Chapter 4: "I'll make it"

Mulder said, "This proves I'm right!
Can't you see, he was in flight!
He'd been kidnapped, cloned, and drugged,
and then he took a thirty slug."

"I've no theory, but I'm not sure
about what I've now heard of your's"
Said Scully, honestly befuddled
at Mulder's thinking (which seemed muddled).

"I didn't say the man was shot
by those who hatched the cloning plot.
It was just wrong place / wrong time
The shooting just a random crime.

The men who'd held him would not be
so unsubtle, so unclean
He'd have disappeared, unseen
(for the second time, I mean)"

"When they saw he had escaped,
they tried to find him, but to late.
So lest their plot then go astray
They got rid of the clone they'd made."

"He disappeared, no trace at all
and save for that one cash withdrawal
we'd have known no better of it.
This case? We'd have passed upon it."

So Mulder said, so Scully heard;
at first it sounded quite absurb,
but all the facts were well explained
and not a lone loose thread remained.

"The clone, I think, will not be found",
said Mulder (by that thought brought down)
More thorough, far, than that, they were
We'll find, in LA, nothing more"

"But where could the man have been?
Where should that new search here begin?"
Mulder pondered, Scully sighed,
someplace she once went to hide.

"I know the place, we cannot go,
but I have been there, you should know.
Leave it be, our work is done,
this case has nowhere else to run."

Mulder said, "We've come so far!
We can't quit this case of ours"
"Every case must reach an end",
said Scully to her fiery friend.

She was right, he did admit.
To this trip's end, he did submit.
They packed up, checked out, hit the road,
returned the car they had been loaned.

Back, again, to DCA
to home to sleep the night away
To work when the next morning came;
glad to see HQ again.

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