Jane
Lauren, I've been looking ev... Are you all right? Do you want some water?
Season 1 · Episode 6
Shadows
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X05Original airdate · October 22, 1993
276 dialogue entries
HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
( woman crying )
Lauren
No. I'm fine.
Jane
Oh, honey, it's been a couple of weeks now. Do you want to talk?
Lauren
No. Really, jane, I'm okay. I just haven't known a lot of people who have died, you know. I've never known anybody that killed themselves.
Jane
Maybe once everything gets packed away it will get easier. There won't be the constant reminder. Here's your paycheck. Come on. Go home.
Lauren
Okay.
( electronic beeping )
( screaming )
Lauren
Oh, please! Oh, please!
( screaming )
( screaming )
( coughs )
TWO HOURS LATER
Female
I think I'll pass.
Male
Hey, I know a good place to crash. Up the fire escape
Male
Come on. I'll give you a boost.
BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL
Man
Agent Scully, agent Mulder chief blevins assures us of your cooperation. We regret any inconvenience at this extreme hour.
Woman
We hope your expertise in extraordinary phenomenon
Second Woman
Have you ever analyzed anything like this before? Abnormal postmortem muscle reflex. Both corpses are still responding to exposure to high levels of electrostatic charge.
Dana Scully
Any external lesions or surface burns?
Second Woman
None.
Fox Mulder
Time of death?
Dana Scully
Well, it can't be long. The body's still warm.
Second Woman
Somatic death occurred sometime over six hours ago but their body temperatures have yet to drop below 98.3.
Fox Mulder
Where did you find them? Look, at least tell us the time and mode of transport. That might help us determine why the bodies haven't cooled. You guys called us down here. You want some answers you got to give some.
Man
They traveled 60 minutes by air.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
Second Woman
The most troubling aspect of the deaths is the throat area. Larynx, esophagus, and hyoid bone-- all have been crushed like chalk. No abrasions, or evidence of tissue damage. It's as if their throats were crushed from the inside.
Fox Mulder
Who are these guys?
Dana Scully
If you've done your examinations why are you consulting us?
Woman
Working on the X-Files have you seen anything like this?
Man
Well, thank you very much for your time agent Mulder, Scully. If any inquiry as to this meeting be made we request full denial.
Fox Mulder
I'd say you people already suffer from full denial.
HALLWAY
Fox Mulder
I have no money!
Fox Mulder
Please, I have no money!
Dana Scully
You lied. You have seen it before. I can tell. You lied to them.
Fox Mulder
I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.
Dana Scully
Who do you think they were?
Fox Mulder
NSA, c.I.a., some covert organization that Congress will uncover in the next scandal. It's not important who they are but what they have. I'm sure they have no idea, because they called us in. I have X-Files-- each case has an element of what we saw tonight. Residual electrostatic charge, internal mutilation-- none has the elements combined in one case.
Dana Scully
How can an esophagus be crushed without the neck being touched?
Fox Mulder
Psychokinetic manipulation.
Dana Scully
Psychokinesis? You mean how carrie got even at the prom?
Fox Mulder
The russians were doing studies on it. The chinese still are. Their findings are kept secret.
Dana Scully
Okay, I'm intrigued but how can we investigate? We have nothing to go on.
HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES - NEXT MORNING
Secretary
Let me go!
Secretary
Just getting in, lauren? Oh! Mr. Graves used to let you get away with that but mr. Dorlund is in charge now. I was wondering if I could have a minute with him? Tomorrow... At 3:00.
( sighs )
Lauren
Oh! Oh!
Robert Dorland
Is everything all right out here?
Lauren
Can I speak with you?
DORLAND'S OFFICE
Robert Dorland
Please.
Lauren
Um, I'm here to give my two-week notice.
Robert Dorland
Uh-huh... Lauren, jane told me about you crying in howard's office and I want you to know you're not alone. As a matter of fact, we share something special. Howard and I started this company ten years ago. As long as I knew him he had no interest in anything besides work.
Robert Dorland
Became family. I was his brother. You were like a daughter. So, of course I feel very close to you
Robert Dorland
I want to take care of my family. Stay, lauren, please. The company needs you. Especially now. I won't let you leave, lauren.
