Joe Crandall
What are you doing to barnett?
Season 1 · Episode 16
Young at Heart
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X15Original airdate · February 11, 1994
359 dialogue entries
TASHMOO FEDERAL CORRECTION FACILITY
(screaming)
Joseph Ridley
Excuse me?
Joe Crandall
What are you doing to johnny?
Joseph Ridley
Go back to your ward. There's nothing you can do for your friend now.
Joe Crandall
What?
Joseph Ridley
John barnett's dead.
Joe Crandall
No, I heard him screaming.
Joseph Ridley
I said john barnett is dead. You understand? Go on, crandall. Get outta here. There's nothing more to see here. You understand ?
WASHINGTON, D.C. · PRESENT DAY
Reggie Purdue
God...
Dana Scully
What does this have to do with us?
Fox Mulder
Robbing a jewelry store is a federal crime.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
I got a call from some guy I used to work with in the violent crime section. Said it was important. (chanting:) reggie, reggie.
Reggie Purdue
Mulder. God, I hate it when you do that.
Fox Mulder
This is special agent Scully. Reggie purdue.
Reggie Purdue
How are you?
Dana Scully
What happened here?
Reggie Purdue
Lone gunman took out a salesgirl after she filled up a bag for him.
Fox Mulder
You guys turn up anything?
Reggie Purdue
Not much... Except... This. It's going to blow your mind.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Reggie Purdue
I'm telling you, Mulder this is going to blow your mind.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
Wait a second.
Reggie Purdue
You see why I called you?
Fox Mulder
What about witness descriptions?
Reggie Purdue
White male, 5'11" to 6', ski mask.
Fox Mulder
Damn it, reggie. That's barnett.
Reggie Purdue
But it can't be.
Dana Scully
Who's barnett?
Fox Mulder
It was my first case at the bureau. Barnett was doing armed jobs all over D.C. Very trigger happy. Killed seven people. There was this big task force. Reggie was my asac. I was 28, right out of the academy. I had this theory on the case. Reggie thought I was full of it.
Dana Scully
What was the theory?
Fox Mulder
That barnett had an inside connection. An employee at the armored car company was tipping him off about large shipments of cash. I was sort of right.
Dana Scully
Sort of?
Fox Mulder
We planted bogus waybills manifests with the armored car company to set a trap but barnett was way ahead of us. That's when the notes started.
Dana Scully
"Fox can't guard the chicken coop."
Fox Mulder
Clever, huh?
Dana Scully
So, you never caught him?
Fox Mulder
No, we did. We did, but not, uh, not clean. An agent died because I screwed up.
Dana Scully
And what happened to barnett?
Fox Mulder
He avoided the death penalty but he went down for every job he did. Consecutive terms-- 340 years. The judge promised me he would die in prison.
Dana Scully
So you think he escaped?
Fox Mulder
No, that's just it. He did die in prison, four years ago.
Dana Scully
You're sure?
Fox Mulder
I was paying attention.
CRIME LABS
Colonel Calvin Henderson
This guy a friend of yours?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I play golf with him every sunday. What do you think?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
You just brought this in ten minutes ago.
Fox Mulder
You're slipping, henderson.
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Ten minutes may be enough time for you, Mulder. Of course, I wouldn't know that from personal experience.
Fox Mulder
Seriously, what do you think?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Okay, first impressions-- the ink is fresh, the note was written in the last 48 hours. Ballpoint, but you knew that. A right-hander. Let's see... Written by someone sitting down. But now I'm just showing off.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, does it match barnett?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
I'd say it's him.
Fox Mulder
But you're not sure?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
95%. The writing's sloppy. Some of the ascenders and descenders are heavier.
Fox Mulder
Could it have been traced over a note of barnett's?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Could be, but it's a damn good job if it is.
Fox Mulder
Thanks, henderson. I owe you one.
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Promises, promises.
REGGIE PURDUE'S OFFICE
Reggie Purdue
There's barnett. We'd staked out an airport warehouse but everything went to hell when barnett took the driver of the armored truck hostage.
