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Bethesda Naval Hospital, two days later. Jack’s hooked up to a ventilator but suddenly comes awake. He pulls out the tube and leaves his room, stealth-like. In another room, he takes clothes that aren’t his and puts them on. A nurse enters and he winds up some medical tubing like he’s going to kill her but she leaves the room without noticing him. How very un-FBI-like of him. Suddenly, he has a vision. It’s of Agent Jack Willis shooting him! It’s from Dupree’s POV! Jack looks in a mirror, feeling his face like “is this really me?” Do you get it yet?

Morgue. Jack pulls Dupree out of the freezer and stares at him. Then, he pulls out Dupree’s left hand and forces it up, stiff from rigamortis—the sound while he’s doing it is totally gross. Thanks, foley guys. He tries to pull the wedding band from Dupree’s finger and when that doesn’t work, he reaches for some scissors. Ew.

Later in the morgue. Mulder walks in. Hi Mulder! God, he looks young. He sounds even younger. Scully’s there, looking over a file. She asks if they have any word of Willis. Mulder says that they don’t; he’s not at home and hasn’t checked in with the office. Mulder heard something on the way down about a mutilation? Scully takes him over to the body and shows him Jack’s handy-work with the scissors. They lifted prints, and they’re Willis’s. Mulder exposits that Jack has been chasing this Dupree guy for over a year, and Scully exposits that yes, he’s been living the case—it was all he ever thought about, talked about. An FBI agent totally obsessed with a case? That must have been really weird for you, Scully.

Scully goes on to say that she thinks this is some kind of PTSD, but to Mulder, that wouldn’t explain why he vanished. He asks about Dupree’s partner—one Lula Phillips, who was serving time for manslaughter in the prison where Dupree was a guard. Charming. Lula was released one week before the robbery of another bank in Maryland. At that robbery, an elderly teller was killed for not putting the money in the bag fast enough. Charming, as ever. It seems Warren Dupree and Lula took turns robbing banks—one robbing while the other drove getaway. They killed seven people and got away with close to $100,000. Which Mulder thinks is a lot of money now that Lula doesn’t have to split it with Warren. Scully’s all “fat chance, we’ve put her picture all over the news.” Bummer for Lula. I like spending money, too. Mulder reads that they were married last year and jumps to the conclusion (as he’s wont to do) that this was no necrophiliac mutilation, but that Willis “sliced and diced those fingers to get at the wedding ring.” Mulder says “sliced and diced” a lot on this show.

Casa de Lula y Warren. Jack breaks in and starts looking around for Lula like he knows the place well. Do you get it yet? We hear a plane fly close overhead and Jack mutters “baby, baby, baby.” Cut it with the “babies,” please. His arm is bugging him and he pulls up the sleeve to reveal… WARREN DUPREE’S TATTOO!

Back in the LBO with the fingerprints they lifted from Dupree’s body. Mulder says that it’s clear that Willis was using his left hand. Scully’s not sure where Mulder’s going with this (oh, season one Scully, aren’t you precious), but Mulder shows her the EKG strip that was recording Willis’s heartbeat when they revived him. There appear to be TWO heart beats! Both men were technically dead at the same time, and while Scully is all “but we resuscitated Willis,” Mulder is all “you resuscitated his body,” and Scully’s all “oh brother.” Mulder: “Two men died in that room. You brought one back. The question is, which one?”

University of Maryland, Department of Biology. They’re talking with a professor about near-death experiences, who tells them that half the adults out there who have had near-death experiences cannot wear a watch—that the increased electrical activity within their bodies renders their watches inoperable. He goes on to say that people come back from the experience profoundly changed. (Doesn’t he mean profoundly charged?) More than just shocking themselves on door handles, I guess--that they sometimes have increased psychic abilities and an increased zest for life. The rare negative effects are windows after death and before re-life that the body is vulnerable—he tells the story of a pilot friend of his that crashed and remembers floating over his own body and then feeling a great need to return to it; afterwards waking up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, the only survivor. Hey, that happened to Skinner! Anyhoodle, soon after that the visions started. Visions of making love to his wife in places and ways that he didn’t remember. Hey, that happened to Skinner! Sort of. If the pilot’s wife was a succubus. Turns out one of the passengers on the plane had been having an affair with the pilot’s wife. The cheating dead guy’s consciousness survived through the pilot. Scully doesn’t buy this near-death body-switching shit.