The X-Files (1993–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Shadows - full transcript
Scully and Mulder are called in by two secretive government agents and asked if they've ever had an X file with similarities to their most recent case. Two men were found dead in an alley but still have a residual electrostatic charge and it appears their throat and larynx were crushed, but from the inside. Mulder manages to get a fingerprint from each of the dead men and learns they both had ties to terrorist organizations. Using video firm a nearby ATM, they find that the two men had attacked Lauren Kyte a secretary at Defense Department contractor HTG Industrial Tecnologies. She's recently decided to leave her job after the death of her boss Howard Graves, who recently committed suicide. Lauren isn't sure how she got away from those men or how they were killed. It all leads Mulder to believe to believe that Lauren may have a guardian angel.
Lauren, I've been looking ev...
Are you all right?
Do you want some water?
No. I'm fine.
Oh, honey, it's been
a couple of weeks now.
Do you want to talk?
No. Really, Jane, I'm okay.
I just, uh, just haven't known
a lot of people
who have died, you know.
I've never known anybody
that killed themselves.
Oh... maybe once everything
gets packed away,
it will get easier.
There won't be the
constant reminder.
Here's your paycheck.
Come on. Go home.
Okay.
I have no money!
Oh, no, let me go, no!
Food.
I think I'll pass.
Hey, I know a good
place to crash.
Up the fire escape,
through that window.
Come on, I'll give you a boost.
Pull it down.
I can't get it down.
Come on, pull.
Come on.
Hurry up.
Agent Scully, Agent Mulder,
Chief Blevins assures us
of your cooperation.
We regret any inconvenience
at this extreme hour.
We hope that your expertise
in extraordinary phenomenon
will help us
answer some questions.
You're not FBI, are you?
Have you ever analyzed
anything like this before?
Abnormal postmortem
muscle reflex.
Both corpses
are still responding
to exposure to high levels
of electrostatic charge.
Any signs of external lesions
or surface burns?
None.
Time of death?
Well, it can't be long.
The body's still warm.
Somatic death occurred
sometime over six hours ago,
but their body temperatures
have yet to drop
below 98.3 degrees.
Where did you find them?
Look, at least tell us
the time and mode of transport.
That might help us
determine why the bodies
haven't cooled.
Hey,
you guys called us down here.
You want some answers,
you got to give some.
They traveled 60 minutes by air.
Thank you.
The most troubling aspect
of the deaths
is the throat area.
Larynx, esophagus,
and hyoid bone
all have been crushed
like chalk.
There's no abrasions or
evidence of tissue damage.
It's as if their
throats were crushed
from the inside.
Who are these guys?
If you've done
your examinations,
why are you consulting us?
During your work on the X Files,
have you ever seen
anything like this?
No, never.
Well, thank you
very much for your time,
Agent Mulder, Scully.
If any inquiry
as to this meeting be made,
we request full denial.
I'd say you people already
suffer from full denial.
You lied.
You have seen it
before, I can tell.
You lied to them.
I would never lie.
I willfully participated
in a campaign of misinformation.
Who do you think they were?
NSA, CIA, some
covert organization
that Congress will uncover
in the next scandal.
It's not important who
they are but what they have,
and I'm sure they have no idea
because they called us in.
I have X Files...
each case has an element
of what we saw tonight...
residual electrostatic charge,
internal mutilation
without any corresponding
causality,
but none has all the elements
combined in one case.
How can an esophagus be crushed
without the neck
ever being touched?
Psychokinetic manipulation.
Psychokinesis?
You mean, how Carrie
got even at the prom?
The Russians were
doing studies on it.
The Chinese still are.
Their findings are kept secret.
Okay, I'm intrigued, but
how can we investigate?
We have nothing to go on.
Just getting in, Lauren?
Oh... yes.
Mr. Graves used to let
you get away with that,
but Mr. Dorlund
is in charge now.
I was, um...
wondering if I could have
a minute with him?
Tomorrow... at 3:00.
Can I see him today?
It's really important.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, my suit.
Is everything
all right out here?
Can I speak with you?
Hmm.
Please.
Um, I'm here to give
my two-week notice.
Uh-huh.
Lauren, Jane told me
about you crying
in Howard's office,
and I, I want you to
know you're not alone.
As a matter of fact, we
share something special.
Howard and I started
this company
ten years ago, and as
long as I knew him,
he had no interest in
anything besides work,
and so some of us became family.
