I Want to Believe
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Scene 1: Somerset, West Virginia; 10:23 P.M.
(Cut between MONICA BANNON driving down a road and FBI agents walking through and poking through a snow-covered field.)
(MONICA is listening to "Ohh la la" by Deborah Poppink. She pulls into her garage, and her dog is barking furiously inside her home.)
(The FBI agents are poking holes through the snow, and those who are not poking holes hold on to the K9 units. A helicopter is also surveying the area. The agents on the ground are being led by a disheveled-looking man, FATHER JOE.)
(MONICA turns off the ignition to her car, revealing a bracelet on her wrist. Her dog is still barking. A shadow races across the back of her car.)
(AGENT DAKOTA WHITNEY looks around.)
WHITNEY: (shouts) Give him room!
DRUMMY: (shouts) Hold the line, gentlemen! Look left! Look right! (He points to his left.) Hold the line! (WHITNEY shoots him a look.)
FATHER JOE: (mutters) It's here. It's here.
(Cut to MONICA.)
MONICA BANNON: Hey, calm down, Buddy. Hey.
(She turns around, sees someone's breath traveling through the cold air just outside her garage. She looks down and sees a footprint.)
(Cut to agents. FATHER JOE starts to run.)
WHITNEY: Let him go. Let him go. Let him go.
(Cut back to MONICA. She picks up a small rake to arm herself. She slowly walks towards the back of the garage when a man, FRANZ, jumps out. She smashes the rake against him, who lifts up his arm to defend himself, but she has hurt his face already and scratched his hand badly. However, a second man, JANKE, is there to assist FRANZ in this fight.)
(Cut to agents.)
WHITNEY: Let him go. Let him go.
(Cut to MONICA. She escapes from the front of the garage, with the second man in close pursuit.)
(Cut to agents.)
WHITNEY: Easy, easy. Let him go! Let him go, let him go.
(Cut to MONICA. Her lead against JANKE diminishes, and he tackles her.)
MONICA: No!!
(Cut to agents.)
FATHER JOE: Here. Here, it's here. It's here!
(FATHER JOE starts to dig; AGENT WHITNEY assists him. They find a black bag covering a severed arm with scratched palms, like FRANZ's palms when MONICA attacked him.)
Scene 2: Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital; 8:25 A.M.
DOCTOR: (over a teleconference screen) I've gone over the charts you've sent and consulted another pediatric neurologist who works with me here. We're alarmed by two things.
SCULLY: Deficiency in lipid metabolism and diminished enzyme output.
DOCTOR: Right. That's exactly right.
SCULLY: Both indicate lysosomal storage illness.
DOCTOR: You're the boy's primary physician, Doctor...
SCULLY: Scully. Dana Scully.
DOCTOR: You tested his lysosome function?
SCULLY: I think you have all my results there, doctor. My fear is that it's a type-two, degenerative brain disease like Sandhoff disease, that his enzymes aren't clearing lipids from his brain, causing atrophy.
DOCTOR: If you suspect Sandhoff disease, I'd test the boy's levels of hexosaminidase.
SCULLY: I've done that. What I'm looking for here, doctor, is a course of treatment.
DOCTOR: There is no treatment for Sandhoff. If there were, I'm sure you'd tell me.
(Cut to Scully walking down the hall of the hospital. A little boy in a wheelchair, Christian, is being wheeled out of his room by his parents.)
SCULLY: Hi, Christian. How are you feeling?
CHRISTIAN FEARON: Okay, Dr. Scully. How are you?
SCULLY: Me? Well, I'm doing just fine, thank you. (She smiles.)
BLAIR FEARON: You got some outside opinions?
SCULLY: Yes. We're gonna do some more tests.
(DRUMMY walks up from behind SCULLY.)
DRUMMY: Dana Scully? Dr. Scully, I'm looking for Fox Mulder.
SCULLY: Excuse me.
DRUMMY: Special Agent Drummy with...
SCULLY: I can guess who you're with.
DRUMMY: The FBI urgently needs to speak with Fox Mulder.
SCULLY: I don't work with Fox Mulder any longer. I don't work with the FBI.
DRUMMY: Well, if you could contact him, it might just save the life of an FBI agent.
Scene 3: XXX
(SCULLY drives down a country road and turns into a gated driveway. She steps out of the car, pushes aside the gate, and continues on the path in her car. She reaches a house in a very rural area, and lets herself in. She puts down her purse and keys, and takes off her gloves.)
MULDER: What's up, doc?
SCULLY: You've become awfully trusting, Mulder for a man wanted by the FBI.
MULDER: (cuts article from newspaper) Eyes in the back of my head, Scully. "Auf einer Wellenlänge," as the Germans say. It's a precognitive state often confused with intuition in which the brain perceives deep logic underlying transitory human existence unaided by the conscious mind materializing much as you did just now. Though if you'd actually materialized, you'd be rapidly dematerializing.
(SCULLY rolls her eyes and crosses her arms across her chest.)
But who believes that crap anymore?
SCULLY: Well, they do at the FBI, apparently. I had a visitor today, Mulder. The FBI wants your help finding a missing agent.
(MULDER pins the newspaper story onto the wall.)
MULDER: I hope you told them to screw themselves.
SCULLY: They say all is forgiven. That they'll drop all charges against you if you come in and help them solve this.
MULDER: The FBI will forgive me? They put me on trial on bogus charges and tried to discredit a decade of work. They should be asking for my forgiveness.
