Unidentified speaker
Sorry, sorry.
Season 8 · Episode 10
Badlaa
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX12Original airdate · January 21, 2001
206 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ all hailing taxis ]
[ all clamoring ]
[ speaking in foreign language ]
Beggars
[ people shouting ] paise! Paise!
Customs Agent
Home to america, mr. Potocki?
Mr. Potocki
Not a moment too soon.
Customs Agent
Next in line, please.
[ metallic creaking ]
Mr. Potocki
Poor bastard.
[ creaking and rolling ]
Mr. Potocki
Here's 50 paise. Buy yourself some wd-40.
[ wheels creaking ]
Mr. Potocki
[ whispering ] oh, for crying out loud. Listen, fella, I already gave. Do you understand english?
[ screaming ]
Scene 02
DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Bellboy
Long flight, huh? Bombay to D.C.? You know, I always wondered do they serve, like, indian food on the plane? If there's anything else I can do for you, sir...
[ chuckles ]
[ creaking ]
[ slow, labored breathing ]
[ breathing gets louder ]
[ breathing stops ]
Scene 03
HOTEL BELMONT
John Doggett
Things that land in your in-box, huh, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Good morning. I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't get a chance to look at the case file. The traffic's terrible.
John Doggett
Beltway's a nightmare. Takes longer to get crosstown than it does a plane ride from india which is where our victim flew in from last night-- bombay.
Dana Scully
Who are we talking about?
John Doggett
Hugh potocki. Importer/exporter from minneapolis. Laid over in D.C. On his way home when all this blood drains from his body.
Dana Scully
Did the m.e. See it? The body?
John Doggett
Yeah. Tox test ruled out hemorrhagic fever, ebola, anything exotic. Something killed this man but it doesn't seem to be any foreign disease.
Dana Scully
No sign of forced entry?
John Doggett
No. No one was seen coming or going from this room. The maid found the body 20 minutes after a bellman left mr. Potocki here. Whatever happened, happened fast.
Dana Scully
So, basically what you're saying is that nobody knows anything.
John Doggett
But then I guess that's why it's in your in-box. So, what do you think, agent Scully? Haunted hotel room? Alien invaders? Sloppy vampires? There is one small thing. The cops missed it their first time around.
Unidentified speaker
Well, that looks like
Dana Scully
A child's print.
John Doggett
Yeah. That's what it looks like. You know there was a ring of thieves when I was back in new york. They used kids for b&e jobs.
Dana Scully
Mm...
John Doggett
Squeezing in through cracked windows, that kind of thing. But this, this is beyond.
Dana Scully
No. From what I see, agent Doggett, from the way this man died, I doubt it was a kid who did this.
John Doggett
Thanks. I'm not quite ready yet to lose all my faith in humanity.
Dana Scully
But regardless, I'd say it's wise you keep an open mind.
[ kids yelling ]
Scene 04
FAIRMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Mrs. Holt
The better the economy gets the harder it is to fill these kinds of jobs. And the problem is that people look at it as just a paycheck. They don't realize that as maintenance engineer, you are playing an important part in these kids' lives. And I can't tell you how wonderful it is to find someone as enthusiastic as you are, mr. Burrard. And I understand you can start immediately? That's wonderful.
[ sighs ]
John Doggett
Big fella, isn't he?
Dana Scully
Big is a relative term, agent Doggett. It took three strong men to wheel him in here. He tipped the scale at 402 pounds.
John Doggett
Uh, hugh potocki was a big man, big appetites. Loved big cars, big houses, big business. Divorced twice. He carried two alimonies, one with child support. Never missed a payment. In fact, he seems to have spoiled his wives and kids.
Dana Scully
I'm missing the point.
John Doggett
It seems he loved big women too. Considering the evidence and motives, we can probably rule out his ex-wives as suspects.
Dana Scully
Well, considering what I found here today, I'd say I have to agree. Tissue damage. Massive trauma to the lower intestine and the rectal wall.
John Doggett
Is that from something going in or coming out?
Dana Scully
Well, unfortunately, there's so much damage that it's hard to tell. I took mris, which reveal further shredding throughout the abdomen and, uh, into the stomach area.
