"What ho." "What ho." "Hey, Lazard, why do the night guys get a piece likeyou and we're stuckwith eel breath?" "It's fate, Detective... conspiring to keep us apart." "All right, I'm out ofhere." "Seeya." "You all right?" "You lost?" "I got her in the holding room, but she won't say a word." "You're asking me becauseyou know how good I am with kids." "Yeah, a regular Mr. Greenjeans." "Hi." "This is Detective Barbala." "He's going to helpyou find your parents." "Hiya, sweetheart." "What's your name?" "Michelle." "Everything's going to be all right, okay?" "Don't be scared now." "Michelle what?" "You said your first name is Michelle." "Now, what's your last name?" "Bishop." "Bishop." "Michelle Bishop." "And where doyou live, Michelle?" "Here in Buffalo?" "What was that?" "Did you hear that?" "(Clamoring)" "Man:" "Somebody call an ambulance!" "Mulder:" "How did you hear about us?" "My brother." "My brother's a cop in Baltimore." "He told me aboutyourwork on the Tooms case." "He said you got a good feel for things out ofthe ordinary." "Look, the truth is, Barbala neverwon any popularity contests here at the 1 -4 but he's still a cop, you know." "I guess that's why I can'tjust let this rest." "You said there was one witness-- a little girl." "What did she say happened?" "She said there was another man in the room." " It stands to reason that" " I was right outside." "There was nobody else there except Barbala and the kid." "Soyou didn't get a description ofwho the kid saw." "I'm telling you, there was no one else." "Listen, the department's treating this as a suicide but I got to tell you, I knew this guy." "There's no way he did himself." "Was he depressed or under psychiatric care ofany kind?" "No." "The only time he ever looked at himself was in the mirror and he always liked what he saw." "Plusjumpers tend to open the window before theyjump." "Where's the kid?" "She was released an hour ago." "Her mother picked her up." "You don't really think the girl had anything to do with it." "Eightyears on the force" "I've seen a lot ofstrange things but I'm telling you, this kid... something'sjust not right about her." "Mulder:" "Long hair or short hair?" "Short." "Like that?" "Was his hair dark like mine or lighter likeyours?" "Like mine." "What about a beard or a moustache?" "Moustache." "(Whispers)" "Man:" "Like this?" "Or this?" "Whoa, what happened?" "Weird." "I didn't even hit a key." "Must be a glitch in the new software." "Mulder:" "Michelle, was his moustache like that?" "Scully:" "Doyou have any idea howyour daughter might have gotten there?" "Buffalo's halfan hour away by train and the station is a five-minute car ride." "When I came home" "Mrs. Doughertywas locked in the wine cellar." "I called the police immediately." "And Mrs. Dougherty is..?" "Michelle's nanny." "Her latest, that is." "She's gone through four this year, and it's onlyApril." "What seems to be the problem?" "Michelle is the problem." "How doyou mean?" "As hard as it is for a mother to admit" "Michelle is a disturbed child." "Oh, I know this sounds terrible to say but the truth is that sometimes she frightens me." "Frightens you how?" "She's not like other girls, Agent Scully." "Tell me." "Shejust isn't." "She doesn't have any friends." "She hardly ever smiles." "It breaks my heart, but I can't comfort her." "She says she sees things that I can't see." "She hears peopleyelling in her head." "Last summer we had to cover our pool." "jim was trying to teach her how to swim but every time that Michelle would get close to the water she wouldjust start to scream." "Scream likeyou've never heard in all your life." "Your husband, where is he now?" "We're divorced." " Mrs. Bishop?" " Mm-hmm." "This is the man Michelle said she saw at the police station." "Doyou recognize him?" "No, I'm sorry." "She also mentioned a friend." "Someone named Sheila." " Doyou know who that is?" " That would be Dr. Braun." "She's the developmental psychologist at Brylin Hospital." "Michelle sees her twice a week." "Look at that." "Looks like a hawk or a falcon." "It's beautiful." " It's called origami." "Japanese paper folding." "Where did she learn how to do that?" "I have no idea." "So, Harry, you'll put that face into the system?" " As we speak." " Can you give Scully a ride back to the city?" "We have a autopsy at 7:00." "I'm going to Brylin Hospital." "See ifl can have a little chat with Michelle's shrink." "Oh, and check for burns or lesions on Barbala's