The X-Files

Relax, they'll be here.

The bank's gonna close in five minutes.

- Sure it wasn't a bogus tip? - No, it's real.

l've been on this long enough. l know the difference.

Besides, l can feel it. l can feel them. l'm inside their heads.

Just as long as you keep yours!

Message received, Agent Scully. Loud and clear.

Position Five, this is Agent Willis. Do you copy?

- What, are you nervous? - Nope.

l just don't want our luck to run out.

Baby, you are my luck.

And no matter what happens,

whenever l look up at the stars,

l know you're gonna be looking up at the same ones.

The same ones, baby.

You make every day like New Year's Eve!

Come on, people! Get down on the floor, now! Get down on the floor!

l ain't messin' around here! You! Down on the floor, now! Now, or you're dead!

Everyone! Down on the floor! Or l'll execute every one of you! Move!

Move! Put the money in the bag. Now! Now! Move it!

- Faster! - Dupre!

Drop the gun! FBl! Drop the gun!

Now!

Clear!

Watch him carefully. 11 minutes, 55 seconds.

Clear!

Come on, Jack.

He's been flatlined for over 12 minutes.

Another amp of epi, and we'll go again at 360.

Clear!

Still no pulse.

We've done all we can. l'm sorry.

All right, let's call off.

- You want me to pronounce? - No! You can't give up on him.

- lt's been over 13 minutes. He's dead. - Go up to 400.

We lost him. Let him go.

l'm a doctor! Go up to 400, or l'll do it myself!

Clear!

Still no pulse.

Give him another amp of epi intracardial and go up to 400 again.

Do it!

Clear!

Again!

- Come on, Jack. - Clear!

Come on!

We got a rhythm. Don't ask me how, but he's back!

BP's 80 over 50 and climbing. 90 over 50.

X-Files Season 1 Episode 15 - Lazarus

Hello, Mr Goldbaum. How are we doing tonight?

l'm just going to adjust your drip. l'll check on you again later.

Any word from Willis?

Still missing. He hasn't been home or to the office.

l heard something about a mutilation...

Yeah. Three fingers on Dupre's left hand were severed by surgical shears.

We lifted prints. They're Willis's.

He said he was chasing this guy for almost a year?

He lived the case. lt was all he ever thought about.

What are you thinking?

That maybe this is some kind of post-trauma psychosis.

Like the way soldiers sometimes mutilate the body of a dead enemy.

That still doesn't explain why he would just vanish.

Dupre's partner... Who was she?

Lula Phillips.

They met while she was serving a 10-year sentence for manslaughter in Maryland.

- He was a prison guard. - Until the warden found out their secret.

According to Lula's cell mate, they carried on quite a torrid romance.

lt says here she was released on May 2nd, 1993.

One week before the first robbery at Annapolis Savings and Loan.

A 65-year-old female teller was pistol-whipped.

Died from a massive subdural haemorrhage.

She didn't put the money in the bag fast enough!

- Lovely couple! - Well, apparently they took turns.

One pulling ajob, while the other one drove getaway.

Between the two of them they've killed seven people and got away with close to $100,000.

That's a lot of money, now that she doesn't have to split it.

Well, we're putting her face out there. Local newspapers, America's Most Wanted...

Am l boring you?

- They were married. - Yeah, last May in Atlantic City. So what?

So l don't think this was a simple necrophiliac mutilation.

Willis sliced and diced those fingers to get at the wedding ring.

Anybody here?

Lula?

Baby, baby, baby...

Damn!

lt's a left thumb print.

Look at these two bifurcations here. Whoever was holding that cleaver used his left hand.

- ''Whoever''? lt was Willis. - Willis is right-handed.

l checked his pistol grip at the armoury.

But the bank surveillance tapes show Dupre is left-handed.

l'm not sure where you're going with this.

How long did Willis flatline before you revived him?

Just over 13 minutes.

This EKG strip recorded his cardiac activity at the time.

ln your medical opinion, what does that look like?

lt could be anything.

lnstrument malfunction, electrical overload...

But what does it look like?

Two heartbeats.

Dupre and Willis went into cardiac arrest at the exact same time, right?

Right...

For a period of minutes, both men were technically dead.

- Technically. But we resuscitated Willis. - You resuscitated his body.

