Angie Pintero
Gosh, go home, Harold.
Season 4 · Episode 22
Elegy
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X22Original airdate · May 4, 1997
379 dialogue entries
Scene 01
ANGIE'S MIDNIGHT BOWL
Harold Spuller
I'm not done yet.
Angie Pintero
Harold, you hear me? You should've gone home already.
Harold Spuller
I'm not done yet.
Angie Pintero
For cryin' out loud. This ain't so difficult.
Harold Spuller
I'm not done yet!
Angie Pintero
Harold, it's past your bedtime. It's okay. And the doctors will be worried about you. You did a good job today. Now you go home. Come on.
[ Harold mumbling ]
Harold Spuller
Thirty-seven, forty-five, sixty-three, seventy-one, eighty-six, ninety-two.
[ clanking sound ]
Angie Pintero
What the hell? Geez! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh! I'll get help! Oh!
[ siren wails ]
[ siren wailing ]
Angie Pintero
Officer! Officer!
Officer
Go on, sir. This don't involve you.
Angie Pintero
There's a woman inside. She's bleeding. She's-- my God. That's her! That's the girl I saw.
[ screams ]
Scene 02
ANGIE'S MIDNIGHT BOWL
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully! Take a look at this.
Dana Scully
What am I looking at?
Fox Mulder
The pin setter. See the way it's wedged and broken?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Mr. Pintero said that would only happen if considerable weight was placed on it from above.
Dana Scully
This is where you saw the body?
Angie Pintero
Yes, ma'am. She was caught up in the machinery. Her neck was cut.
Dana Scully
And the blood from the victim was pooling where?
Angie Pintero
Right here.
Dana Scully
But both the body and the blood were gone when you returned?
Angie Pintero
Yeah! But like, like I said, the woman in the parking lot--
Dana Scully
Was the same woman that you saw caught up in the machinery?
Angie Pintero
That's right. Look, I'm not making this up.
Fox Mulder
No one's suggesting that you are, mr. Pintero.
Angie Pintero
I saw the look on her face.
Fox Mulder
Can I ask you a favor? Can I get a soda? A cola? Something like that?
Angie Pintero
Sure, yeah.
Fox Mulder
What is that "look," Scully?
Dana Scully
I would've thought that after four years, you'd know exactly what that "look" was.
Fox Mulder
You don't believe in ghosts?
Dana Scully
You're saying that what this man saw was the victim's ghost?
Fox Mulder
Sounds more like a disembodied soul.
Dana Scully
Which is just another name for a ghost.
Fox Mulder
Except according to mr. Pintero, this one was trying to communicate. She was speaking to him as if she was trying to tell him something. It sounds more like a death omen.
Dana Scully
A death omen?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. It's a spirit being that arrives as a harbinger of death. This is the third reported sighting in as many weeks. And as many murders. Each time the victim appearing near the crime scene trying to communicate, to say something.
Dana Scully
Communicate what?
Fox Mulder
I don't know yet, but-- thank you. If you hold on a second, I may have an answer for you.
Angie Pintero
Hey! What are you doin'?
Fox Mulder
"she is me."
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Written onto the wax. "she is me." look at this.
Scene 03
Scene 03
Detective Hudak
Three victims. All women. All approximately the same age, height, weight, hair and eye color. All attacked within the same six-block area of each other.
Dana Scully
Our FBI profiling model...
Detective Hudak
Suggests a white male, late 20s, early 30s. His victims were probably strangers to him. Symbols representing other women in his life. Perhaps all women. Hey, you, in the back? Are we boring you?
Fox Mulder
No, not at all.
Detective Hudak
Because if you have nothing to contribute to this profile--
Fox Mulder
I do have something to add. I think that following the FBI model in this case, will not only fail to turn up the killer, but will undoubtedly lead to more victims and more deaths.
Detective Hudak
You want to tell us who you are and what you base that on?
Fox Mulder
I'm special agent Mulder. This is agent Scully. We're from the FBI we're here following up a lead that seems to have been dropped. A statement made by the proprietor of the bowling alley--
Detective Hudak
The guy who claims he saw the victim.
