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Recap by kschica

We see a flash, and the obligatory beating heart sounds in the background with a strobe light and other effects that shows this is a freaky dream. We then see Samantha in her nightgown telling a full-grown "Fox" that she's afraid of what is going on downstairs. A sweaty Mulder wakes up, and seems confused by the blood he sees staining his shirt. Luckily, Mulder did a bang up job of following Scully's habit of always remembering to wear white when he gets good and bloody. It's so much more dramatic. He naturally calls Scully. The camera flashes to Scully's bedside clock, which reads 4:50 am. She also looks ridiculously perfect, and in full makeup. This is especially impressive considering she's dying and all. Scully gets to then say the words we all miss so much, "Mulder, where are you?" Mulder doesn't know, and looks down at a key in his hand that says he is at a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island. Scully asks him why he is there, and he says he doesn't know. And that there's blood all over him. Scully asks if he's hurt, and he says he doesn't think so. He thinks it's someone else's blood.

Credits. Oh, Young Scully, there's so much I need to warn you about. And yet, tragically, I cannot.

Providence, Rhode Island . Scully comes barreling in, screeching tires and all. She knocks and calls out Mulder's name once. She quickly decides to enter, and calls out his name a few more times. Without hesitating very much, she enters into the bathroom, where the water is running. There, she finds Mulder completely naked, quaking in a bathtub. Sadly, she gets little to no thrill out of this, and is firmly in Scully doctor mode. And Mulder makes no quip either, just saying he can't get warm. Scully says he's in shock, and much to the collective disappointment of many does not offer warm him up. Apparently they wait three more years for that to come into play. Sigh. She tells him to dry off, and she leaves the room to get him a blanket. She goes into a bunch of doctor like questions, and asks him to track her finger. Mulder apparently woke up with a pounding headache, and doesn't remember anything. She asks him what day it is, and he ponders this before having to ask. Apparently, it's Sunday. She asks what he last remembers. He last remembers talking to her on the phone from his apartment. This turns out to have been Friday. Scully has apparently already spotted that he packed an overnight bag, so he must have intended to at least spend the night when he left D.C. After hearing that Mulder isn't feeling pain nor taken any medication, Scully checks out the bloody clothes. She asks Mulder if he could possibly have cut himself, and he says no. She is clearly already grasping at straws, since she already got a full body view with no signs of lacerations. She asks him where his weapon is, and she quickly finds it. She discharges the cartridge, and the camera zooms in on it. For a second, I was afraid that I was supposed to be smart enough to know what I was looking at. Luckily, Scully explains it to me, "Two rounds have been fired." Mulder doesn't remember firing the weapon. Scully tells him he needs to go the hospital. Mulder, of course disagrees, and says he needs to know what happened and that a crime was committed. Scully seems to think it could be an aneurysm, which apparently could drop him in a second. Mulder doesn't look too concerned, but just hunts around the room a bit and finds some keys. He asks if they are Scully's, and she says no. He looks closer and sees that they have a keychain that says, "Amy." How handy those personalized engraved keychains are!

Scully walks out of the hotel office. Apparently Mulder checked in at noon the day before, and made no phone calls and had no visitors. He also apparently drove there, because he registered a car. Scully looks closer at the car in question, and Mulder says it's not his. This is a good thing, because there is blood on the steering wheel. Mulder goes to get the keys he found earlier, which apparently work because next thing we know Scully is busting open the glovebox. The car is registered to a "David Cassandra," and the address is there on the registration. Mulder then asks, "Who's Amy?" It seems this information is not on the car title, so Scully tells him that they will find out, but first Mulder needs to go to a hospital. As one might expect, Mulder disagrees and needs to find out what the hell is going on. Scully says she feels strongly about this, and that he is taking a big risk. Mulder tells her he knows, but that it's his risk.

We cut to a table with bunches of photos, all of which have a face cut out of them. A man is seen cutting them out, bleeding as though he has a hole in his head. Interesting.