Curtis Delario
It's just senseless. A man so young as Ray... It's god's cruel trick, nora.
Season 8 · Episode 9
Salvage
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX10Original airdate · January 14, 2001
239 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Scene 01
Nora Pearce
Don't go blaming god, curt. You and I know what killed Ray.
Curtis Delario
Oh... We don't know anything for sure.
Nora Pearce
How does a 41-year-old man just... Wither away and die?
Curtis Delario
If any of us knew that we'd have done something about it. Maybe it was just his time.
Nora Pearce
He was a young man when he went over, curt. Ray got sick because he fought in the gulf.
Curtis Delario
[ sighs ] now, don't go there, nora. You just make it worse for yourself. The doctors never said...
Nora Pearce
They never said! That's right. My husband's dead and no one knows why. Maybe I have to find out myself. They're going to pay for Ray's death-- whoever's to blame.
Curtis Delario
No one's to blame. You're just upset. You need a good night's sleep.
Nora Pearce
I don't want to sleep, I just...
[ sobbing ]
Curtis Delario
You just want Ray back. We all do. Get some rest.
Unidentified speaker
See you tomorrow, okay?
[ door closes ]
[ engine starts ]
[ gasping and moaning ]
Curtis Delario
Ray?
[ curt screams ]
Scene 02
MUNCIE, INDIANA
John Doggett
Car's registered to a curtis delario local address. So far, he's been unreachable.
Dana Scully
Well, it's highly unlikely that wherever he is he feels like picking up the phone this morning.
John Doggett
Muncie pd ran some calculations. Based on the distance traveled the length of the skid marks they estimate the car was going at least 40 when it impacted the object which, according to their math would require something 4,300 times the density of steel to cause the damage we're looking at.
Dana Scully
Hmm. It's interesting, isn't it? I mean, uh... In light of the evidence.
Tow Truck Man
Hey, watch yourself.
Dana Scully
From their size and shape, these look like men's shoes.
John Doggett
I hope you're not suggesting that what this car hit was a man, agent Scully, because there's no way.
Dana Scully
Well, these impressions in the asphalt look pretty fresh to me.
John Doggett
I admit to the coincidence but you know as well as I that if a man were here he'd be splattered from here to tomorrow and there's just no evidence of that.
Dana Scully
You're right, which is suspicious in and of itself. I mean, this car definitely hit something and the only evidence that we have are these two prints.
John Doggett
You know I hate to ruin your beautiful theory with ugly facts but stop to examine the incident. If a man were standing here, the driver would have stopped.
Dana Scully
Well, it looks like he tried to.
John Doggett
Well, even so, if a man were in the middle of the road with a car coming wouldn't he try to move?
Dana Scully
Unless he wanted to stop the car.
John Doggett
Yes, but if nothing less than a block of steel could stop this car then, ipso facto, it could not have been a man standing in the street last night.
Dana Scully
Or certainly no ordinary man.
Nora Pearce
[ nora, frantically ] just tell me what happened-- where is he? Where...
John Doggett
Excuse me, ma'am? John Doggett with the FBI. Do you know about this?
Nora Pearce
What happened? Where is he?
John Doggett
Curtis delario, you know him?
Nora Pearce
He was a friend of my husband's. They worked together at the salvage yard.
John Doggett
Now, I want you to calm down, mrs...
Nora Pearce
Pearce. How am I supposed to calm down? Finding this now, it...
John Doggett
We're not even sure he was driving the car.
Nora Pearce
He was. He came over after my husband's funeral and then he left and...
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett! Meet curtis delario. I guess he won't be much help clearing any of this up.
Scene 03
Scene 03
John Doggett
I think I got some answers.
Dana Scully
So do I. It wasn't the crash that killed curtis delario. He was badly injured, but he was clearly still alive when his body was pulled through the car's windshield.
John Doggett
Pulled?
Dana Scully
Yeah, these five deep puncture marks match five fingers of one hand.
John Doggett
You mean, someone just reached right in and...
Dana Scully
Like a bowling ball.
John Doggett
That seems humanly impossible.
Dana Scully
Certainly for any ordinary man.
John Doggett
Well, from the evidence I've gathered the man that did this is actually less than ordinary. I was able to reconstruct a section of the windshield and lift a print from the glass.
