The X-Files (1993–…): Season 3, Episode 4 - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - full transcript
Scully and Mulder are called into the investigation of a series of murders where the victims were all psychics of some sort. A tea leaf reader, tarot card reader and palm reader are all the apparent victims of a serial killer. The local police have brought in a well-known TV psychic that Mulder finds laughable. He does come across Clyde Bruckman, an insurance salesman who may be a genuine psychic. While Scully is appropriately skeptical, Mulder realizes that Bruckman can only see one thing - how people will die.
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"l foresee a romantic affair
between superstar Madonna
and supen/vitness Kato Kaelin."
That's a gimme.
That's not really going out on a limb, is it?
"l foresee author JD Salinger
finally publishing a new novel...
_.and hitting the talk-show circuit
to promote it."
That's just playing the odds.
"l foresee the revelation that not Elvis,
but rather Buddy Holly, is still alive,...
_.having faked his own death
so many years ago."
"Holly will not only re-emerge,
but also regroup with the Crickets,...
_.and they will headline
in next year's Lollapala..."
"Lollapaz... pazoola."
What the hell is "Lollapallazo"?
Who's Buddy Holly?
Just give me my lotto ticket
and a pint of malt Scotch whisky.
- Anything else?
- Yeah.
One of these.
6 When I die
6 That'll be the day
- Sorry.
- Don't apologise.
You're a better dancer than my last date.
So what has brought you
to Madame Zelma?
Well, can you really know everything
about me just by looking at my hands?
Hm.
The palms tell me all.
I would just like
for you to be able to tell me...
_.why am I going to be doing
the things that I'm going to be doing?
Madame Zelma, she is a palm reader,
not a psychologist.
I Know, I Know. It's just...
I think I've somehow caught a glimpse
of my own future... myself.
And I see me doing things that...
Hthatjust seem so out of character for me.
These are things that not only
do I not wanna be doing,.__
_.but I can't even imagine myself capable
of doing. And, yet, there I am. I'm doing 'em.
Mister...
- Please, you're hurting me.
- I know. I know.
And I'm sorry. But you're a fortune-teller.
- No. Please...
- You should've seen this coming.
Argh!
They say the eyes capture
the last image a murder victim sees.
- So what do they say about the entrails?
- Yuck
Is it true you asked for help on this case?
- This guy's an expert at this sort of thing.
- I heard he was a bit unorthodox.
- He comes highly recommended.
- Yeah, I saw him on TV.
- So he's a publicity hound. He gets results.
- I worked on a case he did. Very spooky.
As long as he gives us leads,
I don't care how big a kook.._
- Who the hell are you?
- I'm Agent IVlulder. This is Agent Scully.
I forgot you were coming.
I'm Cline. This is Havez.
We're thinkin' this guy might be a Satanist,
what with the eyeballs.
Satanists take the eyeballs
and leave the body,
and not in anything but modern myths.
- He's gouging eyes for no reason?
- Nobody does anything without a reason.
We've composed a profile with explanations
of his attacks and also his choice of victims.
- Does it explain the entrails?
- Anthropomancy
It was once believed that you could divine
your future by studying human entrails_
So this guy is hackin' up people
in order to see his future?
There's a possible connection with
all his victims being prognosticators.
Till this one. She was a doll collector.
And an amateur tasseographer.
She read tea leaves. You can gain insight
into your future by examining the pattern...
_.on the bottom of the cup.
- You believe in this?
- I'm not convinced.
- But I'm pretty sure the victim was.
- Why?
Her leaves were telling her
she was about to be murdered.
(cop) I'm sorry, people.
- (woman) Mr Yappi!
- (cop) You're gonna have to stand back.
- Mr Yappi, I appreciate you coming here.
- Quiet.
Yes, I'm seeing visions. Visions of the killer.
He does not feel like
he's in control of his life.
Very important. That's why he kills. Yes.
- Can you see what he looks like?
- He looks like...
..a white man with facial hair... or not.
But he has, yes,...
_.a tattoo somewhere on his body.
Maybe the tattoo has the facial hair, I think.
Huh!
I see him here, forcing himself,
yes, on the girl.
But he cannot perform,_..
_.so he's taking out his rage.
It's gone. I lost the vision.
Someone is blocking me.
I am picking up negative energy.
- Please, leave this room.
- I'm part of this investigation.
- You give off negative energy.
- I assure you, I believe in psychic ability.
So you say with your mouth,
but your thoughts tell me the truth.
Agent Mulder, please.
I can't take you anywhere.
(clapping)
Now, excuse me.
I have an interview to give.
Sceptics like you make me sick.
Mr Yappi, read this thought.
So's your old man!
It's too bad about your negative energy.
You missed quite a performance.
Look what he did to my pen.
Let me impress you with my psychic ability.
IVlrYappi proclaimed
the victim's body was near water.
