William Scully
Are you going to leave this up all year?
Season 1 · Episode 13
Beyond the Sea
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X12Original airdate · January 7, 1994
177 dialogue entries
SCULLY'S HOUSE · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
Yup. All year. Since you always made us take the christmas tree down the day after christmas, I'm making up for lost time.
William Scully
If your good time is picking up dried pine needles, treat yourself.
Margaret Scully
As if he's an authority on having a good time.
Dana Scully
That's okay, mom. I got that.
Margaret Scully
Oh. Okay.
William Scully
Okay, maggie, let's shove off.
Margaret Scully
Oh. Okay. Thank you for having us. Dinner was delicious as usual.
Dana Scully
Thanks, mom. Good sailing, ahab.
William Scully
Good night, starbuck. How is work? Good?
Dana Scully
Yup. It's good.
William Scully
Well... Well, drive carefully. Uh-huh.
Dana Scully
Good night, daddy.
(applause)
Ron Popeil On Tv
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(applause and cheering)
(no audio from scully's father)
Dana Scully
Dad? I thought you guys left. Where's mom?
(no audio)
(phone ringing)
(phone ringing)
Dana Scully
Hello.
(muffled crying)
Dana Scully
Hello.
Margaret Scully
Dana...
Dana Scully
Mom? What's the matter?
Margaret Scully
We, um... We lost your dad. He had a... A massive coronary about an hour ago. He... He's gone.
(kissing, man chuckling)
JACKSON UNIVERSITY · NORTH CAROLINA
Girl
I swear, christmas day... My whole family's opening presents and all and I'm just sitting there in my own little world thinking "I just wish jim were here."
Boy
I know.
(knock on window)
Boy
Oh, man... Busted. Yes, sir?
Henry
Out of the vehicle, please.
Boy
Sir, I'm sorry. We'll be on our way.
Henry
I said, out of the vehicle. Keep your hands down. Let's see some ID
Boy
No. Not until I see yours.
(screams)
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
Last time you were that engrossed it turned out you were reading the adult video news.
Fox Mulder
I didn't think you'd be in today. How are you, Dana?
Dana Scully
"Dana." I'm fine. Thank you. What are you working on?
Fox Mulder
Two days ago a couple was kidnapped at jackson university. Elizabeth hawley and james summers-- both 19. Last year, another couple was kidnapped to the day. Except that abduction occurred at duke university. One week later, they found both students' bodies dead.
Dana Scully
They were kept alive, tortured during that period.
Fox Mulder
No arrests were made. Police believed it to be a one-time offender. Now it appears to be a serial incident. If he holds true to form we have five days to find those kids.
Dana Scully
That's a grim deadline.
Fox Mulder
Here's another grim deadline. In one week, luther lee boggs will take a seat in the north carolina gas chamber.
Dana Scully
How is he related?
Fox Mulder
He claims to have information. He described hawley's bracelet down to the last detail. This is information only family members could have known.
Dana Scully
Or the kidnapper.
Fox Mulder
Boggs feels that if his talents help save these kids then his sentence should be reduced to life in prison.
Dana Scully
His "talents"?
Fox Mulder
He claims to have obtained this information through psychic transmissions.
Dana Scully
Mulder, do I detect a hint of skepticism?
Fox Mulder
Perhaps. Boggs has been there before... In the chamber. My profile helped send him there. He was actually strapped to the chair before receiving an executive stay. He claims that this experience activated in him the ability to channel spirits and demons. I believe in psychic ability without a doubt. But not in this case. Not boggs.
Dana Scully
So you believe boggs is orchestrating the kidnapping from the inside. A scam to save his life?
Fox Mulder
At the age of six, luther boggs slaughtered every pet animal in his housing project. When he was 30 he strangled five family members over thanksgiving dinner and then sat down to watch the fourth quarter of the detroit-Green Bay game. Some killers are products of society. Some act out past abuses. Boggs kills because he likes it.
Dana Scully
And they've requested you speak with him?
Fox Mulder
Actually, he's requested to speak to me.
Dana Scully
Why you?
Fox Mulder
He read my profile on him and he feels like I'm the only one who truly understands what he is. Anyway, I leave for raleigh this afternoon.
Dana Scully
I'll go with you. The funeral is at noon.
Fox Mulder
I think you should take some time.
Dana Scully
I need to work.
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry about your father. I'll see you later. Okay.
