Fox Mulder was strapped to this device in his abduction by alien bounty hunters. It was a metallic chair like apparatus equipped with an autopsy blade on the side. When Theresa Hoese was abducted and then returned around the same time as Fox Mulder, Agents Dana Scully and John Doggett went to investigate. Hoese's doctor described the harm done to her by the alien torture apparatus: Tissue damage in a linear pattern inside her cheeks. Damage to her soft palate. Chest cut into and organ tissue scooped out of her.