I was his brother
and you were like
a daughter to him,
so of course
I feel very close to you,
and I...
I want to take
care of my family.
Stay, Lauren, please.
The company needs you.
Especially now.
I won't let you leave, Lauren.
What's wrong?
I, uh... I can't.
I, I have to leave.
I c... I can't be here anymore.
You've got two weeks.
Mohammed Amrollahi.
Convictions:
illegal possession of firearms,
illegal possession
of explosives,
falsification of
export licenses.
He has ties
to an exiled extremist group
operating in the U.S...
the Isfahan.
They take their name
from the city in Iran.
Recently they've been working
out of Philadelphia.
That's 60 air minutes.
I'll talk to the Philly PD.
It was last Wednesday night.
I was just on routine patrol.
This is where we found him.
Who discovered their bodies?
Nobody.
It was about 10:00,
I was on patrol.
Saw them hanging around.
No witnesses?
The kind of people
that come around here
after business hours
don't witness very much.
You know what I'm saying.
Well, I appreciate your help.
If you can think of anything else,
please give us a call.
A daily visual record is made
of everyone who
makes a transaction.
We'll just have to question
everyone on record
who was at the machine
before 10:00 that night.
There.
I'll back up.
"Lauren Kyte.
858 Franklin, Bensalem."
Why would the Isfahan be
robbing someone of 40 bucks
- at an ATM machine?
- Look at that.
Maybe it's another person.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Well, the resolution's too poor.
It won't help much
to enhance it.
That leaves us only one person
we know we can talk to.
Oh, come on.
Hello?
Ms. Lauren Kyte, please.
I'm Agent Fox Mulder.
This is Agent Dana Scully.
We're with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Do we mind if we come in?
Oh, uh, I was just
in the middle of...
Thank you, we won't
be long, thank you.
Have you ever seen either
of these two men before?
No.
Take your time.
No, I-I'm sorry, I've,
I've never seen them before.
I'm afraid you have.
This is a surveillance
picture from your ATM.
Can you tell us what
happened that night?
Um... these
guys, I...
I was depositing my paycheck.
They grabbed me,
I got away, I ran.
I, I just didn't want
to file a report.
They were found dead.
Have you ever seen
this person before?
No.
I'm sorry, I can't tell you.
Does that mean you know?
Uh... it means I...
I can't tell you who it is.
Well, when you can tell me,
this is a number I can
be reached at any time.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
A woman her size breaking free
and outrunning those men?
Then somehow
crushing their necks?
She knows who the other person
in the photo is.
She's packing, running away,
but from what?
What's happening?
What the hell is going on?
Hang on.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
The paramedics check you out?
Yeah. I'm fine,
although I do have
a standing-in-line-at-
the-DMV-sized headache.
Mine's more IRS-sized.
Did they check out the car?
Yeah, it's brand-new.
Only 100 miles.
Then someone tampered with it
while we were in her house.
The mechanic says
everything's in proper order.
Nothing cut, nothing greased.
Check out the lights.
They're on.
They're not... the
filaments are heated
due to massive levels
of electrostatic charge,
just like the bodies
in the morgue.
And isn't it interesting
that Lauren Kyte
was present at both incidents?
She was in our presence
the entire time
we were at her house.
What if it's possible somehow
to raise the body's
electrostatic charge
to the levels we've been seeing
and to use that energy
to affect objects?
If a person could generate
that much energy,
their body would break down.
They-They'd start glowing
like those lights.
Well, there's evidence of this
all through the X Files...
furniture moving untouched,
objects levitating,
unexplained
electrical discharges.
Frequently, people who have
psychokinetic power
are unaware
of their own capability.
Are you saying Lauren
Kyte crashed our car?
Either that or a poltergeist.
They're here.
They may be.
Oh, come on, Mulder, look
at the tangible evidence.
Two Mideast extremists
were killed
trying to assault
a woman working
for a manufacturer of parts
for the Defense Department.
When we questioned her,
our car was sabotaged.
Now, in both cases, someone else
may have committed those acts...
maybe the same someone
we saw in the ATM photos.
The mystery isn't
psychokinetic energy.
It's her accomplice.
Excuse me, sir, excuse me.
She's clean... no arrest,
not even a traffic ticket.
The only thing is,
she's in deep with her
credit card company... $15,000.
What do you think you're
doing? What are you doing?
No, no.
I'll take care
of this, all right?
Just go.
Here, I'll,
I'll talk to somebody.
