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Lush Basement Office. CSM is sitting in Mulder’s chair and starts digging at Skinman for having Mulder in the basement. Skinman says at least he doesn’t need to take an elevator to get to work. CSM asks if Skinman thinks he is the devil. Skinman ain’t got no time for no jibber jabber, as he just wants to know what it will take to get Scully better. Aww. The two men are squared off. Skinman tells CSM he needs a miracle. CSM says, “You think an awful lot more of me than you let on Mr. Skinner.” Heh. Skinman demands angrily what it is going to take. CSM says he’ll get back to him on that and then asks Skinman which way the elevator is. Heh, again.

Lombard Research Facility. TLG are in a storm drain with their computers and other high-tech gear. I watched some behind-the-scenes stuff where the actors said they had to tape this scene themselves because the space was too small. This is so not important. We’re more than halfway through the episode and Scully still is not cured! Mulder and Byers get into the facility breaching the security system. He discovers that Dr. Scanlon’s name in the facility and sends Byers to warn Scully to stop treatment. Cue Scully’s voice-over as we see Scully coughing as she writes in her journal. Isn’t her health deteriorating rather rapidly? How long has it been since she agreed to treatment?

I have not written to you in the last 24 hours because the treatment has weakened my spirit, as well as my body. Mulder, it is difficult to describe to you the fear of facing an enemy which I can neither conquer nor escape. Penny Northern has taken a downturn. I now look at her with a respect that can only come from one who is about to walk the same dark path. Seeing her, I can't help but see myself in a month or a year. I pray that I have her courage to face this journey

Shot of Mulder in the hallway at the facility, as he’s trying doors. They are all locked.

Mulder, I feel you close though, I know you are now pursuing your own path. For that, I am grateful, more than I could ever express. I need to know you're out there if I am to ever see through this.

He asks Langley where he’s going and Langley says they are losing him. A security car pulls up at the Facility. The feed is so bad TLG can’t warn Mulder. Duchovny looks really delectable in the leather and hands-free ear thingy. He jiggles one particular door and then starts demanding the occupants to open the door. It opens and we see Kurt Crawford in a white lab coat, but there are three of them! Am I the only one that was shocked at this reveal, previous green goo shenanigans aside? Mulder observes they are hybrids. They ask him to come in so they can explain. He walks in and looks around, noticing green tanks with people in them. He wipes the mist off one of them and stares at a boy with his eyes closed. Mulder recognizes the boys are the hybrids. He accuses them of using him. They deny it and say it was just a coincidence. What?! Are the hybrids like the Cylons in the sense that they all have one stream of consciousness? Anyhoodle, they take him into a room with some kind of filing system, where each file has names of women on them. Kurt One (the one who seems to remember everything the previous Kurt we saw green goo-ed said and did with the agents) explains this is a storage system for human ova. One name is Penny’s, then Betsy’s. Kurt One stops in front of the one labeled Dana Scully. Kurt One explains the eggs were harvested during these women’s abductions and that they are half of the raw genetic materials. Mulder’s eyes light up as the penny drops that these are for genetic hybridization and that these women are the hybrids’ birth mothers. Kurt One says that they are trying to help these women because they are their mothers. It’s kinda sweet. Mulder pockets one of Scully’s vials, and leaves the rest behind. Seriously…WTF? Mulder gets out of the lab and TLG are back on the feed telling him there’s trouble. It gets all suspenseful as Mulder tries to get out of the facility, while the man who I am guessing killed the Kurt at Betsy’s, stalks him. Uh oh! There’s some shooting, but luckily the doors are bullet-proof. How convenient! And seriously, what kind of research facility is this? Mulder tells TLG to work faster at getting him out of there and they manage to get the door open just before the shooter gets to him.