9

(The phone rings in REYES' bedroom. Her alarm clock shows the time as 9:09. REYES' picks up. The screen splits in half.)

REYES: (into phone) 

Hello?

SCULLY: (into phone) 

All right. I need to know.

REYES: (into phone) 

What?

SCULLY: (into phone) 

What my numerology is. 

My number. Whatever you call it. 

What am I?

REYES: (into phone) 

You're a nine.

SCULLY: (into phone) 

Which means what?

REYES: (into phone) 

Nine is completion. 

You've evolved through the experiences of all the other numbers to a spiritual realisation that this life is only part of a larger whole.

(SCULLY is silent, and looks happy at what she's hearing.)

MULDER: 

Have you heard of Jerusalem Syndrome?

SCULLY: 

Yeah, it's when people who visit the Holy Land suffer religious delusions induced by the journey.

MULDER: 

Yeah, they return home convinced they're the Messiah, Moses, The Virgin Mary, even The Devil himself. 

Well, if that's what Simon Gates believes, he's just as delusional as Michael Kryder, only a lot more dangerous.

SCULLY: 

Yeah, but it still doesn't explain how he was able to burn his fingerprints into Owen Jarvis' flesh.