1 00:02:58,745 --> 00:03:02,738 [ Elevator Bell Dings ] 2 00:03:05,518 --> 00:03:09,511 [ Doors Close ] 3 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:38,207 [ Elevator Bell Dings ] 4 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,617 Sorry about that. Come on in. 5 00:04:10,617 --> 00:04:14,610 I, uh-- I rode up on the elevator with someone. 6 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:18,391 - Someone from next door, I think. - Young guy ? 7 00:04:18,391 --> 00:04:20,393 - Yeah. - New neighbor. Why ? 8 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:22,562 You met him ? 9 00:04:22,562 --> 00:04:24,631 Uh, briefly, yeah. He's a writer. 10 00:04:24,631 --> 00:04:27,600 - What does he write ? - He didn't say. 11 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,593 These are, uh-- These are my autopsy reports from the second victim. 12 00:04:42,982 --> 00:04:44,984 [ Scully ] As you can see, 13 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:48,354 the heart was removed in the same manner as the previous victim. 14 00:04:48,354 --> 00:04:52,347 No incisions, no scope marks, no cutting of any kind. 15 00:04:52,725 --> 00:04:55,295 [ Mulder ] No indication of how the killer did it ? 16 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:57,597 No. There's no prints, 17 00:04:57,597 --> 00:05:01,590 no D.N.A. material, no hair and fiber. 18 00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:06,028 And yet you still refuse to believe my theory-- that what this is is psychic surgery ? 19 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:09,342 Psychic surgery is some man dipping his hand in a bucket of chicken guts... 20 00:05:09,342 --> 00:05:12,578 and pretending to remove tumors from the sick and gullible. 21 00:05:12,578 --> 00:05:16,571 Or... it's a grossly misunderstood area of alternative medicine. 22 00:05:17,583 --> 00:05:21,576 Well, medicine, as you're referring to it, is about keeping people alive. 23 00:05:21,854 --> 00:05:25,847 Absent another theory, how else do we account for the impossible extraction of this man's heart ? 24 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,829 [ Scully ] I don't know. I have no idea. 25 00:05:29,829 --> 00:05:33,822 I mean, we have no evidence, no M.O. to speak of. This could be the perfect crime. 26 00:05:34,567 --> 00:05:38,560 Well, crime is only as perfect as the man or the mind that commits it. 27 00:05:38,738 --> 00:05:42,731 Even if it were perfect, even if he made not one mistake, there's still his motive. 28 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:46,835 You find his motive and you find the murderer. 29 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:32,959 That's why I didn't wanna come here, Kevin. 30 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:35,728 - I'm not even doing anything. - Well, you're thinking about it. 31 00:06:35,728 --> 00:06:37,964 There's a console between us. How much can I do ? 32 00:06:37,964 --> 00:06:41,957 -You make it sound like I'm an attacker. -Well, we talked about this. 33 00:06:42,402 --> 00:06:45,204 I told you I loved you. 34 00:06:45,204 --> 00:06:48,808 Oh, Kevin. 35 00:06:48,808 --> 00:06:52,801 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 36 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:02,855 - There you go again. - What ? 37 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:04,891 That thing that you do. You know what. 38 00:07:04,891 --> 00:07:08,494 - That's the way I kiss, Maggie. - Well, I get the message. 39 00:07:08,494 --> 00:07:10,663 - Where you going ? - I can't talk to you. 40 00:07:10,663 --> 00:07:14,656 Maggie ! [ Groans ] 41 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:32,218 Maggie ? 42 00:07:32,218 --> 00:07:36,211 Maggie! 43 00:07:36,889 --> 00:07:40,726 Maggie ! 44 00:07:40,726 --> 00:07:44,719 - [ Leaves Rustling ] - Maggie, come on ! 45 00:07:55,775 --> 00:07:59,078 [ Groaning ] 46 00:07:59,078 --> 00:08:02,148 [ Screaming ] No ! 47 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:06,141 - No ! No ! - [ Flesh Tearing ] 48 00:08:07,687 --> 00:08:11,680 No ! 49 00:08:28,174 --> 00:08:32,167 - Scully. - [ Mulder] Glad I caught you. We got a third victim. 50 00:08:32,545 --> 00:08:35,848 A 1 6-year-old kid out on Lover's Lane. 51 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:39,185 - Are you sure ? - Yeah. 52 00:08:39,185 --> 00:08:42,922 I'm sure many a person's had their heart broken out here, but not quite like this. 53 00:08:42,922 --> 00:08:46,915 I was hoping you'd be here to explain it in medical terms to the local P.D. 54 00:08:47,059 --> 00:08:50,863 I'm not sure that I could. Did anybody see anybody ? 55 00:08:50,863 --> 00:08:54,856 No, nothing. It's like there's nowhere to start on this case. Nothing to ask. 56 00:08:55,234 --> 00:08:59,227 - Nothing to say. - Well, there's got to be something, Mulder. 57 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:03,265 Something about his victims-- why he chooses them, a pattern. 58 00:09:03,943 --> 00:09:07,936 So far there's absolutely nothing. It appears to be just a series of random attacks. 59 00:09:09,615 --> 00:09:11,817 An envelope's been slipped under your door. 60 00:09:11,817 --> 00:09:15,810 - Yeah ? From who ? - It's unmarked. 