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Mulder:” Victim was a homeless guy. You get many of them wandering around out here?”

Park Ranger: “Well, occasionally, I see some, but beat most are scared of the woods.”

Mulder: “Scared? Of what?”

PR: “I don’t know.” With this smirk on his face. “The devil?” Oh, all his life, he’s been waiting for someone like Mulder.

Mulder. “People say that’s just a myth.”

PR: “Depends on who you talk to.”

Mulder: “What do you think?”

PR: “Well, like I said, 32 years, I see a lot of weird stuff.” (I’m sure.) pause. Like one time. A little over 4 years ago, I saw what I thought was a large man come out of a cops of birch trees, not a stitch of clothing, about 60 yards away. He starts sniffing the air, you know, like a dog. And then he looks straight at me, and I swear he smelled me because he took off into the woods so fast, you’d swear he wasn’t human. (Growing up with the metric system I’m not too sure how far 60 yards are but the PR could see the guy, what makes him think the beast man needed to smell him?).

Mulder smiling: “Really.” (A soul like his own!) “You never saw him again?”

PR: “But I feel him. And found things. scab. Like a cat’s, only more human.” ????????

Mulder: “You think it might be what’s responsible for the body you found?”

Now PR mentions his upcoming pension, implying that might be in danger if he goes all out. I mean, now you’re getting careful around this FBI guy? A little late, Mister.

PR: “I tell you one thing, I never come out here without my weapon.”

That’s when Mulder decides to walk back into town. Somehow I don’t think he has his weapon with him.

And we cut to a close-up of a King Kong mask. Yes, it’s an ironic cut. No, it’s neither funny nor scary. Anvilly comes to mind.

The kid bumps head first into a wall and starts crying which causes Scully to work on her maternal instincts. Oh Scully! If you only knew!

And then we cut to a dog eating a birthday cake while being cheered on by a horde of more children. Gross. The cake being eaten by the dog. Not the children. In case I sound like I hate children. I don’t. There are just so many of them and they let the dog eat a cake that they presumably want to eat too.

I think we are supposed to draw some parallels to the wildebeest in the Jersey woods. Something which will be spelled out many more times in this episode.

Scully is very impressed by supermom’s supermommy skills, and I am thinking, at least you won’t wear anything as terrible as, what is this woman wearing? A tent? I have no idea and I really don’t want to dwell on it.

Supermom thinks going through the academy is enough training for motherhood. Well, and keeping an often childish partner in line, too.

Scully thinks she has no time which prompts supermom to implore her to get a life. And a man. Seriously, have you met Scully?

Supermom asks about that partner of hers; interestingly, Scully had mentioned he was cute. Scully has this knee-jerk reaction saying he is a jerk, retracting that statement right away. Oh, come on, Scully, right now, you have all the right to say it. He left you driving back all by yourself! He didn’t just ditch you, he made you ditch him!

Scully: “He’s not a jerk, he’s obsessed with his work.” Pot, meet kettle. A pleasure to meet you.

We cut back to Mulder walking through the woods. I think we are supposed to feel scared for him when there is a cut to a perspective from the woods to Mulder but really, he’s just strollin’.

At the birthday bash, the door bell rings and Scully opens to the father of one of those children. I don’t know the actor’s name but I just saw him in a Supernatural episode where he plays a somewhat annoying realtor. Both characters are really annoying as we will see.

Cut to some back street in Atlantic City where a lot of garbage is lying around in front of a church, no less. That is weird. Mulder is trying to find someone who knew Roger Crockett, the dead guy. One homeless guy walks up to him to ask Mulder what he wants to know. I never forgot the actor’s performance stuck with me, he plays the homeless man with a mixture of bravado, shame, dignity, I don’t know but he makes you feel sorry for him without losing respect for him. It’s fantastic.

He shows Mulder the, oh man, the drawing of the beast man. I suck at drawing and I have no sense of more than two dimensions on paper but I could do better. Most 2year olds can do better. All 4year olds can do better.

Mulder rewards him with his hotel keys, assuring him that they have HBO there. The homeless guy gets this adorable grin and scampers away. It’s a nice little scene, if it weren’t for that ridiculous drawing.

Mulder at night, sitting, wrapped in a blanket and almost falling asleep. Someone or something climbs about and Mulder tries to follow. According to his statement to Scully later moving really fast and graceful. From where I’m sitting, not so fast and not very graceful considering the ruckus.

He runs out, whistles up the roof and sees her. Cue cop cars driving up and cops trying to put him in jail. I don’t know why. It makes no sense. There is a guy, in a suit, obviously not homeless, well yelling that there is a man on the roof. How does that make him drunk? Why would they take him to prison? And didn’t he show them his FBI badge?

Anyway. That gives us a nice little scene with detective Thompson and Mulder being obnoxious. He shows the detective the drawing and I’m with Thompson here when he laughs heartily. Who wouldn’t? What makes less sense is keeping special agent of the FBI Mulder in the drunk tank until Monday morning. On the other hand, he almost deserves it, showing that drawing around.