Fox Mulder
No, no, not the victim. Her apparition. What the irish call a fetch. What is more commonly known as a wraith.
Detective Hudak
Oh! Okay.
Fox Mulder
were there any written messages in any of these other cases? -
Detective Hudak
Written messages?
Fox Mulder
Do the words, "she is me" have any meaning to you?
Detective Hudak
You mean Penny timmons' last words.
Fox Mulder
Those were her dying words?
Detective Hudak
According to a 911 call we received--
Fox Mulder
Who made that call?
Detective Hudak
A nut.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Detective Hudak
There were no dying words. Penny timmons' larynx was severed. She couldn't cry for help even if there was help to cry for.
Fox Mulder
And no one followed up on this lead?
Detective Hudak
No. I'll have someone get you the number and you can follow up.
Fox Mulder
I'd appreciate that.
Scene 04
NEW HORIZON PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
Alpert
People? People? Listen up now. I brought some folks who want to talk with you. Nurse Innes, could you gather the group?
Nurse Innes
All right, everyone, let's go. You know the drill. Get your seats. Group seating. Go on in. Harold? Come on. Harold.
Alpert
Good morning, everybody.
Patients
Good morning, mr. Alpert.
Alpert
I brought visitors today. They're investigating a crime. It's okay. They just want to ask you a few questions.
Fox Mulder
Hi. I wanted to ask... If anybody used the pay phone in the hallway on friday night? Because somebody called the police and reported a murder.
Alpert
[ whispering ] sloppy joe night.
Fox Mulder
That was sloppy joe night.
Chuck Forsch
Ooh! That was me. I did it. I admit it. I did it. I'm just a human being after all.
Alpert
Chuck, tell the truth.
Chuck Forsch
Nah. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I lied. I lied, but I'm just a human being.
Alpert
Has anyone used the pay phone... To call the police?
Fox Mulder
Anybody recognize this woman?
Chuck Forsch
That's the lady that got murdered.
Various Patients
Yeah, she's the one. I recognize her. I know her. She was murdered.
Dana Scully
And does anybody recognize this man?
Various Patients
Oh, yes. Yes, he did it. He did it. He's the murderer. He's a very funny man. He smiles a lot.
Alpert
Uh--
Fox Mulder
The quiet man in the back.
Alpert
Harold Spuller.
Fox Mulder
The only one who didn't raise his hand. Yeah. Has he ever been a problem?
Alpert
Harold? No! He has a tendency to get a little worked up.
Fox Mulder
Do you think I can talk to him?
Alpert
Yeah, sure.
Fox Mulder
All right.
Scene 05
THE HALLWAY IN THE PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
Dana Scully
I think I found something here, Mulder. In these photos taken by the forensics team, the third victim, her left hand, that band of pale skin? It looks like she wore a ring on that hand.
Fox Mulder
A wedding ring, yeah.
Dana Scully
Yeah, but she wasn't married.
Fox Mulder
So what, he stole her ring?
Dana Scully
No, not at all.
Fox Mulder
He switched it.
Dana Scully
And in all the other murders, he repeated the same ritual. Changing the ring on each of the victims.
Fox Mulder
Nice catch, Scully. Any idea about the psychology at work?
Dana Scully
There's something called ego dystonia, a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, where a person has the persistence and inescapable impulses... To change things, to organize, to reorganize. But it's not ordinarily something that escalates to a murderous impulse.
Fox Mulder
Not ordinarily, unless there was a more complex psychology at work... Like pronounced mental illness.
Dana Scully
You really think that the killer is a patient here?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure the killer is here. But the person that made that phone call is. I think his name is Harold Spuller.
Dana Scully
Did he cop to making the call?
Fox Mulder
No. He's about to.
Scene 06
A MEETING ROOM AT THE CENTER
Harold Spuller
I don't know anything. I didn't do anything. Leave me alone.
Fox Mulder
You made that phone call, didn't you, Harold?
Harold Spuller
No.
