169 fans | Vote

#807 : Via Negativa

 

¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤

Tandis que Scully a été hospitalisée d'urgence, l'agent Dogget et le directeur adjoint Skinner enquêtent sur une série de meurtres très étranges et violents, perpétrés sur des agents du FBI. Ils découvrent que ces derniers auraient tous eu un lien avec une sorte de vieux gourou qui pratique les cultes religieux et qui serait capable de s'introduire dans les rêves de ses victimes...

¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤

Popularité


3 - 2 votes

Titre VO
Via Negativa

Titre VF
Via Negativa

Première diffusion
17.12.2000

Première diffusion en France
10.10.2001

Photos promo

Anthony Dippett

Anthony Dippett

Dogette et le troisième oeil

Dogette et le troisième oeil

Frohike et Langly dans le bureau de Doggett

Frohike et Langly dans le bureau de Doggett

Qu'est-il arrivé à Scully?

Qu'est-il arrivé à Scully?

Un bien étrange cadavre...

Un bien étrange cadavre...

Un symbole ésotérique gravé dans une stèle?

Un symbole ésotérique gravé dans une stèle?

Plus de détails

Réalisation:
Tony Wharmby

Scénario:
Chris Carter
Frank Spotnitz

Guest stars:
Tom Braidwood (Melvin Frohike),

Dean Haglund (Richard 'Ringo' Langly),

Bruce Harwood (John Fitzgerald Byers),

James Pickens Jr. (le directeur adjoint Alvin Kersh),

Wayne Alexander (le directeur adjoint Arnold),

Kirk B.R. Woller (l'agent Gene Crane),

Lawrence LeJohn (l'agent Angus Stedman),

Kevin McClatchy (l'agent James Leeds),

Grant Heslov (Andre Bormanis),

Keith Szarabajka (Anthony Tipet)...

Via Negativa

Un policier, James Leeds doit surveiller une maison, mais il dort. Son collègue, l'Agent Standman vient le réveiller. La porte de la maison qu'ils doivent surveiller est entrouverte. Ne sachant pas depuis combien de temps James dort, les deux policiers se rendent dans la maison.

À l'intérieur, un tableau avec un oeil dessus est posé au-dessus de la porte d'entrée. Les agents voient des traces de sang sur le sol. Celles-ci les amènent dans une pièce où il y a de nombreux cadavres. Standman et James entendent un bruit. Standman va voir. Devant l'escalier, il y a une hache, lorsqu'il sent une présence, il se tourne. Deux coups de feu se font entendre, James vient voir et trouve son collègue mort sur le sol. Un autre homme avec un 3e oeil, Tipet, se tient à ses côtés, il lève sa hache et se prépare à lui donner un coup.

ACTE 1, Falls Church, Virginie, 3 h 26
Doggett se fait réveiller par l'appel de Scully. Elle a reçu un appel de Skinner lui expliquant une enquête. Un agent est mort. Skinner l'avait chargé de surveiller une secte religieuse. Tous les fidèles sont morts. Elle le supplie de continuer l'enquête, mais cette fois, elle ne pourra pas l'aider. Skinner sera son collègue. Elle ne lui explique pas la raison. Aussitôt raccrochée, on voit qu'elle est à l'hôpital.

Doggett arrive sur les lieux et rejoint Skinner. Les fidèles étaient accusés d'être des trafiquants de drogue. Skinner amène Doggett à la voiture de James. Le corps est couvert de sang et a une énorme blessure à la tête. Les portes de la voiture étaient fermées de l'intérieur, un agent l'a trouvé dans cet état. Aucun témoin. Doggett pense que James n'a pas été tué dans la voiture. Pas assez de place pour manier une arme. De toute manière, son arme est encore dans l'étui et la clé sur le contact. Doggett croit qu'il s'est endormi.

Skinner l'amène dans la pièce où se trouve les cadavres. Tous les fidèles sont morts de la même façon : une énorme plaie au front. Tous les membres sont là sauf le gourou, Anthony Tipet. Sur un des murs, Doggett remarque une gravure en forme d'oeil. Doggett pense que tous les fidèles ne se sont certainement pas couchés pour se faire ouvrir le crâne. Skinner a soumis tous les corps a une analyse toxicologique et compris celui de James. L'Agent Crâne vient les rejoindre. Il n'a pas retrouvé Standman. Doggett connaît Standman, il suggère aux policiers d'aller dans son studio à Pittsburgh.

Au studio, Standman ne répond pas, mais la porte est déverrouillée. Skinner et Doggett entrent. Ils entendent un bruit. Ils trouvent le corps de l'agent.

Bureau des directeurs adjoints
Plusieurs directeurs adjoints, Doggett et Skinner regardent un vidéo où Anthony transmet sa prophétie. Skinner explique ensuite aux directeurs (dont Kersh) qui est Anthony : il a été en prison et il prétend que l'être peut atteindre un niveau supérieur en empruntant la voie des ténèbres ainsi s'approcher de Dieu. Une fois ce niveau atteint, l'esprit peut voyager. Pour ce moment, les fidèles devaient prendre des hallucinogènes, le Iboga. Mais le problème, c'est qu'aucune trace de drogue a été trouvée dans le sang des victimes. Alors ils n'ont aucun suspect. Skinner pense que Tibet était drogué lorsqu'il a tué ses disciples, sa conscience était là, mais son corps était ailleurs.. Voici qu'on entre dans les affaires non-classées et Kersh ne s'en réjouit pas. Celui-ci croit que cette théorie vient de Scully, mais Doggett confie que l'agent n'a rien dit encore. Kersh est furieux parce qu'aucune conclusion ne lui a été donnée par Doggett ou Scully. Il veut savoir pourquoi Anthony a tué 22 personnes et ce que les agents comptent faire maintenant.

Doggett sort du bureau avec Skinner. John est furieux parce que Skinner a émit une hypothèse tout à fait absurde. Skinner veut que l'agent l'aide. Doggett prend l'ascenseur et s'en va. Il suggère à Skinner de trouver Tipet.

Dans la rue, 22 h 12
Un sans-abri oblige Tipet à lui donner de l'argent. Le gourou se fâche, il prend le sans-abri par le collet et le colle contre un mur. Tipet lui fait peur en disant qu'il ne doit pas le reconnaître. Tipet appelle André Bornamis, mais il parle à son répondeur. André, par contre est dans l'appartement et écoute le message. Tipet l'accuse d'avoir tout fait ce qui s'est produit. André se sent coupable. Il prend une lame de rasoir et il commence à saigner.

22 h 22, bureau de Skinner
Skinner amène le rapport de légiste à Doggett. Les victimes ont été tuées par un coup de hache de 15 à 20 cm de long. Doggett montre à Skinner une image de la hache en question. Cette arme de cérémonie servait, il y a plusieurs milliers d'année, à fendre la tête des infidèles. Skinner pense que c'est l'arme du crime, mais Doggett rejette l'idée. Cette arme est exposée dans un musée. Doggett réclame Scully pour cette enquête, mais Skinner dit qu'elle a un empêchement. Doggett comprend qu'elle lui a parlé. Skinner dit qu'elle va bien et qu'elle prend un peu de repos. John en revient pas. Vingt-deux personnes sont décédées et Scully prend un peu de repos. Il veut l'appeler, mais Skinner l'empêche. Il donne l'ordre à Doggett de se débrouiller seul.

