He smelled like smoke that one time?Explain it to me, Mulder.
like she never pulled a gun on him.)
On that note: Kersh is back!
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Mulder and Scully answer all of his questions with more questions just to match him for pettiness.
The partners start their search by breaking into Skinners tastefully minimalistic apartment.
(Mulder, deadpan as ever: Maybe hes out meeting with an interior decorator.)
Take this episodes Vietnam War flashbacks.
So instead we get the story of John Kitten James, one of Skinners platoon-mates.
The government vanished John after that, and Skinner assumed he was dead until that letter arrived last week.
For once, the partners are in agreement that theyre not dealing with an actual monster.
Obviously, Skinners motives are all on the level.
Did John manage to hang himself from this very tall tree?
Did he kill himself elsewhere and Davey moved the body like bait?
They made him that way.
(We get it, Davey.)
It almost looks like Skinner pushes him to safety.
Like Scully, he defines his life by choice: He enlisted; John James was drafted.
Watching the war upend Johns life poked holes in Skinners faith in the government.
Again, Davey, we get it.
In one biting line in Blood, Mulder calls fear the oldest tool of power.
Kitten just never connects the dots.
