Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me? When I'm feeling lonely, lonely as can be Oh, Mr. Chuckleteeth Won't you play with me? Mr. Chuckleteeth, we all love you so Stay with us forever and never let us go
Season 11 · Episode 8
Familiar
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code2AYW08Original airdate · March 7, 2018
401 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Eastwood, Connecticut · Ash Hill Park
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
Andrew
When I'm feeling lonely, lonely as can be Oh, Mr. Chuckleteeth....
Diane Eggers
You can't call me.
Rick Eggers
But, Diane....
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth....
Diane Eggers
I can't do this. I'm at the park with Andrew.
Rick Eggers
We need to talk.
Andrew
Mommy! Mommy! Mr. Chuckleteeth!
Diane Eggers
Mommy's on the phone, Andrew.
Andrew
But, Mommy, look! Look!
Diane Eggers
I can't do this.
Andrew
Mommy! Mommy!
Diane Eggers
Stop calling me. Stop calling.
Rick Eggers
Don't hang up, Diane. Di--
Diane Eggers
Andrew? Andrew. Andrew! Andrew!
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth! Mr. Chuckleteeth?
Diane Eggers
Where are you?
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth! Mr. Chuckleteeth! Mr. Chuckleteeth!
Mr. Chuckleteeth
Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be
[HUMMING]
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth!
Mr. Chuckleteeth
There you are.
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth, wait!
Mr. Chuckleteeth
Where did you go?
Andrew
Mr. Chuckleteeth!
Mr. Chuckleteeth
Come back!
[GASPS]
Scene 02
The Forest · The Search
Rick Eggers
Andrew!
Officer Wentworth
Andrew!
Rick Eggers
Andrew! It's Daddy!
Officer Wentworth
Andrew!
Rick Eggers
Andrew! Andrew!
Searchers
Andrew, can you hear us? Andrew!
Rick Eggers
Andrew!
Searchers
Andrew! Andrew! Andrew Eggers! Andrew! Oh, God. Heads up! Somebody got him? Got something?
Scene 03
The Forest · The Clearing
Chief Strong
Oh, God, help us.
Rick Eggers
Is that him?
Chief Strong
Rick.
Rick Eggers
Is that my son?
Chief Strong
Don't. Don't. No. No. Andrew!
Officer Wentworth
Hey. Andrew. Oh, God.
Rick Eggers
Let me go. Let me go! Let me go! Andrew!
Officer Wentworth
Andrew!
Rick Eggers
Oh, please.
Officer Wentworth
Please! Andrew!
Rick Eggers
Andrew!
Scene 04
The Clearing · Chief Strong
Chief Strong
I think you can see by the photographs in our case file there... The boy was viciously attacked. And the body was found right here.
Dana Scully
The coroner has asphyxiation as cause of death from a crushed windpipe... and fracture dislocation of the cervical vertebrae.
Chief Strong
Yeah, the town was really shaken up about it.
Dana Scully
But you think this was an animal attack?
Chief Strong
Those photos speak for themselves, yes.
Dana Scully
What kind of animal, Chief Strong?
Chief Strong
We get coyotes. Both here and in town.
Dana Scully
It's rare that a coyote will attack a human being.
Chief Strong
They say there's a new predator they're calling a coywolf.
Fox Mulder
It's a mix of Canis latrans and Canis lupus. It's a hybrid coyote-wolf.
Dana Scully
Is this the first such attack?
Chief Strong
And hopefully the last. But let me ask you. What's the FBI doing here?
Dana Scully
The FBI has jurisdiction... over the killing of the immediate family of a law enforcement officer.
Chief Strong
Wait, you think that this was a murder?
Dana Scully
I don't rule it out.
Officer Wentworth
What makes you say that?
Dana Scully
I know this is a small town and probably very close-knit... and I'm sure that you don't wanna hear this, but if a man did this... and it would typically be a man, he would be emboldened by escaping detection... and would likely kill again.
Officer Wentworth
Evidence doesn't support that.
Dana Scully
Well, the broken neck supports that. And the bite marks that you see... might be postmortem animal predation.
Chief Strong
You can't just walk in here making assumptions... we've dismissed.
