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Scully, as they walk out of the institution, is baffled – why should they go after 4 dead guys? Mulder points out that it’s only fourteen hours until the new millennium, when these 4 men think Armageddon is going to start poppin’. Scully rebuts that these men “mangled biblical prophecy to the extent that it's unrecognizable. The year 2000 is just their artificial deadline and besides, 2001 is actually the start of the new millennium.” (Starbucket: Yes! At least someone knows what she’s talking about.) To which Mulder smirks and sasses, “No one likes a math geek, Scully.” HEE! Oh, but really? Scully gives him no reaction at all. I guess she’s fairly certain that everyone likes a math geek when said geek is ScullySmartypants.

She says that they should get down to the morgue and get their man. Mulder says yes, she should go ahead and do that – but he’s not their killer, and the four dead men aren’t really dead, so he needs to find them. He’s going to follow Black’s profile and try to find Mr. Important’s place of residence to see if he can find the “bodies.” And he asks a favor of Scully – that she make sure that no one removes the staples from the dead police officer’s mouth. Scully agrees, wondering if this counts as a ditch. But he said to her, “Please? Just humor me,” which, she must admit, is quite a bit more sweet than he usually is as he rushes off to get into some dangerous situation that she’ll have to save him from.

Shit. We find that some poor shmuck of a coroner is removing the staples from the dead man’s mouth – which by the by, there are only two of. Is that really sufficient to keep someone from coming back from the dead? Buffy fans?

Ms. Coroner open up the mouth of Mr. Sheriff’s Deputy, and finds an outpouring of salt. Wouldn’t we have seen some of that spill out when Mulder removed the note from his mouth earlier? She starts removing it, speaking into her autopsy recorder, while in the background we can hear the phone ringing to an answering machine, and Scully in her most businesslike of voices instructing the coroner NOT to autopsy the murder victim. She ignores it until she’s removed all the salt from the mouth, then goes into the office next door to check the message, hearing what Scully said. Unfortunately, we see the police man’s menacing shadow creep up from inside the autopsy bay, then enter the office. Ms. Coroner screams, dropping the phone. Does she usually pick up the phone while listening to an answering machine that clearly has speakers of its own?

Scully enters the morgue, and, seeing nobody around, unsheathes her gun. She finds signs of foul play in the office and follows a sick bloody trail down a little hallway until she finds Ms. Coroner in a gory messy state – but still alive. A few sounds behind her startle Scully, and she whips around to find Mr. Important, walking slowly toward her with a blank look on his face. Also joining the party is naked, grey, dead Mr. Sheriff’s Deputy, who’s also walking toward her with a blank, but decidedly more frightening, look on his face. Scully starts shooting at him immediately. The bullets just glance off him and he keeps coming. He jumps at Scully, and we see her gun skitter away onto the floor at Mr. Important’s feet. He looks passively on. Aipe! I have to admit, I’m a little scared.

Commercials. Skinner arrives on the scene at the morgue. Guess he popped up to Maryland at a pretty good time. Ms. Coroner is wheeled out on a gurney, and Skinner asks someone, “Where is she?” He gets some kind of answer and goes forward to lean down over a dead body in a white sheet. Is it…. Why am I afraid? No viewer with half a brain would be. Anyways, it’s Mr. Sheriff’s Deputy, with a gunshot wound in his head. Scully is behind him, and he stands up and tenderly brushes her hair away from her face for a second so that he can caress her … or, if you so prefer, he professionally and carefully lifts the hair from her face so that he can take a look at her nasty-looking bruises and cuts on her neck. She looks a bit shaken, and explains that the policeman was dead… “and then, somehow, he wasn’t.” Hee. That about sums it up. Three rounds in his chest had no effect. The way he was “killed” was that the necromancer showed up and shot him in the head with Scully’s gun. Scully has no idea why he saved her. “Look, sir,” she says, and I can’t help but exclaim to myself that Mitch Pileggi and Gillian Anderson act so well together – it’s so poignant. “I can't even begin to offer an explanation for what happened but I have to say it is exactly what Mulder feared.” Skinner says he agrees, but why isn’t Mulder answering his phone? A snake of fear starts coiling in Scully’s stomach. Maybe it migrated there from her lower back.