The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files.

Severely bruised, Michelle Charters (Teryl Rothery) claims that she knows who was responsible and names the attacker as Hal Arden, an elderly resident who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

In turn, the hospital's administrator believes that Michelle has manufactured the rape allegation in order to extort money from the nursing home.

Mulder and Scully eventually discover that a Malaysian orderly, Gung Bittuen, is dosing the patients with an herbal drug made of mushrooms he cultivates in the building's basement.

As Stan, who stole all of Gung's herbal stash, overdoses and begins seizing, the spirits once again attack Charters, trapping her and Mulder in a flooding bathroom.

Scully and Grago manage to stop Stan's seizures, at which point the spirits disappear and the bathroom door opens, freeing Mulder and Charters.

[4] Production for this episode was notoriously difficult, and the book The Complete X-Files notes that it "gave the staff headaches—both during the shoot and editing process".

[4] One part of the episode that was nixed during the writing stage was an extended look at Michelle's love life: originally, she was explicitly described as a lesbian, and in one short scene her partner enters her apartment to talk to her.

During on-site production, several of the members of the show's cast and crew claimed that they heard mysterious voices, and they refused to "venture into the bowels of the building" for fear that it was haunted.

Club was mixed, writing that "the handling of the rape case left a bad taste in my mouth" and that the resolution was "a bit fuzzy".

Shearman also derided how the episode handled the rape element, noting that "there's a sour atmosphere to the whole proceedings"; he further pointed out that "only Scully shows the slightest concern that a woman's been sexually assaulted.