Dr. Alonso Bilac
Dr. Roosevelt.
Season 3 · Episode 18
Teso Dos Bichos
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code3X18Original airdate · March 8, 1996
305 dialogue entries
Scene 01
TESO DOS BICHOS EXCAVATION
[ men chattering in spanish ]
[ shouting in spanish ]
[ men chattering in spanish ]
Dr. Roosevelt
What is it?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
We found something I think you should see.
Dr. Roosevelt
It's an Amaru.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I know.
Dr. Roosevelt
It's fantastic. It's nearly intact.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
We can't take it.
Dr. Roosevelt
What do you mean?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
They're saying the body of a female shaman is sacred to the tribe. They won't allow us to disturb her.
Dr. Roosevelt
We are not disturbing her. We're saving her. You know the situation here. I thought you could handle these people.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Dr. Roosevelt, I think this is dangerous. I don't think this is right!
Dr. Roosevelt
Have the piece cleared and packed. It's going with us.
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Scene 02
HALL OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
♪♪ [ volume increases ]
♪♪ [ drum pounding slowly ]
♪♪ [ chanting ]
♪♪ [ all chanting ]
♪♪ [ chanting ]
♪♪ [ chanting continues ]
♪♪ [ continues ]
[ screaming ]
Guard
Mr. Horning, are you still here? Mr. Horning? What the hell?
Scene 03
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Dana Scully
How did you learn about what happened here last night?
Dr. Lewton
Tim decker, one of our security guards, called me when he first discovered the blood.
Dana Scully
According to the police, you felt his murder may have been an act of political terrorism.
Dr. Lewton
I think craig Horning was killed because of the project he was working on.
Dana Scully
Is that the, uh, "the survey and excavation... Of the highland burial grounds of the secona indians"? This is from a letter that was sent to the state department on behalf of the secona, demanding the return of a certain artifact.
Dr. Lewton
The Amaru urn. It was among the antiquities we rescued last month.
Dana Scully
Rescued?
Dr. Lewton
When petroecuador announced plans to build a gas pipeline... Through the burial grounds, Carl Roosevelt and I organized the dig.
Dana Scully
As I understand it, Roosevelt disappeared under circumstances not dissimilar to ones here.
Dr. Lewton
The ecuadorian government claimed he was carried off in some wild animal attack.
Dana Scully
But that's not what you believe.
Dr. Lewton
Not after last night.
Dana Scully
Have there ever been any death threats?
Dr. Lewton
No.
Fox Mulder
Well, what about the curse? Secona believed that great evil will befall anyone that disturbs the remains of an Amaru. A woman shaman. That they would be devoured by the jaguar spirit.
Dr. Lewton
A myth that gained some currency among the secona when dr. Roosevelt disappeared.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure.
Dr. Lewton
The unfortunate thing is... Somebody exploiting it to promote fear. To pressure us into returning the bones. Which I have no intention of doing.
Fox Mulder
Can we see it?
Dr. Lewton
Yes, of course. Mona.
Fox Mulder
Personally, if someone digs me up in a thousand years, I hope there's a curse on them too.
Mona Wustner
They should have left it buried. None of this would have happened.
Fox Mulder
Do you believe the bones are cursed?
Mona Wustner
Might as well be.
Dana Scully
Did you know craig Horning?
Mona Wustner
Yeah. I've been helping craig sort and catalog the ecuadorian artifacts. I'm the ph.d. Candidate at b.u.
Dana Scully
Did he have any warning that this could happen?
Mona Wustner
Craig? No. He was so dedicated. He was just doing the work that dr. Lewton asked him to.
Fox Mulder
He had no political feelings about the piece being brought here?
Mona Wustner
No, not craig.
Dana Scully
Are you aware that a letter of protest... Was sent to the state department concerning this urn?
Mona Wustner
I'm aware of several letters of protest.
Dana Scully
This one was written by a man named alonso Bilac.
Mona Wustner
Dr. Bilac. He was the liaison with the secona indians.
Dana Scully
Is he still with the project?
Mona Wustner
No, he either resigned... Or was forced out by dr. Lewton, depending on whom you talk to.
Dana Scully
Why is that?
