Young Man
Oh! God! That was... That was incredible. I mean it.
Season 1 · Episode 14
Gender Bender
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X13Original airdate · January 21, 1994
225 dialogue entries
A HOTEL ROOM
(loud rock music plays)
(inaudible conversation)
(inaudible conversation)
(amorous moaning)
(panting)
(panting)
Young Man
You don't believe me. Can you hear me? Hey, I... I don't even know your name. Oh...
CRIME SCENE (THE HOTEL ROOM), GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND, OUTSIDE WASHINGTON DC
Horton
New york businessman calls his wife to say good night. Then picks up some chippy. Brings her back for sex. Beyond that, nothing makes sense.
Dana Scully
How's that?
Horton
Security monitor records the victim entering with a woman at 10:13. The same monitor records a male leaving just after midnight.
Dana Scully
Couldn't she have changed clothes?
Horton
Thought of that. Male is definitely a different person-- short hair and at least 30 pounds heavier. No record of his entry nor of the chippy leaving.
Dana Scully
30 floors up, no other egress. Did the medical examiner establish a cause of death?
Horton
Guy blew an artery. Must have been some roll in the hay.
Dana Scully
It's hard to imagine in this day and age someone having sex with a perfect stranger. Signs of robbery?
Horton
The male exited wearing the victim's suit, carrying a suitcase and the wallet's gone.
Dana Scully
I don't even know why we got this call.
Horton
Really. Somebody at the bureau put out a memo requesting any case involving this c.o.d. I assumed it was a...
Fox Mulder
Thanks for the call.
MULDER'S OFFICE
Fox Mulder
Five deaths, four in six weeks between here and boston. In each case, the victim dies in the throes of passion. Two women and three men, including the last one.
Dana Scully
All young, healthy adults.
Fox Mulder
All with symptoms of massive coronary arrest.
Dana Scully
A new drug on the streets?
Fox Mulder
The oldest drug-- not even illegal. Each body showed huge amounts of pheromones.
Dana Scully
The chemicals animals secrete? You mean sexual attractants.
Fox Mulder
Radar love-- a hundred times stronger than found in nature. Strong enough to produce anaphylactic shock or a coronary.
Dana Scully
So you think somebody is synthesizing them?
Fox Mulder
It's been done, but in nowhere near these concentrations
Fox Mulder
The pheromones we're talking about? They contain human dna.
Dana Scully
Well, there's still a question as to whether humans can produce pheromones so how can that be?
Fox Mulder
I don't know, but if it's true this guy's a walking aphrodisiac. He's the ultimate sex magnet.
Dana Scully
He? Or she? You've got victims of both sexes. Both a man and a woman on the hotel security monitor.
Fox Mulder
That is a puzzle.
Dana Scully
So what's our profile of the killer? Indeterminate in height, weight, sex. Unarmed, but extremely attractive.
Fox Mulder
It gets weirder. There's been four deaths matching this m.o. In the last six weeks. In boston, hartford, philadelphia and here in washington.
Dana Scully
The killer's moving south.
Fox Mulder
There was a death I made a note of about a year ago with the same symptoms. A 32-year-old u.m.w. Labor organizer was found dead outside a town called steveston in the woods of massachusetts home to a sect of religious isolationists
Dana Scully
Right. They live up there without electricity, phones any modern amenities-- like the amish.
Fox Mulder
The kindred are known for their handmade stoneware pottery. They mine the clay.
Dana Scully
What's so weird about that?
Fox Mulder
The white clay in those hills is particular to that region. It's also the same substance I scraped out of the scratches on the latest victim.
Dana Scully
Wait. Aren't these people famous for their abstinence and pure christian ways?
Fox Mulder
Yes, but it looks as if one of them forgot to clean under his fingernails.
STEVESTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Woman
And, Scully, you're going to love this.
Woman
Hi.
Fox Mulder
This is federal agent Scully. I'm agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
We're investigating a possible murder.
Woman
There aren't many killings around here.
Fox Mulder
What can you tell me about the kindred? They keep pretty much to themselves, huh?
