Evelyn Mountjoy
Happy... Stop that. Hap. What's with her all of a sudden? Don't you look at my letters.
Season 9 · Episode 3
Daemonicus
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code9ABX03Original airdate · December 2, 2001
256 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ motor shuts off ]
[ dog barking ]
Darren Mountjoy
For gosh sakes. Read 'em and weep, my dear.
Evelyn Mountjoy
Seven letters; 50 bonus points.
[ ferocious barking ]
[ whimpering ]
[ whimpering stops ]
Evelyn Mountjoy
Darren...?
Darren Mountjoy
Get in the basement.
Evelyn Mountjoy
What are you going to do?
Darren Mountjoy
Just do what I say. I got a gun. Stop!
[ voices whispering ]
[ garbled radio transmission ]
[ ceiling fan squeaking ]
[ ceiling fan stops squeaking ]
Monica Reyes
Hey!
Scene 02
WESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
John Doggett
Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.
[ squeaking starts again ]
Monica Reyes
They told me I'd find you inside.
John Doggett
Yeah, I was out back talking to the detective in charge. You're the expert here, Monica. Everyone's waiting to hear what you have to say on this.
Monica Reyes
What do we know?
John Doggett
Darren and evelyn mountjoy, married 32 years three kids, five grandkids. Not an enemy in the world. That's their dog out front. Neck's broken. From the footprints in the mud best guess is, we're looking for two perps.
Monica Reyes
Nothing stolen from the house. Nothing at all to suggest motive.
John Doggett
It all fits the profile, right? This thing is staged to look like some kind of satanic ritual.
Monica Reyes
Placing victims in a murder- suicide posture is ritualistic and this word is undoubtedly satanic.
John Doggett
"daemonicus."
Monica Reyes
It means satan in latin. Or "daemoniacus"; demon possession.
John Doggett
And it's worth 50 extra points. That's why they were posed like this so we'd think that these folks were possessed, right?
Monica Reyes
That would be the textbook explanation.
John Doggett
I'll let them know.
Monica Reyes
This may be something else.
John Doggett
Which is what? Hey, you say anything you want about satanic ritual but don't tell me you think the devil did this 'cause we got prints on the lawn out there. This case ain't even close to being an X-File.
Monica Reyes
Something strange happened in here just before you came in. I can't explain it.
[ gasps ]
John Doggett
What?
Scene 03
FBI TRAINING ACADEMY
Dana Scully
Dr. Dana Scully. I have just been assigned to the academy as a forensic investigator. For the past eight years I was part of a unit known as the X-Files.
[ chuckling ]
Dana Scully
Some of you may have heard of it.
Cadet
Ever slay a vampire?
Dana Scully
Sorry to disappoint you but this is a course in forensic pathology. Hard science. An X-File is a case that has been deemed unsolvable by the bureau. Because such a case cannot be solved it may beg other explanations. A vampire, perhaps. Science, however, tells us that evil comes not from monsters but from men. It offers us the methodology to catch these men. And only after we have exhausted these methods should we leave science behind to consider more extreme possibilities.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Monica Reyes
What did you find?
John Doggett
I asked agent Scully for her expertise on this. Looks like we can rule out the exorcist after all.
Monica Reyes
And why is that?
Dana Scully
There's adhesive residue on mrs. Mountjoy's wrists and face. Can you see that? She was taped and bound and then shot at a range of ten to 12 feet with her husband's handgun.
Monica Reyes
The husband shot her. He was tricked into it.
John Doggett
That's what we were thinking. Some kind of sick game.
Dana Scully
Well, there's also evidence of fingerprint bruising along his collarbone.
Monica Reyes
They held him down. Shot him in his chair.
John Doggett
Again, we're looking for two guys.
Dana Scully
The snakes appear to be purely symbolic. They're a nonvenomous species collected locally. They were sewn postmortem into the body cavity with household thread by someone who appears to have surgical skill.
Monica Reyes
You've made a lot of headway.
Dana Scully
But there's something else. There's something that you're not saying.
Monica Reyes
When I was alone in that house this morning I had the strong feeling I was in the presence of evil.
John Doggett
Look, Monica the only reason we were called in on this thing is you've investigated hundreds of these kinds of cases.
