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S2 E11

The X-Files · Season 2, Episode 11

Scully and Mulder in “Excelsis Dei”

What if there's a connection?

Between the rape case and the Alzheimer's? When they're not drawing childlike pictures they're brutal sex offenders?

Dr. Grago's therapy produces acetylcholine. Too much cholinergic activity causes a psychotic state similar to schizophrenia.

You think that Michelle Charters was raped by a 74-year-old schizophrenic?

It's possible.

An invisible 74-year-old schizophrenic?

Well, maybe it's not in the medication. Maybe it's the place itself.

Are you saying that the building's haunted? If you are, you've been working with me for too long, Scully.

I'm talking about an environmental reason behind what's happening there. Even the disinfectant couldn't mask that smell. Who knows what's breeding behind the walls or in the sub-structure. Some fungal contaminants have been known to cause delusions, dementia, violent behavior.

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