The X-Files - 5.

German title: Das innere Auge
translation: The Internal Eye

Japanese title: Mind Eye  

Spanish title: El Ojo de la Mente
translation: The Eye of the Mind

US Airdate: April 19, 1998

writer: Tim Minear

director: Kim Manners

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Lili Taylor as Marty Glenn

Blu Mankuma as Det. Pennock

Richard Fitzpatrick as Gotts

Henri Lubatti as Dr. Wilkenson

Peter Kelamis as Ada Costa

Joe Pascual as Examiner

Colin Lawrence as First Cop (Jimmy)

Dallas Blake as Second Cop (Keith)

Jason Diablo as Angry Man

Veronika Stocker as Sexy Woman

MULDER SUSPECTS A BLIND WOMAN POSSESSES THE ABILITY TO SEE THROUGH THE

EYES OF A KILLER.

As Marty Glenn, a twenty-something woman, moves about her apartment, she suddenly experiences an internal vision. As she watches, horrorstruck, a murderer, switchblade in hand, advances on another man standing before a bathroom sink. A short time later, police are summoned to a motel, where the body of the murderer's victim lies on the bathroom floor. Marty, a bloody sponge clutched in her hand, is discovered hiding in the shower. As the officers place Marty into handcuffs, they realize she is blind.

Scully and Mulder meet with Wilmington Homicide Detective Lloyd Pennock, who has been assigned the murder case. Pennock explains that, under normal circumstances, Marty would have been charged with the murder. But since Marty has been blind since birth, he is at a loss as to how--or why--she managed to kill the heroin dealer, Paco Ordonez. Pennock states that he has 48 hours to prove to the District Attorney that his suspect possesses a kind of "sixth sense"... or wait until she kills someone else.

The detectives meet with Marty inside her jail cell. During questioning, it becomes obvious that Marty--who has adopted an uncooperative attitude--possesses knowledge that only the murderer

should know. As Mulder stays behind to supervise Marty's polygraph test, Scully visits the scene of the crime. There she discovers a bloody leather glove hidden behind the bathroom mirror. Meanwhile, by phrasing a question in a certain manner, Mulder determines that Marty did somehow manage to witness the murder.

Marty experiences another internal vision. This time, the killer makes advances on a sexy woman, Susan Forester, who sits at a bar. Marty notices the name of the bar reflected in a mirror. She requests that she be allowed to make a phone call from jail. By using an information operator, Marty phones the bar and makes contact with the murderer, a man named Gotts. She warns him to leave the woman alone.

Scully brings the bloody glove to the jail. She informs Marty that her fingerprints were located on the glove, and perhaps even more importantly, the glove fits Marty perfectly. Pennock concludes that Marty is the murderer. Mulder, however, is plagued with doubt. Scully offers a possible explanation: Marty may not be blind. Scully expands upon this theory, noting disorders that would permit sight on a subconscious level. As Marty undergoes an eye exam, she is suddenly struck by another internal vision. Mulder notes a reaction on a measurement mode screen used by the opthamologist. But Marty refuses to explain what she saw. Though the examiner concludes that Marty is completely blind, Mulder tells Pennock and the District Attorney that there is evidence of neurological activity which caused her pupils to dilate--perhaps a physical response to images in the mind's eye. The District Attorney concludes that it is unlikely her office could convict a blind woman based on fingerprints alone. As a result, Marty is released from custody.

As Marty makes her way through the city, she is struck by another vision. This time, she witnesses Gotts attack the sexy woman from the bar. With some help from a passerby, Marty makes her way to the alley where the attack occurred. She discovers the woman's body inside a dumpster. Marty then returns to the police station and confesses to both murders.

Marty supplies Pennock with the location of a locker that contains a briefcase filled with Gotts' heroin. Meanwhile, a lab test reveals that neither of the stains found on the leather glove match Marty's blood type, bolstering Mulder's suspicion that Marty is innocent. So confident is Mulder that he approaches Marty directly. He tells her he discovered the original police report detailing her mother's murder--a single stab wound to the right kidney--which is identical to the manner in which Ordonez and Forester were killed. Mulder concludes that Marty gained her unique sense when her then-pregnant mother died at the murderer's hands.

Marty is released from custody after police match fingerprints on the briefcase taken from the locker to Gotts... who turns out to be Marty's own father. Marty tells police that Gotts, who was recently paroled from prison, can be located at the Blarney Stone tavern. Mulder and Scully stake out the bar, waiting for Gotts' appearance. Meanwhile, Pennock provides Marty with protection from harm by guarding her at her apartment. Marty experiences another vision, this time seeing Gotts reading names on mailboxes in the lobby. Using a coffee pot, Marty knocks Pennock unconscious. She pulls his gun from his holster and takes position, waiting for Gotts. Meanwhile, Mulder realizes that the blind Marty has been experiencing visions of the inside of Gotts's prison cell for almost thirty years. He tells Scully that Marty misdirected them on purpose... to keep Gotts from going back to prison. They race to Marty's apartment, where they find Gotts dead on the floor. Later, Marty asks for no special treatment in her defense and is sent to prison--where she is finally free of Gotts.

