Joseph Patnik
All right, you bastard. Evil, rotten, son of a-- there you go. Your killing days are over! No. No! No!
Season 3 · Episode 23
Wetwired
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code3X23Original airdate · May 10, 1996
347 dialogue entries
Scene 01
BRADDOCK HEIGHTS, MARYLAND · APRIL 27 · 10:16 PM
[ shovel digging ]
[ labored breathing ]
[ dog barking ]
[ car approaching ]
Officer #1
All right, sir. Put your hands in the air. Keep 'em where I can see 'em.
[ police dispatcher, indistinct ]
Officer #1
We got a call. You wanna tell us what you're doing out here?
[ gasping ]
Officer #1
Sir?
[ shouting ]
[ grunting ]
[ yelling, gasping ]
[ man grunting ]
Officer #2
Turn over! Give me your hand. Damn amp-head.
Officer #1
Oh, lord. Jimmy, check this out.
Joseph Patnik
Sarah? Sarah!
Scene 02
WASHINGTON, D.C. · APRIL 29 · 2:12 AM
[ sirens wailing in distance ]
Joseph Patnik
[ indistinct ] yeah.
Fox Mulder
Our blind date's not off to a great start. I've been waiting here nearly two hours.
Informant
I was asked to make sure you weren't followed.
Fox Mulder
It's just you, me and the drug dealers.
Informant
Yeah, well, this area...
Informant
Has always been known for its criminal element.
Fox Mulder
Especially when Congress is in session. What's this?
Informant
Something you'll want to follow.
Fox Mulder
Follow where?
Informant
That's all I have for you.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean, that's all you have for me? I get an anonymous e-mail to meet you here. I don't know who you are or what you want.
Informant
I don't have any obligation or desire to give you any answers. I'm not one of your sources.
Fox Mulder
Then you're just a messenger boy?
Informant
It's late, agent Mulder. Go home. Get some sleep.
Fox Mulder
Who told you to contact me? How do I know I'm not being played?
Informant
I guess you don't.
Fox Mulder
Well, you can go ahead and recycle that then.
Informant
I've been asked to tell you, you walk away from this, more people will die.
[ car door closes, footsteps departing ]
[ TV: newscaster, indistinct ]
[ door closes ]
Scene 03
FREDERICK COUNTY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL · BRADDOCK HEIGHTS, MARYLAND
Dana Scully
Sorry. I would've got here sooner, but the beltway was a parking lot. What's going on?
Fox Mulder
Multiple homicide-- a bizarre one. That's joseph Patnik. He murdered five people-- all of whom he insists was the same man.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
He claims to have been killing the same man over and over.
Dana Scully
Does he have a history of mental illness?
Fox Mulder
Not that I know. But I only just got this case yesterday.
Dana Scully
So what's the X-File?
Fox Mulder
In Patnik's neighborhood two weeks ago, a baby-sitter attacked the two children she was minding. She told police she thought they were wolves.
Dana Scully
And police found no other motive for either of these attacks?
Fox Mulder
None so far, no.
Dr. Stroman
Agent Mulder.
Dr. Stroman
I'm dr. Stroman.
Fox Mulder
This is my partner special agent Scully.
Dana Scully
The physician in charge?
Dr. Stroman
Yeah, they called me down from D.C.... To try and develop a clear diagnosis for the court.
Fox Mulder
Have you?
Dr. Stroman
I wish I could say yes.
Dana Scully
Has he been sedated?
Dr. Stroman
Heavy thorazine, but it only seemed to knock him back a notch.
Fox Mulder
He seems pretty manageable to me.
Dr. Stroman
It may be some form of organic delusional syndrome, possibly due to chronic methamphetamine abuse, I don't know. But he is prone to outbursts.
Fox Mulder
Who called you down on this case?
Dr. Stroman
A dr. Kahn from the department of social health services.
Fox Mulder
Could we speak to him?
Dr. Stroman
I don't think he's in today, but I could check for you. [ joseph screaming ] orderly!
[ screaming continues ]
Orderly #2
Calm down, calm down. You're gonna be all right. Easy. Yes, dr. Stroman.
Television Newscaster
Lladoslav miriskovic personally ordered... The rape and murder of thousands of innocent civilians... In war torn regions of the former yugoslavia. Reporting from--
Scene 04
JOSEPH PATNIK'S HOUSE
Dana Scully
You said you got this case last night. Where did it come from?
