1 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,700 "K.N. murders his own best intentions." 2 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,600 Mmm, sorry about that. Come on in. 3 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,200 I, uh... I rode up on the elevator with someone. 4 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,800 Someone from next door, I think. 5 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,200 - Young guy? - Yeah. 6 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,100 New neighbor. Why? 7 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:22,600 You met him? 8 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,000 - Uh, briefly, yeah. He's a writer. - What does he write? 9 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,800 He didn't say. 10 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:34,100 These are, uh... these are my autopsy reports from the second victim. 11 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:48,200 As you can see the heart was removed in the same manner as the previous victim. 12 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,000 No incisions, no scope marks, no cutting of any kind. 13 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,800 - No indication of how the killer did it? - No. 14 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:01,200 There's no prints, no DNA material, no hair and fiber. 15 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,000 And yet, you still refuse to believe my theory, that what this is is psychic surgery? 16 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,600 Mulder, psychic surgery is some man dipping his hand in a bucket of chicken guts... 17 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,700 ...and pretending to remove tumors from the sick and gullible. 18 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:17,800 Or... it's a grossly misunderstood area of alternative medicine. 19 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,200 Well, medicine, as you're referring to it is about keeping people alive. 20 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,800 Well, absent another theory how else do we account for the impossible extraction of this man's heart? 21 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,000 I don't know. I have no idea. 22 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,900 I mean, we have no evidence, no MO to speak of. This could be the perfect crime. 23 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,700 Well, a crime is only as perfect as the man or the mind that commits it. 24 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:43,100 Even if it were perfect, even if he made not one mistake, there's still his motive. 25 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,700 You find his motive and you find the murderer. 26 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,200 That's why I didn't want to come here, Kevin. 27 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,500 - I'm not even doing anything. - You're thinking about it. 28 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:38,100 There's a console between us. I mean, how much can I do? 29 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:40,200 You make it sound like I'm an attacker. 30 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,000 - Well, we talked about this. - I told you I loved you. 31 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:48,200 Oh, Kevin... 32 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,000 - There you go again. - What? 33 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,200 That thing that you do. You know what I am talking about. 34 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,500 - But that's the way I kiss, Maggie. - Well, I get the message. 35 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:11,600 - Where are you going? - No. I can't talk to you. 36 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,200 Maggie! 37 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,100 Maggie! 38 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Maggie! 39 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,200 Maggie, come on. 40 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:11,400 "...beating heart." 41 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,900 - Scully. - Hey, Scully, glad I caught you. 42 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:35,400 We got a third victim, 16-year, old kid out on lover's lane. 43 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,800 Are you sure? 44 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:43,200 Yeah. I'm sure many a person's had their heart broken out here, but not quite like this. 45 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,200 I was hoping you'd be here to explain it in medical terms to the local PD. 46 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,200 I'm not sure that I could. Did anybody see anybody? 47 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,500 No, nothing. I mean, it's like there's nowhere to start on this case. 48 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,900 Nothing to ask nothing to say. 49 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:59,700 Well, there's got to be something, Mulder... 50 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:04,000 Something about his victims, why he chooses them, a pattern. 51 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,500 So far, there's absolutely nothing, Scully. It appears to be just a series of random attacks. 52 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:12,100 An envelope's been slipped under your door. 53 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:15,300 - Yeah? From who? - It's unmarked. 54 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,600 It's some kind of a pendant. Like a charm. 55 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:35,100 Her prompt mind ran through the golconda of possibilities: 56 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:37,300 Was this trinket from the killer? 57 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:40,900 Was there a message contained in its equivocal symbolism? 58 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,300 Was he a religious fanatic who had, in fervid haste licked the envelope, ... 59 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:47,900 ...leaving the telltale DNA that would begin his unraveling? 60 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:50,900 She had a condign certainty the killer was a male... 61 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,200 And now, as she held the cold metal at her fingertips she imagined him doing the same... 62 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,700 ...trying to picture his face. 63 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:03,600 It would be a plain face, an average face... A face people would be prone to trust. 64 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,000 She knew this inherently, being naturally trusting herself. 65 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,400 But the image she conjured up was no better than the useless sketch composites that littered her files. 66 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,300 Preconsciously, she knew this wasn't her strength as an investigator. 67 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:22,400 She was a marshall of cold facts, quick to organize, connect, shuffle, ... 68 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,200 ...reorder and synthesize their relative hard values into discreet categories. 69 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,600 Imprecision would only invite sexist criticism... 