2×05 – DUANE BARRY
by foxestacado
Written and directed by Chris Carter
Original airdate: October 14, 1994
Recap by RhymePhile
Teaser
We open to a starry sky in Pulaski, Virginia, on June 3, 1985. In a cute little bungalow (which really needs the weeds chopped down from its front sidewalk) the camera pushes through a dark house (like, really dark, because I can barely make out what the hell is happening, typical of The X-Files) while the television is playing in the background. It kind of looks like the house isn’t quite finished, because there are bare beams, and there’s plastic covering the openings to some rooms. A dog comes trotting up to its food dish (awww, it kinda looks like David Duchovny’s dog Blue), munches some kibble, and walks off. MaybeBlue then jumps up onto a bed, where a man is sleeping. We all know who it is, it’s Duane Barry, played by the wonderful Steve Railsback. On the TV is an old movie, maybe Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, because we see a medieval court. All of the sudden the TV signal turns to snow, causing MaybeBlue to whimper. Then we see a strange form cross in front of the camera. It’s gray and obviously alien-looking. I love when we get strange figures crossing in front of the camera without seeing what they are. It creeps me out.
Suddenly it seems as though there are a few of these gray-looking alien dudes, because they surround the room in which Duane is sleeping. MaybeBlue glances around and growls, then gets off the bed. Duane wakes up at this, lifting his head from the pillow and stating (to no one in particular, although perhaps MaybeBlue is smarter than we think) that he can’t breathe. The bedroom fills with light, and we see the little gray creepy dudes pressing their hands to the plastic sheeting that surrounds the bedroom. Duane is rightly scared at this turn of events, and is whimpering as he turns his head from side to side. I had this weird dream one time where I was in that state where you are slowly waking from a deep sleep, and I saw three aliens standing at the foot of my bed, watching me. Grays, with the big black bug eyes. I couldn’t move, and I blinked my eyes, which woke me up. Weird shit, huh?
Anyway, Duane’s room starts filling with a blinding white light, and he mutters that eternal line, “No, no, not again!” And then we get the screaming! Screaming Duane Barry clutches his bed sheets as the creepy alien dudes surround him. MaybeBlue is pretty smart after all, because she/he has escaped to the outside of the house. And as the house fills with a blinding white light, the camera pans up to show us a circular alien craft aiming a white beam directly through the roof of the house. That cool, tinkly Mark Snow piano starts up, and we bang into the opening credits.
Back in the present day, we open to the Davis Correctional Treatment Center in Marion, Virginia, where various men in sweatpants are milling around. Y’know, guys never look good in sweatpants, because your eyes always drift to the obvious bulge. They’re okay if you’re just lying around the house drinking a beer or something, but don’t go out to the store in them, ‘kay? One dude is all twitchy and stuff, so my powers of deduction tell me that this is a treatment center for slightly whacked-out guys. We see Duane being escorted down the hallway by a guard, and he enters an office. The doctor (we know this because Duane just called him “Doc”) asks how Duane is feeling and nods to the guard to leave. Whuh-oh, mistake right there! We’re in a correctional facility, doc. It’s probably not wise to ask the guard to leave and SHUT THE DOOR!! Jeez.
The doctor asks Duane to sit down so they can go over a few things. Oh, did I mention Duane’s hands are in front of him, cuffed with a plastic binding cord thingy? Y’know, those plastic handcuff thingys the cops use when they are arresting a ton of people and don’t have enough real metal ones? Those. Oh dear, it seems Duane has been refusing to take his medicine because he doesn’t like the way it makes him feel. Really? the doc says. Because gee golly, that medicine is prescribed for a reason, Duane, because Duane doesn’t behave all that well. The doc doesn’t want Duane to hurt anybody again. Then he asks if Duane is still hearing voices, and Duane tells him that he’s not crazy. He’s also getting slightly agitated, and referring to himself in the third person. RhymePhile doesn’t think that’s a good sign, because RhymePhile has watched enough cop shows to know a crazy psycho when she sees one.