A little upset over losing
a parking space,
wouldn't you say?
So, who is Howard
Graves, anyway?
She was his secretary.
That's three people
dead in the last month
associated with Lauren Kyte.
You won't find too many people
at their boss' grave who
aren't dancing on it.
Look at this one.
Excuse me, sir?
Is there an office
where I can get some information
on those people?
Who? I attend
every funeral.
I'm the last person to
see them put to rest.
Do you know how Sarah Lynn
was related to Howard Graves?
His daughter.
They were at home one day
and he didn't latch
the pool gate.
She drowned.
His wife left him a year later.
She's buried in a plot
in the northeast corner.
Thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
She was only three years old.
If she had lived,
she'd be Lauren's age.
Further investigation into
Lauren Kyte's personal history
reveals an estrangement
from her family.
Phone records confirm
no contact with her parents
for the last two years.
Her actions,
observed during surveillance,
indicate a strong relationship
between Lauren Kyte
and her employer,
the late Howard Graves.
Was this relationship somehow
the motivation for his suicide?
How are the attack
and the subsequent murders
of the Isfahan agents related,
if at all?
I am certain the answers
to these questions lie
in finding the identity
of Lauren Kyte's accomplice.
Enhance it by ten.
That's Howard Graves.
He's alive.
Not necessarily.
No... no.
Don't do this to me.
Howard.
No.
No.
Stop, no, no.
Please, no.
Howard.
They killed him.
I think Howard Graves
fabricated his own death.
Do you know how difficult it
is to fake your own death?
Only one man
has pulled it off... Elvis.
He and Lauren Kyte
are in on something.
Maybe an illegal dealing
through his company...
something the CIA
was interested in.
You may be right.
Wait.
You think I'm right?
Sure. All you got to do
is prove Howard Graves
is still alive.
Howard Graves is very dead.
May we see
the autopsy report, please?
Knock yourself out.
Uh... "cause of death:
arterial hemorrhage..."
Four out of six liters of blood
down the tub.
Well, there seems to be
some blood work missing here.
We only do that
if we suspect homicide.
I don't suppose you ran
any dental confirmations?
What for?
It was him.
How did you know?
It said so on the toe tag.
Who made positive
I.D. on the body?
Lauren Kyte.
But Howard Graves was cremated.
There's no way to run a dental
check or to get a DNA sample.
Yes, there is.
His body's tissues
and organs were donated.
Howard Graves
is in five different people.
They harvested the organs
immediately after death.
His kidneys were sent to Boston,
his liver to Dallas,
and his corneas to
Portland, Oregon.
They've all been transplanted.
Because of his age,
we could only cryopreserve
the dura mater
in the membrane of
the spinal column.
We have Mr. Graves'
hospital records.
We'll extract a
sample, run a test,
and in a couple of hours
confirm the identity
of the donor.
I, uh, made them rush
so you could have your check
before you leave.
Oh.
Oh, I'm going to miss you.
Oh.
Oh, what?
Here.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
You were gonna leave
without saying good-bye?
Well, uh, I-I came
to say good-bye and to,
to wish you luck...
and to leave you
with this little thought.
I know Howard told you,
and if it ever gets out,
I won't waste my time
trying to pin the source.
I'll go straight to you.
And you'll do to me
what you did to Howard?
I know you had him killed.
Why would you say that?
He told me.
Mulder.
This is Lauren Kyte.
How soon can you be at my house?
Why?
Please hurry.
The tests are conclusive.
The dura mater
does belong to Howard Graves.
He is, indeed, very dead.
Just a second.
Go run the bath.
Get out of here!
No!
Aah!
No, no.
No!
No!
No!
No, no...!
No!
You know, you're
not under arrest.
You're just here
for questioning.
The sooner you talk to us,
the sooner you get to go home.
What happened
to those people tonight?
Do you have any idea
who they might be?
Why did they attack you?
Do you know who this is?
Scully, Mulder.
He'll keep an eye on her.
Come on now.
You've seriously compromised
our investigation.
We were following leads
pertaining to an X File.
I want to know every detail
of your activities
concerning this case.
What case?
You're the ones
who have been
withholding information.
Why don't you tell
us what you've got?
Then we have nothing more
to talk about.
Wait, we believe
HTG Industrial Technologies
sold restricted parts
- to the Isfahan.
- Partial serial numbers
from their manifests were
recovered in the wreckage
of the July bombing of
a navy transport van.
How is Lauren Kyte involved?
We don't quite know.
