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Scully asks who doesn't like the light, but since nobody ever tells Scully anything important directly, Mulder just guides her forward by the arm. Scully's jaw drops open (farther than usual, I should say): it's a gray!

Adorably, Mulder grins and tells her, "I abducted him!" Then, still smiling, he tells her that they've been speaking telepathically, and that he told him everything – whatever that means. Still looking stunned, Scully gasps, "I – I can hear him!"

The theme plays again, slowly, as Scully tries to grasp what is happening. The two of them leave the bedroom (no, I told you already!), and Scully tells Mulder that she doesn't know where to start, that he was right all along. Mulder is pleased, but thankfully not overly smug. Scully continues with a list of all the things Mulder has been right about involving aliens, but then Mulder himself brings up the skeletons. Scully dismisses them as decoys, but Mulder presses on, wondering about the organic goo that she was so interested in before. Scully dismisses the goo, saying it was just bog sludge, at which point Mulder puts his hand to his forehead.

"That, uh... doesn't sound like you, Scully," Mulder says, clearly in physical pain. "I can't believe you're buying that!" Scully just watches him with concern and repeats that she's admitting that she was wrong. Then she asks him if he's all right.

In another kind of scene that never ends well on this show, Mulder goes into the kitchen to splash cold water on his (pretty, pretty) face. He looks up and sees that the water from the faucet has turned into thick yellow goo. The noise it makes as it comes out of the faucet is incredibly revolting. Mulder is shocked. It turns back into water, and Mulder rubs his face, clearly wondering what the heck is going on.

Going back into the living room, Mulder repeats to Scully that none of this makes sense – the Schiffs being there, their stories, the skeletons. Then another wave of pain hits him, and he sees the entire room engulfed in a wash of yellow. Scully asks him why he can't believe it if even she can, but Mulder isn't listening. He's too busy looking at the Schiffs, as they dissolve away into yellow goo, and the room around him gets all... bendy (big points to whoever gets that reference!). We pan back around to Scully, and Mulder stares at her in horror as she too dissolves away into bubbly yellow goo. Then it fades to black, and we are once more underground. Mulder is covered in tendrils of some kind and that same goo. His eyes are open, but he is obviously not seeing. There's also more of those delightful squelchy, goo-type noises. Eewwwwww.

The next scene is Scully and Fred heading up the hill to the cave. Scully tells Fred that she went inside the cave and that it was empty (but we never saw her go into the cave! Could that be... a clue?), and that Mulder seems to have just vanished. Fred says helpfully that they're bound to find him. Then Scully sees more goo on the ground, in a bootprint, and shows it to Fred. She says that it looks like the digestive material is coming out of the ground here. Then they both look around a bit more, and Fred discovers tracks leading in and out of the cave.

Scully is confused, and states that the tracks only led in before, to which Fred replies that she must have missed him. "How? I mean, this, this cave's not much more than a hole in the rock," Scully answers.

Fred calls her over from where she's crouching next to the cave. He's looking down at another skeleton sprawled on the ground in front of him. The music builds dramatically as Scully stares in shock and fear.

Back at the morgue. The new skeleton is on a table, and we zoom in on the head. What, does Spotnitz expect us to be able to recognize Mulder's head when it's just a skeleton (SPOILER!)? Scully is looking at the skeleton, too, distressed. She might actually be able to recognize Mulder from his skeleton, since she's his doctor. Fred comes in holding an envelope, which he says the courier just dropped off – Mulder's charts. Scully quickly takes the envelope and puts the enclosed x-rays on the lighted screen thingy. She compares the teeth to the ones from the x-ray from the skeleton. It's a match.

Scully's face crumples, and Fred apologizes quietly. She walks over to the skeleton again, swallows, and tries not to cry as she asks Fred if he thinks that the digestive secretion they keep finding could have done this to him. Fred seems confused, so she continues, still trying not to break down, "Well, it's... it's chemically similar to gastric juices, right? I mean, maybe he fell in it or... may... maybe it's a product of a... of a particular vegetation that grows in the area."