You know it had to kill Mulder to write up his investigation of the Michelle Bishop case and have to tag it Status: Unexplained. Come on, it was perfectly logical that eight year old Michelle (Andrea Libman) was reincarnated as her deceased father to seek revenge on the three members of his police precinct who had him killed and then made it look like a Chinese gangland hit. Gosh, can't all these other detectives see the simplicity of that explanation?
The only thing that bothered me about this story was how the young girl wound up all over the city of Buffalo to take it out on the bad guys. Finding her in an alley wasn't too bad, but the bus ride in the middle of the night should have raised some red flags with somebody. Winding up in the Fiore family home was the kicker though, however since she lived there at one time as Charlie Morris, I guess she knew how to find it well enough.
The bit with the origami was a nifty touch to add to the script, and the salt water aquarium was a nice little plot device to explain how Morris was killed. Seems the creative juices of Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa were working overtime on this one. The way everything tied together with the disfigured dolls at the shrink's office brought the resolution of the case full circle. Not bad. Officially the case may have gone unexplained, but we all know better now, don't we?
The only thing that bothered me about this story was how the young girl wound up all over the city of Buffalo to take it out on the bad guys. Finding her in an alley wasn't too bad, but the bus ride in the middle of the night should have raised some red flags with somebody. Winding up in the Fiore family home was the kicker though, however since she lived there at one time as Charlie Morris, I guess she knew how to find it well enough.
The bit with the origami was a nifty touch to add to the script, and the salt water aquarium was a nice little plot device to explain how Morris was killed. Seems the creative juices of Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa were working overtime on this one. The way everything tied together with the disfigured dolls at the shrink's office brought the resolution of the case full circle. Not bad. Officially the case may have gone unexplained, but we all know better now, don't we?