The X-Files s11e09 Episode Script
Nothing Lasts Forever
1 TECHNICIAN: He was just brought in, 30 minutes ago, 9: p.
m.
Respiration 17, body temp 97.
6, heart rate Just give me a 22 scalpel.
O'MALLEY (OVER RADIO): They are dosing us, folks.
And now I know what you're ASKING: why would they dose us? Why would they use these planes? It's the same reason that chemtrails (MONITOR BEEPING) (BONES CRACKING) (STEADY FLATLINE TONE) Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Wait.
Pancreas looks bad.
It might be infected.
Just leave it.
(SNIFFS) Shame to waste a good pancreas.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY) SURGEON: It's ready.
(BOTH GRUNT) Those who love me, I will deliver.
(LOUD CLANG) (GUNSHOT) (GROANS) Go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Tell me where they are.
I don't know.
I'm not part of them.
I need medical attention.
(GROANS) Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
Last chance to save your soul.
Where are they? I told you, I don't know.
Those who love me, I will deliver.
(SURGEON GRUNTS) (SIREN WAILING) Oh, geez.
PRIEST: We break this bread to share in the body of Christ.
We, being many, are one body, for we all share in one bread.
These are the gifts of God for the people of God.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
- ALL: Thanks be to God.
- (PHONE VIBRATING) PRIEST: Go in the Peace of Christ.
May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
(BELL TOLLING) (SOBS) Special Agent Dana Scully, and this is Special Agent Fox Mulder.
We didn't request any help from the Washington bureau.
Well, we found reasons to become interested.
Look, we know your reputation.
You come into a case, take over, turn it upside down.
No, we like to think we uncover facets that would otherwise go unnoticed.
You guys ID'd this gentleman? Yeah, his name's Robert Jenkins, 23.
Trainer at Brooklyn Heights Fitness.
He was abducted after work.
Roommate hadn't seen him in 18 hours.
Both of the victims have metal dowels impaled through their sternums.
Staked through the heart, you mean.
I would have expected the weapon to be made of wood.
A combination of the three types used in Christ's crucifixion cross cypress, cedar and pine.
That would imbue it with the holy properties necessary to defeat evil.
Looks like you guys are up to speed.
We've got, uh, our own stuff we need to attend to.
We'll leave you to it.
You did that on purpose.
You think? But there are multiple cases here, Scully.
This victim was murdered by these two, who in turn were murdered by someone else in a style familiar to fans of Hammer horror films, of which I am one guilty.
The question is, why were the organs harvested? Well, there were about three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of organs left in the cooler outside the emergency room.
Which tells me that whoever killed these two did not do it for material gain.
"I will repay" was written on the cooler.
- Sounds like a motive? - Yeah.
But whoever took the organs is not familiar with transplant procedures that no hospital is gonna take those organs.
But, you know, maybe we can find a use for them.
I mean, someone went to a lot of trouble just to let them go.
Well, the cooler that was left at the hospital was missing the liver and the pancreas.
A liver has a need-to-use time limit on it.
I'll run a check on hospitals doing liver transplants over the next seven to 20 hours.
I'll go on some onion sites and see if any organs were put up for auction.
Are those new? Bifocals? They're not bifocals, Scully, they're progressives.
They're called progressive lenses.
- No need to get defensive.
- I'm not defensive, I'm just Presbyopia's a natural part of the aging process.
We're all gonna go through it, Mulder.
Just wait till you get gout.
Gout.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) You know, sometimes I wonder why we keep doing it, Scully, in the face of all this indifference and presbyopia.
Did you get your hair cut? Are you kidding me? (WOMAN PRAYING IN SPANISH) (WOMAN SOBBING) (WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH) (TV PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) (REFRIGERATOR DOOR OPENS) (SIGHS) (MOANING) (WHIRRING NOISILY) (MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV) ANNOUNCER (ON TV): It's The Barbara Beaumont Show.
Tonight's episode, "The Lion Tamer.
" - I love this episode.
- (APPLAUSE ON TV) (CHUCKLES) It's as funny now as it was 50 years ago.
- Hmm.
- A simple misunderstanding.
- Uh-huh.
- I can explain everything.
MAN (ON TV): Honey, is this gonna take long? I'm trying to finish this book.
(RECITING DIALOGUE): Well, I can start in the middle.
- (TV LAUGHTER) - MAN (ON TV): Start at the end.
- WOMAN: All right.
- WOMAN ON TV: All right.
BOTH WOMEN: We owe the city $200 for creating a public nuisance, the lion tamer $75 for the sick lion, the grocer five dollars for the ten pounds of meat, and the shoeshine boy a stick of gum.
- (LAUGHTER) - Do you want to hear the details? - Afraid I do.
- I thought you might.
No, I mean, that's what I should've been afraid of when I said "I do.
" Oh, honey, you can't live without me.
MAN: I can barely afford to live with you.
I just have one question, Barbara.
Why? Well, like I said, it's simple, really.
I do it just for kicks.
(WHISPERING): I do it just for kicks.
Well, like I said, it's simple, really.
I do it just for kicks.
