Fox Mulder and Gibson Praise, the psychic child prodigy, have been cornered at the edge of a quarry by Doggett. Suddenly, Fox jumps over the edge - but his body is gone when the Agents reach the bottom. Scully realises that it wasn't Mulder - it was a shapeshifting Alien Bounty Hunter. Now everyone has become a suspect.

Back at the school for the hearing impaired, the Bounty Hunter mimics the principal and Agent Crane in his search for Gibson. Scully and Skinner manage to give him the slip, and follow Gibson's friend, Thea, into the desert. She leads Scully to Gibson's hideout in an abandoned mine, where she sets his injured leg, and sets off to retrieve her car.

After explaining to Kersh that he's lost Mulder, Doggett is told by Skinner that he's being set up to fall. Then Agent Landau finds Scully in the school dorm... just as Scully walks in from the desert in front of Doggett. Landau gets attacked by 'Scully' - who morphs into Agent Crane just as Doggett and his men arrive.

Meanwhile, Gibson is having dreams - of Mulder suspended in fluid with tubes in his mouth.

Skinner and Scully drive back in to the desert - but only after a tense moment where both think the other is the Bounty Hunter. Gibson has disappeared from his fort, and is huddled in the desert, having seen Mulder. Skinner takes Gibson to hospital, where his friend Thea visits him, closing the door behind her.

Walking back through the desert looking for Mulder, Scully sees a light in the sky - it's a helicopter. Doggett has arrived to take her back to the hospital, meaning she doesn't discover the UFO nearby, where Mulder is being held.

Back at the hospital, an Agent assures Doggett and Scully that no-one has entered Gibson's room, but when they go in Gibson and Skinner have vanished. Scully leaves to search the hospital, whilst Doggett checks the ceiling space, where he finds Skinner, his face badly burnt. Meanwhile, Scully finds Skinner and Gibson hiding in an operating theatre. Gibson tries to warn her that something is wrong, but 'Skinner' grabs her. They fight, and Scully manages to shoot the Bounty Hunter in the neck just as Doggett arrives to help her.

Meanwhile, Mulder is still held prisoner in the UFO.

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