Certificate: PG-13 (US) 15
(UK)
Running Time: 121 mins
US Premiere: 11th
June, 1998
Primary Locations:
Washington, DC
Blackwood,
TX
Antartica
London, UK
Shooting Locations (US):
Santa
Clarita, CA
California City, CA
Bakersfield, CA
Long Beach, CA
Los
Angeles, CA
Toms River, NJ
Pleasantville, NJ
Glamis, CA
Grapevine,
TX
Canyon Country, CA
Shooting Locations (Canada):
North
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Whistler, BC | | The picture begins in northern Texas around
35,000 B.C. Two primitive hunters kill a strange lizard-like creature in an ice
cave.
The mortally wounded beast oozes black blood which
splatters onto one of the hunters. The blood appears to have a life of its own.
It creeps into the savage's eyes and mouth, causing him to drop his torch. As
he lets out a blood curdling scream, the scene moves to the mouth of the cave.
Some boys are playing outside. It's the same spot, but we're now in the
present. One of the boys comes upon a human skull and the same black blood from
the strange creature. A week later at a federal building in nearby Dallas, an
enormous explosion ensues after Mulder and Scully fail to defuse the bomb they
come across. They are both unharmed but are soon blamed for the disaster, which
threatens their jobs. Scully tells Mulder that she is considering leaving the
FBI.
Mulder is given shattering information by Dr. Aal Kurtz weil, a
friend of his father from the State Dept. The old man claims certain government
officials are in a conspiracy with the aliens - hoping their own lives will be
spared. The bomb blast was part of a cover-up, intended to destroy evidence of
the aliens mission to destroy mankind wih a lethal virus. And the virus is
being spread by infected bees. During one tender moment Mulder and Scully are
about to kiss - but passion turns to horror. Fans will swoon with delight as
the two almost lock lips after all these years. Then they will gasp when the
moment is suddenly broken as Scully is stung by a bee! She goes into shock
while the paramedics race to her rescue . As Mulder helps his injured partner,
he is shot - by the ambulance driver, a member of the evil conspiracy that now
has Scully in its clutches. The wounded Mulder is taken to the hospital but
soon sneaks out to rescue Scully. He meets with the Well-Manicured Man who gives
him information on Scully's whereabouts and a vaccine to save her, but soon dies
when the car explodes. Mulder escapes unharmed. A battered and weary Mulder
makes his way to Antarctica where Scully has been taken.
While in
Antarctica, Mulder falls through the ice and stumbles into a huge alien
spaceship, full of dark alleyways and strange pods filled with liquid. When
Mulder finds Scully's necklace in a pod used to transport Scully to Antartica,
he goes about searching the alien pods for her body and soon finds her attached
to a weird alien device. After injected her with the vaccine, she comes around
but the ship begins shaking. Each and every pod on the ship begin releasing the
aliens trapped inside. Mulder and Scully both escape and while recovering on the
ice, witness the huge spaceship flying off into the distance.
Back in
Washington, Scully promises to Mulder that she has seen too much to give up on
her job at the FBI much to Mulder's delight. Meanwhile in Tunisia, the
Cigarette-Smoking Man meets with Conrad Strughold and tells him that the X-Files
have been reopened.
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