Veiled Vesta

I totally thought of The New Kids on The Block when I initially read this. Probably because they're back together after over ten years of being broken up. And I recently heard their new summer song which I'm not sure what to make of...

Victoria, you have an English accent? How classy! I thought it would’ve been southern but maybe because that’s the only thing I can think of when I think "accent".

Ju, it was your birthday recently? Oh please don't tell me I missed it because I'd kick myself if it was announced on the XF board and I somehow overlooked it!

In any case, I'm always glad people like the recaps. Even if only one or two people read them it's wonderful. I hope I can keep it up through every viewing party but I wouldn't mind if someone else wanted to try their hand at one of these long-winded summaries. They're a hoot to do and many of you girls have some funny things to say about these episodes so I'm sure you can write 'em too.

I'll post the last two sometime later tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's a recap of a shipper favorite.

Pusher

(**Personal Note**: This episode's got a little bit of everything: cute MSR moment, funny MSR interaction, angsty MSR scene, and some sweet hand holding at the end. It's like a shipper sampler episode. Suffice to say I love this episode.)

What a nice day to go shopping. We're following a guy as he strolls around, picking up an item or two, looking pretty normal so far. Then he gets to the energy drink aisle. He literally grabs, like, 50 cans something called 'Carbo Boost'. Someone is a little interested in the guy's Carbo Boost addiction. So Carbo Boost man walks to the register, passing by a World Weekly Informer tabloid with a picture of Flukeman on the cover. Nice shout out, prop guys. He sees a police car pulling up and that's when we know he's not a normal guy with a weird addiction to protein drinks - he's a wanted man with a weird addiction to protein drinks . He rips off a Velcro cloth that was covering the letters FBI on the vest of the guy in front of him. Is that how they camouflage themselves? Just put Velcro over their FBI vests? Anyway, the FBI guy grabs our Carbo Boost lovin' guy and a bunch of other FBI agents appear with their guns pointed right at him. Here comes detective Frank Burst, and he calls the CarboBoost guy, Pusher. Detective Burst has got a cool name according to Pusher, but you can't sweet talk this hard-talking cop so don't even try. Burst wants the guy chained up in a cage with a long caravan of cars escorting him to jail. Geez, this guy doesn't look like a Hannibal Lector type. But then again, looks can be deceiving, I suppose. Pusher is in the back of a police car with Detective Burst in the front seat and a Deputy Kerber driving. Pusher starts talking about the deputy's nice blue uniform. He says it's a soothing shade of cerulean blue and goes on an on about it. Detective Burst keeps telling him to shut up but Pusher keeps repeating that cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze. The interesting thing is that the deputy seems to be hanging on his every word and when he sees a cerulean blue truck, he drives right into it. Cerulean blue trucks are not like a gentle breeze.

Opening Credits!
Cerulean blue... Cerulean blue... Cerulean blue... am I hypnotizing anyone via computer screen, yet? If I am, please send ten dollars to the following address... oh, wait, the episode's started. We'll save that for later.

Hey, a slide show! How long has it been since we've seen one of these? Too long, if you ask me. Mulder, Scully, and a bruised Detective Burst are looking at pictures of their latest case. The deputy who drove into the cerulean blue truck was killed and Detective Burst made it out with several injuries. Before the deputy died, he managed to free Pusher. According to Detective Burst, Pusher called him about a month ago and confessed to a bunch of killing, bragging about it and despite the killings being ruled as suicides, Pusher knew so much about each case that it was decided he must be telling the truth. Scully wants to know why the deputy willfully drove into a truck and freed their prisoner, Mulder's wonders if Pusher willed him to do it. Crazy theory alert. But you all know it’s right. Another slide shows the word "NIN OR" written in blood. That's their first clue. Reversing the slide, Mulder sees that they have the word RO NIN. Ronin being a samurai without a master. So Pusher is a fan of Asian kung fu. Who isn't these days? Judging by this clue, Mulder thinks he knows what Pusher's got stacked behind his toilet. Wait, what? People stack books/magazines behind their toilets? Maybe it's a Mulder thing?

