A boy mysteriously reappears after ten years - and he hasn't aged a day...
Billy Underwood disappeared from a playground under his pregnant mother's nose in 1990. Ten years later, his ten-year-old brother Josh leads his mum Lisa back to the same swing, where his brother has reappeared... but as if he'd never left. He's still just ten, and definitely the same boy.
Scully and Doggett are called to investigate. Doggett questions the boy, but can't get any information out of him, even when he starts playing tough. He examines the original case files, and discovers that a dark haired boy, Ronald Purnell, was involved with the disappearance, and has been in trouble since. He finds Ronald, who refuses to co-operate.
That night, Billy apparently stabs his brother. When his mother finds Josh, he is unhurt, but a knife protrudes from the mattress - it's covered in Billy's blood, and has a strange five-pointed star gouged in its handle. The local sheriff, Sanchez, uses a police psychic, Sharon Pearl, who had premonitions of the same symbol. She leads the police to a field, but they find no fresh evidence.
When Scully introduces the psychic to Billy, she has a seizure, and the same five-pointed symbol appears on her forehead. As Scully and Doggett talk over the incident, Doggett expresses his anger that the psychic mentioned the death of his son, Luke. Scully plays the tape of the seizure back at speed, to hear a child singing.
Ronald, whose mother Marcia has warned him about making trouble, has unearthed a small skeleton in the woods. His mother's boyfriend, Cal Jeppy, threatens to tell the FBI about it.
Despite this, Ronald watches the Underwood house from his car. When Scully and Doggett investigate, Billy appears in the passenger seat. By the time they stop Ronnie from driving off, Billy has disappeared again, and Ronald is understandably upset.
Elsewhere, Billy's father Doug has stopped for petrol and Josh wanders off to a convoy of carnival vehicles. As he goes to pat a pony, Josh is grabbed from inside a trailer. The trailer bears the five-pointed symbol, and the words 'Cal's Pony Ridealong'.
When Scully and Doggett hear about Josh's disappearance, they interview Ronald again. He experiences memories of Billy's original abduction, including a hidden compartment in a horse trailer, and his attempt to free Billy. Doggett presses him for the name of Billy's abductor. The Agents rescue Billy from the compartment in the pony trailer, and Doggett chases Cal into the woods.
When Doggett catches Cal, he suddenly sees Billy in the distance. He follows him, finding the shallow grave, and Billy again disappears. It's Billy's skeleton, but Doggett refuses to believe...
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