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Cut to Mulder, frustrated and knocking his head gently against the wall. Scully comes out of the room and turns to him and hello pregnancy. She must have popped out during the shooting of this episode, hence the thigh-length blouse. I just like it because it would do a good job of hiding the rolls of middle-aged spread I have accumulated. Mulder’s upset because he thinks they were only moments from a revelation. Scully doesn’t necessarily disagree, but she’s realistic about Mrs. Bishop being unwilling to put Michelle through the hypnosis again. Mulder can be a bit ruthless with people when he’s searching for the Truth. Scully doesn’t want to put Michelle through the trauma again; instead she wants to pursue Fiore. Mulder is not confident that they will find Fiore alive and he sees Michelle as the key to solving the mystery of what happened to Charlie Morris. Scully looks rather disgusted with Mulder and begins to walk away. Mulder makes the mistake of going on about getting Michelle back and Scully turns around and lets him have it, both barrels. About time – he’s been a real ass during this case. Mulder’s not backing down though. He makes a crack about Michelle having to grow a moustache before Scully will believe she’s the reincarnation of Charlie Morris. But Scully’s got the bit between her teeth, and she makes the point that even if Mulder gets Michelle re-hypnotised, the evidence he collects will not be admissible before a Grand Jury anyway, so what is the point? Why traumatise the child just to prove yourself right? Take that Mulder, you giant ass. Mulder’s got no comeback for that, and, revelling in her victory, Scully stalks out.

FBI Regional Office, Buffalo. Mulder’s writing in his journal, basically justifying his point of view regarding the therapeutic value of hypnosis. Uh, I don’t think Mulder’s primary objective is healing Michelle Bishop. He wants her re-hypnotised to prove his reincarnation theory, whether it’s good for the child or not. Wow, he really did mellow over the years. Scully must have knocked a lot of the sheer arrogance out of him. He’s watching the footage of the hypnosis again, and notices a glitch in the tape. He rewinds it a couple of times, then starts to advance it frame by frame.

Chung-chung over to the House of Origami. Poor Man’s Minnie Driver is on the phone. She’s still wearing the same bloody brunch coat. For the love of God, woman, put on some trakky-dakkies at least! Tooling around the house in your brunch coat all day is so fifties pre-Feminine Mystique. I’ll bet she has a bottle of valium and a fifth of Scotch hidden under the kitchen sink too. She’s still looking for her husband and the actress is attempting to show nervousness by sort of scratching and pulling at the back of her neck, but it looks like she has a case of nits. She’s overdoing it just a touch. She hangs up the phone, turns out the light and heads upstairs, only to be interrupted by a knock to the door. Uh-oh, this is a Bad Sign. She calls out, “Tony,” though why he’d be knocking at his own door is a bit of a mystery. She rushes down to the door and opens it, but there is no one to be seen. She looks down, and sees a little origami giraffe on the stoop. She picks it up, and then looks around, all creeped-out.

FBI Regional Headquarters, Buffalo. Mulder’s called in the guy who was doing the Photo-fit earlier to check out the glitch in the footage. He must some all-purpose techy guy. Sort of like Frohicke, Langly and Byers, but with a real job and without the paranoid delusions. His professional opinion is that whatever the image is, it was recorded in the room with the girl and is not a fault of the tape. Naturally, Scully is sceptical. Sceptico ergo Scully. Of course, Mulder busts out with a documented case of a man from Porlock, Ohio who could influence undeveloped film. Scully, you may want to take some notes as I’m sure this will become horribly relevant to you within about, oh, two years, give or take a month or so. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. She’s got her arms crossed and is looking at Mulder like he’s some sort of exotic butterfly she can’t wait to pin to a board and examine more closely. Detective Maggie comes in – she’s found the missing page from the autopsy report by tracking down the original pathologist who had all of his files backed up on disk. Scully makes a remark about pathologists being paranoid. Oh, Scully, after nine seasons of this you’ll be President of the Paranoid Pathologists’ Support Group. Scully looks over the pathology report while Agent All-Purpose Techy Guy works on the footage. It turns out that Charlie Morris didn’t die as a result of his injuries. The pathology report indicates he drowned. Mulder speculates that he was drowned first, and only then did the mutilation take place to make it look like a gangland execution. Detective Maggie says that the only indications of immersion were around the head and face. Scully concludes that he may have been killed in a bathtub or toilet except… “The marked bradycardia. It indicates a raised plasma sodium level.” OK, and that means what exactly? Come on Scully, enlighten us! “He was killed in sea-water.”

House of Origami. Tony “the Squirrel” Fiore is finally home. He’s still wearing the same suit and finally we learn that Poor Man’s Minnie Driver’s real name is Anita, as he bellows it up the stairs. Don’t plan on her leaving the house in a hurry – she hasn’t even bothered to get dressed today. She rushes downstairs and embraces him, asking him what’s going on. Tony tells her to go upstairs and pack a bag. She asks him what kind of trouble he’s in and he tells her he thinks someone’s trying to kill him, but he doesn’t know who. PMMD wants to know why someone would want to kill him. He deserves it for the tie alone. She keeps asking him, but he yells at her and tells her to do what he’s asked her to. He says he’s her husband and he loves her, but he needs her to trust him on this, OK? She still doesn’t hop to it, so he heads upstairs on his own. The camera pulls back and swings around to show us Michelle Ma Belle lurking just outside the partially open door.

Back at the FBI, Agent All-Purpose Techy Guy has almost finished cleaning up all the ‘noise’ from the video signal. What he’s done is map the frequencies of the interference then some random tech talk, during which you can see Mulder wishing for unconsciousness until the poor guy stops the techno-babble. He gets rid of the excess stuff (technical term for whatever I like) and holy crap! It looks like some sort of spaceman! Now Mulder’s interest is truly piqued. Duchovny has his hand up to his mouth and it looks like he’s got a nasty burn on the back of it about the size of a five-cent piece, with a blister and everything. I wonder how that happened and can I kiss it better (Edit: I think he was burned during Fire. – Starbucket)? Mulder is putting the pieces together. It’s just as well he was so interested in the aquarium earlier – he recognises this suspect! Charlie Morris was drowned in his own tropical fish tank and the little plastic diver was the last thing he saw! Of course! Now it all makes sense! Mulder dials quickly, apparently checking that Michelle Bishop is at home, tucked in bed.

Aha! Now we know where Tony “The Squirrel” Fiore has been. The bag he was lugging around is full of money, no doubt the dirty money from the drug bust. He’s frantically packing, but Poor Man’s Minnie Driver is still in her brunch coat and being less than helpful. She tells him about the origami giraffe, but Tony won’t answer her when she asks who left it on the doorstep. The lights suddenly go out (but it’s so dark anyway, it’s a bit hard to tell). Tony pulls his gun and tells PMMD to stay in the bedroom and keep the door closed. Close-up on the key, which turns by itself in the keyhole, locking PMMD in the room. Tony creeps down the stairs with his gun pointed. He’s casing the house, but he can’t see anyone. The camera helpfully shows us, the audience, an electrical lead unplugging from the wall, like an invisible hand is tugging it out. It whips out and wraps around Tony’s knees, causing him to fall down. PMMD hears the thump and his yell as he falls, and calls out asking if he is all right. Tony’s dropped his gun (I thought only Mulder did that), and he’s desperately trying to reach for it, but it’s moved back out of the way by the same invisible hand. Eek! It’s the creepy kid and she’s in da house, fo’shizzle!