Judge
If there are no further motions, the superior court of the state of Pennsylvania declares case number bd-237 closed.
Season 4 · Episode 13
Never Again
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X13Original airdate · February 2, 1997
235 dialogue entries
Scene 01
PHILADEPHIA, PA
[ gavel bangs ]
Lawyer
That's why I suggested you file the joint summary with a joint petition because--
[ voices overlapping ]
Courtroom Voices
Thank you. My pleasure. Oh. All right.
[ voices overlapping ]
Courtroom Voices
Okay. Okay. Sure. Excuse me.
♪♪ [ rock ]
Music (radio)
♪ the mid twenty joys ♪ ♪ around a heart that's black and blue tattooed love boys ♪
Scene 02
HARD 8 LOUNGE
Bartender
No way.
Music (radio)
♪ I tore my knees up getting to you 'cause I needed ♪
Bartender
Here.
Music (radio)
♪ to find out what the thing was for, been reading ♪ ♪ but, man, the time came to explore ♪
Ed Jerse
Thanks.
Music (radio)
♪ I went apewire ♪ ♪ 'cause I thought ♪ ♪ like I like it little tease ♪ ♪ but I didn't mean it ♪ ♪ but you mess with the goods, doll and you gotta pay, yeah ♪♪
[ thunder rumbling ]
[ thunderclap ]
[ keys jingling ]
[ thunder rumbling ]
[ door closes ]
[ keys clattering ]
[ siren wailing, distant ]
[ grunts ]
Scene 03
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
Fox Mulder
These unknown craft? Where were the majority sighted?
Sevlov Pudovkin
On route home, me, others, walk on the minefield by base. Long black car drive up, no door handle, no window. No persons drive. We run. Mines, explosion, but... No sound.
Ed Jerse
Nothin'.
Sevlov Pudovkin
Silent.
Fox Mulder
You said others. Are any of them with you in America?
Sevlov Pudovkin
Yes. Three of us-- [ continues, indistinct ]
Fox Mulder
Can you verify-- [ continues, indistinct ]
Sevlov Pudovkin
Difficult. K.g.b. Still have much power.
[ continues, indistinct ]
Sevlov Pudovkin
[ Mulder, indistinct ] yes. We are each mentioned-- [ continues, indistinct ]
[ chattering continues ]
[ phone line ringing ]
Scene 04
JERSE’S OFFICE CUBICLE
[ phone line clicks ]
Woman
Hello?
Ed Jerse
Hello. Mrs. Denunzio, hi. This is ed Jerse over at fuller and siegel. How are you this morning?
Mrs. Denunzio
Yeah, ed, the kids, you know.
Ed Jerse
I understand. I just wanted to call and let you in on a stock... [ shouting ] that's going public next week.
Mrs. Denunzio
It's so hard after the holidays. [ shouting ] don't hit her with that! I mean it! I'm sorry. What?
Ed Jerse
A company in tucson called cryo-cord... Has achieved an amazing advancement in the technology of cryogenics.
Mrs. Denunzio
Uh-hmm.
Ed Jerse
Stem cells from the blood of an umbilical cord... May be transplanted in the treatment of many life- threatening diseases such as--
Betty (tattoo voice)
Loser.
Mrs. Denunzio
Such as?
Ed Jerse
What?
Mrs. Denunzio
Diseases such as?
Ed Jerse
Before that. What did you say?
Mrs. Denunzio
I didn't say nothing. You were talking.
[ woman's voice laughing ]
[ laughing continues ]
[ chattering ]
Coworker
The stock they bought is always going to come around. All right, then I just punch it up here?
Ed Jerse
Say it to my face. Right to my face. Now that I'm in front of you, call me a loser to my face!
Coworker
Calm down.
Betty (tattoo voice)
[ woman's voice ] trash her desk!
Boss
Why don't you go home, ed? We'll discuss this later.
