Season 11, Episode 10: My Struggle, Part IV

Synopsis

William recalls his upbringing, the development of his powers, and how he foolishly clued the Syndicate in to his abilities by playing a dumb prank on his girlfriends. He says he wants to find answers, perhaps from his mother but mostly from his father, who is indeed the Cigarette-Smoking Man. Somewhere else, CSM confronts and shoots Mulder.

Kersh, enraged that Mulder has gone on the record to Tad O'Malley about CSM's plan to release a contagion against humanity, plans to shut down the X-Files and suspend Mulder and Scully. CSM calls Skinner, demanding that he find William; Skinner asks if he'll stop the contagion if he does, but CSM doesn't make a promise.

Fifteen hours earlier, Agent Reyes contacts the agents to say that William has been picked up in Tennessee and is being transported to Maryland. She says that the person who controls William will control the future. Scully isn't sure she can trust Reyes, but doesn't stop Mulder from chasing the lead.

Mulder confronts Syndicate member Mr. Y, who says they weren't able to capture William and that the boy "has what everybody wants." He then pulls a gun on Mulder, so Mulder is forced to kill him before he can learn any more.

Scully finds that several people have won the lottery within a 10-mile radius in Tennessee, and figures that's how the Syndicate was able to find William. Mulder finds surveillance footage of William in the store that sold the ticket and begins to pursue him, unaware that a tracker has been placed on his car.

Scully lets O'Malley know about how an alien pathogen designed to decimate humanity is about to be unleashed, allowing Mulder to be his source for the information. Scully has a vision of Mulder's death and tries unsuccessfully to warn him. William, who has made it to Norfolk and is despondent about living on the run, ponders suicide and begs one of his girlfriends to help him. She agrees, but winds up letting Mulder know the motel William is staying at.

Mulder meets with William, who is reluctant to accept Mulder's help since he thinks he's a danger to those around him. William leaves Mulder behind after vaporizing a group of Syndicate pursuers. When Mulder lets Scully know, she vows to meet with him, figuring he'll listen to her. Skinner decides to help her, and lets her know how CSM is William's father.

William's other girlfriend lets him know another one of his likely hiding places at the harbor and he heads there, followed by Scully and Skinner after they spot his car. Skinner spots CSM and Reyes and manages to shoot Reyes, but is run down and apparently killed. Mulder and Scully pursue William, but CSM manages to get the drop on Mulder and shoots him in the head.

Only it turns out this was William, since Mulder then appears and guns down CSM. Scully tearfully confesses to Mulder how William wasn't truly their son, but rather an experiment. Mulder is distraught, asking what he is if not a father. Scully reveals that he is, since despite her age she's gotten pregnant (perhaps after the events of "Plus One"). We'll see how the series follows up on that, given that Gillian Anderson is leaving the show after this season.

At the end of the episode, William emerges from the water, apparently none the worse for wear.

Episode Body Count

Four Syndicate guards: Killed by Mulder as he confronts Mr. Y

Mr. Y: Shot by Mulder after he tries to pull a gun on Mulder

Syndicate pursuer: Has apparently been killed by William sometime before arriving in Norfolk

Four more Syndicate members, including Erika Price: Blown to bits by William's telekinetic powers

Monica Reyes: Shot and apparently killed by Skinner

Walter Skinner: Run over and apparently killed by Reyes

Cigarette-Smoking Man: Perhaps killed off for real this time after not one, not two, but three fake-outs; gunned down by Mulder at a Norfolk dock

There seems to be some debate over whether Skinner or even Monica wound up dead in the confrontation at the docks, but I can always pull out the UNDEAD'D if the series gets renewed and one or both of them come back.

Humans: 13
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

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

Humans: 2,524
Creatures: 134
Aliens: 66

Grand Total: 2,724

Season 10, Episode 6: My Struggle II

Synopsis

In the intro, Scully gives us a quick recap of everything from the start of the series to its reboot. In the newly reconstituted X-Files office, she sees that Tad O'Malley has gone back on the air after a six-week absence to say that every American has alien DNA. Like Scully, he has had his DNA tested and found anomalies, although Scully points out that everyone has weird junk DNA. Also, Mulder has gone missing.

