Family
♪ b-I-n-g-o, b-I-n-g-o, b-I-n-g-o ♪ ♪ and bingo was his name-o ♪ ♪ there was a farmer had a dog ♪ ♪ and bingo was his name-o ♪
Season 1 · Episode 5
The Jersey Devil
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X04Original airdate · October 8, 1993
352 dialogue entries
NEW JERSEY, 1947
( clap )
Family
♪ I-n-g-o ♪
( clap )
Family
♪ I-n-g-o ♪ ♪ I-n-g-o ♪ ♪ and bingo was his name-o ♪ ♪ there was a farmer had a dog ♪ ♪ and bingo was his name-o... ♪
Son
Oh! Oh, my goodness, what's happening?
Dad
It's okay. We just had a flat. No problem here, honey.
Mom
Oh, no.
( sighing )
Dad
Darn it. Honey, would you mind holding the light for a second?
( yelling )
Mom
Paul! Paul? Paul! Where are you, paul?! What happened?! Paul! Paul!
( barking )
( whistling )
Scene 02
Voice
Here we go, boy.
Voice
Let's go over here.
Voice
Over here! We found something.
Man With Dogs
Easy, easy, easy.
( retching and coughing )
Police Officer
His leg's been eaten off.
Police Officer 2
Hey, up here!
( whistling )
Police Officer 2
It's in here. It's as tall as a house.
Police Officer 3
We can smoke him out.
Police Officer
And then what?
Police Officer 2
I see it!
Police Officer
He's coming at us!
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Dana Scully
Come on, boy.
Dana Scully
Working hard, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
This woman claims to have been taken aboard a spaceship and held in an antigravity chamber without food and water for three days.
Dana Scully
Sorry to interrupt your serious investigation, but I just heard a story that would just about take your knees out.
Fox Mulder
What's that?
Dana Scully
They found a body in the new jersey woods yesterday missing its right arm and shoulder. They think they may have been eaten off by a human.
Fox Mulder
Where in new jersey?
Dana Scully
Just outside atlantic city.
Fox Mulder
Not an uncommon place to lose a body part. Do they think it's the mob?
Dana Scully
It was a homeless man. There doesn't seem to be a motive.
Fox Mulder
You feeling lucky, Scully?
Dana Scully
Relative to whom? It's not our case, Mulder. The local police are handling it. An X-File?
Fox Mulder
Ever hear of something called "the jersey devil"?
Dana Scully
Yeah. A beast that comes out of the woods and attacks cars, right? Kind of like an east coast bigfoot?
Fox Mulder
Read the file about the case in 1947.
Dana Scully
Save me the trouble.
Fox Mulder
1947. Family watches dad get dragged into the woods. Cops find dad with a few appendages gnawed off. Cops gun down a large, naked man in the woods. Autopsy shows human flesh and bones in the man's large intestine-- a beast man.
Dana Scully
Is the autopsy report here?
Fox Mulder
No. The original disappeared from the paterson p.d.'s files a few years later. There is a statement from the attending pathologist.
Dana Scully
It's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folktale, a myth.
Fox Mulder
I heard the story when I was a kid, too. Funny thing is, I believed it. Thanks, lorraine. We got a cannibalized body in new jersey. Someone or something out there is hungry.
( sighing )
ATLANTIC CITY MORGUE
Glenna
They say animals can develop an appetite for human flesh but this is no animal. You see the teeth marks just below the clavicle? They're human.
Fox Mulder
Who found the body?
Glenna
Park ranger.
Dana Scully
Was he alive when it happened?
Glenna
It's hard to tell. There's a skull fracture, but no sign of a struggle. His blood-alcohol level was up. Probably never knew what hit him.
Fox Mulder
Any ideas about that?
Glenna
From the size of that bite mark, I'd say a large adult male. Detective tomson is handling the case.
Detective Thompson
Glenna?
Dana Scully
I'm special agent Dana Scully, and this is agent Fox Mulder.
Detective Thompson
I don't remember anybody calling the FBI in on this.
