"[ Woman ] hello?" "Merry Christmas." "Hello." "Hi!" "Oh, my god!" "Look at you!" "Can you believe this?" "How am I gonna put my arms around you?" "It's not gonna be long now." "You're huge." "I know." "Hi." "Hi." "Welcome." "Welcome." "Hi, sweetie." "Let's get you two settled." "Sorry about the digs, mom." "I know you hoped you'd never spend another night in base housing." "Are you kidding?" "This is wonderful." "It's the exact same layout as our old house." "That's the navy for you." "Bill tells me, mom, that you're staying in your old room..." "And the nursery is going to be in Dana and Melissa's room." "That's right." "I got it. [ Bill ] thanks, Tara." "Mom..." "You okay?" "Oh, yeah." "Just thinking about your dad..." "And Melissa and how much I miss them." "[ Phone rings ]" "Bill?" "[ Ringing continues ]" "Scully residence." "[ Woman ] Dana?" "Yes." "Who is this?" "Dana, she needs your help." "She needs you, Dana." "Go to her." "Who is this?" "[ Line disconnects ]" "[ Man ] F.B.I., san Diego." "This is special agent Dana Scully." "My badge number is 2-3-1-7-6-1-6." "Can you transfer me to your sound agent, please?" "I'd like to trace the last number that was dialed into this phone." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Who are you?" "Scully, F.B.I. Could you tell me what's going on here?" "Well, no offense, Scully, F.B.I. What's it to you?" "I received a phone call from this address." "It was a woman's voice." "She said that somebody needed help." "When was this?" "About 20 minutes ago." "I've been here 30 minutes." "I guarantee no one's called you or anyone else." "The phone's off the hook." "Please, can you tell me what happened here?" "This is Mrs. Roberta Sim, age 40." "Suicide." "She's been dead at least three hours." "You got a call from her?" "She must have dialed 1-800-The great beyond." "[ Chattering ]" "Dana, what's going on?" "They're joking about you getting a call from a dead woman." "I thought it was a dead woman, just not the one in there." "What are you talking about?" "I know it's not possible, but it sounded just like her." "Who?" "Our sister." "Melissa." "I don't know what to tell you." "Pac bell does confirm there was an incoming call..." "From this address to your brother's house." "But from this end, they show no outgoing call." "Plus, they confirm the phone here has been off the hook for the last three hours." "What was their explanation?" "Records mix-Up, software collisions." "It's just some kind of mistake." "Anyway, I gotta wrap things up, talk to the husband." "Listen, weird phone calls aside, this is looking pretty straightforward." "A lot of people check themselves out around Christmastime." "[ Chattering ]" "Excuse me." "[ Picks up receiver, dialing phone ]" "[ Line ringing ]" "[ Phone ringing ]" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "[ Hangs up receiver ]" " Excuse me." " Everything okay?" "Yeah." "Oh!" "Oh, that was a good one." "Is he kicking?" "Yeah, he was kicking." "He's kickboxing." "You had boys and girls, so which one kicked more?" "Oh, I had some pretty tough little girls." "I can't believe I'm about to say this..." "As big and fat as I am right now, but I can't wait to have more." "This is our baby, our son." "It kind of gives everything new meaning." "I can't help but think that life before now was somehow..." "less," "Just a prelude." "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "Mom, I've very happy for bill and Tara." "You don't seem to be." "Mom" "Several months ago," "I learned that, as a result of my abduction," "Of what they did to me," "That I cannot conceive a child." "I'm so sorry." "It's okay." "I just never realized how much I wanted it until I couldn't have it." "Dana, where is it?" "Where is that rabbit?" "I'm not telling!" "I'm gonna find that rabbit and cook it!" "I'm gonna turn it into stew!" "No, you're not!" "Rabbit stew, here I go!" "You're not gonna find him!" "Bill!" "[ Phone ringing ]" "[ Ringing continues ]" "Scully. [ Woman ] she needs your help." "Who is this?" "Why are you doing this?" "Go to her." "[ Line disconnects ]" "[ Doorbell rings ]" "Mr. Sim, my name is Dana Scully." "I'm very sorry for your loss, and I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour." "What do you want?" "I received a phone call less than an hour ago." "I was addressed by name, and told that I needed to help someone, a woman." "I traced the call, and it came from your house." "I have no earthly idea what you're talking about." "This is the second time today this has happened." "I'd like to get to the bottom of it." "You were here earlier." "Yes, the detective told me... yes." "Something about a screw up with the phones." "I'm in a meeting." "No one's called you from here," "Not earlier today, and certainly not tonight." "You can't imagine how bad a day this has been for my daughter and myself." "I understand" " If you understand, then you'll stop coming around," "Upsetting me with this... nonsense." "Please." "Scully, F.B.I. What can I do for you at this ungodly hour?" "I'd like to see everything you have on the Roberta Sim case." "The Roberta Sim case?" "There is no Roberta Sim case." "It's a simple suicide." "We went through this before, you