Your actions impeded
our investigation.
In any case we don't have
enough evidence to hold her.
If she doesn't talk,
she goes free
and we lose our chance
to break this company.
I could make her talk.
My advice to you:
don't get rough with her.
Hmm, that was a waste of time.
Your turn.
Lauren...
I won't talk to you either.
Okay. Then you're
free to go.
I can't go back to that house.
Why?
Because of Howard Graves?
He's dead.
I know.
He's watching over you,
isn't he?
I don't know if you've ever
been a secretary before.
Sometimes your boss can talk
as if you weren't
even in the room,
which can hurt, you know,
but sometimes you're
all he has to talk to,
which was how it always
was with me and Howard.
One night, late,
I went into his office.
He was crying,
more scared than sad.
The Pentagon contracts
were being canceled,
the company was going under.
He felt personally responsible
for each of his employees.
Seeing and feeling
their fear every day...
really wore him down.
Then this one time...
Dorlund came with that group,
that, uh... Mideast group...
Isfahan,
that terrorist group.
They'd buy parts
at an outrageous price...
not just once
but for as long as they
could get away with it.
That night Howard was crying,
he had just found out
that Isfahan
had claimed responsibility
for killing a couple sailors
in Florida.
He was never the same,
and I thought
that's why he killed himself.
But he didn't.
I saw...
Howard showed me
how Dorlund had him killed.
Made it look like a suicide
'cause he could see
Howard was going
to put an end to the deal.
So now Howard is protecting you?
It sounds so ridiculous.
But you believe it?
He was closer to me
than my father.
I told him that.
I still feel his presence.
Sometimes...
I even smell his aftershave.
If you just could have...
seen the things I've seen.
I just want all that to go away.
That's why I'm leaving.
Maybe he can move on.
That's not enough.
You have been given the
chance to tell him again.
Take it.
Tell him you love him
by showing him, by...
by helping us finish
his unfinished business.
Lauren, how will you ever
be able to rest if he never can?
Okay.
I'm a mess.
I'm going to, uh... wash up.
What are you doing, Scully?
You don't believe.
Mulder, there's no such things
as ghosts or psychokinesis.
I'm sure there's an explanation,
but I believe that she believes,
and my priority is to get her
to help us stop Dorlund.
Well, we may have just
sacrificed our best opportunity
to observe spectral phenomena.
No, I'm giving us the chance
to solve a case that's tangible
instead of chasing
after shadows.
Are you ready?
All right, everyone,
we have a warrant
to search the premises
for evidence
pertaining to the sale
of restricted
manufactured parts.
The evidence may be in the form
of falsified export licenses,
parts manifests, communiqués.
It could be on computer disk
or hard copy.
Once there, if in doubt, ask.
We need this to be clean.
This is the culmination
of a year-long investigation.
If we don't come out
of there today with something
proving a connection
to the Isfahan,
this guy could walk.
Okay, let's go.
You okay?
Now, it'll most likely
be in Dorlund's office.
We'll execute the search, but
we'll need you to guide us,
so you have to be strong, okay?
Everybody stay calm.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Ma'am, could you back away
from those files, please?
Step aside, please.
This is all we could find.
We don't have him.
He's not even breaking a sweat.
Our case is blown.
We've wasted a year.
This guy's going to walk.
Let's get out of here.
Lauren, it's over,
we have to go.
What we're looking
for isn't here.
Uh, look, she's no agent.
I've been more than cooperative
and I don't want
to be combative, but she has
no right to destroy
my personal property.
Lauren.
Destroying property?
What about that van that blew up
and killed those servicemen?
Oh, I don't know what you're
talking about, you stupid bitch.
Lauren, no!
They'll kill him.
Help us find it!
Get down.
Now what's going on?
I don't know.
Mulder!
Mulder!
Mulder!
Mulder!
Oh, my God.
I guess what we're
looking for is here.
The U.S. attorney's office
is going after Dorlund
with everything they've got,
including the murder
of Howard Graves.
I'll come back to testify.
Oh... where you going?
Away from here.
Thanks.
Boy, she's in a rush
to get out of here.
Out of here or away from
the ghost of Howard Graves?
Hey, Scully, do you believe
in an afterlife?
I'd settle for a
life in this one.
Have you ever seen
the Liberty Bell?
Yes.
You know, I've been to
Philadelphia 100 times
and I've never seen it.
You're not missing much.
It's a big bell
with a big crack,
and you have to wait
in a long line.