Fox Mulder
We're not here in an official capacity. Agent Scully is a medical doctor. We heard about your victim. She thought she might take a look.
Detective Thompson
I'm going to ask you to leave. We have an investigation.
Glenna
Tommy, this is no time to get pissy.
Detective Thompson
We have jurisdiction.
Fox Mulder
Any suspects, detective?
Detective Thompson
I don't work for you, sir. Unless you hear different from the attorney general this case is a local matter.
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder, we should go.
Fox Mulder
There's no need to get bent out of shape.
Detective Thompson
On the contrary. I think I've been exceedingly polite.
OUTSIDE
Fox Mulder
So what's eating that guy?
Dana Scully
He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction on a murder case. You'd feel the same way if someone was horning in on your work.
Fox Mulder
Chances are he's without a clue. He'll probably be scratching his head when they bring the next body in.
Dana Scully
You could have really humiliated him and told him who the perpetrator was-- the jersey devil.
Fox Mulder
What do you say we grab a hotel, take in a floor show drop a few quarters in the slot and do a little digging on this case?
Dana Scully
You're kidding, right?
Fox Mulder
We can skip the floor show.
Dana Scully
I have to be back in D.C.
Dana Scully
No. I have my godson's birthday party at 6:30. What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
A little poking around. Maybe make a weekend out of it.
Dana Scully
It's a three-hour drive back by myself-- in friday-night traffic.
NEW JERSEY STATE PARK
Ranger Peter Boulay
Come on!
Transit Clerk
Change for 50.
Ranger Peter Boulay
Found the body just over there lying facedown on the rocks. 32 years with the park service. I've come across some weird stuff but never anything like this.
Fox Mulder
The victim was a homeless man. You get many of them out here?
Ranger Peter Boulay
Well, occasionally I'll see some but most are scared of the woods.
Fox Mulder
Scared? Of what?
Ranger Peter Boulay
I don't know. The devil.
Fox Mulder
People say that's just a myth.
Ranger Peter Boulay
Depends on who you talk to.
Fox Mulder
What do you think?
Ranger Peter Boulay
Well, like I said, you know, 32 years... I see a lot of weird stuff. Like one time... A little over four years ago I saw what I thought was a large man come out of a copse of birch trees-- not a stitch of clothing. He was about 60 yards away. And he starts sniffing the air you know, like a dog and then he looks straight at me and I swear he smelled me because he took off into the woods so fast you'd swear he wasn't human.
Fox Mulder
Really? You never saw him again?
Ranger Peter Boulay
No. But I feel him and... I've found things. Some scat, half-buried like a cat's only more human. Found a half-eaten rabbit with what looked like a human cuspid tooth in it, and some deer bones that looked like they'd been sharpened into tools.
Fox Mulder
Do you think it might be responsible for the body you found?
Ranger Peter Boulay
I got a pension coming up in a few years. You say the wrong thing...
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Ranger Peter Boulay
I'll tell you one thing. I don't ever come out here without my weapon anymore.
Fox Mulder
How far is it into town from here?
Ranger Peter Boulay
About a mile, mile and a half.
Fox Mulder
I'm staying at the galaxy gateway for the next couple days. If you think of anything, will you call me?
Ranger Peter Boulay
Sure.
( children laughing )
Children
Look at this gorilla!
( crying )
SCULLY'S GOD-SON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, D.C.
Fox Mulder
All right.
Dana Scully
It's okay. It's all right. What happened? Did you bump your head?
Ellen
Oh, cruiser, stop that!
Ellen
What... What happened?
Dana Scully
Jungle warfare.
Ellen
Oh, I'm going to kill that dog.
Dana Scully
If the hit squad doesn't get to him before you do.
Ellen
I'm so glad you're here, Dana.
( party horn blowing and children yelling )
Dana Scully
Oh, you're amazing.
Ellen
What?
Dana Scully
You're such a natural at all this. I don't know how you keep it all together.
Ellen
Mommy radar.
Dana Scully
I don't think I'm cut out for this, ell.
Ellen
Dana, you went through the FBI academy. What better training could there be for motherhood? Seriously. You're great with kids. What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
When am I supposed to find the time?
