John Doggett
Looking right at us. Fifty bucks says that's lukesh. A hundred says he knows we're here. It's him. Let's take him.
Season 9 · Episode 4
4-D
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code9ABX05Original airdate · December 9, 2001
224 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Scene 01
Brad Follmer
Let him get to the mailbox.
John Doggett
It's lukesh. I don't need him opening the mailbox to prove it.
Brad Follmer
Patience, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
We've got an agent alone with a psycho who likes cutting out women's tongues-- a guy known for his vanishing act.
Brad Follmer
We've got the block surrounded. He isn't vanishing anywhere. And your partner volunteered. Now... Open 4-d. Agent Reyes... Stand by.
John Doggett
What the hell is this? Monica, don't.
Brad Follmer
Agent Reyes... Keep your distance. Don't let him see you following.
John Doggett
Monica, where are you?
Monica Reyes
Back stairwell. I lost sight of him. I think he might be here.
[ Monica screams ]
Unidentified speaker
Oh, no. Oh, no!
[ groans ]
Brad Follmer
Agent down! Back stairwell! Get ems here now! Doggett, he's got her gun!
John Doggett
Erwin lukesh! Federal agent! Turn around, you son of a bitch.
[ siren wailing ]
John Doggett
Back here!
[ garbled radio transmission ]
[ gunshot ]
Scene 02
Scene 02
Monica Reyes
Hey.
John Doggett
So this is how the uptown crowd lives, huh?
Monica Reyes
This is it. Moving on up.
John Doggett
So, is there anything really heavy that I can move for you? A dresser, a fridge?
Monica Reyes
No, but thank you, John. You've just missed the movers.
John Doggett
You don't say.
[ chuckles ]
John Doggett
I brought you a housewarming gift.
[ paper bag crinkling ]
[ sniffing ]
Monica Reyes
Hot dogs?
John Doggett
Polish sausage! It's the best in the city. There's a little stand a couple of blocks
Unidentified speaker
Over on m street.
John Doggett
You'll be able to walk to it.
Monica Reyes
Wow.
John Doggett
Try one.
Monica Reyes
Mmm! Like I'm back in gdansk. Let me get some plates.
John Doggett
Plates? For crying out loud. Who eats polish sausage with plates?
[ phone ringing ]
[ beep ]
Monica Reyes
Hello.
Walter Skinner
Agent Reyes, it's a.d. Skinner.
Monica Reyes
Yes, sir.
Walter Skinner
There's no easy way to say this. I'm sorry to do it over the phone.
Monica Reyes
What is it?
Walter Skinner
It's Doggett-- he's been found in an alley off dillon park. He's been shot.
Monica Reyes
I'm sorry. What did you say?
Walter Skinner
They're taking him to Washington memorial. Agent?
Monica Reyes
Sir, what you're saying is--
Walter Skinner
Agent Reyes? Agent Reyes!
[ elevator bell rings ]
Monica Reyes
Excuse me.
Brad Follmer
Monica.
Monica Reyes
Brad? Skinner called you too?
Brad Follmer
He's staying at the crime scene. I'm sorry. I've been put in charge of the investigation. I promise you-- it's my top priority. I will find the person who did this. I just need to find out why your partner was in that alley this morning.
Monica Reyes
He wasn't! He was with me, at my apartment. He was with me when Skinner called me.
Brad Follmer
I'm not sure I'm following.
Dana Scully
Monica, I'm so sorry. Agent Doggett is just coming out of surgery. They're moving him to the icu.
Brad Follmer
How's it look?
Dana Scully
If he pulls through this... It's likely that he'll be paralyzed for life.
Monica Reyes
I haven't understood one single word I've heard since I got here. Whoever you're talking about, it's not John Doggett.
[ instruments beeping, hissing ]
Scene 04
FBI BALLISTICS LAB
Brad Follmer
You found the bullet.
Walter Skinner
Nine-millimeter slug. Found it in the alley lodged in a wall. Most likely from a sig sauer p226 or 228.
Brad Follmer
Possibly FBI-issue.
Walter Skinner
I know what you're thinking but this didn't come from Doggett's weapon. Ballistics don't match, and his gun was never fired.
Brad Follmer
Assistant director? I'd appreciate case updates in a timely fashion. For instance, this bullet-- how long have you had it? An hour? Two?
Walter Skinner
Thereabouts.
Brad Follmer
It's just that we need to keep the lines of communication open. That's all I'm asking, okay? I want this slug run through our database of FBI-issue pistols.
Walter Skinner
Like I told you the round didn't come from Doggett's weapon. You're not saying another agent could have done this?
Brad Follmer
Just run it, please.
