Mulder is getting a cold after spending 3 weeks on a case. He is then sent on another assignment.

Six months ago the bodies of two women were found near the small town of Gilbert Corners in upstate New York, both had been strangled. In the last three weeks,another four bodies have been discovered; the cause of death again is strangulation. Unfortunately, no headway has been made in determining who is behind the murders or what their motive is. 

The Green Fairy took them away, into a world where nothing was, as it seemed. Time seemed to stand still, or move slower at least. He couldn't grasp that at first, but then he could. As their feelings became an abyss of emotional rampaging, there was nothing left for him to do but enter the void. To be like them.

(Post-series, casefile, XFVCU, MT, angst, profiler, MSR and Skinner friendship)