À l'extérieur, le SDF de tout à l'heure entend un homme s'approcher. Il demande de l'argent sans le regarder. Lorsqu'il lève les yeux, il voit Tipet qui a un 3e oeil. Le gourou le regarde et fait fondre le ciment du trottoir. Le corps du sans-abri est maintenant dans le ciment, il ne reste plus que sa tête. Tipet prend sa hache et se prépare à donner un coup à l'homme.

ACTE 2, 4 h 07
Doggett regarde le dossier de Tipet. Skinner vient frapper à la porte de son domicile. Le directeur-adjoint sait que le sans-abris est mort et il montre une photo de son cadavre. Un homme répondant au signalement de Tipet se serait servi du téléphone plus tôt dans la soirée, mais ce n'est pas une preuve puisque aucune empreinte, aucun cheveux a été trouvé. Doggett n'en revient pas que Skinner pense que le corps de Tibet est dans une autre dimension et que son corps voyage à travers le monde. Doggett ne comprend pas pourquoi Tipet tue s'il veut rejoindre Dieu. Il veut des faits, il répète à Skinner qu'il n'est pas Mulder ou Scully. Skinner lui donne le relevé du téléphone.
11. (412) 555 4344 MK Stone
12. 06:23pm (412) 555 5131 321 Club
13. 07:30pm (412) 555-3272 At the Top
14. 08:43om (421) 555-4367 Ridders
15. 09:23pm (412) 555-5671 Pitts Taxi
16. 10:12pm (202) 555-9212 Andre Bormanis
17. 10:16 pm (412) 555-5671 Tambers


André a été emprisonné en même temps que Tibet et il est un trafiquant de drogue.

Sud-Ouest de Washington, 4 h 54
Doggett et Skinner frappent à la porte d'André. Celui-ci a une cicatrice là où devrait être le 3e oeil. Les agents entrent dans le laboratoire. Skinner lui pose des questions au sujet de Tipet, il doit savoir où il se cache. André prétend qu'il ne fait rien d'illégal. Il avoue qu'il a donné des hallucinogènes à Tipet pour qu'il atteigne un niveau supérieur. Skinner lui pose des questions sur sa cicatrice, André dit que c'est pour sa protection. Il confie que Tipet a un esprit puissant. Doggett prend un comprimé qu'André tient dans ses mains. Il menotte André et l'amène pour l'interroger. L'homme se débat, il a besoin de cette médication. Il est maintenant enfermé en cellule. André clame sa médication. Doggett regarde le prisonnier au travers le grillage.

John marche le long d'un corridor et voit des traces de sang sur le plancher. Celles-ci le mènent à Tipet qui le regarde avec son 3e oeil. Doggett s'aperçoit que c'est lui qui fait les traces. Il regarde de nouveau Tipet. Dans ses mains, il tient la tête de Scully. Il la laisse tomber horrifié.

Il se fait réveiller par Skinner. Scully est au téléphone et veut lui parler. Elle le remercie pour sa discrétion. Elle lui annonce que les amis de Mulder (Les Lones Gunmens) vont l'aider pour l'enquête. Il apprécie. Elle lui conseille de suivre son instinct. Doggett raccroche. Skinner vient donner à Doggett les résultats de l'analyse de la médication à André. Elle contenait de l'amphétamine, personne ne connaît le produit. Doggett réalise que c'est un produit pour éviter de s'endormir. Il veut le rencontrer.

Dans la cellule, Bormanis se réveille. Il voit Tipet l'autre côté des barreaux. Pendant ce temps, Doggett arrive et demande à ce que la grille soit ouverte. À la cellule, plusieurs rats entrent dans la cellule et le dévorent. Doggett et Skinner arrivent à la cellule. Ils entrent et voient André dévorer. Voici la 24e victime.

Acte 3, FBI, 17 h 02
Doggett descend aux affaires non-classées et trouve les Lones Gunmens dans son bureau. Ils sont entrain de fouiller dans les dossiers. Ils ont des diapositives.

Une pyramide avec un oeil dessus
La gravure que Doggett a observée dans la maison
Le tableau qu'on a vu au-dessus de la porte d'entrée
Les Lones Gunmens précise à Doggett que tout ceci présente le 3e oeil. Lorsqu'il est ouvert, on se rapproche de Dieu. Doggett regarde de la dernière diapositive, il comprend que Tipet a ouvert son 3e oeil et la blessure qu'il inflige à ses victimes montrent qu'il veut détruire le leur. Par contre, il ne comprend toujours pas la raison pour laquelle il tue si son objectif est de se rapprocher de Dieu.

Les Lones Gunmens émet leur propre hypothèse paranoïaque : La CIA a donné du LSD a un groupe de personnes et ils ont constaté que les hallucinogènes enchaînent l'esprit. Ils ont créé des assassins psychiques. Tipet en est un. L'assassin oblige sa victime à imaginer qu'elle est tuée par une hache, celle que Doggett a dit qu'elle était exposée au musée. Elle l'imagine et ça se produit. Doggett conclue que Tipet aura encore besoin de drogue pour continuer à tuer. Qui le fournit ? André lui-même.

Sud-Ouest de Washington, 17 h 39
Doggett et Skinner se rendent au laboratoire d'André. Tipet les regarde par la fenêtre. Sur le plancher, Doggett voit des rats se déplacer. Ils entendent une scie démarrer. Ils prennent leurs armes et se dirigent vers le bruit, ils trouvent Anthony Tipet. Ils menacent Tipet, ils veulent qu'il s'éloigne de la scie, mais il dit qu'ils ne comprennent pas. Il n'a pas voulu que tout ceci arrive. Il regarde Doggett et dit qu'il sait ce qui va arriver s'il ne le fait pas. Il se penche la tête et la scie la coupe.

Il est admis à l'hôpital. Doggett doit remplir des papiers pour l'admission. Il vient pour imposer sa signature, mais il voit le nom de Scully. Elle est là parce qu'elle a des douleurs abdominales aiguës. Il se rend à sa chambre, elle dort. Il la regarde pendant quelques minutes.

Ensuite, Doggett entre dans un bureau. Kersh et Skinner l'attendent. Doggett doit expliquer pourquoi Tipet a tenté de se suicider.

Via Negativa, la voie des ténèbres que Tipet a pensé avoir atteinte. La drogue lui permettait d'entrer dans le subconscient de tous ceux qu'il connaissait, sauf que leurs cauchemars deviennent réels. Il a voulu arrêter cela donc, il s'est suicidé.

Kersh les félicite, il attend les rapports. Doggett dit que l'enquête n'est pas finie parce que l'arme du crime n'est pas trouvée et il y a aucune preuve. Kersh répète que s'est terminé parce que Tipet est à l'hôpital dans le coma.

Doggett parle au répondeur de Scully. Il lui annonce que le coupable est coincé, mais il confie ses craintes. Il s'en veut parce qu'il a laissé Tipet mourir. Il réalise qu'il a besoin de dormir un peu. Il se regarde dans le miroir et voit le reflet de Tipet, mais il n'est pas là physiquement. L'agent monte à sa chambre. Tipet est là avec sa hache.