70 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:36,500 ...that she was soft, malleable not up to her male counterparts. 71 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:43,200 Even now, as she pushed an errant strand of titian hair behind her ear... 72 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,500 ...she worried her partner would know instinctively what she could only guess. 73 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:52,800 To be thought of as simply a beautiful woman was bridling, unthinkable. 74 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,000 But she was beautiful... 75 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,400 ...fatally, stunningly prepossessing. 76 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:04,200 Yet the compensatory respect she commanded only deepened the yearnings of her heart... 77 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,100 ...to let it open, to let someone in. 78 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,900 It's called a "milagro". 79 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:21,900 That's the Spanish word for "miracle". It's worn as a lucky charm. 80 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:23,200 It came here for me? 81 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,700 It was dropped off at reception by a man in his late 20s, early 30s... 82 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,900 ...average looking, average build. They weren't able to get a good ID. 83 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:34,800 There are no fingerprints and no DNA from his saliva. 84 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,600 I don't think it's the killer, Scully. 85 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:40,900 - Did you see that it's a burning heart? - I see it has a burning heart. 86 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:43,400 But we're dealing with a killer that leaves absolutely no clues. 87 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,300 Why would he do something as heavy-handed as this? 88 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:49,600 Well, maybe it has something to do with his next victim. Maybe he's taunting you. 89 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,700 Maybe it's not me at all. 90 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:53,900 Maybe he sent it to you. 91 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,100 Maybe it's a secret admirer. 92 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,500 I think I'll check it out. 93 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:06,800 Actually, let me. You've got a 9:00 a.m. with the DC medical examiner. He's going to let you autopsy the latest victim. 94 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:12,900 Thank you for making my schedule but I think I'm going to have to be late for that appointment. 95 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,300 I often come here to look at this painting. 96 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:03,900 It's called "My Divine Heart" after the miracle of Saint Margaret Mary. 97 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,700 Do you know the story... 98 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:09,500 The revelation of the Sacred Heart? 99 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,100 Christ came to Margaret Mary... 100 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:19,100 ...his heart so inflamed with love that it was no longer able to contain its burning flames of charity. 101 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:27,000 Margaret Mary... so filled with divine love herself, asked the Lord to take her heart... 102 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:34,800 ...and so he did placing it alongside his until it burned with the flames of his passion. 103 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,500 Then he restored it to Margaret Mary... 104 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:42,500 ...sealing her wound with the touch of his blessed hand. 105 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,700 Why are you telling me this? 106 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:48,600 You came here specifically to see this painting, didn't you? 107 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,500 Yes. 108 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:51,900 How did you know that? 109 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:55,300 I saw you enter. The way you knew right where it was. 110 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:57,600 I know you. 111 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,400 You live next to somebody I work with. 112 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:06,200 - Why are you following me? - I'm not. 113 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,400 I'd only imagined that you'd come here today. 114 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,900 - You imagined it. - Yes. 115 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:13,300 Yeah. 116 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:19,100 I'm a writer. That's what I do: imagine how people behave. 117 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:21,100 I have to admit I've noticed you. 118 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:25,500 I do that... Notice people. 119 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:31,100 I saw that you wear a gold cross around your neck so I was taking a chance with the painting, ... 120 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:34,200 ...explaining something you may have already known. 121 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,200 I saw Georgetown parking permits on your car dating from 1993... 122 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,700 ...and a government-exempt sticker that lets you park anywhere you like. 123 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:46,500 You don't live in this area but as a federal employee, you have reason to frequent it. 124 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:52,400 You're fit, with muscular calves so you must exercise or run. 125 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,900 There's a popular running route right nearby that you might use at lunch or after work. 126 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,600 You'd have noticed this church in passing... 127 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,500 ...and though parking is always a problem in this part of town... 128 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:05,700 ...your special privileges would make it easy to visit... 129 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:12,200 ...not as a place of worship but because you have an appreciation for architecture and the arts... 130 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,400 ...and while the grandeur is what you'd take away from your visit... 131 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,900 ...this painting's religious symbolism would have left a subconscious impression... 132 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:25,000 ...jogged by the gift you received this morning. 133 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,800 That was from you? 134 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,600 I have to admit to a secret attraction. 135 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,000 I'm sorry I didn't include a note explaining that but you didn't know me then. 136 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,800 Yeah, and I don't know you now and I don't care to. 137 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,100 I see this is making you uncomfortable and I'm sorry. 