The X-Files (1993–…): Season 2, Episode 14 - Die Hand Die Verletzt - full transcript

- [Man] All in favor?
- [Members] Aye. Aye.

All right.

Starting Monday, the track
around the athletic field...

will be closed to joggers
at 8:30 p.m. Instead of 10:00.

Any other items
before we call it a night?

Yeah, um, now I got wind that
for the spring drama production...

Howard Roberts intends to put on
Jesus Christ Superstar.

You know how he is. Howard's just trying
to do things the kids like.

My point exactly.

Um, I don't think that play
is appropriate for this high school.

If he wants to be young, I have
no problems with Grease or Annie or...



- Doesn't Grease have the F word?
- Look, I'll talk to Howard.

Okay, let's adjourn
till next week.

Deborah, why don't you lead us
in the prayer?

Jim, the game is on.

It'll only take a minute.
We've been letting it slip.

- [Thunderclaps]
- Paul, why don't you get the door?

[Door Locks]

[Committee Members] In the name
of the Lords of Darkness,

Rulers of the Earth,
Kings of the Underworld,

I command the forces of darkness
to bestow their infernal power upon me.

- [Deborah]
Sein ist die Hand die verletzt.
- [Members Repeat]

- [Deborah]
Sein der Ort Gennant holle.
- [Members Repeat]

[Deborah] May the black powers of
our forefathers make us strong.

[Teachers] Hail.
Hail to the Lords of Darkness.



[Thunderclaps]

- [Girl] How much further?
- [Boy] Up there a ways.

I heard the altar is
a hollow stump just up here.

When they get freaked, you get Kate.
I take Andrea.

Those mittens
are givin' me a Gingrich.

This is it.

I need a personal object
from everyone.

All right. Now, Andrea,
you get to stand over here,

and faceJerry like this.

Closer.

Why like this?

That's so that we're calling
the spirits up of every direction.

Okay now, Kate, you got
to stand here and face me.

Do you really think someone
used this place for black magic
or is it just a rumor?

Come on, Dave!

Shh.

In the name of the Lords of Darkness,
Rulers of the Earth,

Kings of the Underworld,

rise, rise to this place.

Azazel.

Know ye all who dwell in the light
of professed righteousness,

that the others who know the keys in
the angels have opened the gate.

[Evil Chanting]

[Gasps]

[Evil Chanting Continues]

[Screams]

[Screaming Continues]

- Forget this!
- Andrea!

Blessed art thou among women, and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death.

Andrea, wait!

[Man] A hunter found him
early this morning.

Couldn't have been dead
for more than 12 hours.

- They say this area is used
for witches' ceremonies.
- They?

Everybody and anybody
who lives here knows about the things
that go on in this town.

They say there are people
who control things.

Any evidence to substantiate
those rumors, Sheriff Oakes?

Agent Scully, look at the body.
The eyes and heart have been cut out.

Many homicides involve
victim desecration.

I know he and his friends
listen to devil music.

The Night Chicago Died?

You know what I mean. Those heavy metal
bands that influence kids.

Was Jerry Stevens or his friends ever
witnessed participating in witchcraft?

- No.
- More rumors.

This stump here is supposed
to be the ceremonial altar.

[Oakes] What do you think?

I think with
a few turquoise chips,

a picture ofJohn Wayne
and three cans of shellac,

it'd make a pretty
nice coffee table.

[Oakes] See that wax?
Someone's been burning candles in there.

Any idea whoJerry Stevens
was with out here?

We assume he was alone.

Most people don't set out
to drink two six packs by themselves.

I also found this.

It has some purple ink on the edge
like a library identification stamp.

And the end of the title says,
In America.

- I'm surprised
your people overlooked it.
- I'm sorry. I gotta apologize.

You're right. I admit
we're a little rattled.

That's why I called the F.B.I.
This may involve a deeper conspiracy.

I grew up around here. And ever since
I was a kid, I heard stories.

This is a weird area.
It has a strange air...

that I could chalk up
to imagination... until today.

I'll have my staff start checkin'
libraries for you, Agent Scully.

Better hide
your Megadeth albums.

Theories like that are why
I can't take him seriously.

The homicide did have
a ceremonial presentation.

The manner in which
the body was displayed.

I got the impression
you didn't believe him either.

I didn't want to incite his already
clearly aggravated imagination.

But there is a weird feel
to this place. Maybe there's
some truth to those rumors.

I think he incited
your imagination.

This case is nothing more
than a murderer
taking advantage of local folklore.

There's nothing odd about...
[Gasps]

So... lunch?

Mulder, toads just fell
from the sky.

I guess their parachutes
didn't open.

You were saying something
about this place not feeling odd?

The National Weather Service says there
are tornadoes in Northern Massachusetts.

The wind probably picked up
the animals into the storm.