Dana Scully
Whose?
John Doggett
Raymond aloysius pearce. Husband of nora pearce woman I spoke with at the accident site.
Dana Scully
Hmm.
John Doggett
Her recently deceased husband.
Dana Scully
Well, if he was recently deceased then it must have been an old print.
John Doggett
Well, what you would think except along with the print there was evidence of fresh blood and it belongs to Ray pearce, too.
[ electrical crackling ]
[ knocks loudly ]
Scene 05
Scene 05
John Doggett
Mrs. Pearce... Agent Doggett again. Sorry to bother you but there are some things I need to go over.
Harry Odell
Everything all right, nora?
Nora Pearce
He's with the FBI. Uh, this is harry odell. He runs the salvage yard where... Ray and curt worked.
John Doggett
May I come in?
Nora Pearce
Agent Doggett, I don't understand. Before, you were talking about curt. Now you want to talk about Ray?
John Doggett
What was their relationship, mrs. Pearce-- your husband and curtis delario-- outside of work?
Nora Pearce
I know what their relationship is now. They're both dead.
John Doggett
Going back through your husband's medical records it says that he died after a long, debilitating illness?
Nora Pearce
Gulf war syndrome. No one will cop to that, but I aim to prove it-- put the blame where it belongs.
John Doggett
I'm having trouble proving something myself, mrs. Pearce. You signed a form to have your husband's body cremated but it appears it never happened.
Nora Pearce
What do you mean? They gave me the ashes. They were at the funeral.
John Doggett
Well, I can't find a record of Ray's body ever even being at the crematorium.
Harry Odell
Oh, for crying out loud. Hasn't this woman grieved enough?
John Doggett
Let me get to the point, mrs. Pearce. Is it possible your husband is still alive?
Nora Pearce
Still alive? Is this a joke?
John Doggett
Because we have evidence to suggest that maybe your husband was involved in the death of curtis delario.
Harry Odell
Are you saying Ray faked his death?
John Doggett
We found Ray's blood and fingerprints on curt's car.
Nora Pearce
I watched him die. I nursed him when he was sick, when he couldn't eat. What you're saying is impossible. He couldn't even walk or... Lift his head at the end.
Harry Odell
Ray pearce worked for me nine years. He was a good man. He never raised a hand to anyone.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Larina
Hey. How're you doing? Ray, right? They said you're new. Rough night? You're, uh... You're eating the tin foil on the...
[ chuckles nervously ]
Larina
My name's larina. I help out around here. Yeah, you might have some questions about how it all works. No, I don't know. It's, it's pretty basic. Look, um... I've been down the road and back a few times and... [ sighs ] I just want to say you're not alone, Ray. I mean, I... I've been where you've been and... And sometimes it can help. You know. Sometimes it's good to just... Talk. Make a connection. You know what I'm saying, Ray? [ sighs ] so if there's anything I can do for you, you know...
Ray Pearce
You can leave me alone.
Unidentified speaker
Okay.
[ taps out rhythm on table ]
[ shredder grinding ]
[ shredder stops ]
Scene 07
SOUTHSIDE SALVAGE
Harry Odell
God almighty. Ray. It's true. Oh, you got everybody wondering, man. And they're looking for you. They blame you for killing curt. Now, me and curt, we're your friends. You can't blame this on us. You got to believe me, it wasn't us. Well, I can show you. It's right here, Ray. It wasn't me. This time, you stay dead.
[ odell screams ]
Scene 08
Scene 08
Dana Scully
Scully.
John Doggett
Did you find anything to go along with those holes in curt delario's head? Paint on his hands and nails?
Dana Scully
Paint?
John Doggett
Blue paint, specifically.
Dana Scully
Hang on. Uh... No. Is it significant?
John Doggett
I don't know. But harry was a busy boy last night. He must've left nora pearce's right after I saw him right after he learned that Ray pearce might still be alive.
Dana Scully
To do what?
John Doggett
Well, it's pretty clear that he was in his office shredding papers when he was surprised by someone.
Dana Scully
And you think it was Ray?
John Doggett
Well, somebody took a blast. There's blood all over the doors trailing down the stairs here to there-- massive blood loss.
Dana Scully
But the man with the gun is dead.
