Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner .... Mitch Pileggi
Pilot .......................... Brian Thompson
Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams
MULDER'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR HIS SISTER TAKES ON NEW URGENCY AS HE CHASES THE ONE MAN
WHO MAY KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS INTO THE ARCTIC WASTES. SCULLY ENLISTS SKINNER'S AID TO FIND
HIM.
Mulder faces an excruciating choice when he is forced to ransom his partner by turning
over the woman he believes is his sister to the alien assassin. Guilt-ridden, he must
answer to his father for losing his sister yet again, bringing more grief upon his family.
But his further search turns up a surprising secret about "Samantha," leading
him on a quest that takes him literally to the ends of the earth. Scully must enlist the
aid of Assistant Director Skinner to rescue him before the alien assassin kills him. In
the frozen desert of the Arctic ice shield, Mulder finally gets an answer about his sister
-- even though the asking price is his life.
Notes
The title refers to the term given to the last set of moves
in a chess game.
The scene shown at the beginning, which mirrors the last scene of "Colony",
is slightly different. In "Colony", Scully's face is seen as she hears Mulder's
voice on the phone, then she turns around and we see the fake Mulder. In this episode, as
she hears his voice, the fake Mulder is seen in the background, slightly out of focus.
Quotes
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Captain: "Prepare to surface!"
Midshipman: "Surface into what? We're under 32 feet of glacial ice!"
(Scully has her gun drawn on Mulder/Alien Bounty Hunter)
Mulder: "Okay, I'm going to take my left hand and reach into my pocket and get my
ID, okay? Just don't shoot me. I got shot once and I didn't much care for it..."
"Transfusion and an aggressive treatment with anti-viral agents have resulted in a
steady but gradual improvement in Agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his
exposure to the still unidentified retrovirus whose origin remains a mystery. The search
team that found Agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine nor the man he was
looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility
of paranormal phenomena ...but I am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to
abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I
have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe but this
uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those
things which seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was
exposed to, and science that allowed us to understand its behavior, and ultimately, it was
science that saved Agent Mulder's life."
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you. Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"