Moronica goes inside the chapel and kneels to pray. "Dear God," she begins. "Why did I agree to go on this show? Everyone on the internet hates me." She's bargaining with the Lord to land her a part on Charmed ("I could be the girls' long-lost aunt Prunella!") when DPB opens the door and makes a smarmy face in her direction. "What?" Moronica asks, getting off her knees. Call me a traditionalist, but I was taught that it was rude to interrupt someone who's praying. It's really rude to interrupt them and then make smarmy faces. "This seems a bit traditional for you," DPB says. "Maybe when you're lost, you knock at the door with the porch light on," Moronica shrugs. "Hey, hey," DPB faux-sympathizes, and pulls her into a hug. He cops a feel while he's there. He tells her that he's doing all he can to find Overcoat Woman and the baby. "Even though we've got people on the inside of the FBI working against us," he says pointedly. Moronica opens her eyes and extricates herself from his embrace. Staring Contest #5,643. DPB takes this tender moment to chastise Moronica for going after Overcoat Woman without backup. "This is complicated, [DPB]," Moronica says. "If you came in here to bust me..." DPB shakes his head. He came to ask for her cooperation, he says. "Not sharing information creates an atmosphere of distrust and then [unintelligable mumble] shared my information with you." Moronica narrows her eyes. "What haven't you shared with me?" she asks sharply. They stare. "This FBI agent who tried to kill Agent Scully's baby? He's come around. He's got something he'd like to tell us," DPB eventually says. Moronica looks stricken. "What?" she asks. Well, first, DPB says, he needs her to promise that she'll be cooperating with him from here on out.
Cut to Buck, all hooked up to a respirator. He really doesn't look all that chatty. Enter DPB and Moronica. "He tried to tell you something? How is that possible?" she asks. DPB shrugs. "He didn't tell me exactly. He wrote it down." He hands Moronica a pad of paper. "I don't know what this means," she says, looking down at the paper. Neither does DPB. "But it means something. And I want to know what," he tells her. They stare at the note. It reads "jacket."
Moronica's apartment. "Just tell me where you got this," Scully says, waving the note in Moronica's face. "You know what it means?" Moronica asks. "[Buck] wrote this, didn't he?" Scully asks. She wonders how Moronica got hold of it. Moronica makes a face, and then admits that she got it under the condition that she share with the Feds what she learned about it from Scully. Scully curls her lip up like she just took a swig of turned milk, and hands it back to Moronica. "Take it," she says. Moronica is all, yes, but what does it mean? Scully stares at her and slowly explains that she's not going to tell Moronica anything. That way, Moronica won't be lying to the Feds when she pleads ignorance. Moronica, by the way, lives in what appears to be a potting shed. Scully takes off, muttering that she's going to the hospital. Moronica makes a series of offended noises, until Scully turns around in the doorway and quickly recaps last week's episode, blah blah blah, life-saving artifactcakes. Moronica chases Scully out the door and all the way to...









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