Scene 05
X-FILES OFFICE
Fox Mulder
I made a last-ditch effort to get out of it, but the Bureau is holding fast to its federal employees vacation policy. I haven't taken a day off in four years, so either I take a week vacation now, or they start not paying me for eight weeks' vacation time. I don't like it, but I got to do it. I got to pay the rent. I got to eat. Part of me can't help thinking this is just another way to get me out of here. But it is only a week, and you'll be here to keep an eye on things for me, so-- here's a few things for you to keep an eye on while I'm gone.
Dana Scully
Why don't I have a desk?
Fox Mulder
What do you mean? I always assumed that that was your area.
Dana Scully
Back there.
Fox Mulder
We'll have them send down another desk, and there won't be any room to move around here, but we can put them close together, face-to-face. Maybe we can play some battleship.
Dana Scully
What is it you want me to keep an eye on?
Fox Mulder
That contact we met last night at the wall, who had the distinction of being present for a first. That being you abandoning me during questioning. In the future, I'll make sure that all those people being interviewed... Provide you with a multimedia laser show to keep your interest maintained. In any case, his name is vsevlod Pudovkin. He's a Russian immigrant with a doctorate in astronautical engineering. He and other contacts worked at a military space center in the republic of karelia. They smuggled out reverse engineered reports of two alien craft... Which crashed and were retrieved from the sea of barents.
Dana Scully
And these reports are for sale?
Fox Mulder
At a high price, yeah.
Dana Scully
Mm-hmm. Have you confirmed the identity of these individuals?
Fox Mulder
That's your assignment while I'm gone. I want you to run an I.n.s. Check and a Bureau n.c.I.c. Check on these individuals, all of whom now reside in the little Russia section of Philadelphia. I've also made arrangements for travel so you can administer eye-to-eye surveillance... On their activities.
Dana Scully
I'm not going.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Dana Scully
Your contact, while interesting in the context of science fiction, was, at least in my memory, recounting a poorly veiled synopsis... Of an episode of rocky and bullwinkle.
Fox Mulder
"eenie, meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak"?
Dana Scully
Rocky and bullwinkle are looking for an upsidasium mine. Boris badenov alters the road signs, which causes them to walk onto a secret military base, where they are picked up by a car with no windows and no door locks, and there are silent explosions from a compound called hushaboom.
Fox Mulder
So you're refusing an assignment based on the adventures of moose and squirrel?
Dana Scully
Refusing an assignment? That makes it sound like you're my superior.
Fox Mulder
Do what you want. Don't go to Philadelphia. But let me remind you I worked my ass off to get these files reopened. You were just assigned. This work is my life.
Dana Scully
And it's become mine.
Fox Mulder
You don't want it to be?
Dana Scully
This isn't about you. Oh, maybe it is indirectly. I don't know.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
I feel like I've lost sight of myself, Mulder. It's hard to see, let alone find in the darkness of covert locations. I wish I could say that we're going in circles, but we're not. We're going in an endless line. Two steps forwards and three steps back, while my own life is... Standing still.
Fox Mulder
Maybe it's good that we get away from each other for a while.
Dana Scully
Where will you be?
Fox Mulder
Ironically enough, it's personal. It's a... Place I always wanted to go, what I anticipate to be a spiritual journey. I hope to discover something about myself. Maybe you should do the same.
[ rustling ] [ door closes ]
Scene 06
JERSE’S APARTMENT
Ed Jerse
Yes, mrs. Shimatsuno. Ma'am, what if I swore to you it would never happen again? I just would like another chance. I need another chance, mrs. Shimatsuno. Well, that stock I recommended-- virtual gambling-- is up. Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm. Right. I understand. Thank you for your time. Good-bye.
Betty (tattoo voice)
"thank you for your time." [ laughs ] if you were any kind of man, you would have told her to kiss your ass. Ain't that right, Eddie?
[ grunts ]
Ed Jerse
Hey! I can hear you down there! [ pounding continues ]
[ chirping ]
Ed Jerse
Stop it! Knock it off! I can hear you! [ pounding continues ] be quiet down there! [ chirping continues ] stop it! Stop it! Knock it off! I can hear you!