Meanwhile, Scully's hospital is being inundated with new cases, including a disoriented man who has a lesion on his arm. Working with Agent Einstein, she wonders if the alien DNA sequences may have been implanted through smallpox inoculations. When she finds out that the lesions are appearing on many soldiers who were exposed to anthrax before their deployment, she worries that it's the first step in a wide-scale effort by the conspirators to shut down everyone's immune system.

A roughed-up Mulder ignores calls from Skinner and Scully as he travels to South Carolina, but Agent Miller finds out where he is by tracking his cell phone. Agent Reyes reconnects with Scully, telling her that she met with the very badly burned Cigarette Smoking Man and was convinced to cooperate with him in exchange for immunity. She says that Scully is also protected, and that the plan has been in motion since 2012.

It turns out that Mulder has gotten his shiner in a tussle with a CSM-sent goon, from whom he gets CSM's location. CSM points out that humans are already treating the planet like crap anyway, so the conspiracy is just speeding up the timeline. Hospitals are overrun by patients affected by the contagion, now known as the "Spartan Virus;" Scully modifies her theory, now believing that the alien DNA is only in protected people like her and can be used to create a vaccine. However, a PCR test finds no trace of anomalies.

Scully and Einstein ponder the possibility that the Spartan Virus slices DNA in specific places, and Einstein realizes that they need a larger sample of Scully's blood to figure out how it offers protection. Miller picks up Mulder, who has also been sickened by the virus. Another PCR test of Scully's blood identifies the alien blood, and Scully manages to create a vaccine.

As every unprotected person's immune system starts to break down, Scully meets up with Mulder and Miller on a traffic-choked bridge in Washington, D.C. She worries that Mulder has been affected enough that the only way to truly heal him would be with stem cells. The only place she can think to get those is from William, due to his natural immunity; of course, she has no idea where he is. Then, as hundreds of sick witnesses watch, a triangular UFO descends over the three agents and shines a bright light onto their car.

Well, I thought I was going to be able to do a new final tally after this episode. But now I guess we'll see where this goes.

Episode Body Count

O'Malley says soldiers and elderly people are starting to die from the Spartan Virus. Then again, he's also saying that chemtrails and microwaves are to blame, so who knows how accurate that is. Depending on how widespread the contagion is, this might also fall under my old Gimpy Rule of not permitting mass casualties in the count.

Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Cumulative Body Count (202/202 episodes, 2/2 movies, 6/16 reboot episodes)

Humans: 2,345
Creatures: 132
Aliens: 66

Grand Total: 2,543

Season 9, Episode 20: The Truth, Part 2

Synopsis
Against Mulder's wishes, Praise comes to offer his testimony. After saying he helped hide Mulder and confirming his mind-reading abilities, he accuses one of the judges of being something other than human. Doggett testifies about how he's seen super-soldiers and their stubborn refusal to die by means other than magnetite. Reyes testifies about William's birth and the presence of super-soldiers there, saying she believes they're aliens who have replaced humans. She says Scully was one of numerous women selected for biological experimentation, though the evidence for that was blown up aboard a ship in Baltimore. Reyes also says that she witnessed William's superhuman powers, but since he was given up for adoption there's no evidence.

Doggett manages to get ahold of the body the military is claiming is Rohrer and has it sent to Quantico. Scully examines the body and determines that it doesn't match Rohrer's medical records, but Kersh still denies Skinner's motion to dismiss despite the exonerating evidence. Mulder is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Rohrer arrives at the base looking good and not dead, evidently eager to finish off Mulder. Skinner and Doggett and, surprisingly, Kersh help Mulder escape the base. Reyes relays him to Scully, and Kersh advises them to escape from Canada. Instead, Mulder takes them south.

