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Season 3 · Episode 5

The List

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

Production code3X05Original airdate · October 20, 1995

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Scene 01

Driver

Mr. Simon? Are you ready?

Man

Yeah.

Scene 02

EASTPOINT STATE PENITENTIARY, LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Warden Brodeur

Let's go.

Guard

Excuse me, warden. It's 5:00, sir.

Warden Brodeur

How's Neech?

Guard

He's still in with his wife.

Warden Brodeur

No, I mean how is he? How's he doing?

Guard

Well, he won't eat his meal, and he won't see the chaplain. Told him to get the hell out.

Warden Brodeur

What about the hired man?

Guard

He's traveling.

Warden Brodeur

All right. Let's get Neech prepped.

Guard

Yes, sir.

[ door closes ]

Warden Brodeur

If god can't save his sorry ass, neither can I.

[ door buzzes ]

Roque

Time's up, Neech! 2,000 volts, man. You ain't never coming back, freak!

[ laughing ]

Danielle Manley

It's just like I've always told you. I swear on my life, Neech.

Guard

Time to go.

[ tapping bars ]

Danielle Manley

I ain't ever gonna love another man. You hear me? I won't. I won't betray our love. Ever.

Guard

It's time, Neech. Time to go.

Danielle Manley

That phone call's gonna come, and the governor is gonna come through.

Neech Manley

Gotta go now.

[ door buzzes ]

Warden Brodeur

We've got a hood if you want it. It's your option.

Neech Manley

No.

Warden Brodeur

Is there anything you want to say, Neech? Last words?

Neech Manley

Yeah. I've been here 11 years, 56 days, and now you're gonna murder me. The lord says thou shall be merciful and just. I know no mercy. Allah says the spirit shall rise again... And be reborn into this life. The soul shall be recast, you should begin, father. Born unto new flesh. "

Father

The lord is my shepherd--"

Neech Manley

I will return to avenge all the petty tyranny... And the cruelty I have suffered. I will be recast, reincarnated, reunion of spirit and flesh. Mark my words. Five men will die. Save it. Five men will go down! This will be my justice! This will be my law! This will be my capital punishment, and no stay of execution will be granted, for there is no prejudice, no evidence to be admitted, no lawyer who did not perform his job. Fry him. These men will die righteous deaths!

[ electricity humming ]

[ straining ]

Scene 03

Fox Mulder

Napoleon "Neech" Manley. He was convicted in 1984 for double murder... In the holdup of a Florida liquor store. The actual gunman was killed in the pursuit. Manley was driving the getaway car and got sentenced to death.

Dana Scully

He was put to death in the electric chair three days ago.

Fox Mulder

He'd been to the chair twice before, but the governor granted him last-minute stays.

Dana Scully

Third time's a charm. What's your interest in this?

Fox Mulder

Manley was interesting. He was well-read, charismatic. He became a writer, a kind of prison philosopher. A week before his execution, word went through the prison... That Neech said he was gonna be reincarnated. He was gonna come back from the dead.

Dana Scully

Well, reincarnation has always been popular on death row for obvious reasons.

Fox Mulder

Apparently, this was more than just a dying man's hope against hope.

Dana Scully

What do you mean?

Fox Mulder

Manley didn't just claim that he was gonna come back, but that he was gonna take vengeance on five men who had mistreated him. Yesterday a death row guard was found dead inside the cell... That Manley had occupied those 11 years. His death cannot be explained.

Scene 04

Dana Scully

Has a cause of death been determined?

Warden Brodeur

Suffocation, near as we can tell. Somebody must have snuffed him with a pillow.

Fox Mulder

Any idea how one of your guards could get murdered... In an empty cell like this?

Warden Brodeur

No. It's not supposed to happen, not with all the precautions we're taking.

Dana Scully

I see the guards here all wear panic devices. Was the victim's activated?

Warden Brodeur

No. Apparently, he never touched it.

Fox Mulder

According to our reports, there were threats this might happen.

Warden Brodeur

There's always threats of violence in here. Prison's nothing but a police state, basically.

Fox Mulder

Do you give any credence to Neech Manley's claims... That he was gonna come back and take revenge?

Warden Brodeur

Neech Manley. Hmm. A smart man. Very smart man. In fact, if he'd stayed outside, I would have figured him for a nobel prize. But he made a mistake. Paid for it with his life. A man of that intelligence, you put him inside for 10 or 11 years, you're gonna have to pay for it.

Dana Scully

What do you mean?

