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Scully walks away determinedly, and a uniformed officer walks by her toward the cells with equal determination. He moves into an empty cell, and takes out a photo with a picture cut off. It's the head bleeding guy from earlier with all the cut up pictures. He looks at the picture and starts to get weepy. He then pulls out his gun, and we pan to Scully turning back around on a dime when she hears the gun shot. You know a part of her feels like Mulder must be involved somehow. Scully goes into the cell, reassuring everyone that she is a doctor. As always, no one protests this at all and allows her to go in alone. She looks closely, and uses her medical expertise to say, "He's dead." She takes a closer look and sees the same scabbed over hole that she had seen before. She says she needs to talk to Detective Curtis, the officer who had been pressing Mulder so much, immediately.

Scully asks the detective if the officer had a history of depression. Apparently his former partner had come with complaints of odd behavior. Detective Curtis explains that the dead officer had become something of a joke on the force, believing in extraterrestrials. Scully takes this in stride, and starts concentrating on the cut up pictures. She asks if he's looked at the pictures. He says not really, and doesn't get where she's going. Scully explains that cutting oneself out of picture upon picture is not what you'd call healthy, and that it is a sign that the dead officer probably was disturbed and even believed his own stories. Detective Curtis says he thought this would explain Mulder's case. Scully decides not to go into this, and looks around the room more. And sitting right there is a copy of Abductee Magazine, with Amy Cassandra as the cover girl. I love the whole conceit of a magazine called Abductee. It sounds oddly mainstream, like something all the cool abductees must read to know how best to use their implants as accessories. Scully explains in highly technical terms that all three of the dead people had holes in their head. She thinks it might not have been murder, but more of a suicide pact.

We're back to Jumpsuit! Mulder laying his head back. We're in flashback mode, with a young Bill Mulder and CSM talking. Both appear to have had growth spurts at some point in their adulthood, as these two men are much, much shorter than their older counterparts. We see Young Fox running away from where the door closed to the upstairs to spy some more. He comes in and looks at Samantha, then back to the goings on downstairs. His mom is crying and pounding CSM's chest, yelling, "Not Samantha! Not Samantha!" followed by, "I hate you!" Bill Mulder looks upwards toward Young Fox, and then the flashback ends and we pan back to Mulder. Mulder looks around his cell, getting his bearings. He calls for the guard, saying he needs to talk to someone.

The next morning. Scully comes in, and the Detective tells Scully that Mulder kept everyone up all night wanting to talk to someone. Apparently his memories are coming back. Mulder asks to talk to Scully alone. Mulder tells Scully he didn't kill those people. She tells him she knows, but that she actually has gone beyond this and found evidence to clear him as well. I think this might be one instance that Scully should point to when Mulder whines about her need for proof. I think every once and awhile Mulder might need a good, "It saved your ass from jail!" The forensics reports showed that the splatter pattern did not match the point of entry. Apparently it was murder suicide, and that Mulder was there. Scully explains that Amy Cassandra claimed to be an abductee, and Mulder naturally surmises that he contacted her. Scully explains that Amy had gotten psychiatric treatment to recover memories, and that the repetitive paintings were a sign of mental trauma. Scully then brings it together with the dead officer, saying they were both suffering from Waxman Geshwin's Syndrome, which put people in a trancelike state with vivid memories coming in flashback form. She says it is also called Dostoevsky syndrome, as he had been suffering from it as well. Mulder looks at, clearly sensing that this is leading to him soon. He asks what he was doing there, and Scully says she still can't explain it. But she has pushed up his arraignment to an hour from then, and that they should have enough forensics evidence to clear him by then. Mulder says he still needs to know why. Scully nods, probably knowing that he would say that.

Warwick, Rhode Island. Mulder and Scully get out of Scully's car. Scully explains that they are at Amy Cassandra's psychologists's office. Mulder notices that his car his there. It appears to have been there for several days. Mulder asks what the name of the psychologist was again.