A WOMAN DETECTIVE'S DISTURBING DREAMS ABOUT A 50-YEAR-OLD MURDER SPREE MAY BE HERALDING
THE RETURN OF THE KILLER.
In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, a woman detective begins having strange, prophetic
dreams about a string of 50-year-old unsolved murders. Mulder and Scully are called in
when, in a fugue state, the detective uncovers the unmarked grave of a long-dead FBI agent
who was investigating the murders. Matters escalate when young women in the area are
murdered with the same MO as the older murders, leading Mulder and Scully to interrogate
the original suspect, now 77 years old and paroled from prison. But the woman detective's
terrifying nightmares continue, leading the agents into her own dark and tangled past, and
an ancient evil that may have been passed down through the generations.
Notes
The line about Mulder liking women named BJ may be a
reference to his off-screen love life at the time. His girlfriend, Perry Reeves, played a
woman named B.J. on "Doogie Howser".
Mulder: "During their time, Cheney's and Leadbetter's ideas weren't very well
received by their peers. Using psychology to solve a crime was something like ..."
Scully: "Believing in the paranormal?"
Mulder: "Exactly. But there's another mystery."
Scully: "Which is?"
Mulder: "Well, I'd like to know why this police woman would suddenly drive her car
into a field the size of Rhode Island and for no rhyme or reason, dig up the bones of a
man whose been missing for 50 years. I mean unless there was a neon sign saying 'Dig
Here'."
Scully: "I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey."
Mulder: "Yes, and also, I've always been intrigued by women named BJ."
Mulder: "There are countless stories of twins who are separated at birth who end
up in the same occupation, marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child
Waldo."
"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to
feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged
Aged Man.'"
"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is
called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it is called you know!"
"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this
time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is
"A-sitting on a Gate": and the tune's my own invention."
--Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass" Anonymous