All language subtitles for The X-Files s01e03

Hi. You've reached
the Usher residence.

Please leave a message
at the tone. Thank you.

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

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

The presentation
didn't go so well.

Call me.

I love you. Bye.

Guess who I ran into
from our class at Quantico.

Marty Neil.

J. Edgar Jr.?

Just got bumped up.

Foreign counterintelligence.

New York City Bureau.

Supervisory.

Special agent.

- Supervisory?
- That's right.

Two years out of the academy?

How did he land that?

He lucked into the
World Trade Center bombing.

Well, good for Marty.

Come on, Dana.

The guy is a loser.

Look where he is now.

It's where we should be.

Brad Wilson told me

the psychological
profile you wrote

on the Washington
Crossing killer

led them straight
to the suspect.

Word has it,

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

So, how are you doing?

Have you had any close
encounters of the third kind?

Is that what everyone
thinks I do?

No, of course not.

But you do work
with "Spooky" Mulder.

Mulder's ideas
may be a bit out there,

but he is a great agent.

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

Baltimore PD calls.

They want our help
on a serial killer profile.

Three murders began
six weeks ago.

Victims vary
in age, race, gender.

No known connections
to each other.

I take it there's a pattern.

Point of entry...

actually the lack of one.

- What do you mean?
- One victim,

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

She was found
with the windows locked

and the door chained
from the inside.

The last incident, two days ago.

High-security office building.

Nothing on the security
monitors.

Janitor spoke to the victim
minutes before the murder.

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

Suicides?

Each victim was found

with their liver ripped out.

No cutting tool was used.

Bare hands?

This looks like an X File.

Let's not get carried away.

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

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

Maybe come down
to the crime scene.

Do you want me to ask Mulder?

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

but make sure he knows
this is my case.

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

I'll be getting my bump
up the ladder

and you?

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

So, why didn't they ask me?

They're friends of mine
from the academy.

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

Why would I make them
so uncomfortable?

It probably has to do
with your reputation.

Reputation?
I have a reputation?

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

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

Spooky?

Do you think I'm spooky?

Agent Scully's in here, sir.

Dana...

Sorry I'm late.

We just got here.

Uh, Fox Mulder,
Tom... Colton.

So, Mulder, what do you think?

Does this look like the work
of little green men?

Gray.

Excuse me?

Gray. You said green men.

A Reticulan skin tone
is actually gray.

They're notorious
for their extraction

of terrestrial human livers

due to iron depletion
in the Reticulum galaxy.

You can't be serious.

Do you have any idea what
liver and onions go for

on Reticulum?

Excuse me.

Dana, I've been
thinking about this

and I have a theory.

It might explain a lot.

Tell me what you think.

What if the guy enters
the building...

Hold on a second.

What in the hell's he doing?

Uh, that vent
is six inches by about 18.

Even if a Reticulan
could crawl through,

it's screwed in place.

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

These others are from an X File.

Ten murders, Baltimore area.

Undetermined points of entry.

Each victim had
their liver removed.

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

Ten murders.
Colton never mentioned...

Most likely he's
unaware of them.

These two prints were lifted
five years before he was born

at Powhatan Mill.

And these three were lifted

probably five years before
his mother was even born.

Are you saying

these prints are from
the 1960s and 1930s?

And fingerprinting was just
coming into its own in 1903

but there was a murder

involving an extracted liver.

Of course.

Now, that's five murders
every 30 years.

That makes two more
to go this year.

You're saying
these are copycats?

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

Each fingerprint is unique.

These are a perfect match.

Are you suggesting that I go
before the Violent Crimes Section

and present a profile
declaring that these murders

are done by aliens?

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

Well, what then?

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

who's capable of overpowering

a healthy six-foot-two
businessman?

And he should
stick out in a crowd

with ten inch fingers.

Look, bottom line

this is Colton's case.

Our X File dates back to 1903.

We had it first.

Mulder, they don't
want you involved.

They don't want
to hear your theories.

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

You're down here, too.

Look, why don't
we agree to this?

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

and never the twain shall meet.

Agreed?

After a careful review

of the violence and powerful
nature of these murders,

I believe the killer
to be a male,

25 to 35 years of age

with above average intelligence.

His manner of entry
has so far been undetectable.

This may be due
to his superior knowledge

of the inner structure
of buildings and duct works

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

posing as delivery
or maintenance workers.

The extraction of the liver

is the most significant detail
of these crimes.

The liver possesses
regenerative qualities.

It cleanses the blood.

The taking of this trophy
is the transferring act

for the killer
to cleanse himself

of his own impurities.

I think he is acting
under the classic form

of obsessive/compulsive
behavior.

Now, since the victims
are unrelated

and we cannot predict
who will be next,

we must utilize the fact

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

When this occurs,
a serial killer

may return in frustration
to the site of a previous murder

hoping to recapture
the emotional high.

