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FBI Lab of Pissy Partners. Mulder's working on gluing back together the burned up X-Files. The door opens and Mulder makes the panic face, but then relaxes when he sees that it's just Scully. Mulder tells her to shut the door. "It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told." Scully gives him an eyebrow. "Everything WE were told, Mulder." Sidebar: I really, really hate that about Mulder. He's always all, MY office, MY work, ME ME ME ME. When it's THEIR office and THEIR work. Gah. Anyways, Mulder tells Scully that they can't take away the X-Files. "You know, Agent Fowley's report to OPR painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed." Yeah, right. I'd bet my life on the fact that Scully was really hoping Diana would betray him. Mulder refuses to look at Scully and says that Diana was just protecting the X-Files. Oh, my God. What is wrong with him? "Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who, as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you." Mulder then defends Diana by saying that she put herself at great risk to help him (OMG! Something Scully would NEVER do!!!), and "[he] saw something that [Scully refuses] to believe in." He says that Diana saw the alien too, even if she didn't write it in her report and Diana's not going to walk around saying she didn't see it just because science can't explain it. For crying out loud. Except she totally did deny it by not putting it in her report! Ok, he's really pissing me off. The Mulder in Fight the Future would never have treated Diana's betrayal like this. And why is he treating Scully so aggressively? And why does Mulder always forget how important Scully is to him whenever Diana and The Jugs make an appearance? I mean, it's like he's tossing Scully out the window, someone who kept him honest and made him a whole person, in exchange for Diana's supposed unquestioning belief in the paranormal. "I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust." Mulder finally looks at her. "I guess it always has," she says. Mulder asks her if she wants him to make a choice. The answer is yes, of course. But she doesn't exactly say it like that. "I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me." She hands Mulder a folder. "I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true." See what I mean? If I were Scully, I'd smack him upside the head. But we are very different people. Scully tells Mulder that the folder contains test results that match the DNA in the virus to the DNA in the claw they found in Sandy's wall, which matches DNA found in Gibson. Mulder is looking through the folder and you can tell he thinks they're on the verge of a breakthrough. "You're saying that Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?" Scully tells Mulder that it's a part of his DNA, and all humans' DNA. "It's inactive junk DNA. Except in Gibson it's turned on." Mulder looks at Scully. "So if that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial." Scully does her patented breathy answer: "It would mean that all of us are." Didn't Scully say at the start of the episode that the DNA in the virus isn't extraterrestrial? So, now she's saying that it might be? Or that since humans contain the DNA, what is terrestrial is actually extraterrestrial? That whole We All Came From The Aliens thing that gets discussed in later episodes? Or am I just confused? You be the judge.

Nuclear Plant Of A Terrestrial Boy Who Has Extraterrestrial DNA And Can Communicate With An Actual Extraterrestrial Although It's Never Fully Explained How. Apparently the party's over because Gibson's sitting on the floor and A-Dawg is taking a bath in the water tank. And inside the tank, is the fakest looking alien costume I've ever seen. Oh hey, he's having a skin bath. Thankfully it's not as gross as the Skin Shower. So his skin's falling off and then we see he's actually a grey. So, did A-Dawg end up dropping Gibson off at the School for the Deaf? I mean, Gibson got out of the plant somehow and ended up at school by the Season 8 premiere. Will we ever know the answer? Will this show ever make sense in a conventional way? Will Diana ever buy the farm? Wait... yeah, she does die later. And nobody is really going to care. Not even Mulder.