Scully: Good morning.
Mulder: Whatever tape you found in that VCR isn’t mine.
Scully: Good, because I put it back in the drawer with all the other videos that aren’t yours.
Scully: This is Michelle Charters. She’s a registered nurse at a convalescent home in Worchester, Massachusetts.
Mulder: What happened to her?
Scully: According to Miss Charters, she was raped. The abrasions and contusions here would be consistent with her claims, as would be the medical report, which cites the kind of injury and tearing associated with sexual trauma.
Mulder: Where’d you get this? Violent crimes?
Scully: No, the woman made the video herself. It seems that no one will believe her story.
Mulder: Why not?
Scully: Because she claims to have been raped by an invisible entity. A spirit being.
Michelle Charters (Teryl Rothery): Look, I didn’t make this up, okay? I was attacked. And I’m not some kind of shrinking violet who would repress the memory of a rapist’s face.
Hal Arden (David Fresco): I’m 74 years old. I’ve got plumbing older than this building. {he opens his towel}. And it don’t work much better either.
Mulder: Thank you for sharing.
Scully: Dr. Grago tells us that you haven’t been able to work in years. That the medicine has improved your—
Leo (Ernie Prentice): It ain’t the medication.
Scully: Well what is it then?
Scully: What if there’s a connection?
Mulder: Between the rape case and the Alzheimer’s? You mean when they’re not drawing childlike pictures they’re brutal sex offenders?
Mulder: So you think Michelle Charters was raped by a 74-year-old schizophrenic?
Scully: It’s possible.
Mulder: An invisible 74-year-old schizophrenic.
Scully about the mushrooms: Were you feeding them to the residents here?
Gung (Sab Shimono): Yes. But only in small amounts.
Mulder: Why?
Gung: Because it makes them feel better.
Mulder: It makes them feel better or it kills them?
Gung: Something… has gone very wrong. The mushrooms, we take to speak with the dead. To see our ancestors in the spirit world. But the spirit in this place is very angry, and the souls that died here continue to suffer. And now they have been awakened.
Scully: Mulder, mushrooms aren’t medication. They taste good on hamburgers but they don’t raise the dead.
Dorothy (Frances Bay): They’re gone. They’re gone! They’re all gone.
Scully: In response to the series of unexplained incidents at the Excelsis Dei convalescent home, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has assumed all administrative authority at the facility. They have detected trace aounts of ibotenic acid in more than half the residents tested. Though these levels have deteriorated rapidly. Dr. John Grago has been replaced as head physician at the facility, and his trial use of the drug Deprynyl has been suspended. For his admitted part in manufacturing and distributing an illicit substance, Gung Bituen was remanded to the Immigration and Naturalization Service and is awaiting repatriation to Malaysia. There are reportedly no efforts being made to study the mushrooms. The federal government has settled Michelle Charters’ lawsuit of out court, though no clear blame has been placed. Witnesses to the events have been unreliable, due to the dramatic relapses and a general reversal in their progress with Alzheimer’s disease.