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Recap by Bolissa

So, a couple weeks ago I decided to pop in my X-Files DVDs and watch the whole series. Or at least all the episodes I can sit through without becoming bored or infuriated. So, I get to the Season 6 finale Biogenesis and I instantly remember watching it for the first time, back in 1999 at the age of 17. That Sunday night I watched it with my mom upstairs in my parents' bedroom. When the episode ended, my mom said "Wow." The first time I watched the Biogenesis and Sixth Extinction episodes, I remember thinking that the whole idea of the Navajo writings on the alien spacecraft, and how Mulder and Scully are tied together by fate was a really amazing turn for the series. It appeared as though the mytharc was going to go someplace really cool. And then we all know what happened after that. But let's try not to go down that road because I've managed to bury a lot of the bitterness and anger. So remember all that hullabaloo about Mulder's Mysterious Brain Disease? Well, let's take a trip down memory lane and find out where it all started.

Ok, so here we go!

Chris Carter penned this episode, so it really shouldn't shock anyone that it starts off with Scully doing a voice over about life. So is she talking to herself or what? I don't know. Maybe she's writing in a journal. Since this is part of a 3-episode arc, maybe this V.O. is Scully writing in her journal while in Africa. But I'm getting ahead of myself. We haven't gotten to that part yet. "From Space, it seems an abstraction -- a magician's trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the sea almost four billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning millions of years, nature's first multicellular organisms began to multiply... and then it stopped. 440 million years ago, a great mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty. Slowly, plants began to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again. Reptiles emerging, independent of the sea only to be killed off. Then dinosaurs, struggling to life along with the first birds, fish, and flowering plants -- their decimations Earth's fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only 100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens appear -- man. From cave paintings to the Bible to Columbus and Apollo 11, we have been a tireless force upon the earth and off, cataloguing the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a world population of over five billion people all descended from that original single cell, that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain, is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there a plan, a purpose or a reason to our existence? Will we pass, as those before us, into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress?" While Scully blah blahs about science and life and whatnot, we're treated to lots of scenes of earthy stuff. Just take scenes from that Planet Earth series on The Discovery Channel and insert here. We then are transported to a beach where some Africans spot an artifact in the sand and start yelling in Swahili. Or at least I think they're speaking Swahili. I can't think of any other African languages right now. ["It's the Ivory Coast, so I think... some form of French?" - <i>raceguy</i>] Anyways, they seem pretty freaked out. While this freak out commences, Scully continues talking to herself. Or writing in her journal. Whatever. "Or will the mystery be revealed through a sign, a symbol, a revelation?"

Old Credits. Like balm for my scars.