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Season 3 · Episode 4

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.

Production code3X04Original airdate · October 13, 1995
321 dialogue entries
Scene 01

ST. PAUL · SEPTEMBER 16

Clyde Bruckman

I foresee a rocky romantic affair between superstar madonna... And superwitness kato kaelin. That's a gimme. That's not really going out on a limb, is it? I foresee author j.d. Salinger finally publishing a new novel... And hitting the talk show circuit to promote it. That's just playing the odds. I foresee the revelation that not elvis... But rather buddy holly is still alive, having faked his own death so many years ago. Holly will not only reemerge but also regroup with the crickets... And they will headline in next year's lalapala-- lalapazoola? What the hell is lalapalazzo?

Clerk

Who's buddy holly?

Clyde Bruckman

Just give me my lotto ticket and a pint of malt scotch whiskey.

Clerk

Anything else?

Clyde Bruckman

Yeah. One of these.

♪♪ [ humming ]

Clyde Bruckman

Sorry.

Puppet

Don't apologize. You're a better dancer than my last date.

Madame Zelma

So, what has brought you to madam zelma?

Puppet

Well, can you really know... Everything about me just by looking at my hands?

Madame Zelma

The palms tell me all.

Puppet

I would just like for you to be able to tell me... Why am I going to be doing the things I'm going to be doing?

Madame Zelma

Madam zelma, she's a palm reader, not a psychologist.

Puppet

I know, I know. It's just-- I think I've somehow caught a glimpse of my own future. Myself. And I see me doing things that... Just seem so out of character for me. These are things that not only do I not want to be doing, but I can't even imagine myself capable of doing. And yet, there I am. I'm doing them.

Madame Zelma

Mister. Please, you're hurting me.

Puppet

I know. I know. And I'm sorry, but you're a fortune-Teller. You should have seen this coming.

Madame Zelma

Please--

Scene 02

NORTH MINNEAPOLIS · 3 DAYS LATER

Photographer

They say the eyes capture the last image a murder victim sees before they're killed.

Cline

So what did they say about the entrails?

Photographer

Yuck.

Havez

Is it true you asked for some help in this case?

Cline

This guy is supposed to be an expert at this sort of thing.

Havez

I heard he was a bit unorthodox.

Cline

He comes highly recommended.

Havez

Yeah. I saw him on TV.

Cline

Okay, so he's a publicity hound. As long as he gets results.

Photographer

I once worked on a case he did. Very spooky.

Cline

As long as he gives us leads, I don't care how big a kook-- who the hell are you?

Fox Mulder

I'm agent Mulder. This is agent Scully.

Cline

Oh, I forget you were coming aboard I'm Cline. This is Havez.

Havez

We're thinking this guy might be a satanist. What, with the eyeballs.

Fox Mulder

Satanists take the eyeballs and leave the body, not vice versa. And not in anything but modern myths.

Cline

He's gouging eyes for no reason?

Dana Scully

Nobody does anything without a reason. We've already composed a profile of the killer. We offer possible explanations for the nature of his attacks... And also his choice of victims.

Cline

Does it explain the entrails?

Fox Mulder

Anthropomancy. It was once believed you could divine your future by vivisecting... A human being and studying the entrails.

Havez

So this guy is hacking up people in order to see his future?

Dana Scully

There's a possible connection with victims being prognosticators.

Cline

Till this one. She was a professional doll collector.

Fox Mulder

And an amateur tasseographer. She read tea leaves. After drinking the tea, you can gain insight into your future... By examining the pattern of the leaves on the bottom of the cup.

Cline

You believe this stuff?

Fox Mulder

I'm not convinced of its accuracy, but I'm pretty sure the victim was.

Cline

Why?

Fox Mulder

The leaves were telling her she was about to be murdered.

[ people shouting ]

Cline

Mr. Yappi, I appreciate you coming down here.

Yappi

Quiet! Yes. I'm seeing visions. Visions of the killer. He does not feel like he's in control of his own life. Very important. That's why he kills. Yes.

Cline

Can you see what he looks like?

