Episode Summary
Home for the holidays, Scully is haunted by dreams which hint at a strange connection to a murdered woman's daughter.
Part one of two
Episode Details
- Writers: Vince Gilligan and John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
- Director: Peter Markle
- Original Broadcast: AU: 18.03.1998 US: 07.12.1997
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- First Dark Suited Man Eric Breker
- Young Melissa Scully Rebecca Codling
- Susan Chambliss Patricia Dahlquist
- Young William Scully Jr Ryan DeBoer
- Emily Christine Sim Lauren Diewold
- Marshall Sim Rob Freeman
- Margaret Scully Sheila Larken
- Melissa Scully Melinda McGraw
- Pathologist Walter Marsh
- Second Dark Suited Man Stephen Mendel
- Dr Calderon Gerard Plunkett
- Detective John Kresge John Pyper-Ferguson
- Young Dana Scully Joey Shea
- William Scully Jr Pat Skipper
- Tara Scully Karri Turner
Quotes
Scully: [to Tara Scully] You're huge!
Bill Scully Jr: Well let's get you two settled. Sorry about the digs, Mom. I know you hoped like hell you'd never have to spend another night in Base housing.
Margaret Scully: Are you kidding. This is wonderful.
Scully: It's the exact same layout as our old house.
Bill Scully Jr: That's the Navy for you.
[Scully answers her brother's phone]
Scully: Scully residence.
Unknown Caller: Dana.
Scully: Yes. I'm sorry. Who is this?
Unknown Caller: Dana. She needs your help. She needs you, Dana. Go to her.
Scully: Who... who is this?
[Scully enters the crime scene at the Sim residence and Detective Kresge ushers her out]
Detective Kresge: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who are you?
Scully: Scully. FBI. [flashing badge] Can you tell me what's going on here?
Detective Kresge: Well, no offence Scully FBI, what's it to you?
Scully: I received a phone call... from this address. It was a woman's voice. She said that somebody here needed help.
Detective Kresge: When was this?
Scully: About 20 minutes ago.
Detective Kresge: I've been here 30 minutes. I guarantee you no one's called out, to you or anyone else. The phone's off the hook.
Scully: Please can you tell me what happened here?
[Detective Kresge takes Scully through to the bathroom]
Detective Kresge: This is Mrs Roberta Sim. Age 40. Suicide. She's been dead at least three hours. You got a call from her, she must've dialled 1-800-THE-GREAT-BEYOND.
Bill Scully Jr: What's going on? They're... they're joking about you getting a call from a dead woman.
Scully: I thought it was a dead woman, just not the one in there.
Bill Scully Jr: What are you talking about?
Scully: I know it's not possible, Bill. But it sounded just like her.
Bill Scully Jr: Who?
Scully: Our sister. Melissa.
Tara Scully: Oh! Oh, that was a good one!
Bill Scully Jr: What? Is he kicking?
Tara Scully: Oh, he's kicking! He's kick-boxing! Well you had boys and girls, so which one kicked more?
Margaret Scully: Oh I had some pretty tough little girls.
Scully: [answering mobile phone] Scully.
Unknown Caller: She needs your help.
Scully: Who is this? Why are you doing this?
Unknown Caller: Go to her.
Detective Kresge: Scully FBI. What can I do for you at this ungodly hour?
Scully: I'd like to see everything you have on the Roberta Sim case.
Detective Kresge: The Roberta Sim case?
[Scully nods] There is no Roberta Sim case, it's a simple suicide. We sort of went through this before, you and I, didn't we?
Scully: Whatever you wish to call it, I'd appreciate seeing everything that you have. In the spirit of the season?
Scully: Says here that your precinct visited the Sim's before, two weeks ago. A domestic disturbance.
Detective Kresge: We sent a unit cause the neighbours were complaining. They were screaming at each other. Wasn't a happy household. Happy people don't kill themselves.
Bill Scully Jr: Is this where you stayed the night?
[Asleep at her computer]
Scully: Yeah... Some of it.
[Scully walks into Detective Kresge's office to order an autopsy on Roberta Sim]
Detective Kresge: Agent Scully. It's been — what? — four hours. I was getting worried.
Margaret Scully: Dana! Are you all right? It's 2 o'clock in the morning. Where have you been all day? We were expecting you for lunch.
Scully: Mom. Sit down. The woman who committed suicide has an adopted daughter, a three year old named Emily. I got a sample of Emily's blood and I had the lab run a test on her DNA. It's called a PCR test. This is Emily's, [slides Emily's PCR results across] this is Melissa's, [slides Melissa's PCR results across] which we ran during her murder investigation. They match.
Margaret Scully: What does it mean they match?
Scully: It means... that this little girl Emily... is Melissa's daughter.
[Flashback]
[A young Dana and Melissa Scully rush down to the Christmas tree before anyone else is up and inspect the presents]
Scully: This has got to be it! It's got to be
Hotel California
!
Bill Scully Jr: You really think Melissa had a baby?
Scully: Yes. I do.
Bill Scully Jr: She called you from beyond the grave to tell you that? Sounds like something that partner of yours would say.
[Flashback]
Melissa Scully: So, you worried about Quantico or... who gets the most presents this year?
[Flashback]
Melissa Scully: There is no right or wrong. Life is just a path. You follow your heart and it'll take you where you're supposed to go.
Scully: God, you sound like a greeting card.
[Scully has fallen asleep on the couch]
Tara Scully: Hey! Good morning. Hey, sleepyhead! Merry Christmas!
Bill Scully Jr: Did Santa come?
Tara Scully: Santa's still here.
Bill Scully Jr: She always had to be the first up on Christmas. Couldn't wait to open those presents.
Margaret Scully: What is it?
Scully: It's the DNA test on Emily Sim's blood.
Bill Scully Jr: What does it say?
Scully: It says definitively that Melissa is not Emily's mother. But that they found striking genetic similarities between Emily and Melissa. So many that they... ran a test against another sample that they already had.
Margaret Scully: What sample?
Bill Scully Jr: What are you trying to say?
Scully: According to this... I am Emily's mother.