Witch Hunt: A History
of the Occult in America.

It's checked out
to a Dave Duran.

[Chattering]

[School Bell Rings]

[Woman] People, may I have
your attention, please?

Mr. Kingery is out sick today,
so I'll be substituting.

My name's Mrs. Paddock.
I'm going to take the roll.

[Knocking At Door]

F.B.I., we'd like to speak
with a Dave Duran.

- Come on.
- Let me go!

I'm not into that stuff
at all. I swear.

Jerry was my best friend.

Look, I swear I've never
done anything like that.

What made you go to a place
you heard was a witches' altar?

- [Sighs]
We were just trying to get some.
- I told you.

Why did you take the book?

Because I don't know a thing
about witchcraft,
and we wanted to make it sound good.

I never thought...

You never thought what?

That it would work.

If you didn't killJerry Stevens,
why did you run away from us
in the classroom?

- I'm scared, man!
- Of us?

Of it!
That ceremony.

I'm afraid we called up
some devil or something.

One of you
killed Jerry Stevens.

Who?

He was displayed according
to the rites of Azazel.

Who else would know
about the ritual?

- We stopped doing this because...
- I went out there.

We were supposed to have a mass.
No one else showed, so I left.

- It wasn't any of us.
- Something is here.

A presence amongst us.
Angry. I can feel it.

[Door Opens]

- You're letting them go?
- There's no evidence
to warrant an arrest.

- They never leave evidence.
- We heard how Jerry Stevens was killed.

- An occult ritual.
- They've reached into
our area from the outside.

They, again.

Those three kids are obviously
under a cult influence.

They reach into our children,
in music, television, books.

They prey
on children's innocence.

The F.B.I. Recently concluded
a seven-year study and found...

little or no evidence of the existence
of occult conspiracies.

And J. Edgar Hoover never admitted
to the existence of the Mafia.

If the number of murders attributed
to occult conspiracies were true,

it would mean thousands of people
killing tens of thousands of people
a year...

without evidence,
without being exposed.

It would be the greatest
criminal conspiracy
in the history of civilization.

Finally. You people understand
what we're up against.

Our investigation
is ongoing.

Mulder,
this is mass hysteria.

And our presence here
on a routine homicide...

only gives validity
to their fears of occult murders.

[Mulder]
The water.

What's wrong with it?

It's going down the drain
counterclockwise.

Coriolis force in the
Northern Hemisphere dictates
it should go down clockwise.

That isn't possible.

Something is here, Scully. Something
is making these things possible.

[School Bell Rings]

Girls, may I have a word?

I heard on the grapevine
about what happened.

And, well, I know how hard it is
to talk to adults sometimes,

even though you feel
like you want to.

Well, because
you're young adults...

What I'm trying to say is, if you feel
like talking, I'm here to listen, okay?

- [Both] Thanks, Mrs. Paddock.
- Hang in there.

[School Bell Rings]

Your records indicate
a high incidence...

of students complaining of depression,
headaches, eating disorders.

This is high school.

It's normal for students
to display abnormal behavior.

I'm assuming you're familiar with the
early indications of repressed memory.

Just because a student has a headache
doesn't mean he's repressing a memory.

In your counseling, you've found
no evidence of any past ritual abuse?

None.

Would it be possible for me
to speak to any of the students
who've had chronic complaints?

That would be a betrayal of
the doctor/patient relationship.

Sorry.

From the volume of student
complaints, he was pretty quick
to dismiss my concerns.

- Maybe there's nothing here.
- Or he's hiding something.

Take a look at this.
I found this on the Internet.

The discovery yesterday of a
mutilated teenage boy in the forest...

has police officials distressed
about the possibility...

of a conspiratorial organization
of Dark Forces.

Where's that pulled from?
Local paper?

TheJew is known to remove
organs and sacrifice teens
in their religious ceremonies.

This is taken from
Volkischer Beobachter.

A Nazi newspaper in 1934.
The rumors are the same.

But the blanks have been filled
in with whoever must be feared
or persecuted at the time.

In this case, it's occultists.

Modern witches, known as Wiccan,
are a religion.

They have a great reverence
for all life and nature.

They do not cast harmful spells.
They don't worship Satan.

Even the Church of Satan
has renounced murder and torture.

Their influence here
wouldn't account for...

the frogs or water draining backwards
or most importantly, the murder.

Well, if not witches,
then what?

For your final examination,
one half of your grade...

will be based on your diagram
of a dissected pig embryo.

Of course, these are
actually hog embryos,

belonging to the order
of the Artiodactyl,

or creatures with hooves.

Be sure to remove the heart and lungs
and draw a diagram of each.

Be neat.

Extra credit will be given
for dissecting the heart.

You have until the end
of the period.

I'll cut it open
if you do the heart.

Okay.

