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At the police station, Scully's trying to do some work when guess who interrupts her again? It's Mulder. He can't go another second without one of Scully's forehead kisses. That and he wants an update, which is that Cross hasn't checked in yet. Another Note of Foreboding before the scene changes yet again. This time, Timid is fighting over who will pay the check at his dinner with Huggs, who managed not to forget her lipstick and her unbearably monotone voice and lack of discernible reaction! Finally, Timid insists and Huggs gets all weirded out by Timid's messed up hand. He says it's just eczema and Huggs feels like she needs to apologise again for setting him up the other night, but he won't hear of it because he's a perfect gentleman, understanding and sweet. That and all's well that end's well cos she's with him now and he still gets to kill her! He says he's going to take the bus home, knowing that Ms. "I Experience No Emotion of Any Kind" will insist upon driving him, and that's exactly what happens.

Once in front of Timid's building, we see that LandLady has brought her shitty poetry to Timid's door. Apparently LandLady's a regular Sylvia Plath-- her envelope is so thick it won't slide under the door. She uses her LandLady perk of having keys to everyone's apartment and lets herself in. Out in the car, Timid and Huggs have their small talk, and Timid tries to assure her that he likes her and that she doesn't have to be nervous. He strokes her face and decides to invite her up, but then he sees the light on in his apartment and rushes out of the car without further explanation. Of course, while inside TImid's apartment, LandLady discovers some flies and a rotten smell and decides it's the perfect time to go snooping around! In the bathroom, she finds Cross's dead body in the tub, covered in the goo. Then Timid finds LandLady and the rest, as they say, is history.

Later on, LandLady's daughter feels her way to Timid's door, which pushes open easily. She's looking for her mother, who had a poetry class that she never returned home from. He pops out of the bathroom finally and keeps telling her (in the creepiest voice, might I add), that LandLady would be home soon, that she hadn't stopped by or any of that. Of course, if LandLady's daughter could see, she would notice her mother's dead body just behind him. But she can't, so there's no use crying over spilled milk. Or fatty acids. On her way out, LandLady's daughter bumps into a suitcase, which she reaches down to touch. Timid grabs her by the arm and says he's going away to New York, and not to worry about LandLady, cos he's sure she's fine. The daughter knows something's up, though.

At the police station, Scully and Mulder and everyone else are making calls, trying to figure out where Cross could be, since he still hasn't reported back. Then Mulder gets a 911 report for a possible homicide from a young girl (LandLady's daughter, if you're that thick-skulled), and the address the call came from just happens to be one that was on Cross's list.

At Timid's place, they bust down the door and find the LandLady's body, as well as Cross's. Scully goes out into the hallway and has a talk with LandLady's daughter. Seeing Scully with kids always kinda breaks my heart, cos Gillian Anderson always plays it so earnestly, and it's really sad and emotional even before all that uterine drama happens in her life. Mariska Hargitay does that on SVU, too, and it's always kinda touching. Scully's all calm with the little girl, and tells her that she knows it's hard, but she needs the girl to tell her what happened. LandLady's daughter (Ah, forget it, her name is Jesse) says that she smelled her mother's perfume in Timid's apartment, and that's how she knew he was lying. She was scared that he was going to hurt her, she knew that she wanted to and could tell because he grabbed her. Scully's all, "He grabbed you?" with this look on her face that says something along the lines of "I want to gut this asshole like a fish", but she listens to Jesse's story and asks about the suitcase and where Timid said he was going. Jesse's crying by this point and Scully looks like she's about to squirt some as well, but she says she'll be right back and goes to leave. "Agent Scully", Jesse says. Scully turns around. "Why would someone do this?" Scully doesn't have an answer for that and says as much. "I don't know, Jesse." Don't ever have kids, Scully. And if you do, give them away. Oh wait, check. Moving on.