With Mulder presumed dead, Scully returns to Washington for a hearing on her conduct. Unfortunately for her, she is summarily suspended without pay or benefits from the FBI. In New Mexico, the Navajo who led Mulder to the alien bodies in the boxcar find the agent buried under rocks in the quarry near the car. It is there that they begin the ceremony to heal Mulder.
Morph feels he's finally ready to return to the X-Men. But his homecoming is interrupted by the return of the Sentinels, the robotic mutant-hunters who nearly killed him the last time he faced them. Will history repeat itself?