SCULLY: I think they are. Desperately.
MULDER: How can I possibly help these people?
SCULLY: Someone's come forward with some promising evidence. A psychic, he claims.
MULDER: It's a trick, Scully, to smoke me out.
SCULLY: If the FBI wanted to get you, I have no doubt that they could. I think they've been happy to have you out of their hair.
MULDER: Good. I am just as happy having them out of mine.
SCULLY: A young agent's life is at stake. Mulder, I know I don't have to say this, but it could have been you once. Or me. You know, the truth is, I worry about you and the effects of long-term isolation.
MULDER: I'm fine here. (He grabs a sunflower seed) I'm happy as a clam.
SCULLY: I'll tell them your answer.
(SCULLY leaves the room. MULDER looks at the door, at Samantha's picture.)
MULDER: Shit.
(He reopens the door and stops SCULLY in her tracks.)
MULDER: Okay, I'll go. Under one condition.
(Cut to MULDER opening the door to a helicopter for SCULLY, and then for himself.)
Scene 4: Washington, D.C.; 9:24 P.M.
(The helicopter lands on a rooftop pad. SCULLY and MULDER exit the helicopter, to be greeted by AGENT DRUMMY.)
MULDER: Thanks for the lift.
DRUMMY: Don't thank me. I didn't send it.
(DRUMMY leads MULDER and SCULLY into the FBI building, out of an elevator, and into a hallway. When they reach a conference room, DRUMMY scans his card and goes in.)
DRUMMY: Wait here.
(MULDER and SCULLY look at the two photos on the wall flanking the door, of George W. Bush and J. Edgar Hoover. DRUMMY, from inside, opens another door to the conference room down the hall.)
DRUMMY: Come in. (He approaches WHITNEY as the agents enter the room.) Excuse me. They're here.
WHITNEY: Thanks for making this happen. I'm Special Agent in Charge Whitney.
SCULLY: Dana Scully.
WHITNEY: Fox Mulder, I believe? I know this is awkward. Welcome back. My team and I appreciate your trust.
MULDER: Well, trust being what it is, what if I can't help you? Or your agent turns up dead?
WHITNEY: The past is the past. I know your work on X-Files cases and believe you may be the best chance Monica Bannan has now.
SCULLY: How long has she been missing?
WHITNEY: Since Sunday evening. Almost three days.
SCULLY: I know you know this,
but after 72 hours there's slim chance she's still alive.
WHITNEY: We have slim reason to believe she is. So far, we've got no evidence to the contrary, and the facts give us hope. Soon after she goes missing, we find this: A severed arm.
MULDER: Where?
WHITNEY: About 10 miles from her home.
SCULLY: I don't understand. It's a man's arm.
MULDER: Is it a match for evidence found at or near the crime scene? Blood or tissue?
WHITNEY: Blood. Found in her garage and on the tool that matches the wound.
MULDER: You were led to it?
WHITNEY: Like a needle in a haystack.
MULDER: By someone claiming psychic powers.
WHITNEY: Joseph Fitzpatrick Crissman.
MULDER: And you think he's full of shit.
DRUMMY: What makes you say that?
MULDER: Psychic.
DRUMMY: Father Joe was...
SCULLY: Father? He was a priest?
DRUMMY: Catholic. He cold-called six hours after Monica Bannan was reported missing, claiming a vision of her. A psychic connection.
MULDER: And he tells you she's alive?
DRUMMY: That's right.
MULDER: Have you found any other connection?
DRUMMY: To Monica Bannan?
WHITNEY: No. That's why I sent for you. I need to know we're not wasting time.
MULDER: Well, he's a religious man, clearly. Educated man. He took right action, said nothing to cast doubt upon himself, has no connection to the crime. You're wasting time, only it's mine and your agents'.
WHITNEY: There's a question of credibility.
MULDER: If no reason to doubt the man, why doubt the man's visions?
DRUMMY: He didn't lead us to Monica Bannan. He gave us a guy's bloody arm in the snow.
MULDER: This is not an exact science. If it were me, I would be on the guy 24/7. I'd be in bed with him, kissing his holy ass.
WHITNEY: Father Joe's a convicted pedophile.
MULDER: Maybe I'd stay out of bed with him.
Scene 5: Richmond, Virginia; 1:01 A.M.
(The agents drive to where FATHER JOE is staying.)
SCULLY: What is this?
WHITNEY: Dorms for habitual sex offenders.
SCULLY: Dorms?
WHITNEY: They manage the complex and police themselves. Father Joe lives here voluntarily with his roommate.
MULDER: Just avoid the activities room.
(DRUMMY knocks on the door to FATHER JOE's place. FATHER JOE's roommate answers the door.)
ROOMMATE: Joe?
FATHER JOE: Tell them to come in.
(The agents step in. FATHER JOE is praying, and the television is on, playing The Jeffersons's opening credits, though FATHER JOE doesn't seem to be watching.)
DRUMMY: Father Joe?
FATHER JOE: Excuse the mess. I haven't been sleeping.
(FATHER JOE turns down the sound on the television.)
DRUMMY: Father Joe, this is Fox Mulder.
FATHER JOE: Okay.
DRUMMY: He'd like to ask some questions.
SCULLY: Actually, I'd like to ask something. What was it you were praying for in there, sir?
FATHER JOE: For the salvation of my immortal soul.
SCULLY: And do you think God hears your prayers?
