Season 11, Episode 9: Nothing Lasts Forever

Synopsis

In the Bronx, a couple of surgeons harvest organs from a kidnapped person in a warehouse. A woman named Juliet Bocanegra attacks the operation, but one of the surgeons escapes. The woman delivers a cooler of organs with the inscription "I will repay" to a hospital. The title screen reads, "I Want To Be Beautiful."

Mulder and Scully are on the case! Elsewhere, a washed-up entertainer named Barbara Beaumont and a discredited physician, Dr. Luvenis, oversee a cult whose members willingly fuse their bodies with the leaders to allow them to preserve their youthful appearance. Mulder discovers that the phrase on the cooler is from a biblical passage; he also realizes that the person who murdered the surgeons did so with metal fenceposts taken from the church.

Juliet's sister, Olivia, is one of the people who has joined the cult, and Juliet has launched a religious mission of revenge against the cult and its leaders. Mulder and Scully plant a tracker in a bait cooler of organs and trace it to Barbara's apartment building after Luvenis steals it. Barbara chooses Olivia to be the next person to be fused with Luvenis.

Mulder and Scully track the cooler to Barbara's building. They are surprised to see how young she looks, given that she's supposed to be 85 years old. Barbara attacks the agents, but is killed by Juliet. Scully is pitched down a dumbwaiter shaft in the melee.

While searching for Scully, Mulder comes across Olivia, who has been fused to Dr. Luvenis. He claims that he's uncovered the way to eternal youth, but is cut short when Juliet strikes him down. Scully is OK, too, her fall having been broken by decades of trash at the bottom of the shaft. Juliet consigns herself to the fact that she's going to prison for her murders, but is content with the choice she made to save her sister.

Meeting in a church, Scully laments how she wasn't able to protect William or commit to living with Mulder. He tells her he wished she'd left the X-Files long ago to spare herself her various hardships. Scully says she doesn't begrudge him for this, and whispers something in Mulder's ear, saying it's her "leap of faith forward" and that she'd like to to it together.

"I've always wondered how this was going to end," Mulder responds.

Episode Body Count

Robert Jenkins: a kidnapped personal trainer who dies after his organs are harvested

Dr. David Rednon and another organ harvester: killed by Juliet

Kayla: Has her throat cut by Barbara after her fusion is completed

Warren: Commits suicide to offer up his organs to Barbara

Barbara Beaumont's husband: Mulder mentions that he died in 1970

Barbara Beaumont: Killed by Juliet

Dr. Luvenis: Also killed by Juliet

Humans: 7
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (202/202 original episodes, 2/2 movies, 15/16 reboot episodes)

Humans: 2,511
Creatures: 134
Aliens: 66

Grand Total: 2,711