Warden Brodeur

There's nothing but bitterness and resentment in here... 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It gets honed to a real fine point.

Fox Mulder

So you're saying that Manley planned this... And is carrying it out with the help of someone else.

Warden Brodeur

Elaborate as shakespeare. Now, if you want to see the victim's body--

Fournier

Visitors coming through! Woman on the block!

Warden Brodeur

We're holding the corpse until the state pathologist... Comes down this afternoon and conducts the official autopsy. That information should help us solve the murder.

Fox Mulder

Did Manley have many friends among the prisoners?

Warden Brodeur

A man has to have friends in prison to keep an eye on his enemies. Mostly, people were just afraid of him.

Dana Scully

Warden?

Warden Brodeur

What is it?

Dana Scully

The body. I think you should take a look. I suggest you get it into refrigeration, or you're not gonna have anything left to autopsy.

Warden Brodeur

Oh, god.

Fox Mulder

I've been told you believe Neech Manley's claims.

Speranza

It's not a matter of how or if he's coming back. The question is, when... Is he coming back again?

Fox Mulder

What are you saying, Speranza? You believe Manley killed that guard?

Speranza

How would you explain it?

Fox Mulder

A prisoner waits for an opportunity--

Speranza

Hey, look around. We ain't got but an opportunity... To itchy-scratchy outside our cells.

Fox Mulder

Yeah, but you've got prisoners on work detail. Trustees. A man slips away.

Speranza

This is "q" block, death row. Don't nobody come in and out of here... Without a guard watching, and lately, you got double that.

Fox Mulder

Why?

Speranza

'cause everybody's afraid of what they say can't be true. Neech is back.

Fox Mulder

Reincarnated.

Speranza

Well, he would have called it "transmigration of the soul."

Fox Mulder

Into what form?

Speranza

You, me, this mattress-- I don't know. He didn't specify, but he's back. I can feel it. The man was electric, you know what I'm saying? Pure energy.

Fournier

I'll open it up for you.

Fox Mulder

Any idea how he did it?

Speranza

Like I said, the man--

[ wolf whistle ]

Inmate

Yeah, sweet roja!

Fournier

Nothing's been touched. It's pretty much the way Neech left it.

[ flies buzzing ]

Dana Scully

Did you know Neech Manley?

Fournier

Oh, yeah. I knew him.

Dana Scully

What was he like?

Fournier

Neech? Neech was so full of b.s., he couldn't stand it.

Dana Scully

How is that?

Fournier

He actually started to believe that crap he'd been preaching all those years, as if knowing all them religions made him some kind of god.

Dana Scully

Who do you think killed the guard?

Fournier

I don't know who killed him, but I damn well know who didn't kill him.

Dana Scully

Are you afraid at all?

Fournier

Me? I just keep my ass covered and my eyes peeled. Same as always.

Inmate

Fornier! Hey, down here!

Fournier

I'm gonna check back on your partner. Everything okay in there?

Fox Mulder

Yeah, we're fine.

Parmelly

Shh! [ whispering ] I'm not gonna hurt you. I only want to talk to you, okay? I know who he's going to kill. There's a list. One of the cons has it. A man named Roque.

Dana Scully

Who are you?

Parmelly

My name's Parmelly. I want to help you.

Fournier

Agent Scully?

Dana Scully

I was just looking around.

Fournier

Not a place for a woman to be doing that alone.

Dana Scully

Mulder. I'm ready to go now.

Fox Mulder

Okay. I'll be right there.

Dana Scully

Guard!

Fox Mulder

What's wrong, Scully?

Dana Scully

I'm just ready to get out of here.

[ door buzzes ]

[ man laughing ]

Scene 05

7:03 AM

Guard

I want every paintbrush and putty knife... To be accounted for, understand? Come on, gentlemen, move it.

Inmate

It's the guard. It's fornier.

Guard

Come on, you guys. Break it up. Get back. I said get back.

Scene 06

Pathologist

I guess they haven't recovered the body yet, so it's going to be difficult to establish an exact cause of death.

Dana Scully

What did your preliminary exam turn up?

Pathologist

Well, it looks like the head was severed just below the jawline... With repeated stabbing blows from a putty knife. There were no other indications of trauma to the head.

Dana Scully

From the eyewitness reports, there were already fly larvae infesting the flesh. That seems unusual, considering the short time-of-death window.

Pathologist

Not altogether. Here, let me show you this. Lucilia cuprina, better known as the green bottle fly. They can lay their eggs within a minute after death occurs, and they breed more rapidly in a hot, humid environment.

