"Apocrypha" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the sixteenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. Apocrypha continues the previous episode's storyline regarding the appearance of an alien black oil.
In 1953 a burned crewman talks to three government agents about his experience on the submarine Zeus Faber. He explains that he and other crew members on the submarine were locked in with their captain, who was infecte...
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"Apocrypha" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the sixteenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. Apocrypha continues the previous episode's storyline regarding the appearance of an alien black oil.
In 1953 a burned crewman talks to three government agents about his experience on the submarine Zeus Faber. He explains that he and other crew members on the submarine were locked in with their captain, who was infected by the black oil. After being knocked out from behind the black oil leaves the captain's body and exits a grate into the sea. It is revealed that the agents the burned crewman is talking to includes Bill Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man.
In the present, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Krycek arrive back in the U.S., but are run off the road by another vehicle. While Mulder is unconscious, two men from the other vehicle pull out Krycek but are severely injured by a flashing light emitted by him. The Cigarette Smoking Man sees their bodies and...
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