Scene 05
Scene 05
Monica Reyes
I just... I don't understand how any of this is possible. He was with me, Dana, in my apartment. How can this be?
Dana Scully
I saw something once. It's only been the last of couple years that I've fully come to terms with it. In '94, my father passed away. And that night, I think... That very moment that it happened, he came to me. I like to believe that he came to say good-bye.
Monica Reyes
A visitation. I think that's wonderful-- a blessing-- but that's not what happened to me.
[ cell phone rings ]
Dana Scully
Scully.
Walter Skinner
It's me. Is Reyes with you?
Dana Scully
Yes, she's here. We're both still at the hospital.
Walter Skinner
I need you to bring her to the sixth district police station. I'm on my way there myself.
Dana Scully
What's this about?
Walter Skinner
I'll tell you when you get there.
Scene 06
METRO POLICE, SIXTH DISTRICT
Monica Reyes
What's going on?
Walter Skinner
Agent Reyes, would you mind stepping inside, please?
Brad Follmer
Hi, Monica. Have a seat. I wanted you and I to have a chance to talk alone to clear a few things up-- a few details of your story.
Monica Reyes
My "story"?
Brad Follmer
Well, your assertion that you were with agent Doggett when he was shot.
Dana Scully
What is this?
Walter Skinner
Just wait.
Brad Follmer
Is that a true statement?
Monica Reyes
Yes. I mean... No, I wasn't with agent Doggett when he was shot, but I was with him at the time a.d. Skinner called to tell me he'd been shot.
Brad Follmer
Look, Monica... You know how I feel-- you know I'm on your side-- but give me something here. Give me some mitigating reason for what you're trying to cover up.
Dana Scully
I'm going to put a stop to this.
Monica Reyes
What are you saying to me, brad? Why are you saying these things?
[ sighs ]
Brad Follmer
We've checked and rechecked the ballistics tests. The bullet that hit Doggett came from your gun. And furthermore we have an eyewitness-- one who's placed you at the scene.
Monica Reyes
Is that why I'm here... In this room, so you can make an id?
Brad Follmer
Agent Reyes, I'm going to have to ask you for your FBI identification and your gun.
Monica Reyes
Who's there? Who's back there?
Police Officer
We appreciate your cooperation, sir.
Lukesh
Anything I can do to help.
[ respirator hissing ]
[ door opens ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
Monica Reyes
Smart touch-- posting a guard to make sure I don't finish the job. Do you really believe I did this?
Walter Skinner
No. But it doesn't matter what I believe. You may still be arrested.
Monica Reyes
So what are they waiting for?
Dana Scully
Follmer's case has a couple of potential holes. For starters, there's the fact that when I called you you were at home-- 14 Miles from the crime scene. Plus, there's the condition of your gun.
Monica Reyes
It hadn't been fired.
Dana Scully
However, the bullet does match your gun... Perfectly.
Monica Reyes
It doesn't make any sense. None of it. What about the eyewitness? What can you tell me about him?
Walter Skinner
You know we can't discuss that. Look.
Monica Reyes
Oh, my god. John?
Walter Skinner
Is he conscious?
Dana Scully
I don't know. It could just be a muscle spasm. It's not uncommon with this type of spinal injury.
Walter Skinner
No, it's not a spasm.
Unidentified speaker
What is it?
Walter Skinner
It's morse code.
Monica Reyes
What did he say?
Dana Scully
"lukesh."
Monica Reyes
What? What does that mean?
[ television playing in background ]
Scene 08
Scene 08
Mother
Who's there? Is somebody there? Erwin, is that you?
Lukesh
Who else would it be, mama?
Mother
I thought maybe robbers. I thought something terrible had happened to you. You were gone so long.
Lukesh
I was gone two hours and six minutes. I'm back at noon just like I told you.
Mother
I was so scared. Could you bring me a glass of clamato with two squirts of Texas pete and two ice cubes? Oh, god, I was all alone and I heard the knob rattle. Somebody was rattling the knob. It was the robbers. I just know it was. I don't know how I got through it. I was so scared.
Announcer On Tv
Like sands through the hourglass,
Unidentified speaker
So are the days of our lives.
Mother
My show is on. Could you make me my hot sandwich so that I could eat my sandwich while I watch my show? What kind of sandwich is it?
Lukesh
Potted meat.
Mother
I don't think I like that. Have I had it before?
Lukesh
Many times. You love it.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Monica Reyes
I should be at the hospital.
Walter Skinner
Scully will call if he regains consciousness.
Monica Reyes
Either way, I should be there.
Walter Skinner
Agent, you're still under investigation. Not to mention I will be too if it's ever found out that I showed you this.
Monica Reyes
"erwin timothy lukesh."