ACTE 4
Doggett se réveille. Il met sa cravate devant le miroir. Il voit qu'il a un 3e oeil. Il est terrifié. Il va au bureau de Skinner, mais d'une démarche très lente. Il observe tout ce qui se trouve autour de lui.

Dans le bureau de Skinner, il demande à son directeur s'il est bien réveillé. Il raconte un rêve qu'il a fait. Il a vu Tipet dans son appartement, il tenait une hache. Il a cru qu'il se levait. Skinner sourit et suggère de le pincer pour le réveiller. Il confie que les défunts croyaient être réveillés, mais maintenant, elles sont décédées. Skinner essaie de le rassurer, mais sans succès. Skinner suggère à Doggett d'aller se reposer.

Dans le couloir, il a encore une démarche très lente. Il prend l'ascenseur pour se rendre au sous-sol. Rendu là, il ne trouve pas le même décor. Le couloir, pour lui, ne semble jamais avoir de fin. Tout d'un coup, il aperçoit Tipet avec son 3e oeil s'approcher de lui. Celui-ci lui révèle que Scully va mourir. Doggett lui confie qu'il n'a pas l'intention de le laisser faire. Le problème, c'est que ce n'est pas Tipet qui va le tuer, mais lui.

Le décor change. C'est maintenant le couloir de l'immeuble à Scully. Doggett entre doucement et se rend à la chambre de sa collègue. Il a les mains tachetées de sang. Il prend la hache et se prépare à tuer Scully qui dort paisiblement, mais il n'est pas capable. Il essaie de nouveau, mais il se fait réveiller par Scully qui est dans sa chambre. Elle a réussi à entrer parce que la porte n'était pas fermée. Il la remercie parce qu'elle vient de lui sauver la vie. Elle ne comprend pas parce qu'elle l'a seulement réveillé. Doggett avoue à Scully que Tipet était dans son cauchemar, elle l'interrompt en disant qu'il est mort. Elle essaie de le rassurer en évoquant que c'est seulement un cauchemar, mais Doggett ne semble pas réconforté.

FIN


Source : X-Files 1013

                                                                             Via Negativa

(A man, mid-thirties, AGENT JAMES LEEDS, is asleep in the driver's seat of a parked
car on a neighborhood street across from a large older house. Another man, AGENT
STEDMAN, taps on the window. AGENT LEEDS wakes with a start, then rolls down
the electric window.)

AGENT STEDMAN: (accusing) Damn, Jim, you fell asleep? We're on a stakeout,
man.

AGENT LEEDS: I guess... I don't know.

AGENT STEDMAN: What happened over there?

AGENT LEEDS: (still waking up) What are you talking about?

AGENT STEDMAN: The house, man. Front door's wide open. How long you been
out?

(AGENT LEEDS has no answer, amazed at his own unprofessional actions.)

AGENT STEDMAN: We'd better check it.

(AGENT LEEDS gets out of the car and together they cross over to the dark house.)

AGENT STEDMAN: The light's out. The door's open. I don't like this.

(They go up the steps to the front door, flashlights in hand.)

AGENT LEEDS: Looks like they all left.

(They look down at the hallway and see what look like bloody footprints leading into the
house.)

AGENT STEDMAN: I'm not so sure.

AGENT LEEDS: This can't be.

(The house number looks like 737? 237? There is a large painted image of a blue eye
over the door. With guns and flashlights, they cautiously enter the house. AGENT
LEEDS enters a large dormitory style room where there are two long rows of twin beds,
perhaps 14 in all. On each, a person is lying dead. A huge vertical bloody gash is in each
of their foreheads. Blood soaks the sheets.)

AGENT LEEDS: Oh, god. Stedman.

(AGENT STEDMAN joins him in the doorway to the room.)

AGENT STEDMAN: They're all dead.

(They hear something in another part of the house. Silently, AGENT STEDMAN
proceeds down the hall while AGENT LEEDS looks further into the room. Alone,
AGENT STEDMAN walks toward the stairs. We see a MAN standing a few feet behind
him, a large decorative axe hanging at his side. AGENT STEDMAN turns quickly to
face him.

CUT TO:

AGENT LEEDS, still in the room with the beds looks up at the sound of two gunshots.
He runs out into the hall and looks down. AGENT STEDMAN lies dead, a large bloody
gash in his forehead. He kneels down to look at his partner, then looks up at the MAN
who is now standing beside him. The MAN has an extra eye in the middle of his
forehead. AGENT LEEDS stares at the MAN in horror as the MAN swings the axe at
AGENT LEEDS' head.)


Opening Credits
Scully rocks.
Doggett is manly.
Mulder is still falling into Scully's eyeball.




FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA
3:26 AM

(Nice little picket fence, two-story bungalow. Lovely place for two FBI agents to finally
settle down and raise a ba … Oh, darn. It's DOGGETT's house. He is asleep in his nice
manly bed. He wakes and answers the ringing phone on the bedside table.)

DOGGETT: (on phone, sleepily) Yeah.

(SCULLY is calling him from a pay phone in a hospital corridor. She speaks quietly.)

SCULLY: (on phone) It's, uh, it's Agent Scully. I'm sorry to wake you.

DOGGETT: (on phone) What's up?

SCULLY: (on phone) I got a call about 20 minutes ago from Assistant Director
Skinner. He has a situation.

DOGGETT: (on phone) What is it?

SCULLY: (on phone) An Agent is dead. Um, Skinner had him surveilling a religious
cult in Pittsburgh. And all the followers are dead, as well.

DOGGETT: (on phone) What happened?

SCULLY: (on phone) He's having difficulty determining that.

(DOGGETT picks up his watch and sighs as he looks at the time.)

DOGGETT: (on phone) I'll pick you up.

SCULLY: (on phone) I'm sorry, Agent Doggett. I can't go.

DOGGETT: (on phone, concerned) Agent Scully?

SCULLY: (on phone) Um, something unexpected has come up.

DOGGETT: (on phone) You all right?

SCULLY: (on phone) Yeah, I'm, I'm fine.

(She doesn't sound fine.)

DOGGETT: (on phone) Will I see you later?

SCULLY: (on phone) Uh, as soon as I can.

(SCULLY hangs up the pay phone. DOGGETT looks at the phone a moment, then hangs
up. In the hospital, a NURSE approaches SCULLY.)

NURSE: Miss Scully? The doctor wants to see you right away.

(SCULLY looks nervous and tired as she follows the NURSE.)




(Later that morning. DOGGETT arrives at the crime scene. A van marked "County of
Allegheny" passes him. He shows his badge through the windshield as he drives up close
to the front door of the house. Photographers from the press are everywhere. He gets out
of the car and is met by SKINNER. SKINNER is wearing latex gloves.)

SKINNER: Where's Agent Scully?

DOGGETT: Running late. What do we have?

SKINNER: One of our men doing routine surveillance on a cult group-- the Ibogan
Temple. We had a tip they were trafficking narcotics. Nobody suspected anything like
this.