Duane tells the doc that “They” are coming again, because he can feel it. I think I should create a macro for “They,” since “They” should have a starring role on this show. Duane’s afraid They are going to take him to the place, and he starts rocking in his chair, and uh-oh, RhymePhile knows rocking isn’t a good sign either. Then the doc helpfully points out that he’s going to give Duane a shot to make him sleep, as Duane eyes the doctor’s fountain pen. That’s a red flag! I’m seeing a pen in the doc’s eye in the immediate future. As the doc readies the syringe, Duane decides that he’d rather stay awake and insane and takes off from the room. Duane run-walks down the corridor and smacks a guard in the back, then in the neck, and takes the fallen man’s gun. This all could have been avoided if they simply put Duane’s hands *behind* him. Sigh. Duane holds the gun on his fellow nutso inmates, and then whirls around to train it on the doc as he comes into the hallway. At this point the brave (stupid) doctor is inching forward, telling Duane to put down the gun, while Duane forcefully demands the keys to…the cuffs? Why didn’t Duane take them from the guard? He would have them, right? All these questions are interrupted by an alarm bell going off in the facility, so Duane clunks the doc over the head and tells him that the doc is coming with him.
Holy crap, it’s the pool scene! The scene that caused a thousand slashers to drool. The scene that spawned a million slashy fanfics. The scene that without question, Mr. Duchovny was very brave to have undertaken. So thank you, Mr. Duchovny, for being brave enough to broadcast your package for all the world to see. Speaking of packages, rumor has it that as DD got out of the pool, Nick inadvertently glanced down at Mr. Duchovny’s. Nick Lea actually discussed this at the Boston, MA Expo on Saturday, May 2, 1998. (You can read it yourself at nicklea.com). Nick said he was trying to concentrate on DD’s face but that his gaze dropped, just for a moment. DD wanted to know if he was checking out his package. Later, when Nick moved to LA (or maybe when DD moved? It’s not clear) DD gave Nick a going-away present that said, “Are you looking at my package?” on the card. Hee. Anyway, back to the pool scene.
It’s August 7, 1994 in Washington, D.C. We see Krycek looking down at the pool, where Mulder (in the infamous red Speedo) is doing laps. Krycek comes walking up and calls to Mulder, who responds, “Krychick. What’s up?” Dude, why is he always calling him Krychick? It’s annoying. Mr. Duchovny looks like he was wearing a tanktop out in the sun, because his arms and the front of his chest are tan, whereas the rest of him is kinda pasty. Mulder also has green goggles around his neck. Krycek tells Mulder that there’s a situation, and he’s needed right away. It’s hard to concentrate on what’s being said in this scene, because I keep glancing at the bulge in the Speedo. And y’know, as I’m being oh so thorough in my recaps, I must note that the, er, bulge in the Speedo is smooshed to the left. It’s really, really noticeable as soon as Mulder steps off the ladder. It’s shifted to the side, and….what was I saying? Oh right, the dialogue. Krycek tells Mulder he’s wanted for a hostage negotiation, and Mulder seems surprised as he towels off his fuzzy hair with a green and white striped towel. Krycek says that the suspect escaped from a mental institution and has four people held at gunpoint at an office building. The guy claims he’s being controlled by aliens. And for those of you keeping track, Krycek is wearing the same exact suit he had on in the opening scenes of “Sleepless,” the white-on-white striped shirt, red, blue, and cream striped tie, and dark blue suit. They must have filmed these scenes together or something.
Downtown Richmond, Virginia, August 7. The camera has a bird’s-eye view of a courtyard, within which sits a fountain. We see the Travel Time office off to the right side of the screen. The camera pulls back to show us a SWAT member poised on the roof with a rifle. The Boys pull up to the scene in a maroon four-door sedan as a SWAT van passes by. The Boys are wearing the same exact clothing they had on in the “Sleepless” scenes, still, because Krycek is dressed the same and Mulder has on that green shirt and gray-green suit with the weird tie. I think that’s a simple continuity screw-up, because at the end of “Sleepless,” Krycek was reporting to the CSM in a different outfit. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the two episodes coincide with each other. I think it’s simple second unit shooting that was done while they were filming the other episode. Where was I? The Boys go running up to the command center (Krycek in the lead again) where we see various law officers and people milling around. Hey, it’s the guy with the funny bottom lip who was also in Millennium. Where’s Frank Black? And look, now it’s accomplished actress CCH Pounder, who has probably appeared on just about every cop show out there. Because she’s awesome. She walks up to the Boys, where she introduces herself to Mulder as Lucy Kazdin, negotiation commander. She thanks Mulder for coming, and Mulder interrupts her, hooking a thumb to introduce Krycek. See, he’s trying to be magnanimous. He may not trust the guy completely, but at least he’s polite. Unfortunately for Krycek, Kazdin doesn’t even glance in his direction. That was rude. She and Mulder shake hands, and Kazdin completely pretends Krycek isn’t even there. Aww. She wants to show Mulder what the sitch is, and as they walk away, Alex hangs back a little bit, obviously a little upset that he was ignored.