Fox Mulder
Did you say the words, "she is me"?
Harold Spuller
No.
Fox Mulder
Have you ever heard those words?
Harold Spuller
No!
Fox Mulder
Have you ever seen a ghost, Harold?
Harold Spuller
No. No. No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No, no, no, no, no!
Staff Member
Harold, down.
Harold Spuller
No, no, no, no, please leave me alone.
Staff Member
Don't, Harold.
Harold Spuller
Leave me alone! No, no, no, no! No, no, no, no, no!
Fox Mulder
Harold, listen to me.
Dana Scully
When you're right, you're right.
Harold Spuller
Seventeen, thirty, thirty-seven, forty-five, fifty-three.
Scene 07
AN OFFICE IN THE PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
Dana Scully
Harold Spuller suffers from pervasive developmental disorder... Where they're sometimes called atypical autism. He has spent his entire life in and out of facilities just like this one. He has been medicated, he has received shock therapy, and aside from his other disabilities, he has been diagnosed with severe ego dystonic obsessive compulsive disorder, which would explain the switching of the victims' rings.
Fox Mulder
So why all of a sudden?
Dana Scully
You mean what made him snap? I think his outburst clearly showed a frustrated impulse towards violence... When he was put in a challenging situation.
Fox Mulder
That outburst didn't come until after I'd asked him if he'd ever seen a ghost.
Dana Scully
Mulder, the man is disturbed. You could see the pressure building in him from the moment the interview began.
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Why are you now so unconvinced that Harold Spuller is the man we came looking for?
Fox Mulder
I'm sure Harold Spuller's the man that made that phone call. But what led us to him, it still remains unexplained.
Dana Scully
"she is me"?
Fox Mulder
Mm-hmm. And the other apparitions. Like the one mr. Pintero saw at the bowling alley.
Dana Scully
I think I have an idea about that, if not an explanation. Harold Spuller is at this facility voluntarily, which means he can come and go as he pleases. To kill those women, or to hold down a job or both.
Fox Mulder
Oh, Scully.
Dana Scully
Yeah, it's okay.
Fox Mulder
You sure?
Dana Scully
Yeah, it's just-- I'm fine. I just need to find a washroom.
Scene 08
A WASHROOM AT THE CENTER
[ knocking on door ]
Fox Mulder
Scully?
[ knocking on door ]
Fox Mulder
Scully, you in there?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
They found another victim. A college student with her throat cut, just about half a block from here.
[ siren wailing ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Fox Mulder
Her name was lauren heller, age 21. She was single. Apparently she was on her way home from a bar that she part-timed at after school. She had a ring on her left hand. It was switched to her right hand. The pinkie finger. She was dead less than an hour when she was found.
Dana Scully
That would rule out Harold Spuller as the killer.
Fox Mulder
No, actually it doesn't. Harold's not at the home. He's nowhere to be found. His nurse locked him in his room after we left, but he managed to escape unnoticed.
[ police radio, indistinct ]
Dana Scully
I don't imagine he'd be too hard to find.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but we should be the ones to find him. If only to find out what "she is me" means.
Dana Scully
Mulder-- [ sighs ]
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
I think I'm gonna let you take care of that. I, uh, I think I'm gonna get this checked out. Just, you know, just to be safe.
Fox Mulder
You want me to drive you?
Dana Scully
No, no, no. I'm fine, really. I've had the doctors keep a close watch, and this is just a precaution.
Fox Mulder
You're sure?
Dana Scully
I'm fine.
Fox Mulder
Bye.
Harold Spuller
Nine, seventeen, twenty-six, thirty-two--
[ continues mumbling numbers ]
[ continues mumbling numbers ]
Scene 10
A DARK AREA
Harold Spuller
No. No. I just want to be left alone.
Scene 12
COUNSELLOR KAREN KOSSEFF'S OFFICE
Karen Kosseff
We've spoken about your fear. You've been afraid to express it to others. To agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
This is different.
Karen Kosseff
How?
