The X-Files (1993–…): Season 2, Episode 12 - Aubrey - full transcript

There was blood
everywhere.

Whoever killed her
is a real psycho.

Murder weapon?

Seven stores in town
carry strap razors.

Have somebody check him out.

What about the press?

Just the basics.

No mention of this
sister thing to anybody.

Okay.

Ruben, I need
your final report.

Call me as soon as...



Yeah, I'll talk to you.

Brian, I need a minute.

I'm working on a
homicide investiga...

Come on.

You didn't show last night.

This what you
wanted to talk about?

I made dinner.

It's not... What?!

Sorry. Coroner's on one.

Yeah, what do you got, Ruben?

Uh-huh.

Uh... hang on
a second,

will you, Ruben?

This address, 10:00 tonight.



Where's this?

A motel?

It's a place we can talk.

Any cavities?

I brush after
every meal.

Would you say
they match?

Well, there's a filling

on the occlusal surface
of the upper left bicuspid

here and here.

And he's
congenitally missing

a lower left bicuspid
here and here.

Yeah, I'd say they're
definitely a match.

Who do they
belong to?

Special Agent Sam Chaney.

That name
sounds familiar.

Chaney's a legend.

40 years before
the Bureau started

profiling
violent criminals,

Chaney and his partner
Tim Leadbetter

would work on their
own time, investigating

what were then called
"stranger killings,"

what are now called
"serial murders."

They disappeared

while investigating
three murders

in Aubrey, Missouri,
in 1942.

Chaney's body wasn't found
until two days ago

by a local detective,
B.J. Morrow, a woman.

What's your interest
in this case?

During their time, Chaney's
and Leadbetter's ideas

weren't very well-received
by their peers.

Using psychology
to solve a crime

was something
like, um...

Believing in
the paranormal?

Exactly.

But there's
another mystery.

- Which is?
- Well, I'd like to know

why this policewoman would
suddenly drive her car

into a field the size
of Rhode Island,

and, for no rhyme or reason,
dig up the bones of a man

who's been missing
for 50 years.

I mean, unless there was a
neon sign saying "dig here."

I guess that's why
we're going to Aubrey.

Yes, and, also, I've
always been intrigued

by women named B.J.

Detective Morrow,

exactly how did you
discover the remains?

I witnessed a dog
digging in the ground.

I proceeded to investigate
and found the gravesite.

Well, the initial
police report states

that you couldn't explain
your actions at the time.

It was late.

I was a bit shocked
by my discovery.

I'm afraid I didn't
clearly articulate

exactly what happened
from my initial report.

What were you doing
in the woods at that hour?

My vehicle was experiencing
engine failure.

You left your car...?

Oh. Over there, sir.

Would you say that's,
uh, 400 or 500 yards?

Yes, sir.

So, from that distance,

you could see a dog
digging in this field at night?

She was taking
a shortcut through the woods

to reach a phone.

The path led her
through the field.

The report says she phoned in

from the Motel Black
just up the road there.

That's not
a very short cut.

Seems like
you're more interested

in how the missing
agent was found

than in how he got here
in the first place.

You don't, uh, suspect her,

do you?

No, no, not at all.
I would just like

to ask Detective Morrow
a few more questions.

All right.

Have you ever, um...

have you ever had
any clairvoyant experiences?

Premonitions, visions,
precognitive dreams,

things like that?

What the hell
kind of question is that?

Dreams?

Yeah.

Look, Agent Mulder,

I don't mean to be rude,
but we have a lot to do.

If you have
any further questions

specifically pertaining to your
investigation of this crime,

please feel free to call.

Come on, B.J.

What do you think?

These bones are
in good condition,

but I think that field
may have been tilled

shortly after
Chaney was buried.

There are small cuts
on the top three ribs.

I don't think they were
made by an animal.

Listen to this, Scully.

"One must wonder how
these monsters are created..."

Chaney wrote this.

"Did their home life
mold them

"into creatures
that must maim and kill

or are they demons
from birth?"

Well, that's poetic, but
it doesn't help us much.

What did he say about
the 1942 homicides?

Well, the press called
the murderer the Slash Killer.

His three victims were
all young women, aged 25 to 30.

He disabled them

with a blow
to the head.

He would carve
the word "sister"

on their chests

and paint it on the wall
with their blood.

The victims
bled to death,

and the murderer
was never found.

Mulder,

these cuts
on the ribs--

they could have been made
by a razor.