61 00:09:23,629 --> 00:09:25,631 It's some kind of a pendant. 62 00:09:25,631 --> 00:09:29,624 Like a charm. 63 00:09:30,336 --> 00:09:34,329 [ Man From Elevator's Voice ] Her prompt mind ran through the Golconda of possibilities. 64 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,209 Was this trinket from the killer? 65 00:09:37,209 --> 00:09:40,846 Was there a message contained in its equivocal symbolism ? 66 00:09:40,846 --> 00:09:43,015 Was he a religious fanatic who had, in fervid haste... 67 00:09:43,015 --> 00:09:47,008 licked the envelope, leaving the telltale D.N.A. that would begin his unraveling ? 68 00:09:47,853 --> 00:09:50,790 She had a condign certainty the killer was a male, 69 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:53,092 and now as she held the cold metal at her fingertips... 70 00:09:53,092 --> 00:09:56,796 she imagined him doing the same, trying to picture his face. 71 00:09:56,796 --> 00:10:00,800 [ Thinking ] It would be a plain face, an average face-- 72 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,603 a face people would be prone to trust. 73 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:06,973 She knew this inherently, being naturally trusting herself. 74 00:10:06,973 --> 00:10:10,076 But the image she conjured up was no better than the useless sketch composites... 75 00:10:10,076 --> 00:10:12,378 that littered her files. 76 00:10:12,378 --> 00:10:16,248 Preconsciously, she knew this wasn't her strength as an investigator. 77 00:10:16,248 --> 00:10:18,718 She was a marshal of cold facts, 78 00:10:18,718 --> 00:10:22,355 quick to organize, connect, shuffle, 79 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:26,348 reorder and synthesize their relative hard values into discreet categories. 80 00:10:27,126 --> 00:10:30,396 Imprecision would only invite sexist criticism-- 81 00:10:30,396 --> 00:10:33,332 that she was soft, malleable, 82 00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:37,325 not up to her male counterparts. 83 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:41,863 Even now, as she pushed an errant strand of titian hair behind her ear, 84 00:10:43,109 --> 00:10:47,102 she worried her partner would know instinctively what she could only guess. 85 00:10:47,446 --> 00:10:50,850 To be thought of as simply a beautiful woman was bridling-- 86 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:52,852 unthinkable. 87 00:10:52,852 --> 00:10:54,987 But she was beautiful, 88 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:58,980 fatally, stunningly prepossessing. 89 00:10:59,191 --> 00:11:01,293 Yet the compensatory respect she commanded... 90 00:11:01,293 --> 00:11:04,163 only deepened the yearnings of her heart-- 91 00:11:04,163 --> 00:11:06,265 to let it open-- 92 00:11:06,265 --> 00:11:10,258 to let someone in. 93 00:11:15,141 --> 00:11:17,143 [ Scully ] It's called a milagro. 94 00:11:17,143 --> 00:11:19,412 That's the Spanish word for "miracle. '' 95 00:11:19,412 --> 00:11:22,915 - It's worn as a lucky charm. - It came here for me ? 96 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:26,352 It was dropped off at a reception by a man in his late 20s, early 30s, 97 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:29,088 average looking, average build. 98 00:11:29,088 --> 00:11:32,191 They weren't able to get a good I.D. There are no fingerprints... 99 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:34,827 and no D.N.A. from his saliva. 100 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:37,930 I don't think it's the killer, Scully. 101 00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:40,766 -Did you see that it's a burning heart ? -I see it has a burning heart. 102 00:11:40,766 --> 00:11:43,169 We're dealing with a killer that leaves no clues. 103 00:11:43,169 --> 00:11:45,438 Why would he do something as heavy-handed as this ? 104 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:49,241 Maybe it has something to do with his next victim-- maybe he's taunting you. 105 00:11:49,241 --> 00:11:53,234 Maybe it's not me at all. Maybe he sent it to you. 106 00:11:54,346 --> 00:11:57,717 - Maybe it's a secret admirer. - [ Scoffs ] 107 00:11:57,717 --> 00:12:00,119 - I think I'll check it out. - Actually, let me. 108 00:12:00,119 --> 00:12:02,888 You've got a 9:00 a.m. with the D.C. medical examiner. 109 00:12:02,888 --> 00:12:06,881 He's gonna let you autopsy the latest victim. 110 00:12:06,959 --> 00:12:10,952 Thank you for making my schedule, but I think I'm gonna have to be late for that. 111 00:12:55,341 --> 00:12:59,145 I often come here to look at this painting. 112 00:12:59,145 --> 00:13:03,015 It's called ""My Divine Heart'' after the miracle of St. Margaret Mary. 113 00:13:03,015 --> 00:13:05,918 Do you know the story-- 114 00:13:05,918 --> 00:13:09,155 the revelation of the sacred heart ? 115 00:13:09,155 --> 00:13:13,148 Christ came to Margaret Mary-- his heart so inflamed with love that it was no longer able... 116 00:13:14,593 --> 00:13:18,364 to contain its burning flames of charity. 117 00:13:18,364 --> 00:13:20,366 Margaret Mary, 118 00:13:20,366 --> 00:13:23,435 so filled with divine love herself, 119 00:13:23,435 --> 00:13:26,605 asked the Lord to take her heart. 