All language subtitles for The X Files - 3x21 - Avatar.en

This is it ?
I just sign this, and it's done ?

As soon as I file it
with the city clerk.

This pen--
she gave it to me.

It was an anniversary present.

- I don't remember which one.
- Walter.

They are expecting the signed documents
by the end of business today,

- which was ten minutes ago.
- I know what time it is.

Then you should sign.

- What are you doing, Walter ?
- After 1 7 years,
they can wait another day.

Listen. No one knows better than I
what an emotional experience this is.

Don't lawyer me, Jane.

- I'll do it tomorrow.
- Why put yourself through
another day of this ?

I said tomorrow.

- Buck, I think we have to wait.
- Bye !

I know, the regular.
I'll be right back.

Excuse me, are you holding this
for someone ? It's the only open seat.

Go ahead.

Good evening.
What can I get you ?

Uh, tonic water
with lime, please.

Sir, would you like
another one ?

Sure.

Thanks.

For what ?
Ordering another drink ?

There's a man behind me
wearing a red tie.

For some reason, he felt compelled
to tell me half his life story.

I was afraid if you got up,
he might try to get in the other half.

I guess some people
think that you owe 'em something
just 'cause you�re out alone.

- Does that ever bother you ?
- What ?

Being alone.

[Thunder Rumbling]

[Growling, Screaming]

[ Screaming Continues ]

[Thunder Rumbling]

[ Gasping ]

- Okay.
- Excuse me, sir.

Excuse me.
Thank you.

- I'm looking for Detective Waltos.
- Who's asking ?

My name is Mulder. I work
with Assistant Director Skinner.
I'd like to speak with him.

After he gives his statement. We're
gonna finish up at the station house.

Why don't you just get
a statement here ?

It seems the assistant director
is suffering from a minor memory lapse.

[Cell Phone Ringing]

- [Beeps]
- Yeah ?

It's me. I just got your message.
You said Skinner called in a homicide.

It appears to be a little
more complicated than that.

Seems like he had
a front-row seat.

- I don't understand.
- I don't understand it either.

They're not letting me talk to him.
Hold on a second.

Excuse me, sir ?

I appreciate your concern, Agent Mulder,
but there's no need for you
to get involved.

Detective. Detective.
Detective !

Will you at least tell me what
happened ? What does he say happened ?

He claims he met the victim
in the bar downstairs.

After a couple of drinks, they decide
to get a room, which is all fine,

except when he wakes up, he finds her
lying next to him with a broken neck.

- That's all he says he remembers.
- You don't believe him ?

He refused to take a polygraph test.
It's not helping his credibility.

What about the victim ?
Has she been identified ?

Not yet. She had no purse,
nothing with her name on it.

There must be evidence
of an intruder of some kind.

Agent Mulder, I've been on the job
for 1 8 years. I know the drill.

Then if you know the drill,
you should be canvassing
hotel employees, housekeeping--

I appreciate that he's
a colleague of yours,

but I want you to understand something:
He's also a suspect.

Detective,

when you're done questioning him,
I'd appreciate a call.

All right.

- Get any of that ?
- Most of it. Mulder, I'm on my way.

No, no, no, I want you to take a look at
that body. Get down to the coroner's.

I'll meet you there.

The conspicuous absence
of any contusions or lacerations...

would strongly suggest
that the victim's injuries were
sustained without a struggle.

From my observations,
I would have to concur with
the county coroner's report...

that her murder was most probably
a sudden and violent act...

in a vulnerable moment.

Beyond this, I found nothing
in my postmortem examination...

- to recommend further investigation.
- Beyond what ?

Her spinal cord was crushed, Mulder.

The cervical vertebrae was fractured
in what appears to be manual trauma.

Were Skinner's the only prints
lifted from the body ?

So far.
They found no semen samples.

There was some irritation,
probably an allergic reaction to latex.

At least they were having safe sex.

Have they learned anything more ?

Yeah, her name was Carina Sayles.

She was legal secretary for one of
the criminal defense firms here in town.

- Have you talked
to anybody she worked with ?
- One of the partners.

