Here, try this screen.
Concentrate on this area over here.
Right there.
Mulder.
What's going on?
I'm not sure I can explain, Scully.
You called for a forensic excavation
at 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday; what are you looking for?
Just give me a minute, Scully, okay?
Mulder, what are you doing out here?
I keep having this dream.
It's about a little blond girl.
You're saying that you're out here
because of something you saw in a dream?
Sir?
Carefully remove that.
Okay, 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.
Sir.
Mulder, if you destroy evidence,
we may never find out what happened here.
I know what happened.
She was strangled.
He used an eight-gauge electrical cord.
He took something from the body post-mortem-- a trophy--
a piece of fabric cut from her clothes
in the shape of a heart.
You're saying you got all these details from your dream?
No. I know this M.O.
I know it from memory.
Whose M.O.?
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 onto the case
because he thought I could get inside the killer's head.
Did you?
I concluded that we were
probably looking for a salesman--
someone who traveled around a lot,
someone who could gain people's confidence, someone ordinary.
Turns out, Roche was a vacuum cleaner salesman.
His job took him all over the Northeast.
He'd be in someone's home
demonstrating his vacuum cleaner,
all the while, he'd be checking out their kids.
He'd choose a victim, and then come back for her months later.
But it was your profile that caught him.
What about the, uh... the trophies he took?
The cloth hearts?
We never found them,
but we didn't need them to make the case.
We had him cold on 13 counts of murder.
He admitted to 13.
Polygraph said he was telling the truth.
But that always bugged me about this case.
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 that
you may have solved it in your sleep.
So you think that I've somehow 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 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in June of 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, Mulder.
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 going to 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 Federal Bureau of Investigation.
May we speak with you?
You found Addie?
This was for the tooth fairy.
When Addie was asleep at night, I'd...
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-you, uh...
you're saying the, uh...
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 going to 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, Scully.
What are you saying that means? Cloth hearts he collected--
he would've wanted to keep them close to him.
For a traveling salesman, that means inside the car, right?
Maybe. You're saying the hearts might still be in his car?
Well, he doesn't have them in prison.
The 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, Scully.
We got to find those hearts in order to count them.
Don't you think the car
might have been searched at least once 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?
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 had 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.
Huh.
16 victims, John.
How come you said there were only 13?
I don't know.
13 sounds more magical, you know.
Why don't you tell us about the last two victims then.
You're in here for life.
You've got nothing to lose.
I got nothing 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.
Trust a child molester?
You bring my hearts and give them back to me,
I'll tell you everything you want to know.
Coming out.
...erased a conversation
between President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman
while transcribing the subpoenaed tape.
Woods testified that she erased
only about five minutes of the conversation,
but the tape contained...
Fox, it's your move.
Under investigation from Senator Howard Baker,
H.R. Haldeman reiterated the White House explanation that...
Samantha.
Are you going to move or not?
Do we have to watch this, Fox?
...accidentally hitting the record button.
It would be very difficult to reach the conclusion
it was an accident...
The Magician comes on at 9:00.
Mom and dad said I could watch
the movie, butt-munch.
They're next door at the Galbrands'.
They left me in charge.
No.
Not again.
Samantha, run!
Fox!
Samantha!
Did you bring me my hearts?
Yesterday, you said something about me taking it personally.
Why did you say that to me?
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... Electrovac Duchess
or the Princess model and...
your dad and I talked about it at great length.
He...
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, Mulder. It was a dream.
Your mind made it up.
A dream is an answer to a question
we haven't yet figured out how to ask, right?
Something buried in your subconscious.
You heard him in there-- he knew something.
He mentioned being on Martha's Vineyard.
Is it a state secret that you lived in Martha's Vineyard?
Well, how would he find out about that?
Through the prison library.
The inmates have access to computers and the Internet.
I checked.
Roche logged on just yesterday.
Looking for what?
The server records don't show, but on the Net, Mulder,
he can find out practically anything about you.
Look, he is playing with you, Mulder.
He is committing emotional blackmail,
and you are letting him.
You walked into that room with your heart on your sleeve,
he saw vulnerability, and he took advantage of it.
You had a dream--
a nightmare-- and you had it because of all the emotions
that this case is stirring up for you.
But...
it was nothing but a dream.
My last dream came true.
Scully, 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 are you saying 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 you feeling?
Good, Fox, I'm fine.
Honey, what are you doing down here
in the middle of the night?
Do you recognize...
these fabrics?
Either one of them?
What am I looking at?
Just look closely.
Do they seem familiar to you?
Familiar how?
Just familiar.
Have you seen them before?
Fox, I don't know what you want me to say.
You know my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
Ever since I had the stroke, I just don't know what...
It's all right.
Fox.
Dad never bought you a vacuum cleaner, did he?
Yeah.
A long time ago.
I don't use it anymore.
Where is it?
Well, it's here under the stairs,
in the storage.
Fox, what is going on?
Sir...
I've been denied further access to John Lee Roche.
I'm told that order comes down from you.
