Paul Hangemuhl
Marie!
Season 8 · Episode 11
The Gift
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX11Original airdate · February 4, 2001
226 dialogue entries
Scene 01
SQUAMASH TOWNSHIP
Marie Hangemuhl
No! Please!
[ shrieking ]
Unidentified speaker
Oh, god!
[ crying ]
Scene 02
FLASHBACK
Dana Scully
Mulder was dying... It's all right here. For a year he was going to doctors. There's a clear record of his decline.
John Doggett (flashback)
How well did you really know him? How far would Mulder go?
Dana Scully
How far would he go for what?
John Doggett (flashback)
The truth... His truth. Whatever you and I may differ on... I'll find him, agent Scully.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
You must be special agent Doggett. I'm sheriff frey. Just call me kurt.
John Doggett
I appreciate the help, kurt.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Shame to have you drive all the way up here on a saturday. Hate to say you're wasting your time.
John Doggett
Not if you confirm what you told me before.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Yes, sir. Agent Mulder was here, all right... Last spring.
John Doggett
You said on the phone agent Mulder was investigating a missing woman, marie hangemuhl.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Well, she wasn't exactly missing. He wasn't exactly investigating, either.
John Doggett
I'm not following you.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
It was a false report. Marie never even left the house. The only reason agent Mulder found out about it was because marie's sister got all excited about nothing. There. See for yourself. Say, I've got some hot coffee and a danish here if you're interested.
John Doggett
No, thanks.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
You know, if you don't mind me asking, agent Doggett what's your interest? I mean, I was actually surprised that one FBI agent gave this case a thought.
John Doggett
It's not so much the case as it is the agent. Agent Mulder disappeared last may.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Sorry to hear that. I still don't see what that has to do with us.
John Doggett
Did agent Mulder have a personal connection here-- something that might not be in your report?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
No, I don't think he'd ever been to squamash before, as far as I know.
John Doggett
I have cell phone records showing that agent Mulder came back here the week before he disappeared.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
What for?
John Doggett
That's what I want to know. It's my job to find him.
[ knocking on door ]
Scene 03
Scene 03
Paul Hangemuhl
Kurt?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Paul, this is agent Doggett from the FBI. He'd like to ask you and marie some questions.
Paul Hangemuhl
Marie, can you come out here a minute? This is an FBI agent. He wants to ask us a few questions. What's this all about?
John Doggett
A colleague of mine, Fox Mulder, questioned you last spring.
Paul Hangemuhl
Come on, kurt. This again? Look, this was a personal matter that's been blown way out of proportion.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
He's not investigating you, paul. He's investigating agent Mulder.
John Doggett
If you could tell me what you and agent Mulder talked about.
Fox Mulder
You told your sister you were going to disappear, mrs. Hangemuhl. Tonight.
Paul Hangemuhl
I told you already. We had a fight, she was going to leave, not disappear.
Fox Mulder
I'm talking to your wife. Mrs. Hangemuhl.
Marie Hangemuhl
It's what he said. My sister lives out of state. I was going to go... I didn't want her to worry.
Fox Mulder
You told your sister a story, a story you were afraid of?
Paul Hangemuhl
This is crazy. There is no crime here!
Fox Mulder
I don't think you were going anywhere tonight mrs. Hangemuhl. I think someone or something was coming here. And I think maybe it still is.
Paul Hangemuhl
We had a fight. We patched things up and that was the end of it.
John Doggett
The sheriff's report says that agent Mulder spoke to you on saturday, may 6th.
Marie Hangemuhl
Yeah, I-I guess so.
John Doggett
Did you see agent Mulder again that night?
Paul Hangemuhl
No, he never came back.
John Doggett
According to his cell phone records, he did. To this area, anyway. What's that there? Is that a dialysis machine?
Paul Hangemuhl
My wife suffers from end-stage renal failure. She's a very sick woman. Anything else?
John Doggett
One thing. This someone or something agent Mulder said might be coming?
Marie Hangemuhl
I just told my sister I was afraid of the stories. That's all, I didn't mean...
Paul Hangemuhl
Let me ask you something, agent Doggett. Was this Mulder guy sick? Sick in the head, I mean? Is that why you're checking into this?
John Doggett
What stories, mr. Hangemuhl?
