The X-Files (1993–…): Season 1, Episode 13 - Beyond the Sea - full transcript

Scully believes that the pyschic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in the kidnapping of two college students.

Are you gonna leave this up all year?

Yup. All year.

You always made us take the tree down
the day after Christmas.

I'm making up for lost time.

If your idea of a good time is to pick up
dried pine needles, treat yourself.

As if he's an authority on having a good time!

- That's OK, Mom, I got that.
- Oh. OK.

OK, Maggie. Let's shove off.

Oh. OK.

Thank you for having us.
Dinner was delicious, as usual.

Thanks, Mom.



Good sailing, Ahab.

Good night, Starbuck.

How's work? Good?

Yup. It's good.

Well...

- Well, drive carefully.
- Uh-huh.

Good night, Daddy.

Here on "Incredible Inventions", you're not
going to spend $110 for it. You all know that.

You're not even going to spend $100.

There 's an approximate
one month supply here.

And all you'll spend for this
entire package is just $39.92...

Dad?

I thought you guys left.

Where's Mom?



Hello?

Hello?

Dana?

Mom? What's the matter?

He, um...

We lost your dad.

He had, uh...
a massive coronary about an hour ago.

He '3 gone.

I swear! Christmas Day!

My whole family's opening presents an' all.

And I'm just sitting there in my own little
world, thinking, "I just wish Jim were here."

I know.

Oh, man! Busted!

- Yes, sir?
- Out of the vehicle, please.

Sir, I'm... I'm sorry. We'll be on our way.

I said, out of the vehicle.

Keep your hands down.

Let's see some ID.

No, not till I see yours.

Jim!

Last time you were that engrossed,
you were reading Adult Video News!

I didn't think you'd be in today.

How are you, Dana?

Dana...

I'm fine, thank you.
What are you working on?

Two days ago, a couple was kidnapped
at Jackson University.

Elizabeth Hawley and James Summers.

Both nineteen.

Last year another couple was kidnapped.

Except that abduction
occurred at Duke University.

One week later,
they found both students' bodies - dead.

They were kept alive and tortured
during that period.

No arrests were ever made.

Police believed it to be a one-time offender.
Now it appears to be a serial incident.

If he holds true to form,
we have five days to find those kids.

That's a grim deadline.

Here's another grim deadline.

In one week, Luther Lee Boggs will take a
seat in the North Carolina gas chamber.

How is he related?

He claims to have information
relating to the kidnapping.

He described Hawley's bracelet exactly.

This is information that only
family members could have known.

Or the kidnapper.

Boggs feels that if his talents
help save these kids,...

..his sentence should be
reduced to life in prison.

His "talents"?

He claims to have obtained this information
through psychic transmissions.

Mulder, do I detect a hint of scepticism?

Perhaps.

Boggs has been there before.

In the chamber.

My profile helped send him there.

He was actually strapped to the chair,
before receiving an executive stay.

He claims that this experience activated in
him the ability to channel spirits and demons.

I believe in psychic ability, without a doubt.

But not in this case. Not Boggs.

So you believe that Boggs is orchestrating
the kidnapping from the inside?

A scam to save his life?

At the age of six,...

..Luther Boggs slaughtered
every pet animal on his housing project.

When he was 30, he strangled
five family members over dinner,...

..and then watched
the Detroit-Green Bay game.

Some killers are products of society.

Some act out past abuses.

Boggs kills because he likes it.

And they've requested you speak with him?

Actually, he's requested to speak to me.

Why you?

He read my profile on him...

..and he feels like I'm the only one
who truly understands what he is.

- I leave for Raleigh this afternoon.
- I'll go with you.

The funeral's at noon.

I think you should take some time.

- I need to work.
- I'm sorry about your father.

- I'll see you later.
- OK.

As a captain, he was entitled to burial
in Arlington, with full ceremony.

This is exactly the way he wanted it.

Just the family.

This song was playing when his ship
returned from the Cuban blockade.

He marched right off, up to me,...

..and he proposed.

I know that you and Dad were...

..disappointed that I chose
the path I'm on, instead of medicine.

But I need to know,...

..was he at all proud of me?

He was your father.

..that we will be beyond the sea...

The soul... of Luther Boggs...

..drowns in hell's sea of fire.

We have him now.

"Well?

You mean the souls of your victims?

The dead.

The living.

All souls are connected.

And you're the conduit?

Uh...

..Dana,...

..Fox,...

..please understand that from here
we can return to the past,...

..we can see the present,...

..we can know the future...

"From here"? Where exactly are you?

Mr Boggs must be made redemptive...

..for his transgressions.

That's exactly what the State of
North Carolina intends to do next week.

Uh-uh.

Let's deal.

Boggs' life... for the kids.
You know what I'm saying?

First you gotta prove you're telling the truth.

Don't get me wrong, Luther.

I wanna believe.

Oh...

Ohh...

Ohhh... God! No!

Must stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!!

Pain!

I'm in... pain. Terrible pain.

Uh... the boy...

Uh...