John Doggett
I saw guys take hits in the war that kept right on fighting holding their insides in their hands. I know it's not impossible. But to do this to a man's head after taking two barrels of buckshot...
Dana Scully
Or being hit by a car.
John Doggett
I don't see how a man could possibly do this.
Dana Scully
Well, maybe the question's not how but why. I mean, if Ray pearce did indeed kill this man what would be his reason?
John Doggett
I'm not sure, but I know where to start looking.
[ knocking on door ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Larina
Hello? Ray? Ray. You okay? Somebody saw you come in with blood on you. I can see it on your clothes. Look, Ray I know it never does anybody any good getting the cops involved, okay? Look, I've been there, man. I know what it's like to feel dark and alone. I can get a doctor for you.
Ray Pearce
Get out. Get out.
Larina
Okay. Okay.
Scene 10
CHAMBER TECHNOLOGIES
Dr. Pugovel
They're called smart metals. The idea is to one day build things that are indestructible. Cars, equipment built of alloys with molecular memory. If damaged, they'd rebuild into their original forms.
John Doggett
All by themselves? That's amazing!
Dr. Pugovel
And right now, all a metallurgist's pipe dream. But beside the point of your visit, I would imagine.
John Doggett
Well, you tell me. I found a document at a crime scene listing chamber technologies. An employee number on the document was assigned to a dr. David clifton.
Dr. Pugovel
Dr. Clifton's no longer here.
John Doggett
What happened to him?
Dr. Pugovel
He left the company. I'm actually his successor in this department.
John Doggett
Do you have any reason to deal with a man named harry odell or a business called southside salvage?
Dr. Pugovel
No, I don't deal with materials. Nor did dr. Clifton for that matter. Our work here is all theoretical. We have an environmental manager who's in charge of waste management but disposal is done at tsd facilities definitely not city salvage yards.
John Doggett
Thanks for your time, doctor...
Dr. Pugovel
Puvogel. German, no h. You need me to spell it for you?
John Doggett
No, no. That's quite all right. Thanks.
Dana Scully
Scully.
John Doggett
Hey, it's agent Doggett. I'm at chamber technologies.
Dana Scully
Did you find dr. Clifton?
John Doggett
He's no longer with the company. But his successor says his work here was entirely conceptual. Everything's done on computers.
Dana Scully
What kind of conceptual work?
John Doggett
Thing called smart metals. It's pretty incredible-- metal alloys designed to rebuild themselves.
Dana Scully
I wonder. As it happens Ray pearce's illness is pretty incredible, too. I've reviewed Ray's medical records from the va. What his wife was calling gulf war syndrome is nothing of the kind. His entire cellular makeup was affected by exposure to some non-identifiable contaminant-- a metal.
John Doggett
What are you saying? Ray pearce has become some kind of metal man? Because that only happens in the movies, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Does it, agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Tell you what. I'll press this guy here a little more on the issue.
Dana Scully
Maybe there's a reason why he's not being perfectly forthcoming.
[ newscaster, indistinct ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Wnkw Newscaster
Police are still searching for clues in last night's bloody robbery and murder at muncie's southside salvage. Workmen found the body of 53-year-old harry odell outside his office at approximately 7:30 this morning. Detectives have refused to comment on the cause of death pending an autopsy, but sources close to the case describe it as a vicious and grisly attack.
Unidentified speaker
Robbery appears to be a motive behind this...
Operator
This is operator 525. What city, please?
Larina
Uh, muncie. Number for a Raymond pearce.
Scene 12
Scene 12
John Doggett
Sorry I'm late.
Dana Scully
It's all right. I just got the blood test back on Ray pearce and it was indeed the same Ray pearce who was pronounced dead three days ago. But that's not all. By all medical standards he should still be dead. His blood has enough metal alloy in it to poison an elephant.
John Doggett
Except that he's still a man, agent Scully and he's going to act and think like one even if he is more powerful than a speeding locomotive.
Dana Scully
But then the question is, why kill his friends? I mean, if he was wronged somehow wouldn't he go to them for solace? I mean, to his wife, at least?
John Doggett
That's why I was late. I asked myself that same question. Ray was an outpatient at the va. He had a history of substance abuse. Did some time for a couple of duis.
Dana Scully
This was ten years ago.
