With the X-Files project officially disbanded, Mulder and Scully return to rank and file FBI
investigations. The agents, having been exposed to extraordinary cases involving
extraterrestrials and the paranormal, can hardly conceal their boredom. Believing that the
agency has them under surveillance, they meet in the parking garage of the Watergate Hotel.
There Mulder confesses to Scully that he has grown depressed about his mission in
life-finding evidence that proves his sister was abducted by aliens years earlier. He laments
that despite having numerous close encounters with UFOs, he still possesses no physical
evidence that proves extraterrestrials exist. He is losing interest in finding “the truth.”
Mulder is later summoned to the Capitol Building by Senator Richard Matheson, an X-Files
patron, who lets him in on a big secret: an abandoned radio telescope in Puerto Rico was
the site of a UFO encounter.
Mulder flies to Puerto Rico immediately, hoping to beat the Blue Beret UFO Retrieval
Team before they can confiscate evidence that contact was made. He makes forced entry
into the facility, where he discovers a reel to reel tape spinning unattended on a tape
recorder. A terrified Puerto Rican man named Jorge draws Mulder an image that seems to be
extraterrestrial that he witnessed at the site.
When Mulder does not show up for work, Scully begins an investigation. She searches
his apartment and discovers a piece of paper containing a “Wow Signal,” a radio
transmission from deep space containing a transmission code thirty times stronger than
galactic background noise. Dr. Kip Troitsky tells Scully that only a handful of radio
telescopes actively search for such signals. Scully searches through airline manifests and
finds one containing Mulder’s pseudonym, “George E. Hale.” That flight was bound for
Puerto Rico. Scully’s progress is slowed when a hurricane strikes the island. She grows
even more concerned when she realizes other FBI agents are following her.
Mulder and Jorge listen to the reel to reel tapes as the force of the hurricane intensifies.
Suddenly, Jorge hears noises that terrify him. He runs from the building. Mulder runs after
him, but after a short search discovers the man’s dead body, his expression frozen in fear. Feeling more isolated than ever, Mulder records his
thoughts into a tape recorder. He wonders aloud what he would do if he did indeed come
face to face with extraterrestrial life. Moments later, an intense, blinding force rocks the
building. Mulder watches, horrified, as what appears to be an alien being walks towards him. He is engulfed in a
blinding light.
When Mulder regains consciousness, Scully is at his side. They soon realize that the
Blue Beret team has arrived. Confident the Berets will kill them, the pair scramble for a
nearby jeep and head into the wilderness. The Berets open fire, striking the jeep. Mulder
outmaneuvers them and escapes down a roadway. When he returns to Washington, Mulder
is reprimanded by Skinner for missing work. Mulder counters that his phone was tapped
illegally. Mulder is allowed to keep his job. Later, he and Scully listen to the reel to reel tape,
only to realize it is blank.
THE X-FILES “LITTLE GREEN MEN”
#2X01
Original Air Date: 09/16/94
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox
Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
RAYMOND J. BARRY as Senator Richard Matheson
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the The Cigarette-Smoking Man
MIKE GOMEZ as Jorge Concepcion
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Walter
Skinner
VENESSA MORLEY as Samantha (age 8)
MARCUS TURNER as Fox Mulder (age 12)
LES CARLSON as Dr. Troisky
FULVIO CECERE as the Aide
DERYL HAYES as Agent Morris
DWIGHT MCFEE as the Commander
LISA ANNE BELEY as the Student
GARY HETHERINGTON as Lewin
BOB WILDE as Rand
WRITTEN BY:
GLEN MORGAN & JAMES WONG
DIRECTED BY:
DAVID NUTTER
