Elegy


In a move that even a first day student at Quantico wouldn't make, Mulder goes to pick up evidence without wearing gloves.

Hudak:  ... Hey you in the back!  Are we boring you?

Mulder:  No, not at all.

Hudak:  Because if you have nothing to contribute to this profile ...

Mulder:  No, actually I do have something to add.  I think that following the FBI model in this case will not only fail to turn up the killer but will undoubtedly lead to more victims and more deaths.

Hudak:  You want to tell us who you are and what you base that on?

Poor Hudak.  He's yet to learn that if he has to ask he really doesn't want to know.  Apparently Mulder's reputation hasn't quite gotten everywhere just yet.

General Punkesque Behavior

Why is Mulder asking about Scully's skeptical look?  You'd think that after all this time he'd be used to it.  In fact Scully herself tells him exactly that.

Mulder sure knows how to make an impression during a meeting.  First he comes in and starts whispering to Scully which in and of itself is rude.  Then he uses the meeting as an opportunity to show up the guy in charge.  If that weren't enough he goes on to start talking about the apparitions.  If that wasn't a really bad time to start talking unusual phenomena I don't know what is.

Mulder never changes.  It's so typical of him to drop by Scully's house at an odd hour only to haul her off on some hunch of his.

Questioning Scully's opinion on Harold Spuller's death.  Granted she hadn't done an autopsy but with her medical training she's much better qualified to hypothesize on the cause of his death than Mulder is.

Getting mad at Scully after she confesses that she saw the fourth victim.  What exactly did Mulder expect from her?  When she first saw the woman Scully being Scully wouldn't want to believe what she saw and I'm sure that she was even less likely to want to admit to what she saw after all the discussion of how all the people who saw the apparitions were themselves dying.  Scully is the queen of denial did he really think she'd want to 'fess up to something which may force her to admit that she's dying?

Unprofessional Behavior

It's bad form to pick up an item at a crime scene without gloves or any other of the necessary equipment needed to handle evidence.


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