Scully is helped in finding a person who can read the Navajo and code. Mulder asks CSM if he can protect Mulder and CSM says that he’s been protected him for this long. Mulder that the documents have been breached. The Cigarette- Smoking Man visits Mulder’s father with pressing business. Scully hears that Mulder is in danger of being dismissed and she would most likely be as well. Skinner tries to talk to him but Mulder punches him. Mulder is acting strangely, which Scully notices. Upon examining the files, Mulder realizes that they are all in Navajo, which was used to encrypt messages during WWII. Mulder meets with the Thinker who hands him digital copies of the files. Suddenly Mulder’s neighbor shots her husband of over 30 years. Also that the Thinker wanted to meet with Mulder but the Lone Gunmen fear he is already dead. The j files turn out to be all the Defense Department has learned about UFOs since the 40s. Mulder is contacted by the Lone Gunmen who say they’ve been pursued by a multinational black ops unit named Garnet because of the Thinker. Hanging up, he speaks to the people in the room saying this was the phone call he never wanted to get. The German embassy calls the Cigarette Smoking Man who says he’s taken care of the problem. In a series of phone calls, the Italian, Japanese, and German governments find that someone has broken into files called MJ. Meanwhile, the Thinker, a computer hacker, breaks into the Defense Department computer system. Albert, Eric’s grandfather, says that it should be returned and that they will be coming. They also find a desiccated corpse that does not look human. Written by: Chris Carter and David DuchovnyĪfter an earthquake in New Mexico, a young Native American, Eric, finds something shiny in the sand, which turns out to be a hatch. Man, to stand testament that they had ever existed at all. No matter the reason for the Anasazis' sudden extinction, they disappeared from the region completely, leaving only the giant monuments of their cities and some remains of their artwork, such as the famous Yellow It is believed that the Hopi are their descendants. The cannibalism, however, gives credence to the theory of drought. One theory suggests that the high mineral content in their water eroded their teeth to the point they could no longer eat. The final cause of their disappearance is, as mentioned, still under debate. Cultural sophistication kept up with their expanding population: they advanced quickly, with surprisingly little outside influence, through eight distinct stages, three “basketmaker” and five “ pueblo.” They were a farming people, learning to store grain and corn during bumper crops to survive during droughts. As they expanded, they eventually absorbed the Hohokam and Mogollon cultures, which resided south of them. They settled the land around the Four Corners region en masse in about 600 A.D., the first of them moving there around 1 A.D. A fun little side note is that the Anasazi are found to have converted to cannibalism late in their stay in the Four Corners region. Scientists fiercely debate the causes of their disappearance, but it is generally agreed to correlate with a great drought around the same time and the warlike Athabascan Indians settling in. The Anasazi tradition is steeped in mystery and legend, for these people came, flourished, and then vanished without a trace in 1300 A.D., leaving only their magnificent cliff dwellings, some pottery shards, and pieces of bone.
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