FATHER JOE: Do you think he hears yours?
SCULLY: I didn't bugger 37 altar boys.
MULDER: That's a colorful way of putting it.
SCULLY: I have another word.
MULDER: I'm sure you do.
FATHER JOE: I have to believe he does hear me, or why would he send these visions?
SCULLY: Maybe it's not God doing the sending.
MULDER: You call them visions. You see them?
FATHER JOE: In what you might call my mind's eye.
MULDER: What do you see?
(FATHER JOE lights a cigarette and takes a drag.)
FATHER JOE: I see the poor girl being assaulted. I see her putting up a fight. I hear dogs barking.
WHITNEY: Where?
FATHER JOE: Can't tell.
MULDER: But you see her alive.
FATHER JOE: No, but I...I feel that she is.
MULDER: Can you show us how you do it?
FATHER JOE: I don't know that I can do this right now. Maybe it'd be better if she wasn't here.
SCULLY: Maybe what you see is a way to try and make people forget what it is that you really are.
(SCULLY leaves and waits outside. MULDER sneaks on out and touches SCULLY's shoulder.)
SCULLY: Jesus, Mulder.
MULDER: So much for kissing his holy ass.
SCULLY: I'm sorry. I've been too long away from this business. Or not long enough.
MULDER: No, you were good in there. All I had were questions. But you pushed him, you challenged him. Like old times.
SCULLY: Yeah, well, he's a creep. And a liar. He knows who did this. They're supplying him with information. Look where he lives. And this arm they found? This wasn't severed in any fight. It was cut cleanly, chopped off. And tell me how he's been able to lead them straight to it, and not even muster a guess as to where the victim is. Two things you're gonna find in the next 24 hours:A dead agent, and that this guy, Father Joe, is a big, fat fraud.
MULDER: You could be right, Scully. You could be right. But what if you're wrong?
SCULLY: What are you doing?
MULDER: Gonna take him for a ride. See just how psychic this Father Joe really is.
SCULLY: Yeah, well, it's been fun.
MULDER: Scully? Nobody's gonna make you sit next to him.
SCULLY: Thanks, but I've already been taken for a ride. Anyway, he doesn't want me there.
MULDER: I want you here.
SCULLY: This isn't my life anymore, Mulder. I'm done chasing monsters in the dark. I think you've done all they've asked of you here, too. You know, no one says you have to stay here.
MULDER: These people need my help. And I could really use yours.
Scene 6: Somerset, Virginia; 5:02 A.M.
(The agents travel in their cars.)
FATHER JOE: Are we getting warm?
WHITNEY: You tell us.
FATHER JOE: I don't know I have a clue of where we are.
MULDER: That's all right. Everybody works differently.
FATHER JOE: Who are you, the good cop?
MULDER: I'm the non-cop.
FATHER JOE: I don't know this girl. This Agent Bannan of yours. I haven't a clue of the connection.
MULDER: There's always something, however small.
FATHER JOE: And who made you the expert?
MULDER: I once investigated a series of cases involving unexplained phenomena for the FBI.
FATHER JOE: So you believe in these sort of things?
MULDER: Let's just say I wanna believe.
DRUMMY: And his sister was abducted by E.T.
FATHER JOE: Is that true?
MULDER: It was a long time ago.
FATHER JOE: She's dead, isn't she? Your sister.
(FATHER JOE passes MULDER the I.d. badge of MONICA BANNON.)
FATHER JOE: This is where she was taken. Your agent. This is where she was attacked.
MULDER: I want him to see the crime scene.
(They drive into a driveway.)
FATHER JOE: No, it's...This isn't right. You've brought me to the wrong house.
MULDER: Pulled that right out of his ass.
(FATHER JOE walks across the street and looks around.)
WHITNEY: There were news crews covering the scene. Pictures of the neighborhood. He could've recognized it from TV.
MULDER: Yeah, but...? But why?
WHITNEY: Why?
MULDER: Why do it? Why go to great lengths to create an elaborate fiction?
WHITNEY: Expiation. Forgiveness of his sins. He's written dozens of letters to the Vatican, pleading reengagement with the Church.
MULDER: Rather odd way to impress the Holy See.
WHITNEY: Voice of God speaking through a man? I think that's been a winner a few times.
MULDER: So you think he's guilty too, huh?
WHITNEY: We have to consider him a suspect.
MULDER: But you've found no connection to the crime.
WHITNEY: Don't think my guys have stopped looking. Ant they think they're gonna find one.
MULDER: Yeah, but you don't, or I wouldn't be here.
WHITNEY: I'm not the most popular girl at the FBI right now for calling you in. Believe me.
MULDER: I wasn't exactly Miss Popularity at the FBI myself.
WHITNEY: But you've dealt with psychics before. Luther Lee Boggs, Clyde Bruckman, Gerald Schnauz. I went through those cases, and that work was extremely impressive.
MULDER: Yeah, well, I'm only half the team.
WHITNEY: But it's your insights I need.
(In the distance, FATHER JOE falls to his knee.)
FATHER JOE: She ran away. She tried to escape. There were two men. Well, she couldn't. He pushed her down. It was here. It was right here. And then they put her in the back.
WHITNEY: Where?
FATHER JOE: In the car. No. It was a truck with something on it.
WHITNEY: We have to find her!
FATHER JOE: She's in pain. Great, great pain.
WHITNEY: Tell me where.
FATHER JOE: I don't know. I can't see.
WHITNEY: We need to find her.
