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The alien / human hybrids are being exterminated

TAG LINE
The Truth Is Out There.

SYNOPSIS

Meanwhile, Mulder is clinging to the top of the train which is bound for Canada. He carefully makes his way to safety and climbs aboard one of the cars. He is in a car which is quarantined and cut off from the rest of the train. With assistance from the train’s conductor, Mulder searches for a Dr. Shiro Zama, whom he suspects is behind the experiments. But later, he finds Dr. Zama murdered by an unidentified man - an agent of the NSA. Scully learns, with the help of agent Pendrell, the implant has the ability to collect information and artificially replicate a person’s mental processes. Pendrell discovers the name of the chip’s manufacturer - a Japanese firm - and traces a delivery to Dr. Zama at Hansen’s Disease Research Facility in Virginia. Scully tries to contact Mulder by cellular phone to tell him, but Mulder dropped his cellphone when he jumped onto the train. Scully goes to the research facility, where she encounters a hideously deformed man. He explains that the facility was once a leper colony, but the staff, including Zama, fled when death squads arrived to kill the patients. The man says that he was being treated for leprosy, but hundreds of other patients were interned at the camp with symptoms that resemble those of the human / alien hybrids. The creatures were kept apart from the patients and were apparently tortured. Mulder, on board the train, finds Zama’s body inside the lavatory. He is suddenly attacked by the NSA agent but, with the conductor’s help, Mulder overcomes him. The NSA agent claims the quarantined car is rigged with an explosive device, which was installed by Zama in case he could not escape to Canada with his creature. Mulder and the NSA agent are unable to leave the quarantined car out of fear that opening the door without the proper access code might detonate the bomb. Scully witnesses the shootings of hundreds of human / alien hybrids and she is subsequently captured by soldiers and brought before the First Elder. He explains to her how Zama, a brilliant scientist whose real name is Ishimaru, was hidden in the United States after World War II so that he could continue his experiments. This was due to Operation Paper Clip. But Ishimaru kept his discoveries secret, unwilling to share his knowledge with the government that had granted him asylum. Scully and the First Elder dial the number of the NSA agent’s cellular number and through him they contact Mulder. Scully believes the creature on board the train isn’t an alien being after all. She is convinced that Ishimaru used the railroad to conduct secret radiation tests on lepers, the homeless, and the insane. As proof, she reminds Mulder about the President’s public apology for secret radiation tests that were conducted on innocent people until 1974. Only those tests never ended. The quarantined car is uncoupled from the train in an isolated area. Mulder questions the NSA agent about the creature, and informs him of how he believes that Zama developed a human / alien hybrid with super immunity, capable of withstanding the effects of atomic and biological weapons (and, presumably, the black cancer). Scully reviews the alien autopsy tape and realizes Zama was caught on video punching in the proper code to open the door of the quarantine car. She phones Mulder with the code. But before he can exit the car, Mulder is attacked by the NSA agent. But X arrives, shoots and kills the NSA agent, and rescues Mulder moments before the train car explodes, destroying the hybrid and all of the evidence

MY THOUGHTS

This wasn't a bad episode. It answered all the questions from Nisei but i was still a little disapointed with this episode,I just thought it could have been better.

MY RATING
7.0/ 10.0