and I, didn't we?" "Whatever you wish to call it, I'd appreciate seeing everything you have." "In the spirit of the season?" "So, what are you looking for?" "Can you even tell me?" "It says here your precinct visited the Sims before, two weeks ago." "A domestic disturbance call?" "We sent a unit because the neighbors were complaining." "They were screaming at each other." "Wasn't a happy household." "Happy people don't kill themselves." " They ran a tox screen?" " Yeah, it's just procedure." "It says they turned up high levels of Doritriptan." "Some kind of new migraine medicine." "Apparently, you take enough of it, you're wearing a cloud for a hat." "I figure she anesthetized herself and then" "Found a bunch of empty sample packets in the bathroom trash," "A couple more in her purse." "I'd like to borrow this." "[ Typing ]" "She was adopted." "Danny, hi." "It's me, Dana." "Yeah, merry Christmas to you too." "I'm wondering if you can do me a favor." "Um, I need the complete case files..." "On my sister, Melissa Scully." "Yeah, crime scene and autopsy," "Along with the P.C.R.S that we ran." "Right, but I need you to send them to the san Diego field office..." "As soon as possible." "Okay." "Thanks, Danny." " Dana?" " What?" "Is this where you stayed the night?" "Yeah." "Some of it." "It's a vacation." "What are you working on that's so important?" "Uh... some unfinished business." "So, you up for joining us this morning?" "I've got a little work to do." "Can I join you guys later?" "How are you gonna get around?" "I'll rent a car." "All right." "Lunch." "We'll hold you to that." "Agent Scully." "It's been, what, four hours?" "I was getting worried." "I'd like to order an autopsy on Roberta Sim." "There's a possibility she was murdered." "What, you got another phone call?" "I think it may have been the husband." "Where did you get that idea?" "You want coffee?" "No, thanks." "He's got an ironclad alibi." "Mr. Sim was at the doctor's office with his daughter." "He was there all morning." "I checked." "I took another look at the police photos this morning." "There were no hesitation cuts on Roberta Sim's wrists." "Suicide victims seldom make the fatal cut on the first try." "Seldom, but not always." "Is that all you got?" "No." "Why was the phone off the hook when you got to the Sims' house?" "The wife took it off." "I'm guessing she didn't want to be interrupted." "Your incident report says the husband called the police..." " After he discovered his wife dead." " Yeah." "But if the phone was off the hook when you arrived, how did he call you?" "Did he find the phone off the hook, call you..." "And then have the presence of mind to return it to the way he found it?" " Does that make sense to you?" " What are you suggesting?" "I'm suggesting that there are questions which beg further investigation." "Order an autopsy." "The stomach contents appear to include coffee," "Whole wheat toast and cantaloupe." "No medicine tablets." "Empty sample packets of Doritriptan succinate were found," "But I see no evidence that there were any pills ingested." "Well, obviously there were." "Doritriptan showed up on the tox screen." "Then why didn't it show up in her stomach?" "It was absorbed into the bloodstream." "I don't believe the absorption would be that complete, not that close to her death." "Then how did the Doritriptan get in her system, ms." "Scully?" " A needle puncture?" " On the heel of her right foot." "Extremely tiny and easy to miss." "It was meant to be overlooked." "I believe that this woman was injected," "Anesthetized so she wouldn't fight back, then her suicide was staged." " What do you think?" " It's a possibility." "Then again, it's possible this woman simply stepped on a tack," "And the rest is blue" " Sky conjecture." "I'd say it justifies opening a murder investigation." "This is your doing, isn't it?" "You didn't have the decency..." "To leave me and my daughter alone." "Mr. Sim, please." "Now you're gonna want to calm down and let us do our business, okay?" "Where is your daughter right now?" "Why?" "She's at a friend's house." "Thank god, she's not here to see this." "Detective, this was in the trash out back." "You got an explanation for this?" "Yes." "My daughter has a severe form of anemia." "She requires daily injections." "We'll check that out." "I want you to analyze this, get a P.C.R. On the blood." "We need to identify whose it is." "Okay." "Dana, are you all right?" "It's 2:00 in the morning." "Where have you been all day?" "We were expecting you for lunch." "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 P.C.R. Test." "This is Emily's." "This... is Melissa's..." "Which we ran during her murder investigation." "They match." "What does it mean, "they match"?" "It means..." "That this little girl, Emily," "Is Melissa's daughter." "It's not possible." "You can't deny that there's a remarkable resemblance." "Melissa was three years old when this picture was taken." "She was practically a baby." "All kids can look the same at that age." "Mom, it's uncanny." "Emily looks exactly like Melissa." "That's why I ordered the P.C.R. Test;" "Because her face may change, but her DNA can't." "And that test is accurate?" "There is