Gethsemane is about a geodetic survey team finding an alien frozen in the ice, but it all ends up being fake and Mulder hits rock bottom.
He hits rock bottom not just because of the hoax, but because Scully tells him that they gave her cancer to make him believe. In context with the show, the alien didn't look real at all. Mulder doesn't believe what he's seeing is real and this Arlinsky guy's completely unconvincing. Like I've said before, they both know aliens exist and no one believes the evidence anyway and always killed in response. So what's the point, why are we there at all? The rest of the episode's solid, but this takes up a large portion. Scully's right throughout, other than saying what she's seen can't be disproved.
He hits rock bottom not just because of the hoax, but because Scully tells him that they gave her cancer to make him believe. In context with the show, the alien didn't look real at all. Mulder doesn't believe what he's seeing is real and this Arlinsky guy's completely unconvincing. Like I've said before, they both know aliens exist and no one believes the evidence anyway and always killed in response. So what's the point, why are we there at all? The rest of the episode's solid, but this takes up a large portion. Scully's right throughout, other than saying what she's seen can't be disproved.