Invocation
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SCULLY: Okay. Well, what we've got here is a
healthy seven-year-old boy who was born 17 years ago.
DOGGETT: And a healthy boy who won't speak.
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SCULLY: I'm Agent Scully, and this is Agent
Doggett. We are, uh, investigating this case.
LISA
UNDERWOOD: It's a miracle,
isn't it?
SCULLY: Mrs. Underwood...whatever your son has been
through, it has somehow affected his physical condition.
LISA
UNDERWOOD: So we've been told
by every doctor here. We just want to take him home. After ten
years, can we do that?
DOGGETT: Not yet. I want to talk to him first.
8-06game.wav
SCULLY: You think this is a game?
DOGGETT: A serious game; one we have to win.
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SCULLY: I told you... he's not sick.
DOGGETT: Good. Then he can talk.
8-06sleep.wav
SCULLY: You going to sleep here, too?
8-06punch_line.wav
DOGGETT: Now how can that be possible?
SCULLY: It's medically impossible.
DOGGETT: So, what's the punch line? Where are you
saying he's been?
SCULLY: There are
X-File cases that describe
similar paranormal findings. Alien abductees who came back with
anomalous medical stats.
DOGGETT: You know, these words:
"Anomalous," "supernatural,"
"paranormal..." They purport to explain something by
not explaining it. It's lazy.
SCULLY: I'm not saying that I can explain it, Agent
Doggett, but this is definitely not normal.
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DOGGETT: You know, these words:
"Anomalous," "supernatural,"
"paranormal..." They purport to explain something by
not explaining it. It's lazy.
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SCULLY: What's your interest in this guy?
DOGGETT: He's a high school dropout, convicted of
possession, arson, and shoplifting since 1990.
SCULLY: These are juvenile records. These are
sealed by the court, Agent Doggett. We're not supposed to have
these.
DOGGETT: And we're at a standstill here.
SCULLY: Yeah, and you're breaking the law.
DOGGETT: Look, I want to catch this guy, Agent
Scully, whatever it takes.
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RONNIE
PURNELL: You're a trip, man.
You know that?
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SCULLY: This is not a normal child, Agent Doggett,
and this is not a normal act.
DOGGETT: You make it sound like he's possessed. Call
the exorcist. He's a kid-- a kid who's been through who knows
what kind of hell. Give him a chance. How do you know he's not
trying to communicate something?
SCULLY: And what's the message?
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SCULLY: He's a kid who materialized out of thin
air, unaged. Do you not somehow recognize how strange this is?
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SHARON PEARL: Is this going to happen?
DOGGETT: Shouldn't you be telling us that?
SHARON PEARL: You're no doubt confused, Agent Doggett. I
take psychic readings not see through walls.
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SHARON PEARL: There are very powerful forces at work
here. Working through this boy. Drawing him to his brother. I
feel this force... I feel this force
coming through you.
You lost someone just like Billy.
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DOGGETT: I'd be more curious if I believed it.
SCULLY: Believed what?
DOGGETT: The act.
SCULLY: You think that was an act?
DOGGETT: It's pretty standard fare, isn't it? Float
a few choice revelations, as if they came from on high, roll
around on the floor.
SCULLY: You saw that symbol appear on her forehead.
DOGGETT: It's a damn good trick. Don't ask me how
she does it.
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SCULLY: Count to ten, Agent Doggett.
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DOGGETT: He took Billy.
SCULLY: He couldn't have.
DOGGETT: How are you going to back that up with
Billy now missing from his home?
SCULLY: By the certain knowledge that not five
minutes earlier, I saw him enter his home with his mother.
DOGGETT: I saw him! I saw Billy riding in the car
with Ronnie. Why else would Ronnie take off like he did?
SCULLY: It's impossible, Agent Doggett, like
everything else about this case. Like how Billy can be in his
home one minute and then in Ronnie's car the next. Everything
about this case is impossible.
DOGGETT: This kid is the key, Agent Scully. I've
been saying that from the beginning and I'll say it now.
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DOGGETT: I've got to talk to this kid, Agent Scully.
I'm absolutely sure.
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DOGGETT: I don't believe it.
SCULLY: Okay, the clothes, the age and condition of
the bones, the location of the grave. There is no doubt that that
is Billy Underwood's skeleton that is in that grave.
DOGGETT: We spent time with this boy. Doctors took
Billy's blood. You examined him yourself. Now, I can't accept it.
I can't believe we're asking them to.
SCULLY: I know, but the forensic evidence is going
to come out, and what then? What if I'm right?
DOGGETT: Well, what then, Agent Scully? What we do?
We move on, let it go, case closed?
SCULLY: Look, I know where you are with this. I
have been there. I know what you're feeling-- that you've failed
and that you have to explain this somehow. And maybe you can.
DOGGETT: Not if that's Billy's body, I can't.
SCULLY: But maybe that's explanation enough. That
that's not Billy's brother lying in that grave, too. That that
man who did this is never going to be able to do it again. Isn't
that what you wanted, Agent Doggett?
DOGGETT: Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that
this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave.
SCULLY: All I'm saying is that maybe you
succeeded... whether you're willing to see that or not.
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DOGGETT: Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that
this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave.
SCULLY: All I'm saying is that maybe you
succeeded... whether you're willing to see that or not.
"Personally
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught."
-Winston Churchill-