After Cooles loses contact with his two dispatched firefighters, however, he orders two other officers, Glenn and Sal, to enter the cave. He sends two firefighters, Danny and T.C., into the pit and reports the location of the rescue situation to officers in Dallas. Fire Captain Miles Cooles exits one of the vehicles and runs towards the cave.

Later that day, two fire engines from the County Fire Department arrive at the scene. In an attempt to find help, Stevie's friends run to the nearby residential area in Blackwood County. His three friends gather round the pit, gazing down at Stevie with concern. The boy is soon back on his feet exploring the cave where he finds human bones, including a skull with a hole at the back. A puddle of the black substance that killed the caveman crawls up from under his feet and infects Stevie in the same manner. Thousands of years later, a boy named Stevie Richardson who is digging holes with his friends, falls into the same underground cave.

As the substance begins to move over him, he grunts and roars in intense agony. The remaining man touches the substance with a wooden torch and soon discovers that he is covered in it. Although one of the men is killed, the other manages to injure the creature with a bone weapon. A thick, black substance pours out of the alien as it lies dormant on a rock. Entering a cave, they are attacked by the long-clawed alien that left the tracks. Mulder and Scully uncover a government conspiracy attempting to hide the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.Ī caveman is alarmingly covered in a black oily substance.Īs the wind howls around them, two cavemen follow a set of strange tracks across a vast snowy plain in prehistoric North Texas.

The X-Files by Frank Spotnitz