a bright light as is wont on the X-files. We follow some soldiers patrolling. I wonder if they have received their live rounds yet? Mulder scampers towards the light and we hear more soldiers muttering while Mulder obviously doesn’t. We see Mulder’s aaawww face as we cut to some overexposed area with guys in white hazmat suits blowing around the crash site with, I think some sort of fire extinguishers. It’s actually kinda cool looking, Of course, you can see the budget restraints but it’s not bad and somewhat endearing. Mulder whips out his huge camera (didn’t everybody wish he had a camera in Antarctica with him?) and starts clicking away all the while thinking, I wonder what Scully will say. The loud clicking alerts the soldiers and one of them hits Mulder on the head with his rifle butt. The camera keeps clicking.