Darlene Morris
The kids.
Season 1 · Episode 4
Conduit
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X03Original airdate · October 1, 1993
298 dialogue entries
Scene 01
( loud rumbling )
Kevin Morris
Mom! Mom! Mom!
Darlene Morris
Kevin.
( yelling )
( kevin screaming )
Kevin Morris
Mom! Ruby's gone!
Darlene Morris
Ruby? Ruby? Ruby? Ruby? Ruby!
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Blevins
Agent Mulder's latest 302 requesting assignment and travel expenses for the both of you.
Dana Scully
Sioux City, Iowa. That's the first I've heard of it.
Blevins
It came up through channels from Mulder's asac to the district g-14 and onto my desk.
Dana Scully
I don't understand.
Blevins
In essence, Mulder is petitioning the bureau to assign a case number to a tabloid headline.
Dana Scully
He must have more evidence than...
Blevins
Not according to his 302.
Dana Scully
I admit, that is strange... Even for Mulder.
Blevins
Perhaps it has something to do with this. Take a look.
Dana Scully
An x file?
Blevins
Has he shared any of this with you? There's no need to protect him. He's the agent of record. He initiated the file himself.
Dana Scully
She was his sister. She disappeared 21 years ago. He was 12 and she was eight. He claims that he was in the room when it happened. He recalls a bright light outside the window and, uh... And a presence in the room.
Blevins
In your opinion has agent Mulder's personal agenda clouded his professional judgment?
Dana Scully
In my opinion, no.
Blevins
But you can see how it might appear that way. As you know, agent Mulder's preoccupation with fringe matters has been a big source of friction in the bureau. This is another case in point. I'm going to disallow the 302.
Dana Scully
With respect, sir, at least let me talk with him and make a recommendation.
X-FILES OFFICE
Dana Scully
It just doesn't seem... Substantial enough to warrant an investigation.
Fox Mulder
Okay, Scully, so we disagree. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last.
Dana Scully
At least if we had a legitimate source...
Fox Mulder
This is the essence of science. You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.
Dana Scully
What makes this case any more credible than the hundred-year-old mother with the lizard baby?
Fox Mulder
Because the lizard baby wasn't born anywhere near Lake Okobogee.
Dana Scully
Oko-what?
Fox Mulder
Bogee. Okobogee.
Dana Scully
Is that supposed to mean something to me?
Fox Mulder
If you know anything about trout fishing or UFO hot spots.
Dana Scully
Define hot spot.
Fox Mulder
Four sightings in 1967, august including one by a national weather service plane. This is a light-blasted, digitally enhanced enlargement.
Dana Scully
The pilot took that photograph?
Fox Mulder
Try a girl scout with an instamatic. Four of the nine girls in the troop claim to have seen something. Five, if you include the den mother. The air force said it was a weather balloon caught in a wind shear but there wasn't a weather balloon launched that day within 700 Miles. Read me the names of those girl scouts from 1967.
Dana Scully
Lisa terrel, bonnie winston, doreen mccallister, darlene mor--
Fox Mulder
It's the same Darlene Morris.
SIOUX CITY, IA
Dana Scully
Ms. Darlene Morris? I'm agent Scully, and this is agent Fox Mulder. We talked with you on the phone last night.
Darlene Morris
Please, come in. Well, I knew that if I screamed loud and long enough that someone would listen but I never expected the FBI uh, this is kevin. Kevin, say hi. Would you like some coffee? Mmm. Some days, I can't even... Get myself up out of bed and... Kevin has been acting so strange. I don't know what to do anymore. I just want her back again.
Dana Scully
Ms. Morris during the divorce, was there a custody battle?
Darlene Morris
Charles had nothing to do with this.
Dana Scully
How can you be so sure?
Darlene Morris
Because I know what happened. It's just like it was before.
Fox Mulder
Summer of 1967? The girl scout troop?
Darlene Morris
How did you know?
Fox Mulder
Your name's on record at the center for UFO studies in evanston, illinois.
Darlene Morris
Really?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, a pilot for the national weather service made a sighting over the same area on the same day.
Darlene Morris
They took her, didn't they, mr. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
You said that kevin was there the night it happened?
Darlene Morris
He didn't see anything. He was asleep.
Fox Mulder
Do you think I might talk to him anyway? Mmm. Thanks.