Dana Scully
Where's Mulder?
Reggie Purdue
There, coming around back. Barnett doesn't see him.
Dana Scully
He's got a clear shot.
Reggie Purdue
Yeah, he should have taken it.
Dana Scully
But he couldn't. Because it's not by the book.
Reggie Purdue
It would have saved one life, maybe two. Bastard barnett just started blasting away.
Dana Scully
Mulder did shoot barnett.
Reggie Purdue
Twice, in the shoulder and hand but not before barnett killed the driver and agent steve wallenberg. Mulder never forgave himself for that. You should have heard his testimony at barnett's trial.
Dana Scully
Probably had a lot to do with barnett's sentence.
Reggie Purdue
I'll never forget Mulder coming down from the witness stand and barnett turning and saying he'd get Mulder. To tell you the truth I wish Mulder had killed barnett right there in the warehouse.
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
What did henderson come up with?
Fox Mulder
95% sure it's barnett's handwriting.
Dana Scully
What's that?
Fox Mulder
Federal bureau of prisons sent me a copy of his death certificate. "name of deceased: barnett, john irvin. "cause of death: cardiac arrest. Date: september 16, 1989."
Dana Scully
It must be a clever copycat.
Fox Mulder
The note was written in the last 48 hours.
Dana Scully
Pull any prints?
Fox Mulder
No prints.
Dana Scully
Barnett had a lot of time on his hands. Maybe he planned it with someone on the outside.
Fox Mulder
Revenge from the grave? That would be a neat trick.
Dana Scully
He planned to get you, didn't he? I was just down talking to agent purdue.
Fox Mulder
And he showed you the videotape?
Dana Scully
You did the right thing, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Steve wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. I pulled that trigger two seconds earlier and wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I've got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.
Fox Mulder
Let's go! Let's go now!
FOOTBALL FIELD
Coach
Fire it in there! Yeah, that's better! All right! Bring it back here!
Woman
Let's go!
Coach
Hustle it up! Line it up! Let's go!
Quarterback
Down!
Coach
Go! Go! Go! Go hard!
(applause)
Fox Mulder
I'll get you, you son of a bitch!
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Reggie Purdue
I've been thinking about it, Mulder, and I think... That somebody is messing with your head.
Fox Mulder
Barnett said he'd get me. You were there.
Reggie Purdue
He's dead, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Apparently not.
Reggie Purdue
Let me tell you something. There are a lot of guys who know barnett made the threat.
Fox Mulder
It's barnett, reggie.
Reggie Purdue
How can you say that?
Fox Mulder
I just feel it.
Reggie Purdue
All this talk about spooky Mulder-- I never used to pay it much mind. I figured it was just talk about how paranoid you were.
Fox Mulder
And now?
Reggie Purdue
Remember the day you walked into my office wet from quantico? You pissed me off just looking at you but then I saw how your mind worked. How you were always three jumps ahead. It was scary, Mulder. Everybody said so.
Fox Mulder
I've heard this story.
Reggie Purdue
Well, maybe you ought to hear it again. You let a lot of people down here in the bureau. They had big plans for you. A lot of people are saying that spooky Mulder has become an embarrassment a liability.
Fox Mulder
Are you saying somebody from the bureau's behind this?
Reggie Purdue
Maybe, maybe not. It's always best to cover your ass in any event.
Dana Scully
Sorry. This was just faxed. It's a copy of john barnett's last will and testament. No surviving relatives. Left what little he had to another prisoner-- a joe crandall-- and instructions for his body to be cremated. His will was executed six months after his death. This document states that his ashes were spread along the bank of the delaware river by an employee of the crematory used by the prison.
Reggie Purdue
It's like I said. Somebody's messing with your head.
Fox Mulder
Killing a sales clerk just to leave me a note? I'd say that's going a little out of your way.
COMPUTER LAB
Fox Mulder
He's older now. He may have put on some weight.
Computer Technician
How much older?
Fox Mulder
Five years. He could be wearing any kind of disguise.
