Billy
It's just a damn passport photo. It's not the cover of vogue.
Season 4 · Episode 4
Unruhe
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X02Original airdate · October 27, 1996
281 dialogue entries
Scene 01
TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN
Mary
There's no reason I have to look like hell in it, is there? Settle down.
Billy
We're on a schedule here.
Mary
I know we're on a schedule here.
Billy
Act natural.
Mary
I'll be back in ten.
Billy
Make it five. I'll be around back.
Mary
Relax, Billy.
Druggist
Lower it just a bit. Yeah, that's it. Now, big smile. Yeah, hold it. Big trip you got planned?
Mary
Oh, you know, nothin' special. Just good to have a passport.
Druggist
It looks like it's clearing up. It might be a nice day after all.
[ chuckles ]
Druggist
It's just gonna take a few minutes.
[ bell dings ]
Druggist
That comes to 6.95.
Mary
Oh, great. I left my money in the car. I'll be back.
Druggist
I'll be here.
[ doorbell dings, door closes ]
Mary
Ow! Hey, you jerk! What? Billy? Billy, someone did something to me. Billy?
[ gasps ]
[ groaning ]
[ gasping ]
[ gasping continues ]
Druggist
Shoot. My god!
Scene 02
Scene 02
Fox Mulder
What are your thoughts on that, Scully?
Dana Scully
Have the local police been contacted by this woman's abductor? No demand for ransom?
Fox Mulder
No, unfortunately. It's going on three days.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
Any additional leads?
Fox Mulder
No. No hair and fiber evidence either. The rain washed it all away. The autopsy did come back on the dead boyfriend though. It's a puncture wound through the left eardrum... And into the brain, possibly from a long needle or an awl.
Dana Scully
I'm still not sure how you and I figure into this investigation.
Fox Mulder
Did you see the photo?
Dana Scully
Yeah. I assume that was taken by whoever it was who abducted her.
Fox Mulder
It was taken by a 65-year-old druggist moments before she was abducted. That's a passport photo from a local drugstore. The druggist who took that photo was the last known person to have seen mary Lefante. Only he claims that wasn't the photo he was taking. He says the photo he was taking was normal in every respect. He only came forward to the police when he heard the woman was missing.
Dana Scully
Well, whoever it was who took this photo was obviously privy to the woman's abduction.
Fox Mulder
That is what you would think.
Scene 03
IN THE DRUGSTORE
Druggist
The damnedest thing. Here it is, just like I left it. It was under lock and key.
Dana Scully
Is that where you keep it? Yeah. Mind if I take a look?
Druggist
Please, help yourself. At first I thought I did something wrong when I took the picture. There's that piece of paper you have to pull off. You have to do that just right.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure you did it just fine.
Dana Scully
Your film's out of date.
Druggist
Is that against the law?
Dana Scully
No. I was just making an observation.
Druggist
I don't get much call for passport photos, you know? The copy shop over at the mall does 'em cheaper.
[ phone ringing ]
Druggist
Excuse me. I sure hope you find that young woman safe and sound.
[ ringing continues ]
Fox Mulder
So, which one of us gets to use the stun gun on bruno hauptmann back there?
Dana Scully
All right. So he doesn't exactly stand out as a suspect. Mulder, take a look at this. You see this smeariness here? I'm thinking that it's heat damage. With the heater sitting under the film right there, the emulsion probably melted.
Fox Mulder
So you think that would make it look like she posed screaming for a passport photo?
Dana Scully
Plus, the film is two years out of date.
Fox Mulder
Oh.
Dana Scully
The photographic chemistry could've changed. The dyes... Fade. Uh-huh. They-- all right. So what's your theory?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure I have a theory.
[ doorbell dings ]
[ police radio chatter ]
Trott
Excuse me. You the two FBI agents?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, agents Mulder and Scully.
Trott
We're sorry to have brought you all the way from Washington. We're afraid we might have wasted your time.