Mulder...

Two men died in that crash room, Scully.

One man came back. The question is,

which one?

What can you tell me about near-death experiences, Agent Scully?

The usual stuff. The tunnel, the light, people rising up and viewing their own bodies.

As a scientist, how do you account for the phenomenon?

Some sort of dissociative hallucinatory activity.

Half of all the adults who have had a near-death experience cannot wear a watch.

The increased electrical activity in their bodies renders the watches inoperable.

l know this sounds kooky, but, as any biologist will tell you,

when cells die and genetic material begins to unfold,

a tremendous charge of energy is released.

Doctor Varnes believes this is responsible

for the transformational nature of the experience.

People do return from the event profoundly changed.

Changed how?

Personality shifts, perceived psychic abilities, increased zest for life.

What about the negative consequences?

They're rare. But in the process of dying

there is a time during which the body is vulnerable.

- l don't understand. - Well,

there was a pilot in my support group who died in a commuter plane crash,

along with his three passengers.

This was a few years ago. Now, he recalls floating up

in a brilliant aura of light, and then feeling an overwhelming need to return to his body.

He was revived in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The only survivor.

Soon after that, the visions started.

Visions of making love to his wife, in ways that weren't in his memory.

Turns out that one of the dead passengers on the plane was having an affair with his wife.

The dead passenger's memory, his...

his consciousness, had survived through the pilot.

- What happened? - The pilot became increasingly disoriented.

Schizophrenic, his doctor claims.

He strangled his wife with an extension cord.

That's a nice story!

l don't discount the near-death experience. lt can be explained empirically,

- by stimulation of the temporal lobe. - l sense a big ''but'' coming!

l still believe that Jack's disappearance can be explained in psychological terms.

For instance?

The stress of the case, the trauma of being shot, Jack's personality...

- How well do you know him? - We dated. For almost a year.

He was my instructor at the Academy.

The plot thickens!

We even had the same birthday.

We used to celebrate in some dive in Stafford that had a slanted pool table.

But it was always so hard for Jack to

relax. lt was impossible for him, really.

He was always so... intense, so relentlessly determined.

Do you believe he's predisposed to this type of psychotic episode?

lt's a long way from saying Jack had a near-death experience

to saying his body's been inhabited by Warren Dupre.

A long way!

What the hell...?!

- You're such a creature of habit, Tommy. - Who the hell are you?

- Get outta bed. - l ain't got no clothes on.

Get outta bed! l don't wanna shoot you lying down.

Who are you - the rent man? Cos l'm all paid up. l swear. l'm not kiddin'.

- Come on, you can go ask Cosmo. - Shut up!

- Where is she? - Where's who?

- Your sister. - Huh! Lula?

Look, l don't know. l don't know, l swear! l was just waiting to see her on the news.

What'd l tell you?

Check it out.

The sound's busted.

Looks like they're gonna find her before you do, pal!

ls that what you think? lt's not what l think.

l miss her, Tommy.

l miss her so bad!

That's why l came back.

- Do l know you from somewhere? - Everything l see,

l see her.

Jesus, man! You're bleeding.

Even ugliness is beautiful... because of her.

- OK, what are you doing? - You set us up, Tommy.

You sold us out to the FBl!

Dupre?

Neighbours heard a gunshot, but nobody checked it out.

Patrol guys responded this morning to an anonymous 911 and found him here.

Except the rats found him first. The victim's name was Thomas Phillips.

That's Lula's brother.

There's not a lot of family resemblance left, between the rats and the .45 in the face!

- Oh, l hate this nicotine stuff. - What's his story?

Oh, he's single. He's lived here alone for the past seven months.

A few priors - small stuff, mostly. B and E, narcotics possession.

Nothing like his big sister.

- Was the TV on when they found him? - No. Why?

l don't think Tommy was much of a reader, since he doesn't have any books.

From the position of the body, l'd say maybe he was watching the tube when he was shot.

- Print kit's over there. Knock yourself out! - Get out of my way, Ace!

Regulations state, to gain access to a crime scene, you gotta show lD!

Looks like you were right.

Excuse me.

Jack...

ls there a problem here?

No, l just... l don't have any lD.

Would you tell this gentleman who l am?

Officer, this is Agent Jack Willis.