FATHER JOE: I can't see. I can't see.
DRUMMY: Because he's pulling it out of his ass.
(DRUMMY steps away. MULDER looks at FATHER JOE, who seems to be staring at the ground. Drops of blood reach the snow.)
MULDER: Father Joe?
(MULDER pulls FATHER JOE's head up to reveal that FATHER JOE's eyes are bleeding.)
Scene 7: Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital
SCULLY: Hi, Christian. You're looking very bright-eyed this morning.
CHRISTIAN: I was thinking.
SCULLY: Yeah? What were you thinking?
CHRISTIAN: How I'm going to get out of here.
SCULLY: Well, you know, I'm thinking exactly the same thing.
CHRISTIAN: Can I get out of here soon?
SCULLY: What's wrong? Has something scared you?
CHRISTIAN: The way the man is looking at me.
SCULLY: What man?
(CHRISTIAN points to a priest standing in the hallway.)
Don't be afraid.
(SCULLY walks out to confront the priest, FATHER YBARRA.)
SCULLY: I was just looking for those.
FATHER YBARRA: I wanted to go over them myself and the results of the new tests that you ordered.
SCULLY: That isn't really your purview, Father. It's his primary physician's.
FATHER YBARRA: It is in my purview to make sure that all my physicians are making the right choices for their patients and for the hospital.
SCULLY: Can I have the test results, please?
FATHER YBARRA: We are here to heal the sick, not prolong the ordeal of the dying. There are other, better facilities for the boy.
(SCULLY walks away.)
Scene 8: MacLaren Natatorium
(A teenage girl, CHERYL CUNNINGHAM, is swimming. JANKE looks at her eerily, keeping his cover underwater. As CHERYL leaves the pool and loads her car, JANKE starts his car and leaves first.)
(JANKE's truck is in front of CHERYL's on the road. CHERYL tries to pass him, but the truck swerves to the left and hits her.)
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Cheryl is driving a 1995 Subaru Outback. [Source] |
CHERYL: Hey, hey. Hey!
(CHERYL crashes into a haystack off the road. She sees JANKE come over.)
CHERYL: I'm okay. I'm fine.
(JANKE punches through the window and CHERYL screams. She tries to reverse the car to no avail. JANKE eventually puts her in a bag and drags her to his truck.)
Scene 9: Mulder and Scully's Bed
MULDER: I can feel you thinking.
SCULLY: I'm sorry. I can't sleep.
MULDER: Actually, I have a little something for that.
SCULLY: Just a little something?
MULDER: Thank you. What's the matter?
SCULLY: I have a patient, a young boy with a rare brain disease. And he's very, very sick.
MULDER: Why haven't you told me about this before?
SCULLY: I thought there was something I could do.
MULDER: There's not?
SCULLY: Well, there's radical treatments, but nobody wants to talk about those. Even the experts say there's nothing to be done. Nothing but...Nothing but let him die. So I'm lying here, cursing God for all his cruelties.
MULDER: Do you think God is losing any sleep?
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On the bedstand next to Scully is the book Beautiful Wasps Having Sex: A Hollywood Novel |
by Dori Carter.
SCULLY: Why bring a kid into the world just to make him suffer? I don't know, Mulder. I've got such a connection to this boy.
MULDER: How old is he?
SCULLY: You think it's because of William.
MULDER: L... I think our son left us both with an emptiness that can't be filled. Just go to sleep. Let me curse God for a while.
SCULLY: Thank you.
(MULDER kisses SCULLY.)
Scratchy beard.
(MULDER continues to kiss her and she laughs, tickled.)
SCULLY: Oh! There was something weird on the toxicology report of the severed arm.
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: I looked over the FBI evidence reports again. In the tissue, there were traces of a drug commonly given to patients being treated with radiation and traces of a drug called acepromazine.
MULDER: Why is that weird?
SCULLY: Acepromazine's an animal tranquilizer.
MULDER: Now I can't sleep.
SCULLY: Mulder?
MULDER: What is animal tranquilizer doing in the tissue sample of a man's severed arm?
SCULLY: I can't even begin to speculate.
MULDER: He said he heard barking dogs.
SCULLY: Who?
MULDER: Father Joe.
SCULLY: Mulder, what are you doing?
MULDER: Is it a tranquilizer that you might give a dog?
SCULLY: He's a phony, Mulder. He pulls these so-called visions out of thin air. And now he's got you straining to connect them.
MULDER: When I see a man cry tears of blood at a crime scene he recognizes without ever having visited, I need to go out on a limb.
SCULLY: Tears of blood?
MULDER: Yeah, some trick, huh? How do you fake that?
SCULLY: Hello?
DRUMMY: Hello, Dr. Scully?
SCULLY: Yes.
DRUMMY: I have Dakota Whitney for you.
WHITNEY: (to her cell phone) Can you hold on a second? (grabs DRUMMY's phone) I'm sorry to call at this hour.
SCULLY: Has there been a break?
MULDER: They find her?
WHITNEY: We're pursuing another lead.
SCULLY: The same source?
WHITNEY: Same source, new news.
FATHER JOE: It's here. It's here. Turn up ahead, at the barn.
Scene 10: Three Hours Later
(MULDER and SCULLY arrive at the scene.)
WHITNEY: One more time. Ten minutes.
SCULLY: Did you find her?
WHITNEY: No. (touches MULDER's cleanly shaven chin) What did you do?
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: You said there was news.