Man
Some folks say they're doing ceremonies-- voodoo or something. I've got nothing against them myself. They bring in the tourists.
Dana Scully
They let you take pictures?
Man
Those are from back in the '30s.
Fox Mulder
What about the missing ones?
Man
I'm having them reframed. They're under the counter.
Fox Mulder
Can I look at them?
Man
Sure.
Fox Mulder
How would I get up to see them?
Man
Well, they don't like strangers up there much. The road's in pretty rough shape. Steveston. That's them now. They usually shop at the feed store.
Fox Mulder
Whoa, boy. Excuse me. Ladies. I think I'm going to go inside. You need anything from the feed store?
Dana Scully
Hi. She must have problems on the asphalt. Has she ever thrown a shoe? What's her name?
Brother Andrew
Alice.
Dana Scully
That's sweet. Did you name her?
Brother Andrew
We named her all together. I'm not allowed to talk outside.
Dana Scully
That's all right. I'm Dana Scully. I don't mean you any harm.
Fox Mulder
Scully, what are you doing?
Dana Scully
I was just talking.
Fox Mulder
You all right?
Dana Scully
Yeah. I think so.
Fox Mulder
You want to sit down? Interesting way of life. You get any sense about them?
Dana Scully
There's something up there, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I've been saying that for years.
OUTSIDE STEVESTON
Fox Mulder
Oh, for a four-wheel drive. Looks like about a mile walk.
Dana Scully
After you.
Fox Mulder
Now... This... That's west.
Dana Scully
What does the map say?
Fox Mulder
That we should be there already.
(sighs)
(stick breaking)
Dana Scully
Mulder, look. Hmm? We're FBI agents! Federal police.
Fox Mulder
I'm agent Mulder. This is agent Scully. We're investigating a murder.
Dana Scully
I'm going to have to ask you to remain at a distance. Please, sir.
Brother Oakley
Man #1: your weapons are forbidden here. We can outlast you at this spot. You're not leaving until your guns are handed to our council. You will have them again as you leave.
Fox Mulder
We can't do that.
Sister Abigail
Please. I'm sister abby. This is brother oakley. We are all saddened by what has happened in your world but it does not concern us. Up here, no one kills another, ever.
Dana Scully
We just want to have a few questions answered.
Sister Abigail
Your weapons are unwelcome here, not you. Come and pray with us. Be one of us. You'll see we harm no one. Please relinquish your weapons. Please. Now there is no reason to be afraid.
Brother Oakley
Come... Sit.
Sister Abigail
Let us pray as one.
(man coughing)
Sister Abigail
We who are separate give thanks for our allotted time on this world. We ask for strength that we may bring forth the bounty that god has provided.
All
Amen.
Sister Abigail
And we pray for the day of the coming the moment of our release.
All
Amen.
Sister Abigail
Let us eat.
Fox Mulder
I was wondering if we might ask a few questions. We're looking for someone who may have come from here.
Dana Scully
We have pictures.
Sister Abigail
We don't allow pictures.
Dana Scully
A crime has been committed. We have questions we need answered if you'll forgive us.
Brother Andrew
What are these pictures?
Dana Scully
Hotel security videos of a man and a woman who may have committed a murder.
Brother Andrew
Where was it committed?
Dana Scully
In a hotel in washington, D.C.
Fox Mulder
If you look at the videotape maybe you can identify the individual.
Brother Andrew
How much violence has this person caused in your world?
Fox Mulder
Five murders so far.
Dana Scully
And may kill again, which is why we need your help.
Fox Mulder
Has anyone left recently?
(hand slapping table)
Brother Wilton
Your world does not interest us. We have no need for your violence or your questions. I've said what is needed. They have no right to be here at this time.
Sister Abigail
Brother wilton, stand. Before we can accept any man's person we must accept our own. And I ask who can stand in your sight when once you are angry? I am ashamed to lift up my face and I shall not be ashamed in this evil time. Make atonements for this wrath, brother wilton.
Fox Mulder
That's all right. We didn't take any offense.
Brother Andrew
Anger, as violence, is not tolerated. Our brother must be admonished.