Fox Mulder
It came from an outside source.
Dana Scully
Who? This outside source, what's his interest in this case? What does he want us to uncover?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
And you're not suspicious that we're being used?
Fox Mulder
We've got dead bodies and confessed murderers. If we're being used, it's to find out the connection. That's what I'm interested in.
[ woman screaming ] [ gunshot ]
[ TV, indistinct ]
Fox Mulder
Isn't this a school day?
Boy #1
We didn't cut.
Boy #2
We got a pass.
Fox Mulder
You got a pass to come in here and eat these people's food and watch their TV?
Boy #1
No.
Boy #2
Are we in trouble now?
Dana Scully
How'd you get in here?
Boy #1
Through the window. They leave it open for the cat.
Fox Mulder
Well, maybe you should head back to school. No, no, no. Use the front door.
[ TV: explosions ]
Dana Scully
Mulder. Look at this. There must be hundreds of videos here.
Fox Mulder
Anything good?
Dana Scully
All I see are recordings of cable news shows. They're all dated and in chronological order. That's what Patnik was watching at the hospital when he went all wiggy. What if there's some connection?
Fox Mulder
Between what he saw and what he recorded and what he did?
Dana Scully
You're the one who's interested.
[ tape ejects ]
Scene 05
2400 COURT MOTEL
Fox Mulder
I just watched 36 hours of bernard shaw and bobby batiste. Now I'm about ready to kill somebody too.
Dana Scully
I'm gonna show you something. These tapes are dated april 19, april 21 and april 23. Each corresponds to a night that Patnik committed a murder.
Fox Mulder
What's on the tapes?
Dana Scully
Among other things, a one-hour special report on the atrocities in bosnia. A report that prominently features lladoslav miriskovic.
Fox Mulder
The same guy that started Patnik screaming in the psych ward?
Dana Scully
And my guess is that once I review the tapes for the night that Patnik killed his wife, that I'll find that report there as well.
Fox Mulder
So you think that because Patnik saw this war criminal on television, he was somehow inspired to go out and murder these people?
Dana Scully
Well, recent studies have linked violence on television to violent behavior.
Fox Mulder
But those studies are based on the assumptions that americans are just empty vessels... Ready to be filled with any idea or image that's fed to them, like a bunch of pavlov dogs, and go out and act on it.
Dana Scully
But they believe that the causal connections are there.
Fox Mulder
Studies have shown connections between cow flatulence and the depletion of the ozone layer. You're talking about pseudo-science used to make political book.
Dana Scully
All I'm saying is that it's clear that the programs that Patnik watched... Somehow triggered his violent behavior.
Fox Mulder
How?
Dana Scully
The doctor suggested amphetamine abuse. Maybe that, coupled with the disturbing images... That he was watching, pushed him over the edge.
Fox Mulder
All I know is TV does not make a previously sane man... Go out and kill five people thinking they're all the same guy. Not even "must see TV" could do that to you.
Dana Scully
Okay, then how do you explain it?
Fox Mulder
I can't. Not yet.
Dana Scully
Where are you going?
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna get some sleep.
[ door opens ]
Fox Mulder
Looks like you could use some too.
Dana Scully
No, I'm gonna... Watch the rest of these tapes, just out of curiosity.
Fox Mulder
You have fun.
[ door closes ]
Scene 06
APRIL 20 · 9:48 AM
[ phone ringing in Mulder's room ]
[ ringing continues ]
[ Mulder chattering, indistinct ]
Fox Mulder
No, she doesn't.
[ crunching on ice ]
♪♪ [ TV: talk show theme music ] [ humming ]
[ applause ]
Game Show Host
Good luck on the prize tonight. Before we go any further, I'd like to introduce--
[ giggling ]
[ moaning ]
Game Show Host
Washer/dryer! Tell 'em about it, johnny.
Game Show Announcer
This beautiful washer/dryer-- [ gunshot ]
Scene 07
2400 COURT MOTEL
[ knock at door ]
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Dana Scully
Yeah?
Fox Mulder
I just got a call. There's been another murder.
Dana Scully
Yeah. I'll be right there.
Fox Mulder
It happened just less than an hour ago. It seems to match our pattern-- a housewife gone berserk.
Dana Scully
The car's been moved. Did you take it out last night?
