X-Files Classics GN Ground Zer

(W) Kevin J. Anderson (A) Gordon Purcell (CA) Sam Shearon. Adapts the best-selling novel by Kevin J. Anderson. Dr. Gregory* a renowned nuclear weapons researcher* is not only dead he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on federal property* Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. When a second victim* completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert* and then a third dies the same way in Washington* DC* Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. As they work to uncover the secret unifying element that ties these deaths* it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.