Walter Skinner
Have you ever seen him before?
Monica Reyes
"1995: patient at the state psychiatric hospital "at gaithersburg. "diagnosed with a delusional disorder "anger subtype, which presented itself shortly after the suicide death of his father."
Walter Skinner
After four months... He was deemed fit for release. He lives with his invalid mother in an apartment adjacent to the crime scene.
Monica Reyes
What's the story he's telling?
Walter Skinner
That he heard a bang... Went downstairs to investigate... And then he saw you exit the alley.
Monica Reyes
This is the one person we know was in the vicinity at the time of the shooting. Why would Doggett say his name?
Walter Skinner
You think lukesh shot Doggett?
Monica Reyes
What if Doggett was investigating lukesh? What if lukesh is somehow behind all this?
[ phone rings ]
Walter Skinner
Skinner.
Brad Follmer
It's Follmer. Do you recall our discussion where I asked you to keep me up to date?
Walter Skinner
I do.
Unidentified speaker
Really? And yet it's like we never even had it.
Brad Follmer
I'm at Washington memorial. I'm assuming you're with our prime suspect. Bring her. She's going to talk to agent Doggett.
[ elevator bell dings ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
Brad Follmer
Oh, the gang's all here.
Monica Reyes
How is he?
Dana Scully
Fully conscious. We set up a communication device designed for spinal injury victims.
Unidentified speaker
Speaking with him should be much easier.
Brad Follmer
Just so we're clear you'll ask only the questions I want asked. You're not to try to shade his testimony in any way.
Walter Skinner
If you're so concerned, why let Reyes talk to him in the first place?
Brad Follmer
Because he says he won't talk to anyone but you. He didn't mention you two.
Monica Reyes
John. Hey, there. That's right. You're alive. As if there were ever any doubt. Why am I alive? Is that what you're asking? I'm fine, John. Why wouldn't I be?
Brad Follmer
Have him say who shot him.
Monica Reyes
My throat wasn't cut, John. What do you mean?
Scene 12
Scene 12
Doctor
Wiggle your finger if you feel anything. Any sensation at all?
Unidentified speaker
Pain? Tingling?
Doctor
Okay. That's enough for today. We'll see if you can do any better tomorrow.
Monica Reyes
You kiss your mother with that mouth? It's coming along. It's nowhere, basically. There's so much that's impossible to reconcile. You say I was on a stakeout with you. I say you were at my apartment bringing me-- John... Do you know a little stand on m street supposed to be really good hot dogs? John, what if we were both right? What if you were at my apartment and I was on a stakeout with you at the exact same time? What would it take for that to be true?
[ tapping ]
Monica Reyes
Except maybe we do. Maybe all of us do. You've heard of the idea of a parallel universe... One that's identical, or nearly identical to our own-- one in which we all have a double. It's theoretical physics, but... What if it's real? You said yourself, erwin lukesh was known for his impossible escapes. You said that in the alley you looked away only for an instant and he was gone.
Unidentified speaker
Back here!
Monica Reyes
And then somehow he was behind you and he shot you. With my gun-- my gun that never left my possession that entire afternoon. What if lukesh can pass freely from one parallel world to the other? Like... Like he's opening a door. And what if somehow you followed him through that door without even knowing it? Maybe when you followed lukesh into this world, my-- my Doggett got forced out. My Doggett would have called that crazy too but give me another theory that fits.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Lukesh
I'm kind of confused as to why I'm back. I already told you everything I know.
Brad Follmer
We just had a few little, uh... Inconsistencies that we needed to clear up.
Lukesh
Sure. Dot the I's, cross the t's.
Walter Skinner
Yeah, here's an odd one for starters. We have an eyewitness that says you shot agent John Doggett.
Lukesh
Well, that's surprising. I can't imagine who would have said that.
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett. Yeah, he's regained consciousness. He's very chatty. Among other things, he says that... You're a murderer. That you enjoy killing women with a straight razor. And cutting out their tongues.
Lukesh
Yeah. Wow. What a corker.
Brad Follmer
Mr. Lukesh... Would you consent to a gsr test?
Lukesh
Gsr? What is that?
Brad Follmer
It can reveal whether or not someone recently fired a gun. You wouldn't mind indulging us, would you?
Lukesh
I don't know. I think I'd have to talk to my lawyer about that. Look. My heart goes out to your agent Doggett but he's confused. It's clear to me that your female agent, ms. Reyes, is responsible for this terrible tragedy.
Brad Follmer
Is there someone who can corroborate your story?
Lukesh
No.
Walter Skinner
What about your mother? You live with your mother, right?
Lukesh
She was sleeping. She wouldn't have heard anything.
Unidentified speaker
Huh.