(CRCH BELLS TOLL) Well, I didn't burst into flames when I crossed the threshold, so I guess they really do forgive a lot.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 12 liver transplants in a 450-mile radius.
All of the donors have been accounted for.
Well, I checked the Dark Web, and there's no organs for sale in this region.
But the, uh, the dead surgeon, uh Doctor Oh, God, help me.
I'm sorry.
Rednon, Dr.
David Rednon, had his medical license revoked for "over-prescribing" opioids to the Bratski Krug drug dealers, the Russian mob.
And the kid who was with him was a street-level gangster.
I think we should hand this over to the NYC Organized Crime division, Mulder.
I don't think this is an X-file.
I'm gonna need some time here.
I can meet up with you later, or you can wait for me.
Juliet.
Yes.
Uh-oh.
Where's the rest of it? Where's the rest of it?! Cat got your tongues? You were all broken when I found you.
Crippled, malformed.
And I gave you hope.
What do you see when you look at me? FOLLOWERS: Beauty and light.
And what do I see when I look at you? FOLLOWERS: Ugliness and pain.
No.
No.
I see love and obedience.
I see the promise of what will be.
We have all worked too hard and sacrificed so much.
Each one of us transformed by the genius of Dr.
Luvenis.
That's why we should all be so disappointed.
Where is my heart? Where are my lungs?! There was a problem at the harvest.
Someone attacked us.
She killed Dr.
Dave with a metal stake.
I escaped with what I could.
I'm sure you did the best you could.
(PANTING): Yeah.
I need a word with you.
(CHURCH BELLS TOLL) FATHER HARDY: You have to have faith, Juliet.
Faith that, through Him, your sister Olivia will return to you.
I'll pray for her and you.
No, Father.
Prayers aren't enough.
"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, "and my sword "shall devour flesh, "and that with the blood of the slain "and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
" Juliet, uh Look at this, Scully.
Today's scripture.
Romans 12:19.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
" That was on the organ cooler.
Well, it's a common biblical passage.
Did I ever tell you how I came to believe in God? No.
When my brother Charlie was a baby, he got seriously ill.
I think I was about four.
I later learned that it was rheumatic fever.
- Hmm.
- Every night, Mom would tell us to get on our knees and pray for his recovery.
Your prayers were answered.
He lived.
Only, after the first couple nights, I wasn't praying for him.
I was praying for a puppy.
(LAUGHS) And we got one that Christmas.
I thought God had performed a miracle.
I finally know why I'm not a Christian, Scully.
My parents never got me a puppy.
So are you-you praying for another miracle now? I don't know if I believe in miracles.
But I do know the power of faith.
I saw it in my mom, the strength that she received.
I could use some of that strength now.
I need what you have.
You always bear north, Mulder no matter which way or how hard the wind blows against you.
I think all I have all any of us have are the results of all the choices that we've made.
And at the end of the day, we just hope that we made the right one.
(THUNDER RUMBLING) Mulder, it's locked.
"I will repay.
" There's three bars missing.
Someone is literally using the church to exact vengeance.
Oh One day without my "dinnie," and look at me.
I can already see the lines.
I want to cry.
You look perfectly beautiful.
Not a day over 33, when I first fell in love with you.
That's sweet.
You don't look bad for an 85-year-old.
All thanks to Kayla.
She's my angel.
You're my addiction, Dr.
Luvenis.
I will be a worthy companion to you in no time.
I'm beginning to wonder.
No one could've predicted what happened last night.
But I have a friend at the hospital.
He's heard rumors about recovered organs, organs they can't use.
Our organs.
Your excuses don't solve the problem.
- I will find them.
- Attached to Kayla? (LAUGHING): I don't think so.
- Barbara - I think you'll agree that failure should not be rewarded.
Kayla.
I think you're ready to ascend.
I am? Mm-hmm.
Do you trust me? - Have I ever lied to you? - No.
You're living proof.
That's right.
- Close your eyes.
- Barbara, please.
- Tell me your dream.
- I want to be beautiful like you.
All right, my ugly duckling, prepare to be a swan.
(GURGLING) (GROANS) There.
She looks better than ever.
We'll eat her for now.
Her organs are already depleted.
So find me what I need before we both start looking our age.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR) Mrs.
Bocanegra? I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder, this is Special Agent Scully.
We're from the FBI.
We'd like to ask you a few questions.
You have news about my Olivia? We spoke to Father Hardy at St.
Joseph's, and he said that your daughter's been missing for almost two months.
- Is that right? - SÃ.
Well, if we could maybe come in and look around, we might be able to find something that would help us find your daughter.
No.
You can't come in.
I'm sorry, but we're trying to help.
JULIET: Olivia doesn't want to be found.
No.
Eso no es verdad.
Mom.
The truth is, Olivia couldn't stand looking at that girl staring back at her in the mirror.
She rejected her family and God.
She joined a cult.
If she's being held against her will, we can investigate and try and extract her.
I know my sister.
All right? She doesn't want our life.
To her, we're monsters.
She thinks she can change who she is and become something she will never be.
I've given up on her.
Have you? Or will you repay? The cult your sister's in may be involved in the illegal trafficking of human organs, or of using them for unnatural purposes.