Paul Hangemuhl
An indian folk legend about a creature who lives out in the woods. I've heard these stories since I was a kid. So your colleague twisted it into a theory that she was going to disappear, all right 'cause this creature was coming to eat her.
John Doggett
Eat her?
Paul Hangemuhl
Alive.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Like I said, agent Doggett I hate to waste your saturday.
John Doggett
The hangemuhls own a gun, kurt?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
No, I don't think so. Why?
John Doggett
I saw three holes plastered over in their living room wall.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Gunshots?
John Doggett
Possibly.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
You want to go back and ask 'em?
John Doggett
No.
Scene 05
Scene 05
Paul Hangemuhl
Kurt, they told me you were out here. I just can't believe it. Is it true?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
That's what I'm here to find out.
Scene 06
FIREARMS TOOLMARK UNIT
John Doggett
Were you aware Mulder carried a second weapon, a walther ppk?
Walter Skinner
Yeah, in an ankle holster.
John Doggett
I found it hidden under his sink. The clip was three rounds shy.
Walter Skinner
What's this about?
John Doggett
Three shots were fired in a house where Mulder investigated a case last may. He never filed a report on the case or the discharge of his weapon. Do you know any reason why?
Walter Skinner
If Mulder did these things, he would've reported them.
John Doggett
Mulder submitted case reports, all right but they indicate he was here in Washington on days his cell phone records prove he was in pennsylvania.
Walter Skinner
Are you calling Mulder a liar?
John Doggett
This is the muzzle of Mulder's pistol. You see that there?
Walter Skinner
It's blowback.
John Doggett
Macrospatter of dried blood in a semi-circular pattern. Which indicates Mulder fired close-range at something or someone.
Walter Skinner
I've heard enough.
John Doggett
Where are you going?
Walter Skinner
It's where you're going, agent Doggett. You're trying to build a case that what? Mulder killed a man and then made himself disappear? That's not what happened. I told you before, he was abducted. I saw it!
John Doggett
Agent Mulder signed falsified case reports.
Walter Skinner
Oh, come on, john, this isn't about Mulder, it's about you! Your career. You give the FBI a narrative for Mulder's disappearance, you're off the X-Files and back on the fast-track to the directorship.
John Doggett
I'm just trying to find the truth.
Walter Skinner
You want the truth? Ask agent Scully!
John Doggett
I can't do that.
Walter Skinner
Why not?
John Doggett
Because she... She signed those case reports, too.
Walter Skinner
You take that story to opr the accusation alone could cost Scully her job.
John Doggett
I'm not taking it to opr. I'm taking it to you.
[ barking ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
Dog Owner
Hold back.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
We're giving you two minutes to bring it outside! Then we're coming in to get it! Where is it?
Woman
It's dead. You know that. Dead and buried.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
It's here. We've come for it.
Paul Hangemuhl
You lied to us!
[ rustling ]
[ moaning ]
Woman
Please, don't! Don't do this! Don't do this to him!
Scene 08
SQUAMASH SHERIFF'S STATION
John Doggett
Sheriff frey.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Back again?
John Doggett
This is assistant director Skinner. We drove up when we couldn't reach you on the phone.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Yeah, sorry about that. I went hunting and turned off my radio. So. You find something?
John Doggett
You might say that.
Walter Skinner
You filed this death certificate at the county seat, sheriff. We're hoping you might be able to tell us something about it.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Yeah. Yeah, last spring. An unidentified transient. Local woman found the body in the woods.
Walter Skinner
You got no suspects? No motive?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
No, why?
John Doggett
You get a lot of shootings around here? That why you failed to mention this one, kurt?
Sheriff Kurt Frey
What are you insinuating?
John Doggett
The body was found dumped outside this woman's cabin on sunday, may 7-- the morning after Mulder saw the hangemuhls.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Okay, so I didn't make the connection. So what?
John Doggett
Three rounds were missing from Mulder's weapon.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
So Mulder came back to town to kill this man and now the hangemuhls are lying about it. Maybe I am, too.
John Doggett
Pretty much.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
This theory is even nuttier than the one agent Mulder came to town with. Where's the evidence?
John Doggett
Where's the body buried?
Scene 09
Scene 09
Walter Skinner
You're on pretty shaky ground here, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Something happened here that night.
Walter Skinner
But you're forgetting one thing-- Fox Mulder wouldn't do this.
John Doggett
Look, somebody shot this man. Somebody fired Mulder's weapon and Mulder was here that night.