Darlene Morris
You know... I've told the story so many times now... Oh, to the newspapers and the police... And every time I tell it people get this look in their eye just like the look that you've got right now.
Fox Mulder
Hey, buddy. You mind if I sit down? Thanks. Your mom tells me you've been having nightmares.
Kevin Morris
I guess so.
Fox Mulder
You want to tell me about them?
Kevin Morris
No. All right.
Fox Mulder
What are you doing? You making something? Can I take a look at it? Thanks.
Kevin Morris
It's coming from there.
Fox Mulder
The TV?
SIOUX CITY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
Fox Mulder
I don't know what it is. May be a binary sequence of some kind. Could be anything, could be nothing. I know you're busy. Look, I know a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend who can get you a ticket to a redskins game. You got it. All right. You know where to find me? Thanks, danny.
Sioux City Sheriff
As I was telling your partner, we found no evidence of kidnap. No phone call, no ransom note and since we didn't turn up a body...
Fox Mulder
You assumed she ran away.
Sioux City Sheriff
Well, it wouldn't be the first time Ruby Morris ran away from home.
Fox Mulder
How do you explain what her mother saw?
Sioux City Sheriff
I think that darlene has a very active imagination. I've been listening to those stories since the first grade.
Fox Mulder
So, basically, you ignored her statement.
Sioux City Sheriff
I included it in my report.
Fox Mulder
But you didn't bother to check it out.
Sioux City Sheriff
We went out to the campsite. We didn't find anything. Darlene's little girl was no prom queen. I can't count the number of times I pulled her out of parked cars or found her puking her guts out by the side of the road. It was just a matter of time before...
Fox Mulder
Before what?
Sioux City Sheriff
Before something bad happened to her and if darlene needs to make up crazy stories to get past that, fine, but don't tell me to treat it as the truth. I'm not going to waste my time.
Dana Scully
I just think it's a good idea not to antagonize local law enforcement.
Fox Mulder
Who? Me? I'm mr. Congeniality.
Dana Scully
You never know. We might need his help one of these days.
Fox Mulder
I'll send him a bundt cake.
Tessa
You're looking for ruby, right?
Dana Scully
That's right. Who are you?
Tessa
It doesn't matter.
Dana Scully
Are you a friend of ruby's?
Tessa
Ruby didn't have friends. She just had people she liked to hang with.
Dana Scully
And she liked to hang out with you?
Tessa
I guess we had some times.
Fox Mulder
Like the night she disappeared?
Tessa
It was greg. She was supposed to see him that night.
Fox Mulder
Who's greg?
Tessa
Her boyfriend, Greg Randall. They were supposed to meet up at the lake. They had stuff to talk about.
Fox Mulder
What kind of stuff?
Tessa
Greg got ruby pregnant. I don't know, whatever, she got herself pregnant.
Dana Scully
Do you know what they were planning to do about it?
Tessa
They were going to leave town. At least, that's what ruby told me.
Dana Scully
You know greg from school?
Tessa
Greg? School? I don't think so. All he ever did since we met him was pour beer at the pennsylvania pub.
THE PENNSYLVANIA PUB
Fox Mulder
Excuse me. Do you know where we could find Greg Randall?
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
Who's asking? What kind of trouble's he got himself into now?
Fox Mulder
Actually, we were hoping you could tell us.
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
Greg called in sick three weeks ago, man. I haven't seen or heard from him since.
Fox Mulder
Any ideas where he might have gone?
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
No, but if you find him, tell him he's fired.
Dana Scully
This is the hotel we'll be staying at if you hear of anything.
Fox Mulder
That's a nice tattoo. What is that?
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
What's it look like?
Fox Mulder
A flying saucer. You don't really believe in that stuff, do you?
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
I take it you don't?
Fox Mulder
No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.
Pennsylvania Pub Bartender
So, you haven't been out to Lake Okobogee, have you? No, I haven't. Why? You should ride with us sometime. You might see some things that will change your mind. Get a killer sunburn in the middle of the night.
STAY `N SAVE MOTOR INN
Fourth Man
Where's Mulder?
Holtzman
Where did you get the document?
Fox Mulder
If you explain what you're talking about, maybe I can help you out. This is a document? Just looks like a bunch of ones and zeroes to me.