I believe you know that.
That's why you're trying to find her.
You want to save her.
Yeah, you have to leave now.
Father Hardy said he was afraid somebody might be tempted to take the law into their own hands.
Become an avenger.
I want her to be found so my mother will stop crying.
That's all.
(LOCK CLICKS) SCULLY: You think she's involved? MULDER: I think she is.
My gut tells me she is.
And my gut doesn't need glasses.
(GROANS) There was nothing in her.
No sustenance, no nutrients.
You ruined her.
Kayla was as good as junk food.
Look at me.
Hmm? What do you see? You look as beautiful as ever.
Liar! Barbara, this is a dark time.
No one has eaten well.
BARBARA: We need healthy organs.
Why can't we use one of them? These children are our seeds.
You don't eat the seeds, you eat the fruit from the trees.
Stop talking to me like I'm an idiot.
You know I'm not a scientist.
LUVENIS: But I am.
Barbara, we've talked about this.
The blood and organs in these children is being restructured every time they drink their dinnie.
But the cell adhesion is not yet complete.
Their morphogenesis has not yet finished.
But then, when they are ready, and they are surgically attached to you, then you are gonna reap the benefits of reverse aging.
- Hmm.
- Remember? - Mm.
- Do you remember Dylan? When he was attached to you? Mmm.
Mm-hmm.
You glowed like a 20-year-old.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
I remember Dylan.
(INHALES) He wouldn't shut up.
I'm glad we ate him.
All this is for you.
Don't do anything rash.
I have a lead on the organs left at the hospital.
I'm gonna go get 'em for you.
Oh.
I saw marionette lines in the mirror.
WARREN: Barbara? I hate to see you down.
You make us happy.
I was hideous, but you saved me.
Gave me joy.
I want to make you happy.
I'll be dinnie.
Because if I'm in you, I will always be happy.
Oh, Warren, Warren, Warren.
(GASPS) Oh.
You are such a beautiful person.
Because of what you have offered me I'm going to do something very, very special.
For you.
Come on.
I am going to perform my favorite song.
I sang this song on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in 1973, and they told me that, at the time, it was the highest rated show they'd ever had.
Higher than Charo or Muhammad Ali.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) It also won an Academy Award that year.
(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK) Maureen McGovern made it famous, but people tell me that they like my version better.
And so, Warren, to you, I say There's got to be a morning after If we can hold on Through the night We have a chance to find The sunshine So keep on looking For the light Oh, can't you see - (SCREAMING) - The morning after It's waiting right outside the storm Why don't we cross the bridge together And find a place That's safe and warm (DISTANT): It's not too late We should be giving (BLENDER WHIRRING) We're moving closer to the shore I've got to be there by tomorrow And we'll escape the darkness We won't be searching anymore There's got to be a morning after There's got to be a morning after.
(GRUNTS) Oh, you're in an awful hurry this morning, Joe.
Honey, I'm in a pickle.
I forgot it was Mr.
Morris' birthday.
I-I don't want to be a suck-up.
You're interrupting my prep.
I have to memorize my lines.
LUVENIS: "Double Trouble"? You've seen this a thousand times.
(GASPS) How dare you? I had to break into the cold storage at the hospital to get this.
You did that for me? Everything I do.
Well, I know exactly what you need.
Olivia! It's your day to be beautiful.
MULDER: They're here, Scully.
The organs are somewhere inside.
You were right, they need those organs.
Well, it was easy enough to put a tracker in the heart, but harder to get the hospital to loosen their security so they can steal it.
PRICE: No vacancy! Open the door.
Federal agents.
(MONITOR BEEPING) LUVENIS: Olivia, if you can hear me, I want you to count backwards from 100.
Ninety nine.
Ninety right LUVENIS: All right, Calvin.
You may begin.
Cut the back to expose the descending aorta.
PRICE: Look, the only people living here are on the fourth floor.
And what do you know about the tenants? Only person I know is Barbara Beaumont.
- Barbara Beaumont? - She's been the owner of this building for over 40 years.
Barbara Be (SIGHS) (GROANS) Barbara Bea Beaumont.
Child actor.
Our Gang shorts.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, TV westerns, Dragnet, The Barbara Beaumont Show, 1967.
Then, um nothing much ever again.
So, at 85, does she need assistance? I don't know.
Look, I I never met her.
Never even seen her.
Once in a while, I get a note, I go up and fix stuff.
I never see nobody when I go up there.
But I know they're there, - just from the smell.
- MULDER: Husband of 22 years died of leukemia, 1970.
Joined a life extension "commune" in Northern California.
Married a Dr.
Randolph (MISPRONOUNCING): Luvenis.
Luvenis.
(PRONOUNCES CORRECTLY): Luvenis.
Uh, how long have you been a super here? - Seven years.
- Seven years, and you've never talked to her? All right, it's weird, right? But this is the Bronx.
Look, there's an envelope full of money in my mailbox every two weeks.
This is the first time there's ever been a problem.
Seven years, and you've never crossed paths? She don't go out the front.
What about the people on the fourth floor? They ever leave? Look, this building? It's 1890s.
All right? It's got, like, a dumbwaiter system.
