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Sorry about that. Come on in.
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l rode up on the elevator with someone.
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Someone from next door, l think.
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– Young guy?
– Yeah.
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– New neighbor. Why?
– You met him?
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– Briefly. He’s a writer.
– What’s he write?
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He didn’t say.
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He didn’t say.
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These are my autopsy reports
from the second victim.
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The heart was removed
in the same manner as the previous victim.
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No incisions, no scope marks,
no cutting of any kind.
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No indication of how the killer did it?
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There are no prints,
no DNA material, no hair in fiber.
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Yet you still refuse to believe
that this is psychic surgery?
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Psychic surgery is a man dipping
his hand in a bucket of chicken guts,
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pretending to remove tumors
from the sick and gullible.
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Or it’s a grossly misunderstood
area of alternative medicine.
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Or it’s a grossly misunderstood
area of alternative medicine.
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Medicine as you’re referring to it
is about keeping people alive.
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Absent another theory, how do we account
for the extraction of this man’s heart?
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l don’t know. l have no idea.
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We have no evidence, no MO to speak of.
This could be the perfect crime.
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A crime is only as perfect as
the man or the mind that commits it.
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Even if it were, and he made no mistakes,
there’s still his motive.
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You find his motive
and you find the murderer.
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– That’s why l didn’t wanna come.
– l’m not doing anything.
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– You’re thinking about it.
– There’s a console between us.
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– You make it sound like l’m an attacker.
– We talked about this.
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l told you l loved you.
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Oh, Kevin.
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– There you go again.
– What?
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– That thing you do. You know what l mean.
– That’s how l kiss, Maggie.
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– l get the message.
– Where are you going?
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– l can’t talk to you.
– Maggie…
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Maggie?
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Maggie, come on!
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No! No!
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– Scully.
– Glad l caught you.
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We got a third victim.
16-year-old kid out on lovers’ lane.
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– Are you sure?
– Yeah.
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Many have had their hearts broken
out here, but not like this.
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l was hoping you’d be here to explain it
in medical terms to the local PD.
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l’m not sure that l could.
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– Did anybody see anybody?
– No, nothing.
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There’s nowhere to start on this case.
Nothing to ask, nothing to say.
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There’s got to be something, Mulder.
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Something about his victims.
Why he chooses them, a pattern.
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So far there’s nothing.
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lt appears to be just
a series of random attacks.
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An envelope’s come under your door.
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– From who?
– lt’s unmarked.
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lt’s some kind of a pendant. Like a charm.
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Her prompt mind ran through
the Golconda of possibilities.
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Was this trinket from the killer?
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Was there a message contained
in its equivocal symbolism?
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Was he a religious fanatic
who had licked the envelope,
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leaving the telltale DNA
that would begin his unraveling?
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She had a condign certainty
the killer was a male,
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and now, as she held the cold metal,
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she imagined him doing the same,
trying to picture his face.
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lt would be a plain face, an average face,
a face people would be prone to trust.
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She knew this inherently,
being trusting herself.
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But her image was no better than the useless
sketch composites that littered her files.
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Preconsciously, she knew this
wasn’t her strength as an investigator.
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She was a marshal of cold facts,
quick to organize, connect, shuffle,
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reorder and synthesize the relative
hard values into discrete categories.
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lmprecision would only invite sexist criticism
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that she was soft, malleable,
not up to her male counterparts.
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Even now, as she pushed an errant strand
of Titian hair behind her ear,
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she worried her partner would know
instinctively what she could only guess.
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To be thought of as simply a beautiful
woman was bridling, unthinkable.
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But she was beautiful.
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Fatally, stunningly prepossessing.
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Yet the respect she commanded only
deepened the yearnings of her heart,
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to let it open,
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to let someone in.
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lt’s called a milagro.
lt’s a Spanish word for ”miracle.”
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– lt’s worn as a lucky charm.
– lt came here for me?
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lt was dropped off at reception
by a man in his late 20s, early 30s.
