Cut to a field, now swarming with Feds. "And what was wrong with that?" asks Jose Chung. "Because the proper authorities showed up with a couple of men in black," Geeky says, over a shot of Mulder and Scully spilling out of a car. "One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off. Like, her hair was red? But it was a little too red, you know? And the other one? The tall lanky one? His face was so blank and expressionless. He didn't even seem human. I think he was a manroid. The only time he reacted was when he saw the dead body." This accompanies of shot of Mulder, no expression on his face whatsoever. He opens his mouth, and a girly scream spills out. He snaps his trap shut, and returns to expressionlessness. "Yeah, that's a dead bleeping alien body if I ever bleeping saw one," Manners says. Hee. I love that line. "Wrap it up," Scully spits. She turns to Geeky and grabs him by the collar. "You never saw this. This didn't happen. You tell anyone, you're a dead man!"
LBO. "He said I said what?" Scully asks. Jose Chung tells her that when he talked to Geeky, Geeky claimed that she threatened him. Scully sniffs that this is ridiculous. "And besides," she adds, "we allowed him to view the autopsy."
Cut to said autopsy. Scully's mid-Y-incision when Geeky runs in with his video camera. Manners tries to remove him. "You can't suppress the truth!" Geeky yells as Manners manhandles him. "The people have the right to know! Roswell! Roswell!" This, of course, manages to soften Mulder's heart enough to allow him to stay and tape the procedure.
Back in the LBO, Jose Chung is watching said tape, as Scully paces behind him, embarrassed. This is a final, commercial version of the tape. It's being hosted, in a nice display of continuity, by the Stupendous Yappi and his freakshow eyebrows. Scully covers her eyes as she confirms for Jose Chung that this is indeed the autopsy she performed, but with all the pertinent bits edited out. "Oh, it's so embarrassing," she moans.
Those pertinent bits being, of course, that it's a dude in an alien suit. Scully pulls a plastic mask off his head. Mulder looks chagrined. "You mean, it's just a dead human being?" Geeky asks. Scully confirms this. Geeky clasps his hands over his mouth and runs away to hurl. "Well, then who is this bleep?" Manners asks. Mulder hypothesizes that they could find him in the military database.













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