Prosecutor
Take us back to the day in question. Was it your impression, agent Mulder, that john barnett took a kind of a perverse pleasure in his crimes? Didn't he send you notes to taunt you?
Fox Mulder
Yes. I felt that he was daring us to catch him. That he killed his victims almost as if it were part of a game.
Prosecutor
Describe for the court, if you would, agent Mulder what happened when you finally caught john barnett.
Fox Mulder
We had a customs warehouse at the airport staked out. We knew that barnett had someone working for the armored car transport tipping him off about large cash shipments but we never figured that he would actually be inside the vehicle when it arrived. That's how barnett was able to take the driver of the vehicle hostage.
Prosecutor
In other words, john barnett used his own accomplice as a hostage?
Fox Mulder
Yes, ma'am.
Prosecutor
And then what happened?
Fox Mulder
We surrounded barnett. We ordered him to surrender his hostage and his weapon.
Prosecutor
And where were you at this time, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I was right behind barnett.
Prosecutor
With a clear shot at the suspect?
Fox Mulder
Yes, ma'am.
Prosecutor
But you didn't fire. Why?
Fox Mulder
It's against FBI regulations to unnecessarily endanger the life of a hostage and I thought that with no means of escape barnett would give up.
Prosecutor
But what happened instead?
Fox Mulder
The suspect, john barnett fired his weapon point-blank at his hostage and then he turned his gun on steve wallenberg... Shot him in the face.
Prosecutor
Thank you, agent Mulder. No further questions at this time.
Fox Mulder
He gunned him down just for spite.
Judge
The witness will step down.
Fox Mulder
Here's a man with a wife and two small children and you shot him... ...without hesitation without conscience, without an ounce of humanity which is why you should die like an animal you son of a bitch!
Judge
I will find you in contempt! Order in the court. If there is not order in this court, I will be forced to clear the courtroom.
(people murmuring)
Defense Lawyer
I ask that it be stricken from the record.
Judge
Duly noted. The jury will disregard the witness's last statement.
John Barnett
(whispers) I'll... Get... You.
Fox Mulder
I'll need printouts of every variation.
Computer Specialist
Right.
Dana Scully
I just got off the phone with the prison.
Fox Mulder
What did they come up with?
Dana Scully
I called them on a hunch. Barnett died of a heart attack. At least that's what it says on his death certificate. Barnett was admitted to the prison infirmary for an infection in his right hand. There isn't any indication of coronary complications. In fact, on his physical six months earlier he was given a clean bill of health.
TASHMOO FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Inmate
Crandall someone to see you.
Joe Crandall
I don't get many visitors.
Fox Mulder
You knew john barnett?
Joe Crandall
Yes, sir.
Fox Mulder
How well did you know him?
Joe Crandall
Pretty well.
Dana Scully
He left you everything he had in his will. You must have known him better than pretty well.
Joe Crandall
Used to change his bandages, and we just got to... Know each other.
Fox Mulder
Are you aware that barnett died of cardiac arrest in this facility in 1989?
Joe Crandall
Cardiac arrest? Where does it say that?
Dana Scully
On his death certificate.
Joe Crandall
He ain't dead, is he?
Fox Mulder
Why do you say that?
Joe Crandall
Last time I saw john barnett, it was right in that room over there. Doctor took his bad hand clean off.
Dana Scully
What doctor?
Fox Mulder
Was it dr. Ridley?
Joe Crandall
Yeah, it was dr. Ridley. That's the one. He told me johnny was dead but, uh, I knew it was a lie. Put a knife right up under my chin just for asking.
Dana Scully
How could you tell barnett wasn't dead?
Joe Crandall
I saw him looking at me. I saw him blink. I'll never forget those eyes.
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
What are you going to do?
Fox Mulder
I know what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to hang around and wait for barnett to send me another valentine.
Dana Scully
You mean the ghost of john barnett.
Fox Mulder
I didn't know you believed in ghosts, Scully.
(phone ringing)
Dana Scully
Hello? Yeah, just a minute. It's for you.
