Opening The X-Files ...

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.

Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X".

Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes. But this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain, and most hideous death ...

When renowned nuclear weapons researcher Dr. Gregory, is found dead -- actually charred to a radioactive cinder -- in his laboratory, on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the "X-Files," strange and inexplicable cases that are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved.

As Mulder and Scully begin their frustrating work, they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they are asked. One by one, Mulder and Scully hit dead ends, closed security clearances, and classified documents they are forbidden to see. But that doesn't stop them from ripping the lid off Dr. Gregory's illegal project -- a new type of flash nuclear explosive that has all the destructive power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, but with an innovative design that leaves virtually no radioactive fallout. As Mulder and Scully feverishly work to uncover why Dr. Gregory and two others unrelated to his reasearch have died, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.