@Nika: What exactly remains unclear? The mutation about the indwelling of spirits turned out to be Mulder's speculation and the victims' hallucinations caused by a soporific substance. The victims were abducted by a pervert, but he did not kill them, just labeled them as "monsters" because he knew that they were subjects of a secret experiment that made them more aggressive. The experiment was conducted by a doctor who died in a plane crash and consisted in injecting cows and teenagers with alien biomaterial from the previous season. To kill the victims and burn the meat processing plant, in order to cover up the traces of this experiment, an agent came from, apparently, the same gang of a smoking man.
I also found the series strange at first, but in the end everything fell into place.
The timing is too short for this story. As a result, a lot of lines, events and characters are presented somehow fluently, they had to stretch them into two series, eh.
This series is reminiscent of many films where events unfold in a city where everyone opposes some kind of religious society, and when some kind of tryndets comes, it is this religious society that hosts the whole city to give shelter.
I'm just infuriated by the authors: well, why not make a double or a built series? And they're trying to cram everything into a short 45-minute episode. It turns out to be cropped and crumpled. It seems that the authors are literally teeming with ideas, trying to make an episode a story, and at the exit - a quarter of the season is passing. From this idea with red caps, it was possible to make an istria candy, but it turned out neither fish nor meat, more precisely, one meat.
If the Red Caps were a control group, then isn't the one who founded it also smeared in these experiments? Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the presence of such a convenient cover in exactly the right place. It's strange that Mulder didn't grab onto him.
@alavitka: The "red caps" did not eat meat stuffed with growth hormones, etc., and did not vaccinate children with "vitamins", i.e. they were clean. And the experimental children were compared with "pure" children-red caps, so they were called a control group.
There might well be some kind of sponsor who would offer them a farm for their sect. They don't work anywhere for the summer and obviously live on donations. So it's not difficult to set up, you're looking for a sect of vegetarians, some will agree.
Did everyone notice that there was more tactile between Mulder and Scully after she came out of the coma? Before that, they took care of each other as partners and friends, at most, a slap on the shoulder, now Mulder will carefully wipe his face with a napkin, then he will touch it. I remember as a child, when watching the series, everyone was waiting, well, when something more serious would slip between them, at least a kiss))
I also found the series strange at first, but in the end everything fell into place.