Amber Lynn
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take. God bless mommy, god bless daddy, and grandma and grandpa Lapierre, and grandma and grandpa jason, and--
Season 7 · Episode 10
Sein und Zeit
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code7ABX10Original airdate · February 6, 2000
256 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Scene 01
Mrs. Lapierre
Okay, okay, Amber Lynn. Bedtime. Come on. You grab mike, okay? Hop in. Let's get you cozy, cozy, toasty, toasty. Inside. Snug as a bug.
Mr. Lapierre
Night-night, lynnie. Night-
Amber Lynn
Night, daddy. Night, mommy.
Mrs. Lapierre
Night, love. Bed lights out, Amber Lynn. Good girl. That's a good girl.
[ TV: gunfire ]
Unidentified speaker
Stop right there!
Man On Tv
Weapon on the floor.
Mr. Lapierre
This is great.
Man On Tv
Where's this trial I'm being put through? Is this a test of my love for you?
Mr. Lapierre
Billie?
Unidentified speaker
They are the ones that want me to kill myself. Aah! Oh, sweet angel.
Mr. Lapierre
Billie! Amber Lynn!
Unidentified speaker
Oh, god!
[ bell dings ]
Scene 02
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Walter Skinner
Amber Lynn Lapierre, that's right. A federal investigation is underway. The kidnapping in sacramento, California. Why are you here, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I want this case.
Walter Skinner
I'm fairly certain I've got more than enough competent agents in here.
Fox Mulder
Ooh, I can see that.
Walter Skinner
This is a kidnapping, agent Mulder. A Little girl snatched from her bedroom. Basic, missionary-style FBI work. It's not an X-File.
Fox Mulder
I'm aware of the facts.
Walter Skinner
We're trying to rule out all possibilities before we start making any statements.
Fox Mulder
That's what I'm talking about, ruling out other possibilities.
Walter Skinner
I can't just give you the case. I have to follow protocol. Behavioral gets first crack, then the people down at n.c.n.e.c.
Fox Mulder
Two, three, four hours. This case is gonna be a circus. Every starstruck attorney in America... Is gonna want to represent these people for free. If somebody doesn't ask the right questions right now, they may never get asked.
Walter Skinner
You've got till noon. Mulder... The agents in my office... They have a pool going.
Fox Mulder
They think she's dead. Don't bet on it.
[ crowd chattering ]
Officer
Sir, can you tell us about--
Scene 03
SACRAMENTO, CLAIFORNIA
Reporter
Excuse me. Have they found the girl? Are there any new developments in the case? Is she dead?
Reporter 2
Are the parents suspects in the disappearance of their daughter?
Harry Bring
Sorry, no press allowed inside.
Fox Mulder
Special agent Fox Mulder, FBI I'd like to speak to mr. And mrs. Lapierre if I may.
Harry Bring
My clients have nothing to say. Uh, Harry Bring. How can I help you?
Fox Mulder
Mr. Bring, your card says "real estate law and conveyances." have you ever handled a murder case?
Harry Bring
This isn't a murder case.
Fox Mulder
Well, it might as well be... Once the facts about Amber Lynn's disappearance get out.
Harry Bring
My clients are not murderers, and-and I resent any such accusation.
Fox Mulder
You know, if you really want to help your clients, get them a real lawyer.
Mr. Lapierre
It's okay, Harry. Billie and I got nothin' to hide.
Fox Mulder
Mr. And mrs. Lapierre, my name is Fox Mulder. I'm a special agent with the FBI I have a lot of experience with crimes like the one that took place here. I know you've made a statement to the police, but I'd like to ask you some questions about that. I'd like you to answer in as much detail as both you and your lawyer are comfortable with. I want to ask you about the note you found. Where did you find it?
Mr. Lapierre
In my daughter's bedroom.
Fox Mulder
When?
Mr. Lapierre
When I went to check on her.
Fox Mulder
Do you know what time that was?
Mr. Lapierre
9:30, I think. It was right about then. I was watching TV in here.
Fox Mulder
What were you watching?
Mr. Lapierre
I never heard of it before. It was good.
Fox Mulder
What about you, mrs. Lapierre?
Mrs. Lapierre
I was in bed already.
Fox Mulder
Were you asleep?
Mrs. Lapierre
Half.
Fox Mulder
Is that Amber Lynn's bedroom that I saw down the hallway there?
Mrs. Lapierre
Yes.
Fox Mulder
Do you always lock your doors at night, even if you're home?
Mrs. Lapierre
Yes.
Fox Mulder
You know most of your neighbors, I bet, up and down the street. You're on good terms with them?