Fox Mulder
No. Uh, I went out, and I got a paper this morning. Why?
Dana Scully
Nothing. Nothing. Let's go see the crime scene.
[ dog barking ]
Detective
That's all the information I have, sir.
Scene 08
HELEN RIDDOCK'S HOUSE
Fox Mulder
Thanks, detective.
Detective
You're welcome. Just got through talking to the detective in charge. The shooter's name is helene Riddock, age 42. They took her to county lockup.
Dana Scully
What happened?
Fox Mulder
She claims she looked out the window and saw her husband in the hammock... With a blonde.
[ barks ]
Dana Scully
That blonde?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, apparently he was only taking a nap with his dog. But mrs. Riddock swears she looked out the window... And saw her husband in the hammock with a blonde woman.
Dana Scully
So this woman killed her husband because she thought he was cheating on her?
Fox Mulder
This is not even her husband. Her husband's a long-haul trucker. He's been out of town for the last ten days. This is mr. John gilnitz. He's her next-door neighbor. She didn't even have the right backyard. Helene Riddock lives over here. Scully?
Dana Scully
Yeah. Let's check it out.
Television Announcer
One of my favorites. He is so cute. "the little traveler" is normally $129.99. And that's what you're gonna pay at the department stores--
Fox Mulder
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. What do you think, Scully?
Dana Scully
I think television plays a large part in both of these murderers' lives.
Fox Mulder
As it does in almost every american home. But television does not equal violence. I don't care what anybody says-- unless you consider bad taste an act of violence.
Dana Scully
More tapes.
Fox Mulder
Hang on a second. I'll be right back. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Dana Scully
Mulder, what are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'm coming down.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
Some kind of cable trapper scrambler... Running from the pole into the house.
Dana Scully
Maybe it's a job for special agent pendrall in the sci-crime lab. Yeah. You want it analyzed?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I'll do it. It makes more sense for you to interview helene Riddock. Get her version of the story. Maybe she knows what this thing is. Is there a problem with that?
Dana Scully
No, that's, that's fine.
Fox Mulder
Stay in touch.
Scene 09
THE LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE · WASHINGTON, D.C.
[ car door closes, engine starts ]
Fox Mulder
What does this one block?
Langly
Amazingly, it doesn't seem to block anything.
Fox Mulder
Well, what does it do?
Frohike
Glad you asked.
Fox Mulder
I bet all you guys were officers in the audio/visual club in high school, huh?
Byers
This is the straight feed off our bars and tone generator. And here are the bars and tone as attenuated through the device.
Fox Mulder
It looks the same.
Frohike
Well, that's what you'd think.
Langly
We couldn't discern any difference between the feeds-- not until we compared them on the oscilloscope.
Fox Mulder
It still looks the same.
Frohike
Hold onto your hat, dude. [ beeping ] we have touchdown.
Fox Mulder
So they're different. So? They're different.
Byers
You know the way TV works.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, you click it on, you get a picture--
Langly
It's a rapid series of still pictures fired against the tube.
Byers
There's something nonstandard here, in the vertical blanking interval-- information that's being added into the spaces between the still pictures.
Fox Mulder
What kind of information?
Byers
We don't know.
Langly
This is as far as we can get with this equipment.
Fox Mulder
well, can't you take it apart? -
Langly
Not without destroying it completely. That's by design.
Byers
An amazingly sophisticated design. All we can say for sure is--
Fox Mulder
This device is emitting a signal.
[ phone dialing ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
Fox Mulder
[ phone ringing ] Mulder.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
I was just about to call you. Look, I'm on my way back. You may have been right, Scully, at least, partly. There is a foreign signal being introduced into these people's homes through the TV set. Scully, are you there?
Dana Scully
I'm here.
Fox Mulder
I think they may be running some kind of test. Scully, did you hear what I just said?
Dana Scully
So you had it analyzed?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Dana Scully
I just talked to agent pendrall. He said that you never showed up.
Fox Mulder
I didn't take it over to pendrall.
Dana Scully
Then where were you?
Fox Mulder
I'd rather talk about it when we get on a landline, okay? We've dealt with these kind of people before. We know what they're capable of.
[ clicking ]
Dana Scully
What was that?
Fox Mulder
What was what?
Dana Scully
[ clicking continues ] there. That noise.
Fox Mulder
Scully, is there something wrong?
