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'''Season 2, Episode 15:'''
!Fresh Bones
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TitleDrop Fresh bones.]] They pay good."'']]
->Written by Howard Gordon\\
Directed by Rob Bowman

->''"They will only warn you once. After that, no magic can save you."''
-->-- '''Pierre Bauvais'''

When a Marine employed at a Haitian refugee camp kills himself, his widow calls in the FBI, convinced that his death was no suicide.
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!!Tropes:
* BodyHorror: Due to supposed powers of voodoo, the fingers and eventually entire body that pushes through the scratch on Scully's hand which then attacks her.
* BuriedAlive: Colonel Wharton is being buried alive at the very end, conscious and panicking. [[KarmicDeath He had it coming.]]
* CatsAreMagic: Chester Bonaparte, a young Haitian boy, disappears very suddenly near a pier as Mulder is chasing him, a black kitten is seen meowing at the end of the pier. The black kitten appears at the climax of the episode, implying the kitten is Chester.
* DeadAllAlong: Chester Bonaparte, a boy who befriended Mulder and Scully, is revealed to have been killed a year ago.
* DecoyAntagonist: Bauvais. Although he's initially the obvious suspect, he's ultimately no threat to Mulder and Scully and tries to warn them about what's going on at the camp. In the climax he even comes back from the dead to defeat Wharton.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The boy who was killed in the riot is mentioned early on. This is a tragic but impertinent detail until [[TheReveal his name]] is mentioned offhandedly at the end.
* GoingNative: It's implied that Wharton did this during his deployment to Haiti, which is where he learned of Voodoo and met Bauvais.
* HollywoodVoodoo: The basis for this episode's MonsterOfTheWeek, but the use of zombie myths and voodoo symbols is quite inspired.
* JustFollowingOrders: How the Marines at the camp are forced to cope with Wharton's orders involving the treatment of the Haitian refugees.
* JurisdictionFriction: The evil colonel wants our agents out of the investigation.
-->'''Colonel Wharton:''' Since both matters are being handled internally I’ll assume your business here is finished.
* NotQuiteDead: It turns out that [=McAlpin=] is actually still alive, because he had zombie powder blown into him, which lowers his vitals to the point where he appears dead.
* PunchClockVillain: Wharton's aide, who only helps the Colonel because he believes Bauvais killed [=McAlpin=] and Gutierrez.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Howard Gordon was inspired to write this episode after reading an article about American servicemen who committed suicide during Operation Uphold Democracy, the deployment of US troops to Haiti from 1994-1995.
* SemperFi: A villainous example of the trope in fact. Wharton's efforts to push Mulder and Scully out of the camp are framed as him claiming he's looking out for his men.
* SigilSpam: Wharton leaves a ''veve'', a symbol representing the crossroads between worlds, wherever he wants to attack.
* TitleDrop: From Chester, who says that fresh bones (from the graveyard) can be sold for money.
* VoodooDoll:
** One is apparently used on Mulder at the climax.
** Scully got one as protection from Chester. It's a ChekhovsGun that truly helps Scully.
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->'''Scully:''' They're petitioning to have Bauvais returned to Haiti.\\
'''Mulder:''' Too bad it has to be in a box.