Doggett, Reyes, and Praise return to DC to find that the X-Files office has been scrapped. Praise warns that the non-human judge knows where Mulder and Scully are going. So do the spirits of The Lone Gunmen, who beg Mulder not to go on. He forges on anyway to an Anasazi Indian site in New Mexico, telling Scully that he was sent the keycard to the Virginia military facility from the site. It turns out to be Cancer Man, alive if not very well, hiding in a magnetite-rich region. Doggett and Reyes arrive at the site, shortly before Rohrer shows up as well. Cancer Man confirms Mulder's suspicion about the shadow government and invasion date, and Rohrer is killed after venturing too close to the magnetite.

The agents escape as a pair of black helicopters arrives, obliterating the pueblo (and Cancer Man) in a shower of missiles. In a motel in Roswell, Mulder considers how he's convinced Scully about the his theories but failed in every other respect, including coming up with any way to stop the conspirators and colonization. Scully tells him that he'll only fail if he gives up. She asks him what he wants to believe in, and he says he hopes that the dead can speak to them and give them the power to save themselves. Scully says they believe in the same thing. "Maybe there's hope," Mulder concludes.

Episode Body Count

Not Knowle Rohrer: a crispy corpse that the military claims belongs to Rohrer, but that Scully finds belongs to a man who broke his neck and was burned post-mortem.


Knowle Rohrer: destroyed by magnetite while pursuing Doggett and Reyes.


Indian woman: presumed killed when the black helicopters destroy the pueblo.

UNDEAD'D (sort of)


Cancer Man: it turns out he was alive, hiding out in New Mexico, but that doesn't last too long as he is obliterated by missiles fired from a pair of black helicopters. So he just won't count this time around.

Humans: 3
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count
Humans: 196
Creatures: 2
Aliens: 0

Though I suppose the super-soldiers might be considered aliens if Reyes' theory is right...

Cumulative Body Count (202/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,299

Creatures: 131
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,494

Woo. OK. I'm pretty sure the library has a copy of the second movie, and I'll try to pick it up to watch this weekend.

Season 8, Episode 21: Existence

Synopsis

The remains of Billy Miles are brought to a morgue; not long after, Miles walks out again after a single metallic vertebra begins replicating to reconstruct him. Reyes takes Scully to Democrat Hot Springs, an abandoned resort in Georgia where Doggett was born, and the two make preparations to have her baby. Rohrer, who works in the intelligence community, tells Doggett that Miles is the result of a military experiment to create a super-soldier, and Scully's abduction and subsequent pregnancy are a result of an effort to create an organic version of one. Rohrer also says the military/intelligence/whatever conspirators intend to put Miles down. Skinner is nearly killed when Miles returns to the FBI building, allowing Krycek to escape his custody.

Mulder and Doggett watch Krycek arrive at the FBI parking garage, a passenger in a car driven by Rohrer. Miles shows up at Democrat Hot Springs and attacks Reyes, then is shot and apparently killed by a game warden who has agreed to help the agents. Doggett follows Rohrer into the building and sees him meet up with Crane. Mulder realizes that they've discovered where Scully is and gets Doggett to tell him her location. Krycek confronts Mulder and says he's been trying to stop the colonization and Mulder's just been getting in the way. He seems about ready to kill Mulder when he is shot by Skinner. Krycek tries to get Skinner to kill Mulder, but Skinner executes him instead.

Scully starts to go into labor, and Reyes sees that the game warden is a super-soldier. Reyes attacks the warden with boiling water, but can only watch as Miles revives and other super-soldiers arrive. Crane and Rohrer go after Skinner and Doggett, but both are apparently killed in an ensuing car chase in the parking garage. The super-soldiers don't interfere as Scully gives birth to a healthy baby boy, and Mulder arrives in a helicopter as they leave. Kersh is angry with Doggett and Reyes for the whole incident, but neither one backs down; they also note how the bodies of Crane and Rohrer were never found. Mulder and Scully wonder why the super-soldiers didn't take the child (whom Scully has named William, after Mulder's father). Mulder suggests that he didn't turn out to be what they expected, but that he's still a miracle. And then Mulder and Scully kiss.

Dale Dickey, who plays a game warden, also played Patty the Daytime Hooker on My Name is Earl.