Can you make out a word?

No, but we might
be able to

if we can find
somebody in Aubrey

who has
a digital scanner.

I've scanned the images

from the crime photo
and the rib cage

and modemed them
to Quantico.

It's going to be a few more
seconds before the hookup.

I checked with
the precinct mechanic.

B.J.'s car was just tuned.

She lied about experiencing
engine failure.

Mulder, I don't think B.J.
was in the woods that night

because of
engine failure.

What are you talking about?

Well, the Motel Black would have
been a perfect meeting place.

Away from town,
away from his wife.

What do you mean?

It's obvious, B.J. and Tillman
are having an affair.

How do you know?

- A woman senses these things.
- Oh.

The image on the right
is Chaney's rib cage.

The one on the left
was extrapolated

from the crime photo of
the Slash Killer's last victim.

Now, I need to enlarge
the victim's rib cage

in order to allow
for gender difference.

And now we can compare them.

Could he have carved out
another word

on his rib cage?

I'm searching for
any matching pattern of cuts.

Agent Mulder?

Have you made any progress
in the investigation?

Uh, we may have.

Seems Agent Chaney might
have been a victim

of the killer
he was trying to catch.

We're trying to determine

if the cuts on his rib cage
spell out a word right now.

No!

Are you all right?

I'm sorry.

Something...

I'm not feel...

Excuse me.

Feeling better?

I'm fine now.

Things must be difficult
for you now.

I've had feelings
for people I've worked with.

Interoffice relationships
can be complicated...

especially when he's married.

You're pregnant, aren't you?

Does it show?

No. Not yet.

Now I know why my mother
only had one child.

She told me about the nausea
but not about the nightmares.

Nightmares?

It's always the same.

I'm in a house.

Feels familiar.

There's a woman
that's been hurt.

There's a mirror.

I see a man's reflection.

I recognize his face,
but I don't know him.

What I remember most
is the blood.

There's a lot of blood.

Have you talked to anyone
about these nightmares?

I'm sure it's something
about the pregnancy.

If anyone else knew
I was pregnant...

Brian would kill me
if I told anyone.

What are you going to do?

I don't know.

Well, B.J.'s pregnant,
and Tillman's the father.

Um, I have approximated
the pattern of the cuts

to match up
with letters.

There's a 93% chance

- that this is the letter "R."
- Mm-hmm.

If we lower the
probability to 79%,

we get the letters
"I," "E" and "R."

Well, it could be a word,

or it could just
be random slashes.

If we exhumed one of
the Slash Killer's victims,

we could do a CT
scan to determine

if the cuts were made by
the same type of instrument.

Well, that means
getting a court order.

It could take a
couple of days.

Maybe we could find a relative
who could speed up the process.

Brother.

Excuse me?

I know what it says.

On the rib cage,
it spells "brother."

You're right.

B.J.?

Brian.

What's going on here, B.J.?

Nothing.

Really?
Then where'd you get these?

These are crime scene photos;
they were sealed.

No one had access to them.

Think you're mistaken.
Those were shot in 1942.

These are evidence of a homicide
that occurred three days ago.

No, they're from a case
that Agent Leadbetter

and Agent Chaney were
investigating in 1942

before they disappeared.

Three days ago,
a young woman was murdered,

and the word "sister"
was carved into her chest

and painted
on the wall.

Only myself,

the coroner and one of my men
knew about this.

Excuse me, sir.
We just got a call.

There's been
another one.

Watch your step, sir.

Victim's name is
Verna Johnson.

My God.

B.J.?

It's her.

It's the woman in my dream.

Ow!

Honey, y-you're fine.

The mothering instinct--

I've been feeling it
a lot lately.

I used to hate it

when my mother
hovered over me.

I swore I'd
never be like her.

I think we all feel that way
at one time or another.

My father was a cop.

A good cop.

That's all I ever
wanted to be.

He'd say what we're
doing here is nonsense,

that you can't solve
a crime from a dream.

Well, I've often felt
that dreams are answers

to questions we haven't yet
figured out how to ask.

You said you were
in a familiar house?

There's a woman
that's been hurt.

I look in a mirror, and I
see a man's reflection.

What does he look like?

He's... got a rash
on his face,

and his eyes are...

intense.

Do you remember anything else?

There's a strange picture
on the wall behind him.

It's a building like
the Washington Monument,

but different.

And there's a...

a big circular thing beside it.