It's been modified, long before I ever got here.
It's got, like, trapdoors and ladders.
Goes down to the basement, then the sewers, the subway.
These people never see the light of day.
Every room's got one.
(MONITOR BEEPING) Now connect the two valves, and sew us up.
(NEEDLE WHIRRING) (OLIVIA MOANING) Ms.
Barbara Beaumont? Federal agents.
We have reason to believe someone inside may be in possession of contraband human organs.
We tracked a signal to this apartment.
I guess we'll go away and get a search warrant! We'll be back.
(DOORKNOB TURNS) (DOOR CREAKING) - Hello.
- Hello.
I'm Special Agent Mulder, this is Special Agent Scully with the FBI.
Oh.
SCULLY: And you are? Well, you tell me.
I'm sorry, can you tell us your name? Haven't you seen The Barbara Beaumont Show? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Loved you on Dragnet.
Oh, thank you.
Everyone says that was their favorite episode.
Did you know Jack Webb? - I did not.
- I'm sorry, but we're-we're looking for Barbara Beaumont.
(LAUGHS) Don't No, it It You really don't recognize me? It's I'm Barbara.
I'm Barbara Beaumont.
We're looking for an 85-year-old woman.
Yes, well, I look good for my age, don't I? I keep it dark in here, not because I'm trying to hide anything.
I believe women should have a little bit of mystery.
Sunlight is strictly verboten.
It's terrible for the skin.
You should be careful, darling, if it's not already too late.
Okay, um, we're also looking for this woman, Olivia Bocanegra.
Is she a Netflix executive? (CHUCKLES) Oh, yes.
Let's get our selfie, and then you can be on your way.
SCULLY: This is her.
Have you seen this young woman? No.
No.
Scully No, no, no, no, no, no, no! (SCREAMING) - (GRUNTING) - (GUNSHOT) Scully! (SCREAMING) (BARBARA SHRIEKS) Those who love me, - No! - I will deliver.
(SCREAMING) MAN: No! Barbara! (MAN CRYING OUT) Run! Run! (PANTING) I did repay.
My sister is here.
Scully?! Scully! Scully? Scully! Scully? Let her go.
Let her go! She's a part of me of her own volition.
You can ask her yourself if you like.
You've surgically attached yourself to the girl? We're helping each other.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
Have you ever asked yourself what could be achieved, what would be possible if we were free from government restraints and regulations? What have you achieved? I found a cure for the greatest disease to afflict mankind.
Every human being has a time bomb built into their genes.
I defused it.
Sarcopenia.
Cardiomyopathy.
Presbyopia.
These are all just symptoms.
But through heterochronic parabiosis, I have reversed time.
Olivia is my parabiont.
And together we are gonna cure this horrible disease.
Age isn't a disease, it's a natural progression.
I don't accept the premise that we have to grow old.
- (OLIVIA GRUNTING) - She's having a seizure.
We've got to get you both to the hospital.
- This is what we want.
- Your experiment is over.
Not unless you want her to die first.
The genie is out of the bottle, - and we are all running out of time.
-No! I will deliver.
JULIET: Olivia.
Juliet? What are you doing here? I came for you.
(CLATTERING) Scully? - Scully? - SCULLY: Mulder! Ooh.
You stink.
Thanks, Mulder.
My fall was broken by decades' worth of trash.
But I'm okay.
Don't feel sorry for me.
I know I'm going to prison, but I made a choice it was mine.
I'd gladly trade my lifetime here for an eternity in heaven.
(MRS.
BOCANEGRA PRAYING IN SPANISH) (PRAYING IN SPANISH) That must be a sign.
I'm all out of miracles.
Turn back.
Give up.
Accept your place in the numbing embrace of the status quo.
Uh-uh.
I will relight your candle and extend your prayers through mine.
What prayers? I can't tell you.
They won't come true.
It's a prayer candle, Mulder.
Not a birthday cake.
(CHUCKLES) Prayers aren't meant to be sentiment.
It's a conversation.
You can do it like a meditation, or if your needs exceed your grasp, you can ask God to act on your behalf.
But you don't believe in God.
So you'd essentially be talking to yourself.
Well, I-I may not believe in God, but I believe in you.
Therefore, I speak to him through you.
Through the transitive property of equality.
If "A" equals "B," and "B" equals "C," therefore, "A" equals "C.
" Reason and faith in harmony.
Isn't that why we're so good together? Are we together? You know, I believed I could protect our son, and I failed.
I believed that we could live together, and I fled.
I gave up on that, too.
If only you'd fled earlier.
You know how many times I've envisioned that scenario, where you left that basement office before I even needed glasses? You'd have your health, your dog, your sister.
You'd be Kersh's boss at the FBI, and be married to some brain surgeon, and have a bunch of kids that you wouldn't have to give up.
Mulder, I don't begrudge you any of those things.
That's not what I was talking about.
Well, what are you talking about, Scully? Because I don't know if any God is listening, but I am standing right here, and I am listening.
Right beside you.
I'm all ears.
That's my choice.
(WHISPERING INAUDIBLY) That's not my four-year-old self looking for a miracle.
That's my leap of faith forward.