Our two agents end up at the Bureau library. So it has been established that the FBI building has a library and an indoor pool. Add a game room and you can start charging people for their stay. Mulder finds the magazines he's looking for 'American Ronin'. They start looking though the issues when a young woman (her name is Holly) comes in with bruised eye. She's got volume ten for them. Scully notices the bruise and Holly explains that a guy knocked her down and took his purse. Mulder asks if they got the guy but Holly pretty much scoffs. Not every officer is as obsessively dedicated as you are Mulder, at least not with purse snatchings. Holly leaves them to their Ronin magazines, and Mulder says they're looking for advertisements because... well why not? Scully asks him about his theory, probably thinking she may as well get it out of the way now. Mulder talks about the power of suggestion and thinks Pusher calls himself that because he can push his will onto other people. They finally find the ad they're looking for: '"I Solve Problems. OSU'. Scully thinks the OSU means Ohio State University but Pusher actually just capitalized the Japanese word 'osu' whch means "to push". Time to call the phone numbers provided in the ad.

I love this scene. This is the cute M/S moment I was talking about earlier. Mulder and Scully are on a midnight stakeout in front of a phone both. I'm not sure why but I don't care because Mulder and Scully are alone in a car together and she's resting her head on his shoulder, sound asleep. Awww. Mulder tries calling Detective Burst to see if he has any information. No, he does not. After Mulder hangs up, he looks over at Scully and has this sweet little smile on his face as he gently strokes her cheek. It's light and meant to be teasing and apparently Scully is and sound asleep as I (or Mulder) thought she was because she quickly wakes up. He tells her that he thinks she drooled on him and she looks away, embarrassed, probably not realizing he was kidding until three seconds later. It's almost three am and the only thing to come from this stakeout is a grinning MSR shipper but that probably won't help them catch Pusher. Just as they're about to call it a night, their pay phone rings and they make a mad dash towards it, not managing to trip or anything. Mulder gets the phone and we hear Pusher, who is apparently quite the voyeur because he's been watching them, and he asks if they were going to sit there all night. Well they were going to go for a record-breaking backseat make-out session but since you called I guess you'll never get to see it. Mulder tries to tape the conversation using a tape recorder. Seriously? I hope they've got some magic speakers at the FBI labs ready to clarify that thing. Pusher says he's long gone, having watched them until about an hour ago. He says that they "seem awfully close" and asks if Mulder and his "pretty partner" work "well together". OMG, Pusher is a shipper! If he were alive, do you think he would be posting on this board and gushing about the new M/S movie stills? He certainly wouldn't be the craziest MSR shipper I've seen. Scully uses her phone to run a trace on the call while Mulder keeps him talking with promises of future shippy moments that include hot hand holding action by his (spoiler alert!) hospital bed. He doesn't seem to like that spoiler alert much. Pusher calls Mulder "G-man" as well as imply he's Hansel because he's got a long bread crumb trail to follow. Mulder doesn't want to play his little game but then realizes he can't get to the hot hand holding scene if he can't find Pusher, so his next bread crumb/clue is "right in front of [him]" and he just needs to "let [his] fingers to the walking." He totally set Mulder up for a zinger but alas, Mulder doesn't take advantage, instead wondering about the clue while Scully sulks that they didn't get a complete trace on their guy. Scully thinks the answer to the clue means the phone book (it's in front of them and you need fingers to turn the pages) ut Mulder dismisses the idea without even trying it and instead decides the answer is redialing the payphone in hopes that Pusher was the last one who called out and left them a clue that way. Sure, why not go with the more convoluted answer? And because it's a Mulder theory, you know it'll be right. Scully does an FBI 90s version of dialing *69 (did a 13 year old boy decide on that number?) And they find that the last number called was to a golf range. Yes, Scully, he's a killer and a golfer. If there's an OJ joke in there, I won't make it. Mulder calls Scully "G-Woman" and I smile at the cuteness and political correctness of it all.

