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--CONRAD STRUGHOLD The movie will introduce this heretofore unseen big cheese, a WWII German industrialist (Armin Mueller-Stahl) now living in North Africa. Back in 1948, he and his band of dapper thugs--including U.S. CEO The Well-Manicured Man (John Neville)--made contact with a race of aliens intent on colonizing Earth. The Syndicate's members--many of them Hitler-funded eugenics pioneers--agreed to collaborate, to help create a population of alien/human hybrid clones, if they were "given a place in the grander scheme." The cloning, code name Purity Control, melds alien biomaterial with ova harvested from abducted women (like Scully; Samantha appears to have been an early clone model).

The only thing more obvious than Carter's Nazi symbolism is, Why would anyone trust an alien? Suspecting duplicity, and hedging their bets, The Syndicate is secretly developing a vaccine against...

--THE BLACK OIL The alien's greatest weapon is a viscous viral substance--"the very medium of their life force" says Carter--lethal to humans (only hybrid clones are immune). It's all we've seen of the yet-to-be-named colonizers, but these bad boys have legs, and they ain't little green men, as the movie will reveal. We'll also learn the aliens are Earth's original inhabitants, and that their enslavement of humanity--the future Mulder and Scully will be fighting--is their bid to reclaim it.

Originally posted Jun 12, 1998 Published in issue #436 Jun 12, 1998 Order article reprints

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