Fox Mulder
These aren't just careless assumptions. Agent Scully's also a medical doctor, and damn good at her job.
Dana Scully
You'd be looking at a male, aged 19 to 42, with a criminal record... and probably lives near and frequents the park... would know the boy's play schedule. And most disturbingly, these types of killers get aroused at the suffering of their victims.
Fox Mulder
We were hoping we could see the body.
Scene 05
The Clearing · Mulder and Scully
Dana Scully
Thanks for backing me up out there.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. You're my homey.
Dana Scully
But coywolves? Really, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Sometimes mixed with wild dogs.
Dana Scully
Bet a wolf hasn't been seen in Connecticut for 100 years.
Fox Mulder
Just last year, to be accurate. All that I took from the report is that a child was snatched right from that playground. Does that sound like a wolf to you? I wasn't thinking wolf. I was thinking more like a hell hound.
Dana Scully
What's a hell hound now?
Fox Mulder
It's a large black dog that guards the gates of the underworld. That's neither here nor there. The point is stranger things have happened around here. In 1658, a Puritan midwife named Goody Bishop... was accused of witchcraft and lying with the devil. Legend has it she spontaneously combusted in front of the assembled townsfolk. Right over there. As we've discussed before... people don't just spontaneously combust.
Dana Scully
That woman was undoubtedly an innocent... a tragic victim of religious persecution and hysteria. And anybody would know that if they read beyond the tourist literature.
Fox Mulder
Because there were bogus witch hunts doesn't mean that there were no witches. While I do sadly concede there are probably no coywolves in Eastwood, Connecticut... I suspect there are still practitioners of the black arts.
Dana Scully
Practice all they want, it doesn't mean witchcraft has any basis in reality.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, well, and yet a young boy is dead.
Dana Scully
The only devil here probably parks right here in front of the playground... stirring something other than his caldron.
Fox Mulder
Hm.
Dana Scully
I just wanna find the killer.
Scene 06
The Morgue
Dana Scully
No matter how many times we do this, Mulder, a child is always the hardest.
Fox Mulder
Never gets easier.
Dana Scully
It's an innocent life cut short.
Fox Mulder
It's hard not to take it personally.
Dana Scully
Irregular lacerations and abrasions on the neck, throat and torso. A significant amount of the lower abdomen... is completely torn out and missing.
Fox Mulder
That would appear to agree with their findings.
Dana Scully
Well, evisceration fits animal predation... but the condition of the body makes it almost impossible to determine when it happened. Cervical fracturing fits with the picture that he was most probably shaken to death.
Fox Mulder
By a man?
Dana Scully
Well, that's something I didn't wanna broach out there, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You think it's one of the parents.
Dana Scully
You were in Violent Crime, Mulder, before you came to the X-Files. You know the profile.
Fox Mulder
Eyewitnesses exculpate the mother.
Dana Scully
But the father.... He's a police officer.
Fox Mulder
Being protected by fellow officers?
Dana Scully
What's that?
Fox Mulder
What does that look like to you?
Dana Scully
Is that fine white sand?
Fox Mulder
Looks like salt to me.
Dana Scully
Mm.
Fox Mulder
Is that in the report?
Dana Scully
What would be the significance of that?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure. Tell you what else isn't in the report. An eyewitness who wasn't interviewed. And her father is the chief of police. She's 5 years old. Doesn't that seem odd?
Dana Scully
And her mother was right there with her.
Fox Mulder
Seems very odd to me.
Dana Scully
But you're wasting your time, Mulder.
Scene 07
Andrew's Memorial
Pastor
Andrew blessed the lives of all of us here in Eastwood. Today, we all grieve with Diane and Rick... for the unimaginable loss of one of Eastwood's dearest sons.
Diane Eggers
This isn't right.
Rick Eggers
We don't even have his body.
Diane Eggers
My baby.
Pastor
It is in the most difficult times... That the love and compassion of our community is so vitally important. “For where two or three are gathered in my name... There am I among them."
Congregation
Amen.
Pastor
Andrew is with the Lord now. Free from the evils of this world. Free from our iniquities... and free from our sins.
Congregation
Amen.
