History Recap / TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood

-->'''Kimberly the secretary:''' Assistant Director Skinner's office. Oh, I'm sorry, he's about to go into a meeting. Yes, it may last several hours. ''[Scully hears it and her face goes into a {{downplayed}} OhCrap.]'' You're welcome. ''[The following argument is whispered intensely and impatiently.]''\\

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

* ManBitesMan: Vampire (without his fake teeth) Bites Man. When the coroner kindly put the stake out off Ronnie's chest, he attacked him and gnawed on his neck.
-->'''Skinner:''' The coroner's throat's been bitten.\\
'''Mulder:''' The coroner's dead?\\
'''Skinner:''' No, his throat was ''bitten''. Sort of... gnawed on.

** Where to start on Mulder? When he realizes he's been drugged, he calls Scully to help him, but he only manages to breathe very loudly and thus creeps her out; then hilariously outwits Ronnie by throwing seeds at him; then sings off-key a theme from ''Series/{{Shaft}}'' to Scully, and finally, he sticks a wooden stake through Ronnie's chest instead of arresting him.

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

** In his account, Mulder is polite, reasonable and utterly professional in the face of Scully's unprofessional and condescending conduct. He effectively but respectfully defends his logical and well-thought out theories against Scully's bored, knee-jerk skepticism and long sufferingly puts up with all her selfish whining and complaining. And he respectfully tolerates the dimwitted hick Sheriff Hartwell even while Scully is inexplicably and unprofessionally swooning and fawning all over him.

** ''Series/{{Shaft}}'': Drugged Mulder did or did not sing its theme song.

** In her account, Scully is calm, controlled and utterly professional in the face of Mulder's unprofessional and condescending conduct. She logically and coolly demolishes Mulder's crazy theories and long-sufferingly puts up with his scatter-minded eccentricities and selfishness. And while she is definitely charmed by the handsome Sheriff Hartwell, she is professional enough to keep it under her belt while Mulder belittles and patronises him.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: FemaleGaze is clearly manifested InUniverse. Scully is completely charmed by Sheriff Hartwell's cowboy looks, somewhat tough, yet also boyish and cute. She keeps watching him dreamily and is practically swooning over him.

* AffectionateParody: Of vampire myths, of Mulder and Scully dynamics, of ''Series/TheXFiles''.

-->'''Scully''': Heart weighs 370 grams, tissue appears healthy. Left lung weighs 345 grams, tissue appears healthy. Large intestine, 890 grams, yada yada yada.

--->'''Scully:''' You're not gonna tell me you think it's that Mexican goatsucker thing.
--->'''Mulder:''' El Chupacabra? No, they got four fangs, not two, and they suck goats, hence the name.
--->'''Scully:''' So, instead, this would be...
--->'''Mulder:''' Classic vampirism.
--->'''Scully:''' Of a bunch of cows.

-->'''Mulder:''' Historically, cemeteries were thought to be a haven for vampires as are castles, catacombs and swamps, but unfortunately, you don't have any of those.
-->'''Hartwell:''' We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to calling them wetlands.

* FreezeFrameBonus: It's a minor moment but during one stake-out with Hartwell, Mulder spills a few of his sunflower seeds. Hartwell unthinkingly picks each seed up, revealing he's obsessive-compulsive just like a vampire.

-->'''Kimberly the secretary''': Assistant Director Skinner's office. Oh, I'm sorry, he's about to go into a meeting. Yes, it may last several hours. [Scully hears it and her face goes into a {{downplayed}} OhCrap.] You're welcome. [The following argument is whispered intensely and impatiently.]
-->'''Scully''': Please just keep reminding him you were drugged.
-->'''Mulder''': Would you stop that?
-->'''Scully''': It couldn't hurt.
-->'''Mulder''': Stop it!
-->'''Skinner''': [leans through his office door] Scully? Mulder?
-->'''Mulder''': [jumps up] I was drugged!

-->'''Mulder''': Ronnie Strickland, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Come on, cut it out, Ronnie.

* PrisonRape: Implied when Mulder threatens Scully with a cell mate nicknamed Large Marge. This seems to be a somewhat favourite technique of his as he did it to the abducted boy in [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace "Jose Chungs: ''From Outer Space''"]].