She was fired a few weeks ago
over an indiscretion.

An indiscretion ?

Yeah, she was moonlighting.
She was taking a little work
from one of the firm's clients.

-What kind of work ?
-This client operated an escort service.

She was a prostitute.

- Give me five minutes here.
- I'll get the car.

Addendum:

Observed what appears to be
a residual phosphorescence...

around the victim 's
mouth and nose.

Note to have this analyzed.

- Yes ?
- Lorraine Keller here ?

She's busy right now.
Is there something I can help you with ?

Busy or not,
we need to speak with her.

I'll tell her you�re here.

Lorraine!

- Business must be booming.
- I think you mean banging.

Whatever this is about,
can we do it later? I'm running late.

We'd like to ask you some
questions about an employee
of yours-- Carina Sayles.

She does work for you,
doesn't she ?

I'm ten minutes late
for a meeting with her.

That's all right. I don�t think
she's gonna be making that meeting.

Oh ?
Why not ?

She's dead.
She was murdered last night.

- How ?
- That's what we're still
trying to determine.

I, um--
I don't know what to say.

You can start by telling us
if she was working last night.

And if she was,
who paid for her company ?

- I'm afraid I can't do that.
- I guess that would hurt
future book sales, huh ?

- You'd be surprised
who some of my clients are.
- No, I don't think I would be.

I also doubt they'd want to get
entangled in a homicide investigation.

Look, we just need one name from you.
Who hired Carina Sayles ?

Let�s just say you both work
for the government, and so do l.

Cut the crap.
Who hired her ?

She called me last night.

She said that she'd met
someone in a bar...

who was interested
in a transaction.

- I took his credit card.
- Then you have his name.

Walter Skinner.

Thank you.

What the hell
was he thinking ?

It just doesn't seem like him.

You think he'd be
a little more discrete.

I think the lack of discretion
is the least of his sins.

Still not enough
to prove anything conclusively.

No, but that doesn't mean
that we can discount the evidence.

You really believe
Skinner did this ?

Look, Mulder, I feel the same way
about Skinner as you do,

but we were just shown a dated record
with Skinner's credit card number on it.

Credit card fraud
happens every day.

Skinner was in bed with a prostitute
at the time of her death,

and he's offered us
no explanation or alibi.

The truth is, we don't know
very much about him.

We don't know what he does off-duty,
who he really is.

We know that he's put his ass
on the line for us a number of times.

We owe it to him to find out
what really happened.

Even if it means
proving his guilt.

[Cell Phone Ringing]

Yeah, Mulder.
Thank you.

- Who was that ?
- Detective Waltos.
Skinner's been released.

-Sir? Sir ?
- This doesn't concern either of you.

- Of course it concerns us.
- Why won't you tell us
what happened last night, sir ?

Read the police report
if you�re really that curious.

Does it explain why you refused
to take a polygraph test ?

Or why there's a prostitute
in the morgue with your
fingerprints all over her ?

You didn't know she was
a prostitute, did you ?

- [ Honking ]
- What are you doing, you jerk ?

[ Horns Honking ]

Walter, I just heard
what happened.

I was coming to see you.

- Walter !
- Do you know him ?

I used to think so.

I'm Sharon Skinner.
I'm his wife.

[ Chattering ]

We were just a little
caught off-guard.

Neither of us even knew that
he was married. He never told us.

Well, one of the things Walter's
always been good at is keeping secrets.

But the truth is, we haven't
been together for almost eight months.

- Has he always been
such a private person ?
- It's more than that.

He lives under this misguided notion
that silence is strength.

He's built a wall
to keep everyone out.

- Including you ?
- Yeah, especially me.

Is that why
you were separated ?

Yeah, I just realized one day
that we were no longer married.

We'd become roommates instead.

We were paying the bills,
taking out the garbage.

I couldn't live
like that anymore.

-[Cell Phone Ringing]
- Excuse me.

- [ Beeps ]
- Scully.

You were one of the few people
that Walter ever mentioned from work.

Not that he said much,
but from the way he talked,
I could tell he respected you.