Monica Reyes
And not once did I find anything to support evidence of genuine satanic activity.
John Doggett
I'm saying.
Monica Reyes
I've never felt this before.
[ cell phone rings ]
John Doggett
Excuse me. John Doggett.
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully, have you ever sensed what I'm talking about?
Dana Scully
I've felt things that I couldn't understand. Things I was afraid to admit even to myself.
Monica Reyes
And what did you do?
Dana Scully
I learned not to ignore it. To trust my instincts.
John Doggett
Yeah, thanks.
Monica Reyes
What is it?
John Doggett
Mental hospital, a hundred Miles from here. They think one of their patients did this.
Scene 06
CHESSMAN STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
Dr. Sampson
We're pretty shaken up. We're still trying to determine how he could've escaped.
John Doggett
Why do you think this escaped patient kenneth richman was involved in these murders?
Dr. Sampson
Dr. Richman was committed here because he killed three patients. He had sewn strychnine tablets into their stomach lining in surgery. When I heard about the snakes...
Monica Reyes
The police believe two men committed this crime, dr. Sampson.
Dr. Sampson
Two men?
John Doggett
Do you have any idea who the second man might be?
Dr. Sampson
No, he didn't exactly keep pen pals.
Monica Reyes
Did dr. Richman display any knowledge of satanic lore or speak of demonic possession?
Dr. Sampson
No. He was perfectly cogent. He didn't suffer from those kinds of delusions.
Monica Reyes
I'm not really asking about delusions. When you last spoke to him did he seem himself?
Dr. Sampson
Seem himself?
Monica Reyes
I mean, did he display a personality other than his own-- speak in tongues or in a language he didn't know?
Dr. Sampson
You're asking me if he was possessed? This is the 21st century, ms. Reyes. We stopped looking a long time ago for demons to explain mental illness.
Monica Reyes
I'm not really talking about mental illness.
Guard
Dr. Sampson?
Dr. Sampson
Excuse me a moment.
John Doggett
You know, Monica, a room here just came open.
Monica Reyes
You heard what she said. Dr. Richman didn't know anything about satanic ritual.
John Doggett
And that proves he was possessed?
Monica Reyes
You explain to me how else he commits a crime that's a perfect example of it.
John Doggett
Let's try the obvious: it was his accomplice.
Dr. Sampson
Agents? I, uh, think the man you're looking for might be paul gerlach.
John Doggett
Is he a patient here?
Dr. Sampson
No. He's a guard. He's been with us 12 years and no one can find him.
Monica Reyes
Who would be the last person who saw them together?
Scene 08
Scene 08
John Doggett
Mr. Kobold, my name is John Doggett. This is Monica Reyes. We're with the FBI.
Monica Reyes
The patient in the cell next to yours escaped last night. Did you see or hear anything? You shared the same guard, mr. Kobold. Do you know anything about their relationship why he would've helped him to escape?
Josef Kobold
You mean, did the guard force the patient to escape... Or did the patient force the guard... Or are they both of one mind... Like a snake... Eating its own tail?
John Doggett
You know something about this, mr. Kobold? If you do, we need your help to stop them before they hurt more people.
Josef Kobold
You're too late for that.
John Doggett
If you're afraid to help us, mr. Kobold we can protect you. No harm will come to you.
Josef Kobold
Do you believe in the power of the devil, mr. Doggett?
John Doggett
I believe that the devil's a story made up to scare people.
Josef Kobold
Then, how can you possibly protect me?
Scene 09
Scene 09
John Doggett
Consider the source, Monica.
[ birds calling and insects buzzing ]
[ multiple voices whispering ]
[ whispering continuing ]
[ whispering continuing ]
[ whispering continuing ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Dr. Sampson
He's been calling for agent Doggett for the past hour. He's extremely agitated.
Monica Reyes
Has he said why?
Dr. Sampson
He keeps saying, "prince of the apostles" over and over again. I don't know what it means. I've had to restrain him for his own safety and I thought it best not to sedate him till you speak to him.
John Doggett
Mr. Kobold, it's John Doggett.
Josef Kobold
He's speaking to me... Whispering in my ear.
Monica Reyes
What's he saying to you, mr. Kobold?
[ moans ]
Josef Kobold
He's... Killed again.
Monica Reyes
Who?