138 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,300 It's just that I'm taken with you. 139 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:50,900 That never happens to me. 140 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:55,800 We're alike that way. 141 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:22,900 Hey, you weren't joking about being late. I was about to start slicing and dicing, myself. 142 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:24,700 I'm sorry. 143 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,200 Where were you? 144 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,600 I was doing some research and learning that I owe you an apology. 145 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,100 For what? 146 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:37,700 The Milagro charm. You were right about its insignificance. 147 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:39,400 No, I think I was wrong. 148 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,300 I think it's very significant. I think it may be a communication from the killer. 149 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:47,200 Most of my research shows that most credible practitioners of psychic surgery... 150 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,600 ...believe themselves to be imbued with the Holy Spirit, that their hands become the miracle tools of God. 151 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,100 Mulder, this... is nothing more than a tool... 152 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,300 ...used by a lovelorn Romeo who just happens to be your next-door neighbor. 153 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:02,700 Who, the writer? 154 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:09,400 Yes, my secret admirer who claims to know the mysteries of my heart. 155 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,500 - You're kidding. - No, I wish I were. 156 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:15,600 He cornered me today and told me my life story. 157 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,700 It was kind of frightening, actually. 158 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:21,100 Is... he our killer? 159 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:22,900 No. 160 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:27,600 "Frightening" as in too much information and intimate detail. 161 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,500 What kills you is his audacity. 162 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:34,900 Did you get his name? 163 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:39,400 No, but that shouldn't be too hard to find out, should it? 164 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,900 I'm sorry I forgot your name. 165 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:55,600 - Padgett. - Padgett. 166 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,400 Phillip Padgett. 167 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,700 You're a writer. 168 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:01,400 Anything I'd know? 169 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,700 I don't think so. 170 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,100 You're an FBI agent. 171 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:23,900 Working on anything interesting? 172 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,900 A murder case. 173 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,800 Anything I'd know? 174 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,500 Possibly. 175 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:42,700 The overture in the church had urged the beautiful agent's partner into an act of Hegelian self-justification. 176 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:46,100 Expeditiously violating the fourth amendment against mail theft, ... 177 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:49,800 ...he prepared to impudently infract the first. 178 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,400 But if she'd predictably aroused her sly partner's suspicions... 179 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,400 ...Special Agent Dana Scully had herself become... simply aroused. 180 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:10,600 All morning the stranger's unsolicited compliments had played on the dampened strings of her instrument... 181 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,100 ...until the middle "C" of consciousness was struck square and resonant. 182 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:17,200 She was flattered. 183 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,200 His words had presented her a pretty picture of herself... 184 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,700 ...quite unlike the practiced mask of uprightness that mirrored back to her... 185 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:31,500 ...from the medical examiners and the investigators and all the lawmen who dared no such utterances. 186 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:38,500 She felt an involuntary flush and rebuked herself for the girlish indulgence. 187 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,500 But the images came perforce and she let them play, ... 188 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:46,100 ...let them flood in like savory, or more a sugary confection... 189 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:53,000 ...from her adolescence when her senses were new and ungoverned by fear and self-denial. 190 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,000 'Ache', 'pang', 'prick', 'twinge'. 191 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,300 How ironic the Victorian vocabulary of behavioral pathology... 192 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:06,600 ...now so perfectly described the palpations of her own desire. 193 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:12,200 The stranger had looked her in the eye and knew her more completely than she knew herself. 194 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,900 She felt wild, feral, guilty as a criminal. 195 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:21,900 Had the stranger unleashed in her what was already there... 196 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:27,800 ...or only helped her discover a landscape she, by necessity, blinded herself to? 197 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:31,800 What would her partner think of her? 198 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:53,100 Mr. Popularity. 199 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:42,400 "...compulsion was overwhelming..." 200 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,100 Hi. I, um... 201 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:56,400 I was going next door and I thought that I'd return this. 202 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,300 Why? 203 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,500 Because I can't return the gesture. 204 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,200 I can't. 205 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,700 You're curious about me. 206 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:22,200 You don't have any furniture. 