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Secret Government Medical Facility. CSM is outside an operating room, smoking a death stick and completely ignoring the "No Smoking" sign. He walks in and we see Project Doctors operating on somebody's head. CSM wants the patient put back together and dressed because they're taking a trip. The doctor thinks he's crazy and says the boy could die. "Let me put it to you simply: it's him or it's us." CSM leaves and we see that doctors are working on the brain of Gibson Praise. He's awake. And he's bald. What have they done to Gibson? Aww. Sidebar: Where are Gibson's parents? He gets shot at in Vancouver, then he's living in a hotel being watched over by the FBI and then CSM kidnaps him. Was it ever explained or even asked if the kid had parents? Or am I having a brain fart? (Ed. Note: No, I think Chris Carter had a brain fart. You're fine. -- Starbucket)

Phoenix, Arizona. Mulder and Scully have arrived at Sandy 's house. Mulder cuts through the "Crime Scene" tape across the front door and walks in the house. Scully lingers in the doorway. "Mulder, I just want to remind you that by not informing local PD we are in technical violation of state laws prohibiting contamination of a crime scene." Mulder's not paying attention to her. "Why do I bother?" she mutters. Scully closes the door and examines the scratched and bloody doorknob. Mulder calls Scully to come and take a look at something. She walks into the hall and sees deep scratch marks in the wall, about 2-3 feet long. Mulder says the investigator reported that they're from an attack "by a Native American man on a scientist" and that he used his bare hands. Scully's like, "That's BS." Mulder removes a dark object from one of the scratch marks and holds it up in the light. "Aw. Somebody broke a nail." Mulder places it in Scully's hand. "Is it animal?" she asks. "Mineral? Vegetable?" Mulder makes a lame Ru Paul crack and then summarizes the attack for Scully: basically what we saw in the teaser. Scully guesses that the attacker never left the house. Mulder retorts, "There wasn't an attack. I think it was celebrating its birthday. The first victim must have gotten infected with the virus somehow. Right here on the sofa was where the creature was born." Scully shoots Mulder a warning, trying to reign him in. But he keeps going, "That would account for the violence done to the man's torso. The virus producing an extraterrestrial biological entity that ripped away his chest as it birthed itself right here." Then he shows Scully the picture of Sandy's corpse. How many times do we need to see it? Seriously. Scully comments on the unbelievably fast gestation time and then putting science aside, asks Mulder, "you're saying this was done by something newborn?" That's exactly what Mulder's saying.

Outside the house, CSM pulls up and he's got Gibson with him. Gibson's head is bandaged but he's bleeding through. Gibson tells CSM that the alien was at the house, but now it's gone. The driver wants to go inside and take a look. Gibson then looks nervous and emphatically tells CSM that it's not there. He knows Mulder and Scully are in the house. Aww, he's protecting them. Go, Gibson. Wait, so he must know that CSM has some kind of evil intentions towards them. Does that make sense? He then says that CSM is afraid of him. CSM says that he's not. Where can you get with lying to someone who can read your mind? Not far. "You think I can destroy you for what I know, because of what I am. You're thinking you could've destroyed me, too and if I don't find this creature, you will. And this lady you're using to manipulate Mulder cooked you blueberry pancakes this morning, with bacon and home fries. And after breakfast, you read Cracked magazine while you took your morning dump." CSM tells the driver that Gibson will find the alien.

Right before they drive off, Mulder and Scully are in mid-fight. "I don't see there's any argument here. You admit yourself that the crime report is a lie." Scully looks exasperated. "Mulder, that doesn't mean that I can just accept your theory." Just as CSM drives off, Mulder and Scully walk out of the house. "What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass?" Mulder snits. "I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen them, too but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder." Scully looks at Mulder imploringly. "Mulder, I know what you did. I know what happened to me but without ignoring the science, I can't... Listen, Mulder …" Scully grabs Mulder's hand. "You told me that my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... or honest." Is it just me, or is having Scully recap the hallway scene really irritating? But when she grabs his hand and reminds him of it, he does momentarily look like he might kiss her. Or he's at least thinking about it. Maybe. "I'm talking about extraterrestrial life alive on this planet in our lifetime. Forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong." And then he just walks away from her. What is wrong when the people annoying me the most in an episode are Mulder and Scully? This is not the Fight the Future-Mulder and Scully. What is going on with them? First, Scully is wrong. At this moment, her science isn't proving anything but that doesn't mean she can just deny what's clearly in her face: aliens. Second, Scully's science is what Mulder said keeps him honest, but not much time goes by before he completely throws it out the window. Argh!

Rolling Hills Nuclear Plant, 60 Miles East of Phoenix . I'm just gonna skim through this because this recap is getting LONG. So, Homer Simpson the engineer is sleeping and then he wakes up, goes to check on a systems malfunction in the plant and then the alien grabs his face. Ok, how did an alien end up going 60 miles from Sandy's house without being noticed? How did it get through security at the plant? And then even after Homer is murdered, it still hangs around? I'm getting a headache.