body." "Why?" "Psychokinesis is usually associated with an electrical charge." "Areyou saying Michelle possesses the ability to psychically project her own will?" "How else could a 60-pound kid throw a 200-pound detective out the window?" "Woman:" "No, I don't recognize him." "I have no idea who he is." "Could Michelle have fabricated him?" "Quite possibly." "As with many dissociative disorders the intensity ofthe patient's emotions is often too much for one personality to process." "So, in defense part ofthe personality splits itselfoff." "As in schizophrenia?" "I'm afraid Michelle's diagnosis is not quite that simple." "My primary challenge has been to discover the source of her extreme rage." "In most cases it's a traumatic event in the patient's past." "And in Michelle's case?" "Occasionally, I would leave" "Michelle alone for part ofour sessions... with this doll." "Each time a new doll anatomically intact." "And each time she dismembers and disfigures it in exactly the same way." "At first I thought she was being abused but after a number ofsessions with her parents" "I became convinced there was something else behind Michelle's anxiety." "Something much deeper." "Much more elusive." "Any theories?" "Frankly, no." "I'm at a loss." "Haveyou tried deep-regression hypnosis?" "I've found hypnosis an unreliable approach, at best." "Okay." "How haveyou been treating Michelle?" "Well, the Thorazine has been quite effective in regulating her more bizarre behavior." "I'm sure." "Haveyou observed any unexplained phenomena in Michelle's presence?" "" Unexplained phenomena"?" "Inordinate physical strength, psychic ability, telekinesis." "You'rejoking, ofcourse." "I have a patient waiting, Agent Mulder." "Ifyou'll excuse me." "Note:" "Postmortem examination is being conducted 1 1 hours and 45 minutes after subject was pronounced." "Note:" "Raised lesion approximately seven centimeters below sternum." "Deep necrosis inconsistent with cause ofdeath as pronounced by Dr. Gilder and suggests localized electrocution... but a further tissue analysis will be necessary." "Excuse me." "Could I talk toyou for a second?" "I just started the autopsy." "Yeah." "Um..." "I don't think he's going anywhere." "Will you, uh... take a couple for scale, please?" "Thankyou." "I'll be right back." "So, what doyou think?" "Scully:" "Looks like a match." "Yeah." "Name's Officer Charlie Morris." "Used to work Narcotics out ofthe 2-7." "Doyou know him?" "No." "Before my time." "Where is he now?" "Has he been transferred?" "You could say that." "Agent Scully, this guy's been dead for nineyears." "Which means that little girl saw a ghost." "This way, please." "He was killed in Chinatown, gangland style allegedly by the Triads although no arrests were ever made." "Ifyou're going to tell me you think Michelle Bishop saw a poltergeist..." "You found a lesion on Barbala's body." "You said it could have been caused by an intense concentration ofelectrothermal energy." ""Could have been" being the operative phrase." "I won't know for sure until the lab results are in." "Why is it still so hard foryou to believe when all evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?" "Because sometimes..." "What?" "looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front ofyou." "This is the face that Michelle Bishop saw." "She walked right by here and she saw the face ofCharlie Morris which means there weren't any ghosts fying around the precinct." "Doyou have the police report describing Morris' death?" "Yeah." "I have what's been declassified." "Why?" "Does it describe how he was murdered?" "Yes, I told you." "It was a signature hit." "Give me the grisly details." "His arm was severed just below the shoulder presumably by a chain saw and his right eye was gouged out." "This is what Michelle did to a dozen dolls in her shrink's office." "Hell ofa coincidence, wouldn'tyou say?" "Before we discount anything, we should find out more about Charlie Morris." "I got the address ofhis partner on the force." "Hopefully, he can tell us something." "Detective Fiore?" "We're with the F.B.I." "Can we talk toyou for a minute?" "Doyou know this man?" "You mind ifwe do this out here?" "I don't want to wake mywife." "This won't take long." "Sure I know him." "That's Charlie." "Charlie Morris." "You two were partners?" "We rode together his first nine months out ofthe academy." "What can you tell us about the circumstances surrounding his death?" "That matter