Holtzman
Tell me where you got it.
Fox Mulder
Tell me what it is.
Holtzman
Keep playing games I'll haul your ass up in front of the d-6. You can explain to them what you're doing obstructing justice.
Fox Mulder
It's your call, holtzman. Unless they tell me otherwise I'm not accountable to anybody outside my subcommittee. I don't care if it's the NSA or the vatican police.
Holtzman
It's a defense satellite transmission.
Fox Mulder
You're kidding.
Holtzman
Just a fragment, but highly classified. We need to know where it came from.
Fox Mulder
Well, sure, I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
Holtzman
That's it, Mulder. You just bought yourself a one-way back to washington.
Fourth Man
We got it.
Fox Mulder
Great.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
You shouldn't have told them. They have no jurisdiction.
Dana Scully
Mulder, they're NSA they think the boy may be a threat to national security.
Fox Mulder
How can an eight-year-old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security? People call me paranoid.
Dana Scully
How did kevin obtain top-secret information? Where do you think he got it from?
DARLENE MORRIS' HOUSE
Darlene Morris
It's okay, baby. Don't worry. It will be okay.
Agent
Come with me, son.
Kevin Morris
Mom!
Darlene Morris
It will be all right, baby.
Fox Mulder
You guys do really delicate work.
Holtzman
Let's get this to cryptography. Let's go. Think we got what we needed. Thank you.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure.
FBI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS
Leza Atsumi
We scanned all 77 pages through the mainframe.
Dana Scully
And none of the information is actionable.
Leza Atsumi
Other than the satellite transmission nothing can be construed as a security risk. The boy's being released this afternoon. On the contrary, there was nothing random about it.
Dana Scully
I don't understand.
Leza Atsumi
All information can be rendered digitally in a series of ones and zeroes. When we downloaded the data, we found an amazing range... Well, see for yourself. Da vinci's universal man. A dna double helix. There's lots more.
( classical music playing )
Dana Scully
That's from the brandenberg concertos.
Leza Atsumi
But they're just fragments. A few notes here and there some lines from the koran, a shakespearian sonnet...
Fox Mulder
Almost like someone switching channels, huh? Mrs. Morris...
Darlene Morris
I have nothing to say to you.
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Morris, please, give me a minute to explain.
Darlene Morris
Would you please just wait right over there for mama? I'll be right there. I thought you were both here to help us.
Dana Scully
This has been a terrible mistake and I assure you that the government will pay for all damages.
Darlene Morris
I don't want your money. I want my daughter back and I want you to leave us alone.
Fox Mulder
But your son has seen something.
Darlene Morris
You stay away from me, and you stay away from my child. Come on, honey. It's okay. Let's go now.
EXIT 68. SIOUX CITY DOWNTOWN
Dana Scully
I thought we were headed back into town. Where are we going?
Fox Mulder
The boy's the key, Scully. I know it.
Dana Scully
The key to what?
Fox Mulder
Finding ruby. Think about it for a minute. This is a boy who is receiving digitized data from a television screen.
Dana Scully
Agent atsumi said it was a statistical aberration. No.
Fox Mulder
Okay, I admit it's not much of an explanation... Kevin is a conduit of some kind.
Dana Scully
A conduit.
Fox Mulder
A link or a connection to whoever... Or whatever took ruby that night.
Dana Scully
But how?
Fox Mulder
If there was an abduction it's likely that kevin was touched in some way.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I know what you're thinking. I know why this is so important to you. I know. But there is no evidence indicating an abduction.
Fox Mulder
That's why we're going to Lake Okobogee.
LAKE OKOBOGEE, IA
Fox Mulder
According to the police photos ruby and kevin were sleeping right here.
Dana Scully
Just a stone's throw from the forest wall.
Fox Mulder
Meaning what?
Dana Scully
Meaning anybody could have come out of the forest to grab her.
Fox Mulder
Have you noticed the tree line? Evidence of extreme heat.
Dana Scully
Or an electrical storm. Besides which, there's nothing to connect it to the night of ruby's disappearance.
Fox Mulder
That's true. Do you think a lightning strike could have caused this? Do you have any idea at what temperature sand solidifies into glass? 2,500 degrees fahrenheit. Something was out here, Scully-- something hot enough to turn sand into glass to singe those trees and to blister the roof of that camper.
