- A woman desperately attempts to change the outcome of the events of a day she is forced to relive again and again in which her boyfriend explodes a bomb during a failed bank robbery killing everyone inside, including Mulder and Scully.
- A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb strapped to the bank robber's chest. However, this same day continues to repeat in an endless cycle always ending in the same result.—Muldernscully
- The episodes begins outside a bank as several police cars arrive on the scene. Panning over a crowd of onlookers, A.D. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is pushing through to where the police have set up their blockade and are talking with a thin-faced short-haired woman. The woman watches as Skinner rushes past the tape lines to find the policeman in charge and starts talking to him about how the bank is being held up by a single gunman who has taken hostages and may already have shot one. The policeman in charge asks if the FBI is taking over, but Skinner reveals that he is there because two of his agents may be inside the bank. Suddenly the thin-faced short-haired woman runs past the police calling for Skinner, she begs him to "stop this" and "not let this happen" before being hauled away, Skinner only stares at her confused.
Cut to the back of Agent Scully's (Gillian Anderson) head. She's kneeling on the floor in the bank and as we pan around her we see that she is cradling Agent Mulder's (David Duchovny) head in her arms on the ground. It looks like Mulder is the hostage who has been shot and is now bleeding profusely from his chest. Scully has torn open his shirt and is attempting to stop the bleeding with her hand. Scully's face is uncharacteristically distraught as she looks down at her mortally wounded partner and then up at the dishevelled and panicky bankrobber. She tries to reason with him, telling him that he's in charge and that it doesn't have to end with him blowing up the bank with the bomb strapped to his chest. Suddenly joustling at the bank entrance heralds the arrival of the police swat team. As Scully desperately screams "NOOOOOOO!!!", the bankrobber sees no other option and detonates his bomb and the whole building explodes and collapses.
Credits roll.
We're outside Mulder's appartment where a mailman is just delivering the morning newspaper. The noise of the paper hitting the door wakes Mulder up from his sleep where he notices something wrong with his bed; it's soaking wet. Mulder swears as he discovers a leak springing up from his waterbed mattress. He looks at his alarm clock to see that it has broken due to the water spraying everywhere; he is noticeably irritated with the situation. Furthermore his cellphone is no longer working and he's late for work since his alarm clock didn't go off. Murder makes an exasperrated sound and goes off to his kitchen as the phone rings. He comes back into his room carrying a pot and heading towards the phone when he trips on his shoes lying on the ground and falls flat on his face. Mulder finally manages to stick the pot under the leak and answer the phone; his landlord tells him that the leak is seeping into the apartment suite below him and he is none to happy about it. Apparently Mulder isn't supposed to have a waterbed and tries to apologize; he's slightly at a loss for words.
FBI Headquarters, Washing D.C. Mulder is at his desk frantically taking out his paycheck and endorsing it for deposit. Scully walks into the office and Mulder apologizes for missing a meeting to which Scully informs him he is actually only extraordinarily late. Mulder tells her about his fiasco of a morning and that he has to get to the bank to deposit his paycheck or else the check he wrote to his landlord to cover the water damage from the leaking bed will bounce. He asks her if she's ever had "one of those Mondays" and asks her to cover for him as he goes down the block to the bank to put in his check.
Along the sidewalk a beat-up looking car pulls up to the curb honking loudly at the other cars. Inside the car sits the bankrobber Bernard (Darren E. Burrows) and next to him, his girlfriend the thin-faced woman, Pam (Carrie Hamilton). He tells her he's going to the bank to get something and to wait for him as she stares straight ahead expressionless. As Bernard gets out of the car he shouts at another driver and Pam exactly mouths what they say to eachother. Bernard enters the bank and Pam notices Mulder walking up the street behind her car, she mutters "right on schedule" and "poor guy" as Mulder walks past. Mulder walking by notices Pam and looks at her like he might know her, but shrugs it off and gets to the bank.
Mulder enters the bank and gets in line checking his watch. Behind him Bernard is writing a note to the bankteller starting "This is a robbery......."
At the bureau Scully and Skinner are at the meeting listening to a dull monotoned agent drone about statistics and estimates in homicide rates. Skinner asks Scully if Mulder will be making an appearance at the meeting to which Scully gets up to seemingly go find him.
Back at the bank, Mulder makes gestures of impatience as he continually waits in a long line-up. Bernard decides against his note, and instead whips out his gun and orders all of the custormers to get on the ground. Bernard tells the bankteller to give him the money and warns her not play any tricks on him; unbeknown to him, she has tripped the bank alarm with her foot. As Mulder lies face down on the floor, he eyes Scully outside crossing the street on her way to bank; afraid that she will enter and become a hostage as well Mulder advises Bernard to lock the bank doors so no one else can get in. But too late, Scully walks in and Bernard immediately points his gun at her. Mulder seeing his partner in danger stands up and is about to pull out his gun behind Bernard's back. But before Mulder can act another hostage screams and Bernard whips around, points the gun at Mulder and shoots him in the chest. Mulder flails and falls to the floor as Scully unharnesses her weapon and aims it at Bernard demanding that he drop his gun. They're at a stand-off; Bernard is pissed and frazzled while Scully is breathlessly frantic seeing Mulder bleeding on the floor. Bernard yanks open his jacket revealing his bomb and demands Scully drop her gun to which she complies.
Skinner at the bureau is still in the meeting when his secretary enters to tell him something. Back outside, the police are immobilizing around the bank, where Pam still sitting in the car seems unphased and somehow aware of what will happen next. She gets out of the car and walks towards the police barrage. Skinner runs past her and Pam follows telling him not to let the swat team barge into the bank; Skinner stares at her bewildered.
