The X-Files

Hi, you've reached the Usher residence. Please leave a message at the tone.Thank you.

Hi, honey. lt's about 8.30 and, um... l'm going to be here for a while.

The presentation didn't go so well.

Call me. l love you. Bye.

X-Files Season 1 Episode 03 - Squeeze

Guess who l ran into from our class at Quantico?

- Marty Neil. - J Edgar Jr?

Just got bumped up.

Foreign Counterintelligence, New York City Bureau.

Supervisory Special Agent.

- Supervisory? - That's right.

Two years out of the Academy. How did he land that?

Lucked into the World Trade Center bombing.

Well, good for Marty.

Oh, come on, Dana! The guy is a loser. Look where he is now. lt's where we should be.

Brad Wilson told me the psychological profile you wrote

on the Washington Crossing killer led them straight to the suspect.

Word has it you're on the Violent Crimes Section's fast track.

So, how are you doing?

Have you had any close encounters of the third kind?

ls that what everyone thinks l do?

No, of course not. But you do work with Spooky Mulder.

Mulder's ideas may be a bit out there, but he is a great agent.

Yeah, well, l've got this case that's out there.

Baltimore PD calls. They want our help on a serial killer profile.

Three murders. Began six weeks ago. Victims vary in age, race, gender.

- No known connections. - l take it there's a pattern?

Point of entry. Actually, the lack of one.

What do you mean?

One victim, college girl, killed in her dorm room.

She was found with the windows locked and the door chained from the inside.

The last incident, two days ago. High-security office building.

Nothing on the security monitors. Janitor spoke to the victim minutes before.

Didn't hear or see a thing out of the ordinary.

Suicides?

Each victim was found with their liver ripped out..

- No cutting tool was used. - Bare hands?

- This looks like an X-File . - Let's not get carried away.

l'm gonna solve these murders, but

l would like you to go over the case histories.

Maybe come down to the crime scene.

Do you want me to ask Mulder?

OK. lf he wants to come and do you a favour, great!

But make sure he knows this is my case.

Dana, if l can break a case like this one,

l'll be getting my bump up the ladder.

And you...

Maybe you won't have to be Mrs Spooky any more.

So why didn't they ask me?

They're friends of my from the Academy.

l'm sure they just felt more comfortable talking to me.

- Why would l make them so uncomfortable? - lt probably has to do with your reputation.

Reputation? l have a reputation?

Colton plays by the book and you don't. They feel your methods, your theories are...

Spooky?

- Do you think l'm spooky? - Agent Scully's in here, sir.

Dana!

Sorry l'm late.

We just got here.

Fox Mulder. Tom Colton.

So, Mulder, what do you think? Does this look like the work of little green men?

- Grey. - Excuse me?

Grey.

You said green men. A Reticulan skin tone is actually grey.

They're notorious for their extraction of terrestrial human livers,

due to iron depletion in the Reticulan galaxy.

You can't be serious!

Do you have any idea what liver and onions go for on Reticula?

Excuse me.

Dana, l've been thinking about this and l have a theory.

lt might explain a lot. Tell me what you think.

What if the guy enters the building...

Hold on a second. What in the hell is he doing?

That vent is 6 inches by about 18.

Even if a Reticulan could crawl through, it's screwed in place.

This is the print l took from Usher's office.

These others are from an X-File .

Ten murders, Baltimore area, undetermined points of entry.

Each victim had their liver removed. These prints were found at 5 of the 10 crime scenes.

- Ten murders. Colton never mentioned... - Most likely he's unaware of them.

These two prints were lifted five years before he was born at Powhattan Mill.

And these three were lifted probably five years before his mother was even born.

Are you saying these prints are from the 1960s and the 1930s?

Fingerprinting was just starting in 1903, but there was a murder with an extracted liver.

Of course.

Now, that's five murders every 30 years. That makes two more to go this year.

You're saying these are copycats?

What did we learn our first day at the Academy?

Each fingerprint is unique. These are a perfect match.

