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Mulder and Scully investigate a rash of violent crimes and meet a man who cannot speak and the young woman who can hear him.
I rarely post the Virtual Seasons cases here because they're already all posted together at virtualseasonx.org but I thought it was time to give them another plug.
"I Made This Productions" features some of the best fanfic authors writing excellent X-Files episodes. It splits from canon after "Je Souhaite" then generates its own internal canon. Many of the stories don't need to be read in order; it will usually say in the headers if there's reference to previous virtual episodes.
This is the first in the virtual series - Season 8 Episode One.