At the golf range, Pusher shows off his golfing skills to some Japanese men who he may or may not know. The ball sails far off into the brush and you can see some camouflage guys hiding in there. I don't know why they would hide there instead of serve him an arrest warrant at the entrance but then I'm not an FBI agent so what do I know? Pusher spots the camouflage guys and bids the golfers a nice 'Konnichiwa' before leaving. Those golfers will later go home to their families with an odd story about a white guy who interrupted their game and possibly stole a golf ball. And when they see him on the 6 o'clock news for murder and all that, their story will be ten times more interesting. Some FBI agents in full SWAT gear surround the golf place, one of them finding Pusher in a shed of some kind. Pusher uses his pusher charms to get the SWAT guy to take off his helmet and lower his gun. SWAT guy, or agent Collins, is now in a trance, ready to do a favor for Pusher. A favor involving gasoline. Would it be too optimistic to hope they're going to have a barbeque? Mulder, Scully, and Detective Burst see Agent Collins coming out of the shed, still carrying the gasoline can but now he's soaked in it. He also has a lighter. Detective Burst asks what the hell he's doing but agent Collins is just crying as he tries to light the lighter. Mulder tries to get him to let the lighter go but Collins can control his actions and he begs them to stop him. Mulder gets in the crouching position and Collins lights up like a Christmas tree... well, a Christmas tree that's on fire. You just know that if an idiot teenage boy did this, it would be up on Youtube, racking up 50,000 hits within a day. Scully, who left to get a fire extinguisher, returns just in time to spray the guy down, so Mulder's attempt to smother the flames with his jacket is not really necessary unless he really didn't like his jacket. Poor agent Collins looks like an overcooked ham and he's saying "Light up" over and over again in this zonked out voice. Detective Burst calls for some burn crew back up while Mulder investigates a loud car horn blaring. It's Pusher who's leaning his head against the car horn and muttering "light up", just like the charred agent. Pusher looks tired as he bets Mulder five bucks he won't get convicted. Or if he really wanted five bucks, he could've hypnotized Mulder into giving it to him. Come to think of it, why didn't he use his pushing/hypnotizing powers to get tons of money from his murder victims? Did you see his crappy apartment? He could've been living at the Ritz-Carlton! Geez, why are so many MOTW (monsters of the week) so dumb?

So Pusher's already in court. Well, some kind of preliminary hearing, at least. We finally learn his name is Robert Patrick Modell, so I guess I should start calling him Modell but that name makes me think of the Modell's Sporting Goods store (which I suppose was purposely picked by the writers because of the Carbo Boost thing), so maybe I'll just stick with Pusher. After he gives his statement or whatever, it's time for Mulder to give his testimony. D'oh! They went with Spooky Mulder? Okay, I love the guy but this just brings back Tooms memories. Couldn't they have gone with rational, scientific, maybe show-some-leg-to-get-the-judge-on-your-side Scully? According to Mulder, the FBI believes Pusher is responsible for 14 deaths ruled suicides and for a while, he's got good evidence to back the theory up: Pusher confessed to the murders on tape and he knew crime scene details that were only available to police. Pusher's lawyer says he knew crime scene details because he was there when the suicides happened (including one where a woman jumped in front of a train) but did nothing to cause them. And then Mulder decides to present his "Pusher can make people kill themselves through sheer will and power of suggestion." Needless to say, this theory does not go over well with the judge and lawyer. Detective Burst tries to salvage their case by bringing up the taped confession which should trump all but Pusher's lawyer says it was merely a drunk phone prank gone wrong. Now I'm not a fancy shmancy lawyer, but isn't lying to police a crime? In fact I'm sure lying to the FBI is federal offense (thank you [u]The Springfield Files[u]! ). Either way, he won't get charged because Pusher is busy pushing his will on the judge. He is found not guilty and he's made five bucks to boot. When he walks over to Mulder and co. to collect his money, Mulder is childish enough to pull the ole' "Shoe's untied - made you look!" all to get out of paying him the money and I guess compare his trick to Pusher's trick. Detective Burst yells after him, saying that know he knows his name and address so expect late night drunken phone calls of your own, Pusher. Detective Burst is so gonna prank send you 10 pizza pies.

Over at the FBI shooting range with the weird 'Q' targets, Mulder and Scully meet up to discuss Pusher, or Modell's background info. Mulder guesses much of what she's about to say: Pusher was average and applied to several government/military but failed. Scully manages to surprise Mulder by telling him about Pusher's FBI application (you know she got a copy printed out so she and Mulder could laugh at it) and his FBI mandated psych screening showed that he is ego-centric, doesn't care for others, disliked authority despite wanting to be part of it and is a huge liar, with stories ranging from his kung-fu ninja master training in Asia to him being a roadie for The Rolling Stones. Mulder muses that Pusher psyched their judge out, saying Pusher "put the whammy on him". With a straight face, Scully asks Mulder to explain the scientific nature of "the whammy." I love this funny little MSR interaction! Mulder goes on to explain his theory regarding Pusher's mental ability possibly learned from Asian martial arts and a specific quality in his voice producing the hypnotizing spell. Scully points out that not only has he never been to any Asian country but if he could "control people's minds" he'd be an FBI agent like he wanted to be, or a top ranking military officer, or a male model. Modell... model. Coincidence? She says that he's a little man who wishes he were big and they're pretty much giving him the attention he wants. Mulder thinks Pusher may have just recently gotten his hypnotizing ability but when Scully gives him her patented Skeptibrow, he asks what her big theory is. She can't explain why agent Collins, a sane family man, set himself on fire seemingly against his will, but she's sure the explanation is something more believable and less ridiculous sounding than "the whammy". The Whammy: a game show, a possible double entendre, and now a crazy Mulder theory. Very cool.

