The X-Files 1x3

1. Hi. You've reached the Usher residence.

2. Please leave a message at the tone. Thank you.

3. Hi, honey. It's about 8:30,

4. and, um, I'm going to be here for a while.

5. The presentation didn't go so well.

6. Call me.

7. I love you. Bye.

8. Guess who I ran into from our class at Quantico.

9. Marty Neil.

10. J. Edgar Jr.?

11. Just got bumped up.

12. Foreign counterintelligence.

13. New York City Bureau.

14. Supervisory.

15. Special agent.

16. - Supervisory? - That's right.

17. Two years out of the academy?

18. How did he land that?

19. He lucked into the World Trade Center bombing.

20. Well, good for Marty.

21. Come on, Dana.

22. The guy is a loser.

23. Look where he is now.

24. It's where we should be.

25. Brad Wilson told me

26. the psychological profile you wrote

27. on the Washington Crossing killer

28. led them straight to the suspect.

29. Word has it,

30. you're on the Violent Crime section's fast track.

31. So, how are you doing?

32. Have you had any close encounters of the third kind?

33. Is that what everyone thinks I do?

34. No, of course not.

35. But you do work with "Spooky" Mulder.

36. Mulder's ideas may be a bit out there,

37. but he is a great agent.

38. Yeah, well, I've got this case that's "out there."

39. Baltimore PD calls.

40. They want our help on a serial killer profile.

41. Three murders began six weeks ago.

42. Victims vary in age, race, gender.

43. No known connections to each other.

44. I take it there's a pattern.

45. Point of entry...

46. actually the lack of one.

47. - What do you mean? - One victim,

48. college girl, killed in her 10x12 cinder block dorm room.

49. She was found with the windows locked

50. and the door chained from the inside.

51. The last incident, two days ago.

52. High-security office building.

53. Nothing on the security monitors.

54. Janitor spoke to the victim minutes before the murder.

55. Didn't hear or see a thing out of the ordinary.

56. Suicides?

57. Each victim was found

58. with their liver ripped out.

59. No cutting tool was used.

60. Bare hands?

61. This looks like an X File.

62. Let's not get carried away.

63. I'm going to solve these murders, but...

64. what I would like from you is to go over the case histories.

65. Maybe come down to the crime scene.

66. Do you want me to ask Mulder?

67. Okay, if he wants to come and do you a favor, great,

68. but make sure he knows this is my case.

69. Dana, if I can break a case like this one,

70. I'll be getting my bump up the ladder

71. and you?

72. Maybe you won't have to be Mrs. Spooky anymore.

73. So, why didn't they ask me?

74. They're friends of mine from the academy.

75. I'm sure they just felt more comfortable talking to me.

76. Why would I make them so uncomfortable?

77. It probably has to do with your reputation.

78. Reputation? I have a reputation?

79. Mulder, look, Colton plays by the book, and you don't.

80. They feel your methods, your theories, are...

81. Spooky?

82. Do you think I'm spooky?

83. Agent Scully's in here, sir.

84. Dana...

85. Sorry I'm late.

86. We just got here.

87. Uh, Fox Mulder, Tom... Colton.

88. So, Mulder, what do you think?

89. Does this look like the work of little green men?

90. Gray.

91. Excuse me?

92. Gray. You said green men.

93. A Reticulan skin tone is actually gray.

94. They're notorious for their extraction

95. of terrestrial human livers

96. due to iron depletion in the Reticulum galaxy.

97. You can't be serious.

98. Do you have any idea what liver and onions go for

99. on Reticulum?

100. Excuse me.

101. Dana, I've been thinking about this

102. and I have a theory.

103. It might explain a lot.

104. Tell me what you think.

105. What if the guy enters the building...

106. Hold on a second.

107. What in the hell's he doing?

108. Uh, that vent is six inches by about 18.

109. Even if a Reticulan could crawl through,

110. it's screwed in place.

111. This is the print I took yesterday from Usher's office.

112. These others are from an X File.

113. Ten murders, Baltimore area.

114. Undetermined points of entry.

115. Each victim had their liver removed.

116. These prints were discovered at five of the ten crime scenes.

117. Ten murders. Colton never mentioned...

118. Most likely he's unaware of them.

119. These two prints were lifted five years before he was born

120. at Powhatan Mill.

121. And these three were lifted

122. probably five years before his mother was even born.

123. Are you saying

124. these prints are from the 1960s and 1930s?

125. And fingerprinting was just coming into its own in 1903

126. but there was a murder

127. involving an extracted liver.

128. Of course.

129. Now, that's five murders every 30 years.

130. That makes two more to go this year.

131. You're saying these are copycats?

132. What did we learn our first day at the academy, Scully?

133. Each fingerprint is unique.

134. These are a perfect match.

135. Are you suggesting that I go before the Violent Crimes Section

136. and present a profile declaring that these murders

137. are done by aliens?

