When Mulder and Scully arrive, Davey says he hasn't seen his father in weeks but that he was released from the mental institution one month before.Davey uses this to lure Skinner into a pit trap like the others. John James is in fact dead, hanging from a tree in the woods.While Mulder wrestles with what Kersh said about Skinner sacrificing his career for them, Scully says she believes that Skinner "is a man ruled by his moral compass, above all else.".Skinner believes that people are now being hurt again because of John. Davey believes in the monster that his father saw, while Skinner believes that the gas he was exposed to preyed on his own fears.Skinner says he searched for John after the war and thought he was dead because "they vanished him" and sealed all of his records - they being the same people who turned him into a "monster." He also says he thinks about him every day.Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) has a tough time in this episode. Skinner meets John's son Davey, also played by Haley Joel Osment, and who says that Skinner was known as "the baby killer" (perhaps a reference to his killing a 10-year-old boy covered in grenades, referenced in earlier eps).Skinner's nickname is Eagle - and the Eagle is bald.For once, Mulder doesn't believe the monster is an actual monster because monsters don't dig pits and set traps.The next murder victim has also been losing teeth, as have his friends and the sheriff.There is a mental institution outside the city called Glazebrook, where several veterans have been sent.In the morgue, the town doctor has been killed by a trap in a style used in Vietnam and is missing an ear. Via info in the package with the ear, Mulder and Scully head then to Mudlick, Kentucky, where people have been seeing a monster out in the woods.
Skinner's military record including names of his platoonmates has been classified, and Scully has been denied access.In his apartment, they find a cut off human ear sent to Lance Corporal Walter Skinner with the words "the monsters are here."."After all of these years, we know precious little about Walter Sergei Skinner beyond the professional." – Scully.Skinner "hasn't been the same" since Mulder and Scully returned, but also has been "poking around in places he shouldn't" - Kersh won't be more specific.Deputy Director Kersh asks Mulder and Scully where he is, and explains that the reason Skinner hasn't been promoted "after 35 years in the Bureau" because of his "blind loyalty" to Mulder and Scully (answering a question I had last season about why the guy has gotten 0 promotions since 1993). Why Deputy Director Kersh doesn't have a higher job is another question that is, however, unanswered.After the war, Skinner testifies against him, resulting in his being locked in a mental institution for 38 years. Afterward, John is transformed - describing in detail brutally carving ears off of Vietnamese people, including children.Skinner, once exposed, briefly sees a monster and stops John from attacking him. The crate contents are accidentally released inside a hut on some Vietnamese villagers and Skinner's platoonmate John "Kitten" James (Haley Joel Osment).
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