[ camera shutter clicks ] [ police radio chatter ]
Scene 04
THE RESIDENCE OF MARY LEFANTE
Officer
Hey, Trott.
Trott
Make sure you bag all that right there.
Officer
Okay.
Trott
Take that out to my car. He's in the kitchen. Inspector puett, these are agents Scully and Mulder.
Inspector Puett
Agent.
Fox Mulder
Inspector.
Inspector Puett
United states postal inspector. My office is investigating a mail theft, one which we've traced to your missing person, ms. Mary louise Lefante.
Dana Scully
She was a postal employee.
Inspector Puett
She works as a sorter at the kurland hills branch. Not coincidentally, a number of unsigned credit cards in transit through that branch... Never made it to their respective owners.
Fox Mulder
Mary Lefante was intercepting them?
Inspector Puett
And her recently deceased boyfriend was signing them. We ran him. He was into forgery, check fraud, you name it.
Dana Scully
Mary Lefante's passport photo. Do you know how soon she wanted to leave town? Did she know about your investigation?
Inspector Puett
Probably. Though we didn't focus on her specifically until this week, after she came up missing.
Dana Scully
And you think that she faked her own disappearance.
Inspector Puett
It looks that way to me.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but why would she stab her boyfriend through the ear? The magic was gone? Did you find a camera anywhere here?
Dana Scully
So, you're thinking this woman planted that photo of herself in the drugstore?
Fox Mulder
What would be the point of that?
Dana Scully
I--
Fox Mulder
Here it is. Stand back, Scully. It's loaded.
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
In the '60s, a bellhop named ted Serios... Became kind of famous for taking what he called "thought-o-graphs." he claimed that by concentrating on an unexposed film negative, he could create a photographic representation of what he saw in his mind. He did landscapes, cathedrals, the queen of England. Thought-o-graphs. They're also known as "scotographs." the literature on thought photography dates back almost to louis daguerre.
Dana Scully
So that makes it legitimate?
Fox Mulder
Look at that.
Dana Scully
Oh, my god!
Fox Mulder
I think he was here, Scully.
Dana Scully
Who was here?
Fox Mulder
Mary Lefante's abductor. I think he stalked her. He could have come up right here. I think he came in here, and he looked at her through the window this close. Close enough to affect the film in that camera.
Dana Scully
Psychic photography? Mulder, I think that it's obvious that somebody doctored these images... And planted them to be found here. Maybe as some kind of a smoke screen.
Fox Mulder
Meant to conceal what? This isn't about mail fraud. That's just incidental. What if-- what if someone had this ability? An image like this would be a peek into that person's mind.
Dana Scully
Into their darkest fantasies?
Fox Mulder
The fantasy of a killer.
Scene 06
A HOSPITAL
[ rustling ]
[ car horn honking ]
[ siren blares ]
[ police radio chatter ]
Doctor
She's completely nonresponsive. We did a preliminary tox screen on her and found traces of morphine and scopolamine.
Dana Scully
Twilite sleep.
Fox Mulder
The dental anesthetic?
Doctor
It's basically a painkiller cocktail. It's also for women in labor.
Fox Mulder
Would that account for her condition?
Dana Scully
No, it wouldn't.
Fox Mulder
What would?
Dana Scully
Give her a p.e.t. Scan.
Technician
All set.
Dana Scully
Oh, my god!
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Dana Scully
She's been given what's called a transorbital lobotomy. It used to be known as an "ice pick" lobotomy. It involves inserting a leukotome through the eye sockets.
Fox Mulder
So we're looking for a doctor? Someone with training?
Doctor
Not judging by this.
Dana Scully
Whoever did this, Mulder, did it wrong.
[ mary weakly ]
Mary
Un-- un-- Unruhe. Unruhe.
Fox Mulder
Mary.
Mary
Un-- un--
[ mutters ]
Fox Mulder
You'd better go in there and get her.
Mary
Unruhe. Unruhe. Unruhe.
Trott
We just got the call. There's been a second abduction.
