Eve

:For the group of identical human clones, see Eve Series
"Eve" is the eleventh episode of the of . It premiered on the on December 10, 1993. It was written by Kenneth Biller and Chris Brancato, and was directed by Fred Gerber. The episode is a "" story, independent of the series' arc.
==Synopsis==
The agents encounter two girls who look identical and whose individual fathers were murdered in similar, odd circumstances at the same moment over 3,000 miles apart.
==Summary==
Greenwich, CT: A jogging couple finds eight-year-old Teena Simmons standing dazedly at the end of her own driveway in the front yard - and her father Joel dead. FBI headquarters, the next day: The report says death by hypovolemia - Joel Simmons had lost over 75% of his blood. Teena claims to have no memory of what's occurred; physical evidence was washed away by rain. The Medical Examiner found traces of digitalis, a heart stimulant made from the plant of the same name (a.k.a foxglove), which can be used as a paralytic drug. notes the wounds and blood-removal resemble those of "alien" cattle mutilations.
Fairfield County Social Services Hostel, Greenwich. Teena tells the agents of red lightning yesterday, and of men from the clouds. The agents learn of an identical murder outside San Francisco, in Marin County: Doug Reardon died of hypovolemia at 2:30 p.m. PST - the same time as Simmons. His daughter Cindy, returning tomorrow from Sacramento with her mother, has said she remembers nothing.
The Greenwich hostel, 12:35 a.m. EST: Teena is abducted. Later that day, Marin County: Mulder and discover eight-year-old Cindy looks exactly like Teena. When the agents show her mom a photo of Teena, she states Cindy is her only child - indeed, she and her husband tried for six years to get pregnant, finally choosing in vitro fertilization at the Luther Stapes Center for Reproductive Medicine in San Francisco.
Working on the idea that Cindy will also be kidnapped like Teena, Mulder and the San Francisco bureau stake out Cindy. Scully meets with a Dr. Katz at the Staples Center, who says Mrs. Simmons was treated by Dr. Sally Kendrick, a resident who earned a Yale medical degree after completing her doctorate in biogenetics. However, the center believed Kendrick was conducting eugenics experiments, fired her, and asked for a federal investigation - yet the Department of Health wouldn't investigate.
At their hotel, Scully gives Mulder the information, but he rushes her out after a phone call of only clicks - a signal to meet . He tells Mulder about the classified "Litchfield" experiments. In the 1950s, the Soviets were performing eugenics experiments trying to create a super soldier. The U.S. followed suit at a compound in Litchfield, Connecticut. Boys were codenamed Adam, girls Eve. Deep Throat arranges for the agents to see the adult Eve 6.
The straitjacketed woman looks exactly like Kendrick. She says that the Eves are prone to suicide and the only remaining Eves are her, Eve 7 who escaped as a child, and Eve 8 who escaped ten years later. Each Eve has 56, rather than the normal 46, chromosomes, having extra pairs of chromosomes number 4, 5, 12, 16 and 22 - which, she says, produced additional genes, heightening strength, intelligence, and psychosis. Mulder believes Kendrick cloned herself to produce Cindy and Teena, and that Eves 7 and 8 killed the parents to raise the girls themselves.
During their stakeout, Scully and Mulder can't prevent Cindy from being kidnapped by an adult Eve, who escapes in a light blue 1993 Corolla - switching to a dark blue car by the time she reaches Port Reyes National Seashore. Identifying herself as Kendrick, she introduces the girls to each other. She'd always keep watching them, she says, while also searching for the remaining Eve; the girls' recent murders forced her hand. She'd hoped to correct the Litchfield flaws, saying the Eves developed homicidal tendencies at age 20. Yet she herself was raised by a Litchfield genetic engineer in a good environment with medication. Then she begins shaking: The girls have slipped four ounces of home-grown digitalis extract into her soda. Police and FBI burst in; the motel manager had alerted them about a woman fitting Kendrick's description. Kendrick is dead, and the girls are cowering together in a corner, saying that this lady and another wanted them to take poison.
Scully and Mulder, driving the girls to social services, pull into a truck-stop diner - where Cindy spikes the agents' diet sodas. Unfortunately, Mulder forgets his keys and when he returns to the counter to fetch them, he notices a green liquid there: poison. He warns Scully, and the girls escape amid the tractor-trailers. When Mulder corners them, their screams bring help from a trucker. As Mulder searches for the girls, the diner waitress tells him that a school bus full of kids just left. After the agents' car speeds away, following it, the girls come out of hiding only to be caught by the clever Mulder.
The girls, labeled Eves 9 and 10, are eventually sent to Whiting. When Eve 8 visits dressed as Kendrick, they exchange a chilling look of mutual knowledge.
== Trivia ==
*While Eve 7 is depicted as the villain for the majority of the episode, acting on her innate violent nature, she is actually the only benevolent Eve and was attempting to stop and cure the Eves' homicidal tendencies.
*Glen Morgan and James Wong did an uncredited rewrite, and named Teena and Cindy after their own wives.
==References==
Lichfield Experiment; Whiting Institute for the Criminally Insane; Eve Series
==Cast==
Main Cast
* as 
* as 
Guest Starring
*Harriet Sansom Harris as Dr. Sally Kendrick, Eve 6, and Eve 8
*Erika Krievins as Cindy Reardon
*Sabrina Krievins as Teena Simmons
* as 
Co-Starring
*George Touliatos as Dr. Katz
*Tasha Simms as Ellen Reardon
*Janet Hodgkinson as Waitress
*David Kirby as Ted Watkins
*Tina Gilbertson as Donna Watkins
*Christine Upright-Letain as Ms. Wells
Featuring
*Gordon Tipple as Detective
*Garry Davey as Hunter
*Joe Maffei as Guard #1
*Maria Herrera as Guard #2
*Robert Lewis as Officer
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