BARBARA BARBARA_AND_SITCOM_BARBARA BLUDWORTH BLUNDWORTH COLQUITT CONGREGATION DR_DAVE DR_LUVENIS FATHER_HARDY FOLLOWER FOLLOWERS INTERN JOE JULIET KAYLA MAN MRS_BOCANEGRA MULDER OLIVIA PRICE PRIEST SCULLY SITCOM_BARBARA SITCOM_BARBARA_AND_BARBARA TECHNICIAN WARREN TECHNICIAN He was just brought in. 30 minutes ago, 915 pm, Respiration 17, Body temp 97.6, heart rate- DR DAVE J-Just give me a 22 scalpel. JULIET Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. DR DAVE Wait. Pancreas looks bad, it might be infected. TECHNICIAN Just leave it. DR DAVE Shame to waste a good pancreas. MAN Ready. JULIET Those who love Me, I will deliver. MAN JULIET DR DAVE TECHNICIAN Go, go, go, go, go! JULIET Tell me where they are. DR DAVE I don't know. I'm not part of them. I need medical attention. JULIET Whosoever commit sin is the servant of sin. Last chance to save your soul. Where are they? DR DAVE I told you. I don't know. JULIET Those who love Me, I will deliver. INTERN Oh, jeez. PRIEST We break this bread, 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. CONGREGATION Thanks be to God. PRIEST Go in the Peace of Christ. May Almighty God bless you, in The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. JULIET SCULLY Special Agent Dana Scully, and this is Special Agent Fox Mulder. COLQUITT We didn't request any help from the Washington bureau. MULDER Well, we found reasons to become interested. BLUNDWORTH Look, we know your reputation. You come into a case, take over, turn it upside down. MULDER No, we like to think we uncover facets that would otherwise go unnoticed. SCULLY You guys ID'd this gentleman? BLUDWORTH 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. SCULLY Both of the victims have metal dowels impaled through their sternums. MULDER 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. COLQUITT Looks like you guys are up to speed. We've got, uh, our own stuff we need to attend to. BLUDWORTH We'll leave you to it. SCULLY You did that on purpose. MULDER 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? SCULLY Well, they were about three quarters of a million dollars worth of organs left in the cooler outside the emergency room. MULDER Which tells me that whoever killed these two did not do it for material gain. SCULLY "I will repay" was written on the cooler. MULDER Sounds like a motive? SCULLY 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. MULDER Well, the cooler that was left at the hospital was missing the liver and the pancreas. SCULLY 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. MULDER I'll go on some onion sites and see if any organs were put up for auction. SCULLY Are those new? Bifocals? MULDER They're not bifocals, Scully, they're progressives. Called progressive lenses. SCULLY No need to get defensive. MULDER I'm not defensive, I'm just- SCULLY Presbyopia's a natural part of the aging process. We're all gonna go through it, Mulder. Just wait till you get gout. Gout. MULDER 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? SCULLY Are you kidding me? MRS BOCANEGRA MAN It's the Barbara Beaumont Show. Tonight's episode, "The Lion Tamer." DR LUVENIS I love this episode. It's funny now as it was 50 years ago. JOE Hmm. SITCOM BARBARA Simple misunderstanding. JOE Uh-huh. SITCOM BARBARA I can explain everything. JOE Honey, is this going to take long? I'm trying to finish this book. BARBARA Well, I can start in the middle. JOE Start at the end. BARBARA All right. SITCOM BARBARA All right. SITCOM BARBARA AND BARBARA We owe the city $200 for creating a public nuisance, the lion tamer $75 for the sick lion, the grocer $5 for ten pounds of meat, and the shoe shine boy a stick of gum. DR LUVENIS BARBARA Do you want to hear the details? JOE I'm afraid I do. BARBARA Thought you would. JOE No, I mean that's what I should have been afraid of when I said, "I do." BARBARA Oh, honey, you can't live without me. JOE I can barely afford to live with you. I just have one question, Barbara. Why? BARBARA Well, like I said, it's simple, really. BARBARA AND SITCOM BARBARA I do it just for kicks. BARBARA I do it just for kicks. Well, like I said, it's simple, really. I do it just for kicks. MULDER Well, I didn't burst into flames when I crossed the threshold, so I guess they really do forgive a lot. SCULLY In the last 24 hours, there have been 12 liver transplants in a 450 mile radius. All of the donors have been accounted for. MULDER Well, I checked the dark web, 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 dealers. The Russian mob. And the kid that was with him was a street level gangster. SCULLY 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. FATHER HARDY Juliet. BARBARA Yes. U-Uh, 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. BARBARA And what do I see when I look at you? FOLLOWERS Ugliness and pain. BARBARA 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? TECHNICIAN There was a problem at the harvest. Someone attacked us, she killed Dr. Dave with a metal stake. I escaped with what I could. BARBARA I'm sure you did the best you could. I need a word with you. FATHER HARDY You have to have faith, Juliet. Faith that through Him, your sister Olivia will return to you. I'll pray for her. A-And you. JULIET 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 the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. FATHER HARDY Juliet, uh- MULDER Look at this, today's scripture. Romans 1219. "'Vengeance is mine, I will repay', sayeth