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Georgetown Memorial Hospital. The doctor and Skinner are watching Mulder on the observation monitors. Mulder's just lying on the floor of a padded room and he's still got that hospital gown on. No straight jacket, though. That's a good sign, I guess. Mulder's apparently had a haircut while in the hospital. The doctor tells Skinner that there's activity in Mulder's "temporal lobe" they've never seen before. Mulder can't sleep, his body won't shut down, etc. Sometimes this causes episodes of aggro, even against himself. The doctor then says that Mulder's brain is going to die. Skinner does not look happy. A few minutes later, Skinner visits Mulder in his padded cell. "Agent Mulder, can you hear me? Do you know who I am?" Mulder just sits and drools. "It's Skinner, Walter Skinner. The Skinman. Skinbone. The Skinster. Any of those ringing a bell?" Heh. At this, Mulder leaps up and starts choking Skinner. The doctor starts freaking out. Mulder then slams Skinner to the ground. Skinner tells Mulder that he doesn't want to hurt him. Skinner's nose is bleeding. Mulder's all sweaty and grunting. The hospital staff pry Mulder off of Skinner and throw him against the wall. I think I saw a porno like this once. As Skinner leaves the cell, Mulder starts screaming. Mulder can scream, but he can't talk? Ok, whatever. I think Mulder might need that straight jacket, yo. Out in the hall, Skinner takes off his glasses to wipe them or something. Maybe Mulder dripped sweat on them. He notices that his shirt pocket is ripped. He pulls out a small, torn piece of hospital gown with "Help Me" witten in blood. I think it's written in blood. I doubt the staff have given Mulder a pen. That's a big No-No in psych wards. Couldn't Mulder have just handed Skinner that piece of hospital gown? Did he really need to attack him to get that message across?

Ivory Coast. An African woman arrives in a jeep and after some conversation with her driver as he points to Scully's tent, she gets out and runs towards the tent. She's really tall. And pretty. As she enters the tent, she looks around at all the dead locusts. "My God. What happened here?" Scully's packing clothes or something in her duffel bag. Her hair is wet and she probably just had a shower. She turns around and stares at the pretty African lady. Scully's body language is screaming Eyebrow. The African lady is all, "I've been told that you speaka of the English. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?!" Scully snootily spits "What do you want?" Now there's no need for rudeness, Miss Scully. Sometimes I wonder about Scully's intuition. She'll gladly go to an upstairs bedroom with a creepy Amish genderbending freak but she's rude and mistrusting of the pretty African lady who's giving off harmless vibes. Instead of reminding Scully of her manners, she apologizes, introduces herself as Amina Ngebe and tells her that she's come to see Scully's discovery. "I asked that no one be told about it ... nor that I'm here," Scully snits. I'm pretty sure you're trackable Scully. There's airline records, your passport, etc. Even that chip in your neck is probably a tracking device. Anyways, Amina assures Scully that it is still a secret but it's well-known among the locals thanks to "the African internet"[/Dr. Merkmallen]. Amina tells Scully that she worked with Dr. Merkmallen at the University and she's a biologist too. Scully tells her about the semi-naked vanishing tribesman and the locust. Amina tells Scully not to tell the men who are helping her because they're animists who'd believe that it was a sign from God to stop working on the spacecraft. As if on cue, one of the men out in the water starts screaming for help. Amina and Scully run out to the beach. The guy is covered in boils and it's really gross. He's taken away to the hospital. Amina tells Scully that it was another warning. Scully looks disturbed.

GMH. Skinner sneaks into Mulder's hospital room. He's now in restraints. "Agent Mulder, I want to help you. I don't know what to do. I don't have much time." Mulder taps the bed with his right hand, his index and middle finger bound together with some string. Skinner asks Mulder if he can write and Mulder nods. Skinner gives Mulder a pen (Oh no!) and holds out his hand for Mulder to write on. Mulder writes out "KR..."

Ivory Coast. It's now nighttime and Scully's lying in her cot, staring up at the ceiling. Amina is sleeping next to her. Not like that, you pervs! Amina's got her own cot. Scully's v.o. journal entry is going strong. "I feel you slipping away from me with every minute I fail here. What are the elusive meanings I cannot see that are hidden here? If I could understand it, know how it affected you, learn how to use its power to save you. And to save my reproductive organs so that we may be able to have a miraculous love child." I notice that the dead bugs are still everywhere. Why haven't they cleaned them out? That should've been priority #1, as far as I'm concerned. A jeep pulls up outside, with its high beams on. Scully grabs her trusty machete. Seriously, Scully? Where's your freaking gun? Sigh. Why am I letting this bother me? Moving on. Scully approaches the jeep and asks the driver what's what. The driver, let's call him Mufasa, starts rambling in Swahili, I think, and takes out this enormous flashlight, classic X-Files style. He tries to get Scully to walk over to the water with him. Scully's like, "I don't speak African." Then somebody interrupts, "Perhaps you need an interpreter." Ah, look kids. It's Creepy Dr. Barnes. Except he's a little less creepy and a lot more unhinged. He's Crazy Dr. Barnes. Scully looks kind ofscared, as one would, and raises the ole machete at CDB. "Are you going to hack me up in front of my driver? Word is you're under suspicion already." Suspicion of what? Extremely long journal entries? Leaving her gun home in Washington? Abandoning Mulder to Diana's jugs? Scully tells Amina that CDB killed Dr. Merkmallen. CDB denies this. He tells them that he knows how important this discovery is because of its "extraterrestrial origins." Scully tells him that he doesn't even believe in that crap. "Nor do you," CDB says. How does he know what Scully does or does not believe? He doesn't even know her. CDB tells them that he can help them interpret the writings. At this, Mufasa starts calling them over to the water, which has turned into blood. Aren't these plagues a little out of order? You'd think God or the aliens would know that the water-turning-into-blood came first. Ahead of locusts and boils. But, whatever. Chris Carter wrote this, so I really shouldn't be expecting the plot line to move forward in a logical manner. Scully spots the semi-naked tribesman again, standing on a cliff. Let's call him Rafiki. He then disappears. Spooooooooky.