John Doggett
India's a major transit point for the golden triangle. This guy flew in and out of india half a dozen times over the past 18 months.
Dana Scully
Are you suggesting that he's a mule? A courier of heroine or opiates? Drug dealer?
John Doggett
Fills a latex balloon with heroin, swallows it. We've all seen this kind of thing before. But what if somebody got to him en route, forcibly extracted the drugs, tearing it from his stomach?
Dana Scully
Well, I'd say, uh, that's a good theory, agent Doggett, not to mention a graphic one, but there would have been traces left of drugs in his system. Nor does it account for the blood loss that this man experienced.
John Doggett
Then we're right back where we started. Nobody knows anything.
Dana Scully
Not exactly. I ran a decay analysis to, uh, determine the time of death. Liver temperature, buildup of gases, extent of rigor-- routine stuff. It's not 100% accurate, but it gives us a range.
John Doggett
What's the range?
Dana Scully
24 to 36 hours.
John Doggett
Well, that's just wrong.
Dana Scully
Well, it would mean that, uh, mr. Potocki here would have died before he left bombay.
John Doggett
No. It would mean that a dead man boarded a plane in india, changed planes in paris, hailed a cab at dulles and then checked into a downtown hotel and tipped the bellman. In my experience, dead men don't tip, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
I told you to keep an open mind.
[ metallic creaking ]
[ kids yelling ]
[ laughter ]
Scene 05
Scene 05
Trevor
Oh... Look what he just did to my scooter.
Quinton
That's mine!
Trevor
You going to take it from me?
Quinton’s Father
Hey! Leave him alone. What's going on here, quinton? I know you. Your name's trevor? You're in seventh grade, right? Don't you guys have anything better to do than pick on sixth graders?
Trevor
Well, he ran into me.
Quinton
That's a lie!
Quinton’s Father
Enough. You want to be a bully? Find somebody your own age. I'll talk to your father if I have to. Come on, quinton.
[ creaking ]
Scene 06
FBI HEADQUARTERS
John Doggett
Yes. Thank you. Sorry to wake you. Good-bye.
Dana Scully
Bad connection?
John Doggett
Consulate in new delhi. Three weeks ago an american businessman was found dead inside his hotel room. Take a look. A mr. Albert brecht of spokane. The reports have been hard to piece together. The medical records are in hindi. Death certificate's in farsi and the news accounts are in... I don't know-- letters I've never seen before. But I did get you a translation of mr. Brecht's autopsy results. Internal trauma. Tearing in the abdomen. You're the doctor-- it sounds like the same m.o., doesn't it, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Look at this. Albert brecht's passport was a recent issue and it has his weight at 205 pounds, whereas here, an indian medical examiner has him listed at 238 pounds just two hours after his death.
John Doggett
Well, if there's one thing people lie about, it's their weight.
Dana Scully
Well, that's a pretty big lie. I mean, that's a 33-pound discrepancy.
John Doggett
Well, he was a big man, that's for sure.
Dana Scully
Yeah. As was our D.C. Victim. All the better for accommodation.
John Doggett
Accommodation?
Dana Scully
Well, something has to account for the weight gain, agent Doggett. What if whatever it is that killed these men entered and exited them of its own free will? I mean, something.... Small... With small hands... Living... Inside the victims as a... As a stowaway of sorts.
John Doggett
You know I agree that having an open mind is important to crime solving, but... This theory of yours requires an openness that I'm... I'm just not comfortable with.
Dana Scully
I understand, agent Doggett, and I can't prove it... But I bet that if we had weighed hugh potocki when he first arrived here from bombay that he would have been 33 pounds heavier than his corpse.
John Doggett
It's a theory, agent Scully, but to my mind and... Pretty much the rest of me, it-it... Doesn't work.
Dana Scully
I appreciate your resistance but so far this evidence supports it.
John Doggett
Except one thing... Even if there was something living inside of hugh potocki when he arrived here from bombay... You said that mr. Potocki was already dead.
[ crickets chirping ]
[ creaking ]
Scene 07
CHEVERLY, MARYLAND
Quinton
Dad? Dad. Dad! Dad! Dad!