Scene 07
AN UNKNOWN LOCATION
Gerry Schnauz
Unruhe.
Scene 08
THE MIDLOTHIAN CORPORATE PARK
[ man speaking german ]
[ german continues ] [ muffled grunting ]
[ whimpering ]
[ rattling ]
[ muffled screaming ]
Police Officer
You can roll. We're set here. Right.
[ police radio chatter ]
Police Officer
Get that area taped off. Watch it. Excuse me, ma'am.
[ camera shutter clicking ]
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
That's charles selchik, certified public accountant. Dead from a stab wound through the ear. Cleaning crew found the body.
Dana Scully
What about the missing woman?
Fox Mulder
It's his secretary, alice brandt, age 32. The family confirms that she was working late last night.
Dana Scully
What's her connection to the first victim?
Fox Mulder
Apparently none. But the m.o. Remains the same.
Dana Scully
Yeah. The clock is running.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I keep thinking about that word that mary Lefante was repeating-- "Unruhe." I checked the michigan phone directory. It appears under three different spellings. None within 80 Miles of here.
Dana Scully
It might be significant as a word.
Fox Mulder
That's what I've been thinking. Apparently, in german it means "trouble" or "strife."
Dana Scully
Unrest.
Fox Mulder
You took german in high school, Scully?
Dana Scully
College.
Fox Mulder
" unrest," huh?
Dana Scully
I'm working on these crime scene photos from the first abduction. If we're lucky, we're dealing with someone... Who gets a vicarious thrill from returning to the scene of a crime.
Fox Mulder
He wasn't there, Scully.
Dana Scully
How do you know?
Fox Mulder
It would've affected the photos. Trott, what did you find?
Trott
Nothing much. There's no cameras or film here whatsoever. It's all just accountants' offices, so I don't know why there would be.
Dana Scully
Is that what we're looking for here, Mulder? More evidence of psychic photography?
Fox Mulder
That may be the only evidence we get.
Dana Scully
I've got a bureau forensics team coming up from detroit.
Fox Mulder
What's here for them to find? This guy's obviously very good at what he does. He's left behind no witnesses, no latent prints. The only thing he's left are those photos, which leads me to believe he doesn't even know he has that ability.
Dana Scully
We haven't found any new psychic photos here either. Wait a second. I want to show you something. Right here. This. And look. It's the same company. What if the kidnapper was working construction at both sites? From these two vantage points, he would have been able to pick out the two women.
Fox Mulder
You may be right. Check it out. Let me know what you find.
Dana Scully
Where are you gonna be?
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna be back in D.C. I want special photo to run this. I still think the answer's in here.
Dana Scully
What if it's not, Mulder? This woman's time is running out.
Fox Mulder
That's all the more reason... To fully investigate the one and only hard piece of evidence we do have. I'll be in touch.
[ footsteps approaching ]
[ muffled whimpering ]
Scene 09
BACK AT THE UNKNOWN LOCATION WHERE ALICE BRANDT IS BEING HELD CAPTIVE
[ speaking german ] [ whimpering continues ]
Alice
Get away! Get away from me! Get away from me, you bastard!
[ sobbing ]
Alice
Shh. Let me go! No, please, don't!
Gerry Schnauz
Shh.
Scene 10
FBI SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT, WASHINGTON D.C.
[ speaking german ]
Fox Mulder
Can you get rid of the blurriness surrounding her here?
Technician
Yeah. I just need to mark a place where the blur comes to a point... And let the computer do its business. Bingo. Lord, look at that. This guy's an artist.
Fox Mulder
Why do you say that?
Technician
However he did this, however he put this together, it's seamless.
Fox Mulder
What about this face here? Can you bring that up at all?
[ keyboard clacking ]
Technician
Mmm. Wait a second. Let's try-- I think I can sweeten it more.
Fox Mulder
Okay, do that.
Scene 11
THE TRAVERSE CITY POLICE STATION
Dana Scully
What have you got?