Lauren
What's wrong?
( gasping and grunting )
Lauren
I, uh... I can't. I have to leave. I can't be here anymore.
Robert Dorland
You've got two weeks.
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Fox Mulder
"convictions: illegal possession of firearms "illegal possession of explosives falsification of export licenses."
Dana Scully
He has ties to an extremist group in the u.s.-- the isfahan named after the city in iran. They're working out of philadelphia.
Fox Mulder
That's 60 air minutes.
Dana Scully
I'll talk to the philly p.d.
BROAD STREET - PHILADELPHIA
Cop
Food.
Police Officer
This is where we found him.
Dana Scully
Who discovered their bodies?
Police Officer
Nobody. It was about 10:00; I was on patrol. Just saw them hanging around.
Dana Scully
No witnesses?
Police Officer
Who come around here after business hours don't witness very much. You know what I'm saying.
FBI OFFICE
Dana Scully
We'll just question everyone on record who was at the machine before 10:00 that night.
Fox Mulder
There. I'll back up.
Dana Scully
Lauren kyte. 858 franklin, bensalem. Why would the isfahan be robbing someone of 40 bucks at an atm machine?
Fox Mulder
Look at that.
Dana Scully
Maybe it's another person.
Fox Mulder
Maybe. Maybe not.
Dana Scully
Well, the resolution's too poor. It won't help much to enhance it.
Fox Mulder
That leaves us only one person we know we can talk to.
( knocking at door )
( knocking )
LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE
Lauren
Hello?
Fox Mulder
Ms. Lauren kyte, please. I'm agent Fox Mulder. This is agent Dana Scully. We're with the federal bureau of investigation. May we come in?
Lauren
I was in the middle...
Fox Mulder
We won't be long. Thank you.
Dana Scully
Have you ever seen either of these two men before?
Lauren
No.
Dana Scully
Take your time.
Lauren
I'm sorry. I've never seen them before.
Dana Scully
I'm afraid you have.
Fox Mulder
Can you tell us what happened that night? Um...
Lauren
These guys, I... I was depositing my paycheck. They grabbed me, I got away, I ran. I just didn't want to file a report.
Fox Mulder
They were found dead.
Dana Scully
Have you ever seen this person before?
Lauren
No. I'm sorry. I can't tell you.
Fox Mulder
Does that mean you know?
Lauren
Uh... It means I... I can't tell you who it is.
Fox Mulder
Well, when you can tell me this is the number I can be reached at any time, okay?
Lauren
Mm-hmm.
OUTSIDE
Male
Through that window.
Male
Pull it down.
Dana Scully
A woman her size breaking free and outrunning those men?
Fox Mulder
Then somehow crushing their necks?
Dana Scully
She knows who the other person in the photo is.
Fox Mulder
She's packing, running away, but from what?
( tires squealing )
Dana Scully
What's happening? What the hell's going on?
Fox Mulder
Hang on! Are you okay?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
GARAGE
Dana Scully
Hi.
Fox Mulder
Hi. The paramedics check you out?
Dana Scully
Yeah. I'm fine, although I do have a standing-in-line- at-the-dmv-sized headache.
Fox Mulder
Mine's more I.r.s.-sized.
Dana Scully
Did they check out the car?
Fox Mulder
It's brand-new. Only 100 Miles.
Dana Scully
Then someone tampered with it while we were in her house.
Fox Mulder
The mechanic says everything's in proper order. Nothing cut, nothing greased. Check out the lights.
Fox Mulder
No. The filaments are heated due to massive levels of electrostatic charge just like the bodies in the morgue. And isn't it interesting that lauren kyte was present at both incidents?
Dana Scully
She was in our presence the entire time.
Fox Mulder
What if it's possible to raise the body's electrostatic charge to the levels we've been seeing and use that energy to affect objects?
Dana Scully
If a person generated that much energy their body would break down. They'd glow like those lights.
Fox Mulder
There's evidence of this in the X-Files-- furniture moving untouched objects levitating unexplained electrical discharges. Frequently, people who have psychokinetic power are unaware of their own capability.