Quinton’s Father
Quint, what is it?
Quinton
There's a man in here.
Quinton’s Father
What? What are you talking about?
Quinton
He was here, dad. Right over there. He had no legs!
Quinton’s Father
Quinton... Quinton, listen to me. The things that you imagine, the things that-that you dream, are not real. And what's not real can't hurt you.
Quinton
But, dad, it was real. It was.
Quinton’s Father
Quint, there's nobody here. Try to get some sleep. Okay?
Newsguy 1
There's no denying the world order has changed. The united states is the sole super power-- in both a military sense and an economic one. With this comes responsibility.
Newsguys
No one's dismissing american responsibilities, here or abroad. But third world debt relief, in my view, would be a positive step toward solving third world issues and third world problems. Well, now it's my turn to disagree. Relieving that debt would allow these countries to find solutions without american intervention... I think you're being naive... There's no denying the world order has changed...
[ screaming ]
Quinton
Dad? Dad?
Scene 08
Scene 08
John Doggett
The first dead body I saw, I was 19 and a marine. This boy... Criminy.
Dana Scully
Yeah. That's not all he claims he saw.
John Doggett
That's what the cops told me. That's why I thought we should come down here.
Dana Scully
He said he called his dad in because there was something in his room. I asked him to describe it. He said that it was a munchkin. That it had no legs. And that it was keeping itself up with its arms.
John Doggett
Well, that's a pretty good trick considering what I just found upstairs. Palm prints in the boy's bedroom. They match the ones we found in potocki's room. And that's the good news. It just doesn't serve your theory... Because this thing didn't get in here in anybody's body. It came in through the bedroom window.
Dana Scully
How can you be sure?
John Doggett
There was another print on the sill outside the locked window. And somebody must have closed it after this thing got in.
Dana Scully
Right. Which is exactly what the boy said that his father did. But it's the father that I have a problem with here. I mean, he had none of the massive hemorrhaging that we found in mr. Potocki. In the coroner's initial report, he makes it sound like the guy died of a cerebral embolism. The one salient detail in the external exam were the eyes... In which all of the blood vessels are broken. Unless that's just the first stage.
[ labored breathing ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Dana Scully
This is special agent Dana Scully. I am a medical doctor about to perform an unauthorized procedure on a body. The subject is a caucasian male. Age, uh... I don't remember at this particular time. His height is about six feet. And his weight is... Quite possibly subject to change. I suppose distension could be due to decomposition gases... But that seems unlikely.
[ metal crashing to floor ]
[ creaking ]
[ phone rings ]
[ phone continues to ring ]
[ children chatting ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
Mrs. Holt
Reliability's one of the most important parts of your job. We were very worried when you didn't show up this morning.
[ creaking ]
[ school bell ringing ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Chuck Burks
They're called fakir-- ascetic masters bound to acts of self-torture to attain enlightenment. We shot this video when I was traveling through india back in the late '70s... Oh, man, look at my hair back then.
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder consulted with dr. Burks on occasion, and I have to admit that I've been skeptical of him in the past but he does have certain insights.
John Doggett
Well, we could use some insights.
Chuck Burks
Uh, well, I-I'm embarrassed to admit, but I-I'm not sure I know what the heck's going on here.
Dana Scully
These ascetic masters... They have abilities?
Chuck Burks
Oh, absolutely. An-and abilities similar to those you told me about on the phone have been ascribed to what are know as siddhi mystics. The siddhi are a very mysterious and particularly powerful order of fakirs. These siddhi they pass on their secret practices from father to son gaining occult powers with each generation.
John Doggett
What kind of powers?
Chuck Burks
Powers of the mind. Powers that help them manipulate reality. Powers that allow them to become invisible or tiny as an atom.
John Doggett
Well, I hope they're tiny. Where, whoever it is, is going.
Dana Scully
Chuck... Could one of these siddhi mystics make you believe that he vanished in a room when in fact, he's standing right in front of you?
Chuck Burks
Totally. Or disguise themselves appearing in front of you as, uh, well, virtually anyone.
John Doggett
I'm sorry, dr. Burks, you're a... You're a professor of what?