Mona Wustner
Dr. Bilac feel the secona have the right to determine the fate of their ancestral remains.
Fox Mulder
Do you know where we might find him?
[ knocking ]
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Dana Scully
Dr. Bilac?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Yes.
Dana Scully
We're with the FBI we're investigating the disappearance of an associate of yours-- craig Horning.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Yes.
Dana Scully
May we ask you some questions?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Come in then.
Dana Scully
Dr. Bilac, you were part of the expedition that brought back the Amaru urn.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Who told you that?
Dana Scully
Mona Wustner.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I objected from the beginning.
Dana Scully
But you were dr. Roosevelt's liaison in Ecuador. At what point did you part company with him on the taking of artifacts?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
When I felt like he had gone too far against the wishes of the secona.
Dana Scully
Did you express that to him?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Yes. He wouldn't listen.
Dana Scully
Were you speaking for yourself or for the indians?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I spent the last six months... Living with the secona, learning from them. I've come to understand the nature... And the depth of their culture.
Dana Scully
Well, apparently they've learned something from you too.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Yes, I've been teaching them the joys of american bureaucracy.
Dana Scully
Dr. Lewton believes that the protests over the Amaru urn... Has something to do with craig Horning's disappearance.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
You say "disappearance" as if you expect to see him alive again.
Dana Scully
What do you think happened to him?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
You don't want to know what I think.
Fox Mulder
Yes, we would like to know. We'd be very interested in what you think.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I think whatever happened to craig Horning will continue to happen, until the bones are returned to their rightful place.
Dana Scully
Let me ask you, dr. Bilac. How far would you go to defend the rights of the seconas? Farther than writing a letter to the state department?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
If you think I did this, then you're a fool.
Dana Scully
Can you account for your whereabouts last night?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I was here.
Fox Mulder
Alone?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Yes. Your investigation is a waste of time. That's something I can assure you of.
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Fox Mulder
It's nice to meet people who really believe in something, isn't it?
Dana Scully
You mean the kind who would kill for their cause?
Fox Mulder
You think Bilac's a suspect?
Dana Scully
No. I think he's the suspect.
Fox Mulder
Based on what?
Dana Scully
Based on the arrogance of his politics, on his rift with dr. Lewton, on his sympathies towards the indians... And the lack of any other suspects.
Fox Mulder
He did look a little squirrelly.
Dana Scully
Maybe because he was up late murdering craig Horning.
Fox Mulder
Let me remind you we don't have a body and not much more forensic detail than blood.
Dana Scully
Craig Horning's blood. What do you think he did with him?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure he did anything.
Dana Scully
So you think Bilac's innocent? That the victim wasn't murdered at all, that he was devoured by a mythological jaguar spirit?
Fox Mulder
Go with it, Scully.
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Mona Wustner
You're only drawing suspicion to yourself by lying, lonnie. You should have told them the truth. I'm worried about you. Let me come over. Why? Why not? Dr. Lewton's here. I gotta go. I'll call you later.
Dr. Lewton
I thought you had already left.
Mona Wustner
I've, uh-- I really need to keep working right now.
Dr. Lewton
I'd feel better if you weren't alone here.
Mona Wustner
Well, the guard knows I'm here.
Dr. Lewton
Was that dr. Bilac on the phone?
Mona Wustner
Yes.
Dr. Lewton
We have a responsibility, mona, to history and posterity. Dr. Roosevelt was only doing what any good conservationist would have done... In bringing the Amaru urn back. Otherwise, it would certainly have been destroyed.
Mona Wustner
I know.
Dr. Lewton
Now, when you get caught up in the politics, we lose sight of that. Mona, let me give you a little free advice. You have a bright future here. Be careful where you plant your flag.
[ door closes ]
[ door squeaking ]
[ gasps ]
Mona Wustner
Oh, sugar.
Scene 08
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[ engine not turning over ] [ thud ]
[ screaming ]
[ screaming continues ]
Dana Scully
Label that.
Officer
As what?
Dana Scully
Partial rat body part. That's it for now. Excuse me. Can I have a word with you? We're done. You were working here last night when dr. Lewton was killed.
Mona Wustner
He stopped by my office on his way out.
