The X-Files - Season 1 - Eps 24: The Erlenmeyer Flask
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.
About The X-Files

Title: The X-Files
First Air Date: 1993-09-10
Last Air Date: 2018-03-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.4/10 (from 3181 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 12
Total Episodes: 218
Network: FOX
Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
Production Companies: Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Synopsis
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Cast

David Duchovny
Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully

Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner