History Recap / TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood

** Scully gets drugged as well. But apart from being scared and having to go through a walk of shame in Sheriff's jacket after it wore off, she's fine.

* SuperOCD: According to Mulder, all vampires must untie knots and collect seeds.

* HotScientist: Sheriff Hartwell fancied Dana and was impressed with her knowledge on the subject.

* WhamShot: Hartwell who so far is presented as a representative of local law enforcement and Scully's crush, turning to face Scully with glowing green eyes, which reveals that vampires are real and tha he's an actual vampire as well while drugged and scared Scully sits in his car.

* TheCoroner: There's a coroner who performs an autopsy on Ronnie Strickland. Once he removed the wooden That poor guy, his neck was gnawed on. On the other hand, better than exsanguination.

* RunningGag: Mulder, onceagain, is shown as a mean tipper.

* BeatItByCompulsion: Mulder notices that all the victims' shoes have been untied and later distracts Ronnie by throwing [[TrademarkFavoriteFood sunflower seeds]]. Ronnie gets a "Come on, that's not funny, man!" look before getting down to counting.

* ColdOpen: A great teaser!

* TheCoroner: That poor guy, his neck was gnawed on. On the other hand, better than exsanguination.

* HotScientist: Sheriff Hartwell fancied Dana...

* RunningGag: Mulder is a mean tipper.

* SerialKiller: He has two known victims and targets tourists who were outside his community, ''not'' his vampire neighbours. Scully ordered pizza from him as well, which was his modus operandi. Mulder ate the pizza and was about to be murdered as well. Fortunately, he was able to escape.

* TheStakeOut: Mulder and Sheriff stake out a local cemetery.

* WhamShot: Combined with the above, Hartwell turning to face Scully with glowing green eyes.

-->'''Ronnie''': Oh, man! What'd you have to go and do that for? (bends down and begins counting them; pauses to point at Mulder) You are in big trouble.

'''Mulder:''' ''Prison'', Scully. Your cellmate's name is gonna be Large Marge. She's gonna read a lot of Creator/GertrudeStein.

->'''Mulder:''' I wanna know exactly what you're gonna tell Skinner.\\

'''Scully:''' I don't feel comfortable with that.

* JurisdictionFriction: {{Averted}}. Even though, for once, Mulder and Scully are dealing with a local law-enforcement official with good reason to be uncooperative, one thing both their recollections have in common is that Sheriff Hartwell was a nice guy who happily went along with whatever they proposed.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: "We used to have swamps; only the EPA made us take to calling them wetlands."

* LanternJawOfJustice: Sheriff Hartwell has a chiselled jaw-line.

!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E01Redux 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E02ReduxII 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E03UnusualSuspects 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E04Detour 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E05ThePostModernPrometheus 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E06ChristmasCarol 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E07Emily 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E08Kitsunegari 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E09Schizogeny 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E11KillSwitch 11]] | '''12''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E13PatientX 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E14TheRedAndTheBlack 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E15Travelers 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E16MindsEye 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E17AllSouls 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E18ThePineBluffVariant 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E19FolieADeux 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E20TheEnd 20]]

After Mulder pursues a boy he is convinced is a vampire into the woods and rams a stake through his heart, only for Scully to discover he has a set of false fangs, Mulder and Scully find themselves in deep trouble. Faced with the unsettling prospect of a massive lawsuit against the FBI, an unpleasant meeting with Director Skinner and possible criminal charges, Mulder suggests that he and Scully compare their stories about what happened in the build-up to Mulder's actions. Mulder and Scully each present their perspectives of events and those involved in them, including the local sheriff who may or may not have buckteeth, Mulder being drugged and attacked which may or may not have led to him singing the theme to ''Shaft'', and a boy who may or may not be an actual vampire....

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Six, all in all --approximately one a week over the past six weeks."'']]

'''Scully:''' [[BlatantLies Essentially.]]

->'''Mulder:''' [[RashomonStyle That is ... essentially, exactly the way it happened.]]\\

'''Mulder:''' Oh sh-- ''[cut to the opening credits]''

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