Ellen
First you have to get a life. And, of course, it helps to find a man.
Dana Scully
Know of any?
Ellen
Yeah, they're disappearing faster than the brazilian rain forest. What about that guy you work with?
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Ellen
You said he was cute.
Dana Scully
He's a jerk. He's not a jerk. He's, um... He's obsessed with his work.
( doorbell ringing )
Scene 09
Rob
Hi.
Dana Scully
Hi.
Rob
I'm rob. I'm scott's dad.
Dana Scully
Oh. Come in.
Rob
Thanks. Hey, tiger. How you doing? Having a good time?
Ellen
( whispering: ) divorced.
( people talking )
OUTSKIRTS OF ATLANTIC CITY
Dana Scully
Antigravity is right.
Fox Mulder
Did anybody here know roger crockett? He was murdered two days ago. Ma'am, can I..?
Vagrant Woman
Hey, honey, you got any change to spare?
Fox Mulder
Roger crockett? Anybody.
Jack
What do you want to know?
Fox Mulder
Did you know roger crockett? Did you hear how he died?
Jack
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Any ideas who might have done it?
Jack
You a cop?
Fox Mulder
No. I'm FBI
Jack
I'll show you something.
Fox Mulder
Okay.
Jack
I need some money.
Fox Mulder
What is this?
Jack
Stuck in the pocket of a jacket I found.
Fox Mulder
Does it mean anything to you?
Jack
I've seen it.
Fox Mulder
Where?
Jack
Right here, digging in the trash.
Fox Mulder
Are you hustling me?
Jack
Swear to god.
Fox Mulder
What do you think it is?
Jack
I don't know. Scared the hell out of me.
Fox Mulder
Has anybody else seen it?
Jack
Oh, yeah. Everybody's pretty freaked.
Fox Mulder
Anybody tell the cops?
Jack
You think they don't know?
Fox Mulder
Where you sleeping tonight?
Jack
You're standing in my bedroom.
Fox Mulder
You know the galaxy gateway? Room 756. Go ahead.
Jack
Hey, they got hbo?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, they do.
( rustling )
( dog barking )
( fence rattling )
( soft thudding )
( ragged breathing )
( soft grunting )
( sniffing )
( siren wails )
ALLEYWAY
Police Officer
Sir.
Fox Mulder
You got a man on that roof.
Police Officer
Nothing to be afraid of. We'll give you a place to sleep it off.
Fox Mulder
Back off. Calm down. There's a man up there.
Police Officer
Get in the car, now.
ATLANTIC CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Detective Thompson
What do you think you're doing?
Fox Mulder
Enjoying the night life here in beautiful atlantic city.
Detective Thompson
I'll go to the d.a. If I have to. Obstructing an investigation misconduct...
Fox Mulder
Let's go see her together. We'll add "withholding evidence" to the list.
Detective Thompson
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
Statements given to you describing something stalking the back streets of atlantic city.
Detective Thompson
This is the fishing trip they get me up at 3:00 in the morning for? Unbelievable.
Fox Mulder
Why else would you be sweeping the streets tonight? You know it's out there.
Detective Thompson
I got a perpetrator out there. Whether it's hannibal the cannibal or elmer fudd I've got a job to protect people.
Fox Mulder
Oh, is that your job? Or is it to keep the dice rolling, keep the tour buses rolling in? You can't fill those casinos, this town disappears like a quarter down the slot. I've seen it.
Detective Thompson
Seen what?
( chuckling )
Detective Thompson
You've been spending too much time in supermarket check-out lines. This story's as old as the hills.
Fox Mulder
Who's going to be responsible when you lose your first tourist, detective? You are.
Detective Thompson
No, you are, sir because you're wasting my time and impeding the solution of this case. You want to go on a safari, go to africa. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Agent
Agent Scully. Agent Mulder, line three.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
Not far from where you left me.
Dana Scully
You're still in atlantic city?
Fox Mulder
Uh, Scully, you got anything happening this morning?