WHITNEY: The news is our psychic led us to the exact same site he led us to before.
FATHER JOE: You're gonna find it.
DRUMMY: That's what you keep saying.
FATHER JOE: You're gonna find a body.
DRUMMY: You keep telling us she's alive.
FATHER JOE: She is.
DRUMMY: We could do this all night. These guys are all running on empty.
WHITNEY: I'm sorry for bringing you out here.
DRUMMY: Hey, let's go, fellas! Bring it in! Let's go! Bring it in, gentlemen. Time to go home.
MULDER: Tell me. Tell me what you see.
FATHER JOE: I see a face. I see eyes staring out.
MULDER: Who? Who is it?
FATHER JOE: It's unclear. Like through dirty glass. It's out there. I know it.
MULDER: Scully, what does he mean, "Like through dirty glass"?
SCULLY: Mulder.
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: Stop.
MULDER: Okay, feel free to give up like everybody else.
SCULLY: This is not my job anymore, Mulder.
MULDER: No, that's right. That's right. You're just like my booking agent now, right?
SCULLY: You're right. This is my fault.
MULDER: What, what do you mean, it's your fault?
SCULLY: For getting you involved in this.
MULDER: No. No. It was the right thing to do, Scully.
SCULLY: This is not about finding an FBI agent. This is about you trying to save your sister.
MULDER: My sister is dead.
SCULLY: It hasn't stopped you from looking for her. Mulder, I have been through this too many years with you, believing you can save her. You cannot save her. Not now, and not ever.
MULDER: (shouts) I need those men back.
SCULLY: What are you doing?
MULDER: I'm trying to ignore you.
(The agents come back and continue following FATHER JOE.)
FATHER JOE: This is it. Here it is. (starts digging) This is it.
MULDER: We need shovels.
DRUMMY: It's solid ice.
MULDER: No. It's dirty glass. Flashlight?
(A dead woman encased in ice stares back at them.)
You're gonna need resources.
WHITNEY: We need equipment. Concrete saws and a backhoe.
DRUMMY: You two, get on the line. You two, come with me.
FATHER JOE: Don't give up.
Scene 11
(JANKE drives his truck.) 38:55
Please!
Get me out of here!
Help! Help!
Get me out of here!
Please, please. Please, I won't tell.
I won't tell anyone. I won't tell anyone. Just let me go.
I just want to go home. I'm sorry I hit your truck.
I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to hit your truck.
I didn't mean it.
Wait. Stop.
Wait. Wait.
What is this place? Who are you?
Please, just get me out of here.
Get up.
I can help you. Just get me out of here.
Help!
I think we can resolve, then, in good conscience and without objection to relocate the patient to a facility suited for and humane to his condition.
As you and I discussed, Dr. Scully, I was informing the staff and doctors of the hospital's decision on Christian Fearon.
I'm sorry, what decision?
To relocate the patient to a hospice who will manage his palliative care.
That was a discussion, not a decision.
Well, it's been discussed here at length, with no objection from your colleagues.
I have an objection.
You have, Dr. Scully, a patient with an untreatable condition.
Now, that's very sad and unfortunate. Nobody disagrees with that.
But he's my patient.
Unless you've come here with a cure for Sandhoff disease, we all ask that you let the boy go in peace.
Thank you.
Now, I'd like to wrap up so we can get on to the day's good work.
We have the final matter of a patient in intensive care, Dr. Willard's patient, I believe.
Admitted after suffering myocardial infarction during...
There is a treatment.
The matter is resolved, Dr. Scully.
No, it's not.
The disease can be treated with intrathecal stem-cell therapy.
You're not serious. Don't put the boy through hell.
Would you do it if it was your son?
It's not her son and he's not yours.
And it's not a decision for hospital administration. It's his doctor's.
If you'd like to challenge that, you can take the matter up with a higher authority.
I have taken it up with the highest authority, Dr. Scully.
As should you.
Come on, pick up.
Come on.
Come on. Answer.
This is Dana Scully, please leave a message.
Scully, it's me. I keep leaving you messages.
Here's what I want to tell you.
That woman's head in the ice? It's not the agent's. It's not Bannan's.
We don't know who she is,
but so far, we've pulled 11 discrete human limbs
from the ice and we're not done yet.
Each one a clean cut too.
An exact match to the previous amputation you noted, Scully.
It looks like someone's been dumping
body parts in the ice there for months, possibly years. And there seems
to be no pattern to the limbs.
Men and women, all with healthy, undiseased tissue, according to forensics, which suggests to me that they are victims.
But here's the thing, what I need you to know.
We found more traces of your animal tranquilizer, acepromazine.
I don't know what the hell it means, but I'm hoping you can make sense of it.
Anything?
No, I can't reach her.
But this is gonna make sense. This is a break. I'm feeling it.
You're feeling it. Father Joe's feeling it. I'm feeling my head spinning.
This is a serial case. You're gonna solve a dozen murders here.
Yes, but I'm no closer to finding my agent.
No, we're gonna find her. I know it.
Well, she may have to stand in line.
I see a woman's face.
Another woman taken from a car.
She's being held in a box, I think.
Is she with Monica Bannan?
I don't know.
Is it the same men that took her?
I think so. Yes. It's the same men.
You see this, or are you just telling these people what they wanna hear?
No.
No, you don't see it.
No, it's... It's the same men.
I want a car ready.
To go where?
I don't know yet.
I don't believe this.