Mr. Lapierre
Most of them, yes.
Fox Mulder
Can you think of anyone who might've wanted to hurt Amber Lynn?
[ sobbing ]
Harry Bring
That's enough questions. They've been very helpful, but I think you can see that these folks have nothing whatsoever to hide.
Fox Mulder
Mr. And mrs. Lapierre, I want you to understand something, because it's gonna get very confusing from here on in. But whatever else the FBI says or does, they're gonna try their damnedest to find your Little girl.
Mrs. Lapierre
Okay.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
Mrs. Lapierre
Agent Mulder? Do you think they will... Find her?
Fox Mulder
Oh, I hope so. Yeah. I really do.
[ knocking ]
Scene 04
10:12 PM
Fox Mulder
It's open.
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Come on in.
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Unidentified speaker
Thinkin'.
Dana Scully
About?
Fox Mulder
Amber Lynn Lapierre.
Dana Scully
Mind if I turn on a light?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I do.
Dana Scully
Skinner is royally pissed. At you.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure he is.
Dana Scully
He expected a report at noon. He waited. And now he sent me to find you to get it.
Fox Mulder
I don't have a report.
Dana Scully
They had to move on the case. The media got wind of the police findings. They're gonna broadcast them. The parents are being held for further questioning.
Fox Mulder
They're not guilty, Scully.
Dana Scully
The facts would say otherwise. There's no sign of a break-in. Both of the parents were at home at the time the girl disappeared.
Fox Mulder
They lied about where they found the note.
Dana Scully
Why?
Fox Mulder
That's what I've been thinkin' about.
Dana Scully
Is it the media, or just our own morbid fascination with the killing of an innocent?
Fox Mulder
She's not dead, Scully.
[ phone rings ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Woman
Fox, it's me.
Fox Mulder
Mom? Hi. I'm watching the news. That Little girl in California. You're out there, aren't you? Yes. I am. Are you okay, mom? When are you coming back here? Well, I'm not sure. You know, I don't know. Call when you get back, Fox. Okay, I will. Um-- you take care, mom, okay?
[ dial tone ] [ receiver clicks ]
Scene 05
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Walter Skinner
From the note, we can and have determined several facts. There is a threat of physical violence, but no demand for money or ransom. The note is short and written on a torn piece of paper, suggesting haste and Little or no planning. The paper's the type used by dry cleaners to protect laundered garments. The torn piece that the note was found on... Matches exactly a piece that was found in the garbage at the Lapierre home. The ink matches a felt-tip pen that was also found in the garbage. One set of prints were found on it-- billie Lapierre's prints.
Fox Mulder
Is it her handwriting?
Agent Flagler
[ man ] that's gonna be difficult to prove, due to the felt-tip pen and the quality of the paper, which tends to cause bleeding, makes the handwriting indistinct. It also looks like there's been an attempt to disguise the writing. By using samples of mrs. Lapierre's handwriting, we see dominant letter forms-- the "s" in "strangle," "stray dog," here in "santa claus." matches up with the "s"'s in "dollars"... "seven" and "cents." enough to make a connection.
Fox Mulder
But not an indictment.
Walter Skinner
Do you have information you'd like to share with us, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Bud Lapierre says he'd been watching television... And had gotten up to go to bed when he found Amber Lynn missing. But according to the police report, the TV set was still on when the first officers arrived on the scene. By his own account, both mother and father put Amber Lynn to bed... And were never more than 20 feet from her room during the period in which she was abducted. The lapierres know all their neighbors down the street, are on good terms with them. But no one saw a stranger on a friday... At a fairly early hour enter into a locked and lighted home... And remove this Little girl undetected.
Agent Flagler
Husband's lying for his wife.
Fox Mulder
I don't think so.
Walter Skinner
Why?
Fox Mulder
Because that doesn't explain what happened to this Little girl.
Dana Scully
What are you doing, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
There's something in that abduction note that I've seen before.
Dana Scully
That's not what I mean. You're personalizing this case. You're identifying with your sister.
Fox Mulder
My sister was taken by aliens. Did I say anything about aliens?
Dana Scully
There are a lot of good agents up in Skinner's office who do not have the patience for this.
Fox Mulder
What did I do? I provided a logical counterpoint.
Dana Scully
You told them that they were wrong, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
And they are. Pocatello, Idaho, 1987. Look familiar?
[ children chattering, squealing ]
Scene 07
IDAHO WOMEN'S STATE PRISON
Guard
Kathy Lee, visitors are here.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Can you let them in, please?