is still under investigation and so I can't comment on it." "We're under the direct authority ofCaptain Gershom at the 1 4th Precinct." "1 4th Precinct?" "I neverworked out ofthe 1 -4." "What's all this about?" "We believe that the death of Detective Barbala can be linked to the death ofOfficer Morris." "Linked how?" "I thought Barbala fipped his wig andjumped out a window." "Did you know him?" "By reputation." "What's all this got to do with Charlie?" "That's what we need your help with." "The police report said Morris was killed offduty." "Right." "Best we can figure, it was some kind ofpayback." "Forwhat?" "The organized crime division was doing a major sweep in Chinatown." "The Triads?" "Heavy busts went down against the Woo Shing Woo." "A lot ofsmack never made it to the street." "You can bet there were some pissed-offpeople playing Mah-jongg that week." "Soyou think Morris was killed as a warning to back off?" "I think they picked a cop-- any cop-- and theywhacked him." "Who is it, Tony?" "It's nothing to worry about, honey." "just some people from the F.B.I." "asking about a case I'm working." "Sir, would you mind..?" "Hey, it's the weekend." "You guys mind?" "Get me at the squad" " first thing Monday morning, okay?" " Sure." "Good luck." "Is it me, or did we just get the brushoff?" " Did you notice her hands?" " What?" "He said she was sleeping but her hands were dusted with baking four." "It's not a big deal, all right." "Don'tjerk yourselfaround." "You're acting like a little bug." "Theywere F.B.I." "So what?" "They start sniffing around too much they're going to turn something up." "Relax." "They'rejust people like us going through the motions." "Then how are they connecting Charlie to Barbala?" "And what do they know?" "Huh?" "Nothing." "Come on." "We're going to Citibank right now." "Forwhat?" "The safety box." "What should we do, Tony?" "Huh?" "Make a donation to the Little Sisters for the Poor?" "Dump it somewhere." "Tony, there's only two ofus left now." "That's over a million each." "Take it all." "I don't care!" "Doyour dream on the beach in Costa Rica, orwherever the hell it is you want to do it." "You think I like this?" "Huh?" "Selling disability insurance to morons?" ""Well, sir, uh... excuse me, but what ifyou should breakyour neck on the shore, or loseyour leg in a car crash?"" "You listen to me, Tony." "We agreed to wait ten years and that is exactly what we're going to do." "I listened toyou once before, and lookwhat happened." "Nobody-- not me, not Barbala-- wanted to see Charlie wind up like that." "We werejust trying to scare a little sense into him." "It was an accident." "End ofstory." "And you better pull yourself together, Tony." "Excuse me, sir..." "Hey, what..?" "Hey!" "Hey, open the door!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Open the door!" "Hey!" "Open the door!" "Hey!" "Open the door!" "Open the door!" "Open the door!" "Hey!" "Open the door!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Open the door!" "Hey!" "For God's sake!" "Help me!" "(Screaming)" "A patrol unit picked her up a few blocks away from the bus stop." "What's going on?" "We don't know." "All we know is thatyour daughter has witnessed two deaths in the past two days." "She's only eightyears old." "She couldn't possibly have done anything." "Mrs. Bishop, no one is accusing Michelle ofanything." "She'sjust a little girl." "Is there anything thatyou have not told us?" "Is there anything at all thatyou can think of that might shed some light on what happened tonight?" "No." "(Sighs)" "Well, this police station has a designated room at the Sheraton." "An officerwill takeyou and Michelle over there." "Why is this happening to us?" "Why?" "Can I talk toyou for a minute?" "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." "Listen to this." "You know that guy that bought it tonight" "Leon Felder?" "Before he started peddling life insurance he was a cop out ofthe 1 -4." "Guess who his partner used to be?" "Rudy Barbala." "Scully:" "Four cops." "Three ofwhom are now dead." "Their only connection being a drug bust in Chinatown almost nineyears ago." "And a little girl from Orchard Park." "Morris, Fiore, Barbala, and Felder." "What's wrong with this picture?" "Well, for one thing" "Fiore said he only knew Barbala by reputation." "Right." "So whywould he say that?" "I don't know." "Hmm..." "What?" "There's a page gone from Morris' homicide file." "Wonderwhere it could be." "Is there