Chuck Burks
I run the advanced digital imaging lab at the university of Maryland. And, um, I dabble.
John Doggett
You dabble. Well, this has been... Insightful.
Chuck Burks
Doesn't surprise me.
Dana Scully
What?
Chuck Burks
It's hard to believe in something when you can't understand it.
[ knocking on door ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
Quinton
Get out of here.
Trevor
No, just... Let me talk to you.
Quinton
Leave me alone.
Trevor
No, I want to say I'm sorry.
Quinton
No, you're not.
Trevor
Look, I am. Would you just... Listen. I'm... Sorry about your dad. I, I think I know who did it.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Chuck Burks
Agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Chuck. Thank you for, uh, coming down here again.
Chuck Burks
Not at all. Uh... I'm just a little curious. I mean, it's always Mulder who'd been doing all the calling and...
Dana Scully
This, uh... This case, I-I-I-I'm just... I'm trying to see it the way that Mulder would, and... Please have a seat.
Chuck Burks
Of course. So, what seems to be the problem?
Dana Scully
You described these, uh, siddhi mystics as being religious men.
Chuck Burks
Extremely. They believe their powers derive directly from the divine.
Dana Scully
So, presumably, using those powers for murder would be in opposition of that?
Chuck Burks
Worse. It would violate the very foundation of ascetic life. It would endanger their eternal soul.
Dana Scully
Which got me thinking that, uh... If these siddhi hold so fast to their orthodoxy then what would cause them to break their faith?
Chuck Burks
I don't know.
Dana Scully
Something human? Revenge?
Chuck Burks
Well, maybe.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
This is... An american chemical plant in a village in india called vishi. It's just outside of mumbai. Which is a better known to us as bombay. About six months ago the plant inadvertently released a small cloud of methyl isocyanate gas. 118 of vishi's mostly indigenous population were killed. It wasn't very well reported over here. I spent all night cross-checking the, uh, victims of the disaster. And one... Finally caught my attention. Now, it's-- oh, here. It's an 11-year-old boy... Whose father is described as a being a holy man of the chamar caste.
Chuck Burks
The beggar caste. Fakirs and mystics are.... Well, often of low birth.
Dana Scully
Do you think that this boy's father could be a siddhi mystic like you described?
Chuck Burks
He could be. But if he's out for revenge, then why is he killing the people that he's killing?
[ car approaching ]
[ creaking ]
[ creaking continues ]
[ creaking continues ]
Scene 14
Scene 14
Trevor’s Mother
Ohh! What's the matter with you?
Trevor
Nothing.
Trevor’s Mother
Trevor? Where are you going? Dinner's on the table. Trevor? Trevor, dinner! Trevor! Trevor!
Scene 15
Scene 15
Trevor’s Father
Excuse me.
Dana Scully
She came out to call her son in for dinner. That's all we know.
John Doggett
What are we doing here, agent Scully? 'cause I'm not sure.
Dana Scully
What are we doing? A woman died of mysterious circumstances not three blocks away from a previous victim. External signs are a direct match. That woman's eyes.
John Doggett
I saw her eyes. But dollars to donuts, there wasn't anything that crawled up inside her. Now, I think we're reaching here, and I don't know how to say it but maybe you're seeing things that you want to see.
Dana Scully
Are you questioning my integrity?
John Doggett
No, I'm questioning the whole damn case. From your so-called expert to the evidence you've chosen to ignore to the fact that your approach has got us no closer to seeing a pattern or a motive or even catching this killer than we were when we started.
Dana Scully
I asked you to keep an open mind.
John Doggett
Yeah, well, I try to keep an open mind, but it tends to shut my eyes.
Dana Scully
There is something here, agent Doggett. And I'll admit that it's hard to accept. But there is a motive and there is a pattern and there is a reason and we will see it... But not working like this.
John Doggett
Yeah, well... I hope somebody sees it.
[ leaves crunching ]
Dana Scully
Trevor. Trevor, I'm Dana Scully...
Trevor
What happened?
Dana Scully
Your father's in the house. I'm going to take...
Trevor
Where's my mom?
Dana Scully
Trevor.