A little ways over in the lobby of the FBI building, Pusher walks in, and after writing 'Pass' on a piece of paper, he sticks it on his front pocket and walks past the security guard. The guard (who I remember as being unfunny in The Blessing Way) is also susceptible to Pusher's "whammy" effect as he not only lets Pusher pass by the metal detector despite it beeping, but when asked, he informs him where the computer records are kept. Pusher makes it to the Computer Records office and sees purse-snatching victim Holly sitting at the desk. He somehow knows her name (how does he know all his victim's names??) and asks her for something as he closes the blinds in the office. You think no one notices because it's commonplace for FBI agents to close the blinds and have some fun in the office every once in a while? He gets Holly to pull up the personnel files then asks for a print out and some coffee. She follows his orders mindlessly as his eyes are now on her bruise. He touches her face and tells her that he wishes he could make the guy that did that to her pay. I think I have a new temporary X-Files ship... move over Duane Barry/Curly-headed Kimberly, the new crazy guy, sane girl couple on my radar is Modell/Holly! So before things can get interesting, ship-wise, Skinner finally walks by the hall and notices the closed blinds. He walks inside and asks Pusher what he's doing there. Pusher can't get the whammy on Skinner because Skinner is impervious to hypnotism I guess. Or maybe Pusher, once again, doesn't take advantage of his awesome powers. When Pusher pushes Skinner (heh), Skinner uses his superior AD Vietnam skills on the guy and tells Holly to call security. Pusher decides to use his powers of suggestion on the easier to hypnotize Holly, telling her that Skinner is the guy who mugged her. After alot of "Holly"s from both men, and some uncertainty from her, she finally chooses Pusher to listen to, which sucks for Skinner because he gets maced and kicked. Repeatedly.

We don't know how much time has passed since the attack that will surely be office water cooler fodder for many weeks to come ("Skinner got beaten up by a girl!") but we're now watching Holly in Skinner's office, tearfully apologizing for the Scully-style ass kicking she inflicted on her boss. It's worth noting that the master herself is also in the office with Holly and Skinner, either to offer support or to pick up a protégé. Maybe. Holly says that it felt like she was outside her body and Pusher was inside her head. That sounds like a whammy, alright. Mulder comes in and grabs Skinner and Scully for a minute out in the hall. He saw the security tapes and tells him about the fake pass and the guards who waved him by (none of whom remember seeing him after the fact). Skinner is a bit surprised and wonders if the same thing that caused the guards to wave him through also caused Holly's size 7 heel to connect with his face. His powers to deduce women's shoe sizes are astounding. Scully actually agrees with Mulder, sort of. They can all agree that Pusher is somehow responsible for all this and Skinner tells Mulder that Pusher went into the Computer Records office to get Mulder's file. They decide to arrest Pusher on criminal trespassing. Better than nothing.

