Billy
Mom! Watch me!
Season 8 · Episode 5
Invocation
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX06Original airdate · December 3, 2000
256 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ swing creaks ]
Lisa Underwood
Okay, Billy!
Billy
Mom! You're not watching! Mom!
Lisa Underwood
Billy?! Billy? Billy! Billy! Billy! Billy! Billy! My little boy... My Billy... Billy! Billy!
Scene 02
WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Josh
Mom!
Lisa Underwood
Hi, josh. I was just coming in. They know you're supposed to wait.
Josh
They're looking for you.
Lisa Underwood
Who? Who's looking for me? Hey, what is it?
Josh
Go look, mom.
Principal
Mrs. Underwood, we tried to call you. You must've already left.
Lisa Underwood
What is everyone staring at? What is going on?
[ swing creaking ]
Lisa Underwood
Oh... Billy? My beautiful boy. Billy? Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh, Billy.
[ crying softly ]
Scene 03
DEXTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Dana Scully
I'm just going to shine this light in your eyes, okay? You're doing great. See? Nothing to it.
John Doggett
He won't speak?
Sheriff Sanchez
No, not even to his parents.
John Doggett
Are they here, his parents?
Sheriff Sanchez
Oh, they've been here around the clock. I took his prints. It's him. Boy should be a teenager by now, but look at him. Explain to me how that can be.
John Doggett
I can't say, sheriff. I'm just here to find out who took him.
Sheriff Sanchez
I talked to everyone at school and no one saw him come back or how. The boy just come out of the blue.
John Doggett
Are those the case files?
Sheriff Sanchez
Oh, yeah. Plenty more where those came from. There's lots of files. There's just not much in them. We never even had a suspect.
John Doggett
Have them set them over there, would you.
Sheriff Sanchez
Set those on that table.
Dana Scully
Okay. Well, what we've got here is a healthy seven-year-old boy who was born 17 years ago.
John Doggett
And a healthy boy who won't speak.
Lisa Underwood
Excuse me? Are you finished with Billy?
Dana Scully
Mr. And mrs. Underwood?
Lisa Underwood
Um, you're with the FBI...
Dana Scully
Yes. I'm agent Scully, and this is agent Doggett. We are, uh, investigating this case.
Lisa Underwood
It's a miracle, isn't it?
Dana Scully
Mrs. Underwood... Whatever your son has been through it has somehow affected his physical condition.
Lisa Underwood
So we've been told by every doctor here. We just want to take him home. After ten years, can we do that?
John Doggett
Not yet. I want to talk to him first.
[ door closes ]
John Doggett
How you doing, Billy? My name's john. I'm gonna have a seat over here, is that okay? Is that all right? Billy, I want you to know that you're not alone. I've talked to lots of other boys and girls who've been hurt just like you. Sometimes when they talk about it the hurt starts to go away. You want to talk about it, Billy? You know, maybe you think bad things happened to you because you've been a bad boy... But I'm here to tell you, that's not true. The bad guy is the one who took you away and it's up to you and me to get the bad guy. See, 'cause as big and tough as I am, I can't do it alone. I need your help. Can you tell me about him, Billy? What's his name? What did he look like? You remember this, don't you, Billy? Would you like to have that back?
Lisa Underwood
What is he doing?
Dana Scully
Uh...
John Doggett
All I want is his name.
Lisa Underwood
Who the hell do you think you are? He's only a little boy.
Dana Scully
Mr. Underwood-- you think this is a game?
John Doggett
A serious game; one we have to win.
Dana Scully
Have you really worked kid cases before, agent Doggett? Child abductions?
John Doggett
I worked the child abduction task force. I know the horror stories, but this kid can help us.
Dana Scully
This isn't just a horror story. This is a biological impossibility.
John Doggett
Well, that's your area of expertise. I just want to put the person who did this out of business. Billy just didn't show up. He got away or was let go. And if he can talk, he can tell us by who. Or he can look at photos in the files and point to the man who did this so this doesn't happen to some other little boy.
Dana Scully
You are ignoring the fact that he is still seven years old.
John Doggett
Failure to thrive. Isn-isn't that the term? I mean, aren't there diseases that delay puberty and so on?
Dana Scully
I told you... He's not sick.