Josef Kobold
I don't know......but I can show you.
Scene 12
Scene 12
Josef Kobold
You can't know what it feels like... Being free of that cage to see the sky above me.
John Doggett
All right, where is he, mr. Kobold?
Josef Kobold
There. I can take you.
John Doggett
That's far enough. Take him back to his cage now. Agent Reyes.
Monica Reyes
You think he's making it up?
John Doggett
Uh, yeah.
Monica Reyes
That was a pretty convincing show back there.
John Doggett
He's playacting, Monica. Just 'cause he's good at it, doesn't make it true.
Monica Reyes
Why do it?
John Doggett
Maybe he wants some fresh air. Maybe he gets off sending the FBI on snipe hunts.
Monica Reyes
I don't think that's it.
[ rope creaking ]
Scene 13
Scene 13
John Doggett
That's the security guard-- paul gerlach.
Dana Scully
It appears he was shot in the chest. His body was staged postmortem, just like the others.
John Doggett
Someone likes to play games.
Monica Reyes
Or not. "prince of the apostles"-- kobold kept repeating it in his cell.
Dana Scully
St. Peter. He was said to have been crucified upside-down.
Monica Reyes
A symbol later adopted by the satanists to mark the power of the antichrist.
John Doggett
Which you take as proof the devil possessed the surgeon and somehow put him in contact with kobold.
Monica Reyes
It's part of the literature. He could be a medium, a willing host for satan communicating with kobold.
John Doggett
Well, that's convenient.
Monica Reyes
He brought up the devil and the snakes. No one told him the details of the crime and yet he knew.
John Doggett
That's 'cause he planned it. I pulled his file. This guy's a master manipulator. He was a history professor at the university of miami committed for grinding up six coeds that he tricked into his basement. He used their flesh... As fertilizer in his garden.
Monica Reyes
If kobold's part of this, then why is he still behind bars? Why not escape when he had the chance?
John Doggett
I don't know yet. You believe this guy, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
I haven't formed an opinion about it yet, actually.
John Doggett
That's great... Just great. Where are you going, Monica?
Monica Reyes
This man kobold can help us, John. I'm going to prove it to you.
[ door opens ]
[ door shuts ]
[ thunder rolling ]
Scene 14
Scene 14
Monica Reyes
Professor.
Josef Kobold
You found the body.
Monica Reyes
Yes. Professor kobold, we need your help to find him before anyone else gets hurt.
Josef Kobold
I can't.
John Doggett
You can't or you won't?
Josef Kobold
I can't... In here. He whispers to me in a thousand voices but they're so hard to hear.
Monica Reyes
What can we do... To help you hear?
Josef Kobold
I need a larger room... One with space......and windows... To see the sky.
John Doggett
You're not going along with this, are you-- giving this guy what he wants?
Monica Reyes
That was my general idea, yeah.
John Doggett
You're making a mistake.
Monica Reyes
Look, even if you're right, even if this man is faking it he can help us. I'm not willing to turn my back on that. Are you?
[ car alarm chirps ]
[ engine starts ]
John Doggett
This is officer custer.
Scene 16
Scene 16
John Doggett
He's going to keep an eye on you.
Josef Kobold
I'm familiar with officer custer.
Officer Custer
I'll be right outside the door if you need anything, professor.
Josef Kobold
Agent Reyes believes me but you don't, mr. Doggett.
John Doggett
Doesn't matter what I believe.
Josef Kobold
I'm wondering......why a skeptic such as yourself would accept assignment to an obscure unit of the FBI devoted exclusively to the investigating of paranormal phenomena.
John Doggett
You been checking up on me, professor?
Josef Kobold
Ordinarily men don't pursue occupations against their own inclination unless there's some strong countervailing reason-- seeking the love or approval of a woman, perhaps. Agent Reyes may have affection for you... But you for her? Of course, it could be someone else or something else some... Dark secret from your past...
John Doggett
That's enough.
Josef Kobold
...an unsolved tragedy for which you feel responsible in some morbid way you haven't even admitted to yourself. Perhaps you feel that chasing ghosts will answer the questions which damn you.
John Doggett
I don't have time for this. Tell me if he says anything.
[ multiple voices whispering ]
Officer Custer
Agent Doggett...