You think you could draw it?

Sure.

It looked something like this.

What do you think it is?

Could be the Trylon

and the Perisphere.

Have you ever been
to New York City?

No, never.

You can get pictures of these

on postcards
all over Times Square.

These were the symbols
of the 1939 World's Fair.

Do you know why they might have
been in your dream?

No idea at all.

Good night, Brian.

You're here kind of late.

What are you
looking for?

Just wanted
to check on something.

I don't get it.

That book's
from the 1940s.

Can we talk?

You know...

I'm willing to go with you...
for the appointment.

I'm not so sure
it's what I want to do.

I thought we agreed that it was
the best thing for both of us.

I changed my mind.

What do you mean,
you changed your mi...?

You can't just change your mind.

This isn't your decision,
it's our decision.

B.J.

It's him.

Brian...

...I have to go.

This is the man

B.J. claims to have seen
in her dream.

Harry Cokely.

He lives
in Gainesville, Nebraska,

since his release
from McAlester Penitentiary

on December 5, 1993.

He was convicted in 1945
for rape and attempted murder.

Cokely carved "sister"
on the chest

of his victim Linda Thibedeaux

before she was able to escape
and get help from a neighbor.

And the police never
made the connection

to the 1942 homicides?

No.

Well, I don't want to jump
to any rash conclusions,

but I'd say he's definitely
our prime suspect.

Mulder, the man we're
talking about is 77 years old.

George Foreman won the
heavyweight crown at 45.

Some people are
late bloomers.

Anyway, that still
doesn't explain

B.J.'s connection
to all this.

What if it's cryptomnesia?

You mean consciously forgotten
information?

Yeah.

B.J. told us that her father

was a policeman in the area.

What if she heard him
discussing the 1942 case

when she was young?

She might have even
seen pictures of Cokely.

Yeah, but that still
doesn't explain

why she would go into a field

and unearth the grave
of an FBI agent.

What if the recent
murders triggered

what was previously buried
in her mind,

some connection
she'd unconsciously made

that no one else
had been able to make?

You mean a hunch?

Yeah, something like that.

That's a pretty extreme hunch.

I seem to recall you having
some pretty extreme hunches.

I never have.

Harry Cokely?

Yeah?

I'm Special
Agent Mulder.

This is Special
Agent Scully.

We're with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.

May we come in?

Mr. Cokely,

our records show
that in 1942,

you lived in
Terrence, Nebraska,

an hour's drive away
from Aubrey, Missouri.

During that time,

three women were
murdered in Aubrey.

Their assailant had mutilated their bodies

with a razor in the
same manner that you

slashed Mrs. Linda Thibedeaux's
body in 1945.

I don't remember much
about that.

Well, I'm sure Mrs. Thibedeaux
will never forget it.

Doctors said
I was sick back then.

They gave me some pills.

I served my time,
and now I'm better.

What kind of pills?

Red and white ones,
little sister.

Do you recognize
this man?

His name's Chaney.

No.

He was an FBI agent who was
also murdered in Aubrey in 1942.

Can you tell me
where you were

about 8:35 p.m.
two nights ago, Mr. Cokely?

Sitting right where I am now.

Do you have a witness
to testify to that?

Are you blind?

I can't leave the house

without this damn thing.

I sit right here
in front of that TV

24 hours a day.

And on the night
you're talking about,

I was sitting here watching
a show about a lost dog.

Then after that,
it was a show about...

That won't be necessary.

Good.

Now, are you about finished
with me, little sister?

For now.

She seemed
to be in trouble,

but when I opened the door,
she just barged in

and came running
down the stairs.

So I called the police.

He's here. He's here.

B.J., what happened?

Oh, my God.

He's here.

Oh, my God. Come on.

I'm taking her
to the hospital.

Scully.

Thank you.

I thought you might need these.

Thanks.

You hurt yourself.

Can you tell us
what happened, B.J.?

Cokely.

He was in the room.

Cokely attacked you?

Yes. He must have done this
while I was asleep.

You're sure it was him?

I know it was him.

I saw his reflection
in the mirror.

He looked just
like his picture.

Like his mug shot?

Yes.

That's a picture of a young man.

But it was Cokely.

I swear it was him.

Well, I'll have Tillman

pick him up.

Where were
you last night?

Honolulu.

You were in Aubrey,
weren't you?

How'd you get into
Detective Morrow's house?