138. No, of course not. I find no evidence of alien involvement.

139. Well, what then?

140. This is the work of a 100-year-old serial killer

141. who's capable of overpowering

142. a healthy six-foot-two businessman?

143. And he should stick out in a crowd

144. with ten inch fingers.

145. Look, bottom line

146. this is Colton's case.

147. Our X File dates back to 1903.

148. We had it first.

149. Mulder, they don't want you involved.

150. They don't want to hear your theories.

151. That's why Blevins has you hidden away down here.

152. You're down here, too.

153. Look, why don't we agree to this?

154. They'll have their investigation and we'll have ours,

155. and never the twain shall meet.

156. Agreed?

157. After a careful review

158. of the violence and powerful nature of these murders,

159. I believe the killer to be a male,

160. 25 to 35 years of age

161. with above average intelligence.

162. His manner of entry has so far been undetectable.

163. This may be due to his superior knowledge

164. of the inner structure of buildings and duct works

165. or that he, in fact, hides in plain sight,

166. posing as delivery or maintenance workers.

167. The extraction of the liver

168. is the most significant detail of these crimes.

169. The liver possesses regenerative qualities.

170. It cleanses the blood.

171. The taking of this trophy is the transferring act

172. for the killer to cleanse himself

173. of his own impurities.

174. I think he is acting under the classic form

175. of obsessive/compulsive behavior.

176. Now, since the victims are unrelated

177. and we cannot predict who will be next,

178. we must utilize the fact

179. that a killer will not always succeed in finding a victim.

180. When this occurs, a serial killer

181. may return in frustration to the site of a previous murder

182. hoping to recapture the emotional high.

183. I think our best course of action

184. is to target these sites.

185. Good job, Agent Scully.

186. If there are no objections,

187. I'd like to begin our stakeouts of the murder sites tonight.

188. We're looking for a male, 25 to 35,

189. possibly wearing a uniform... gas company, UPS, whatever.

190. I know you're assigned to another area, Scully,

191. but if you don't mind some over time,

192. you're welcome to come aboard with us on this.

193. That is, if you don't mind working in an area

194. that's a bit more down to earth.

195. Position ten, station check.

196. Position ten, I copy.

197. Whoa!

198. You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man, would you, copper?

199. Mulder, what the hell are you doing here?

200. He's not coming back here.

201. His thrill is derived from the challenge

202. of a seemingly impossible entry.

203. He's already beaten this place.

204. If you'd read the X File on the case,

205. you'd come to the same conclusion.

206. Mulder, you are jeopardizing my stakeout.

207. Seeds?

208. You're wasting your time.

209. I'm going home.

210. Scully! Call for backup, and get over here!

211. Position ten requesting backup.

212. In there.

213. Federal agent!

214. I'm armed.

215. Proceed down the vent.

216. Slowly!

217. She's not by her car!

218. Take him!

219. - All right, move, move, move! - FBI!

220. - Don't move! - Don't move!

221. Get your hands up!

222. Keep them up!

223. You're under arrest.

224. You have the right to remain silent...

225. You were right.

226. in a court of law.

227. You have a right to have an attorney present

228. during questioning.

229. If you cannot afford an attorney,

230. one will be appointed for you.

231. Is your full name Eugene Victor Tooms?

232. Yes.

233. Are you a resident of the state of Maryland?

234. Yes.

235. Are you an employee

236. of the Baltimore Municipal Animal Control?

237. Yes.

238. Is it your intent to lie to me

239. about anything here today?

240. No.

241. Were you ever enrolled in college?

242. Yes.

243. Were you ever enrolled in medical school?

244. No.

245. Have you ever removed a liver from a human being?

246. No.

247. Have you ever killed a living creature?

248. Yes.

249. Have you ever killed a human being?

250. No.

251. Were you ever in George Usher's office?

252. No.

253. Did you kill George Usher?

254. No.

255. Are you over 100 years old?

256. That must be a control question.

257. I had her ask it.

258. No.

259. Have you ever been to Powhatan Mill?

260. Yes.

261. In 1933?

262. No.

263. Are you afraid you might fail this test?

264. Well...

265. Yes...

266. Because I didn't do anything.

267. He nailed it. A-plus.

268. As far as I'm concerned

269. the subject did not kill those two people.

270. Maintenance people at the office building

271. confirmed a call to animal control

272. regarding a bad smell.

273. They found a dead cat in the ventilation ducts

274. - on the second floor. - Well, that's that.

275. That still doesn't explain

276. what he was doing there that late at night.

277. So he's a one of the few civil servant we have

278. with initiative and we busted him for it.

279. He was crawling up an air duct by himself

280. without alerting security.