Walter Skinner
And you trying to prove that Mulder's a murderer is going to help you find him?
John Doggett
Maybe he's not. I'm not saying that he did this. Not yet. But he was here for a reason and then he disappeared.
Walter Skinner
Why would these people, people he'd never met before try to cover it up?
John Doggett
That's the question, yeah.
Walter Skinner
Earth is fresh.
John Doggett
Sheriff must've dug it up this afternoon after I left.
Walter Skinner
What would he want with the body?
John Doggett
I don't know that he found it. Looks like there's another way out.
Walter Skinner
Are you telling me the man inside that casket did this?
John Doggett
Looks pretty deep. A man doesn't get shot three times and then tunnel out of his own grave.
Walter Skinner
The sheriff said this transient was unidentified, right?
John Doggett
That's right.
Walter Skinner
Then why'd somebody leave these on top of his grave?
[ car approaching ]
[ car door opening ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
Sheriff Kurt Frey
We've got to move fast.
Paul Hangemuhl
She's not ready yet.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Then she better get ready.
Marie Hangemuhl
I can't do this.
Paul Hangemuhl
You've got to do this. We don't have another choice.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
Paul? Marie.
[ car approaching ]
[ ragged breathing ]
Paul Hangemuhl
I'll be waiting for you.
[ gun cocking ]
[ gun cocking ]
[ low growling ]
Marie Hangemuhl
No!
[ moans softly ]
[ moans ]
[ screaming ]
[ screaming ]
Paul Hangemuhl
Our father, who art in heaven... Hallowed be thy name...
[ screaming ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Paul Hangemuhl
What is it now?
John Doggett
Mind if we come in?
Paul Hangemuhl
What do you think you're doing?
John Doggett
Looking for the sheriff. He was here, wasn't he?
Paul Hangemuhl
Look, I've had a long day and I want to go to bed, so if you don't mind...
John Doggett
Agent Mulder came back here that night and shot a man in this room. You know why, and so does your wife.
Paul Hangemuhl
I want you guys out of my house, now. Hey, did you hear me?!
Walter Skinner
Mr. Hangemuhl, we'd like to speak with your wife. Where is she?
John Doggett
Where is she, mr. Hangemuhl? Something happened here and I'm going to figure out what it is.
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Looks like you missed a spot, mr. Hangemuhl.
[ echoing screams ]
[ gagging, choking ]
[ screams and moans ]
[ groans and vomiting ]
[ three gunshots ]
Scene 13
Scene 13
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Hangemuhl says his wife must've coughed up the blood. He insists he didn't harm her.
Walter Skinner
Of course he says that.
John Doggett
Maybe he didn't.
Walter Skinner
What are you talking about?
John Doggett
You said it before Mulder wouldn't do this-- shoot a man in cold blood. Unless he was trying to protect mrs. Hangemuhl.
Walter Skinner
From who?
John Doggett
From the man that's supposed to be buried in that coffin.
Walter Skinner
The county police found something you ought to look at. Mr. Hangemuhl must've just used water to clean this. Thank you. Otherwise... We might not have found it. Look familiar?
Scene 14
Scene 14
John Fitzgerald Byers
We learned what we could. This is somewhat short notice, of course.
Melvin Frohike
And a little outside our area of expertise.
Richard Langly
Plus the fact we were sleeping.
John Doggett
You wearing pants, langly?
Richard Langly
Uh...yeah.
Walter Skinner
We don't have much time. What did you find?
Melvin Frohike
Thought you'd never ask, big guy.
John Fitzgerald Byers
The pattern you described to us is most likely a medicine wheel. It's a symbol for healing usually associated with north american shaman.
Melvin Frohike
Now, the circle represents the continuum between life and death. The journey is separated by two roads one for happiness one for sorrow.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Lakota indians teach that all these elements-- life, death, sorrow, happiness-- are all one. But it takes an enlightened mind to see it.
John Doggett
Why paint it on a door, or mark it on a grave?
Richard Langly
Well-- that's the part that takes some conjecture there, agent dogbird.
John Fitzgerald Byers
We don't know what Mulder was doing out there.
Melvin Frohike
But legends date back hundreds of years of a sin-catcher shaman also known as a soul eater.
John Doggett
A soul eater?
Richard Langly
They minister to the sick-- legend has it they consume their illnesses.