SWAT team busts down Pusher's crappy apartment door and stick the arrest warrant on his crappy TV. Looks like no one's home. Mulder, Scully and Detective Burst are all there and willing to search a good 5 mile radius to get this guy. Mulder checks out Pusher's fridge and finds out their hypnotizing friend is a fan of Mango Kiwi Tropical Swirl Carbo Boost. Madness, I say! Scully gets information on a prescription bottle Modell has. He's got temporal-lobe epilepsy and he needs the pills for his seizures. If the cause of Pusher's illness is a brain tumor, Mulder's amended his power of suggestion theory. Instead of Pusher having learned it from a secret kung-fu ninja school in Japan, maybe Pusher's psycho kinesis was brought on by the brain tumor, which according to "completely unsubstantiated reports", link brain tumors to psychic ability so it's possible. Plus the protein drinks are needed to refuel his metabolic energy, the energy he uses to control people. Scully doesn't believe that brain tumors cause psychic ability because more credible sources will tell you that brain tumors cause fatigue and sickness. Mulder agrees that he's sick and dying, recalling how tired Pusher looked at the golf place. Maybe Pusher wants to go out in a blaze of glory. Hold that thought the phone's ringing. Detective Burst tells an agent to get ready to trace the call and then he picks up the phone:
"Did someone order 10 pizza pies?" "Curses, foiled again..."
No wait, it's actually Pusher on the phone and the Detective starts chatting him up, buying some time so the trace will go through. Pusher asks if Mulder and Scully are there, like any true MSR shipper would, and the two are indeed listening on in the other room, sitting close together all adorable as they share the phone. Pusher resists squee-ing and goes on to do a phone-whammy. He starts asking the detective questions about his weight and health. Detective Burst humors him so they can get the oh-so-slow trace. It takes a while but Mulder figures out what Pusher is trying to pull and tells the detective to hang up the phone. He refuses and listens as Pusher describes the terrible shape his heart and arteries are in, and the detective breaking out in a sweat. Mulder rushes into the room with Detective Burst and tries to take the phone from him but two officers hold Mulder back, then when Scully hears the commotion she follows Mulder's demands for Burst to hang up the phone and almost manages to unplug the phone before another officer stops her. Mulder continues to yell at the detective to hang up the phone but he's stubborn and wants to finish the trace. Pusher talks him into cardiac arrest and Scully rushes to his side asking for an ambulance. Mulder grabs the phone that Detective Burst dropped and learns that Pusher has chosen him to be his worthy adversary. What an honor. Meanwhile, Scully is doing some mouth to mouth resuscitation but poor old Burst is too dead to enjoy it. Mulder knows that Pusher is dying and thinks he just wants to take out a bunch of innocent people with him, and when he asks him where he is, Pusher is all too happy to tell him he's at a pay phone and gives Mulder the phone number that matches the finally acquired trace. Too bad for Mulder that Pusher will be gone in two minutes. The trace locates the exact location of the pay phone and a luck would have it, the hospital that made out Pusher's pill prescriptions is right nearby. Maybe they can wait for him there.

A bunch of SWAT member surround the hospital, some hiding behind cars, some on rooftops just ready and aiming their guns, and some in the parking lot. We are interested in the van that's got Mulder, Scully and the SWAT team leader. They find his car parked outside and Scully says he's got an appointment for that day so he should be inside the hospital. Mulder wants to go in and face Modell alone, not wanting to send SWAT in there for fear they might get whammied and turn the guns on each other, or against patients. The SWAT team leader gets him set up in a Kevlar vest, a headset with camera and a microphone. Scully does not look happy. Mulder tests out the headset camera, wondering if he can get the Playboy channel on it (even if he could, that kind of distraction wouldn't be good to have in this dangerous situation. Plus the picture would be tiny so it wouldn't even be worth seeing). Mulder gets Scully on his headset camera, imploring her to smile for the camera but she can't and she turns away. She is really unhappy about the whole situation. Awww. Mulder's smile immediately disappears as he sees how affected she is by this but he can't back out now so he gives Scully his gun. He wouldn't want the gun to be pointed at anyone except Pusher. Scully grabs his hands and they share a nice angsty gaze before Mulder gets going.

Mulder walks through the hospital hallways, telling the front desk that he's a federal agent and they should go about their business. Yeah, if I see a federal agent walking in a Kevlar suit, I don't care what he says, I'm getting out of there. He talks to Scully through his microphone, she hears him loud and clear in the van and she sees whatever he sees thanks to the headset cam. Suddenly there are gunshots. Scully is surprised and worried. Mulder goes off to find the source of the shots fired and SWAT team is commanded to stay in their positions. When the picture becomes static-y, Scully quickly takes off her headset and is ready to rush in after Mulder but then the SWAT team leader tells her to wait, as they got the camera feed back. Mulder is looking down at two bodies. Apparently the guard shot the technician and then shot himself. The guard's gun is missing and it looks like Pusher may be armed. Scully wants Mulder to get a close-up look at the computer in the room, and they see Pusher's chart which confirms what's already been said: Pusher's got a terminal brain tumor so he's got nothing to lose. Scully wants him to get out of there but when he turns around he sees Pusher. Oh crap. Pusher disables the headset cam and Scully jumps up in horror.