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Average looking, average build.
They didn’t get a good lD.
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There are no fingerprints
and no DNA from his saliva.
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There are no fingerprints
and no DNA from his saliva.
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– l don’t think it’s the killer.
– Did you see that it’s a burning heart?
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l see the heart, but this is a killer that
leaves no clues. This is too heavy-handed.
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Maybe it has something to do with
his next victim and he’s taunting you.
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Maybe it’s not me at all.
Maybe he sent it to you.
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Maybe it’s a secret admirer.
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– l’ll check it out.
– No, let me.
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You’ve got a 9am with
the DC medical examiner.
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He’s gonna let you autopsy the latest victim.
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Thank you for making my schedule,
but l’ll have to be late for that appointment.
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l often come here to look at this painting.
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lt’s called ”My Divine Heart,”
after the miracle of St Margaret Mary.
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Do you know the story?
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The revelation of the Sacred Heart?
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Christ came to Margaret Mary,
his heart so inflamed with love
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that it was no longer able to contain
its burning flames of charity.
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Margaret Mary,
so filled with divine love herself,
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asked the Lord to take her heart.
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And so he did,
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placing it alongside his until
it burned with the flames of his passion.
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Then he restored it to Margaret Mary,
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sealing her wound
with a touch of his blessed hand.
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Why are you telling me this?
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You came here specifically
to see this, didn’t you?
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Yes. How did you know that?
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l saw you enter.
The way you knew right where it was.
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l know you.
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You live next to somebody l work with.
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– Why are you following me?
– l’m not.
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l’d only imagined that you’d come here today.
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You imagined it?
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l’m a writer. That’s what l do:
imagine how people behave.
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l have to admit l’ve noticed you.
l do that. Notice people.
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l saw the gold cross around your neck,
so l took a chance with the painting,
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explaining something you may already know.
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l saw Georgetown parking permits
on your car dating from 1993
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and a government sticker
that lets you park where you like.
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You don’t live in this area, but as a federal
employee you have reason to frequent it.
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You don’t live in this area, but as a federal
employee you have reason to frequent it.
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You’re fit, with muscular calves,
so you must exercise or run.
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There’s a running route nearby that
you might use at lunch or after work.
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You’d have noticed this church in passing.
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Though parking is a problem
in this part of town,
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your special privileges
would make it easy to visit.
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Not as a place of worship,
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but because you have an appreciation
for architecture and the arts.
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And while the grandeur
is what you take away from your visit,
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this painting’s religious symbolism would
have left a subconscious impression,
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jogged by the gift you received this morning.
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– That was from you?
– l have to admit to a secret attraction.
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l’m sorry l didn’t include a note,
but you didn’t know me then.
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And l don’t know you now.
And l don’t care to.
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l see this is making you
uncomfortable, and l’m sorry.
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lt’s just that l’m taken with you.
That never happens to me.
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We’re alike that way.
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You weren’tjokin’ about being late. l was
about to start slicin’ and dicin’ myself.
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– l’m sorry.
– Where were you?
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l was doing some research
and learning that l owe you an apology.
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– For what?
– The milagro charm.
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You were right about its insignificance.
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l think l was wrong. lt’s very significant.
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lt may be a communication from the killer.
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My research shows that credible
practitioners of psychic surgery
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believe they’re imbued with the Holy Spirit,
that their hands are the miracle tools of God.
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Mulder, this is nothing more than a tool
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used by a lovelorn Romeo who just
happens to be your next-door neighbor.
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– Who, the writer?
– Yes.
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My secret admirer, who claims
to know the mysteries of my heart.
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– You’re kidding.
– l wish l were.
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He cornered me today
and told me my life story.
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lt was kind of frightening, actually.
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– ls he our killer?
– No.
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Frightening, as in too much
information and intimate detail.
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What kills you is his audacity.
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Did you get his name?
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No, but that shouldn’t be too hard to find out.
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– l’m sorry, l forgot your name.
– Padgett.
