diff --git a/src/proc/mobject/session/scope-query.hpp b/src/proc/mobject/session/scope-query.hpp
index d167e6554..f8d7e600a 100644
--- a/src/proc/mobject/session/scope-query.hpp
+++ b/src/proc/mobject/session/scope-query.hpp
@@ -209,72 +209,6 @@ namespace session {
     };
   
   
-  /**
-   * Exposes an opaque MObject result set
-   * similar to a DiscoveryQuery, including the
-   * ability to filter/downcast to a specific
-   * kind of MObject
-   */
-  template<class MO>
-  class CachedQuery
-    : Query<Placement<MO> >
-    {
-      typedef Placement<MO> PMO;
-      typedef Query<PMO> _Query;
-      typedef typename _Query::Result Result;
-      typedef typename _Query::Cursor Cursor;
-
-
-    public:
-      typedef typename _Query::iterator iterator;
-
-      class Snapshot
-        : public Resolution
-        {
-//////////////TODO: it would be *nice* if we could build something similar to the scope-query Resolution
-//////////////TODO: *requirement* is that it must not pull in anything beyond <function> and iter-adapters.hpp
-//////////////TODO: but if that's too expensive to implement, just ditch the ability of subclassing and just yield MObjects, or even just Scopes
-
-          vector<PMO*> results_;
-
-          Result
-          prepareResolution()
-            {
-              UNIMPLEMENTED ("hook up first result");
-            }
-
-          void
-          nextResult(Result& pos)
-            {
-              UNIMPLEMENTED ("how to advance embedded pointer");
-            }
-
-        public:
-          template<typename IT>
-          Snapshot(IT const& iter)
-            {
-              for(IT ii(iter); ii; ++ii)
-                results_.push_back(*ii);
-            }
-        };
-
-      Snapshot resultset_;
-
-      template<typename IT>
-      CachedQuery (IT const& results)
-        : resultset_(results)
-        { }
-
-      iterator
-      resolve ()  const
-        {
-          PReso resultSet(new Snapshot(resultset_));
-          Result first = resultSet->prepareResolution();
-          Cursor& start = static_cast<Cursor&> (first);   // note: type RES must be compatible!
-          return iterator (resultSet, start);
-        }
-
-    };
 
 
 }} // namespace mobject::session