Yappi

He looks like... A white man with facial hair-- or not. But he has-- yes! A tattoo somewhere on his body. Maybe the tattoo has the facial hair. I think. Hmm! I see him here forcing himself, yes, on the girl. But he cannot perform. So he is taking out his rage. It's gone. I lost the vision. Someone is blocking me. I am picking up negative energy. Please, leave this room.

Fox Mulder

I'm part of this investigation.

Yappi

You give off negative energy.

Fox Mulder

I assure you, mr. Yappi, I'm a believer in psychic ability.

Yappi

So you say with your mouth, but your thoughts tell me the truth.

Cline

Agent Mulder, please.

Dana Scully

I can't take you anywhere.

[ applause ]

Yappi

Now, excuse me. I have an interview to give. Skeptics like you make me sick.

Fox Mulder

Mr. Yappi, read this thought.

Yappi

So's your old man.

Dana Scully

It's too bad about your negative energy. You missed quite a performance.

Cline

Look what he did to my pen.

Fox Mulder

Let me impress you with my psychic ability. Mr. Yappi proclaimed the victim's body would be found near water. He saw a church or a school in the vicinity. He got a flash of the letter "s" and/or the number 7.

Cline

So what's your point?

Fox Mulder

His leads are so vague as to be practically useless. Yet easily interpreted as correct after the fact.

Dana Scully

He said that the killer doesn't feel in control of his own life. That's true of everyone at times.

Cline

He said a lot of other things.

Fox Mulder

Yeah, and some are bound by percentages to be right. But most will turn out wrong. Which is which?

Cline

Look, all I know is that Yappi has provided... More solid, concrete leads on this case than you have. Now, if you don't mind, I have to get an a.p.b. Out... On a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who's impotent. Let's go.

Dana Scully

Might as well go home, Mulder. This case is as good as solved.

Scene 03

THE GORDON'S HOUSE

Clyde Bruckman

So general mutual has a very comprehensive... $200,000 life policy... At a net annual cost of $2,400.

Young Husband

You see, the thing is, we were really hoping to buy a boat.

Clyde Bruckman

Mr. Gordon, as a young husband, I think you're going to find that your new responsibilities to your family... Take precedence over your recreational needs.

Young Husband

But this is a really good boat.

Clyde Bruckman

You don't get it, do you, kid? Two years from now... While driving down route 91... Coming home to your wife and baby daughter, you're going to be hit head-on by a drunk... Driving a blue '87 mustang. You'll end up looking worse than 60 feet of bad road your body slides across... After flying out your front windshield.

Young Husband

Mister, you really need to work on your closing technique.

[ sighs ]

Scene 05

MRS. LOWE'S APARTMENT

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, no, no, no, no. Not your lighter, mrs. Lowe. I want your garbage. Get out of here, you monster! Is everything all right, mrs. Lowe? You have enough supplies? You have enough dog food? Oh, god.

Cline

It's kind of creepy, isn't it? The stupendous Yappi said the first victim's body has been dumped somewhere. Then we find it in a dumpster.

Fox Mulder

Ooh, I just got a chill down my spine.

[ people chattering ]

Dana Scully

Who found the body?

Scene 06

CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S APARTMENT

Dana Scully

You didn't touch the body after you found her.

Clyde Bruckman

Why would I want to?

Dana Scully

But you reported that you found a body with its eyes cut out. The body was face down. If you didn't move it, how did you know the eyes had been removed?

Clyde Bruckman

They had been, hadn't they? Then what are you complaining about?

Fox Mulder

How had the eyes been cut out?

Clyde Bruckman

By a piece of crystal ball, of all cockamamie things.

Fox Mulder

We did find crystal shards on the body. How do you know it was from a crystal ball?

Clyde Bruckman

Well, it just figures. I mean, if a guy goes to kill a fortune-Teller, he's obviously going to assault her with her own crystal ball... And use the shattered piece as a sort of lance. Isn't he?

Dana Scully

How much have you heard about the recent slayings in town?

Clyde Bruckman

Just that some nut is going around killing fortune-tellers... And ripping their eyes and entrails out.

Dana Scully

How did you know about the entrails? That hasn't been released to the press.

