Mrs. Usher
Hi. You've reached the usher residence. Please leave a message at the tone.
Season 1 · Episode 3
Squeeze
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X02Original airdate · September 24, 1993
224 dialogue entries
BALTIMORE, MD
( phone ringing )
( machine beeps )
George Usher
Hi, honey. It's about 8:30. I'm going to be here a while. The presentation didn't go so well. Call me. I love you. Bye.
( yelling )
( loud thud )
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Tom Colton
S who I ran into from our class at quantico? Marty neil.
Dana Scully
J. Edgar, jr.?
Tom Colton
Just got bumped up. Foreign counterintelligence. New york city bureau. Supervisory special agent.
Dana Scully
Supervisory? Two years out of the academy? How did he land that?
Tom Colton
He lucked into the trade center bombing.
Dana Scully
Well, good for marty.
Tom Colton
Come on, Dana. The guy is a loser. Look where he is now. It's where we should be.
Dana Scully
Brad wilson told me the psychological profile you wrote on the washington crossing killer led them to the suspect. You're on the violent crime section's fast track.
Tom Colton
How are you doing? Have you had any close encounters of the third kind?
Dana Scully
Is that what everyone thinks I do?
Tom Colton
No, of course not. But you do work with "spooky" Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder's ideas may be a bit out there but he is a great agent.
Tom Colton
Well, I've got this case that's "out there." Baltimore p.d. Calls. They want our help on a serial killer profile. Three murders began six weeks ago. Victims vary in age, race, gender. No connection to each other.
Dana Scully
But there's a pattern.
Tom Colton
Point of entry-- the lack of one.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Tom Colton
College girl killed in her cinder block dorm room found with the windows locked and the door chained from the inside. The last incident, two days ago. High-security office building. Nothing on the monitors. Janitor spoke to the victim minutes before the murder. Didn't hear or see a thing.
Dana Scully
Suicides?
Tom Colton
Each victim was found with their liver ripped out. No cutting tool was used.
Dana Scully
Bare hands? This looks like an x file.
Tom Colton
Let's not get carried away. I'm going to solve these murders, but... I would like you to go over the case histories. Maybe come down to the crime scene.
Dana Scully
Do you want me to ask Mulder?
Tom Colton
Okay, if he wants to come and do you a favor, great but make sure he knows this is my case. Dana, if I can break a case like this one I'll be getting my bump up the ladder and you? Maybe you won't have to be mrs. Spooky anymore.
CRIME SCENE
Fox Mulder
Why didn't they ask me?
Dana Scully
They're friends of mine. They just felt more comfortable talking to me.
Fox Mulder
Why would I make them uncomfortable?
Dana Scully
It probably has to do with your reputation.
Fox Mulder
Reputation? I have a reputation?
Dana Scully
Colton plays by the book, and you don't. They feel your methods, your theories, are...
Fox Mulder
Spooky? Do you think I'm spooky?
Voice
Agent Scully's in here, sir.
Tom Colton
Sorry I'm late.
Dana Scully
We just got here. Uh, Fox Mulder, tom... Colton.
Tom Colton
What do you think? Does this look like the work of little green men? Gray. Excuse me?
Fox Mulder
Gray. You said green men. A reticulan skin tone is gray. They're notorious for their extraction of terrestrial human livers due to iron depletion in the reticulum galaxy.
Tom Colton
You can't be serious.
Fox Mulder
Do you have any idea what liver and onions go for there? Excuse me.
Tom Colton
Dana, I've been thinking about this and I have a theory. It might explain a lot. Tell me what you think. What if the guy enters... ...hold on a second. What in the hell's he doing? Uh, that vent is six inches by about 18. Even if a reticulan could crawl through it's screwed in place.
X-FILES OFFICE
Fox Mulder
This is the print from usher's office. These others are from an x file. Ten murders, Baltimore area. Undetermined points of entry. Each victim had their liver removed. These prints were discovered at five of the ten crime scenes.
Dana Scully
Ten murders. Colton never mentioned...
Fox Mulder
Most likely he's unaware of them. These two prints were lifted five years before he was born at powhatan mill. These three were lifted probably five years before his mother was even born.
Dana Scully
Are you saying these prints are from the 1960s and 1930s?
Fox Mulder
And fingerprinting was just coming into its own in 1903 but there was a murder involving an extracted liver.
Dana Scully
Of course.
Fox Mulder
Now, that's five murders every 30 years
Dana Scully
You're saying these are copycats?
Fox Mulder
What did we learn our first day at the academy? Each fingerprint is unique. These are a perfect match.
