Scully calls to tell Mulder that she has information to share with him when he gets back to D.C. The doctor notes that the wound on his back looks like a bite. The worker thinks he was attacked by a python or another large snake. She’s never seen anything like it before. A doctor tells Mulder that the worker is mostly fine, except for the wound on his back that looks like a bacterial infection. Mulder comes to see the worker, who complains of a bad taste in his mouth. He’s pulled underwater, and when a co-worker pulls him back out, he notices damage to the man’s skin. Everything goes normally until a slimy little tentacle pokes out of the body.īack in Newark, a sanitation worker goes into the sewer to repair a grate.

Scully does get the autopsy assignment, finding a Russian word tattooed on the body. Mulder still doesn’t think there’s anything to the case. Scully thinks she can ask to do the body’s autopsy so she and Mulder can be on the same case again. She suggests that he ask to be transferred to Quantico, but Mulder knows the bureau is trying to keep them separated. Mulder then meets up with Scully and confides that he’s thinking of leaving the bureau. Skinner tells him to just do as he’s told. He thinks the body’s a casualty of a gang war, hardly something that requires the FBI’s investigation. and yells at Skinner for giving him horrible, meaningless assignments. Mulder tells the local police to have it shipped to Skinner, then returns to D.C. An unidentified, decomposed body has been found there. As soon as he arrives, he’s given a pair of boots and sent into a sewer. Another agent tells him he’s being sent to Newark for a new assignment, at Skinner’s request. In D.C., Mulder’s still on wiretap duty, trying to entertain himself by flicking sunflower seeds into a cup.

Some men try to pull him out, but he’s yanked underwater. When Dmitri goes to check out what’s blocking the system, something pulls him into a tank. A man named Dmitri is told to fix it so the ship’s tanks can be purged. Summary: On a freighter in the Atlantic Ocean, two miles off the coast of New Jersey, a man finds a toilet overflowing.

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