While celebrating Agent Scully’s birthday, Mulder is approached by a woman who informs him that —an alien abductee first introduced in Season 1—has died in a commercial plane crash.
is the 17th episode of Season 4 of the science fiction series The X-Files . It originally premiered on March 16, 1997, and serves as the first part of a two-part mythology story that concludes with the episode "Max". Plot Summary
: Mulder and Scully join the NTSB investigation of Flight 549. Mulder quickly suspects the crash was caused by a UFO attempting to abduct Max, rather than mechanical failure or a "repeater" error.
: The search leads Mulder to dive into a lake near the crash site, where he discovers the wreckage of a downed UFO.
: The episode ends in a shootout at a bar where Agent Pendrell is critically wounded while protecting Scully from a government assassin. Key Cast and Crew
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