>For your information, The Millennium Group knows all about Marilyn Manson, and we've also been monitoring your email.<

I should have known it was you.

>But make no mistake--we are keeping an eye on this and *will* be at the Feb.14 gathering.<

So, the Group *does* think Manson is a threat, or at least a problem, even if he's just a "lanky wet rat in a G-string". I know they wouldn't waste all their high-powered expertise on a mere publicity stunt.

>Scully, in your level-headed scientific opinion, isn't all this being taken just a wee bit too seriously?<

I could ask *you* that. Since, as you pointed out, there's been no actual violent crime connected to Manson and his band yet, why *is* the Millennium Group tracking him? Perhaps someone there is interested in his claims to a finger on the millennial trigger. (I know you can't officially confirm or deny this, Frank, but I'm sure the Group has an esoteric aspect beyond its straightforward VICAP profile - a specific interest in religious prophecy. Manson's really worried about attracting the Group's attention and I suspect it's much more because of this Antichrist/Armageddon theme than because his band uses serial-killers' surnames.)

>And Mulder...good god, Scully, adjust the poor guy's meds or something. Or his implant [guffaw]! I mean, really...he's off in another country sifting through dusty old medieval manuscripts of black magick, and ranting about electronic beam weapons??!<

*sigh* There I may have to agree with you (in confidence of course).

>Mulder on a little wild goose chase, so you may not hear from him for awhile...he'll probably be reporting soon on a "time-traveller" he just met, and will probably come up with some crazy theory about how it relates to this case--that is, if he actually went where we sent him.<

It's certainly odd that you're telling me this, since you must know I'll tell him...

>And by the way, The Millennium Group is just a small offshoot of a much larger organization which I can't name, one that has been working>behind-the-scenes and directing the course of civilization since the beginning of time...you know--THEM.<

The Bavarian Illuminati? The White Brotherhood? The Space Chickens? Frank, I find it very suspicious that you're taking me into your confidence this way. If I checked your usual e-mail address @2000.org, would I find no outgoing message to me from Frank Black?...

There's a reason we say "trust no one."

==DKS