Dana Scully
Are you suggesting that I go before the violent crimes section and present a profile declaring these murders are done by aliens?
Fox Mulder
I find no evidence of alien involvement.
Dana Scully
Well, what then? This is the work of a 100-year-old killer capable of overpowering a six-foot-two businessman?
Fox Mulder
And he should stick out in a crowd with ten inch fingers.
Dana Scully
Look, bottom line this is colton's case.
Fox Mulder
Our x file dates back to 1903. We had it first.
Dana Scully
Mulder, they don't want you involved. They don't want to hear your theories. That's why blevins has you hidden away down here.
Fox Mulder
You're down here too. Look, why don't we agree to this? They'll have their investigation and we'll have ours, and never the twain shall meet. Agreed?
Scully's Apartment · FBI Briefing
Dana Scully
After a careful review of the violence and powerful nature of these murders I believe the killer to be a male 25 to 35 years of age with above average intelligence. His manner of entry has so far been undetectable. This may be due to his superior knowledge of the inner structure of buildings and duct works or that he, in fact, hides in plain sight posing as delivery or maintenance workers. The extraction of the liver is the most significant detail of these crimes. The liver possesses regenerative qualities. It cleanses the blood. The taking of this trophy is the transferring act for the killer to cleanse himself of his own impurities. I think he is acting under the classic form of obsessive/compulsive behavior. Now, since the victims are unrelated and we cannot predict who will be next we must utilize the fact that a killer will not always succeed in finding a victim. When this occurs, a serial killer may return in frustration to the site of a previous murder hoping to recapture the emotional high. I think our best course of action is to target these sites.
Fuller
Good job, agent Scully. If there are no objections I'd like to begin our stakeouts of the murder sites tonight. We're looking for a male, 25 to 35 possibly wearing a uniform-- gas company, UPS, whatever. I know you're assigned to another area, Scully but you're welcome to come aboard with us on this. That is, if you don't mind working in an area that's a bit more down to earth.
CRIME SCENE
Walkie-Talkie
Position ten, station check.
Dana Scully
Position ten, I copy.
( metallic banging )
( running footsteps )
Dana Scully
Whoa!
Fox Mulder
You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man would you, copper?
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
Fox Mulder
He's not coming back. His thrill is derived from the challenge of a seemingly impossible entry. He's already beaten this place. If you'd read the x file on the case...
Dana Scully
Mulder, you are jeopardizing my stakeout.
Fox Mulder
Seeds? You're wasting your time. I'm going home.
( metallic bang )
Fox Mulder
Scully! Call for backup, and get over here!
Dana Scully
Position ten requesting backup.
Fox Mulder
In there.
( loud bang )
Dana Scully
Federal agent! I'm armed. Proceed down the vent. Slowly!
( man yelling )
Dana Scully
She's not by her car!
( running footsteps )
Tom Colton
Take him! FBI!
Agent
Don't move! Get your hands up! Keep them up!
Agent 2
You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent...
Fox Mulder
You were right.
FBI BUREAU
Examiner
Is your full name eugene victor tooms?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
Are you a resident of the state of Maryland?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
Are you an employee of the Baltimore municipal animal control?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
Is it your intent to lie to me about anything here today?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Were you ever enrolled in college?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
Were you ever enrolled in medical school?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Have you ever removed a liver from a human being?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Have you ever killed a living creature?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
Have you ever killed a human being?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Were you ever in George Usher's office?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Did you kill George Usher?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Are you over 100 years old?
Tom Colton
That must be a control question.
Fox Mulder
I had her ask it.
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Have you ever been to powhatan mill?
Eugene Tooms
Yes.
Examiner
In 1933?
Eugene Tooms
No.
Examiner
Are you afraid you might fail this test?
Eugene Tooms
Well... Yes... Because I didn't do anything.
Examiner
He nailed it. A+. As far as I'm concerned the subject did not kill those two people.
Fuller
Maintenance people at the office building confirmed a call to animal control regarding a bad smell. They found a dead cat in the ventilation ducts on the second floor.
Dana Scully
That still doesn't explain why he was there late.
Fuller
He's a civil servant with initiative and we busted him for it.
Dana Scully
He was crawling up an air duct by himself without alerting security.
Tom Colton
He passed the test. His story checks out. He's not the guy. It doesn't mean your profile's incorrect.
Fox Mulder
Scully's right. It's the guy.
Fuller
What do you got, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
He lied on questions 11 and 13. His electrodermal and cardiographic response nearly go off the chart.
Fuller
Is number 11 the hundred-year-old question? Let me tell you I had a reaction to that stupid question. And what the hell is powhatan mill?
