

They return to the hotel to find their rooms have been set ablaze, destroying all evidence gathered in the case. While investigating the incident, the agents are informed that the autopsy bay was vandalized. An anonymous phone call tips the agents that Peggy O’Dell was killed as she ran along the highway. Mulder says that he could not recall any of the incidents until placed under hypnosis years later. The pair return to their motel where Mulder tells Scully that his interest in the X−Files stems from his childhood when his sister, who was then eight years old, was abducted from their bedroom while he Mulder looks at his watch and realizes nine minutes cannot be accounted for. The light drains the energy from their car, bringing it to a halt. The pair comply, but as they drive along the highway, they are blinded by a strange light from the sky. While searching the field where Karen Swenson met her fate, the agents are confronted by a detective who orders them off the premises. O’Dell suddenly becomes violent, and in the struggle to subdue her, two red marks are discovered on her skin. Miles has been reduced to a near vegetable state, while O’Dell has been confined to a wheelchair. Mulder and Scully question Billy Miles and Peggy O’Dell, classmates of Swenson and Soames who were injured in an automobile accident and have since been institutionalized. The corpse turns out to be that of an orangutan, and X−rays reveal an unidentified metal object implanted in the creature’s nasal cavity. When Soames’ casket is opened, however, a strange humanoid carcass is discovered inside. The agents exhume the body Ray Soames, one of Karen’s classmates. Mulder and Scully fly to Bellefleur, Oregon, to investigate the death of Karen Swenson, a high school student who died mysteriously, and whose corpse is marked with two red welts.
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Mulder displays a particular interest in a series of mysterious deaths scattered across the United States linked by one common clue: two strange red marks on the victims’ skin. Scully is instructed to contact Fox Mulder, an agent who has become obsessed with investigating the otherwise forgotten X−File cases. Blevins assigns Scully to investigate – and debunk – an unassigned project dubbed “The X− Files,” a burial ground for mysterious, unsolved FBI cases linked to the paranormal. Special Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and instructor at the FBI Academy in Virginia, receives instructions to report to Chief Scott Blevins in Washington. Production Code: #1X79 Original Air Date: 09/10/93 Written by Chris Carter Directed by Robert MandelĪ YOUNG FBI AGENT IS ASSIGNED WATCHDOG DUTY OVER A FELLOW AGENT, BUT FINDS HERSELF DRAWN INTO HIS INVESTIGATIONS OF PARANORMAL AND UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.