That's probably why I feel
that I can ask you.

- Ask me what ?
- If Walter really killed that woman ?

Sorry. Mulder,
we've gotta go.

You've got our numbers
if you need to reach us.

You still haven't answered
my question.

No, I don't think he did it.

What's going on here ?

- Agents Mulder and Scully ?
- That's right.

I'm Special Agent Bonnecaze.

I've been called up from the Norfolk
field office to coordinate this inquiry.

I don't know what you do down
in Norfolk, but last time I checked,

riffing through a man's office
was considered an invasion of privacy.

Well, we're operating under
guidelines specified by the
Office of Professional Conduct.

- A protocol, I understand,
you've opted to disregard.
- What do you mean ?

I want both of you to make yourselves
available tomorrow afternoon.

Available for what ?

- A formal hearing regarding
A.D. Skinner's case.
- What case ?

He hasn't even
been charged yet.

The hearing is to assess
and determine...

his ability to continue
in his position as Assistant Director.

In the meantime, we�ll be
appointing our own investigators
to pursue any criminal case.

And I must ask you to stop
looking into this any further.

What ? in case we turn up any evidence
that might support his innocence ?

Any evidence you may have
obtained, Agent Mulder,

you'll be presenting
tomorrow afternoon at the hearing.

[ Line Ringing ]

Skinner's not answering
his phone.

- He's doing everything
he shouldn't be doing.
- Yeah, why ? He knows better.

The evidence is still
circumstantial at best.

He's behaving like
a guilty man, Mulder.

The man's marriage is breaking up.
He's stressed out.

It's his irrational behavior
that concerns me.

It speaks to his state of mind.

If an otherwise stable man is compelled
to go out and hire a prostitute,

- what else is he capable of?
- Please.

Give him the benefit
of the doubt.

I am, Mulder, believe me.
I'm not trying to convince myself.

When I mentioned that hooker to him,
he didn't even seem to know.

Well, maybe he doesn't remember.

What do you mean ?
Either he remembers, or he's a liar.

Not necessarily.

- This man�s running away from a train.
- [ Screaming ]

He sees it coming straight at him.
He hears its whistle.

Several times a month,
he ran away from that train...

until one night when he broke his wife's
arm when he threw her to the foor.

- Night terrors ?
- No.

Night terrors and sleepwalking occur
during slow-wave non-dream sleep.

The clinical term for this is
" REM sleep behavior disorder."

Although rare, dozens of cases
of sleep-related violence
have been attributed to it.

That's fascinating, but what does it
have to do with Skinner ?

This videotape came from
the Bethesda Sleep Disorder Center...

where Skinner has been receiving
treatment for the past three months.

- From running away from trains ?
- Same disorder, different dreams.

According to
Skinner's psychiatrist,

he's been experiencing a recurring
dream in which he's confronted
by an old woman.

She speaks to him,
but he doesn't understand a word.

Sometimes she straddles
his chest, suffocating him.

So you think that Skinner may have
killed the victim in his sleep ?

Defending himself against
this imaginary old woman.

A lot of these patients
have no recollection
of their nocturnal activities,

which might explain
Skinner's amnesia.

- That's not such a strange story.
- It isn't ?

It's ancient, actually.
You may have heard it,

although not in such
clinical terms.

In the Middle Ages, a visitation
like the one Skinner described...

would have been attributed
to succubus.

It's a spirit
that visits men in the night,
usually in the form of an old woman.

- Visits them for sex ?
- Usually.

Although sometimes the succubus
becomes so attached to the man...

that she would kill any woman
competing for his affection.

Here.

- What's that ?
- Reports of residual
and luminous phenomenon...

have been associated
with some succubus encounters.

At least according
to the mythology. Why ?

I feel kinda strange saying
this, but I found something...

during my postmortem examination
that I think you should see.

It's a circular patch
around the victim's mouth and nose,

approximately 11 centimeters
in diameter.

It retained light energy.
It glowed in the dark.

I know what I saw, Mulder.
It was here.

This phosphorescence required
no U.V. or infrared light ?