a 60% chance that Melissa is Emily's mother." "I'm going to order a more comprehensive test: an R.F.L.P." "It'll take a couple of days, then we'll be sure." "I am already sure your sister did not have a baby." "She would have told me." "Mom..." "Remember about four years ago, Melissa took off?" "She traveled up and down the west coast." "We didn't know where she was half the time." "You're saying she was pregnant, and she didn't want us to know?" "That was 1994." "Emily was born that November." "She could have given her up for adoption and none of us would have ever known." "Dana, listen to me." "I know what you're going through." "Mom, this has nothing to do with anything I'm going through." "It has happened to me." "When your father died, it was a long time before he left me." "I saw him in my dreams." "The phone would ring and, just for a moment, I was sure it was his voice." "And you're doing the same thing with Melissa." "You're seeing her in this child." "But that does not make this child my granddaughter." "We're still connected to them, Dana," "Even after they're gone." "Look at all the presents." "[ Melissa ] Dana, quiet." "They'll hear us." "This one's for me." "You wish." "That's for Billy, you dope." "This has got to be it!" "It's gotta be "Hotel California."" "Shh, you'll wake everybody." " I wonder what this is?" " I don't know, but I got one too." "[ Mom ] you don't have to shake it, Dana." "You can open those now." "Thanks, mom." "Your grandmother gave me a cross just like that when I was about your age." "It's pretty." "It means god is with you." "He'll watch over you wherever you go." "[ Knocking ]" "Dana?" "Hi." "Sorry." "There's a detective here to see you." "I'll be right down." "I know it's early." "Not a problem." "Interesting tidbit on Mr. Sim." "What?" "Bank deposits, large ones-- $30,000 a pop." "Three in the last 18 months." "All the checks have been made out to his wife." "The last one was deposited yesterday, après-Mort." "Where'd the checks come from?" "A pharmaceutical firm in Chula vista." "Dr. Calderon?" "Yes?" "I'm agent Dana Scully with the F.B.I.," "And this is detective Kresge with the san Diego police department." " What can I do for you?" " We're investigating the death of Roberta Sim." " When did this happen?" " You knew Mrs. Sim?" "Her daughter, Emily, is a patient here at our clinic." "What were you treating her for?" "She's a subject in one of our clinical trials." "We're developing gene therapies for several blood disorders." "Emily suffers from a rare type of autoimmune hemolytic anemia." "She's a very sick little girl." "What's her prognosis?" "[ Calderon ] I really couldn't say." "These are ongoing double" " Blind trials." "It could be years before we have any results." "You've been paying the Sim family some compensation for this?" "Emily's a very special case." "We were lucky to find her." " How did you find her?" " Her father brought her to our attention." "Then why are the checks made out to her mother?" "How shall I put this?" "These payments are a gesture of goodwill towards Mrs. Sim." "She wasn't completely convinced that our experimental treatment was the way to go." "She wanted to pull Emily from the program?" "She filed the paperwork, but her husband later withdrew it." "Dr. Calderon, did you ever prescribe..." "Doritriptan injections to Emily during the course of her treatment?" "No, I prescribed them for the husband..." "When he mentioned he was suffering from migraines." "[ Knocking ]" "Marshall Sim." "You're under arrest for the murder of Roberta Sim." "What?" "Where's Emily?" "Are you out of your mind?" "You have the right to remain silent." "I didn't kill her!" "If you refuse to remain silent," "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "[ Kresge continues ]" "We'll get you right in there." "Oh." "We'll just get you buckled in here nice and safe, okay?" "You like that, huh?" "I'll see you soon, okay?" "[ Car engine starts ]" "Every year, my husband insisted on putting the angel on top of the tree by himself." "A man's work." "Yes." "Dana, can you give me a hand in the kitchen?" "Yeah." "What's up?" "I need you to tell me what's going on." "What do you mean?" "I'm here, Dana." "You're a million miles away." "I thought you came to see the family." "I did." "I thought this other thing was resolved." "I thought you caught the guy that murdered that woman." "We did." "Then it's about the girl, isn't it?" "Mom told me." "[ Closes door ]" "You really think Melissa had a baby?" "Yes, I do." "She called you from beyond the grave to tell you that?" "Sounds like something that partner of yours would say." "It does not matter where that phone call came from." "What matters is that there is a little girl who needs my help." "This isn't about any little girl, Dana." "It's about you." "It's about some emptiness, some void inside yourself that you're trying to fill." "I don't expect you to understand, but I am not gonna justify my motives" "Dana?" "There's a telephone call for you." "Hello?" "[ Kresge ] Merry Christmas, agent Scully." "Got a little present for you." "Marshall Sim just confessed." "He admitted to being at the house that morning?" "I got a signed statement right