The X Files: I Want to Believe Page #5

Synopsis: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully both worked at the FBI as partners, a bond between them that led to their becoming lovers. But now they're out of the FBI and have begun new careers. Scully works as a staff physician at a Catholic hospital. Her focus these days is on a young boy with an incurable brain disease. Administration wants to give up on him. Scully, who feels a special bond with the boy, does not. Meanwhile, Mulder's focus is on clipping newspaper articles, throwing pencils into his ceiling and writing about the paranormal. Scully and Mulder are brought together as partners again when a special case requires Mulder's expertise and Scully is prevailed upon to convince him to help. The case involves a pedophile priest who claims he is having psychic visions regarding the whereabouts of a missing FBI agent.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director(s): Chris Carter
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
PG-13
Year:
2008
104 min
$20,847,266
Website
588 Views


- You led us here.

- Father Joe led us here.

This is Special Agent Drummy with the FBI. We have warrants to search these offices.

Anyone inside, identify yourself and unlock the door now.

I called you because I thought I could help with this case. Because I valued your belief in these phenomena.

And now what do you think?

I think that this is a longer conversation.

Down on the floor! Everybody in here I want down on the floor.

Somebody find the lights.

We were at a complete standstill and you pushed us forward in a direction or two.

What are you, nuts?

Stop him!

Stop him!

Hey! You can't go there.

- Which way did they go?

- That way.

Mulder!

Up here!

Mulder!

He's coming at you!

Mulder.

- Where are you?

- Right here.

Where?

Fox?

Where is he? Do you have gim?

No, I lost him.

- I saw him.

- Where?

They're both dead.

Monica Bannan and Dakota Whitney.

I heard.

I'm sorry.

I thought we were winning, Scully.

I know you did, Mulder.

I'm here to see Father Joe.

I want to show him these photographs. These men.

You still want to believe him.

I think you should know that he's been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

He has advanced stage lung cancer.

I just want to be sure.

Then let me ask him.

You wouldn't believe...

... I was thinking of you.

I had a vision...

... you might find interesting.

Of a man speaking in a foreign language.

Did he happen to look like this?

Yeah, that's the man.

How did you know?

We think he's the man that abducted the FBI agent...

... and the second woman you say you saw and possibly many more.

And we think that he was helped...

... by this man.

I don't know who that is.

Are you sure?

I'm failry certain. I don't know him.

I'm fairly certain that you do.

And that you've known him since he was a boy.

Oh, no.

It cannot be true.

I don't believe this.

He was my connection to the girl.

My visions were to save her from him.

This is God's work.

This is God's work.

Let me ask one more question, Father Joe.

The FBI agent...

... the first woman that you saw, Monica Bannnan.

Is she still alive?

I feel her.

Yes.

She's still alive.

That second victim may be alive. Everybody's given up on her, but I'm not going to.

Mulder, you think that I don't understand but I do.

This stubbornness of yours.

It's why I fell in love with you.

It's like you said.

It's why we can't be together.

Hold on.

- I'm sorry to bother you.

- I'm closed

I just need a moment of your time.

We got some bad weather coming in. You'd better get where you're goin' fast.

So, what do you need?

Is was wondering if you carry an animal tranquilizer called acepromazine?

You got a prescription for it?

No, I don't.

Well, I can't sell it to you then.

can you tell me if you've ever sold any to this man?

I am never getting out of here.

- Nutter's Feed.

Yep, I was just closing up and I'm gonna pick him up.

Yes, goodbye.

What happened to the othe guy?

Who?

The guy who was standing right here.

- I need to refill this now.

- Okay.

"... in laboratory animals, particularly dogs."

"... fused at the neck."

"... survive for periods of several weeks."

Yeah, it's me.

I must be busy right now. Leave a message.

Mulder, I just found something in my stem cell research.

Experiments being done in Russia on dogs. I think that's what...

... your suspects have been doing, only on humans.

Those women who have been abducted. You've got to call me.

Mulder, the FBI agent's alive.

FBI, Special Agent In Charge Fosse speaking.

It's for you.

This is Special Agent Drummy.

I've been trying to find you for hours.

I can't reach Mulder.

- Is this Doctor Scully?

- Yes, it's Doctor Scully!.

- Where is he?

- If I knew that I wouldn't be calling.

Doctor Scully, I'm gonna suggest that you call the police. This is not an FBI matter.

Listen to me!

I need your help!

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Then let me talk to somebody there with some balls who can!

Don't touch me!

You're going to be right.

I take care of you. You no longer need this body.

Look at me. You are going to live.

You are going to have a fine, strong body.

Excuse me.

I'm Dana Scully and that's my car.

I talked to some bigwig down at the FBI. He called from Washington.

Yeah, that's him. Walter Skinner.

Is there indication what happened? Any footprints?

Nothing. This snow's pretty heavy. But we did find this.

Might want to give it to him. Excuse me.

It's his cellphone. It's got blood on it.

Calm down. Stop and think. He's okay. He climbed out of there somehow...

...and if he climbed out he probably climbed up.

Stop!

Back off!

Back away!

Do you speak English? Does anybody speak English?

I want her out of here! I want those tubes out of her neck and I want her neck sewn up!

Do it!

We will find him.

I know Mulder. He'll get to a phone and he'll call first.

He wouldn't do anything crazy.

Relatively crazy.

Wait a minute. Back up.

What is it?

Proverbs, 25:
2.

"The Glory of God to hide a thing."

I've got it. An invoice for medical supplies to a Dr. Uroff-Koltoft.

An address in Bellflower Road.

- Listen

- What?

Dogs. Dogs!

Mulder!

Can you hear me?

Sorry about your car.

The girl. Still inside.

Show me your hands!

Put the scalpel down! Put that scalpel down!

Put that scalpel down or I'll blow your goddamn head off!

Get over there!

My God! What have you done?

What have you done?

Mulder needs warm clothes and fluids.

Oh God.

I've got work to do here.

Get in! Get in!

The girl ... inside ...

Scully's got her. She's in good hands.

Skinner?

I'm cold.

I gotcha.

I gotcha.

Mulder?

What's up, Doc?

Father Joe is dead.

He was clearly a very sick man.

Did you see this story?

The FBI is claiming that Father Joe was an accomplice.

Not a word about his psychic connection.

He's dead, Mulder.

We'll never know.

I know, Scully, and I can prove it.

Father Joe died of lung cancer, right?

The same as that man that Doctor Frankenstein tried to give a new body.

What time did you pull those tubes from that woman's neck?

What time did you cut off the blood supply to that man's head? That's when Father Joe died.

Get me his death certificate and I'll show it to you and I'll take it to the FBI and I'll show them.

Do you really think they're gonna take your call?

It's an injustice to the man's name.

Well, considering his crimes against those young boys...

... Who is really going to care?

I thought you believed him too?

I wanted to believe him.

I did believe him! I acted on that belief!

Why don't you just tell me what he said to you?

He told me:

"Don't give up."

And I didn't. And it saved your life.

But I put that boy through hell.

And I have another surgery scheduled for this morning ...

... because I believed that God was telling me to.

Through a paedophile priest, no less!

What if Father Joe's prayers were answered after all?

What if he were forgiven?

Because he didn't give up.

Try proving that one, Mulder.

I'm due at the hospital.

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