Via Negativa
8x07
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SCULLY: (on phone) It's, uh, it's Agent Scully.
I'm sorry to wake you.
DOGGETT: (on phone) What's up?
8-07unexpected.wav
SCULLY: (on phone) I'm sorry, Agent Doggett. I
can't go.
DOGGETT: (on phone) Agent Scully?
SCULLY: (on phone) Um, something unexpected has
come up.
DOGGETT: (on phone) You all right?
SCULLY: (on phone) Yeah, I'm, I'm fine.
DOGGETT: (on phone) Will I see you later?
SCULLY: (on phone) Uh, as soon as I can.
8-07splatter.wav
DOGGETT: This couldn't have happened here.
SKINNER: Blood splatter on the seat says it did.
DOGGETT: It's too narrow. There's no room to swing
the weapon.
8-07weird.wav
DOGGETT: This is damn weird.
SKINNER: It gets weirder.
8-07bash.wav
SKINNER: Tipet was a convicted murderer who claimed
to have found God. We didn't think we were dealing with an
apocalyptic cult. We've seen this kind of thing before.
Jonestown, Heaven's Gate.
DOGGETT: I don't care how devoted they were. These
people wouldn't just lie here and let their leader bash their
brains in. I got to figure at least one of them would
have had a problem with that.
8-07conclusions.wav
SKINNER: Unless Tipet took the drug and succeeded.
Unless his consciousness was there but his body was somewhere
else.
KERSH: The X-File explanation. I take it this theory
comes from Agent Scully?
DOGGETT: Agent Scully has yet to reach any
conclusions, sir.
KERSH: That's the problem. I'm not hearing conclusions
from either one of you.
8-07sci-fi.wav
DOGGETT: If I'm working this case, I'd appreciate a
heads up before you tell the Deputy Director any more science
fiction stories.
SKINNER: Hey, I don't have another explanation.
DOGGETT: Those guys in there are right. This whole
story doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
SKINNER: I'm supposed to give those guys in there
answers, Agent Doggett. You're supposed to help me do that.
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HOMELESS MAN: Spare change?
ANTHONY TIPET:
I don't have anything. Sorry.
HOMELESS MAN: Now, come on, man. I know you got
something 'cause I hear it jingling in your pocket.
8-07personal_time.wav
DOGGETT: I'm a good investigator but you know as
well as I do I'm not the Agent that should be investigating this
case.
SKINNER: Agent Scully can't be here.
DOGGETT: You spoke to her?
SKINNER: Tonight. She told me to tell you she's
fine. She's taking some personal time.
DOGGETT: I've got 22 people dead, and she's taking
personal time?
8-07why.wav
DOGGETT: Well, I'm supposed to believe this guy
doped his way into another plane of reality? That his spirit is
going around killing people?
SKINNER: All right, just suppose... suppose that
this drug finally did what Tipet said it would. That his spirit
could be in one place while his body was in another.
DOGGETT: Then tell me why he's doing it. If he's
looking for God, why is he killing people?
8-07facts.wav
DOGGETT: Just 'cause I'm assigned to the X-Files
you want me to think like Scully or Mulder would. You got the
wrong guy. I need facts, not wild ideas.
8-07joke.wav
SKINNER: You always up at this hour, Dr. Bormanis?
ANDRE
BORMANIS: It's when I dissect
my rats. Neighbors can't hear 'em screaming... That's a joke.
8-07covered.wav
SCULLY: Skinner told me about the case. I know that
you covered for me. You didn't have to do that.
DOGGETT: It's all right.
8-07discreet.wav
SCULLY: I appreciate your discretion.
DOGGETT: Yeah, well, it's easy to be discreet when
you don't know what's going on.
8-07instincts.wav
SCULLY: Doggett, you're a good agent. Trust your
instincts.
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BYERS: I'm telling you, these files are theirs.
They're private.
FROHIKE: And I'm telling you Mulder wouldn't mind.
We practically solved half these cases for him.
