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Are you going to leave this up all year?

Yup. All year.

Since you always made us take the Christmas tree down

the day after Christmas, I'm making up for lost time.

If your idea of a good time is to pick up dried pine needles,

treat yourself.

As if he's an authority on having a good time.

That's okay, Mom. I got that.

Oh. Okay.

Okay, Maggie,

let's shove off.

Oh. Okay.

Well, thank you for having us.

Dinner was delicious, as usual.

Thanks, Mom.

Good sailing, Ahab.

Good night, Starbuck.

How is work? Good?

Yup.

It's good.

Well...

Well, drive carefully.

Uh-huh.

Good night, Daddy.

Here on Incredible Inventions, though,

you're not going to spend $110.00 for it.

You all know that.

You're not even going to spend $100.00.

There's an approximate one-month supply here

and all you'll spend for this entire package

is just $39.92.

I was kind of interested

that Allen was a blond...

Dad?

I thought you guys left.

Where's Mom?

Hello.

Hello?

Dana...

Mom?

What's the matter?

We, um...

we lost your dad.

He had a... a massive coronary about an hour ago.

He's gone.

I swear, Christmas Day...

my whole family's opening presents and all

and I'm just sitting there

in my own little world thinking

"I just wish Jim were here."

I know.

Oh, man... busted.

Yes, sir?

Out of the vehicle, please.

Sir, I'm sorry.

We'll be on our way.

I said, out of the vehicle.

Keep your hands down.

Let's see some I.D.

No. Not till I see yours.

Last time you were that engrossed,

it turned out you were reading the adult video news.

I didn't think you'd be in today.

How are you, Dana?

"Dana."

I'm fine.

Thank you.

What are you working on?

Two days ago, a couple was kidnapped

at Jackson University.

Elizabeth Hawley and James Summers... both 19.

Last year, another couple was kidnapped to the day.

Except that abduction occurred at Duke University.

One week later, they found both students' bodies dead.

They were kept alive, tortured during that period.

No arrests were ever made.

Police believed it to be a one-time offender.

But now it appears to be a serial incident.

Anyway... if he holds true to form,

we have five days to find those kids.

That's a grim deadline.

Here's another grim deadline.

In one week, Luther Lee Boggs will take a seat

in the North Carolina gas chamber.

How is he related?

He claims to have information relating to the kidnapping.

He described Hawley's bracelet

down to the last detail.

This is information that only family members

could have known.

Or the kidnapper.

Boggs feels that if his talents help save these kids,

then his sentence should be reduced to life in prison.

His "talents"?

He claims to have obtained this information

through psychic transmissions.

Mulder, do I detect a hint of skepticism?

Perhaps.

Boggs has been there before...

in the chamber.

My profile helped send him there.

He was actually

strapped to the chair

before receiving an executive stay.

He claims that this experience

activated in him the ability to channel spirits and demons.

I believe in psychic ability

without a doubt,

but not in this case.

Not Boggs.

So you believe that Boggs

is orchestrating the kidnapping from the inside.

A scam to save his life?

At the age of six, Luther Boggs

slaughtered every pet animal in his housing project.

When he was 30,

he strangled five family members over Thanksgiving dinner

and then sat down to watch the fourth quarter

of the Detroit-Green Bay game.

Some killers are products of society.

Some act out past abuses.

Boggs kills because he likes it.

And they've requested you speak with him?

Actually, he's requested to speak to me.

Why you?

He read my profile on him

and he feels like I'm the only one

who truly understands what he is.

Anyway, I leave for Raleigh this afternoon.

I'll go with you.

The funeral is at noon.

I think you should take some time.

I need to work.

I'm sorry about your father.

I'll see you later.

Okay.

As a captain,

he was entitled to burial in Arlington

with full ceremony.

This is exactly the way he wanted it.

Just the family.

This song was playing

when his ship returned from the Cuban Blockade.

He marched right off, up to me...

and he proposed.

I know that you and Dad were... disappointed

that I chose the path I'm on,

instead of medicine

but I need to know...

Was he at all proud of me?

He was your father.

The soul of Luther Boggs

drowns in Hell's sea of fire.

We have him now.

We?

You mean the souls of your victims?

The dead.

The living.

All souls are connected.

And you're the conduit?

Uh, Dana...

Fox...

please understand that from here

we can return to the past.

We can see the present.

We can know the future.

From here?

Where exactly are you?

Mr. Boggs must be made redemptive

for his transgressions.

That's exactly what the state of North Carolina

intends to do next week.

Uh-uh.

Let's deal.

Boggs' life for the kids.

You know what I'm saying?

First you've got to prove you're telling the truth.

Don't get me wrong, Luther.

I want to believe.

Oh!

Oh!

God!

No.

Must stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop!

Pain!

Pain. Terrible pain.

Um, the boy.

Uh, Jim.

Uh, he's tied with twine.

Uh, packing twine.

He whips them with a coat hanger,

a wire coat hanger.

Oh.

Dark place.

Cold.

A cellar.

Warehouse, condemned.

