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Krycek is showing Mulder the Willig file -- he was unemployed and lived on disability. No forced entry or struggle, no abrasions or contusions, no trace elements...cause of death? Why, a burst aneurysm, of course. Yeah, don't think so. Krycek is now wearing a white shirt with white pin striping on it, and a red and blue diagonally striped tie with sort of an off-gray separating the red and blue. Mulder is in a green shirt, which looks very nice on him, and a weird brown and red tie with round shapes on it. It's not the famous egg-looking tie, but it still doesn't go with his ensemble. It seems that a friend of Krycek's from Homicide called, who was in turn called by the medical examiner because the autopsy revealed 43 small internal hemorrhages and bone fragments, all without external trauma. The ME swears they're gunshot wounds. More weirdness. Mulder notices that horizontal scar on Willig's neck, and Krycek tells him the only surgery he ever had was an appendectomy. Unless they removed his appendix through his neck, Mulder says, what the hell is the scar from? Krycek is on top of it...Willig did a tour with the Marines in Vietnam in 1970. Mulder pop-quizzes Krycek: where do all Marines do their training on the East Coast? Why, Parris Island, South Carolina of course, where Doc Grissom was stationed from 1968 to 1971. Alex points out that he and Willig were there at the same time, then. Here Mulder gives Krycek a little smile, like he's impressed with the young kid. Aww. Chemistry!!

To the computers! At the FBI library in NYC, Mulder discovers that Willig was assigned to the 13-member Special Force and Recon Squad J-7, (I kinda think they meant Special Forces, since there is no "Special Force"), of which Willig was one of 2 survivors. There's only one guy alive that can tell them what happened on Parris Island, and that's Augustus D. Cole. Also pay close attention to this scene, because as Mulder leans back from the computer, he's actually close enough to Krycek for their shoulders to be touching. Y'know, if you watch it in slow motion, Mulder actually *leans over* closer to Krycek as he sits back. Of course, he's using his right hand to type, so he had to shift his body, but still! I'm watching on my iMac as I type this, and I guess when you're a couple of feet away watching it on TV little moments like this aren't all that obvious.

At the VA Medical Center in North Orange, N.J. (and in case anyone is wondering, we have a West, East, and South Orange in Jersey, but no North) a doctor tells the Boys that he has been treating Cole since he was admitted 12 years ago. Cole had to be placed in isolation because he was disrupting the other patients' sleep patterns. When Mulder questions the doctor about this, he sidesteps the question and goes to unlock Cole's door. The number on the door is 13664991. I wonder if that's significant. Uh-oh, he's not in his bunk! Krycek, by the way, is wearing a dark blue suit jacket over that white shirt and tie, and Mulder is wearing a darker sage-colored suit jacket over his light green shirt and odd tie. Mulder definitely wins this round of fashion face-off.

At the nurses' station, a nurse tells the doctor that he signed Cole out two days ago. The doc says that he didn't, but the nurse shows him his signature on the release form. Mulder suggests to Krycek that they get Cole's face out on the wire, and y'know, I always thought Nick and DD were almost the same height. In this scene Nick looks about two or three inches taller than DD. Hmm, perhaps it's perspective. Then Mulder gets a cell phone call from a Mysterious Informant who tells him he has information that may help him out. But come alone, the Mysterious Informant says, because if you don't I ain't helpin' ya.

At the requisite underlit, spooky construction site (which kinda looks like the inside of a stadium) we see a shadowy figure hiding. It's the MI. This informant was originally a woman, but I guess that didn't work out in the scheme of things because they hired Mr. Steven B. Williams instead. He's probably most remembered for playing Captain Adam Fuller on 21 Jump Street. You can see a bit of her shadow when Mulder says, "Why are you trying to help me?" because they didn't re-shoot the Mulder scenes; they just inserted the Steven B. Williams scenes in the crossover Mulder POV shots. It worked pretty well, except when you notice Mulder looking down to speak to the Mysterious Informant, and you can notice a woman's hairdo. Mr. Williams isn't that short. And he doesn't have woman's hair. Anyway, as he will become known later, X gives Mulder data from a top-secret military project, telling Mulder that he doesn't want to be there helping him. The project theorized that sleep is a soldier's greatest enemy. Mulder comes to the conclusion that Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments at Parris Island. Oh ho, not deprivation, says X, eradication! It would build a better soldier if sustained wakefulness dulled fear and heightened aggression! Dude, that's what happens when I eat a Cadbury Dairy Milk before going to bed. Willig and Cole were lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand-plus confirmed kills for a 13-man squad. X won't give Mulder his thoughts on the case, but tells the agent that Augustus Cole hasn't slept in 24 years. Oh, and there's another member of the squad still alive, erroneously reported killed in action. His name is on the envelope X handed Mulder: Salvatore Matola, of 2Jays Cafe in Roslyn, N.Y. X tells Mulder that he can't be contacted, and that separating Mulder and Scully were only the beginning. The truth is still out there, X says, but it's never been more dangerous. And the man both X and Mulder knew paid for that information with his life, although X isn't too keen on following the same path. He then scurries off into the darkness.