X-FILE 225 - Anasazi
MULDER RECEIVES AN ENCRYPTED COMPUTER DISK CONTAINING THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S TOP SECRET FILES ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
     A computer hacker nicknamed The Thinker gains access to top secret Defense Department files on extraterrestrial life. He gives Mulder the files on a computer diskette-with the proviso that government officials be held responsible for UFO cover-ups throughout the years. Mulder's initial enthusiasm is dampened when he realizes the files are encoded in Navajo. But Scully promises to find a translator as soon as possible. When Skinner questions Mulder about the rumor he possesses sensitive information, Mulder suddenly punches him. Mulder is at a loss for his inexplicable behavior. Skinner later informs Scully that a disciplinary hearing will determine if Mulder is to be dismissed without reinstatement.
     The Cigarette-Smoking Man pays Mulder's father an unexpected visit on Martha's Vineyard. He informs him about the top secret files falling into his son's hands. Mr. Mulder realizes his name is on those files. He telephones his son and asks him to come home. Later, Scully lets herself into Mulder's apartment when he fails to answer his door. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out, smashing a window. Scully narrowly avoids injury.
     When Mulder arrives at Martha's Vineyard, his father speaks cryptically about his work for the State Department. Before he can explain the truth, Alex Krycek shoots and kills him. When Scully learns of the killing, she urges Mulder to leave Martha's Vineyard less the authorities suspect him of the murder.
     When Mulder returns home, he is very ill. Scully attends to his sickness. She notices a suspicious delivery person carting a soft water canister to the basement of the apartment building.
     Mulder spots Alex Krycek sneaking around outside his apartment building. He wrestles the agent to the ground and grabs his revolver. Certain that Mulder is about to kill Krycek, Scully draws her weapon and shoots Mulder in the chest.
     When Mulder regains consciousness, he is lying in a motel room in New Mexico, his bullet wound having been ministered by Scully. She explains that lab tests revealed that water flowing into Mulder's apartment building was spiked with a strong hallucinogen, explaining Mulder's aggressive behavior.
     An Indian man named Albert Hosteen begins translating the encoded Defense Department files. He explains to Mulder how a tribe of Indians who once lived in New Mexico disappeared without a trace. Their name was Anasazi, which means Ancient Aliens. Albert believes they were abducted by visitors from another planet. Albert's nephew Eric leads Mulder out into the desert. There, Eric shows the agent a railroad train boxcar buried in a rock quarry. Inside the car are the corpses of what appear to be alien beings. The Smoking Man calls Mulder on his cellular phone. He claims that Mulder's father authorized the project. But Mulder insists he will expose the Smoking Man.
     The Smoking Man traces Mulder's location by pinpointing the source of the cellular phone transmission. But when he arrives in the desert by helicopter, Mulder is not to be found. The Smoking Man orders his men to destroy the boxcar. 

Credits

 THE X-FILES "ANASAZI" #2X25
Original Air Date: 05/19/95

CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

GUEST CAST:
BYRON CHIEF MOON as the Father
BERNIE COULSON as The Thinker
PETER DONAT as William Mulder
NICHOLAS LEA as Agent Alex Krycek
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
PAUL MCLEAN as Agent Kautz
FLOYD "RED CROW" WESTERMAN as Albert Hosteen
RENAE MORRISEAU as Josephine Doane
AURIELLO DINUNZIO as Antonio
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
MICHAEL DAVID SIMMS as the Senior Agent
KEN CAMROUX as the 2nd Senior Agent
MITCH DAVIES as the Stealth Man

WRITTEN BY:
CHRIS CARTER

STORY BY:
DAVID DUCHOVNY and CHRIS CARTER

DIRECTED BY:
R.W. GOODWIN

Get the Episode Preview. (In MOV format).

Go back to the Episode Guide. Previous Episode (Our Town). Next Episode (The Blessing Way). Go back to the main page.