Music (television)
♪ I go downtown and roam around ♪ ♪ but every street I walk I find another dead end ♪ ♪ I'm on my own ♪
Betty (tattoo voice)
You hear that? It's you, ed. It's all about you!
Music (television)
♪ to pretend ♪
Ed Jerse
Knock it off!
Music (television)
[ pounding continues ] ♪ I know there's someone just waitin' somewhere ♪ ♪ I look around for her but she's just not there ♪
[ knocking ]
Music (television)
♪ doesn't somebody want to be wanted ♪
Hannah
Good evening. My name is Hannah, and this is Spencer. Have you ever imagined what it would be like--
Ed Jerse
Do you hear that?
Music (television)
♪ doesn't somebody want ♪
Ed Jerse
Downstairs.
Hannah
What I hear is the confusing and troubling sound of over--
Ed Jerse
She's trying to drive me crazy.
Hannah
Oh. We just talked to miss Schilling, and I don't believe she would--
Ed Jerse
Somehow... She knows what I'm thinking. I don't want to feel it, but they know, like psychics or something or an implant thing, trying to drive me crazy. They've even programmed the TV to criticize me.
Music (television)
♪ find my way ♪
Ed Jerse
There. You hear it? There! There! There!
Hannah
We'll come back some other time.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Mmm, mmm, mmm. You see? Even the jehovah witness babe won't waste her time on you. No woman would. And you just sit and take it. Take it like a man.
Music (television)
♪ just like me ♪
[ knocking ]
[ knocking ] [ crashing ]
Ms. Schilling
Hey, what are you doing? Get out of here.
Music (television)
I'm no different from anybody else.
Ms. Schilling
Get out of my apartment! I'm going to call the cops!
Music (television)
I start each day and end each night.
[ glass breaks ]
Ms. Schilling
No! No! Please! Get out!
Music (television)
It gets really lonely all by myself.
[ glass breaks ]
Music (television)
Now where is love, and who is love? [ screaming ] I got to know. ♪ doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me ♪ ♪ where are you ♪ ♪ doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me ♪ ♪ just like me ♪ ♪ doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me ♪ ♪ where are you ♪ ♪ doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me ♪♪
[ scraping ]
[ man grunts ]
[ scraping continues ]
[ footsteps ] [ thudding ]
[ thudding continues ]
[ man grunts ]
[ grunts ]
[ grunting ]
[ thudding ] [ fire roars ]
Betty (tattoo voice)
Attaboy, lover. From now on, I'm your right-hand gal. You and me. As long as I'm with you, no one will ever hurt you. Never again!
[ phone line ringing ]
[ ringing ]
Scene 07
MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY
Fox Mulder
[ line beeps ] oh, hey, Scully, it's me. I'm just calling to see how you're doing. [ static ] give me a call on my cell when you get a chance. Just let me know where you're at.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Just watch yourself, all right?
[ chattering ]
[ siren wailing, distant ]
[ door bell jingles ]
[ man and woman arguing in foreign language ]
[ man continues ]
[ man continues ]
[ man continues ]
[ man continues ]
[ foreign language ]
[ door bell jingles ]
[ indistinct ]
Scene 08
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Ed Jerse
That's not my problem. You don't understand. You did good work. Very nice. It's just like in the window. But--
Svo (tattoo artist)
So what? Why do you want to cover it? Listen, friend, everyone gets tattoo they deserve.
Ed Jerse
What if you don't cover the whole thing? Just the eyes and the mouth.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Even if I say yes, it's too soon. Skin must heal.
Ed Jerse
I'll pay you anything.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Miss? Miss? You. You like this on his arm?
Dana Scully
Wow. Uh--
Betty (tattoo voice)
Eddie?
Dana Scully
The, uh-- the color-- the red on the lips-- it's extraordinary.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Something I find in soviet prison. I tell him everyone gets tattoo they deserve. Beautiful, cheap, thought over--
Betty (tattoo voice)
I thought I was your girl.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Tattoo reflect on body what lies in person's soul.
Betty (tattoo voice)
You'd break my heart over a cheap redhead? Get them in prison?
Svo (tattoo artist)
Yes, used the sewing needle, paper clip.