..Jim...

He's tied with, uh... twine.

God!

God!

God!

He whups him with a coat hanger,
a wire coat hanger.

Oh...

Uh...

Dark place.

Cold.

Cellar.

Warehouse, condemned.

An angel...

..of, uh... stone.

Waterfall.

Water falling.

It's not a waterfall. Not water.

They're there.

Oh, God... I gotta go.

I gotta go.

I gotta go.

I tore this off my New York Knicks T-shirt.

It has nothing to do with the crime.

Somewhere...

..beyond the sea

Somewhere... away from me

Did you get my message, Starbuck?

Thanks a lot.

Scully? What's wrong?

Did Boggs say something to you?

No.

- It's my father. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- It's all right.

Why don't you go back to the motel?

We've exposed Boggs as a fraud.

Boggs is not what he claims to be.

He may be orchestrating the kidnapping.

Now he knows we're onto him, he doesn't
have a chance with this charade.

I'm gonna wait around and interrogate him.

Hopefully, he'll tell me where the kids are.

Somewhere... beyond the shore

We'll kiss just as before

Happy we'll be

Beyond the sea

And never again...

Water falling. Not a waterfall.

An angel of stone.

Mulder!

Liz Hawley's family made a positive ID
on the charm you found at the warehouse.

The police are searching the place inch
by inch, but haven't found anything yet.

I expected to find you at the crime scene.

Did Boggs confess?

No. No, it was five hours
of Boggs's "channelling".

After three hours, I asked him to
summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix...

..and requested "All Along The Watchtower"!

He's been dead 20 years,
but still hasn't lost his edge!

I lied to the police about
how I found the warehouse.

- I didn't notice any "suspicious activities".
- Then how did you find it?

It was where Boggs said it would be.

Scully, I told you about Boggs!

I didn't go looking for it! I came across
an area that had landmarks he spoke of.

That's exactly what Boggs wanted! He could
have been setting you up. You could be dead!

Why did you feel
you had to lie on your police report?

It was a better explanation
under the circumstances.

You didn't want to go on record
admitting that you believed in Boggs.

The Bureau would expect something like that
from spooky Mulder, but not Dana Scully.

I thought that you'd be pleased that I'd
opened myself to extreme possibilities.

Why now?!

After all we've seen. Why Boggs?

Does this have to do with your father?

You said that he didn't approve
of you becoming an FBI agent.

It being on the job now makes you feel
guilty or uncomfortable or uneasy,...

..I think you should back away.

Because if it's clouding your judgment...

..you're putting yourself in danger.

- I love this job.
- You love your father.

Dana... open yourself up to extreme
possibilities only when they're the truth.

That goes for Luther Boggs... and your father.

As for Luther Boggs...
he's the greatest of lies.

I know he's working with someone on
the outside and they planted that evidence.

We have to be very careful about plotting our
next move - he's planned five steps ahead.

The only advantage we have is time.

Scully, take a look at this.

That's incredible!

They found them?

- That's exactly what I want Boggs to think.
- Why didn't the police notify us?

The article is bogus. The Carolinian made it
up for us. Only six people know about it.

Later on today,
Boggs gets his weekly phone privileges.

Hopefully, he'll call his accomplice.

Phone privileges in two hours.

Go.

Turn off that phone. Turn it off.

Mulder, it's you.

- Mulder.
- How come you don 't believe me?

Agent Scully does.

She believes me.

Agent Scully believes what we all
believe - that you have the kids.

Now, where are they?

Oh...

Mulder... even if he is setting us up,
we have to follow, because in three days...

Liz Hawley and Jim Summers will be dead.

A day later, our only connection to the case
will be pulling up a chair at the gas chamber.

We have to deal.

The kidnapper's aroused by
the prospect of becoming a killer.

What's the name?

Can't see. Male.

Describe him.

Small...

Thin...

Late twenties.

Skull. Human skull.

Silver grey.

His eyes... cold, very cold,...

..staring at Elizabeth.

God! He's got the wire!

Oh! Please! No!

Where is he?

He's...

..over... by the window.

Holding back... holding back
his thoughts of killing.

Waiting.

There's a small boathouse on Lake Jordan.

You got that?

Mulder.

Don't go near the white cross.

We see you down...

..and your blood spills on the white cross.

No! No!

Sweep the docks!

Federal agent!

Arghh!

Mulder!

We need an ambulance! Officer down!

- What have we got?
- Through and through.

Let's get him on the gurney.

No.

No.

No.

Lucas Jackson Henry, 28.

Did some time at Angola in Louisiana
for sexual assault, narcotics. Nothing big.

His personal history includes
being witness to an auto accident...

..in which his high-school sweetheart
was killed and his mother decapitated.

The seven-year anniversary
of that accident is in three days.

He's reliving it.

That would explain the deadline.

The most important element we found
is there's substantial suspicion...

that Boggs' last five murders
were committed with a partner.

The police in Durham say they
could never prove it in court,...

..but they know that partner was Lucas Henry.

You set us up. You're in
on this with Lucas Henry.

