Mulder suggests that it may help them identify the victim.

Chao explains that the paper is 'hell money', a symbolic offering to spirits during the Chinese Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. Mulder also finds a small scrap of paper, among the oven's ashes. Neary introduces Mulder to Detective Glen Chao, who is of Asian descent and translates the writing as the Chinese word for ' ghost'. Looking inside the now-deactivated crematory oven while talking with Neary, Mulder discovers a Chinese character scrawled inside the oven. Scully notices that the latest victim's body includes a glass eye. Mulder is critical of the detective's words, but both agree that there have recently been numerous similar cases of victims having been burned alive. The investigators inspect the crematory oven.Ī Detective Neary shows Mulder and Scully the badly burned corpse of Johnny Lo. He also finds that the clatter is coming from an operating crematory oven that holds Johnny Lo, who writhes in agony as he is burned alive. He investigates the noise, momentarily catching sight of the masked figures. Later the same night, a night watchman in the Bayside Funeral Home is distracted from a handheld video game by a metallic bang in another area of the funeral home. Lo then turns to see three masked figures standing before him. In desperation, Lo stabs the man, who bloodily falls to the floor. Once inside, he is confronted by a man hidden in shadow who, in Cantonese, insists that he must pay. He hurries into a darkened alley and up a flight of back stairs to an apartment door, pausing to examine newly-painted white Chinese lettering on the door. Johnny Lo is shocked to find newly-painted white symbols on his apartment door.Īmid a hectic Chinese street festival at night, a young Chinese man, Johnny Lo, warily flees through San Francisco's Chinatown.

In Chinatown, Mulder and Scully discover an illegal lottery in which the 'losers' are forced to donate their internal organs.

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