Kazdin pulls up a chalkboard that has all the information about what they know about on it. This is old-school, y’all, before the modern convenience of white boards and those stinky wipe-off markers. Kazdin gives Duane’s full name, and explains he’s armed with a 9mm Smith & Wesson with an extra nine-round clip (those guards are pretty well equipped, huh?) and that he’s prepared to die. While Mulder stands front and center at the briefing, Krycek is sitting on the edge of a desk a little behind and to the right of Mulder.
Kazdin tells Mulder that Duane wants safe passage for himself and Doctor Del Hakkie — the doc from the treatment facility — to an alien abduction site, but since he can’t remember where the site is he stopped at Travel Time for a little help. Y’know another travel agency that’s no help? Frickin’ AAA Travel. Man, when I was planning to go to Washington, D.C., all I got was attitude from the snooty office worker there. Kazdin continues, saying that Duane is lucid but he’s off his meds, so he’s manic and ranting about strange scars and homing devices implanted in his body. Kazdin is dismissive of the alien abduction nonsense, but knows Mulder knows something about it. But our Mr. Mulder has never been involved in hostage negotiation before! No prob’, says Kazdin, Agent Rich here will talk you through it. Can you imagine if you were a crazy, gun-toting dude and had to listen to Mulder to calm you down? You’d be catatonic in no time flat.
Rich tells Mulder that Duane needs a friend, someone to understand what he’s going through. He wants Mulder to appeal to his sense of reason. Have I mentioned how lovely DD looks in this scene? His hair is coiffed just so and his lips are such a lovely shade of pink I just…and…I’m doing it again. Mulder wants to know what the team knows about Barry’s abduction experiences. Rich looks at Kazdin, and she wants to know if Mulder actually believes this alien abduction bullshite. Of course he does, Kaz, and Mulder wants to know if it’s a problem. Well, they are there to save lives, so they’re going to take a chance on Spooky and check on his progress every three hours to see how he’s coming along, and they’ll advise and update on the use of force.
Mulder tells Kazdin that he needs to know more about Duane, because each abduction case is different. But she doesn’t have that info. Ah, Mulder wants to know why no one called the hospital for Duane’s records. He’s such a calming force, isn’t he? Always thinking clearly despite the situation. But Kazdin ain’t playin’ that, telling Mulder that Duane’s a psycho and to just keep his ass on the phone so he doesn’t kill anyone. Kazdin is a little dismissive of the guy that was called in to help her, don’t you think? She’s all, if we stop to do a Freudian analysis four people are gonna get shot, dude, so just make up the UFO shit and keep him on the phone. And Mulder’s like, bitch, I ain’t no Freudian, because if I were I’d be even more screwed up than I am now.
Stupid tourist worker guy with a bald head gets smart with Duane and asks if they’re going to have sit on the floor all night. Duane smacks him in the mouth and knocks the guy’s glasses off. I don’t normally advocate violence, but uppity people piss me off, so right on, Duane. Oh, the female workers [both gasp] at the sight of the violence and look away. As Bart Simpson says, “If you don’t watch the violence you’ll never get desensitized to it!” Duane tells Baldy to shut up, and Blondie office worker says they all have families. Doc Hakkie asks Duane not to hurt anyone, and Duane says he’s not going to hurt the doc. That doesn’t bode well for Baldy, Blondie, and Brunette. He tells the doc that Hakkie is going to come with him so the doc can experience what being taken is like. It’s real, he screams in Hakkie’s ear. Ow. Then the phone rings.
Oh, hello there, it’s a sultry-voiced FBI agent speaking. How are you today, Duane? I’m going to talk to you while I read from this here notepad I have in front of me, which reads in highlighted letters: Honesty. Conciliation. Containment. Resolution. There’s a written script that tells Mulder what he needs to say. Mulder wants to make sure Duane gets what he wants and that Bob, Kimberly, Gwen, and Dr. Hakkie don’t get hurt. I think I’ll stick to Baldy, Blondie, and Brunette. So there. Duane Barry doesn’t think that Mulder knows what Duane Barry is going through. Duane Barry sounds a little ticked. Mulder says he knows Duane is scared and he wants to make things right, but Duane ain’t going back to no nuthouse, see? Duane peeks through the blinds hanging on the office door and tells “Mul-dure” he knows the routine, and recites the highlighted terms from Mulder’s notepad. Uh-oh! Mulder keeps up the friendly routine, but Duane ain’t buying it: Mulder needs to keep the FBI doing anything stupid (that might be hard for Mulder) or from storming the office or else the hostages die.