207 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,400 I have what I need. 208 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,700 I write at my desk. I sleep in my bed. 209 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,200 You don't eat? 210 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,900 I live in my head. 211 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:35,900 - Writing your books? - Yes. 212 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:38,100 Anything I'd know? 213 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:39,400 No. 214 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,900 They're all failures... 215 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,900 Except the one I'm working on now. 216 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:47,500 I think I'm getting it right. 217 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:52,100 - Why now, all of a sudden? - Best not to question it. 218 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,300 See? 219 00:23:56,300 --> 00:24:00,200 - You are curious about me. - Well, you lead a curious life. 220 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,000 It's not so different from yours I imagine. 221 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Lonely. 222 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,600 Loneliness is a choice. 223 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,300 So, how about a cup of coffee? 224 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,300 "To Maggie with love" On Valentines Day 2/14/99 - Kevin. 225 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:39,700 "How will it end?" 226 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,500 My life's not so lonely, Mister, um... 227 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,500 Padgett. 228 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,800 It's actually anything but. 229 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:07,900 How is it you think you know me so well, Mr. Padgett? 230 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:10,200 I'm writing about you. 231 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,100 Right. 232 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,900 - Since when? - Since I first noticed you. 233 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,900 You live in my old neighborhood. 234 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:26,700 And you moved into this building by coincidence? 235 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:28,300 No. 236 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:32,800 - You moved here because of me? - There wasn't anything available in your building... 237 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,500 ...and it's not like you spent a lot of time at home. 238 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,500 I-I should've said something but I just couldn't get it all down fast enough. 239 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,300 To really write someone, I have to be in their head. 240 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,500 I have to know them more completely than they know themselves. 241 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:52,000 - This is all about me? - Well, you're an important part. 242 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,500 - May I read it? - It's not finished. 243 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:01,400 I can't tell you how helpful it is having you here, being able to talk with you like this. 244 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,000 Would you sit and stay a minute? 245 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:07,800 You don't have anywhere to sit. 246 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,400 - I'm due next door. - You haven't finished your coffee. 247 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 I'm very uncomfortable with this. 248 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,900 Why? 249 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:32,500 You're armed, aren't you? 250 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:37,700 Imagine that. 251 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,200 I'll get a bulb. 252 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,400 A view only a writer can appreciate. 253 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:17,000 If you know me so well then why am I standing here when my instincts tell me to go? 254 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,100 Motive is never easy. 255 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:25,500 Sometimes it occurs to one only later. 256 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:29,600 Please. 257 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,600 Sit. 258 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,500 Imagine that. 259 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,000 Mulder! 260 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,800 - Scully. - What are you doing? 261 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,900 You all right? 262 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,600 Yes. 263 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,200 Mulder... 264 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:42,600 What are you doing? 265 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,500 Putting this man under arrest. 266 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,900 "...his fantasy come to life..." "...and felt his warm, beating heart." 267 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,800 Yes, I've seen this paper. 268 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,000 Yeah, it's how you found your victims, in the personals. They all took out personal ads. 269 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,700 - They were lovers. - And you targeted them. 270 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:19,300 I only write about them. 271 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:21,900 - No, you targeted... - Mulder... 272 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,500 - Not without his lawyer. - I don't need a lawyer. I'm telling the truth. 273 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,000 Then this is your confession? 274 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:37,500 No, that's my novel. 275 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:42,400 It's all in there, every detail, every murder, all laid out. 276 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,500 - How'd you do it, Mr. Padgett? - If I sit long enough, it just comes to me. 277 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:47,700 The murders. 278 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:52,000 I only knew what was in my mind and wished to express it clearly. 279 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:55,800 How about "the stranger"? Is that you? 280 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,900 - How about Ken Naciamento? - The self-proclaimed Brazilian psychic surgeon? 281 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:04,400 - Is that your accomplice? - I guess you could say that. He's a central character. 282 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,000 Did you direct him to do it? 283 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Jungians would say it's the characters who choose the writer, not the other way around. 284 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,600 So I guess you could argue he directed me. 285 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,000 Which is the truth? 286 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,300 By their nature words are imprecise and layered with meaning. 287 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:27,900 The signs of things, not the things themselves. It's difficult to say who's in charge. 