Clyde Bruckman

I never read the papers. Too depressing.

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman. I'm sorry, mr. Bruckman, but I'm gonna have to ask you to come with us.

Scene 07

NORTH MINNEAPOLIS

Fox Mulder

Step inside, mr. Bruckman.

Clyde Bruckman

What is this all about?

Fox Mulder

A murder occurred here earlier this evening, and we have reason to believe that it was committed by the same person... Who murdered the woman that you found. Is there anything you can tell us about it?

Clyde Bruckman

I didn't do it.

Fox Mulder

You're not under suspicion. But I do harbor a suspicion that you can see things about this crime. Things that we can't see.

Clyde Bruckman

I-I-I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Fox Mulder

I think you do.

Clyde Bruckman

Yeah, yeah, right. I'd like to see both your badges again right now.

Dana Scully

I don't blame you, mr. Bruckman.

Clyde Bruckman

I'm supposed to believe that's a real name? What is this all about? I found a dead body in my dumpster. I reported it to the police. And now suddenly I'm accused of doing things? Or being able to do things that I couldn't possib--

[ coughing, closes door ]

[ retching ]

Fox Mulder

Pinch me.

[ toilet flushes ]

Dana Scully

This guy's performing the same routine as the stupendous Yappi. He's just doing it in a different style.

Fox Mulder

No, something told me, is telling me, that this guy's for real.

Dana Scully

Oh, so now you're psychic?

Clyde Bruckman

The killer, he doesn't feel like he's in control of his own life. I mean, like, who is? Am I right? But this guy-- he truly believes... He sees himself as some kind of a... Puppet.

Fox Mulder

Can you describe him? Do you get a visual impression of him?

Dana Scully

So you can see into him but not at him? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to give off any negative energy.

Clyde Bruckman

Negative energy? What is this--

Fox Mulder

What is it? What do you see?

Clyde Bruckman

He's having sex with her. There.

Dana Scully

Is he raping her?

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, no. Not at all. In fact, she's instigating the whole thing.

Fox Mulder

Then what's wrong?

[ sighs ]

Clyde Bruckman

Sometimes it just seems... That everyone is having sex except for me.

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman, can you tell us why the killer is murdering people... And the way that he is?

Clyde Bruckman

Why does anyone do the things they do? Why do I sell insurance? I wish I knew. Why did this woman collect dolls? What was it about her life? Was it one specific moment where she suddenly said, "I know. Dolls." or was it a whole series of things? Starting when her parents first met. And somehow combined in such a way that... In the end she had no choice but to be a doll collect-- you'll find a woman tomorrow morning... By the fat, little white nazi storm trooper-- glenview lake. Her body's floating in glenview lake. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I've seen enough deaths for one night.

Scene 08

GLENVIEW LAKE

Diver

Here you go.

Woman

Is she from around here?

Fox Mulder

Be honest, Scully. Doesn't that propane tank... Bear more than a slight resemblance to a little, fat white nazi storm trooper?

Dana Scully

Mulder, the human mind naturally seeks meaningful patterns... In things that don't inherently have any. Given the suggestion of a particular image, you can't help but see that shape somewhere. If that tank weren't there, you'd see it in a rock or in a tree--

Fox Mulder

Did you answer my question?

Dana Scully

Yes, it looks like a fat white nazi storm trooper, but that proves my point.

Fox Mulder

He named the specific body of water the victim would be found in.

Dana Scully

That only implies that he was the one that put her in there.

Fox Mulder

I don't believe he's the killer.

Dana Scully

I don't believe he's psychic.

Fox Mulder

If he's not, how did he know where the body would be found?

Dana Scully

Maybe he's just lucky.

Scene 09

CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S APARTMENT

Woman On Radio

Thirty-eight, forty and forty-four. Once again, the winning lotto numbers are...

Clyde Bruckman

Why?

Woman On Radio

Eight, twelve--

[ knocking at door ]

Clyde Bruckman

Why do I do this to myself? Come in. I knew it was you. I know why you're here. You're here because you found that body where I told you it would be. And now you're convinced I have some sort of psychic power. So while your skeptical lady partner is off performing an autopsy, you came here to ask my help... Catching this serial murderer.

