The X-Files Season 11: 10 Things We Learned From 'This'

Erika Price. Mr. Y.

These are the names of the new conspirators we first met in My Struggle, Part III. Which is much better than referring to them as "Chubby Smoking Man" and "Evil Woman in Red."

They also have a grand plan, something that is expanded on in This. Not only are they planning on colonizing space (brought up in the season eleven premiere) - they plan to do it with humans who have evolved into something more. Digital human consciousness.

Do they have a plan to tackle what happens when there are no humans left, and someone needs to perform a firmware update on the simulation? Who knows.

Still, we start learning more details of the plan, care of Price, who tells Mulder that "I confess, after our last encounter, I was disappointed in you." Yet her disappointment turns to admiration when she witnesses his survival instinct at work in This. And so she lets him in on her plans: "Our world is a progression of one life being replaced by another over and over. This is what's really meant by evolution."

That evolution will now progress to digital form, as "life on this earth, all human life, most animal life, is about to be crushed. Burnt to the ground." The computer simulation she is so carefully guarding will facilitate the transfer to a computerized world, eventually to be launched into the stars.