the Lord." That was on the organ cooler. SCULLY Well, it's a common biblical passage. Did I ever tell you how I came to believe in God? MULDER No. SCULLY 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. MULDER Hmm. SCULLY Every night, Mom would tell us to get on our knees and pray for his recovery. MULDER Your prayers were answered. He lived. SCULLY Only, after the first couple nights, I wasn't praying for him. I was praying for a puppy. MULDER SCULLY And we got one, that Christmas. I thought God had performed a miracle. MULDER 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? SCULLY 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. MULDER SCULLY I need what you have. You always bear north, Mulder. No matter which way or how hard the wind blows against you. MULDER 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. SCULLY Mulder. It's locked. MULDER "I will repay." Someone is literally using the church to exact vengeance. BARBARA Ugh. One day without my dinnie and look at me. I can already see the lines. I want to cry. DR LUVENIS You look perfectly beautiful. Not a day over 33 when I first fell in love with you. BARBARA That's sweet. You don't look bad for an 85 year old. DR LUVENIS All thanks to Kayla. She's my angel. KAYLA You're my addiction, Dr. Luvenis. DR LUVENIS I will be a worthy companion to you in no time. BARBARA I'm beginning to wonder. DR LUVENIS 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. BARBARA Your excuses don't solve the problem. DR LUVENIS I will find them. BARBARA Attached to Kayla? I don't think so. DR LUVENIS Barbara. BARBARA I think you'll agree that failure should not be rewarded. Kayla? I think you're ready to ascend. KAYLA I am? BARBARA Mm-hmm. Do you trust me? Have I ever lied to you? KAYLA No. You're the living proof. BARBARA That's right. Now, close your eyes. DR LUVENIS Barbara, please. BARBARA And tell me your dream. KAYLA I want to be beautiful like you. BARBARA All right, my ugly duckling, prepare to be a swan. KAYLA DR LUVENIS BARBARA There. She looks better than ever. We'll eat her for now. DR LUVENIS Her organs are already depleted. BARBARA So find me what I need before we both start looking our age. MULDER Mrs. Bocanegra, I am special Agent Fox Mulder. This is special agent Scully. We're from the FBI. We'd like to ask you a few questions. MRS BOCANEGRA You have news of my Olivia? MULDER We spoke Father Hardy at St. Joseph's, and he said that your daughter's been missing for almost two months. Is shat right? MRS BOCANEGRA Sí. MULDER Well, if we can maybe come in and look around, we might be able to find something that would help us find your daughter. JULIET No. You can't come in. SCULLY I'm sorry, but we're trying to help. JULIET Olivia doesn't want to be found. MRS BOCANEGRA No. Eso no es verdad. JULIET 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. SCULLY If she's being held against her will, we can investigate and try to extract her. JULIET I know my sister. All right? She doesn't want out 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. MULDER 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. JULIET Yeah, you have to leave now. MULDER Father Hardy said he was afraid somebody might be tempted to take the law into their own hands, become an avenger. JULIET I want her to be found so my mother will stop crying. That's all. SCULLY You think she's involved? MULDER I think she is- my gut tells me she is- and my gut doesn't need glasses. BARBARA 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? DR LUVENIS You look as beautiful as ever. BARBARA Liar! DR LUVENIS Barbara, this is a dark time. No one is eating well. BARBARA We need healthy organs. Why can't we use one of them? DR LUVENIS These children are our seeds. You don't eat the seeds, you eat the fruit from the tree. BARBARA Stop talking to me like I'm an idiot. You know I'm not a scientist. DR LUVENIS But I am. Barbara, we've talked about this. The blood and organs in these children is being restructured every time they drink to their "dinnie." But the cell adhesion is not yet complete. The 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. BARBARA Mm. Hmm. DR LUVENIS Remember? Do you remember Dylan when he was attached to you? BARBARA Mm. Mm-hmm. DR LUVENIS You glowed like a 20-year-old. BARBARA Yeah. I remember Dylan. He wouldn't shut up. I'm grad we ate him. DR LUVENIS All this is for you. Don't do anything rash. I have a lead on the organs left at the hospital. I want to go get them for you. BARBARA 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. BARBARA Oh, Warren. Warren, Warren. 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. It also won an Academy Award that year. Maureen McGovern made it famous, but people tell me that they like my version better. And so, Warren, to you I say, WARREN BARBARA Oh. Oh, you're in an awful hurry this morning, Joe. JOE Honey, I'm in a pickle. I-I forgot it was Mr. Morris's birthday. I don't want to be a suck up. BARBARA You're interrupting my prep. I have to memorize my lines. DR LUVENIS Double Trouble. You've seen this a thousand times. BARBARA How dare you? DR LUVENIS I had to break into the cold storage at the hospital to get this. BARBARA You did that for me? DR LUVENIS Everything I do. BARBARA 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. SCULLY Well, it was easy enough to put a tracker in the heart, but harder to get the hospital to loosen its security so they can steal it. PRICE