'Pictures don't kill people - guns do.' Then Mulder shows her what happened to Musashi.Ī phone call summons Mulder and Scully to a Los Angeles Sheriff's building, where a prostitute named Jade Blue Afterglow has been picked up for questioning because she fits the description of the killer. 'A computer animated woman,' scoffs Scully. Mulder enters to express his admiration for the technology, which Scully complains is wasted on a 'stupid game adds to a culture of violence.' Mulder rejects Scully's accusations of 'testoterone frenzy,' saying the game may fill a deeply coded genetic need to work out aggression. Scully autopsies Retro, but is confused about the cause of death because despite the obvious impact of a projectile through a Kevlar-type jacket, she can find no powder burns, nor chemical signature. Yet within minutes of entering the game, Musashi is dead, his arms and head cut off by the mysterious virtual woman. Meanwhile, gaming guru Darryl Musashi arrives to try the game. As he walks away with a printout of the fantasy figure female, Phoebe whispers, 'Goddess.' Scully can't believe her partner seriously believes the Lara Croft lookalike could be the murderer - 'She's an immature hormonal fantasy, not real' - but the police agree to try to track down a woman fitting her description. ''Can you texture-wrap her?' asks Mulder, impressing everyone in the room with his technical expertise. Phoebe shows Mulder and the Lone Gunmen the wire frame display for the game, which reveals the presence of a female character where none was supposed to exist. Scully wants to call in the police, but Ivan Martinez, the game's designer, fears a public investigation will ruin his marketability. Phoebe, the woman who worked in the control booth, says Retro's telemetry was solid, then suddenly he was dead. 'The gun's a toy,' points out Langly, yet Scully has real blood on her hands. Scully takes one look at Retro and says he obviously died of a gunshot, but the programmers tell her that's impossible there are no real weapons in the VR environment.

'I don't know about you guys, but I'd be checking my shorts for cake,' warns Mulder.

The Lone Gunmen are there, admitting that Langly programmed the bad guys on a new video game - err, digital entertainment, as Mulder corrects Scully - but there's been a small problem that could ruin the IPO next week. Then she shoots him.Īt FPS Corporate Offices, Mulder and Scully are asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement and to have their FBI badges scanned before they are allowed to enter.

'This is my game,' she tells the player, Retro. Three men suit up for a virtual reality game, chanting, 'Kill, kill, kill!' But once inside the game, the monitors go crazy in the control room, and one of the players is approached by a voluptuous woman in high heels. First Person Shooter on The X-Files 'First Person Shooter'

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