Dana Scully

In the anaerobic environment inside the paint can?

Pathologist

On my autopsy on the first victim, the lungs were absolutely alive with infestation.

Dana Scully

Hmm. What was determined to be the cause of that death?

Pathologist

Best I can figure, given the lack of indicators, he was suffocated to death. Either that... Or he drowned.

Scene 07

[ jail door unlocks ]

Guard

You've got a visitor, Roque.

Fox Mulder

I hear you have a list.

Roque

I prefer not to talk about it here. Not on the block.

Fox Mulder

Guard?

Speranza

You's a dead man, Roque! You hear me? I'm gonna peel that head like an onion! I'm gonna break you off a big chunk! You hear me? He ain't gonna tell you nothing but a bunch of lies! You talk, punk, I gonna make you my maytag! He's a liar!

Fox Mulder

How did you come by this list you claim to have?

Roque

I heard Neech on the bars one night telling Speranza.

Fox Mulder

How many names are on the list?

Roque

Five. Just like Neech said.

Fox Mulder

So you knew those two guards were gonna be murdered.

Roque

I knew they were on the list, yeah.

Fox Mulder

Who do you think killed them?

Roque

I don't know. I just know who's on the list.

Fox Mulder

You want to make some kind of deal, huh?

Roque

That's right. I want a transfer out of this hole.

Fox Mulder

Why? Are you on the list?

Roque

I ain't saying nothing. Not until I get my deal.

Fox Mulder

Well, what if they don't give you what you want?

Roque

Then they're gonna see the other three die.

Scene 08

Warden Brodeur

Can't do it. I can't make that deal.

Fox Mulder

You don't have the authority?

Warden Brodeur

No. If I make that deal, I might as well go into the deal-making business. Every con with half a brain would come up with a scheme like that.

Dana Scully

What if it saves three lives? Isn't that a deal worth making?

Warden Brodeur

Look, my job is about controlling anarchy. I don't run this prison. I just patrol it. Basically, it's war in here. We have freedom. They don't. Anything these men want, somehow it finds its way in here. They want another prisoner dead, somebody's gonna find a way to put a shiv in.

Dana Scully

These aren't prisoners. These are guards you've got being murdered.

Warden Brodeur

Yes, and if I back down now, all I'll be doing... Is sending a message about the benefits of killing prison guards. There's a conspiracy at work here. I don't know who's behind it. But I am gonna crack it. That's my job. Ohh-- what the hell? Guard! Guard! Guard! Get in here!

Dana Scully

I guess he'll be able to finish up that autopsy now, Scully.

Scene 09

3:45 PM

Dana Scully

He had quite a library.

Fox Mulder

Yeah.

Dana Scully

Looks like Neech Manley knew his bible.

Fox Mulder

Listen to this. "I come in return to the beginning of the end... "to begin again the journey of souls, the godhead universal for whom there is no death, only life eternal."

Dana Scully

What's that from?

Fox Mulder

Neech Manley, 1994. This stuff goes on for pages. There's references to the hindu atman, prarabdha, the rosicrucians, zoroastrianism. The man was obsessed with reincarnation.

Dana Scully

Being obsessed with it doesn't mean you can do it.

Fox Mulder

Unless he knew something we don't.

Dana Scully

Like what? The secret password?

Fox Mulder

Every major world religion encompasses the idea of life after death. That means millions of people believe in some kind of transmigration... Or rebirth of the soul.

Dana Scully

I'm sorry, Mulder. That's not what I learned in catechism.

Fox Mulder

Well, even christianity teaches about the resurrection... And ascendancy of the heavenly body.

Dana Scully

Do you honestly believe that Neech Manley came back from the dead to kill those two men?

Fox Mulder

Is there another theory?

Dana Scully

A very good one, and one much more believable.

Fox Mulder

That this is a complex scheme, that the headless man planted behind the warden's desk... Is the work of a conspiracy of inmates.

Dana Scully

Or guards.

Fox Mulder

Okay, but imagine if it were true, Scully. Imagine if you could come back and take out five people who had caused you to suffer. Who would they be?

Dana Scully

I only get five?

Fox Mulder

I remembered your birthday this year, didn't I, Scully? Well, here's somebody we haven't talked to yet.

[ knocking on door ]

Fox Mulder

She should know better than anybody else.

Scene 10

Fox Mulder

Mrs. Manley?

Danielle Manley

Yes?