John Fitzgerald Byers
The symbol might be placed on a grave as a sign of respect. Or on a door as a summons.
Walter Skinner
A summons for what?
John Fitzgerald Byers
To indicate a sick person lives there someone in need of the creature's healing gift.
John Doggett
Thanks for your help, boys.
Richard Langly
Yeah, you're welcome.
John Doggett
Marie hangemuhl suffered from a kidney disease.
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
That wasn't a transient buried in that grave.
Scene 15
Scene 15
John Doggett
Sorry to disturb you at this hour, ma'am. I'm agent Doggett with the FBI. May I come in? The sheriff's report last may said you found a body in the woods out here. Look, the people of this town are keeping a secret about that body-- about who it is. There was an FBI agent who came here because he believed that it was some kind of a "soul eater."
Woman
Maybe it is.
John Doggett
You believe it, too. You put those stones on top of his grave.
Woman
The things you're asking about-- they've been this way for hundreds of years. You can't change them.
John Doggett
A colleague of mine came here to try and kill this thing last spring. I believe he was trying to protect a woman named marie hangemuhl. I need your help.
Woman
You've got it all backward.
[ thumping ]
John Doggett
I'm going to get you out of here.
Scene 16
Scene 16
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett. How is she?
John Doggett
She feels fine, you believe that? The doctor says mrs. Hangemuhl's kidneys have spontaneously healed. She's a healthy woman. Explain that.
Walter Skinner
You're going to have to explain it. The sheriff's waiting to take your statement.
John Doggett
The sheriff knows. He's known all along. So's her husband.
Walter Skinner
Known what?
John Doggett
That this soul eater took her to cure her. I thought Mulder shot this man to protect marie hangemuhl. But it wasn't her he was trying to protect.
Walter Skinner
Where are you going?
John Doggett
Something happened here. It just wasn't what we thought.
Scene 17
Scene 17
Woman
To understand what this thing is you have to understand what it can do-- its gift. People hate it because they need it. It looks the way it does because of their sickness.
John Doggett
You care for this man.
Woman
Someone always has.
John Doggett
Because you believe it? That it can cure people's sickness?
Woman
Not cure. Consume.
John Doggett
Mulder came to see you last year. Not to save marie hangemuhl. To save himself. Mulder was dying, but he kept it a secret. He had an undiagnosed brain disease. He was a sick man, desperate to find a cure.
Woman
They all are.
[ gasping ]
John Doggett
Mulder didn't do it.
Woman
Agent Mulder saw how it suffered. He saw it in its eyes. I knew what needed to be done. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
John Doggett
Mulder killed it.
Woman
He couldn't bear to add to its pain.
John Doggett
So he came back here that night to take its pain away.
Woman
They buried it. It wanted to die. It still does, but it can't. All these months I've kept it here in secret. But now that they know it's back it'll keep suffering.
[ whimpering softly ]
John Doggett
Sheriff, as a federal officer I'm asking you and your men to get out of my way.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
You can't take it, agent Doggett. It belongs to us.
John Doggett
This is a man. He doesn't belong to anybody.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
We have sick people. Sick people who need what it has. We're taking it. You're free to go.
John Doggett
No, sir. I'm driving this man out of here.
[ gunshot ]
[ woman screams ]
Man
Sheriff.
Sheriff Kurt Frey
It'll come back. It always does.
Scene 19
Scene 19
Woman
All these years we didn't know what it could do. It took your death. You freed it.
Scene 20
Scene 20
John Doggett
A.d. Skinner, you're here late.
Walter Skinner
So are you.
John Doggett
I wanted to finish my case report before agent Scully comes in tomorrow morning.
Walter Skinner
Have you?
John Doggett
I don't even know where to begin or how to explain it. Only thing I do know is is I'm no closer to finding Mulder now than when I started this thing.
Walter Skinner
You got inside of his head, agent Doggett. You understood why Mulder did something I wouldn't have thought him capable of doing. You want some free advice? Don't write that report. You turn that in you open up a world of trouble for agent Scully. And yourself.
John Doggett
She didn't know anything about this, sir. Of that I'm certain.
Walter Skinner
How many months will be lost proving that? How much damage done to her good name? And Mulder's? And to yours? For what?
John Doggett
The truth.
Walter Skinner
You and I both know what happened out there, agent Doggett. No one else needs to.
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