And I'd like to do it together.
I've always wondered how this was gonna end.
m.
Respiration 17, body temp 97.
6, heart rate Just give me a 22 scalpel.
O'MALLEY (OVER RADIO): They are dosing us, folks.
And now I know what you're ASKING: why would they dose us? Why would they use these planes? It's the same reason that chemtrails (MONITOR BEEPING) (BONES CRACKING) (STEADY FLATLINE TONE) Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Wait.
Pancreas looks bad.
It might be infected.
Just leave it.
(SNIFFS) Shame to waste a good pancreas.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY) SURGEON: It's ready.
(BOTH GRUNT) Those who love me, I will deliver.
(LOUD CLANG) (GUNSHOT) (GROANS) Go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Tell me where they are.
I don't know.
I'm not part of them.
I need medical attention.
(GROANS) Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
Last chance to save your soul.
Where are they? I told you, I don't know.
Those who love me, I will deliver.
(SURGEON GRUNTS) (SIREN WAILING) Oh, geez.
PRIEST: We break this bread to share in the body of Christ.
We, being many, are one body, for we all share in one bread.
These are the gifts of God for the people of God.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
- ALL: Thanks be to God.
- (PHONE VIBRATING) PRIEST: Go in the Peace of Christ.
May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
(BELL TOLLING) (SOBS) Special Agent Dana Scully, and this is Special Agent Fox Mulder.
We didn't request any help from the Washington bureau.
Well, we found reasons to become interested.
Look, we know your reputation.
You come into a case, take over, turn it upside down.
No, we like to think we uncover facets that would otherwise go unnoticed.
You guys ID'd this gentleman? Yeah, his name's Robert Jenkins, 23.
Trainer at Brooklyn Heights Fitness.
He was abducted after work.
Roommate hadn't seen him in 18 hours.
Both of the victims have metal dowels impaled through their sternums.
Staked through the heart, you mean.
I would have expected the weapon to be made of wood.
A combination of the three types used in Christ's crucifixion cross cypress, cedar and pine.
That would imbue it with the holy properties necessary to defeat evil.
Looks like you guys are up to speed.
We've got, uh, our own stuff we need to attend to.
We'll leave you to it.
You did that on purpose.
You think? But there are multiple cases here, Scully.
This victim was murdered by these two, who in turn were murdered by someone else in a style familiar to fans of Hammer horror films, of which I am one guilty.
The question is, why were the organs harvested? Well, there were about three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of organs left in the cooler outside the emergency room.
Which tells me that whoever killed these two did not do it for material gain.
"I will repay" was written on the cooler.
- Sounds like a motive? - Yeah.
But whoever took the organs is not familiar with transplant procedures that no hospital is gonna take those organs.
But, you know, maybe we can find a use for them.
I mean, someone went to a lot of trouble just to let them go.
Well, the cooler that was left at the hospital was missing the liver and the pancreas.
A liver has a need-to-use time limit on it.
I'll run a check on hospitals doing liver transplants over the next seven to 20 hours.
I'll go on some onion sites and see if any organs were put up for auction.
Are those new? Bifocals? They're not bifocals, Scully, they're progressives.
They're called progressive lenses.
- No need to get defensive.
- I'm not defensive, I'm just Presbyopia's a natural part of the aging process.
We're all gonna go through it, Mulder.
Just wait till you get gout.
Gout.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) You know, sometimes I wonder why we keep doing it, Scully, in the face of all this indifference and presbyopia.
Did you get your hair cut? Are you kidding me? (WOMAN PRAYING IN SPANISH) (WOMAN SOBBING) (WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH) (TV PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) (REFRIGERATOR DOOR OPENS) (SIGHS) (MOANING) (WHIRRING NOISILY) (MUSIC PLAYING OVER TV) ANNOUNCER (ON TV): It's The Barbara Beaumont Show.
Tonight's episode, "The Lion Tamer.
" - I love this episode.
- (APPLAUSE ON TV) (CHUCKLES) It's as funny now as it was 50 years ago.
- Hmm.
- A simple misunderstanding.
- Uh-huh.
- I can explain everything.
MAN (ON TV): Honey, is this gonna take long? I'm trying to finish this book.
(RECITING DIALOGUE): Well, I can start in the middle.
- (TV LAUGHTER) - MAN (ON TV): Start at the end.
- WOMAN: All right.
- WOMAN ON TV: All right.
BOTH WOMEN: We owe the city $200 for creating a public nuisance, the lion tamer $75 for the sick lion, the grocer five dollars for the ten pounds of meat, and the shoeshine boy a stick of gum.
- (LAUGHTER) - Do you want to hear the details? - Afraid I do.
- I thought you might.
No, I mean, that's what I should've been afraid of when I said "I do.
" Oh, honey, you can't live without me.
MAN: I can barely afford to live with you.
I just have one question, Barbara.
Why? Well, like I said, it's simple, really.
I do it just for kicks.
(WHISPERING): I do it just for kicks.
Well, like I said, it's simple, really.
I do it just for kicks.
(CRCH BELLS TOLL) Well, I didn't burst into flames when I crossed the threshold, so I guess they really do forgive a lot.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 12 liver transplants in a 450-mile radius.