That's been your problem from the start.
I can get you a car.
And a list of missing persons over the last 48 to 72 hours.
Hi.
Hi.
Cheryl Cunningham, 34, never made it to work last night.
No-show at home either.
There's no blood on the airbags. Driver's side window knocked out.
Keys in the ignition. Survivable crash with a seatbelt.
She sets off, takes a shortcut, gets tired, sits down, falls asleep. Happens all the time.
Hard left turn for such a long, straight stretch of country road, don't you think?
But why settle for my opinion?
I'm sorry. I'm not getting anything.
What a surprise. What a surprise.
I think we're done with Father Joe.
Yeah.
We're not quite finished.
What is that?
Medical ID bracelet. I noticed your missing agent wore one too.
For what?
What are you thinking?
Let's pop the trunk.
This isn't gonna do her much good.
It's a gym bag.
It's a bathing suit. It's frozen stiff.
Chlorine.
Where's the nearest public pool?
Hi. We're hoping you can help us.
Would you like lockers?
We're with the FBI. We'd like to show you a photo, if you don't mind.
Why would I mind?
Do you know this person?
Let me see.
These young people look so much the same.
Do you have a sign-in register?
Yes, I keep one every day.
I'd like to see yesterday's.
I threw yesterday's away.
Excuse me, sir. Doesn't he know that's the women's side?
Hi, Christian.
You've got a whole bunch of people taking good care of you today, okay?
What?
Now you look scared.
People say I went underground.
I'm sorry, Mulder.
I have to keep my focus here.
It's the boy, isn't it?
Yeah.
I thought there was nothing to be done.
I'm taking a big chance on something.
On a radical and extremely painful new procedure.
Last night you said that wasn't an option.
It wasn't last night.
What changed your mind?
When will you know if it's working?
There's a series of these procedures, and we won't know until they're all done.
But that's not what you came to talk about.
There's another woman missing.
She's given us something to go on.
She and the missing agent swam at the same pool.
The agent kept a locker there. We think they were stalked.
Both wore medical ID bracelets, and both had the same rare blood type: A-B negative.
Organs harvested for transplant. That's how they were targeted.
Donors and recipients need matched types.
Someone using that pool knows that.
Black market. Somebody filling orders.
Well, they have access. Recipients, hospitals.
That's your world. Your knowledge will save time. Time is our enemy.
Start with the transporters. Call the Richmond DA.
No, no, no, I need you on this with me.
No. No, Mulder.
You asked for me to get involved, Scully. Now I'm asking for you to stay involved.
Mulder. You helped them already. You broke the case for them.
Why don't you let the FBI pursue it?
We're so close now.
I'm asking you to let it go.
It's not that simple.
No. It's complicated.
What is that supposed to mean?
Something I knew would happen, that I've been afraid of that I haven't had to face until now.
What? Just say it.
I'm a doctor, Mulder.
That's not my life anymore.
I know that.
You're not understanding me.
I can't look into the darkness with you anymore, Mulder.
I cannot stand what it does to you or to me.
I'm fine with it, Scully. I'm actually okay. I'm good.
Yeah, that's what scares me.
Where else would you have me look if you want me to find these women alive?
I'm asking you to look at yourself.
Why? L... I don't think I'm the one who's changed.
We're not FBI anymore, Mulder.
We are two people who come home at night.
To a home now.
I don't want that darkness in my home.
Scully, this is who I am.
It's who I've always been. This is who I was before I met you.
It's what I do. It's everything I know.
Write it down.
Put it in a book.
Are you asking me to give up?
No.
I can't tell you to do that, Mulder.
But I can tell you that...
...I won't be coming home.
Scully.
Mulder,
I've got my own battles to fight.
- Don't do this.
- Please don't argue with me.
Don't do this now.
I don't know what else to do.
Well...
Good luck, then.
You too.
Dr. Scully?
We'd like to speak with you,
if we may, about Christian.
- Have you been in to see him?
- Yes. He was sleeping.
- But we've...
- We've changed our minds...
...about going forward
with this new treatment.
But you don't even know
if it's working yet.
We think that Christian's
been through enough.
We want to put our faith in God now.
- I see.
- It's nothing against you.
No.
If you were a mother,
you'd understand.
Have you spoken to Father Ybarra?
Yes. But the decision is ours.
What if it did work?
What if we found we'd made
the wrong choice by stopping?
You're saying you can save my son?
I'm saying
I don't want to give up now.
We're about to hit the tarmac...
...when all of a sudden,
the plane gears up...
...and we're back up in the air.
I say, "Honey, isn't this fantastic?
We're going to die together. "
Turns out there was a plane
parked on the tarmac...
...and we missed colliding with it
by seconds.
But we were in love
and it was romantic.
Sir? Excuse me, sir?
Can we talk with you a minute?
I'm transporting vital organ.
- That's what we'd like to talk about.
- This is my job. I move quickly.
I don't have much time.
Please, sir. Step over here.
My name is Robert Koell, with the
District Attorney's office in Richmond.
- May I see your license?
- I have green card.
- What are you transporting?
- Human liver for transplant.
Paperwork and license, please.
Where are you delivering it?
Willow's Memorial Hospital. They're
expecting it. A patient wait for it.
Have you procured or delivered an organ
outside of normal or lawful channels?
No.
You're an employee. How would
your employer answer this question?
He's sick. Has cancer.
That's not what I asked you.
Am I under some kind of suspicion?