Fox Mulder

We're from the FBI we'd like to ask you a few questions about your husband.

Danielle Manley

I had this dream. Had it many times. They put Neech in that chair, then they flipped the switch, but that he wouldn't die. They couldn't kill him. He's a powerful man. A very powerful man.

Fox Mulder

Did he share his thoughts about dying with you?

Danielle Manley

Neech wasn't afraid to die.

Dana Scully

Because of his beliefs?

Danielle Manley

Sometimes-- see, I only got to have personal visiting days... Right before the execution dates. There was three in the last 11 years. But sometimes... I could feel the power of his beliefs... Right through that visiting glass.

Fox Mulder

You think he's come back, don't you?

Danielle Manley

You know, I think that if anyone could, it'd be Neech.

Scene 11

[ door buzzes ]

Guard

Get up, Roque. Putting on the chains.

Roque

Hey, man, for what?

Guard

The warden wants to talk to you. Other way.

Roque

Where we going?

Guard

This way.

Roque

Let go of my arm! I'm going! What you want with me anyway? Stop pushing!

Warden Brodeur

Hey, Roque. I want to talk to you about this list.

Roque

I ain't saying nothing.

Warden Brodeur

Come on, Roque, you got a big mouth. What are you shutting up now for, huh? Who's on the list? Am I on the list, Roque? Am I on that list? Is my name on that list?

Roque

You're number five. How's it feel to be on death row, warden?

Scene 12

Dana Scully

Did you catch her body language?

Fox Mulder

She was nervous... Or scared.

Dana Scully

Of what? That her husband's gonna keep his word?

Fox Mulder

A lot could have happened in her life in those 11 years Neech was in prison. A lot probably did.

Dana Scully

You mean she thinks she's on the list?

Fox Mulder

I don't know, but I've been thinking a lot about that list, Scully.

[ cell phone ringing ]

Dana Scully

Scully. We're on our way. That was the warden. There's been another death.

Fox Mulder

Who?

Dana Scully

Roque. They found him beaten to death in the showers on death row.

Parmelly

Gotta go now.

Danielle Manley

[ gasps, sighs ] oh, god. You scare me when you do that.

Parmelly

Why? You think it's him?

Danielle Manley

Wh-where are you going?

Parmelly

I'm going to work.

Danielle Manley

Parm, I'm scared. You feel me? I'm shaking like a little kitten.

Parmelly

Hey. Now what are you scared of?

Danielle Manley

What if somebody finds out? I-I mean, what if--

Parmelly

Will you stop your worrying? Everything's gonna be all right. Hmm? He ain't coming back, Danielle. He ain't.

Inmate

Hey. Hey, you movin' in?

Scene 13

Inmate

Got room in my cell for you, baby.

Dana Scully

Who found the body?

Warden Brodeur

One of my guards.

Fox Mulder

No one heard anything?

Warden Brodeur

Nobody who should have. I'm ordering a lockdown of this facility until the situation is under control. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who had contact with Neech Manley... Is a suspect.

Fox Mulder

Warden?

Parmelly

I warned you. That's three.

Fox Mulder

Warden? Why Roque?

Warden Brodeur

Neech hated Roque. They pretty near tried to kill each other once.

Fox Mulder

Then why the other victims?

Warden Brodeur

Neech probably hated them too.

Fox Mulder

Did Neech have a history with the guards who died?

Warden Brodeur

Neech had a small behavioral problem... About a year, a year and a half ago. Fornier and the other men had to, uh, discipline him.

Fox Mulder

How badly was he beaten?

Warden Brodeur

He took his licks.

Fox Mulder

So there's a pattern here. A logic. All these men had a violent history with Neech. They all caused him to suffer physical pain.

Warden Brodeur

What are you getting at?

Fox Mulder

A lockdown may not solve your problem, warden.

Warden Brodeur

Sure as hell put a lid on it.

Fox Mulder

If it's a conspiracy among the inmates. But how many inmates could have put that body in your office? How many could have gotten access?

Warden Brodeur

You're saying the guards are involved?

Fox Mulder

I'm saying that Roque may not be victim number three. Now, I need a name from you. I need the name of Neech's executioner.

Warden Brodeur

It's confidential.

Fox Mulder

How many men know it?

Warden Brodeur

Three men, including me. We place an ad, pay him in cash. There's no written record.

Fox Mulder

His life may be in danger.

Warden Brodeur

There is no chance--

Fox Mulder

Look at it this way, warden. If I'm right, it'll reduce your list of suspects to four.