John Doggett
Cleaned up his act. He met nora and married her in '91 checked himself into a rehab and got straight. This was a guy to root for, agent Scully. This was a guy that overcame adversity and made a life for himself.
Dana Scully
Until three days ago.
John Doggett
I've busted a lot of killers, agent Scully and dollars for doughnuts, they fit a profile. But the Ray pearce in this file is no murderer let alone a guy that would hunt down his friends and crush their skulls.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett, the man that we're speaking about withstood impact from a speeding car and two shotgun blasts at short range. Even if we can find him who's to say we can stop him?
Scene 13
CHAMBER TECHNOLOGIES
John Doggett
Make sure that door is secure!
Dana Scully
Dr. Puvogel are you sure he can't open that door from the inside?
Dr. Pugovel
I've got a manual override on the door.
[ loud thud ]
Dr. Pugovel
What the hell was that?
[ loud thud ]
Dana Scully
Ray pearce.
[ pounding ]
Dr. Pugovel
The door is four inches thick.
[ pounding ]
Dr. Pugovel
I don't think it's going to hold!
John Doggett
You'd better hope it does 'cause if it doesn't, he's coming after you and I don't know if we can stop him.
[ pounding ]
John Doggett
Open it up.
Dana Scully
Get it open!
Dr. Pugovel
There's a rupture in the chamber. I don't believe this.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett. Look at this. You see this?
John Doggett
What is that? Is that blood?
Dana Scully
Turning itself into metal.
John Doggett
Get him out of here! Get him out of the building!
Dr. Pugovel
I didn't do anything to the man! I didn't do anything.
John Doggett
You want to argue about it or let us get you someplace safe?!
Dr. Pugovel
Where's that? Where's safe?!
John Doggett
It's not in here.
Scene 14
ST. CLARE'S HALFWAY HOUSE
Nora Pearce
My god. It's true.
Ray Pearce
You shouldn't have come, nora.
Nora Pearce
I shouldn't have come?! That's what you say to me? I'm your wife. I came here because you didn't come to me. I had to have some stranger tell me. Why didn't you come, Ray?
Ray Pearce
Because I'm not me.
Nora Pearce
I don't care what's happened. Whatever it is, it's a miracle. Don't go.
[ yelps ]
Ray Pearce
There's your miracle.
Nora Pearce
Ray, let me help you. Please, let me help.
Ray Pearce
They've got to pay for this. They've all got to pay.
[ tapping on hollow metal drum ]
[ liquid sloshing ]
Scene 15
SOUTHSIDE SALVAGE
John Doggett
[ whispers ] oh, my god!
Scene 16
Scene 16
Dr. Pugovel
You mind telling me what's going on here. It's not enough that my life's been threatened. I'm being treated like a criminal.
Dana Scully
Not without cause.
Dr. Pugovel
Oh, my god.
Dana Scully
Do you recognize this man?
John Doggett
We're assuming you don't know too many guys in this particular condition.
Dr. Pugovel
It's not what it looks like.
John Doggett
Is this dr. Clifton-- dr. David clifton-- your predecessor?
[ sighs ]
Dr. Pugovel
Yes.
John Doggett
You care to explain how he ended up in a chamber technology hazardous waste barrel?
Dr. Pugovel
It was his idea. I was against it.
John Doggett
If you knew, you might've told me about this when I first came to see you.
Dr. Pugovel
He was dying... And he was afraid.
Dana Scully
Of what?
Dr. Pugovel
That it would hinder progress or halt it. That it would finish us.
John Doggett
Oh, you're finished. One way or another your work here is done.
Dr. Pugovel
We didn't know this was going to happen! We were just trying to push the envelope do the right thing for the company. Then he got sick. He was... He was working with an alloy with a genetic algorithm built into it. It converted electrical energy into mechanical. Gave it memory.
Dana Scully
And it poisoned him.
Dr. Pugovel
We immediately shut down the project. But it was too late. He didn't have any family. His work was his life. He wanted to leave us to continue working on the science.
John Doggett
And leave you to ship this barrel and his body to southside salvage where it infected somebody else.
Dr. Pugovel
I don't know how that happened, I swear to god. That barrel was supposed to go to a designated site.