All of the donors have been accounted for.
Well, I checked the Dark Web, and there's no organs for sale in this region.
But the, uh, the dead surgeon, uh Doctor Oh, God, help me.
I'm sorry.
Rednon, Dr.
David Rednon, had his medical license revoked for "over-prescribing" opioids to the Bratski Krug drug dealers, the Russian mob.
And the kid who was with him was a street-level gangster.
I think we should hand this over to the NYC Organized Crime division, Mulder.
I don't think this is an X-file.
I'm gonna need some time here.
I can meet up with you later, or you can wait for me.
Juliet.
Yes.
Uh-oh.
Where's the rest of it? Where's the rest of it?! Cat got your tongues? You were all broken when I found you.
Crippled, malformed.
And I gave you hope.
What do you see when you look at me? FOLLOWERS: Beauty and light.
And what do I see when I look at you? FOLLOWERS: Ugliness and pain.
No.
No.
I see love and obedience.
I see the promise of what will be.
We have all worked too hard and sacrificed so much.
Each one of us transformed by the genius of Dr.
Luvenis.
That's why we should all be so disappointed.
Where is my heart? Where are my lungs?! There was a problem at the harvest.
Someone attacked us.
She killed Dr.
Dave with a metal stake.
I escaped with what I could.
I'm sure you did the best you could.
(PANTING): Yeah.
I need a word with you.
(CHURCH BELLS TOLL) FATHER HARDY: You have to have faith, Juliet.
Faith that, through Him, your sister Olivia will return to you.
I'll pray for her and you.
No, Father.
Prayers aren't enough.
"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, "and my sword "shall devour flesh, "and that with the blood of the slain "and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
" Juliet, uh Look at this, Scully.
Today's scripture.
Romans 12:19.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
" That was on the organ cooler.
Well, it's a common biblical passage.
Did I ever tell you how I came to believe in God? No.
When my brother Charlie was a baby, he got seriously ill.
I think I was about four.
I later learned that it was rheumatic fever.
- Hmm.
- Every night, Mom would tell us to get on our knees and pray for his recovery.
Your prayers were answered.
He lived.
Only, after the first couple nights, I wasn't praying for him.
I was praying for a puppy.
(LAUGHS) And we got one that Christmas.
I thought God had performed a miracle.
I finally know why I'm not a Christian, Scully.
My parents never got me a puppy.
So are you-you praying for another miracle now? I don't know if I believe in miracles.
But I do know the power of faith.
I saw it in my mom, the strength that she received.
I could use some of that strength now.
I need what you have.
You always bear north, Mulder no matter which way or how hard the wind blows against you.
I think all I have all any of us have are the results of all the choices that we've made.
And at the end of the day, we just hope that we made the right one.
(THUNDER RUMBLING) Mulder, it's locked.
"I will repay.
" There's three bars missing.
Someone is literally using the church to exact vengeance.
Oh One day without my "dinnie," and look at me.
I can already see the lines.
I want to cry.
You look perfectly beautiful.
Not a day over 33, when I first fell in love with you.
That's sweet.
You don't look bad for an 85-year-old.
All thanks to Kayla.
She's my angel.
You're my addiction, Dr.
Luvenis.
I will be a worthy companion to you in no time.
I'm beginning to wonder.
No one could've predicted what happened last night.
But I have a friend at the hospital.
He's heard rumors about recovered organs, organs they can't use.
Our organs.
Your excuses don't solve the problem.
- I will find them.
- Attached to Kayla? (LAUGHING): I don't think so.
- Barbara - I think you'll agree that failure should not be rewarded.
Kayla.
I think you're ready to ascend.
I am? Mm-hmm.
Do you trust me? - Have I ever lied to you? - No.
You're living proof.
That's right.
- Close your eyes.
- Barbara, please.
- Tell me your dream.
- I want to be beautiful like you.
All right, my ugly duckling, prepare to be a swan.
(GURGLING) (GROANS) There.
She looks better than ever.
We'll eat her for now.
Her organs are already depleted.
So find me what I need before we both start looking our age.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR) Mrs.
Bocanegra? I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder, this is Special Agent Scully.
We're from the FBI.
We'd like to ask you a few questions.
You have news about my Olivia? We spoke to Father Hardy at St.
Joseph's, and he said that your daughter's been missing for almost two months.
- Is that right? - SÃ.
Well, if we could maybe come in and look around, we might be able to find something that would help us find your daughter.
No.
You can't come in.
I'm sorry, but we're trying to help.
JULIET: Olivia doesn't want to be found.
No.
Eso no es verdad.
Mom.
The truth is, Olivia couldn't stand looking at that girl staring back at her in the mirror.
She rejected her family and God.
She joined a cult.
If she's being held against her will, we can investigate and try and extract her.
I know my sister.
All right? She doesn't want our life.
To her, we're monsters.
She thinks she can change who she is and become something she will never be.
I've given up on her.
Have you? Or will you repay? The cult your sister's in may be involved in the illegal trafficking of human organs, or of using them for unnatural purposes.
I believe you know that.
That's why you're trying to find her.
You want to save her.