Episode Body Count

Alex Krycek: shot by Skinner in the parking garage of the FBI building.

Reyes says that Agent Gene Crane and Knowle Rohrer were both presumed dead but went missing, so you can add vehicular trauma to the list of things that doesn't kill a super-soldier.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

UNDEAD'D


Billy Miles: reconstructed from a metallic vertebra found in the remains of his body. Sort-of killed again when a game warden shoots him with a shotgun, but he recovers from that as well.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 376
Creatures: 15
Aliens: 2

Everything increases, especially humans.

Cumulative Body Count (182/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 2,103

Creatures: 129
Aliens: 64

Grand Total: 2,296

Season 7, Episode 22: Requiem

Synopsis

In Oregon, specifically the same place as the first episode, a couple of police officers have a run-in with malfunctioning electronics and a fire in the woods. Mulder and Scully are getting chewed out for the expenses they've incurred during their work, and Marita has Krycek released from a Tunisian prison. Billy Miles calls the agents, saying things are happening again, and they head out to Oregon. Krycek and Marita visit Cancer Man at the Watergate apartments and find him deathly ill; Cancer Man tells them they have a unique opportunity to rebuild the project because a UFO has crashed in Oregon after colliding with a Navy jet. A teen investigating the crash site with a friend is abducted.

Miles, now a deputy, tells the agents about the crash, and his father says the Navy jet has been recovered but not any other craft. Mulder and Scully visit the wife of a deputy missing after the initial encounter, and she gives them medical records that he kept secret. Scully little depressed and chilly after briefly babysitting the woman's baby, and she and Mulder cuddle a bit. Krycek shadows the agents, and the deputy's wife is abducted. The teen's friend tells the agents about his encounter, and Scully has a similar experience but is not abducted. Mulder realizes that the former abductees are being taken again, and they need to warn Billy. They arrive too late, finding him missing following a confrontation with his father (who reveals himself as the Alien Bounty Hunter).

Two days later, Skinner brings Krycek and Marita to see Mulder. They warn him about Cancer Man's plans. The Lone Gunmen tell the agents that the craft appears only as a variety of transmission errors and such. Scully realizes that the abductees suffered from the same brain trauma Mulder previously experienced, and that the aliens are after him and not her. Using lasers to find the ship's location, Mulder walks into a strange force field and is spirited away with the other abductees as Skinner looks on. Krycek throws Cancer Man down a flight of stairs, presumably killing him. Skinner tells Scully about how he saw the UFO, and Scully tells him that even though it shouldn't be possible, she's pregnant.

Eddie Kay Thomas, who has the unassuming role of 1st Young Man, now voices Barry on American Dad!

Episode Body Count

Detective Miles: seen stuffed in the trunk of his own car, presumably dead, after a run-in with the Alien Bounty Hunter.

Cancer Man: presumed dead after being hurled down a flight of stairs by Krycek.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 173
Creatures: 10
Aliens: 0

Humans go back up from last season, creatures decrease, and aliens get off easy.

Cumulative Body Count (161/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 1,727

Creatures: 114
Aliens: 62

Grand Total: 1,903

Season 6, Episode 22: Biogenesis

Synopsis

Scully gives a voice-over about how Earth has seen five great extinctions, and humans might be due to make the sixth. In Côte d'Ivoire, a couple of pieces of metallic debris with strange writing are found on the beach, and have a mind of their own when put together. An African scientist brings them to a colleague, Dr. Steven Sandoz in DC, but realizes that the person he's meeting with is not who he says he is. And then he's murdered. Mulder and Scully are put on the case, since the scientist and Sandoz both subscribed to the view that life on Earth originated on another planet.

Mulder sees a rubbing of the markings on the artifact, and starts hearing noises in his head. The man who murdered the scientist turns out to be a professor named Dr. Barnes. A friend of the agents says the artifact is a fraud and the writing is Native American, but the effect on Mulder remains. The agents find that Sandoz has met with a World War II codetalker they've previously had dealings with, and also find the scientist's body at his apartment. Mulder thinks Sandoz is on the run because of what he knows, and wants to find the artifacts. Skinner secretly records a conversation with the agents on the matter and gives the tape to Krycek.