Fox Mulder
Two murders with matching m.o.s occurred in powhatan mill in 1933. Look at the chart.
Examiner
My interpretation...
Fuller
I don't need you or that machine telling me if tooms was alive in '33.
Fox Mulder
He's the guy.
( sighs )
Fuller
I'm letting him go.
( tearing and crumpling paper )
Tom Colton
You coming?
Dana Scully
Tom, I want to thank you for letting me put in time with the v.c.s. But I am officially assigned to the x files.
Tom Colton
I'll see what I can do.
Dana Scully
Tom, I can look out for myself.
Tom Colton
You said Mulder was out there. That guy's insane.
( door closes )
Dana Scully
You knew they wouldn't believe you. Why did you push it?
Fox Mulder
Maybe I thought you caught the right guy. And maybe I run into so many people who are hostile just because they can't open their minds to the possibilities that sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation.
Dana Scully
It seems like you were acting very territorial. I don't know. Forget it.
Fox Mulder
Of course I was. In our investigations you may not always agree with me but at least you respect the journey. And if you want to continue working with them I won't hold it against you.
Dana Scully
I don't know. You must have something more than your polygraph interpretation to back up this bizarre theory and I have to see what it is.
METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
Fox Mulder
These are Eugene Tooms's prints.
( computer keys clicking )
Fox Mulder
This is the fingerprint they took from usher's office. It matches the old ones from the x files. Obviously, no match. What if... Somehow...
( keys clicking )
Dana Scully
How could that be?
Fox Mulder
The only thing I know for certain is... They let him go.
( dog barking in distance )
( yelling )
Scene 09
Fuller
64 inches from the south wall.
Tom Colton
Let's run a check on liver transplants in the next 24 hours. Maybe this thing is black market.
Fuller
Come on. It was ripped out of there.
Tom Colton
Look, at this point I'm willing to give any theory a shot-- any sane theory. I'm sorry, Dana but I only want qualified members of the investigating team at the crime scene.
Fox Mulder
What's the matter, colton? You worried I'll solve your case?
Dana Scully
Tom, we have authorized access to this crime scene. A report of you obstructing another officer's investigation might stick out on your personnel file.
Tom Colton
Look, Dana whose side are you on?
Dana Scully
The victim's.
Fuller
105 inches from the fireplace.
Dana Scully
The victim is a thomas werner. Single, white...
Fox Mulder
That's tooms. He took something.
Scene 10
Dana Scully
Baltimore p.d. Checked out tooms's apartment. It was a cover. No one has ever lived there and he hasn't shown up for work since he was arrested.
Fox Mulder
I found him. How do we learn about the present? We look to the past. I think this is where it all began in 1903 on Exeter street. Look at the address of that first murder in 1903.
Dana Scully
Apartment 203. He killed the guy above him.
Fox Mulder
Maybe his neighbor played the victrola too loud.
Dana Scully
This must be tooms's great-grandfather.
Fox Mulder
What about the prints?
Dana Scully
Genetics might explain the patterns and the sociopathic attitudes and behaviors. It begins with one family member who raises an offspring who raises the next child...
Fox Mulder
So what is this, the anti-waltons?
Dana Scully
Well, what do you think?
Fox Mulder
I think we have to track Eugene Tooms. There's four down and one to go this year. If we don't get him now, the next chance is...
Dana Scully
2023.
Fox Mulder
You'll head the bureau by then. You go through the census. I'll plough through this century's marriage, birth, death certificates... Do you have any dramamine? These things make me seasick. Anything?
Dana Scully
Nope. He disappeared off the face of the earth. You?
Fox Mulder
Never was born, never married never died.
Dana Scully
At least in Baltimore county. Well, I did find one thing, though. Um, it's the current address of the investigating officer of the powhatan mill murders in 1933.
LYNNE ACRES RETIREMENT HOME
Frank Briggs
I've been waiting 25 years for you.
Dana Scully
Sir?
Frank Briggs
I called it quits in 1968 after 45 years as a cop... And those killings at powhatan mill. I was a sheriff then and I'd seen my share of murders-- bloody ones-- but I could go home and... Pitch a few baseballs to my kid and never give it a second thought. You got to be able to do that. You... You'd go crazy, right? But those murders in powhatan mill... When I walked into that room, my heart went cold. My hands... Numbed. I could feel... It.
Fox Mulder
Feel what, frank?
( sighs )
Frank Briggs
When I first heard about the death camps in 1945 I remembered powhatan mill. When I see the kurds and the bosnians... That room is there... I tell you. It's like all of the horrible acts that humans are capable of somehow gave birth to some kind of human... Monster.