Pastor
Amen.
Congregation
Amen.
Scene 08
The Memorial · The Eggers
Chief Strong
So both of you, just please understand that. If you ever, ever need to talk... let me know, I--
Rick Eggers
Yes. Thank you. Excuse me.
Chief Strong
Diane.
Diane Eggers
Please, I can't talk now.
Chief Strong
Okay. I'm just... I'm so sorry for your loss.
[CROWD MURMURING]
Scene 09
The Memorial · Wentworth and Eggers
Officer Wentworth
Hey, man. I'm so sorry.
Rick Eggers
Hey, let me ask you something. Why won't the FBI release Andrew's body? Look, he’s my son. What are they saying? What are you keeping from me, man?
Officer Wentworth
They're pushing another story. They're saying it wasn't an animal attack.
Rick Eggers
What are they saying it was?
Officer Wentworth
The female agent? She laid out a profile. Male, 19 to 42, past convictions. She even said he probably gets off on it.
Rick Eggers
Oh, God.
Officer Wentworth
And he probably lives here in Eastwood. I'm sorry, man.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Officer Wentworth
Okay, we'll see you.
Scene 10
The Strong House
Chief Strong
Why...? Why does the FBI need to speak to Emily? She's just a little girl.
Anna Strong
We need to cooperate with them. We've got nothing to hide. They just wanna ask questions.
Chief Strong
Anna, just play nice.
Anna Strong
I was there. We didn't see anything.
Chief Strong
I'm getting it from all sides. They're trying to turn a tragedy into a murder investigation.
Anna Strong
But what does that have to do with Emily?
Chief Strong
Just let them talk to her. Okay?
[CHARACTERS LAUGHING OVER TV]
Scene 11
The Strong House · Emily
Anna Strong
The man asked you a question, Em.
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV]
Fox Mulder
Emily, did you see who took Andrew?
Anna Strong
But if you saw, you'd tell Mommy, right?
Fox Mulder
Did you see anyone at all?
Emily
I saw Andrew going into the forest.
Fox Mulder
Right.
Anna Strong
Go watch your show.
Fox Mulder
Well, I... I guess I'm not as interesting as...
Anna Strong
Bibbletiggles.
Fox Mulder
...Bibbletiggles.
Anna Strong
She's obsessed.
Fox Mulder
Well, who wouldn't be?
Anna Strong
I just-- I can't-- I can't stop thinking about how easily it could've been us. I mean, you look away for just one moment... Do you have kids, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Well, I have a son who's.... He's grown, though.
Anna Strong
When I was little, you could hardly keep me in the house. Now you can't drag your kid away from a screen.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Are you from around here?
Anna Strong
Yeah, right down the street. Yeah, Nutmegger through and through. Husband too. I met him when I was 5 years old.
Fox Mulder
He must be under a lot of pressure.
Anna Strong
With the case.
Fox Mulder
There's the guilt.
Anna Strong
That it happened on his watch. He's very protective of this little town. Obsessively. Runs in the family, I guess.
Emily
Mommy. I want juice, please.
Anna Strong
Excuse me. Sure.
[LAUGHING OVER TV]
Anna Strong
My husband's a local history nut. An. Ahem. The witch trials and all that. Anything else, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
No. Thank you for your time.
Children on TV
Mr. Chuckleteeth
Emily
Mommy!
Children on TV
Happy as can be Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me?
Emily
He was in the forest.
Children on TV
When I'm feeling lonely, lonely as can be Oh, Mr. Chuckleteeth Won't you play with me?
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
Scene 12
Police Station · Chief Strong's Office
Fox Mulder
Son of a bitch.
Chief Strong
Seeing the body change your mind?
Dana Scully
I maintain that the boy was murdered. But there's something that you should know, as hard as it is to contemplate.
Chief Strong
Don't go there.
Dana Scully
When the child is under the age of 5... the majority of assailants are in fact--
Chief Strong
Rick Eggers did not kill his son.
Dana Scully
Most of the time, friends and family... can't contemplate that the suspect is capable of these crimes. Because they carry out their fantasies in private.
Chief Strong
I've heard about enough.
