DETECTIVE LAZARD: I'm telling you, there was no one else. Listen.
The department is treating this as a suicide, but I gotta tell you.
I knew this guy. There's no way he did himself.
SCULLY: Was he depressed, or in psychiatric care of any kind?
LAZARD: No... No... the only time he ever looked at himself was in the
mirror, and he always liked what he saw.
MULDER: Check for burns and lesions on Barbala's body.
SCULLY: What?
MULDER: Psychokinesis is usually associated with an electrical charge.
SCULLY: Are you saying that Michelle possesses the ability to psychologically
project her own will?
MULDER: How else a 60 pound kid throw a 200 pound detective out the window?
LAZARD: Excuse me. Can I talk to you for a second?
SCULLY: I just started the autopsy.
LAZARD: Yeah,I don't think he's going anywhere.
LAZARD: (indicating a sketch of the alleged murderer) His name is Charlie Morris. Officer Charlie Morris. He's worked
in narcotics, out of the 2-7.
SCULLY: Do you know him?
LAZARD: No. Before my time.
SCULLY: Well, where is he? Has he been transferred?
LAZARD: You could say that. Agent Scully, this guy's been dead for nine
years. Which means that little girl saw a ghost.
SCULLY: Now Mulder, if you're gonna tell me that you think Michelle Bishop saw
a poltergeist...
MULDER: Hey! You're the one who found the lesions on Barbala's body. You said
it could been caused by an intense concentration of electrothermal
energy.
SCULLY: Could have been being the operative phrase. Now I'm not gonna know for
sure, until the lab results are in, and even then--
MULDER: Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence
suggest extraordinary phenomena?
SCULLY: Because sometimes...
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: Looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable
explanation, right in front of you.
SCULLY:(shows MULDER a picture of officer
Charlie Morris)
This is the face that Michelle Bishop saw. She walked right by here and
saw the face of Charlie Morris. Which means that there weren't any ghosts
flying around the precinct.
MULDER: Michelle's 8 years old. That means she was conceived roughly at the same
time that officer Charlie Morris was killed.
SCULLY: Do me a favor Mulder. Let me say it... Reincarnation.
SCULLY: What I saw was a traumatized little girl, who for no apparent reason,
has some connection to Charlie Morris.
MULDER: All evidence suggests that Michelle Bishop is Charlie Morris.
SCULLY: Mulder.
MULDER: Short of her growing a mustache, how much more apparent does it have to
become, for you to accept it?
MULDER: Could Michelle have fabricated [Charlie Morris]?
DR. BRAUN: Quite possibly. As with many dissociative disorders,
the intensity of the patient's emotions is often too much for one
personality to process. So in defense, part of the personality splits
itself off.
MULDER: As in schizophrenia?
DR. BRAUN: I'm afraid Michelle's diagnosis is not quite that simple.
You see, my primary challenge has been to discover the source of her
extreme rage. In most cases, it's a traumatic event in the patient's
past.
MULDER: And in Michelle's case?
DR. BRAUN:
Occasionally, I would leave Michelle alone for part of our session -
with this doll. (opens the cabinet, which has several identical dolls
on a shelf) Each time a new doll, anatomically intact. (she hands
one to Mulder) And each time, she dismembers and disfigures it in
exactly the same way. (the doll is missing an arm and an eye)
First I thought she was being abused, but after a number of sessions
with her parents, I became convinced that there was something else
behind Michelle's anxiety. Something much deeper, much more elusive.
MULDER: Any theories?
DR. BRAUN: Frankly, no. I'm at a loss.
MULDER: Have you observed any unexplained phenomena
in Michelle's presence?
DR. BRAUN: Unexplained phenomena?
MULDER: Inordinate physical strength, psychic ability,
telekinesis...
DR. BRAUN: You're joking, of course.
MULDER: Give me the grisly details.
SCULLY: His arm was severed just below the shoulder, presumably
by a chainsaw, and his right eye was gouged out.
MULDER: This is what Michelle did to a dozen dolls in her shrink's
office. Hell of a coincidence, wouldn't you say? Now before we
discount anything, I think we should find out more about Charlie
Morris. I got the address of his partner on the force. Hopefully,
he can tell us something.
LAZARD: I tracked him down. He's retired in Palm Beach. You were right
Agent Scully. He backed up all his records on hard disk.
SCULLY: Well, pathologists are paranoid by nature.
MULDER: (voiceover) Closing entry, file number X-40271.
Detective Anthony Fiore pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to
charges of first-degree murder after the fact, grand larceny and
obstruction of justice. The deaths of Detective Rudy Barbala and
former police officer Leon Felder are being ruled as accidental,
although their complicity in the murder of Officer Charlie Morris has
been definitively established. No charges were brought against
Michelle Bishop, who today took her first swimming lesson.
She claims no memory of the preceding events and both her mother
and Dr. Braun have denied my request for a second past-life regression.
End of field journal, April 19, 1994. Agents of record: Fox Mulder
and Dana Scully. Status: unexplained.
