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Recap by Bolissa

This is the last Diana Fowley episode to be recapped by yours truly. ["And the last to be recapped by me. Yay for consistency!" - raceguy] The hoo hoo is fair game and no holds barred. Let's just get right into it, shall we? The episode, I mean. Not Diana's hoo hoo.

Previously on The X-Files: CSM took a million years explaining his life story to Diana Fowley, making her ears bleed. Not that I'm complaining about that. Mulder wanted to play one-on-one with Scully and was shocked to find out stuff he already knew. Krycek was back with the Syndicate and had to kill a Rebel Without A Face because Spender's too much of a pussy. Mulder and Scully were kicked out of the FBI for breaking into the former LBO. Spender found out his dad was the Devil. Cassandra, The First Successful Cavity-Free Alien/Human Hybrid, returned and confused the mytharc with The NeverEnding Story. Then she found some clothes, grabbed a taxi and wound up at Mulder's apartment requesting an assisted suicide. Mulder was ready to obey her wishes and Scully was having a heart attack. There were mysterious persons banging on Mulder's door...

So we're greeted with that photo of CSM and Bill Mulder from last episode. And Mulder's voice over kicks in: "Two men, young, idealistic -- the fine product of a generation hardened by world war. Two fathers whose paths would converge in a new battle -- an invisible war between a silent enemy and a sleeping giant on a scale to dwarf all historical conflicts. A 50-years war, its killing fields lying in wait for the inevitable global holocaust." Then the photo catches on fire which then fades into a flashback of the 70's Syndicate in an air base hangar.

October 13, 1973. "Theirs was the dawn of Armageddon. And while the world was unaware, unwitting spectators to the hurly-burly of the decades-long struggle between heaven and earth there were those who prepared for the end; who measured the size and power of the enemy, and faced the choices: stand and fight, or bow to the will of a fearsome enemy. Or to surrender -- to yield and collaborate. To save themselves and stay their enemy's hand. Men who believed that victory was the absence of defeat and survival the ultimate ideology... No matter what the sacrifice." Then the hangar opens and some midgets with long fingers and big heads walk toward the Syndicate and CSM is going to give them an American flag. So they can fly it from their spaceship. Or hang it on their porch. Something like that. I don't know.

Credits. Two men, kind of young and full of ideas -- whose paths would cross to write for a really awesome TV show. Their partnership was the dawn of a nine year saga that would not end well. The world was unaware, unwitting spectators to their fake tans and bad haircuts. These men were faced with choices: stand and fight to keep a show that was reliant on dark and moody atmosphere in its rightful place, or bow to the will of an arrogant actor. Or to surrender -- to yield to the powerful herbs and chemicals that would get them through their writing sessions. To save themselves from actually putting forth the effort needed to make the show logical and understandable. Men who believed that victory was the ratings and stringing along the shippers the ultimate ideology... No matter if things like continuity and the sanity of the fans were sacrificed.