Dana Scully
Several months ago, I was diagnosed with a cancerous mass. A nasal pharyngeal tumor that cannot be operated on, and cannot be treated by conventional medicine.
Karen Kosseff
I'm sorry.
Dana Scully
I don't mean for this to sound too dire. My health has been good. I have been checked up on a weekly basis.
Karen Kosseff
You've kept working?
Dana Scully
Yes. It's been important to me.
Karen Kosseff
Why?
Dana Scully
Why? Um-- agent Mulder has been concerned. He's been supportive through this time.
Karen Kosseff
Do you feel that you owe it to him to continue working?
Dana Scully
No. I guess I never realized... How much I rely on him before this. His passion. He's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.
Karen Kosseff
What happened last night, Dana?
Dana Scully
I saw something. And I don't know what to trust. If I saw it because of the stress? Because the image had been suggested to me? Or if it was a suggestion of my own fears?
Karen Kosseff
Your fear of failing him?
[ chuckles ]
Dana Scully
Maybe.
Karen Kosseff
What did you see?
Dana Scully
I saw a woman who had recently been murdered. But I saw her. It appeared as if she was trying to tell me something.
Karen Kosseff
Do you know what?
Dana Scully
No.
Karen Kosseff
Are you sure?
Scene 13
ANGIE'S MIDNIGHT BOWL
Angie Pintero
Hey, you're back.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I'm looking for Harold Spuller.
Angie Pintero
Harold? What for?
Fox Mulder
Suspicion of murder.
Angie Pintero
You think Harold killed those women?
Fox Mulder
You obviously don't think so, huh?
Angie Pintero
Harold's worked for me for ten years. He might be crazy, but he couldn't kill anyone. He's a sweet kid.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. You know where he is now?
Angie Pintero
He was here this morning when I arrived, arranging the shoes.
Fox Mulder
He has a key?
Angie Pintero
No, he's got some damn way of gettin' in through an abandoned building next door.
Fox Mulder
Did you ever get lane six working?
Angie Pintero
No. Not since I saw the girl.
Fox Mulder
Harold? Harold? Harold, I just want to talk to you. Harold?
[ Harold mumbling ]
Harold Spuller
She is me. She is me. She is me. She is me.
[ mumbling continues ]
Harold Spuller
She is me. She is me.
Fox Mulder
Harold?
Harold Spuller
She is me. She is me. She is me. She is me. She is me. She is me. She is me. Eight, seventeen, thirty, thirty-seven.
Scene 14
AN INTERROGATION ROOM
Attorney
I wanna make this clear from the start. My client is suffering from a mental disorder which impairs his judgment. He will not answer any questions regarding his guilt or innocence.
Detective Hudak
I'd be real happy if he'd quit talking right now.
Attorney
Anytime Harold becomes upset or unwilling to cooperate, this interrogation will end. Detective Hudak?
Detective Hudak
Tell me why you did it, Harold, huh? Come on. Tell me why you killed those women.
Attorney
What did I just say? This is totally unacceptable. I am prepared to tell my client not to cooperate.
[ mumbling numbers ]
Fox Mulder
Harold, you knew those women who were murdered, didn't you?
[ mumbling numbers ]
Fox Mulder
That's why you're scared. You're afraid they've come back to visit you. Penny timmons.
Harold Spuller
Eight, seventeen, thirty, thirty-seven, forty-five, fifty-three, seventy-one, eighty, ninety-two, ninety-nine, one-oh-eight.
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Schipiro.
Harold Spuller
Fourteen, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, fifty-seven, seventy-one, seventy-nine, eighty-eight, one hundred and one, one hundred and seventeen.
Fox Mulder
Michelle chamberlain.
Harold Spuller
Seventeen, thirty-two, forty-nine, sixty-nine, seventy-eight, eighty-seven, ninety-nine.
Fox Mulder
What was her shoe size?
Harold Spuller
Six-and-a-half.
Detective Hudak
There you have it.
Attorney
This is not a confession.
Detective Hudak
He killed them. Harold, listen.
Attorney
I'm advising you not to respond...