WILLIAM SCULLY'S FUNERAL
Dana Scully
As a captain he was entitled to burial in arlington with full ceremony.
Margaret Scully
This is exactly the way he wanted it. Just the family.
("beyond the sea" plays)
Margaret Scully
This song was playing when his ship returned from the cuban blockade. He marched right off up to me... And he proposed.
Dana Scully
I know that you and dad were... Disappointed that I chose the path I'm on instead of medicine but I need to know. Was he at all proud of me?
Margaret Scully
He was your father.
CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Luther Lee Boggs
The soul of luther boggs drowns in hell's sea of fire. We have him now.
Fox Mulder
We? You mean the souls of your victims?
Luther Lee Boggs
The dead. The living. All souls are connected.
Fox Mulder
And you're the conduit?
Luther Lee Boggs
Uh, Dana... Fox... Please understand that from here we can return to the past. We can see the present. We can know the future.
Fox Mulder
From here? Where exactly are you?
Luther Lee Boggs
Mr. Boggs must be made redemptive for his transgressions.
Fox Mulder
That's what the state of north carolina intends to do next week. Uh-uh.
Luther Lee Boggs
Let's deal. Boggs' life for the kids. You know what I'm saying?
Fox Mulder
First you've got to prove you're telling the truth. Don't get me wrong, luther. I want to believe.
(groaning)
Luther Lee Boggs
Oh! Oh! God! No. Must stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop! Pain! Pain. Terrible pain. Um, the boy. Uh, jim. Uh, he's tied with twine. Uh, packing twine.
(grunting)
Luther Lee Boggs
He whips them with a coat hanger a wire coat hanger. Oh. Dark place. Cold. A cellar. Warehouse, condemned. An angel of stone. Waterfall. Water falling. Not a waterfall. Not water. They're there. Oh, god. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go.
Fox Mulder
I tore this off my new york knicks t-shirt. It has nothing to do with the crime.
Luther Lee Boggs
♪ somewhere beyond the sea ♪ ♪ somewhere waiting for me ♪
(gasps)
Luther Lee Boggs
Did you get my message, starbuck?
Fox Mulder
Scully, what's wrong? Did boggs say something to you?
Dana Scully
No. It's my father. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Fox Mulder
That's all right. Why don't you go back to the motel. We've exposed boggs as a fraud. Boggs is not what he claims to be. He may be orchestrating the kidnapping. Now he knows we're onto him. I'm going to wait for a couple hours and try to interrogate him. Hopefully, he'll tell me where the kids are.
Luther Lee Boggs
♪ somewhere ♪ ♪ beyond the shore ♪ ♪ we'll kiss just as before ♪ ♪ happy we'll be ♪
NORTH CAROLINA
Luther Lee Boggs
Water falling. Not a waterfall. An angel of stone.
(knock on door)
SCULLY'S MOTEL ROOM
Fox Mulder
It's Mulder. I just heard that liz hawley's family made a positive ID on the charm you found at the warehouse. The police are searching that place inch by inch but they haven't been able to find anything yet. I expected to find you at the crime scene.
Dana Scully
Did boggs confess?
Fox Mulder
No. No. It was five hours of boggs' channeling. After three hours I asked him to summon up the soul of jimi hendrix and requested "all along the watchtower." you know, the guy's been dead 20 years but he still hasn't lost his edge.
Dana Scully
I lied to the police about how I found the warehouse. I didn't notice any suspicious activities.
Fox Mulder
Then, how did you find it?
Dana Scully
It was where boggs said it would be.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I told you about boggs.
Dana Scully
I didn't go looking for it. I came across an area that had landmarks he spoke of--
Fox Mulder
That's exactly what boggs wanted. He could have been setting you up. You could be dead right now. Why did you feel you had to lie on your police report?
Dana Scully
I thought it would be a better explanation under the circumstances.
Fox Mulder
No. You didn't want to go on record admitting that you believed in boggs. The bureau would expect something like that from spooky Mulder, but not Dana Scully.
Dana Scully
I thought that you would be pleased that I'd opened myself to extreme possibilities.
Fox Mulder
Why now? After all we've seen, why boggs? Does this have to do with your father?
Fox Mulder
He said that he didn't approve of you becoming an fbi agent. If being on the job now makes you feel guilty or uncomfortable or uneasy I think you should back away. Because if it's clouding your judgment you're putting yourself in danger.
Dana Scully
I love this job.