It's all I can do to get
to the bathroom, you damn fool.

The victim has identified
you, Mr. Cokely.

I've already paid for my crime.

Well, I'm going to see
that you pay more.

I never touched
that woman!

I'm not answering
any more questions

without a lawyer.

Get me a lawyer.

- Mulder?
- It's open.

I have the preliminary results
from the G.I. testing

from the blood found
under Verna Johnson's nails.

They checked it
against Cokely's.

The PGM subtype matches.

The D-Q alpha
and D-1-S-80 are the same...

It's Cokely's blood?

The results strongly
suggest that.

Imagine the strength
of this man's psychosis,

still driving him to murder

after 50 years.

But for some reason,
he let B.J. live.

Well, she's not the first.

Mrs. Thibedeaux also survived
his attack

back in 1945.

I think it's time we paid
a visit to Mrs. Thibedeaux.

That was taken
three weeks before it happened.

I haven't had
a picture taken since.

Is this your husband?

That's Martin.

He was a good man.

He passed last June.

If it hadn't been for him,
I never would have survived.

I know this goes back

a long way, Mrs. Thibedeaux,
but could you tell us

what happened the night
Harry Cokely attacked you?

It happened... up
there on the landing.

I remember how the light
from the window

bounced off the razor.

It had an ivory handle.

He... he kept saying...

"Someone's got to take
the blame, little sister,

and it isn't gonna be me."

They tried to explain
at the trial

how his father
used to beat him,

and how he was the only son
in a family of five daughters,

and how he was
brutally punished

for everything wrong
that happened,

but if you ask me,

that man was born evil.

No children?

No. None.

Mrs. Thibedeaux,
our records show

that you recuperated from
your injuries within two months,

but nine months later, you
checked back into the hospital.

Well, I had complications.

What happened to the child?

Cokely's child.

Martin used to say
not to blame the child,

that it was
just a little thing,

an innocent...

but it was the spawn of evil.

I couldn't keep it.

In this house,

the memory of him...

Mrs. Thibedeaux?

I gave the baby
to an adoption agency.

Baby--

be almost 50 now.

This is the, uh...
address of the adoption agency.

If you do find him...

No, no, never mind.

The bones
B.J. found under the house

belong to Chaney's partner,
Agent Leadbetter.

Cokely rented the house in 1942.

The detectives
at the crime scene

found an old straight razor
under the house.

They're trying
to lift some prints.

Now, Cokely's been released,

but I think we have
enough to nail him.

Something just doesn't track,
Scully.

The night she was attacked,
B.J. said she saw a younger man.

Yeah, but you know the state
of mind she was in that night.

She-she could have
been mistaken.

Well, maybe she did see
a younger man-- young Cokely.

Cokely's grandson.

Are you saying
Cokely's grandson attacked B.J.?

It would make sense, Scully.

Genetic traits
often skip a generation,

and that would explain
the test results

of the blood found under
Verna Johnson's fingernails.

PGM subtypes
are similar among relatives.

Did Danny call back
with the adoption records yet?

Did you get them?

I don't think Mendel had
serial killers in mind

when he developed
his theory on genetics.

You know, when I was a kid,
I would have nightmares.

I would wake up
in the middle of the night

thinking I was the only person
left in the world.

Then I would hear this.

What?

My dad would be
in his study eating these.

Yeah, Danny Valadayo.
It's Agent Scully.

What does that
have to do with Cokely?

Well, on a basic cellular level,

we're the sum total of all our
ancestors' biological matter,

but what if more than biological
traits get passed down

from generation to generation?

What if I like sunflower seeds

because I'm genetically
predisposed to liking them?

But children aren't born
liking sunflower seeds.

Environments shape them,
behavior patterns are taught.

There are countless stories
of twins who were

separated at birth, who end up
in the same occupation,

marrying the same kind
of people,

each naming their child Waldo.

Waldo?

Jung wrote about it

when he talked about
the collective unconscious.

It's genetic memory, Scully.

Yeah, Danny.

Yeah. Thanks.

I'll tell him.

Danny tracked down
Mrs. Thibedeaux's son.

He was a policeman
named Raymond Morrow.

That's B.J.'s father.

B.J. is Cokely's granddaughter.

She's responsible
for the murders.

Mulder...

Get your coat.

- Let's go.
- Wait, Mulder,

do you honestly think
B.J. is capable of murder?

No, but Cokely is,
and that's who B.J. has become.