(SKINNER leads DOGGETT over to a parked sedan. DOGGETT looks in the opened
door and sees the body of AGENT LEEDS. There is a large bloody gash in his
forehead.)

SKINNER: Agent James Leeds. Six-year veteran of the Bureau, father of two. Patrol
cop found him. Car was locked from the inside.

(DOGGETT sits on the running board and looks closely at the body.)

DOGGETT: Nobody saw or heard anything?

SKINNER: No.

DOGGETT: This couldn't have happened here.

SKINNER: Blood splatter on the seat says it did.

DOGGETT: It's too narrow. There's no room to swing the weapon. Besides, it doesn't
make any sense. The gun's still holstered and the key's in the ignition. Even if he fell
asleep...

(DOGGETT sighs and stands up from the car.)

DOGGETT: This is damn weird.

SKINNER: It gets weirder.

(SKINNER leads him into the house and to the dormitory bedroom. The coroners are in
the process of removing the bodies.)

SKINNER: These people were all killed the same way as our guy. All 20 cult members
dead from a single deep wound to the forehead.

DOGGETT: Is this every member?

SKINNER: Except one. Their leader, Anthony Tipet, is missing.

(In an adjoining room, they look at a desktop shrine. There is a framed photo of the
MAN we saw in the teaser, ANTHONY TIPET. No eye in the middle of his forehead.)

SKINNER: Tipet was a convicted murderer who claimed to have found God. We
didn't think we were dealing with an apocalyptic cult. We've seen this kind of thing
before. Jonestown, Heaven's Gate.

(DOGGETT looks closely at a block of something on the shrine. It is crudely engraved
with the image of an eye.)

DOGGETT: I don't care how devoted they were. These people wouldn't just lie here
and let their leader bash their brains in. I got to figure at least one of them would have
had a problem with that.

SKINNER: It's something I've considered. I'm running tox tests on all the bodies for
drugs.

DOGGETT: Does that include our man in the car?

(SKINNER looks at him. Pause. AGENT GENE CRANE, last seen in 8x01 and 2,
approaches them.)

AGENT CRANE: A.D. Skinner? We're still unable to locate Agent Stedman.

DOGGETT: Angus Stedman?

SKINNER: Leeds' partner, do you know him?

DOGGETT: Where'd you look?

AGENT CRANE: He wasn't checked into the same motel as Leeds. He's not answering
his cell or his pager.

DOGGETT: Did you check his condo?

AGENT CRANE: His condo?

DOGGETT: Yeah, Stedman's from Pittsburgh. He keeps a condo here that belonged to
his folks.

[CarriK: Well, unlike Mulder, Doggett has some buddies around.]




(Later, with SKINNER and a LANDLORD, DOGGETT knocks loudly at a condo door,
#5.)

DOGGETT: Angus Stedman, it's John Doggett.

(There is no answer. The men are concerned. Manly concern, that is. DOGGETT backs
away for the LANDLORD who unlocks the door. The chain keeps the door from
opening more than a few inches. DOGGETT and SKINNER look at each other. They
pull their guns and DOGGETT busts open the door and they enter. Pretty good
teamwork. LANDLORD hangs back in the doorway.)

SKINNER: Doggett.

(They find the body of AGENT STEDMAN lying in his bed, dead. He has, you guessed
it, a large bloody gash in his forehead.)

[CarriK: Moral of the day: Join the X-Files, bad things happen to your friends and loved
ones. Hmmm.]



OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR
2:18 PM

(KERSH's office. Very nice office. Lots of leather, nice wood, and patterned carpet.
Wow. The Deputy Directors have it good. DOGGETT, AGENT CRANE, a SENIOR
AGENT, SKINNER, and KERSH are watching a rough video of ANTHONY TIPET
preaching to a small group of his followers.)

ANTHONY TIPET: (on videotape) The body is but clay... a shell made by God to
hold the twin aspects of the Holy Spirit: Light and dark. If we have the courage to see
into darkness we see into God... free of the clay which confines us.

(SKINNER pauses the video.)

SKINNER: Anthony Tipet served 12 years for the bludgeoning death of his wife. After
his release, he became a minister preaching a hybrid of evangelical and eastern religions.
He claimed a higher plane of being could be reached by the Via Negativa-- the path of
darkness-- the plane closer to God. Once reached, it would let the spirit travel
unhindered. Tipet believed hallucinogens would lead him to this plane-- specifically
compounds of the bark of an African tree... the Iboga.

SENIOR AGENT: You're saying all these people were so stoned on this bark they just
let their leader kill them?

SKINNER: We found no trace of the drug in the blood of any of the victims.

KERSH: I don't understand. How in the hell did Tipet manage to slaughter all these
people?

DOGGETT: Tipet was paranoid but nothing indicates he was ready to take the lives of
his own people or our men.

KERSH: This is our one and only suspect. Are you telling me he didn't do it?

DOGGETT: Whoever did this left not even a trace how: No prints, no forensic
evidence whatsoever. Agent Leeds' sedan, the cult house, Agent Stedman's condo…
were all locked from the inside.

KERSH: That's impossible.

SKINNER: Unless Tipet took the drug and succeeded. Unless his consciousness was
there but his body was somewhere else.

(Pause.)

KERSH: The X-File explanation. I take it this theory comes from Agent Scully?

(His tone of voice when he says the "theory" could also apply to several four-letter words
in the English language.)

DOGGETT: Agent Scully has yet to reach any conclusions, sir.

KERSH: That's the problem. I'm not hearing conclusions from either one of you. If
this man has reached a higher plane then explain to me why 22 people are dead including
two FBI Agents. Now I want to hear what you're going to do about it.

(Meeting is over. SKINNER and DOGGETT leave the office and start walking down the
hall. DOGGETT is not happy.)

DOGGETT: If I'm working this case, I'd appreciate a heads up before you tell the
Deputy Director any more science fiction stories.

SKINNER: Hey, I don't have another explanation.

(DOGGETT pushes the elevator call button.)

DOGGETT: Those guys in there are right. This whole story doesn't make a damn bit of
sense.

SKINNER: I'm supposed to give the guys in there answers, Agent Doggett. You're
supposed to help me do that.

(The elevator arrives and DOGGETT gets on.)

DOGGETT: Tipet's on the run. Find him, and we just might.

(Elevator doors close.)




HILL DISTRICT
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

(ANTHONY TIPET, sans extra eye, walks to a street-side telephone booth. Night. He is
approached by an older HOMELESS MAN.)

HOMELESS MAN: Spare change?

ANTHONY TIPET: I don't have anything. Sorry.

HOMELESS MAN: Now, come on, man. I know you got something 'cause I hear it
jingling in your pocket.

(ANTHONY TIPET grabs the HOMELESS MAN roughly by the coat and holds him
against the booth. He stares deeply into the man's eyes.)

ANTHONY TIPET: You don't want to know me.

(He lets the frightened HOMELESS MAN leave, then drops money into the phone and
dials.

CUT TO:

A dimly lit lab. There are rats in cages and a geeky-looking young man, ANDRE
BORMANIS, at a desk. The phone rings. ANDRE BORMANIS looks at it nervously,
but does not answer it. The answering machine picks up. There is no outgoing message.)