120 00:13:26,605 --> 00:13:30,598 And so he did, placing it alongside his... 121 00:13:30,943 --> 00:13:34,613 until it burned with the flames of his passion. 122 00:13:34,613 --> 00:13:38,417 Then he restored it to Margaret Mary... 123 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:41,086 sealing her wound with the touch of his blessed hand. 124 00:13:41,086 --> 00:13:45,079 Why are you telling me this ? 125 00:13:45,591 --> 00:13:48,260 You came here specifically to see this painting, didn't you ? 126 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:51,597 Yes. How did you know that ? 127 00:13:51,597 --> 00:13:54,466 I saw you enter. The way you knew right where it was. 128 00:13:54,466 --> 00:13:57,269 I know you. 129 00:13:57,269 --> 00:14:00,840 You live next to somebody I work with. 130 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,576 Why are you following me ? 131 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:07,569 I'm not. I'd only imagined that you'd come here today. 132 00:14:08,347 --> 00:14:11,517 - Oh, you imagined it. - Yes. 133 00:14:11,517 --> 00:14:13,519 Yeah. 134 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:15,855 I'm a writer. That's what I do-- 135 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:17,857 imagine how people behave. 136 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:20,860 I have to admit I've noticed you. 137 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:24,853 I do that-- notice people. 138 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:30,258 I saw that you wear a gold cross around your neck so I was taking a chance with the painting-- 139 00:14:30,436 --> 00:14:33,939 explaining something you may have already known. 140 00:14:33,939 --> 00:14:37,576 I saw Georgetown parking permits on your car dating from 1 993... 141 00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:41,413 and a government exempt sticker that lets you park anywhere you like. 142 00:14:41,413 --> 00:14:45,406 You don't live in this area, but as a federal employee you have reason to frequent it. 143 00:14:46,318 --> 00:14:49,688 You're fit with muscular calves, 144 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:52,424 so you must exercise or run. 145 00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:56,417 There's a popular running route right nearby that you might use at lunch or after work. 146 00:14:56,462 --> 00:14:59,298 You'd have noticed this church in passing, 147 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:02,201 and though parking is always a problem in this part of town, 148 00:15:02,201 --> 00:15:05,070 your special privileges would make it easy to visit, 149 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:07,640 not as a place of worship, 150 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,633 but because you have an appreciation for architecture and the arts. 151 00:15:11,977 --> 00:15:15,970 And while the grandeur is what you take away from your visit, 152 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:20,308 this painting's religious symbolism would have left a subconscious impression... 153 00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:24,023 jogged by the gift you received this morning. 154 00:15:24,023 --> 00:15:26,292 That was from you ? 155 00:15:26,292 --> 00:15:29,061 I have to admit to a secret attraction. 156 00:15:29,061 --> 00:15:33,054 I'm sorry I didn't include a note explaining that, but you didn't know me then. 157 00:15:34,533 --> 00:15:38,504 And I don't know you now, and I don't care to. 158 00:15:38,504 --> 00:15:40,706 I see this is making you uncomfortable, 159 00:15:40,706 --> 00:15:43,642 and I'm sorry. 160 00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:47,646 It's just that I'm taken with you. 161 00:15:47,646 --> 00:15:51,639 That never happens to me. 162 00:15:52,084 --> 00:15:56,077 We're alike that way. 163 00:16:17,576 --> 00:16:21,569 You weren't joking about being late. I was about to start slicing and dicing myself. 164 00:16:22,648 --> 00:16:25,651 - I'm sorry. - [ Sighs ] Where were you ? 165 00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:29,644 I was doing some research, and learning that I owe you an apology. 166 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:34,148 - For what ? - The milagro charm. 167 00:16:34,793 --> 00:16:37,563 You were right about its insignificance. 168 00:16:37,563 --> 00:16:40,466 I think I was wrong. I think it's very significant. 169 00:16:40,466 --> 00:16:43,202 It may be a communication from the killer. 170 00:16:43,202 --> 00:16:47,195 Most of my research shows that most credible practitioners with psychic surgery... 171 00:16:47,272 --> 00:16:50,109 believe themselves to be imbued with the Holy Spirit-- 172 00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:53,045 that their hands become the miracle tools of God. 173 00:16:53,045 --> 00:16:57,016 Mulder, this is nothing more than a tool... 174 00:16:57,016 --> 00:17:00,753 used by a lovelorn Romeo who just happens to be your next-door neighbor. 175 00:17:00,753 --> 00:17:04,223 - Who, the writer ? - Yes. 176 00:17:04,223 --> 00:17:06,458 My secret admirer... 177 00:17:06,458 --> 00:17:09,128 who claims to know the mysteries of my heart. 