Tommy Conlon
Dad! Dad!
Season 9 · Episode 14
Scary Monsters
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code9ABX12Original airdate · April 14, 2002
276 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ scratching ]
[ scratching stops ]
[ scratching resumes ]
[ high-pitched scratching ]
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy? What is it?
Tommy Conlon
I'm afraid. I heard something.
Jeffrey Conlon
It's just the wind.
Tommy Conlon
No. I think it's under the bed. Can you check?
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy, there is nothing to be scared of, I promise.
Tommy Conlon
No. There's something under the bed. You have to check.
Jeffrey Conlon
All clear.
Tommy Conlon
You sure? I thought I saw something in the mirror.
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy, it is just your imagination. Now, let's try to get some sleep, okay?
[ scratching ]
[ scratching grows louder ]
[ screams ]
Tommy Conlon
Dad, help! It's in here! Help! Help me! Help! Help! Dad!
[ doorknob rattling ]
Tommy Conlon
It's in here! Help! Help me! Dad! Daddy! Dad!
[ bell ringing ]
Scene 02
FBI ACADEMY
FBI cadet
Dr. Scully...
Dana Scully
Sorry. After lunch. All questions answered after lunch. Thank you.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Scully...
Dana Scully
Leyla harrison. What a surprise.
Leyla Harrison
Oh, good. I was afraid I should have maybe called first. How have you been?
Dana Scully
Oh, uh... Busy. And yourself?
Leyla Harrison
I'm back in accounting now. Happily, mind you. No regrets. Although I did relish my big adventure on the X-Files unit last year.
Dana Scully
I have about five minutes uh, before my next class. Can we talk while I eat?
Leyla Harrison
Not a problem. It's an X-File. I'm sure of it.
Dana Scully
Where did you get this?
Leyla Harrison
It all started when I tracked down a mileage discrepancy in the bureau's vehicle fleet. It turns out a really nice secretary from our Baltimore field office had used a ford taurus without authorization.
Dana Scully
And what does that have to do with...?
Leyla Harrison
Well, she was desperate to visit her grandson which is why she borrowed the car. She's the one who told me about this case. This was her daughter.
Dana Scully
And what makes you think this is an X-File?
Leyla Harrison
Well, this dead woman's son-- my friend's grandson-- this is tommy conlon. Tommy is eight years old. And tommy told her a monster killed his mother. And his father knows all about it. I know, I know. Why take the word of an eight-year-old? But... Look at the autopsy report. Clearly this woman was murdered, and yet...
Dana Scully
And yet the coroner concludes that she stabbed herself to death. Agent harrison I see no reason to disagree with the coroner.
Leyla Harrison
But... I mean, how could someone stab themselves 16 times?
Dana Scully
Look, it is unusual but I have seen it before.
Leyla Harrison
Tommy's father took the boy to some mountaintop in pennsylvania in the middle of nowhere. Took him away from his friends his family. They don't even have a phone. Tommy's own grandmother isn't allowed to see him anymore.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry, agent harrison but unless you have other evidence...
Leyla Harrison
Wait, wait. Tommy said that the same monster that killed his mother killed spanky, his pet cat.
Dana Scully
Uh, unless you bring me spanky, there's nothing I can do.
[ bell ringing ]
Dana Scully
Apple and tuna salad?
[ phone ringing ]
[ ringing continues ]
Scene 03
GEORGETOWN
Dana Scully
Hello.
Monica Reyes
Dana, it's Monica Reyes. Did I catch you at a bad time?
Dana Scully
I was just putting the baby down. What is it?
Monica Reyes
I wanted to get your opinion on an autopsy finding. It's pretty unusual. A woman who stabbed herself 16 times.
Dana Scully
Last name conlon? I assume you've been talking to leyla harrison?
Monica Reyes
Yeah. The three of us are headed to pennsylvania, in fact. It sounds like you're familiar with the case. What do you mean, "there is no case"? Oh, right. Thanks. Why didn't you tell us you'd already gone to agent Scully?
Leyla Harrison
I didn't know that's who you were going to call.
John Doggett
That's not the point, leyla. You misled us.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett, we're almost there.
John Doggett
"how'd you spend your friday night, John?" running around like an idiot.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett... Both of you got in this car believing a little boy may be in danger. What's changed since then? Even if this isn't an X-File
Unidentified speaker
Which it is--
Leyla Harrison
What will it hurt to keep going?
[ exasperated sigh ]
Leyla Harrison
If agent Mulder were here, he'd keep going.
