Episode Summary
Mulder and Scully track a series of murders that lead to a home for the mentally ill and a clue that makes no sense: each victim had a purported warning from the dead.
Episode Details
- Writer: John Shiban
- Director: James Charleston
- Original Broadcast: AU: 09.07.1997 US: 04.05.1997
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Fifth Day Room Patient Kate Braidwood
- Angelo Pintero Alex Bruhanski
- Nurse Innes Nancy Fish
- Attorney Lorena Gale
- Detective Hudak Daniel Kamin
- Chuck Forsch Sydney Lassick
- Sergeant Conneff Gerry Nairn
- Harold Spuller Steven M Porter
- Martin Alpert Michael Puttonen
- Uniformed Officer Ken Tremblett
- Second Day Room Patient Carolyn Tweedle
- Karen Kosseff Christine Willes
Quotes
Angelo Pintero: Look, I'm not making this up.
Mulder: No one is suggesting that you are, Mr Pintero.
Angelo Pintero: I saw the look on her face.
Mulder: Can I ask you a favour? Can I get a soda, a cola, something like that?
Angelo Pintero: Sure. Yeah.
[Angelo Pintero leaves to get Mulder's drink]
Mulder: What is that look Scully?
Scully: I would have thought that after four years you'd know exactly what that look was.
Mulder: What? You don't believe in ghosts?
[Scully tells Karen Kosseff about her cancer]
Karen Kosseff: You've kept working?
Scully: Yes. Its been important to me.
Karen Kosseff: Why?
Scully: Why... Agent Mulder has been concerned. He's been supportive through this time.
Karen Kosseff: Do you feel that you owe it to him to continue working?
Scully: No. I guess I never realised how much I rely on him before this. His passion. He's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.
Karen Kosseff: What happened last night Dana?
Scully: I saw something. I don't know what to trust. If I saw it because of the stress, because the image had been suggested to me or if it was a suggestion of my own fears.
Karen Kosseff: Your fear of failing him?
Scully: Maybe.
Karen Kosseff: What did you see?
Scully: I saw a woman who had recently been murdered, but I saw her. It appeared as if she was trying to tell me something.
Karen Kosseff: Do you know what?
Scully: No.
Karen Kosseff: Are you sure?
[Scully shakes her head]
[Mulder tells Scully of his theory that only the dying can see the spirits of the dead]
Mulder: What is a death omen if not a vision of our own mortality? And who among us would most likely be able to see the dead?
Scully: I saw something Mulder.
Mulder: What?
Scully: The fourth victim. I saw her in the bathroom before you came to tell me.
Mulder: Why didn't you tell me?
Scully: Because I didn't want to believe it. Because I don't want to believe it.
Mulder: Is that why you came down here? To prove that it wasn't true?
Scully: No. I came down here because you asked me to.
Mulder: Why can't you be honest with me?
Scully: What do you want me to say? That you're right? That I believe it even if I don't? I mean is that what you want?
Mulder: Is that what you think I want to hear?
Scully: No.
Mulder: You can believe what you want to believe, Scully, but you can't hide the truth from me. Because, if you do, then you're working against me... and yourself. I know what you're afraid of... I'm afraid of the same thing.