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: "Thats 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: "Im going to assume the killer knew what he was
doing and that "C" wasnt one of his
initials?"
Pennock: "Your assumptions are correct. Only the killer
isnt a he. (he hands Mulder a folder, then
goes to where a slide of Martys 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. Theres just one little snag."
Mulder: (reading her file) "Shes been blind since
birth."
Pennock: "Now before your heart goes out to her, check out her
rap sheet."
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