Betty (tattoo voice)
You talk to her, and I'm gonna be bad!
Svo (tattoo artist)
Ink is burned shoe leather, charcoal shavings, urine. I find grasses grow in prison yard, rye and such. Only use now, on that tattoo.
Sevlov Pudovkin
Svo.
Svo (tattoo artist)
Pardon me. You look.
Dana Scully
Mm-hmm. Thank you.
Ed Jerse
Mind some advice from a stranger? Make sure you've thought it over before you get it done.
Dana Scully
You didn't get the tattoo you deserve?
Ed Jerse
Mine was, uh, too impulsive.
Dana Scully
Never say never? Yeah. Sometimes I wish I were that impulsive.
Ed Jerse
Careful what you wish for. There's more fashionable places in the city. How did you end up here?
Dana Scully
I'm in town visiting my aunt in the neighborhood. How about you?
Ed Jerse
There's a real crummy bar across the street. It's good for when you're feelin' down, and I was kind of down last week, and, uh--
Dana Scully
So it wasn't so much impulsive as it was hammered?
Ed Jerse
Have you, um, seen much of Philadelphia?
Dana Scully
No.
Ed Jerse
There's a couple of really nice restaurants by the river, if you're interested.
Dana Scully
I'd like that. But, um, I, uh, I'm leaving tonight.
Ed Jerse
Ah. Uh, if you're ever in town again-- that's my home number. I work there mainly.
[ ringing ]
Scene 09
ADAM’S INN
Dana Scully
Hello?
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Dana Scully
Mulder, what's wrong?
Fox Mulder
Nothing's wrong. I'm at that special place, and I wanted to share it with you. You know that Elvis bought all the furniture in just 30 minutes?
Dana Scully
How did you know where I was?
Fox Mulder
I checked where we always stay in Philadelphia. I knew you wouldn't abandon me. How's the case going?
Dana Scully
I've handed it over to the Philadelphia Bureau.
Fox Mulder
The Philadelphia Bureau? They don't know or care about the x files. What are you doing?
Dana Scully
Mulder, there is no x file. Your contact is connected to the vorovskoi mir. Extortion, credit fraud, cons. He is nothing but a swindler.
Fox Mulder
How do you know?
Dana Scully
What do you mean, how do I know? You assigned me the background check. I did as told, as always.
Fox Mulder
Hold off until I get there, okay?
Dana Scully
You don't think I'm capable?
Fox Mulder
Of course I believe you're capable. It's just that in this case I need you to--
Dana Scully
It's not just in this case, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What's the agent's name in Philadelphia?
Dana Scully
It is over. Done. Pudovkin is out of our hands. Look, Mulder, I have to go.
Fox Mulder
[ scoffs ] what, you got a date or something? Y-you're kidding?
Dana Scully
I have everything under control. I will talk to you later.
[ phone clatters in cradle ]
[ phone beeps ]
Scene 10
JERSE"S APARTMENT
Betty (tattoo voice)
Isn't it better this way, baby? Me and you alone? Women are so petty, jealous, controlling. That bitch today would have been just like all the others. [ phone rings ]
[ ringing continues ]
Ed Jerse
Hello?
Dana Scully
Um, hi. Ed Jerse, please.
Ed Jerse
This is him.
Dana Scully
It's Dana. We met today. My flight was canceled because of this storm, and I was just wondering if I could take you up on dinner.
Ed Jerse
I think it's worth fighting a little snow. One thing, my-- my car is in the shop. We'll have to meet.
Dana Scully
I could pick you up.
Ed Jerse
Give me an hour?
Dana Scully
Good. Well, I'll see you then.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Go ahead. Treat yourself. This girl is a real doll. But beauty's only skin deep, baby. I go all the way to the bone.
[ sizzling ]
[ knocking ]
Spencer
Miss Schilling? Huh. She said she'd be here. I don't understand. Miss Schilling?
[ knocking ]
[ footsteps ]
Dana Scully
Hi.
Ed Jerse
Hi.
Dana Scully
I'm, uh, early. The storm's not so bad.
