Plot
In Tallahassee, Florida, on December 21, 1999, a memorial service is held for a former FBI agent named Raymond Crouch. His widow is approached by a mysterious man, Mark Johnson (Holmes Osborne), who claims to have worked with her husband. After the other mourners have left, Johnson returns to the funeral parlor, dons the corpse's clothes, and places a cell phone in the coffin. One week later, Johnson is monitoring Crouch's grave when his phone rings; he walks towards the grave with a shovel.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are called in to examine Crouch's empty grave. They notice damage done to the interior of the casket; Scully theorizes that the scene was staged. A briefing is held by Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), who notes that Crouch is one of four former FBI agents whose graves have been exhumed; all four men had committed suicide. Because of the presence of goat's blood encircling the grave, Mulder states that the crime was an act of necromancy. After the briefing, Skinner takes the agents aside and asks them to investigate Crouch's possible ties to the Millennium Group, a disbanded organization of former FBI agents focused on the fulfillment of biblical prophecy at the start of the new millennium.
Mulder and Scully go to a mental institution in Woodbridge, Virginia, to visit criminal profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a former member of the Millennium Group. Black is initially reluctant to help the agents, as he believes that any further involvement with the Millennium Group may hinder his custody battle for his daughter, Jordan (Brittany Tiplady). When Black agrees to help, he explains that the members of the Millennium Group believe they can bring about the end of the world by killing themselves before the dawn of the millennium. Acting on information from Black, Mulder concentrates on trying to find Johnson, when Scully is attacked in the morgue by the dead deputy. The two agents put all their effort in to finding Johnson before it is too late.
The agents search for Mr. Johnson, uncovering information about a bizarre string of reanimated corpses rising from the dead searching for victims. Mulder later tracks down Mr. Johnson's house, and is trapped by Johnson in his basement with a group of corpses capable of rising and attacking Mulder. Mulder is saved when Frank shows up with his loaded revolver to take out the zombies by targeting for the head. As the gun runs out of bullets, and death seems imminent for Mulder and Frank, Scully busts in saving both their lives.
The epilogue shows Frank in the hospital with Scully and Mulder. Scully informs Frank that he has a visitor and brings in his daughter Jordan. Meanwhile, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is on a television in the background, as the countdown begins. Frank decides to leave, and Mulder and Scully are left alone. As the clock strikes zero, and the crowd begins to sing 'Auld Lang Syne' on screen, Mulder and Scully kiss to ring in the new year.
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