Yeah, you have to leave now.
Father Hardy said he was afraid somebody might be tempted to take the law into their own hands.
Become an avenger.
I want her to be found so my mother will stop crying.
That's all.
(LOCK CLICKS) SCULLY: You think she's involved? MULDER: I think she is.
My gut tells me she is.
And my gut doesn't need glasses.
(GROANS) There was nothing in her.
No sustenance, no nutrients.
You ruined her.
Kayla was as good as junk food.
Look at me.
Hmm? What do you see? You look as beautiful as ever.
Liar! Barbara, this is a dark time.
No one has eaten well.
BARBARA: We need healthy organs.
Why can't we use one of them? These children are our seeds.
You don't eat the seeds, you eat the fruit from the trees.
Stop talking to me like I'm an idiot.
You know I'm not a scientist.
LUVENIS: But I am.
Barbara, we've talked about this.
The blood and organs in these children is being restructured every time they drink their dinnie.
But the cell adhesion is not yet complete.
Their morphogenesis has not yet finished.
But then, when they are ready, and they are surgically attached to you, then you are gonna reap the benefits of reverse aging.
- Hmm.
- Remember? - Mm.
- Do you remember Dylan? When he was attached to you? Mmm.
Mm-hmm.
You glowed like a 20-year-old.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
I remember Dylan.
(INHALES) He wouldn't shut up.
I'm glad we ate him.
All this is for you.
Don't do anything rash.
I have a lead on the organs left at the hospital.
I'm gonna go get 'em for you.
Oh.
I saw marionette lines in the mirror.
WARREN: Barbara? I hate to see you down.
You make us happy.
I was hideous, but you saved me.
Gave me joy.
I want to make you happy.
I'll be dinnie.
Because if I'm in you, I will always be happy.
Oh, Warren, Warren, Warren.
(GASPS) Oh.
You are such a beautiful person.
Because of what you have offered me I'm going to do something very, very special.
For you.
Come on.
I am going to perform my favorite song.
I sang this song on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in 1973, and they told me that, at the time, it was the highest rated show they'd ever had.
Higher than Charo or Muhammad Ali.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) It also won an Academy Award that year.
(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK) Maureen McGovern made it famous, but people tell me that they like my version better.
And so, Warren, to you, I say There's got to be a morning after If we can hold on Through the night We have a chance to find The sunshine So keep on looking For the light Oh, can't you see - (SCREAMING) - The morning after It's waiting right outside the storm Why don't we cross the bridge together And find a place That's safe and warm (DISTANT): It's not too late We should be giving (BLENDER WHIRRING) We're moving closer to the shore I've got to be there by tomorrow And we'll escape the darkness We won't be searching anymore There's got to be a morning after There's got to be a morning after.
(GRUNTS) Oh, you're in an awful hurry this morning, Joe.
Honey, I'm in a pickle.
I forgot it was Mr.
Morris' birthday.
I-I don't want to be a suck-up.
You're interrupting my prep.
I have to memorize my lines.
LUVENIS: "Double Trouble"? You've seen this a thousand times.
(GASPS) How dare you? I had to break into the cold storage at the hospital to get this.
You did that for me? Everything I do.
Well, I know exactly what you need.
Olivia! It's your day to be beautiful.
MULDER: They're here, Scully.
The organs are somewhere inside.
You were right, they need those organs.
Well, it was easy enough to put a tracker in the heart, but harder to get the hospital to loosen their security so they can steal it.
PRICE: No vacancy! Open the door.
Federal agents.
(MONITOR BEEPING) LUVENIS: Olivia, if you can hear me, I want you to count backwards from 100.
Ninety nine.
Ninety right LUVENIS: All right, Calvin.
You may begin.
Cut the back to expose the descending aorta.
PRICE: Look, the only people living here are on the fourth floor.
And what do you know about the tenants? Only person I know is Barbara Beaumont.
- Barbara Beaumont? - She's been the owner of this building for over 40 years.
Barbara Be (SIGHS) (GROANS) Barbara Bea Beaumont.
Child actor.
Our Gang shorts.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, TV westerns, Dragnet, The Barbara Beaumont Show, 1967.
Then, um nothing much ever again.
So, at 85, does she need assistance? I don't know.
Look, I I never met her.
Never even seen her.
Once in a while, I get a note, I go up and fix stuff.
I never see nobody when I go up there.
But I know they're there, - just from the smell.
- MULDER: Husband of 22 years died of leukemia, 1970.
Joined a life extension "commune" in Northern California.
Married a Dr.
Randolph (MISPRONOUNCING): Luvenis.
Luvenis.
(PRONOUNCES CORRECTLY): Luvenis.
Uh, how long have you been a super here? - Seven years.
- Seven years, and you've never talked to her? All right, it's weird, right? But this is the Bronx.
Look, there's an envelope full of money in my mailbox every two weeks.
This is the first time there's ever been a problem.
Seven years, and you've never crossed paths? She don't go out the front.
What about the people on the fourth floor? They ever leave? Look, this building? It's 1890s.
All right? It's got, like, a dumbwaiter system.
It's been modified, long before I ever got here.
It's got, like, trapdoors and ladders.