I'd really like to go.
Why now?
I don't know.
How late do you think
they stay open?
Ms. Kyte, I asked
for this 25 minutes ago.
I know. I'm sorry.
Maybe that's the way
they work back east,
but here in the Midwest,
punctuality is a virtue.
We have to find
a new office space.
Every time a truck goes by,
the whole building shakes.
That's all, Lauren.
Are you all right?
Do you want some water?
No. I'm fine.
Oh, honey, it's been
a couple of weeks now.
Do you want to talk?
No. Really, Jane, I'm okay.
I just, uh, just haven't known
a lot of people
who have died, you know.
I've never known anybody
that killed themselves.
Oh... maybe once everything
gets packed away,
it will get easier.
There won't be the
constant reminder.
Here's your paycheck.
Come on. Go home.
Okay.
I have no money!
Oh, no, let me go, no!
Food.
I think I'll pass.
Hey, I know a good
place to crash.
Up the fire escape,
through that window.
Come on, I'll give you a boost.
Pull it down.
I can't get it down.
Come on, pull.
Come on.
Hurry up.
Agent Scully, Agent Mulder,
Chief Blevins assures us
of your cooperation.
We regret any inconvenience
at this extreme hour.
We hope that your expertise
in extraordinary phenomenon
will help us
answer some questions.
You're not FBI, are you?
Have you ever analyzed
anything like this before?
Abnormal postmortem
muscle reflex.
Both corpses
are still responding
to exposure to high levels
of electrostatic charge.
Any signs of external lesions
or surface burns?
None.
Time of death?
Well, it can't be long.
The body's still warm.
Somatic death occurred
sometime over six hours ago,
but their body temperatures
have yet to drop
below 98.3 degrees.
Where did you find them?
Look, at least tell us
the time and mode of transport.
That might help us
determine why the bodies
haven't cooled.
Hey,
you guys called us down here.
You want some answers,
you got to give some.
They traveled 60 minutes by air.
Thank you.
The most troubling aspect
of the deaths
is the throat area.
Larynx, esophagus,
and hyoid bone
all have been crushed
like chalk.
There's no abrasions or
evidence of tissue damage.
It's as if their
throats were crushed
from the inside.
Who are these guys?
If you've done
your examinations,
why are you consulting us?
During your work on the X Files,
have you ever seen
anything like this?
No, never.
Well, thank you
very much for your time,
Agent Mulder, Scully.
If any inquiry
as to this meeting be made,
we request full denial.
I'd say you people already
suffer from full denial.
You lied.
You have seen it
before, I can tell.
You lied to them.
I would never lie.
I willfully participated
in a campaign of misinformation.
Who do you think they were?
NSA, CIA, some
covert organization
that Congress will uncover
in the next scandal.
It's not important who
they are but what they have,
and I'm sure they have no idea
because they called us in.
I have X Files...
each case has an element
of what we saw tonight...
residual electrostatic charge,
internal mutilation
without any corresponding
causality,
but none has all the elements
combined in one case.
How can an esophagus be crushed
without the neck
ever being touched?
Psychokinetic manipulation.
Psychokinesis?
You mean, how Carrie
got even at the prom?
The Russians were
doing studies on it.
The Chinese still are.
Their findings are kept secret.
Okay, I'm intrigued, but
how can we investigate?
We have nothing to go on.
Just getting in, Lauren?
Oh... yes.
Mr. Graves used to let
you get away with that,
but Mr. Dorlund
is in charge now.
I was, um...
wondering if I could have
a minute with him?
Tomorrow... at 3:00.
Can I see him today?
It's really important.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, my suit.
Is everything
all right out here?
Can I speak with you?
Hmm.
Please.
Um, I'm here to give
my two-week notice.
Uh-huh.
Lauren, Jane told me
about you crying
in Howard's office,
and I, I want you to
know you're not alone.
As a matter of fact, we
share something special.
Howard and I started
this company
ten years ago, and as
long as I knew him,
he had no interest in
anything besides work,
and so some of us became family.
I was his brother
and you were like
a daughter to him,
so of course
I feel very close to you,
and I...
I want to take
care of my family.
Stay, Lauren, please.
The company needs you.
Especially now.
I won't let you leave, Lauren.
What's wrong?
I, uh... I can't.
I, I have to leave.
I c... I can't be here anymore.
You've got two weeks.
Mohammed Amrollahi.