Dana Scully
What's that noise in the background?
( retching )
Fox Mulder
That's a guy getting sick.
Dana Scully
Mulder, where are you? The drunk tank?
ATLANTIC CITY
Fox Mulder
I saw this thing on the roof.
Dana Scully
Well, it's not hard to see why they mistook you for a vagrant.
Fox Mulder
You going to rag on me or are you going to get me something to eat?
Dana Scully
Am I buying or did you manage to panhandle some spare change?
A RESTAURANT IN ATLANTIC CITY
Fox Mulder
It moved like a cat, quick and graceful. A human couldn't have gotten up on a roof that fast.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
What will happen when the bureau finds out?
Fox Mulder
They dropped the charges. Tomson ran me through the system to spite me.
Dana Scully
I'm talking about this jersey devil.
Fox Mulder
I saw it. It's exactly what the ranger described. The way it moved, sniffed the air. It's out of the woods, probably in search of food.
Dana Scully
I'll say.
Fox Mulder
It picked through the garbage. If it was a man-eater, why didn't it come after me? Probably felt threatened.
Dana Scully
You're ascribing it a motive and an alibi. This thing chewed somebody's arm off. It's not exactly a defensive posture.
Fox Mulder
But you do believe I saw something?
Dana Scully
You saw something, but I won't go in and sell it when it's nothing more than a sighting in a dark alley.
Fox Mulder
I'm still paying for a hotel room.
Dana Scully
I have to get back to washington by 7:30.
Fox Mulder
Another birthday party?
Dana Scully
No. I have a date.
Fox Mulder
Can you cancel?
Dana Scully
Unlike you, Mulder, I would like to have a life.
Fox Mulder
I have a life.
Dana Scully
Come on. I have somebody I want you to meet on the way home.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Dr. Diamond
Just about every culture has one-- yeti, sasquatch, the russian almas.
Fox Mulder
Why is that?
Dr. Diamond
It's a universal wild man myth-- a symbolic fear of our dual natures as humans as creators of life and destroyers of it.
Fox Mulder
What's this chart?
Dr. Diamond
It shows the historic entry of man onto each continent and the effect it had on other animal species which has been disastrous.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Dr. Diamond
We humans have retained hereditary traits through evolution that have proven to be extremely destructive. We tend to be tribal and aggressively territorial oriented by selfish sexual and reproductive drives that make cooperation beyond the family or tribe extremely hard for us.
Fox Mulder
So we kill other species in order to survive.
Dana Scully
Humans are top carnivores. We sit at the top of the food chain and reduce other species' chances of survival.
Dr. Diamond
Nice to know Dana left here with more than a degree.
Fox Mulder
But what if something entered the food chain above us?
Dr. Diamond
It won't happen. Our intelligence virtually ensures that, barring the introduction of some alien life-form we will live out our days as rulers of the world.
Fox Mulder
But what if, through some fluke of nature a human was born who reverted to its most animal instincts? A kind of carnivorous neanderthal. Wouldn't he occupy a space above us on the food chain?
Dr. Diamond
Oh, sure. All he'd have to do is wait outside any fast-food restaurant and eat us on the way in.
Fox Mulder
Haven't there been cases where men have been raised in the wilderness by animals who have no language and hunt like predators?
Dr. Diamond
Yes, but cannibalism is rare even among lower mammals.
Fox Mulder
But even when faced with extinction?
Dr. Diamond
Maybe in the jungles of new guinea. It's just highly unlikely that what you're suggesting could have survived civilization or evolution out in the woods of new jersey?
Fox Mulder
Highly unlikely but not outside the realm of extreme possibility?
Dr. Diamond
Well, it would be an amazing discovery.
Scene 18
Rob
The hard thing was when my wife remarried. Suddenly I felt very competitive for my son's attention. It was weird.
Dana Scully
I'm sure.
Rob
I became a superdad on the weekends with scott. I had this unconscious fear of being replaced. I actually had dreams where I was running over his stepfather with my car. You'll understand when you have kids. Having kids changes everything.
Dana Scully
That's what they say.