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
John Barnett
Fox Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Barnett?
Dana Scully
I'll run a trace.
John Barnett
You sound surprised.
Fox Mulder
Well, you know, shouldn't I be?
John Barnett
You know, it's illegal to tape another's phone call without their express permission. Isn't that what they call it?
Fox Mulder
In some states. What makes you think I'm taping you?
John Barnett
Same thing makes me think you're putting a trace on this call.
Fox Mulder
What state are you in?
John Barnett
The same state you are. I stood next to you in line for coffee this morning.
Fox Mulder
I don't think so.
John Barnett
Man, I'm everywhere you are. Everywhere. I own you.
Fox Mulder
How do I know it's really you?
John Barnett
What did I say to you in the courtroom? Did you ever doubt me?
Fox Mulder
What did you tell me in the courtroom?
John Barnett
If you think you're going to keep me on this phone with this clumsy act...
Fox Mulder
By all accounts, john barnett is a dead man.
John Barnett
Oh, you're the dead man, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Fine. I just need confirmation that you are who you say you are.
John Barnett
You want confirmation? You got it.
(kisses)
Fox Mulder
Barnett? You there?
Dana Scully
You lost him.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, he was hip to the trace.
Dana Scully
Was it barnett?
Fox Mulder
John barnett was from new hampshire. He had a slight accent. Listen to this.
Fox Mulder (recorded)
Fine. I just need confirmation that you are who you say you are.
John Barnett (recorded)
You want confirmation? You got it.
(kisses)
Dana Scully
What did he mean by that?
Fox Mulder
I don't know, but that is john barnett. I'm sure of it.
(phone ringing)
AGENT REGGIE PURDUE'S HOUSE
Reggie Purdue
Oh... Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Reggie, it's Mulder.
Reggie Purdue
Mulder, what do you want? It's the middle of the night.
Fox Mulder
It's only 10:45, reggie.
Reggie Purdue
Yeah, well, I was sleeping.
Fox Mulder
Listen, reggie, it doesn't look like barnett's dead after all.
Reggie Purdue
Now what?
Fox Mulder
I got an inmate at the prison who swears he saw barnett alive the night they say he died.
Reggie Purdue
Mulder, go home. Get some rest.
Fox Mulder
There's just one thing that doesn't make sense.
Fox Mulder
Agent henderson said that note left at the jewelry store was written by a right-hander.
Reggie Purdue
Yeah, so?
Fox Mulder
Well, this inmate at the prison he swears he saw barnett's right hand amputated.
(gurgling)
Fox Mulder
Reggie, you there? Hey, reggie. Reggie? What's going on? Are you there? What the hell's going on? Reggie, what happened?
Fox Mulder
Reggie? What's going on? Are you there? What the hell's going on, reggie?
Dana Scully
Hope you guys brought your fine-tooth comb. I want every piece of lint collected and analyzed. If nothing turns up, run it through again. Mulder...
Fox Mulder
His wife died of cancer six years ago. Never liked to talk about it. He was working on a mystery novel. He promised to show it to me once, but he never did. I think he was afraid I wouldn't like it. I'm probably the only guy on the bureau he trusted enough to even ask.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry.
Fox Mulder
I'm just thinking how different things would have been if I would have taken that shot when I had it.
Dana Scully
We're still not 100% sure that this is him.
CRIME LABS
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Fresh ink, slightly smeared. I hate to tell you and I'm not known to be wrong about these things but this note was most certainly written by a right-handed person. You see the pressure points inside the pen grooves? It's a dead giveaway.
Fox Mulder
Would you be able to tell if this note was written by somebody using a prosthetic hand?
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Well, this fellow... And I'm assuming from the cursive figures here that it is a male suspect-- he has a fairly nice, fluid style. Judging from the pressure variations in the connectors this person would need good finger dexterity. You're not going to get that with a prosthesis.
Fox Mulder
So you think it's the same person that wrote the first note.