I think our best
course of action

is to target these sites.

Good job, Agent Scully.

If there are no objections,

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

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

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

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

but if you don't
mind some over time,

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

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

that's a bit more down to earth.

Position ten, station check.

Position ten, I copy.

Whoa!

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

Mulder, what the hell
are you doing here?

He's not coming back here.

His thrill is derived
from the challenge

of a seemingly impossible entry.

He's already beaten this place.

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

you'd come to the same
conclusion.

Mulder, you are
jeopardizing my stakeout.

Seeds?

You're wasting your time.

I'm going home.

Scully! Call for backup,
and get over here!

Position ten requesting backup.

In there.

Federal agent!

I'm armed.

Proceed down the vent.

Slowly!

She's not by her car!

Take him!

- All right, move, move, move!
- FBI!

- Don't move!
- Don't move!

Get your hands up!

Keep them up!

You're under arrest.

You have the right
to remain silent...

You were right.

...in a court of law.

You have a right
to have an attorney present

during questioning.

If you cannot afford
an attorney,

one will be appointed for you.

Is your full name
Eugene Victor Tooms?

Yes.

Are you a resident
of the state of Maryland?

Yes.

Are you an employee

of the Baltimore
Municipal Animal Control?

Yes.

Is it your intent to lie to me

about anything here today?

No.

Were you ever enrolled
in college?

Yes.

Were you ever enrolled
in medical school?

No.

Have you ever removed
a liver from a human being?

No.

Have you ever killed
a living creature?

Yes.

Have you ever killed
a human being?

No.

Were you ever in
George Usher's office?

No.

Did you kill George Usher?

No.

Are you over 100 years old?

That must be a control question.

I had her ask it.

No.

Have you ever been
to Powhatan Mill?

Yes.

In 1933?

No.

Are you afraid
you might fail this test?

Well...

Yes...

Because I didn't do anything.

He nailed it. A-plus.

As far as I'm concerned

the subject did not kill
those two people.

Maintenance people
at the office building

confirmed a call
to animal control

regarding a bad smell.

They found a dead cat
in the ventilation ducts

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

That still doesn't explain

what he was doing there
that late at night.

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

with initiative
and we busted him for it.

He was crawling
up an air duct by himself

without alerting security.

Dana, he passed the test.

His story checks out.

He's not the guy.

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

Scully's right.
It is the guy.

What do you got, Mulder?

He lied on questions 11 and 13.

His electrodermal
and cardiographic response

nearly go off the chart.

Is number 11
the hundred-year-old question?

Let me tell you,

I had a reaction
to that stupid question.

And what the hell
is this Powhatan Mill thing?

Two murders with matching M.O.'s

occurred in Powhatan Mill
in 1933.

Just look at the chart.

My interpretation
of those reactions...

I don't need you or that machine

telling me if Tooms
was alive in '33.

He's the guy.

I'm letting him go.

You coming?

Tom, I want to thank you

for letting me put in
some time with the VCS.

But I am officially assigned
to the X Files.

I'll see what I can
do about that.

Tom, I can look out for myself.

You said Mulder was out there.

That guy's insane.

You knew they wouldn't
believe you.

Why did you push it?

Maybe I thought
you caught the right guy.

And maybe I run into
so many people who are hostile

just because
they can't open their minds

to the possibilities

that sometimes the need
to mess with their heads

outweighs the millstone
of humiliation.

It seems like you were acting
very territorial.

I don't know.
Forget it.

Of course I was.

In our investigations

you may not
always agree with me,

but at least
you respect the journey.

And if you want to continue
working with them,

I won't hold it against you.

I don't know.

You must have something more

than your polygraph
interpretation

to back up this bizarre theory

and I have to see what it is.

These are Eugene Tooms's prints.

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

It matches the old ones
from the X Files.

Obviously, no match.

What if...

somehow...

How could that be?

The only thing
I know for certain is...

they let him go.

64 inches from the south wall.

Let's run a check
on liver transplants

in the next 24 hours.

Maybe this thing
is black market.

Come on.
It was ripped out of there.

Look, at this point,

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

any sane theory.

I'm sorry, Dana,

but I only want
qualified members

of the investigating team
at the crime scene.

What's the matter, Colton?

You worried
I'll solve your case?

Tom, we have authorized access
to this crime scene.

A report of you

obstructing another officer's
investigation

might stick out
on your personnel file.

Look, Dana,

whose side are you on?

The victim's.

105 inches from the fireplace.

The victim is a Thomas Werner.

Single, white...

That's Tooms's.

And he took something.

Baltimore PD checked out
Tooms's apartment.

It was a cover.

No one has ever lived there

and he hasn't shown up for work

since he was arrested.

I found him.

How do we learn
about the present?

We look to the past.

I think this is where
it all began,

in 1903, on Exeter Street.

Now look at the address

of that first murder in 1903.

Apartment 203.

