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Scully's back in her car, driving around a parking lot when a car squeals wheels to back out right in her path. Rut roh-- it's Mommy and Polly, and they sure seem to be in a hurry. Scully gives her a Major Brow and looks really pissed off. Then she glances in her rearview mirror and sees a dude with bloody eyes stumbling out of the grocery store and Mommy and Polly (and her little doll, too) had been in. Scully, being..well, Scully, she jumps out of her car, throws on a blazer, rips off her sunglasses, and starts sauntering towards the bloody-eyed dude. "Sir?" she asks, brows in Worried Formation. "Sir, what happened?" Bloody-eyed dude just replies that he thinks they need a doctor. Scully walks into the store and sees everyone else with their bloody eyes and looks kinda...grossed out? Nonplussed? Hot? Yeah, hot is definitely it. All of the bloody-eyed people are crying and presumably trying to figure out why they tried to gouge their own eyes out. She walks around, surveying the scene, until a man comes up to her (yes, his eyes are bloody as well) and asks who she is. "I'm....my name's Scully," she finally gets out. "I'm an FBI agent". She looks kind of grossed out just looking at him, and I can't blame her. She asks him what's happened to him, but he doesn't know, but he does think Dave the Butcher is dead. Scully kinda nods a little and then moves past him, in search of Dead Dave, while the man who she was speaking with just looks on. Pun intended, by the way, since he has no eyes left with which to look. Back at the ranch ( i.e. in the meat cooler), Scully happens upon Dave (okay, maybe you did need to know his name) who's lying dead on the floor with a knife through his eye. Scully stares at him, horrified, mouth agape.

LBO. Mulder's cracking sunflower seeds and watching...porn? In his office? Damn, I want his job. Except, yknow, minus the abductions and mysterious brain diseases and the constant drama with my baby mama (Or is she?). Not to mention the murder charge and the IsHeMySonOrIsHeAnAlienOrIsHeBoth?-ItDoesntMatterCosSheGaveHimAwayWhileIWasOnTheLam saga. And the...oh, forget it, you know what I mean. I want to be able to watch porn in my office, okay? Is that so much to ask? Anyhow, Mulder's phone rings. "Mulder, it's me," comes the familiar voice. It'd be kinda funny if one day Mulder said, "Me who?" like he didn't remember her and she got all freaked out. She's kinda gullible to Mulder's pretending he's nuts, isn't she? Remember in DeadAlive when he woke up in the hospital and was all, "Who are you?" and she looked like she was about to go off the deep end? Or when he was in jail and started doing the scene out of Silence of the Lambs and she was all horrified? I mean, c'mon Sculls. I know your man's skirting the edges of sanity, but get a hold of yourself! (Insert dramatic slap here)

Anyhow. "I thought you were on vacation?" Mulder teases. "I am, I'm up in Maine," Scully explains, not very convincingly. Mulder thought she didn't want to be disturbed, that she just wanted to get out of her head for a few days? "I don't. I mean I do," she says, a little uncomfortably. Then she changes the subject by asking him what he's watching, seemingly a little suspicious of all the moaning and groaning going on. "It's the World's Deadliest Swarms," he deadpans, and then clicks off the TV. He thought she was going to be unreachable, he says, and asks her what's going on. Mark Snow's Piano quietly tinkles the I've Got The Going On Vacation Without My Man Which Always Turns Out To Be A Disaster blues while Scully explains that she's at a market, trying to give the local PD a handle on a case in which people are acting out in a violent, involuntary way. While she tells him this, she's watching the camera capture of the extras sort of throwing themselves all over the place. Mulder wants to know who they're acting out against. By the way, they show his TV for a second? Totally "World's Deadliest Swarms". Man, whatever. I still want to watch porn at the office.

Scully explains that the people are acting out towards themselves, "beating at their faces, clawing at their eyes", and she explains the sad fate that met our good friend Dave the Butcher. "Huh," muses Mulder. "It sounds to me like it's witchcraft, or some sorcery that you're looking for there." But Scully's all over it. She says it's neither cos she's had a look around and there's nothing that warrants that type of suspicion, but Mulder poses that maybe she doesn't know what she's looking for. Uh, listen up, Spooky. She's spent the past five years with the likes of you. She KNOWS what she's looking for. Then Scully does her thang: "Like evidence of conjury or the black arts, shamanism, divination, wicca, or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice? Charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones, hex signs, or any of the ritual tableau associated with the occult, Santeria, Voudoun, Macumba, or any high or low magic?"