Colonel Calvin Henderson
Uh-huh. This the guy you think killed agent purdue?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Colonel Calvin Henderson
You know what occurred to me? You never got any prints off those notes. If this guy was wearing a glove on his pen hand the note wouldn't be smeared like it is. For what it's worth.
X-FILES OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
I was just trying to find you. Listen to this. According to the a.m.a., dr. Ridley-- who signed barnett's death certificate-- hasn't officially been a doctor since 1979.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Dana Scully
His membership expired and wasn't renewed after Maryland revoked his medical license for research malpractice and misuse of a government grant.
Fox Mulder
Where does it say that?
Dana Scully
In the federal journal for the national institute of health.
Fox Mulder
What kind of research?
Dana Scully
He was conducting experiments on young children afflicted with a disease called progeria.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH · BETHESDA, MA
Nih Doctor
The patient you see is an eight-year-old girl suffering from the advanced stages of progeria.
Fox Mulder
She looks about 90.
Nih Doctor
Only about 100 cases have ever been reported so the disease is rare.
Dana Scully
But fatal.
Nih Doctor
Some progeria patients make it to early adulthood but others become terminal at age seven or eight.
Fox Mulder
What's the cause of death?
Nih Doctor
Clinically, it's cardiac or cerebral vascular disease but actually these poor kids die of old age.
Fox Mulder
Is that dr. Ridley?
Nih Doctor
Yes, in 1974. Joe ridley thought that he could take their accelerated aging and slow it down. Initially some of his lab work was promising but then things got out of control. He wanted to begin human trials.
Fox Mulder
Why wasn't he allowed to?
Nih Doctor
Because he hadn't met the criteria. It was all too hypothetical, too dangerous. I mean... I knew joe ridley. He didn't care about those kids. He talked about them as if they were laboratory animals. This terrible disease, progeria, he saw it as a wonderful opportunity. He used those exact words with me once. An opportunity to "unlock all the secrets." when they refused to allow the human trials he became enraged. Do you know what they called joe ridley behind his back?
Fox Mulder
What?
Nih Doctor
Doktor mengele.
Dana Scully
So, how did dr. Ridley eventually lose his medical license?
Nih Doctor
He went ahead with the human trials secretly when we learned about it, of course we terminated his grant and filed charges with the state medical boards.
Dana Scully
I'm afraid your colleague, dr. Ridley, has dropped off the face of the earth.
Nih Doctor
Yeah. Although it's rumored he went to south america to continue his work.
Dana Scully
You don't just reverse aging.
Fox Mulder
Ridley's found a way.
Dana Scully
Listen to what you're saying.
Fox Mulder
He wanted human research subjects, right? Prisoners like john barnett.
Dana Scully
It's science fiction.
Fox Mulder
What would you have said 20 years ago about gene splicing, dna fingerprinting cloning, artificial intelligence? Maybe we're not looking for a man in his late 40s. Maybe john barnett has found the perfect disguise-- youth.
COMPUTER LAB
Fox Mulder
I want to age him backwards now. Let's start with ten years. Now five years more. And add 20 pounds. A healthy 20 pounds.
SCULLY'S APARTMENT · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
Ridley's notes from the human trials at n.I.h. Indicate he didn't see aging as inevitable but as an opportunistic disease. A disease that could be prevented, reversed even by changing the chemical cues that trigger certain genes. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that ridley's work yielded any results or that his theories-- all hope to the contrary-- hold any validity. According to the leading scientific journals projections on this kind of genetic engineering are at best speculative and futuristic.
(knocking)
(knocking)
Dana Scully
Who is it?
Joseph Ridley
Dr. Joe ridley.
Fox Mulder
If you're dr. Joseph ridley where have you been for the past five years?
Joseph Ridley
I originally continued my research in mexico but for the last three years I spent my time in central america. In belize, to be exact.
Fox Mulder
What about barnett?
Joseph Ridley
John barnett is the only patient left. The only one who survived the experiments.
Fox Mulder
What about you?
Joseph Ridley
My appearance is deceiving. I have no more than a month to live as I am dying from a rare cerebral vascular disease.
