Scully is having nightmares about Mulder - who is floating in fluid with tubes in his mouth. At FBI HQ, Mulder's desk is being cleared - but a manhunt has been launched to find him. In charge is the new Deputy Director, Alvin Kersh.

Kersh informs Skinner and Scully that Special Agent Doggett will take their statements. He does, but not without seriously upsetting Scully, who throws water in his face.

Back at her apartment, Scully uses her computer to run background checks on Doggett. An attack of morning sickness leads to her telephoning her mother - when she realises her phone is tapped. Realising she's under surveillance, she runs into the hall - where her landlord Mr Coeben tells her that he's just seen Mulder.

Meanwhile, Skinner visits the Lone Gunmen, checking on any UFO activity that could be connected to Mulder's disappearance. He also discovers someone has been using Mulder's pass to get into FBI HQ to take papers - and he's the main suspect.

Doggett is gathering evidence to track Mulder's whereabouts - he finds car rental receipts in Mulder's name for May, and Mulder's credit card was used two days previously to buy flowers in Raleigh, North Carolina - where Mulder's Mum is buried. But the Mulder family headstone has a new addition in 2000 - Fox Mulder!

More evidence amounts - according to the Lone Gunmen, there's been UFO activity in Arizona, but they're unwilling to believe that Mulder is half alien. Doggett has found that Mulder had a medical condition, when someone slips Gibson Praise's file under his door.

Doggett believes that to find Mulder, the FBI will have to find the psychic child prodigy, Gibson Praise, first. He's in a school for the hearing impaired in Flemingtown, Arizona, where the principal isolates him for safety. By the time the agents arrive, he's escaped via the window, and headed for a nearby quarry - in the company of another person.

The other person is Fox Mulder...

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