Folie a Deux
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Folie a Deux
Synopsis: Skinner sends Mulder and Scully to Chicago for threat assessment. An anonymous manifesto on tape claims that there is a monster that “hides in the light” at VinylRight Siding Corporation. Mulder goes to the offices of the corporation. There, he finds telemarketer Gary Lambert, rifle in hand, holding his co-workers hostage. Lambert tells his hostages (which now include Mulder) that he is protecting them from a monster with mind-clouding powers and that only he can see it. Lambert shoots one of his hostages and claims that Greg Pinkus, his boss, is the monster. As Lambert points his rifle toward Pinkus’s direction, Mulder sees Pinkus as a man-sized, insect-like creature and hears a noise similar to crickets chirping.
The situation is controlled and Lambert is fatally shot. However, Mulder continues to see Mr. Pinkus as an insect-like monster and his victims as zombies. Problem is, only Mulder sees these things. At one point, he sees the monster infect a VinylRight Siding employee by piercing the back of her neck. He breaks into the employee’s house, but she complains. After trying to shoot Mr. Pinkus, Mulder is sent to a psychiatric ward and restrained to his bed.
At first, Scully thinks Mulder is as delusional as Lambert was. However, when she examines the body of the dead hostage, she finds puncture marks on the back of his neck. She rushes to the hospital where Mulder is staying and sees a nurse looking like a zombie. In Mulder’s room, Scully sees the flickering image of the monster about to attack her partner. She shoots, but the monster disappears in the night.
Greg Pinkus, along with some of his employees and the nurse, has disappeared as well. Mulder returns to duty. Scully dismisses what they both saw as “folie á deux”, or madness shared by two. Soon after, a young telemarketer in Missouri hears a cricket-like noise and sees a familiar-looking creature.
(written by Jo-Hanna Goettsche)
By Jack B. on Monday, December 14, 1998 - 4:47 pm:I'm not sure why, but I love this episode. Definatly a keeper!
By Anonymous on Thursday, February 25, 1999 - 8:39 pm:I've deffinately got to agree with Jack. This is the only other episode I saw of the fifth season, besides "Detour." My question is, is it an alien, or a monster? I mean, as it is, Earth just seems to be full of weird stuff.
By Omer on Thursday, February 25, 1999 - 9:09 pm:Asimov has a book EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH... I guess Carter and Company agrees with him Loved this ep too!
By Felinecare on Sunday, June 13, 1999 - 12:57 pm: Doesn't Mulder mean *Stockholm Syndrome* when he says *Helsinki* Syndrome?
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