Avatar is a very strange episode for me. Its one of those that for some reason I can never really quite remember the story to until I watch it again. This is one of the first episodes that focuses on Skinner as a character and I love how they do it. The teaser shows a rare glimpse into his personal life as he is hesitating over signing his divorce documents with the pen that his wife gave him for their anniversary. The irony is too much for him to handle and he decides that after 17 years they can wait another day. He goes to a bar where he meets a very attractive woman and they end up sleeping together. However, in the middle of the night Skinner wakes up from a bad dream where he is doing the crazy lazy with an old lady and finds that the woman who he was with has had her head turned all the way around the wrong way. There are so many things that are touched upon in this episode that it is hard to go into all of it so I will sum up. It turns out that the woman is an escort who was hired by the shadow government to try and ruin Skinner and get him out of the FBI because of him helping Mulder and Scully. The old woman is some strange something or other that I still don't quite understand that Skinner has been seeing ever since his out of body experience in Vietnam. The shadow government dudes as far as I can tell are the ones who killed the escort lady and they keep killing more and trying to pin it on Skinner. Skinner meets up with his wife and later she is in a bad car accident and Skinner is again under suspicion for that as well. Finally he lets Mulder and Scully help him and admits to the crazy things he has been seeing. I guess he knows he can open up to Mulder because Mulder believes everything right? So Mulder and Scully use one of the other escorts as bait to try and capture the men that are framing Skinner but what they don't know is that the shadow government hit-man knows he is being setup and that Mulder and a task force will be waiting. Skinner goes to see his wife in the hospital and in a strange psychic moment, his wife comes back from her coma and warns Skinner about what is about to go down at the hotel. So Skinner shows up just in time and kills the hit-man and clears his name. Its not clear to me whether Skinner's wife dies or not. We never really see or hear about her ever again after the hospital scene. Anyway, the episode is quite entertaining and just complicated enough to keep me focused and interested. I give it a 9 out of 10.