- No, it was definitely
visible to the naked eye.
- Did you get a sample ?

- Yeah, I sent one over to Chem/Tox.
- And ?

Well, my first hunch was that it was
that it was some kind of fungal growth,

but the only substance
that they detected was amylase,
which is found in saliva.

but the only substance
that they detected was amylase,
which is found in saliva.

So I had them send over a sample
to the elemental analysis unit.

The results should be back.

Yes, this is Agent Dana Scully.
I'm calling to find out the lab
results on a tissue sample...

that I sent in
earlier this morning.

- Thank you.
- What'd they say ?

That there was no analyzable substance
in the sample container.

Are you sure
you saw something ?

Mulder, I'm afraid this isn't exactly
something that I'd make up.

Maybe that's it.

Maybe that's why Skinner's running.
He's afraid.

- That he did it ?
- That he doesn't know he didn't do it.

[Knocking]

Hi.

You didn't answer your phone.
It just kept ringing.

I unplugged it.
I haven't been sleeping too well lately.

Are you going to invite me in,
or should I start building an ark ?

Come in.

You still haven't gotten around
to unpacking.

Yeah, well, you know, work.

[ Sighing ]
So what are you doing here, Sharon ?

I'm not sure.

After I saw you today,
I didn't know what else to do.

You're trying to satisfy some morbid
curiosity about what happened.

That's not why I came. I just--
I just wanted to make sure you�re okay.

I'm okay.

Except right now, company's
about the last thing I need.

I'm not company,
I'm your wife.

Ex-wife. Remember, you're the one
who asked for the divorce ?

Only because you didn't have the guts
to ask for one yourself,
so don't put it on me.

Fair enough.

So what else
do you want me to say ?

Nothing.

I don't want you to say anything.

- I just want you to let me in.
just this one time.
- Why ?

Because I know you.

I know that you�re scared
and that you could use some comfort.

I also know that you�ll never
let me give it to you.

just take care of yourself,
okay ?

[Thunder Rumbling]

[Woman Screaming, Glass Shattering]

[Knocking]

What's this about ?

Wanna grab your coat and come with us ?
Like to ask you a few questions.

Why ?
What the hell's going on ?

- It's your wife--
she's been in an accident.
- Is she all right ?

Someone ran her off the road.
You're gonna have to come with us.

[ Sighs ]
God.

We'll also need to see
the keys to your car, sir.

[Keys Jangling]

[Door Closing]

- How is she ?
- The C.T. scan shows subdural hematoma.

She's in surgery right now
to relieve pressure on her brain.

Scully's trying to get
more information.

- I have to see her.
- Can't do that, sir.

- Why not ? They said
I wasn't being charged.
- Not yet,

but they're building
a pretty convincing case.

- You think I did this to Sharon ?
- No, I don't, but I'm in the minority.

What about Agent Scully ?

Scully--
[ Clears Throat ]

Scully doesn't understand why
you're not trying to defend yourself.

Defend myself against what ?

Don�t you think if I knew what was
happening tome that I would try to--

[ Sighs ]

I don't know
what to believe anymore.

What about the old woman
in your dream ?

Who is she ?
It's gonna come out.

Look, if you don't start trusting
someone, you don't stand a chance.

[ Sighing ]

A few months ago,
I started... seeing her again.

Again ?

I told you once what--
what happened to me in Vietnam.

I was caught in an ambush.

Yeah, you were
the sole survivor.

You also described what sounded
like a near-death experience.

There was nothing near about it,
Agent Mulder. I was a dead man.

That's when
you first saw her ?

I saw lots of things over there.

- I didn't give much credence
to any of'em.
- Why not ?

[ Sighs ]

I got through that experience
like most 1 8-year-olds.

By numbing myself
with whatever was around.

I was no choirboy.
I-- I inhaled.

So you just dismissed her
as another hallucination ?

- I tried.
- But you couldn't.

She was there with me,

watching me,

as I was watching myself die
and my blood spilling from
a hundred different places...

until she lifted me up
and carried me back,

away from the light.

