It all starts with a 10 year old girl named Tina, whose father is sitting on a swing in the backyard, drained of blood. She says something about bright lightning (Mulder loves that!). The agents fly in to talk to the girl and then get information about another case of the same nature - thousands of miles away. They go to meet with little Cindy and her mother. The husband/father died in the exact same way at the exact same time as victim no. 1. When the girl opens the door, Mulder and Scully are flabbergasted, thinking that Tina is standing before them. Tina, meanwhile, disappears from social services.
They learn that the two girls with help of a fertility clinic. When they were conceived, a woman named Dr. Sally Kendrick worked at the clinic but was dismissed because she carried on secret experiments. She tempered with genetic material. In the motel room that night, Scully picks up the phone to a weird clicking sound - the way of Deep Throat to contact Mulder. The two meet up and Mulder learns about the so-called "Litchfield Experiments" of the early 1950's. This was based on a Soviet program to crossbreed top scientists. The US results were groups of genetically controlled boys and girls called Adam and Eve, respectively. The learn that one of the Eves ("Eve 6") that is institutionalized. Eve 6 tells them that the Adams and Eves are prone to suicide and the only ones left beside her are Eve 7 and 8, one of which must be Dr. Kendrick. Nobody knows whether the two Eves may actually be working together.
Then Cindy gets kidnapped by an Eve and the agents learn where they are staying due to a tip they receive from a motel owner, who notices that a woman with a child comes to the motel, leaves alone and returns with apparently the same child.
In the motel, with the agents on the way, the Eve talks to the two girls (who become attached right away). She kidnapped them to raise them properly. It turns out , Cindy and Tina killed their fathers with poison at the same time ("We just knew," how and when to do it). Eve states that her generation showed first signs of erratic behavior showed at 16 and they only became homicidal at age 20. She is disappointed with the girl's early start but intends to help in their further development.
The girls, however, have other plans. They laced Eve's soda with foxglove and when the agents arrive, they find her dead and the girls hiding in the bathroom, claiming that the two remaining Eves tried to poison them. Mulder and Scully take it upon themselves to bring the girls to safety (road trip!). The girls suspect that the now orphaned Tina will be put into foster care, splitting them up again. They make a bathroom stop during which one of them poisons the agents' drinks. When Mulder goes back into the station to pick up the car keys he forgot on a table, he notices traces of an organic substance (possibly foxglove again) and keeps Scully from drinking more of her poisoned soda.
After initially running off, the girls are captured by the agents and are put into the same institution as Eve 6, and are now referred to as Eve 9 and Eve 10. In the last scene, the last free Eve (Eve 8) comes to call, as the girls "just knew" she would.
7/10
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