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– Phillip Padgett.
– You’re a writer.
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– Anything l’d know?
– l don’t think so.
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You’re an FBl agent.
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Working on anything interesting?
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– A murder case.
– Anything l’d know?
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– A murder case.
– Anything l’d know?
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Possibly.
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The overture in the church
urged the beautiful agent’s partner
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into an act of Hegelian self-justification.
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Expeditiously violating the Fourth
Amendment against mail theft,
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he prepared to impudently infract the First.
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But if she’d predictably aroused
her sly partner’s suspicions,
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Special Agent Dana Scully had herself
become simply aroused.
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The stranger’s unsought compliments played
the dampened strings of her instrument,
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until the middle C of consciousness
was struck square and resonant.
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She was flattered.
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His words had presented her
a pretty picture of herself,
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unlike the practiced mask of uprightness
mirrored back to her
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from the medical examiners,
the investigators,
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and all the lawmen
who dared no such utterances.
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She felt an involuntary flush
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and rebuked herself
for the girlish indulgence.
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But the images came perforce
and she let them play.
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Let them flood in like savory, or more,
a sugary confection from her adolescence
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when her senses were new
and ungoverned by fear and self-denial.
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”Ache.” ”Pang.”
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”Prick.” ”Twinge.”
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How ironic the Victorian vocabulary
of behavioral pathology
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now so perfectly described
the palpations of her own desire.
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The stranger had looked her in the eye
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and knew her more completely
than she knew herself.
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She felt wild, feral, guilty as a criminal.
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Had the stranger unleashed in her
what was already there,
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or only helped her discover a landscape
she’d by necessity blinded herself to?
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What would her partner think of her?
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Mr Popularity.
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Hi. l…
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l was going next door
and l thought that l’d return this.
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Why?
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Because l can’t return the gesture.
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– l can’t.
– You’re curious about me.
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You don’t have any furniture.
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l have what l need.
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l write at my desk. l sleep in my bed.
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– You don’t eat?
– l live in my head.
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– Writing your books.
– Yes.
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– Anything l’d know?
– No. They’re all failures.
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Except the one l’m working on now.
l think l’m getting it right.
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– Why now, all of a sudden?
– Best not to question it.
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See? You are curious about me.
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– You lead a curious life.
– lt’s not so different from yours, l imagine.
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Lonely.
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Loneliness is a choice.
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So how about a cup of coffee?
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– My life’s not so lonely, Mr…
– Padgett.
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lt’s actually anything but.
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How is it you think you know me so well?
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– l’m writing about you.
– Right.
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– Since when?
– Since l first noticed you.
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You live in my old neighborhood.
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And you moved into
this building by coincidence?
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– No.
– You moved here because of me.
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There was nothing available in your building.
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And it’s not like you
spend a lot of time at home.
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l should have said something but
l couldn’t get it down fast enough.
224
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To really write someone,
l have to be in their head.
225
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l have to know them
more than they know themselves.
226
00:25:47,362 –> 00:25:50,661
– This is all about me?
– You’re an important part.
227
00:25:53,301 –> 00:25:55,929
– May l read it?
– lt’s not finished.
228
00:25:56,504 –> 00:26:01,134
l can’t tell you how helpful it is
being able to talk with you like this.
229
00:26:01,209 –> 00:26:03,939
Would you sit and stay a minute?
230
00:26:04,879 –> 00:26:07,575
You don’t have anywhere to sit.
231
00:26:18,059 –> 00:26:22,462
– l’m due next door.
– You haven’t finished your coffee.
232
00:26:24,799 –> 00:26:27,859
l’m very uncomfortable with this.
233
00:26:27,969 –> 00:26:31,302
Why? You’re armed, aren’t you?
234
00:26:35,310 –> 00:26:37,369
lmagine that.
235
00:26:41,683 –> 00:26:43,742
l’ll get a bulb.
236
00:27:00,669 –> 00:27:03,763
A view only a writer can appreciate.