[ buzzing ]
Fox Mulder
Hi, ms. Tencate. My name is agent Mulder. This is agent Scully. Can we have a seat?
Kathy Lee Tencate
It's not the ritz.
Fox Mulder
Um... We just have a few questions. We've reviewed the facts of your case. The facts seem to speak for themselves. Your six-year-old son dean was taken from his bed while he slept. A note was found threatening his life, later determined to be written by you. You plead innocent at trial, but you were convicted... And sentenced to 12 years, even though your son's body was never found.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Yes, that's right.
Fox Mulder
Your story is that, uh, on the night your son disappeared, you had a vision of him dead. You thought it was your mind playing tricks on you, but when you got up to check on him, he was missing from his bed. Is that accurate?
Kathy Lee Tencate
Yes.
Fox Mulder
Now, three years ago, after seven years of incarceration, you changed your story and confessed to the murder of your son... In a fit of insanity, a psychotic break.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Yes, that's right.
Dana Scully
Why did you do it?
Kathy Lee Tencate
I don't know. I was full of rage.
Fox Mulder
I have a... Copy of the note that you wrote. Do you mind if I show it to you? Now, there's a phrase down here at the bottom. "no one shoots at santa claus." can you explain what that means to me?
Kathy Lee Tencate
Uh... It means that, uh, when someone promises you something, a gift, like santa claus, that no one would do anything for fear of not getting the gift.
Fox Mulder
A Little girl disappeared from her bed three days ago. This is the note that was left at that scene. Can you take a look at that and tell me what it says at the bottom?
Kathy Lee Tencate
Same thing.
Fox Mulder
Neither note makes a specific demand. In both cases, there is no evidence of foul play or break-in. And, as in your son's case, there is no body to be found.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I told them where the body was.
Fox Mulder
Yes, you did. But it wasn't where you said it was gonna be.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I can't explain it.
Fox Mulder
I think you can.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I can't!
Fox Mulder
You can't explain it because you didn't do anything. You didn't kill your son, and you didn't bury him. You're not guilty of anything other than a lie, just like these people. The only reason you changed your story was to get outta here. Because you knew the parole board might buy the story... Of a psychotic break and of your terrible remorse. But they would never, never let a woman out of jail who claimed her son just disappeared. These people... They need someone to tell them it's okay, someone to corroborate their story.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I'm not that person.
Fox Mulder
They need your help.
Dana Scully
That was utterly irresponsible, Mulder. It was out of line and it was without any basis in reality.
Fox Mulder
You think that woman could've killed her son?
Dana Scully
She was convicted in court.
Fox Mulder
So how do you explain those two notes, written ten years apart, could contain the same phrase?
Dana Scully
I can't explain it, Mulder, but you're doing exactly what I said. You're personalizing this case.
Fox Mulder
No. I'm gonna solve this case. I am gonna solve it.
Dana Scully
How?
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna find those kids.
Dana Scully
What if they're dead, Mulder? Don't go looking for something you don't wanna find.
[ sobbing ]
Kathy Lee Tencate
Guard? Guard, please, can you get them back? Guard? I need to talk.
Scene 08
Scene 08
Fox Mulder
[ answering machine ] this is Fox Mulder. Leave a message. I'll try to get back to you.
[ beeps ]
Fox Mulder
Fox, it's your mother. I'd hoped you'd call upon your return, but I haven't heard from you. I'm sure you're busy. There are so many emotions in me, I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid for reasons I hope... One day you'll understand.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Harry Bring
This is highly unusual. I wanna know what you're doing here.
Fox Mulder
Something I want your clients to see.
Harry Bring
I wanna know what it is first.
Fox Mulder
It's about shootin' santa claus, mr. Bring. You're gonna wanna see it too. I believe you share a secret.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I'm, uh-- I'm doing this because I feel that it's the right thing to do, and because I know what you're going through. I wouldn't want to happen to you what happened to me. I just want to tell you that your Little girl is okay. And I know you're afraid of the truth, because I-- I saw things that I was afraid of too. And I can't explain all of it, except to say... That I don't remember... Ever... Thinking those words that I wrote, let alone writing them.
[ bobbie sobbing ]
Kathy Lee Tencate
It was like they wrote themselves using my hand. But what I know... For sure, because I feel it in my heart, is that my son is safe and protected... And in a better place.
Scene 10
UNKNOWN LOCATION
Newscaster
Rumors and suspicions aside, the parents of Amber Lynn Lapierre... Were released today for lack of evidence against them, and after giving a new statement to the sacramento police, which insiders say... Has authorities still baffled and confused, recounting a detailed story... That claims supernatural forces were at work when their daughter was abducted. The lapierres, seen here returning to their home, declined comment.
