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Here come the cavalry, or the next best thing, Moose and Squirrel. Regardless of the sense of urgency in their previous scene, they don’t seem to be in too much of a hurry. Well, Scully isn’t anyway. Mulder rushes past her, up the stairs to the porch, but he’s too late and the door slams in his face. He tries to get in, but can’t. Poor Man’s Minnie Driver is still calling out, asking what’s happening, and Mulder tries to go through the window, only to have the shutters slam in his face. The creepy kid has now smashed the glass in the animal picture with the power of her mind, and all the origami animals fall down. Mulder and Scully can hear all the crashing and banging from outside, but Scully’s found a back door with a glass pane. Mulder smashes it with his elbow and reaches in to undo the lock.

Face-off between Tony and the creepy kid. Tony seems to know that Michelle is Charlie, and he tries to talk her out of killing him. He says, “They said they were just gonna talk to you. Talk some sense into you. What was I supposed to do, huh?” Oh, I don’t know. Refuse to take part in official corruption and being an accessory to murder? Could that be the choice you should have made? “All you had to do was take the money, man! Why didn’t you just take the money?” Um, because it was – what’s the word I’m searching for – wrong? Argh! Attack of the Flying Fire-Poker! And that’s one hideous vase we won’t be seeing again. Mulder and Scully are indoors now, and Mulder sends Scully upstairs to check on Poor Man’s Minnie Driver. She’s hollerin’ up a storm. Some tacky little crystal figurines are the next thing to go, and Mulder walks in just as the last one smashes on the wall. He tries to reason with Michelle/Charlie, saying that killing Tony won’t make right what happened. Scully finds the key to the bedroom and lets PMMD out – she’s still in the brunch coat. You would have thought she’d have used the time to get changed for when the Emergency Services showed up, but no. She rushes over to Tony, who’s still on the floor in front of Michelle. He admits to her he knew what they did to Charlie. PMMD takes this rather badly and begins to cry, whispering no over and over. Tony says, “I just wanted to take care of you. Who else would have taken care of you?” Eeew. How much of what happened is attributable to Tony’s lust for Charlie’s wife? And how is she going to live with it? An intense blue light starts to glow and the fish tank begins to shake on its stand. All of the remaining glass in the house starts to smash and PMMD begs Michelle/Charlie, “Please don’t hurt him any more.” We get a shot of Tony’s bald spot, perhaps in an attempt to make him look pathetic or something, I don’t know. Suddenly, the tropical fish tank explodes outwards in a hail of water and glass. Then, the lights come back on and everything is normal. Scully has the presence of mind to walk over to Michelle and pick up Tony’s gun and Michelle just turns and walks away. The little plastic diver is lying on the wet carpet with pieces of glass all around. I want to know what happened to the poor, innocent angelfish.

Mulder voiceover: “Closing entry. File number X40271. Detective Anthony Fiore pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to charges of first-degree murder after the fact, grand larceny, and obstruction of justice. The deaths of Detective Rudy Barbala and former police officer Leon Felder are being ruled as accidental, although their complicity in the murder of Officer Charlie Morris has been definitively established. No charges have been brought against Michelle Bishop, who today took her first swimming lesson. She claims no memory of the preceding events and both her mother and Doctor Braun have denied my requests for a second past-life regression. End of field journal, April 19, 1994. Agents of record: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Status: unexplained.” While this voiceover is happening, Mulder is walking by the pool with Mrs. Bishop while Michelle splashes in the pool with another little girl and a woman, who is probably the swim teacher. He’s standing awfully close to Mrs. Bishop – I’m almost expecting her to call Michelle out of the pool to introduce her to her new daddy. We end with a close-up on Mulder, who’s wondering if he can get Mrs. Bishop to agree to the regression if he buys a nice bottle of wine and shows her how he can shell sunflower seeds with his tongue. Credits. I’m just now realising we never did get told what Detective Maggie’s actual name was. She’ll always be Detective Maggie to me.