Are you suggesting l go before the Violent Crimes Section

and present a profile saying these murders are done by aliens?

No! l find no evidence of alien involvement.

What, then? This is the work of a 100-year-old serial killer

who overpowered a six-foot-two businessman?

He'll stick out in a crowd with ten-inch fingers!

Look, bottom line. This is Colton's case.

Our X-File dates back to 1903. We had it first.

Mulder, they don't want you involved. They don't want to hear your theories.

That's why Blevins has you hidden away down here.

You're down here, too.

Look, why don't we agree to this?

They have their investigation, we have ours. And never the twain shall meet.

Agreed?

After a careful review of the violent and powerful nature of these murders,

l believe the killer to be a male, 25-35 years of age, with above average intelligence.

His manner of entry has so far been undetectable.

This may be due to his knowledge of the inner structure of buildings and duct works.

Or that he in fact hides in plain sight posing as delivery or maintenance workers.

The extraction of the liver is the most significant detail of these crimes.

The liver possesses regenerative qualities. lt cleanses the blood.

The taking of this trophy is the transferring act for the killer to cleanse himself of his own impurities.

l think he is acting under the classic form of obsessive-compulsive behaviour.

Since the victims are unrelated and we cannot predict who will be next,

we must use the fact that a killer won't always succeed in finding a victim.

When this occurs a serial killer may return to the site of a previous murder,

hoping to recapture the emotional high.

l think our best course of action is to target these sites.

Good job, Agent Scully.

lf there are no objections, we'll begin our stakeouts of the murder sites tonight.

We're looking for a male, 25-35, possibly wearing a uniform.

Gas company, UPS, whatever. l know you're assigned to another area, Scully,

but you're welcome to come aboard with us on this.

That is if you don't mind working in an area that's a bit more down to earth.

Position ten. Station check.

Position ten, l copy.

You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man, would you, copper?

- Mulder, what are you doing here? - He's not coming back.

His thrill comes from the challenge of a seemingly impossible entry.

lf you'd read the X-File , you'd come to the same conclusion.

- Mulder, you are jeopardising my stakeout. - Seeds?

You're wasting your time.

l'm going home!

Scully! Call for backup and get over here!

Position ten requesting backup!

ln there.

Federal Agent!

l'm armed!

Proceed down the vent. Slowly!

Cover down to the corner!

She's not by her car!

- Take him! - Move! Move! Move!

FBl. Don't move! Don't move! Get your hands up! Keep 'em up!

You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent...

You were right.

You have a right to have an attorney present during questioning.

lf you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.

ls your full name Eugene Victor Tooms?

Yes.

Are you a resident of the state of Maryland?

Yes.

Are you an employee of the Baltimore Municipal Animal Control?

Yes.

ls it your intent to lie to me about anything here today?

No.

Were you ever enrolled in college?

Yes.

Were you ever enrolled in medical school?

No.

Have you ever removed a liver from a human being?

No.

Have you ever killed a living creature?

Yes.

Have you ever killed a human being?

No.

Were you ever in George Usher's office?

No.

Did you kill George Usher?

No.

Are you over 100 years old?

- That must be a control question. - l had her ask it.

No.

Have you ever been to Powhattan Mill?

Yes.

ln 1933?

No.

Are you afraid you might fail this test?

Well...

Yes. Because l didn't do anything.

He nailed it... A+.

As far as l'm concerned, the subject did not kill those two people.

Maintenance at the office building confirmed the call to Animal Control

about a bad smell. They found a dead cat in the second floor ventilation ducts.

Still doesn't explain why he was there that late at night.

He's a civil servant with initiative and we busted him for it.

He was crawling up an air duct, by himself, without alerting security.

Dana, he passed the test.

His story checks out. He's not the guy. lt doesn't mean your profile's incorrect.

Scully's right. lt is the guy.

What have you got, Mulder?

He lied on questions 11 and 13.

His electrodermal and cardiographic response nearly go off the chart..