Franklin Appliances and Pesticides

The Franklin Appliances and Pesticides operation was a government experiment terrorizing and killing the citizens of Franklin, Pennsylvania as part of their conspiracies to develop new weapons of warfare. The town's landscaping used LSDM, an LSD-derived pesticide that drives insects insane until they die. Using that pesticide and message-transmitting machinery, agents in and out of the town would drug the citizens and single out the ones they hoped to provoke into erratic and even violent and deadly responses. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are called to investigate the body count rising as a result of the technology. First, a middle-aged man experiences claustrophobia enough to kill four other people in the elevator with him. Bonnie McRoberts then grabs an oil funnel and stabs the mechanic seeing messages that brainwash her into thinking the mechanic "will attack" her. When questioned by the agents and Sheriff Spenser, her microwave tells her to kill them all, leading her to slashing Mulder's arm with a kitchen knife and Spencer to shoot her dead. After an autopsy reveals high adrenaline from the LSDM, the pesticide treatment stop, and the town is tested, except for a handful of people. Edward Funsch is one untested subject, smashing his electronic devices and bolting when a nurse came to take his sample. Mulder realizes he's afraid of blood, and finally snapping, Funsch goes atop the college clock tower and starts shooting at pedestrians below. Mulder convinces Funsch he can make the brainwashing stop and distracts him enough with his bleeding wound he tripped on to arrest him he's put on a stretch and taken to a hospital for evaluation at Scully's direction, and to Mulder's shock, his phone flashes a message saying the experiment is over before the call gets reception again, leaving Mulder stunned and dumbfounded. (TXF: "Blood")
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