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Duane asks Mulder how old Samantha was when she was taken, (which is eight, in case you've forgotten) and mentions casually that he's seen young girls undergoing tests. Mulder notices the drill coming through the wall above Duane's head, where the FBI guy will be slipping in a camera shortly. Duane goes on about how much the experiments hurt, and Mulder looks upset about all this. Duane tells Mulder it's like living with a gun to his head all the time, because you never knew when They will take you. Mulder takes this moment to ask Duane once again to let the others go and take him. But Duane tells Mulder he wouldn't do that to him, because the Doc is coming with him instead. DD is using that sultry, emotional voice and look throughout that whole scene, and damn, I would totally do anything he wanted me to at that moment.

The FBI gets the camera in place, allowing Kazdin a good look at what's happening. Look out, here comes Scully! She's all blustery and stuff, bitching at Agent Rich that she just flew all the way down from Washington and wants to talk to someone in charge. As she says this, Krycek comes walking up behind her and tells her to calm down. Big mistake, Alex! She's all, don't tell me to calm down, coffee-fetcher! Kazdin strides over and Scully says that she has information vital to the negotiations. All Alex can do is step to the side when Scully's large and charge! Scully tells Kazdin that Duane suffers from a rare type of psychosis.

Scully, now sitting, is telling Kazdin and the team that in 1982 Duane was shot in the line of duty. Ooh, look, and we get a lovely crotch shot of Krycek, standing just to her right. Thank you, Chris Carter! The bullet pierced Duane's bilateral frontal lobes, destroying the moral center of his brain. Then Scully goes all med-lingo and mentions this guy who had a blasting rod pierce the same region, and he became a pathological liar who was violent. Krycek crosses his arms as she says this. Kazdin wants to know how Scully got on the case, and she says that Mulder called her, and that they used to work together. Kazdin says that Duane has Mulder fooled. Then Scully wants to know how she can reach Mulder with the info.

And that, kids, is the end of Krycek's appearance in the episode, other than a few shots of his pants while Scully is sitting at the desk talking to Mulder through her headset.

But to be thorough, and to set up the following episode, "Ascension," here's the rest of the episode, summarized:

Mulder earns Duane's trust, and gets him to free the remaining female hostages. The FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) moves in and a sniper shoots Duane in the chest, despite Mulder trying to help the man.

Mulder feels bad not because Duane got shot, but because he believed his story. Later, Kazdin calls Mulder down to the hospital where Duane lies in critical condition. She tells Mulder that doctors found implants just where Duane said they'd be, and they also found holes in his teeth no modern dental equipment could have made.

Mulder brings Scully one of the implants, and she brings it to the FBI ballistics lab to get it checked out. She and the FBI researcher discover a bar code-like number imprinted on the metal of the implant. Later, while at the grocery store, Scully runs the implant over the bar code scanner at the checkout line, and the scanner goes crazy, its display listing a sequence of numbers.

At that moment in the hospital, Duane wakes up to a bunch of Grays surrounding his hospital bed. He escapes the hospital by knocking out a guard with a fire extinguisher.

Back at her apartment, Scully calls Mulder and leaves him a message detailing her trip to the supermarket, and tells him she ran the implant under the scanner and some kind of serial number came up. She thinks someone is using the implant to catalogue Duane.

While she's still on the phone, Duane breaks through Scully's apartment window, and the last thing we hear is a struggle and Scully screaming to Mulder for help.