Original Airdate: December 1, 1996
Writer(s): Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carte
Director(s): Rob Bowman
Guest Stars
Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
William B. Davis as The Smoking Man
Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek
John Neville as the Well-Manicured Man
Jessica Schreier as Dr. Bonita Charne-Sayre
Stefan Arngrim as a Prisoner
Brendan Beiser as Agent Pendrell
Campbell Lane as the Committee Chairman
Pamela MacDonald as a Nurse
Brenda McDonald as Auntie Janet
Igor Morozov as a Russian Horseman
Robin Mossley as Dr. Kingsley Looker
Eileen Pedde as Angie
Jan Rubes as Vasily Peskow
Brent Stait as Terry Edward Mayhew
Malcolm Stewart as Dr. Sacks
Fritz Weaver as Senator Sorenson
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Synopsis: In a Tunguska gulag, Mulder and many others are infected with the alien virus that uses oil as a medium. The only person who knows Mulder’s whereabouts is Scully, who has been called before a Senate Subcommittee hearing on the death of a diplomatic courier, who fell from Skinner’s apartment balcony.