Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths by lightning in Connerville, Oklahoma and meet with Darren Peter Oswald who seems to have the ability to kill with lightning.

His love for a local school teacher leads him to killing his best friend, subjecting the teacher's husband to a heart attack and basically killing off anything in his path. Mulder's theories that the boy can control lightning are scoffed by Scully until more and more evidence accumulates to suggest that Mulder is in fact right. The agents must stop him before it's too late.