He saw a church or school in the vicinity. He
got a flash of the letter S and the number 7.
- What's your point?
- His leads are so vague as to be useless,___
_.yet easily seen as correct after the fact.
He said the killer doesn't
feel in control of his life.
- That's true of everyone at times.
- He said other things.
Some are bound to be right, but most
will turn out wrong. Which is which?
Look, all I know is that Yappi has provided
more solid leads on this case than you have.
Now, if you don't mind, I have to get
an APB out on a white male, 17 to 34,___
_.with or without a beard,
maybe a tattoo, who's impotent.
Let's go.
Might as well go home, Mulder.
This case is as good as solved.
So General Mutual has a very
comprehensive $200,000 life policy...
_.at a net annual cost of $2400.
You see, the thing is,___
_.we were really hoping to buy a boat.
Mr Gordon, as a young husband,.._
..you'll find that your new responsibilities
take precedence over recreational needs.
But this is a really good boat.
You don't get it, do you, kid?
Two years from now,...
_.while driving down Route 91
_.coming home to your wife
and baby daughter,__.
__you're gonna be hit head-on by a drunk,.__
_.driving a blue '87 Mustang.
You'll end up looking worse than 60 feet
of bad road your body slides across...
_.after flying out your front windshield.
Mister, you really need to work
on your closing technique.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Not your lighter, Mrs Lowe.
I want your garbage.
Get outta here, you monster.
Is everything all right, Mrs Lowe? You
have enough supplies? Enough dog food?
Oh, God.
It's creepy, isn't it?
The Stupendous Yappi said
the first victim's body has been dumped.
- Then we find it in a Dumpster.
- Ooh, I just got a chill down my spine.
Who found the body?
According to the report, Mr Bruckman, you
didn't touch the body after you found her.
- Why would I want to?
- You reported a body with its eyes cutout.
The body was facedown. How did
you know the eyes had been removed?
Well, they had been, hadn't they?
Then what are you complaining about?
How had the eyes been cutout?
By a piece of crystal ball,
of all cockamamie things.
We did find
some crystal shards on the body.
How do you know it was from a crystal ball?
Well, it just figures. I mean,
if a guy goes to kill a fortune-teller,.._
..he's obviously going to assault her
with her own crystal ball...
_.and use a shattered piece as
a sort of lance, isn't he?
How much have you heard about
the recent slayings in town?
Just that some nut is killing fortune-tellers
and ripping their eyes and entrails out.
How did you know about the entrails?
That hasn't been released to the press.
I never read the papers.
Too depressing.
Mr Bruckman, I'm sorry, but I'm going
to have to ask you to come with us.
Step inside, Mr Brucl
"l foresee a romantic affair
between superstar Madonna
and supen/vitness Kato Kaelin."
That's a gimme.
That's not really going out on a limb, is it?
"l foresee author JD Salinger
finally publishing a new novel...
_.and hitting the talk-show circuit
to promote it."
That's just playing the odds.
"l foresee the revelation that not Elvis,
but rather Buddy Holly, is still alive,...
_.having faked his own death
so many years ago."
"Holly will not only re-emerge,
but also regroup with the Crickets,...
_.and they will headline
in next year's Lollapala..."
"Lollapaz... pazoola."
What the hell is "Lollapallazo"?
Who's Buddy Holly?
Just give me my lotto ticket
and a pint of malt Scotch whisky.
- Anything else?
- Yeah.
One of these.
6 When I die
6 That'll be the day
- Sorry.
- Don't apologise.
You're a better dancer than my last date.
So what has brought you
to Madame Zelma?
Well, can you really know everything
about me just by looking at my hands?
Hm.
The palms tell me all.
I would just like
for you to be able to tell me...
_.why am I going to be doing
the things that I'm going to be doing?
Madame Zelma, she is a palm reader,
not a psychologist.
I Know, I Know. It's just...
I think I've somehow caught a glimpse
of my own future... myself.
And I see me doing things that...
Hthatjust seem so out of character for me.
These are things that not only
do I not wanna be doing,.__
_.but I can't even imagine myself capable
of doing. And, yet, there I am. I'm doing 'em.
Mister...
- Please, you're hurting me.
- I know. I know.
And I'm sorry. But you're a fortune-teller.
- No. Please...
- You should've seen this coming.
Argh!
They say the eyes capture
the last image a murder victim sees.
- So what do they say about the entrails?
- Yuck
Is it true you asked for help on this case?
- This guy's an expert at this sort of thing.
- I heard he was a bit unorthodox.
- He comes highly recommended.
- Yeah, I saw him on TV.
- So he's a publicity hound. He gets results.
- I worked on a case he did. Very spooky.
As long as he gives us leads,
I don't care how big a kook.._
- Who the hell are you?
- I'm Agent IVlulder. This is Agent Scully.
