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The Erlenmeyer Flask

TV Show Episode1994
The Alien
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The Erlenmeyer Flask
May 13, 1994
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.

Description

"Erlenmeyer flasks" (eng. "The Erlenmeyer Flask") – the twenty-fourth and final episode of the first season of the series.

The episode refers to the "mythology" of the series. It introduces an additional storyline that will be continued in the following seasons: genetic experiments, hybrids of human-alien embryos are aliens and the poisonous blood of adult individuals, government conspiracy and an assassin.

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Plot

In the port city Ardis, Maryland, police after a long chase drive the offender's car to a standstill. Having a stiff resistance, the driver, Dr. William Secare, jumping in the water being shot from a gun and leaves behind him on the pier, traces of green liquid.

On a tip from Deep Throat, Mulder receives information about the pursuit and began an investigation. Along with Scully, he visits the laboratory of Dr. Terrance Berube, whose car was trying to escape Secure. That night Deep Throat meets with Mulder for the second time and insists that the investigation was continued. That night in the lab Berube comes with a short haircut and kills the scientist, faking a suicide.

During inspection of the scene, Mulder finds an Erlenmeyer with a dark-red liquid and the label "purity Control". Scully takes the flask to Georgetown University, where microbiologist Anne carpenter analyzes the contents of the vessel. Mulder, searching the office Berube, discovers the keys to the warehouse. At this time Secure three days hiding under the water, calling Berube and takes Mulder for his friend. Agent, not knowing that the conversation listens to the man with the short hair, trying to find the location of Secure, but he loses consciousness due to severe injuries, and the random passer-by calls an Ambulance. During attempts to assist the wounded, doctors lose consciousness, as after the introduction of needle decompression of the chest Secare escapes of toxic gas. He Secure, waking, escapes.

Finding out the location of the warehouse in the footsteps of phone calls Berube, Mulder discovers within six large aquariums, five of which are live connected devices to unknown people, and the sixth empty. Dr. carpenter tells Scully that the flask contains a sample of naturally-occurring bacteria, which can only be of extraterrestrial origin. At the exit from the warehouse Mulder faces prosecution, but he manages to escape. The next day Mulder brings Scully to the warehouse, but he turns out to be completely empty. Agents meets Deep Throat and disclose information about the experiments in an extraterrestrial virus that Berube is spent on terminally ill people. The volunteers recovered, but Berube became aware of the intentions to destroy them, and he helped Secure to escape.

Scully returns to Georgetown University and finds out that Dr. carpenter and her entire family died in a car accident. Mulder finds Secare in the attic of Berube, but watching him man with short hair Secure kills and kidnaps the unconscious by poison gas Mulder. Deep Throat comes on to Scully and replace Mulder on the embryo of the alien Scully to be strictly guarded research center. However, after receiving an embryo, a man with a short haircut kills Deep Throat in front of Scully and hiding, throwing half-dead Mulder from the van. Before the death of Deep Throat, turning to Scully utters his last words: "trust No one".

Several weeks later, the depressed Mulder calls Scully to inform the Department for the investigation of "Secret materials" is closed. Meanwhile, the Smoker places the embryo of a stranger, Scully produced, in a large store, located in the heart of the Pentagon.

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The Alien

The plot of the episode is built around a hybrid alien-human derived working for the government scientists. To obtain a hybrid gene he implanted the alien in the body of terminally ill people with the help of bacteria, infected by an unearthly virus. The results of the analysis of bacteria were identified in its genome two additional nucleotide, which have no analogues on Earth.

As a result of introducing a gene of aliens all 6 patients began to recover. In addition, they have superpowers (of which only mentioned the ability to breathe in water). Blood hybrids are green in color and toxic to normal people.

An alien corpse, tissue samples which was used to highlight the genome and the creation of the virus is by the government since 1947, and stored frozen in the cryochamber. The body very small and more like an embryo than in the adult. At the request of the informant, it was received as a result of one of several "rescue operations" (the incident in Roswell to them is not relevant). At the end of this episode, the embryo is placed in a jar (supposedly) formaldehyde and hidden away amongst themselves in a secret vault in the Pentagon.

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