Dana Scully
( whispering: ) Mulder... Look. What is it?
Fox Mulder
It's a grave. Shallow, by the smell of it.
Dana Scully
Mulder, what are you doing? Mulder, you are disturbing a crime scene. Stop!
Fox Mulder
What if it's her? I need to know.
Dana Scully
You okay, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm fine.
Coroner
Looks like a male caucasian.
M. E. Worker
Sir.
Sioux City Sheriff
Victim's name was Greg Randall.
Dana Scully
Ruby's boyfriend.
Sioux City Sheriff
Ruby had a lot of boyfriends.
Fox Mulder
Before you put that away, can I look at it?
Sioux City Sheriff
Go right ahead.
SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Dana Scully
Look at that. That's her-- the girl from the library.
Sioux City Sheriff
Who?
Dana Scully
We didn't get her name, but she claimed greg and ruby had run off together.
Sioux City Sheriff
Doc fowler's a buddy of mine. Delivered both my kids. I can find out who had that appointment.
Dana Scully
Have a seat, tessa. We know that you lied to us the other day. We know that you had the appointment with dr. Fowler on august 7. We know that you're the one that's pregnant, not ruby.
Tessa
You don't know nothing, do you?
Dana Scully
We can prove it, tessa and we can prove that greg was the father.
Tessa
So what if he was the father?
Dana Scully
This is very serious. Do you understand how serious this is? So if you lie to us here today you could be charged with perjury.
Tessa
He promised me we'd be in l.a. By christmas. He had a friend there. And I'd never seen the ocean.
Dana Scully
You said that he and ruby were seeing each other. You said that they were planning to meet at the lake. Is that true?
Tessa
I was nowhere near the lake that night, okay?
Fox Mulder
Sure you were, tessa. You knew they were meeting, so you sat there and you waited for them. You were angry and you were jealous.
Tessa
I wasn't.
Fox Mulder
You sat there and you waited. When they showed, you killed him first. Isn't that how it went?
Tessa
No.
Fox Mulder
You snuck up from behind him and you shot him in the back. Bam! And then you killed ruby. Bam! What was she doing right before she died, tessa? Was she pleading for her life? Was she running away?
Tessa
I didn't kill her!
Fox Mulder
Where's she buried?
Tessa
I don't know!
Fox Mulder
You don't know where you buried her, tessa?
Tessa
I didn't kill her!
Fox Mulder
You didn't?
Tessa
She wasn't even there that night!
Fox Mulder
Well, how would you know that, tessa if you weren't there yourself?
Dana Scully
Mulder, you're not seeing the whole picture.
Fox Mulder
Which is?
Dana Scully
In all likelihood, ruby is dead.
Fox Mulder
Is that your conclusion or the conclusion of the Sioux City sheriff's department?
Dana Scully
They're searching the national park and a rescue dive team is coming in from des moines to drag the lake.
Fox Mulder
They're wasting their time.
Dana Scully
Do you really think tessa sears is telling the truth?
Fox Mulder
Why not? What if ruby never did show up that night?
Dana Scully
She lied to us in the library and about her pregnancy. What makes you think she wouldn't lie to us about killing ruby?
Fox Mulder
Because something was out there in those woods.
Dana Scully
We have a suspect in custody. We have a confession to one murder and we have a statement which speaks to the intent to commit another. It's over, Mulder. It's time to go home and turn this over to local law enforcement.
Fox Mulder
I can't do that.
Dana Scully
Mulder, where are you going?
Fox Mulder
To talk to the boy.
Dana Scully
Darlene won't even let you in the door.
Fox Mulder
Well, I've got to see him.
Dana Scully
They don't want to have anything to do with us. Stop running after your sister. This won't bring her back.
Fox Mulder
Come with me, or don't come with me but until they find a body, I'm not giving up on that girl.
DARLENE MORRIS' HOUSE
Fox Mulder
( knocking ) hello? Mrs. Morris?
Dana Scully
Kevin?
( teapot whistling )
Dana Scully
Mulder? What does it mean?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
I'm going to check upstairs. Oh, my god.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Dana Scully
Just come up here. Look. It's her. It's ruby.
LAKE OKOBOGEE. NATIONAL PARK
Dana Scully
This is a long shot. They could be anywhere.