Warden Brodeur

I said three men knew that name.

Fox Mulder

I'm counting Neech Manley.

Scene 14

Fox Mulder

Mr. Simon? Perry simon? Couple of days' worth of mail.

Dana Scully

Mulder.

Fox Mulder

What is it?

Dana Scully

Oh, god.

Scene 15

Speranza

I told you, didn't I?

Fox Mulder

You told me everything but what I need to know. Who else is on that list, john?

Speranza

I can't tell you that.

Fox Mulder

How's he doing it, john?

Speranza

I really can't tell you.

Fox Mulder

And you're just gonna let those men die?

Speranza

Ain't my call!

Fox Mulder

They're gonna pin it on somebody! They're gonna pin it on you.

Speranza

They're gonna what? What are they gonna do to me?

Fox Mulder

Put you in solitary. One hour a week outside your cell, no contact with anyone. They say it can break a man.

Speranza

I can't tell you, man.

Fox Mulder

You're afraid of Neech?

Speranza

I saw him.

Fox Mulder

You saw Neech.

Speranza

Standing outside my cell, big as life.

Fox Mulder

Tell me who else is on the list, john. Who's next?

Speranza

I can't tell you who's on the list. But I can tell you Roque... Wasn't on it.

[ door opens ]

Fox Mulder

Roque's not on it?

Dana Scully

Mulder, can I have a minute? I've just been going over Neech's phone calls over the last two months. Over 30 of them were made to a man named danny charez, twice as many as to his own wife.

Fox Mulder

And?

Dana Scully

Charez has been here three times to see Speranza since the first murder. He could be working with him on the outside.

Scene 16

Charez

Look, I've got nothing to hide.

Dana Scully

Okay, then. What's your business with john Speranza?

Charez

I was trying to get Speranza a deal.

Dana Scully

What kind of deal?

Charez

Retrial maybe. Reopen the case. I got some connections with the government.

Fox Mulder

What kind of connections?

Charez

I used to be an attorney. Actually, I represented Neech Manley.

Dana Scully

You were Neech Manley's defense lawyer?

Charez

I was 26. I was court-appointed. I had no business on a death-penalty case. I heard about Neech's death list. Word gets around. And I know he blames me for him getting fried, so I figured I got to try something.

Fox Mulder

You think Speranza's got some sway with Neech?

Charez

I'm just trying to save my ass. I've been to the governor, Speranza, Neech's wife--

Dana Scully

Why Neech's wife?

Charez

Maybe she's got some mojo with him too. I don't know. Anyway, I got run out of there by her crazy boyfriend.

Dana Scully

She has a boyfriend?

Charez

Works at the prison. Waving a freakin' gun in my face.

Warden Brodeur

Hello, john.

Speranza

What do you want?

Warden Brodeur

Oh, no, sit down, sit. I'm here to do you good.

Speranza

What you talking about?

Warden Brodeur

I want to be your advocate. I'm gonna get them to look at your case again, pull a few strings up in tallahassee.

Speranza

And what do you want from me?

Warden Brodeur

Just call off the dogs. That's all. What do you say? Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

Speranza

All right.

Warden Brodeur

I'll have somebody from the governor's office down here to see you by this weekend.

[ clanking ]

Scene 17

[ gasps, muffled screaming ]

Danielle Manley

Where have you been?

Parmelly

Out.

Danielle Manley

Out. What do you mean, out?

Parmelly

What's with you?

Danielle Manley

You see who's sitting outside watching this house? You see that car out there? You know who that is? Huh? It's the stupid FBI they came here tonight asking about you.

Parmelly

About me?

Danielle Manley

Said they saw you... Waving a gun in some lawyer's face in my front yard.

Parmelly

That's crazy!

Danielle Manley

I thought you said nobody knew about us. Now lookit! Just lookit.

Scene 18

Dana Scully

A woman gets lonely. Sometimes she can't wait around for a man to be reincarnated. I think we should notify the warden.

[ engine starts ]

Warden Brodeur

Is that the man?

Dana Scully

That's him. Parmelly.

Warden Brodeur

Yeah, give me vincent Parmelly's work sheet for the last week. Thank you. Now, you say you saw him with Neech's wife?

Dana Scully

Yes. I hadn't reported it, but that same guard also cornered me... And made an overture for prisoner Roque.

Warden Brodeur

He's tied in with Roque?

Dana Scully

Well, does it make sense to you... That Parmelly is Neech's assassin?

