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After reaching the ground (which we don't see) Mulder, his gun drawn, heads toward Duane Barry's car. Its driver-side door is open. It's starting to rain heavily now, and Mulder holsters his gun while noticing that the car steering wheel had blood on it. David Duchovny does a really remarkable job here: he actually looks physically sick when he knows that he's going to have to pop the trunk to check for Scully's body. He does so, and finds bloody rope, and Scully's gold cross necklace. And not to get all religious or anything, but I have to add something here for non-Christians or those who aren't familiar with Christian beliefs. A cross is just that, a horizontal bar intersected with a vertical bar. A *crucifix*, on the other hand, is a cross with an image of Jesus Christ attached to it, which represents Christ being nailed to the cross as he was executed. There have been so many websites and magazines (Entertainment Weekly did it once) that called Scully's cross a crucifix. That's incorrect. So now you know.

As Mulder lifts the cross from the trunk and shines his flashlight on it, a bright light from the hill behind him illuminates the scene. Mulder squints, and the captioning calls the noise [whirring], which probably indicates a helicopter. But it's shot so that we just see a light rising up into the sky, and then it suddenly flies away, as if it were a UFO. Mulder then hears Duane laughing. He takes off after Duane, and draws his gun on Duane. Duane is ecstatic, laughing and throwing his arms up in the air. Whooooo! He's free of those "son of bitches," which is good for him, but still incorrect English! He yells in third person once again that They can't touch Duane Barry anymore. Mulder rushes up and cuffs Duane, yelling at him to find out who took Scully. Why, They took her, Mulder. It was Them, Duane says. As Mulder starts to walk Duane over the hill, the bright light shines again and Duane starts freaking out, yelling "No! No! No!" The wind is blowing, and it's raining, and I bet DD and Steve Railsback had a hell of a time with this scene through all that. Duane is still yelling Nooooo as we go to commercial.

Okay, let's lay out the timeline here before we go any farther. August 7, 1994 is where the episode "Duane Barry" began, with Krycek coming to get Mulder at the pool (Speedo, Speedo, Speedo!) and the Boys heading to Travel Time that same day for the hostage negotiation. Later that night, Duane is shot by HRT and taken to the hospital. The next morning, August 8, Agent Kazdin calls Mulder to the hospital to tell him they found implants in Duane's body. That same afternoon, Mulder gives Scully one of these implants, and she goes shopping and runs it through the scanner. That same night Duane escapes and kidnaps Scully sometime before Mulder listens to Scully's message at 11:23 p.m. The next morning on August 9, Mulder and Krycek have a meeting with Skinner at 8:30 a.m., and then by 5:43 that afternoon the Boys are headed to Skyland Mountain in hot pursuit of Duane.

Okay.

So, Skyland Mountain Summit, 8:46 p.m., August 9, by my timeline. We hear someone over the radio saying that they have sent out five rescue teams to search for Scully. Duane, meanwhile, is having his chest re-taped up by two EMT guys, since he was bleeding from the gunshot wound he received at Travel Time. One of the EMTs gives Duane a drink of water. The EMTs and another cop leave the room, walking past Mulder, who is sitting on a chair with his legs wide open from here until Sunday. He must be cooling his loins, hee. I keep staring at his crotch, but his pants are too loose, dammit. Not like the Speedo. Duane sitting in a chair, his hands handcuffed behind him, silent. Mulder stands and asks what happened after Duane took Scully out of the trunk. Duane is surprisingly cogent, telling Mulder they walked to the top of the mountain, and repeats that They took her because the deal was her instead of him.

Mulder closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before asking Duane if he killed Scully. Duane swears he didn't, but Mulder wants to know how Duane got his interesting sunburn-like injury to his face. It was the ship, Duane says. Hmm, did you see Richard Dreyfus there, too? Was he making Devil's Towers out of his mashed potatoes again? Mulder tells Duane that he didn't see a ship, he saw a helicopter. Duane says he's not lying, and that Mulder can ask Them, since They are standing outside the door. They happen to be two Men in Black, with Krycek in the background. They all walk away when Duane points them out. Duane starts to get agitated, yelling that the military is in on it, until Mulder slams him face-first into the desk. Then Mulder notices blood with red hair in it stuck to Duane's medical bracelet.