Officer Corning
We're running the construction company employees. Eighteen workers overlapped on both job sites. We're checking the records now, but so far nothing.
Dana Scully
What about day laborers?
Officer Corning
Mr. Iskendarian there says that his company doesn't hire workers off the books.
Iskendarian
I don't want any trouble with the I.r.s.
Officer Corning
But his foreman might hire... A little cash-only day labor without his knowledge. He's got seven job sites going now, as many foremen.
Dana Scully
Gather officers to canvass. Which foreman was working the midlothian corporate park?
Iskendarian
That job's finished.
Dana Scully
Find out where he is today. I'll take that one.
Iskendarian
Can I use your phone?
Scene 12
BACK IN D.C. AT THE SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT
Fox Mulder
Okay, thank you. N.c.I.c. Shows no match for that man. What about this shape up here? What is that?
[ computer mouse clicking ]
Fox Mulder
Can you take that and flip it so that that's on the bottom? Is that a shadow?
Technician
Yeah. It is. It's somebody's shadow.
Fox Mulder
It's the kidnapper's shadow. It's like he's looming over her. It's like he-- he's standing over her. He means to pass judgment on her, like a god.
Scene 13
OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SITE IN MICHIGAN
Dana Scully
Hello? Hello? Hello?
[ thudding ]
[ clicking ]
Dana Scully
Hello?
Gerry Schnauz
Hi. Can I help you? Yes, ma'am. I'm gerry Schnauz.
Dana Scully
I'm special agent Dana Scully. I'd like to ask you some questions about the day laborers that you hire.
Gerry Schnauz
What, is this some I.r.s. Thing or--
Dana Scully
No, sir, not at all.
Gerry Schnauz
Well, my crew's at lunch if you want to talk to anybody. But everybody I've got on today is on the books, as far as I know.
Dana Scully
[ phone ringing ] excuse me. Sorry.
Gerry Schnauz
Yeah, sure.
Dana Scully
Scully.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I may have something for you on the kidnapper. It's, uh, something about his legs.
Dana Scully
Yeah?
Fox Mulder
They're unusually long. They're out of proportion. I'm thinking he's either very tall, or he's not but wants to be. Scully? Scully, are you there?
Dana Scully
Unruhe. Stand where you are!
[ grunts ]
[ clattering ]
Dana Scully
Don't move! Stop or I'll shoot!
[ breathing heavily ]
Dana Scully
Lace your fingers behind your head. Do it!
[ grunts ]
Scene 14
AN INTERROGATION ROOM AT THE POLICE STATION
Gerry Schnauz
Who?
Dana Scully
Alice brandt, the second woman that you abducted. That's her name, gerry. Where is alice brandt?
Gerry Schnauz
I don't-- I have no earthly idea what you're talking about.
Dana Scully
Tell us where she is, gerry.
Gerry Schnauz
I'm sorry. This is a case of mistaken identity or something. I-- I honestly, honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
Dana Scully
Explain this.
Gerry Schnauz
We were running sheetrock today. I use that to start the holes in the sheetrock to keyhole in all the fixtures.
Dana Scully
No. You used this to kill the two men.
Gerry Schnauz
What two men?
Dana Scully
You used this on mary Lefante!
Gerry Schnauz
Who? W-- wait. A minute ago it was alice brandt. I don't believe this. I do not believe this is happening.
Fox Mulder
You want to tell us about the first time you were arrested, gerry? In 1980, you attacked your father with an ax handle. You beat him so severely that he spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair.
Gerry Schnauz
I was not jailed. I was institutionalized. I had a kind of chemical imbalance.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. "gerald thomas Schnauz, "diagnosed and treated for a paranoid schizophrenic disorder. Six years in melvoyne psychiatric hospital. Released 1986." so, what you been up to since 1986, gerry?
Gerry Schnauz
Taking care of my father. Looking after him 24 hours a day. Making amends. He, uh, passed away in january.
Fox Mulder
How did you feel about that?