Walter Skinner
Well, still, maybe she can tell us something. Would she be willing to come down here and talk to us?
Lukesh
My mother's in poor health. She gets confused easily.
Walter Skinner
Oh, we can go to her.
Lukesh
I won't have you harassing her just because you're afraid to admit that one of your people did this. Now, if you're going to arrest me... Do it. Otherwise, I'm going home.
Walter Skinner
Say hi to mama.
Lukesh
Agent Reyes, right? What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
Monica Reyes
How do you do it? You know what I'm talking about, don't you? There's this world and there's the world where you live out your sick fantasies. When did it start? Was it after your breakdown in '95? All that anger. It's buttoned up so tight it had nowhere else to go. It had to get released. Not here but in a world just like this one.
Lukesh
God, I enjoyed you. You bled just like a pig.
Walter Skinner
Reyes?
Brad Follmer
You all right?
Scene 14
Scene 14
Lukesh
Mama, I'm home. Mama, you want your clamato? Mama? Have you been out of bed? Mama?
Mother
You don't tell me things, erwin.
Lukesh
I tell you things.
Mother
You sneak out of the house all night. You leave me alone all by myself and then you think I don't know. Well, I know. I know-- every time. What is it that you do, erwin that you don't tell me?
Lukesh
I don't. I don't do that. I don't know what you mean.
Mother
Why is that in my house? I opened the drawer and it gave me a heart attack. I don't know how I even picked it up without it going off and killing me. I was so scared.
[ crying ]
Lukesh
Mama.
Unidentified speaker
I don't know how it got there.
Mother
If you won't tell me... You can tell the FBI, that's it. Yes, the FBI has left three messages. They want to talk to me. Can you imagine, erwin? Why would the FBI want to talk to me?
[ tape rewinding ]
Mother
What are you doing? Aren't you even gonna listen?
Lukesh
Are you gonna talk to them?
Mother
Well, of course I am. It's the FBI.
Lukesh
Mama.
Mother
Oh, don't turn on the waterworks, mister. That's not going to wash. I'm the one who's being lied to. Erwin... What are you doing? Erwin. What are you doing? Erwin!
[ screaming ]
Scene 15
Scene 15
Monica Reyes
Did not. Anyway, that's what you get for hiring cheap help. Thinking about what? How? Bad joke. My theory is sound? You don't believe a word of it, John. Never in a million years would you believe. This has nothing to do with my theory. I would do anything for you. Anything but that.
[ cell phone rings ]
Monica Reyes
Reyes.
Walter Skinner
It's Skinner. Are you okay?
Monica Reyes
Yes, sir, I'm fine.
Walter Skinner
I can't say the same for miriam lukesh.
Monica Reyes
What happened?
Walter Skinner
She's dead. It's the exact m.o. Doggett described. Most likely a straight razor was used.
Monica Reyes
Lukesh killed his mother. Do you have any idea where he is?
Unidentified speaker
None.
Walter Skinner
But if everything I've been hearing is true he's not going to be easy to find.
Monica Reyes
I think he'll find us.
[ soft clattering ]
Scene 16
67 BENNETT AVE.
Dana Scully
Are you all right, agent Reyes?
Monica Reyes
Just a little jumpy, I guess.
Dana Scully
It's understandable.
Unidentified speaker
I don't think you're the only one.
Brad Follmer
Try and take it easy, Monica. We got you covered coming and going.
Monica Reyes
Anything happening out front?
Walter Skinner
No, you moved into a quiet neighborhood. It's dead out there.
Monica Reyes
I think I'll check around once more.
[ muffled scream ]
Lukesh
You want to scream right now, don't you?
Monica Reyes
Lukesh. Because of your friends outside
Lukesh
Parked in a van-- might as well say "FBI" in big huge letters.
Unidentified speaker
Do it.
Lukesh
Try and scream out to them. They can't hear you.
Dana Scully
Where'd she go?
Brad Follmer
Monica, do you copy?
Walter Skinner
Reyes? Agent Reyes, do you read me?
Dana Scully
He's in there. He's gotta be.
Brad Follmer
It's not possible.
Dana Scully
Well, what if it is? You want to stick around and find out?
Lukesh
You ruined everything, you bitch. You made me. You made me do it.
Monica Reyes
Lukesh, don't--
Lukesh
Shut up. Shut up. But you know what? This time I get to bleed you slow.
Brad Follmer
You all right? Monica, you all right? It's okay. It's okay. It's over.
[ beeps ]
[ respirator deflates, stops ]
[ dial tone ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
John Doggett
Monica, forget about the plates, will ya? What's wrong? Monica, what's wrong?
Monica Reyes
I'm good. I'm good.
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