Ed Jerse
It's supposed to get bad later tonight. Come on in. I'll be ready in a second. At least we can forego the "what a nice place you have" formalities.
Dana Scully
Ed, I, uh-- I don't go out very much. I think the last time I went on a date was to see glengarry glen ross, and the characters in the movie had a much better time. Ed, you're bleeding.
Ed Jerse
Oh, uh, it's just the damn tattoo. Here.
Dana Scully
I'm a doctor. Do you want me to take a look at it?
Ed Jerse
No, it's okay. It's been nothin' but trouble.
[ footsteps ]
Ed Jerse
I hope you like this place. I made reservations.
Dana Scully
Ed-- the, uh-- the crummy bar you told me about-- take me there.
Ed Jerse
Hey!
Scene 11
HARD EIGHT LOUNGE
Dana Scully
So what makes this place a good place to go when you're feeling down?
Ed Jerse
It's kind of-- everyone here looks like their problems are worse than mine. Makes me feel good about myself.
Dana Scully
Yeah, but you can't tell what's going on in somebody's head just by looking at them. They're probably thinking we're the ones that are screwed up.
Ed Jerse
Are we?
Dana Scully
Who knows? I mean, sometimes I, uh-- I've always gone around in this, uh-- this circle. It usually starts when an authoritative... Or controlling figure comes into my life. And part of me likes it, needs it, wants the approval. But then at a certain point, along the way, I just, you know-- okay, um-- my father was a navy captain. I worship the sea that he sailed on. And when I was 13 or so, I went through this thing, where I would sneak out of my parents' house... And smoke my mother's cigarettes. And I did it because I knew that if he found out, he would kill me. And then along the way, there are other fathers.
Ed Jerse
Sounds a little like your time has come around again. I want things more like a straight line, and I don't ever want to go backward. That's why I got the tattoo I deserve. It marked a moment, a feeling, a memorial of something I never want to have happen again.
Dana Scully
I want to see it.
Ed Jerse
You know, Dana, just 'cause I marked the moment, wanting to go forward, doesn't mean that it worked.
Dana Scully
I want to see it.
Ed Jerse
Come on. It's all scabbed up.
Dana Scully
That's okay. [ gasps ]
Ed Jerse
If you're so curious, get your own.
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Scene 12
Ed Jerse
She wants the same red, like mine.
[ whirring ]
[ gasps ]
[ exhales ]
Ed Jerse
It's really bad out. Look, the weather and a few drinks under your belt, I'd feel better if you stayed here. Hey. I'm not up to anything. I just want you to be safe. I'll take the couch. The tattoo hurt at all?
Dana Scully
Yeah, um, it feels weird. I, uh, I can't see it. I-- but I feel different. It's like, uh-- I don't know how I feel about that.
Ed Jerse
Yeah. It looks all right.
Dana Scully
Ed, you're bleeding again. Will you let me take a look at it? I am a doctor.
Ed Jerse
He said this could happen.
Dana Scully
Ed, it looks burned.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Get her hands off of me! Those are bad thoughts you're having, baby. You kiss her, and she's dead.
[ dial tone hums, line beeps ]
[ line rings, clicks ]
Hotel Receptionist
Adams inn.
Fox Mulder
Dana Scully, please.
Hotel Receptionist
Thank you. I'll ring.
[ ringing ]
Scene 13
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Hotel Receptionist
I'm sorry, sir. There's no answer in that room.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
[ gasps ]
[ knocking ]
Scene 14
JERSE’S APARTMENT
Man #1
Good morning. I'm detective gouveia. This is detective smith. May we speak with edward Jerse?
Dana Scully
Uh, I'm sorry. He's not in. I don't know where he is.
Gouveia
Were you here the night before last?
Dana Scully
No. Can I help you with something? I'm with the Bureau.
[ sighs ]
Smith
The resident downstairs, kaye Schilling, was reported missing. Some blood was found in her apartment, not hers. It had some abnormalities.
Dana Scully
Such as? Look, I have a background in forensic medicine. I assure you anything you divulge will be held under the strictest confidence.
