The X-Files (1993–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - The Jersey Devil - full transcript

MOM, DAD & KIDS:
♪ B-i-n-g-o, B-i-n-g-o,

B-i-n-g-o ♪

♪ And Bingo was his name-o ♪

♪ There was a farmer
had a dog ♪

♪ And Bingo was his name-o ♪

(clap)
♪ ...i-n-g-o ♪

(clap)
♪ ...i-n-g-o ♪

♪ ...i-n-g-o ♪

♪ And Bingo was his name-o ♪

♪ There was a farmer
had a dog ♪

♪ And Bingo was his name-o... ♪



(sudden bang, hissing)
Oh! What's that?

Oh! Oh, my goodness,
what's happening?

DAD:
It's okay, it's okay.

I just had a flat.

No problem here, honey.
Oh, no.

(grunting)

(sighing)

Darn it.

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(tapping on window)

Honey, would you mind

holding the light for a second?

(sudden growl, dad yelling)
Paul!

Paul?



Paul!

Where are you, Paul?!

What happened?!

Paul!

Oh, Paul...!

(dogs barking, men shouting)

Take a look!

(whistling)

Over here.

(men shouting, talking)

(grunts)

Come on, boy.
Come on! Come on!

MAN: Over here!
We found something!

MAN 2: Come on, buddy.
Come on!

There you go.

Come on, boy!
Easy, easy...

(man retching and coughing)

Get back!

MAN 3: His leg's
been eaten off.

MAN 4:
Hey, up here!

(whistling)

Need some help! Come on!

(men shouting)

It's in here!
It's as tall as a house!

We can smoke him out.

And then what?

I see it!

He's coming at us!

Special Investigations,
Agent Stanley speaking.

Working hard, Mulder?

This woman claims

to have been taken
aboard a spaceship

and held
in an antigravity chamber

without food and water
for three days.

Antigravity is right.

Sorry to interrupt your
serious investigation...

but I just heard a story

that'd just about
take your knees out.

What's that?

They found a body

in the New Jersey woods
yesterday,

missing its right arm
and shoulder.

They think they may
have been eaten off...

by a human.

Where in New Jersey?

Just outside
Atlantic City.

Not an uncommon place
to lose a body part.

They think it's the Mob?

Mm-mm.
It was a homeless man.

There doesn't seem to be
a motive.

You feeling lucky, Scully?

Relative to whom?

It's not our case,
Mulder.

The local police
are handling it.

An X file?

Ever hear of something
called the Jersey Devil?

Yeah... it's a beast
who's supposed

to come out of the woods
and attack cars, right?

Kind of like an
East Coast Bigfoot?

Read the file
about the case in 1947.

Save me the trouble.

It's 1947-- family watches dad
get dragged off into the woods.

Cops find dad with a few
appendages gnawed off.

Cops corner a large, naked man
in the woods, and gun him down.

Autopsy shows
human flesh and bones

in the man's large
intestine-- a beast man.

Is the autopsy report in here?
Requisition for
a car, please.

No. The original disappeared

from the Paterson PD's files
a few years after the incident.

There is a statement from
the attending pathologist.

Mulder, it's the same story
I've heard since I was a kid.

It's a folktale; a myth.

I heard the same story
when I was a kid, too.

Funny thing is, I believed it.

Thanks, Lorraine.

Fact is, we got a cannibalized
body in New Jersey.

Someone or something
out there is hungry.

(sighs)

They say animals can develop
an appetite for human flesh,

but this is no animal.

You see the teeth marks
just below the clavicle?

They're human.

Who found the body?

The park ranger.

Was he alive
when it happened?

Well, it's hard to tell.

There's a skull fracture,

but no sign of a struggle.

Blood-alcohol level was up.

Probably never knew
what hit him.

Any ideas about that?

From the size
of that bite mark--

I'd say a large,
adult male.

I'll do my best.
Uh, Detective Tomson

is handling the case.

Glenna.

Hi. I'm Special Agent
Dana Scully

and this is
Agent Fox Mulder.

I don't remember anybody
calling the FBI in on this.

Oh, we're not here
in an official capacity.

Agent Scully
is a medical doctor.

We heard about your victim and

she thought
she might take a look.

I'm sorry, I'm going
to ask you to leave.

We have an investigation.

For God sakes, Tommy,

this is no time to get pissy.

We have jurisdiction here.

Any suspects yet, Detective?

I don't work for you, sir.

And, unless you hear different
from the attorney general,

this case is a local matter.

Agent Mulder,
we should go.

There's no need to get
bent out of shape.