237
00:27:11,680 –> 00:27:16,879
lf you know me so well, why am l standing
here when my instincts tell me to go?
238
00:27:16,951 –> 00:27:19,112
Motive is never easy.
239
00:27:21,423 –> 00:27:24,085
Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
240
00:27:28,096 –> 00:27:30,360
Please.
241
00:27:31,599 –> 00:27:33,692
Sit.
242
00:27:51,086 –> 00:27:53,145
lmagine that.
243
00:28:22,684 –> 00:28:25,084
What are you doing?
244
00:28:25,153 –> 00:28:28,316
– You all right?
– Yes.
245
00:28:40,201 –> 00:28:42,328
What are you doing?
246
00:28:45,340 –> 00:28:48,173
Putting this man under arrest.
247
00:29:07,162 –> 00:29:10,325
Yes, l’ve seen this paper.
248
00:29:10,398 –> 00:29:12,662
That’s how you found your victims.
249
00:29:12,734 –> 00:29:15,999
– They all took out personal ads.
– They were lovers.
250
00:29:16,070 –> 00:29:19,039
– And you targeted them.
– l only write about them.
251
00:29:19,140 –> 00:29:21,335
No, you targeted…
252
00:29:22,343 –> 00:29:26,370
– Not without his lawyer.
– l don’t need one. l’m telling the truth.
253
00:29:26,481 –> 00:29:28,972
And this is your confession?
254
00:29:34,989 –> 00:29:37,423
No, it’s my novel.
255
00:29:37,525 –> 00:29:42,394
lt’s all in there. Every detail,
every murder, all laid out.
256
00:29:42,497 –> 00:29:46,263
– How’d you do it, Mr Padgett?
– lf l sit long enough, it comes to me.
257
00:29:46,367 –> 00:29:47,698
The murders.
258
00:29:47,769 –> 00:29:52,729
l only knew what was in my mind
and wished to express it clearly.
259
00:29:52,841 –> 00:29:55,366
How about ”the stranger”? ls that you?
260
00:29:56,377 –> 00:30:00,438
– How about Ken Naciamento?
– Self-proclaimed Brazilian psychic surgeon?
261
00:30:00,548 –> 00:30:02,948
– ls that your accomplice?
– You could say that.
262
00:30:03,051 –> 00:30:05,679
– He’s a central character.
– Did you direct him?
263
00:30:05,753 –> 00:30:09,746
Jungians would say that
the characters choose the writer,
264
00:30:09,858 –> 00:30:13,385
so l guess you could argue he directed me.
265
00:30:16,097 –> 00:30:17,758
Which is the truth?
266
00:30:17,866 –> 00:30:21,097
Words are imprecise
and layered with meaning.
267
00:30:21,202 –> 00:30:24,103
They’re signs of things,
not things themselves.
268
00:30:24,205 –> 00:30:27,606
lt’s difficult to say who’s in charge.
269
00:30:38,453 –> 00:30:42,947
Why, Mr Padgett?
Maybe that’s a question you can answer.
270
00:30:44,792 –> 00:30:47,590
That’s the one question l can’t.
271
00:30:51,332 –> 00:30:55,496
Agent Mulder? My book. Did you like it?
272
00:30:56,738 –> 00:30:58,797
Maybe if it were fiction.
273
00:31:04,512 –> 00:31:07,970
– Where are you going?
– To find the Brazilian psychic surgeon.
274
00:31:08,082 –> 00:31:11,916
l did that. That’s what l’ve been doing.
275
00:31:12,754 –> 00:31:16,691
Dr Ken Naciamento, São Paulo, Brazil.
Emigrated here in 1996.
276
00:31:16,691 –> 00:31:17,589
Dr Ken Naciamento, São Paulo, Brazil.
Emigrated here in 1996.
277
00:31:17,659 –> 00:31:19,820
– Where is he now?
– Dead.
278
00:31:19,928 –> 00:31:22,089
– He can’t be.
– Two years dead.
