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I am in an episode of The X Files, tagging along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate strange events occurring in a grocery store in Stockholm. The store is part of a national chain of grocery stores, which operates under several different brands targeting different clientele (upper market, deli, import brands, etc).
Mulder and Scully discover that in fact, the mysterious occurrences are not limited to that one store, but across the entire franchise. Finally in one store we encounter a talking border collie who looks at Mulder and says, “It’s time to go home, Fox.”
“Do I know you?” Mulder asks.
“No, I’m just the emissary. But they’ve been waiting for you to remember.”
“Remember what?”
“Who you are.”
“Who am I? And who are they?”
“So you still don’t know. No wonder it took you so long to find your way here. You’d better follow me.”
The dog leads us to the back of the store, where I expect to find a stockroom or loading bay or something. Instead it’s a high-tech operations center with lots of screens – it’s also apparently automated, as there is no one inside. The dog barks a command and a large screen displays a map of Sweden that shows every store in the grocery chain.
Essentially, the stores serve as outposts for aliens to monitor Earth’s activities and determine when First Contact is feasible. Each brand of the grocery store chain represents a different alien species, identifiable by a slight difference in sign design (at the top of the sign is a cross, a circle, an “S”, etc). All the different species coordinate with each other and share information.
“Why did you tell me it’s time to come home?” asks Mulder.
“We’ve been looking everywhere for you, but we were unsuccessful. We took shapeshifting into account but your memory loss complicated things, to say nothing of your career choices.”
“Okay, enough of this vague riddle crap,” says Scully. “For once, just tell us straight – what is going on.”
The dog shakes her head. “That never works. You’re humans. You won't believe anything outside of your preconceptions unless you see it for yourself. Go to the produce section and pick up a vegetable. Any vegetable. Then all your questions will be answered.” She looks at Mulder and adds, “Your sister will be so pleased to see you.”
Mulder looks at Scully and dashes out of the control room into the store. He arrives in the produce section, picks up a stalk of broccoli, and suddenly transforms into a triffid.
The triffid turns to a shocked Scully. “I remember everything,” he says.
What he remembers is this:
Fox Mulder and his sister are both triffid-like aliens who can also shapeshift to imitate other lifeforms. They were visiting Earth with their family when suddenly the US government discovered the existence of aliens on their turf and dispatched agents to capture some and kill the rest. This triggered a mass evacuation of all alien species, and somehow in the confusion Mulder was left behind. The memory of his sister being abducted is a distortion of the truth – he saw her get on the ship but was too late to get onboard himself.
To evade capture, Mulder was forced to maintain his human form for so long that he eventually forgot that he was a triffid and the memory of his sister was distorted over time. His decision to become an FBI agent and hunt for UFOs was a subconscious effort to return home, and he never knew.
It was only years later that the aliens set up the monitoring outposts, having learned the hard way that humans were not ready for alien contact. The triffids searched for Mulder, but because he was disguised as a human and had no idea he wasn’t a human, this made him difficult to find. Once they did find him, extraction was complicated by the fact that the US govt was watching him extremely closely because of his investigations that threatened to uncover its various conspiracies.
The produce shelves slide aside to reveal a hidden tunnel that leads to some kind of teleportation device. Mulder turns to Scully and holds out his hand. Scully takes it and they step into the tunnel together. The shelves slide back into place.
And then I woke up.
I want to believe,
This is dF
Mulder and Scully discover that in fact, the mysterious occurrences are not limited to that one store, but across the entire franchise. Finally in one store we encounter a talking border collie who looks at Mulder and says, “It’s time to go home, Fox.”
“Do I know you?” Mulder asks.
“No, I’m just the emissary. But they’ve been waiting for you to remember.”
“Remember what?”
“Who you are.”
“Who am I? And who are they?”
“So you still don’t know. No wonder it took you so long to find your way here. You’d better follow me.”
The dog leads us to the back of the store, where I expect to find a stockroom or loading bay or something. Instead it’s a high-tech operations center with lots of screens – it’s also apparently automated, as there is no one inside. The dog barks a command and a large screen displays a map of Sweden that shows every store in the grocery chain.
Essentially, the stores serve as outposts for aliens to monitor Earth’s activities and determine when First Contact is feasible. Each brand of the grocery store chain represents a different alien species, identifiable by a slight difference in sign design (at the top of the sign is a cross, a circle, an “S”, etc). All the different species coordinate with each other and share information.
“Why did you tell me it’s time to come home?” asks Mulder.
“We’ve been looking everywhere for you, but we were unsuccessful. We took shapeshifting into account but your memory loss complicated things, to say nothing of your career choices.”
“Okay, enough of this vague riddle crap,” says Scully. “For once, just tell us straight – what is going on.”
The dog shakes her head. “That never works. You’re humans. You won't believe anything outside of your preconceptions unless you see it for yourself. Go to the produce section and pick up a vegetable. Any vegetable. Then all your questions will be answered.” She looks at Mulder and adds, “Your sister will be so pleased to see you.”
Mulder looks at Scully and dashes out of the control room into the store. He arrives in the produce section, picks up a stalk of broccoli, and suddenly transforms into a triffid.
The triffid turns to a shocked Scully. “I remember everything,” he says.
What he remembers is this:
Fox Mulder and his sister are both triffid-like aliens who can also shapeshift to imitate other lifeforms. They were visiting Earth with their family when suddenly the US government discovered the existence of aliens on their turf and dispatched agents to capture some and kill the rest. This triggered a mass evacuation of all alien species, and somehow in the confusion Mulder was left behind. The memory of his sister being abducted is a distortion of the truth – he saw her get on the ship but was too late to get onboard himself.
To evade capture, Mulder was forced to maintain his human form for so long that he eventually forgot that he was a triffid and the memory of his sister was distorted over time. His decision to become an FBI agent and hunt for UFOs was a subconscious effort to return home, and he never knew.
It was only years later that the aliens set up the monitoring outposts, having learned the hard way that humans were not ready for alien contact. The triffids searched for Mulder, but because he was disguised as a human and had no idea he wasn’t a human, this made him difficult to find. Once they did find him, extraction was complicated by the fact that the US govt was watching him extremely closely because of his investigations that threatened to uncover its various conspiracies.
The produce shelves slide aside to reveal a hidden tunnel that leads to some kind of teleportation device. Mulder turns to Scully and holds out his hand. Scully takes it and they step into the tunnel together. The shelves slide back into place.
And then I woke up.
I want to believe,
This is dF