After Duane abruptly hangs up, Mulder finds out that Duane used to be FBI until 1982, and after that he was institutionalized on and off. Mulder’s pretty annoyed with Kazdin for not telling him, and theorizes that the FBI wants this situation taken care of on the hush-hush to minimize the Bureau’s embarrassment. Mulder says that they didn’t need to bring him out just to read from some script. Mulder says that Duane is afraid, and to win his trust they need to understand what he’s afraid of. Then crazy Spooky goes on to ask Kazdin if she’s ever spoken with abductees and heard all their terrible stories. As Mulder tells Kazdin this we see Krycek standing in the background. Mulder brushes by him (and totally doesn’t move enough to prevent their shoulders from touching!) and Alex comes up to Kazdin to see if he can be of assistance. His hair is parted on the right side of his head, in case anyone was interested. She asks him his name and if he has his Handy Dandy FBI Notebook. Of course Alex is prepared — he removes his notepad halfway from his jacket — when Kazdin tells him she wants “Grande, two percent cappuccino with vanilla.” Kazdin walks away and Krycek makes a face, stuffing his notepad back into his jacket. Aww, he was totally bitch-slapped! If Kazdin only knew what that earnest, slick-haired FBI greenie would eventually become, she’d be asking for a venti cappuccino, because that’s the last damn time he’ll be fetching coffee for anyone, yo.
We see the back of Scully’s head watching the hostage drama unfold on TV when she gets a call from Mulder, telling her that he’s in Virginia. I wonder if Gillian Anderson goes back and watches these episodes to see how pregnant she looked, even from the neck up. She’s kinda chunky in the face, which, I must say, looks a whole hell of a lot better than she does now, all waif-like and bony. Ugh. Mulder asks her what the media is saying, and Scully says that she’s heard it’s an escaped mental patient. But whoa ho, waitaminnit there, Scullster, because what they aren’t saying is that Duane is a former FBI agent and a supposed alien abductee. Mulder asks Scully to look up Duane’s background, from medical to any information about his abduction experiences. As he asks her this, the room goes dark. The lights on the floor of each building go off one by one, and even the soothing fountain outside Travel Time shuts off. Duane gets freaked, and starts gesturing with his weapon. Of course, this is an opportune time for one of the hostage women to get screechy. Brother. Kazdin’s team thinks it’s the tactical team doing it, but they report in that it’s not them. Then all of a sudden a blinding white light illuminates the command center. Ow, my eyes! The light fades and we hear a gunshot. Then we hear four more, since ol’ Duane is shooting at something.
The command center is going crazy, because there are shots fired, and they’ve lost their dedicated phone line into the office. Mulder asks the phone number of the office (555-2804), and dials it on his cell. Kazdin walks over to Mulder and tells him an electrical substation blew, and that power is out up and down the block. Mulder gets Duane on the line and asks if anyone has been hurt. Oh dear, Baldy took one in the upper chest. Blondie asks Brunette to get towels, but Brunette is all shaking and panicking and shit. It would have been nice if it was one of the women that got shot, and Baldy was the one acting all scared and stuff. Duane tells Mulder that they’re going to need a doctor.
A technician is doing something with the IntraAudio, Mid Aural Implant, Receiver JD-111471 and then sticks it in Mulder’s ear. He tells Mulder that he’s going to have ambient hearing loss, and that his sense of balance may be affected. Hey, that’s some good technology when you’re heading in to face an armed, slightly crazy, hostage-taker, huh? You can’t run after anyone or dodge an incoming bullet because you’ll get dizzy! Mulder has a flak vest on, and one of the command crew is giving him instructions. Mulder’s vest is wired with a microphone so they can hear everything that’s going on. Mulder dresses in an EMT uniform as Kazdin wonders if he really wants to do this. Wouldn’t Duane recognize Mulder’s really, really distinctive voice? Kazdin tells Mulder not to risk his own life for anything, and don’t jump into Duane’s delusions. Aw, delusion-jumping was my chosen sport in high school. It’s a good thing Mulder is wiry, because if he had muscles that flak vest would be really noticeable. Mulder will be going in with Agent Janus, who’s a trained medic. Mulder’s job is to keep Duane talking so he doesn’t shoot anyone, and then try to move Duane to the front door so that one of the three trained snipers on the roof can blast Duane into the next life! Hoo-ah!
