#kae posts

in pusher, modell really terrifies scully. mulder going in alone with no gun or close enough backup. in the russian roulette scene, sure, she's afraid to be shot & killed but she's also worried what that would do to mulder. she could see how hard he was fighting modell's influence/control. and that is never turned on scully. mulder is modell's opponent. and like everyone else, he underestimates their connection (he sees it and uses it against mulder but he only sees it as something he can weaponize, oh the folly) and what scully is capable of.

in plus one, mulder succumbs the moment he sees his double, whereas scully brushes it off. she was startled, but she wouldn't give them any power. but she ~does take those bread pills that supposedly protect people from the twins' game. (judy? gives them to her. i remember scully not believing the split. but judy also wanted to take out scully. and oh no i'm seeing this in a new light given ... things i know from my life. anyway)

and thinking of all the times mulder was manipulated. fire, diana, jerry, grotesque, paper hearts. she'd witnessed enough by pusher to know. she knows mulder. she's always trying to pull him back, ground him. and when he refuses, she follows without hesitation.