When Band Aid Nose Man shows up, he suffocates leech #2 with a plastic bag, and tears leech #1 apart by hand again, this time going for a “head from arm” style torture murder. “Never knew you could make so much money off the homeless,” sneers leech #2. Good thing White Knight Mulder is just beyond the portal to the ICU, waiting respectfully to be invited in.Ĭrime scene #2 unfolds with some capitalist art world leeches who have cut out the billboard that the famous street artist “Trash Man,” tagged up outside crime scene #1. The doctor drops the DNR bomb on Scully her mom changed it a year ago and didn’t tell her. She watches a patient near her mom flatline, and orderlies move the body like a sack of meat. “It’s not alive, it’s not dead.”Īt her mom’s bedside, Scully has an early X-files flashback to being in a coma, with Mulder at her bedside, which is kind of a weird thing for her to be remembering, considering she was, uhh, in a coma. When Mulder gets his band aid tested, the FBI nerd tells him it has no organic or inorganic matter. He also meets a helpful dreaded homeless dude, who gives us MCG’s “real” name: Band Aid Nose Man. When he arrives back at crime scene #1, Mulder meets the two bickering vultures: the president of the Bucks County school board, who makes sure we know that she hands out turkeys on Thanksgiving, Nino Brown-style, and the Just For Men® real estate bro who just wants to build his damn condos. When Mulder notices he’s carrying a squishy shoe, we get a close-up of a gross band aid deposited on the sole. Not sure why he would want to pick a fight with Philly it’s typically inadvisable. She’s not handling this well.īack on the job, Mulder takes a moment to shit-talk the 76ers as he points out the far flung security cameras that were knocked out of position. As she tears down a stairwell to rush to her mother’s bedside, we get a the selfie chest cam POV for maximum anxiety.

When Scully gets “the call” about her mom, Mulder doesn’t hestiate. Which is impossible, “ Mulder says, saving Scully the trouble of explaining.

“It looks like this person was born without footprints.

Who is driving the truck?Īn investigator who comes dangerously close to name-dropping “spooky mulder” shows the dynamic duo a puzzling case of a curious footprint. His 911 call doesn’t do him any favors, as MCG tears his arms off before casually hopping in the compactor of the trash truck, which drives off and whisks him away. When Gaeta chokes on the trash truck MCG’s horrific smell, we know he’s toast. Gaeta, helpfully reminds the transients that “You knew this would happen,” and when we see a trash truck drop off a massive creepy guy (MCG), we’ve got our first glimpse of our monster of the week. This week’s cold open starts with a heartless bureaucrat evicting homeless people from the site of a new development…with water hoses.

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