"So how do we know nobody has tampered with the crash site at all?" Scully asked on the plane the next morning. Mulder was busy doing a crossword in the news paper.
"We don't. Though the police arrived about 15 minutes after it crashed and realised the whole thing was out of their hands. They cordoned the area off and been waiting for FBI assistance every since." Mulder said calmly, though this made no sense to Scully at all.
"Wait if they arrived 15 minutes after it crashed on Tuesday night, how come we weren't informed till yesterday and leaving today. Surely we should have been informed about it straight away." Scully exclaimed, slightly infuriated that they had been kept out of the loop.
Mulder was silent.
"Mulder?" Scully asked.
"I think it may have been Them." Mulder said.
"Them? Please tell me your not still thinking about that?" Scully said, knowing well that Mulder was thinking that exactly. She was less reluctant to believe that people higher than herself and Mulder, even Skinner would deliberately do these things.
"Of course. Never take my mind off them. Ever since we met Deep Throat." Mulder answered.
Mulder fell silent.
"Who's the daughter of David Gest? For that matter who is David Gest?" Mulder suddenly asked.
Scully looked puzzled.
"Why are you asking that?" Scully asked, slightly annoyed at how quickly he could change the subject.
"4 down." Mulder replied and showed her the paper.
"Liza Minelli. David Gest was married to Judy Garland for a time. How long before we get there?" Scully asked.
"Shouldn't be too long. 20 minutes tops." Mulder said and continued with his crossword leaving Scully to her own thoughts.
Her thoughts drifted back to some previous cases and this current one. To her, it did not seem so special, but she could see it was extremely important for Mulder, who was determined to reveal the truth about government conspiracies and the truth of extraterrestrial life beyond this Earth. Given the nature of their cases since they both started working together, only once had their roles been reversed, and Scully was the believer and Mulder was the sceptic.
Her thoughts drifted back to her father, as it was due to his death she had become a believer for that one time. Her father had just died and Luther Boggs had started calling her 'Starbuck', which was the nickname her father used for her. It had only been a few months since he had died, but the event still shook her up. She decided to start thinking of other things instead.
"Did any other country notice this anomaly the other night?" Scully asked Mulder.
"Not as far as I know. I contacted Torchwood and they didn't notice anything, and I also contacted the French, Russian, Australian and Egyptian Governments to see if they noticed anything unusual from their scientists. Nothing from all of them?" Mulder replied.
"Egyptian?" Scully asked.
"Didn't want them to feel left out." Mulder replied and continued with his crossword.
Scully sat in silence with her thoughts for the remainder of the flight.
The site looked like a bomb had been dropped on it. There was some metal debris everywhere and some plants had been uprooted, but thankfully nobody had been hurt. In fact, Scully and Mulder could not place anyone up here at the scene when the crash occurred, though they had not checked everyone. Some cops had cordoned off every access to the site but people had still gathered where they could. Rumours had already began to spread, since it was Roswell and a few years under reaching the 50th anniversary of the infamous crash. It had helped Mulder and Scully that the story had not spread further than Roswell at the moment, since the government did not want another fiasco similar to 50 years before.
Mulder and Scully approached a cop and showed their I.Ds.
"I'm Mulder," Mulder said and pointed to agent Scully, "This is Agent Scully. We're from the FBI, here to investigate the crash."
The cop looked at them baffled.
"Another set?" The cop replied.
"What do you mean?" Scully asked, unaware that any other agents had been assigned to this case.
"We had 4 in this morning, and too tell you the truth, two seemed extremely young to be agents." The cop said, not disguising his disapproval at all.
"Scully, did you know about this?" Mulder asked Scully but she was as baffled as he was.
"No idea," She told Mulder and turned back to the cop.
"Did they have any names?" She asked the cop.
"Only one gave their name. He called himself the Doctor." The cop answered.