An angel of stone.

Waterfall.

Water falling.

That's not a waterfall.

Not water.

They're there.

Oh, God.

I got to go.

I got to go.

I... got to go.

I tore this off my New York Knicks t-shirt.

It has nothing to do with the crime.

Did you get my message, Starbuck?

Thanks a lot.

Scully, what's wrong?

Did Boggs say something to you?

No.

It's my father.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

That's all right.

Why don't you go back to the motel.

We've exposed Boggs as a fraud.

Boggs is not what he claims to be.

He may be orchestrating the kidnapping.

Now he knows we're on to him,

he doesn't have a chance with this charade.

I'm going to wait around here for a couple hours

and try to interrogate him.

Hopefully, he'll tell me where the kids are.

Water falling.

It's not a waterfall.

An angel of stone.

It's Mulder.

I just heard that Liz Hawley's family

made a positive I.D.

on the charm you found at the warehouse.

The police are searching that place inch by inch

but they haven't been able to find anything yet.

I expected to find you at the crime scene.

Did Boggs confess?

No. No. It was five hours of Boggs's channeling.

After three hours,

I asked him to summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix

and requested "All Along the Watchtower."

You know, the guy's been dead 20 years

but he still hasn't lost his edge.

I lied to the police about how I found the warehouse.

I didn't notice any suspicious activity.

Then how did you find it?

It was where Boggs said it would be.

Scully, I told you about Boggs.

I didn't go looking for it!

I came across an area that had landmarks he spoke of.

That doesn't matter!

That's exactly what Boggs wanted.

He could have been setting you up.

You could be dead right now.

Why did you feel you had to lie on your police report?

I thought it would be a better explanation

under the circumstances.

What you're really saying is

that you didn't want to go on record

admitting that you believed in Boggs.

The Bureau would expect something like that

from Spooky Mulder,

but not Dana Scully.

I thought that you would be pleased

that I'd opened myself to extreme possibilities.

Why now?

After all we've seen, why Boggs?

Does this have to do with your father?

He said that he didn't approve

of you becoming an FBI agent.

If being on the job now makes you feel guilty

or uncomfortable or uneasy,

I think you should back away.

Because if it's clouding your judgment,

you're putting yourself in danger.

I love this job.

You love your father.

Dana...

open yourself up to extreme possibilities

only when they're the truth.

That goes for Luther Boggs...

and your father.

As for Luther Boggs,

he's the greatest of lies.

I know he's working with someone on the outside

and they planted that evidence,

and we have to be very careful about plotting our next move

because he's planned five steps ahead.

The only advantage we have is time.

Scully, take a look at this.

That's incredible.

They found them?

That's exactly what I want Boggs to think.

I don't understand.

Why didn't the police notify us?

They haven't been found. The article is bogus.

The Carolinian made this one up just for us.

Only six people know about it.

Later on today, Boggs gets his weekly phone privileges.

Hopefully, he'll call his accomplice

to find out what happened.

Phone privilege is in two hours.

Go.

Turn off that phone.

Turn it off.

Mulder, it's you.

Mulder.

How come you don't believe me?

Agent Scully does.

She believes me.

Agent Scully believes what we all believe...

that you have the kids.

Now, where are they?

Mulder, even if he is setting us up

we have to follow, because in three days...

Liz Hawley and Jim Summers will be dead.

And then, a day later, our only connection to the case

will be pulling up a chair at the gas chamber.

We have to deal.

The kidnapper is aroused

by the prospect of becoming a killer.

What's the name?

Can't see...

male...

Describe him.

Small...

thin...

late 20s...

skull...

human skull...

silver gray...

his eyes...

cold... very cold...

staring at Elizabeth...

God, he's got the wire...

No...

please... no.

Where is he?

He's over...

over...

by the window...

holding back his...

holding back his thoughts of killing us...

waiting...

there's a small boathouse on Lake Jordan.

You got that?

Mulder...

don't go near the white cross.

We see you down...

and your blood spills on the white cross.

No, no, no...!

Anything?

Sweep the docks!

Got it!

Federal agent!

Aah!

Mulder!

We need an ambulance!

Officer down!

- Coming through! - What do we got?

It's a through-and-through, upper femur.

Can't palpate a radial pulse.

Okay, I want a BP on him, stat.

Let's get him on the gurney.

Blood pressure is 67 on palpation.

Okay, tighten and screen him for six.

I want two liters of normal saline in now

and give him two units of O-neg after the typing.

Let's transfer now.

No.

No.

No.

Lucas Jackson Henry, 28.

Did some time at Angola in Louisiana

for sexual assault, narcotics...

nothing big, really.

His personal history includes being witness

to an auto accident

in which his high school sweetheart was killed

and his mother decapitated.

The seven-year anniversary

of that accident is in three days.

He's reliving it.

That would explain the deadline.

The most important element we found

is there's substantial suspicion

that Luther Lee Boggs' last five murders

were committed with a partner.

Now, the police up in Durham say

they could never prove it in court

but they know that partner was Lucas Henry.