288 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:32,500 Mulder. 289 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:40,500 Why, Mr. Padgett? 290 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,600 Maybe that's a question you can answer. 291 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,300 That's the one question I can't. 292 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:56,600 Agent Mulder, my book... did you like it? 293 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:59,900 Maybe if it were fiction. 294 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:08,100 - Mulder, where are you going? - To find his accomplice, the Brazilian psychic surgeon. 295 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:10,100 I did that. 296 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,500 That's what I've been doing. 297 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,100 Dr. Ken Naciamento, Sao Paulo, Brazil, emigrated here in 1996. 298 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,100 - Where is he now? - He's dead. 299 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:22,300 - He can't be. - Two years dead, Mulder. 300 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:24,500 I'm having them fax me a certificate of death. 301 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,900 - Padgett couldn't have done this alone. - Well, maybe he didn't do it at all. 302 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,600 Scully, it's all on the page. How else would he know it? 303 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:38,200 Maybe he imagined it, like he said. Like Shakespeare or Freud or-or Jung. 304 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,300 I mean, maybe, maybe he has some gift and he has a clear window into human nature. 305 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:47,100 No one can predict human behavior. No one can tell you what another person's going to do. 306 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:49,600 Well, isn't that what you do, Mulder, as a behavioral profiler? 307 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,900 You... you imagine the killer's mind so well that you know what they're going to do next. 308 00:31:53,900 --> 00:32:00,800 If he imagines it, it's a priori, before the fact. I think that's pretty clear from what he wrote about you. 309 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,800 - You know you're in here, don't you? - I read a chapter. 310 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,300 What does he say? 311 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,500 Well, let's just say it ends with you doing the naked pretzel with "the stranger"... 312 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:18,600 ...on a bed in an unfurnished fourth floor apartment. 313 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,600 I'm assuming that's a priori, too? 314 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,400 I think you know me better than that, Mulder. 315 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,100 Well, you might want to finish it. 316 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,200 Prisoner's written something I think you should see. 317 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,000 - What is it? - He says it's a statement. 318 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,800 I think he's putting somebody on. 319 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:15,700 Grief squeezed at her eggshell heart like it might break into a thousand pieces... 320 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:18,900 ...its contents running like broken promises... 321 00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:22,800 ...into the hollow places his love used to fill. 322 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,300 How could she know this pain would end? 323 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:31,200 That love, unlike matter or energy, was in endless supply in the universe... 324 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,900 A germ which grows from nothingness... 325 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:38,700 ...which cannot be eradicated even from the darkest of hearts. 326 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:42,900 If she had known this, and who could say she would believe it? 327 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:47,200 She would not have chanced to remain at his sad grave until such an hour... 328 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,500 ...so that she might not have to learn the second truth before the first: 329 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:58,300 That to have love was to carry a vessel that could be lost or stolen or worse, ... 330 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,300 ...spilled blood-red on the ground. 331 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:05,600 And that love was not immutable and could become hate... 332 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,200 ...as day becomes night... 333 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,600 ...as life becomes death. 334 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,400 She's a no-show at home or anywhere else she might go. 335 00:34:55,700 --> 00:34:58,700 No signs of a possible struggle at the grave site but the area's been so... 336 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:02,700 ...trammeled by the funeral that collecting evidence is going to be virtually impossible. 337 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:05,000 I think this is a big jerk off. 338 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Maybe his statement's to prove that he's telling the truth. 339 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,100 That he truly just imagined it, Mulder. 340 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:14,000 The only thing that he imagined was us out here... 341 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,500 ...looking like idiots. 342 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,400 Hands where I can see 'em! Don't move until I tell you! 343 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,800 I'm a federal agent. 344 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,700 - Mulder, that's not him. - What? What'd I do? 345 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,500 - Mulder. - The truck. Check the truck, Scully. 346 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,200 Mulder, he works here. 347 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,200 How did you know, Mulder, that the body was in the truck? 348 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,300 I imagined it. 349 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:23,200 It's still no evidence that Padgett directed the killer. 350 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,900 What do you need, a signed work order? Of course he directed him. 351 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:29,800 Mulder, you are making critical assumptions without any facts. 352 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,000 What about time of death? What...? 353 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,300 - What are you doing? - You're about to argue my usual side, aren't you? 354 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:39,900 Mulder, why couldn't he have imagined it? Why couldn't he just be in the killer's head? 355 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:42,300 You read his book. You read what he wrote about you. 356 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:45,200 Are you trying to tell me that he got inside your head? That what I read is true? 357 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,800 - Mulder, of course not. - I don't know how they communicate. 