As the second season begins, the X-Files have been shut down andf Mulder and Scully are separated. Scully finds herself teaching classes as the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, while Mulder is assigned to surveillance duty. With Agent Alex Krycek as his new partner, and the mysterious X as his new source of information, Mulder struggles to keep his search for the truth alive. But ironically it is Scully who experiences the close encounter Mulder has longed for, taking a journey that will ultimately bring the two agents back to9gether and forging a bond that will make them closer than ever before.