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Soon Mulder and Scully are in his truck, all riding in silence. They come upon a pasture and the truck stops. Creepy old guy spins his tale of his past and how things have changed around these parts; how they now use genetically-engineered growth hormone on the cows and how the people in town have all gotten meaner, how high school boys are now raping girls and stuff like that. And how he thinks the kids in the woods and the meanness of the town all come from the same root source – the growth hormone. Scully protests that the hormone's been cleared by the F.D.A. to which creepy old guy scoffs, "Says who? The government?" Snap! Mulder smirks a bit and they leave the scene. We then cut to the men who've been injecting the cattle with the growth hormone in the pasture only to see that one of them is Mirror-perv! It's the glasses that give him away, of course.

Hours later, we see a plane in the sky and its cockpit scene; the pilot tells his passenger they're not going to make it to the airport and they'll have to try and land the plane now. He also helpfully calls his briefcase-clutching passenger "Doc". The plane slams into the ground erupting into a huge ball of flame. At the crash site investigation, we see two body bags and the sheriff tells our agents that one of the victims was Dr. Larson, the man who delivered his son. They also find the briefcase that was so important to the doctor and find it full of money and vials of some mysterious liquid. Scull snaps on the latex and checks out the fluid – let's just say at this point she knows it's probably not monkey pee.

Scully and Mulder do some digging and find out that Dr. Larson was the doctor for every one of the kids who have been abducted and "possessed". There's also some stuff about credit cards from the victim's families and we find out they don't know what was in the vials yet. This episode is chockfull of questions and they do their best to reiterate each and every one of them for us before we cut to cult members walking through a field near Mirror-perv and his friend as they finish up their cattle-injecting business. Mirror-perv drives away as another car approaches. Eagle-eyed X-Philes will recognize him as "crewcut man", the assassin of Deep Throat. To me, he also looks a lot like Brian Thompson, the actor who plays the Alien Bounty Hunter but I don't think that means anything. Anyway, crewcut man gets out and shoots Mirror-perv's friend in the same direct, no nonsense way he dispatched with Deep Throat. Apparently, he comes to kill people and chew gum. And he's all out of gum.

Mulder and Scully show up to talk with Gary's mom and tell her they suspect Dr. Larson of doing something suspicious to her son. They find out that Gary's never been sick "a day in his life", a fact that strikes Mulder as odd. She goes on to say Dr. Larson gave Gary "vitamin shots" as he did with a lot of kids as a preventative measure and we know this can't be good. She mentions her husband, Jay, and how he wanted to take Gary to a different doctor but then Jay was "accidentally" killed at work. And where did Jay work? Why, the meatpacking plant, of course. Mulder notices a pinhole of light coming through the mirror and they discover Mirror-perv's secret hideaway, replete with video camera and boxes of videotapes.

We find the sheriff's son, Rick, and a little friend sitting in Rick's truck, listening to metal music and drinking beer when the little friend announces he has to "drain the lizard" – 1013 does love to write dialogue for adolescent boys, don't they, butt-wipe? Anyway, while he's taking care of business we see Mirror-perv take out Rick with the old cloth trick. Rick's eventually found in the woods with – you guessed it – "He is one" written on his body. Only, this time, the victim's dead. Nearby, crewcut man walks out of the woods up to his car and puts a gun in his trunk. Again he looks remarkably like Brian Thompson to me and I half-expect him to shape-shift but, of course, he doesn't. But we are left with the impression that he killed Rick. Not that we feel too bad about that.

Scully is looking at a folder with a photo of Mirror-perv while Mulder drives – she says his name is Gerd Thomas and that he's owned the building where the Kanes live for 21 years. Turns out Thomas used to run a daycare center out of that building and the police are holding him. Again, I'll point out that in SEIN UND ZEIT/CLOSURE, the villain, Santa Claus, was secretly taping children, too. Of course, that is standard Perv 101 behavior but is another connection to those future episodes, nonetheless. At that moment, crewcut man drives by and Scully seems to sort of recognize him.