Scully goes to New Mexico to see the codetalker, who is dying of cancer. Mulder suspects Barnes and tries to follow him, but collapses from the pain of his head noises; Krycek meets with Barnes. Scully finds Sandoz, who has another fragment (which also starts spinning) and says it has a passage on it from the Book of Genesis. Mulder, now being tended to by Fowley, thinks that's a sign that human life originated from aliens. Fowley keeps in touch with Cancer Man, and Mulder is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward with abnormal brain activity.

Skinner assures Scully and Fowley that the case is being resolved, although Scully hasn't submitted a report. Scully suspects that they're both up to something and that Mulder's office has been bugged (it has). Sandoz calls Scully and says that the letters translated by the codetalker are coordinates for the human genome, then is killed by Krycek. Scully travels to Côte d'Ivoire, where it turns out that the artifacts are from a large spacecraft partially buried in the sand. To be continued...

Episode Body Count

Dr. Solomon Merkmallen: murdered by Dr. Barnes.

Dr. Steven Sandoz: shot by Krycek.

Humans: 2
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 122
Creatures: 16
Aliens: 1

Excludes the movie. More creatures this time around, but the rest decrease.

Cumulative Body Count (139/202 episodes, 1/2 movies)

Humans: 1,554

Creatures: 104
Aliens: 62

Grand Total: 1,720

Season 5, Episode 20: The End

Synopsis

At a surprisingly well-attended chess match in Canada, a 12-year-old prodigy named Gibson Praise senses a sniper in the rafters and manages to dodge a bullet by quickly winning the game and pushing back his chair. Krycek goes to Canada to bring Cancer Man back from his cabin. The sniper turns out to be former NSA, and Spender has been given the case by an out-of-bureau order. Mulder sees Praise's dodge on a video of the shooting and thinks Praise was the target. Another agent, Diana Fowley, agrees and suggests that Praise sensed the shot by precognition.

The Syndicate tells Cancer Man that Praise is a problem for them. Mulder, Scully, and Fowley meet Praise in a psychiatric hospital, and Mulder suggests to Praise that he has the ability to read people's minds. Mulder and Spender spar a little over how to run the case, with Mulder suggesting that Spender is hiding something. Scully goes to the Lone Gunmen with the results of Praise's brain scans, and finds from them that Fowley is Mulder's ex and has a background in the paranormal. Cancer Man goes to Spender in the FBI parking garage and says he gave him the case, then warns him not to become part of someone else's crusade but only pursue his own interests.

Scully tells Skinner that the tests on Praise shows extreme development in the "God nodule" of the brain, and Mulder suggests that he could be key to all of the paranormal things in the X-Files. Mulder wants the Attorney General to grant immunity for the sniper to help explain Praise and the interest in him. Fowley warns that he's risking the X-Files in doing so, but Mulder says he's willing to do that. The sniper hints that Praise is genetic proof of alien existence.

The sniper is killed in his cell, and Cancer Man kidnaps Praise from protective custody and delivers him to the Syndicate. Mulder realizes Cancer Man is still alive, and accuses Spender of working with him. The Attorney General and Spender are both pissed, and force the closure of the X-Files. Mulder realizes that everything has been carefully planned out. Cancer Man takes Samantha's case from the X-Files and torches the rest. He reveals to Spender on the way out that he's his father.

Martin Ferrero, who plays the sniper, also played Izzy Moreno on Miami Vice.

Episode Body Count

Russian chess opponent: shot by a sniper during a chess match against Praise.

Thug: shotgunned through a door by Cancer Man.

Sniper: shot by a prison guard.

U.S. Marshal: Skinner says one was killed during the kidnapping of Praise.

Humans: 4
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 206
Creatures: 8
Aliens: 5

Decreases all around. A fairly non-deadly season.

