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A man mistakenly kills his wife, believing her, as well as the police who soon arrive, to all be someone else. Mulder is tipped off to the case by the mysterious Plain Clothed Man, who provides him with a newspaper article discussing the case. Mulder and partner Scully visit the man, and his doctor, Dr. Stroman, in a psychiatric hospital and are told the man killed five people, believing them to all be the same person.

Mulder and Scully visit the murderer's house, where Mulder sees a repairman working on the cable line. They find hundreds of video tapes of the news. Scully believes all the violence the man watched on TV may have led him to the murders, something Mulder doesn't believe. That night Scully watches the tapes, seeing if there are any clues to why the man committed murder. She steps outside for a break and sees Mulder in a car talking to the Cigarette Smoking Man. The next day Mulder denies the conversation took place. The next day a similar murder occurs when a woman thinks she sees her husband in a hammock with another woman; in reality she's killed her neighbour who was in a hammock wih his dog. Mulder sees the same cable repairman near the house, who escapes from him. Climbing up on the telephone pole Mulder finds a device inside.

Mulder brings the device to the Lone Gunmen, who tell him its emmitting some kind of signal. Mulder contacts Scully, who is growing increasingly paranoid, and searches her hotel room for monitoring devices. Scully fires at the door when someone knocks at it and runs off. Mulder, believes her to be suffering from paranoid psychosis. The Lone Gunmen believe the device to be some sort of mind control device. Mulder wasn't effected due to being color blind. The police find a body they believe to be Scully, but Mulder confirms that it isn't her. Mulder is unable to contact Scully's mother, leading him to go to her home. He finds Scully there, who aims a gun at him. Scully claims Mulder never trusted her and blames him for her abduction and sister's murder. Scully's mother calms her down and she is hospitalized.

Mulder believes that the mind control device turns people's fears into demntia. Mulder tries to contact Dr. Stroman with no success. He traces Dr. Stroman's location to an empty hotel room where he finds cigarettes in the ash tray. Using the phone log for the room Mulder tracks Stroman to a house where he spots him meeting with the cable repairman. By the time Mulder enters however, shots ring out and Mulder finds both men dead, with X responsible for their murders. X used a third party to inform Mulder, knowing he had orders to kill the men, but Mulder wasn't able to piece things together in time. Mulder calls him a coward but X tells him he needs him. Later, X meets in a car with the Cigarette Smoking Man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode no. Season 3
Episode 23
Directed by Rob Bowman
Written by Mat Beck
Guest Stars
Original Airdate May 10, 1996
Theme(s) Mind Control, Abduction