Notes

Not finished yet, as you can see, I'll update as soon as I can, thanks for your patience.

Quotes

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Mulder: (looking at a slide of a dead guy) "I have the same pair of pants. Who exterminated him?"

Pennock: "That’s a subject of some debate."

Scully: "The killer carved a single C-shaped cut up through the right kidney. Fatal blood loss came

in under 30 seconds."

Mulder: "I’m going to assume the killer knew what he was doing and that "C" wasn’t one of his

initials?"

Pennock: "Your assumptions are correct. Only the killer isn’t a he. (he hands Mulder a folder, then

goes to where a slide of Marty’s mugshot is projected, his face covered in the numbers

from the height chart in her mugshot) Marty Glenn. 28. We found her at the scene doing

a formula 409. Under normal circumstances, my department would have her dead to

rights. There’s just one little snag."

Mulder: (reading her file) "She’s been blind since birth."

Pennock: "Now before your heart goes out to her, check out her rap sheet."

Mulder: " 'Fraud ... petty theft .... aggravated assault.' "

Pennock: "Believe me. She’s a real piece of work."

Scully: "Her juvenile records are sealed, but Detective Pennock has it on authority that two of them

were drug busts, possession, and possession with intent."

Mulder: "So, what, you think that uh, she caught Little Monster trying to snatch the pebble from

her hand?" (refers to the classic TV series, "Kung Fu")

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Pennock: "I think she’s got some kind of .. sixth sense, lets her see in the dark ... like a bat or

something."

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(Marty is lying on the bed in her jail cell, we hear the door slam open)

Marty: "Oh ... it’s you."

Pennock: (to Mulder and Scully) "See what I mean?"

Marty: "It’s not magic. It’s your crappy cologne. (Mulder is amused) Who’s that with you?"

Mulder: (surprised) "Special Agent Mulder."

Marty: "And the lady?"

Scully: "Uh, Special Agent Scully. We’d like to ask you some questions, Marty."

Marty: "You must be having trouble with your case, Detective."

(Pennock walks over to Marty, takes her arm as if to guide her and she jerks her arm away)

Pennock: "Fine. Suit yourself."

(Marty stands, walks slowly to the door, and as she passes Mulder, she stops and faces him)

Marty: "What are you staring at?"

Mulder: "An innocent woman. I hope." (he smiles at Pennock as they exit the cell)

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(In the interrogation room, Marty is smoking)

Marty: "So, I’m all ears."

Scully: "I’m curious why you’ve refused your right to an attorney."

Marty: "Unless you’re going to charge me, I don’t plan on needing one."

Scully: "Well, you could be charged right now .. for the fact that you’ve given no compelling reason

why you were in that motel room. What were you doing there, Marty?"

Marty: "Putting mints on the pillows." (she smiles)

Scully: (after A Look at Mulder) "The cabbie has given a statement that you asked specifically for

room 10, which would put you at the murder scene right about the time of death."

Marty: "Is that a crime?"

Scully: "If you were involved in any way."

Marty: (sarcastically) "You mean like, an eyewitness?"

Scully: "Did you intend to buy drugs from Paco Ordonez? (Marty takes a big drag off her cigarette)

Did you kill him?"

Marty: "Eh, maybe it was just his time to go. I mean, other than the stab wound, did you check his

cholesterol level or anything?"

Mulder: "How did you know there was just one stab wound?"

Marty: "Did I say that?"

Mulder: "Mmm hmm."

Marty: "I guessed. You know what the problem is? You’ve got no murder weapon. And I bet that’s

driving Stinky back there crazy. Isn’t it, Stinky! (Pennock is watching the interview through a

one way mirror) Why is he hiding? It’s not like I can see him. You know what I did with it,

Detective? I fed it to my seeing eye dog."

Mulder: "I’m curious, Marty."

Marty: "Yeah, about what?"

Mulder: "If you didn’t kill him, why you were at the crime scene cleaning up and doing such a piss

poor job of it. (no answer from Marty) Why don’t we just stop playing games here, okay? I

mean (laughs) you probably don’t know a feather duster from a duck’s ass, do you? I

mean it’s ridiculous. You’re a blind woman, for God’s sake. So why don’t you just tell us

who did kill Paco Ordonez, and Agent Scully and I can go arrest him, and you can go

home and work on your angry-young-blind-girl comedy routine. (not a peep from Marty) Or

we can just ... (he grabs a glass and slams it down on the table in front of him) stay here

and entertain each other for the next 48 hours." (Mulder starts to pour himself a glass of

water, Marty violently knocks it off table)

Marty: "Go to hell."