John Doggett
Good. Then he can talk.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Lisa Underwood
We're home, honey. Safe at home. I'm going to go pay the sitter, doug. You bring Billy in.
Doug Underwood
Are you glad to be home, Billy? A lot's new here, son. You have a younger brother now. Josh. See that big dog out there with him? That's sparky. Would you like to go play with him?
[ barking ferociously ]
Doug Underwood
Sparky, stop it! Get down! What's gotten into you? Sparky! Sparky, hey! What's going on? Knock it off!
[ growling ]
Lisa Underwood
What's the matter, doug?
Doug Underwood
I don't know. The dog just went off. Sparky, what is wrong with you? Come on, let's go.
Lisa Underwood
Honey, it's all right. He just didn't recognize you, that's all. He's a nice dog, sparky. He just doesn't realize that you're part of the family. But you are, Billy, and we're just so glad that you're finally home.
Scene 05
DEXTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Dana Scully
You going to sleep here, too?
John Doggett
What time is it?
Dana Scully
I spoke with the doctors who treated Billy. I looked at his charts.
John Doggett
And what, did you find something?
Dana Scully
Yes and no. What showed up is that Billy is the same boy who was taken ten years ago.
John Doggett
We know that.
Dana Scully
No. I mean the same boy. He has no cavities. He has no tooth decay. He still has four baby teeth that he's never lost. He had a routine blood test six weeks before he disappeared in 1990. His cell counts, his enzymes, his hormone levels they are all exactly the same as they were ten years ago.
John Doggett
Now how can that be possible?
Dana Scully
It's medically impossible.
John Doggett
So, what's the punch line? Where are you saying he's been?
Dana Scully
There are X-Files cases that describe similar paranormal findings. Alien abductees who came back with anomalous medical stats.
John Doggett
You know, these words: "anomalous," "supernatural," "paranormal..." they purport to explain something by not explaining it. It's lazy.
Dana Scully
I'm not saying that I can explain it agent Doggett but this is definitely not normal.
John Doggett
I went back to the witnesses at the crime scene the day Billy vanished, to this guy, ronald purnell. He was detained, questioned and dismissed as a suspect.
Dana Scully
What's your interest in this guy?
John Doggett
He's a high school dropout, convicted of possession arson and shoplifting since 1990.
Dana Scully
These are juvenile records. These are sealed by the court, agent Doggett. We're not supposed to have these.
John Doggett
And we're at a standstill here.
Dana Scully
Yeah, and you're breaking the law.
John Doggett
Look, I want to catch this guy, agent Scully whatever it takes.
[ crickets chirping ]
Scene 06
UNDERWOOD RESIDENCE
Lisa Underwood
We love you so much, Billy. It's so good to have you back-- to be tucking you in. Sleep tight. He's asleep.
Doug Underwood
Billy or josh?
Lisa Underwood
Both, but I meant Billy.
Doug Underwood
Of course you did.
Lisa Underwood
What is that supposed to mean?
Doug Underwood
It means that you're blind to what's going on here, lisa.
Lisa Underwood
Ten years we prayed for this. Every night we prayed to god.
Doug Underwood
I prayed for our son. That is not the boy I knew, lisa.
Lisa Underwood
What do you expect him to be? They told us this will take time.
Doug Underwood
Even josh is afraid of him.
Lisa Underwood
He is nothing to be afraid of.
Doug Underwood
I wish I could believe that.
Lisa Underwood
How can you sit here and say these things to me?
Scene 07
BAKER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
John Doggett
Anybody in there? Hello? Ronald purnell?
[ car approaching ]
John Doggett
Ronald purnell?
Ronnie Purnell
Yeah.
John Doggett
Can I talk to you? Can you come out, and we can have a conversation?
Ronnie Purnell
Is this about my probation?
John Doggett
It's about a little boy named Billy underwood. You know that name? Ring a bell?
Ronnie Purnell
No.
John Doggett
It does to everybody else in this area. He vanished from a school fair you were at ten years ago. You remember him now?
Ronnie Purnell
Yeah. I remember him.
John Doggett
You think he'd remember you?
Ronnie Purnell
Me?
John Doggett
You. Your face.
[ chuckles ]
Ronnie Purnell
You're a trip, man. You know that?
John Doggett
This has nothing to do with you being stoned or violating your probation. All I'm asking is that we go see Billy. See what he says.