Mulder and Janus enter the office, where Duane is hiding in the shadows and is quite jumpy. He tells Mulder to put his hands in the air, and Mulder, using those soothing, dulcet tones of his, tries to tell Duane that they only want to help the injured. Duane pats them both down, knows they’re FBI, and simply asks if they have a gun in the med kit or are wearing wires. Boy, he’s a dumb crazy guy. Kazdin is talking in Mulder’s ear, telling him he’s doing a good job of calming Duane. I think if Mulder is allowed to keep talking, he’d cause Duane to lapse into catatonia. Mulder begins bargaining with Duane, telling him that he should let the women go. For some reason David Duchovny chooses this point to stick his tongue out to lick his bottom lip, and while I’m not complaining, I must wonder what kind of acting choice that is. Then Mulder begins to jump into Duane’s delusion full force by asking him if the bright light was “Them,” because they lost time. Then we get a flashback into what Duane experiences, complete with nausea- and seizure-inducing strobe light! Seriously, close your eyes at this point if you’re watching in a darkened room, because you might just fall over. We see Duane screaming (maybe because he’s sensitive to strobe lights?) and see Grays outside his plastic-covered bedroom.
When we return from that little flashback, Duane is [gasping, panting], and while the [panting continues], Mulder tells Duane that he believes his story, and Kazdin ain’t having that, telling Mulder that he’s feeding into his psychosis. My psychosis likes chocolate cake, incidentally. But Mulder keeps going on, identifying with Duane, telling him that he knows people that went through the same things. Janus tells Mulder that Baldy is going to die unless they get him to the hospital, and when Mulder goes to help, Duane says that Baldy can go (he really does say it, ha, except the closed captioning labels him “Baldie,” which I think is wrong) but that Mulder has to stay. Duane decides that trading the bald man for Mulder is a good deal, and I’d have to agree. Ooh, Kazdin is pissed at this development.
Then Janus *walks* poor Baldy, who’s been shot in the chest mind you, out of the office. He probably has internal bleeding and at least a collapsed lung, because that was the area of the chest in which he was shot, and they didn’t think to bring in a stretcher?
Mulder gets tied to a chair (hee, bondage!) and Duane decides he’d like to see how good a liar Mulder is. Duane Barry wants to know how Mulder could know what Duane Barry has been through, and then Mulder tells him it happened to Samantha. Duane doesn’t believe him, and tells Mulder this — loudly — right in his face. Interesting that DD doesn’t seem to be able to meet Mr. Railsback’s eyes during this confrontation. He keeps glancing down, nervous. Heh. And as Duane walks back to the Doc, who’s still tied up in the chair, you can hear the ADR masters go to work over Mr. Railsback’s utterance of “bullshit” instead of “B.S.” Mulder starts asking Duane how They come to him, in bed, in his car, is he paralyzed, blah blah, feeding that psychosis is right. Kazdin mutters that Mulder is going to push Duane right over the edge, and I think I agree with her. Because CCH Pounder is awesome. She tells Mulder he’s choosing a dangerous course, and then we see Duane go into flashback again. Man, Mulder just keeps going on and on. More strobe lights!! Ew, those Gray costumes are really creepy. Even after all these years I hate looking at those things. Blargh. Poor Duane is being lifted from his bed, then white out!
Duane is sitting on the floor now, telling Mulder his abduction experiences. The command team is listening as Duane talks about the Grays speaking without moving their mouths, and then the immortal line, “They drilled holes in my damn teeth!!!” Whoo! Oh thank you, now we get to see this happening. Duane is strapped on a table with all sorts of weird designs on it, with these metal…pincher thingys holding his mouth open. There’s this metal cage around his head, too. Then the device lowers toward his mouth, and we see the Red Beam of Teeth-Drilling come on. In one of the interviews done for the cable channel FX when they began to rerun episodes of XF, Steve Railsback says that that beam was actually pressurized water, and he had to try and scream while the water was running into the back of his throat.