279
00:31:22,163 –> 00:31:26,156
– They’re faxing me a death certificate.
– Padgett couldn’t have done it alone.
280
00:31:26,267 –> 00:31:28,758
Maybe he didn’t do it at all.
281
00:31:28,836 –> 00:31:31,202
lt’s all on the page.
How else would he know it?
282
00:31:31,306 –> 00:31:38,041
Maybe he imagined it, like he said.
Like Shakespeare or Freud or Jung.
283
00:31:38,146 –> 00:31:43,140
Maybe he has some gift, and he has
a clear window into human nature.
284
00:31:43,217 –> 00:31:46,709
No one can predict human behavior
or tell you what a person will do.
285
00:31:46,821 –> 00:31:49,346
lsn’t that what you do,
as a behavioral profiler?
286
00:31:49,457 –> 00:31:53,450
You imagine the killer’s mind so well
that you know what they’ll do next.
287
00:31:53,528 –> 00:31:56,622
lf he imagines it, it’s a priori, before the fact.
288
00:31:56,698 –> 00:32:00,395
l think that’s pretty clear
from what he wrote about you.
289
00:32:01,235 –> 00:32:05,035
– You know you’re in here, don’t you?
– l read a chapter.
290
00:32:07,909 –> 00:32:09,809
What does he say?
291
00:32:11,145 –> 00:32:14,740
lt ends with you doing the naked pretzel
with ”the stranger” on a bed
292
00:32:14,849 –> 00:32:18,717
in an unfurnished fourth-floor apartment.
293
00:32:21,756 –> 00:32:24,554
l’m assuming that’s a priori, too?
294
00:32:24,659 –> 00:32:28,390
l think you know me better than that, Mulder.
295
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:35,592
You might wanna finish it.
296
00:32:54,522 –> 00:32:58,891
The prisoner’s written something
l think you should see.
297
00:32:58,960 –> 00:33:01,724
– What is it?
– He says it’s a statement,
298
00:33:01,896 –> 00:33:05,093
but l think he’s putting somebody on.
299
00:33:09,737 –> 00:33:15,573
”Grief squeezed at her eggshell heart
like it might break into a thousand pieces,
300
00:33:15,643 –> 00:33:18,737
its contents running like broken promises
301
00:33:18,813 –> 00:33:22,613
into the hollow places his love used to fill.”
302
00:33:22,717 –> 00:33:25,208
”How could she know this pain would end?”
303
00:33:25,286 –> 00:33:31,054
”That love, unlike matter or energy,
was in endless supply in the universe?”
304
00:33:31,125 –> 00:33:35,755
”A germ which grows from nothingness,
which cannot be eradicated,
305
00:33:35,830 –> 00:33:38,594
even from the darkest of hearts?”
306
00:33:38,666 –> 00:33:42,659
”lf she had known this –
and who could say she would believe it? –
307
00:33:42,770 –> 00:33:47,002
she would not have chanced to remain
at his sad grave until such an hour,
308
00:33:47,108 –> 00:33:51,340
so that she might not have to learn
the second truth before the first,
309
00:33:51,446 –> 00:33:56,645
that to have love was to carry a vessel
that could be lost or stolen.”
310
00:33:56,751 –> 00:34:01,120
”Or worse, spilled blood-red on the ground.”
311
00:34:01,189 –> 00:34:03,453
”And that love was not immutable.”
312
00:34:03,524 –> 00:34:08,086
”lt could become hate, as day becomes night,
313
00:34:08,162 –> 00:34:10,255
as life becomes death.”
314
00:34:51,539 –> 00:34:55,566
She’s a no-show, at home
or anywhere else she might go.
315
00:34:55,676 –> 00:34:57,712
There’s signs of a struggle at the grave,
316
00:34:57,812 –> 00:35:02,476
but the area was so trampled by the funeral
that collecting evidence will be impossible.
317
00:35:02,550 –> 00:35:04,848
l think this is a big jerk-off.
