AN ASSAULT ON A NURSE LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A RETIREMENT HOME WITH UNUSUALLY
LIVELY RESIDENTS -- WHO MAY BE GETTING SUPERNATURAL HELP.
The rape of a nurse in a home for the elderly turns out to have paranormal overtones
when the victim claims her attacker was invisible. Mulder and Scully find some
surprisingly lively old people, a sinister treatment for Alzheimer's disease, and hints of
a strange and vengeful force at work among the residents. Mulder and Scully uncover a
bizarre and ancient drug being secretly administered. Mulder is trapped by a malevolent
unseen force seeking to stop his search in a bathroom rapidly filling with water; he's
unable to escape. Scully must find a way to free him before he drowns.
Notes
Personal notes: I loved the scene where Mulder and the
nurse are trapped in the bathroom filling with water, very tense, and great effect when
the door bursts open, pouring everyone out into the hall. Great effect when the nurse is
thrown against the wall. Chilling scene when we see the full wall mural painting. And also
of note, the scene where Scully is running down the hall, wowee!
Quotes
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Hal: "You like strapping me down, don't you?"
Nurse Charters: "Oh yeah, I really get off on it."
In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. Mark Twain