Guest Starring John Diehl as Pinker Rawls, Tuesday Knight as Jackie Gurwich, Frank Novak as Raybert Fellowes, David Bowe as Robert Werther, Catherine Dent as June Gurwich and Jeffrey Schoeny as Trevor.

"I WANT WHAT'S MINE"

A tornado is headed for the Division of Corrections in Jasper County, Mississippi. One of the inmates gets on Pinker Rawls' nerves. This is not recommended! Rawls nails his fellow inmate's hand to the plywood shelter they are building. The Superintendent punishes Rawls by putting him into "THE BOX," not a good place to be during a tornado. After the twister passes through, they find the prison Superintendent cut in two inside his locked office. "THE BOX" has been blown away, and Rawls is presumed dead.

Mulder and Scully meet at the morgue where they try to determine how the Boss was literally burned in half. Scully beats Mulder to the punch by suggesting spontaneous human combustion. He smiles that she came to this conclusion. She was only kidding, but does admit that there have been a few documented cases. Pinker Rawls is suspected of killing the Boss, but Scully doesn't think that a ghost did it. She says that the victim could have been killed by the high electrical field generated by the tornado. Mulder thinks it was a murder; he just has to figure out how the killer got into the locked office. He finds a section of wall that has been physically changed. It crumbles to the touch. They check Rawls belongings to determine where he might have gone if he is still alive. He was imprisoned for the theft of 90,000 dollars that was never recovered. Could he be looking for that? Scully finds a picture of Rawls with a woman. Their next move is to find out who and where she is. Meanwhile, June Gurwich and Robert Werther are having breakfast. June is hinting that marriage would be a nice idea as she shows him a picture of a wedding dress. He is distracted by the TV news of the tornado. June is even more distracted when she hears that the prison was hit and Pinker Rawls is presumed dead. Later, that night, a security guard finds Rawls in a locked store picking up some clothes. He handcuffs Rawls to a pole and calls in the attempted robbery. Rawls escapes the handcuffs and the store. He takes the guard's car and moves on. Mulder and Scully check out the scene. When asked how Rawls got away, the guard says that he must be Houdini. Mulder checks the handcuffs. They fall apart like Styrofoam.

Pinker goes to his old house where he searches for something. His old friend and partner in crime, Bo, comes in. Pinker says: "Bo, I want what's mine." Thinking that he wants to find his old girlfriend, Bo says that he might have her address. Bo and June were living together after Pinker went to prison. He says that she left four years ago, but he's sorry for shacking up with his girl. Bo, digs a gun out of a drawer and aims it at Pinker. Pinker goads him into shooting him. Bo obliges, but the bullets pass right through him. Rawls walks toward the terrified man as he continues to fire the gun. Later, Scully and Mulder arrive at Rawls' last known address. The security guard's car is parked outside. Inside, they find what's left of Bo. His face has been turned to ash just like the camp Superintendent. Scully reports the murder and checks records for any info that might lead them to the woman in the picture. Mulder discovers bullets in the door. He digs one out, but it disintegrates in his hands. Scully finds out that the woman is June Gurwich who hasn't been around since 1996. She says that the state police have put out an A.P.B. on Rawls. Mulder says: "Better tell them not to shoot to kill. He seems to find that annoying." Scully says that if the bullets went through Rawls, he would be sprawled dead on the floor. Mulder says that the bullets changed their composition when they passed through him. They didn't hurt him, because they went right through him like he passed through the walls and fell out of the handcuffs. Scully says that there isn't any science to base that on. He says that she suggested that the tornado may have caused a high electrical potential that could explain it. He doesn't have any other explanation. Scully says: "I'm sorry I even brought it up." They both agree that their next move is to find Gurwich. Scully has an address on her sister, Jackie. Speaking of Jackie, she calls June to tell her that the police called looking for her. She didn't tell them anything, but they asked if she knew why Pinker Rawls would be looking for her. June becomes shook up and hangs up. Jackie hears a noise, so she grabs a knife and looks around. Pinker comes around the corner and chases her into the bedroom. She locks the door, but he walks through the wall -- losing his clothes in the process. He says: "That's not very friendly, Jackie." Mulder and Scully arrive and look for Jackie. The bedroom door has "I Want What's Mine" burned on it. Mulder kicks the door in! They find Jackie sitting on the bed. She says: "He left." The police arrive to go over the scene. Scully says that Jackie said that Rawls walked right through the wall. She didn't tell Rawls where June is, so Mulder wonders why he just left. He didn't take the car he arrived in and no other cars are missing. Scully says that the police can search for him, they have to go to Meridian where June Gurwich lives. As they pull out, Rawls gets comfortable in the trunk of their car. That boy needs some clothes.

