AN OLD FLAME OF MULDER'S BRINGS HIM A CASE INVOLVING A MAN WHO MAY BE SETTING FIRES AT
A DISTANCE -- WITH HIS MIND.
A British peer burns to death before the eyes of his horrified family, and a Scotland
Yard inspector, a former girlfriend of Mulder's, tracks the killer to the U.S. Enlisting
Mulder's aid (and rekindling some flames of her own), she seeks an arsonist who seems to
be able to light fires at a distance. Although Mulder tries to keep her out of the case,
Scully tracks down the clues to the killer's identity as well as some chilling background
information. Mulder must confront his own fear of fire as he and Scully track down a
devilishly clever killer whose weapon may be pyrokinesis.
Notes
The first victim's name is Sir Malcolm Mardsen, the same as
the hair stylist for "The X-Files".
My dear People.
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks,
and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers,
Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good
Sackville Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my
one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!" J. R. R. Tolkien