Maybe she was trying
to protect you.

Maybe she's trying
to protect you now.

Protect me from what ?

That's a question
only you can answer.

I don't know.

I don't have a clue.

- Number five.
- This is Skinner's car ?

According to Walter's report,
the hood was still warm when
they got to Skinner's apartment,

even with the rain.

Look at the left front panel.

They match the paint in the dent
of Sharon Skinner's car.

Waltos's people finish
going over the interior ?

The only prints they found
on the steering wheel were Skinner's.

- Can I borrow your flashlight ?
- Sure. Why ?

I don't know what you�re
expecting to find, Mulder,

but Skinner's hearing is
in half an hour.

- I'll meet you there.
- What are you doing ?

Collecting evidence.

- You know how an air bag works ?
- Your car hits something,
a bag fills with air, you don't die.

Not air.
Nitrogen.

Now, the latent image,
the one we're interested in,

is found in the byproduct
of that explosion...

in the finely dispersed sodium metal
that coats the interior of the air bag.

See this pattern here ?
It was created...

by whoever was behind the wheel
when the airbag deployed.

- It doesn't look like a face.
- Not yet.

First, I'm scanning the pattern,
then I'm running it through software...

which translates its varying densities
into a dimensionalized likeness.

After that,
it's a matter of fine-tuning.

- How long does that take ?
- You need this in a hurry,
it sounds like.

I'm not the only one
who needs it.

Let's go over
the physical evidence again.

You say you found nothing damning.

No, sir, none of the physical evidence
we recovered directly...

connects the assistant director
to her death.

You reexamined the victim's body.

Did you find anything of note ?

I took a sample
of an extraneous substance
that turned out to be unidentifiable.

How's that ?

A naturally occurring enzyme
around her mouth and nose.

- And do you have any idea
why it was there ?
- No.

If you are withholding something
from this committee--

Sir, I feel reluctant to say
or to speak for Agent Mulder.

To say what ?

Agent Mulder had a theory
that the substance could have
come from a visitation.

But you have
another explanation.

No, I'm sorry, I don't.

Do you believe in paranormal
phenomena, Agent Scully ?

Whatever extreme cases
I have encountered,

I have always viewed
through the lens of science.

I believe that is why I was assigned
to the X-Files and to Agent Mulder.

And has A.D. Skinner always been
as discriminating as you ?

Excuse me, sir,
I don't understand the question.

Would you say that, like yourself,
your direct superior...

has been affected by-- or enchanted by--
Agent Mulder's notion--

No, sir. Not at all.

And yet he continues
to sign off...

on whatever extreme cases...

you and Agent Mulder
elect to investigate.

I believe the assistant director
has protected us out of a respect
for the work.

just as you might protect him...

by trumping up
unidentifiable evidence ?

No, that is not true.

- Thank you, Agent Scully,
that will be all.
- Sir, if I may--

- That will be all !
- I'm not finished.

Yes, you are, Agent Scully.

[Cell Phone Beeping]

- [ Line Ringing ]
- Hello ?

- Mulder ?
- Hello ?

You missed it. Not that anything
you said would've made a difference.

- What happened ? Where's Skinner ?
- Out of a job.

- They dismissed him ?
- He would've had a better chance
against a firing squad.

They used us to do it, didn't they ?
They used the X-Files.

- How'd you know ?
- Because I think Skinner's
been outmaneuvered, Scully.

- They found a weakness,
and they're exploiting it.
- Why ?

To put us in check.
You remove Skinner, you weaken us.

What am I looking at ?

This is the man that stole Skinner's car
last night and tried to kill his wife.

But I don't understand. Why orchestrate
an elaborate scheme to set him up ?

- Why not just kill him ?
- They already tried that once.

A second attempt would be too obvious,
even for these thugs.

Anyway, I think Skinner's probably worth
more to them alive and disgraced...

- than dead and buried.
- Who is this guy ?

I don't know. Danny couldn't find
anything on him. He's still running it.

So how are we supposed
to find him ?

This guy's a pawn.
Pawns always make the first move.

So he must've hired
the prostitute.