Dana Scully
Mulder. [ clicking continues ] Mulder, who's listening to--
Fox Mulder
Scully, look. I'm gonna be right there, okay?
[ phone hangs up ]
Fox Mulder
Don't go anywhere. Scu--
[ phone redialing ]
[ ringing ]
[ ringing continues ]
[ car approaching ]
[ car stops ]
[ gasps ]
[ chattering, indistinct ]
[ pounding on door ]
[ pot clattering ]
Fox Mulder
Get back. Call the police. Scully. Scully!
Scene 11
MAY 1 · 6:04 AM
[ phone ringing ]
[ ringing continues ]
Margaret Scully
[ sighing ] hello?
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Scully, hi. It's Fox Mulder.
Margaret Scully
What is it? What's the matter?
Fox Mulder
I was hoping that you'd heard from Dana.
Margaret Scully
No. Something happened?
Fox Mulder
I'm, I'm not exactly sure. There's-- there's some confusion here. She's missing.
Margaret Scully
What do you mean, missing?
Fox Mulder
Well, she ran off last night. Um... W-we're looking for her as best we can. But we are a little concerned.
Margaret Scully
Oh, my god.
Fox Mulder
I hate to do this to you, but I gotta hang up on you right now.
Margaret Scully
Fox, would you please just tell me what's wrong?
Fox Mulder
Hang by the phone. I will call you as soon as I know something. Sir, can I have a word with you? This manhunt is being conducted as if we're searching for an escaped convict.
Walter Skinner
Mulder, I share your concern for agent Scully. But she fired four rounds at you and an unarmed civilian.
Fox Mulder
These officers should be instructed not to confront her once they find her.
Walter Skinner
What would you have them do?
Fox Mulder
Just to keep an eye on her until I can get there. I think I can get her to listen to me.
Walter Skinner
She didn't last night.
Fox Mulder
That's because she's not responsible for her own actions. She's suffering from some kind of paranoid psychosis.
Walter Skinner
Brought on by what?
Fox Mulder
I can't explain the exact mechanism, but it has to do with certain videotapes we watched... That we recovered from a crime scene.
Walter Skinner
Videotapes?
Fox Mulder
Videotapes that contain an electronic signal... That somehow induces violent behavior.
Walter Skinner
[ sighs ] do you have any proof of this?
Fox Mulder
I'm working on that.
Walter Skinner
Whatever prompted her behavior, the fact remains that Scully is armed and obviously dangerous. I suggest you marshal whatever resources you have to make sure you find her first.
[ phone ringing ]
Scene 12
MULDER'S APARTMENT · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Frohike
Mulder. We pulled something off that videotape in Scully's room.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Frohike
Something interesting. But we don't want to talk about it over the phone. Big brother may be listening.
[ phone hangs up ]
Scene 13
THE LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Frohike
Here is the tape Scully was reviewing last night. We scanned samples of the tape onto disks.
Langly
Digitized it.
Byers
Using some interpolating freeware we pulled down off the net, we were able to blank out the invisible frames.
Fox Mulder
What am I looking at?
Langly
Well, this is the actual signal your cable trap device was emitting.
Byers
Of course, we slowed it down significantly. It's designed to cycle at 15 flashes per second... To induce what's known as the photic driving response.
Fox Mulder
Bring it home, boys.
Langly
This device is stimulating electrical activity in the brain.
Byers
Studies into subliminal influence have shown a correlation... Between heightened suggestibility and the manipulation of this response.
Fox Mulder
Mind control?
Langly
57 channels of it.
Byers
Tachistoscopic images, like they use to sell popcorn at the movies. Both russian and american scientists have been working with them for decades.
Frohike
not to mention madison avenue. -
Fox Mulder
The naked lady in the ice cube.
Frohike
Ah, one of my personal favorites.
Fox Mulder
Why wasn't I affected?
Frohike
That's the one thing we haven't figured out yet.
Fox Mulder
This, uh, subliminal signal-- could color be a factor in it?
Byers
Maybe.
Fox Mulder
I'm red-green color blind.
Byers
His inability to perceive the color red could render him immune to psychotropic effects.
Langly
[ phone ringing ] but why design a color-dependent signal?
Frohike
Why not?
Fox Mulder
Red-green colorblind-- Mulder. That's only a small percentage of the male population.
