Ronnie Strickland

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Ronald Lavelle Strickland was a vampire who was almost the cause of a $446 million lawsuit against the FBI with Mulder and Scully as co-defendants, when Mulder staked him through the heart. He was living in Chaney, Texas and working as a pizza delivery boy, when Mulder and Scully were brought in to investigate an apparent vampire killing. In an unusual twist on the usual vampire legends, Ronnie was a vampire who had watched "one too many Bela Lugosi movies". He had sharpened his canines to leave the trademark two puncture holes in his victims' necks and had to drug his victims by putting chloral hydrate in their pizzas. Ronnie drugged Mulder but was delayed in drinking his blood when Mulder threw his sunflower seeds at him. Since the legend of vampires includes their obssessive compulsive nature, Strickland was compelled to pick them all up. While this was happening, Scully was carrying out the autopsy of another victim and realised from the stomach contents that the drugs were in the pizza. She arrived in time to take several shots at Strickland but they had no affect. She checked on Mulder and believed him to be incapacitated and ran after Strickland. Mulder, however, had recovered and taken a sharp piece of wood with him, beating Scully to Ronnie, he stabbed him in the heart. The two agents were later sent back to Chaney when the coroner is attacked and Ronnie Strickland is missing from the morgue. They returned to Chaney and were met again by Sheriff Lucius Hartwell. Mulder left Scully to stake out the cemetary with Sheriff Hartwell, while he went to arrest Ronnie. However, it turned out that all the locals at the RV park were vampires, including Sheriff Hartwell. They drugged Mulder and Scully and left the RV park. (TXF: "Bad Blood")