[Screaming]

[Student] What's goin'on?

[Sobbing, Screaming]

I've had this happen before. Some kids
have trouble dissecting things.

Shannon, I'm trying to reach your father
and get him to pick you up.

No!

- I'm sure he'll be here soon.
- No!

- Shannon?
- [Paddock] Shannon, honey. Come back.

Shannon, you're remembering.

Tell me what you remember.

You know who my stepdad is, right?

Jim Ausbury on the P.T.C.

All right, well,

my mom, she's a teacher.

Well, was a teacher.

My real dad, he, um,

he ran away.

And,

and my mom metJim
at some seminar, something.

And they, um,

they got married.

My sister and I moved up here
when I was about...

four.

She was about two.

Anyway,

a couple of weeks ago,
my class,

we took a field trip to what they call
the American Stonehenge.

And...

I remember
when I was four years old,

Jim...

took me in his car
near there.

And he, um,

he made me...

in the backseat.

He told me that if I ever told anybody,
that he would hurt me.

As he touched me, you know,

I would pretend
like I was out of my body,

deep in the ocean,
down with the fish,

in the dark water.

Somehow, I don't know, I managed
to block out all these things,

but lately it's all been...

I'm remembering, you know?

The others too.

Others?

Yeah.

Men and women.

They would come to the house,
you know,

when my mom was away.

And they would take me
down to the basement.

It was really dark.

It was like painted red
with a dirt floor.

They would wear these robes,
black and red.

And they would sing
and they would chant.

And then they would tie me
and my sister up.

These men and women,
they would make us do things.

They called me a breeder.

They would get me pregnant
and then they would kill the babies.

I've had three children,
and they're all buried in the cellar.

One night,

Jim murdered my sister
for a sacrifice.

She was only eight years old.

He told everybody
that she died in an accident.

Today brought it all back...

clear,
like it happened yesterday.

[Sobbing]

[Mulder] Imagine if what she said
is true.

Why don't we just wait and see
what her parents have to say.

Where's Shannon?

They told me
you were bringing her home.

She wanted to remain
with friends.

And under the circumstances,
we thought it best.

Circumstances?
Why wouldn't she want to come home?

Someone, or something,

has obviously put
these things into her mind.

[Woman Sobbing]

Mrs. Ausbury, perhaps
you'd like a glass of water.

Yes, thank you.

Mr. Ausbury.

Mrs. Ausbury, your daughter
has not accused you...

of any involvement
in these activities.

Do you have any idea why Shannon
might have said these things?

[Sighs]

Jim and I have been having
marriage problems lately.

We're committed
to working them out.

Maybe we haven't been paying
enough attention to Shannon.

She and I don't...

We don't get along.
We fight.

Have you ever known Shannon
to be pregnant?

Of course not!
She's 15 years old!

How can you possibly
believe such...

Have you ever had
another child?

A girl.

Teresa. Sh-She died.

At eight years old?

Eight weeks... with crib death.

Did you do it?

I would kill anyone who did the things
to her that she claims.

Not a very Christian tenet.

Thou, God of vengeance,
shine forth.

Even the devil can quote
scripture to fit his needs.

How dare you!
Get out of our house!

As far as I know, you put those ideas
in my daughter's head.

Now, get out!

The devil travels
in many forms.

And you may be one!

Are you sure you're up to this,
Shannon? I heard about what you said.

I'll be okay.
I don't want to miss the final.

I'll be in my office...
if you're feeling funny.

Maybe you ought
to remove your jewelry.

You wouldn't want to lose it
in some pig's guts.

I'll hold it
until you're finished.

[Sighs]

[Groaning]

[Shannon Screams]

I heard the chair and a crash,
and I came running out of the office.

Did you see anybody
leaving the room?

Did you hear the door open?

I lock the doors after school
when I'm alone.

I get afraid.

I feel a Dark Angel
is amongst us.

It wants a sacrifice.

It's been years since...
since we've done that.

Exactly.

Exactly!
We haven't kept our faith.

Are any of you...

responsible for my daughter?

We all are.
She was sacrificed for us.

It's a portent.

Shannon's death allows us to get rid
of the police, the F.B.I.

It can all be blamed on her.

Jim, you tell them...

she had a thing
forJerry Stevens.

She killed him
out of jealousy.

She cut out his eyes...

because she couldn't stand
to have him look at another girl.

And his heart,
because she was heartbroken.

But when they leave
and are gone,

we must rekindle our faith,
rather than lose it.

[Thunderclaps]

I never imagined she would
hurt herself like that.

I'm old-fashioned,
Agent Scully.

I can't bring myself
to believe that children...

are capable of such things
as they are these days.

She wanted me
to hold that for her.

Excuse me.

In her office,
there's a faint odor of incense.

She says it's to block
the smell of formaldehyde.