Cumulative Body Count (117/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,414

Creatures: 88
Aliens: 60

Grand Total: 1,562

Season 4, Episode 24: Gethsemane

Synopsis

The episode opens with a clip from a 1972 NASA conference, where one panelist says that it is probable that contact with aliens could happen within the lifetime of the attendees. Scully is called to identify a body at Mulder's apartment, and then meets with a group of FBI men. She says she believes Mulder has been the victim of a false hope and believed one whopper of a lie, and begins to tell the tale. The title screen reads "Believe The Lie."

A frozen alien body is discovered in the Yukon in Canada, and Mulder gets wind of it from a forensic anthropologist. He also recruits Scully to help authenticate the body. An ice sample taken from near the body is found to have a hybrid cell containing plant and animal characteristics. Someone shoots and kills the research team members in Canada, and the ice core samples are stolen by a man who scuffles with Scully.

In Canada, Mulder and the anthropologist discover the carnage, and also find one survivor who tells them he's buried the body. Mulder, the anthropologist, and the survivor bring the body to a warehouse outside of DC, thaw it out, and perform an autopsy. Scully determines that the man who stole the core samples is named Kritschgau and works as a researcher at the Pentagon. Scully detains him, and he tells her that if she arrests him he'll be killed by the same people who gave her cancer.

Though Mulder is convinced that the body is proof of alien life, Scully has been told a different story by Kritschgau. Mulder meets with them, as the assassin arrives to kill the anthropologist and survivor. Kritschgau says he's learned through his work at the Pentagon that everything about aliens is a hoax: UFOs are top secret military craft, alien biology is rare but naturally occurring, and the body was constructed using hybrid cells. He says Mulder was supposed to see the body so he could go public with the news and discredit himself.

Mulder at first refuses to believe Kritschgau, but seems affected when Scully says Kritschgau told her the men behind the hoax gave her cancer to make Mulder believe. Depressed, Mulder returns home to watch a tape of the NASA symposium and the eagerness of the scientists as they discuss alien life. Scully tells the FBI men that Mulder died the previous night, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Aside from archive footage of scientists Ashley Montagu and Carl Sagan, John Finn (who plays Michael Kritschgau in this and four other episodes) also plays John Stillman in Cold Case.

Episode Body Count

Six research team members: shot to death at the body site in Canada.

Dr. Arlinsky: a forensic anthropologist, shot and killed by the same assassin.

Babcock: another member of the research team, also killed by the assassin.

Agent Fox Mulder: wait, what? Holy crap! Scully says her erstwhile partner has shot himself after learning that the alien conspiracy is apparently a big hoax.

Given that the alien corpse is just a hodgepodge of material constructed to look like a body, I won't count it.

Humans: 9
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 316
Creatures: 23
Aliens: 8

Human deaths finally decrease from last season, along with creature deaths, while aliens go up a little.

Cumulative Body Count (97/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 1,208

Creatures: 80
Aliens: 55

Grand Total: 1,343

Season 3, Episode 24: Talitha Cumi

Synopsis

In Arlington, Virginia, a deranged man opens fire in a fast food restaurant, but he and the others shot are healed by a man named Jeremiah Smith. The agents find out about it, but Smith disappears before they arrive. Cancer Man visits Mulder's mother in Rhode Island, and the two get into an argument after he asks her to try to remember something; she is admitted to a hospital soon after, having suffered a stroke. There, she writes the word "palm" as a message to Mulder.

A review of a videotape from the fast food restaurant shows that Smith has the ability to shape-shift. Smith is caught by members of the Syndicate while working at the Social Security Administration. Mr. X shows Mulder photos he took of his mother's argument with Cancer Man, and says he would have been seeking something from the Rhode Island house. Despite his capture, Smith shows up at the FBI and says he remembers nothing of the events at the restaurant. Mulder realizes palm is an anagram of lamp, and finds a stilleto akin to that used by the Alien Bounty Hunter in one of the house's lamps.

In captivity, Smith faces off against Cancer Man; the latter says men have to be protected by themselves and the "project" must go forward, and the former questions at what cost that will happen. Mulder tries to question the Smith who showed up at the FBI, but he disappears into a crowd and is lost. The real Smith and Cancer Man continue to face off on philosophical issues, including Smith's view that men are superior to the aliens (revealing himself as one) because of their undying love. He also says that Cancer Man is dying of lung cancer; go figure.