On the contrary,

I think I've been
exceedingly polite.

So what's eating that guy?

He was perfectly
in his rights.

The FBI has no
overriding jurisdiction

on a murder case.

Anyway, you'd feel
the same way

if someone was horning in
on your work.

Yeah, chances are
he's without a clue.

He'll probably be
scratching his head

when they bring
the next body in.

You missed your
opening, Mulder.

You could have
really humiliated him

and told him who
the perpetrator was--

the Jersey Devil.

(Mulder laughs quietly)

Hey, what do you say
we grab a hotel,

take in a floor show,

drop a few quarters
in the slot,

do a little digging
on this case?

You're kidding, right?

Okay, we can skip
the floor show.

Mulder, I have to be
back in DC.

You got a date?
No.

I have my godson's
birthday party at 6:30.

What are you doing?

A little poking around.

Maybe make a weekend
out of it.

Mulder, it's a three-hour
drive back, by myself.

In Friday-night traffic.

(coins jingling,
people shouting)

Change for 50.

Change?

Found the body
just over there,

lying facedown on the rocks.

32 years
with the park service,

I've come across
some weird stuff

but, I tell you,
never anything like this.

The victim was a homeless man.

You get many of them
wandering around out here?

Well, occasionally,
I'll see some,

but most are scared
of the woods.

Scared?

Of what?

I don't know.

The devil.

People say that's just a myth.

Depends on who you talk to.

What do you think?

Well, like I said,
you know, 32 years...

I see a lot of weird stuff.

Like one time...

a little over four years ago,

I saw what I thought
was a large man

come out of a copse
of birch trees--

not-not a stitch of clothing.

He was about
60 yards away.

And he starts
sniffing the air,

you know, like a dog?

And then he looks
straight at me

and I swear, he smelled me,

because he took off
into the woods so fast,

you'd swear he wasn't human.
Really.

Yeah.

You never saw him again?
No.

But I feel him.

And...

I've found things.

Some scat,
half-buried like a cat's,

only more human.

Found a half-eaten rabbit
with what looked like

a human cuspid tooth in it,
and some deer bones

looked like they'd been
sharpened into tools.

Do you think it might be

what's responsible
for the body you found?

Well... (chuckles)

I got a pension coming up
in a few years.

You know, you say
the wrong thing...

Yeah.

You know, I'll tell you
one thing:

I don't ever come out here
without my weapon anymore.

How far is it into town
from here?

About a mile,
mile and a half.

I'm staying
at the Galaxy Gateway

for the next couple days.

If you think of anything,
will you call me?

Sure.

All right.

(children laughing,
party horns tooting)

Look at this gorilla!

Where am I?
I can't see!

Where am I?

(boy grunts, then cries)

(crying continues)

Oh, come here.

It's okay.
It's all right.

What happened?

Did you bump your head?

Mm...

WOMAN:
Oh, Cruiser, stop that!

Go on.

What... what happened?

Jungle warfare.

Oh, I'm going to kill
that dog.

If the hit squad doesn't
get to him before you do.

I'm so glad
you're here, Dana.

BOY:
Get off me! Cruiser!

WOMAN:
Get down!

(noisemakers blowing)

(boys yelling)

Oh, you're amazing.

What?

You're such a natural
at all this.

I don't know how
you keep it all together.

Mommy radar.

Mm! I don't think
I'm cut out for this, Ellenn.

Dana, you went through
the FBI Academy.

What better training
could there be

for motherhood?

Seriously.

You're great with kids.

What are you talking about?

When am I supposed
to find the time?

Well, first,
you have to get a life.

And, of course,
it helps if you can find a man.

Know of any?

Yeah, they're
disappearing

faster than the Brazilian
rain forest.

What about that guy
you work with?

Mulder?

Yeah, I thought
you said he was cute.

He's a jerk.

He's not a jerk.

He's, um...

he's obsessed
with his work.

(noisemakers blowing,
boys yelling, doorbell ringing)

Hi.
Hi.

I'm Rob.
I'm Scott's dad.

Oh! Come in.

Thanks.

Hey, Tiger.

How you doing?

Having a good time?

(whispering):
Divorced.

(boys laughing, shouting)

(people talking)

Did anybody here
know Roger Crockett?

He was murdered two days ago.

Ma'am, can I...?

WOMAN: Hey, honey, you got
spare change?

MULDER:
Roger Crockett, anybody?

What do you want to know?

Did you know
Roger Crockett?

Did you hear how he died?

Yeah.

Any ideas
who might have done it?

You a cop?

No. I'm FBI.

I'll show you something.

Okay.

I need some money.