Dana Scully
Did you notice anything out of the ordinary? Was he behaving strange or did he seem nervous about anything?
Mona Wustner
No, not at all.
Dana Scully
Did he say anything to you about dr. Bilac?
Mona Wustner
No, he didn't.
Dana Scully
Do you have any idea when the two of them last spoke to each other?
Mona Wustner
I really don't know.
Dana Scully
I'm gonna give you my card. Call me if anything comes to mind. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
They turn up a body?
Dana Scully
No. They've been over the entire museum grounds. Have you found anything at all out here?
Fox Mulder
If dr. Lewton was brought through here, it's going to be hard to determine. Looks like it rained pretty hard last night.
Dana Scully
Well, they determined that the hood release had been pulled. And they found a small flashlight near the car. It looks to me like he was checking the engine when he was attacked.
Fox Mulder
Maybe somebody didn't want that car started.
Dana Scully
I don't think so, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Why not?
Dana Scully
We found evidence of two mutilated rat bodies in the engine compartment.
Fox Mulder
Rats?
Dana Scully
Apparently, the museum's always had a rat problem. They must've crawled into the engine to keep warm. You know, Mulder, there's hardly a thing about these deaths that adds up.
Fox Mulder
What's the estimate on the time of death?
Dana Scully
Somewhere between 9:30 and midnight when the guard discovered the blood.
Fox Mulder
It's about the same time as craig Horning.
Dana Scully
What's the connection?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
I think mona Wustner might know something.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Dana Scully
Well, she seemed to get nervous when I asked her about Bilac. Maybe she's trying to protect him.
Fox Mulder
I think it's starting to rain again.
Dana Scully
I don't think so, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What the hell is that?
Scene 09
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Mona Wustner
Lonnie? Lonnie?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Don't!
Mona Wustner
Lonnie? I came to tell you. Dr. Lewton is dead. Did you hear what I said? Say something, lonnie, please. You're scaring me. What's happened to you? Ever since you came back you're acting like some stranger. Like someone else.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
The blood has to stop.
Mona Wustner
You know something, don't you?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
You wouldn't understand.
Mona Wustner
Then help me to understand! You-- you can tell me. You know that, don't you? What is that?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Vine of the soul.
Mona Wustner
Yaje? You're drinking Yaje? You're sick, lonnie. You need help. Don't you see what's happening here? Can't you see what you're doing to yourself?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
Go.
Mona Wustner
Let me help you!
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I said get out!
Scene 10
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Dana Scully
Well, it's human. Small intestine. There's about four feet of jejunum and another foot of ileum.
Fox Mulder
Do we know for sure it's Lewton?
Dana Scully
Yeah, by what he had for lunch. Corn chowder. And it looks like he'd been snacking on sunflower seeds all afternoon.
Fox Mulder
A man of taste.
Dana Scully
What I can't determine is how the body was eviscerated. There are no knife marks on the epithelium. I imagine that they could have been torn or pulled from the body cavity.
Fox Mulder
"torn or pulled"?
Dana Scully
But I can't determine that either... Because there was considerable postmortem predation.
Fox Mulder
By what?
Dana Scully
By the size of the bite marks, a small animal. Most probably a rat.
Fox Mulder
More rats.
Dana Scully
Yep.
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully
Scully. Slow down, mona.
Mona Wustner
I was with dr. Bilac. He frightened me. I-- I thought he was gonna hurt me.
Dana Scully
What happened, mona?
Mona Wustner
He's sick. He doesn't know what he's doing.
Dana Scully
Where is he now?
Mona Wustner
At his house. I left him there and I came back to the museum, but... I feel like someone's here, like someone's watching me.
Dana Scully
I want you to stay exactly where you are. I'm gonna send agent Mulder over to get you right away, okay? He's on his way.
Mona Wustner
Okay.
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[ growling ]
Mona Wustner
What is it, sugar?
[ rumbling ]
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[ growling ]
[ rumbling continues ]
[ screaming ]
Dana Scully
Dr. Bilac?
[ gasps ]
Guard
What are you doing here?
Fox Mulder
Looking for mona Wustner. I got a panic call from her.
Guard
From mona?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Where is she?
Guard
I'll show you.
[ ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. Did you find mona?
