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When a girl's body is found exhumed and mutilated, local law enforcement suspects aliens and calls in the FBI. Although Mulder's interest in the case consists primarily of a pair of convenient football tickets, he gets a chance to use his skills as a profiler tracking a death fetishist turned serial killer.killer (Nick Chinlund). And his next target may be Agent Scully...
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Pfaster is seen several times changed to a demonic form for a brief moment.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Pfaster is seen several times changed to briefly change into a demonic form for a brief moment. form, but it's left ambiguous whether he actually is demonic, or if it's just the way others percieve him.
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* CatapultNightmare: Scully, after dreaming of a demon/Pfaster.
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* AutopsySnackTime: The head mortician eats a Popsicle when in the mortuary.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Pfaster is generically polite and has an artificial, somewhat awkward manner of speech.
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* DramaticIrony: There is tension due to the fact that, this time, we know who's doing it, and can see him acting in a creepy way throughout the whole episode.
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* ElvisLives: Mulder's comment when there was no witnesses to Scully's abduction by Pfaster.
-->'''Mulder''': They see Elvis in three cities across America every day. But no one saw a pretty woman being run off the road in her rental car.
-->'''Mulder''': They see Elvis in three cities across America every day. But no one saw a pretty woman being run off the road in her rental car.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Carter wasn't allowed to refer to Donnie Pfaster as a necrophiliac, so the phrase "death fetishist" was used instead.
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* GunmanWithThreeNames: Donald Addie Pfaster.
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* CreepySouvenir: The box in Pfaster's fridge contains [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ice, Brussels spouts, some fingers and a nail painted bright red]].
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* CreepySouvenir: Donnie Pfaster, a necrophiliac turned into a killer, had a hair and nail fetish. He took some fingers from dead bodies and also from the prostitute he killed. The FBI found a box in Pfaster's fridge contains his freezer that contained [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ice, Brussels spouts, sprouts, some fingers and a nail painted bright red]].
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* NotSoStoic: Scully, when she finally realizes Mulder won't think any less of her for seeing her break down after a traumatic experience.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Scully goes to see one to help her deal with her violent reactions to the case.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted.{{Averted}}. Scully goes to see one to help her deal with her violent reactions to the case.
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* {{Mundanger}}
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted. In a show where every other episode revolves around paranormal weirdness, this is the gritty realistic one with zero fantastic elements--and one of the creepiest episodes overall.
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted. In a show where every other episode revolves around paranormal weirdness, this is the gritty realistic one with zero fantastic elements--and one of the creepiest episodes overall.
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* {{Mundanger}}
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted.{{Mundanger}}: In a show where every other episode revolves around paranormal weirdness, this is one of the gritty realistic one few with zero fantastic elements--and elements, ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane probably]]) --and one of the creepiest episodes overall.
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Although Pfaster's desecration of cadavers is very unpleasant, they don't seem to justify the depth of Scully's existential crisis. To say she had encountered worse by this point would be an understatement.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Although Pfaster's desecration of cadavers is very unpleasant, they don't it doesn't seem to justify the depth of Scully's existential crisis. To say she had encountered worse by this point would be an understatement.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous?: Although Pfaster's desecration of cadavers is very unpleasant, they don't seem to justify the depth of Scully's existential crisis. To say she had encountered worse by this point would be an understatement.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous?: WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Although Pfaster's desecration of cadavers is very unpleasant, they don't seem to justify the depth of Scully's existential crisis. To say she had encountered worse by this point would be an understatement.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous?: Although Pfaster's desecration of cadavers is very unpleasant, they don't seem to justify the depth of Scully's existential crisis. To say she had encountered worse by this point would be an understatement.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Scully is traumatized when she is captured by the SerialKiller; luckily, at the same time, Mulder has figured out the killer's identity from fingerprints and realizes that he has Scully.
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When a girl's body is found exhumed and mutilated, local law enforcement suspects aliens and calls in the FBI. Although Mulder's interest in the case consists primarily of a pair of convenient baseball football tickets, he gets a chance to use his skills as a profiler tracking a death fetishist turned serial killer. And his next target may be Agent Scully...
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* Mundanger
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* Mundanger{{Mundanger}}
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Pfaster is an excessively polite delivery driver for a frozen foods company.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Pfaster is an excessively polite delivery driver for a frozen foods company.company.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Pfaster is seen several times changed to a demonic form for a brief moment.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Pfaster is seen several times changed to a demonic form for a brief moment.moment.
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted. In a show where every other episode revolves around paranormal weirdness, this is the gritty realistic one with zero fantastic elements--and one of the creepiest episodes overall.
* ParanormalEpisode: Inverted. In a show where every other episode revolves around paranormal weirdness, this is the gritty realistic one with zero fantastic elements--and one of the creepiest episodes overall.
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* CreepySouvenir: The box in Pfaster's fridge contains [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ice, Brussels spouts, some fingers and a nail painted bright red]].
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* CreepySouvenir: The box in Pfaster's fridge contains [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ice, Brussels spouts, some fingers and a nail painted bright red]]. red]].
* CryIntoChest: Scully at the end breaks down and cries in Mulder's arms after being rescued.
* CryIntoChest: Scully at the end breaks down and cries in Mulder's arms after being rescued.
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* CreepySouvenir: The box in Pfaster's fridge contains [[BreadEggsMilkSquick ice, Brussels spouts, some fingers and a nail painted bright red]].
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Pfaster prepares a cold bath for his victims. He cares particularly for their hair and nails.
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: Pfaster prepares a cold bath for his victims. He cares particularly for their hair and nails.
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Pfaster prepares a cold bath for his victims.
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Pfaster prepares a cold bath for his victims. He cares particularly for their hair and nails.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Pfaster's first actual victim is a prostitute, but it's more because she was easier to get ahold of than because of her profession.
* ILoveTheDead: Pfaster again. The network [[ExecutiveMeddling wouldn't let]] the writers actually use the word 'necrophiliac', so they went with the next best thing and called him a 'death fetishist'.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Scully temporarily blinds Pfaster with a spray can of tile grout.
* StoicWoobie
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Scully goes to see one to help her deal with her violent reactions to the case.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Pfaster is an excessively polite delivery driver for a frozen foods company.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Pfaster's first actual victim is a prostitute, but it's more because she was easier to get ahold of than because of her profession.
* ILoveTheDead: Pfaster again. The network [[ExecutiveMeddling wouldn't let]] the writers actually use the word 'necrophiliac', so they went with the next best thing and called him a 'death fetishist'.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Scully temporarily blinds Pfaster with a spray can of tile grout.
* StoicWoobie
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Scully goes to see one to help her deal with her violent reactions to the case.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Pfaster is an excessively polite delivery driver for a frozen foods company.