178 00:17:09,128 --> 00:17:11,330 - You're kidding. - I wish I were. 179 00:17:11,330 --> 00:17:15,323 He cornered me today and told me my life story. It was kind of frightening, actually. 180 00:17:18,637 --> 00:17:20,639 Is he our killer ? 181 00:17:20,639 --> 00:17:22,841 No. 182 00:17:22,841 --> 00:17:26,378 ""Frightening'' as in too much information and intimate detail. 183 00:17:26,378 --> 00:17:30,371 What kills you is his audacity. 184 00:17:31,617 --> 00:17:34,586 Did you get his name ? 185 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:38,579 No, but that shouldn't be too hard to find out, should it ? 186 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:35,103 [ Elevator Bell Dings ] 187 00:18:50,329 --> 00:18:53,432 I'm sorry. I forgot your name. 188 00:18:53,432 --> 00:18:55,834 - Padgett. - Padgett. 189 00:18:55,834 --> 00:18:59,471 - Phillip Padgett. - You're a writer. 190 00:18:59,471 --> 00:19:03,464 - Anything I'd know ? - I don't think so. 191 00:19:05,410 --> 00:19:09,403 [ Elevator Bell Dings ] 192 00:19:17,222 --> 00:19:20,659 You're an F.B.I. agent. 193 00:19:20,659 --> 00:19:23,162 Working on anything interesting ? 194 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,764 A murder case. 195 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:29,757 Anything I'd know ? 196 00:19:29,868 --> 00:19:33,861 Possibly. 197 00:19:35,741 --> 00:19:38,977 [ Thinking ] The overture in the church had urged the beautiful agent's partner... 198 00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:42,581 into an act of Hegelian self-justification. 199 00:19:42,581 --> 00:19:45,951 Expeditiously violating the Fourth Amendment against mail theft, 200 00:19:45,951 --> 00:19:49,944 he prepared to impudently infract the First. 201 00:19:50,789 --> 00:19:53,759 [ Typing Continues ] 202 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:57,752 But if she'd predictably aroused her sly partner's suspicions, 203 00:19:57,996 --> 00:20:01,366 Special Agent Dana Scully had herself... 204 00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:04,369 become simply aroused. 205 00:20:04,369 --> 00:20:07,673 All morning the stranger's unsolicited compliments... 206 00:20:07,673 --> 00:20:10,375 had played on the dampened strings of her instrument... 207 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:14,368 until the middle "C''of consciousness was struck square and resonant. 208 00:20:14,846 --> 00:20:17,216 She was flattered. 209 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:20,986 His words had presented her a pretty picture of herself, 210 00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:23,522 quite unlike the practiced mask of uprightness... 211 00:20:23,522 --> 00:20:27,359 that mirrored back to her from the medical examiners and the investigators... 212 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,429 and all the lawmen who dared no such utterances. 213 00:20:30,429 --> 00:20:33,765 She felt an involuntary flush... 214 00:20:33,765 --> 00:20:37,758 and rebuked herself for the girlish indulgence. 215 00:20:38,637 --> 00:20:42,407 But the images came perforce and she let them play-- 216 00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:44,409 let them flood in like savory... 217 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:46,912 or more a sugary confection from her adolescence... 218 00:20:46,912 --> 00:20:50,905 when her senses were new and ungoverned by fear and self-denial. 219 00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:55,754 Ache. Pang. 220 00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:58,824 Prick. Twinge. 221 00:20:58,824 --> 00:21:02,261 How ironic the Victorian vocabulary of behavioral pathology... 222 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:06,254 now so perfectly described the palpations of her own desire. 223 00:21:06,465 --> 00:21:08,467 The stranger had looked her in the eye... 224 00:21:08,467 --> 00:21:12,070 and knew her more completely than she knew herself. 225 00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:15,574 She felt wild, feral, 226 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:17,743 guilty as a criminal. 227 00:21:17,743 --> 00:21:21,747 Had the stranger unleashed in her what was already there, 228 00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:25,740 or only helped her discover a landscape she by necessity blinded herself to ? 229 00:21:27,986 --> 00:21:31,023 What would her partner think of her? 230 00:21:31,023 --> 00:21:35,016 [ Typing Continues ] 231 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:53,868 Mr. Popularity. 232 00:22:12,597 --> 00:22:16,590 [ Elevator Bell Dings ] 233 00:22:22,107 --> 00:22:26,100 [ Typing Continues ] 234 00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:48,989 [ Knocking ] 235 00:22:49,701 --> 00:22:52,137 Hi. I, um-- 236 00:22:52,137 --> 00:22:55,607 I was going next door and I thought that I'd return this. 237 00:22:55,607 --> 00:22:58,844 Why ? 238 00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:02,837 Because I can't return the gesture. 239 00:23:02,948 --> 00:23:05,517 I can't. 240 00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:07,886 You're curious about me. 241 00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:11,879 [ Scoffs ] 242 00:23:19,765 --> 00:23:21,767 You don't have any furniture. 