The X Files: I Want to Believe

Give 'em room!

Hold the line, gentlemen! Look left, look right!

Hold the line!

It's here. It's here.

Calm down, buddy!

Let him go!

Let him go! Let him go!

Easy. Easy. Let him go! Let him go!

Here!

Here! It's here!

It's here!

I've gone over the charts you've sent...

... and consulted another neurologist, who works with me here. We are alarmed by two things.

The deificiency in lipid metabolism and severely diminished enzyme output.

Right. That's exactly right.

Both indicate Lysosomal Storage Illness

Are you the boy's primary physician, Doctor...?

Scully. Dana Scully.

And you tested his lysosome function?

I think you have all my results there, doctor.

My fear is that it's a Type-2 degenerative brain disease like...

...Sandhoff Disease. That his enzymes aren't clearing the lypids from his brain, causing atrophy.

If you suspect Sandhoff Disease, I'd test the boy's levels of hexasaminidase.

I've done that. What I am looking for here, doctor, is a course of treatment.

There is no treatment for Sandhoff.

If there were, I'm sure you'd tell me.

Hi, Christian. How are you feeling?

Okay, Dr. Scully. How about you?

Me? I'm doing just fine, thank you

You get some outside opinions?

Yes.

We're gonna do some more tests.

Dana Scully?

Doctor Scully, I'm looking for Fox Mulder.

- Special Agent Drummer. I'm with...

- I can guess who you're with.

The FBI urgently needs to speak with Fox Mulder.

I don't work with Fox Mulder any longer. I don't work with the FBI...

If you could contact him...

... it might just save the life of an FBI agent.

What's up, Doc?

You've become awfully trusting, Mulder...

... for a man wanted by the FBI.

Eyes in the back of my head, Scully. "Auf einer Wellenlange" the Germans say.

It's a precognitive state often confused with simple human intuition...

... in which the brain perceives deep logic, underlying transitory human existence, unaided by the conscious mind,...

... materializing much as you did just now.

Although if you'd actually materialized, you'd be rapidly dematerializing.

But who believes that crap anymore?

Well, they do at the FBI, apparently. I had a visitor today, Mulder.

THE FBI wants your help finding a missing agent.

I hope you told them to go screw themselves?

They say 'all is forgiven'.

That they'll drop all charges against you if you come in and help them solve this case.

The FBI will forgive me?

They put me on trial on bogus charges and tried to discredit ...

... a decade of my work. They should be asking me for my forgiveness, Scully.

I think they are. Desperately.

How can I possibly help these people?

Someone's come forward with some promising evidence.

A psychic, he claims.

It's a trick, Scully, to smoke me out.

If the FBI wanted to get you, I've no doubt that they could.

I think they'd just be happy to have you out of their hair.

Good, because I'd be just as happy having them out of mine.

A young agent's life is at stake.

Mulder, I know I don't have to say this, but it could have been you once.

Or me.

You know, the truth is, I worry about you...

... and the effects of long-term isolation.

I'm fine here.

I'm happy as a clam.

I'll tell them your answer.

(Whispers) Sh*t.

Okay, I'll go...

... under one condition.

Thanks for the lift!

Don't thank me! I didn't send it!

Wait here.

Come in.

Excuse me. They're here.

Thanks for making this happen. I am special agent in charge Whitney.

Dana Scully

Fox Mulder, I believe?

I know this is awkward, but welcome back. My team and I appreciate your trust.

Well, trust being what it is, what if I can't help you? Or your agent turns up dead?

The past is the past.

I know your work on X-Files cases here and believe you to be the best chance Monica Bannan has now.

How long has she been missing?

Since Sunday evening.

Almost three days.

I know you know this, but, after 72 hours, there's slim chance she's still alive.

We have some reason to believe that she is.

There so far, we have no evidence to the contrary. And the facts give us hope.

Soon after she goes missing, we find this. A severed arm.

- Where?

- About ten miles from her home.

I don't understand. It's a man's arm.

It's a match for evidence found at or near the crime scene. Blood or tissue?

Blood. Found in her garage and on the tool that matches the wound.

- I take it you were led to it?

- Like a needle in a haystack.

By someone claiming psychic powers.

Joseph Fitzpatrick Crissman.

- And you think he's full of sh*t.

- What makes you say that?

I'm psychic!

- Father Joe was...

- Father?

- he was a priest?

- Catholic.

He cold-called six hours after Monica Bannan was reported missing...

... claiming a vision of her. A psychic connection.

- And she tells you she's alive?

- That's right.

Have you found any other connection?

- To Monica Bannan?

- No. That's why I sent for you.

I need to know we're not wasting time.

Well, he's a religious man, clearly. Educated man.

He took right action. Said nothing to cast doubt upon himself. He has no material connection to the crime.

You are wasting time, only it's mine and your agents.

There is a question of credibility.

If you have no reason to doubt the man, why doubt the man's visions?

Can he lead us to Monica Bannan? He gave us a man's bloody arm in the snow.

This is not an exact science. If it were me, I'd be on the guy 24/7. I'd be in bed with him...

... kissing his holy ass.

Father Joe is a convicted paedophile.

Maybe I'd stay out of bed with him.

What is this?

Dorms for habitual sex offenders.

Dorms?

They manage the complex and police themselves.

Father Joe lives here voluntarily with his room-mate.

Just avoid the Activities Room.

Joe?

- Tell them to come in.

Father Joe?

Excuse the mess. I haven't been sleeping.

- Father Joe, this is Fox Mulder.

- Okay.

He'd like to ask some questions.

Actually, I'd like to ask something.

What was it you were praying for in there, sir?

For the salvation of my immortal soul.

And do you think God hears your prayers?

- Do you think He hears yours?

- I didn't bugger thirty-seven altar boys.

That's a colorful way of putting it.

- I have another word, if you'd like.

- I'm sure you do.

I have to believe He does hear me. Or why would He send these visions?

Maybe it's not God doing the sending.

You call them visions.

Do you see them?

With what you might call 'my mind's eye'.

What do you see?

I see the poor girl being assaulted.

I see her putting up a fight.

I hear dogs barking.

Where?

Can't tell.

But you see her alive?

No, but I...

... I feel that she is.

Can you show us how you do it?

I don't know if I can do this right now.

Maybe it would be better if she wasn't here.

Maybe what you see is a way to try to make people forget what it is you really are.

Jesus, Mulder!

So much for kissing his holy ass.

I'm sorry.

I've been too long away from this business, or not long enough.

No, you were good in there.

All I had were questions.

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