That's outrageous.

Scully, this is what I think.

I think that Cokely's memories,
his compulsions

have been passed on genetically
to his granddaughter B.J.

That's what's
driving her to kill.

You're saying that B.J.'s
nightmares are real,

that she's out there
killing these women

- and carving "sister" on them?
- Yes.

Well, then how do you explain
the cuts on her own chest?

I can't explain every...

Maybe she carved them
on herself

or maybe it's some kind of
weird stigmata.

Whatever it is,
B.J. is not herself.

Where are we going?

We have to warn
Mrs. Thibedeaux.

If B.J. has, in the sense
that I'm talking about,

become Cokely,
then she may be trying

to finish
what Cokely started.

Stop it.

Somebody's got to take
the blame, little sister.

No!

No, no, you're not him.

You can't be.

And it's not gonna be me.

I'm not afraid
to use this.

You have

his eyes.

You're...

him.

No.

You're my grandchild.

You know
what you're doing?

Shut up!

He's done this to both of us.

No.

You don't know

what you're doing.

He's the one to blame!

Mrs. Thibedeaux?
Mrs. Thibedeaux!

Mulder.

Mrs. Thibedeaux?

What happened?

She had a razor.

She tried to kill me,
but something stopped her.

Where'd she go?

I don't know.

Can you stand?

I think so.

I'll help you up the stairs.

- Thank you.
- This is Agent Mulder.

I need an ambulance
to 238 North 54th Street.

I also need an APB
on B.J. Morrow.

Yes, that's Detective Morrow.

She should be considered
armed and dangerous.

B.J.'s going after Tillman.

The first murder occurred

after B.J. found out
she was pregnant.

She's looking for
someone to blame.

- I think that's Tillman.
- I don't think so, Scully.

I think if she's going to go
after anyone, it'll be Cokely.

- Why?
- She's probably figured out by now

that Cokely's her grandfather.

She's looking for someone
to blame, it'll be him.

Cokely's not
answering his phone.

I'm going over there.

Agent Scully,
I got to talk to you.

We're getting
a statement.

You've accused
B.J. of murder?

Can we talk
about this outside?

No, here! Now!

Have you seen
Detective Morrow?

No, but I have not,
but I don't care

what you've
accused her of.

Detective Morrow
could not hurt anybody.

Detective
Morrow broke into

this woman's house
and attacked her with a razor.

Oh, come on!
I do not believe that!

It's true.

It happened.

Look, Hildy,
I only acted like any husband

that didn't want to see
his home broken up.

- What home?
- What home?

Don't you remember the home
I promised you?

Sure I do. That was
the one we were going

to have right after
the honeymoon.

Honeymoon.

Well, is it my fault?
Did I know that coal mine

was going to have
another cave-in?

I intended to be with you
on our honeymoon, Hildy,

honest I did.

All I know is that
instead of two weeks

in Atlantic City
with my bridegroom,

I spent two weeks in a coal
mine with John Krupsky.

You don't deny that,
do you, Walter?

Deny it? I'm proud of it.

We beat the whole country
on that story.

Suppose we did?

That isn't what I
got married for!

Who's there?

Cokely?

Who's there?

No.

How does it feel

to be on the other side
of the razor, brother?

Stop!

No... no!

Please, no!

You know the rules.

This doesn't stop
till you're dead.

Cokely?

Cokely?

No. Don't, B.J.

Don't.

Don't.

No!

This time, you'll stay dead.

Freeze!

B.J.! What are you doing?

Let him go.

Let him go, B.J.

I'm not B.J.

Yes, you are.

He's dead.

Come on, come on.

It's all right, everything's
going to be all right.

It's going to be okay.

We are continuing with

genetic testing
on Detective Morrow.

Evidence suggests the presence
of a mutator gene

that has activated
previously dormant genes,

but the results so far
are inconclusive.

Detective Morrow
has not demonstrated

any further
physiological changes.

Extensive blood work
and psychological testing

has been conducted
in order to determine

whether the pregnancy
could have been a catalyst

for the transformation.

We have yet to determine
the effects on the fetus.

Amniocentesis results show
no genetic abnormalities.

Chromosome testing
has determined

the child's sex to be male.

B.J. is on her second week
of suicide watch,

after an unsuccessful attempt
to abort her son.

Lieutenant Tillman has
petitioned to adopt the child,

and the case will soon be
presented to the courts.

I made this!