Byers
Which still leaves the vast majority vulnerable to its effects.
Fox Mulder
I'll be right there.
Frohike
What happened?
Fox Mulder
Maryland state police. They think they've found Scully.
Frohike
Is she okay?
Fox Mulder
No, um-- they think maybe I should come down and ID the body.
Scene 14
FREDERICK COUNTY MORGUE · 6:21 PM
[ tires screeching ]
Informant
Get in.
Fox Mulder
I can't talk to you right now.
Informant
They're watching you. Get in before you get us both killed.
Fox Mulder
That's an interesting choice of words. My partner may be dead.
Informant
That's not my concern.
Fox Mulder
The hell it isn't! We're here because of you!
Informant
Keep your voice down.
Fox Mulder
Who are you? Who do you work for?
Informant
We're wasting time. While you're chasing your partner, they're destroying the evidence.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Informant
Just follow the evidence. If you don't, by tomorrow the responsible parties will be out of your reach.
Coroner
A state highway patrolman found the body... Off a rural highway at approximately 2:00 p.m. Nude, shot in the forehead. Are you ready?
Fox Mulder
Let me do that. It's not her. Somebody has to call her mother.
Coroner
We already tried. We weren't able to reach her.
Fox Mulder
She's not answering her phone?
Scene 15
MARGARET SCULLY'S HOUSE
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Scully. Is she here?
Margaret Scully
Uh, no.
Fox Mulder
You haven't been answering your phone.
Margaret Scully
When I hear from her, I'll call you, okay?
Fox Mulder
I need to see her.
Margaret Scully
Fox, please. Go away. Go away!
Fox Mulder
Where is she?
Margaret Scully
Dana, put down the gun!
Fox Mulder
I'm here to help you, Scully.
Dana Scully
I told you, mom. He's here to kill me.
Fox Mulder
I'm on your side. You know that.
Margaret Scully
Put it down, Dana.
Fox Mulder
Scully, listen to me very carefully. You don't know it, but you're sick with the same thing that drove those other people to murder. And whatever you think may be happening--
Dana Scully
Just step back.
Margaret Scully
Dana, you're not yourself. He's telling you the truth.
Dana Scully
It's not the truth, mom. He's lied to me from the beginning. He never trusted me.
Fox Mulder
Scully, you are the only one I trust.
Dana Scully
You're in on it. You're one of them. You're one of the people who abducted me. You put that thing in my neck! You killed my sister!
Margaret Scully
That's not true, Dana.
Dana Scully
It is.
Margaret Scully
I want you to listen to me.
Dana Scully
Mom, just get out of the way!
Margaret Scully
You trust me, don't you? You know that I would never hurt you. That I would never let anybody hurt you. That's why you came here, isn't it? You're safe here. Put the gun down, Dana. Put it down.
Scene 16
NORTHEAST GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER · MAY 2 · 1:43 PM
[ crying ]
Hospital Announcer
Dr. Monsignor.
[ knock at door ]
[ newscaster, indistinct ]
Fox Mulder
How are you feeling?
Dana Scully
Ashamed. I was so sure, Mulder. I saw things, and I heard things. And it was just like the world was turned upside down. Everybody was out to get me.
Fox Mulder
Now you know how I feel most of the time.
Dana Scully
I thought you were gonna kill me.
Fox Mulder
I'm not surprised. I did some checking. Joseph Patnik thought he was murdering a bosnian war criminal, a man the media described as a modern day hitler. It turns out both Patnik's parents were holocaust survivors.
Dana Scully
I'm not following.
Fox Mulder
Helene Riddock was scared... That her husband was gonna be unfaithful to her. You see a pattern developing? What if this video signal... Somehow turned these people's anxieties into some kind of dementia? A virtual reality of their own worst nightmares.
Dana Scully
Like me thinking that you'd betray me. I was so far gone, Mulder, I thought that you were gone to the other side.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Dana Scully
That cancer man, that man who smokes all those cigarettes. I was sure that I saw the two of you sitting in your car in the motel parking lot. You were reporting to him. You handed him a videotape. It... It was crazy.
Fox Mulder
Well, maybe not.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
Well, somebody's behind this. We just don't know who.
Dana Scully
You think it could be him?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. Why don't you try to get some rest? Dr. Lorenz?
Dr. Lorenz
Agent Mulder. I was just about to check in on your partner.