318
00:35:04,919 –> 00:35:09,913
Maybe his statement’s to prove that he’s
telling the truth, that he truly just imagined it.
319
00:35:10,024 –> 00:35:13,050
The only thing that he imagined
was us out here…
320
00:35:16,097 –> 00:35:17,894
looking like idiots.
321
00:35:25,339 –> 00:35:28,240
Hands where l can see ’em! Don’t move!
322
00:35:28,342 –> 00:35:30,776
l’m a federal agent.
323
00:35:30,878 –> 00:35:34,109
– Mulder, that’s not him.
– What’d l do?
324
00:35:34,215 –> 00:35:36,410
Check the truck, Scully.
325
00:35:36,517 –> 00:35:38,576
Mulder, he works here.
326
00:36:14,722 –> 00:36:18,214
How did you know the body was in the truck?
327
00:36:18,292 –> 00:36:20,157
l imagined it.
328
00:36:20,261 –> 00:36:23,094
There’s no evidence that
Padgett directed the killer.
329
00:36:23,164 –> 00:36:25,928
Do you need a signed work order?
Of course he did.
330
00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:29,663
You are making critical
assumptions without any facts.
331
00:36:29,770 –> 00:36:32,796
What about time of death?
What are you doing?
332
00:36:32,907 –> 00:36:36,138
You’re about to argue
my usual side, aren’t you?
333
00:36:36,244 –> 00:36:39,805
Why couldn’t he have imagined it,
just got into the killer’s head?
334
00:36:39,914 –> 00:36:43,577
You read what he wrote about you.
Did he get inside your head?
335
00:36:43,651 –> 00:36:45,949
– ls what l read true?
– Of course not.
336
00:36:46,020 –> 00:36:48,648
l don’t know how they communicate.
337
00:36:48,756 –> 00:36:51,850
This is the only way l can think to catch him.
338
00:36:55,296 –> 00:36:57,355
Mr Padgett?
339
00:36:58,966 –> 00:37:02,367
You can go. We apologize for our mistake.
340
00:37:02,470 –> 00:37:05,166
You’re free to finish your book.
341
00:37:06,607 –> 00:37:08,666
Thank you.
342
00:37:13,014 –> 00:37:15,107
l made a mistake myself.
343
00:37:16,017 –> 00:37:18,508
What’s that, Mr Padgett?
344
00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:25,454
ln my book l’d written that Agent Scully
falls in love, but that’s obviously impossible.
345
00:37:25,526 –> 00:37:28,154
Agent Scully is already in love.
346
00:38:09,904 –> 00:38:11,997
What are you doing here?
347
00:38:21,282 –> 00:38:23,682
You seem surprised to see me.
348
00:38:24,218 –> 00:38:29,451
– Yes, completely.
– Why? l’m your character.
349
00:38:30,057 –> 00:38:33,754
– What do you want?
– l’m here to help you finish.
350
00:38:33,861 –> 00:38:36,295
l can’t figure out your motive.
351
00:38:36,897 –> 00:38:39,559
You imagine me so perfectly in every way.
352
00:38:39,633 –> 00:38:42,534
So perfectly that you bring me to life.
353
00:38:43,137 –> 00:38:48,131
– Why did you choose me?
– l needed a perfect crime.
354
00:38:48,242 –> 00:38:51,268
She’s a doctor.
She’d be horrified by what you do.
355
00:38:51,812 –> 00:38:54,645
l’m horrified.
356
00:38:54,749 –> 00:38:59,277
– l just want to know why l do it.
– So l could meet her.
357
00:39:03,057 –> 00:39:05,617
That’s not a reason.
358
00:39:10,131 –> 00:39:12,224
lt’s an excuse.
359
00:39:18,806 –> 00:39:21,468
– Anything?
– He’s just sittin’ there.
360
00:39:22,910 –> 00:39:24,502
Staring.
361
00:39:29,850 –> 00:39:32,944
– Now, what is this?
– A big mistake.
