Later that day...
Doggett arrived at the X-Files office, late.
"Good morning Monica." Doggett said, somewhat nervously.
"It's the afternoon." Reyes deadpanned, while reading an X-File.
Doggett shrugged. "My alarm clock was out of battery's and I had to buy new ones."
Reyes rolled her eyes. "Whatever, did you hear about the Pentagon Suicide?"
"Yes ,it's buzzing all over the place! A Robert Marx, He was a Secretary of Defense. What about it?" Doggett replied.
"We've been assigned to it."
Doggett was confused. "Why? That sounds like something regular security could handle."
"You would be right. However, before committing suicide, Robert wrote something on the wall. More accurately, it is related with one of the first X-File's Mulder and Scully ever investigated." Reyes said, and handed Doggett the file she was reading.
Doggett started reading the file. "A young boy named Kevin Morris was receiving messages similar to what Robert wrote down shortly after his sister was abducted. Mulder and Scully showed up, found the sister, but the mother refused to cooperate further and the case was closed."
Reyes nodded. "Both messages are binary codes. All data can be translated into computer binary code."
Doggett continued reading. "The Kevin messages were random. An image of art by DaVinci, musical notes, some religious text. What connection do these cases have? Besides the fact they both involve codes."
"Well the lab technicians have translated the Robert codes." Reyes said. "And it reads: Conrad Strughold is in the NeoSyndicate, and Kevin Morris can find him."
Doggett frowned. "Who else knows about this?"
" Well Leyla Harrison was able to limit the number of people who knew about this to just the lab technicians who translated it, herself, A.D Morales and Skinner." Reyes explained.
"Smart woman. No wonder she stopped being a field agent" Doggett remarked. Reyes felt jealous for some reason, but stayed silent. "Anyway, what about the autopsy?"
"I was about to perform it." Reyes said, standing up. "Come on." She said as she left the office, and Doggett followed her.
"Why didn't your perform it earlier?" Doggett asked as they waited for the lift.
"Because of the victim's identity and location of employment, it makes it critical that the media does not find out about this." Reyes replied as they got into the lift.
Doggett was able to guess what Monica was talking about. "So I have to make sure nobody tires to take any pictures or anything of the autopsy to leak it to the media.
"Correct." Reyes relied as they got out of the lift, walked down a corridor's and ended up in the autopsy room, where Harrison was waiting for them.
After making the necessary introductions, Reyes started the autopsy while Harrison and Doggett talked about the case.
"What's strange is that nobody knows why he wrote the message in blood when he had pen and paper in his office! This is definitely an X-File!" Harrison proclaimed.
Doggett read Marx's medial profile. "It says here that he was a non-smoker, so why did he stuff a pack of Morleys into his mouth before killing himself."
"Maybe he was trying to tell whoever was working on the X-Files that Mulder and Scully's arch nemesis; C.G.B Spender, is alive and up to no good!" Harrison suggested.
Doggett ignored her. "And the receipt in his pocket says that he brought the pack this morning, so he must have planned this in advance. But why go into all the trouble? Why didn't he just kill himself at home?"
"I spoke to the owner of the shop where he brought the pack, he said that Mr Marx looked fine and healthy." Harrison commented.
It was that moment that Reyes came out of the autopsy room. "Robert died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head." She stated. " I also found a microchip and a bee in his stomach."
Doggett was in disbelief. "A microchip and a bee?"
"The microchips were used by the conspiracy to monitor and kill abductees." Harrison explained. "And the bees were also used to carry smallpox and the black oil."
"The black oil?" Doggett said, almost getting PTSD flashbacks of what happened last time he encounter them.
"Well it's obvious what we have to do." Reyes announced. "We need to find Kevin Morris, now."
