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(S01E11) While many of the episodes so far in season one have dealt with typical things like ghosts and aliens, Chris Carter really gets his freak on with Eve. He knows there's nothing creepier than twin girls.

The episode opens with joggers finding an 8-year-old girl outside her house without a coat on. She tells them her daddy needed some time and they find him in the backyard, sitting on the swingset. He's dead. With two holes in his neck.

Mulder and Scully get the case, where we learn that the father bled to death. But how? He had only been away from his daughter for 10 minutes. Mulder pulls out the trusty slide projector to show Scully pictures of cows that had been drained of their blood through two holes in their necks. Mulder thinks aliens are doing it. Here's where we get a great line from Scully: "Mulder, why would alien beings travel light years to earth to play doctor on frogs and cattle?"

The agents visit the girl, Tina, and ask her questions. Tina tells Mulder that she remembers red lightning on the morning her father was killed and that the men from the clouds are after her father. He's about to ask her more questions when Scully gets word that there has been another killing. In San Francisco, another father was drained of his blood and found dead on the swingset.

During the night, Tina disappears from the social services hostel after something appears to bust into her room. The agents show up at the second crime scene, only to have a little girl who looks exactly like Tina answer the door. But it's not Tina. It's Cindy Reardon.

Both the girls' parents had in vitro fertilization done at a San Francisco clinic. Both by the same person, Dr. Sally Kendrick, a loose cannon. She was experimenting with eugenics and, when she was caught, she disappeared.

Once again, Deep Throat is involved in this case. He tells Mulder of something called the Lynchfield Experiments, an experiment in genetically controlled children where the boys were called Adam and the girls were called Eve. Deep Throat gets the agents passes to a prison/asylum where one is held. They visit Eve 6, who screams like a banshee when anyone turns on the overhead lights. When Scully shines the flashlight at her-- surprise!-- it's Dr. Sally Kendrick, or someone who looks like her. She tells the agents that 'Sally' is Eve 7 and she escaped. As did Eve 8. All the Eves have extra chromosomes, which mean extra strength, extra smarts and extra psychosis. We see a picture of the Eves when they were girls and they look remarkably like Cindy and Tina. Dr. Kendrick was cloning herself!

While the agents are staking out Cindy's house, they see one of the Eves come into the little girl's room and grab her. Eve knocks out Scully and threatens to kill the girl when Mulder confronts them.

Eve takes the girls to a California hotel where she confronts them about the murders of their fathers. It turns out, the Adams and Eves have homicidal tendencies and these little Eves are advancing quickly. They planned the murders without ever meeting each other. Creepy! Eve 7 has good reason for taking the girls- she wants them to be drugged and raised properly. But the girls are way ahead of her. They poison Eve 7's drink and kill her and ransack the room. When the agents bust in, the girls tell them that the other Eve escaped and that the women tried to poison the girls.

In the car, the girls make yet another plan. They get Mulder to pull over at a diner because they have to go to the bathroom. One of the girls sneaks out of the bathroom and poisons the agents' drinks! Mulder returns to the diner to get his keys, where he notices a green ring on the table where one of the Eves poisoned their drinks. When they realize they're busted, the girls take off and hide in the truck stop. An eery search for them ensues but the agents end up getting them. The show ends with the new Eves in the prison/asylum with Eve 6... and Eve 8 is their doctor.