Episode Summary
Mulder and Scully's latest case begins with the rape and battery of a nurse in a Massachusetts convalescent home. What makes it an X-File is her claim that her attacker was invisible. But upon their arrival, they discover that the unrest is not limited only to the live-in residents.
Episode Details
- Writer: Paul Brown
- Director: Stephen Surjik
- Original Broadcast: AU: 10.05.1995 US: 16.12.1994
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Dorothy Frances Bay
- Stan Phillips Eric Christmas
- Jerry Tiernan Jon Cuthbert
- Hal Arden David Fresco
- Upshaw Paul Jarrett
- Mrs Dawson Sheila Moore
- Leo Kroytzer Ernie Prentice
- Michelle Charters Teryl Rothery
- Gung Bittouen Sab Shimono
- Laura Kelly Tasha Simms
- Dr John Grago Jerry Wasserman
Quotes
Jerry Tiernan: Hey, guess who died this afternoon? Mrs Richardson.
Upshaw: Face plant right in a bowl of pudding.
Nurse Charters: I don't suppose either one of you bothered to change her room?
Jerry Tiernan: Oh no, no. We left that for you.
Hal Arden: Gung said we could watch the rest of the fight.
Nurse Charters: Yeah, well do I look like Gung to you?
Hal Arden: No, you got a better figure.
[Gropes nurse]
Nurse Charters: You want to keep that hand, Hal, you'd better let go.
Hal Arden: How about a little sponge bath?
Nurse Charters: How about I take care of these wandering hands of yours.
[Struggles to place Hal's hands in the bed restraints] Come here.
Hal Arden: You like strapping me down, don't you?
Nurse Charters: Oh yeah, I really get off on it.
Scully: Good morning.
Mulder: Whatever tape you found in that VCR isn't mine.
Scully: Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours.
Mulder: Well, this definitely isn't mine.
[Looking at screen]
Nurse Charters: Look, when you bathe somebody every day for five years, you get to know more about them than you really need to.
Hal Arden: You got to be kidding me. What do I think of her claims? I should be in the Guinness record book. I'm 74 years old. I've got plumbing older than this building.
[Hal shows Mulder and Scully his plumbing] And it doesn't work much better either.
Mulder: Thank you for sharing.
Hal Arden: [to Mulder] Oh, I didn't mean to step on your toes there.
[After propositioning Scully]
Hal Arden: I thought Nurse what's-her-name said she was rogered by a ghost. I may have one foot in the grave, but I certainly can't fly down hallways... spreading amore.
Mulder: Apparently not.
Hal Arden: If that's what it's like... if that's what it's like in heaven, lord take me now!
Scully: What do you think, Mulder?
Mulder: About the guy's plumbing?
Scully: What if there's a connection?
Mulder: Between the rape case and the Alzheimers? You mean when they're not drawing childlike pictures, they're brutal sex offenders?
Mulder: So you think that Michelle Charters was raped by a 74 year old schizophrenic.
Scully: It's possible.
Mulder: An invisible 74 year old schizophrenic...
Scully: Well, maybe it's not the medication, maybe it's the place itself.
Mulder: Are you saying that the building's haunted? Because, if you are, I think you've been working with me too long, Scully.
Jerry Tiernan: [to Stan Phillips] What are you? Track star all of a sudden?
Dr Grago: Just what do you expect to find?
[From the post-mortem results]
Mulder: I'm not sure exactly.
Scully: Mulder, mushrooms aren't medication. They taste good on hamburgers, but they don't raise the dead.
Mulder: Shamans have been using them for centuries to gain entrance to the spirit world.
Scully: I think you've been reading too much Carlos Castanedo.