While investigating a kidnapping case, Scully and Mulder encounter a death row inmate who claims to have psychic abilities. Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her he can communicate with her recently deceased father.
While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. She however, decides to start living and goes on a date.
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing people to expand his collection sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
Scully has a brush with the paranormal when her recently deceased father appears to her in a vision. Meanwhile, Mulder becomes a skeptic when a death row inmate claims to be a psychic and offers to lead the agents to a serial killer.