Convictions:
illegal possession of firearms,
illegal possession
of explosives,
falsification of
export licenses.
He has ties
to an exiled extremist group
operating in the U.S...
the Isfahan.
They take their name
from the city in Iran.
Recently they've been working
out of Philadelphia.
That's 60 air minutes.
I'll talk to the Philly PD.
It was last Wednesday night.
I was just on routine patrol.
This is where we found him.
Who discovered their bodies?
Nobody.
It was about 10:00,
I was on patrol.
Saw them hanging around.
No witnesses?
The kind of people
that come around here
after business hours
don't witness very much.
You know what I'm saying.
Well, I appreciate your help.
If you can think of anything else,
please give us a call.
A daily visual record is made
of everyone who
makes a transaction.
We'll just have to question
everyone on record
who was at the machine
before 10:00 that night.
There.
I'll back up.
"Lauren Kyte.
858 Franklin, Bensalem."
Why would the Isfahan be
robbing someone of 40 bucks
- at an ATM machine?
- Look at that.
Maybe it's another person.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Well, the resolution's too poor.
It won't help much
to enhance it.
That leaves us only one person
we know we can talk to.
Oh, come on.
Hello?
Ms. Lauren Kyte, please.
I'm Agent Fox Mulder.
This is Agent Dana Scully.
We're with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Do we mind if we come in?
Oh, uh, I was just
in the middle of...
Thank you, we won't
be long, thank you.
Have you ever seen either
of these two men before?
No.
Take your time.
No, I-I'm sorry, I've,
I've never seen them before.
I'm afraid you have.
This is a surveillance
picture from your ATM.
Can you tell us what
happened that night?
Um... these
guys, I...
I was depositing my paycheck.
They grabbed me,
I got away, I ran.
I, I just didn't want
to file a report.
They were found dead.
Have you ever seen
this person before?
No.
I'm sorry, I can't tell you.
Does that mean you know?
Uh... it means I...
I can't tell you who it is.
Well, when you can tell me,
this is a number I can
be reached at any time.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
A woman her size breaking free
and outrunning those men?
Then somehow
crushing their necks?
She knows who the other person
in the photo is.
She's packing, running away,
but from what?
What's happening?
What the hell is going on?
Hang on.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
The paramedics check you out?
Yeah. I'm fine,
although I do have
a standing-in-line-at-
the-DMV-sized headache.
Mine's more IRS-sized.
Did they check out the car?
Yeah, it's brand-new.
Only 100 miles.
Then someone tampered with it
while we were in her house.
The mechanic says
everything's in proper order.
Nothing cut, nothing greased.
Check out the lights.
They're on.
They're not... the
filaments are heated
due to massive levels
of electrostatic charge,
just like the bodies
in the morgue.
And isn't it interesting
that Lauren Kyte
was present at both incidents?
She was in our presence
the entire time
we were at her house.
What if it's possible somehow
to raise the body's
electrostatic charge
to the levels we've been seeing
and to use that energy
to affect objects?
If a person could generate
that much energy,
their body would break down.
They-They'd start glowing
like those lights.
Well, there's evidence of this
all through the X Files...
furniture moving untouched,
objects levitating,
unexplained
electrical discharges.
Frequently, people who have
psychokinetic power
are unaware
of their own capability.
Are you saying Lauren
Kyte crashed our car?
Either that or a poltergeist.
They're here.
They may be.
Oh, come on, Mulder, look
at the tangible evidence.
Two Mideast extremists
were killed
trying to assault
a woman working
for a manufacturer of parts
for the Defense Department.
When we questioned her,
our car was sabotaged.
Now, in both cases, someone else
may have committed those acts...
maybe the same someone
we saw in the ATM photos.
The mystery isn't
psychokinetic energy.
It's her accomplice.
Excuse me, sir, excuse me.
She's clean... no arrest,
not even a traffic ticket.
The only thing is,
she's in deep with her
credit card company... $15,000.
What do you think you're
doing? What are you doing?
No, no.
I'll take care
of this, all right?
Just go.
Here, I'll,
I'll talk to somebody.
A little upset over losing
a parking space,
wouldn't you say?
So, who is Howard
Graves, anyway?
She was his secretary.
That's three people
dead in the last month
associated with Lauren Kyte.
You won't find too many people
at their boss' grave who
aren't dancing on it.
Look at this one.
Excuse me, sir?
Is there an office
where I can get some information
on those people?
Who? I attend
every funeral.
I'm the last person to
see them put to rest.