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What is this?

Stuck in the pocket
of a jacket I found.

Does it mean anything to you?

I've seen it.

Where?
Right here.

Here?
Digging in the trash.

Are you hustling me?

Swear to God.

What do you think it is?

I don't know.

Scared the hell
out of me.

Has anybody else seen it?

Oh, yeah.
Everybody's pretty freaked.

Anybody tell the cops?

You think they don't know?

Where you sleeping tonight?

You're standing
in my bedroom.

You know the Galaxy Gateway?

Room 756.

Go ahead.

Hey, they got HBO?

(chuckles)

Yeah, they do.

(rustling, dog barking)

(fence rattling)

(soft thudding)

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(ragged breathing)

(soft grunting)

(sniffing)

(whistling)

(siren whoops)

Sir.
You got a man up on that roof.

Nothing to be afraid of.
We can give you a warm
place to sleep it off.

Hey, back off.

All right, calm down.
I'm telling you,

there's a man up on that roof!

Get in the car!
Now.

What the hell do you
think you're doing?

Enjoying the night life

here in beautiful
Atlantic City.

I'll go right to the
D.A.'s Office, if I have to.

Obstructing an investigation,
misconduct...

Let's go,
let's go see her together.

And while we're at it,
why don't we add

"withholding evidence"
to the list.

What are you talking about?

Statements given to you
describing something

stalking the back streets
of Atlantic City.

This is the fishing trip

they get me up
at 3:00 in the morning for?

Unbelievable.

Why else would you be
sweeping the streets tonight?

You know it's out there.

I got a perpetrator out there.

Whether it's Hannibal the
Cannibal or Elmer Fudd,

I've got a job
to protect people.

Oh, is that your job?

Or is it
to keep the dice rolling,

keep the tour buses rolling in.

You can't fill those casinos,
this town disappears

like a quarter
down the slot.

I've seen it.

Seen what?

(chuckling)

You've been spending
too much time

in supermarket
check-out lines.

This story's
as old as the hills.

Who's going to be responsible

when you lose your first
tourist, Detective?

You are.

No, you are, sir,

because you're
wasting my time

and impeding the solution
of this case.

You want to go on a safari,
go to Africa.

In the meantime,
enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Agent Scully.

Agent Mulder,
line three.

Where are you?

Not far from where you left me.

You're still in Atlantic City?

Uh, Scully, you got anything
happening this morning?

What's that noise
in the background?

(retching)

That's a guy getting sick.

Mulder, where are you?

The drunk tank?

Well, it's not hard to see

why they mistook you
for a vagrant.

You going to rag on me

or are you going to take me
to get me something to eat?

Am I buying

or did you manage to panhandle
some spare change

while you were at it?

It moved like a cat,
quick and graceful.

There's no way a human could've
gotten up on the roof that fast.

Mulder.

What?

What's gonna happen when word of
this gets back to the Bureau?

They dropped the charges.
That guy Tomson,

he ran me through the system
just to spite me.

I'm talking about
this Jersey Devil thing.

I saw it-- it's exactly the way
the ranger described.

The way it moved,
the way it sniffed the air.

It's come out of the woods,
probably in search of food.

Yeah, I'll say.

It was picking through
the garbage, Scully.

If it was a man-eater,
why didn't it come after me?

Probably felt threatened
or something, because...
Mulder, listen to yourself!

You're already ascribing it
a motive and an alibi.

This thing chewed
somebody's arm off.

It's not exactly
a defensive posture.

But you do believe
that I saw something.

Don't you?
You saw something,

I'll give you that,

but I'm not about to go in
and sell it

not when it's nothing more than
a sighting in a dark alley.

I've still got a hotel room
I'm paying for.

Well, I have to get back
to Washington by 7:30, so, uh...

Another birthday party?

No.

I have a date.

Can you cancel?

Unlike you, Mulder,
I would like to have a life.

I have a life.

Come on. I have somebody
I want you to meet

on the way home.

Come on.

Hold on.

Just about every
culture has one--

Yeti, Sasquatch, the Russian
almas, the sonnequat.

Why is that?

It's a universal
wild man myth--

a symbolic fear of our
dual natures as humans

as creators of life
and destroyers of it.

What's this chart?

It shows
the historic entry

of man onto each continent

and the effect it had
on other animal species,

which, as you see,
has been disastrous.

Why?

We humans have retained
hereditary traits

through evolution

that have proven to be
extremely destructive.

We tend to be tribal
and aggressively territorial,

oriented by selfish sexual
and reproductive drives

that make cooperation
beyond the family or tribe

extremely hard for us.

