THE X-FILES RECAPS: 6x01 - THE BEGINNING
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6X01: THE BEGINNING

Welcome to the Premiere of Season 6! A season whose tone is so up and down, you'd think Mulder and Scully were bipolar. There are many things you have to look forward to this season. Like Scully bitching at Mulder and Mulder bitching at Scully! And don't forget Diana Fowley's campaign to prove to Mulder that she has everything that Scully lacks! There's also some stuff about weird weather, psycho-analyzing ghosts, and baseball. But before we can get there, we have to start at the beginning. Do you see what I did just there? With "the beginning"? Get it?

Previously on The X-Files: CSM tried to have a 12 yr old chess prodigy named Gibson Praise assassinated because he could read minds. Mulder's ex Diana Fowley came back from Europe just as Mulder and Scully were on the verge of making a breakthrough with their work. Diana then worked alongside them as they tried to protect Gibson. While watching Gibson, Diana was shot and X-Philes everywhere prayed for her death. Mulder and Scully were taken off the X-Files and their office was burnt to a crisp. While they were working on a terrorist threat in Texas, Shadowman Michaud let a building blow up in his face to hide some bodies infected with the alien virus. The FBI's OPR tried to split Mulder and Scully up, blaming them for the building even though that makes no sense whatsoever. Strughold, a Syndicate member we'd never seen before, lisped all over the place and used some bad grammar which became a staple in the X-Philes universe. Mulder almost kissed Scully in his hallway but was thwarted by a bee containing the alien virus that waited 12 hrs to sting her. A fake ambulance took Scully to the airport, where CSM escorted her to Antarctica. Mulder got the vaccine and Scully's location from WMM before he offed himself in an exploding limousine. Mulder rescued Scully from an alien spacecraft buried in a glacier, but the vaccine woke the ship up and they barely made it out alive. Mulder watched the ship fly away for a minute before he passed out. Then Scully, who conveniently didn't see the ship, hugged him until he felt better. Afterwards, they somehow made it back to Washington even though Mulder's hellcat was out of gas and nobody on the planet knew where they were. Then while Strughold was looking over his corn crops in Tunisia, he got a telegram stating that the X-Files had been reopened. Everybody up to speed?

Phoenix, Arizona. We're greeted with an opening shot of the blazing sun, and it's pretty blinding. Thanks for rubbing it in our faces, 1013. Two men run out of the desert and onto a white van that was parked on the side of the road. The van has a DNA double helix Roush Technologies logo on the side. Oooh! That was the company Blevins was in cahoots with. Weren't they exposed in Redux II for messing around with the alien virus and basically being a front for the conspiracy's activities? Well, I guess it's nice to know they're still going strong. So the van is basically a group carpooling home from work and one of the nerds calls the other two guys "dipwads" for needing a potty break. What a jerk. I already hate him and I hope that there's some chance he gets killed by an alien. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Dipwad #1 gives The Jerk the finger and then he says the most awesome comeback ever! "Is that your IQ or the number of dipwads your mother had?" I really hope the van gets attacked by some mutated aliens.

A little later, this dude sitting next to The Jerk is sweating profusely and shivering uncontrollably. The Jerk calls him "Sandy" and tells him that he has to hold it until he gets home. I don't know about you guys, but having to pee really badly doesn't make me break out into a sweat or give me the chills. It looks as though he's got the flu. So, the van drops Sandy off at home and he looks really sick. When he gets inside his house, he turns the central air/heating box all the way up to HI. Instead of going upstairs to bed, he decides to sit on the couch and shiver. He looks as though he's in pain and as he lifts his hand, he sees that its gone all transparent and gooey-looking. He then starts convulsing a little bit.

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