ANTHONY TIPET: (at phone) Pick up the phone, damn you. Pick up the damn
phone! You did this. You ... did this. God help you, Andre. I can't.

(ANTHONY TIPET hangs up. ANDRE BORMANIS puts his face in his hands for a
moment, in despair. He picks up a petrie dish containing several wrapped razor blades.
He takes the paper off of one of them, bends over the table and wincing, begins cutting
his forehead.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: (in pain) Ah!

(From the reflection on the table, we see blood begin to drip from his forehead.)




10:22PM

(FBI Headquarters. DOGGETT is looking through a file. SKINNER enters and hands
him another.)

SKINNER: Agent Doggett. Coroner's report.

DOGGETT: (reading) Victims all killed by a single blow from an axe blade, six to
eight inches long.

SKINNER: These photos of wound patterns don't match up to any known make or
manufacturer.

DOGGETT: This fit the description?

(DOGGETT shows SKINNER a copy of a page from a book. There is a picture of a
large decorative axe like the one we saw used in the teaser.)

DOGGETT: It's a ceremonial axe used over a thousand years ago to cleave the skulls of
unbelievers. This was required reading for Tipet's followers.

SKINNER: Is this our weapon?

DOGGETT: No, sir. It's on permanent display in a Calcutta museum.

SKINNER: Another dead-end.

DOGGETT: Like everything else in this case.

(DOGGETT sighs and rubs his head. He speaks quietly to SKINNER, a note of
frustration in his voice.)

DOGGETT: I'm a good investigator but you know as well as I do I'm not the Agent
that should be investigating this case.

SKINNER: Agent Scully can't be here.

DOGGETT: You spoke to her?

SKINNER: Tonight. She told me to tell you she's fine. She's taking some personal
time.

DOGGETT: I've got 22 people dead, and she's taking personal time?

(Angry, DOGGETT picks up the phone. SKINNER immediately takes it from him.)

SKINNER: You're not listening to what I'm telling you. Do your best without her.

(SKINNER firmly hangs up the phone and walks away.)




(Back on the Pittsburgh street, the HOMELESS MAN is sleeping next to the phone
booth. He wakes up at the sound of footsteps.)

HOMELESS MAN: Spare change? I'll take whatever you got.

(He looks up and sees ANTHONY TIPET. ANTHONY TIPET is pale and has the third
eye in his forehead. The HOMELESS MAN is understandably freaked out. He stumbles
to his feet. The sidewalk below him turns liquid, like quicksand, and he begins sinking
into it. He falls and sinks to his neck. Only his head is exposed. ANTHONY TIPET
raises the axe.)

HOMELESS MAN: Ah, no! No!!

(ANTHONY TIPET swings the axe down at the HOMELESS MAN's head.)

(Commercial 1.)




4:07 AM

(Back at the Doghouse. [CarriK: Sorry, I can't resist.] DOGGETT, at home, is looking
at the police report on ANTHONY TIPET. His mugshot number is CD-8740367. His
eyes are brown, complexion light, height 5'8", no alias, address – Rt. 4 Drew, WY. He
answers a knock at the door. It is SKINNER.)

DOGGETT: Sir?

SKINNER: I think we caught a break. A homeless man was found dead in Pittsburgh
two hours ago. I had them e-mail me some digital photos.

DOGGETT: Any witnesses?

(DOGGETT looks at the images of the dead HOMELESS MAN. There is a gash in the
forehead. He is not buried in concrete.)

SKINNER: A man fitting Tipet's description was ID'd using the pay phone earlier in
the night.

DOGGETT: So we got something?

SKINNER: No. There's no concrete evidence against him. There's no fingerprints, no
hair and fiber.

DOGGETT: You got the guy at the scene.

SKINNER: There's nothing to link him to the murder itself, Agent Doggett.

DOGGETT: Well, I'm supposed to believe this guy doped his way into another plain of
reality? That his spirit is going around killing people?

SKINNER: All right, just suppose... suppose that this drug finally did what Tipet said it
would. That his spirit could be in one place while his body was in another.

DOGGETT: Then tell me why he's doing it. If he's looking for God, why is he killing
people? Just 'cause I'm assigned to the X-Files you want me to think like Scully or
Mulder would. You got the wrong guy. I need facts, not wild ideas.

SKINNER: All right. Then consider this one. I had Pittsburgh P.D. check the log at
that pay phone.

(SKINNER hands him a sheet of paper with phone records on it.
11. 412 555 4344 MK Stone
12. 06:23pm 412 555 5131 321 Club
13. 07:30pm 412 555-3272 At the Top
14. 08:43om 421 555-4367 Ridders
15. 09:23pm 412 555-5671 Pitts Taxi
16. 10:12pm 202 555-9212 Andre Bormanis
17. 10:16 pm 412 555-5671 Tambers)

DOGGETT: 10:12 PM, a call was placed to one Andre Bormanis.

SKINNER: He's a convicted drug dealer that served time with Tipet. That number's a
DC area code.




SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON, DC
4:54 AM

(DOGGETT and SKINNER pull up to a house on a dark and foggy street. They get out
and knock at the door. We see a man's eye looking through the peephole, then
DOGGETT and SKINNER through the peephole.)

DOGGETT: FBI. Open up.

(ANDRE BORMANIS slowly opens the door for them. He has the same look in his eyes
that CarriK would get in college after nine cups of coffee to get through all-night paper
writing marathons. He also has a freshly healed "X" carved into his forehead.)

DOGGETT: Mr. Bormanis? Andre Bormanis?

ANDRE BORMANIS: Doctor Bormanis.

DOGGETT: (showing badge) Agent Doggett. Agent Skinner. Can we have a word
with you?

(They follow him into the lab. ANDRE BORMANIS goes over to where he is working
with some bubbling beakers.)

SKINNER: You always up at this hour Dr. Bormanis?

ANDRE BORMANIS: It's when I dissect my rats. Neighbors can't hear 'em screaming.

(SKINNER and DOGGETT do not find this amusing.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: That's a joke.

(SKINNER and DOGGETT look at each other.)

SKINNER: You spoke to Anthony Tipet earlier this evening.

ANDRE BORMANIS: My machine picked up. I-I-I missed the call.

SKINNER: What did he want?

(No answer.)

SKINNER: We need to find him, Dr. Bormanis. This man may have murdered 23
people.

(DOGGETT, looking around, spins the blade on a table saw. It seems a little out of place
in the lab. ANDRE BORMANIS is nervous.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: Twenty-three? You-you said... twenty-two.

SKINNER: Another man died tonight.

ANDRE BORMANIS: (shaking his head) I'm not doing anything illegal here. I... I
just... I just made him stuff.

(He is putting pills into a petrie dish.)

SKINNER: You mean drugs. You supplied Anthony Tipet with drugs, isn't that right?

ANDRE BORMANIS: Hallucinogens were Tipet's way into the depths of the soul, the
heights of consciousness, planes of being that our feeble brain chemistry cannot begin to
imagine.

(Cool shot of DOGGETT with a backlit, spinning fan behind him. SKINNER looks at
the "X" on ANDRE BORMANIS's forehead.)

SKINNER: Is that why you cut yourself? Or is that the, uh... mark of the initiated?