Gouveia
A preliminary toxicology report found this substance in the blood stains. The blood type was a, and hers was o.
Dana Scully
May I?
Smith
Here's our card. We'd appreciate mr. Jerse giving us a call when he returns. And if he doesn't, we will.
Dana Scully
Okay.
[ dialing ]
[ beeps ]
[ clears throat ]
[ keyboard keys clicking ]
[ dial tone hums, line beeps ]
[ line ringing ]
Woman
Federal Bureau of investigation.
Dana Scully
Yeah, Fox Mulder, please.
Woman
One moment.
[ ringing ]
Woman
Oh.
[ dial tone hums ]
Scene 15
X-FILES OFFICE
Ed Jerse
Good morning. What's wrong?
Dana Scully
Ed, sit down. Some detectives were here. The woman in the apartment downstairs was reported missing. They found blood, and I believe, circumstantially, it may be yours.
Ed Jerse
I was helping her move in, and I cut myself.
Dana Scully
You need to tell that to the detectives. But what I'm also afraid of, and this concerns both of us, is that an ergot alkaloid was found in the blood, which is why I think it may have been yours. Ergot is a parasite that lives off of rye and related grasses. Svo said that he used rye somehow in his ink. If this is true, we may be subject to hallucinogenic ergotism. Aural, visual hallucinations, dangerous and unlikely behavior. We need to go to the hospital to be tested.
Ed Jerse
I don't need that, Dana. It's such a relief to be able to tell someone. I hear it, Dana, in my head, only deeper. It's more than just some chemical reaction. She talks to me. She hates women. My wife, my boss, you. She's so jealous, Dana. She makes me do things I don't want to. But she controls me. But I believe that you made her go away.
Dana Scully
We need to get help. I'm gonna go into the other room, and I'm gonna come back, and we are gonna go together.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Mmm-mmm? Who'd she call? Who'd she call, Eddie? Come on! Aren't you just dying to know?
[ dial tone hums ]
[ line beeping ]
[ line ringing ]
Woman
Federal Bureau of investigation.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Dana Scully, please.
Ed Jerse
Dana Scully, please.
Woman
One moment.
Dana Scully
All right, let's go.
Ed Jerse
Never again!
[ groans ]
[ grunts ]
[ lock clicks ]
[ knob rattling ]
[ groaning ]
Betty (tattoo voice)
Another woman in my bed? Burn the sheets, lover. Burn her. Burn her!
[ woman's voice laughing ]
[ laughing continues ]
[ laughing continues ]
[ laughing continues ]
Betty (tattoo voice)
Come on, baby. Come on, baby! Do it for me.
Dana Scully
Ow! This isn't you, ed!
Betty (tattoo voice)
[ woman's voice ] go on, Eddie!
Dana Scully
Get control of yourself.
Betty (tattoo voice)
Ah, but it's good to lose control.
Dana Scully
Take control!
Betty (tattoo voice)
Do it for me, Eddie! Do it!
[ Eddie screaming ]
Betty (tattoo voice)
No!
[ screaming ]
[ screaming ]
[ woman's voice laughing ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 16
X-FILES OFFICE
Fox Mulder
Welcome back. You look a lot better than you did in the hospital. And congratulations for making a personal appearance in the x files for the second time. It's a world record. Ed Jerse is in custody at the st. John's burn center in Philadelphia. Traces of ergot were found in his bloodstream, as in yours, but not to the degree that should cause hallucinogenic ergotism. He'll undergo psychiatric evaluation after recovering from burn trauma. Comrade Svo has been shut down... And is under investigation for having connections to my friend Pudovkin. Case closed on boris badenov, which is really a shame, because I was thinking of having an n.y. Tattooed on my ass... To commemorate the yankees world series victory. Better late than never, huh? The, uh... Field office in dallas is, uh, receiving reports of an image of a missing child... Appearing on a blank billboard outside of arlington. So-- all this because I-- because I didn't get you a desk?
Dana Scully
Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is my life.
Fox Mulder
Yes, but it's--
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