Fox Mulder
What course of treatment have you outlined for agent Scully?
Dr. Lorenz
At this point, nothing more than bed rest. We still haven't been able to determine what brought this on. As far as I can tell, there's nothing medically wrong with her.
Fox Mulder
Well, that didn't seem to be the case last night.
Dr. Lorenz
No, it wasn't. It's got me puzzled. Her m.r.I. Was negative, but the spinal tap revealed high levels of serotonin in her brain.
Fox Mulder
Do you think that would account for her strange behavior?
Dr. Lorenz
High serotonin levels have been associated with mania. But the good news is, as of this afternoon, her levels are pretty much back to normal.
Fox Mulder
Dr. Lorenz, uh, would you have made a diagnosis of amphetamine abuse for someone in agent Scully's condition?
Dr. Lorenz
Not given her serotonin levels. No, that wouldn't make any sense.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
[ phone dialing, ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Braddock heights. Yeah, I need the number for the frederick county psychiatric hospital.
[ phone ringing ]
Nurse
Ward three.
Fox Mulder
This is Fox Mulder with the federal bureau of investigation. I need to talk to dr. Stroman, please.
Nurse
I'm sorry. Dr. Stroman is no longer here. I believe he's returned to Washington.
Fox Mulder
Know where I can reach him?
Nurse
I'm not sure. He left us a local number. It's around here somewhere.
Fox Mulder
Is it 555-0135?
Nurse
That's it.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
Scene 17
2400 COURT MOTEL
Fox Mulder
You want me to go first this time?
Proprietor
Damn straight. I haven't had a chance to clean the room yet. He just checked out. But with all the excitement, I don't blame him.
Fox Mulder
Do you charge for local calls?
Proprietor
Of course.
Fox Mulder
Then you'd have a record of all calls made from here?
Proprietor
I'll get it.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
Proprietor
Here you go.
Fox Mulder
Thanks. Thank you. Hey, danny. It's Mulder. I need you to check a number for me.
Scene 18
5:17 PM
Cable Technician
That's what he told me, Stroman.
Dr. Stroman
Then where is he? He said he'd be here.
Cable Technician
He'll be here.
Dr. Stroman
It's almost 7:00. I can't wait any longer. There's no sign of him!
[ gunshots ]
X
You're too late, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Now that you've destroyed all the evidence.
X
You were told this would happen. You made your choice.
Fox Mulder
I just didn't know I was working for you.
X
I had no alternative. I was being watched too closely. I couldn't risk compromising myself.
Fox Mulder
Why kill them if you wanted me to expose them?
X
Those were always my orders. I was just hoping you'd get to them first.
Fox Mulder
And uncover what? What were they trying to do? Manipulate people's behavior? Alter their decision-making process? What to buy? Who to vote for?
X
You think they'll stop at commerce and politics?
Fox Mulder
Where will they stop?
X
That's where you failed, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Don't lay this off on me. You pulled me into this situation... Because you didn't have the courage to reveal the truth yourself.
X
Feel better now?
Fox Mulder
You're a coward! You work in the shadows. You feed me scraps, hoping that I could piece it together. You've made me risk my life, you've risked my partner's life... And you never risk your own! You're not walking away from this.
X
You're risking your life right now. You failed. This is your success? Killing me? The truth is, you need me, agent Mulder.
[ sirens wailing in distance ]
Scene 19
FBI HEADQUARTERS · MAY 10
Walter Skinner
This is your final report, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yes, sir.
Walter Skinner
I see more questions here than I do answers. You don't know who manufactured the device you found or what its purpose was.
[ knock at door ]
Fox Mulder
No, sir.
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, welcome back.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry I'm late. I just got back from the documents section.
Walter Skinner
What did you find out about the two men Mulder found executed?
Dana Scully
The cable company employee had no criminal record. In fact, there was nothing remarkable about him whatsoever. We found a medical license under the name "dr. Henry Stroman"... In falls church, virginia. He died in 1978.
Walter Skinner
What about their killer?
Fox Mulder
He remains an unknown subject.
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Cigarette-Smoking Man
Have you completed your work?
X
All the personnel and hardware have been removed. But Mulder still has one of the devices.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Well, it proves nothing. What about, uh, Mulder's source?
X
He's been eliminated.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
And his source? Who's he working with?
X
That person remains unknown.
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