The X-Files

Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be

Mr. Chuckleteeth, won't you play with me?

When I'm feeling lonely, lonely as can be

Oh, Mr. Chuckleteeth Won't you play with me?

Mr. Chuckleteeth, we all love you so

Stay with us forever and never let us go

When I'm feeling lonely, lonely as can be

Oh, Mr. Ch uckleteeth. ...

You can't call me. But, Diane...

Mr. Chuckleteeth...

I can't do this. I'm at the park with Andrew.

We need to talk.

Mommy! Mommy! Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Mommy's on the phone, Andrew. But, Mommy, look! Look!

I can't do this. Mommy! Mommy!

Stop calling me.

Stop calling. Don't hang up, Diane. Di--

Andrew?

Andrew.

Andrew! Andrew!

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Mr. Chuckleteeth?

Where are you?

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Mr. Chuckleteeth, happy as can be

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

There you are.

Mr. Chuckleteeth, wait!

Where did you go?

Mr. Chuckleteeth!

Come back!

Andrew!

Andrew!

Andrew! It's Daddy!

Andrew!

Andrew! Andrew!

Andrew, can you hear us? Andrew!

Andrew!

Andrew! Andrew!

Andrew Eggers!

Andrew!

Oh, God.

Heads up! Somebody got him? Got something?

Oh, God, help us. Is that him?

Rick. Is that my son?

Don't. Don't. No. No. Andrew!

Hey. Andrew. Oh, God.

Let me go. Let me go!

Let me go! Andrew!

Andrew!

Oh, please.

Please! Andrew!

Andrew!

I think you can see by the photographs in our case file there...

...the boy was viciously attacked.

And the body was found right here.

The coroner has asphyxiation as cause of death from a crushed windpipe...

...and fracture dislocation of the cervical vertebrae.

Yeah, the town was really shaken up about it.

But you think this was an animal attack? Those photos speak for themselves, yes.

What kind of animal, Chief Strong? We get coyotes. Both here and in town.

It's rare that a coyote will attack a human being.

They say there's a new predator they're calling a coywolf.

It's a mix of Canis latrans and Canis lupus. It's a hybrid coyote-wolf.

Is this the first such attack? And hopefully the last.

But let me ask you.

What's the FBI doing here? The FBI has jurisdiction...

...over the killing of the immediate family of a law enforcement officer.

Wait, you think that this was a murder?

I don't rule it out. What makes you say that?

I know this is a small town and probably very close-knit...

...and I'm sure that you don't wanna hear this, but if a man did this...

...and it would typically be a man, he would be emboldened by escaping detection...

...and would likely kill again. Evidence doesn't support that.

Well, the broken neck supports that. And the bite marks that you see...

...might be postmortem animal predation.

You can't just walk in here making assumptions...

...we've dismissed. These aren't just careless assumptions.

Agent Scully's also a medical doctor, and damn good at herjob.

You'd be looking at a male, aged 19 to 42, with a criminal record...

...and probably lives near and frequents the park...

...would know the boy's play schedule.

And most disturbingly, these types of killers get aroused at the suffering of their victims.

We were hoping we could see the body.

Thanks for backing me up out there. Yeah. You're my homey.

But coywolves?

Really, Mulder? Sometimes mixed with wild dogs.

Bet a wolf hasn't been seen in Connecticut for 100 years.

Just last year, to be accurate.

All that I took from the report is that a child was snatched right from that playground.

Does that sound like a wolf to you? I wasn't thinking wolf.

I was thinking more like a hell hound.

What's a hell hound now?

It's a large black dog that guards the gates of the underworld. That's neither here nor there.

The point is stranger things have happened around here.

In 1658, a Puritan midwife named Goody Bishop...

...was accused of witchcraft and lying with the devil.

Legend has it she spontaneously combusted in front of the assembled townsfolk.

Right over there. As we've discussed before...

...people don't just spontaneously oombust. That woman was undoubtedly an innocent...

...a tragic victim of religious persecution and hysteria.

And anybody would know that if they read beyond the tourist literature.

Because there were bogus witch hunts doesn't mean that there were no witches.

While I do sadly concede there are probably no ooywolves in Eastwood, Connecticut...

...I suspect there are still practitioners of the black arts.

Practice all they want, it doesn't mean witchcraft has any basis in reality.

Yeah, well, and yet a young boy is dead.

The only devil here probably parks right here in front of the playground...

...stirring something other than his caldron.

Hm.

I just wanna find the killer.

No matter how many times we do this, Mulder, a child is always the hardest.

Never gets easier. It's an innocent life out short.

It's hard not to take it personally.

Irregular lacerations and abrasions on the neck, throat and torso.

A significant amount of the lower abdomen...

...is completely torn out and missing.

That would appear to agree with their findings.

Well, evisceration fits animal predation...

...but the condition of the body makes it almost impossible to determine when it happened.

Cervical fracturing fits with the picture that he was most probably shaken to death.

By a man?

Well, that's something I didn't wanna broach out there, Mulder.

You think it's one of the parents.

You were in Violent Crime, Mulder, before you came to the X-Files.

You know the profile. Eyewitnesses exculpate the mother.

But the father...

He's a police officer.

Being protected by fellow officers?

What's that?

What does that look like to you? Is that fine white sand?

Looks like salt to me.

Mm.

Is that in the report?

What would be the significance of that? I'm not sure.

Tell you what else isn't in the report. An eyewitness who wasn't interviewed.

And her father is the chief of police.

She's 5 years old. Doesn't that seem odd?

And her mother was right there with her. Seems very odd to me.

But you're wasting your time, Mulder.

Andrew blessed the lives of all of us here in Eastwood.

Today, we all grieve with Diane and Rick...

...for the unimaginable loss of one of Eastwood's dearest sons.

This isn't right. We don't even have his body.

My baby-

It is in the most difficult times...

...that the love and compassion of our community is so vitally important.

"For where two or three are gathered in my name...

...there am I among them."

Amen.

Andrew is with the Lord now.

Free from the evils of this world.

Free from our iniquities...

...and free from our sins. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

So both of you, just please understand that.

If you ever, ever need to talk...

...let me know, I--

Yes. Thank you. Excuse me.

Diane.

Please, I can't talk now.

Okay. I'm just...

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Hey, man. I'm so sorry.

Hey, let me ask you something.

Why won't the FBI release Andrew's body?

Look, he's my son.

What are they saying?

What are you keeping from me, man?

They're pushing another story. They're saying it wasn't an animal attack.

What are they saying it was?

The female agent?

She laid out a profile.

Male, 19 to 42, past convictions.

She even said he probably gets off on it.

Oh, God.

And he probably lives here in Eastwood.

I'm sorry, man.

Okay, we'll see you.

Why...? Why does the FBI need to speak to Emily?

She's just a little girl. We need to cooperate with them.

We've got nothing to hide. They just wanna ask questions.

Anna, just play nice. I was there. We didn't see anything.

I'm getting it from all sides.

They're trying to turn a tragedy into a murder investigation.

But what does that have to do with Emily? Just let them talk to her. Okay?

The man asked you a question, Em.

Emily, did you see who took Andrew?

But if you saw, you'd tell Mommy, right?

Did you see anyone at all? I saw Andrew going into the forest.

Right.

Go watch your show.

Well, l...

I guess I'm not as interesting as...

Bibbletiggles. ...Bibbletiggles.

She's obsessed.

Well, who wouldn't be? I just-- I can't--