Ronnie Purnell
See what he says where?
John Doggett
Where? Wherever. Wherever you want. I'll make sure he's there.
Ronnie Purnell
You're not making sense, dude. Just leave me alone.
[ sighs ]
Scene 08
Scene 08
Lisa Underwood
Billy? Honey, are you here?
[ screams ]
Josh
What?! What are you doing?!
Lisa Underwood
Joshey! Oh, my god! Are you hurt?
Josh
No.
Lisa Underwood
You're bleeding.
Josh
Mom!
Lisa Underwood
Where did that come from?
Josh
I don't know.
Lisa Underwood
Billy. Billy... Billy, honey... What are you doing here? Please answer me, Billy.
Scene 09
DEXTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Sheriff Sanchez
Just got word back from the lab. Ran the blood twice and no doubt about it. It's the little boy's.
John Doggett
But I thought you said he wasn't cut.
Sheriff Sanchez
No. You're misunderstanding. It's the other son I'm talking about, Billy-- the boy who was kidnapped.
John Doggett
That doesn't make any sense.
Dana Scully
No. Billy wasn't cut either.
Sheriff Sanchez
No, but he definitely handled the knife. His prints are on it.
John Doggett
Where did he even get it?
Sheriff Sanchez
His father's never seen it before. He's no hunter. Never cleaned an animal which is about all a knife like that's good for... Except for killing, of course.
Dana Scully
Well, I hate to say this but I think that the best thing for Billy and his family is if he's removed to an institution under the observation of people who are experienced in these things.
John Doggett
You mean, remove him? Take him away? After all his family's been through?
Dana Scully
This is not a normal child, agent Doggett, and this is not a normal act.
John Doggett
You make it sound like he's possessed. Call the exorcist. He's a kid-- a kid who's been through who knows what kind of hell. Give him a chance. How do you know he's not trying to communicate something?
Dana Scully
And what's the message? Yes, he's a kid, agent Doggett you're right. He's a kid who materialized out of thin air, unaged. Do you not somehow recognize how strange this is?
John Doggett
Did anybody notice this? This symbol?
Sheriff Sanchez
Yeah. Yeah, uh, I was going to mention that to you 'cause it's... Kind of weird.
John Doggett
Weird how?
Sheriff Sanchez
Well, like I told you, we tried everything to find that boy, and who abducted him went so far as to bring in a police psychic ten years back-- came up with that very same symbol.
John Doggett
Well, how exactly did he come up with it?
Sheriff Sanchez
She. Sharon pearl. Couldn't say how it came to her.
Dana Scully
I've seen this symbol before, too.
John Doggett
You have?
Sheriff Sanchez
I'll be damned.
Scene 10
Scene 10
Lisa Underwood
We love you so much, Billy. Whatever happened... We want to put it behind us. Be a family again. And if you could help us to understand what you're going through we can move forward. No, we're just going to go see a doctor someone you might want to talk to. We're coming right back. Nothing's going to happen. Mommy won't let anything happen to you. Billy, I just want you to get the help you need so we can all live here together and be happy. Okay? Come on, sweetie.
[ sighs ]
Lisa Underwood
I'll take him, doug. If it's such a strain on you.
Doug Underwood
Look, if you think a shrink can give us some answers, fine. I just don't want this to ruin our other son's life in any way.
[ engine starting ]
Doug Underwood
Billy? Billy?
Lisa Underwood
Where's Billy?
Doug Underwood
Billy? Billy? Billy? Billy?
Lisa Underwood
Billy!
Doug Underwood
Billy?
Josh
[ yells ] dad!
Marcia Purnell
I don't want no more trouble here, ronnie. Whatever you're doing, you do it somewhere else.
Ronnie Purnell
You ever get off your lazy ass to do anything but hassle me?!
Marcia Purnell
Watch your mouth. I got company coming and he won't take your lip.
Ronnie Purnell
Who? You tell him to stay out of my face. Get away from me.
Cal Jeppy
Where you going, weirdo? Hey. Hey. You steal those clothes off a fat man or'd... You just shrink? Hmm?
Marcia Purnell
Hey, you going to get your butt in this trailer, traveling man?
Cal Jeppy
Yeah. All depends on, uh... What you've got in mind. Hmm?
