The X-Files · Season 1
They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. I don't know why, but any excuse will do. Now, I don't really care about my record, but you'd be in trouble just for sitting in this car and I'd hate to see you to carry an official reprimand in your file because of me.
Fox....
I... I... even made my parents call me "Mulder".
Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
Best we can figure, it was some kind of payback.
For what?
Well, around that time, the organized crime division was doing a major sweep in Chinatown.
The Triads.
Yeah. Some very heavy busts went down against the Woo Shing Woo. A lot of smack never made it to the street. You can bet there were some pretty pissed off people playing mahjong that week.
So you think that Charlie Morris was killed as a warning to back off?
I think they picked a cop - any cop - and they whacked him.
Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?
Because sometimes ...
What?
... looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.
Do me a favor, Mulder. Let me say it. Reincarnation.
Metempsychosis, transmigration, reimbodiment, call it what you will.
All based on the coincidence that Michelle Bishop and Officer Morris both practice the obscure art of paper folding?
Well, what about the composite drawing and the dolls and the fact that Michelle was witness to two deaths that can be tied to Charlie Morris?
So what, you think he's back like Peter Proud to avenge his murder?
It's not so far-fetched, Scully. Reincarnation is a basic tenet of many major religions.
That still doesn't explain how an eight-year-old girl can kill two grown men.
Well, individuals with strong past-life memories often exhibit enhanced psychic abilities - ESP, telekinesis.
So where does that leave us?
One short step away from proving the pre-existence of the human soul.
Looks like a match.
Yeah. Name's Charlie Morris. Officer Charlie Morris. Used to work narcotics out at the two-seven.
Do you know him?
No. Before my time.
Where is he now? Has he been transferred?
You could say that. Agent Scully, this guy's been dead for nine years. Which means that little girl saw... a ghost.
... and check for burns or lesions on Barbala's body.
Why?
Psychokinesis is usually associated with an electrical charge.
Are you saying Michelle possesses the ability to psychically project her own will?
How else could a 60-pound kid throw a 200-pound detective out the window?
I was right outside. I'm telling you, there was nobody else there except for Barbala and the kid.
So you didn't get a description of who the kid saw?
I'm telling you, there was no one else. Listen. The department is treating this as a suicide, but I gotta tell you. I knew this guy. There's no way he did himself.
Was he depressed or under psychiatric care of any kind?
No. Only time he ever looked at himself was in the mirror. And he always liked what he saw.
Plus jumpers tend to open the window before they jump.
You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.
Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?
How could this happen? Roland never exhibited any violent tendencies.
It's my belief that he wasn't acting under his own volition.
What do you mean?
This is the work of Arthur Grable, Roland's brother. It's a new theory of jet propulsion, unfinished at the time of his death. In the last two weeks, Roland has completed the calculations.
How?
We're not sure, Mrs. Stodie. All we know is that Roland was somehow able to finish his brother's research.
Arthur and Roland Grable, born at Puget Presbyterian to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grable on July 15, 1952. Arthur was four minutes older than Roland.
Identical twins.
Which means that they're the result of a single egg fertilized by a single sperm.
I've read studies which suggest that in some cases the identical twin arises very early in the embryonic stage when a mutation in one cell is rejected by the other cells as foreign.
So that maybe Roland's condition is the result of a damaged chromosome rejected by one of Arthur's cells?
In a way, that would explain Arthur's genius and Roland's strange mathematical gift.
You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.
Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?
I believe in psychic connections, and evidence suggests that it's stronger between family members, strongest of all between twin siblings that shared the same womb.
OK, maybe. But in this case, one sibling has closer ties to a frozen fudgesicle than he does to his own brother.
Arthur Grable is not dead. He's in a state of consciousness that no human has ever returned from. And what if that state allows one to develop psychic ability to a potential that the conscious mind is too preoccupied to explore or believe in? He could use that ability to control his brother to kill those scientists.
This is Arthur Grable. Uh, because of the massive internal damage to his body caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.
Wouldn't your client find it somewhat inconvenient to be thawed out in the future, only to discover he had no functional mobility?
We believe that by the time science figures a way to revive our clients...
... you'll also know how to clone new bodies for them.
Exactly. This technology is progressing faster than anyone thought possible. Ask anyone here at the university. So, while for us the passing of each second brings our bodies closer to death, for our clients it brings them closer to life.
You don't really think that Roland ...
Besides Nollette and Keats, he's the only person we can prove was in the lab that night.
Yes, but we're talking about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation. Roland Fuller barely has an IQ of 70.
Well, you saw his facility with mathematics. Don't some autistic individuals display unusual abilities?
Yes, but even savants behave only as human calculators. I mean, they can perform certain functions but they can't tell you the value of anything or even the meaning of a number.
I don't believe you.
There are limits to my knowledge, Mr. Mulder.
Calling it a night, Mr. Mulder?
My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on.
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