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We cut back to Mulder, who has entered the cave. It seems amazingly huge inside, and is lit with an eerie blue light. Mulder is soon able to stand up, and walks forward, calling out, "Hello?" after a few steps. It echoes quite a bit. Mulder shines his flashlight around and looks a bit spooked. (Hee, you see what I did there?)

Back at the morgue once more, Fred is showing Scully files of two similar cases. They were also found as skeletal remains, but since these were hikers that had been missing for months, Fred explains, they thought nothing of that. Scully notices that the bodies were found near Brown Mountain, not too far from Wallace and Angela Schiff, and immediately whips out her phone to call Mulder. When he doesn't answer, her concern grows. She tells Fred to forward a sample of the goo to the FBI lab at Quantico where they can do a full analysis, and then asks to borrow his truck.

Creepy Cave of Creepiness. Mulder is still exploring. We see that one of the cave walls is dripping with nasty yellow goo, but Mulder can't see this from his vantage point. Just then, Wallace comes out of the shadows and begs Mulder not to "take [him]." Mulder orders Wallace to come out into the light of his flashlight, but assures Wallace that he won't hurt him. Wallace asks uncertainly, "You're not one of them?"

Mulder asks what "them" Wallace is referring to, then confirms that he is, in fact, speaking to Wallace Schiff. Then he tells the still-frightened man that he's supposed to be dead, and that his skeleton was discovered nearby. Wallace grimaces and says that it's a fake, that "they" put it there. Mulder again asks who "they" are, and Wallace says ominously, "You know who."

"The Brown Mountain lights," Mulder guesses, and Wallace nods, looking sick. He tells Mulder that he and his wife were abducted and taken onboard their ship, but he can't finish the sentence before he puts a hand to his head, as if it's aching.

Mulder tells Wallace that they found Angela's skeleton, too, but Wallace, nearly hysterical, replies, "No. Don't you get it? They-they faked our deaths! They have that kind of technology. Who the hell would look for us if they thought they'd already found our bodies? You see?!" Then he continues anguishedly that Angela is still on the ship, and that they're doing experiments on her, and he doesn't know what to do. Mulder, looking very sympathetic, has no answer.

The notes of the theme ring out as Scully drives up next to Mulder's Suburban in her borrowed truck. The camera lingers on the DODGE logo for a good five seconds as she gets out – product placement much? Scully walks closer to the rocky area, calling out for Mulder and looking worried (awww). Then she sees a man's bootprints in the mud, and follows the trail, stepping on more mushrooms and releasing more spores as she does so. (You know, the equivalent French expression for "Step on it!", meaning "Go faster!", literally translates to "Press on the mushroom!" Fun fact.) Scully notices the mushrooms briefly before continuing on.

We're back to Wallace and Mulder in the Creepy Cave (that should so be an album title, or something). Mulder says they need to find a way out of the cave first of all, and Wallace, confused, points to the exit right behind Mulder. Mulder turns around and sure enough, there's an opening there. He begins to wonder what the hell is going on, since that was "solid rock a minute ago". At this, Wallace begins freaking out again, saying that "they" must be messing with his and Mulder's head, and how can they know if anything is real?? Mulder just walks over to the exit and tells Wallace to press on the mushroom already, but Wallace just yells that they're out there. Cue eerie mechanical whooshing and vibrating noises, and a bright light pouring in through the opening. Wallace runs away in fear, but Mulder stays where he is for a few seconds before running after him.

Then we see that the light is actually coming from Scully's flashlight, as she peers into the cave from the same entrance that both Mulder and Schiff went in. Scully calls out for Mulder again, but seems reluctant to go in the cave, despite the bootprints leading right to it. She always is a bit less impetuous than Mulder, isn't she? After calling Mulder's name one more time and looking around, Scully walks away.

Meanwhile, back with Mulder and Wallace, the eerie vibrating and bright light is still resonating throughout the cave, and Mulder hides behind a stalactite and stalagmite that have grown together into a column (see, I still remember some of my elementary-school geology!). He watches avidly as Wallace implores him not to let them see him. Suddenly, the light and sound are gone. Mulder turns his flashlight back on and Wallace turns on a little camping lantern thingy, and they have a brief conversation about how it's odd that the aliens didn't find them. Mulder surmises that they must have been after something else, and heads in the direction where the light was coming from. Reluctantly, Wallace follows. They enter another large chamber, and Wallace cries out "Oh, my God" as they both see Angela lying on the ground. Wallace cradles her head in his arms as he and Mulder crouch next to her, and Wallace rejoices that they brought her back. Mulder looks on pensively.