Both
Mmm.
[ laughs ]
[ slaps ]
[ laughs ]
[ grunts ]
Scene 11
UNDERWOOD RESIDENCE
Sharon Pearl
Testing, one, two, three...
[ footsteps ]
Doug Underwood
This is great. Now, I've got a psychic sitting in my living room who's going to tell me what's wrong with my son.
Dana Scully
I understand your misgivings, mr. Underwood but perhaps you can look at this as just another avenue.
Doug Underwood
An avenue to what?
John Doggett
We're going to solve this case, mr. Underwood. We're going to find out who did this to your son.
Doug Underwood
And then what? What am I left with? A kid who stabs knives into his brother's mattress? You don't know the half of it. He gives everyone but his mother the creeps with that stare of his.
John Doggett
I just know that this is going to tear you apart. It's going to tear your family apart. And you can't let it. You've got to save them from the damage this can do.
Doug Underwood
I'll be happy to save what I can. Come on, josh. Let's go.
[ door shuts ]
Sharon Pearl
Is this going to happen?
John Doggett
Shouldn't you be telling us that?
Sharon Pearl
You're no doubt confused, agent Doggett. I take psychic readings not see through walls.
Lisa Underwood
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Sharon Pearl
Mrs. Underwood. I'm sharon pearl. I consulted on your son's disappearance back in 1990. And you're Billy?
Dana Scully
Ms. Pearl? Are you okay?
Sharon Pearl
There are very powerful forces at work here. Working through this boy. Drawing him to his brother. I feel this force... I feel this force... Coming through you. You lost someone just like Billy.
[ speaking gibberish ]
Dana Scully
Call 9-1-1.
[ gibberish continues ]
John Doggett
What's happening to her?
Dana Scully
Oh, my god.
[ panting ]
Cal Jeppy
Hey, fartknocker.
[ starter grinding ]
Cal Jeppy
Where are you going in such a big hurry? Hmm? What's the matter? Got something in your ears?
Ronnie Purnell
Don't touch me, cal.
Cal Jeppy
Oh, listen to him. No wonder he wears them baggy britches. Our ronnie's a big man now. Your old lady said the cops came and talked to you. Hmm? I am talking to you, not the side of your head. Better mind your ps and qs, jones. Or I'm going to tell them what you did to that little boy. I'm going to tell them what you got buried out there in the woods.
Marcia Purnell
What's going on with you two?
Cal Jeppy
Talking about cars.
[ engine starts ]
[ wheels spinning ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
Dana Scully
Well, they've got her stabilized and it looks like she's going to be okay... If you're at all curious about her condition.
John Doggett
I'd be more curious if I believed it.
Dana Scully
Believed what?
John Doggett
The act.
Dana Scully
You think that was an act?
John Doggett
It's pretty standard fare isn't it? Float a few choice revelations, as if they came from on high roll around on the floor.
Dana Scully
You saw that symbol appear on her forehead.
John Doggett
It's a damn good trick. Don't ask me how she does it. Agent Scully, please.
Dana Scully
No. I think you ought to hear this.
[ pearl speaking gibberish ]
Dana Scully
Now listen to it backwards. [ singing ]
John Doggett
What was that?
Dana Scully
It's a child singing. Lyrics.
Voice
[ faint singing ] ♪ all the pretty little horses... ♪
[ humming softly ]
Music
♪ don't you cry... ♪ ♪ go to sleep, little baby... ♪
Dana Scully
You hear that, under the noise? Now...
John Doggett
What's he doing here?
Ronnie Purnell
Get away from me.
[ knocking ]
John Doggett
Ronnie, open up the car!
[ engine starts ]
John Doggett
Ronnie. Ronnie, stop the car! Agent Scully he's got Billy!
Dana Scully
Get out of the car! Now!
John Doggett
Don't move, ronnie. Where's Billy?
Dana Scully
I thought you said Billy was in the car?
John Doggett
Where's Billy?
Scene 13
DALE'S FOOD AND GAS
Doug Underwood
I'm going to go pay. You want anything? Josh, are you okay, buddy?
Josh
Dad, can I...? Mister? Pony? Hey, pony? Hey, there you are.
[ grunting ]
[ screaming ]
Josh
Help! Help!