Dana Scully
Are you saying lauren kyte crashed our car?
Fox Mulder
Either that... Or a poltergeist.
Dana Scully
They're here.
Fox Mulder
They may be.
Dana Scully
Mulder, look at the tangible evidence. Two mideast extremists were killed trying to assault a woman working for a manufacturer of parts for the defense department. When we questioned her, our car was sabotaged. In both cases, someone else may have committed those acts-- maybe the same someone from the atm photos. The mystery isn't psychokinetic energy. It's her accomplice.
HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
Dana Scully
She's clean. No arrest, not even a traffic ticket. The only thing is she's in deep with her credit card company-- 15,000.
Lauren
What do you think you're doing?
Lauren
No, no. I'll take care of this, all right? Here. I'll talk to somebody.
Fox Mulder
A little upset over losing a parking space wouldn't you say? Who is howard graves, anyway?
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Fox Mulder
She was his secretary. That's three people dead in the last month associated with lauren kyte.
CEMETERY - DAY
Female
I can't get it down.
Fox Mulder
You won't find too many people at their boss' grave who aren't dancing on it.
Dana Scully
Look at this one.
( water splashing )
Fox Mulder
Excuse me, sir? Is there an office where I can get some information on those people?
Groundskeeper
Who? I attend every funeral. I'm the last person to see them put to rest.
Fox Mulder
Do you know how sarah lynn was related to howard graves?
Groundskeeper
Ey were at home one day and he didn't latch the pool gate. She drowned. His wife left him a year later. She's buried in a plot in the northeast corner.
Fox Mulder
Thank you, sir.
Groundskeeper
You're welcome.
Dana Scully
She was only three years old.
Fox Mulder
If she had lived, she'd be lauren's age.
Dana Scully (voice-over)
Further investigation into lauren kyte's personal history... Reveals an estrangement from her family. Phone records confirm no contact with her parents for the last two years. Her actions, observed during surveillance, indicate a strong relationship between lauren kyte...
Dana Scully (voice-over)
Was this relationship somehow the motivation for his suicide? How are the attack and subsequent murders of the isfahan agents related,
Dana Scully (voice-over)
Lie in finding the identity of lauren kyte's accomplice.
CRIME LAB
Dana Scully (voice-over)
And her employer, the late howard graves.
Dana Scully
Enhance it by ten. That's howard graves. He's alive.
Fox Mulder
Not necessarily.
( hissing )
( stairs creaking )
( muffled voice )
Howard Graves (voice)
Don't do this to me.
LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Howard Graves (voice)
Howard. No. Stop. No, no!
( moaning )
( sobbing )
( panicked gasping )
NATIONAL BUREAU OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Male
Come on, pull.
Howard Graves (voice)
Please, no!
Dana Scully
I think howard graves fabricated his own death.
Fox Mulder
Do you know how difficult it is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off-- elvis.
Dana Scully
He and lauren kyte are in on something. Maybe an illegal dealing through his company-- something the c.I.a. Was interested in.
Fox Mulder
You may be right.
Dana Scully
Wait. You think I'm right?
Fox Mulder
Sure. All you got to do is prove howard graves is still alive.
ELLEN BLEDSOE'S OFFICE
Ellen
Howard graves is very dead.
Dana Scully
May we see the autopsy report, please?
Ellen
Knock yourself out.
Dana Scully
Uh... "cause of death, arterial hemorrhage..."
Bledsoe
Four out of six liters of blood
Ellen
Down the tub.
Dana Scully
Well, there seems to be some blood work missing here.
Ellen
We only do that if we suspect homicide.
Fox Mulder
I don't suppose you ran any dental confirmations?
Ellen
What for? It was him.
Dana Scully
How did you know?
Ellen
It said so on the toe tag.
Fox Mulder
Who made positive ID on the body?
Dana Scully
Um... Lauren kyte.
Fox Mulder
But he was cremated. There's no way to run a dental check or get a dna sample.