Gerry Schnauz
Sad.
Fox Mulder
It says here you have a sister. Where is your sister, gerry?
Gerry Schnauz
She passed.
Fox Mulder
Actually, it says here she committed suicide in 1980. God, that was a bad year. What else happened in 1980, gerry?
Gerry Schnauz
Well, john lennon got shot. Where the hell are you going with this? What, are you sigmund freud? Why don't you cut the b.s.?
Dana Scully
Then why don't we get back to alice brandt? Where is she?
Gerry Schnauz
You look troubled.
Fox Mulder
Hey, gerry? Is this your father?
[ chuckles ]
Gerry Schnauz
Where'd you get that?
Fox Mulder
You left that for me. You left it like a fingerprint. Is this what you see when you close your eyes? Is that what you see?
[ mouths word ]
Fox Mulder
Gerry, tell me where alice brandt is.
Gerry Schnauz
She's safe... From the howlers. She's all right now.
Fox Mulder
Gerry, tell me how I can find her.
Scene 15
A RURAL AREA
[ sirens wailing ]
Police Officer
[ men shouting ] over here! All right. Let's go! Come on! Come on! Right up ahead. Better get some tape.
[ police radio chatter ]
Fox Mulder
You know, Scully, that word "Unruhe"-- unrest-- it's bothering me. Maybe he thought he was curing them somehow. Saving them from damnation. From those things in the pictures. He called them the "howlers."
Dana Scully
It's over, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Then that photo wouldn't be his fantasy. It would be his nightmare.
Dana Scully
What the hell does it matter?
Fox Mulder
Because I want to know.
Dana Scully
I don't.
Scene 16
THE POLICE STATION
[ engine starts ]
Trott
Put it all in here-- wallet, jewelry, everything. Eyes straight ahead.
[ camera whirring ]
Trott
Let's step over to the table.
[ machine beeping ]
Trott
What the hell?
[ gunshot ]
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
This wound's in the wrong place. He was shot in the throat. He wasn't trying to save this victim.
Dana Scully
We just got a report of a strong-armed robbery. It's at the drugstore where the first victim disappeared.
Scene 17
THE DRUGSTORE
[ chattering ]
Dana Scully
What happened?
Paramedic
We need to take your pulse.
Dana Scully
Thank you. It was gerry.
Fox Mulder
He took the passport camera and all the film in the store.
Dana Scully
He also took morphine, scopolamine hydrobromide and insulin syringes. He's making more twilite sleep.
Fox Mulder
He wants to continue his work.
[ beeping ]
Dana Scully
You know that job site that I arrested him at, Mulder? What if he's already picked out his next victim? There were apartment buildings on all sides.
Fox Mulder
You think you interrupted his stalking?
Dana Scully
Let's go.
Fox Mulder
Hold on a second. Here, you bring the car around. I just want to wait for this. I'll be right there.
[ dialing ]
Officer Corning
Corning.
Dana Scully
Corning.
Officer Corning
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Send units to the 300 block of belmont avenue. Check all of the apartments in the vicinity of that job site. I think he's heading back there.
Officer Corning
Got it.
Dana Scully
Thanks.
[ phone beeps ]
Dana Scully
Ow!
[ beeping ]
Fox Mulder
Scully! Scully! Scully!
Scene 18
THE POLICE STATION
[ chattering ]
Officer Corning
Sir? Agent Scully's explorer just turned up. It's abandoned at a park and ride about 20 Miles up the u.s. 81.
Fox Mulder
Any sightings?
Officer Corning
A report of an audi stolen from the same lot.
Fox Mulder
He's switching cars. He's gonna do that two or three times. He's got six fingers here.
Officer Corning
Sir?
Fox Mulder
He's got six fingers. What about his apartment?
Second Officer
We got a unit at his boardinghouse, but he ain't coming back.
Fox Mulder
What about friends, relatives, coworkers? Does he have a summerhouse, winter house?
