CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S FINAL REPOSE

          Mulder, the human mind naturally seeks meaningful patterns in things that don't inherently have any.                         Given the suggestion of a particular image, you can't help but see that shape somewhere.                                      If that tank weren't there, you'd see it in a rock or in a tree...

Clyde Bruckman leaves a liquor store, passing by a man who goes to visit a fortune teller. The man questions why he does what he is about to do then attacks the fortune teller. The fortune teller is found with her eyes and entrails removed, and is the latest victim in a series of attacks on fortune tellers and psychics. Agents Mulder and Scully jjoin the case to the surprise of the cops, who have instead recruited the help of a psychic, the eccentric 'Stupendous Yappi'. Yappi demands Mulder leave, saying he is giving off negative energy.

Meanwhile Bruckman works on selling insurance to a young couple, fortelling how the husband is going to die. Bruckman discovers the body of the fortune teller in his dumpster and reveals to Mulder and Scully details about the crime that they are surprised he knows. Mulder is sceptical of Yappi, but believes in Bruckman's abilities and they take him to the crime scene where Bruckman predicts they will find another victim, which the agents soon do. Bruckman is reluctant to join the agents on the case however, thinking that it won't make a difference whether he helps or not. Mulder soon realizes that Bruckman can tell how people are going to die, but has no other psychic abilities. The three of them go to the woods where they discover another body and Bruckman explains how he became obsessed with death when the singer the Big Bopper died after a coin flip resulted in him being on a plane with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, that crashed.

Bruckman tells the agents that more people will die before they catch the killer. He forsees Mulder's death, telling him that he'll have his throat slit by the killer after stepping in a pie. Bruckman gets a note from the killer saying he's going to die, and tells the agents that he will die before they catch him. The agents bring Bruckman to a hotel where they protect him. Meanwhile the killer murders another psychic. Bruckman tells Scully that they will end up in bed together in a very special moment neither of them will forget. Mulder and Scully leave, leaving Bruckman in the hands of Detective Havez. The hotel bellhop, who is infact the killer soon arrives, and asks Bruckman why he is committing these crimes. After Bruckman tells him its because he is a homicidal maniac, the killer murders Havez, who had gone to the bathroom.

Scully realizes she recognized the bellhop at prior crime scenes and the agents return to the hotel. Mulder chases the killer to the basement and thanks to Bruckman's earlier premonition is able to save himself when the killer attacks him. Scully arrives and shoots him. Mulder and Scully return upstairs to find that Bruckman has died from an overdose of pills. Scully sits on his bed, upset, as he had predicted she would. Bruckman left her a note asking her to take the dog that belonged to his recently deceased neighbour. That night Scully sees a commercial for the Stupendous Yappi on T.V., causing her to throw her phone at it.

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