Every episode of the “X-Files” starts with a similar exchange between FBI Agents Scully and Mulder.
A man will have been disemboweled by what is clearly a 2,000-pound gerbil, and Scully, having performed the autopsy, will be like, “There must be a rational explanation for this.”
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