Página PrincipalInternal dating: The culmination of the case takes place on January 12th 1996.
Next morning the police find Boom's body hanging from a cliff. At the top of the precipice, out of their view, the two girls play "he loves me, he loves me not," with a flower, giggling.
Mulder and Scully drive into the town, bickering about directions. At Scully's insistence they turn right, then reverse and end up going left.
They arrive at Boom's funeral, where they are greeted by Detective Angela White. She tells them that the locals believe it's a satanic cult, but Scully is sceptical. Mulder leans forward confidingly and whispers to White about Scully's "hint of scepticism and incredulity," caused by FBI reports debunking satanic killings. "Is that true?" White asks Mulder. "Don't ask me," he says, while Scully says that satanic cult stories are all imagined, due to denial or trauma. White says she talked to Terri and Margi who spoke of these satanic rites, but Scully correctly guesses what they said, reciting all the stereotypical trappings of such stories. "You don't suppose she's a virgin, do you?" Mulder asks, as White walks off. "I doubt she's even a blonde," Scully says.
The funeral is interrupted by a local man, Bob Spitz, who raves about satanism. He urges the people to wake up and take action. As the two girls hold hands, the coffin suddenly bursts into flames and everyone flees the church. "Maybe we're just imagining that," Mulder says to Scully.
The two girls are interviewed separately to check their stories. They both say that Boom was giving them a ride home, then swerved off the road as if he'd been possessed. He took them to a group of people in robes and hoods, standing around an altar. A man brought out a young baby and prepared to sacrifice it and bury it with all the other babies. At that point the girls ran away.
White is impressed, saying that the stories corroborate each other, but Scully says the stories are just cliché, and reminds White that there is no hard evidence for any of the things they describe. Once again, Mulder bends over White and talks confidingly about Scully's "hint of impatience" in her voice, caused by the FBI reports that have concluded that satanic rituals are prompted by stories in the media. White asks how he explains the burning coffin. "Don't ask me," Mulder says.
Scully opens the coffin and says that the embalming fluids have been known to cause chemical reactions and burning. Mulder and White claim to see a horned beast burnt on the boy's chest, but Scully says they're seeing something that isn't there. "If it's no bother, if it's not too big a deal, maybe you could get me a few photographs of that thing that bears no resemblance to a horned beast," Mulder says. "Sure, fine, whatever," Scully says, snapping on the latex.
Mulder goes to see White, apologising for Scully's "rude behaviour." "She tends to be rather rigid," he says, "but rigid in a wonderful way, not like she was today. Personally I like to try to keep a more open mind." He then asks he for help in solving the mystery of the horny beast.
Mulder and White go to as astrologist, Zirinka. She says the whole town has lost their marbles, caused by a rare planetary alignment of Mars, Uranus and Mercury. She insists Mulder pays before telling him details.
As the school basketball team practice, Margi and Terri lust after one of the players, Scott. "Hate her, wouldn't want to date her," they say of his girlfriend, Brenda, who suddenly falls over as if pushed. One of the players, Eric, then crashes into the table of drinks, pushing it all over the two girls. "Hate him, hate him, wouldn't want to date him" they chorus. The ball goes behind the bleachers and Eric goes to get it. Suddenly the lights go out and the motorised bleachers start to retract, crushing Eric behind them.
January 12, 5.10 am. Mulder and White are at the scene when Scully turns up. "You weren't at your hotel room," she says, coldly. He says he was following up a lead with White. She says they've been working together for two years and have differing opinions, "but I didn't expect you to ditch me." "I didn't ditch you," Mulder protests. "Sure. Whatever," she says.
A mob gathers outside town, digging up someone's backyard where they think a mass grave if located. Bob Spitz leads them, although White says he's normally very calm and reasonable. Scully thinks the whole thing is mass hysteria caused by rumours feeding on fear. Someone finds bones and there is a great excitement. Mulder and Scully bicker on who will pull them out. "Be my guest," says Mulder. "I know how much you like snapping on the latex." The bones, which are in a doctor's bag, don' look human, but the crowd cry out that the doctor is the baby killer and rush off to find him.
