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Syzygy

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Series: The X-Files
Original Airdate: 1-26-1996
Production Number: 3x13
Date(s): 1-12-1996
Written by: Chris Carter
Directed by: Rob Bowman

Mulder and Scully investigate strange murders in New Hampshire that may be due to a rare planetary alignment.

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A high-school jock at a nightime vigil for a dead friend offers his remembrances, and is manipulated into driving two girls home. He is found dead the next morning, hanging from a cliff. Above, the two girls play "he loves me, he loves me not" as they sit on a blanket next to the rope their classmate is hanging from.

At the funeral for the second victim, the coffin begins to steam during the outburst of a local citizen, who claims that a Satanic cult is responsible for the deaths.

The two girls go to a basketball game, and in envy, cause a basketball player's girlfriend to fall down, and a gangly nerd to be crushed under the stands in the high school gym.

A bag of dog bones previously owned by the obstetrician is found and the zealot from the funeral takes a crowd to the obstetricians home to exact mob vengeance. He is brought in on a warrant and cleared.

Meanwhile Mulder and a local investigator revert back to awkward high-school level flirtations. Scully is very resentful in a similarly adolescent fashion.

Mulder is told by an astrologist that once every 84 years, three planets align and cause behavioral and supernatural oddities. A particularly bad year for this phenomenon was 1979 when 4 planets aligned. That date is the girls' birthday.

Scully and Mulder separate and each ends up with one of the girls; each believing that the other girl is now the prime suspect. All 4 descend on the local police headquarters where the proximity of the now combative girls causes havoc (tremors, gunfire). The events cease at midnight.

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  • The name of the town, Comity, literally means "social harmony".

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Comity; Caryl County; New Hampshire; virgin; satanic cult; planetary alignment; horned beast; astrology; Mars; Uranus; Mercury; Jupiter; basketball; Mr. Tippy; cross dressing; pediatrician; screwdriver; keystone kops; Aquarius; geological vortex; grand square;

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