Dana Scully
The same disease that kills the kids suffering from progeria?
Joseph Ridley
That's right. An unfortunate side effect of the treatment. By using the genetic components of progeria I was able to reverse the aging process the same way the disease expedited it. At the same time, I and my patients became genetically susceptible to the same ailments a child of six or eight would if he had the disease.
Fox Mulder
What about barnett?
Joseph Ridley
John barnett. If I didn't so personally detest the man I might call him my one triumph.
Fox Mulder
Barnett's not dying?
Joseph Ridley
Only his eyes, which for some reason do not respond to the gene therapy. Otherwise, john barnett appears to be thriving.
Dana Scully
But how?
Joseph Ridley
I varied barnett's treatment. Once I isolated the progeria receptors I stumbled on something quite unexpected-- this same gene's related to the production of myelin.
Dana Scully
The material that insulates neurons in the body.
Joseph Ridley
Yes. You see, myelin is not present in the very young and by reversing the effects of aging I found with barnett I was able to regulate the production of myelin. Myelin being the material that prohibits you or I from, say regenerating a new hand if we were to have ours cut off.
Fox Mulder
You were able to grow john barnett a new hand?
Joseph Ridley
Not exactly. Not a human hand, anyway. I could never get the cells to divide or behave properly.
Dana Scully
I'm afraid to ask. What kind of hand did you grow?
Joseph Ridley
There had been some successful work done in london. By taking samples of what we call cell morphegins from an amputated salamander arm and applying them to the back of the creature they were able to grow a new limb on a different part of the body but only on salamanders.
Fox Mulder
Until john barnett.
Joseph Ridley
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Unbelievable.
Joseph Ridley
My work has cost me dearly. I'm an outcast in the medical community. I was called dr. Mengele, dr. Frankenstein but I didn't care.
Dana Scully
Because you knew that if your theories panned out...
Joseph Ridley
The man who owns the fountain of youth controls the world. When the a.m.a. Censured me certain sponsors came out of the woodwork. One of them was the u.s. Government.
Fox Mulder
They financed your research?
Joseph Ridley
You might be more surprised to learn just how high up the ladder this dirty little secret goes.
GERTIE'S BAR
Deep Throat
I know why you've contacted me. Listen and I'll explain. I am not proud of the way in which this matter was handled but like it or not, john barnett is a fact of life.
Fox Mulder
I wish agent purdue were around to appreciate the irony.
Deep Throat
The government knew full well that barnett was in the country. You, of course, know that barnett stole all of ridley's research. Well, what ridley doesn't know is that our government is bargaining with barnett to buy it from him.
Fox Mulder
What does he want?
Deep Throat
A lot of money, immunity, safe haven.
Fox Mulder
Will he get it?
(laughing)
Deep Throat
He holds all the cards.
Fox Mulder
You're aware that this freak of science you're negotiating with is a murderer?
Deep Throat
The information he has... Could change the course of mankind. Consider the options.
Fox Mulder
I will.
(phone ringing)
(ringing)
SCULLY'S APARTMENT · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully (recorded)
Hi. This is Dana Scully. Please leave a message after the tone.
(beeps)
Answering Machine
(electronic voice) retrieving messages.
Margaret Scully (recorded)
Hi, Dana. It's mom. I just wanted to call and say hi. Give me a call whenever. Okay, hon. Bye-bye.
Kathy (recorded)
Hi, Dana. It's cathy. I hope you're going to meet me before my cello recital.
X-FILES OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fox Mulder
What's that?
Dana Scully
It's my private answering machine. At least it used to be. This morning, I heard someone dialing in my private code and replaying my messages. Last night before dr. Ridley arrived I could have sworn someone was in my apartment. When ridley knocked I thought I'd mistaken the noise for him. This morning, I took this down to prints. John barnett's left index oblique is on the underside of this unit.
(phone rings)
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
(moaning)
Fox Mulder
Barnett?
(groaning)
John Barnett
Your new friend, ridley... Don't grow too fond of him, huh? He's going to die soon like the rest of your friends.
