This was the second time in the series when reference was made to fifth and sixth degree burns, something I hadn't heard of before so decided to look it up. There are indeed such classifications for burns that go beyond the surface layer of the skin and which are almost always fatal. Having done that, I had to check out Cecil L'Ively's (Mark Sheppard) preferred choice of fuel accelerant which was called argotypoline. On that one, no dice - it was something made up just for the show. Now that I know that I'll have to consider future episodes naming unfamiliar items in the same vein as "Star Trek", which did this kind of stuff all the time. At least they had an excuse, they were working in the future.
So was Scully getting just a bit jealous here with the appearance of an old flame of Mulder's? That was a neat little subtext to throw into the story with the appearance pf Scotland Yard detective Phoebe Green (Amanda Pays). I don't know that her detective skills were all that pertinent to solving the identity of the British maniac obsessed with starting fires. For his part, Cecil was a pretty determined guy, obsessing over fantasized relationships as the catalyst for his destructive behavior.
For a while at the outset, I thought the story was heading in the direction of spontaneous human combustion, a documented phenomenon that occurs every now and then. That might have been right up Mulder's alley without putting him in harm's way over one of his avowed personal fears. It turns out Scully did the principal legwork here to get to the bottom of identifying the bad guy, and I found it interesting that it would take a story about a pyromaniac to cause a spark of jealousy for her FBI partner.
So was Scully getting just a bit jealous here with the appearance of an old flame of Mulder's? That was a neat little subtext to throw into the story with the appearance pf Scotland Yard detective Phoebe Green (Amanda Pays). I don't know that her detective skills were all that pertinent to solving the identity of the British maniac obsessed with starting fires. For his part, Cecil was a pretty determined guy, obsessing over fantasized relationships as the catalyst for his destructive behavior.
For a while at the outset, I thought the story was heading in the direction of spontaneous human combustion, a documented phenomenon that occurs every now and then. That might have been right up Mulder's alley without putting him in harm's way over one of his avowed personal fears. It turns out Scully did the principal legwork here to get to the bottom of identifying the bad guy, and I found it interesting that it would take a story about a pyromaniac to cause a spark of jealousy for her FBI partner.