A vision, if ever I had one.
May I speak with you?
Would you like to come in?
Make yourself comfortable.
I won't be staying long.
Have you come here by yourself?
Yes.
Sit.
Please, I insist.
Now, you came to ask something.
We're alone,
free to speak in confidence.
You said something to me
the other night in the snow.
- Yes. I said, "Don't give up. "
- I need to know why you said that.
I haven't the faintest idea.
- Were you hoping for another answer?
- Do you know anything about me?
Other than that you loathe me?
- Do you know what it is that I do?
- No.
I can see you're a woman of faith. But
not in the same things as your husband.
- He's not my husband.
- Do you care to tell me about yourself?
- No.
- Do you care to offer a confession?
- I don't think you're...
- What?
In a position to judge?
Yet you've judged me, haven't you?
- You deserve to be judged.
- Do you know why we live here?
The men who call this vile box
of monsters home?
Because we hate each other,
even as we hate ourselves...
...for our sickening appetites.
- That doesn't make it less sickening.
And where do they come from?
These appetites,
these uncontrollable urges of ours?
- Not from God.
- Not from me.
I castrated myself when I was 26.
And the visions weren't my idea either.
- Proverbs 25:2.
- What?
God's glory to conceal a thing...
...but the honor of kings
to search out a matter.
- Don't quote scripture to me.
- What are you doing here?
- What are you afraid of?
- "Don't give up. " What was that for?
- I don't know.
- I don't believe you.
- I'm telling you the truth.
- They were your words.
- I don't know why.
- You said them to my face!
All I ever wanted was to serve him.
All I've ever wanted was to serve God.
You can ask for his pity,
but don't expect mine.
You can stop the act any time.
Look at me.
Paramedics have been here now.
They've been here for seven minutes.
He's stabilized. Blood pressure's normal.
No, they're loading him in now.
- What happened?
- Thank you. He had a seizure.
- Who called you?
- No one.
So, what are you doing here?
We need to talk to Father Joe.
- Well, that's not gonna happen.
- We've got a suspect.
A Russian émigré
working as an organ transporter.
- In custody?
- No.
The DA questioned him
about trafficking black-market organs...
...but he was released.
They had no evidence to hold him.
We've got a witness who says
he swam at the women's pool.
ASAC Whitney?
- Excuse me.
- What's that got to do with Father Joe?
- It's the man in his visions, Scully.
- Who?
- The suspect. The man in this photo.
- Now you're wasting their time.
Tell me again what you're doing here.
Here's a vision for you.
A couple of my guys just had it.
Who's this?
Our suspect's employer. An old friend
of Father Joe's, we just learned.
- Known him for over 20 years.
- Known him how?
That's one of his 37 altar boys.
Three guesses who he's married
to in the state of Massachusetts.
Our suspect.
We got a warrant
to search their offices.
Mulder.
It's over.
- Hey, hey! Hey!
- What? Mulder.
Why don't you hold up?
Let these men do their jobs.
Clear this bottom floor.
We were fooled.
I wanted to believe as bad as anyone.
Look, I don't need sweet talk.
- You led us here.
- Father Joe led us here.
This is Special Agent Drummy
with the FBI.
We have warrants
to search these offices.
Anyone inside, identify yourself
and unlock the door now.
I called you in
because I thought you could help me.
- I valued your belief in these phenomena.
- Now what do you think?
I think this is a longer conversation.
Down on the floor! Down on the floor!
Anybody here, I want down on the floor!
Somebody find the lights.
We were at a standstill. You pushed
forward, no matter the direction we took.
Hey!
Hey!
What are you, nuts?
Hey!
Stop him!
Hey, you can't go...
Hey.
Come on.
- Quick, which way did they go?
- Down that way.
- Mulder!
- I'm up here!
Mulder!
He's coming at you.
Hey!
Mulder!
- Yeah.
- Where are you?
- Right here.
- Where?
Fox.
- Where is he? Do you have him?
- No. I lost him.
- I saw him.
- Where?
They're both dead.
Monica Bannan and Dakota Whitney.
I heard. I'm sorry.
Yeah, well...
- I thought we were winning, Scully.
- I know you did, Mulder.
I'm here to see Father Joe.
I wanna show him these photographs
of these men.
You still wanna believe him.
I think you should know that he's been
diagnosed with a terminal illness.
He has advanced-stage lung cancer.
I just wanna be sure.
Then let me ask him.
You wouldn't believe...
I was thinking of you.
I had a vision
you might find interesting.
Of a man speaking a foreign language.
Did he happen to look like this?
Yeah. That's the man.
How did you know?
We think he's the man
who abducted the FBI agent...
...and the second woman
you say you saw...
...and possibly many more.
And we think that he was helped...
...by this man.
- I don't know who that is.
- Are you sure?
I'm fairly certain. I don't know him.
I'm fairly certain that you do.
And that you've known him
since he was a boy.
Oh, no.
It can't be true.
I don't believe this.
He was my connection to the girl.
My visions were to save her from him.
This is God's work.
This is God's work.
Let me ask you one more question,
Father Joe.
The FBI agent...
...the first woman that you saw,
Monica Bannan...
...is she still alive?
I feel her.
Yes.
She's still alive.
- Mulder.
- That second victim may be alive.
Everybody's given up,
but I'm not going to.
Mulder, you think I don't understand,
but I do.
This stubbornness of yours,
it's why I fell in love with you.
It's like you said.
