Episode 1.4 "Conduit"

Originally aired October 1, 1993

The episode starts off with a family camping (young boy and older teen-girl asleep, outside under the stars, and mother in camper) by a lake in the woods, there's an earthquake(?) that knocks the mother off of her bunk in the camper, a bright light,  followed by the little boy calling out for his mom to come out of the camper because his sister is missing (Little boy alone, while sister is abducted... Samantha-centric episode alert!).  We next see Scully talking with Section Chief Blevins (this is his 2nd appearance of 5 in the series) where we find that Mulder has requested to go to Sioux City to investigate Ruby Morris' disappearance.  His linking factor was that the mother was also an alien abductee from years before. 

Upon investigation, Mulder learns that the little brother, Kevin, hears sounds from the T.V. (Kids and white staticy T.V.s, this episode just got Poltergeist creepy!) that he writes down, to Mulder it appears just to be 1s and 0s.  The NSA becomes incredibly interested in the binary drawings, breaking into Scully's motel room at night and talking to a shirtless Mulder (thank you!!!) about the origin of the papers; claiming that they are classified documents.  We learn later they are really just snippets of things like DaVinci's Vitruvian Man drawing, DNA, and segments of Brandenburg's Concerto. (hmm, aren't these things that we've sent up to space in case there really is something out there? Maybe she says that in this episode and I missed it, but I don't think it was mentioned.  I think there's several references throughout media these days, Doctor Who, and Mars Attack just to name a couple that talk about it though) Mulder and Scully receive a tip that Ruby was going to run off with her boyfriend because she was pregnant, they go to a biker bar to find the boyfriend. (The bartender is Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds), there they learn the boyfriend hasn't showed up for a couple of days.

Summing up the end, the informant was actually the pregnant one, she killed the boyfriend and buried him in the woods, but revealed that Ruby wasn't even there when she was following them.  The binary code when placed on the ground showed a picture of Ruby's face.  Mulder and Scully go back to the lake to find the Morris' including Ruby.  The last scene is Scully listening to Mulder's tapes about Samantha, where we have the 1st occasion of him saying "I want to believe." 

That's all for this episode, until tomorrow.  xoxo