Detective Hudak
He stalked them, fixated--
Attorney
Nor to cooperate with this investigation any further!
Fox Mulder
Harold, there are people that think you murdered these women. I'm not one. But I need your help for me to prove that. You think you can do that? I think you can.
Scene 15
ANGIE'S MIDNIGHT BOWL
Fox Mulder
Mr. Pintero, I'd like to search the building for any ways in or out, that Harold might have of the bowling alley.
Angie Pintero
Sure.
Fox Mulder
Thanks.
Angie Pintero
You okay, Harold?
Harold Spuller
The shoes are out of order, mr. Pintero. I'm sorry.
Angie Pintero
Hey, it's okay, buddy. Don't you worry about it. You get this straightened out with these folks, then come back and keep me in line.
Harold Spuller
Okay, mr. Pintero.
[ Harold mumbling numbers ]
Detective Hudak
I wanna know why the hell we're being led around like this?
Fox Mulder
I'm hoping it will become clear to us when we find it.
Detective Hudak
Is that right? He's gonna show us something that's gonna exonerate him?
Fox Mulder
I think so.
Harold Spuller
Here.
Detective Hudak
Here what? My God, they're all here. Every victim.
Attorney
[ attorney ] this proves nothing.
Detective Hudak
He fixated on them.
Attorney
I see hundreds of scorecards up here. Thousands of names.
Fox Mulder
Choose a name. Pick a name. Pick any name up there.
Detective Hudak
Fred graham.
Harold Spuller
Seventeen, forty-two, sixty-seven, eighty-eight, one hundred and seven, one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and thirty-one, one hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and one. Two hundred game. Not bad.
Detective Hudak
You're saying he has all these scores in his head?
Fox Mulder
Including the victims.
Attorney
You said this proves his innocence. How?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure exactly, but I think that--
Harold Spuller
No! No! No, no, no!
[ Harold crying ]
Fox Mulder
Breathe! One, two, three, four, five. Breathe.
Officer
He just keeled. Fell right over. I've done all I can.
[ sobbing ]
Officer
Must've been a heart attack.
[ doorbell ]
Scene 16
SCULLY'S APARTMENT
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully. Is it too late?
Dana Scully
No. What are you doing, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I need your help on something. I needed your medical expertise.
Dana Scully
On what?
Fox Mulder
Harold Spuller. Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't even ask you. What did your doctor say?
Dana Scully
I'm fine.
Fox Mulder
Good.
Dana Scully
What's up, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Angie Pintero, the bowling alley guy? He's dead.
Dana Scully
How?
Fox Mulder
Natural causes. Congestive heart failure. Just keeled over.
Dana Scully
That's what you need my medical opinion on?
Fox Mulder
No. Harold Spuller had a premonitory vision of his boss's death.
Dana Scully
I don't understand.
Fox Mulder
Harold saw an apparition. What may have been angie Pintero's disembodied soul... At the moment of or just prior to his death.
Dana Scully
How do you know?
Fox Mulder
Because I was standing right there when he saw it.
Dana Scully
But you didn't see it yourself?
Fox Mulder
No.
Dana Scully
Why?
Fox Mulder
I don't have that facility. That kind of connection to the victims that would have made such a vision possible.
Dana Scully
What's Harold Spuller's connection?
Fox Mulder
I don't know its exact nature, but I think it has something to do with his autism. That Harold experienced a profound attachment to these victims, but because of his disability, was unable to express... The depth and power of those relationships. So somehow a psychic or preconscious bond was formed that went beyond the temporal.
Dana Scully
Whoa, wait a minute. So Harold knew the people that were killed?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, from the bowling alley. Going back seven years.
Dana Scully
Even if what you're saying is true, Harold wasn't the only one who claims to have seen these apparitions.
Fox Mulder
No. But he does have something in common with those who've had the visions... That is quite powerful in its own right.
Dana Scully
Which is what?
Fox Mulder
They were all dying. Um, one of emphysema, one of cancer and, uh, now angie Pintero.
Dana Scully
Harold Spuller's dying too?