243 00:23:21,767 --> 00:23:24,202 I have what I need. 244 00:23:24,202 --> 00:23:26,805 I write at my desk. I sleep in my bed. 245 00:23:26,805 --> 00:23:30,798 - You don't eat ? - I live in my head. 246 00:23:32,644 --> 00:23:35,080 - Writing your books ? - Yes. 247 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,682 Anything I'd know ? 248 00:23:37,682 --> 00:23:40,485 No. They're all failures, 249 00:23:40,485 --> 00:23:44,478 except the one I'm working on now. 250 00:23:45,457 --> 00:23:48,827 - I think I'm getting it right. - Why now all of a sudden ? 251 00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:52,820 Best not to question it. 252 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:55,801 See ? 253 00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:57,936 You are curious about me. 254 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:01,929 - Well, you lead a curious life. - It's not so different from yours, I imagine. 255 00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:07,501 Lonely. 256 00:24:10,015 --> 00:24:13,585 Loneliness is a choice. 257 00:24:13,585 --> 00:24:17,578 So, how about a cup of coffee ? 258 00:24:55,694 --> 00:24:59,687 - My life's not so lonely, Mister, uh-- - Padgett. 259 00:25:01,132 --> 00:25:04,936 It's actually anything but. 260 00:25:04,936 --> 00:25:08,929 - How is it you think you know me so well, Mr. Padgett ? - I'm writing about you. 261 00:25:09,207 --> 00:25:13,200 Right. 262 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:18,617 - Since when ? - Since I first noticed you. 263 00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:22,610 You live in my old neighborhood. 264 00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:25,657 And you moved into this building by coincidence ? 265 00:25:25,657 --> 00:25:27,592 No. 266 00:25:27,592 --> 00:25:29,828 You moved here because of me ? 267 00:25:29,828 --> 00:25:32,931 There wasn't anything available in your building, 268 00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:35,767 and it's not like you spent a lot of time at home. 269 00:25:35,767 --> 00:25:39,760 I should have said something, but I just couldn't get it all down fast enough. 270 00:25:40,238 --> 00:25:42,941 To really write someone, I have to be in their head. 271 00:25:42,941 --> 00:25:46,934 I have to know them more completely than they know themselves. 272 00:25:47,345 --> 00:25:51,338 - This is all about me ? - You're an important part. 273 00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:56,021 - May I read it ? - It's not finished. 274 00:25:56,021 --> 00:26:00,014 I can't tell you how helpful it is having you here-- being able to talk with you like this. 275 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:04,796 Would you sit and stay a minute ? 276 00:26:04,796 --> 00:26:08,789 You don't have anywhere to sit. 277 00:26:17,809 --> 00:26:21,802 - I'm due next door. - You haven't finished your coffee. 278 00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:27,308 [ Sighs ] I'm very uncomfortable with this. 279 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,255 Why ? You're armed, 280 00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:34,248 aren't you ? 281 00:26:35,226 --> 00:26:39,219 Imagine that. 282 00:26:41,633 --> 00:26:45,626 I'll get a bulb. 283 00:27:00,719 --> 00:27:04,712 A view only a writer can appreciate. 284 00:27:11,763 --> 00:27:15,100 If you know me so well, then why am I standing here when my instincts... 285 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,102 tell me to go ? 286 00:27:17,102 --> 00:27:21,095 Motive is never easy. 287 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:25,299 Sometimes it occurs to one only later. 288 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:30,415 Please. 289 00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:34,408 Sit. 290 00:27:51,102 --> 00:27:55,095 Imagine that. 291 00:28:17,295 --> 00:28:19,297 [ Door Opens ] 292 00:28:19,297 --> 00:28:21,900 Mulder ! 293 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:23,968 - Scully. - What are you doing ? 294 00:28:23,968 --> 00:28:26,104 You all right ? 295 00:28:26,104 --> 00:28:30,097 Yes. 296 00:28:34,179 --> 00:28:38,172 Mulder ? 297 00:28:38,983 --> 00:28:42,976 What are you doing ? 298 00:28:44,989 --> 00:28:48,982 Putting this man under arrest. 299 00:28:52,797 --> 00:28:56,790 [ Handcuffs Locking ] 300 00:29:06,277 --> 00:29:08,546 Yes, I've seen this paper. 301 00:29:08,546 --> 00:29:12,539 Yeah. That's how you found your victims-- in the personals. 302 00:29:13,151 --> 00:29:16,087 - They all took out personal ads. - They were lovers. 303 00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:19,124 - And you targeted them. - I only write about them. 304 00:29:19,124 --> 00:29:22,293 - No, you targeted-- - Mulder. 305 00:29:22,293 --> 00:29:26,064 - Not without his lawyer. - I don't need a lawyer. I'm telling the truth. 306 00:29:26,064 --> 00:29:30,057 And this is your confession ? 307 00:29:35,006 --> 00:29:37,442 No, that's my novel. 308 00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:41,435 It's all in there-- every detail, every murder, all laid out. 309 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:44,349 How'd you do it, Mr. Padgett ? 