(choking)
Sister Abigail
He does not need your help.
Dana Scully
He's choking to death!
Sister Abigail
Remove brother aaron from the dining hall. We did not invite you here to interfere.
Brother Andrew
We take care of our own.
(rock music blaring)
Marty
Would you like to dance?
A DANCE CLUB, THE SAME ONE AS IN THE TEASER
Blonde Woman
Not right now. I'm really not interested, okay? Just one dance.
Blonde Woman
One dance.
NEAR THE KINDRED'S PROPERTY
Brother Wilton
It's a mile to your car. Stay on the path.
Fox Mulder
Thanks for your cooperation. The addams family finds religion.
Dana Scully
Take me back to the 20th century.
Fox Mulder
You believe all that back there, Scully?
Dana Scully
Believe all what?
Fox Mulder
All that "we take care of our own" business?
Dana Scully
They better, or that man at the dinner table is a dead man.
Fox Mulder
I think it was all an elaborate act.
Dana Scully
What, the choking?
Fox Mulder
No. All this simple life crap. These people know something. You can see it in their eyes-- the way they look at one another.
Dana Scully
Do they know who the murderer is?
Fox Mulder
They didn't answer a single question and that outburst was right on cue. Somehow we answered their questions. Why weren't there any children?
Dana Scully
I know. That was odd.
Fox Mulder
You know what's really odd? You know those pictures we saw in steveston today the ones from the '30s? I saw some of those same faces at dinner tonight.
Dana Scully
They've probably been intermarrying for years.
Fox Mulder
Maybe. Maybe not everything is as black and white as it appears.
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'm going to go back for a little look-see. Maybe they went to the movies.
(distant chanting)
Fox Mulder
You hear that?
Dana Scully
Uh-huh.
(horse whinnies)
(horse whinnies)
Dana Scully
What do you think?
Fox Mulder
I think I want to see what's in that cellar.
STILL OUTSIDE THE BARN
Fox Mulder
Called "the kindred."
Brother Andrew
Come with me. I can give you information.
(chanting)
Brother Andrew
I know who did it.
Dana Scully
The murders?
Brother Andrew
You've heard our prayers. You've seen how we live our beliefs. I want you to find this killer. I want you to find him for me. He was my best friend.
Dana Scully
What's his name?
Brother Andrew
Brother martin. I called him marty. Marty was different.
Dana Scully
What do you mean, different?
Brother Andrew
How does he kill?
Dana Scully
We're not sure. All of the victims died of cardiac arrest.
Brother Andrew
He poisons them, doesn't he?
Dana Scully
Maybe. How do you know that?
Brother Andrew
I need to show you something. Something about marty. We found them out on route 44. We were wandering. Marty and I used to do that. Explore the edges of our world. Somebody must have left them for garbage. They are garbage.
Dana Scully
Why did you keep them?
Brother Andrew
It was martin who kept them. Some of what I saw in the magazines-- some of it was beautiful but most of it I didn't like. It was garish, but martin... Marty he couldn't get enough. He liked even the paper it was printed on. Slick. Marty was captured by your world. He left us to become one of you.
(clattering)
Brother Andrew
Brother wilton. The woman has returned. Where is she?
Brother Wilton
With andrew in the main house. The other one? He's missing. Come.
Dana Scully
You said marty was different.
Brother Andrew
Yes.
Dana Scully
How? How did he kill his victims?
Brother Andrew
I could be banished.
Dana Scully
Does it have something to do with the ceremony in the barn tonight? What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
(whispering:) Scully.
Brother Andrew
Marty is different. We're all different.
Dana Scully
Oh.
Fox Mulder
Scully? Get off of her!
Sister Abigail
I asked you not to interfere.
Fox Mulder
What were you doing back there?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
You don't know?! No.
(retching)
Fox Mulder
Are you all right?
(rock music playing)
THE DANCE CLUB
Michael
I wasn't ignoring you. No. Of course I saw you. I just... I didn't recognize you. That's all. Excuse me. I'm having a conversation. Sorry. No.
NEAR STEVESTON
Dana Scully
Uh-huh. Thanks.