Scene 14
Scene 14
Dana Scully
Count to ten agent Doggett.
John Doggett
He took Billy.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
He couldn't have.
John Doggett
How are you going to back that up with Billy now missing from his home?
Dana Scully
By the certain knowledge that not five minutes earlier I saw him enter his home with his mother.
John Doggett
I saw him! I saw Billy riding in the car with ronnie. Why else would ronnie take off like he did?
Dana Scully
It's impossible, agent Doggett like everything else about this case. Like how Billy can be in his home one minute and then in ronnie's car the next. Everything about this case is impossible.
John Doggett
This kid is the key, agent Scully. I've been saying that from the beginning and I'll say it now.
Sheriff Sanchez
Agent Doggett, agent Scully, I got bad news on top of worse. Josh, the underwood's other little boy has disappeared. I'm not joking, not even close. I got the parents out here now. Come on.
John Doggett
I've got to talk to this kid, agent Scully. I'm absolutely sure.
Scene 15
Scene 15
John Doggett
Have a seat, ronnie.
Ronnie Purnell
I know what you're going to ask... But I got no answer.
John Doggett
Well, there can be only one answer, right? I mean, why else did you go to the house? You went there for Billy, to get him back.
Ronnie Purnell
No.
John Doggett
You had him in your car.
Ronnie Purnell
I don't know how he got there.
John Doggett
Then why go to the house at all?
Ronnie Purnell
Because I didn't believe you.
Unidentified speaker
Mom!
John Doggett
You didn't believe what? What's so hard to believe, ronnie?
Ronnie Purnell
You said I could talk to him.
John Doggett
You needed to talk to him. After all those years, you couldn't live without him. You wanted him back. All those years, ronnie. All those years. Where'd you keep him?
Ronnie Purnell
Man, you don't understand.
John Doggett
You were sorry you let him go.
Ronnie Purnell
No, I... I couldn't let him go.
Music
♪ when you wake you shall have ♪ ♪ all the pretty little horses ♪
John Doggett
Who else knew about him? Your mom?
Ronnie Purnell
No.
John Doggett
Where'd you keep him?
Ronnie Purnell
I didn't.
John Doggett
What did you do to him?!
Ronnie Purnell
I didn't do anything. I took care of him. I-I sang to him... You know, so he wouldn't be afraid.
John Doggett
Afraid of who? Who was he afraid of, ronnie? Somebody else involved? Somebody else make you do it? He take that other kid, too? Billy's brother? He take him? You're afraid of him, too, aren't you? You're a victim, just like those other kids. Is that right? You... Me, Billy. This is our chance, man. What's his name?
Scene 16
Scene 16
John Doggett
FBI! Cal jeppy! Come out! All right. It's okay, josh. You're okay. We're not going to hurt you.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett... He's on the run.
John Doggett
He's in the woods! Watch your fire! There may be another boy!
[ gasping ]
John Doggett
Down on your knees!
[ panting ]
John Doggett
Hands in the air! Where's the kid?!
Cal Jeppy
He's in the trailer.
John Doggett
Other kid!
Cal Jeppy
There's no other kid.
John Doggett
Billy underwood!
Cal Jeppy
There's no other kid.
John Doggett
Get this man in cuffs! Read him his rights! The kid's over...
Scene 17
Scene 17
John Doggett
I don't believe it.
Dana Scully
Okay, the clothes, the age and condition of the bones the location of the grave. There is no doubt that that is Billy underwood's skeleton that is in that grave.
John Doggett
We spent time with this boy. Doctors took Billy's blood. You examined him yourself. Now, I can't accept it. I can't believe we're asking them to.
Dana Scully
I know but the forensic evidence is going to come out, and what then? What if I'm right?
John Doggett
Well, what then, agent Scully? What do we do? We move on, let it go, case closed?
Dana Scully
Look, I know where you are with this. I have been there. I know what you're feeling-- that you've failed and that you have to explain this somehow. And maybe you can.
John Doggett
Not if that's Billy's body, I can't.
Dana Scully
But maybe that's explanation enough. That that's not Billy's brother lying in that grave, too. That that man who did this is never going to be able to do it again. Isn't that what you wanted, agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave.
Dana Scully
All I'm saying is that maybe you succeeded... Whether you're willing to see that or not.
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