📖 CHAPTER 1: THE DISCOVERY (Book Excerpt) The glass of scotch felt cold in Mulder’s hand, but the rage inside him burned white-hot. He stared at the small, metallic device that had just clattered onto Skinner's floor — the exact same nano-particle weapon Krycek had once used to hold a gun to the Assistant Director's head. "Look at me, Walter!" Mulder choked out, slamming Skinner against the wall, his fingers digging into the fabric of his jacket. "That's why you did it!" Skinner didn't strike back. Instead, his arm locked around Mulder’s neck in a brutal, desperate chokehold, pinning him down until the room went quiet. "Mulder, stop it! Just stop!" Skinner breathed heavily, his voice cracking with a weight he had carried alone for years. "He's alive! Krycek is alive." Skinner released his grip and threw a crumpled piece of paper onto the desk. On it were scribbled a single set of GPS coordinates pointing to a desolate cabin hidden deep in the mountain mist.