No vacancy. MULDER Open the door. Federal agents. DR LUVENIS Olivia, if you can hear me, I want you to count backwards from 100. OLIVIA 100, 99, 99. DR 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 forth floor. SCULLY And what do you know about the tenant? PRICE The only person I know is Barbara Beaumont. She's been the owner of this building for over 40 years. MULDER Barbara B 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. SCULLY So at 85, does she need assistance? PRICE I don't know. Look, I- I never met her. Never even seen her. Once in a while I get a note to 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 in 1970. Joined a Life Extension commune in northern California. Married a Dr. Randolph Luvenis. Luvenes? Luvenus? SCULLY And how long have you been a super here? PRICE Seven years. SCULLY Seven years and you've never talked to her? PRICE 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. SCULLY Seven years and you've never crossed paths? PRICE She don't go out the front. MULDER What about the people on the forth floor? They ever leave? PRICE This building is 1890's, all right? It's got, like, a dumb waiter system. It's been modified. Long before I ever got here. It's got, like, trap doors and ladders. It goes out to the basement, then the sewers, the subway. These people never see the light of day. Every room's got one. DR LUVENIS Now, connect the two valves and sew us up. MULDER Ms. Barbara Beaumont? We're Federal agents. We have reason to believe someone inside may be in possession of contraband human organs. We tracked a signal to this apartment. SCULLY I guess we'll go away and get a search warrant. We'll be back. BARBARA Hello. MULDER Hello. I'm special agent Mulder, this is special agent Scully with the FBI. BARBARA Oh. SCULLY And you are? BARBARA Well, you tell me. SCULLY I'm sorry, can you tell us your name? BARBARA Haven't you seen the Barbara Beaumont Show? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? MULDER Loved you on Dragnet. BARBARA Oh, thank you. Everyone says that was their favorite episode. Did you know Jack Webb? MULDER I did not. SCULLY I'm sorry, but we're-we're looking for Barbara Beaumont. BARBARA You really don't recognize me? It's. I'm Barbara. I'm Barbara Beaumont. SCULLY We're looking for an 85-year-old woman. BARBARA 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. SCULLY Okay. Um. We're also looking for this woman, Olivia Bocanegra. BARBARA Is she a Netflix executive? 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? BARBARA No. No. MULDER Scully. BARBARA No, no, no, no, no, no, no! MULDER Scully! SCULLY JULIET Those who love me, I will deliver. BARBARA FOLLOWER No! Barbara! Ah! JULIET I did repay. My sister is here. MULDER Scully? Scully! MULDER Scully! Scully! Scully! Let her go. Let her go! DR LUVENIS She's a part of me of her own volition. You can ask her yourself if you'd like. MULDER You've surgically attached yourself to the girl? OLIVIA We're helping each other. I've seen it with my own eyes. DR LUVENIS Have you ever asked yourself what could be achieved, what would be possible if we were free from government restraints? Regulations? MULDER What have you achieved? DR LUVENIS 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. Presbyiopia. These are all the symptoms. But through heterochronic parabiosis, I have reversed time. Olivia is my paraboint. And together we are gonna cure this horrible disease. MULDER Age isn't a disease, it's a natural progression. DR LUVENIS I don't accept the premise that we have to grow old. MULDER She's having a seizure. We got to get you both to the hospital. DR LUVENIS This is what we want. DR LUVENIS Your experiment is over. DR LUVENIS Not unless you want her to die first. The genie is out of the bottle and we are all running out of time. MULDER No! JULIET I will deliver. Olivia. OLIVIA Juliet? What are you doing here? JULIET I came for you. MULDER Scully! Scully! SCULLY Mulder! MULDER Ooh. You stink. SCULLY Thanks, Mulder. My fall was broken by decades worth of trash. But I'm okay. JULIET 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 life down here for an eternity in heaven. MRS BOCANEGRA SCULLY 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. MULDER Mm-mmm. I will relight your candle and extend your prayers to mine. SCULLY What prayers? MULDER I can't tell you. They won't come true. SCULLY It's a prayer candle, Mulder. Not a birthday cake. MULDER Uh-huh. Hmm. SCULLY Prayers aren't meant to be sentiment. It's a conversation. You can do it like meditation, or if your needs exceed your grasp, you can ask God to act on your behalf. But you don't believe in God. MULDER Mm-hmm. SCULLY So you'd essentially be talking to yourself. MULDER Well, 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? SCULLY Are we together? You now, 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. MULDER If only you'd fled earlier. You know how many times I've envisioned that scenario where you left that basement office before I ever needed glasses? You'd have your health, your god, 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. SCULLY Mulder, I don't begrudge you any of those things. That's not what I was talking about. MULDER 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. SCULLY That's not my four-year-old self looking for a miracle. That's my leaf of faith forward. And I'd like to do it together. MULDER I've always wondered how this was gonna end.