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Outside the plant cops, fire trucks, etc are all over the place. Mulder and Scully drive up in their red Sensible Rental Car (Scully was driving!) and try to get in, but are blocked by Spender. He tells them that they are not authorized to be there. Scully tells him that they got a call about a murder. "Who called you? A.D. Skinner?" Mulder and Scully don't answer, so you know it was him. Spender then bitches about how Mulder has no right to be there and he's going to have Mulder censured, as well as Skinner. Diana "Smells Really" Fowley walks up and Mulder demands that she let him and Scully in. Diana says that the plant has been closed by the NRC. Mulder tells her someone was murdered. Diana says that it was just an accident caused by a systems malfunction. Mulder wants to know why she's there then. Diana tells him that she and Spender got a call about a possible connection to other deaths, from a file that was stolen from their office. "That's my office, bitch." Mulder doesn't really say that. But you know he was thinking it. Mulder tells her that there is a connection. Scully then grabs Mulder's arm and tells him they should leave. "I hope you know what you're doing, Diana. I hope you know whose errand you're running." Diana tells him she does. OK! SIDEBAR!!!: Based on this conversation, it is obvious that Diana's loyalties are compromised. Mulder recognizes this and you can see he feels betrayed. Since Mulder's dedication to Scully was strengthened even more just recently in the movie, his judgment concerning Diana shouldn't be clouded at all. Which makes Mulder's actions for the rest of this episode, and not to mention the debacle that is Two Fathers/One Son, completely nonsensical. Anyways, Mulder lets Scully lead him back to the car. You know he loves it when she grabs him. When they get to the car, Mulder glances into the back seat and tells Scully to give him the keys. Scully looks into the back seat, then gets in next to Gibson. He's lying down and she places his head in her lap. She tries to wake him, but he won't respond.

Davy Crockett Motor Court. Whoops! Camelback View Motel. Gibson's lying on the bed and Scully is removing his bandages. Mulder walks in the room and then sits on the bed next to Gibson. Mulder and Scully check out Gibson's wounds, which are really gross. Gibson asks them if they really think he looks like Frankenstein. Scully looks down, and tells him that he was worked on by some really good doctors and they did a fine job with his stitches. How far can you get lying to someone who can read minds? "You think they were butchers." Yeah, not far. Mulder, who knows that it's pointless to lie, affirms the butcher opinion. Scully is in Mommy Mode, and gently tells Gibson that the doctors should've changed his bandages, that he's got some swelling and infection. Scully asks Gibson why this happened. "'Cause I can read people's minds." Mulder asks Gibson how he got in their Sensible Rental Car. "When they weren't looking, I snuck away. It's easy when you know what they're thinking." Mulder wants to know why Gibson's in Arizona. "They were using me 'cause I can communicate with it." Scully's like, "What's 'it'?" Gibson calls her out on her denial, saying "You already know. You just don't want to believe it." Mulder and Scully share one of their Fortuitous Glances, and Mulder gestures her over to the other side of the room. Mulder wants to use Gibson as an Alien Detector and Scully wants to protect him, saying that he belongs in the hospital and that he needs to be cared for. Scully says that she's acting in Mulder's best interest and they have to make sure that nothing happens to Gibson. Yeah, because that worked out so well before. Scully says that Gibson is their scientific evidence, the key to everything in the X-Files. Mulder whines that they don't have the X-Files anymore. Scully tells him that maybe Gibson can confirm everything Mulder's been saying that he might be their "last, best chance". They look over at Gibson, who's falling asleep.

Later, Mulder carries Gibson out to the car and Scully's in the driver seat. She's getting a lot of driving in this episode. Just as Mulder puts Gibson in the back seat, a car pulls up with its high beams on. Oh, man. It's Diana " I Believe You, Mulder!" Fowley. She tells him that she's getting out of the car. "I'm alone, alright?" As in, Spender's not with her. Mulder shuts the car door and walks over to Diana's car. "Diana, what are you doing here?" Mulder's in no mood, ya'll. This is the tone he should've kept with her for the rest of the season. Heck, the rest of this episode. Diana tells him that she had to put up a front earlier, that she was only offered the assignment and she took a chance to take it. Yeah, CSM offered it. "I'm listening." No! Mulder, don't listen to her! Diana tells him that she's only serving his best interests because she believes in the work. Then she reminds him that it was she who discovered the X-Files with him. That is such crap. You know even that act alone was probably a manipulation. Diana joins the FBI in 1991, just happens to come across the X-Files and shows Mulder. Then she skips town. I bet her getting together with Mulder when he was in the Academy was planned. She's probably been working for CSM all along. Anyways, Mulder ain't exactly buying this line and wants to know who sent her. She says that she's here on her own. "Why? To convince me of your noble intentions?" he sarcasms. She then tells him about the alien in the plant and they have to go find it before "they" destroy it. "You need proof, Fox. You're so close. Why can't you see that?" I seriously want to puke. Mulder goes back to Scully's car and Scully wants to know what's up. He tells her to take Gibson. And that he's going to find the alien. Mulder then goes back to Diana's car. Scully wonders where "that woman" is taking her boyfriend. Ok, he's ditching Scully for Diana? What? Ooh! I think I'm getting this. So, CSM has stationed Diana in a position to make Mulder think he has an ally against Spender. But really, she's just there to manipulate Mulder and to keep him controlled. Forcing a wedge between Mulder and Scully is obviously one of CSM's intentions. Mulder's decision to leave Scully and go off with Diana is proof that CSM's plan is working. But Mulder's actions make no sense. He has to know she's compromised, and yet he'll just trust her blindly. Whatever.