The doctor, seen wearing make-up and women's clothes, is taken in for questioning. He says he sold the bag to Terri Roberts at a garage sale, and Scully finds out that the bones were the remains of Terri's dog, Mr Tippy. "This may be any time to mention it, but someone is wearing my favourite perfume," Mulder says, as Terri is brought in in tears. Scully calls him out of the room and shouts at him for humiliating her. "I find your conduct and comportment in this investigation not just alarming but highly objectionable," she tells him, as he sniffs at her to check her perfume. "Must be Detective White," he says. She says it's obvious he has a "certain simpatico" with White and can stay with her if he likes, but she's going back to Washington in the morning.
Terri and Margi hold their joint birthday party, dancing wildly, to everyone's amazement. Some of the girls play with a ouja board and Brenda asks who she is going to marry. "Satan," it spells out, and she rushes off in tears. She finds Margi and Terri in the bathroom, chanting "One Bloody Mary, Two Bloody Mary" as they stand in front of a mirror. The girls at the party hear Brenda's screams.
Mulder is in his motel room, drinking a screwdriver by spooning concentrated orange juice into vodka. All the television channels are showing the same Keystone Cops movie.
In her room, Scully is smoking and pacing up and down angrily, the same movie on her television.
White knocks at Mulder's door, upset because her cat's collar was left on her doorstep. Mulder gives her a hug, then nuzzles her neck. "What are you doing?" she asks, saying he's been drinking. "Yes I have," he says, "which is funny because I usually... I normally... I never.... I don't drink." She takes a sip herself, then announces she doesn't want to go home. He offers to get her a room, but she starts ripping off her clothes. he looks terrified and runs to the phone, but she throws him onto the bed. "Maybe we can solve the mystery of the horny beast," she says. He suggests they just watch television, telling her about the same movie on every channel. "Weird," she says. "I like weird. I feel weird." Just as she kisses him, Scully bursts in. "There's been another death," she says, leaving hastily.
As they go to the car, Mulder insists that he drives, telling her it wasn't what she thinks. "Why do you always have to drive?" Scully shouts. "Because you're the guy? Because you're the big macho man?" "No," he says. "I was just never sure your little feet could reach the peddles." He borrows White's car instead, ordering her to go with Scully.
Margi and Terri seek out Scott, offering to make him "feel better" after the death of Brenda, his girlfriend (who was impaled by flying glass from a mirror in their bathroom). He walks off. "Hate him," Terri says, but Margi is silent.
Mulder consults the astrologist, who still won't talk until he pays. She tells him more about the planetary alignment, which is especially bad in Comity, a "cosmic G-spot." Everyone is affected ("relationships are going to suck"), she says, but people born on January 12th 1979 (as the two girls are) are very dangerous as all the energy in the cosmos is focused on them.
Scott gets home to find Margi waiting for him. Terri bursts in and the two argue. Things start flying around as they stare intently at each other. Scott is impaled by a flying garage-door spring. They both blame the other.
Scully and White drive through a rain of falling dead animals, then come across a crowd led by Bob Spitz. He tells them they're hunting satanists. Terri runs up in tears saying she knows who's behind all the murders.
Margi calls Mulder, tearfully telling him she knows who did all the murders. Mulder drives to Scott's garage and finds her curled up on the floor, crying next to Scott's body. She tells him Terri killed everyone.
Margi tells Scully and the crowd exactly the same story as Margi tells Mulder. Mulder and Scully then talk on the phone, trumping each other's discoveries with their own. "I'm way ahead of you," they both say, several times. "I've got your suspect and you've got mine," Scully says. "Why does that make sense to me at this point?"
Both girls are brought into the police station. As they get close to each other, things start to shake and move most ominously and everyone's guns go off. As chaos reigns, Mulder drags the tow girls into a small room and locks them in together. Everything rattles and shakes, but as the second hand of the clock reaches midnight it all goes quiet. The two girls are found crying in each other's arms.
Mulder, in voice over, says we are "but visitors on this rock", tethered to the earth by an invisible force. Everyone refuses to accept that these unseen forces have any effect on us, but these two girls prove otherwise. However, led by Spitz, the towns folk still believe it was Satan.
Mulder and Scully drive out. "You're the driver," Mulder says, when Scully ask him if he's ready to go. He then gives her directions as she drives. "Shut up, Mulder." she says. "Sure. Fine. Whatever," he says.
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