[ Chattering ]

- What happened ?
-Jumper. Happens whenever
it rains two days straight.

[Mulder]
He got to her first.

Mulder, look.

Usually there'd be something
set up in the room...

to get... pictures,
tape, whatever.

Judy, we need you
to identify somebody.

Is this the man
who hired Carina ?

- He said that nobody would get hurt.
- He lied.

Skinner's not
the only person he set up.

Are you saying
he killed Carina ?

And Lorraine.
He's cleaning house.

We need you
to arrange a meeting.

I can't. Lorraine's the only one
who ever really talked to him.

Unfortunately, Lorraine
can't get to the phone right now.

Please don't make me do this.

Look what he did to your friends.
We�re your only chance
of coming out of this okay.

You know, Mulder's right.

I'll stay with you, if you want,
until we take him into custody.

I want you to call him.

Tell him you're scared
because we questioned you.

Tell him you want money
to get out of town.

You'll meet him
at the Ambassador Hotel bar.

Okay ?

Hello ? Hi.
This is Judy Fairly.

You might not remember me,

but I work for Lorraine.

One moment, please.

Yes ?

Some F.B.I. agents came to see me
about what happened to Lorraine.

- What did you tell them ?
- Nothing.

I didn't say anything,

but they scared
the hell out of me.

Look, I need some money.

That can be arranged.

- Can you meet me ?
- Where would you like to meet ?

The Ambassador Hotel at--

In an hour ?

I'm close.
I'll see you in an hour.

I had to tell you, Sharon,
before anything else happens.

I'm not signing those papers.

For a lot of reasons,
most of them, I'm just...

realizing myself
for the first time.

Some of the things I've seen.

The violence and the lies that I've
witnessed men inflict on one another.

I can never tell you that.

Not that I ever stopped
believing in the work,

but there were contradictions
that I couldn't reconcile...

which meant shutting down part
of myself just to do my job.

I never told you
what I should've told you.

[ Sighs ]

That what really got me
through each day was...

knowing that I'd be sleeping
next to you that night,

knowing that I had a reason
to wake up in the morning.

I'm not sure
if you can even hear me now...

or if it even makes
a difference to you anymore,

but I at least wanted you
to know that.

[ Gasps ]

- Sharon ?
-[Monitor Beeping]

Somebody--

Listen to me.

- [ Ringing ]
- Did you get him ?

No, he hasn't shown up yet.

- He should have been here
1 5 minutes ago.
- What's going on ?

Nothing.
[ Sighs ]

- Great.
- Maybe it's the rain.

This guy isn't about to let
a little rain stop him.

-[Door Opening, Closing]
- Mulder, hang on a second.

-Judy !
- Scully, what's going on ?

Mulder, get up here right now.

He's upstairs.

Judy ?

[Water Running]

[ Gasping ]
What the hell are you doing ?

I'm sorry. I called,
but you didn't answer.

What's the matter ?
[ Groaning ]

[Gunshots]

[ Crying ]

- You okay ?
- [ Groans ]

- Sir ?
- Come in.

This is our report.
[ Sighs ]

You'll see, though, that
several questions remain unanswered.

The identity
of the man I shot ?

We ran his face and fingerprints
through every available database.

There's still no matches,
and we're doing a dental record search,

but that'll probably be
a dead end too.

And regarding the other man,
the telephone number we had
for him has been disconnected,

and there's no record
of an account.

Don't waste your time, Agent Scully.
You won't find him.

just get whatever forensic evidence you
need off the body you have and bury it.

- Is there a problem, Agent Mulder ?
- Yeah,

there's something else
you'll find missing in there.

An explanation for how you knew
to beat the hotel last night.

I was hoping you could fill in
that line item yourself.

I'm afraid I can't do that,
at least not at this point in time.

Why not ?

Because whatever I believed
may have happened,

that has no place
on an official report.

Then why don�t you
just tell me.

Off the record.

If you�ll excuse me,
I have some catching up to do.

The O.P.C. did a number
on my office.

But I wanna thank you for
the quick turnaround on this.