281. Dana, he passed the test.

282. His story checks out.

283. He's not the guy.

284. It doesn't mean that your profile's incorrect.

285. Scully's right. It is the guy.

286. What do you got, Mulder?

287. He lied on questions 11 and 13.

288. His electrodermal and cardiographic response

289. nearly go off the chart.

290. Is number 11 the hundred-year-old question?

291. Let me tell you,

292. I had a reaction to that stupid question.

293. And what the hell is this Powhatan Mill thing?

294. Two murders with matching M.O.'s

295. occurred in Powhatan Mill in 1933.

296. Just look at the chart.

297. My interpretation of those reactions...

298. I don't need you or that machine

299. telling me if Tooms was alive in '33.

300. He's the guy.

301. I'm letting him go.

302. You coming?

303. Tom, I want to thank you

304. for letting me put in some time with the VCS.

305. But I am officially assigned to the X Files.

306. I'll see what I can do about that.

307. Tom, I can look out for myself.

308. You said Mulder was out there.

309. That guy's insane.

310. You knew they wouldn't believe you.

311. Why did you push it?

312. Maybe I thought you caught the right guy.

313. And maybe I run into so many people who are hostile

314. just because they can't open their minds

315. to the possibilities

316. that sometimes the need to mess with their heads

317. outweighs the millstone of humiliation.

318. It seems like you were acting very territorial.

319. I don't know. Forget it.

320. Of course I was.

321. In our investigations

322. you may not always agree with me,

323. but at least you respect the journey.

324. And if you want to continue working with them,

325. I won't hold it against you.

326. I don't know.

327. You must have something more

328. than your polygraph interpretation

329. to back up this bizarre theory

330. and I have to see what it is.

331. These are Eugene Tooms's prints.

332. This is the fingerprint they took from Usher's office.

333. It matches the old ones from the X Files.

334. Obviously, no match.

335. What if...

336. somehow...

337. How could that be?

338. The only thing I know for certain is...

339. they let him go.

340. 64 inches from the south wall.

341. Let's run a check on liver transplants

342. in the next 24 hours.

343. Maybe this thing is black market.

344. Come on. It was ripped out of there.

345. Look, at this point,

346. I'm willing to give any theory a shot...

347. any sane theory.

348. I'm sorry, Dana,

349. but I only want qualified members

350. of the investigating team at the crime scene.

351. What's the matter, Colton?

352. You worried I'll solve your case?

353. Tom, we have authorized access to this crime scene.

354. A report of you

355. obstructing another officer's investigation

356. might stick out on your personnel file.

357. Look, Dana,

358. whose side are you on?

359. The victim's.

360. 105 inches from the fireplace.

361. The victim is a Thomas Werner.

362. Single, white...

363. That's Tooms's.

364. And he took something.

365. Baltimore PD checked out Tooms's apartment.

366. It was a cover.

367. No one has ever lived there

368. and he hasn't shown up for work

369. since he was arrested.

370. I found him.

371. How do we learn about the present?

372. We look to the past.

373. I think this is where it all began,

374. in 1903, on Exeter Street.

375. Now look at the address

376. of that first murder in 1903.

377. Apartment 203.

378. He killed the guy above him.

379. Maybe his neighbor played the Victrola too loud.

380. This must be Tooms's great-grandfather.

381. What about the prints?

382. Genetics might explain the patterns.

383. It also might explain

384. the sociopathic attitudes and behaviors.

385. It begins with one family member who raises an offspring

386. who raises the next child...

387. So what is this, the anti-Waltons?

388. Well, what do you think?

389. I think what we have to do is track Eugene Tooms.

390. There's four down and one to go this year.

391. If we don't get him right now,

392. the next chance we're gonna get is in, uh...

393. 2023.

394. And you're gonna be

395. head of the Bureau by then.

396. So I think you have to go through the census,

397. I'm gonna plow through this century's

398. marriage, birth, death certificates...

399. Do you have any Dramamine on you, by any chance?

400. 'Cause these... these things make me seasick.

401. Anything?

402. Nope.

403. He disappeared off the face of the earth.

404. You?

405. Never was born, never married

406. never died.

407. At least in Baltimore County.

408. Well, I did find one thing, though.

409. Um, it's the current address of the investigating officer

410. of the Powhatan Mill murders in 1933.

411. I've been waiting 25 years for you.

412. Sir?

413. I called it quits in 1968,

414. after 45 years as a cop...

415. and those killings at Powhatan Mill.

416. I was a sheriff then,

417. and I'd seen my share of murders...

418. bloody ones...

419. but I could go home and...

420. pitch a few baseballs to my kid

421. and never give it a second thought.

422. You gotta be able to do that.

423. You... you'd go crazy, right?

424. But those murders in Powhatan Mill...

425. when I walked into that room, my heart went cold.

426. My hands... numbed.

427. I could feel...

428. it.