[ whispering continuing ]
John Doggett
Agent Reyes... Get agent Reyes.
[ whispering continuing ]
[ multiple voices whispering ]
[ door closes ]
[ mumbling, moaning ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
Monica Reyes
He's saying something. Medicus.
Unidentified speaker
"medicus."
Monica Reyes
Physician.
[ sirens wailing ]
[ indistinct radio chatter ]
[ crashes ]
Scene 19
Scene 19
John Doggett
Dr. Sampson!
Monica Reyes
John.
John Doggett
Dr. Sampson?
Dana Scully
The syringes contain droperidol.
Scene 20
Scene 20
Dana Scully
That's the same anti-psychotic medication that she was giving to dr. Richman.
John Doggett
He's not the one calling the shots.
Dana Scully
You still think that it was kobold?
John Doggett
This is not about demons. It's not about demonic possession. It's about men.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett, have you considered that something else might be going on here?
John Doggett
I heard you say it, agent Scully. I heard you tell a classroom full of FBI cadets. Most evil in the world comes from men.
Dana Scully
But I also said that when science fails we have to consider extreme possibilities. I know what you're feeling. I know your frustration. But you can't let it cloud your objectivity.
John Doggett
Agent Reyes is thinking just what this guy kobold wants her to think and now you are, too.
[ whispering voices ]
Scene 21
Scene 21
Officer Custer
Professor, you done with this meal?
John Doggett
I brought you something, professor. Something to read. It's a monograph you wrote six years ago. You know the one I'm talking about, professor? About the influence of satan in renaissance thinking.
Josef Kobold
So, you've found your proof circumstantial though it may be.
John Doggett
You planned this whole thing. I want to know why.
Josef Kobold
I've been thinking a lot about you, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
You're not answering my question, professor.
Josef Kobold
About why someone so ill-suited would draw this duty. Clearly, you have feelings for her.
John Doggett
You ordered dr. Richman to kill these people, didn't you?
Josef Kobold
But you can't compete with the long-lost agent Mulder. His easy good looks his Oxford education...
John Doggett
This is about you, professor!
Josef Kobold
Mulder has what you can't have but you stumble forward, the flat-footed cop thinking he can put handcuffs on a demon.
John Doggett
Answer the question!
Josef Kobold
You want her but she feels sorry for you. They both do.
John Doggett
Guard! Guard, we need a medic! Guard! We need a medic! Guard!
Scene 22
Scene 22
Monica Reyes
She's coming.
Dana Scully
As far as I can tell, physically, he's fine.
John Doggett
Of course he is.
Dana Scully
What brought this on?
John Doggett
The guy's an expert in satanic history. I confronted him on it.
Monica Reyes
Which proves what?
John Doggett
Come on, Monica. You wanted to know who could stage a textbook example. This guy wrote the damn book.
Monica Reyes
I can't explain those voices we heard in his room, or this.
John Doggett
It's a trick.
Monica Reyes
What if it's ectoplasm?
John Doggett
Ectoplasm?
Monica Reyes
You've heard of it, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder used to refer to it as "psychic plasma" a residual byproduct of telepathic communication. In theory, it would have inorganic properties that couldn't be explained otherwise.
John Doggett
So what are we talking now, the ghostbusters?
Monica Reyes
If I'm right, an analysis of this sample could prove whether he's telling the truth or faking it.
John Doggett
You can throw that crap away 'cause I can tell you right now, this guy's a liar. He's playing a game.
Dana Scully
Well, then, let's just see how well he plays that game.
John Doggett
Why, so you can get suckered in even more? Listen to you two!
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett...
John Doggett
Listen, I'm telling you this guy threw this stuff up for our benefit. He knew exactly what you'd say. He knew exactly what I'd say. He even knew that the two of you would be so blinded by this hocus-pocus that you wouldn't see what's in front of your faces!
Dana Scully
Agent Reyes is just trying to get to the truth, okay? What are you doing?
Monica Reyes
Maybe this is a hoax. Maybe you're right. But now you're saying we should turn away from evidence? That's not like you, John. I don't understand why.
John Doggett
I already told you why.
[ thunder ]
[ whistling ]
[ whispering voices ]
[ thunder crashes ]
[ voices continue ]
[ cell phone ringing ]
Scene 24
Scene 24
Dana Scully
Scully.