Fox Mulder

Everything you said is correct.

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, it's you. I won't help you. Please leave.

Fox Mulder

But you do admit to having this gift.

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, I got it, all right. The only problem is, it's nonreturnable.

Fox Mulder

You possess an ability that not only has staggering implications... Upon physics and human consciousness, but it's one which most people, myself included, would be envious of, yet you seem to treat it with disdain.

Clyde Bruckman

Do you want to know how you're gonna die?

Fox Mulder

Yes, I would.

Clyde Bruckman

No, you don't. Of course, not knowing has its own drawbacks, which is why a good insurance policy is so important. I don't know what kind of coverage the FBI has, but general mutual has--

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman, this murderer has already committed four homicides.

Clyde Bruckman

And he'll commit more whether I help you or not.

Fox Mulder

How can you be so sure?

Clyde Bruckman

How could I see the future if it didn't already exist? Now you're catching on.

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman, I believe in your ability but not your attitude. I can't stand by and watch people die without doing everything... In my albeit un-supernatural power to interfere with that fate.

Clyde Bruckman

You see, that's another reason I can't help you catch this guy. I might adversely affect the fate of the future. His next victim might be the mother of the daughter... Whose son invents the time machine. Then the son goes back in time and changes world history. And then columbus never discovers america, man never lands on the moon, the u.s. Never invades grenada... Or something less significant, resulting in the fact that my father never meets my mother... And, consequently, I'm never born. So when do we start?

Scene 10

INTERROGATION ROOM · POLICE STATION

Clyde Bruckman

I don't know what it is, but it belonged to one of the victims.

Fox Mulder

That's a hit. In psychical research parlance, a correct guess is a hit. An incorrect guess is a miss.

Clyde Bruckman

The guy who cast the mold for this... Will die of prostate cancer at the age of 82. Hit or miss?

Fox Mulder

I have no way of verifying that information.

Clyde Bruckman

Then why'd you ask me?

Fox Mulder

Do you receive any other impressions from it?

Clyde Bruckman

It's ugly. Next.

[ knocks ]

Dana Scully

I was told you were interrogating a suspect, but something tells me--

Fox Mulder

I'm now convinced of our psychic's ability, Scully. Or rather, his one ability. He is able to divine how people are gonna die. But that's all. He can't provide any practical information on our case.

Clyde Bruckman

I got it! This is yours. This is from your New York knicks t-shirt.

Fox Mulder

Miss.

Clyde Bruckman

This is worse than playing the lotto.

Dana Scully

Try reading this.

Fox Mulder

Save me the headache, Scully. What is it?

Dana Scully

It was found on the woman pulled from the lake. Identical key chains were found on two of the other victims. I managed to trace the insignia to an investment firm called uranus unlimited. They provide market strategies based on astrological forecasts. The company is owned by a man named--

Clyde Bruckman

Claude duckenfield. Age 43. 316 roundview lane. Divorced with two children. Makes about 87,000 a year.

Fox Mulder

Nonsmoker. Was that a hit or a miss?

Dana Scully

As far as I know, that's correct.

Fox Mulder

You got all that information just by handling that key chain?

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, no. I sold him a policy a couple of months ago. Just a coincidence.

Dana Scully

In any case, we're trying to get ahold of him.

Clyde Bruckman

You won't be able to. He's been murdered.

Scene 11

CAR

Clyde Bruckman

We're almost there.

Fox Mulder

How are you receiving this information about the body's location?

Clyde Bruckman

How should I know?

Fox Mulder

I mean, are you seeing it in a vision or is it a sensation? How do you know where to go?

Clyde Bruckman

I just know.

Fox Mulder

But how do you know?

Clyde Bruckman

I don't know. Look, it's just up ahead. There are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one... Than autoerotic asphyxiation.

Fox Mulder

Why are you telling me that?

Clyde Bruckman

Look. Forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business. Oops. Pull over here. Stop. Stop. This is the spot. I guess you run into a lot of dead bodies in your line of work.

Dana Scully

You get used to it.