( sighs )
Frank Briggs
That's why I say I've been waiting for you. Uh... There's a box in the trunk here. Get it for me, would you please? Now, this is all the evidence I've collected officially and unofficially.
Dana Scully
Unofficially?
Frank Briggs
I knew that the murders in '63 were by the same... Person as in '33. Ywhere near the case.
Dana Scully
A piece of the removed liver?
Frank Briggs
But, you know, that's not the only trophy he took with him. Family members reported small personal effects missing in each case-- a hairbrush in the walters murder a coffee mug in the taylor murder.
Fox Mulder
Have you ever heard the name eugene victor tooms?
Frank Briggs
When they wouldn't bring me aboard in '63 I did some of my own work. I took these surveillance pictures. Now, this... Is tooms. Of course, that was him 30 years ago. And this... ...is the apartment where he lived. It was located at...
Fox Mulder
...66 Exeter street?
Frank Briggs
Right. That's it. Right there.
( birds cooing )
Scene 12
Dana Scully
Here's 103.
Fox Mulder
The old man was right. You can feel it.
( sighs )
Dana Scully
There's nothing here.
Fox Mulder
Check this out. What's down here?
Dana Scully
I don't know. Let's find out. Just an old coal cellar.
Fox Mulder
Somebody having a garage sale? This is the shape on werner's mantle.
Dana Scully
Frank said he collected trophies.
Fox Mulder
Does he live in here?
Dana Scully
It looks like the wall's deteriorating.
Fox Mulder
No. Somebody made it. This is a nest. Look. It's made out of rags and newspapers.
Dana Scully
This looks like the opening. Think there's anything inside? Oh, my god, Mulder... It smells like... I think it's bile.
Fox Mulder
Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
Dana Scully
No one could live in this.
Fox Mulder
I don't think it's where he lives. I think it's where he hibernates.
Dana Scully
Hibernates?
Fox Mulder
Just listen. What if some genetic mutation could allow a man to awaken every 30 years?
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
And what if the five livers could provide him sustenance for that period? What if tooms is some kind of 20th-century... Genetic mutant?
Dana Scully
In any case, he's not here now and he's got to come back.
Fox Mulder
We'll need a surveillance team.
Dana Scully
Yeah. It will take some finagling.
Fox Mulder
Go downtown and see what you can finagle. And I'll keep watch.
( gasps )
Dana Scully
Oh, wait. I'm snagged on something. It's okay. I got it.
66 EXETER ST., 11:30 A.M.
Fox Mulder
It's about time.
Kennedy
So, who we looking for again?
Fox Mulder
Eugene Tooms. He's unarmed, but consider him dangerous. Scully and I will relieve you in eight hours if he doesn't show-- right here.
Kramer
You got it... Spooky.
Scene 14
Tom Colton
We have to talk.
Dana Scully
I have to meet Mulder.
Tom Colton
That's what we have to talk about. You're using two of my men to sit in front of a building that's been condemned for ten years?
Dana Scully
It isn't interfering with your investigation.
Tom Colton
When we first had lunch I looked forward to working with you but now I couldn't have you far enough away. Don't go down there. I had the stakeout called off.
Dana Scully
You can't do that.
Tom Colton
I can't, but my regional asac can especially after I told them about the irresponsible waste in man-hours. Huh-uh. Let me call Mulder.
Dana Scully
Is this what it takes to climb the ladder, colton?
Tom Colton
All the way to the top.
Dana Scully
Then I can't wait till you fall off and land on your ass.
( phone ringing )
Dana Scully
This is Fox Mulder. I'm not here. Leave a message.
66 EXETER ST., 7:25 P.M.
Fox Mulder
Where is everyone? Scully? This is Fox Mulder. I'm not here. Leave a message.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you must have gone out since colton gave us the night off. I say we file a complaint against him. I am furious. Call me when you get in. Okay. Bye.
( gasps )
Dana Scully
Oh, my...
( phone ringing )
Fox Mulder
Damn it, answer!
( grunting )
( grunting )
( yelling )
Fox Mulder
Scully!
( grunting )
Fox Mulder
You all right? He's not going to get his quota this year.
LYNNE ACRES RETIREMENT HOME
Fox Mulder
Look at him. He's building another nest.
Dana Scully
You'll be interested to know that I've ordered some genetic tests. The preliminary medical exam revealed quite abnormal development in the muscular and skeletal systems as well as a continually declining metabolic rate. It dips way below the levels registered in deep sleep. Did you hear what I said, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
All these people putting bars on their windows... Spending good money on high-tech security systems trying to feel safe? I look at this guy, and I think "it ain't enough."
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