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The point of the ship?


So what exactly were the aliens doing, storing people in this ship in antarctica. Even the caveman was there, according to the director. How he got there I don't know. I just don't see how this storage ship for people infected was supposed to fit into the aliens master plans, or how wrecking it was supposed to really throw a wrench into the plan? Anyone ever figure that out?

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It seemed that since the timetable for colonization had already been set, all the people/hosts in the ship were just being kept cold until the time came for the colonization to begin...kept cold because of what we saw would happen in the episode The Beginning when a host body was warmed up.

The wrench was thrown into the plan because in saving Scully, the aliens were then aware that humans had been working on a vaccine to prevent the plans for colonization.

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Why would the well manicured man want the colonists to know about the vaccine?

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by majandralover30 - Why would the well manicured man want the colonists to know about the vaccine?

The way I interpreted what he said to Mulder in the movie, WMM did what he did not so much caring that the aliens would learn about the vaccine so much as how Mulder using it would effect the plans of the syndicate to save only themselves at the expense of everyone else.

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i'm not sure it really changed anything though. Even with the vaccine, they only cared about themselves, and it seemed that it wouldn't really stop the invasion. Sometimes I wonder if Carter himself knew what he was doing.

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That's what WMM man was talking about though. Now that The Syndicates' plan for only saving themselves via the vaccine was done away with, the invasion would have to be dealt with in another way. WMM gave Mulder the vaccine because he now knew the Syndicate didn't know or have as much control as they thought they did and counting on them and their plans only was the wrong course to follow when considering his own family.

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