Fox Mulder
The rest of my friends?
John Barnett
One by one.
Fox Mulder
You're not that smart.
(chuckles)
John Barnett
Tell me, you're not going to make me prove it to you again, are you? Oh, well, no matter. It will be your turn soon enough.
Fox Mulder
Well, you won't get that chance.
John Barnett
Oh, no?
(laughs)
John Barnett
Who's going to stop me, huh? Man, this is... This is the land of the free! Well, I'm just checking in. Bye. For now.
Dana Scully
Uh, that my mother called for no reason and I'm meeting a friend before her cello recital.
Fox Mulder
Where's that?
JANIE TAYLOR MEMORIAL RECITAL HALL · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fox Mulder
Before the performance and during we're working at a disadvantage because we don't know exactly what barnett looks like. Study each of these faces. Know them, particularly the eyes.
Dana Scully
I'm including a diagram of the theater. You have six front entrances and four more backstage.
Fox Mulder
We know that if he shows, he'll be keying on Scully so wherever she is, she should not leave your sight. We've got two hours before the performance. Know this place inside and out. We don't want any shots fired if we can help it. We want to take barnett alive, okay? How you feeling?
Dana Scully
It's the first time I've ever played the target.
Fox Mulder
Let's make sure it's not the last time.
(instruments being tuned)
Dana Scully
Gun!
Fox Mulder
Down! Check her out.
John Barnett
Stay back, Mulder! Shut up!
Fox Mulder
Back off, back off.
John Barnett
Don't even think about it.
Fox Mulder
Just let her go.
John Barnett
Go ahead and shoot. Go ahead, man. Shoot, Mulder. What are you afraid of, huh? What, it's against regulations, huh? No, man. You need me alive, don't you? 'cause I'm the one with the research, huh? So I could shoot her! And you just have to live with it, don't you, huh?
Fox Mulder
Shut up!
John Barnett
How about it, Mulder?
Kathy
Please.
John Barnett
Just like old times, huh? Huh?
(gunshot)
(screaming)
Fox Mulder
Call an ambulance!
Agent
It's okay, Scully. An ambulance is on the way. Easy. You all right? Don't try to move.
HOSPITAL
Fox Mulder
Down... Set... Hup!
Fox Mulder
Set! Hup!
Dana Scully
What's that?
Fox Mulder
Hey, reggie!
Man-In-Black
Where are they? Can you hear me? Barnett. Where did you hide them?
(all shouting)
Fox Mulder
How are you feeling?
Dana Scully
Like somebody kicked me in the ribs.
Fox Mulder
That bullet went through eight layers of kevlar. You're lucky to be alive.
Dana Scully
What about him?
Fox Mulder
They flew in three specialists to try to save his life. That guy in the ugly suit is probably c.I.a. He's been trying to talk to him.
Dana Scully
Is barnett conscious?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but he's not talking.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I know what you did wasn't by the book.
Fox Mulder
Tells you a lot about the book, doesn't it?
Doctor
Barnett! Come on!
Fox Mulder
Where are the papers? Come on!
Technician
Ten! Vitals dropping.
Doctor
Barnett!
(heart monitor: even tone)
Dana Scully
We're gonna hit him.
(all shouting)
Doctor
Shock him now!
Nurse
It's ready when you need it.
Fox Mulder
Stand clear. He's going fast.
Dana Scully
They lost him.
Fox Mulder
Bastard will take that research with him to the grave.
Dana Scully
Where do you think it is?
Fox Mulder
Who knows? If barnett didn't destroy it, he could've stashed it anywhere, which would have a certain cruel irony, wouldn't it? Scientific knowledge that could change the course of mankind buried out in a field somewhere or sitting in some safe deposit box getting old, just like the rest of us.
Dana Scully
If he didn't destroy it, chances are that somehow someday somebody will find it.
(ticking)
Fox Mulder
And when they do? Maybe he didn't get his revenge from beyond the grave but somehow I feel like we haven't heard the last from john barnett.
(ticking)
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