The X-Files

Are you gonna leave this up all year?

Yup. All year. Since you always made us take the tree down the day after Christmas,...

..l'm making up for lost time.

lf your idea of a good time is to pick up dried pine needles, treat yourself.

As if he's an authority on having a good time!

- That's OK, Mom, l got that. - OK.

OK, Maggie. Let's shove off.

OK.

Thank you for having us. Dinner was delicious, as usual.

Thanks, Mom.

Good sailing, Ahab.

Good night, Starbuck.

How's work? Good?

Yup. lt's good.

Drive carefully.

Good night, Daddy.

Here on ''lncredible lnventions'', you're not going to spend $110 for it. You all know that.

You're not even going to spend $100.

There's an approximate one month supply here.

And all you'll spend for this entire package is just $39.92...

Dad?

l thought you guys left.

Where's Mom?

Hello?

Hello?

Dana?

Mom? What's the matter?

We...

We lost your dad.

He had... a massive coronary about an hour ago.

He's gone.

X-Files Season 1 Episode 13 - Beyond The Sea

l swear! Christmas Day!

My whole family's opening presents an' all.

And l'm just sitting there in my own little world, thinking, ''l just wish Jim were here.''

l know.

Oh, man! Busted!

- Yes, sir? - Out of the vehicle, please.

Sir, l'm sorry. We'll be on our way.

l said, out of the vehicle.

Keep your hands down.

Let's see some lD.

No, not till l see yours.

Last time you were that engrossed, you were reading Adult Video News!

l didn't think you'd be in today.

How are you, Dana?

Dana...

l'm fine, thank you. What are you working on?

Two days ago, a couple was kidnapped at Jackson University.

Elizabeth Hawley and James Summers.

Both nineteen.

Last year another couple was kidnapped to the day.

Except that abduction occurred at Duke University.

One week later, they found both students' bodies - dead.

They were kept alive and tortured during that period.

No arrests were ever made.

Police believed it to be a one-time offender. Now it appears to be a serial incident.

lf he holds true to form, we have five days to find those kids.

That's a grim deadline.

Here's another grim deadline.

ln one week, Luther Lee Boggs will take a seat in the North Carolina gas chamber.

How is he related?

He claims to have information relating to the kidnapping.

He described Hawley's bracelet exactly.

This is information that only family members could have known.

Or the kidnapper.

Boggs feels that if his talents help save these kids,

his sentence should be reduced to life in prison.

His ''talents''?

He claims to have obtained this information through psychic transmissions.

Mulder, do l detect a hint of scepticism?

Perhaps.

Boggs has been there before.

ln the chamber.

My profile helped send him there.

He was actually strapped to the chair before receiving an executive stay.

He claims that this experience activated in him the ability to channel spirits and demons.

l believe in psychic ability, without a doubt.

But not in this case. Not Boggs.

So you believe that Boggs is orchestrating the kidnapping from the inside?

A scam to save his life?

At the age of six,

Luther Boggs slaughtered every pet animal on his housing project.

When he was 30, he strangled five family members over Thanksgiving dinner,

and then watched the Detroit-Green Bay game.

Some killers are products of society.

Some act out past abuses.

Boggs kills because he likes it.

And they've requested you speak with him?

Actually, he's requested to speak to me.

Why you?

He read my profile on him

and he feels like l'm the only one who truly understands what he is.

- l leave for Raleigh this afternoon. - l'll go with you.

The funeral's at noon.

l think you should take some time.

- l need to work. - l'm sorry about your father.

- l'll see you later. - OK.

As a captain, he was entitled to burial in Arlington with full ceremony.

This is exactly the way he wanted it.

Just the family.

This song was playing when his ship returned from the Cuban blockade.

He marched right off, up to me,

and he proposed.

l know that you and Dad were...

disappointed that l chose the path l'm on, instead of medicine.

But l need to know...

Was he at all proud of me?

He was your father.

The soul of Luther Boggs

drowns in hell's sea of fire.

We have him now.

''We''?

You mean the souls of your victims?

The dead.

The living.

All souls are connected.

And you're the conduit?

Dana,

Fox,

please understand that from here we can return to the past.

We can see the present,

we can know the future...

''From here''? Where exactly are you?

Mr Boggs must be made redemptive

for his transgressions.

That's exactly what the State of North Carolina intends to do next week.

Let's deal.

Boggs' life for the kids. You know what l'm saying?

First you gotta prove you're telling the truth.

Don't get me wrong, Luther.

l wanna believe.

God! No!

Must stop! Stop!

Pain!

Pain... terrible pain.

The boy...

Jim...

He's tied with... twine.

Packing twine.

He whups him with a coat hanger, a wire coat hanger.

Dark place.

Cold.

Cellar.

Warehouse, condemned.

An angel

of stone.

Waterfall.

Water falling.

lt's not a waterfall. Not water.

They're there.

Oh, God... l gotta go.

l gotta go.

l gotta go.

l tore this off my New York Knicks T-shirt.

lt has nothing to do with the crime.

Somewhere...

..beyond the sea

Somewhere waiting for me

Did you get my message, Starbuck?

Thanks a lot.

Scully? What's wrong?

Did Boggs say something to you?

No.

- lt's my father. l'm sorry. l'm sorry. - lt's all right.

Why don't you go back to the motel?

We've exposed Boggs as a fraud.

Boggs is not what he claims to be.

He may be orchestrating the kidnapping.

Now he knows we're onto him, he doesn't have a chance with this charade.

l'm gonna wait around and interrogate him.

Hopefully, he'll tell me where the kids are.

Somewhere... beyond the shore

We'll kiss just as before

Happy we'll be

Beyond the sea

Water falling. Not a waterfall.

An angel of stone.

lt's Mulder!

Liz Hawley's family made a positive lD on the charm you found at the warehouse.

The police are searching the place inch by inch, but haven't found anything yet.

l expected to find you at the crime scene.

Did Boggs confess?

No. No, it was five hours of Boggs's ''channelling''.

After three hours, l asked him to summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix

and requested All Along The Watchtower''!

He's been dead 20 years, but still hasn't lost his edge!

l lied to the police about how l found the warehouse.

- l didn't notice any ''suspicious activities''. - Then how did you find it?

lt was where Boggs said it would be.

Scully, l told you about Boggs!

l didn't go looking for it! l came across an area that had landmarks he spoke of.

That's exactly what Boggs wanted! He could have been setting you up. You could be dead!

Why did you feel you had to lie on your police report?

lt was a better explanation under the circumstances.

You didn't want to go on record admitting that you believed in Boggs.

The Bureau would expect something like that from spooky Mulder, but not Dana Scully.

l thought that you'd be pleased that l'd opened myself to extreme possibilities.

Why now?!

After all we've seen. Why Boggs?