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Recap by Bolissa

I'd like to start this off with a Shout Out to everybody in the Season 6 Topic Thread over at TWoP. Including, but not limited to, Namarie, Mack the Spoon, cheeriogirl, ism, louloublu and Starbucket ["Woooo! Shout Out!... Oh, wait. Never mind." - raceguy]. It's great how we can all put our heads together because that's the only way to make some sense of this show.

Previously on The X-Files: Deep Throat told Scully about the "original tissue" and she found the Purity dead alien baby frozen in a tube at Fort Marlene. Mulder saw the hybrids sleeping in tanks of water and realized the government had been doing alien hybrid experiments since World War II. Scully stood in a train car with the Fat Mafia Elder and remembered being tested on. CSM to Spender: "Who's your daddy?" And it was CSM himself. The Aliens Without Faces burned up a whole lot of abductees and some Project Doctors. Scully watched as Cassandra Spender was lifted out of her wheelchair and into an alien spaceship.

So we open up on some nefarious persons performing some tests and whatnot on an unknown patient. But who am I kidding? We all know it's Cassandra. They laser her belly, she bleeds green and then immediately heals. The doctors give each other Fortuitous Glances.

Potomac Yard. Arlington, Virginia. Random Project Doctor greets Dr. Openshaw. RPD congratulates Openshaw and tells him that his work has been completed. Openshaw steps into the train car and holds Cassandra's hand. "25 years... she must seem like an old friend," RPD says. I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't put old friends through hideous experiments. New friends, maybe. But not old ones. Anyways, the doctors are all going to Hooters to celebrate and RPD asks Openshaw to join them. He passes. Outside, RPD is attacked by a Rebel Without A Face and then it burns up the doctors who were waiting in the parked van. RWAF walks into the traincar and attacks Openshaw. Then RWAF gives Cassandra the once-over.

Credits. Oh, that's right. This is the ep filled with CSM's one-sided conversation called Exhausting Exposition. Why do I recap mytharc episodes? Why?! ["Because they're more snarktacular than standalones?" - raceguy]

Office Of CSM: Caustic Statements of Malevolence. So, CSM is talking to somebody. We all know who it is but for the sake of the BIG REVEAL at the end that was SO SHOCKING to everyone watching this show, I'll not say who. CSM is telling his life story: blah "this is the end" blee "the secret we kept to well" blah blee "perfect conspiracy with an alien race" blee blah "prepare the way for their invasion" blee blee blah "create slave race of alien/human hybrids" blah blah blee "kept secret for over 50 years" blee "Roswell" blah "kept secret from men like Fox Mulder" BLEE?! "rebel alien race come to destroy them" blah blee blah "my own son chosen betrayal" blahbity blee BLEEEEEEEEEEE. ["Skinnercakes." - raceguy]

Basement Office That Was Once Lush But Now Has A Weasel Infestation. The Skinman has come down to chat with Spender. Spender's been working on a progress report for the X-Files. Skinner was under the impression there hadn't been any progress. Oh, SNAP! Spender says that "it's been slow going." Hmm. "Slow going"? Like putting your cases through paper shredders? That kind of thing? Skinner then lays into Spender on how he isn't supposed to be making any progress and that he doesn't even care about the X-Files, besides his mother's abduction. Spender's all, "alleged." That's what brought Skinner down to the basement.