310 00:29:44,349 --> 00:29:47,852 - If I sit long enough, it just comes to me. - The murders. 311 00:29:47,852 --> 00:29:51,790 I only knew what was in my mind and wished to express it clearly. 312 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:55,360 How about the ""stranger'' ? Is that you ? 313 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,353 - How about Ken Naciamento ? - The self-proclaimed Brazilian psychic surgeon ? 314 00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:03,067 - Is that your accomplice ? - I guess you could say that. 315 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:05,804 - He's a central character. - Did you direct him to do it ? 316 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:09,797 Jungians say it's the characters who choose the writer, not the other way around. 317 00:30:10,241 --> 00:30:14,234 So I guess you could argue he directed me. 318 00:30:15,947 --> 00:30:17,949 Which is the truth ? 319 00:30:17,949 --> 00:30:20,885 By their nature, words are imprecise and layered with meaning. 320 00:30:20,885 --> 00:30:24,189 The signs of things, not the things themselves. 321 00:30:24,189 --> 00:30:28,182 It's difficult to say who's in charge. 322 00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:33,453 - Mulder. - Okay. 323 00:30:38,269 --> 00:30:40,872 Why, Mr. Padgett ? 324 00:30:40,872 --> 00:30:44,876 Maybe that's a question you can answer. 325 00:30:44,876 --> 00:30:48,869 That's the one question I can't. 326 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:51,216 [ Package Rustles ] 327 00:30:51,216 --> 00:30:53,451 Agent Mulder, my book-- 328 00:30:53,451 --> 00:30:56,554 did you like it ? 329 00:30:56,554 --> 00:31:00,547 Maybe if it were fiction. 330 00:31:03,461 --> 00:31:07,454 - Mulder, where are you going ? - To find his accomplice, the Brazilian psychic surgeon. 331 00:31:08,032 --> 00:31:12,003 I did that. That's what I've been doing. 332 00:31:12,003 --> 00:31:15,996 Dr. Ken Naciamento, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Emigrated here in 1 996. 333 00:31:17,575 --> 00:31:19,410 - Where is he now? - He's dead. 334 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:23,403 - Can't be. - Two years dead. I'm having them fax a certificate of death. 335 00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:27,685 - Padgett couldn't have done this alone. - Maybe he didn't do it at all. 336 00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:31,289 Scully, it's all on the page. How else would he know it ? 337 00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:34,392 Maybe he imagined it, like he said. 338 00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:37,996 Like Shakespeare or Freud orJung. 339 00:31:37,996 --> 00:31:40,598 I mean, maybe-- maybe he has some gift... 340 00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:43,601 and he has a clear window into human nature. 341 00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:46,905 No one can tell you what another person's gonna do. No one can predict human behavior. 342 00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,440 Isn't that what you do, Mulder, as a behavioral profiler ? 343 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,433 You imagine the killer's mind so well you know what they're gonna do next. 344 00:31:53,511 --> 00:31:56,681 If he imagines it, it's a priori, before the fact. 345 00:31:56,681 --> 00:32:00,451 I think that's pretty clear from what he wrote about you. 346 00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:02,921 You know you're in here, don't you ? 347 00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:06,914 Yeah. I read a chapter. 348 00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:09,928 What does he say ? 349 00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:13,921 Well, let's just say it ends with you doing the naked pretzel with the ""stranger''... 350 00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:18,258 on a bed in an unfurnished fourth floor apartment. 351 00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:23,574 I'm assuming that's a priori too ? 352 00:32:23,574 --> 00:32:27,567 [ Scoffs ] I think you know me better than that, Mulder. 353 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:31,939 Well-- 354 00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:36,543 Well, you might wanna finish it. 355 00:32:52,103 --> 00:32:54,172 [ Door Opens ] 356 00:32:54,172 --> 00:32:58,165 Prisoner's written something I think you should see. 357 00:32:58,409 --> 00:33:00,411 What is it ? 358 00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:04,404 He says it's a statement, but I think he's putting somebody on. 359 00:33:09,620 --> 00:33:12,256 [ Scully ] "Grief squeezed at her eggshell heart... 360 00:33:12,256 --> 00:33:15,526 "like it might break into a thousand pieces. 361 00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:18,696 "Its contents running like broken promises... 