Goes down to the basement, then the sewers, the subway.
These people never see the light of day.
Every room's got one.
(MONITOR BEEPING) Now connect the two valves, and sew us up.
(NEEDLE WHIRRING) (OLIVIA MOANING) Ms.
Barbara Beaumont? Federal agents.
We have reason to believe someone inside may be in possession of contraband human organs.
We tracked a signal to this apartment.
I guess we'll go away and get a search warrant! We'll be back.
(DOORKNOB TURNS) (DOOR CREAKING) - Hello.
- Hello.
I'm Special Agent Mulder, this is Special Agent Scully with the FBI.
Oh.
SCULLY: And you are? Well, you tell me.
I'm sorry, can you tell us your name? Haven't you seen The Barbara Beaumont Show? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Loved you on Dragnet.
Oh, thank you.
Everyone says that was their favorite episode.
Did you know Jack Webb? - I did not.
- I'm sorry, but we're-we're looking for Barbara Beaumont.
(LAUGHS) Don't No, it It You really don't recognize me? It's I'm Barbara.
I'm Barbara Beaumont.
We're looking for an 85-year-old woman.
Yes, well, I look good for my age, don't I? I keep it dark in here, not because I'm trying to hide anything.
I believe women should have a little bit of mystery.
Sunlight is strictly verboten.
It's terrible for the skin.
You should be careful, darling, if it's not already too late.
Okay, um, we're also looking for this woman, Olivia Bocanegra.
Is she a Netflix executive? (CHUCKLES) Oh, yes.
Let's get our selfie, and then you can be on your way.
SCULLY: This is her.
Have you seen this young woman? No.
No.
Scully No, no, no, no, no, no, no! (SCREAMING) - (GRUNTING) - (GUNSHOT) Scully! (SCREAMING) (BARBARA SHRIEKS) Those who love me, - No! - I will deliver.
(SCREAMING) MAN: No! Barbara! (MAN CRYING OUT) Run! Run! (PANTING) I did repay.
My sister is here.
Scully?! Scully! Scully? Scully! Scully? Let her go.
Let her go! She's a part of me of her own volition.
You can ask her yourself if you like.
You've surgically attached yourself to the girl? We're helping each other.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
Have you ever asked yourself what could be achieved, what would be possible if we were free from government restraints and regulations? What have you achieved? I found a cure for the greatest disease to afflict mankind.
Every human being has a time bomb built into their genes.
I defused it.
Sarcopenia.
Cardiomyopathy.
Presbyopia.
These are all just symptoms.
But through heterochronic parabiosis, I have reversed time.
Olivia is my parabiont.
And together we are gonna cure this horrible disease.
Age isn't a disease, it's a natural progression.
I don't accept the premise that we have to grow old.
- (OLIVIA GRUNTING) - She's having a seizure.
We've got to get you both to the hospital.
- This is what we want.
- Your experiment is over.
Not unless you want her to die first.
The genie is out of the bottle, - and we are all running out of time.
-No! I will deliver.
JULIET: Olivia.
Juliet? What are you doing here? I came for you.
(CLATTERING) Scully? - Scully? - SCULLY: Mulder! Ooh.
You stink.
Thanks, Mulder.
My fall was broken by decades' worth of trash.
But I'm okay.
Don't feel sorry for me.
I know I'm going to prison, but I made a choice it was mine.
I'd gladly trade my lifetime here for an eternity in heaven.
(MRS.
BOCANEGRA PRAYING IN SPANISH) (PRAYING IN SPANISH) That must be a sign.
I'm all out of miracles.
Turn back.
Give up.
Accept your place in the numbing embrace of the status quo.
Uh-uh.
I will relight your candle and extend your prayers through mine.
What prayers? I can't tell you.
They won't come true.
It's a prayer candle, Mulder.
Not a birthday cake.
(CHUCKLES) Prayers aren't meant to be sentiment.
It's a conversation.
You can do it like a meditation, or if your needs exceed your grasp, you can ask God to act on your behalf.
But you don't believe in God.
So you'd essentially be talking to yourself.
Well, I-I may not believe in God, but I believe in you.
Therefore, I speak to him through you.
Through the transitive property of equality.
If "A" equals "B," and "B" equals "C," therefore, "A" equals "C.
" Reason and faith in harmony.
Isn't that why we're so good together? Are we together? You know, I believed I could protect our son, and I failed.
I believed that we could live together, and I fled.
I gave up on that, too.
If only you'd fled earlier.
You know how many times I've envisioned that scenario, where you left that basement office before I even needed glasses? You'd have your health, your dog, your sister.
You'd be Kersh's boss at the FBI, and be married to some brain surgeon, and have a bunch of kids that you wouldn't have to give up.
Mulder, I don't begrudge you any of those things.
That's not what I was talking about.
Well, what are you talking about, Scully? Because I don't know if any God is listening, but I am standing right here, and I am listening.
Right beside you.
I'm all ears.
That's my choice.
(WHISPERING INAUDIBLY) That's not my four-year-old self looking for a miracle.
That's my leap of faith forward.
And I'd like to do it together.
I've always wondered how this was gonna end.