Now it's her turn to don the Kevlar and get inside the hospital. SWAT gets inside the hospital and think they've found Mulder and Pusher. It's up to Scully to get to them and flush their guy out. She tells the SWAT team leader to wait for her signal than walks past a few rooms before finding the room with Mulder inside. And Pusher. And two patients hooked up to machines, but the important thing is that Mulder and Pusher are sitting at a small table with the guard's gun in the middle. Mulder looks like he's been whammied. Pusher invites her to join them and Scully tells him about the dozens of officers waiting for him inside and outside the hospital. After a bit, Scully slowly sits down near the two, who are having a life or death type staring contest. I never thought I'd type "life or death" and "staring contest" in the same line. Pusher grabs the gun and mumbles Japanese budo BS as he shows the gun has one bullet inside. Looks like we're going to witness a good old fashioned game of Russian Roulette. Don't let that second word fool you, there are no fun prizes to be won here. He lets Mulder have one shot at him, a 1 in 6 chance he'll get him, and despite Scully trying to convince him otherwise, Mulder takes the shot at Pusher but there's no bullet. Pusher looks more than a little relieved that the bullet wasn't in that chamber. Now it's Mulder's turn to play. Scully's eyes are wavering and shiny as she tells him no but Pusher insists he do it, and Mulder cannot disobey the power of the whammy. Scully reasons and pleads and even hints at some not-killing-yourself nookie but Mulder aims the gun at his head and quickly pulls the trigger! Thank goodness there was no bullet in that chamber either. Scully shoots up and screams that Pusher is a bastard. She is thisclose to tears and I don't blame her. The MSR angst in this scene is palpable. Scully wants the gun but Mulder aims it at Pusher then after a bit he turns and aims at Scully. Oh God. Her voice gets low, she tells him he's stronger than this but Pusher and his damn hypnotic voice tells Mulder that it's Scully's turn. She tells Mulder to fight him but Pusher reminds him of the time she shot him in Anasazi. Oh yeah... I didn't know that was in Mulder's computer file. Mulder, if you don't listen to Pusher, I'll officially strip you of that Biggest Jackass title from Syzygy! He's still aiming at her... no, Mulder! Don't do it! He's got the angriest look on his face as he's staring at Scully *gulp* but he says he wants to kill Pusher. His tone of voice is harsh and Pusher just taunts him, saying he can shoot him after he takes the shot at Scully. She starts to back away, possibly because she's afraid of him but just as possible that she wants to set her fire alarm into action. When Mulder yells at Scully to run, she rushes for the alarm and pulls it, the loud siren seemingly jolting Mulder out of Pusher's control and that's all he needs to aim the gun back at Pusher and shoot him. The bullet was in that chamber. Close one for Scully! Mulder keeps pulling the trigger in awesome angsty rage, but there was only one bullet in there so he must derive little satisfaction from the 'click click click' of the empty gun chambers. SWAT team decides the shot fired is a good enough signal and they swarm the room. Mulder finally lowers the gun and hands it Scully before putting his face in his hands. Is it relief? Shame? I'm gonna say angst. Just want to say that even though Mulder was able to pull the trigger on Pusher and even himself, he hesitated when it came to Scully. His value for his own life was less than his value for Scully's life. Any non-shippers out there reading this please take note. Thank you.

Our crazy little MSR shipper is in the hospital hooked up to machines and looking worse for wear. Mulder stands to the side, glaring at him and soon Scully joins to tell him he'll never regain consciousness (until season 5, you mean, right Scully? ) and Mulder tells her that Pusher refused treatment on his brain tumor. I guess he wanted to keep his psychic hypnosis power despite not knowing how to use it to it's full advantage. Mulder thinks it's more along the lines of what Scully said earlier: he didn't get surgery because he was a little man and the brain tumor plus cool powers made him feel big. And here comes the sweet hand hold, Scully initiating it and Mulder embracing it. The handhold is just love. I do believe it's the first handhold our agents share. If I'm mistaken, please tell me. I'd like to know when their first hand hold was. I'm making a "scrap book" of their firsts thanks to these recaps. Scully suggests they don't let him take up another minute of their time and the two walk out of Pusher's room. You know, a true shipper should be willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good of Mulder/Scully angst and handholding. That is why Modell aka Pusher has done good. Very good. He'll get his shipper badge in the mail. (It's just a piece of paper with word 'Shipper Badge' on it but maybe he'll get the humor behind it. Now I just need that ten dollars for postage fees... Cerulean blue... Cerulean blue...)