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'''Season 5, Episode 13:'''
!Patient X
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[BlatantLies "I'm going to take good care of you."]]'']]
->Written by Creator/ChrisCarter & Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Kim Manners

->'''Mulder:''' There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.\\
'''Werber:''' So, you and I have just been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?\\
'''Mulder:''' Yeah. Is [[TitleDrop Patient X]] any more credible?

Mulder, who has come to doubt that alien abductions are anything but a terrestrial cover-up, meets Cassandra Spender, a multiple abductee, and her son Jeffrey, an FBI agent.

Meanwhile, the Syndicate is having some trouble with the arrival of some very real aliens.
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!!Tropes:
* AgentScully: ''Mulder'' in this case, who believes Cassandra Spender was not abducted by aliens (though ironically, she came forward with the story after being inspired by Mulder himself).
* BodyHorror: Dmitri's time with Krycek not only has him being infected with the black oil, but also has his eyes, ears, nose and mouth sewn shut. Not a lovely sight to see...
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Scully seeing faceless men on one side of the Ruskin Dam bridge, incinerating waiting alien abductees. [[OhCrap She is frozen and unable to move.]]
* EyeScream: Dmitri's eyes are sewn completely shut due to the black oil being administered in him. When he later escapes and reaches the Ruskin Dam bridge, he pulls out the stitches.
* MythArc
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: A variant on the trope phrasing. Agent Mulder, who has grown skeptical of the existence of extraterrestrials but instead believes the alien conspiracy to be a lie concocted by the military to hide a different and all the more sinister scheme, describes his belief in "a conspiracy wrapped in a plot inside a government agenda."
* WouldHurtAChild: Krycek tortures an unfortunate kid in a gulag and has him infected with the Black Oil.
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->''[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E14TheRedAndTheBlack "Don't you get it? She's got nowhere to go."]]''