[ shoveling ]
[ panting ]
[ car approaching ]
Scene 04
FAIRHOPE, PENNSYLVANIA
Monica Reyes
Jeffrey conlon?
Jeffrey Conlon
Yeah. Can I help you?
Monica Reyes
Hi. I'm agent Monica Reyes. This is agent John Doggett and agent harrison. We're with the FBI
Jeffrey Conlon
FBI really?
Leyla Harrison
We're here at the request of dorothy-- your mother-in-law. She's worried about her grandson.
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy is fine. I told dorothy over and over. There's really nothing more to say.
John Doggett
Is that blood on your hand, mr. Conlon?
Jeffrey Conlon
Yeah, I cut myself.
John Doggett
On what?
Jeffrey Conlon
A piece of broken glass.
Monica Reyes
Sir, can we speak with your son?
Jeffrey Conlon
He's asleep.
John Doggett
It's not even 7:00. It's kind of early for bedtime, isn't it?
Jeffrey Conlon
Not for tommy. And I'd appreciate it if you'd keep your voice down.
John Doggett
Look, I'm going to be straight with you. We drove a long way.
Monica Reyes
Agent Doggett is very stubborn. I don't think you'll get him to leave until we see your son.
Tommy Conlon
Dad?
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy, go back inside, please.
Tommy Conlon
I heard something. I got afraid.
Monica Reyes
Hi, tommy. I'm Monica. This is John, and this is leyla.
Leyla Harrison
I'm friends with your grandmom. She wanted us to come see how you were doing.
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy, it's too cold out here. Go back inside the house, please.
Monica Reyes
Do you remember what you said to your grandmom? Something about your mother. Do you remember?
Leyla Harrison
Monsters. You said there were monsters, right?
Tommy Conlon
No such thing as monsters.
Jeffrey Conlon
Tell dorothy this is exactly why she's not allowed to visit anymore. Now, good night. Come on.
[ door closes ]
Leyla Harrison
I apologize. I let my imagination run wild and I ruined both your evenings. Thank you in advance for not yelling at me.
John Doggett
Something's going on here.
Leyla Harrison
Wait... There is?
Monica Reyes
That little boy only said what his father wanted him to say.
John Doggett
Did you notice the dirt on that guy's hands and knees? He's been digging. This time of the year he sure as hell ain't gardening. I say we find a judge get a warrant... Search the place.
[ sighs ]
Tommy Conlon
Dad? The monsters aren't going to let those people leave are they?
Jeffrey Conlon
They're leaving, tommy. They're leaving right now.
Tommy Conlon
It's too late.
[ engine sputtering ]
John Doggett
What the hell?
[ Reyes shrieks ]
Monica Reyes
Oh, god. A possum, maybe?
John Doggett
That doesn't make any sense. How'd it get from here into the vents?
[ knocking ]
[ loud pounding ]
Scene 05
Scene 05
Dana Scully
Who is it?
Gabe Rotter
It's gabe rotter. I have the thing you've been waiting for.
Dana Scully
Who?
Gabe Rotter
Gabe... Rotter. I'm a friend of leyla harrison.
Dana Scully
Do you know what time it is?
Gabe Rotter
Hey, I just do as I'm told. Enjoy.
Dana Scully
Whoa. What the hell is that?
Gabe Rotter
A dead cat.
Dana Scully
Come again?
Gabe Rotter
Yeah, his name's spanky. Leyla said you're helping her out on a case and you needed it asap, so... Hey, you're welcome.
Dana Scully
I am going to be exceptionally polite. Leave. Now. Leave now and take that with you.
Gabe Rotter
Do you have any idea what I went through to get this thing? I snuck onto the property where your perp there used to live and I dug up the whole thing looking for it.
Dana Scully
I don't care. Leave! Now! Please!
Gabe Rotter
Uh-uh. Leyla said she'd go out with me only if I got you the cat, and damn it, I got it. Oh, god... You calling the cops on me?
Dana Scully
If only. God help me but agent harrison might be on to something after all.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Monica Reyes
Any luck?
John Doggett
Our engine's completely shot. His truck won't start even though I can't find one damn thing wrong with it. Looks like we're here for the night.
Jeffrey Conlon
I'd better get tommy back to sleep.
Leyla Harrison
Phones that won't work, cars that won't start. It reminds me of a case Mulder and Scully investigated. A teenager who was struck by lightning-- his body affected the electrical workings of everything around him.
Monica Reyes
I don't think that's what we're dealing with here, leyla.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Mulder wasted no time closing that case. I just try to think like him. What would agents Mulder and Scully do if they were in this situation?
