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American University. Guess who's not home in bed? Mulder starts going through CDB's office looking for the artifact. He hears, I think, CDB coming down the hall and once CDB gets into the office he can tell someone's been in there. CDB checks out the lab, where Mulder's hiding with the monkeys. The ringing starts up in Mulder's head and as he walks down the hall he's hearing voices again. Mulder crawls up some stairs before collapsing.

Hospital, New Mecixo. As Hosteen returns to his room, Scully spots Sandoz at the door and a chase ensues. The camera goes in for a super close-up of Scully's face as she's straining to hear something. Is she starting to hear vocies, too? Oh, it's just the alarm on the door that Sandoz was trying to go through. Sandoz is caught and Scully wants some answers. Get in line, Scully.

Stairwell of Brain Pain. Mulder's still rolling around, clutching his head. Here comes Krycek, casually stepping over Mulder's body as if he wasn't even there, and walks upstairs. He meets CDB on the roof. I think this is the same exact roof that Billy Miles was thrown off of in Essence. ["Yes, it is." - raceguy] Krycek hands CDB a tape and tells him that they're "destined to be great friends." Who exactly is Krycek working for? I mean, we don't see him again until Requiem, right? ["Here and Amor Fati, then Requiem, yes." - raceguy] For some reason, CSM had him put in prison in Tunisia. Why? Over this Mysterious Brain Disease fiasco? I guess we'll never know.

Hospital, New Mexico. Sandoz tells Scully his tale of meeting Hosteen and having the artifact translated. Hosteen sensed its "power and importance." He translated one of Merkmallen's rubbings, "a passage from the Bible on an artifact that is extraterrestrial." Scully is one huge eyebrow right now. Sandoz basically says that the Bible came from aliens. Yeah, I really can't figure out why anyone would want him dead. Sandoz pulls out an artifact and places it on the table. It starts spinning, but Scully grabs it before it can fly through the air at anyone. Couldn't that artifact have cured Hosteen? Poor guy. I really liked him. Scully calls Mulder at home and The Fowl One answers. Scully asks for Mulder and Diana hands him the phone. Scully asks Mulder where he is. Um, Scully? You called him. At home. But it's ok, I'm sure hearing Diana Fowley's voice has thrown your normal brain function off balance a little bit. Scully asks Mulder who answered the phone. Mulder avoids this question and asks Scully where she is. She tells him that she's with Sandoz in New Mexico and Mulder asks about the artifact. Scully reluctantly tells him about the passage from Genesis. Mulder jumps on this and starts babbling about how we all came from the aliens. Scully refuses to believe that. Well, she sure changed her tune at Mulder's Fake Trial. Mulder tells Scully to go ahead and prove him wrong. Then he just hangs up on her. Ah, just like old times. Technically, this was old times. Wasn't it? Can we consider the season finale of Season 6 "old times?" Is everything before Season 8 "old times?" Or is basically everything before XFII: The Movie "old times?" Moving on... Mulder hands the phone to Diana and rolls over trying to sleep. She walks out towards Mulder's kitchen and makes a phone call. She tells someone that Mulder called her, she found him in "a particular state of distress", she doesn't know why but she's gonna stay there until she finds out. She then takes off her shirt and heads towards Mulder's bedroom, I'm assuming. And now I'm feeling nauseous. We cut to CSM hanging up the phone as he sits in a meeting with people we'll never see again, discussing the alien invasion.

Scully's back to her V.O., journal, whatever. "It began with an act of supreme violence -- a big bang expanding ever outward, cosmos born of matter and gas, matter and gas ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this? Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason? Were we part of that plan ten billion years ago? Are we born only to die? To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth before giving way to our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end? We burn like fires in our time only to be extinguished. To surrender to the elements' eternal reclaim. Matter and gas... will this all end one day? Life no longer passing to life, the Earth left barren like the stars above, like the cosmos. Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down? Let it burn out? Could we, too, become extinct? Or if this fire of life living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames? Can he reignite the spark even as it grows cold and weak?" ["If she doesn't shut up with the anvilicious monologue, I'm gonna blow out the candle myself." - raceguy] While she's talking, we see Hosteen being brought into a tent for a healing ceremony. Scully tells Sandoz that she doesn't want to sit in on it because she doesn't share their beliefs. ["Wait. Didn't she ASK him to visit Melissa back in Paper Clip? And a faith healer to visit Daniel in all things, which she sat in on?" - raceguy] Skinner calls Scully to tell her something bad has happened to Mulder and he's in the hospital. He tells Scully to get there right away. Scully's cell phone works in the New Mexican desert? Ok, sure.