Scully and Mulder arrive at June's house. Robert answers the door, and is quite confused when they ask for June Gurwich also known as June Burdett. June comes to the door and says: "Pinker's alive, isn't he?" She asks if Jackie and her son are okay? They tell her that they are fine. When asked what Rawls is to her, she says: "A mistake. The biggest one of many." She explains that they used to live together. Mulder asks if Rawls wants the money. She says that he was in jail when she accidentally found the money. She spent most of it on a down payment on her house, some curtains, a sofa and a PC for Robert. "I just wanted a second chance." Robert is not amused at all he is hearing. I fear that the wedding is off. He finally leaves the room after hearing all this news. Mulder and Scully bring in the police to put them into protective custody. Robert says that he doesn't need protecting, because the guy is after HER for stealing the money. "I didn't break any laws." He says that he will go to his house and stay out of the way. Mulder goes to put June's bag in the trunk, when he discovers that the trunk lid has been Rawlsified. Mulder sends her off with the police. He tells Scully that they took him right where he wanted to go. Mulder goes back into the house where Rawls has been going through the drawers. When Mulder comes into the room, Rawls disappears. Scully calls for Mulder to check something out. Rawls has left his calling card burned on the wall: "I Want What's Mine" Mulder discovers that a mirror on the wall stopped Rawls from burning his message into the edge of it. He and Scully deduce that if he is using some sort of high electrical energy, it is being stopped by anything that would be considered an insulator. They decide that he isn't looking for the money; he could get money anytime. Scully finds a hospital receipt that shows that June had a baby seven years ago. Scully says: "'I want what's mine.' This man is looking for his child, Mulder." At the safe house, June gives the guard a hard time. She is nervous, and she has a reason to be. Rawls arrives and kills the guard for daring to shoot him. A policeman tells Scully and Mulder that Rawls took the woman and a station wagon. They decide that they need to find the child before Rawls does. Scully says that they could go through state records, but it could take some time if the child was adopted. Mulder tells the cops that he needs some special issue equipment.

Pinker asks June what she had? She thinks he wants the money, so this question makes no sense to her. He says: "What did you have? Was it a boy or a girl?" She says: "A boy." He asks what his name is? June says: "Trevor Andrew." He says that it was a million to one shot, but he heard about it from a guy who heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy... "you know what that means? It means that God wanted me to know. He fixed it so I'd hear. Then he fixed it so I had passage. And I'm here. God's will." Meanwhile, Scully and Mulder continue to search the records for the child via the phone. After coming up empty on any adoption or other info, in a multi state area, they decide that she didn't go through official channels. Scully says: "Maybe the kid's with a friend or a relative somewhere." The light bulbs go off. The kid is the boy that Jackie said was her son. Mulder receives his special equipment, a box of rubber riot bullets and a riot gun. Hopefully, this will slow Rawls down.

Pinker and June arrive at Jackie's house just as Trevor sits down for dinner. Mulder calls to warn Jackie, but the answering machine takes the message. Rawls thanks Jackie for taking care of his son. He says that she's a good mother, better than some he knows. Trevor says hello to Aunt June, which causes Pinker to flip out. He locks her in the pantry. Then he assures Trevor that everything is okay. He tells him to finish his dinner then they are going to take a trip. Jackie begs Pinker to leave the boy alone. She is also trying to decide if she should throw some hot soup on Pinker. Jackie tells Trevor to go pack some stuff. After the boy leaves, she throws the soup through Pinker then hits him in the head with the GLASS soup pot. Jackie yells for Trevor to run! Rawls knocks Jackie out then runs outside after the boy. June manages to get out of the pantry. Rawls chases Trevor, but runs upon Mulder and Scully. Mulder says: "Don't make me shoot you!" Rawls doesn't know that he is loaded with rubber, so he keeps coming. Mulder shoots him, and when Rawls feels the pain, he runs through a wall of the house -- leaving his clothes behind.

While Mulder is looking for Rawls in the house, Scully races to get Trevor into the car so she can get him to a safe place. She is surprised by Rawls who comes up behind her in the buff. She takes Trevor by the hand and they run for a phone booth. Rawls chases after them, but he can't get into the booth which is mostly glass. He keeps yelling: "Give me my son..." He picks up a rock and smashes a hole in the glass. He looks through the hole at Trevor, then drops the rock. He walks away from the booth and into the street. June is headed right for him in the station wagon. He figures that he will just pass through the car, but the windshield removes his top half. There is quite a mess of blood on the window. Most of Rawls is lying over there and over there and over there. Yuck! Mulder walks over to the car. June says that she had to do it. He could have hurt Trevor. She asks: "What did he want?" Mulder says: "Maybe another chance."


Critique **** (of five) Some of the episodes this year have been rather cumbersome with lots of dialogue and superficial subplots. Not so with "Trevor." This story by Jim and Ken moves along nicely with only one plot line: find Trevor no matter who gets in the way. And with Rob Bowman directing, there aren't any dull moments. The story is scary and tense, because you never know when Rawls is going to pop up next or if he is going to use his special power to zap somebody. Even though we never really get to know any of the characters he's involved with, we are still concerned about their health. June Gurwich is the only person that I felt may deserve Rawls' wrath. I don't know why, she just got on my nerves at times. Scully has no trouble believing that Rawls may have received his special power from the electrical fields generated by the tornado. This is a welcome change. I am way past putting up with her disbelief in all things x-files. Maybe she has finally experienced enough weirdness that she doesn't need to look for some incredibly, complicated, scientific reason for everything. Basically, that's what's fun about this episode. It's simple and to the point. It's nice to sit back and watch an X-Files episode without having to use your brain all that much. I have been impressed with the show's high production values this year. Everything from the special effects to the use of location sound has been big-time. My only gripe with this episode is Mark Snow's score. He spent too much time on synthesized sound effects rather than a tense music bed.

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