Clyde Bruckman

I never have. I'm not sure you're supposed to.

Fox Mulder

Do you remember the first time you foresaw someone's death?

Clyde Bruckman

1959.

Fox Mulder

What happened in 1959?

Clyde Bruckman

Buddy holly's plane crashed.

Dana Scully

You prognosticated buddy holly's death?

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, god, no. Why would I want to do that? But I did have a ticket to see him perform the next night. Actually, I was a bigger fan of the big bopper than buddy holly. "chantilly lace." that was the song.

Fox Mulder

I'm not following you.

Clyde Bruckman

The big bopper was not supposed to be on the plane with buddy holly. He won the seat from somebody else by flipping a coin for it.

Fox Mulder

I'm still not following.

Clyde Bruckman

Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life but in everybody else's, to arrange it so that on that particular night... The big bopper would be in a position... To live or die depending on a flipping coin. I became so obsessed with that idea... That I gradually became capable of seeing... The specifics of everybody's death.

Dana Scully

I'm not one who readily believes in that kind of thing. And if I was, I still wouldn't believe that story.

Clyde Bruckman

I know it sounds crazy, but I swear it's true. I was a bigger fan of the big bopper than buddy holly.

Dana Scully

Where's the body?

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman, I don't understand how you could know... That this is the exact area, but you can't pinpoint the exact spot.

Clyde Bruckman

I guess I can't see the forest for the trees.

Fox Mulder

Okay, now. I'm glad I could bring a little smile into your life, mr. Bruckman.

Clyde Bruckman

I'm not smiling. I'm wincing.

Scene 12

CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S APARTMENT

Clyde Bruckman

What is this?

Fox Mulder

The only evidence recovered from claude duckenfield's body. That fiber may have come from something the killer was wearing at the time of the crime.

Clyde Bruckman

Don't you have crime labs that analyze these things for you?

Dana Scully

Yes. Yes, we do.

Fox Mulder

But it will take them time to provide any information. A similar fiber was found on one of the earlier victims, and we're still waiting for the lab to determine its source. You'd be saving us a great deal of work.

Clyde Bruckman

Look, I've got my own work to do. I'm not a crime fighter by trade.

Fox Mulder

Mr. Bruckman, I can't speak for my partner, but I'm desperate... For some insurance.

Clyde Bruckman

General mutual has some very comprehensive coverage-- no. I can't tell you where this is from, but-but... The killer's gonna kill more people before you catch him.

Dana Scully

Can you see him physically yet?

Clyde Bruckman

No, just more insight into his character, which I know you hate. He thinks he's psychic.

Fox Mulder

Is he?

Clyde Bruckman

I hope not. I've seen some of the things he's seen.

Fox Mulder (vision)

Hey!

Clyde Bruckman

You. He sees you... Trying to catch him.

Fox Mulder

Where does this take place?

Clyde Bruckman

In a kitchen. You're looking around for someone. He's behind you now, but you don't know it. He's stalking towards you and-- oh, god.

Dana Scully

What? What do you see?

Clyde Bruckman

He's got a knife. It's got blood on it.

Fox Mulder

What am I doing?

Clyde Bruckman

You're looking down. You've stepped in a pie that's fallen to the floor. The killer comes up to you and-- coconut cream.

Fox Mulder

What?

Clyde Bruckman

The pie. Coconut cream. Or is it lemon meringue? I don't know. I'm not sure. It's hazy.

Fox Mulder

Whatever. Please continue.

Clyde Bruckman

As you're looking down, he comes up with the knife and-- banana cream! Definitely banana cream.

Fox Mulder

All right. I'm looking down at this banana cream pie, and then what?

Clyde Bruckman

He sees himself coming up to you from behind--

Fox Mulder

And? And what does he see?

Clyde Bruckman

Nothing. The visions of a madman.

Fox Mulder

You got all that from this?

Clyde Bruckman

How am I supposed to get anything from this tiny, little thing? This came in the mail today.

Dana Scully

Who's it from?

Clyde Bruckman

The killer.