This was a trap for Mulder
because he helped put you away.

Well, I came here to tell you...

..that if he dies because
of what you've done,...

..four days from now, nobody will stop me
from being the one that throws the switch...

..and gases you out of this life
for good, you son of a bitch!!

Dana,...

..you're the one that believed me.

No!

No, I do not believe you!

You don't believe me?

Maybe you'll believe yourself.

There was that one time
when I was fourteen...

..and my parents had gone to bed.

I snuck downstairs all alone...

..and got one of my mom's cigarettes
and went out onto the porch in the dark.

I was so scared.

My heart was beating -
they would have killed me if they knew.

But I was so excited.

Not because of the cigarette -
I mean, it was gross -

..but because I wasn't supposed to.

That could be a moment from any kid's life.

I know what you want.

And I know who you want to talk to.

Why don't you just go ahead and ask me?

I'll believe you...

..if you let... me talk to him.

Starbuck...

No! No! No!

No... body talks to anybody until I get a deal.

Don't... underestimate my fear of dying,...

..and don't downplay my terror
of going back to that chair.

I know my hell's going to be to go on back to
that chair over and over again for all of time.

But in this life, my one and only life,...

..I don't ever want to go back again!

Even

The last time that I went to
death's door and looked inside...

I ain’t never talked to a minister before
in my life. Ever.

Till that day.

And he said, "He who doth not love...

..remains in death."

"And he who hates his brother...
is a murderer,...

..and no murderer
has eternal life abiding in him."

My family, who I killed after their last meal,...

..was right there to watch me over mine.

And their... fear...

..and their horror...

..that I made them feel
when I killed them...

..was injected into me!

And their collective fear alone
was this long taste of hell.

And then I felt myself leave my body.

But I thought they’d already killed me.

And I saw...

..thousands of souls rushing at my body.

It is a cold...

..dark place, Scully.

Mulder's looking in on it right now.

It may be a cold, dark place for you,...

..but it's not for Mulder.

And it's not for my father.

I'm sure he'd like to tell you hisself.

But I'm not gonna let him.

Nobody speaks till you give me a deal.

I don't believe you.

Oh, well, there's plenty of room in that cold,
dark place for liars, Scully.

You go ahead and play it like you need to,...

..but I know you believe me.

But if you need to convince a judge
I'm in on it with Lucas, go ahead.

Cos either way,...

..whether I'm running the show
with Lucas or I'm channelling,...

..no information's coming till I get a deal.

I got nothin' to lose!

Guard!

If I die...

..that boy goes to a cold, dark place.

The Governor and
the Supreme Court of North Carolina...

..do not intend to make a deal
with a mass murderer.

Especially one who I know
is orchestrating a capital offence...

..two days before his capital punishment.

Yes, sir.

All Boggs will get from me is a timely death.

And it's an overdue one at that.

We're running out of time.

There's still no sign of
Lucas Henry or Jim Summers.

- The Raleigh police said...
- No matter what, don't believe him.

Boggs created this whole charade to
get back at me for putting him on death row.

You'd be the next best thing.

Mulder, I never thought I'd say this,...

..but what if there's another explanation?

Don't... deal with him.

He could be trying to claim you
as his last victim.

All right, Mr Boggs,...

..you got your deal.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

All right, where are they?

Uh...

Uh...

Let's see, like, uh...

Uh... circles.

Uh... I don't know, like... barrels.

No. No, bigger,...

..like, uh... huge, uh... vats.

Factory.

Condemned.

The...

..Old... Blue...

..Devil Brewery, out by Morrisville.

Ah, God, he's getting... he's getting ready.

He... He...

He's getting ready to, um... um...

He's getting ready to kill the...

Luther, if you really were psychic...

I'd have known you lied.

That there never was a deal.

I know you tried.

Scully.

Avoid the Devil.

Don't follow Henry to the Devil.

Leave that to me.

Freeze!

Federal agents! We're armed!

Drop your weapon.

Go!

Arrggghh!

You come to say goodbye?

I believe...

..that if you had orchestrated
this kidnapping,...

..Lucas Henry would have been aware of
the danger you warned me about.

He never would have crossed that bridge.

So you saved... Jim Summers' life.

But you saved mine as well.

You come for some unfinished business.

You want your father's message.

Not now.

You be there tonight - my witness.

When they got me in that chair and they...

..open up that shield,...

..you'll get your message.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.

Would you like to make a statement?

And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those that trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,...

..for ever and ever. Amen.

I was considering Boggs.

If he knew that I was your partner,...

..he could have found out everything
he knew about me - about my father...

- Scully.
- "Beyond The Sea" played at their wedding.

Visions of deceased loved ones are
a common psychological phenomenon.

- If he knew that my father had...
- Dana.

After all you've seen,...

..after all the evidence,...

..why can't you believe?

I'm afraid.

I'm afraid to believe.

You couldn't face that fear?

Even if it meant never knowing
what your father wanted to tell you?

But I do know.

How?

He was my father.

I made this!