a log sheet?" "Should be." "Yeah." ""Tony Fiore..." Checked out this afternoon." "Mrs. Fiore, we're sorry for the early hour but is your husband home?" "No, he's not." "He never came home last night." "Maywe come in?" "Hey, Scully." "Look familiar?" "Mrs. Fiore:" "He said he was working a double shift." "But when I called the precinct he wasn't scheduled." "It'sjust not like him not to call." "Does your husband have any family or close friends in the area that he might go to ifhe were in trouble?" "I've been on the phone all night." "Is he in any trouble?" "Mrs. Fiore, did your husband ever mention a detective by the name of Rudy Barbala or an ex-police officer named Leon Felder?" "I don't think so." "Someoneyou might have had dinnerwith once... a friend ofTony's from work a nameyou can't remember-- anything?" "We don't normally socialize with other cops." "Mrs. Fiore, I couldn't help noticing your origami collection." "Did you do theseyourself?" "Oh, no, not me." "No, that was Charlie's hobby." "Charlie?" "My first husband." "He was born inJapan." "His father was stationed there." "Not Charlie Morris, Tony's ex-partner?" "Yeah." "I was waiting for him to come home too nineyears ago,just like this." "He was working on a whole set, you know, from the painting." "The only animal he never got to was the giraffe." "See, right there behind the zebra?" "Michelle is eightyears old." "That means she was conceived at roughly the same time that Officer Morris was killed." "Do me a favor, Mulder." "Let me say it-- reincarnation." "Metempsychosis, transmigration reembodiment-- call it whatyou will." "All based on the coincidence that Michelle Bishop and Officer Morris both practice the obscure art ofpaper folding?" "What about the composite drawing and the dolls, and the fact that Michelle was witness to two deaths that can be tied to Charlie Morris?" "So what, you think he's back, like Peter Proud to avenge his murder?" "It's not so farfetched, Scully." "Reincarnation is a basic tenet ofmany major religions." "That still doesn't explain how an eight-year-old girl can kill two grown men." "Well, individuals with strong past-life memories often exhibit enhanced psychic abilities" "E.S.P., telekinesis..." "So where does that leave us?" "One short step away from proving the preexistence ofthe human soul." "Doctor:" "On the count offive tell me where you are now." "One, two, three, four, five." "Doyou know whereyou are?" " Yes." " Where?" "Tell me whereyou are." "At home." "What time ofday is it?" "Nighttime." "And how old areyou?" "Twenty-four." "No!" "We can't!" "We can't do this!" "It's wrong!" "What's wrong?" "What can'tyou do?" "It's all right." "You can trust me." "No!" "I can't." "I can't." "You can trust me." "I can't!" "I can't!" "This is dangerous and irresponsible." "Dr. Spitz has conducted hundreds ofthese sessions..." "Ifthis continues, you could push Michelle deeper into withdrawal." "Is it any more dangerous than pumping her full ofThorazine?" "They're killing me!" "They're killing me!" "That's enough." "Mulder:" "Please, Mrs. Bishop." "No!" "No!" "No!" "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's over." "It's over." "It's over." "Theyjust left." "We almost had it, Scully." "We were right there." "I know." "We'll have to try it again." "Mrs. Bishop won't go for that." "Not in this lifetime anyway." "Well, we have to change her mind." "How?" "And to what end?" "I mean, what exactly doyou hope to discover by all this?" "The truth." "What really happened to Charlie Morris." "We'll find the truth when we find Fiore." "Ifwe find Fiore, and ifhe's still alive." "Scully, you saw what happened in there." "What I saw was some traumatized little girl who, for no apparent reason has some connection to Charlie Morris." "All evidence suggests that Michelle Bishop is Charlie Morris." "Short ofher growing a moustache how much more apparent does it have to become foryou to accept it?" "Okay." "Let'sjust say that, by some small miracle you manage to convince Michelle's mother and the next hypno-regression provides you with everything you could possibly hope for." "No grandjury is going to listen to that kind oftestimony." "We still will not have an actionable case." "The inconclusive results of Michelle's past-life regression do not shake my basic beliefin hypnosis as a tool for psychological healing." "Whether or not it offers us definitive proof ofprevious lifetimes is another matter." "However, in this