here." "What about the witnesses that placed him at the doctor's office?" " I guess they were mistaken." " Maybe they weren't." " Where is he now?" " County lockup." "[ Scully's voice ] they identified themselves?" "They said they were his lawyers." "How long were they here?" "Ten, fifteen minutes tops." "Damn it!" "[ Door opens, closes ]" " When did you get back?" " Just now." "You're just in time." "I was on my way to the neighbors'." "Mom and Tara are already there." "What happened?" "Marshall Sim, Emily's adopted father, is dead." "They made it look like a suicide, just like his wife." "Oh, my god." "Do you know who did it?" "No." "Do you think it has something to do with that little girl?" "I think it might." "Dana, I have to show you something." "Look at the date on the back." "Does Melissa look pregnant to you in that picture?" "It's about four weeks before the girl was born." "Bill, that doesn't prove anything." "Melissa didn't have to get pregnant to have a baby." "There's in vitro fertilization." "There's surrogate motherhood." "Dana, listen to yourself." "You're creating this whole scenario to fulfill a dream." " What dream?" " To have a child." "Look, I understand." "I know the need." "God knows Tara and I tried for years." "But making this girl into Melissa's daughter is not the way." "You're only going to end up hurting yourself." "[ Doorbell rings ]" "Hi." "Hi." "I'm here to see Dana Scully." "May I ask" " I'm Susan Chambliss from the county." "It's about the adoption." "Hi." "Thanks for coming in on Christmas eve." "Not at all." "I don't understand." "I mean, I think I have a right to know why you're rejecting my application." "It's not mine to accept or reject, Dana." "We only make recommendations to the judge." "But at this point, I'd advise against you becoming an adoptive parent." "You're a single woman who's never been married..." "Or had a long-Term relationship." "You're in a high-Stress, time- Intensive and dangerous occupation." "One that I sense you're deeply committed to," "And one which would overnight become the secondary priority..." "To the care and well-Being of this child." "I'm not sure this is a sacrifice you're prepared to make." "Well, it's one that I've given a great deal of thought to." "I mean, to be honest," "I've started to question my priorities since I was first diagnosed with cancer," "And I feel like I've been given a second chance." "Ever since I was a child," "I've never allowed myself to get too close to people." "I've avoided emotional attachments." "Perhaps I've been so..." "Afraid of death and dying..." "That any connection just seemed like a bad thing." "Something that wouldn't last." "But I don't feel that anymore." "I know you're a trained physician," "And are aware of Emily's medical condition." "I want to stress to you, Dana," "Emily is a special" " Needs child." "According to her doctors, her condition is incurable." "She requires constant care, both medical and emotional." "The good news is you have firsthand experience of grave illness." "The bad news is..." "You'd have to relive it through the eyes of a child." "I realize that..." "And I feel like I'm ready." "We'll review your final application..." "And make our recommendations." "Okay." "I wish you luck." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "I'll show myself out." "Dana?" "Melissa?" "I didn't know anybody else was up." "I couldn't sleep." "How come?" "You worried about Quantico," "Or who gets the most presents this year?" "I guess I'm afraid I'm making a big mistake." "I could tell dad sure thinks I am." "Oh, well, it's not his life, Dana." "Yeah, I know that." "But when I started med school, it felt so right." "It just seemed like that's where I was supposed to be." "Then..." "By the time I graduated, I just knew it was wrong." "But now the F.B.I. Feels right, and what if that's wrong too?" "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." "God, you sound like a greeting card." "I don't believe in fate." "I think we have to choose our own path." "Just don't mistake the path with what's really important in life." "Which is what?" "The people you're gonna meet along the way." "You don't know who you're gonna meet when you join the F.B.I." "You don't know how your life is gonna change," "Or how you are gonna change the life of others." "[ Tara ] hey!" "Good morning." "Hey, sleepyhead." "Merry Christmas." "Did Santa come?" "Santa's still here." "She always had to be first up." "Couldn't wait to get to those presents." "Merry Christmas." "Enough pleasantries." "I'm dying to know what's in this box." "I've been waiting for months!" "Let me open it." "[ Doorbell rings ] this one's from Charles." "From Charles?" "Don't open anything." "I'll be right back." "Excuse me." "[ Man ] F.B.I. Courier for agent Dana Scully, please." "I'm afraid I need agent Scully's signature, sir." "I need you to sign here, please." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "[ Mom ] what is it?" "It's the DNA tests on Emily Sim's blood." "What does it say?" "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." " What sample?" " What are they trying to say?" "According to this..." "I am Emily's mother." "[ Child ] I made this!"