Dana Scully
Yes, there is. His body's tissues and organs were donated.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
Man
Howard graves is in five different people. They harvested the organs immediately after death. His kidneys were sent to boston his liver to dallas and his corneas to portland, Oregon. They've all been transplanted. Because of his age we could only cryopreserve the dura matter in the membrane of the spinal column. We have mr. Graves' hospital records. We'll extract a sample, run a test and in a couple of hours confirm the identity of the donor.
HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
Jane
I, uh, made them rush so you could have your check before you leave. Oh. I'm going to miss you. Oh.
Lauren
Here.
( door closes )
HOWARD GRAVES' OFFICE
Male & Female
Come on! Come on!
Lauren
You were going to leave
Robert Dorland
Well, uh, I came to say good-bye and to wish you luck... And to leave you with this little thought. I know howard told you and if it ever gets out I won't waste my time trying to pin the source. I'll go straight to you.
Lauren
And you'll do to me what you did to howard? I know you had him killed.
Robert Dorland
Why would you say that?
Lauren
He told me.
( telephone ringing )
UNIVERSITY OF PA OFFICE
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Lauren
How soon can you
Fox Mulder
Why?
Lauren
Please hurry.
Dana Scully
The tests are conclusive. The dura matter does belong to howard graves. He is, indeed, very dead.
( knocking )
LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE
Lauren
Just a second.
( screaming )
Man
Go run the bath.
Lauren
Get out of here!
( screaming )
Lauren
No. No!
( choking )
Lauren
( lauren screaming: ) no! No!
( man gasping )
( lauren crying )
INTERROGATION ROOM
Woman
Will help us answer some questions.
Dana Scully
No! No!
Dana Scully
No!
Dana Scully
You know, you're not under arrest. You're just here for questioning. The sooner you talk to us the sooner you get to go home. What happened to those people tonight? Do you have any idea who they might be? Why did they attack you?
Fox Mulder
Do you know who this is?
Man
Scully, Mulder. He'll keep an eye on her. Come on. Now.
Woman
You've seriously compromised our investigation.
Fox Mulder
We were following leads pertaining to an X-File.
Man
I want to know every detail of your activities concerning this case.
Dana Scully
You're the ones who have been withholding information. Why don't you tell us what you've got?
Fox Mulder
Then we have nothing more to talk about.
Woman
Wait! We believe h.t.g. Industrial technologies sold restricted parts to the isfahan. Serial numbers were recovered in the wreckage of the bombing of a navy transport van.
Fox Mulder
How is lauren kyte involved?
Man
Your actions impeded our investigation.
Woman
We don't have enough evidence to hold her. If she doesn't talk, she goes free and we lose our chance to break this company.
Man
I could make her talk.
Fox Mulder
My advice to you: don't get rough with her.
Woman
That was a waste of time.
Man
Your turn.
INTERROGATION ROOM
Fox Mulder
You're not FBI, are you?
Dana Scully
Lauren...
Lauren
I won't talk to you either.
Fox Mulder
Okay. Then you're free to go.
Lauren
I can't go back to that house.
Fox Mulder
Why? Because of howard graves?
Lauren
He's dead.
Fox Mulder
I know. He's watching over you, isn't he?
Lauren
I don't know if you've ever been a secretary before. Sometimes your boss can talk as if you weren't even in the room which can hurt, you know. Sometimes you're all he has to talk to which is how it always was with me and howard. One night, late, I went into his office. He was crying, more scared than sad. The pentagon contracts were being canceled. The company was going under. He felt personally responsible for each of his employees. Seeing and feeling their fear every day really wore him down. Then this one time, dorlund came with that group-- that mideast group-- isfahan. They'd buy parts at an outrageous price-- not just once-- for as long as they could get away with it. That night howard was crying, he had just found out that isfahan had claimed responsibility for killing a couple sailors in florida. He was never the same and I thought that's why he killed himself... But he didn't. I saw... Howard showed me how dorlund had him killed. Made it look like a suicide, 'cause he could see howard was going to put an end to the deal.
Fox Mulder
So now howard is protecting you?
Lauren
It sounds so ridiculous.
Dana Scully
But you believe it?
Lauren
He was closer to me than my father. I told him that. I still feel his presence. Sometimes... I even smell his after-shave. If you just could have... Seen the things I've seen. I just want all that to go away.