362 00:33:18,696 --> 00:33:22,700 "into the hollow places his love used to fill. 363 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:25,336 "How could she know this pain would end? 364 00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:28,072 "That love, unlike matter or energy, 365 00:33:28,072 --> 00:33:31,175 "was an endless supply in the universe-- 366 00:33:31,175 --> 00:33:35,168 "a germ which grows from nothingness which cannot be eradicated, 367 00:33:35,747 --> 00:33:38,583 "even from the darkest of hearts. 368 00:33:38,583 --> 00:33:42,576 "If she had known this, and who could say she would believe it, 369 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,713 "she would not have chanced to remain at his sad grave until such an hour... 370 00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:50,762 "so that she might not have to learn the second truth before the first: 371 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:53,297 - "That to have love... -[ Footsteps ] 372 00:33:53,297 --> 00:33:57,290 "was to carry a vessel that could be lost or stolen or worse-- 373 00:33:58,302 --> 00:34:01,139 "spilled blood-red on the ground. 374 00:34:01,139 --> 00:34:03,341 "And that love was not immutable. 375 00:34:03,341 --> 00:34:07,334 "It could become hate as day becomes night-- 376 00:34:07,779 --> 00:34:10,348 as life becomes death. '' 377 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:12,583 [ Screams ] 378 00:34:12,583 --> 00:34:16,576 [ Screaming ] 379 00:34:18,689 --> 00:34:21,492 [ Screaming Continues ] 380 00:34:21,492 --> 00:34:25,485 [ Screaming Stops ] 381 00:34:51,489 --> 00:34:54,392 She's a no-show at home or anywhere else she might go. 382 00:34:54,392 --> 00:34:57,762 No signs of a possible struggle at the grave site, 383 00:34:57,762 --> 00:35:01,755 but the area's been so trammeled by the funeral that collecting evidence is gonna be impossible. 384 00:35:02,266 --> 00:35:05,436 I think this is a big jerk off. 385 00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:09,429 Maybe his statement's to prove he's telling the truth-- that he truly just imagined it. 386 00:35:09,507 --> 00:35:13,500 The only thing that he imagined was us out here... 387 00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:20,207 looking like idiots. 388 00:35:24,422 --> 00:35:28,359 - [ Grunts ] - Hands where I can see 'em ! Don't move until I tell you ! 389 00:35:28,359 --> 00:35:32,363 - I'm a federal agent. - Mulder, that's not him. 390 00:35:32,363 --> 00:35:34,332 - What'd I do ? - Mulder ! 391 00:35:34,332 --> 00:35:38,325 - Check the truck, Scully. - Mulder, he works here. 392 00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:18,276 How did you know, Mulder, that the body was in the truck ? 393 00:36:18,276 --> 00:36:20,311 I imagined it. 394 00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:23,247 It's still no evidence that Padgett directed the killer. 395 00:36:23,247 --> 00:36:26,184 What do you need, a signed work order ? Of course he directed him. 396 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:29,654 Mulder, you are making critical assumptions without any facts. 397 00:36:29,654 --> 00:36:33,391 What about time of death ? What about-- What are you doing ? 398 00:36:33,391 --> 00:36:36,460 You're about to argue my usual side, aren't you ? 399 00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,764 Why couldn't he have imagined it ? Why couldn't he be in the killer's head ? 400 00:36:39,764 --> 00:36:43,757 You read what he wrote about you. Are you trying to tell me he got inside your head ? 401 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,637 - That what I read is true ? - Mulder, of course not. 402 00:36:46,637 --> 00:36:50,630 I don't know how they communicate. This is the only way I can think to catch him. 403 00:36:55,246 --> 00:36:58,015 Mr. Padgett ? 404 00:36:58,015 --> 00:37:00,685 You can go. 405 00:37:00,685 --> 00:37:04,678 We apologize for our mistake. You're free to finish your book. 406 00:37:06,324 --> 00:37:10,317 Thank you. 407 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:15,900 I made a mistake myself. 408 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,669 What's that, Mr. Padgett ? 409 00:37:18,669 --> 00:37:22,006 In my book, I'd written that Agent Scully falls in love, 410 00:37:22,006 --> 00:37:24,008 but that's obviously impossible. 411 00:37:24,008 --> 00:37:28,001 Agent Scully is already in love. 412 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,313 What are you doing here ? 413 00:38:21,065 --> 00:38:23,701 You seem surprised to see me. 414 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:25,936 Yes, completely. 415 00:38:25,936 --> 00:38:29,540 Why ? I'm your character. 416 00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:31,509 What do you want ? 417 00:38:31,509 --> 00:38:33,811 I'm here to help you finish. 418 00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:36,380 I can't figure out your motive. 419 00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:39,617 You imagine me so perfectly in every way-- 420 00:38:39,617 --> 00:38:42,553 so perfectly that you bring me to life. 421 00:38:42,553 --> 00:38:44,955 Why did you choose me ? 422 00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:47,825 I needed a perfect crime. 423 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:51,395 And she's a doctor. She'd be horrified by what you do. 424 00:38:51,395 --> 00:38:54,665 I'm horrified. 