More running. This facility is enormous, and completely underground. Eventually, Mulder arrives at a steel door, the lock of which he picks with his own Handy Dandy Lock-Picking Kit. Do they hand those out on your first day at the academy? Because Doggett has one, too. Maybe they give them to you when you get assigned to the X-Files. Maybe I should get one. It might come in handy, you know? Mulder quietly pushes the door open and sneaks inside, placing the lock pick back into his breast pocket. He walks out on a catwalk overlooking a laboratory. It's sort of like The Initiative, in Buffy, except with more flattering lighting and walls suitable for rock-climbing team-building exercises. Mulder peers down into the lab. Below him, people scurry around; the suits are being given what looks like a tour while scientists do...you know, science-y things -- looking through microscopes, running around in white coats, the usual. Men in fatigues walk around holding guns and make menacing faces. It's basically your usual top-secret military laboratory devoted to studying alien DNA and making humans into a slave race. Mulder looks around, slightly nervous, and obviously thinking. He heads down a flight of stairs to a lower level of the catwalk, where he walks calmly for a few yards before bursting into a trot.









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