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We see a Falls Church police car drive up to a warehouse. Hey, that's Raoul's dad, from Doc, getting out of the car. Okay, you can stop judging me now. Yes, I watched that show on PAX for a while. Deal with it. It wasn't for Billy Ray Cyrus's acting skills, I can assure you. Anyway, Raoul's dad and his partner radio in that they're at 214 Channel Avenue, and they're going to go in. The dispatcher copies, and says to use extreme caution and that backup is on the way.

The two officers go inside, guns and flashlights at the ready. The music is tense. They split up. Oh, great. That'll turn out well. The guy who's not Raoul's dad hears Modell's voice, leading him closer to himself. I suppose this is actually Modell doing this, right? I mean, Linda Bowman really does drive up later. I don't really understand why he's doing this, though. I suppose just to pass the time until Mulder gets here. In any case, Modell taunts the guy with “you're getting warmer” type of comments, until he says he's right in front of the officer. We don't see anyone, but then he rounds a corner and sees Modell with a gun.

The officer tells him to drop it, and he does so, and puts his hands up and gets down on the ground under direction from the officer, too. This is a sign that's something's definitely up, especially since “Modell” isn't saying anything else. Then the cop calls to his partner that he's got him.

Meanwhile Skinner, Mulder, and Scully have arrived, along with a whole lot of others. They run into the building. Skinner identifies them all as federal agents and asks where the officers are. The guy calls back, “Upstairs! Sir, I got him!”

Everybody races upstairs – to find that the cop has his gun trained on poor Raoul's dad, who says that he just went crazy. They take the gun away. Skinner remarks that Modell must have indeed been there. Scully wonders why he'd go after Bowman's wife. At that moment, another officer shouts that they have a visitor. Thank goodness he didn't say, “We've got company!” Man, I get tired of that. And I guess if he had said that, it would have been too obvious right away that Linda Bowman was eeeevil, since you can only say that if a bad guy is approaching – or so TV and movies tell me.

Linda Bowman steps out of her car, and does a good job looking confused and anxious at all the police cars parked there. Mulder greets her and identifies himself, and she continues to look baffled, asking, “Uh, you're my 12:15?” Heh.

The next scene is Mrs. Bowman sitting down somewhere in the warehouse, being interviewed. She sounds teary as she explains that all she knew was that she was supposed to meet a Mr. Mulder here, and she didn't have a number to reach him and tell him she was running late. Then she asks why anyone would do this to Nathan. Scully, also sitting down, asks kindly if he ever discussed his work, specifically Robert Patrick Modell, with her. Since she says, “You mean Pusher?” in response, we can take that as a yes.

Skinner explains that they think he murdered her husband. She denies this possibility, saying that Pusher's in prison, but Mulder says, “Not since 6:00 this morning.” At Mrs. Bowman's fairly convincing display of distress, Scully makes a sympathetic expression that I find hilarious for some reason, and Skinner assures her that the FBI will protect her. As Skinner leaves with her, he simply tells Mulder and Scully, “Find him.”

Scully says, “Yes, sir,” and starts to go, but Mulder hasn't moved. He wonders why Modell didn't just kill those two cops, which is, again, something I vaguely noticed the first time around. Scully hopes it was because he was too tired, but Mulder isn't sure. He says something doesn't make sense, and then asks to borrow who I assume is a police officer's radio.

We see Linda Bowman being escorted by Skinner and a guy with a shotgun into an FBI car, and then we see that it's Modell who's watching this through the blinds of a nearby building. He's eating a carbo bar again (maybe that's what made him homicidal in the first place – in my experience, those things are nasty), and he keeps watching as Mulder walks vaguely toward the window, walkie-talkie in hand. There's a Latino man in the room with Pusher, presumably the janitor. He looks unfocused. Pusher hands him back his thermos with a “Gracias, amigo”, and leaves the room.

Mulder enters the building, looking uncertain until he sees the wrapper of the carbo bar right in the hallway. And here's where I start ranting, “Mulder, you idiot, you're going in alone to face this guy, without telling anyone??” He walks up the stairs, gun drawn. I guess that's the only place to go? I dunno. Maybe Pusher's sort of pushing him already, otherwise how does he know?

So he rounds a few corners, and no one's there. Finally, he goes around one more corner, and there's Modell, not looking too good. He snarks, “What took you so long?” Mulder pulls out the radio and says, “Scully, I got him. Come quick.” Oh, thank goodness Mulder wasn't being quite as stupid as I thought. This time.