Fox Mulder
You love your father. Dana... Open yourself up to extreme possibilities only when they're the truth. That goes for luther boggs and your father. As for luther boggs he's the greatest of lies. I know he's working with someone on the outside and they planted that evidence. We have to be very careful about plotting our next move because he's planned five steps ahead. The only advantage we have is time.
CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Fox Mulder
Um-umm.
Fox Mulder
Scully, look at this.
Dana Scully
That's incredible. They found them?
Fox Mulder
That's exactly what I want boggs to think.
Dana Scully
Why didn't the police notify us?
Fox Mulder
They haven't been found. The article is bogus. The carolinian made this up for us. Only six people know about it. Today boggs gets his weekly phone privileges. Hopefully, he'll call his accomplice to find out what happened. Phone privilege is in two hours.
(boggs dialing)
Dana Scully
Go.
(phone rings)
Fox Mulder
Turn off that phone. (ringing) turn it off.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's you.
(ringing)
Luther Lee Boggs
Agent Scully does. She believes me.
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully believes what we all believe-- that you have the kids. Now, where are they?
Dana Scully
Mulder, even if he is setting us up we have to follow, because in three days--
Fox Mulder
Liz hawley and jim summers will be dead.
Dana Scully
Then a day later, our only connection to the case will be pulling up a chair at the gas chamber. We have to deal.
(breathing heavily)
Luther Lee Boggs
The kidnapper is aroused by the prospect of becoming a killer.
Fox Mulder
What's the name?
Luther Lee Boggs
Can't see-- male--
Fox Mulder
Describe him.
Luther Lee Boggs
Small... Thin... Late twenties... Skull... Human skull... Silver gray... His eyes... Cold... Very cold... Staring at elizabeth... God, he's got the wire... No... Please... No.
Fox Mulder
Where is he?
Luther Lee Boggs
He's over... By the window... Holding back his... Holding back his thoughts of killing us... Waiting. There's a small boathouse on lake jordan.
Fox Mulder
You got that?
Luther Lee Boggs
Mulder. Don't go near the white cross. We see you down... And your blood spills on the white cross.
(muffled cries)
BOATHOUSE · LAKE JORDAN, RALEIGH, CAROLINA
Dana Scully
Sweep the docks!
Fox Mulder
Federal agent!
(gunshot)
Dana Scully
Mulder! We need an ambulance! Officer down!
HOSPITAL · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Doctor
It's a through-and-through, upper femur.
Nurse
Can't palpate a radial pulse.
Doctor
Okay, I want a b.p. Let's get him on the gurney.
Nurse
Blood pressure is 67 on palpation.
Doctor
Okay, tighten and screen him for six. I want two liters of saline in now and give him two units of o-neg after the typing. Let's transfer now.
ELIZABETH HAWLEY'S HOSPITAL BED
Liz Hawley
No. No. No.
Man
Lucas jackson henry, 28. Did some time at angola in louisiana for sexual assault, narcotics... Nothing big, really. His personal history includes being witness to an auto accident in which his high school sweetheart was killed and his mother was decapitated. The seven-year anniversary of that accident is in three days.
Dana Scully
He's reliving it. That would explain the deadline.
Man
The most important element we found is there's suspicion that luther lee boggs' last five murders were committed with a partner. Now, the police in durham say they could never prove it in court but they know that partner was lucas henry.
CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Dana Scully
You set us up. You're in on this with lucas henry. This was a trap for Mulder because he helped put you away. Well, I came here to tell you that if he dies because of what you've done, four days from now nobody will stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!
Luther Lee Boggs
Dana. You're the one that believed me.
Dana Scully
No... No, I do not believe you!
Luther Lee Boggs
If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe yourself. There was that one time when I was 14 and my parents had gone to bed and I snuck downstairs alone. Got one of my mom's cigarettes and went out onto the porch in the dark. I was so scared. My heart was beating. They would have killed me if they knew. But I was so excited. Not 'cause of the cigarette-- it was gross-- but because I wasn't supposed to.
Dana Scully
That could be a moment from any kid's life.
Luther Lee Boggs
I know what you want and I know who you want to talk to. Why don't you just go ahead and ask me.
Dana Scully
I'll believe you... If you let me talk to him.