Could you tell me why you saw fit
to strike a prisoner in federal custody?
Agent Scully didn't report that to me, Mulder,
though she should have.
The whole thing was videotaped as per prison policy.
I saw it, and you're lucky I don't have
your ass in a sling. Sir...
You've gotten too close to this, Mulder.
You've let this man get to you.
I have reason to believe he can tell us
what happened to my sister Samantha.
It is looking possible, sir.
John Lee Roche apparently spent
most of 1973 in Boston.
He did take one sales trip
up to Martha's Vineyard in October of that year.
The timing is right.
I need to know.
I just need to speak to him one more time, sir.
It just makes it even less of a good idea, Mulder.
Sir, the fact remains
that we still have two more victims
that we need to find and identify,
and no one has more insight into Roche
than Agent Mulder, and this is still Agent Mulder's case.
You tread very lightly.
You see that he does.
I'm not talking to you if you're going to hit me again.
No. You don't get to touch them.
They stay in the bag.
Name them.
Well, I think you know one of them already.
Prove it.
Watergate was on TV.
You and your sister were sitting in front of it,
playing a board game, uh, with little red and, uh...
blue plastic pieces.
And you wanted to watch a TV show...
the one with Bill Bixby.
What the heck was the name of that thing?
How could you know what I said?
I was watching...
from the window.
I was very careful.
If that's true, tell me where my sister is.
Pick her out.
What?
You choose the one that was your sister,
and I'll tell you where she is.
I mean, come on, it's a fifty-fifty chance.
Either way, I'm giving you a victim.
That one?
You sure you want that one?
No, just kidding. It's...
It's a good choice.
Mulder...
let's get a team out here.
Let somebody else do this.
Just help me, Scully.
Mulder?
It's not her, Scully.
Am I right?
Samantha broke her collarbone when she was six.
It was her left collarbone.
We had a rope swing out in the backyard.
It's not broken, is it?
You're right, Mulder. It's not a match.
It's not her.
It's somebody though.
You know, like I said,
it was a fifty-fifty chance.
Tell us the name of that girl.
It was Karen Ann Philiponte.
She lived in a green rancher
in East Amherst, New York.
Mint grew outside her window.
I stood outside her window
atop sprigs of mint.
It smelled wonderful.
What year?
July 1974.
I had her mother on the hook for an Electrovac Argosy.
But at the last minute, she said thanks but no thanks.
Oh, well.
That's your sister.
If that's true, tell me where.
You want to know a lot more than that, don't you?
You want to know everything, right?
The big mystery revealed.
Drop the mind games.
I can't just tell you.
I mean, I know you don't believe me.
You need me to show you, you need me to lead you through,
because after all these years,
anything less than that's not going to satisfy you, right?
You just want to get out of here.
You're damn right I do.
If only for a day or two.
I'm realistic.
And more than that, I...
...I can't wait to see your face.
You're going to see the inside of your cell instead.
You're going to rot there.
Let's go.
Are you okay?
Mulder, the last thing we should do
is give this man his way on this.
If we do, he could string us along forever.
I know you appreciate that.
There has to be another way to come to the truth.
Clerk's office.
This is Special Agent Fox Mulder with the FBI.
Badge number JTT047101111.
I need a removal order for a federal prisoner.
Can I use the lavatory?
Keep your hands in your lap.
Something to drink?
Excuse me.
First flight? Excuse me, I have to get by here.
Yeah. Could you just wait one second please?
She's really excited.
You having fun?
Mm-hmm. - Now.
What's your name?
Caitlin.
What the hell do you mean
he checked out Roche?
Agent Mulder convinced the judge
that it was an emergency situation.
And where were you while this was happening?
I had left Agent Mulder for the day.
I suggested that he get some sleep.
Sir, I have a clear idea of where he might have gone,
and I am sure that I can catch up with him.
I'll be the one to catch up with him.
Where's he headed?
Martha's Vineyard.
And I would hope that you'd
appreciate the uniqueness of this situation
and its effect on Agent Mulder.
I fully understand the effect it has on him, Agent Scully.
As I recall, that was the sum and total
of my last words to you on the subject.
You let me down.
Let's clean up this mess before it gets completely out of hand.
No one home?
I sat on this couch.
When your dad bought the vacuum.
You're ready?
Go.
November 27, 1973.
I watched the house for hours.
I parked across the way, out over there.
I was just casing.
I wasn't planning for this to be the night.
But then all of a sudden, your parents leave,
and I figure...
Where'd they go?
House next door.
To play pinochle, I don't know--
whatever it was people did back then.
Go on. So after they're gone, I get out of my car,
and I move closer.
And I watched you and your sister
playing that board game.
Little bit after 8:00,
I'm about ready.
So I move to the junction box.
I cut the power, and the lights go off.
And then I moved around to the front door.
And I was ready to kick the door in,
and it was unlocked.
It was 1973.
It was a different world back then.
Then what did you do?
You remember that.
I... I came in the front door,
and you tried to get to your father's gun.
I give you credit for that.
