Scully and Mulder are two FBI agents sent to investigate murders that occurred in a town in New Mexico, just outside an Indian reservation. The murders were first discovered when a lady, Annie Hatch, found the bodies of two tourists while she was riding her horse. The bodies lay next to a van. When Annie approached the bodies, she saw that there were hundreds of flies on them. When he looked closer he saw that they had been skinned. The next day, as a teenager, Paulie was out behind his family's trailer with his little sister, Patty. It was dark, so dark that they couldn't see ahead. Suddenly they both heard footsteps somewhere, then they heard a whisper, the whisper became a hiss. His flesh was thrown everywhere. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay At this point the FBI was called in to investigate. Before Mulder and Scully arrived in New Mexico, they both examined the case and studied the autopsy reports that were sent to them. The autopsy report states that the bodies were flayed. The photos that were sent along with the report made both Scully and Mulder nauseous. When they arrived in New Mexico, Officer Garson was waiting to show them around and warn them to take it easy because of the heat. Scully and Mulder interviewed Patty, but got no more information about the case than they already had from the report. She didn't see anything because she had been hit in the face by a branch which knocked her out. After the interview, they went to dinner, where they met the doctor who wrote the autopsy report. He told them that the report he had written was wrong. She was told to write the wrong details because the sheriff didn't want the press to find out, because New Mexico has been trying to improve its image for years. The real Truth is that people were scraped, as if they were held against a high-speed rotating drum covered in coarse sandpaper. As they left the restaurant a man stared at them from across the street, as Mulder passed him, he continued to stare. Mulder made a U-turn and then another, so that the car stopped next to the man. He introduced himself and told them he was Ciola. Mulder and Scully knew his name because the sheriff had previously told them that Ciola is a likely suspect in the crimes because he has already killed a man. Both Mulder and Scully felt strange about his presence, and Scully especially didn't like the fear on his face. Their next stop would be to talk to Donna Falkner, a crafts seller for the Konochine Indians who worked with Nick Lanaya, an Indian who left the reservation to go to college. He came back after studying. When they arrived, he had his suitcases packed on the living room floor, preparing for a trip. Donna told them that the Konochine did not like outsiders, and that if anyone entered their reservation, they would be chased away. He also told them to investigate Ciola because he was probably the killer. That interview got them nowhere. From his home the two FBI agents went to the police station to examine the van driven by the first two people killed. There was also a car on site that had mysteriously gone off the road. Both vehicles had paint scraped off in a way that only sandpaper or something similar could do. Scully found an Indian-made bracelet, the kind Donna Falkner would sell. Mulder called Agent Garson and told him to take Donna home so she would miss her flight. Donna was very upset by the.