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Buhl, Idaho. Mulder and Scully are at this house. Scully knocks on the door and a typical farmer in overalls answers. "Virgil Nokes? I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI." Scully's holding up her badge while Mulder is behind her, leaning against the porch railing, swatting bugs, spitting out sunflowers seeds and looking generally bored out of his mind. The farmer looks like he's been sniffing some pesticides. "Jehovah's Witness?" Sidebar #1: I'm taking that as a huge Shout Out to me. Sidebar #2: Virgil must be a few cards short of a deck because Jehovah's Witnesses do not carry badges with FBI printed on them. Nor do we carry firearms. Although, that would be awesome. Moving on... Scully informs Virgil that they're with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Then Mulder offers him a Watchtower. Oh, Mulder. You kill me. Scully then tells Virgil that they're just there for a routine check because he recently ordered 5,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Virgil then tells them to come on in. Virgil informs them that he grows sugar beets. I wonder if he's related to Dwight Schrute. He says that he's got better things to do with his fertilizer than blow up some buildings. Scully tells him that it's just routine. "So routine, it numbs the mind." I take it Mulder ain't digging this assignment. While Virgil is looking for some papers, Mulder's watching the news report of NotOJ and Vicky's escapade from the teaser. He calls Scully over to watch.

Later, outside the farmhouse. Mulder's standing next to the car, talking on his cell phone as Scully walks out. "Thank you, Captain. That's no problem. We'd be happy to help. Mm-hmm." Scully wants to know what they're helping. Mulder then hurriedly hangs up the phone. Heh. Scully gets firm and tells him that they're not going to Nevada . "Come on, Scully. Just one quick side trip." Scully refuses and reminds him of their new assignment. "Running down people that buy fertilizer? This is scut work, bozo work -- the FBI equivalent of being made to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway -- they mean to humiliate us." Scully doesn't care if he's humiliated but they're working on domestic terrorism. She agrees that it is a punishment, but if they want to get back on the X-Files they have to follow the rules right now. "We can't freelance." Yeah, but they're freelancing on the lam. Ooh! I can't wait for the movie! Squee!! Ok, sorry. Ahem. Where was I? Mulder asks Scully what she thought of the news report. She thinks the woman was shot, no matter what the police say. Mulder tells her that the captain said "she just sort of popped" and Mulder thinks NotOJ was trying to warn the cops about his wife. "Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo. We can be in and out in a day. Nobody has to know." Mulder waggles his eyebrows and Scully gives in. She can't resist The Waggle! Know why? Because it's hot. HOTTT.

Elko, Nevada Police Station. NotOJ is lying on a cot in his jail cell. He realizes he's got a nosebleed and then starts screaming. Does he have an inoperable tumor in his nasal cavity? We'll see. Later, Mulder and Scully talking to the police captain. Mulder wants to see NotOJ. The captain says that maybe he can see him later because earlier he had a fit in his cell and screaming that they were going to kill him like they killed his wife. The captain then calls him "unstable." Scully tells the captain that NotOJ might need medical attention. The captain then says that a doctor is with him now and after what happened to NotOJ's wife, which wasn't their fault, they're not going to take any chances. Scully's reading the police report and we find out that NotOJ's name is Patrick Garland Crump and that he lives in Montello, Nevada. Mulder comments that Crump is 40, a roofer, no history of mental illness and no prior record. Then the captain says that he stole the car on the Utah state line, throwing some kid from the car and taking off. After the captain walks away, Scully says that she's going to look at Vicky's body and Mulder's going to try to see Crump. Mulder then checks the map to see where Montello is and follows Crump's path east to Utah. "Then all of a sudden, he turned around and he headed west... To Wells. Why?" Because the sun sets in the west! Because the elves of Middle Earth travel to the west to receive immortality! Because 1013 Productions has gone west!