I had those peoples blood on my shirt. I was missing for 2 days. I have no recollection
of my actions during those 2 days.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) has a
flashback to being in the attic with Samantha while their parents are arguing
downstairs. Back in the present, Mulder awakens in a hotel room in Providence,
Rhode Island, covered in blood. Mulder calls Scully, who arrives, finding him in
shock. Mulder has a pounding headache and has no memory of what he's done since
nearly two days ago. Scully finds that Mulder has fired two bullets from his gun
and has in his possessions keys belonging to a David and Amy Cassandra. Scully
wants Mulder to check in to a hospital, but he wants to find out if he was
involved in a crime before doing so. The agents arrive at the Cassandra's house
where the housekeeper tells them they are not at home. Mulder recognizes a house
in many of Cassandra's paintings, a house that is near his parent's summer home
in Rhode Island. When they arrive there Mulder has striking pains in his head
and flashes back again to when he was a child, seeing the Cigarette Smoking Man
in his home. The agents enter the home, where they find the Cassandras dead from
gunshot wounds.
The agents call the police, who take Mulder with them due to the
circumstantial evidence against him. Scully performs an autopsy on Amy
Cassandra, finding a scab on her forehead. The detective in charge of the case
tells Mulder that they have found David and Amy's blood on his shirt. Mulder
refuses to confess to the murders, not remembering anything. Scully arrives,
saying she found a hallucinagenic substance in Amy's blood, something that was
detected in Mulder as well. One of the officers at the police department kills
himself, showing to have similar symptoms as the Cassandras. Mulder suffers a
seizure and flashes back to his childhood again, witnessing his parents arguing
with the Cigarette Smoking Man. Scully sees Mulder the next day, telling him
that she believes that the Cassandras killed themselves after receiving
psychiatric treatment and that Mulder was visiting them about their alien
abduction experiences.
The agents visit Dr. Goldstein, who was treating Amy with an aggressive
method to help her recover her abduction memories. Goldstein also treated the
police officer, but says he hasn't met Mulder before. Mulder has another painful
flashback of the Cigarette Smoking Man arguing with his mother. Mulder declines
Scully's request that he go to the hospital and goes to visit his mother,
demanding she explain what really happened when they had to make a choice
between him and Samantha. Mulder believes that the Cigarette Smoking Man forced
them to take Samantha. Mulder also questions who his father really is. Mulder's
mother gets upset and refuses to provide him answers. Later Mulder visits
Goldstein, and convinces him to again treat him so he'll remember what really
happened. Mulder has further visions of the past. Scully and the police arrive
soon after to arrest Goldstein but find Mulder gone. Scully finds him at the
family's summer home in Rhode Island and is able to calm him down. While Mulder
is cleared in the deaths of the Cassandras, what truly happened when he was a
child remains a mystery.
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Episode
no. |
Season 4 Episode 23 |
Directed by |
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Written by |
R. W. Goodwin
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Guest
Stars |
- Jay Acovone
- Mike Nussbaum Chris Owens
- Rebecca Toolan
- Andrew Johnston
- Terry Jang Barclay
- Vanessa Morley
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Original
Airdate |
May 11, 1997
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Theme(s) |
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