As the episodes begins, we follow a Muslim man as he does his morning prayers. When he leaves his home, he sees several backwoods country folk staring him down and talking, intimidating him enough to roll up his window at the stop light. When he gets to his destination he is met by a friend. They join together in prayer before a entering a building, which explodes minutes later. I was hoping the episode wouldn’t go this route, but here we are.

When we see Mulder and Scully, they are discussing theology as a means to understand the case, and we find out what makes this a X-Files case. Witnesses claimed to have heard music at the time of the explosion, the songs of the Heavens perhaps? It seems as though Mulder isn’t the only one thinking there could be an X-Files connection. Agent Miller, a young Mulder type begs his partner, Einstein, the Scully to his Mulder, to make a pit stop to discuss this case with the real Mulder and Scully. Miller thinks Mulder may know how reach the surviving terrorist who is in a coma, which will help them crack open an even bigger terrorist ring. Einstein, much like a young Scully is not impressed, and just wanted to get back to the case, her way.

As Miller and Einstein wait for their flight, Scully calls Miller. She thinks she can break the case and communicate with the comatose terrorist, using science and MRI. A thing she wishes she would have thought of when her mother was on her deathbed. Meanwhile Mulder calls Einstein, he wants her to come help him with the case, she denies him, until she sees Scully helping her partner Miller. In typical Mulder fashion, he immediately goes to work at breaking down Einstein’s thoughts and theories which quickly leads to his true reason for asking for her help, magic mushrooms. He wants to use them to enter a parallel plane of existence and communicate with the terrorist. Against her better judgment, and after much protest, Einstein agrees.

Once the mushrooms are in effect, Mulder slips by Einstein as her attention is on a nurse who tried pulling the plug on the comatose man. And Mulder’s mushroom driven adventure begins! We see him walking down the street before joining a country line dance, which he looks far too thrilled to be at. We see a side of Mulder that is somewhat reminiscent of David Duchovny’s character in Californication. Sex and rock and roll seem to dominate his drug fueled fantasies, until he finds himself on a boat filled with cloaked figures.

That’s when he sees him, the whole reason he is there, the comatose man is right in front of him, being held in a woman’s arms. The whole vision is very similar to depictions of Jesus and his mother the Virgin Mary. Mulder apprehensively makes his way to towards the pair. The closer he gets he can see the man is whispering something and he leans his ear in so he can hear him. As he begins to speak, we are shown about a dozen terrorist strapped with bombs, being prepped for an attack.

Meanwhile, Scully is still determined to help Miller get the answers he is searching for. As he begins to speak the man’s native tongue, Scully notices changes on the monitor. Miller is thrilled, but quickly, Scully brings him back to Earth, there are too many unknown variables and they have tons of work ahead of them. Whereas Mulder, is recovering from his drug induced haze, which Einstein informs him was strictly a placebo effect, as she didn’t give him the real thing, a lie told to save herself from trouble.

Mulder reveals he did speak to the terrorist, and that he recognizes a woman begging to be allowed in the hospital. It was the woman holding him in his vision, the woman is the man’s mother. She cries and tells them, she saw visions of her son. He has lost his nerve to hurt others and tried to leave, that was the only thing that kept him from dying instantly. Sadly, after she reveals this, he flat lines, sparking more visions of Mulder’s adventures, as Mulder sputters off what he remembers, Miller translates. This information leads them to the remaining terrorist, saving the day just in time! Einstein admits to Miller that maybe there are possibilities for belief to hold weight outside of the scientific world. A conversation we have seen before with their older counterparts.

And with only one episode remaining we are left with hope that maybe Mulder and Scully can rekindle the love they once had. In the final minutes we get yet another reference to William when Mulder mentions mothers, and motherhood. Will the final episode reunite the family of three? Will we be seeing more of Miller and Einstein, a spin off perhaps? I can’t help but wonder what all this is leading up to. I’m just hoping the final episode isn’t going to leave us with more questions than answers. I’m not going to lie, I was a little upset to see the episode was based on terrorism this week. Having seen how much fear and hate people already have towards Islam and the people who practice it, I was very pleased to see the way they dealt with addressing those issues. X-Files has always had a way of addressing social issues. They bring to light every perspective on the issues. In this episode I believe they did so by showing all the people with blind hate towards the comatose man, as well as his mother’s perspective. Scully also did a great job of educating people that not every Islamic person is a terrorist, and that the extremists are the minority. I’m looking forward to next week’s final adventure and hope you are too!