Dana Scully
I want to rule him out as a suspect.
Chief Strong
Officer Eggers loved Andrew. He's a decent, honorable man. A good cop.
Dana Scully
But I need your help. When suspects are confronted, they have a tendency... to become violent towards themselves.
Chief Strong
I'd confront him myself, but I don't have to. He was working his shift when Andrew was attacked.
Dana Scully
With you or out on his own?
Chief Strong
Why don't you ask him yourself?
Scene 13
Police Station · Eggers Runs
Chief Strong
Hey. Where's Eggers?
Officer Wentworth
He just ran out of here, chief. Almost knocked me over.
Chief Strong
Hey! Let's go! Rick, I need you to pull over. That's an order. Pull over right now. Where the hell is he going? Hold on.
Dana Scully
You think he's going home?
Chief Strong
He's going the wrong way.
Dana Scully
Melvin Peter!
Rick Eggers
Where are you, you son of a bitch?
Scene 14
Melvin Peter's House
Chief Strong
Put that away. Eggers! Eggers. Eggers.
Rick Eggers
He's not here. He's not here.
Chief Strong
Eggers, what are you doing?
Rick Eggers
He's not here!
Chief Strong
Whoa, whoa!
Dana Scully
Hey. Hey! Put the gun down.
Chief Strong
Rick. Put the gun down. It's okay. Come on. I got it. I got it.
Dana Scully
What the hell is going on?
Rick Eggers
I found the piece of garbage that she was talking about. He's my boy.
Chief Strong
Okay. Okay.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Scene 15
Melvin Peter's House · Scully Calls
Dana Scully
Mulder. Where are you?
Fox Mulder
Back where they found the body.
Dana Scully
There's been a development.
Fox Mulder
What kind of development?
Dana Scully
I'm not quite sure yet. But the dead boy's father has had a breakdown. Mulder? Mulder, are you there? Just tell me where you are.
Fox Mulder
114 Bentley Avenue.
[CROWD CLAMORING]]
Scene 16
Melvin Peter's House · Mulder Arrives
Fox Mulder
Who let the dogs out?
Dana Scully
Waiting on a search warrant.
Fox Mulder
Whose house are we searching?
Dana Scully
Convicted sex offender, Melvin Peter. Failed to register with the local police when he moved in last year. Two blocks away from Ash Hill Park.
Fox Mulder
Who figured that out?
Dana Scully
Father of the deceased. Right over there. Based on the profile I provided.
Fox Mulder
I'm not convinced.
Dana Scully
You sure about that, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure about anything.
Chief Strong
I got the warrant. Let's go.
[SCREAMING]
Fox Mulder
Oh! Come on.
Dana Scully
What is it, Mulder?
[CHATTERING]
[CROWD SHOUTING [INDISTINCTLY]
Scene 17
Bentley Avenue · The Crowd
Dana Scully
They put out an APB on Melvin Peter and called his parole officer.
Fox Mulder
I still don't like him for it.
Dana Scully
What's not to like? I mean, you couldn't dream up a more perfect suspect. He's potentially John Wayne Gacy with a monkey.
Fox Mulder
That's it, it's too perfect. I don't like perfect like that. Makes me uncomfortable.
Dana Scully
Well, sometimes the simplest of competing theories is actually the right one.
Fox Mulder
Most of these people would agree. That's what scares me.
Dana Scully
They've been living next to a pedophile and didn't know it.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. This guy has no chance.
Dana Scully
Why are you defending him?
Fox Mulder
I'm not defending him. But you said it yourself, it's this rush to judgment. Mass hysteria, Salem, McCarthyism. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Which is rooted in a very democratic ideal... that it's better to let 10 guilty men go free... than to imprison one innocent man.
Dana Scully
I am all for benefit of the doubt... but he's a convicted felon. We have to start somewhere.
Fox Mulder
And you and this mob are reconvicting him right here and now for the sins of his past. With a fervor that we see too often in this American experience of ours.
Townspeople
If you're not gonna do something, we will!
[CROWD CONTINUES SHOUTING [INDISTINCTLY]
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV]
[LAUGHING OVER TV]
Scene 18
The Strong House · Emily Missing
Anna Strong
Em, it's time for lunch.