You set us up.

You're in on this with Lucas Henry.

This was a trap for Mulder

because he helped put you away.

Well, I came here to tell you

that if he dies because of what you've done,

four days from now,

nobody will stop me from being the one

that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life

for good, you son of a bitch!

Dana...

you're the one that believed me.

No...

no, I do not believe you!

If you don't believe me,

maybe you'll believe yourself.

There was that one time, when I was 14,

and my parents had gone to bed

and I snuck downstairs all alone.

Got one of my mom's cigarettes

and went out onto the porch in the dark.

I was so scared.

My heart was beating.

I mean, they would've killed me if they knew.

But I was so excited.

Not 'cause of the cigarette... I mean, it was gross, but...

because I wasn't supposed to.

That could be a moment from any kid's life.

I know what you want

and I know who you want to talk to.

Why don't you just go ahead and ask me.

I'll believe you...

if you let m...

me talk to him.

Starbuck...

No, no, no!

Nobody talks to anybody until I get a deal.

Don't underestimate my fear of dying

and don't downplay my terror of going back to that chair.

I know my hell's going to be

to go on back to that chair over and over again

for all of time,

but in this life... my one and only life...

I don't ever want to go back again.

Ever!

The last time I went to death's door

and looked inside

I had never talked to a minister before

in my life, ever, until that day

and he said, "He who doth not love

"remains in death.

"And he who hates his brother is a murderer

"and no murderer has eternal life

abiding in him."

My family, who I killed after their last meal

was right there to watch me over mine

and their fear

and their horror

that I made them feel when I killed them

was injected into me

and their collective fear alone

was just one taste of Hell.

And then I felt myself leave my body.

I thought they had already killed me

and I saw thousands

of souls rushing into my body.

It is a cold, dark place, Scully.

Mulder's looking in on it right now.

It may be a cold, dark place for you

but it's not for Mulder and it's not for my father.

I'm sure he'd like to tell you hisself

but I'm not going to let him.

Nobody speaks until you get me a deal.

I don't believe you.

Oh, well, there's plenty of room

in that cold, dark place for liars, Scully.

You go ahead and play it like you need to

but I know you believe me.

But if you need to convince a judge I'm in on it with Lucas,

go ahead, 'cause either way...

whether I'm running the show with Lucas or I'm channeling...

no information's coming till I get a deal.

I got nothing to lose.

Guard!

If I die...

that boy goes to that cold, dark place.

The governor and the supreme court

of North Carolina do not intend

to make a deal with a mass murderer.

Especially one who I know is orchestrating

a capital offense

two days before his capital punishment.

Yes, sir.

The only thing Boggs will get from me

is a timely death.

It's an overdue one at that.

We're running out of time.

There's still no sign of Lucas Henry

or Jim Summers.

The Raleigh police said...

No matter what, don't believe him.

Boggs created this whole charade to get back at me

for putting him on Death Row.

You'd be the next best thing.

Mulder, I never thought I'd say this...

...but what if there's another explanation?

Don't... deal with him.

He could be trying to claim you

as his last victim.

All right, Mr. Boggs...

you got your deal.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

All right, where are they?

Uh... I...

uh...

I see, like, uh...

uh, circles.

Uh...

I don't know, like... barrels.

No.

No, bigger.

Like, uh...

huge, uh...

vats, uh...

factory.

Uh, condemned.

The old, uh, Blue Devil Brewery

up by Morrisville.

Oh, God, he's getting, uh...

he's getting ready.

He...

he...

he's getting ready to, um...

um...

he's getting ready to kill the d...

Whew...

Luther, if you really were psychic...

I would've known you lied.

That there never was a deal.

I know you tried.

Scully...

Avoid the Devil.

Don't follow Henry to the Devil.

Leave that to me.

Freeze!

Federal agents! We're armed!

Drop your weapon.

There he is.

- Hold on... - All right.

...get over here!

Go!

Oh, my God...

Easy, easy...

Over here!

He fell down.

You come to say good-bye?

I believe...

...that if you had orchestrated this kidnapping,

Lucas Henry would have

been aware of the danger you warned me about.

He never would have crossed that bridge.

So you saved...

Jim Summers' life.

But you saved mine as well.

You come for some unfinished business.

You want your father's message.

Not now.

Be there tonight.

My witness.

And when they got me in that chair and they...

open up that shield...

...you get your message.

Our Father Who art in Heaven,

hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven...

Would you like to make a statement?

...our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those that trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,

for Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory

forever and ever, Amen.

I was considering Boggs.

If he knew that I was your partner,

he could have found out everything he knew about me.

About my father.

Scully...

"Beyond the Sea" was playing at my parents' wedding.

Visions of deceased loved ones

are a common psychological phenomena.

If he knew that my father had...

Dana...

after all you've seen,

after all the evidence,

why can't you believe?

I'm afraid.

I'm afraid to believe.

You couldn't face that fear?

Even if it meant never knowing

what your father wanted to tell you?

But I do know.

How?

He was my father.