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Cabin. Mulder walks in and sits down, groaning. He knows he made a bad decision. Scully walks in and shuts the door."Mulder..." Somebody's in trouble [/sing song voice]. Mulder doesn't want to hear it and just wants to move past his mistake. Scully wants to know if he's got any ideas. "We'll think of something," he says. Scully tells him that they probably know what it was that killed those loggers and the 1934 group. Mulder tells her that they only found one cocoon. Scully's like, "Dude. It's a pretty big forest." Mulder asks Scully what she would've done and then he immediately regrets it. "You mean, would I have made a decision by myself that would have affected the whole group?" Mulder gets all up in Scully's grill and tells her to "cut the sanctimonious crap." Scully is not too pleased by Mulder's choice of words and the anger dimples come out in full force. "Well, what do you want me to say? Let's face it, Mulder, we might die up here! If we're lucky, they'll find our bodies spun up in a tree or they may not find us at all!" See, you two? Isn't this better than all the smiling? Mulder agrees with her and doesn't want to argue about it. Mulder walks over to the window. She gazes at him for a minute before approaching him. "What are you going to do?" she asks. He tells her that he's going to do everything possible to make sure the bugs stay outside.

Later, Mulder's boarding up the walls and stuff. Scully's screwing in a lightbulb and as Hot Larry walks by carrying supplies, he tells her to "be careful with that. It's the only bulb that works." Yeah, no pressure there Scully. It's now night and the generator's having a rough time. Although not as rough as the gang inside the cabin. Hot Larry's sitting on a bed, Mulder and Scully are laying in cots. They're all staring at the lightbulb. Scully looks over at a dark corner and sees the green static bugs crawling all over. "I can see them. You guys, look at this." She gets and walks towards the corner. No, Scully! Don't go near the bugs! Stay in your cot! She ignores me. Oh, boy. The guys follow her over and they watch the green static mites. As Scully is covered by a shadow, either her own or one of the guys, she can see the green static mites crawling all over her hand and arm. EW! OMG, I can't look! Scully has a major freak-out. As would I. In fact, I'd probably piss myself and then pass out. Scully's screaming and flailing her arms around. "Get them off me! Mulder!" Then she bumps the lightbulb and Hot Larry almost has a heart attack. Mulder grabs Scully and holds her arms. He tells her to stand still and then tries to talk some sense into her. He tells her that the bugs are everywhere and that's what the greasy film is that's all over everything. "I thought we were supposed to be safe in the light!", Scully spazzes. Mulder's like, "Bitch, will you calm down?! Are you being devoured alive? No, I didn't think so. You're safe in the light!"

Even later, the green static mites are still having a party in the corner and Scully has apparently taken some Prozac. Mulder sits next to her on a cot. They are sitting really close. He asks her how she's doing. She says she's ok. They sit together and watch as the mites form a conga line and make some margeritas. Mulder and Scully then get their foreplay on with the hushed voices and close-talking. "They're oxidizing enzymes. Just like fireflies. Maybe that's why they cocoon their prey... so they can oxidize the proteins taken from the fluids in the body," Scully says. The light flickers off and on. "What if the generator goes? Are they all going to swarm in here and drain the life out of us?" Scully asks. Mulder tells her that sunrise is in an hour and a half. Scully wonders what they're going to do in the morning. It's over a day's hike out of the forest and they won't make it out before nightfall. Mulder hopes that someone heard their message. "You sent that call hours ago. I mean, help would have been here by now." True, but what if help was there? They'd be getting swarmed by the green static mites and then what good could they do? Mulder says that he's not going to give upon DDD but they'll think of something if he doesn't come back. As the generator dies, the sun comes up.