Years after losing their son William, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are rebuilding their life together and expecting another child when the FBI pulls them back into the X-Files. A killer preying on pregnant women in Washington, D.C. seems to wield an uncanny command over electricity, and the trail leads Mulder and Scully toward the shadowy heirs of the old Syndicate, a conspiracy whose reach may finally touch their own family.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources