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Mulder gets onto the CB radio and requests immediate quarantine and evacuation. The woman from Doolittle Air Field comes back (that's CB lingo), telling him that there's a blizzard heading their way and they're basically screwed. "Welcome to the top of the world, sir." This is where Mulder would curse up a storm if this show were on HBO, but alas, it's Fox. Home of World's Deadliest Car Chases and Girls Gone Wild advertisements, but heaven forbid you utter the "F-word".

Mulder goes back to Bear's body, now dead. At least he made it to Act Two. Next to Bear we see the worm that was pulled out of his neck, resting peacefully in a glass container. Hodge explains that it has a scolex (like Flukie! Only, I'd imagine, much smaller. And less sewery. But, not played by Darin Morgan, so it's probably not as clever, either.) like a tapeworm, but it's different from anything he's ever seen. Scully enters from the room where the bodies are kept, saying she found worms in all of them, but only one was alive. They were in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that produces hormones, which cause "violent, aggressive behavior". These worms feed on those hormones, causing the host to go all postal on everyone. Hence all the strangling, attacking, smashing, and general freaking out that we've seen so far. So, Mulder deduces that the two guys who shot themselves did it on purpose, so the organism would die with them. For two guys so intent on saving everyone from this arctic worm, they seemed oddly ignorant about the dog's infection. Maybe one of them belonged to PeTA.

Later. Scully's in the Dead Body Storage Room checking to, um, make sure the bodies didn't go all Shaun of the Dead on her, I guess. Mulder walks in to check on her. She can't sleep. Mulder offers to spoon her like a little baby cat, but she just gives him a dirty look. You got a long wait ahead of you, buddy. Scully insists that the worm be destroyed, but Mulder wants to keep it alive to study it as a possible (and, there it is) alien life form that crashed to Earth millions of years ago on that meteor. "If we don't kill it now," Scully lectures, "we may run the risk of becoming [Blue Shirt and Not Clive Owen] with guns to our heads." Wait, have you already read this script?

The argument escalates into a screaming match, and we cut back to Hodge and Da Silva just as a tired, frustrated and angry Scully begins to lunge for Mulder's throat. The scientists roll their eyes.

Da Silva: They are so doing it.

Hodge: Nah. He's putting up too much of a fight.

Da Silva: Who knows? Maybe they get off on it.

Of course, no one would know how right she is for a long time. Da Silva asks Hodge if there's something hinky with the temperature. He explains that it's busted, so it's really hot. Hodge tells Da Silva that he's sure that Mulder and Scully knew about this organism before they got there, and Hodge insinuates that Scully's infected because she got Bear's blood on her. Da Silva shoots back, "It also got on you." The two head over to Mulder and Scully, who've now moved their fight into a smaller storage locker. Hodge asks Scully if she's all right, totally calling her out as an infected one. Dude, how fair is that? Mulder was bitten, loses his temper and he's not even suspected? While Scully, who's totally right, by the way, gets accused of being controlled by some Evil Worm from Space? That's like saying the only reason a woman gets emotional is because she's PMSing. Sometimes I hate men. Especially men played by Xander Berkeley. Anyway, Scully, bundle of pint-sized awesomeness that she is, snaps right back at him: "What the hell are you trying to say?" Go, girl. Mulder breaks in, telling people to go to bed and not turn on each other. Hodge insists that they all be examined before bedtime, and Da Silva lamely asks if he's going to do the exams. Hello, Other Dana! Scully's a Medical Doctor, too!