John Doggett
Agent Scully, I tried to reach you at quantico.
Dana Scully
I'm on my way back to dc. What is it?
John Doggett
Kobold-- he told the guard he knows where we can find dr. Richman to end this thing.
Dana Scully
Where?
John Doggett
That's just it-- it sounds like a joke. Another game. It's a place called happy landing. Scully?
Dana Scully
On the state road 710, near annandale.
John Doggett
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
There's an old marina there. I pass it on my way home. In fact, I'm almost there right now.
John Doggett
State road 710, near annandale. All right, we're going to meet you there.
[ creaking ]
[ creaking continues ]
[ sirens wailing ]
Scene 26
Scene 26
Monica Reyes
Where is she?
John Doggett
I don't know but I know who does. Where is she, professor?
Josef Kobold
Game's over, mr. Doggett.
John Doggett
Tell me where she is right now, you son of a bitch or I swear I'll kill you where you sit.
Monica Reyes
John...
Josef Kobold
You've lost.
John Doggett
Where is she?!
[ gunshot ]
John Doggett
Agent Scully?!
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett, over here.
John Doggett
I don't understand.
Dana Scully
He held me at gunpoint until you arrived and then he shot himself.
Monica Reyes
It doesn't make sense.
John Doggett
Yes, it does. The game's over. Joseph kobold! Stop there! I am armed! I will shoot!
Scene 27
Scene 27
Dana Scully
"uncertainty." no matter how thorough the investigation some doubts inevitably remain. Just as juries seek to convict beyond a reasonable doubt the forensic investigator will seek conclusions supported by a preponderance of evidence. Rarely will you encounter a case where all of the variables all of the open questions are fully answered.
[ bell rings ]
Dana Scully
I'll see you monday.
Monica Reyes
Have you filed your report on this case yet?
Dana Scully
I was going to do it on my way home.
Monica Reyes
We'd rather you didn't.
John Doggett
We haven't accounted for kobold's actions. Not all of them.
Dana Scully
But agent Reyes told me that kobold accessed information about all of us over the internet. About Mulder, too.
John Doggett
Well, that explains how he knew we'd respond to the first killings-- why he staged them to look like satanic ritual to make sure that we would.
Dana Scully
He wanted us on the case. We know that.
John Doggett
He bent everyone to think and do whatever he wanted.
Dana Scully
But we know all this already. It was a game. Every move was played out perfectly except the last one.
Monica Reyes
Not unless that was part of the game, too.
Dana Scully
What, to get shot in the back?
Monica Reyes
No. Kobold's body still hasn't been found.
Dana Scully
Kobold's dead. Agent Doggett shot him. We all saw that.
John Doggett
Did we? Think back to agent Reyes's question. Why didn't kobold escape with the others when he had the chance? Why? Because he wanted to escape without anyone knowing that he'd escaped so that by the time it was discovered he'd be too far away for anyone to find him.
Dana Scully
Satan.
John Doggett
Daemonicus-- the beginning and end of our case. A snake eating its own tail. We lost. Kobold told me so. He wanted us to see how brilliantly he played the game. How thoroughly we lost. The first victims, darren and evelyn mountjoy.
Dana Scully
Chosen from the phone book. For what reason?
John Doggett
No reason, other than their names.
Dana Scully
And the third victim?
John Doggett
The doctor, monique sampson. And the last the man whose body is at the bottom of that river.
Dana Scully
It's not kobold.
John Doggett
The guard we assigned him-- the guard he knew he'd have once we transferred him.
Dana Scully
Custer.
John Doggett
Checkmate.
Dana Scully
Something still bothering you, agent Reyes? You don't believe his explanation?
Monica Reyes
It all makes sense to me as far as it goes but there's something else. Something he's afraid to explain.
Dana Scully
You mean that you felt the presence of evil?
Monica Reyes
No. I mean that he felt it, too.
[ whispering voices ]
No matching dialogue
Try another character, phrase, or keyword.
About this transcript
The dialogue comes from the official DVD subtitle track supplied by Boggsfiles. Speaker and scene attribution was cross-checked against character-labelled reference material. Subtitle wording is preserved while capitalization and spacing are standardized for easier reading.