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Season finale! Mulder and Scully follow a lead from Deep Throat regarding a high-speed police chase to discover evidence of extraterrestrial viruses being used on humans.

First time we encounter the toxic green alien blood (and it fucks Mulder up)

Scully actually apologizes to Mulder for not trusting his intuition

Scully trades alien "fetus" she stole from lab in exchange for Mulder's life

Deep Throat is assassinated when Mulder is returned :(

At the end of it all, the X-Files get officially shut down

Score: 9/10

Watch it? Yes, essential mythology and a great first finale. This one isn't a two-parter but it ends with a big cliffhanger nonetheless.

The Transactor January 1986

they're about 8x10"

the first has a kind of nice graphic quality

the second one is a fun pile

Part Four of The Fool’s Journey.

Mulder hangs up the phone, brushing frustrated tears from his eyes. Pathetic, says his father’s voice. Right on cue.

He was always quick to tears, something his father tried unsuccessfully to beat out of him. “You get this from your mother, this overly emotional nonsense,” Bill Mulder had told him, more than once. Even as a kid, this always struck Mulder as false—his whole childhood, he only ever remembered seeing his mom cry once. The night Samantha was taken. In the years that followed, Teena Mulder became a shell. Tears would have been an improvement, proof that she was still in there, beneath the narcotic haze of the meds she took for her “anxiety”.

Read the rest on AO3.

Tagging @today-in-fic

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