358 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,100 This is the only way I can think to catch him. 359 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,000 Mr. Padgett... 360 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,900 You can go. 361 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:05,400 We apologize for our mistake. You're free to finish your book. 362 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,600 Thank you. 363 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:15,900 I made a mistake myself. 364 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:19,300 What's that, Mr. Padgett? 365 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:25,700 In my book, I'd written that Agent Scully falls in love but that's obviously impossible. 366 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:28,800 Agent Scully is already in love. 367 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,100 What are you doing here? 368 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,200 You seem surprised to see me. 369 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,200 Yes. Completely. 370 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,000 Why? 371 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,100 I'm your character. 372 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:34,400 - What do you want? - I'm here to help you finish. 373 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,000 I-I can't figure out your motive. 374 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,900 You imagine me so perfectly in every way. 375 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,200 So perfectly that you bring me to life. 376 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,200 - Why did you choose me? - I needed a perfect crime. 377 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,900 And she's a doctor. She'd be horrified by what you do. 378 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,900 I'm horrified. 379 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,600 I just want to know why I do it. 380 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,700 So I could meet her. 381 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,200 That's not a reason. 382 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,800 It's an excuse. 383 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:22,000 - Anything? - No. He's just sitting there. 384 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,700 Staring. 385 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,100 - Now what is this? - A big mistake. 386 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:36,700 I misjudged her character-- her interest in me. 387 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,100 Now we're on to something. 388 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:42,600 She's only trying to get his attention but doesn't know it. 389 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:47,800 - The old unconscious at work. - I wanted to love her. 390 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:52,100 No wonder you can't finish this book, Padgett. 391 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:56,400 - Why do I want their hearts? - You tell me. Why do you do it? 392 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,900 I'm your character. You tell me. 393 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:04,500 - My reason is your reason. - I want to feel love. 394 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:05,900 No. 395 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:07,500 No. 396 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:09,800 You had it right up to there. 397 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,200 You were a tool of the truth. 398 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:18,000 And when it finally arrives, when I arrive, ... 399 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,400 - ...you don't want to see it. - But what is the truth? 400 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:27,000 Man imagines that he, too, can open up his heart... 401 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,300 ...and expose the burning passion, the flames of charity, ... 402 00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:38,400 ...like the creator himself but this is not in his power. 403 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,800 But I have love in my heart. 404 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,200 Yes, as a thief has riches, a usurer money. 405 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,700 You have it... 406 00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:53,400 But man's only power, only true power... 407 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,200 ...is to destroy it. 408 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,600 Then what's the end of my story? 409 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,700 There can only be one true ending... 410 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,900 ...if it is to be perfect. 411 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:12,200 She dies? 412 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,900 See? 413 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:18,000 It almost writes itself. 414 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,500 What's he up to now? 415 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:43,100 He just started typing again. 416 00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:52,200 Now what? 417 00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:01,200 Anything? 418 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,000 Padgett! 419 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,700 Freeze. 420 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:25,300 Step away from the incinerator. 421 00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:41,300 - What do you think you're doing? - Destroying my book. 422 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:43,900 Destroying evidence, you mean. 423 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,200 - Let me see what you wrote. - I'll tell you. 424 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,000 He kills her. 425 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,900 You came down here to give these instructions to your accomplice? 426 00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:05,400 - No, he told me how it ends. - When? 427 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,600 - In my apartment. - You were alone up there. 428 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:18,100 A story can have only one true ending. 429 00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:21,200 Even as the stranger felt compelled to commit his final words to paper... 430 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,100 ...he did it knowing they must never be read. 431 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:30,500 To see the sum of his work was to see inside his own emptiness the heart of a destroyer not a creator. 432 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:35,000 And yet, reflected back upon him at last he could see his own ending. 433 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,600 And in this final act of destruction a chance to give... 434 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,000 ...what he could not receive.