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  • Teaser Location: Freighter T'ien Kou, Pacific Ocean, 9:17pm
  • The box containing the Wanshang Dhole (a canid, supposedly extinct for the last 150 years) is labeled in Chinese characters: "Careful. Live animal."
  • The boxes behind it are labeled with numbers 9-10.
  • FBI Headquarters, 7:10pm--Scully walks into Mulder's office
  • Bellflower, California, 9:27pm--Jake Conroy (age 30, customs agent by the Federal Government) and his dog, Jo-Jo, are first seen
  • San Pedro, California, 7:42am--The agents arrive at the dockyard
  • Mulder lists the animals a cryptozoologist (one who studies animals who are thought to be extinct) studies: Sasquatch, Ogopogo and the Abominable Snowman
  • Officer Jeffrey Cahn had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Ian Detweiler five minutes before the agents asked about him.
  • Bellflower, 9:32am--The agents arrive at Jake Conroy's house
  • The lady who puts up the fence for Karin Berquist is Stacy Muir.
  • Background info on Berquist: she "knows more about canine behaviorisms than anybody on the planet. She's lived with wild canids and wolves in the wilderness on 5 different continents." Resides in Berquist Kennels (917 Creekview Road, Topanga, CA 90290), has systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by skin lesions.
  • Karin has written: The Wolf Inside, Dogs Don't Lie, and Better than Human
  • Karin has these books: Nice Girls Do, The California Dog Lovers Companion
  • Officer Frank Fiedler's truck license plate: 999980
  • 8:34am--The agents arrive at the warehouse crime scene where Officer Fiedler was killed
  • Berquist's suggested headline: "Dog Eats Dogcatcher"
  • Canids only have four toes. The "Dhole," however, has five, one being a dewclaw (vestigial toe pad on his front paws) that serves no purpose now, but was once perhaps a prehensile thumb.
  • 6:21pm--Riley Animal Clinic.
  • Angie, the owner of the Saint Bernard, Duke, is asking Peggy, the receptionist for a bottle of pills. Dr. Riley prescribed for Duke three pills a day.
  • Detweiler asks for animal tranquilizer. Riley does not have Telezol, but gives him some Etorphine.
  • Dogs in the clinic: Sparky, Dino, Buck
  • Officers present at clinic with Cahn: Lowell, Shoen
  • Cahn shoots at the Dhole/St. Bernard 4 times.
  • Photo in clinic: "To my good friend James Riley. Stay well, Karin."
  • Mulder leaves the clinic at approximately 8:25pm.
  • Before Cahn bites the dust, he tells Mulder he will meet him in 15 minutes.
  • Hospital sign: "Emergency" and "Clinic" are to the right, "Hospital Parking" to the left
  • 2:02am--Mulder and Scully are waiting at the hospital.
  • Mulder has a copy of UFO Bazaar on his desk.

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