John Doggett
Agents Mulder and Scully aren't in this situation. Agents Doggett and Reyes are. I don't know about agent Reyes but agent Doggett's going to sit his tired ass down.
Leyla Harrison
What kind of a course of action is that?
Monica Reyes
I think agent Doggett is saying that right now, we're in the best possible place.
John Doggett
Exactly. Bottom line we're all concerned for this boy's safety. As long as we're here, nothing's going to happen to him, right?
Tommy Conlon
Help! It's in here! Daddy! Help! Help me! Dad! Dad!
John Doggett
Hey!
Jeffrey Conlon
No, don't do it!
Monica Reyes
John.
[ sighs ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
John Doggett
How's he doing?
Monica Reyes
He's a hell of a lot calmer than I'd be.
John Doggett
I checked the place top to bottom. Whatever the hell those things were, they're gone. I have no idea where they went. That's really good, tommy. Is that you? Who's that?
Tommy Conlon
That's her.
Monica Reyes
Tommy, tell John what you told me about what we saw in your room tonight.
Tommy Conlon
Those are the monsters that hurt my mommy. But my dad says I'm not supposed to talk about it.
Scene 08
Scene 08
Jeffrey Conlon
This is my house. Why do I have to sit here?
John Doggett
Tell me what we're dealing with.
Jeffrey Conlon
I don't...
John Doggett
Don't tell me you don't know because you're not going to like what happens next. These things were in the room with your son and you knew it. You held the door shut, you son of a bitch.
Jeffrey Conlon
Want to see something? Look at that. Look at that. That's what they did to me. They almost killed me one time before.
John Doggett
They? What are they? Some kind of animal? What?
Jeffrey Conlon
All I know is that they won't leave us alone and I'm dealing with this the best way I can. Now it's too late.
John Doggett
How's that?
Jeffrey Conlon
They mean to kill every one of you and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Oh, come on. You saw what happens. You think you've killed one and then it becomes two.
Leyla Harrison
I don't think mr. Conlon is telling us the whole truth.
John Doggett
No kidding.
Leyla Harrison
I mean, I think you can kill them because I don't know what else he would have been burying when we showed up tonight.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Gabe Rotter
You got to be freaking kidding me. I can't believe you're cutting up a dead cat on your kitchen table.
Dana Scully
Will you keep your voice down, please? You're going to wake my baby.
Gabe Rotter
This... This just isn't right. Can you clue me in here as to why the cat's so important?
Dana Scully
Because it would seem that poor spanky here may have chewed a hole in his own stomach. Which you'll admit is unusual behavior.
Gabe Rotter
You mean... He killed himself.
Dana Scully
Just like his owner, mrs. Conlon stabbed herself with a knife. The wounds are in the same place and if we figure out why well, then, you'll have something really good to share with your good friend leyla harrison, won't you?
Gabe Rotter
True that.
[ phone rings ]
Dana Scully
Can you hold the ribs open while I grab that, please? Just... Now. Thank you. Agent Scully.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
Yeah, ma'am, this is sheriff jack coogan. I got a message to call this number.
Dana Scully
Hi, sheriff. Thanks for getting back to me. I appreciate it. I'm an FBI agent and I've been trying to reach three of my colleagues that are up in your area.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
Were they on some kind of case?
Dana Scully
Well, they're looking into some concerns expressed by the grandmother of a child. The family name is conlon, and I have an address...
Sheriff Jack Coogan
No need. I was back up there a couple of weeks ago. Got into a kind of a shouting match with the father.
Dana Scully
Over what?
Sheriff Jack Coogan
The grandmother asked me to look in on the boy. Father told me to get the hell off his property. Boy seemed fine, so I did.
Dana Scully
Well, as I say, sheriff, I need to contact my colleagues.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
I'm happy to take a drive up there but can't promise much tonight. The roads are icing up as we speak. Won't be easy getting in.
Dana Scully
Look, sheriff, they may be in danger. Could you please find a way?
[ crunching noise ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
John Doggett
Ow!
Leyla Harrison
Oh, my god.
John Doggett
It's no monster, agent harrison. Dead or alive. You want to explain this, mr. Conlon?
Jeffrey Conlon
It's just a mirror from my son's room.
John Doggett
Why'd you bury it?
Jeffrey Conlon
'cause he was afraid of it.
John Doggett
I want you to get tommy bundled up in warm clothes. I want you to pack anything you think he might need.
Jeffrey Conlon
Why?
John Doggett
'cause I don't believe one damn thing you've told me except that we're in danger and we're walking out of here, all five of us.
