Triangle

"Triangle" is the third episode of the sixth season of the X-Files series, which belongs to the "monster of the week" type and is not related to the main "mythology" of the series.

After a ferocious storm in the Sargasso Sea, Mulder is caught by hostile sailors. When he comes to, he realizes that he is on board the ship "Queen Anne– - a luxury English liner that disappeared in the late 1930s – during the outbreak of World War II. Delivered to the ship's captain, Iip Harburg, Mulder tries to explain that the war is over and that the ship has been stuck in a temporary anomaly called the Devil's Triangle for 50 years. Nobody believes him, and the team members want to kill him.

At this moment, a message arrives that the liner has been captured by Nazi soldiers. The Nazis believe that there is a "Hammer of Thor" on the liner – according to their assumptions, this is some kind of top-secret weapon of the British. Mulder explains to the members of the ship's crew (among whom a Nazi spy is hiding) that the Hammer of Thor is a scientist who can create this weapon, and the Nazis are sending a ship to Germany, hoping to use the new technology to win the war. The scientist is traveling with a woman who looks like Scully like two drops of water. Mulder tells "Scully" that she must steer the ship back and save the future. If she doesn't, the Germans will win the war, and in the end, neither Mulder nor Scully will simply exist. "Scully" is confused and doesn't know what to do, but Mulder can't wait, as he needs to go back to his own time. Realizing that he will not have another chance, he kisses "Scully", to which she responds with a blow to the jaw, after which Mulder jumps overboard.

Meanwhile, Lone Shooters come to Scully at the FBI and inform her of Mulder's disappearance. She asks Skinner for help in finding information about the whereabouts of the missing vessel. Having received the necessary information, the Shooters and Scully go to the place where Mulder disappeared, find the ship and rescue him.

The Lone Gunmen, Scully and Skinner visit Mulder at the hospital. When he regains consciousness, he tries to explain what happened, but they don't believe him. Everyone wishes him a quick recovery and leaves. Mulder asks Scully to stay and confesses his love to her. She thinks he's still not himself, says quietly "oh, my God" and leaves. After she leaves, Mulder feels on his face the mark of the blow he received from the "Scully" on the ship, and realizes that everything really happened.

Mulder gets on the ship "Queen Anne", which disappeared in 1939 in the Bermuda Triangle and reappeared on satellite images in 1998. He spends several hours there, communicates and interacts with passengers, after which he jumps overboard and returns to his own time.

Scully, who went to his rescue and arrived at the same point much later than Mulder, finds there only an abandoned ghost ship drifting in the ocean.

At the end of the episode, it remains a mystery whether Mulder actually boarded the Queen Anne, or whether the events that happened to him on the ship were just a figment of his imagination.