Fox Mulder

"to whom it may concern: this is a mere formality... "to let you know I know that you know. "can't wait till our first meeting when I kill you. "but not before you explain some things to me. "first on the list: why in the world did I send you this letter? "sincerely, you know who. P.s. Say hi to the FBI agents."

Clyde Bruckman

Hi.

Dana Scully

He must have been at the crime scene seeing you with us.

Fox Mulder

No, this letter is postmarked the day before mr. Bruckman joined our investigation. You're gonna have to come with us. We've gotta get you out of here.

Clyde Bruckman

Look. I'll be dead before you catch this guy no matter what you do.

Tarot Dealer

You've come to me because you're searching for someone. But don't worry. This person will find you. It's a relative or a close friend.

Puppet

Actually, a guy I'm gonna kill.

Tarot Dealer

Ah, yes. It's clearer now. You seek answers from a special man... Who possesses a special wisdom.

Scene 13

LE DAMPINO HOTEL · SEPTEMBER 21

Clyde Bruckman

This is real cream. Not the phony stuff. I know the difference. And the chocolate-- very rich. Look at these cute little doilies they put everything on. You sure you don't want to join me? What are you doing?

Dana Scully

Studying background checks. This is what detective work is really like. We can't come up with suspects by having visions.

Clyde Bruckman

Jealous?

Scene 14

TAROT SHOP

Tarot Dealer

You're very confused right now. Nothing seems to make sense to you. You don't know why you do the things that you do. But your confusion is soon to come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a woman. A blonde or a brunette. Maybe a redhead.

Dana Scully

There's something you haven't explained. Can you see your own end?

Clyde Bruckman

I see our end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I don't mean to offend or scare you. But not here. Not this bed. I just mean, I see us quite clearly... In bed together. You're holding my hand... Very tenderly, and then... You're looking at me with such compassion. And I feel-- tears are streaming down my face. I feel so grateful. It's just a very special moment neither of us will ever forget.

Dana Scully

Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses.

Clyde Bruckman

I just call 'em as I see 'em.

Scene 15

TAROT SHOP

Puppet

Wow. I'm really impressed. I've been to a lot of fortune-tellers, but by far you're the best.

Tarot Dealer

There's still one more card left.

Puppet

This card's not meant for me. It's yours.

Scene 16

LE DAMPINO HOTEL

Dana Scully

So ahab mistakes the prophecy... And, as a result, dies. A similar fate happens to macbeth.

Clyde Bruckman

Still, you're not the least bit curious?

[ knocking at door ]

Dana Scully

That must be Mulder. Time for the midnight shift. All right. So how do I die?

Clyde Bruckman

You don't.

[ knocking ]

Fox Mulder

Get this, Scully. The lab analysis from the first bit of fiber... That was found-- it's lace.

Dana Scully

Chantilly lace?

Fox Mulder

You know what I like.

Dana Scully

It's not likely the killer was wearing anything made out of chantilly lace... At the time of the murders.

Fox Mulder

What are the odds of the big bopper, chantilly lace--

Dana Scully

It's a coincidence.

Fox Mulder

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

Dana Scully

That's one to pose to the psychic philosopher. Good night, Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Am I keeping you awake?

Clyde Bruckman

I'm waiting for you to ask me another of those "psychic ability" questions.

Fox Mulder

I've had dreams in my life where I had a vision... And then later on, I've seen that vision in reality. As a psychic, have you ever had prophetic dreams like that?

Clyde Bruckman

I have only one dream. I dream it every night. You're not one of those people who turns everything into a sexual symbol?

Fox Mulder

No, I'm not a freudian. No.

Clyde Bruckman

I'm lying naked... In a field of red tulips. I'm not concerned with where I am or how I got there. I'm at peace. And it's then that I realize I'm dead. My body begins to turn a greenish white with spots of purple. Next, the insects arrive. The inevitable follows-- putridity and liquescence. Before I know it, I'm nothing but bones. When I start fading to dust, I lose whatever care I still might've had... About where my clothes are. And as I begin to feel myself slipping away towards I-know-not-what, I wake up. Well, good night.

[ knocking at door ]

Dana Scully

[ Scully ] Mulder, there's-- are you okay?