429. Feel what, Frank?

430. When I first heard about the death camps in 1945,

431. I remembered Powhatan Mill.

432. When I see the Kurds and the Bosnians...

433. that room is there...

434. I tell you.

435. It's like all of the horrible acts

436. that humans are capable of

437. somehow gave birth to some kind of human...

438. monster.

439. That's why I say

440. I've been waiting for you.

441. Uh...

442. there's a box in the trunk here.

443. Get it for me, would you please?

444. Now, this is all the evidence I've collected

445. officially and unofficially.

446. Unofficially?

447. I knew that the murders in '63 were by the same... person

448. as in '33.

449. But by then, they had me on a desk pushing papers

450. and they wouldn't let me anywhere near the case.

451. A piece of the removed liver?

452. Yes.

453. But, you know, that's not the only trophy

454. he took with him.

455. Family members reported small personal effects

456. missing in each case...

457. a hairbrush in the Walters murder...

458. a coffee mug in the Taylor murder.

459. Have you ever heard the name

460. - Eugene Victor Tooms? - Hmph.

461. When they wouldn't bring me aboard in '63,

462. I...

463. I did some of my own work.

464. I took these surveillance pictures.

465. Now, this...

466. is Tooms.

467. Of course, that was him 30 years ago.

468. And this...

469. is the apartment where he lived.

470. It was located at...

471. 66 Exeter Street?

472. Right.

473. That's it.

474. Right there.

475. Here's 103.

476. The old man was right.

477. You can feel it.

478. Nothing here.

479. Check this out.

480. What's down here?

481. I don't know.

482. Let's find out.

483. Just an old coal cellar.

484. Somebody having a garage sale?

485. This is the shape on Werner's mantle.

486. Frank said he collected trophies.

487. Does he live in here?

488. It looks like

489. the wall's deteriorating.

490. No. Somebody made it.

491. This is a nest.

492. Look.

493. It's made out of rags and newspapers.

494. This looks like the opening.

495. Think there's anything inside?

496. Oh, my God, Mulder...

497. it smells like...

498. I think it's bile.

499. Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly

500. without betraying my cool exterior?

501. No one could live in this.

502. I don't think it's where he lives.

503. I think it's where he hibernates.

504. Hibernates?

505. Just listen.

506. What if some genetic mutation could allow a man

507. to awaken every 30 years?

508. Mulder...

509. And what if the five livers could provide him sustenance

510. for that period?

511. What if Tooms is some kind of 20th-century...

512. genetic mutant?

513. In any case, he's not here now

514. and he's got to come back.

515. Well, we're gonna need a surveillance team.

516. Yeah. It'll take some finagling.

517. Well, you go downtown and see what you can finagle.

518. And I'll keep watch.

519. Oh, wait.

520. I'm snagged on something.

521. Oh, it's okay.

522. I got it.

523. It's about time.

524. So, who we looking for again?

525. Eugene Tooms.

526. He's unarmed, but consider him dangerous.

527. Scully and I will be back to relieve you in eight hours

528. if he doesn't show... right here.

529. You've got it...

530. Spooky.

531. We have to talk.

532. I have to meet Mulder.

533. That's what we have to talk about.

534. You're using two of my men

535. to sit in front of a building

536. that's been condemned for ten years?

537. It isn't in any way interfering with your investigation.

538. When we first had lunch,

539. I really looked forward to working with you.

540. You are a good agent.

541. But now, after Mulder,

542. I couldn't have you far enough away.

543. Don't bother going down there.

544. I had the stakeout called off.

545. You can't do that.

546. No, I can't, but my regional ASAC can,

547. especially after I told them about

548. the irresponsible waste in man-hours.

549. Huh-uh. Let me call Mulder.

550. Let me tell him the news.

551. Is this what it takes to climb the ladder, Colton?

552. All the way to the top.

553. Then I can't wait till you fall off

554. and land on your ass.

555. This is Fox Mulder.

556. I'm not here.

557. Leave a message.

558. Where is everyone?

559. Scully?

560. This is Fox Mulder.

561. I'm not here. Leave a message.

562. Mulder, you must have gone out

563. since Colton gave us the night off.

564. I say we file a complaint against him.

565. I am furious.

566. Call me when you get in.

567. Okay. Bye.

568. Damn it.

569. Oh, my...

570. Damn it, answer!

571. Scully!

572. You all right?

573. He's not going to get his quota this year.

574. Look at him.

575. He's building another nest.

576. You'll be interested to know

577. that I've ordered some genetic tests.

578. The preliminary medical exam revealed

579. quite abnormal development

580. in the muscular and skeletal systems

581. as well as a continually declining metabolic rate.

582. It dips way below the levels registered in deep sleep.

583. Did you hear what I said, Mulder?

584. All these people putting bars on their windows...

585. spending good money on high-tech security systems,

586. trying to feel safe?

587. I look at this guy, and I think...

588. "it ain't enough."