It's not hard to picture, when he really looks back on it. Sunshine had been the hippy-dippiest kind of guy, a particularly impressive feat when you considered that most of his brethren had moved on to greener pastures by the time Mulder had been old enough to drive. Anyone who went by "Sunshine" in 1978 was in it for the long haul. But at the same time, he'd come off harder than the woman there - Carinda? Carinda, Scully'd said. Neither of their names had made an impression at the time. What little Mulder remembers of the guy was prickly. Two-faced, apparently, if he'd seduced so many teenagers into a cult.

"And after you first heard about it?" He has the beginnings of a guess, too delicate an instinct to put into words just yet It seems likely in the worst possible way: Scully might have read all this in the paper, but if she and her sister had been regular customers at Beyond Beyond, it seems far more likely that the two of them got some first-hand experience.

What it really comes down to is whether it was Melissa who got snared, or if it was the woman he's currently got an arm around.