Fox Mulder
How you feeling?
Dana Scully
Better. A little embarrassed, actually.
Fox Mulder
Why? You don't remember any of it.
Dana Scully
It's like I don't remember...
Fox Mulder
Why didn't you get out before he..?
Dana Scully
He told me he knew who the killer was.
Fox Mulder
How did you know he wasn't the killer?
Dana Scully
I believed him. So what did you see down in the cellar?
Fox Mulder
Just brother what's-his-name buried in some gopher hole in the wall. Buried alive.
Dana Scully
How do you know he was alive?
Fox Mulder
I was in there with him and his face was different. Even his hair was almost feminine. Like he was going through some kind of a transformation.
Dana Scully
Changing sexes?
Fox Mulder
That would explain the hotel security video.
Dana Scully
So you're saying these people...
Fox Mulder
I know what I saw, Scully and I saw you about to do the wild thing with some stranger.
Dana Scully
Think he was trying to kill me?
(sighing)
Fox Mulder
Maybe it's the sex that kills.
Dana Scully
If he was trying to kill me, why did they let us go?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
(laughing)
(knocking)
A PARKED CAR
Cop
All right, let's break it up.
(groaning)
Cop
Out of the car. Sorry, officer. You too. You a pro? Pro?
(groaning)
Cop
What?
(gasping)
(gasping, coughing)
A HOSPITAL
Michael
On a scale of one to ten, she was a... Kind three. But there was something about her.
Dana Scully
Did she touch you or make any other physical contact?
Michael
Her touch was... Electric. But after that I remember... Only vaguely.
Fox Mulder
What do you remember?
Michael
Nothing, actually.
Fox Mulder
Try to remember, michael. The policeman at the scene supports what you said. But maybe there was something unusual about this woman... Something you wouldn't feel comfortable telling the police on the record.
Michael
This is off the record?
Fox Mulder
Absolutely.
Dana Scully
What did you see, michael?
Michael
After she left the car... And she was fighting with the cop I saw her in her clothes and she looked like a...
(nervous laugh)
Michael
She looked like a man.
Dana Scully
She was a man?
Michael
The club scene used to be so simple. It's off the record.
Fox Mulder
Scout's honor.
Dana Scully
We can't rule out that we're looking for a transvestite.
Fox Mulder
I think don juan there knows the difference between males and females.
Dana Scully
I don't want us to ignore the obvious. How else could a woman overpower a 200-pound cop? She was a he. Agent Mulder. Agent Scully. The credit card stolen from the last victim in D.C. Was just used to order take-out in a hotel eight blocks away.
Marty
Marty (woman): it was always forbidden. But after the first time, I couldn't help myself. Touching a human man or a woman... Is as powerful for me as it was for you.
A HOTEL ROOM
Dana Scully
This is agent Scully requesting police backup and additional agents at 771 catherine street-- the hotel catherine. Your world offers pleasures... Pleasures we don't know because we're different. But you know that now. The others will punish me for what I've done. They'll find me because the day is coming and they won't leave without me. Mulder.
(knocking on door)
Fox Mulder
Delivery. FBI! FBI! Clear! Stay down!
Dana Scully
Dead body!
(groans)
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Dana Scully
I'm okay.
(breathing hard)
(whimpers)
Fox Mulder
Scully, down the stairs.
Dana Scully
Federal agent! I'm armed! Back away! Step away! Step away.
Brother Andrew
Please... Don't hurt him.
Dana Scully
No. Step away. I'm armed.
Fox Mulder
Scully!
FBI Agent
The surrounding ten blocks have been secured for the past hour. We set up roadblocks on all the routes out to steveston.
Dana Scully
There's no way they could have gotten through.
Fox Mulder
What if they did get through? There's only one place they'd hide.
THE KINDRED PROPERTY NEAR STEVESTON
Blonde Woman
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
No. No.
FBI Agent
No reports of them.
Dana Scully
They're gone.
FBI Agent
We found something in the hay field.
Dana Scully
I don't understand. How can they just disappear? They have no means of transportation.
Fox Mulder
No earthly means of transportation.
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