So we kill other species
in order to survive.

Yeah, humans are
top carnivores.

We sit at the top
of the food chain

and we reduce other species'
chances of survival.

Well, nice to know Dana left
here with more than a degree.

But what if something
entered the food chain above us?

Nah. It won't happen.

Our intelligence
virtually ensures

that, barring the introduction
of some alien life-form,

we will live out our days
as rulers of the world.

But-but what if, through
some fluke of nature,

a human was born

who reverted to its
most animal instincts?

A kind
of carnivorous Neanderthal.

Wouldn't he occupy
a space above us

on the food chain?

Oh, sure.

All he'd have to do

is wait outside
any fast-food restaurant

and eat us on the way in.

Right, yeah, and-and...
and haven't there been cases

where men have been raised
in the wilderness by animals

who have no language
and hunt like predators?

Oh, yes, several--
but cannibalism is rare

even among the lower mammals.

But even when faced
with extinction?

Maybe in the jungles
of New Guinea or...

It's just highly unlikely
that what you're suggesting

could have survived
civilization or evolution

out in the woods
of New Jersey?

Highly unlikely,

but not outside the realm
of extreme possibility?

Well, it would be
an amazing discovery.

♪ ♪

ROB: Well, the hard thing was
when my wife remarried. I...

Suddenly I felt very competitive
for my son's attention.

It was weird.

I'm sure.

I became a superdad
on the weekends with Scott.

I had this
unconscious fear

of being replaced.

I actually had dreams

where I was running over
his stepfather with my car.

You'll understand
when you have kids.

Having kids
changes everything.

That's what they say.

Maybe some weekend,
if you're up for it,

we could take the kids
out to the beach for the day.

Yeah.

Great.

Thank you.

So, can I ask
about the case you're on

or can't you say?

Well...

I don't think it's a case
we should discuss over dinner.

I don't suppose
you'd want to hear

about the finer points of estate
planning and taxation?

(telephone ringing)

Mulder.

Agent Mulder,
this is Peter Brouillet

of the Jersey Parks Department.

Oh, yeah. Hi.
Hi.

I found a body
out in the woods today.

It looks like it's been dead
six to eight months.

A long-haired male

missing the same tooth I found
in that rabbit awhile back.

It could be your devil.

Where's the body now?

I turned it over
to the coroner's office.

You're sure it was a male?

Well, it had all the plumbing.

Excuse me.

Mm-hmm.

(pager beeping)

I'm sorry.

Excuse me.

Certainly.

(ringing)

Scully.

Mulder.

Sorry to interrupt your evening.

That's okay.

What's up?

I just had an amazing thought.

Maybe it isn't a beast man
we're looking for after all.

Well, if they picked it up,

nobody logged the body
on the chart.

I sure haven't seen it.

I don't understand.

What else would they
have done with it?

I'm afraid we may have

called you
down here for nothing.

They're gonna try to sweep

this whole thing
under the carpet.

Why?

Any publicity

and you've got
the streets crawling

with kind of people who aren't
here to play the crap tables.

Word gets out
there's something

still on the loose,
forget it.

You said it was a female?

The body they found
was a male.

There's a 50-50 chance
there was a mate.

We may never know unless
we find out ourselves.

If it's true...

what are the chances
of capturing it alive?

If it is a primate,

it would have
a natural fear of heights.

It would also want

to stay close
to its food source.

This thing has
no fear of heights.

We'll stay together and
start with the lower floors.

How much time
will that dart give us?

It will put down

a 500-pound bear
for an hour...

if I hit it.

(door creaking)

What the hell's a park ranger
vehicle doing here?

I don't know.

(indistinct police radio
communication)

Check it out.

Can you run
a check for me on...?

(pigeons cooing)

Something here!

It's blood.

She could be bringing
her killing here.

She could be injured.

Roger.
Zebra team in position.

♪ ♪

What if it is
a female, Scully?

How close is she
to you or me?

Does she feel emotion?

Or are her days just spent
looking for food?

Maybe she spends her days
shopping.

Eight million years
out of Africa--

I don't think
we're all that different.

Mulder, we've put men
into space.

We've built computers

that work faster
than the human mind.

While we
overpopulate the world

and create new technologies
to kill each other with?

Maybe we're just beasts
with big brains.

What?

No, I was just...

thinking about
my godson's birthday party.

Eight little six-year-old boys
running around.

Talk about
primitive behavior.

TOMSON: Now, look,
his name is Mulder

and he's a Federal agent.

You ever hear of him?

No.

You know him?
No.

Well, what are you
doing here?