Lauren
Maybe he can move on.
Dana Scully
That's not enough. You have been given the chance to tell him again. Take it. Tell him you love him by showing him... By... By helping us finish his unfinished business. Lauren, how will you ever be able to rest if he never can?
Lauren
I'm a mess. I'm going to, uh... Wash up.
Fox Mulder
What are you doing, Scully? You don't believe.
Dana Scully
Mulder, there's no such things as ghosts or psychokinesis. I'm sure there's an explanation, but I believe that she believes and my priority is to get her to help us stop dorlund.
Fox Mulder
Well, we may have just sacrificed our best opportunity to observe spectral phenomena.
Dana Scully
No, I'm giving us the chance to solve a case that's tangible instead of chasing after shadows.
( door opens and shuts )
STAIRCASE
Fox Mulder
Are you ready?
Dana Scully
All right, everyone we have a warrant to search the premises for evidence pertaining to the sale of restricted manufactured parts. The evidence may be in the form of falsified export licenses, parts manifests, communiques. It could be on computer disk or hard copy.
Man
Once there, if in doubt, ask. We need this to be clean. This is the culmination of a yearlong investigation. If we don't come out of there today with something proving a connection to the isfahan this guy could walk.
Dana Scully
Okay, let's go. You okay? It will most likely be in dorlund's office. We'll execute the search, but we'll need you to guide us so you have to be strong, okay?
HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
Dana Scully
Everybody stay calm. Federal bureau of investigation. Ma'am, could you back away from those files, please?
Woman
This is all we could find.
Fox Mulder
We don't have him. He's not even breaking a sweat.
Webster
Our case is blown.
Webster
This guy's going to walk.
DORLAND'S OFFICE
Dana Scully
Let's get out of here.
Fox Mulder
Lauren, it's over. We have to go. What we're looking for isn't here.
Robert Dorland
I've been more than cooperative. She has no right to destroy my personal property.
Lauren
What about that van that blew up and killed those servicemen?
Robert Dorland
I don't know what you're talking about you stupid bitch!
Lauren
Don't kill him! Help us find it!
( lights explode )
Lauren
Mulder!
Dana Scully
Oh, my god.
Fox Mulder
I guess what we're looking for is here.
LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE
Dana Scully
The u.s. Attorney's office is going after dorlund with everything they've got including the murder of howard graves.
Lauren
I'll come back to testify.
Fox Mulder
Where you going?
Lauren
Away from here.
( engine starting )
Lauren
Thanks.
Fox Mulder
Boy, she's in a rush to get out of here.
Dana Scully
Out of here, or away from the ghost of howard graves?
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully, do you believe in an afterlife?
Dana Scully
I'd settle for a life in this one.
Fox Mulder
You ever seen the liberty bell?
Dana Scully
Yes.
Fox Mulder
I've been to philadelphia 100 times and I've never seen it.
Dana Scully
You're not missing much. It's a big bell with a big crack and you have to wait in a long line.
Fox Mulder
I'd really like to go.
Dana Scully
Why now?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. How late do you think they stay open?
LAUREN'S NEW WORKPLACE
Head Secretary
No, never.
Robert Dorland
So, some of us
Robert Dorland
And I...
Police Officer
The kind of people
Head Secretary
Oh, come on.
Head Secretary
They're on.
FBI Staffer
Excuse me.
Sign Painter
I'm going to put that on here.
Dana Scully (voice-over)
If at all? I am certain the answers to these questions...
Lauren
Howard. They killed him.
Head Secretary
Oh, what?
Head Secretary
Good-bye.
Lauren
Without saying good-bye?
Lauren
Be at my house?
Lauren
That's why I'm leaving.
Lauren
Okay.
Webster
We've wasted a year.
Robert Dorland
She's no agent.
Head Secretary
Lauren, no!
Head Secretary
Miss kyte, I asked for this 25 minutes ago.
Lauren
I know. I'm sorry.
Head Secretary
Maybe that's the way they work back east but here in the midwest, punctuality is a virtue. We really have to find a new office space. Every time a truck goes by the whole building shakes. That's all, lauren.
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