362
00:39:33,020 –> 00:39:38,515
– l misjudged her, her interest in me.
– Now we’re onto something.
363
00:39:38,626 –> 00:39:42,187
She’s trying to get his attention,
but doesn’t know it.
364
00:39:42,296 –> 00:39:44,787
The old unconscious at work.
365
00:39:44,865 –> 00:39:47,595
l wanted to love her.
366
00:39:48,002 –> 00:39:51,165
No wonder you can’t finish this book.
367
00:39:52,039 –> 00:39:56,305
– Why do l want their hearts?
– You tell me. Why do you do it?
368
00:39:56,377 –> 00:39:59,642
l’m your character. You tell me.
369
00:39:59,713 –> 00:40:03,479
– My reason is your reason.
– l want to feel love.
370
00:40:03,551 –> 00:40:06,611
No.
371
00:40:07,488 –> 00:40:09,547
You had it right up to there.
372
00:40:09,657 –> 00:40:12,888
You were a tool of the truth.
373
00:40:12,993 –> 00:40:19,296
And when it finally arrives –
when l arrive – you don’t want to see it.
374
00:40:19,366 –> 00:40:22,301
But what is the truth?
375
00:40:22,369 –> 00:40:26,897
Man imagines that he, too,
can open up his heart
376
00:40:27,007 –> 00:40:34,175
and expose the burning passion,
the flames of charity, like the creator himself.
377
00:40:34,248 –> 00:40:37,809
But this is not in his power.
378
00:40:38,252 –> 00:40:40,345
But l have love in my heart.
379
00:40:40,421 –> 00:40:47,350
Yes. As a thief has riches,
a usurer, money, you have it.
380
00:40:47,428 –> 00:40:54,857
But man’s only power –
only true power – is to destroy it.
381
00:40:55,269 –> 00:40:58,534
Then what’s the end of my story?
382
00:41:00,374 –> 00:41:03,537
There can only be one true ending
383
00:41:04,678 –> 00:41:07,272
if it is to be perfect.
384
00:41:09,583 –> 00:41:11,175
She dies?
385
00:41:12,786 –> 00:41:17,086
See? lt almost writes itself.
386
00:41:36,744 –> 00:41:38,803
What’s he up to now?
387
00:41:39,647 –> 00:41:42,115
He just started typing again.
388
00:41:50,057 –> 00:41:52,423
Now what?
389
00:41:59,166 –> 00:42:01,293
Anything?
390
00:42:18,352 –> 00:42:20,912
Padgett! Freeze.
391
00:42:22,122 –> 00:42:24,352
Step away from the incinerator.
392
00:42:37,304 –> 00:42:41,104
– What do you think you’re doin’?
– Destroying my book.
393
00:42:41,175 –> 00:42:43,439
Destroying evidence, you mean.
394
00:42:43,944 –> 00:42:48,176
– Let me see what you wrote.
– l’ll tell you. He kills her.
395
00:42:59,493 –> 00:43:02,724
You came here to give
instructions to your accomplice?
396
00:43:02,830 –> 00:43:04,957
– No, he told me how it ends.
– When?
397
00:43:05,032 –> 00:43:08,160
– ln my apartment.
– You were alone up there.
398
00:44:14,601 –> 00:44:17,900
”A story can have only one true ending.”
399
00:44:17,971 –> 00:44:21,065
”Even as the stranger committed
his final words to paper,
400
00:44:21,141 –> 00:44:23,974
he did it knowing they must never be read.”
401
00:44:24,044 –> 00:44:26,979
”To see the sum of his work was
to see inside his own emptiness,
402
00:44:27,047 –> 00:44:30,346
the heart of a destroyer, not a creator.”
403
00:44:30,417 –> 00:44:34,877
”And yet, reflected back upon him,
at last he could see his own ending.”
404
00:44:34,955 –> 00:44:37,753
”And in this final act of destruction,
405
00:44:37,825 –> 00:44:41,158
a chance to give what he could not receive.”