It's also used
in Black Mass Rituals.

I've got to admit there are
some oddities to her story.

What do you mean,
oddities?

The man she replaced has taken
two sick days in a 15-year career.

The morning ofJerry Stevens's murder,
Mr. Kingery developed
necrotizing fasciitis.

- The flesh eating bacteria?
That's very rare.
- I know.

And when I questioned the other staff
members about Mrs. Paddock's background,

no one can even recall
hiring her.

[Thunderclaps]

Look, I'm even getting
caught up in this.

I'm sure that Mrs. Paddock's
arrival and the teacher's
sickness is just a coincidence.

And the fact that no one
can recall hiring her,
it's a bureaucratic oversight.

This is something we both
should get caught up in.

I'm gonna get a search warrant
for the Ausbury house.
They're staying with friends.

You check deeper
into Mrs. Paddock.

[Man] Power's out.

My religion, my family,
Agent Mulder,

goes back in this town
seven generations.

They fled persecution
from people being persecuted.

All in the name of religion.

I was raised to believe Christianity
was synonymous with hypocrisy.

Man's natural tendency
was to Do what thou wilst.

Not do unto others.

We believe...

man is nothing
but an animal.

No better, no worse...

than those that walk
on four legs.

And although I believed our faith
kept us powerful in the community,

wealthy, good health,

I came to see hypocrisy
in the others.

In me.

When they told me...

to blame my dead daughter
forJerry Stevens's death,

my reaction...

I was sick that they would
vilify an innocent,

someone I loved,

just to protect themselves.

And at that moment,
I knew I am better than an animal.

That my...

previous beliefs
were responsible...

for her no longer
being with us.

And that it was time
to talk to you.

[Groaning]

Clean.

[Groaning]

Did you abuse Shannon?

- Never sexually.
- And the rituals?

The blood of the young
is considered very powerful.

We'd include them in the ceremonies...
against their will.

They were too young
to be trusted not to talk,

but we never
physically hurt them.

We'd slip over the ancient rituals
that we didn't want to do.

Like drinking grape juice
instead of wine at Communion?

What about
Shannon's memories?

We'd perform a sort of
post hypnotic suggestion
that repressed their memories.

When they came of age,
18, 21,

then they were made aware of the
religion and brought into its practice.

When she recalled the past events,
she must've mixed up reality with,

with that crap that's
on Geraldo and the tabloids.

Did the others kill
Jerry Stevens?

Shannon?

No.

But you are responsible.

You knew the possibilities
contained in your beliefs,
no matter how watered-down.

Did you really think you could call
up the devil and ask him to behave?

Who are the others?

- [Cell Phone Ringing]
- Yeah?

[Scully's Voice]
Mulder, the school. I'm in trouble.

Scully?

We've got an emergency.

I'm placing you
under arrest.

I'll be back
for you later.

[Crying]

[Screams, Gagging]

- Scully?
- Mulder, what's wrong?

You called me.
You said you were in trouble.

No, I didn't touch
the phone.

[Mulder]
Ausbury confessed to conspiracy.

He's gonna give up the names of
everybody involved. Parents, teachers.

I checked on Mrs. Paddock's background.
I don't think she's involved.

[Gun Cocks]

My God!

Do you think
it's some kind of acid?

There's no evidence of any reaction
with the wood from the acid.

There are tracks in the dirt...
like from a snake.

That's impossible.

It would take a large python
hours to consume and weeks
to digest a human being.

You really do watch
the Learning Channel.

Scully. Snake skin.

There's a python
in Paddock's room.

Sheriff Oakes called me.
Jim Ausbury is dead.

He was talking
to the F.B.I.

Did they kill him?

You know who killed him.

Ausbury was no believer.

He had no real faith.
No devotion.

He was punished
for his doubts.

We have to act...

or the same will happen to us,
if it's not already too late.

We have to assume
Jim told them who we are.

If Mulder knows, it will make
the offering all the more meaningful.

[Tires Screeching]

They're here.

Lock the office.

No keys.
They were in my pocket.

[Groaning]

Mulder?

Mrs. Paddock, what happened?

I came back.
They were taking the snake.

Mrs. Brown, Mr. Vitaris, there
are things about them I learned.

- I must tell you,
I think they killed that boy.
- We know about them.

- Conference room. It's all there.
- [Busy Signal]

The paramedics must be
tied up by the storm.

You just stay there.
We're gonna lock the door.

Stay still.
I'll be back.

[Crashing Sound]

It will make the blood
easier to clean up.

[Speaking Latin]

[Latin]

[Latin]

[Latin]

[Gunshots]

- [Grunts]
- [Gunshot]

You're right.
It is already too late.

Oh, God.

Mulder, did you see
his expression?

It was as if something else
had control of him.

Paddock.

[Scully] Mrs. Paddock?

Mulder?