Rob
Maybe some weekend if you're up for it we could take the kids out to the beach for the day.
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Rob
Great. Thank you. Can I ask about the case you're on, or can't you say?
Dana Scully
I don't think it's a case we should discuss over dinner.
Rob
I don't suppose you'd want to hear about the finer points of estate planning and taxation?
( telephone ringing )
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Ranger Peter Boulay
Agent Mulder, this is peter brouillet of the jersey parks department.
Fox Mulder
Oh, yeah. Hi.
Ranger Peter Boulay
I found a body out in the woods today. It looks like it's been dead six to eight months. A long-haired male missing the same tooth I found in that rabbit. Could be your devil.
Fox Mulder
Where's the body now?
Ranger Peter Boulay
I turned it over to the coroner's office.
Fox Mulder
You're sure it was a male?
Ranger Peter Boulay
It had all the plumbing.
Rob
Excuse me.
Dana Scully
Mm-hmm.
( beeping )
Dana Scully
Excuse me.
Rob
Certainly.
( ringing )
Fox Mulder
Scully.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Sorry to interrupt your evening.
Dana Scully
That's okay. What's up?
Fox Mulder
Maybe it isn't a beast man we're looking for after all.
ATLANTIC CITY MORGUE
Glenna
Well, if they picked it up nobody logged the body on the chart. I sure haven't seen it.
Ranger Peter Boulay
What else would they have done with it?
Dana Scully
We called you here for nothing.
Fox Mulder
They're going to sweep this under the carpet.
Dr. Diamond
Why?
Fox Mulder
Any publicity, and the streets will be crawling with people who aren't here to play craps. Word gets out there's something on the loose, forget it.
Dr. Diamond
It's a female?
Fox Mulder
The body they found was a male. There's a 50-50 chance there was a mate. We may never know unless we find out ourselves.
Dr. Diamond
If it's true, what are the chances of capturing it alive?
ALLEYWAY
Dr. Diamond
If it is a primate it would have a natural fear of heights. It would also want to stay close to its food source.
Fox Mulder
This thing has no fear of heights. We'll start with the lower floors. How much time will that dart give us?
Ranger Peter Boulay
It will put down a 500-pound bear for an hour if I hit it.
Police Officer 1
What the hell's a park ranger vehicle doing here?
Police Officer 2
I don't know.
Police Officer 1
Check it out.
Police Officer 2
Run a check for me on...
Dr. Diamond
Something here. It's blood. She could be bringing her killing here. She could be injured.
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Roger. Zebra team in position.
Fox Mulder
What if it is a female, Scully? How close is she to you or me? Does she feel emotion? Or are her days just spent looking for food?
Dana Scully
Maybe she spends her day shopping.
Fox Mulder
Eight million years out of africa-- I don't think we're all that different.
Dana Scully
Mulder, we've put men into space. We've built computers that work faster than the human mind.
Fox Mulder
While we overpopulate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with? Maybe we're just beasts with big brains. What?
Dana Scully
No, I was just... Thinking about my godson's birthday party. Eight little six-year-old boys running around. Talk about primitive behavior.
Detective Thompson
His name is Mulder. He's a federal agent.
Dr. Diamond
No.
Detective Thompson
What are you doing here?
Dr. Diamond
I'm a professor of anthropology.
Detective Thompson
Mulder. Does that sound familiar? I know he's here somewhere. Will you check upstairs, andrew? I want this place searched top to bottom...
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Move, move!
( metallic banging )
Dana Scully
Mulder... Mulder, where are you?
( metallic clanking )
( snarls )
( groaning )
Dana Scully
Mulder?
( grunting )
Dana Scully
Lay back. Oh, Mulder, you're hurt.
Fox Mulder
You should have seen her. She was beautiful.
Dana Scully
Yeah, well, she just about ripped your lungs out.
OUTSIDE BUILDING
Fox Mulder
She could have torn my head off but she sensed I wasn't a threat.
Dana Scully
I need federal jurisdiction on this case.
Dr. Diamond
How old would you say she was?