Fox Mulder
Federal investigation of the case will continue, but will no longer focus on the lapierres as primary suspects. We, uh, we will intensify our search for Amber Lynn, and we remain hopeful of her eventual safe return.
[ reporters shouting, indistinct ]
Walter Skinner
"intensify our search" where? The twilight zone?
Fox Mulder
I have a corroborating witness.
Walter Skinner
In state prison.
Fox Mulder
There's a material connection between these two women.
Walter Skinner
The only connection, agent Mulder, is you. I've got people busting their butts on this thing, putting together hard evidence, real evidence, while you're out gathering grimm's fairy tales from convicted murderers.
Fox Mulder
Doesn't make sense. It's incomprehensible in any kind of a real-World way.
Walter Skinner
I deal in the real World, agent Mulder. You begged onto this case as part of the solution. All you've done is hand our only suspects the twinkie defense.
Dana Scully
Sir.
Walter Skinner
What? What is it, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
I need to have a word with agent Mulder.
Walter Skinner
It can wait.
Dana Scully
No, it can't, sir.
Fox Mulder
What is it, Scully?
Dana Scully
Mulder, your mom's dead.
[ dialogue indistinct ]
Scene 11
MRS. MULDER RESIDENCE
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
In here.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Unidentified speaker
Diazapan.
Fox Mulder
She used them to sleep.
Dana Scully
Was there a note? No.
Fox Mulder
She called when I was in California. She wanted to talk, but, uh, I never called her back.
Dana Scully
Oh, Mulder--
Fox Mulder
I didn't-- why would she do this? It just doesn't make any sense.
Dana Scully
We never truly know why.
Fox Mulder
No. She wouldn't kill herself. Why are these pictures gone? There were photos here. There were photos of my sister and I. This is all she had left of us, and they're missing. Why--
[ sighs ]
Fox Mulder
She saw me on the news. She wanted to talk about the missing girl, Amber Lynn. She wanted to tell me something about her. Maybe she couldn't tell me over the phone, 'cause she was afraid they would do something like this to her.
Dana Scully
Who?
Fox Mulder
Whoever took my sister. Look at this place. I mean, it's like it's all staged. The pills, the oven, the tape. It's like a bad movie script. They would've come here, and they would've threatened her. She would be upset. They would have to sedate her. I would look for a, uh-- a needle-puncture mark or something else in her system besides these pills.
Dana Scully
No, Mulder. Please don't ask me to do this.
Fox Mulder
Scully, who else can I ask?
Dana Scully
An autopsy, Mulder? It's one thing on a stranger, but you're my friend and she's your mother.
Fox Mulder
I know. But if you don't do it, I might never know the truth.
[ sighs ]
[ buzzing ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
Fox Mulder
You've seen things. I need to understand them.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Something's happened to you?
Fox Mulder
My mother's dead. You know why. Look, I can help you. I can talk to the parole board for you. But right now, I need you to help me.
Kathy Lee Tencate
I don't understand what you want.
Fox Mulder
I'm not here by accident. My sister was taken away from me... When she was eight years old, like your son was taken away from you.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Where's your sister now?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Kathy Lee Tencate
Your mother knew, didn't she?
Fox Mulder
Why do you ask that?
Kathy Lee Tencate
She was trying to tell you.
Fox Mulder
Tell me what?
Kathy Lee Tencate
She'd seen them.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Kathy Lee Tencate
The walk-ins. Old souls looking for new homes. Your sister's among them.
Fox Mulder
You can see them?
Kathy Lee Tencate
Yes. But sometimes it's very difficult because they live in the starlight.
Fox Mulder
Is my sister dead?
Kathy Lee Tencate
They took her... To protect her soul from the great harm it would've suffered in her life, just like they did my Little boy.
Fox Mulder
Where do they take them? Your boy? This Little girl, Amber Lynn Lapierre?
Kathy Lee Tencate
I don't know. But they're okay. I'm sure your sister's there too.
[ children shouting, voices overlapping ]
Unidentified speaker
Come on! I want to see santa! Yes!
Little Girl
That one's fat. That's not rudolph! This one is dead! He's dead. He's not! He's not!
Scene 13
Scene 13
Music
♪ rudolph the red-nosed reindeer ♪ ♪ had a very shiny nose like a lightbulb ♪♪
Young Boy
You can't sing it!
Little Girl
Yes, I could!
Young Boy
No, you can't!
Little Girl
I could!
World Weary Dad
Hey, buddy. The kids wanna see santa. What about it?
Paunchy Man
He's just flying in.
