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Commercials. When we get back, Mulder is at the crime scene of the policeman who was killed. Scully comes up with a “hey,” wearing a rather ungainly long grey-green blazer-jacket, and together they study the circle of salt that Mr. Important poured around himself. Mulder is convinced this is more evidence of necromancy. Scully tries to poke holes in his theory, but Mulder argues that this time, Mr. Important was just trying to save himself, while whatever was raised from the dead killed the police officer. The police find the body a short way away. He’s been buried vertically in the soil, with just his head sticking out (a rather labor-intensive way of burying someone, if you ask me), and there is more salt on his mouth, as well as a little note, rolled up like a joint. Mulder reads out the Biblical verse that’s written on it: "I am he that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." A policeman who has spent a good deal of time at his local church tells them that it’s from the Book of Revelations, Book One, verse 18. Mulder makes an obscure football comment (“Go Fighting Irish”). Can you figure out what Mulder figured out? (Starbucket: Does it have something to do with a hunchback?)

We go back to the psychiatric facility, where Mulder tells Frank Black that he must have purposely dropped the “hint” of Revelations Book one, verse 18 when he said “It’s first and 18” to them the last time; so why doesn’t he help them more directly? Scully sidles up and fills in the blanks for us: Black is scared he’s going to lose his daughter Jordan, whose maternal grandparents are fighting Black for custody (apparently his wife has passed away, which you would know if you just supported Chris Carter and had been watching “Millennium,” dammit!). Scully has talked to Black’s doctor – since thankfully for the X-Files, doctor-patient confidentiality means very, very little – and has found out that that’s why he’s in the institution: he’s trying to prove that he’s a fit father now, that he’s no longer obsessed with conspiracies. Black emphasizes that he’ll do anything to show that he’s ‘normal’ now – and he refuses to mention the Millennium Group any longer. Mulder puts on his best Pouty/Sexy face and tells Black that no one needs to know about their chatting.

Because no one can resist that face, Black agrees and goes through the X-File that they have apparently prepared for him in an empty room. He explains that the Book of Revelations tells of the end of the world – Armageddon – and that the four dead FBI agents were break-off members of the Millennium Group who decided that they must play an active role in bringing about Armageddon – by dying and then being brought back to life. Mulder chips in that they must believe that they’re the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, bringing war, pestilence, famine, and death with them, along with all the rest of the dead. Sounds like “the shitstorm of all time,” to quote our Mulder from an earlier moment. And it must all be done at the dawn of the new millennium, according to these fine folks (Starbucket: which, wait. Isn’t that next year?). They sought out the necromancer to help them out, Black tells them, and then he starts profiling the man, telling them details about him that will help them find him. As we hear the details, we start seeing Mr. Important in his rural compound. He’s apparently a taxidermist, and he’s gluing a glass eye onto an alarmingly vicious-looking dog. A hound of hell perhaps? That, or this guy is giving some family a pretty twisted version of their poor little Sprinkles.

Black narrates that the reason that Mr. Important must have spent so much care and time burying the police officer (and even stapling his mouth shut) is that he believes that “if disturbed,” the cop will rise from the dead. When he hears of the body being found (which we see him doing, in his living room, on the television), he’ll want to act, because it’s not yet time for the dead to rise (except for the 4 hotshots, I guess). Black guesses that Mulder and Scully will catch Mr. Important at the morgue where the police officer is being kept. Mulder’s thinking, ‘well then why did you tell us all about him and his criminal profile if we’re just going to be able to march into the morgue and catch him there?” Instead, he says that what they really need to do is find the Four Undead men. Black gets a phone call from his daughter and takes their leave.