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Mulder and his mother go into a closed room, and Mulder strides towards his mom, now looking her straight in the eye. "You had some sort of relationship with him," Mulder accuses her. Ma Mulder has no idea who he's talking about. Mulder says she knows who, saying it was the man who used to work with his father. He tells her it was the man who was there at the house when Mulder was 12 and she was forced to choose Samantha. Mulder then jumps to, "You betrayed my father, your husband." She denies it, saying "Never." Mulder then, full of disdain, presses on and asks, "How far back did it go?" This gets Ma Mulder really mad, and she rears back and slaps Mulder across the face. Mulder doesn't seem terribly chagrined, and presses on, asking, "Who is my father?" This gets Ma Mulder even hotter, and she asks Mulder, "What do you want, to kill him again?" Now sort of welling up, Mulder asks her to just answer the question, not being distracted by her attempts to guilt him off this course. She still won't actually answer the question, and tells him, "I am your mother and I will not tolerate anymore of your questions." She pauses, and then adds, "You're bleeding, Fox."

Sure enough, Mulder is bleeding from those pesky holes he had drilled in his head. Mulder reaches to wipe at the blood, looking a bit confused by it. His mother takes this opportunity to storm out of the room. She rushes right past Scully without looking at her and runs upstairs. Scully enters the room his Ma Mulder left from to check on Mulder, and Mulder isn't there. She hears a car door slam, and goes to the window to presumably be driving off. This gets my vote as the Worst Mulder Ditch Ever. There are a lot to choose from, but I think the blatant intent to strand her, combined with leaving her in about the most awkward situation ever just really takes the cake. Not to mention that it is presumably Scully's car. And that he is leaving because he is such a hurry to have a deranged psychologist drill even more holes in his head. I think my first words to Mulder when I next saw him would be, "You asshole. You had to know I wanted to be stuck there with your mom like I wanted a hole in the head. Oh, wait, bad example."

It is now 9:25 pm, and Dr Goldstein is loading a box in his car. Mulder pulls up behind him, and asks him what he did to him. Dr. Goldstein first tries for denial. Mulder tells him he knows he treated him, so Dr. Goldstein shifts gears. "I did nothing wrong." "You drilled a hole in my head," Mulder grits out. Dr. Goldstein's response: "A slight electrical stimulation." That cracked me up for some reason. Mulder tells him he triggered his memory, and Dr. Goldstein reminds him that his is what Mulder wanted. Mulder tells him that now he wants him to finish the job. Oh, Mulder.

Dr. Goldstein loads up a syringe with a green liquid, which I am assuming is ketamine, though on this show Lord only knows nothing good comes in the form of green liquid. Dr. Goldstein shoots Mulder up with this which apparently fast acting as he has to help Mulder across the room to lie down. Mulder says, "I want to remember." Dr. Goldstein then puts on some sort of sensory deprivation goggles onto Mulder's eyes, which have red lights in them. Mulder starts to have flashbacks in rapid succession, which are basically repeats of the earlier flashbacks. Now Dr. Goldstein decides he should put Mulder in restraints. Mulder starts to relive Samantha's abduction yet again as Dr. Goldstein loads up his drill and starts sloooowly moving it toward Mulder's forehead with dramatic music cuing. Outside, we see a police car come screaming around the corner with lights flashing and tires squealing, followed by several more police cars. The detective from earlier busts in and arrests Dr. Goldstein, as the detective notices Mulder is gone. As Dr. Goldstein is being taken to a police car, Scully drives up. I have no idea in what car, though I assume she was responsible for all the police being there. Nice work on Scully's part, but I'm not even entirely sure what she told them beyond that her nutjob partner was about to get holes drilled in his head. Voluntarily.

Scully asks where Mulder is. The detective tells her Dr. Goldstein wouldn't tell him. At that moment, the police car containing Dr. Goldstein is driving off, and Scully shouts out to stop that car. Scully gets all super intense, and starts drilling Dr. Goldstein about Mulder's treatment and whereabouts. Nobody mentions to Scully that he has this pesky right to remain silent, and that if he hasn't waived the right anything he says at this point would be inadmissible (Ed Note: I thought if he wasn't read his rights, what he says would be inadmissible. Once they're read, "anything [he says] can be used against [him]". Isn't that right? Wow, I've watched too much Law & Order. – Starbucket). Which would really suck for the case and all. But Mulder's ass is on the line, so Scully really doesn't care very much about the Constitution. She grabs Dr. Goldstein by the shirt, and yells at him, "Damn it! Answer me!" Her eyes are absolutely blazing, and Dr. Goldstein cowers like the cowardly bastard he is. He admits to treating Mulder, but says he doesn't know where he went. Scully then lets go of him, tossing him back in disgust. She asks what the last thing Mulder said to him was. Apparently, he said he was going to exorcise his demons. Scully looks troubled, as well she should be.