The X-Files - 3.

French title: Révélations
translation: Revelations

Italian title: Miracoli

US Airdate: December 15, 1995

writer: Kim Newton

director: David Nutter

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Owen Lee Jarvis ..... Michael Berryman

Michael Kryder ..... Sam Bottoms

Priest ..... Fulvio Cecerk

Reverend Finley ..... R. Lee Ermy

Carina Maywald ..... Lesley Ewen

Mrs. Tynes ..... Nicole Robert

Susan Kryder ..... Hayley Tyson

Simon Gates ..... Kenneth Welsh

Kevin Kryder ..... Kevin Zegers

AFTER ELEVEN FALSE PROPHETS ARE MURDERED, MULDER AND SCULLY TRY TO PROTECT A LITTLE BOY SHOWING THE MARKS OF CRUCIFIXION ON HIS BODY FROM A KILLER TARGETING STIGMATICS.

Shortly after the murder of a man claiming to bear the wounds of Christ (stigmata), a little boy in Ohio exhibits similar wounds. Mulder tells Scully of eleven previous cases of people claiming to have stigmata, but that all eleven were murdered by someone who relentlessly stalk them. To protect young Kevin from a similar fate, Mulder and Scully sifted through Biblical tradition, religious beliefs, and the shattered past of Kevin's own family.Mulder refuses to believe that the case actually involves religious phenomena, while Scully suspects that the evidence before them points to divine intervention. A strange groundskeeper, a wealthy industrialist and a man committed to an insane asylum for his religious beliefs lead Scully to a crisis of faith that may spell life or death for an innocent child.

The demonic bad guy in this ep is named Gates (just like the head of Micro$oft's Bill Gates?)

A good, solid growth ep for Scully this one, as we learn more about her deep faith, which is tested so often on Mulder's search for the truth. And we see a tender side with her protection of Kevin.

Rev: "I assured her that yes, miracles do happen. Most people today tend to vest themselves in science and cynicism. They expect proof for all they see. Miracles are wondrous by nature, they need no rationale. No justification."

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Mulder: "No, I think this is a case of too much faith. (dips his gloved finger into blood and licks it, ugh!) And too much sugar."

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Mulder: "Or maybe it's just a... very disgruntled altarboy."

Scully: "Well that narrows down the field."

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Michael Kryder: "He's bleeding again isn't he?"

Scully: "Yes, how did you know that?"

Michael Kryder: "Because the faithful know."

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Michael Kryder: "They will come in the form of a powerful and respected man."

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Michael Kryder: (to Scully) "God will find someone to stop it. Someone who is strong enough to make the sacrifice."

Mulder: "He's chosen you?"

Michael Kryder: "I'm merely a messenger."

Mulder: (to Scully) "Let's go." (they start to leave)

Michael Kryder: (to Scully) "You must come full circle to find the truth."

Mulder: "Excuse me?"

Scully: "Full circle to find the truth? I don't know what that means."

Michael Kryder: "You will."

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Scully: "Did you get a composite?"

Mulder: "Yeah, looks like Kevin was abducted by Homer Simpson's evil twin."

Scully: "This isn't the killer, Mulder."

Mulder: "I think that's a safe assumption."

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Mulder: "By who? Who asked you to protect him?"

Owen: "God."

Mulder: "That's quite a long distance call, isn't it?"

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Owen: (to Scully) "You believe me, don't you? (nods to her cross necklace) I mean you must wear that as a reminder?"

Scully: "Mr. Jarvis, my religious convictions are hardly the issue here."

Owen: "But they are. How can you help Kevin if you don't believe? Even the killer, he believes."

Mulder: "And townsfolk wonder why I sleep in Sundays."

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(walks in on Scully's autopsy on Owen)

Mulder: "Any revelations?"

Scully: "Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you smell Mr. Jarvis?"

Mulder: "You want me to smell him? (sniffs Owen) What am I supposed to be smelling?"

Scully: "You don't detect a faint floral odor? (a Look is exchanged) Mulder this man's body is in no way decomposing normally. In catechism, we learned of instances like this, so called "Incorruptables" whose bodies wouldn't decay and who emitted a smell of flowers."

Mulder: (laughing) "You're serious?"

Scully: "Saint Ceceila, Saint Francis...."

Mulder: "And now you're suggesting that this is Saint Owen?"

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Scully: "Well, what do you think this is?"

Mulder: (pointing to Owen) "This man? He was rather abnormal in life, maybe he's decomposing abnormally."

Scully: "Well, isn't a saint or a holy person just another term for someone who's abnormal?"

Mulder: "Do you really believe that?"

Scully: "I believe in the idea that God's hand may be witnessed. I believe he can create miracles, yes."

Mulder: "Even if science can't explain them?"

Scully: "Maybe that's just what faith is."

Mulder: "Well I wouldn't let faith overwhelm your judgement here. These people are simply fanatics behaving fanatically using religion as a justification. They give bona fide paranoics like myself a bad name. They are no more divine or holy than that ketchup we saw on the murdered preacher. And I think once you've finished your autopsy, you'll come to the same conclusion. Saint Owen..." (nods and walks away)

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(after Scully gets a bath ready for Kevin)

Mulder: (with a pout) "You never draw MY bath..."

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Scully: "How is it that you're able to go out on a limb whenever you see a light in the sky, but you're unwilling to accept the possibility of a miracle? Even when it's right in front of you."

Mulder: "I wait for a miracle every day. But what I've seen here has only tested my patience, not my faith."

Scully: "Then what about what I've seen?"

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Mulder: (to Scully) "You think it's you don't you? You think you're the one who's been chosen to protect Kevin."

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Kevin: (to Scully as she saves him, after Gates dies in a newspaper shredder, eeeewww!) "I knew you'd come."

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Scully: "Maybe I'll see you again sometime."

Kevin: "You will."

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Scully: "Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been 6 years since my last confession. And since then I've drifted away from the church. I'm not sure why exactly."

Priest: "Have you come to confess?"

Scully: "No...ummm.. there's a man that I work with, a friend, and usually I'm able to discuss these things with him, but not this. Father do you believe in miracles?"

Priest: "Of course, I see them every day. The rising sun, the birth of a child.."

Scully: "No, I'm talking about events that defy explanation. Things that I believe helped me to save a young boy's life. But now I wonder if I saw them at all....if I didn't just imagine them?"

Priest: "Why do you doubt yourself?"

Scully: "Because my partner didn't see them... he didn't believe them... and usually, he believes without question."

Priest: "Maybe they weren't meant for him to see, maybe they were only meant for you."

Scully: "Is that possible?"

Priest: "With the Lord, anything is possible. Perhaps you saw these things because you needed to."

Scully: "To find my way back?"

Priest: "Sometimes we must come full circle to find the truth. (she looks startled) Why does that surprise you?"

Scully: "Well, see, it just makes me afraid."

Priest: "Afraid?"