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As Wallace fills his cup with water from the wall of the cave, Mulder is asking Angie if she remembers anything about what just happened to her. Suddenly we see that Wallace is actually filling his cup with the nasty yellow goo. EEEEeeww. Don't drink that, Wallace! Meanwhile, Angie is saying that her memories are all fuzzy, and Mulder prompts her that she was with Wallace. Finally, Angie starts her story, with Mulder's occasional help: blah blah strange lights dancing over Brown Mountain, blah blah white place, lying on a table blah blah featureless men doing experiments – we've heard it all before. Mulder moves Angie's hair aside and looks at the back of her neck: sure enough, there's a scar there. This is when one might begin to wonder at how perfect this whole setup is. I don't think I did yet – but one might. Heh.

Mulder explains the scar to the distraught Angie and her husband as an implant – he's seen this kind of thing before. Boy, has he. Poor Scully. Mulder does admit that this abduction experience is textbook, down to the last letter, except for the skeletons, which still confuse him. Then Wallace puts in that the skeletons might be something like the "cattle mutilations you hear about." Mulder says he had that thought, but it's without precedent in the literature. Well, Mulder, obviously these are revolutionary NEW abduction techniques, did you ever think of that? Huh?! What if the aliens have just gotten bored of the same old story, over and over, for 700 years?

Wallace reiterates his explanation that the aliens must not have wanted anyone to find them, and that they didn't want Mulder "to know the truth." Somehow the odd pointedness of that statement seems to pass Mulder by, and he says they should just get out of the cave. But both Angie and Wallace think that's a bad idea, that they'll get taken again. Mulder insists, but Angie says she can feel that they're coming again. The noise and light returns, and Angie runs off screaming. Wallace tells Mulder to hide, or they'll take him, too, but Mulder says, "No! I don't get abducted until 'Requiem,' you moron!" Okay, he doesn't say that last part, but he does walk defiantly into the beam of light, and out of the cave, Wallace's "Nooooo!" following him. My sister and I totally thought Mulder had been abducted right then, since we'd heard that he got abducted at some point but didn't know when. But we were all, "Hey, wait, I thought this wasn't a mytharc ep!"

We transition directly (and niftily) to the "42" on Mulder's apartment door. Scully knocks, and Mulder opens the door, looking outside to see if anyone else is there. Scully is understandably somewhat upset that Mulder left North Carolina without telling her and then just called her from DC, but Mulder just says it's a long story and holds the door open for her to come inside. GA is so short that she can walk right under DD's arm. Hee. I love them.

Mulder introduces Scully to Angela and Wallace Schiff, who are sitting on the sofa. Scully recognizes them immediately, and Mulder tells her that she was "meant" to identify their remains. Angela gets off on the wrong foot with Scully by starting out with telling her that the skeletons were decoys planted by the aliens. Scully reacts just about as well to this news as you would expect, shooting a look at Mulder as they both move to sit down.

Mulder begins to talk to Scully in a very quiet, sort of reverent sounding voice, telling her to put aside her scientific bias for some news that is going to change the lives "of everybody on this planet." He tells her about the Schiffs' abduction, and that he's found "the truth". Angela then jumps in with an abbreviated version of her abduction tale, and when she gets to the part about the implant in her neck, Scully takes a deep breath.

"Just like what happened to you," Mulder exposits unnecessarily, but Scully protests that from what she knows, this is nothing like what happened to her. Unperturbed, Mulder simply tells her that there's more, still with that same quiet excitement/reverence, and stands up. He leads her to his bedroom – but not for that, come on, people! - and closes the door behind them, because, he says, "it doesn't like the light."