[BIBBLETIGGLE LAUGHING]
Anna Strong
Emily. TV off now. Em. Emily. Emily? Emily. Emily. Emily!
[LAUGHING OVER TV]
Scene 19
The Clearing · Emily
Dana Scully
Similar signs of predation, but not beyond forensic analysis. You okay, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I talked to her just this morning. Just this morning she was alive.
Dana Scully
Is this the killing field?
Anna Strong
Is it true? Emily!
Chief Strong
No, no, no. No, Anna. No. Don't go there.
Anna Strong
Em.
Chief Strong
Don't.
Anna Strong
No, no, no. Emily! Let me go! Emily!
Chief Strong
No. Stop, stop. Stop.
Anna Strong
No.
Chief Strong
You can't be here. Okay, you can't be here, honey.
Anna Strong
You did this! You did this to her. This is all your fault!
Chief Strong
She can't be here. Get her out of here.
Officer Wentworth
I'll take her out, chief. It's okay.
Scene 20
The Clearing · The Salt Circle
Dana Scully
What is it, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
It's salt.
Dana Scully
Well, there's some here too.
Fox Mulder
You seeing this, Scully?
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's a crime scene.
Fox Mulder
No, you know what this is? This is a magic circle. Mulder.... In witchcraft, magic circles are used to summon spirits and demons.
Dana Scully
Mulder, stop--
Fox Mulder
When casting spells or curses. The salt protects the caster from the demons unleashed.
Dana Scully
Mulder, this is protecting no one, and you can't do this.
Fox Mulder
In the 16th and 17th century... witches were said to conjure spirits called familiars... which usually took the form of animals. But sometimes could take human shape...
Officer Sean
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
...in the guise of their victims' ardent desires or a woman luring a man to his death or....
Officer Sean
Hey, I asked you a question.
Fox Mulder
A TV character.
Dana Scully
What do you mean, a TV character?
Officer Sean
Mind telling me what you're doing?
Fox Mulder
Scully... This is a Puritan graveyard. This is ground where spirits and demons have been unleashed. I think there's someone who's not telling us everything they know.
[CROWD CLAMORING]]
Scene 21
Ash Hill Park · Melvin Peter
Melvin Peter
What the hell?
Woman
That's him. That's him right there.
Melvin Peter
What did I do wrong?
Rick Eggers
You killed my boy!
Scene 22
The Clearing · Chief Strong Confesses
Fox Mulder
You closed the case because you didn't want it looked into further. You knew there was salt on that boy's body, but you hid that fact. A fact you know would reveal someone was practicing witchcraft.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Chief Strong
No, it's.... It's okay. He's right.
Officer Sean
You ought to take a beat, chief... before you say anything else.
Dana Scully
Did you kill those children?
Chief Strong
I have let the devil into my soul and I have sinned against God. Broken a sacred commandment. But I did not kill anyone. Especially not Emily.
Fox Mulder
Then what's your part in all of this?
Chief Strong
I am a... lustful man. An adulterer. She wanted to end the relationship... but I wouldn't let her. I kept pushing and pushing. I was on the phone with her when Andrew went missing. And now... my own daughter. God. What have I done? See, I'm being punished. I've opened the gates of hell. Oh, God.
Fox Mulder
Let's all give him some room.
[OFFICERS SPEAKING [INDISTINCTLY]
Scene 23
The Clearing · After
Dana Scully
How did you know, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I did not see that coming.
Dana Scully
But you knew something.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. In his library, there are all these books on the town's history. Folklore, witchcraft.
Dana Scully
Well, that's circumstantial at best. I'm sure lots of libraries in this town have those books.
Fox Mulder
Yes, but he would have known about magic salt circles, familiars and hell hounds.
Dana Scully
So you think Chief Strong unleashed something?
Fox Mulder
I think someone has put a curse on this town, Scully... and maybe unwittingly opened the gates of hell.
Officer on Radio
OFFICER [OVER RADIO]: Hey, we got a situation here. Officer involved.
Fox Mulder
Copy.
Scene 24
Main Street · The Mob
Officer Wentworth
It's Officer Eggers.