--->'''Hartwell''': Yeah, obsessive... Like Rain Man! It's like when that old boy dropped them matchsticks, he had to pick them all up. Same thing, right?
--->'''Mulder''': Well, he didn't actually pick them up. He counted them.
--->'''Hartwell''': Oh, yeah. 247. Right off the top of your head.
--->'''Mulder''': Well, if he had picked them up, he would have been a vampire.
--->'''Hartwell''': Yeah. I'll tell you what. I know I'm in law enforcement, but I'd like to take him to Vegas myself. Am I right?
--->'''Mulder''': Well, that would be illegal, right?
--->'''Hartwell''': He's like a little calculator.

* VampiresAreSexGods: {{Lampshaded}} by Agent Scully (the original AgentScully, no less) who admits that vampires are supposed to be charming and seductive creatures. And her "hoo boy" crush of a sheriff surely was charming and seductive, and he was also a vampire!
* WastebasketBall: Mulder apparently tries to start writing the report, but it is very hard. He tossed several pieces of paper into the bin.

* CurseCutShort: "Oh sh--!" [cut to the opening credits]

* FreezeFrameBonus: It's a minor moment but during one stake-out with Hartwell, Mulder [[spoiler:spills a few of his sunflower seeds. Hartwell unthinkingly picks each seed up, revealing he's obsessive-compulsive just like a vampire]].

* ThereIsNoRuleSix: Scully doesn't even have "second of all".

** In his account, Mulder is polite, reasonable and utterly professional in the face of Scully's unprofessional and condescending conduct. He effectively but respectfully defends his logical and well-thought out theories against Scully's bored, knee-jerk skepticism and long sufferingly puts up with all her selfish whining and complaining. And he respectfully tolerates the dimwitted hick Sheriff Hartwell even while Scully is inexplicably swooning and fawning all over him.

** At the end of the episode, Sheriff drugs his coffee which he offers to Scully and she drinks it.

* WastebasketBall: Mulder apparently tries to start writing the report, but it is very hard. he tossed several pieces of paper into the bin.

* Music/RideOfTheWalkyries: A downplayed StandardSnippet appears in the soundtrack when Mulder and the Sheriff find the body in the camping van.

* UnreliableNarrator: PlayedForLaughs.

-->'''Mulder''': Historically, cemeteries were thought to be a haven for vampires as are castles, catacombs and swamps, but unfortunately, you don't have any of those.
-->'''Hartwell''': We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to calling them wetlands.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: They really are, honestly. Except for Ronnie.

** Ronnie doped his victims so that he could exsanguinate them more easily.
** Oh boy, and where to start on Mulder? When he realizes he's been drugged, he calls Scully to help him, but he only manages to breathe very loudly and thus creeps her out; then hilariously outwits Ronnie by throwing seeds at him; then sings off-key a theme from ''{{Shaft}}'' to Scully, and finally, he sticks a wooden stake through Ronnie's chest instead of arresting him.

* SelfServingMemory: Both Scully and Mulder display a bad case of this in their various accounts of what happened:

* SerialKiller: He has two known victims, targeting tourists who were outside his community and well, not vampires. Scully ordered pizza from him as well, and Mulder ate it. Fortunately, he was able to escape.

** At the end of the episode, Sheriff drugs coffee which Scully drinks.

** ''{{Shaft}}'': Drugged Mulder did or did not sing its theme song.
* TheStakeOut: Mulder and Sheriff stake out a local [[CreepyCemetery cemetery]].

** In her account, Scully is calm, controlled and utterly professional in the face of Mulder's unprofessional and condescending conduct. She logically and coolly demolishes Mulder's crazy theories and long-sufferingly puts up with his scatter-minded eccentricities and selfishness. And while she is definitely charmed by the handsome Sheriff Hartwell, she is professional enough to keep it under her belt.

* MotorMouth: According to Scully, Mulder when he presents the case. Mulder gets his own back when he recalls asking Scully to do the second autopsy, only to be hit with a verbal torrent of whining about how tired and hungry she is, complete with a detour about how the half a cream-cheese bagel she ate for breakfast wasn't even real cream cheese.

* MotorMouth: According to Scully, Mulder when he presents the case.