[ heavy breathing ]
Trevor
He was here. The-the little man. I-I saw him. He... He followed me.
[ heavy breathing continues ]
Scene 16
Scene 16
Chuck Burks
Agent Doggett? Where is he? Is that him?
John Doggett
If you mean the janitor, yeah, that's him, right in there.
Chuck Burks
Agent Scully called and said that you had arrested what might be an honest-to-goodness siddhi mystic.
John Doggett
Well, agent Scully jumped the gun on that one. The only thing extraordinary about this man is he doesn't speak... To anyone.
Chuck Burks
Well, where is agent Scully?
John Doggett
She left, after four hours of attempting to interrogate this guy. Unless he jumps up and does something mystical in the next ten minutes, we're releasing him. What are you doing?
Chuck Burks
The man sitting there may not be the man sitting there. No one may be there at all, in fact.
John Doggett
Not in the next ten minutes, there ain't.
Chuck Burks
[ whispering ] oh, wow. Agent Doggett? Y-you got to take a look at this.
John Doggett
Come on. It's a trick.
Chuck Burks
Yeah, but not of the camera.
John Doggett
Wait, if... If he's not there...
Chuck Burks
He could be anywhere.
Scene 17
Scene 17
Trevor’s Father
Yeah?
Dana Scully
Sir, I am so sorry to bother you again. I know this has been a terrible ordeal.
Trevor’s Father
Yes... What is it you need?
Dana Scully
I need to speak with your son, trevor, again.
Trevor’s Father
Is this about his mother?
Dana Scully
Well, trevor told me that he saw a man. It was just something that doesn't quite add up and I need to be certain. Thank you. [ cell phone rings ] Scully.
John Doggett
I think you ought to get back here, agent Scully. There's something...
Dana Scully
What?
John Doggett
The janitor, he's here... But he's not. I can't... I can't explain it.
Trevor’s Father
Trevor's not in his room.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry, just hang on one second. Agent Doggett, what do you mean he's not there?
[ clanking and creaking ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
Teacher
Who's that?
Mrs. Holt
Hello?
[ creaking ]
Mrs. Holt
Mr. Burrard... I thought you... Well, I-I didn't expect to see you back at work.
[ creaking ]
Mrs. Holt
This is the agent who picked him up before. Can you make this call?
Quinton
[ whispering ] here he comes.
[ glass breaking ]
[ liquid bubbling ]
[ grunts ]
Quinton
Trevor, are you there?
[ creaking ]
[ creaking ]
[ knocking on glass ]
Trevor
Get out of there, let's go!
Quinton
I can't! The windows are locked.
Trevor
Break them, okay! I'll get help.
[ creaking ]
[ panting ]
Dana Scully
Oh, thank god.
Quinton
Do something!
Dana Scully
Quinton, what's the matter?
Quinton
It's him! It's the little man!
Dana Scully
Who? Trevor?
Mrs. Holt
All right, now you boys, you just stop playing around.
Dana Scully
Okay, don't move. Stay where you are.
Mrs. Holt
Wait, wait. What are you doing?
Quinton
Stop him! Shoot him!
[ breaths heavily ]
Dana Scully
I can't.
[ gunshots ]
Mrs. Holt
Oh, my god.
John Doggett
What is it? What happened? Agent Scully! Scully.
[ crying ]
Scene 19
Scene 19
John Doggett
You going to be okay, agent Scully? I got a drift of what happened in there... To you. I mean, sort of.
Dana Scully
I shot a young boy.
John Doggett
The good news is, you're wrong.
Dana Scully
But it's what I saw. With my eyes, anyway. Do you know what it's like not to be able to trust your own eyes?
John Doggett
Then why'd you shoot him?
[ breathes slowly ]
Dana Scully
Because it's what the boy saw. And in an instant... I realized that it's what Mulder would have seen or understood. Because that's just how he came at things... Without judgment and without prejudice and with an open mind that I am just not capable of.
John Doggett
It's been a long night. Give yourself a break.
[ sighs ]
John Doggett
This whole thing doesn't make any sense.
Dana Scully
No... It did. In some way, it did.
[ beggars shouting ]
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