Townspeople
Get him! Get him! Hit him again! Hit him! Hit him again! Kill him! Go on! Get in there!
Officer Wentworth
Hold it. Eggers, stop! Stop! Hey! Back off! Don't do this!
Rick Eggers
He killed my son.
Melvin Peter
I never killed anyone.
Rick Eggers
You're a convicted predator.
Officer Wentworth
You can't do this!
Rick Eggers
Let me go!
Officer Wentworth
Hey! Relax, all right? I'm serious, Eggers! Back off! Hey!
Rick Eggers
Who are you protecting? Just let me go!
Officer Wentworth
You. I'm protecting you.
Melvin Peter
We were kids. It was statutory. I never hurt anybody!
Rick Eggers
Oh, no! Don't you talk to me about kids!
Officer Sean
All right. Relax. Everyone, back up!
Fox Mulder
All of you! Hey, all of you! Back up!
Officer Sean
Hey! Back up! Hey! Get off! Stand back!
Fox Mulder
Get off him! Get off him. Hey!
Melvin Peter
Please!
Officer Wentworth
Get off him!
Officers
Guys, get off him. Get off him. Stop!
[GUNSHOTS]
Dana Scully
FBI! Any further violence will be viewed as attempted murder!
Melvin Peter
I never hurt anybody.
Fox Mulder
Call an ambulance.
Melvin Peter
No!
[CROWD GASPS]
Scene 25
The Courtroom
Bailiff
All rise for Judge Theo Brown.
Judge
You may be seated.
Bailiff
I fear emotions are running high today. So I'd like to ask everyone to respect the seriousness of our jobs at this arraignment.
Judge
I'll ask respective counsels to approach.
Fox Mulder
There will be two injustices here. The death of an innocent man and the release of a guilty officer.
Dana Scully
What makes you so sure, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
It's small town justice. They have their scapegoat, their predator.
Dana Scully
We've witnessed mass hysteria and mob violence at its worst... but I'm not so sure about an innocent man.
Fox Mulder
This is a witch hunt. The person or persons responsible for the deaths of those children... is in this courtroom today.
Dana Scully
What happened to hounds of hell?
Fox Mulder
Oh, I saw one.
Dana Scully
Mm-hm.
Fox Mulder
I did.
Dana Scully
Whatever you think you may have seen, Mulder, you still haven't explained... how a wolf can take a young child from under its mother's nose.
Fox Mulder
He was just guarding the entrance to the underworld in this case.
Judge
Return to your tables.
Dana Scully
You still haven't answered my question.
Judge
Mr. Eggers. Due to your exemplary record as an officer of the Eastwood Police Department... the testimony of your peers, and in determining you are not a flight risk... bail will be set at $5000. Next court date is 30 days from today. Court is adjourned.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Scene 26
Outside the Courthouse
Fox Mulder
Looks like somebody wants to talk to us.
Officer Wentworth
Agent Scully, Agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
Officer Wentworth.
Fox Mulder
You missed the proceedings.
Officer Wentworth
I'm sickened how things turned out. I didn't become a cop to watch a man get gunned down without due process. So I went out and did some digging. The day Andrew disappeared... Melvin was performing at a birthday party 40 miles from here. I checked with his client. They have him on video. The encoded time stamp places him there at 2:15 p.m.
Fox Mulder
Right when Andrew disappeared.
Officer Wentworth
There's no way he could have been in that park.
Dana Scully
Have you told anybody else about this?
Officer Wentworth
I told Chief Strong, but he didn't wanna hear it. He told me to let sleeping dogs lie. I don't think the chief's head's been right since he lost little Emily.
Fox Mulder
No, you did the right thing.
Officer Wentworth
The town won't see it that way.
Dana Scully
Time has a way of shedding light on injustices. Especially in this part of the country.
Officer Wentworth
And we're not done here yet. I sure would like to find that killer. See him get what's coming to him.
Fox Mulder
We'll talk to Chief Strong.
Scene 27
The Eggers House
Rick Eggers
You think I didn't know?
Diane Eggers
It's over, Rick. I called it off.
Rick Eggers
Heh. Well, it's a little late for that now.
