1 00:00:25,193 --> 00:00:27,778 (Footsteps) 2 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:27,964 (Lift bell dings) 3 00:02:34,196 --> 00:02:36,282 (Gasping and grunting) 4 00:02:47,376 --> 00:02:49,587 (Shouting) 5 00:02:51,589 --> 00:02:54,592 (Screaming) 6 00:03:04,060 --> 00:03:06,645 (Screaming continues) 7 00:03:06,854 --> 00:03:09,690 (Crash) 8 00:03:17,823 --> 00:03:19,700 (Camera flash charging) 9 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:07,498 Just a routine background check. 10 00:04:07,581 --> 00:04:12,628 Now, to the best of your knowledge, has mr wisnowski ever used any illegal drugs? 11 00:04:12,711 --> 00:04:14,213 Which illegal drugs? 12 00:04:14,338 --> 00:04:18,259 Yeah. In the time that you worked with ms ermentrout, 13 00:04:18,342 --> 00:04:22,179 did you find her to be a trustworthy person? 14 00:04:24,265 --> 00:04:27,435 Punctual, huh? Punctual... is good. 15 00:04:27,518 --> 00:04:31,313 No. No, ma'am. This is just a routine background check. 16 00:04:31,397 --> 00:04:35,776 Mr Garber is not in any legal trouble whatsoever. 17 00:04:37,445 --> 00:04:40,489 Yeah. Ok. Thanks for your time. 18 00:04:42,783 --> 00:04:46,579 Maybe if we get lucky, next time they'll let us clean toilet bowls. 19 00:04:46,662 --> 00:04:48,539 - Are you ready to quit? - No. 20 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:52,293 That would make way too many people way too happy. 21 00:04:53,169 --> 00:04:54,670 (Phone rings) 22 00:04:54,753 --> 00:04:56,088 Scully. 23 00:04:58,090 --> 00:04:59,967 I'm on my way. 24 00:05:02,428 --> 00:05:06,182 (Whispers) Called into kersh's office. Just me. 25 00:05:06,599 --> 00:05:08,476 Justyou? 26 00:05:10,811 --> 00:05:12,813 Don't forget your toilet brush! 27 00:05:12,897 --> 00:05:15,566 No. No, ma'am, not you. 28 00:05:18,611 --> 00:05:19,862 (Knock on door) 29 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:23,657 - Agent. - Sir. 30 00:05:25,326 --> 00:05:29,997 Dana Scully, this is agent Peyton ritter with the bureau's New York office. 31 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,624 - Agent ritter. - Hi. 32 00:05:33,918 --> 00:05:35,252 Show her what you have. 33 00:05:35,336 --> 00:05:38,714 Our office is currently updating its case filing system. 34 00:05:38,797 --> 00:05:40,841 While I was involved in this project, 35 00:05:40,925 --> 00:05:45,638 scanning old crime-scene photographs into the computer, I came across this. 36 00:05:50,726 --> 00:05:52,770 Margareta stoller. Age: 57. 37 00:05:52,853 --> 00:05:55,314 Cause of death: An overdose of nitraz... 38 00:05:57,858 --> 00:06:00,194 Take a look at when they found her. 39 00:06:00,277 --> 00:06:03,113 A neighbour called the police at 11:14pm. 40 00:06:03,239 --> 00:06:06,033 Right. So, what's wrong with that picture? 41 00:06:09,828 --> 00:06:13,958 The clock says that it's 45 minutes earlier. A clock can be wrong. 42 00:06:14,124 --> 00:06:17,670 They certainly can. So I checked the post from the following day. 43 00:06:17,753 --> 00:06:20,256 These are straight from their photo files. 44 00:06:22,299 --> 00:06:25,177 Hmm. Almost an hour and a half later. 45 00:06:25,886 --> 00:06:28,556 Two different negatives, same photographer. 46 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:30,558 The guy's name is Alfred fellig. 47 00:06:30,641 --> 00:06:32,977 He's rattled around Manhattan for years, 48 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:37,481 apparently a stringer for the wire services and an on-call guy for NYPD. 49 00:06:37,565 --> 00:06:41,986 And you suspect this man fellig? You think that mrs stoller wasn't a suicide? 50 00:06:42,903 --> 00:06:45,489 This guy's into takin' pictures, right? 51 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:50,369 So I'm thinkin': What if he poisons this woman, 52 00:06:50,494 --> 00:06:52,913 then snaps a few of her dead body, 53 00:06:52,997 --> 00:06:56,208 then winds up back in the same apartment an hour later 54 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:59,169 after midtown north calls him over to do the job? 55 00:07:00,296 --> 00:07:01,797 That's quite a theory. 