particular case all other explanations seem to be even more wanting." "Dr. Spitz:" "How old areyou?" "Twenty-four." "No!" "We can't!" "We can't do this!" "It's wrong!" "What's wrong?" "What can'tyou do?" "(Rewinding Tape)" "And how old areyou?" "Twenty-four." "No!" "We can't... (Rewinding)" "Twenty-four." "No, no, I..." "I-l want to be here in case he shows up." "Yeah, thanks again." "I'll, uh..." "I'll call you the minute I hear anything." "Okay, yeah." "Okay." "Bye-bye." "(KnockAt Door)" "Tony!" "Tony?" "Tony?" "I checked the windup profiles." "They're up to speed." "Which means?" "Whatever this image is, it was recorded in that room with the girl." "How is that possible?" "There was a documented case in the early '70s ofa man from Porlock, Ohio who could infuence undeveloped film." "He could create shapes on the negative from his mind." "I don't know how much ofthis noise I can clean up." "It depends on the strength ofthe latent image." "(Door Opens)" "I tracked him down." "He's retired in Palm Beach." "You were right, Agent Scully." "He backed up all his records on disk." "Pathologists are paranoid by nature." "Well, he faxed me the missing page from the autopsy report." "Great." "Well, apparently" "Charlie Morris did not die as a result ofhis wounds." "It says here there's a frothing offuid in the respiratory tract." "That indicates death by drowning." "He was drowned and then mutilated to make it look like a signature execution?" "Dr. Yamaguchi said that there were no signs ofsubmersion such as goose skin orwrinkled fesh except for around the face and head." "That's right." "Suggesting that he was killed in either a bathtub or a toilet." " Except" " Except forwhat?" "The marked bradycardia." "It indicates a raised plasma sodium level." "He was killed in sea water." "Anita!" "Anita!" "Tony!" "Tony, what's going on?" "Where haveyou been?" "Listen, I know something's going on." "I need you to listen to me right now." "Go upstairs and pack a bag." "Why?" "What kind oftrouble areyou in?" "I think someone's trying to kill me." " Who?" " I don't know." "Whywould anybody want to kill you?" "Tell me what's going on." "Will you pleasejust do what I'm asking you?" "!" "Please." "I'm your husband, and I loveyou and I need you to trust me on this, okay?" "Almost there." "What I've done is to map the frequencies ofthe interference." "Coefficients for sine on this monitor cosine on that one." "Now, using an algorithm program" "I can remove the frequencies..." "like this." "Presto." "What the hell?" "Mulder, what is it?" "You said salt water, right?" "Right." "So?" "Charlie Morris was drowned in his own tropical fish tank, and that's the last thing he saw before he died." "We better hope Michelle Bishop is at home tucked in bed." "Tony..." "Somebody left this on our doorstep tonight." "Doyou know who?" "Answer me, Tony!" "You stay here and keep the door closed." "Anita:" "Tony, areyou all right?" "Tony, answer me." "(Crashing Noise)" "Tony." "Tony, please." "Who's there?" "What's happening?" "(Crashing Continues)" "Mulder!" "They said theywerejust going to talk toyou." "Talk some sense intoyou." "What was I supposed to do, huh?" "All you had to do was take the money, man!" "Why didn'tyou just take the money?" "!" "(Screaming)" "What's going on, Tony?" "Go check upstairs." "Michelle!" "This won't make right what happened." "I can't get out." "Who's there?" "I can't get out." "Tony?" "!" "Tony!" "Tony..." "I'm sorry." "I knew what they did to Charlie." "I was a part ofit, and I never said anything." "I couldn't." "Oh, no." "I just wanted to take care ofyou." "Who else would have taken care ofyou?" "Please..." "Please don't hurt him anymore." "Mulder:" "Closing entry, file #X-40271 ." "Detective Anthony Fiore pleaded guiltyyesterday in federal court to charges offirst-degree murder after the fact grand larceny, and obstruction ofjustice." "The deaths of Detective Rudy Barbala and former police officer Leon Felder are being ruled as accidental although their complicity in the murder ofOfficer Charlie Morris has been definitively established." "No charges were brought against Michelle Bishop who, today, took her first swimming lesson." "She claims no memory ofthe preceding events and both her mother and Dr. Braun have denied my request for a second past-life regression." "End offieldjournal, April 1 9, 1 994." "Agents ofrecord:" "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully." "Status: unexplained."