Dana Scully
Let me talk to you for a second. I think he's telling the truth.
John Doggett
What the hell is she doing here?
[ elevator bell dings ]
Dana Scully
Who is it?
John Doggett
Nora pearce, Ray's wife. Mrs. Pearce? What are you doing here? How do you know about this place?
Dana Scully
She was looking for something.
John Doggett
Who'd you call, mrs. Pearce?
Sergeant
Go!
[ sighing ]
[ muffled screaming ]
[ screaming continues ]
[ yelling in distance ]
[ body hits floor ]
Scene 17
Scene 17
Officer
Let's check in here.
[ door rattling ]
[ pounding on door ]
Officer
Police!
[ pounding continues ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
Officer
Want us to take the woman in?
John Doggett
No, I want to talk to her first. You might be interested to know that your husband just broke through a second-story wall and eluded a dozen cops at st. Clare house. That please you, mrs. Pearce? Does it please you to know that he killed a young woman there, a volunteer named larina jackson?
Dana Scully
That makes three people. Three people that he's killed and for what?
Nora Pearce
Because they made him what he is.
John Doggett
They say this young woman he killed tonight had been concerned for him-- concerned for Ray's welfare.
Dana Scully
Whatever Ray is whatever he's become, it was an accident. It was not those people's fault, mrs. Pearce.
Nora Pearce
Harry and curt knew about it.
Dana Scully
No, they were innocent, just like Ray was. They didn't know that this was going to happen.
Nora Pearce
These people here knew about it. They got documents on it.
Dana Scully
Oh, so that's what this is about? This is about looking for somebody to blame?
John Doggett
Ray sent you here, didn't he to find that person; to get a name?
Nora Pearce
The Ray I know... Died. And the man responsible should pay for that.
Dana Scully
So who is it? It's the ceo here? The owner? Give us a name, mrs. Pearce, before someone else has to die.
Nora Pearce
I... I never gave him a name.
John Doggett
Get her out of here. Put her on 24-hour watch.
Scene 19
PEARCE RESIDENCE
Officer
We'll be right outside, ma'am.
Ray Pearce
Nora?
Nora Pearce
They're right outside, Ray.
Ray Pearce
Did you get me the name?
Nora Pearce
You killed her. The woman who called me. For god's sake, Ray, why? Why her? She cared about you.
Ray Pearce
I need the name.
Nora Pearce
No one else needs to die, Ray.
[ gasping ]
Nora Pearce
You won't do it not to me.
Ray Pearce
I need the man's name.
[ gasping ]
Nora Pearce
He's in the house!
Officer
Go! Go! Go!
[ dog barks in distance ]
Nora Pearce
Tell the FBI agents it's harris. Ray made me give him the name. Owen harris! Ray's going to kill him.
[ radio playing ]
[ tires squealing ]
[ engine sputtering ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 20
Scene 20
Mrs. Harris
No! Owen! No! No!
Son
Daddy!
Wife
No! No!
Ray Pearce
Owen harris... Don't look away. Look at me.
Owen Harris
Why are you doing this?
Ray Pearce
Because you made me.
Owen Harris
I don't know what you're talking about.
Ray Pearce
Southside salvage.
Owen Harris
I'm just an accountant.
Son
Daddy!
[ gasping ]
Son
Daddy!
[ siren approaching ]
Scene 21
Scene 21
Dana Scully
Ray pearce.
John Doggett
He came here to kill this man but something stopped him, didn't it?
Dana Scully
This man, owen harris-- he begged for his life. It might just have saved him. His attacker got up and ran away.
John Doggett
Makes no sense. Ray pearce was a determined killer looking for someone to blame. Why stop here?
Dana Scully
Wherever Ray pearce went the answer to that question went with him but I can tell you why he came after owen harris. It was his name nora found in the file. He was the accountant who authorized the shipment of hazardous materials to southside salvage.
John Doggett
But if owen harris is the guy Ray holds responsible why'd Ray let him live?
Dana Scully
Well, I think that, uh, nora pearce may have been right. Her husband died, or at least his body did. Whatever killed those people was an abomination of a man. It was a machine.
John Doggett
A machine? Come on, a machine doesn't know blame, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Nor mercy. Unless what drove Ray to kill is also what saved those people. Some flicker of humanity.
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