Phone Conversation #4, Chinga, [5 x 10]

Scully: Scully
Mulder: Hey.  I thought you weren’t answering your cell phone.
(Mulder, tie undone, is sitting at a desk [Scully’s?!]  which has an upside down map of Kentucky behind it.  He is playing with the phone cord.  Still bored.)
Scully: Then why’d you call?
Mulder: I, uh, I had a new thought about this case you’re on. There’s a viral infection that’s spread by simple touch...
Scully: Mulder, are there any references in occult literature to objects that have the power to direct human behavior?
(Bonsaint gives Scully an odd look.)
Mulder: What types of objects?
Scully: Um, like a doll, for instance.
Mulder: You mean like Chuckie?
Scully: Yeah, kind of like that. (Mulder gets up and crosses to his desk)
Mulder: Yeah, the talking doll myth is well established in literature, especially in New England.  The-the fetish or Juju is believed to pass on magical powers onto its possessor.  Some of the early witches were condemned for little more that proclaiming that these objects existed.  The supposed witch having premonitory visions and things …. Why do you ask?
Scully: I was just curious.
Mulder: You didn’t find a talking doll, did you, Scully?
Scully: No, no.  Of course not.
Mulder: I would suggest that you check the back of the doll for a - a plastic ring with a string on it.
(Scully shakes her head and hangs up.)
Mulder: That would be my first ….  Hello?