Do you know how Sarah Lynn
was related to Howard Graves?
His daughter.
They were at home one day
and he didn't latch
the pool gate.
She drowned.
His wife left him a year later.
She's buried in a plot
in the northeast corner.
Thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
She was only three years old.
If she had lived,
she'd be Lauren's age.
Further investigation into
Lauren Kyte's personal history
reveals an estrangement
from her family.
Phone records confirm
no contact with her parents
for the last two years.
Her actions,
observed during surveillance,
indicate a strong relationship
between Lauren Kyte
and her employer,
the late Howard Graves.
Was this relationship somehow
the motivation for his suicide?
How are the attack
and the subsequent murders
of the Isfahan agents related,
if at all?
I am certain the answers
to these questions lie
in finding the identity
of Lauren Kyte's accomplice.
Enhance it by ten.
That's Howard Graves.
He's alive.
Not necessarily.
No... no.
Don't do this to me.
Howard.
No.
No.
Stop, no, no.
Please, no.
Howard.
They killed him.
I think Howard Graves
fabricated his own death.
Do you know how difficult it
is to fake your own death?
Only one man
has pulled it off... Elvis.
He and Lauren Kyte
are in on something.
Maybe an illegal dealing
through his company...
something the CIA
was interested in.
You may be right.
Wait.
You think I'm right?
Sure. All you got to do
is prove Howard Graves
is still alive.
Howard Graves is very dead.
May we see
the autopsy report, please?
Knock yourself out.
Uh... "cause of death:
arterial hemorrhage..."
Four out of six liters of blood
down the tub.
Well, there seems to be
some blood work missing here.
We only do that
if we suspect homicide.
I don't suppose you ran
any dental confirmations?
What for?
It was him.
How did you know?
It said so on the toe tag.
Who made positive
I.D. on the body?
Lauren Kyte.
But Howard Graves was cremated.
There's no way to run a dental
check or to get a DNA sample.
Yes, there is.
His body's tissues
and organs were donated.
Howard Graves
is in five different people.
They harvested the organs
immediately after death.
His kidneys were sent to Boston,
his liver to Dallas,
and his corneas to
Portland, Oregon.
They've all been transplanted.
Because of his age,
we could only cryopreserve
the dura mater
in the membrane of
the spinal column.
We have Mr. Graves'
hospital records.
We'll extract a
sample, run a test,
and in a couple of hours
confirm the identity
of the donor.
I, uh, made them rush
so you could have your check
before you leave.
Oh.
Oh, I'm going to miss you.
Oh.
Oh, what?
Here.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
You were gonna leave
without saying good-bye?
Well, uh, I-I came
to say good-bye and to,
to wish you luck...
and to leave you
with this little thought.
I know Howard told you,
and if it ever gets out,
I won't waste my time
trying to pin the source.
I'll go straight to you.
And you'll do to me
what you did to Howard?
I know you had him killed.
Why would you say that?
He told me.
Mulder.
This is Lauren Kyte.
How soon can you be at my house?
Why?
Please hurry.
The tests are conclusive.
The dura mater
does belong to Howard Graves.
He is, indeed, very dead.
Just a second.
Go run the bath.
Get out of here!
No!
Aah!
No, no.
No!
No!
No!
No, no...!
No!
You know, you're
not under arrest.
You're just here
for questioning.
The sooner you talk to us,
the sooner you get to go home.
What happened
to those people tonight?
Do you have any idea
who they might be?
Why did they attack you?
Do you know who this is?
Scully, Mulder.
He'll keep an eye on her.
Come on now.
You've seriously compromised
our investigation.
We were following leads
pertaining to an X File.
I want to know every detail
of your activities
concerning this case.
What case?
You're the ones
who have been
withholding information.
Why don't you tell
us what you've got?
Then we have nothing more
to talk about.
Wait, we believe
HTG Industrial Technologies
sold restricted parts
- to the Isfahan.
- Partial serial numbers
from their manifests were
recovered in the wreckage
of the July bombing of
a navy transport van.
How is Lauren Kyte involved?
We don't quite know.
Your actions impeded
our investigation.
In any case we don't have
enough evidence to hold her.
If she doesn't talk,
she goes free
and we lose our chance
to break this company.
I could make her talk.
My advice to you:
don't get rough with her.
Hmm, that was a waste of time.
Your turn.
Lauren...
I won't talk to you either.
Okay. Then you're
free to go.
I can't go back to that house.
Why?