ANDRE BORMANIS: It's a protection. At least I hope it is. Nobody took the trips but
Tipet. See, only his mind was strong enough.

DOGGETT: You know, I can't tell, doctor, whether you admire Tipet or you're afraid
of him. Those people he killed last night, did they admire him, too?

(No answer. DOGGETT takes a large white pill from ANDRE BORMANIS's hands.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: What are you doing?

DOGGETT: Taking you in for questioning.

ANDRE BORMANIS: On what charges? I just... I just... explained it to you.

(DOGGETT begins handcuffing him. ANDRE BORMANIS struggles, panicking.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: Ah! Don't! Look...

(He picks up and tries to swallow another of the pills, but DOGGETT restrains him.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: I need that!




(Short time later. ANDRE BORMANIS, still struggling, is tossed into a jail cell by an
OFFICER.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: (screaming) No, please! Ugh! Don't-don't leave me! Please!!
Don't leave me!

(The OFFICER leaves, and ANOTHER OFFICER closes and locks the outer gate to the
cells. DOGGETT looks through the gate for a moment, then turns and walks down the
hall. Camera quality is odd, almost slow motion. He turns a corner and starts down
another hall. He looks down and sees bloody shoe prints leading down the hall, and
follows them slowly. He looks up and stares at ANTHONY TIPET hovering about 3 feet
off of the ground in a lotus meditation position. All three of ANTHONY TIPET's eyes
open and he looks directly at DOGGETT. DOGGETT again looks down at the floor. He
lifts his foot and sees that the bloody footprints are his own. Again, he looks at
ANTHONY TIPET, then down at his hands. He is now holding SCULLY's bloody,
severed head, her blue eyes half open and sightless. He drops the head in horror.)

SKINNER: Agent Doggett?

(DOGGETT wakes abruptly, very disturbed by his dream. He is sitting on a bench in the
police station. SKINNER is holding his own cell phone out to him.)

SKINNER: It's Agent Scully.

(DOGGETT takes a moment to catch his breath, then takes the phone.)

DOGGETT: (on phone) Agent Scully.

SCULLY: (on phone) Skinner told me about the case. I know that you covered for
me. You didn't have to do that.

DOGGETT: (on phone) It's all right.

(SCULLY is still in the hospital, and is wearing a hospital gown.)

SCULLY: (on phone) I appreciate your discretion.

DOGGETT: (on phone) Yeah, well, it's easy to be discreet when you don't know
what's going on. Are you okay?

SCULLY: (on phone) I'm fine. Skinner says that you're on the clock on this thing.
You need to get your rest.

DOGGETT: (on phone) Yeah, I just grabbed a few winks.

SCULLY: (on phone) I asked him to contact some friends of Mulder's. I think they'll
be able to help.

DOGGETT: (on phone) I appreciate all the help I can get.

SCULLY: (on phone) Doggett, you're a good agent. Trust your instincts.

(DOGGETT hangs up. SKINNER walks back over to him.)

SKINNER: Lab tests showed that the drug that Bormanis was cooking up was some
kind of a super amphetamine. Legal or not, no one's ever seen it before. Do you think it
was intended for Tipet?

DOGGETT: He wants it for himself. He doesn't want to go to sleep.

SKINNER: Doggett?

DOGGETT: I want to talk to him... now.

(In the jail cell, ANDRE BORMANIS wakes up to the sound of distant rodent sounds.
He looks around nervously. He gets off of the cot and sees ANTHONY TIPET with three
eyes standing just outside the bars of the cell.

CUT TO:

DOGGETT and SKINNER at the outer chain-link gate to the cells.)

DOGGETT: Can we get this gate open? Get it open now!

(An OFFICER begins to open the outer gate.

CUT TO:

Inside the cell, ANDRE BORMANIS back up in fear as dozens of rats begin running
through the bars and into his cell.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: Ugh!

(Lots and lots of rats.)

ANDRE BORMANIS: Ugh!

(For reasons unknown to CarriK, he falls to the floor and the rats cover him, biting and
swarming. A couple of them start chewing on his neck. He screams in agony.

CUT TO:

DOGGETT and SKINNER arrive at the cell. No rats. Just ANDRE BORMANIS lying
on his cot, apparently asleep.)

SKINNER: Agent Doggett, what is it?

DOGGETT: Open it up.

(The OFFICER opens the cell and DOGGETT and SKINNER enter. ANDRE
BORMANIS is dead, his face and neck bloody, eyes open and staring. Creepy music
with whispering voiceover sounds.)

(Commercial 2.)





FBI HEADQUARTERS
5:02 PM

(Basement. As DOGGETT comes down the stairs, he hears voices coming from inside
MULDER's office.)

BYERS: ...stories that belong to Mulder and Scully, not us.

LANGLY: Come on, Byers. We have a right to information.

BYERS: It's not our information.

FROHIKE: How many times have we saved Mulder's butt?

LANGLY: How many times have we saved Scully's?

BYERS: I'm telling you, these files are theirs. They're private.

(DOGGETT opens the still nameplateless door and sees FROHIKE looking through the
file cabinet. LANGLY is spinning around in MULDER's chair playing with something
he has suspended over his head, and BYERS is standing nearby. They do not notice
DOGGETT.)

FROHIKE: And I'm telling you Mulder wouldn't mind. We practically solved half
these cases for him.

LANGLY: Yeah, Byers, quit your whining-- nobody likes a crybaby.

BYERS: Agent Scully asked us to give our assistance not to go through her f-files.

(BYERS notices DOGGETT in the doorway.)

FROHIKE: Like she's going to care.

LANGLY: Yeah, right.

DOGGETT: Can I help you gentlemen?

(They all notice him now.)

BYERS: You must be Agent Doggett. I'm ... John Byers. (they shake) Uh, these are
my associates Melvin Frohike and Richard Langly.

DOGGETT: You're the guys Scully told me about. Mulder's friends?

BYERS: (smiling proudly) Yes, that's us.

DOGGETT: You publish the "Lone Gunman" newspaper?

FROHIKE: (pleased and proud) Our reputation precedes us.

DOGGETT: Yeah. Read Mulder's files.

FROHIKE: Then you know how badly you'll need our help.

BYERS: We've reviewed your case as Agent Scully asked.

LANGLY: Mondo bizarro. No offense, man but you're in way over your head.

DOGGETT: What help can you give me?

FROHIKE: Hit the lights.

(The lights are turned off and the slide projector is turned on. An image of a pyramid
with an eye is displayed on the screen.)

FROHIKE: Are you familiar with this image?

BYERS: In the renaissance it represented an all-seeing god.

LANGLY: That's why our Founding Fathers put it on the dollar bill.

(Next image is the same that DOGGETT saw engraved in the cult house.)

BYERS: We believe its meaning here relates to eastern religion, uh, belief in the third
eye or what the Hindus call the Sahasrara.

DOGGETT: A third eye?

FROHIKE: We all have a third eye. If we could open it, we'd see a new reality, one
closer to God. At least that's what Kesey told me on the bus back in '64.

LANGLY: You were not on the bus with Kesey in '64.

FROHIKE: Hey, I got the pictures to prove it, my longhaired friend.

