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Syndicate Office in NYC. Spender walks in but it's empty except for sexy, sexy Krycek. ["He's so evilly hot that even Al Gore wants to kill him." - raceguy] Apparently he's just been sitting in the corner, sulking. Or something. Krycek's like, "If you're looking for your dad, you're too late. They skipped town." Spender's all, "But they've been here for 50 years! Since 1947! Since Roswell!" Krycek: "You're not getting this. They've gone to West Virginia. The grey midgets are going to pick them up and give them hybrid genes. Oh, except your daddy. He's getting your mother." Spender: "He can't get to her. I've got her guarded." Krycek: "I think you've seriously mistaken your place in the chain of command. He's already had doctors looking at her and they're probably about to leave right now." Spender high tails it outta there.

Frank Spotnitz: So Cassandra is returned and the rebels attack. What then?

Chris Carter: How about colonization will begin once the aliens know she exists?

Frank Spotnitz: Sounds good. So what then happens to Cassandra?

Chris Carter: The Consortium can decide to give Cassandra to the aliens to start colonization. So they can save themselves at the expense of everyone else.

Frank Spotnitz: What are we gonna do with the mytharc once the Syndicate's plans are finished? I thought the invasion wasn't happening until 2012?

Chris Carter: Um... I don't know. Maybe the Consortium should just kill Cassandra to prevent colonization.

Frank Spotnitz: Then how should we wrap up the rebels plotline? The fans are gonna want answers. Hmm. We should at least give out some new information about the mytharc. Something involving Samantha, maybe? How about we explain the mutated virus and the bees?

Chris Carter: Who cares about that? The movie doesn't count.

Frank Spotnitz: ...

Chris Carter: I think I need to roll another fatty.

Frank Spotnitz: ...

The Southern Oracle's Hospital Room. A doctor comes in with a needle. EW! OMG! Somebody hold me! Cassandra starts spazzing, as one would, and they sedate her while she's calling them "bastards." Then CSM, "The Biggest Bastard Of All", walks in. The doctor leaves. Cassandra says how nobody ever questions CSM's authority even though he's a coward. CSM doesn't want to talk about the past, he wants to talk about the future. Cassandra's like, "Well that's good because you stole my past." CSM isn't going to defend himself, but they're here now alive because of what he's done. For many years Cassandra didn't understand. "I know it now. Only now. It was you. G'mork." It was never CSM's intention to harm her. He wanted to save her and Spender. Cassandra says that he can never save Spender because he knows what CSM's done to her. "There's only one way to save him. Only one thing you must do. You have to kill me. I must be sucked into the Nothing. That's how the story goes." CSM can't do it. Cassandra says that she must die or "they all die." CSM runs out of there.

Diana's Apartment Of Punks Named Mulder. So Mulder's just sitting there, looking dejected. Diana "I'm Loyal! Pinky Swear!" Fowley walks in and Mulder scares her. He apologizes. She wants to know what "Fox" is doing. "Nothing. Not a damn thing. I came here looking for evidence. Evidence that you'd lied to me -- that you had loyalties other than to me or to the X-Files." Nothing could be further from the truth, "Fox"! Except, the exact opposite of that. "I didn't find anything. But your panties reek, Diana. You should see a doctor about that smell. Something found me, though. Fate. Destiny. Kismet. Divine will. Providence. Karma. Lady Luck. Whatever it's called when you realize that your choices were already made and you can do nothing except sit in the dark like a gutless wonder." Diana would like "Fox" to tell her what happened. "CSM came here, which I should be suspicious of but I'm just going to put that out of my mind, looking for Spender because he's taken up my cause that is futile. Worthless. Hopeless. Hollow. Trivial. Nugatory. Otiose." Diana wants to know why his cause is futile. "Because there's nothing to be done. I have to accept that the only way the people I love are going to survive is if I give up. Because I'm a pussy. Like my father." Mulder hands her a piece of paper that reads: El Rico Air Force Base. "That's where it begins. That's where we need to be if we want to survive at the expense of the rest of the world and everything I've worked for during the past six years." Diana then kisses Mulder and hugs him. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Then the camera reveals the typical conspiratorial expression on Diana's face. Sidebar: Why didn't Mulder get on the phone and call Scully immediately after his conversation with CSM? Why sit around and wait for Diana to come home? Why? Because he's a punk.