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(Mulder calls Scully as she investigates the motel bathroom)

Mulder: "She’s lying."

Scully: "About what?"

Mulder: "She knew Paco Ordonez, but I don’t think she murdered him."

Scully: "How do you know that she knew him?"

Mulder: "Well I made her take a polygraph test. She passed on every question except one, did she

*see* the murder."

Scully: "Would you like me to remind you why polygraphs are inadmissible in court?"

Mulder: "No, she cracked, Scully. She was lying. I’m sure of it."

Scully: "Well, maybe she was, Mulder, but don’t make me state the obvious. She didn’t see

anything."

Mulder: "Not with her eyes."

Scully: "Well, how else did she see? Bat vision?"

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(Marty gets her property back as she leaves jail, she opens her wallet in front of the guard and pulls out the bills)

Marty: "These better still be twenties."

Officer: (sarcastically) "No, I replaced them with fifties since you’re so damn sweet."

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Pennock: "You know, the thing I find most surprising about this case is you. You are one skeptical

guy, Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "Skeptical?!"

Pennock: "Oh, yeah."

Mulder: "I’ve been called a lot of things. Skeptical, however, is not one."

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(Marty sits in her jail cell, we hear footsteps coming down the hall)

Marty: "What do you want now?"

(the door slides open, Mulder enters and sits beside her)

Mulder: "I know who you’re protecting, Marty. And I think I know why. You’re protecting the man

who murdered your mother."

Marty: "I don’t know what you’re talking about."

Mulder: "I read the original police report from 1970. Your mother died from a single stab wound to

the right kidney -- as did Paco Ordonez and Susan Forester. Dead at the hands of an

unknown assailant."

Marty: "I never knew my mother."

Mulder: "No. I know. But for once you were there when it happened. She was pregnant with you at

the time. She died on the operating table as doctors were trying to save her. You were

born ... just barely. But the interruption in blood flow you suffered most likely caused your

blindness."

Marty: "What does that have to do with anything?"

Mulder: "I think that during that time ... as you lost one sense ... you gained another. That

somehow ... a connection was formed between you and your mother’s killer."

Marty: "What connection?"

Mulder: "You see through his eyes. You always have. You don’t want to, you just do. And because

of that you feel responsible for his actions, but you’re not. And you’re sitting here in prison

for crimes you didn’t commit. It isn’t going to accomplish anything, Marty."

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Mulder: "The charges against you are being dropped. You’re no longer a suspect in this case."

Marty: "How can they do that?! I confessed."

Mulder: "Yeah, well, confession is worthless if it’s a lie, and yours was a lie."

Marty: "What have you been telling them?"

Mulder: "Just that you’re innocent, which is something they would have found out on their own

anyway. The locker you sent us to? It had prints on it, but they weren’t yours."

Marty: "I was careful."

Mulder: "Yeah, well, somebody else wasn’t so careful. Charles Wesley Gotts, an ex-con. Convicted

in 1970 of aggravated assault. He was paroled three weeks ago and he’s been missing

ever since."

Marty: "Never heard of him."

Mulder: "I happen to believe that, Marty. The PCR tests confirmed that it was his blood on the

glove. The tests confirmed something else, Marty. He’s your father. (Marty is shocked)

That was the connection."

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Mulder: "She didn’t know his name. They’ve never met. He’s been in prison her entire life."

Scully: "Well, yet, according to you, she’s been seeing through his eyes the whole time."

Mulder: "I - I don’t think she was sure exactly what she was seeing but it was more like a - a

constant image in her mind that she learned to live with over time. Up until three weeks ago."

Scully: "When the murders started."

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(Right before she shoots her father)

Marty: (very quietly) "I hate the way you see me."

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(Mulder comes to see Marty in her jail cell, the bars are closed)

Marty: "Not much to look at, is it? At least, that’s what they tell me. (she walks to the bars and he

reaches through to take her hand) You were at the sentencing, Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "Is it my cologne?"

Marty: (smiles) "No, I just knew you’d be there."

Mulder: "Marty, let me speak to the judge on your behalf."

Marty: "No."

Mulder: "We found where he’d been staying. It was a motel not far from where Paco Ordonez had

been murdered."

Marty: "And before that, Atlantic City. Hmmm. I’d never seen the ocean before. And now when I

close my eyes, or even when I open them, that’s all I see."

Mulder: "Well, you’re lucky he wasn’t a fan of the Ice Capades." (they laugh)

(the guard touches Mulder’s arm, he squeezes Marty’s hand)

Guard Over Intercom: "Lights out."