Pusher

At the supermarket, the FBI arrests a man named Robert Patrick Modell, whom the head of the capture operation, agent Frank Burst, calls "the Pusher". Burst in a police car accompanies Modell to the prison, but on the way the latter begins to talk about the soft blue color. Suddenly, the driver drives right under the wheels of the truck, not noticing the huge car. After the accident, Modell escapes.

Injured in the accident, Burst tells Mulder and Scully about the case of "Pusher" Modell, who committed a series of murders that looked like suicides over two years. In one of the photos, Mulder sees the word "ronin", and deductively goes to Modell's ad for" problem solving " in a military magazine. Using the phone number listed in the ad, agents find Modell at a Golf club in falls Church. During the capture operation, one of the special forces officers, having succumbed to Modell's persuasions, burns himself with a can of gasoline. Mulder finds an emaciated Modell in a car nearby and arrests him.

At the court hearing, Modell, using his abilities, persuades the judge to let him go. The agents find out that Modell tried to become an FBI agent, but was eliminated due to a tendency to self-centeredness and sociopathy. Modell enters the FBI building, passing security with a piece of paper with the word "pass" written on it. After requesting Mulder's personal file from Walter Skinner's Secretary, Modell accidentally runs into Skinner himself. The pusher convinces the Secretary that it was Skinner who robbed her earlier, and she sprays tear gas in the boss's face and beats him up.

The FBI breaks into Modell's empty apartment. The protein shakes and epilepsy medications found in the refrigerator suggest to Mulder that Modell's telepathic abilities are due to a brain tumor, and that he has to constantly replenish his energy supply. Modell calls his apartment and causes Frank Burst to have a heart attack while the agents try to locate the criminal. They determine that Modell is in a Fairfax hospital, where a security guard has just shot a technician. An unarmed Mulder with a video transmitter on his head is sent inside the hospital. After Modell rips the video camera off Mulder at gunpoint, Scully rushes in. Scully finds them both playing Russian roulette and manages to pull the fire alarm lever. Mulder, who was aiming at her at the time, temporarily gets out of Modell's influence, shoots the criminal and seriously injures him.

Some time later, Mulder and Scully visit Modell in the hospital. He doesn't come out of the coma, and Scully predicts that the brain tumor will most likely kill Modell before he regains consciousness. Mulder tells her that Modell's tumor was operable, but that Modell did not want to be treated himself, so as not to lose his abilities, since he was always "a small person who really wanted to be significant."