"Name of victim?" Mulder asked the cop beside him, while Scully examined the corpse as much as she could without the proper equipment.
"James Ford. Says here right on his driver's licence." The cop told Mulder and handed a wallet to him. Mulder was annoyed that the corpse had been slightly tampered with, though the cop had assured him that the wallet was lying next to the corpse. Still, it had been tampered with.
Mulder looked at the licence and then back to the corpse. His face now looked nothing like his picture. His face looked like he had been mauled by a wild animal, yet it was the middle of a vast desert wasteland and barely any animals would survive out here.
"Anything unusual Scully?" Mulder asked and crouched down beside Scully, who was studying the corpse in detail.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. Except this," Scully said and held up a tube which had some brown coloured liquid at the bottom.
"What is it?" Mulder asked, fascinated by the brown liquid.
"No idea. I'll be able to tell you more when we get it to the lab to be analysed. Other than that, it looks like the person was killed by a wild animal." Scully said. Mulder was still staring at the brown liquid.
"Would a wild animal be able to produce this goo?" Mulder asked.
"I don't know what it is yet to say exactly what it could be." Scully answered, already getting an idea of where this conversation was heading.
"How long would you say this person has been dead for?" Mulder asked Scully. Scully knew for sure where this was headed.
"You cannot seriously think this guy was killed due to the crash?" Scully asked totally amazed but by now she should have realised that anything Fox Mulder does is nothing short of amazing.
"Course not Scully that's ridiculous. They were miles apart. I'm suggesting that something due to the crash caused this man's death." Mulder replied.
"Mulder you have no sustainable proof of what that crash was and if anything could survive it would be a million to one chance." Scully said determined not to lose this argument.
"What if that Doctor guy was right in saying that a small space ship crashed here, and something survived and started to explore it's new surroundings and came across Mr Ford here. The thing would be scared and attack naturally." Mulder said but Scully wasn't budging.
"I'm sticking to the wild animal theory. We'll have more information once an autopsy has been performed." Scully said and called over two paramedics from the nearby ambulance to remove the body and take it for further study.
"What about those two in the car?" Mulder asked and pointed back towards the car where Marie and Charlie were sitting patiently.
Scully got out her phone.
"One way to sort it out." Scully said and pressed a speed dial button.
Mulder stood by while Scully was on the phone and not amazed by what he could hear from Scully's side.
"You did not give anybody else any authorisation to deal with this case at all sir?" Scully said, on the phone to Assistant Director Skinner.
"Thank you sir." Scully said and hung up the phone.
"That was Skinner." Scully started but Mulder could already guess.
"They were never assigned to this case and there's no record of any of them on file at all?" Mulder asked.
"Exactly. Skinner said he'll get in contact with Torchwood and UNIT in the UK to see if they have any idea who these people claim to be, but we're too arrest them and bring them in for questioning." Scully said, not knowing how to get to the Doctor and his companion.
"You do that, I've got a hunch." Mulder said and started to walk towards the police car.
"Mulder, where are you going?" Scully shouted.
"I'll keep in touch. I'm going to find out more about this Doctor guy!" Mulder shouted back and started talking to a cop.
Scully sighed, knowing that she'd be left partially in the dark, but she has her own work to do and returned to the car where Charlie and Marie were waiting.