 The episode opens with Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) unwell and horribly discolored in hospital . His veins are a sickly purple hue and are pulsating ominously . Suddenly , he goes into cardiac arrest and the doctors begin to pronounce him dead . 
 The episode <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>opens</mark></a> with Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>unwell</mark></a> and horribly discolored in hospital . His veins <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>are</mark></a>a sickly purple hue and are pulsating ominously . Suddenly , he <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>goes</mark></a> into cardiac arrest and the doctors begin to pronounce him dead . 
The episode open with Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) unwelled and horribly discolored in hospital . His veins a sickly purple hue and are pulsating ominously . Suddenly , he go into cardiac arrest and the doctors begin to pronounce him dead .