Leyla Harrison
I know what you're thinking. Black magic. Mirrors are powerful symbols in conjuring in the dark arts. That's what this is. Right?
John Doggett
Uh-huh. We passed a sheriff's station maybe six Miles down the mountain. It'll be a hike, but we can make it.
Tommy Conlon
Dad, the sheriff...
Jeffrey Conlon
No. Tommy... Don't worry about the sheriff. He's going to help us.
Monica Reyes
What's up, tommy? What's the matter?
[ knocking ]
John Doggett
Stay here. Man, you're a sight for sore eyes. John Doggett.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
I'm the sheriff.
John Doggett
Who called you?
Leyla Harrison
Perfect timing.
Monica Reyes
We were just leaving, sheriff. We need a ride.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
Sorry, you can't leave.
John Doggett
What do you mean?
Sheriff Jack Coogan
You can't go anywhere. It's too cold.
Jeffrey Conlon
It's not him.
John Doggett
What?
Monica Reyes
Gun!
[ grunting ]
Monica Reyes
Let him go!
[ squishing noise ]
Jeffrey Conlon
Oh...
Scene 11
Scene 11
Gabe Rotter
So, this is johnny fabulous, huh?
[ chuckles ]
Gabe Rotter
Oh... "Mulder's so smart. Mulder's so dreamy." that's all leyla ever talks about. Mulder and Scully, Scully and Mulder, blah, blah, blah.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
This sheriff, jack coogan I'm just getting his answering machine.
Gabe Rotter
Hey, you're really worried. I thought you didn't find anything. You told me there wasn't anything inside that cat.
Dana Scully
No, there wasn't. But it certainly seems like there should have been.
Gabe Rotter
What does that mean?
Dana Scully
Well, the pattern of bite marks. I mean, it seems to me that the cat was trying to get at something in its stomach to chew something out.
Gabe Rotter
Something. What?
Dana Scully
I don't know. I mean, there wasn't any sign of it but it obviously caused a great deal of pain. And I'm thinking maybe it goes the same for the woman who tried to stab herself. I mean, what if that was a frantic attempt to... To cut something out.
Gabe Rotter
Wait a minute. Is leyla in danger up there?
Dana Scully
All I know is we're wasting our time talking about this.
Gabe Rotter
Who are you calling now?
Dana Scully
My mom. I'm going to beg her to baby-sit.
Scene 12
Scene 12
John Doggett
Got anything?
Monica Reyes
Yeah. A salad spoon no one's ever going to use again. And the sheriff here? Do not ask me to explain it but he's got absolutely no internal organs. He's like, he's like a big bag.
John Doggett
You know what else? This isn't blood. Whatever it is, I bet it's the same crap that's all over the inside of our car. I've been thinking. You know, I hate to sound like agent harrison but Mulder and Scully had a case like this that I remember where they were trapped underground with these mushroom spores that caused hallucinations. Never mind.
Monica Reyes
I don't know what to say, either. Maybe Mulder and Scully would see something that we don't.
John Doggett
How? Nothing here makes any sense. Unless that's the very thing that we need to see. Agent harrison, you want to take tommy up to his room?
Leyla Harrison
Sure. Come on, tommy.
Monica Reyes
What's the matter? You like leyla, don't you?
Tommy Conlon
Can you stay with me instead?
Monica Reyes
Sure. Come on.
John Doggett
I'm just a cop, mr. Conlon. Maybe I don't have the imagination to connect all the pieces of this insanity together. You said that wasn't exactly the sheriff in there and I want to know what you meant. In fact, you tried to warn us that bag of goo wasn't the sheriff. You were trying to help us.
Leyla Harrison
Yeah, so why not help us now? Tell us what you know, mr. Conlon for tommy's sake.
John Doggett
Your son, tommy you move him up here in the middle of nowhere and you lock him in the room with those things. Now, if you're just trying to get rid of him is that all this is?
Jeffrey Conlon
I love my son. I love my son, you bastard.
John Doggett
Well, you locked him in the room with those things.
Jeffrey Conlon
Because I knew they wouldn't hurt him.
John Doggett
Now, why is that? They hurt you they certainly hurt your wife. Why didn't they hurt tommy?
Monica Reyes
You drew all these?
Tommy Conlon
This one's you.
Monica Reyes
Why would you draw this, tommy? Why would you imagine such awful things?
Tommy Conlon
Because I'm afraid.
Scene 13
SHERIFF'S STATION
Dana Scully
Sheriff coogan? Sheriff?
