The two are about to share a kiss when Scully is stung by a bee that had lodged itself under her shirt collar. Mulder is devastated to lose his partner. Scully arrives at Mulder's apartment to tell him she's been transferred to Salt Lake City. Upon returning to Washington, D.C., Scully attends a performance hearing at the same time, Mulder meets with Kurtzwell in an attempt to get more information. They flee through an adjacent cornfield, chased by black helicopters, but manage to escape when the helicopters suddenly disappear. Inside the domes, grates in the floor open and swarms of bees fly out, attacking the agents. Driving in the direction indicated by the boys, the pair encounters a train with some white gasoline tankers and follow it to a large cornfield surrounding two glowing domes. Mulder and Scully travel to the crime scene in Texas, where they find the site has been hastily turned into a new playground and encounter the boys whose friend fell into the hole. Later, the alien organism unexpectedly gestates and kills Bronschweig. He orders Bronschweig to administer a vaccine to it, but to burn the body if it fails.
Ben Bronschweig shows him one of the lost firefighters, who has an alien organism residing inside his body. Meanwhile, the Cigarette Smoking Man goes to Texas, where Dr. At the hospital morgue, Scully is able to examine one of the victims, finding evidence of an alien virus. That evening Mulder is accosted by a paranoid doctor, Alvin Kurtzweil, who explains that the "victims" were already dead, and that the bombing was staged to cover up how they died. Mulder and Scully are later chastised because, in addition to Michaud, four other people were in the building during the bombing. However, he simply waits for the bomb to detonate. As the building is evacuated, Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud remains, ostensibly to disarm the bomb.
Meanwhile, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, while investigating a bomb threat against a federal building in Dallas, discover the bomb in a building across the street. A team of men wearing hazmat suits arrive and extract the bodies of the boy and the firefighters. Firefighters who enter the hole to rescue him do not come out. In 1998, in the same area, a boy falls into a hole and is also infected by a black substance which seeps from the ground. during the Ice Age, in what will become North Texas, two cavemen hunters encounter a large extraterrestrial life form in a cave, which kills one and infects the other with a black oil-like substance. A sequel, titled I Want to Believe, was released ten years later. The film premiered on June 19, 1998, in the United States, and received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, earning $189 million worldwide against a budget of $66 million. Mark Snow continued his role as X-Files composer to create the film's score. The film was produced by Carter and Daniel Sackheim. Carter assembled cast and crew from the show, as well as some other, well-known actors such as Blythe Danner and Martin Landau, to begin production on what they termed "Project Blackwood". He wrote the story with Frank Spotnitz at the end of 1996 and, with a budget from 20th Century Fox, filming began in 1997, following the end of the show's fourth season. They uncover what appears to be a government conspiracy attempting to hide the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.Ĭarter decided to make a feature film to explore the show's mythology on a wider scale, as well as appealing to non-fans. The story follows agents Mulder and Scully, removed from their usual jobs on the X-Files, and investigating the bombing of a building and the destruction of criminal evidence.
The film takes place between seasons five ( episode "The End") and six ( episode "The Beginning") of the television series, and is based upon the series' extraterrestrial mythology. The film was promoted with the tagline Fight the Future. Davis reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Well-Manicured Man, and the Cigarette-Smoking Man. It was directed by Rob Bowman, written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz and featured five main characters from the television series: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, John Neville, and William B.
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The X-Files (also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future) is a 1998 American science fiction thriller film based on Chris Carter's television series of the same name, which revolves around fictional unsolved cases called the X-Files and the characters solving them.