Fox Mulder
No. But her car is parked outside. She's not here. Did you find Bilac?
Dana Scully
No, he's not here either. But I found some of his journals. Listen to this. "I've seen the Amaru coming out of the jungle... "with the eyes of the scorpion, the claws of a jaguar. "she leaps down from the trees. She tears at my flesh, then holds my head in her hands and eats out my eyes."
Fox Mulder
Is there a date of entry on that?
Dana Scully
These are all recent.
Fox Mulder
Read me that part of the jaguar coming down from the trees again.
Dana Scully
Why?
Fox Mulder
Maybe that's how the intestines got up there.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I think Bilac's been tripping. I found something strange in a ceremonial bowl. And from his writings, it says it's a hallucinogen called "Yaje-- the vine of the soul."
Fox Mulder
What the hell's that supposed to mean?
Dana Scully
I think he's been praying to the Amaru through some kind of a ceremony.
Fox Mulder
What does he want from her?
Dana Scully
It looks like he's invoking the curse, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I'm gonna have to call you back.
Dana Scully
Did you find mona?
Fox Mulder
I hope not.
[ rumbling ]
Fox Mulder
What are you doing here? I said, what are you doing here?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
She's dead.
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Dana Scully
Where is she?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I don't know.
Dana Scully
You told agent Mulder that she was dead. You must know where she is.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I didn't kill her.
Dana Scully
Then why do you have blood on your clothes?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I told you. I came here because the Amaru would not be appeased. I was afraid for mona. I tried to keep her away from all this. She was an innocent.
Dana Scully
She said she was scared. She said that you became violent.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
She wouldn't listen.
Dana Scully
Maybe you were too high to know the difference. There isn't a curse, is there, dr. Bilac? You are the curse.
Dr. Alonso Bilac
No. This is more powerful than any man. This is a spirit you're dealing with. The spirit of the Amaru. This is not something you can put in handcuffs.
[ door opening ]
Dana Scully
I'm gonna ask you one more time, dr. Bilac. Where is mona's body?
Dr. Alonso Bilac
I don't know.
Dana Scully
The man stays in that room until there's a full search of the museum, okay?
Officer
Yes, ma'am.
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully. Come here for a second. It just dawned on me. Why do you think there's so much water in here?
Dana Scully
I just assumed that one of the toilets had overflowed.
Fox Mulder
There's water on every seat. It's more like every toilet overflowed. Now why would that happen?
Dana Scully
I guess there's only one way to find out.
Fox Mulder
I hate this. Rats. In every toilet.
Dana Scully
How did they get in there?
Guard
Agent Mulder. The police found something outside.
Dana Scully
Mona Wustner?
Guard
No, sugar, her dog. He's dead.
Fox Mulder
Finally, a body.
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Dana Scully
What did you find?
Veterinarian
Have to run a full toxicological to be sure, but it looks like warfarin poisoning.
Dana Scully
Warfarin?
Veterinarian
Rat poison.
Fox Mulder
Someone fed this dog rat poison?
Veterinarian
No. When I dissected the dog's stomach... I found an undigested fragment of intestine which appears to be feline.
Dana Scully
That dog ate a cat.
Veterinarian
I also found what appears to be bits of rat fur. But I think the rat ate the poison.
Dana Scully
The cat ate a rat.
Fox Mulder
And the dog ate the cat. More rats, Scully.
Dana Scully
Yeah?
Fox Mulder
Don't you think that's significant?
Dana Scully
Significant of what?
Fox Mulder
There were rats in dr. Lewton's car engine. There were rats in the bathroom where mona Wustner may have been killed, and now here.
Dana Scully
It's an old building, Mulder. They have a rat problem. A lot of old buildings have rats.
Fox Mulder
No, I think it's more than that. What is it that the secona believe? The jaguar spirit will devour anybody that desecrates the burial place of a holy woman? Essentially, they're talking about transmigration of the soul into animal form. Achieved through a ceremony where they drink the--
Dana Scully
Yaje.
Fox Mulder
To summon the spirits.
Dana Scully
So, what are we talking here, Mulder? A possessed rat-- the return of ben?
Fox Mulder
No, I think those rats were killed trying to escape from something.
