For more than two years, the incomparable "The X-Files" has been exciting the minds of fans of science fiction, mysticism, and thrillers. With bated breath we wait: will FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully manage to unravel yet another tangle of mysterious events? Vernon Ruckman, who had been guarding the charred ruins of the ultra-secret government laboratory "DyMar," merely touched an unwelcome intruder and felt a burn like sulfuric acid, heard the crack of his own bursting bones—and died. A terrible death caused by something inexplicable. But fighting inexplicable evil is ordinary work for Scully and Mulder.