Fox Mulder
You know, when I was a kid I had this ritual. I'd close my eyes before I walked into my room because I thought that, one day, when I opened them my sister would be there just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You know, I'm still walking into that room... Every day of my life. Scully! Darlene!
Dana Scully
Look. There's a trail head.
( woman screaming )
( panting )
Fox Mulder
Are you okay?
Darlene Morris
It's here. I saw it.
Fox Mulder
Where's kevin?
Darlene Morris
I couldn't keep up with him.
Dana Scully
Go ahead.
Fox Mulder
Kevin! Are you okay?
Kevin Morris
She's back.
Fox Mulder
Kevin, I'm sorry, but...
Kevin Morris
She's here. I know it.
Fox Mulder
Kevin, I don't think she is. I know how much you wanted it to be her. I did too.
Dana Scully
Mulder! Come on.
Fox Mulder
Scully!
Kevin Morris
Ruby!
Dana Scully
She's unconscious, but she's still alive.
Fox Mulder
I'll get help.
SIOUX CITY HOSPITAL
Dana Scully
The nurse says she's been awake for almost an hour.
Fox Mulder
Any ideas what caused the coma?
Dana Scully
There's no sign of head trauma. No narcotic traces, or electrolyte abnormalities except her white blood cell count was sky-high.
Fox Mulder
Was there a reduction in the lymphocyte population or release of glucocorticoids?
Doctor
Um...
Dana Scully
Actually, both. How did you know that?
Fox Mulder
Shuttle astronauts have reported similar imbalances.
Dana Scully
Hi, ruby.
Ruby Morris
Who are you?
Dana Scully
We're with the FBI I'm special agent Dana Scully, and this is Fox Mulder.
Ruby Morris
My mom said you might be coming by.
Dana Scully
How are you feeling?
( sighing )
Ruby Morris
Fine, I guess.
Fox Mulder
Where were you, ruby? Can you tell us?
Kevin Morris
It's okay, ruby. He knows.
Ruby Morris
I'm not supposed to tell. They told me not to say.
Fox Mulder
Who told you? Ruby, who told you?
Darlene Morris
Sweetheart, you don't have to say anything.
Dana Scully
You're right. We should wait till ruby gets a little stronger.
Darlene Morris
Could we speak outside for a moment? I think that it's best that we put all of this behind us. Hasn't ruby been through enough already?
Fox Mulder
I know how disoriented she must seem right now but in a couple of weeks, maybe even a few days...
Darlene Morris
I don't want her talking to you or anyone.
Fox Mulder
She should be encouraged to tell her story. It's important that you let her.
Darlene Morris
Important to who? I have my daughter back. I don't want any more trouble. Besides, she hardly remembers anything.
Fox Mulder
She will remember one day, even if it's only in dreams. And when she does, she's going to need to talk about it.
Darlene Morris
Like I did? Listen to me. All of my life I have been ridiculed for speaking my mind.
Fox Mulder
But it was the truth, darlene.
Darlene Morris
The truth has caused me nothing but heartache. I don't want the same thing for her.
Fox Mulder
It doesn't have to be that way for ruby.
Darlene Morris
As far as I'm concerned she spent the last month on the back of a harley-davidson.
Fox Mulder
Is that what you're going to tell kevin?
Darlene Morris
I'm sorry.
Scene 16
Dr. Heitz Werber
But your eyes are open?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, they're open. But it's like nothing's happening.
Dr. Heitz Werber
Try turning your head.
Fox Mulder
I can't.
Dr. Heitz Werber
Why not?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. I can't move. So I don't. I just lie there in bed.
Dr. Heitz Werber
Can you see your sister?
Fox Mulder
No, but I can hear her.
Dr. Heitz Werber
What is she saying?
Fox Mulder
She's calling my name over and over again. She's crying out for help but I can't help her. I can't move.
Dr. Heitz Werber
Are you scared?
Fox Mulder
I know I should be, but I'm not.
Dr. Heitz Werber
Do you know why?
Fox Mulder
Because of the voice.
Dr. Heitz Werber
The voice?
Fox Mulder
The voice in my head.
Dr. Heitz Werber
What's it telling you?
Fox Mulder
Not to be afraid. It's telling me that no harm will come to her and that, one day, she'll return. I want to believe.
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