Diane Eggers
I was stupid.
Rick Eggers
People make mistakes.
Diane Eggers
I'm asking you to forgive me.
Rick Eggers
For sleeping with my boss or for the death of our son? No, I will not forgive you.
Diane Eggers
What, you're gonna kill me too?
Rick Eggers
I'm leaving you, you witch.
Diane Eggers
You can't leave me, Rick.
Rick Eggers
I'm leaving you.
Diane Eggers
Stay away from me!
[GASPS]
Scene 28
The Strong House · Eggers
Rick Eggers
Andrew! Come on out here, you son of a bitch! Anna, you stay down. It's between me and your cheating husband! Strong!
Children on TV
Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me? When I'm feeling lonely Lonely as can be Oh, Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me? Mr. Chuckleteeth, we love you so Stay with us forever And never let us go
Rick Eggers
What the hell is this?
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV]
Children on TV
KIDS [OVER TV]: Mr. Chuckleteeth, we all love you so Stay with us forever And never let us go Mr. Chuckleteeth, it's time to say farewell
Mr. Chuckleteeth
If you try to run away
Children on TV
We'll send you straight to hell
Fox Mulder
Eggers?
[GUNSHOT]
Fox Mulder
Man down in the doorway.
Scene 29
The Strong House · Mulder and Scully
Fox Mulder
It's Officer Eggers. Shot dead.
Dana Scully
I'll call it in.
[LINE RINGING]
Dana Scully
Mulder, there's salt.
Fox Mulder
Chief Strong!
Dana Scully
FBI!
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV]
Children on TV
KIDS [OVER TV]: Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me? When I'm feeling lonely
Dana Scully
Mrs. Strong!
Children on TV
Lonely as can be
Dana Scully
You in here?
Children on TV
Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me? Mr. Chuckleteeth, we all love you so Stay with us forever and never let us go Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be Follow me and prance with me And come be friends with me
Dana Scully
There's a patrol car on the corner.
Fox Mulder
There's no one inside. There's something missing. A grimoire. It has instructions for summoning spirits and demons.
Dana Scully
Mulder, a man's been shot, and it wasn't a spirit. Chief Strong was having an affair with Eggers’ wife... and it was probably a crime of passion.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, and the gates of hell.
Dana Scully
Where are we going?
Fox Mulder
Back to the scene of the crime.
Scene 30
Chief Strong's Cruiser
Chief Strong
Come on, Diane. Pick up the phone.
[LINE RINGING]
Chief Strong
Oh, my Lord. No. No, no, no. Diane. Diane! Diane! Diane! Diane! Diane! Diane!
[ANNA CHANTING [IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Scene 31
The Clearing · Anna
Chief Strong
Anna? Anna, what are you doing? Don't!
Anna Strong
I have to end what I started.
Chief Strong
What you started?
Anna Strong
I only meant to curse Diane for what you were doing behind my back. You!
Chief Strong
You did this? Our baby girl?
Anna Strong
I was only trying to curse you.
Chief Strong
You've unleashed something you can't control!
Anna Strong
No. I can end this.
[SCREAMING]
[CHIEF STRONG GRUNTING]
[BOTH SCREAMING]
Scene 32
The Clearing · The End
Dana Scully
Oh, my God, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Anna! Put the book down. Anna, drop the book.
Anna Strong
No. No, I can end this. Please.
Fox Mulder
No, no. You may have tapped into something... You can't control. Anna!
[ANNA SCREAMING]
Fox Mulder
Somehow this didn't burn. What'd you tell him’?
Dana Scully
To consider that book as evidence.
Fox Mulder
Evidence of what exactly?
Dana Scully
Of a town in the grip of madness. Of the most human faults and frailty.
Fox Mulder
Or in the grip of a curse, unleashed by a modern-day witch.
Dana Scully
Well, leave that to the tourist literature, Mulder. I just hope that it's over. I only hope that it is, too.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
Dana Scully
That woman went up in flames.
Fox Mulder
Maybe it was the candles.
Dana Scully
Maybe it was the gates of Hell. Let's get out of this town, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
There is no getting out of this town, Scully. Not these days.
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