But then you sort of froze, and then...
...I took your sister away from all this
to a happier place.
That's exactly how it happened?
Right here in this room?
Yeah.
Wrong house.
My father bought this house
after he and my mother divorced.
This house is in West Tisbury.
The house that Samantha was abducted from is in Chilmark.
That's six miles from here!
You screwed up. You were never here.
You didn't take Samantha.
Wishful thinking. No.
No, but I think I know what happened.
Somehow you got inside my dreams.
Come again? I profiled you.
I got inside your head.
Maybe you got inside mine.
Maybe some nexus or connection was formed between us.
And through that,
you got access to my memories of my sister Samantha
and you used them against me for this.
You're just resisting me.
And you're in the wrong house, you stupid son of a bitch!
You were never here, you liar!
It's geography, man. It's just geography.
It was 23 years ago. That was geography we're talking about.
Yeah, but you remember all the other details so vividly.
That's because you watched it through my eyes...
through my dreams.
I hear things about you, Mulder.
You know what I heard?
I heard you go after aliens... from space.
It's like your world will be okay as long as you can believe
in, like, flying saucers.
But I'm telling you the God's honest truth.
And I can see you're not as open-minded
as you think you are.
You must have been one hell of a salesman, Roche.
First flight's at 6:00 a.m.
Why don't you enjoy your last few hours of freedom.
Come on.
Fox!
Fox, help!
Unlock me!
Help!
Help me!
Fox, help me!
Help me!
Unlock me! Fox!
Fox! Fox, help me!
Unlock me!
Fox!
Mulder?
Mulder, open the door!
You let Roche go?!
I must have done it in my sleep. I had another dream.
Why don't you check to see if anybody saw him leave.
He took the last cloth heart.
He also took your badge and your phone.
Where's your gun?
How do you explain yourself, Agent Mulder?
I don't. You don't.
A predator is loose because of you.
God only knows how many hours lead he's got.
Any idea where he might be headed?
Yeah.
Where?
Where's your phone?
There was a small child on the plane.
What child?
Seaboard Air.
Yeah, please put me through to your supervisor.
Mulder, what child?
This is Special Agent Fox Mulder
with the FBI.
I'd like a passenger manifest for Flight 1650
from Washington National to Boston 8:50 p.m. last night.
My badge number is JTT...
Sir, an Agent Mulder called ten minutes ago
requesting the same information.
An Agent Mulder just called ten minutes ago.
They gave him the same information.
He told me he was with the FBI.
He said her mother was in an accident.
He needed to take Caitlin.
You said he was a white male?
Yeah.
About how tall was he?
Um, he was about 6'5" or something.
He said his name was Mulder.
He had a badge.
He said he was official.
Oh, my God, what have I done?
We sent a unit over to pick up the girl's mother.
She's on her way down. Okay.
What am I going to tell her?
It's all my fault.
It's not your fault.
It's my fault.
Sorry, Scully, you were right.
He was playing me the whole time.
You don't think he took Samantha?
None of that really matters now, does it?
Where do you think he'd take this girl?
Would he follow his M.O. and drive her out of state?
There's no reason for that; he knows we're going to catch him.
He just needs it to be later rather than sooner.
He's going to stay in the Boston area.
He'll be somewhere nearby.
Well, how much of a creature of habit is he?
Do you think he'd want to take her someplace familiar?
Try to relive some past glory? Is that what you're thinking?
I don't know. Maybe. What?
He lived in Boston in the early '70s, right?
What do you got?
Roche's old address in the area.
Revere. 9809 Alice Road,
apartment number... He's there.
How do you know? Alice.
Alice in Wonderland. He's the Mad Hatter.
That's where he got the idea in the first place.
All right, let's go!
Check the other rooms!
I don't think he brought her here.
He never brought anyone here.
No one, sir!
Go on! Fan out!
Find the entrance!
I'm coming to the right side!
Take two with you, Dave!
I'm beginning to believe
we do share that nexus you spoke of.
You always seem to find me.
Are you okay, Caitlin?
Good.
My name is Fox.
I'm going to take you home.
I have your gun, Fox.
Caitlin, can you do me a favor?
Can you count to 20?
Can you do that?
Will you close your eyes
and count to 20 out loud, quietly and slowly?
One, two... One, two,
three...
I will shoot.
Don't make this end badly.
...five, six,
seven...
You're not giving me very much choice.
I really don't want to go back to prison.
Put the gun down, Roche!
...eleven, twelve...
You have one left.
I mean, how are you going to find her without me?
How sure are you it's not Samantha?
Huh?
...sixteen,
seventeen...
How do you know?
...eighteen...
...nineteen...
It's okay. I got you.
Get her out of here. Call an ambulance!
I got back some lab results.
The dye analysis determined
that the fabric of the last heart
was manufactured between 1969 and 1974.
But beyond that,
there's nothing more they can tell us.
Mulder, it's not Samantha.
And whoever that little girl really is,
we'll find her.
How?
I don't know.
But I do know you.
Why don't you go on home and get some sleep.