Warren Sweeney

Cece convinces Jess that Nick might consider her more than a friend, while Schmidt tries to hook up with Cece.

When Jason reveals that he is no longer in business with Richard, Lorelai has an ugly confrontation with her father about his treatment of Jason.

Mulder believes that metallic objects discovered in Africa are proof that life originated elsewhere in the universe.

While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.

Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place, where he believes a better life awaits.

An officer is suspected of using steroids; a detective admits to an affair with a drug-addicted snitch after the woman is found dead.