[ cheering, whooping ]
Little Girl
We're gonna see santa! Santa!
[ tape rewinding ]
Scene 14
TEENA
Fox Mulder
Fox, it's your mother. I'd hoped you call upon your return, but I haven't heard from you. I'm sure you're busy. There are so many emotions in me, I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid for reasons... I hope one day you'll understand.
[ rewinding ]
Fox Mulder
There are so many emotions in me, I wouldn't know where to start. So much that I've left unsaid for reasons... I hope one day you'll understand.
[ knocking ]
Fox Mulder
I'm glad you're here. My mother was trying to tell me something. Think I've figured it out. Something about my sister that she was never able to tell me. So much that I've left unsaid for reasons... I hope one day you'll understand. She knew what I'd find with this case out in California.
Dana Scully
How could she know that?
Fox Mulder
Child disappearing without a trace, without evidence, in defiance of all logical explanation? She knew because of what's driven me, what I've always believed.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
Scully, these-- these parents who have lost-- who've lost their children, they've had visions... Of their sons and daughters... In scenarios that never happened, but... Which they describe in notes that came through as automatic writing, and words that came through them psychically... From old souls protecting the children. My mother must've written a note like that herself... Describing the scenario of my... Sister's disappearance, of her abduction by aliens. Don't you see, Scully? It never happened. All these visions that I've had have just been-- they've been to help me cope, to help me deal with the loss, but... I've been looking for my sister in the wrong place. That's... What my mother was trying to tell me. That's what she was trying to warn me about. That's why they killed her.
Dana Scully
Your mother killed herself, Mulder. I conducted the autopsy. She was dying of an incurable disease-- an untreatable and horribly disfiguring disease called paget's carcinoma. She knew it. There were doctors' records. She didn't wanna live.
Fox Mulder
She was trying to tell me something! She was--
[ sobbing ]
Dana Scully
She was trying to tell you to stop-- to stop looking for your sister. She was just trying to take away your pain.
[ gasps ]
[ no audible dialogue ]
[ knocking ]
Scene 16
Scene 16
Walter Skinner
Hi.
Dana Scully
Hi.
Walter Skinner
How's he doing?
Dana Scully
It's been a hard night for him.
Walter Skinner
Billie Lapierre's asking for him. She's got something to say. She'll only talk to Mulder.
Dana Scully
It's not a good--
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Walter Skinner
This case has heated up. I've booked two flights for us.
Dana Scully
Then you better book three.
Scene 17
Scene 17
Mr. Lapierre
Honey, wake up. He's here. Hm? Come in, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
It's okay. She's here to help. What happened here, billie?
Mrs. Lapierre
I saw my daughter right in this room... Standing right there. I swear to god, she was right over there... In the pajamas her grandma gave her... Saying something to me.
Fox Mulder
What was she saying?
Mrs. Lapierre
I don't know. Her lips were moving, but I couldn't hear. I thought-- I thought she was saying "74."
Fox Mulder
74? The number 74? Does that mean anything to you? 74 mean anything to you, mr. Lapierre? Let's go home.
Dana Scully
Mulder, we just got here.
Fox Mulder
We're not gonna... Find these people's daughter alive.
Dana Scully
How do you know that?
Fox Mulder
What we're hearing, it's... The delusional talk of people that don't want to accept the truth.
Walter Skinner
You think they know what happened to their child?
Fox Mulder
Maybe, maybe not. But you can't see a ghost and still hope to find her alive. Both things can't be true. If this Little girl's spirit really did appear to her mother, then there's probably only one explanation.
Walter Skinner
You think their daughter's dead.
Dana Scully
Well, what about the handwritten note?
Fox Mulder
I don't know what that means. I don't know what is the truth and what isn't anymore. I'm way too close to this case to make any kind of sound judgment. In fact, I would like to ask for you to let me off this case, please, and I'd like to take some time off.
Walter Skinner
What is it?
Dana Scully
Santa claus.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
Stop. Turn around.
Fox Mulder
Some of these tapes go back to the '60s. I think I know what we're gonna find here. It's what my mother was afraid of-- my sister.
[ children chattering, squealing ]
Dana Scully
It's Amber Lynn Lapierre. This tape is dated two days before her disappearance.
Walter Skinner
Hey! Stop! Keep your hands up!
Dana Scully
What's your name?
Paunchy Man
Ed truelove.
Dana Scully
You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. If you give up the right to remain silent, anything you say... Can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak with an attorney... And to have your attorney present during questioning. If you so desire and cannot afford one-- [ continues, indistinct ]
Fox Mulder
Scully.
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