Dana Scully
Something that sent them diving into the toilet?
Fox Mulder
No, the lids were down. They were trying to get out. They were coming from within the sewer lines. Trying to get away from something.
Dana Scully
Have you been drinking Yaje?
Fox Mulder
Go with it, Scully.
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Officer
Agent Scully? Bilac's gone.
Dana Scully
What? How's that possible?
Officer
I don't know. I went to check on him and he just wasn't there.
Dana Scully
Did you step away from this door at any time?
Officer
No.
Dana Scully
And no one entered this room?
Officer
Absolutely not.
Fox Mulder
What about a rat?
Officer
Sir?
Fox Mulder
Did you ever see any rats in this room?
Guard
All the time. Why?
Fox Mulder
how do you think they get in here? -
Guard
Through the old heating system. There are vents all over the place.
Dana Scully
Are there any other doors or windows in this room?
[ officer ]
Officer
I checked. There's only one way out.
Dana Scully
You didn't hear anything?
Officer
Nothing.
Dana Scully
I want you to search the entire building beginning with every room on this floor.
Officer
Yes, ma'am.
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully, take a look at this.
Dana Scully
Where does that lead to?
Guard
The old steam tunnel.
Fox Mulder
how do you get down there? -
Guard
They're pretty much sealed up. Haven't been used for 50 years.
Dana Scully
Do you think Bilac crawled down there?
Fox Mulder
Unless he was dragged.
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Dana Scully
The system looks like it branches off into three directions. There must be Miles of tunneling down there.
Fox Mulder
And only one way in.
Dana Scully
And one way out.
Fox Mulder
Ladies first? Which way?
Dana Scully
To the left, it looks like.
[ banging ]
[ gasps ]
Fox Mulder
Follow that rat.
Dana Scully
We should be directly under the museum here.
Fox Mulder
Scully? Scully!
Dana Scully
What is it? Oh, my god. It's dr. Lewton. Looks like his eyes were eaten right out of his socket.
Fox Mulder
We still don't know by what.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
I think it's a cat.
Dana Scully
Do you think that cat killed these people?
Fox Mulder
No, these cats.
[ cat screeching ]
Fox Mulder
Which way is out? Come on, Scully!
[ cats screeching ]
Dana Scully
No, Mulder. This way. There's a room here with a vent. There.
[ screeches ]
[ gasps ]
[ banging ]
Dana Scully
It's Bilac.
Fox Mulder
Can you jump in there?
Dana Scully
Yeah. Come on.
[ screeching ]
[ cats screeching ]
[ siren wailing ]
Emergency Worker
He's been down there too long. It's all right. Come on up.
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Fox Mulder
Okay, I will call you back later.
Dana Scully
Well, the search team's on their way back up. They've recovered all the bodies, including mona's and Bilac's.
Fox Mulder
What about the cats?
Dana Scully
No. Animal control is still looking. So far they haven't found any sign of them.
Fox Mulder
Well, we both saw them down there, Scully. We know they're down there.
Dana Scully
No one's denying that. It's just that there are Miles of tunnels down there... And they're saying it's gonna take weeks to search them all.
Fox Mulder
Well, by then it won't even matter.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
I just got off the phone with the assistant secretary of state's office. They've called in the ecuadorian ambassador.
Dana Scully
What for?
Fox Mulder
Five people had to die, but they're finally taking it seriously.
Dana Scully
The curse?
Fox Mulder
No. Bilac's letter of protest. The state department has asked the museum remain closed until they can act officially on it.
Dana Scully
Are they going to send back the bones?
Fox Mulder
The urn will be back in Ecuador by the end of the week.
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[ Mulder narrating ]
Fox Mulder
The suffolk county coroner ruled the deaths at the museum... Were the result of animal attacks. What motivated these attacks and why no more have occurred since has not been explained. To the museum, the Amaru urn was an artifact from a dying culture. Its curse merely a primitive superstition. Dr. Bilac learned there is a world beyond our own, unseen but powerful, and as real at the urn itself. The icons from that world represent forces that cannot be tamed... Or collected in a museum. The true curse that struck the museum was the failure to understand... That there are powers that should not be disturbed-- that some things are better left buried.
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