He killed the guy above him.

Maybe his neighbor
played the Victrola too loud.

This must be Tooms's
great-grandfather.

What about the prints?

Genetics might explain
the patterns.

It also might explain

the sociopathic attitudes
and behaviors.

It begins with one family member
who raises an offspring

who raises the next child...

So what is this,
the anti-Waltons?

Well, what do you think?

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

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

If we don't get him right now,

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

2023.

And you're gonna be

head of the Bureau by then.

So I think you have to
go through the census,

I'm gonna plow through
this century's

marriage, birth,
death certificates...

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

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

Anything?

Nope.

He disappeared
off the face of the earth.

You?

Never was born, never married

never died.

At least in Baltimore County.

Well, I did find
one thing, though.

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

of the Powhatan Mill murders
in 1933.

I've been waiting 25 years
for you.

Sir?

I called it quits in 1968,

after 45 years as a cop...

and those killings
at Powhatan Mill.

I was a sheriff then,

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

bloody ones...

but I could go home and...

pitch a few baseballs to my kid

and never give it
a second thought.

You gotta be able to do that.

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

But those murders
in Powhatan Mill...

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

My hands... numbed.

I could feel...

it.

Feel what, Frank?

When I first heard
about the death camps in 1945,

I remembered Powhatan Mill.

When I see the Kurds
and the Bosnians...

that room is there...

I tell you.

It's like all of
the horrible acts

that humans are capable of

somehow gave birth
to some kind of human...

monster.

That's why I say

I've been waiting for you.

Uh...

there's a box in the trunk here.

Get it for me, would you please?

Now, this is all the evidence
I've collected

officially and unofficially.

Unofficially?

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

as in '33.

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

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

A piece of the removed liver?

Yes.

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

he took with him.

Family members reported
small personal effects

missing in each case...

a hairbrush
in the Walters murder...

a coffee mug
in the Taylor murder.

Have you ever heard the name

- Eugene Victor Tooms?
- Hmph.

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

I...

I did some of my own work.

I took these
surveillance pictures.

Now, this...

is Tooms.

Of course, that was him
30 years ago.

And this...

...is the apartment
where he lived.

It was located at...

...66 Exeter Street?

Right.

That's it.

Right there.

Here's 103.

The old man was right.

You can feel it.

Nothing here.

Check this out.

What's down here?

I don't know.

Let's find out.

Just an old coal cellar.

Somebody having a garage sale?

This is the shape
on Werner's mantle.

Frank said
he collected trophies.

Does he live in here?

It looks like

the wall's deteriorating.

No. Somebody made it.

This is a nest.

Look.

It's made out of
rags and newspapers.

This looks like the opening.

Think there's anything inside?

Oh, my God, Mulder...

it smells like...

I think it's bile.

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

without betraying
my cool exterior?

No one could live in this.

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

I think
it's where he hibernates.

Hibernates?

Just listen.

What if some genetic mutation
could allow a man

to awaken every 30 years?

Mulder...

And what if the five livers
could provide him sustenance

for that period?

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

genetic mutant?

In any case, he's not here now

and he's got to come back.

Well, we're gonna need
a surveillance team.

Yeah.
It'll take some finagling.

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

And I'll keep watch.

Oh, wait.

I'm snagged on something.

Oh, it's okay.

I got it.

It's about time.

So, who we looking for again?

Eugene Tooms.

He's unarmed, but
consider him dangerous.

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

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

You've got it...

Spooky.

We have to talk.

I have to meet Mulder.

That's what we have
to talk about.

You're using two of my men

to sit in front of a building

that's been condemned
for ten years?

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

When we first had lunch,

I really looked forward
to working with you.

You are a good agent.

But now, after Mulder,

I couldn't have you
far enough away.

Don't bother going down there.

I had the stakeout called off.

You can't do that.

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

especially after
I told them about

the irresponsible
waste in man-hours.

Huh-uh.
Let me call Mulder.

Let me tell him the news.

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

All the way to the top.

Then I can't wait
till you fall off

and land on your ass.

This is Fox Mulder.

I'm not here.

Leave a message.

Where is everyone?

Scully?

This is Fox Mulder.

I'm not here.
Leave a message.

Mulder, you must have gone out

since Colton gave us
the night off.

I say we file a complaint
against him.

I am furious.

Call me when you get in.

Okay. Bye.

Damn it.

Oh, my...

Damn it, answer!

Scully!

You all right?

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

Look at him.

He's building another nest.

You'll be interested to know

that I've ordered
some genetic tests.

The preliminary
medical exam revealed

quite abnormal development

in the muscular
and skeletal systems

as well as a continually
declining metabolic rate.

It dips way below the levels
registered in deep sleep.

Did you hear
what I said, Mulder?

All these people
putting bars on their windows...

spending good money
on high-tech security systems,

trying to feel safe?

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

"it ain't enough."