Sheriff Jack Coogan
Are you agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Yeah. I, uh, I still can't contact my partners. Were you able to get up there?
Sheriff Jack Coogan
I just got back from trying. The roads at that elevation are way too dangerous right now.
Dana Scully
Well, sheriff, there are three FBI agents who may be in grave danger.
Gabe Rotter
That's my girlfriend up there, hoss.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
This is the only road up to that mountain. We've got ice leading all the way up to the peak.
Dana Scully
Well, we have to get up there. I mean, there must be a way.
Sheriff Jack Coogan
I'm sorry. Helicopter, snowplow or pack mule-- unfortunately, I'm fresh out of all three.
Scene 14
Scene 14
Leyla Harrison
What if tommy were at the center of this somehow? The monsters the sheriff. Agent Doggett? Where the hell is the body?
[ grunting ]
John Doggett
Monica, what happened?!
Monica Reyes
The boy!
[ groaning ]
Monica Reyes
The boy, it's all him.
[ groaning ]
Leyla Harrison
Oh, my god.
John Doggett
Is your son doing this?!
Jeffrey Conlon
I told you. I told you to leave.
John Doggett
If this is your son, make him stop.
Jeffrey Conlon
I can't. You don't think I've tried? I can't stop him from... From imagining things. I can't stop him from being afraid. He's just a little boy! He doesn't mean to do these things.
Monica Reyes
The hell he doesn't!
[ groaning ]
John Doggett
If you won't stop him, I will. Tommy? Stay right there.
[ grunts ]
[ scratching sound ]
[ gasping ]
[ yelling, grunting ]
[ Reyes screaming ]
Scene 15
Scene 15
Monica Reyes
Please! Please! You have to get it out! Get it out of me!
Leyla Harrison
Agent Reyes, hold on. Please, hold on.
[ screaming ]
Leyla Harrison
Mr. Conlon, help us.
[ gasps ]
Leyla Harrison
Oh, my god!
Monica Reyes
Please!
[ gasps ]
John Doggett
Listen to me and listen good. These things-- these things aren't happening.
Jeffrey Conlon
What?
John Doggett
How the hell could they be? It's like I've been saying all along. It's not possible.
Jeffrey Conlon
No, this is all real. My wife is dead.
John Doggett
She believed it was real and she stabbed herself. But because I couldn't believe it not really... It couldn't hurt me. Now, come on. You're going to help me.
Tommy Conlon
Dad? Dad! Dad, get in here!
[ footsteps ]
[ Reyes groaning ]
Jeffrey Conlon
Wait. Wait a minute. Where are you going?
John Doggett
You wait here.
Tommy Conlon
What are you doing? What are you doing?
John Doggett
You're a smart boy, tommy. What's it look like I'm doing?
Tommy Conlon
No way.
John Doggett
If I don't stop you my friends are going to die. You think I'm going to let that happen?
Tommy Conlon
You won't do it. You're lying. You'd get burned, too. You're just trying to scare me.
John Doggett
Scared yet?
[ sighs ]
Leyla Harrison
Oh, thank god.
Monica Reyes
Agent harrison?
Leyla Harrison
Monica, are you all right?
Monica Reyes
Where's John?
Gabe Rotter
Ow! Ow.
Jeffrey Conlon
Tommy.
John Doggett
He's breathing. Passed out.
Dana Scully
I'm a medical doctor.
John Doggett
You're all right?
Monica Reyes
Water. You filled it with water.
John Doggett
That's not what tommy believed.
Scene 16
Scene 16
Gabe Rotter
"I want to believe."
Unidentified speaker
Huh.
Gabe Rotter
So, this is where the magic happened, huh?
Leyla Harrison
It still happens. I'm happy it's in good hands.
Monica Reyes
Hey.
Dana Scully
Speak of the devil.
John Doggett
That so?
Gabe Rotter
Leyla keeps going on and on about how you saved the day.
Leyla Harrison
I really do have to commend you, agent Doggett. You solved this case. If it weren't for you... I don't even like to think what would have happened. I have to say, it's clear to me now that you were better-equipped for this challenge than even agent Mulder would have been. I mean, your lack of imagination saved our lives.
John Doggett
Gee, thanks.
Leyla Harrison
That... Didn't come out right. Did it?
Dana Scully
So, any news on the boy?
Monica Reyes
We just got back from the psych center. Their doctors don't quite know what to make of him. I think it goes without saying. However, they have come up with a stopgap treatment.
Dana Scully
What's that?
John Doggett
A way to stifle his imagination.
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