Fox Mulder

Oh, yeah. I just didn't sleep well. What's up?

Dana Scully

Havez is going to stay with Bruckman... While we go over to a tarot card reader around the corner. There's been another murder.

Fox Mulder

What good are his prophecies if they're not preventive?

Dana Scully

Actually, I'm starting to feel more sympathetic towards him.

Fox Mulder

You're convinced he's a psychic now?

Dana Scully

No, not really.

Puppet

Sorry, ma'am.

Dana Scully

But I am convinced that, by thinking he can see the future, he's taken all the joy out of his life.

Havez

So then, the priest says to the rabbi--

Clyde Bruckman

I had it set for quail.

Havez

Yeah! Hey. I thought you said you hadn't heard that one before.

Clyde Bruckman

I hadn't.

Havez

Hey. Is it true that you can see how people are gonna die? I mean, can you... See how I'm going to die? Lung cancer?

[ exhales ]

Havez

Thank god.

[ coughs ]

Havez

I got to go visit your restroom for a second. Don't open that door for anybody.

Clyde Bruckman

Oh, god!

[ knocking at door ]

Clyde Bruckman

Was that not enough of a tip?

Puppet

They brought you right to me, right to where I work.

Clyde Bruckman

What are the chances of that happening?

Puppet

They're astronomical. It's beyond believability.

Clyde Bruckman

But not impossibility. I mean, after all, here we are.

Puppet

It's funny how things work out sometimes, isn't it?

Clyde Bruckman

I'll say.

Puppet

There's something I've wanted to ask you for some time now. You've seen the things I do in the past as well as in the future.

Clyde Bruckman

They're terrible things.

Puppet

I know they are. So tell me, please. Why have I done them?

Clyde Bruckman

Don't you understand yet, son? Don't you get it? You do the things you do because you're a homicidal maniac.

Puppet

That-- that does explain a lot, doesn't it? It's all starting to make sense now.

Clyde Bruckman

No. You don't kill me now.

Puppet

I don't? Why not?

Clyde Bruckman

How should I know?

[ door opens ]

[ grunting ]

Scene 17

TAROT SHOP

Fox Mulder

Either we got a copycat killer, or our guy's getting extremely lackadaisical.

Cline

Not only did he leave the body, but he didn't even bother to remove the eyes.

Fox Mulder

If my miss manners serves me right, that protrusion from his left cornea is a salad fork.

Cline

Something tells me we're gonna get prints off it.

Dana Scully

Mulder, I found another strand of that silk.

Fox Mulder

We got more than that this time, Scully. We got fingerprints. Probably a footprint, even.

Cline

This is more like it. No more psychics and their vague predictions. Hell, we don't even need our own hunches. This case is just now about good old-fashioned forensic police work.

Dana Scully

It's the bellhop. He's the killer. The bellhop at the hotel.

Cline

How the hell does she know that?

Fox Mulder

Woman's intuition.

Scene 18

LE DAMPINO HOTEL

Dana Scully

Havez? Mr. Bruckman?

Fox Mulder

Hey!

Dana Scully

Drop it!

[ gunshot ]

[ grunts ]

Puppet

Hey. That's not the way it's supposed to happen.

Fox Mulder

How did you know where to find us?

Dana Scully

I didn't. I got on the service elevator by mistake.

Fox Mulder

Thank heaven for happenstance.

Dana Scully

None of Bruckman's prophecy came true. The killer didn't get to him first, but he did kill Havez.

Fox Mulder

Then Bruckman's all right?

Dana Scully

Actually, I don't know. I couldn't find him.

Fox Mulder

Then where is he?

Scene 19

MRS. LOWE'S APARTMENT

Fox Mulder

"miss Scully.

Dana Scully

"my neighbor, mrs. Lowe, passed away last night. "please see that the remains of her remains are taken care of. "would you like a dog? He is paper trained and well behaved, regardless of his actions last night, which you can't really blame him for."

Scene 21

SCULLY'S APARTMENT

Oliver Hardy (television)

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into. Come on. Let's get back to peoria, where we belong.

Yappi (television)

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[ grunts ]

About this transcript

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