Because of Howard Graves?
He's dead.
I know.
He's watching over you,
isn't he?
I don't know if you've ever
been a secretary before.
Sometimes your boss can talk
as if you weren't
even in the room,
which can hurt, you know,
but sometimes you're
all he has to talk to,
which was how it always
was with me and Howard.
One night, late,
I went into his office.
He was crying,
more scared than sad.
The Pentagon contracts
were being canceled,
the company was going under.
He felt personally responsible
for each of his employees.
Seeing and feeling
their fear every day...
really wore him down.
Then this one time...
Dorlund came with that group,
that, uh... Mideast group...
Isfahan,
that terrorist group.
They'd buy parts
at an outrageous price...
not just once
but for as long as they
could get away with it.
That night Howard was crying,
he had just found out
that Isfahan
had claimed responsibility
for killing a couple sailors
in Florida.
He was never the same,
and I thought
that's why he killed himself.
But he didn't.
I saw...
Howard showed me
how Dorlund had him killed.
Made it look like a suicide
'cause he could see
Howard was going
to put an end to the deal.
So now Howard is protecting you?
It sounds so ridiculous.
But you believe it?
He was closer to me
than my father.
I told him that.
I still feel his presence.
Sometimes...
I even smell his aftershave.
If you just could have...
seen the things I've seen.
I just want all that to go away.
That's why I'm leaving.
Maybe he can move on.
That's not enough.
You have been given the
chance to tell him again.
Take it.
Tell him you love him
by showing him, by...
by helping us finish
his unfinished business.
Lauren, how will you ever
be able to rest if he never can?
Okay.
I'm a mess.
I'm going to, uh... wash up.
What are you doing, Scully?
You don't believe.
Mulder, there's no such things
as ghosts or psychokinesis.
I'm sure there's an explanation,
but I believe that she believes,
and my priority is to get her
to help us stop Dorlund.
Well, we may have just
sacrificed our best opportunity
to observe spectral phenomena.
No, I'm giving us the chance
to solve a case that's tangible
instead of chasing
after shadows.
Are you ready?
All right, everyone,
we have a warrant
to search the premises
for evidence
pertaining to the sale
of restricted
manufactured parts.
The evidence may be in the form
of falsified export licenses,
parts manifests, communiqués.
It could be on computer disk
or hard copy.
Once there, if in doubt, ask.
We need this to be clean.
This is the culmination
of a year-long investigation.
If we don't come out
of there today with something
proving a connection
to the Isfahan,
this guy could walk.
Okay, let's go.
You okay?
Now, it'll most likely
be in Dorlund's office.
We'll execute the search, but
we'll need you to guide us,
so you have to be strong, okay?
Everybody stay calm.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Ma'am, could you back away
from those files, please?
Step aside, please.
This is all we could find.
We don't have him.
He's not even breaking a sweat.
Our case is blown.
We've wasted a year.
This guy's going to walk.
Let's get out of here.
Lauren, it's over,
we have to go.
What we're looking
for isn't here.
Uh, look, she's no agent.
I've been more than cooperative
and I don't want
to be combative, but she has
no right to destroy
my personal property.
Lauren.
Destroying property?
What about that van that blew up
and killed those servicemen?
Oh, I don't know what you're
talking about, you stupid bitch.
Lauren, no!
They'll kill him.
Help us find it!
Get down.
Now what's going on?
I don't know.
Mulder!
Mulder!
Mulder!
Mulder!
Oh, my God.
I guess what we're
looking for is here.
The U.S. attorney's office
is going after Dorlund
with everything they've got,
including the murder
of Howard Graves.
I'll come back to testify.
Oh... where you going?
Away from here.
Thanks.
Boy, she's in a rush
to get out of here.
Out of here or away from
the ghost of Howard Graves?
Hey, Scully, do you believe
in an afterlife?
I'd settle for a
life in this one.
Have you ever seen
the Liberty Bell?
Yes.
You know, I've been to
Philadelphia 100 times
and I've never seen it.
You're not missing much.
It's a big bell
with a big crack,
and you have to wait
in a long line.
I'd really like to go.
Why now?
I don't know.
How late do you think
they stay open?
Ms. Kyte, I asked
for this 25 minutes ago.
I know. I'm sorry.
Maybe that's the way
they work back east,
but here in the Midwest,
punctuality is a virtue.
We have to find
a new office space.
Every time a truck goes by,
the whole building shakes.
That's all, Lauren.