Luther Lee Boggs
Starbuck... No, no, no! Nobody talks to anybody until I get a deal. Don't underestimate my fear of dying and don't downplay my terror of going back to that chair. I know my hell's going to be to go back to that chair over and over again for all of time but in this life-- my one and only life-- I don't ever want to go back again. Ever! The last time I went to death's door and looked inside I had never talked to a minister before in my life ever until that day and he said, "he who doth not love "remains in death. "and he who hates his brother is a murderer "and no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." my family, who I killed after their last meal was right there to watch me over mine and their fear and their horror that I made them feel when I killed them was injected into me and their collective fear alone was just one taste of hell. And I felt myself leave my body. I thought they'd already killed me. And I saw thousands of souls rushing into my body. It is a cold, dark place, Scully. Mulder's looking in on it right now.
Dana Scully
It may be a cold, dark place for you but it's not for Mulder and it's not for my father.
Luther Lee Boggs
I'm sure he'd like to tell you hisself but I'm not going to let him. Nobody speaks until you get me a deal.
Dana Scully
I don't believe you.
Luther Lee Boggs
Oh, well, there's plenty of room in that cold, dark place for liars, Scully. You go ahead and play it like you need to but I know you believe me. But if you need to convince a judge I'm in on it with lucas go ahead, 'cause either way-- whether I'm running the show with lucas or I'm channeling-- no information's coming until I get a deal. I got nothing to lose.
Dana Scully
Guard!
Luther Lee Boggs
If I die that boy goes to that cold, dark place.
Prison Warden
Will not make a deal with a mass murderer.
Prison Warden
It's an overdue one at that.
MULDER'S HOSPITAL BED · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Prison Warden
This supreme court
Prison Warden
Especially one who I know is orchestrating a capital offense two days before his capital punishment. Yes, sir. The only thing boggs will get from me is a timely death.
Dana Scully
We're running out of time. There's still no sign of lucas henry or jim summers. The raleigh police said--
Fox Mulder
No matter what don't believe him. Boggs created this whole charade to get back at me for putting him on death row. You'd be the next best thing.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I never thought I'd say this... But what if there's another explanation?
Fox Mulder
Don't... Deal with him. He could be trying to claim you as his last victim.
CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Dana Scully
All right, mr. Boggs... You got your deal.
Luther Lee Boggs
Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.
Dana Scully
All right, where are they?
(exhaling loudly)
Luther Lee Boggs
Uh... I... Uh... I see, like, uh... Uh, circles. Uh... I don't know, like... Barrels. No. No, bigger. Like, uh... Huge, uh... Vats, uh... Factory. Uh, condemned. The old, uh, blue devil brewery up by morrisville. Oh, god, he's getting, uh... He's getting ready. He... He... He's getting ready to, um... Um... He's getting ready to kill the d... Whoo...
Dana Scully
Luther, if you really were psychic--
Luther Lee Boggs
I would have known you lied. That there never was a deal. I know you tried. Scully. Avoid the devil. Don't follow henry to the devil. Leave that to me.
(screaming)
(groaning)
(water dripping)
BLUE DEVIL BREWERY FACTORY · MORRISVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Agent
Freeze!
Dana Scully
Federal agents. We're armed! Drop your weapon.
(gunshot)
(heaving)
Agent
Go!
FBI Agent
Ow!
(grunting)
CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Luther Lee Boggs
You come to say good-bye?
Dana Scully
I believe... That if you had orchestrated this kidnapping lucas henry would have been aware of the danger you warned me about. He never would have crossed that bridge. So you saved jim summers' life. But you saved mine as well.
Luther Lee Boggs
You come for some unfinished business. You want your father's message. Not now. Be there tonight. My witness. And when they got me in that chair and they... Open up that shield... You get your message.
(breathing heavily)
GAS CHAMBER · CENTRAL PRISON · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Priest
Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven...
Man
Would you like to make a statement?
Priest
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, amen.
MULDER'S HOSPITAL BED · RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Fox Mulder
Mulder. How come you don't believe me?
Dana Scully
I was considering boggs. If he knew that I was your partner he could have found out everything he knew about me. About my father.
Fox Mulder
Scully--
Dana Scully
"beyond the sea" was playing at my parents' wedding. Visions of deceased loved ones are a common psychological phenomena. If he knew that my father--
Fox Mulder
Dana... After all you've seen, after all the evidence why can't you believe?
Dana Scully
I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
Fox Mulder
You couldn't face that fear? Even if it meant never knowing what your father wanted to tell you?
Dana Scully
But I do know.
Fox Mulder
How?
Dana Scully
He was my father.
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