Back in the bank, Scully is kneeling on the floor and has Mulder's head in her lap as she rips open his shirt and attempts to stall the bleeding from his gunshot wound with her hand. Mulder seems to be fading as he lolls his head and gasps soundlessly. Scully tries to talk to Bernard and asks him his name. She tells him she needs to get Mulder out of there and becomes panicked as Bernard says he'll blow them all up if the police come in. Scully is trying her hardest to tell him that the police don't know he has a bomb and that he has to communicate to them somehow what he wants. Scully is on the verge of tears as looks at Mulder bleeding to death and back to Bernard who is starting to lose it. "I just want everybody to live. That's all" Scully says pleading with Bernard. As in the teaser the police burst in, Scully screams at them, Bernard pulls the switch on his bomb and the bank blows up in flames and billowing clouds of dust.
We return to Mulder's apartment where the morning newspaper is being delivered. Mulder is back in his bed and awakes again to the sound of the paper hitting his door. The same situation enfolds again: his bed is leaking, his alarm clock has died, his cellphone is broken and he's late for work. It's Monday again. Again the phone rings and Mulder apologizes to his landlord. He is suitably incensed and trips on his shoes as the phone rings again. The person phoning is Pam, but Mulder doesn't pick up. At her apartment Bernard enters and tells her to come with him while he goes and does something, Pam declines and tries to stop him from doing what he's obviously going to do - rob the bank.
The Monday seems to be happening again. Except this time instead of Mulder going to the bank, Scully offers to go for him. She enters the bank and waits in line, while Bernard already there is ready to do his thing. Mulder realizing that he didn't endorse his check, runs to got there, on his way he is interrupted by Pam. She tries to warn him about what is going to happen at the bank. Mulder seems thoughtful about what she says, but when he hears a shot fired at the bank, he pulls his gun and runs off to investigate. Upon entering he finds Scully and Bernard pointing guns at eachother. Bernard has shot one of the hostages, and Scully and Mulder try to reason with him. The bankteller reveals to Bernard that she tripped the alarm, and Bernard seemingly accepting defeat, drops his gun - and then detonates his bomb.
It's another Monday. Everything that goes wrong for Mulder in the morning, goes wrong again.
Scully is walking down a hallway in the bureau when she is approached by Pam, who knows who she is and tries to warn her about the bank robbery that she knows will happen. Scully is nonplussed and lets it go as Pam is asked to leave the restricted area she is in. Scully meets Mulder in his office as he pulls out his paycheck to endorse. They talk about deja-vu and how Mulder believes that it may be a mechanism to fixing events that went wrong, or getting a second chance to make things right. Scully scientifically explains to him that deja-vu has nothing to do with fate, but with glitches in the neurochemistry of the brain. When Mulder tells Scully about going to the bank, Scully mentions her brief visitation with Pam and the woman's warnings. Mulder decides to use the ATM machine rather than go directly into the bank. However at the ATM that is out of order, Mulder spots Pam and goes over to speak with her. She tells him about how she's met him before and how the same Monday keeps repeating itself over and over again. She believes that they're in hell and she is powerless to do anything to change the events of the day. Instead she thinks Mulder can somehow stop it by not going into the bank at all. She asks him to just walk away.
At the meeting Mulder arrives, having decided not to go into the bank. However he sees that Scully is not there. She has instead gone off to look for him - at the bank. Moments after she enters Bernard pulls out his gun and forces everyone to the ground. While Bernard is distracted by one hysterical hostage, Mulder manages to sneak in and shoot him. But not realizing that Bernard has the bomb, before Scully or Mulder can do anything, he pulls the switch. As this happens Mulder repeats to himself over and over again "he's got a bomb."
Monday again. Mulder does what he's done every single time. Pam and Bernard do what they do, arrive at the bank and Bernard goes off to rob it. Pam is starting to lose hope that anything will ever change. While sitting in her car, Mulder walks up and asks her if he knows her. She brushes him off. In the bank, Mulder is waiting in line when he finds that the situation is rather familiar and that there's something about Bernard that he already knows........... "he's got a bomb."
In the meeting, Scully is contacted by Mulder, who phones to ask her to do something for him. Outside Scully finds Pam in the car and asks her to come with Scully into the bank. As a preemptive strike Mulder confronts Bernard before he pulls his gun and tries to reason with him. But he doesn't persuade Bernard not to carry out his plan, and Bernard for the umpteenth time holds everyone at gunpoint. It's at this moment when Pam and Scully enter the bank freaking Bernard out. Scully has her gun pointed at Bernard, but Mulder tells her to put it down and just let Bernard and Pam leave the bank so that no one will die - it's the only way. Pam is about to get Bernard to leave, when the police sirens sounding outside set Bernard off, he turns to shoot Mulder but Pam runs in front of him and is shot instead. Realizing that he's killed his girlfriend Bernard finally gives up. As Mulder kneels down by the dying Pam she whispers "this never happened before" and then dies.
The newspaper hits the side of the door and Mulder wakes up. But this time he's sleeping on his couch. His cellphone rings with Scully on the other line telling him that Skinner wants to see him about the robbery that happened on the Monday. Scully would like to know how Mulder knew that Bernard had a bomb and had an accomplice waiting outside in a car. Mulder though doesn't believe that Pam was an accomplice, she just wanted to get away from her "hell". Mulder hangs up and goes to get dressed and leaves his newspaper on the couch. Zoom in on the newspaper that reports Pam's death during the robbery that took place "yesterday."
The End.
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