LANGLY: Before or after you partied with the Stones at Altamont?

FROHIKE: Don't be a boob, Altamont was in '70s.

LANGLY: Whatever.

(The next image is of a large blue eye, the same as above the door of the cult house.
DOGGETT looks at it closely, ignoring their bantering.)

DOGGETT: I see where you guys are going with this. Tipet believes he opened his
third eye.

BYERS: Yes, exactly.

DOGGETT: But the placement of the wounds on his victims could suggest he's trying
to destroy theirs.

BYERS: Yeah. That could be.

DOGGETT: But if he's moved closer to God, why kill him? And how?

FROHIKE: We don't know why. But we might tell you how.

(They turn the lights back on.)

FROHIKE: You've heard of MK Ultra?

BYERS: The CIA mind control project started in the '50s.

LANGLY: They gave LSD to a bunch of people to see what would happen. Didn't
bother telling them first.

FROHIKE: They understood the power of hallucinogens to harness the mind.

DOGGETT: Tipet was the one on hallucinogens, not his victims.

BYERS: The CIA invested millions trying to create psychic assassins, failing where
Tipet has evidently succeeded.

FROHIKE: Reaching a drug-induced higher consciousness using his mind as a weapon
against his victims.

LANGLY: The assassin makes his victims think they're being hit by an axe.

BYERS: Or any number of nightmares.

FROHIKE: They believe it... it happens.

DOGGETT: What if Tipet could invade his victims'... consciousness in their sleep? I
mean, that's why you'd be afraid to fall asleep, right? If you thought your nightmares
might come true?

(The GUNMEN stare at DOGGETT, then glance at each other.)

BYERS: You believe that?

DOGGETT: No... but if Tipet does... he'll need more drugs... to keep killing.

(DOGGETT puts on his suit coat and leaves the room, closing the door behind him.)

FROHIKE: That's not bad for a beginner.




SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON, DC
5:39 pm

(DOGGETT pulls a Bureau sedan up in front of ANDRE BORMANIS's building. From
inside, ANTHONY TIPET watches covertly as DOGGETT and SKINNER get out of the
car. DOGGETT and SKINNER enter and look around the lab. Rats, now out of their
cages, run past DOGGETT's feet.)

SKINNER: Doggett, someone's been here.

(They both draw their guns at the sound of mechanical whirring. They see ANTHONY
TIPET, only two eyes at the moment. He is leaning over the now rapidly spinning table
saw we saw DOGGETT notice earlier.)

DOGGETT: Anthony Tipet. Anthony Tipet! Step away from the saw.

ANTHONY TIPET: You don't understand.

SKINNER: Just step away from the saw.

ANTHONY TIPET: I didn't want this to happen... but I can't stop it.

(ANTHONY TIPET looks meaningfully at DOGGETT.)

ANTHONY TIPET: He understands. He saw what can happen-- what will happen...
unless I stop it.

(Indecisive, DOGGETT lowers his gun. Suddenly, ANTHONY TIPET slams his
forehead down on the saw and screams in agony. DOGGETT's face is spattered with
blood as he and SKINNER leap forward to pull ANTHONY TIPET away from the saw.)




WASHINGTON NATIONAL HOSPITAL
6:07 PM

(ANTHONY TIPET is unconscious on a gurney being wheeled through the hospital
emergency ward. A bloody compress is held on his forehead.)

ER DOCTOR: I want a stat trauma panel with full tox, EKG, and metabolic profile.
Keep that compress on his head.

(A NURSE approaches DOGGETT with a clipboard. She is the same NURSE who
spoke to SCULLY earlier in the episode.)

NURSE: Agent... this man needs to be admitted. You need to sign him in.

(The desk phone rings. She answers it.)

NURSE: This is Nurse McCaslin. Yes, Dr. Johnson's on the third floor. All right.

(Under her conversation, DOGGETT glances through the names on the clipboard. He
takes out his pen and is about to fill in ANTHONY TIPET's information. He pauses and
looks back at an earlier page on the clipboard. Third down on the list is the entry, "Dana
Scully, time admitted - 4:10 AM for Acute Abdominal Pain." She is in room 1102.
DOGGETT goes up to another ward and to room 1102 and slowly opens the door.
SCULLY is asleep. She is hooked up to a few monitors, but doesn't look too bad. He
looks at her silently for a moment.)




(KERSH's office. DOGGETT enters. KERSH and SKINNER are already there.)

KERSH: Come in, Agent Doggett. A.D. Skinner was telling me you could shed light
on the reason for Tipet's suicide attempt.

(DOGGETT enters and speaks cautiously.)

DOGGETT: Yes, sir, um... "Via Negativa"-- the path of darkness. Tipet believed he
reached it. Uh, he believed that the drugs took him inside the subconscious minds of
anyone he knew... (sighs) ... making the most horrific, irrational dream imagery of their
nightmares come true. That's why he tried to kill himself to make it stop.

(KERSH stands up from the table, claps DOGGETT on the shoulder in a friendly
manner, then sits at his desk. The meeting is over.)

KERSH: Excellent job, gentlemen. Have your reports on my desk 0900.

DOGGETT: Case isn't over yet, sir.

(He looks at SKINNER for confirmation. SKINNER looks away.)

KERSH: A.D. Skinner tells me our suspect's lying hospitalized in a coma. Now, you're
saying it's not over?

DOGGETT: We have no murder weapon... no forensic evidence. Unless we accept
Tipet's own beliefs which you yourself characterize as preposterous...

KERSH: It's over, Agent Doggett.

DOGGETT: We have no way of explaining how he killed any of these people.

KERSH: (firmly) I said it's over, Agent Doggett. I don't need every "I" dotted or
every "T" crossed to know that we've got our man.




(Night. SCULLY's answering machine in her apartment.)

SCULLY'S ANSWERING MACHINE: This is Dana Scully. Please leave a message.
(beep)

(DOGGETT is at home.)

DOGGETT: (on phone) Agent Scully, I think we caught the guy who did it. But it... it
still it... it just doesn't add up. (sigh) It's the damnedest thing I ever saw. I know that this
sounds strange, but there's a, there's a... part of me says what if... what if this guy was
right? What if I shouldn't have let him die? I'm not making a whole lot of sense. Maybe
I just need some sleep. If you get this message... and feel up to it... you give me a call.

(He hangs up. In the wall mirror he sees his own reflection and that of ANTHONY
TIPET, three eyes, standing behind him. He turns, and no one is there. He turns off the
light and walks up the stairs. Standing near the foot of the stairs, we see a man holding
the axe.)

(Commercial 3.)




(DOGGETT slowly wakes up in his bed. Early dawn light is on his face. Slightly weird
music and camera motion again. As he looks in the mirror to put on his tie, he is startled
to see an extra eye in the middle of his forehead. It blinks with his other two eyes. A
moment later, the extra eye is gone. He stares at himself again for a moment, very
disturbed.)

(Later, that morning, he enters SKINNER's ASSISTANT's office. Hi Arlene! [CarriK:
Skinner's Assistant is played by Gillian Anderson's photo double, Arlene Pileggi. She is
also Mitch Pileggi's wife.] She looks up as he moves toward her.)