425 00:38:54,665 --> 00:38:56,901 I just want to know why I do it. 426 00:38:56,901 --> 00:39:00,894 So I could meet her. 427 00:39:02,606 --> 00:39:06,599 That's not a reason. 428 00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:14,074 It's an excuse. 429 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:22,015 - Anything ? - No, he's just sitting there. 430 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,553 Staring. 431 00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:31,168 Now what is this ? 432 00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:35,161 A big mistake. I misjudged her character, her interest in me. 433 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,642 Now we're on to something. 434 00:39:38,642 --> 00:39:41,712 She's only trying to get his attention, but doesn't know it. 435 00:39:41,712 --> 00:39:44,882 Mm-hmm. The old unconscious at work. 436 00:39:44,882 --> 00:39:47,651 I wanted to love her. 437 00:39:47,651 --> 00:39:51,155 No wonder you can't finish this book, Padgett. 438 00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:55,148 - Why do I want their hearts ? - You tell me. Why do you do it ? 439 00:39:55,626 --> 00:39:59,619 I'm your character. You tell me. 440 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:03,601 - My reason is your reason. - I want to feel love. 441 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:07,438 Mmm-- No. No. 442 00:40:07,438 --> 00:40:09,607 You had it right up to there. 443 00:40:09,607 --> 00:40:12,943 You were a tool of the truth. 444 00:40:12,943 --> 00:40:16,936 And when it finally arrives-- when I arrive, you don't want to see it. 445 00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:22,153 But what is the truth ? 446 00:40:22,153 --> 00:40:25,523 Man imagines that he too... 447 00:40:25,523 --> 00:40:28,793 can open up his heart and expose the burning passion-- 448 00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:31,962 the flames of charity. 449 00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:34,165 Like the creator himself, 450 00:40:34,165 --> 00:40:37,835 but... this is not in his power. 451 00:40:37,835 --> 00:40:40,504 But I have love in my heart. 452 00:40:40,504 --> 00:40:44,497 Yes, as a thief has riches, a usurer, money. You have it ! 453 00:40:47,511 --> 00:40:51,504 But man's only power-- only true power... 454 00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:54,885 is to destroy it. 455 00:40:54,885 --> 00:40:58,878 Then what's the end of my story ? 456 00:41:00,491 --> 00:41:04,484 There can only be one true ending... 457 00:41:04,562 --> 00:41:08,555 if it is to be perfect. 458 00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:12,803 She dies ? 459 00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:14,805 See ? 460 00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:18,798 It almost writes itself. 461 00:41:36,694 --> 00:41:39,697 What's he up to now ? 462 00:41:39,697 --> 00:41:43,690 [ Scully ] He just started typing again. 463 00:41:49,607 --> 00:41:53,600 [ Mulder ] Now what ? 464 00:41:58,215 --> 00:42:01,819 Anything ? 465 00:42:01,819 --> 00:42:05,812 [ Door Closes ] 466 00:42:18,269 --> 00:42:22,262 Padgett! Freeze. 467 00:42:22,573 --> 00:42:26,566 Step away from the incinerator. 468 00:42:34,718 --> 00:42:37,254 [ Gasps ] 469 00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:40,591 - What do you think you're doing ? - Destroying my book. 470 00:42:40,591 --> 00:42:43,594 Destroying evidence, you mean. 471 00:42:43,594 --> 00:42:47,587 - Let me see what you wrote. - I'll tell you. He kills her. 472 00:42:48,198 --> 00:42:52,191 [ Screaming ] 473 00:42:55,272 --> 00:42:58,342 [ Screaming ] 474 00:42:58,342 --> 00:43:02,335 You came down here to give these instructions to your accomplice ? 475 00:43:02,813 --> 00:43:05,082 - No, he told me how it ends. - When ? 476 00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:07,151 - In my apartment. - You were alone up there. 477 00:43:07,151 --> 00:43:09,119 [ Gunshot ] 478 00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:13,112 [ Grunting ] 479 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,895 [ Gasps ] 480 00:43:51,895 --> 00:43:55,888 [ Panting ] 481 00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:09,268 [ Sobbing ] 482 00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:17,988 [ Padgett's Voice ] A story can have only one true ending. 483 00:44:17,988 --> 00:44:21,158 Even as the stranger felt compelled to commit his final words to paper, 484 00:44:21,158 --> 00:44:24,028 he did it knowing they must never be read. 485 00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:26,964 To see the sum of his work was to see inside his own emptiness-- 486 00:44:26,964 --> 00:44:30,200 the heart of a destroyer, not a creator. 487 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,193 And yet reflected back upon him, at last he could see his own ending. 488 00:44:34,972 --> 00:44:37,941 And in this final act of destruction... 489 00:44:37,941 --> 00:44:41,934 a chance to give what he could not receive. 490 00:45:16,513 --> 00:45:19,316 [ Child ] I made this! 491 00:45:19,316 --> 00:45:23,309 [ Child ] I made this!