LANGLY: Yeah, Byers, quit your whining--nobody
likes a crybaby.
BYERS: Agent Scully asked us to give our
assistance not to go through her f-files.
FROHIKE: Like she's going to care.
LANGLY: Yeah, right.
8-07intro.wav
DOGGETT: Can I help you gentlemen?
BYERS: You must be Agent Doggett. I'm ... John
Byers. Uh, these are my associates Melvin Frohike and Richard
Langly.
DOGGETT: You're the guys Scully told me about.
Mulder's friends?
BYERS: Yes, that's us.
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DOGGETT: You publish the "Lone Gunman"
newspaper?
FROHIKE: Our reputation precedes us.
DOGGETT: Yeah. Read Mulder's files.
FROHIKE: Well, then you know how badly you're going
to need our help.
BYERS: We've reviewed your case as Agent Scully
asked.
LANGLY: Mondo bizarro. No offense, man, but you're
in way over your head.
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FROHIKE: We all have a third eye. If we could open
it, we'd see a new reality, one closer to God. At least that's
what Kesey told me on the bus back in '64.
LANGLY: You were not on the bus with Kesey in '64.
FROHIKE: Hey, I got the pictures to prove it, my
longhaired friend.
LANGLY: Before or after you partied with the Stones
at Altamont?
FROHIKE: Don't be a boob, Altamont was in '70s.
LANGLY: Whatever.
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DOGGETT: What if Tipet could invade his victims'...
consciousness in their sleep? I mean, that's why you'd be afraid
to fall asleep, right? If you thought your nightmares might come
true?
BYERS: You believe that?
DOGGETT: No... but if Tipet does... he'll need more
drugs... to keep killing.
FROHIKE: That's not bad for a beginner.
8-07msg.wav
DOGGETT: Agent Scully, I think we caught the guy who
did it. But it... it still it... it just doesn't add up. It's the
damnedest thing I ever saw. I know that this sounds strange, but
there's a, there's a... part of me says what if... what if this
guy was right? What if I shouldn't have let him die? I'm not
making a whole lot of sense. Maybe I just need some sleep. If you
get this message... and feel up to it... you give me a call.
8-07awake.wav
SKINNER: Is something wrong?
DOGGETT: I'm not sure... I'm awake.
8-07dream.wav
SKINNER: You think this is a dream? I mean, you
standing here talking to me? All those people out there?
DOGGETT: Last night I dreamt Tipet was inside my
house holding an axe. I thought I woke up this morning. I thought
I was awake, but-but then...
SKINNER: Uh... What do you want me to do, pinch you?
You're already awake.
DOGGETT: Stedman and Leeds must have experienced the
same thing... all Tipet's victims. Everything seemed real but it
was a dream... a dream that ended in their deaths.
SKINNER: Anthony Tipet is in a coma, never to regain
consciousness.
DOGGETT: He knows me now. He can enter in my dreams.
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[masked
backwards]
ANTHONY TIPET: She's going to die.
DOGGETT: I'm not going to let you do that.
ANTHONY TIPET: I'm sorry. I'm not going to kill her. You
are.
8-07woke_you.wav
DOGGETT: You just saved my life, Agent Scully.
SCULLY: I just woke you up, Agent Doggett.
8-07darkness.wav
DOGGETT: Are you okay?
SCULLY: I seem to be, yes.
DOGGETT: Well, if you need some more time off...
SCULLY: No. I'm, um... I'm back at work now. That
must have been some nightmare you just had.
DOGGETT: Tipet thought he'd find God by looking in
the darkness inside himself.
SCULLY: You don't think he succeeded?
DOGGETT: In my dreams, I see... I saw terrible...
violent images that... scared the living daylights out of me.
These things are a part of me. I can't deny that, but... maybe...
maybe they didn't come from me.
SCULLY: Then where'd they come from? It was a bad
dream, Agent Doggett, but that's all it was.
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SCULLY: It was a bad dream, Agent Doggett, but
that's all it was.
"Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein-