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1x12: BEYOND THE SEA

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Lucas Henry's getting anxious now. Must be all that old condemned beer he's drinking. College Boy is tied up and scared, and his horrible hair makes him look like Billy from Twin Peaks on a bad day. Henry heads over to College Boy with this teeny tiny little axe and is about to cut off his teeny tiny little head – no, not that head, you pervert - when Scully and the FBI Posse enter the building and tell him to freeze. Scully shoots him in the arm but he runs away. After a little cat and mouse to pass the time, Scully watches him run across this a board over large hole where, I assume, they used to brew the beer, and she sees him fall right through it into the vat. He's dead. She notices the blue devil right above the vat, and remembers what Boggs told her. So, he was right after all.

The next day, she goes back to tell him that they found College Boy alive and well, and that she believes him. Because if he'd been in on it with Henry, he would have known to expect the FBI, but he totally didn't. So, Scully was right. Woo hoo! Oh, and he stopped the bad guy and saved the boy's life. There's that, too. But the reason she's really there, Boggs guesses, is not so altruistic. She wants her father's message, but he won't give it to her until he's strapped into the chair. We see Boggs get his final meal as his family watches over, and get lead down the hall with his victims surrounding him, then he's strapped into the chair and when the shield opens… no Scully. Dude, why isn't she there? Sorry, Boggs, bt you're still a killer and she's still too awesome for you. The gas fills the room and he breathes it in. Gak.

We fade over to Scully in Mulder's hospital room, trying, as usual, to rationalize it all away. Maybe Boggs did some research and found out her father died and was manipulating her? Mulder's not buying it. Because now he's like, "Dude, you believed him this whole episode, and now you don't? Why can't you believe?" Which is kinda ironic because he's basically all, "I told you psychic connections were real. Let's completely disregard that I thought Boggs was bullshit because I believe in the phenomena and you don't even do that. Nyah." But she sits on the edge of his bed delicately, as he gazes at her (even though he wouldn't admit it) as she tells him that she's afraid to believe. Why couldn't she face that fear, even just to get her father's message, he asks. She tells him, all bittersweet, that she knows what her father's message was. Mulder asks her how she knows. She says, simply, "He was my father." Aw. Of course, he was proud of her. And Mulder totally gets it because he caresses her arm as we fade to credits.


Recap by Adrienne (Starbucket)

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