DOGGETT: Is the Assistant Director in?

(Just then, SKINNER and AGENT CRANE come out of SKINNER's office.)

SKINNER: That'll be great. Thanks.

AGENT CRANE: John. Excellent work out there, John. Just excellent.

(AGENT CRANE clasps DOGGETT on the shoulder and leaves.)

SKINNER: Agent Doggett.

(SKINNER looks at DOGGETT who has a confused expression. He leads him into the
inner office. DOGGETT stares at SKINNER, then looks away. SKINNER closes the
door.)

SKINNER: Is something wrong?

(DOGGETT is breathing heavily, looks back at SKINNER, moisture forming in his eyes.
Not good on the Manly Man Meter. Long pause.)

DOGGETT: I'm not sure... I'm awake.

SKINNER: (rationally) You think this is a dream? I mean, you standing here talking
to me? All those people out there?

DOGGETT: Last night I dreamt Tipet was inside my house holding an axe. I thought I
woke up this morning. I thought I was awake, but-but then...

SKINNER: Uh... What do you want me to do, pinch you? You're already awake.

DOGGETT: Stedman and Leeds must have experienced the same thing... all Tipet's
victims. Everything seemed real but it was a dream... a dream that ended in their deaths.

SKINNER: Anthony Tipet is in a coma, never to regain consciousness.

DOGGETT: (afraid) He knows me now. He can enter in my dreams.

SKINNER: Listen to me. You've had a tough couple days. You're tired. Go home, get
some rest.

(DOGGETT leaves the office and walks down the hall. He bumps into someone's elbow
and keeps walking. He gets on the elevator and goes from the 4th floor to the 2nd. No one
else is in this hallway, otherwise it is identical. He walks partway down the hall, then
turns and looks back to see the elevator disappear into darkness giving the illusion of
infinity. When he turns to look back down the hall, the other end of the hall disappears
into darkness also. Out of the darkness, he sees ANTHONY TIPET slowly walk toward
him. ANTHONY TIPET has three eyes, but he is keeping all of them closed. As the two
men speak, their voices are distorted, as if played in reverse, then reversed again.)

ANTHONY TIPET: She's going to die.

DOGGETT: I'm not going to let you do that.

ANTHONY TIPET: I'm sorry. I'm not going to kill her.

(All three of his eyes open.)

ANTHONY TIPET: You are.

(DOGGETT covers his face with his hands. When he lowers them, we see that he is in
SCULLY's apartment building hallway. He walks to her door and it opens itself. Inside,
a slow blue light fades in and out at the rate of about once every three seconds. He looks
down at his hands which are covered in blood. The following scenes are what we see as
the light fades in and out. Really spooky.

DOGGETT enters the apartment and walks through SCULLY's living room. The front
door closes itself behind him.

He looks at his bloody hands again.

He is now holding the axe.

He looks at her bedroom door.

He enters her bedroom

He sees her asleep in her bed.

He raises the axe over her.

We see the shadow of the axe on her face.

He struggles with himself.

He swings the axe back down to his side.

He turns the blade of the axe toward himself.

He winces and swings the blade up.)

SCULLY's VOICE: Agent Doggett?

(DOGGETT wakes abruptly. He is in his bed. SCULLY is standing next to him. It
looks like dawn.)

SCULLY: Agent Doggett. Hi.

DOGGETT: How'd you get here?

SCULLY: Your door was unlocked.

DOGGETT: You just saved my life, Agent Scully.

SCULLY: I just woke you up, Agent Doggett.

DOGGETT: Tipet's in my dreams. If you hadn't woken me up just now...

SCULLY: Anthony Tipet is dead. I got the call from Skinner on my way over here.
He never regained consciousness.

(Pause.)

DOGGETT: Are you okay?

SCULLY: I seem to be, yes.

DOGGETT: Well, if you need some more time off...

SCULLY: No. I'm, um... I'm back at work now. That must have been some nightmare
you just had.

DOGGETT: Tipet thought he'd find God by looking in the darkness inside himself.

SCULLY: You don't think he succeeded?

DOGGETT: In my dreams, I see... I saw terrible... violent images that... scared the
living daylights out of me. These things are a part of me. I can't deny that, but...
maybe... maybe they didn't come from me.

SCULLY: Then where'd they come from?

(DOGGETT has no answer.)

SCULLY: It was a bad dream, Agent Doggett, but that's all it was.

(DOGGETT does not seem comforted.)


The End

Kikavu ?

Au total, 45 membres ont visionné cet épisode ! Ci-dessous les derniers à l'avoir vu...

Profilage 
26.11.2023 vers 13h

yoshi91 
24.12.2021 vers 11h

Kar026 
30.08.2021 vers 21h

nate6691 
12.05.2021 vers 10h

Nia110617 
07.04.2021 vers 12h

sanct08 
18.08.2020 vers 09h

Derniers commentaires

Avant de poster un commentaire, clique ici pour t'identifier.

Sois le premier à poster un commentaire sur cet épisode !

Contributeurs

Merci aux 3 rédacteurs qui ont contribué à la rédaction de cette fiche épisode

Laura22 
poupette67 
sanct08 
Activité récente
Actualités
Un nouveau quizz arrive sur le quartier !

Un nouveau quizz arrive sur le quartier !
Les festivités liées aux 30 ans de la série et aux 20 ans du quartier continuent ! Je vous invite à...

Anniversaire - Annabeth Gish

Anniversaire - Annabeth Gish
En ce mercredi 13 mars 2024, le quartier souhaite un très bon anniversaire à Annabeth Gish !...

Mars 2024 sur le quartier

Mars 2024 sur le quartier
Nous sommes le 29 février et, avec un toute petite journée d'avance, je vous propose de dresser le...

Annabeth Gish dans la seconde saison de Pretty Little Liars : Original Sin

Annabeth Gish dans la seconde saison de Pretty Little Liars : Original Sin
Le Dr Anne Sullivan, incarnée par Annabeth Gish pendant 3 saisons dans la série-mère, fait son come...

David Duchovny dans la nouvelle série d'Amazon

David Duchovny dans la nouvelle série d'Amazon
David Duchovny vient d'être engagé pour jouer dans la future série de Prime Video intitulée...

Newsletter

Les nouveautés des séries et de notre site une fois par mois dans ta boîte mail ?

Inscris-toi maintenant

Sondage
HypnoRooms

langedu74, 12.03.2024 à 21:00

Un nouveau film est à deviner dans notre jeu Ciné-Emojis du quartier HypnoClap !

mamynicky, 13.03.2024 à 10:37

Bonjour les loulous ! Les Bridgerton s'offrent un nouveau design grâce à Spyfafa. Aux couleurs de la saison 3 et du printemps.

sanct08, 14.03.2024 à 11:53

Holà ! Les sondages de Star Trek - Le Caméléon et The X-Files vous attendent ! :=) Pas besoin de connaître les séries

mnoandco, 15.03.2024 à 19:50

Thèmes en vote côté "Préférences". Merci pour vos

lolhawaii, 16.03.2024 à 21:34

Nouveau design pour le quartier 9-1-1 / Lone Star !! On attend avec Prof' vos avis dans les commentaires sous la news du quartier

Viens chatter !