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Scully picks up the phone (her pinkie finger has a really long nail on it, weird) and asks Mulder where he is. He's at the National Airport, on his way into LaGuardia. He invites Scully to NYC to do the autopsy, but she has a class until 4:30. Skip it, Scully! But she's all professional and stuff, and Mulder says that he can have the body shipped to her. She [sighs], knowing she's never going to win a battle with her 7-year-old partner when he gets pouty.

In Stamford, Connecticut, a yellow cab waits at the curb as we pan up to see the Grissom Sleep Disorder Center. I guess Mulder made a little pit stop on his way to New York to *Connecticut*? A female researcher walks down a hallway and tells Mulder that Grissom was a star in the arena of sleep disorders. Mulder wonders if Grissom ever showed signs of psychological stress, since his job was so demanding. No, she says, and he wasn't delusional, either, according to the researcher. She explains one of the experiments she and Mulder are looking at to him: they're trying to modify the guy's brain wave patterns externally with electrical stimulation of the occipital lobe, which creates simple auditory and visual hallucinations. Duuuuude! Sounds like an *awesome* trip! Mulder asks if it's possible to alter someone's dreams, and the researcher says yes, in theory. He's probably wondering how he can get some porn downloaded and programmed into that mind of his.

As Mulder leaves the center, he discovers that his cab is gone. Krycek gets out of a car and tells Mulder that he paid off the cab, and mutters the eternal line, "You know, I don't appreciate being ditched like someone's bad date." You tell him, baby! Krycek is pissed off when Mulder sarcastically says that he's sorry if he hurt Krycek's feelings. He wants to know where Mulder gets off (heh heh) copping the attitude, because he doesn't know the first thing about Krycek! Troo dat, responds Mulder. But Krycek attempts to get on Mulder's side by telling him that back at the Academy some people used to make fun of Mulder, but that certain people -- like Krycek -- followed his work because they knew there was more out there than they were telling them.

But this little discussion is interrupted by a phone call from Scully, who tells Mulder to get back up (she obviously doesn't know he's *up* in Connecticut, but if she's thinking he's in NYC, she's still wrong) to Quantico because Grissom didn't die from cardiac arrest (which I assume is in the case file, because it hasn't been mentioned up until this point). Damn, Mulder's cell phone is like, huge, with a large antenna too. Ahh, the '90s. Mulder tells Scully he can make it down there in two hours. Connecticut to Virginia in two hours? What, does he have the Mach One, Speed Racer's car? As Mulder walks to the car door, crafty little Krycek holds up the keys and asks where they're going.

Back at Quantico, Scully's weighing the stomach (which Mulder guesses incorrectly as a spleen or pancreas; sheesh, dude, look at some anatomy books, even *I* can tell it's a stomach) of Grissom when Mulder walks in, and the two friends exchange smiles. Krycek walks in behind Mulder, and Scully's eyes get wide when she sees the interloper. Mulder introduces him, and he goes to shake hands, but Scully is either really conscientious about contaminating someone with her medical gloves, or she's being kinda bitchy. I'm going with the latter. She brushes by him and tells Mulder to notice the "pugilistic attitude" of the corpse. That's kind of funny, because the guy's fists are clenched like he's about to go a couple rounds with the Million Dollar Baby. Krycek coughs when he sees the dead guy, obviously grossed out, and Mulder turns to Scully with a little shake of his head, like, "See what I'm stuck with? He gets grossed out by *dead* guys." They have a little quiet conversation about the fact that a body only gets this, er, rigid, when it's exposed to fire. What's even more interesting is that when they found Dr. Grissom his hands were down at his sides on the floor. Oops, continuity! Krycek walks up behind them and reminds them that he's there too by telling them that there was no fire. Yeah, Scully says, there were no burns on the body, but inside the skull there were hemorrhages that could only have been caused by intense heat. Grissom suffered all the secondary effects of having been in a fire, but none of the primary physiological ones. It's like his body believed it was burning! Let's see anything that cool happen on CSI! Mulder actually finally turns to acknowledge the fact that Krycek has been standing there, and Krycek offers a little "Huh" look.

In Brooklyn, a guy -- who we find out is named Henry Willig -- sits in a grungy, small apartment watching a woman hawking rings on TV. We see that he has the same horizontal scar as Tony Todd did in the teaser. Suddenly Mr. Todd walks in, telling Willig he left the door open and it's not safe in this neighborhood. Willig calls him "Preacher" and seems happy to see him, offering Preacher a beer. Henry doesn't look so good, with red-rimmed eyes and pale skin. He says he's "trying to forget" when Preacher asks how he's doing. Henry is "still fighting it" and that he keeps "seeing the faces" every day. Weirdness alert! But it doesn't matter, Henry says, because they're all going to hell. Preacher tells him they've been in hell for the last 24 years. And then when Henry accuses Preacher of killing Grissom, Preacher says that he had to pay, just like they all will for what they did "over there." So if you never saw this episode before, you would automatically figure that Preacher's talking about Vietnam, because of the time span and because of the fact that he's wearing a green military vest. Then, the camera pulls back to reveal bloodied Vietnamese civilians, men, women, and children, who stare at Henry. Preacher starts, well, preaching, and tells Henry that it's all right, and that it's all over now. Of course, that's when the civilians whip out their M-16 assault rifles, the type the U.S. soldiers carried at the time, not the typical Soviet-made AK-47s the Vietcong commonly used. Interesting that they got their payback with the same kind of weapon Henry likely used to kill all of them. Henry then closes his eyes, and the bullets careen about the apartment. Well, there goes his security deposit. And if that place is rent controlled, no one will care if someone got murdered there!