Josef Kobold

Josef Kobold is an institutionalized history professor responsible for a series of co-ed murders at his college, the victims he used for fertilizer in his garden once ground to pieces. While institutionalized, Kobold is brought into an investigation with a new gruesome spree with demonic overtones, along with uncanny similarity to the first scene where his cellmate, Dr. Kenneth Richmond, killed three patients by sewing strychnine pills into their stomachs. Darren and Evelyn Mountjoy are killed in what's staged as a murder suicide, but Evelyn's actually tied and gagged, Darren tricked into shooting her, before being shot himself. Their dog also had their neck snapped, and "Daemonicus" was on the Scrabble board where they were playing the game, and out of Evelyn's wounds hatch snakes. To John Doggett's disbelief, Monica Reyes immediately picks up the hints of possession having sensed evil when walking into the crime scene. But Kobold's hospital calls, knowing Richmond, who escaped before the killings, is responsible. But the hospital dismisses the supernatural elements as well as Kobold "sensing" the location of another crime scene, though they mention a guard disappeared and it's seemingly connected. Kobold babbles incoherence and asks to be "protected from the Devil". When Kobold's taken out into the woods where the next crime scene is, he relishes the freedom, which leads to an immediate escort back to the hospital. Though they fins another crime scene: a masked killer at the scene of the Mountjoy's deaths is hung upside-down from a tree, finding out it's Paul Gerlich, the missing guard. It appears Richmond is the other masked killer, responsible for sewing in the snakes and shooting his accomplice. Reyes says Kobold can still be used for information, so as part of a deal, he's transferred to a larger room. When Kobold taunts Doggett about his dead son before convulsing in a seizure, he warns the hospital admin, Dr. Monique Sampson, is in danger. She's later dead with many syringes in her face, poisoned with the same drug Richmond was prescribed. Doggett, still believing Kobold is behind all the murderous operations and ruses, shows him his paper of how Satanism influenced the Renaissance. When Kobold taunts him over the debatable "feelings" Doggett has for his colleagues and Doggett grabs him, Kobold vomit and falls into the puddle of it. Officer Custer is told where the final body's located, Happy Landing, and when Scully heads over there from being closer, Richmond abducts her. When Doggett demands her location, Kobold mumbles “Game’s over, Mr. Doggett. You’ve lost.” A gunshot at an old workshop shows Scully alive and in one piece, Richmond from a self-inflicted gunshot. When a fleeing man in patient garb runs onto a dock, Doggett chases him and shoots him, causing him to fall into the water. To everyone's horror, Custer was the victim, and Kobold's nowhere top be found, meaning he most likely escaped. Later, in Scully's class, Reyes and Doggett show up and say they found pout Kobold researched everyone on the Internet, luring them into an investigation to create enough a scene, with all carnage found, to escape at the end. Writing "DAEMONICUS" on the board, Doggett shows the circumstance of DArren and Evelyn, MONique, and CUSter. They were all killed out of both sadism and as a distraction by Kobold's henchmen, Custer to look like Kobold long enough for Kobold to escape and none of them look for him when it's too late. Reyes laments there's one thing Doggett refuses to discuss in the case. Scully asks, “You mean that you felt the presence of evil?” Reyes replies, “No, I mean that he felt it, too.” (TXF: "Dæmonicus")
Category:People with supernatural abilities
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