The Alien Bounty Hunter is brought to Smith's cell, but Smith has disappeared. Cancer Man shows up at the hospital where Mulder's mother is being held, and tells Mulder that his mother may have been trying to get information from Cancer Man on the whereabouts of Samantha. Scully's record search finds that there are six Smiths, all the same man, working in Social Security bureaus across the country.

Mr. X demands the stiletto, which is used to kill aliens when necessary. He and Mulder get into a brawl and a Mexican standoff, but Mulder refuses to reveal where the weapon is. Scully gets a visit from Smith, who says the other person the agents talked to was an imposter. The agents hold a meeting with Smith in the junkyard, but before they can discuss anything the Alien Bounty Hunter shows up aiming to kill Smith. To be continued...

Episode Body Count

Nothing!

Humans: 0
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 0

Season Body Count

Humans: 388
Creatures: 28
Aliens: 3

Human deaths increase again (thanks mainly to the Zeus Faber), creature deaths again increase by nine, and alien deaths decline dramatically.

Cumulative Body Count (73/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 892
Creatures: 57
Aliens: 47

Grand Total: 996

Season 2, Episode 25: Anasazi

Synopsis

A Navajo boy finds a buried metallic object and an alien corpse in the New Mexico desert. The Thinker, a member of The Lone Gunmen, manages to hack into the "MJ documents" in a defense department network. Cancer Man and his friends are not pleased. The Thinker gives Mulder what he got: Defense Department files on UFO intelligence, written in Navajo.

Meanwhile, some odd violent incidents have been happening, including Mulder's neighbor shooting her husband and Mulder scuffling with Skinner in the hallway. Cancer Man visits Mulder's father, who is a little worried about the UFO files since his name shows up in them. Scully is nearly killed when someone shoots through Mulder's window (on which he has put the signal to meet with Mr. X). Mulder's father, who used to work in the state department, seems about to let Mulder in on a few secrets, but is shot and killed by Alex Krycek.

Scully warns that given Mulder's recent behavior, he might be suspected in the death. Mulder begins to distrust Scully when she takes his gun to run a ballistics test. Mulder captures Krycek, but he escapes when Scully shoots Mulder as a way of making sure his name can be cleared. Scully also finds that the water in Mulder's apartment building has been drugged, leading to the violent incidents. The two travel to New Mexico to meet with a Navajo code talker. Scully reveals that her name is in the UFO files, near Duane Barry's, in reference to a test.

Mulder is taken to the buried object, and receives a call from Cancer Man, who says Mulder's father authorized the project and that if Mulder exposes it he'll only be exposing his dad. The object turns out to be a buried boxcar full of alien bodies. He's still there when Cancer Man arrives by helicopter with some soldiers, who can't find Mulder inside. The boxcar is torched on Cancer Man's order. To be continued...

Chris Carter, creator/director/producer/writer/guru of The X-Files and the associated series Millenium and The Lone Gunmen, appears in an uncredited role as an agent. Renae Morriseau, who I overlooked in her "Shapes" role and who plays Josephine Doane here, played Ellen Kenidi in North of 60.

Episode Body Count

Alien corpse: found by a Navajo boy named Eric Holsteen.

Bill Mulder: shot and killed by Alex Krycek in the bathroom of his home on Martha's Vineyard.

At least 20 alien bodies: Mulder describes them as "stacked floor to ceiling" in the boxcar. It's a pretty good-sized pile, so I'd say there's at least 20 there.

Humans: 1
Creatures: 0
Aliens: 21

Season Total

Humans: 323
Creatures: 19
Aliens: 35

A much worse season for humans and aliens, though creatures only increased by nine.

Cumulative Body Count (49/202 episodes, 0/2 movies)

Humans: 504
Creatures: 29
Aliens: 44

Grand Total: 577

Season 1, Episode 24: The Erlenmeyer Flask

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