I'm a professor
of anthropology.

Mulder. Does that
sound familiar to you?

Look, I know
he's here somewhere.

Will you check upstairs, Andrew?
Go check upstairs?

I want this place searched
top to bottom.

MAN:
Make a move!

(officers shouting
in distance)

Move, move!

(footsteps)

SCULLY:
Mulder...

Mulder, where are you?

(footsteps)

(grunting)

(grunting)

(metallic clanking)

(fan squeaking)

♪ ♪

(snarling)

(Mulder gasping)

(quiet, raspy grunting)

♪ ♪

(snarls)

(groaning)

Mulder?

(grunting)

Scully...!

Lay back.

Oh, Mulder, you're hurt.

You should have
seen her.

She was beautiful.

Yeah, well, she just about
ripped your lungs out.

She could have torn my head off,
Scully, but she didn't

Try to hold still.
'cause she sensed
that I wasn't a threat.

Yeah, I need to talk to someone

who can give me Federal
jurisdiction on this case.

Mulder!
How old would you
say she was?

What? What?
The U.S. Assistant D.A.
is on the phone

with the Bureau right now.

He wants to know what
the hell is going on

up here in Atlantic City.

Tell him he's got a real live
Neanderthal on the loose.

She was young... I don't know,
it's hard to say exactly.

The Atlantic City Major Crime
Unit has filed a complaint

that we're endangering
a murder investigation.

That is such crap...
Hey, Mulder,
they got her...

they got her cornered
in a building.

Let's go.

TOMSON: Can you see it?
It crawled into the wall.

Get a man in there.

That's affirmative.

And keep these people
out of here.

You can take her alive. Aah!
Out of here!

(man yelling over radio)
What's going on in there?

I've got a man down.

We got a naked woman just jumped

from a second-story window.

Suspect is headed south
into the woods on foot.

Good boy. Come on.

I know these woods.

If she's going for cover,
she'll be down by the rocks.

(men talking indistinctly)

Look.

Can you reach her
from here?

I can try.

(grunting)

(distant gunshot)

(gunshot)

(men yelling)

MAN: I got it!
Good shot.

Look! Up ahead!

She tried to take
my arm off.

That's it. Right there.

MAN 2: Looks like she's
trying to bury herself.

Why did you have
to kill her?

Same reason you kill
a rabid animal.

(sighing)

Hi.

This just came through.

It's the posthumous medical exam
of the woman's body.

They found fragments
of human bone

still in her
digestive tract.

They estimated her age
to be 25 to 30 years.

Now, they allowed Dr. Diamond
to do a medical exam of the body

but he found nothing

that suggested
prehistoric bone structure

or physiology.

Now, the ACPD has her listed
as a Jane Doe,

and a search
for her identity

and state psychiatric records
has begun in earnest.

Good luck.

They have also released
the medical exam

from the male body
that they found.

His age is estimated
to be about 40 years.

There would have been
offspring.

(sighs)

The medical exam
of the woman's uterus

does seem to indicate

that she may have
given birth.

She was just protecting
her children, Scully.

It all makes sense.

The male dies
and she comes out of the woods

in search of food.

Mulder, will you
do me a favor?

Will you just go out
and have a beer?

Will you take the day off?

I'll cover for you.

Will you just take some
time for yourself.

Thanks for the offer,
but I've got an appointment

at the Smithsonian
with an ethnobiologist.

(telephone ringing)
I can't wait to tell him
about this.

Mulder.

Yeah, just a second.

It's for you.

Hello?

Hi, Dana. It's Rob.

Oh, hi.

Sorry to call you at work,

it's just I have
I have Scott for the night

and we have two extra tickets
for Cirque du Soleil.

We thought maybe you'd like
to ask Ellenn

if you could take Trent
and join us.

Requisition for a car,
please, Fran.

Thank you.

Who was that
on the phone?

A guy.
A guy.

Same guy as the guy
you had dinner with
the other night?

Same guy.

You going to have dinner
with him again?

I don't think so.

No interest.

Not at this time.

Thanks, Fran.

What are you doing?

Going with you
to the Smithsonian.

Don't you have
a life, Scully?

You keep that up, Mulder,
and I'll hurt you

like that beast woman.

Eight million years
out of Africa.

And look who's
holding the door.

Dad, did you just see
something down there?

Where?
Over there.

No. I'm sure
it was nothing.

No. I saw something.

Hey, did you ever hear the story
of the Jersey Devil?

You know, when I was a kid,

my dad used to tell
this story

about a creature

who lived out there
in the woods.

It was half man,
half animal.

I used to believe...

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