Warden Brodeur

I don't know Parmelly that well. He's a transfer in from out of state. He's only been here six months.

Dana Scully

According to an attorney, he had brandished a gun at the residence.

Warden Brodeur

What attorney?

Dana Scully

A man named charez.

[ scoffs ]

Dana Scully

You know him?

Warden Brodeur

Everybody knows danny charez. He was found dead earlier this evening at his apartment.

Fox Mulder

Murdered?

Warden Brodeur

Suffocated to death, or so it seems.

Dana Scully

Well, he could be the fifth victim.

Warden Brodeur

I think somebody ought to go out and arrest vincent Parmelly.

Scene 19

Danielle Manley

Oh, my god. No.

Scene 20

Danielle Manley

Neech.

Parmelly

What the hell you doing?

Danielle Manley

He's here.

Parmelly

What are you talking about?

Danielle Manley

Neech. I saw him.

Parmelly

Somebody's here, but it ain't Neech. They're coming here.

Danielle Manley

It's you, isn't it?

Parmelly

What?

Danielle Manley

You're him.

Parmelly

You're crazy, baby.

[ knocking ]

Parmelly

Put that gun away, Danielle. That's the police out there.

Fox Mulder

This is agent Mulder. Please open the door.

Danielle Manley

I should've known. I should've opened my eyes.

Fox Mulder

Mrs. Manley, we're federal agents. Open the door.

Danielle Manley

The way you touched me.

Fox Mulder

Danielle!

Danielle Manley

And the sound of your voice.

Parmelly

Point that gun away, Danielle. I'm telling you. They're gonna put you away just like your old man.

Danielle Manley

Don't you come near me.

Parmelly

You're seeing ghosts.

Fox Mulder

Mrs. Manley, open the door.

[ knocking continues ]

Dana Scully

She's got a gun on Parmelly. Center room, facing away.

Fox Mulder

On a count. [ gunshot ] drop your weapon!

Dana Scully

Put it down! Put it down!

Fox Mulder

Drop your weapon, Danielle. Let's get a paramedic in here.

Danielle Manley

It was him. He came back.

Fox Mulder

Forget it.

Danielle Manley

I swear it was him. It was Neech.

Scene 21

Guard

No, we're going this--

Speranza

What you talkin' about?

Guard

Somebody wants to talk to you.

Speranza

What kind of crap is this? Who wants to talk to me? Well, the warden's office is that way.

Guard

We're going down here.

Speranza

Uh-uh. No. Man, this is bull! I ain't going for it! What the hell is this, man? Why do you wanna talk to me in the shower for anyway? What the--

Warden Brodeur

John. [ laughing ] hear about your friend Parmelly tonight?

Speranza

He's not my friend.

Warden Brodeur

Oh, he's not your friend? Well, it doesn't matter anymore anyway, does it, huh?

Speranza

You promised me a deal.

Warden Brodeur

Yeah, well, that was when there was a deal to be made. Who else was in on it, john?

Speranza

I can tell you.

Warden Brodeur

Well, tell me what you know.

Speranza

Neech's list... Got one man left to die.

[ punching, groaning ]

Inmates' Voices

What's going on in there? What's going on? Hey, leave him alone! Knock it off!

Scene 22

Warden Brodeur

Speranza!

Dana Scully

Why are we stopping?

Fox Mulder

You know, it just doesn't make sense.

Dana Scully

What?

Fox Mulder

Laying it all on Parmelly.

Dana Scully

I thought we already went through this.

Fox Mulder

It doesn't bother you that he was only on duty for one of the guards' murders... Or that he wasn't among the men that knew the name of Neech's executioner?

Dana Scully

Then he was working with someone. They just haven't found out who.

Fox Mulder

Why would he come to you and try and get you the list?

Dana Scully

To use fear as leverage for Roque's deal with the warden.

Fox Mulder

But Neech hated Roque. If Parmelly was working with Neech, he wouldn't have done that, would he?

Dana Scully

I don't know. Maybe Parmelly wasn't sticking with the original plan. I'm sure that shacking up with Neech's wife wasn't part of it either, or maybe Neech's wife killing Parmelly... Was the plan from the beginning so that he'd take the truth to the grave with him.

Fox Mulder

I just don't see the motives. Do you? I don't think Parmelly killed anybody.

Dana Scully

Well, then who did? Neech Manley?

Fox Mulder

Speranza and Neech's wife both said they saw him.

Dana Scully

It's over, Mulder. Let's just go home.

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