Officer Corning
He doesn't seem to have much of anything. We're running a couple of phone numbers we found in his wallet.
Fox Mulder
Let me see his wallet.
Officer Corning
It's his father's obituary.
Fox Mulder
"recipient of the bronze star medal during the korean war. Gerald Schnauz, senior, d.d.s." he was a retired dentist.
Scene 19
AT THE FORMER OFFICE OF GERALD SCHNAUZ, SR.
[ officer ]
Officer
What's there?
Fox Mulder
He was here.
Officer Corning
Why would he take the chair?
Scene 20
THE UNKNOWN LOCATION WHERE ALICE BRANDT WAS HELD CAPTIVE
Dana Scully
Let me go.
Gerry Schnauz
Shh!
[ speaking german ]
Dana Scully
It's over, gerry. Let me go right now.
[ german continues ]
Gerry Schnauz
Everybody does. But especially you.
Dana Scully
Why? Why me, gerry? Do I remind you of your sister? Why did your sister kill herself, gerry? What did your father do to her?
Gerry Schnauz
He didn't do anything. It was the howlers.
Dana Scully
Okay. Then let's talk about the howlers.
Gerry Schnauz
They live inside your head. They make you do things and say things that you don't mean. And all your good thoughts can't wish them away. You need help. You've got them... Right there. Don't you feel them?
Dana Scully
I don't have them, gerry.
Gerry Schnauz
See? They made you say that just now, because they know I'm going to kill them.
Dana Scully
What if you're wrong, gerry? What if there are no such things as howlers? What if you made them up inside your head... To explain the things your sister said your father did?
Gerry Schnauz
Great. Now they got you talking like sigmund freud. I am on to you! I know your tricks! Besides, I've seen them... In that picture that your partner showed me. Pictures don't lie. You saw them too.
Dana Scully
If there are such things as howlers, gerry, they live only inside your head.
Scene 21
BACK AT SCHNAUZ'S FATHER'S DENTAL OFFICE
[ ice pick clangs ]
[ whirring ]
Fox Mulder
I'm in here. Six fingers, right?
Officer Corning
We've got the state police looking as far--
Fox Mulder
Why are there six?
Officer Corning
What?
Officer Corning
We've got the state police looking as far south as grand rapids. Still no sign of her. Agent Mulder, what do we do?
Fox Mulder
Damn it. One, two-- there's five headstones. And the father makes six. Come on!
Officer Corning
Let's go! Let's go!
Scene 23
THE UNKNOWN PLACE WHERE SCULLY IS HELD CAPTIVE
[ vehicles approaching ]
[ police radio chatter ]
[ men shouting ]
Officer
Yeah, right over there.
Fox Mulder
Fan out! Check the tree line!
Gerry Schnauz
What does-- what does this mean?
Dana Scully
It means you need help, gerry.
Gerry Schnauz
No, I think what it means is that I don't have much time left.
[ rattling ]
[ shuddering ]
Dana Scully
No, gerry, stop!
Gerry Schnauz
Shh.
[ muffled cries ]
Gerry Schnauz
Shh.
[ creaking ]
[ muffled cries continue ]
Fox Mulder
Scully!
Dana Scully
Mulder!
[ Scully shouting ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, help! Mulder!
Fox Mulder
Scully! Are you hurt? No.
[ footsteps approaching ]
Fox Mulder
Get an ambulance!
[ men shouting in distance ]
[ shouting continues ]
Scene 24
SCULLY'S APARTMENT
Dana Scully
Addendum to case report. After his death, a diary was found among gerald Schnauz's belongings, written in the second person... And apparently intended as an open letter to his father. It includes the names of his victims-- the women he desired to save. My name is contained in the last entry. I have no further explanation for the existence of the photographs, nor am I confident one is forthcoming. My captivity forced me to understand... And even empathize with gerry Schnauz. My survival depended on it. I see now the value of such insight. For truly to pursue monsters, we must understand them. We must venture into their minds. Only, in doing so, do we risk letting them venture into ours?
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