Soft Light

Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, scientist Chester Banton frantically knocking at the room door, what attracts the attention of Patrick Newirth – guest in the room opposite. Not reach to some, "Morris", Banton moves backwards and contrary to all the laws of physics, his shadow seeping through the door watching through the peephole of Nuarta. For a split second Newirth is incinerated, it leaves a charred trail of carpet. Realizing what has happened, Banton runs away in a panic.

Local police, detective Kelly Ryan, investigating the disappearance of Newirth and disappeared in a similar way people, asks Scully, his former instructor at the FBI Academy, for help. Working through the initial Mulder's theory about spontaneous human combustion, the agents notice that all the victims recently arrived in Richmond by train and decide to start looking at the station. At this time, Banton, sitting on the station, where ambient light can not see his shadow, decides to go outside the building, but attracts the attention of a police patrol. While trying to detain the Banton both officers accidentally stepping on his shadow and disappear, leaving on the pavement a small charred spots.

The next day, Mulder sees the video security cameras carefully scrutinizes the gender of Banton. The logo on the jacket Banton agents facing the firm, "Polarity Magnetics". Banton, a partner of the firm Dr. Davy tells the agents that Banton was engaged in studying black holes, but went missing five weeks ago after an accident in the lab. According to Davey, Banton was accidentally closed in a room with accelerator and was bombarded by subatomic particles.

Station agents are of Banton, but he is saved from them fled, running in a poorly lit part of the railway. Mulder hears the scientist and warning shots breaks a lamp, creating a shadow of Banton. Banton allowed to drive himself to a psychiatric hospital, where he was placed in a single room with diffused light. There he explains to the agents that the shadow of the incident now turns any matter into pure energy, and he is afraid that the government will exploit this phenomenon. The chief of detective Ryan requires that the agents closed the investigation for lack of jurisdiction.

Mulder contacts x, who assures the agent that the government is not interested in Banton. The same night the X with two assistants trying to remove Banton from the hospital, but encountered the shadow of Banton allows the scientist to escape. Back in "Polarity Magnetics", Banton killing of detective Ryan, who tried to arrest him. The doctor ordered Davey to turn on the accelerator, Banton closes the room in the hope to restore their normal shade, but it turns out that Davey had betrayed him. Description the IKS kills Davy, and when the place arrive, Mulder and Scully, they can only see someone's body in the room with the accelerator for a split second before it disappears. Mulder realizes that X had cheated him, and demands that he never touch.

Case closed, and Davey is missing. Banton goes to prison, where government scientists are conducting experiments on him.

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