And it's why we can't be together.
Whoa, hold up.
- Hey. Hey, sorry to bother you.
- I'm closed.
- No, I just need a moment of your time.
- We've got some bad weather coming in.
You'd better get
wherever you're going fast.
So, what do you need?
Yeah, I was wondering if you carry an
animal tranquilizer called acepromazine?
- You got a prescription for it?
- No, I don't.
Well, I can't sell it to you, then.
Can you tell me
if you've ever sold any to this man?
- I am never getting out of here.
- I'm just...
Nutter's Feed.
Yep, I was just closing up
and I'm gonna pick him up.
Yeah. Goodbye. Yeah.
- What happened to the other guy?
- Who?
The guy who was standing right here.
I need to refill this now.
Okay.
- Yeah, it's me.
- Shit.
I must be busy right now.
Leave a message.
Mulder, I just found something
in my stem-cell research.
Experiments being done in Russia
on dogs, Mulder.
I think that's what your suspects
have been doing, only on humans.
Those women who've been abducted...
You've got to call me.
Mulder, the FBI agent's alive.
FBI Special Agent in Charge
Fossa speaking.
It's for you.
- This is Special Agent Drummy.
- I've been trying to find you for hours.
I can't reach Mulder.
- Is this Dr. Scully?
- Yes, it's Dr. Scully.
- Well, where is he?
- Lf I knew that, I wouldn't be calling.
Dr. Scully, I'm gonna suggest you call
the police. This is not an FBI matter.
Listen to me.
I need your help.
I'm sorry, I can't help you.
Then let me talk to someone
with some balls, who can.
No, don't touch me!
Don't touch me!
You're going to be fine.
I've taken care of it.
I've taken good care of it.
You don't need this one anymore.
Look at me. You're going to live.
You're going to have a fine,
strong body.
Down. Down.
Excuse me.
- I'm Dana Scully and that's my car.
- Right.
I talked to some bigwig at the FBI.
Called from Washington.
Yeah. That's him. Walter Skinner.
Is there any indication what happened?
Or any footprints?
Nothing. Snow's pretty heavy.
But we did find this.
You might want to give it to him.
Excuse me.
His cell phone, it's got blood on it.
Listen to me. Calm down. Stop
and think. He's okay. He's gotta be.
He climbed out of there. If he
climbed out, he probably climbed up.
Stop.
Back off. Back away.
Back off!
Do you speak English? Do you speak
English? Anybody speak English?
I want her out of here.
I want those tubes out of her neck
and I want her neck sewn up. Do it!
We will find him.
I know Mulder.
He'd get to a phone and call first.
He didn't do anything crazy.
Not overly crazy.
Wait a minute. Back up.
Stop.
What is it?
Proverbs 25:2.
The glory of God to hide a thing.
I've got it. It's an invoice for medical
supplies to a Dr. Uroff-Koltoff.
It's an address on Bellflower Road.
- Listen.
- What?
Dogs. Dogs.
Hey!
Mulder.
Can you hear me?
Sorry about your car.
The girl is still inside.
Show me your hands!
Show me your hands!
Put the scalpel down!
Put the scalpel down!
Just get it down or I'll blow
your goddamn hand off!
Get over there!
God, what have you done?
What have you done?
Mulder needs warm clothes and fluids.
Oh, God.
I've got work to do here.
Get in! Get in!
All right, Mulder.
- The girl inside...
- Scully's got her. She's in good hands.
- Skinner?
- Yeah.
Cold.
I got you.
I got you.
Mulder?
What's up, doc?
Father Joe is dead.
He was clearly a very sick man.
Did you see this story?
The FBI is claiming Father Joe
was an accomplice.
Not a word
about his psychic connection.
He's dead, Mulder.
- We'll never know.
- I know, Scully, and I can prove it.
Father Joe died of lung cancer, right?
The same as that man that Dr. Frankenstein
tried to give a new body.
What time did you pull tubes
from that woman's neck?
What time did you cut
blood to that man's head?
That's when Father Joe died.
Get me his death certificate.
I'll take it to the FBI
and I'll show them.
Do you think they're really
gonna take your call?
It's an injustice to the man's name.
Well, considering his crimes
against those young boys...
...who is really gonna care?
- I thought you believed him too.
I wanted to believe him.
I did believe him.
I acted on that belief.
Why don't you just tell me
what he said to you?
He told me:
"Don't give up. "
And I didn't. And it saved your life.
But I've put that boy through hell.
And I have another surgery
scheduled for this morning...
...because I believed
that God was telling me to.
Through a pedophile priest, no less.
What if Father Joe's prayers
were answered after all?
What if he were forgiven?
Because he didn't give up.
Try proving that one, Mulder.
I'm due at the hospital.
Scully?
Why would he say that?
"Don't give up. "
Why would he say such a thing to you?
I think that was meant
for you, Mulder.
He didn't say it to me.
He said it to you.
If Father Joe were the devil...
...why would he say the opposite
of what the devil might say?
Maybe that's the answer.
The larger answer.
What do you mean?
Don't give up.
Please don't make this any harder
than it already is.
It's okay.
If you have any doubts...
...any doubts at all...
...just call off that surgery
this morning.
And then we'll get out of here.
Just me and you.
As far away from the darkness
as we can get?
I'm not sure it works that way.
I think maybe the darkness finds you...
...and me.
I know it does.
But let it try.
Are you ready to begin, Dr. Scully?
Yes.
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