And then, bam, juxtaposition time, as we see one of the command center dudes drilling a hole into a wall to slide a mini camera through. Okay, here’s something I never noticed before! As Agent Rich answers the phone in the foreground and he then asks who can talk to Agent Scully, we see Alex in the background bringing another agent one of those cardboard carrier thingys with two cups of coffee in it! He actually went to get the coffee! Oh man, I never realized that before! He probably had to call the CSM and be like, “Dude, they’re making me get coffee. When do I get to be the misunderstood, sexy double agent and wear leather?”
Scully gets on the phone with the hard-working Alex, and wants to know where Mulder is. Poor Alex has to be the one to tell her that dopey Mulder did something stupid again and traded himself for one of the hostages. Well, I don’t know if it’s stupid or brave, so let’s just leave it at that. Scully is adamant that they get Mulder out of there, because Duane Barry isn’t who Mulder thinks he is! She glances over at Duane’s FBI medical file that’s up on her computer. Dun dun dunnn!
Duane asks Mulder how old Samantha was when she was taken, (which is eight, in case you’ve forgotten) and mentions casually that he’s seen young girls undergoing tests. Mulder notices the drill coming through the wall above Duane’s head, where the FBI guy will be slipping in a camera shortly. Duane goes on about how much the experiments hurt, and Mulder looks upset about all this. Duane tells Mulder it’s like living with a gun to his head all the time, because you never knew when They will take you. Mulder takes this moment to ask Duane once again to let the others go and take him. But Duane tells Mulder he wouldn’t do that to him, because the Doc is coming with him instead. DD is using that sultry, emotional voice and look throughout that whole scene, and damn, I would totally do anything he wanted me to at that moment.
The FBI gets the camera in place, allowing Kazdin a good look at what’s happening. Look out, here comes Scully! She’s all blustery and stuff, bitching at Agent Rich that she just flew all the way down from Washington and wants to talk to someone in charge. As she says this, Krycek comes walking up behind her and tells her to calm down. Big mistake, Alex! She’s all, don’t tell me to calm down, coffee-fetcher! Kazdin strides over and Scully says that she has information vital to the negotiations. All Alex can do is step to the side when Scully’s large and charge! Scully tells Kazdin that Duane suffers from a rare type of psychosis.
Scully, now sitting, is telling Kazdin and the team that in 1982 Duane was shot in the line of duty. Ooh, look, and we get a lovely crotch shot of Krycek, standing just to her right. Thank you, Chris Carter! The bullet pierced Duane’s bilateral frontal lobes, destroying the moral center of his brain. Then Scully goes all med-lingo and mentions this guy who had a blasting rod pierce the same region, and he became a pathological liar who was violent. Krycek crosses his arms as she says this. Kazdin wants to know how Scully got on the case, and she says that Mulder called her, and that they used to work together. Kazdin says that Duane has Mulder fooled. Then Scully wants to know how she can reach Mulder with the info.
And that, kids, is the end of Krycek’s appearance in the episode, other than a few shots of his pants while Scully is sitting at the desk talking to Mulder through her headset.
But to be thorough, and to set up the following episode, “Ascension,” here’s the rest of the episode, summarized:
Mulder earns Duane’s trust, and gets him to free the remaining female hostages. The FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) moves in and a sniper shoots Duane in the chest, despite Mulder trying to help the man.
Mulder feels bad not because Duane got shot, but because he believed his story. Later, Kazdin calls Mulder down to the hospital where Duane lies in critical condition. She tells Mulder that doctors found implants just where Duane said they’d be, and they also found holes in his teeth no modern dental equipment could have made.
Mulder brings Scully one of the implants, and she brings it to the FBI ballistics lab to get it checked out. She and the FBI researcher discover a bar code-like number imprinted on the metal of the implant. Later, while at the grocery store, Scully runs the implant over the bar code scanner at the checkout line, and the scanner goes crazy, its display listing a sequence of numbers.
At that moment in the hospital, Duane wakes up to a bunch of Grays surrounding his hospital bed. He escapes the hospital by knocking out a guard with a fire extinguisher.
Back at her apartment, Scully calls Mulder and leaves him a message detailing her trip to the supermarket, and tells him she ran the implant under the scanner and some kind of serial number came up. She thinks someone is using the implant to catalogue Duane.
While she’s still on the phone, Duane breaks through Scully’s apartment window, and the last thing we hear is a struggle and Scully screaming to Mulder for help.
Recap by RhymePhile