I forgot you were coming.
I'm Cline. This is Havez.
We're thinkin' this guy might be a Satanist,
what with the eyeballs.
Satanists take the eyeballs
and leave the body,
and not in anything but modern myths.
- He's gouging eyes for no reason?
- Nobody does anything without a reason.
We've composed a profile with explanations
of his attacks and also his choice of victims.
- Does it explain the entrails?
- Anthropomancy
It was once believed that you could divine
your future by studying human entrails_
So this guy is hackin' up people
in order to see his future?
There's a possible connection with
all his victims being prognosticators.
Till this one. She was a doll collector.
And an amateur tasseographer.
She read tea leaves. You can gain insight
into your future by examining the pattern...
_.on the bottom of the cup.
- You believe in this?
- I'm not convinced.
- But I'm pretty sure the victim was.
- Why?
Her leaves were telling her
she was about to be murdered.
(cop) I'm sorry, people.
- (woman) Mr Yappi!
- (cop) You're gonna have to stand back.
- Mr Yappi, I appreciate you coming here.
- Quiet.
Yes, I'm seeing visions. Visions of the killer.
He does not feel like
he's in control of his life.
Very important. That's why he kills. Yes.
- Can you see what he looks like?
- He looks like...
..a white man with facial hair... or not.
But he has, yes,...
_.a tattoo somewhere on his body.
Maybe the tattoo has the facial hair, I think.
Huh!
I see him here, forcing himself,
yes, on the girl.
But he cannot perform,_..
_.so he's taking out his rage.
It's gone. I lost the vision.
Someone is blocking me.
I am picking up negative energy.
- Please, leave this room.
- I'm part of this investigation.
- You give off negative energy.
- I assure you, I believe in psychic ability.
So you say with your mouth,
but your thoughts tell me the truth.
Agent Mulder, please.
I can't take you anywhere.
(clapping)
Now, excuse me.
I have an interview to give.
Sceptics like you make me sick.
Mr Yappi, read this thought.
So's your old man!
It's too bad about your negative energy.
You missed quite a performance.
Look what he did to my pen.
Let me impress you with my psychic ability.
IVlrYappi proclaimed
the victim's body was near water.
He saw a church or school in the vicinity. He
got a flash of the letter S and the number 7.
- What's your point?
- His leads are so vague as to be useless,___
_.yet easily seen as correct after the fact.
He said the killer doesn't
feel in control of his life.
- That's true of everyone at times.
- He said other things.
Some are bound to be right, but most
will turn out wrong. Which is which?
Look, all I know is that Yappi has provided
more solid leads on this case than you have.
Now, if you don't mind, I have to get
an APB out on a white male, 17 to 34,___
_.with or without a beard,
maybe a tattoo, who's impotent.
Let's go.
Might as well go home, Mulder.
This case is as good as solved.
So General Mutual has a very
comprehensive $200,000 life policy...
_.at a net annual cost of $2400.
You see, the thing is,___
_.we were really hoping to buy a boat.
Mr Gordon, as a young husband,.._
..you'll find that your new responsibilities
take precedence over recreational needs.
But this is a really good boat.
You don't get it, do you, kid?
Two years from now,...
_.while driving down Route 91
_.coming home to your wife
and baby daughter,__.
__you're gonna be hit head-on by a drunk,.__
_.driving a blue '87 Mustang.
You'll end up looking worse than 60 feet
of bad road your body slides across...
_.after flying out your front windshield.
Mister, you really need to work
on your closing technique.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Not your lighter, Mrs Lowe.
I want your garbage.
Get outta here, you monster.
Is everything all right, Mrs Lowe? You
have enough supplies? Enough dog food?
Oh, God.
It's creepy, isn't it?
The Stupendous Yappi said
the first victim's body has been dumped.
- Then we find it in a Dumpster.
- Ooh, I just got a chill down my spine.
Who found the body?
According to the report, Mr Bruckman, you
didn't touch the body after you found her.
- Why would I want to?
- You reported a body with its eyes cutout.
The body was facedown. How did
you know the eyes had been removed?
Well, they had been, hadn't they?
Then what are you complaining about?
How had the eyes been cutout?
By a piece of crystal ball,
of all cockamamie things.
We did find
some crystal shards on the body.
How do you know it was from a crystal ball?
Well, it just figures. I mean,
if a guy goes to kill a fortune-teller,.._
..he's obviously going to assault her
with her own crystal ball...
_.and use a shattered piece as
a sort of lance, isn't he?
How much have you heard about
the recent slayings in town?
Just that some nut is killing fortune-tellers
and ripping their eyes and entrails out.
How did you know about the entrails?
That hasn't been released to the press.
I never read the papers.
Too depressing.
Mr Bruckman, I'm sorry, but I'm going
to have to ask you to come with us.
Step inside, Mr Brucl