The X-Files

Here. Try this screen.

Concentrate on this area over here. Right there.

Mulder!

What's going on?

I'm not sure I can explain.

You called for a forensic excavation at 5am on a Sunday?

Just give me a minute, OK?

What are you doing out here?

I keep having this dream. It's about a little blonde girl.

You're here because of something you saw in a dream?

Sir!

Carefully remove all that. Easy.

Tell me about this dream.

I've had flashes of it three nights in a row...

...and last night it went on long enough to lead me right to her.

- I need the chest exposed. - Yes, sir. It just takes a little time.

Sir? Let us do that.

If you destroy evidence, we may never know what happened.

I know what happened. She was strangled. He used an eight-gauge electrical cord.

He took something from the body postmortem - a trophy...

...a piece of fabric cut from her clothes in the shape of a heart.

- You got all these details from your dream? - No. I know this MO from memory.

- Whose MO? - John Lee Roche.

He killed 13 eight- to ten-year-old girls.

This makes 14.

It was a difficult case. He was extremely hard to catch.

By 1990, ten victims had been found, scattered across the Eastern seaboard.

The earliest dated back to 1979.

VICAP named the case "Paper Hearts" because of the trophies the killer took.

All the victims were abducted from their homes.

Reggie Purdue brought me in because he thought I could get inside the killer's head.

Did you?

I concluded we were looking for a salesman.

Someone who travelled a lot, who could gain people's confidence, someone ordinary.

Roche was a vacuum cleaner salesman. His job took him all over the Northeast.

He'd be in someone's home...

...demonstrating his vacuum, and he'd be checking out their kids.

He'd choose a victim and come back for her months later.

But it was your profile that caught him.

What about the trophies he took, the cloth hearts?

We never found them, but we had him on 13 counts of murder. He admitted to 13.

Polygraph said he was telling the truth, but it always bugged me.

I always wanted to find those hearts and count them,

see if they really added up to 13.

I guess they didn't.

If nothing else, I think I can at least help explain your dream.

I don't think you ever stopped thinking about this case.

I believe you solved it in your sleep.

You think that I've had this information about a 14th victim all the time...

...and I've been processing it unconsciously?

You said it yourself once.

You said that a...

...a dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask.

You did good work, Mulder.

Let's identify this girl so we can put her to rest.

I believe her name is Addie Sparks.

She went missing from her home in Pennsylvania, in June 1975.

I contacted the Center for Missing and Exploited Children...

- ...ran a search through the database. - 1975's too early.

I think the match is right.

The height is right; the description of the sleeper is right.

That would mean Roche started way before we thought he did.

Mulder, we're gonna have to verify this.

Are you up for that?

- Frank Sparks? - Can I help you?

Yes. I'm Agent Scully. This is Agent Mulder. We're with the FBI. May we speak with you?

You've found Addie.

This was for the tooth fairy.

When Addie was asleep at night, I'd come and put a quarter in this pocket.

Her mother sewed it.

- Where is your wife, sir? - She passed away last summer.

So you, uh... you're saying the man that did this is already in prison?

Yes, sir, and he won't get out.

You do this full-time, telling people... this kind of news?

No, sir, not full-time.

- It's not a good job. - No.

I used to think...

...that missing was worse than dead because“.

...you never knew what happened.

But now that I know...

...I'm glad my wife's not here.

She got luckier.

How many more people, uh... like me...

- ...are you gonna visit today? - Sir?

Were there other victims you didn't know about?

Roche's car. Roche drove a white El Camino.

- I saw it in my dream. - What are you saying?

The cloth hearts, he would have wanted them close.

For a travelling salesman, that means inside the car.

You're saying the hearts might still be in his car?

He doesn't have them in prison. His cell is searched regularly. His mail is examined.

His car was sold at auction in 1992, put beyond his reach. It's worth a look.

We gotta find those hearts, to count them.

Don't you think the car's been searched already?

Not by me.

Here it is.

I've been, you know, detailing it.

Dropped the bed shell and did the decals, stuff like that.

- Thank you. - Honest-to-God serial killer owned my car?

For real?

I'm helping him detail.

- Something's wrong here, Scully. - Maybe it's underneath.

Mad Hat.

Hey, Scully, the camper shell.

The kid said he took the camper shell off.

"Mad Hat." Mad Hatter.

Eight...

...nine, ten...

...eleven...

...twelve, thirteen...

...fourteen...

Addie Sparks!

Fifteen...

...sixteen.

He killed two more victims.

Mulder.

Long time no see.

You got a new partner.

Agent Scully.

- So what's up? - We found Addie Sparks, John.

Congratulations, I guess.

We also found your cloth hearts...

...all 16 of them.

- Oh. - Sixteen victims, John.

How come you said there were only 13?

I don't know. 13 sounds more magical, you know?

Tell us about the last two victims.

You're in for life. You've got nothing to lose.

I got nothin' to gain.

You can gain one moment of decency in your life.

You can finally let those families put their daughters to rest.

I understand you take this very personally, Mulder.

How about this?

Sink one from there, and I'll tell you.

You'd trust a child molester?

You bring my hearts and give them back to me...

...I'll tell you everything you wanna know.

- Coming out. - (door opens)

...President Nixon and HR Haldeman while transcribing the subpoenaed tape.

Woods testified that she erased about five minutes of the conversation...

- ...but the tape contained... - Fox, it's your move.

Under investigation from Senator Howard Baker,"...

...HR Haldeman reiterated the White House explanation that...

- Samantha. - Are you gonna move or not?

- Do we have to watch this? - ..hitting the record button.

It would be very difficult to reach the conclusion it was an accident.

The magician comes on at nine.

Mom and Dad said I could watch the movie, buttmunch.

They're next door at the Galbrands'. They left me in charge.

No!

Not again.

Samantha, run!

- (glass shatters) - (Samantha) Fox!

Fox!

Samantha!

Did you bring me my hearts?

Yesterday you said something about me taking it personally. Why did you say that?

Where were you in 1973?

- What, the whole year? - November. 27th of November.

Do you know what I'm getting at?

I was selling vacuum cleaners in 1973.

I made a sales trip to Martha's Vineyard that year, and...

...I sold a vacuum cleaner to your dad.

He bought it for your mom. I believe it was a, um...

...Electr0Vac Duchess or the Princess model.

Your dad and I talked about it at great length.

He had a really hard time choosing.

What do you know about my sister?

You bring me my hearts, and maybe I'll tell you more.

This man... This man hit me.

I didn't see it.

I did.

He was there, Scully. He was in the house. He took Samantha.

In your dream. It was a dream. Your mind made it up.

A dream is an answer to a question we don't know how to ask.

Something buried in your subconscious.

You heard him. He mentioned being on Martha's Vineyard.

Is it a state secret that you lived there?

- How would he find out? - The prison library.

The inmates have access to computers and the Internet. I checked.

- Roche logged on yesterday. - Looking for what?

The server records don't show, but on the Net

he can find out almost anything about you.

He's playing with you. He's committing emotional blackmail and you're letting him.

You walked in there with your heart on your sleeve.

He saw vulnerability, and he took advantage of it.

You had a dream...

...a nightmare, because of all the emotions this case is stirring up for you, but...

- ...it was nothing but a dream. - My last dream came true.

Do you believe that my sister Samantha was abducted by aliens?

Have you ever believed that?

No.

So what do you think happened to her?

What do you believe now?

I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know what to believe.

I just know I have to find out now.

- Fox? - Mom. I'm in the basement.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to wake you up. I'm sorry. How're you feeling?

Good, Fox. What are you doin' down here in the middle of the night?