“En Ami” is episode fifteen of season seven of The X-Files.
In Goochland, Virginia, a young boy is being driven home by his parents. There are lots of protesters outside their house, seemingly protesting against their religion, and an officer escorts them inside. The mother puts her son, Jason, to bed, and says if he doesn’t feel well to ring the bell. Jason doesn’t look so great. His father tells Jason he knows he’s afraid and maybe thinks the people outside are right. They should take Jason to the hospital and let the doctors treat him. They could, and his cancer would be taken away, making his body better, but what about his soul? God gave Jason this; to be well ion body and spirit, God must come and deliver him. Later, Jason is woken up by noise and light and people in the light.
Scully is heading out to work and finds a paper by her door. The Goochland Guardian. Unlikely a paper she normally gets. It has Jason’s story on the front, of a miracle ending controversy. She arrives at Mulder’s office and he tells her about an 11-year-old boy being cured of lymphatic cancer. Scully knows who the boy is. The parents refused treatment on religious grounds and a cure was delivered by angels. Scully says that spontaneous remission isn’t unheard of. Mulder isn’t suspicious of the miracle but the messenger. He got an anonymous email from DARPA. How did Scully hear about it? She explains the paper. Mulder thinks someone wants them on the case.
Scully heads to Goochland and speaks to the parents and to Jason; Jason explains what he saw. angels who looked like men who came from the sky in a ball of light. One pinched his neck kind of hard. Jason has a cut in a familiar-looking place.
Scully heads back to her car to find the CSM inside it. She asks what he’s doing. God’s work, what else. Scully tells him to get out of the car. He hoped for more accommodation, given he saved a young boy’s life. And Scully’s. CSM went to a lot of trouble to get them involved. He’s dying himself and wants to make things right. To share his secrets. He’s tired of Mulder’s mule headedness. The CSM leaves, but leaves a business card with a phone number.
Scully rings the number later, but instead decides to get the address traced. She heads there and enters, then claims she made a mistake and tries to leave, but a guard locks the door. They ask for her ID and check it. 3rd floor. She’s given a visitor’s pass. Evidently, Scully is expected. Scully finds an office with ‘Spender, C.G.B.’ on the door and enters. The Black-Haired Man, seen in “The End”, watches her enter.
The CSM calls Scully into his office. He explains that most of what he worked to build is in ruins; he has no real legacy. He’s dying of a cerebral inflammation, a consequence of brain surgery he had. Presumably in “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati”. He has a few months left. How many people are dying of cancer? He wants Scully to take a trip with him. Men in the building would kill him if they knew what he offered. Scully, too. CSM wants to serve man before he goes.
Mulder arrives home to get a message from Scully; she’s out of town for a day or two, a family emergency. He tries calling Scully, who is currently on the way out with the CSM. She’s also wearing a wire.
In Scully’s car, the CSM is about to light up. Scully asks him if he’s really going to smoke. He throws it away; time he quit. The CSM says there are no purely altruistic sacrifices; we give expecting to receive. What does he expect to receive? Scully’s trust. He holds special affection for Scully; he held her life in his hands. Her cancer was terminal and he had a cure. The power to save or extinguish. He can give Scully that power, so she can do the same.
Mulder is being let into Scully’s apartment. The manager says people like having an FBI agent in the building. Gives them a sense of security. Mulder asks if he knows how many people have died in there. They don’t really talk about that. The manager mentions Scully’s driver was carrying her suitcase. Older guy; the manager has seen him before. Smokes like a chimney. Mulder quickly leaves.
The CSM tells Scully she’s drawn to powerful men, but fears their power. She’ll die for Mulder but won’t allow herself to love him. Scully isn’t impressed with his pop psychology. They head to see a woman, now 118, but they’re also being followed by the Black-Haired Man.
The CSM appears to be showing a different side of himself to Scully, but he’s never been the most trustworthy of people. Mulder reaches out to Skinner and the Lone Gunmen for help.