Dana Scully
The u.s. Assistant d.a. Is on the phone. He wants to know what's going on.
Fox Mulder
Tell him he's got a real live neanderthal on the loose. She was young.
Dana Scully
The atlantic city major crime unit has filed a complaint that we're endangering a murder investigation.
Fox Mulder
That is such crap...
Ranger Peter Boulay
They got her cornered in a building.
Fox Mulder
Let's go.
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
It crawled into the wall.
Detective Thompson
Get a man in there.
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Affirmative.
Detective Thompson
Keep these people out of here.
Fox Mulder
You can take her alive.
Detective Thompson
( man yelling ) what's going on?
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
I've got a man down. A naked woman just jumped from a second-story window. Suspect is headed south into the woods on foot.
Dog Handler
Good boy.
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Keep your eyes to the left.
NEW JERSEY STATE PARK
Ranger Peter Boulay
I know these woods. She's going for cover down by the rocks.
( groaning )
Ranger Peter Boulay
Look.
Fox Mulder
Can you reach her from here?
Ranger Peter Boulay
I can try.
( grunting )
( gunshot )
( gunshot )
( men yelling )
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
I got it!
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
She tried to take my arm off. Looks like she tried to bury herself.
Fox Mulder
Why did you have to kill her?
Detective Thompson
Same reason you kill a rabid animal.
( sighing )
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Dana Scully
Hi. This just came through. It's a posthumous medical exam of the woman's body. They found fragments of human bone still in her digestive tract. They estimated her age to be 25 to 30 years. They allowed dr. Diamond to do a medical exam of the body but he found nothing that suggested prehistoric bone structure or physiology. The a.c.p.d. Has her listed as a jane doe and a search for her identity and state psychiatric records has begun in earnest.
Fox Mulder
Good luck.
Dana Scully
They have also released the medical exam from the male body that they found. His age is estimated to be about 40 years.
Fox Mulder
There would have been offspring.
Dana Scully
The medical exam of the woman's uterus seems to indicate that she may have given birth.
Fox Mulder
She was protecting her children. It all makes sense. The male dies and she comes out of the woods in search of food.
Dana Scully
Do me a favor. Go out and have a beer. Take the day off. I'll cover for you. Just take some time for yourself.
Fox Mulder
Thanks, but I've got an appointment at the smithsonian with an ethnobiologist. ( telephone ringing ) I can't wait to tell him. Mulder. Yeah, just a second. It's for you.
Dana Scully
Hello.
Rob
Hi, Dana. It's rob.
Dana Scully
Oh, hi.
Rob
I have scott for the night and we have two extra tickets for cirque du soleil. We thought maybe you'd like to ask ellen if you could take trent and join us.
Fox Mulder
Requisition for a car, please, fran. Thank you. Who was that on the phone?
Dana Scully
A guy.
Fox Mulder
Same guy you had dinner with the other night?
Dana Scully
Same guy.
Fox Mulder
You going to have dinner with him again?
Dana Scully
I don't think so.
Fox Mulder
No interest.
Dana Scully
Not at this time.
Fox Mulder
Thanks, fran. What are you doing?
Dana Scully
Going with you to the smithsonian.
Fox Mulder
Don't you have a life?
Dana Scully
Keep that up and I'll hurt you like that beast woman.
Fox Mulder
Eight million years out of africa.
Dana Scully
And look who's holding the door.
NEW JERSEY STATE PARK
Dad
Got a date?
Dad
Well...
Children
Hey, I can't see! Where am I?
Dana Scully
Oh, come here.
Ellen
Go on.
Dana Scully
Come on. Hold on.
Dad
Well...
Dad
I'm sorry.
Dad
You know him?
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Stay alert.
S.W.A.T. Team Officer
Good shot.
Boy
Dad, did you just see something down there?
Dad
Where?
Boy
Over there.
Dad
No. I'm sure it was nothing.
Boy
No. I saw something.
Dad
Did you ever hear the story of the jersey devil? When I was a kid my dad used to tell this story about a creature who lived out there in the woods. It was half man, half animal. I used to believe...
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