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Although the movie can be viewed separately, and certainly - during its theatrical release - was viewed by many non-fans of the show, it plays an integral role in the ongoing storylines of the show.

1 Major cast members

These actors are those who also have roles on the TV show:

• David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
• Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
• Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
• William B Davis as Cigarette-Smoking Man

• John Neville as Well-Manicured Man
• Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly
• Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers
• Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike
• Don S Williams as First Elder

The following actors do not appear on the TV show:

• Martin Landau as Alvin Kurtzweil
• Jeffrey DeMunn as Ben Bronschweig
• Blythe Danner as Assistant Director Jana Cassidy
• Terry O'Quinn as Darius Michaud
• Armin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a leading German film actor. He was born in Tilsit, Germany, now Russia. East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin as Conrad Strughold
• Glenne Headley as Barmaid (uncredited)

2 Plot synopsis

As the show's fifth season ended, the X-Files had been shut down, and Mulder and Scully were assigned to other projects. The movie opens with them assisting Darius Michaud's FBI team staking out a building in Dallas which has had a bomb threat. They discover the bomb across the street but it explodes.

Through evidence given him by a paranoid doctor, Mulder grows to believe that the bomb was deliberately allowed to explode to destroy evidence of some victims of the alien virus. Despite the fact that he and Scully are in danger of losing their jobs at a hearing led by A.D. Jana Cassidy, and attended by A.D. Skinner, they pursue the evidence. But when Scully is stung by a bee infected with the virus, and is kidnapped, a desperate Mulder seeks her out. The Well-Manicured Man tells him where to find her, in AntarcticaAntarctica (from Greek nu;ταρκτικ&sigmaf opposed to the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earth's South Pole. It is the coldest place on earth and is almost entirely covered by ice. It is not to be confused with the, and what the antidote is but in doing so, loses his life.

Mulder journeys to Antarctica and saves Scully, in the process discovering a secret lab run by the Cigarette-Smoking Man and his colleague Strughold. The lab is destroyed when the alien ship lying dormant comes back to life.

Later, Mulder and Scully give evidence at the hearing where Cassidy routinely ignores their remarks. At another outpost - in TunisiaTunisia is a Muslim Arab country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast. It borders on Algeria to the west and Libya to the south and east. El-joumhouriyya et-Tounisiyya Official language Arabic Capital Tunis President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali P - the Cigarette-Smoking Man learns that the X-Files office has been reopened...