Fox Mulder
Well, that's what I need your medical opinion on.
Dana Scully
Well, what if he isn't?
Fox Mulder
I would be very surprised. What is a death omen if not a vision of our own mortality? And who among us would most likely be able to see the dead? Harold's at the resident home right now.
Dana Scully
I'll meet you there.
Alpert
Harold?
Police Officer
Agent Mulder will be sending a doctor to examine you.
Scene 17
Scene 17
Alpert
Well, you're back. It's gonna be all right now, Harold. They just want us to keep you here for a little checkup. There's nothing to worry about. Thanks, officers. All right, Chuck. Go to bed. You can see Harold in the morning. See? Everyone's so glad to see you back, Harold. You'll be able to talk to Chuck in the morning. You still have to take your meds though, Harold. Keeps you flyin' straight and level.
Harold Spuller
Eighty, eighty-eight, ninety-two, ninety-nine.
Alpert
Come on. It's the way we always do it.
Harold Spuller
Seventy-eight, eighty-seven.
Alpert
Attaboy. Good stuff. Hi. Lucas brought him back.
Nurse Innes
[ nurse Innes ] is he acting up?
Alpert
No! I think he's just a little scared. I've been tryin' to get him to take his meds.
Harold Spuller
Fourteen, twenty-nine, thirty-seven.
Nurse Innes
Why don't you let me sit with him for a bit?
Alpert
Okay, sure.
Nurse Innes
Take your poison, Harold. Go on. What've you got to live for now, huh? What did you tell them, Harold? Fifty-nine. Did you tell them about your little girlfriends? Huh? Did you tell them how you were in love?
Harold Spuller
No!
Nurse Innes
Did you show them your pictures?
Harold Spuller
No.
Nurse Innes
What do you think those girls thought of you, Harold? Do you think they loved you back?
[ mumbles ]
Nurse Innes
No one could love you, Harold. Look at yourself. They looked at you and saw an ugly toad, a retard.
Scene 18
THE FRONT DESK AT THE CENTER
Alpert
Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Thanks for accommodating us again.
Alpert
Not a problem. We're all concerned for Harold.
Fox Mulder
I understand.
Alpert
You're bringing a doctor?
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully's a doctor. If you could arrange to have Harold's medical records made available-- [ scream ]
Scene 19
THE EXAM ROOM
Alpert
Oh! What's happened to you? Oh! Don't touch that. Don't touch that. It's just a cut.
Nurse Innes
He just went wacko. I was tryin' to get him to take his meds and he went berserk. He jumps me, he starts pounding me like he wants to kill me.
Fox Mulder
Did he say anything?
Nurse Innes
No, he just started screaming like a lunatic. Something's gone wrong with him. I think he's lost it for good. I'll be damned if I'm gonna take care of him anymore.
Alpert
I think you should get this cut on your head looked at.
Nurse Innes
Maybe just give me a few minutes to get my nerves back.
Alpert
Okay, everybody, everything's fine now. Come on, back to bed. That's right, dear. Go on now. We'll see you in the morning. Night-night, everybody. What can I do to help?
Fox Mulder
Call the police. Ask for detective Hudak. Tell him what happened. Tell him to look for Harold down at the bowling alley.
Alpert
Are they gonna arrest him?
Fox Mulder
I don't see that there's any way around that. I'm sorry.
Dana Scully
Maybe you were wrong.
Fox Mulder
Well, that's a superficial head wound, Scully. He didn't mean to kill her or maim her. That's not the work of a murderer if you ask me.
Dana Scully
Then why would he do it?
Fox Mulder
Maybe Harold is sicker than we thought he was.
Dana Scully
Maybe. We won't know until we can examine him.
Fox Mulder
I think there's someone you can talk to about it. Why don't you talk to his roommate, and I'll see what I can do about finding Harold.
Scene 21
CHUCK FORSCH'S ROOM
Chuck Forsch
Oh, hi.
Dana Scully
Is your name Chuck?
Chuck Forsch
Yes. Yes, it is. Chuck Forsch. F-o-r-s-c-h.
[ clears throat ]
Chuck Forsch
Chuck Forsch.
Dana Scully
Do you share this room with Harold?
Chuck Forsch
Yes, he's my friend.
Dana Scully
Do you know where he is?
Chuck Forsch
He's dying, isn't he? Harold is dying.
Dana Scully
Why do you say that?
Chuck Forsch
Nurse Innes. She's, she's trying to poison him.
Dana Scully
Who told you that?
Chuck Forsch
Harold. He said she told him she was putting poison in his meds.
Dana Scully
Harold hasn't been taking his medication?
Chuck Forsch
I don't know. I don't know everything. I'm only a human being. But I do know that-- that Harold's my friend. He wouldn't hurt anybody. You know, he really loved them.
Dana Scully
Who?
Chuck Forsch
Harold, he gave them to me. He was afraid.
Dana Scully
Does anybody else know about these pictures, Chuck?
Chuck Forsch
Nurse Innes.
Scene 22
THE LADIES' RESTROOM AT THE CENTER
Dana Scully
How are you feeling?
Nurse Innes
I'm, you know, shaky.
Dana Scully
Understandable.
Nurse Innes
Working with these people, it starts driving you crazy too. I'm just looking forward to going home.
Dana Scully
will your family be a comfort? -
Nurse Innes
I live alone.
Dana Scully
No children?
Nurse Innes
Just the one my husband ran off with.
Dana Scully
Nurse Innes, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to step out into the hallway.
[ yells ]
Dana Scully
Stay where you are! Drop it! Let it go!
[ yelling ]
[ gunshot ]
[ groaning ]
Dana Scully
She's alive. Let's get a paramedic in here.
Alpert
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
You're cut.
Dana Scully
Yeah, she attacked me. You might wanna bag that. I'm pretty sure it's the murder weapon.
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Scene 23
Dana Scully
She had been taking Harold's meds-- clonazepam and clozapine-- the unregulated effects of which are violence and unpredictable behavior.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but why did you even suspect her?
Dana Scully
I went in to talk to Harold's roommate, and he said that Harold thought she had been poisoning him. So I went in to confront her and she just went off.
Fox Mulder
Why do you think she killed those women?
Dana Scully
I don't know. I mean, maybe in some drug-addled way, she was trying to kill happiness. Harold's happiness. His love for those women. Maybe trying to destroy something she thought she'd never have again.
Fox Mulder
"she is me."
Dana Scully
I don't know. Have they found Harold?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. They found him in an alley a few blocks from here, face down on the pavement. They worked on him for 20 minutes, but he couldn't be revived.
Dana Scully
What happened?
Fox Mulder
Well, preliminary diagnosis is apnea: respiratory failure.
Dana Scully
As a result of what?
Fox Mulder
The paramedics are at a loss to explain that. But if what you're saying is true, that Harold stopped taking his medication, then that could have been a factor in his death. At least in the visions that he was seeing.
Dana Scully
Harold Spuller wasn't dying. He was killed as a result of what that woman took away from him.
Fox Mulder
Is that your medical opinion?
Dana Scully
I saw something, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
The fourth victim. I saw her in the bathroom before you came to tell me.
Fox Mulder
Why didn't you tell me?
Dana Scully
Because I didn't want to believe it. Because I don't want to believe it.
Fox Mulder
Is that why you came down here? To prove that it wasn't true?
Dana Scully
No. I came down here because you asked me to.
Fox Mulder
Why can't you be honest with me?
Dana Scully
What do you want me to say? That you're right? That I believe it, even if I don't? Is that what you want?
Fox Mulder
Is that what you think I want to hear?
Dana Scully
No.
Fox Mulder
You can believe what you want to believe, but you can't hide the truth from me. Because if you do, then you're working against me. And yourself. I know what you're afraid of. I'm afraid of the same thing.
Dana Scully
The doctor said I was fine.
Fox Mulder
I hope that's the truth.
Dana Scully
I'm going home.
[ siren wailing ]
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