56 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,634 Yeah. The thing is, he might have done it on more than one occasion. 57 00:07:05,718 --> 00:07:08,929 I've sifted through probably 2,000 of his police photos. 58 00:07:09,013 --> 00:07:11,807 These three have measurable solar shadows. 59 00:07:11,890 --> 00:07:15,686 - Since we know each location... - You know the time of day by the shadows. 60 00:07:15,769 --> 00:07:20,190 Right. And with it, these three are looking every bit as hinky. 61 00:07:20,316 --> 00:07:23,736 You have another suicide, a heart attack, and an obvious murder 62 00:07:23,819 --> 00:07:26,447 for which another man was convicted. 63 00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:28,365 There's no consistent mo. 64 00:07:28,449 --> 00:07:30,451 There's no consistent anything. 65 00:07:33,037 --> 00:07:35,414 I could sure use your help. 66 00:07:38,250 --> 00:07:40,669 Agent, could you step outside, please? 67 00:07:40,753 --> 00:07:42,129 Sure. 68 00:07:50,971 --> 00:07:53,599 I'd say he has a promising career ahead of him. 69 00:07:54,558 --> 00:07:57,353 So did you... at one time. 70 00:08:00,481 --> 00:08:05,361 With your expertise in forensic pathology, you'd be an asset to this investigation. 71 00:08:05,444 --> 00:08:08,530 It would be more challenging than running background checks. 72 00:08:08,614 --> 00:08:10,866 Agent mulder and I will begin immediately. 73 00:08:10,949 --> 00:08:14,620 Agent mulder's a lost cause. I'm taking the chance you're not. 74 00:08:14,703 --> 00:08:16,455 It's you and ritter. 75 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:18,374 Do not let me down. 76 00:09:12,636 --> 00:09:14,388 (Panting) 77 00:09:14,471 --> 00:09:16,765 (Grunting/groaning) 78 00:09:18,767 --> 00:09:20,519 (Cries out) 79 00:09:29,695 --> 00:09:31,697 (Camera flash charging) 80 00:09:32,948 --> 00:09:35,701 (Panting/gasping) 81 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:52,760 - Mulder? - Hmm? 82 00:09:56,764 --> 00:09:58,766 - What are you doing? - Bein' nosy. 83 00:09:59,683 --> 00:10:02,269 Eatin' my heart out. You're going on an x-file. 84 00:10:02,352 --> 00:10:04,980 - It's not an x-file. - That's not what I read. 85 00:10:05,063 --> 00:10:08,650 Murder by telekinesis? Maybe a shamanistic "death touch"? 86 00:10:08,734 --> 00:10:12,738 The Muslim superstition that to photograph someone is to steal their soul? 87 00:10:12,821 --> 00:10:15,157 Thank you. All very helpful. 88 00:10:16,533 --> 00:10:18,368 So they're splitting us up, huh? 89 00:10:19,161 --> 00:10:21,997 No. This is a one-time thing. 90 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,959 Who told you that? If you do a good job, they won't stick you back here. 91 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:30,088 Right? 92 00:10:36,011 --> 00:10:38,138 Agent Scully, we're all set. 93 00:10:38,222 --> 00:10:40,474 Peyton ritter, this is fox mulder. 94 00:10:40,557 --> 00:10:44,645 - It's a pleasure to meet you, fox. - Pleasure to meet you, Peyton. 95 00:10:45,771 --> 00:10:48,398 - We should get going. - Off to New York. 96 00:10:59,201 --> 00:11:02,162 Alfred fellig. What can you tell us about him? 97 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:08,418 What's to tell? He's one of 10,000 people here who have a licence to piss people off. 98 00:11:08,544 --> 00:11:11,713 He doubles as a crime-scene photographer for your precinct. 99 00:11:11,797 --> 00:11:14,341 Yeah, he comes in, snaps the picture. 100 00:11:14,424 --> 00:11:15,968 Keeps to himself. 101 00:11:16,051 --> 00:11:19,054 There's not much personal information there. 102 00:11:19,137 --> 00:11:22,266 There's not supposed to be. It's just a yearly renewal form. 103 00:11:22,349 --> 00:11:26,603 Would you happen to know when the original background check was done? 104 00:11:28,105 --> 00:11:34,111 Here he is again. Yearly renewal dating back to January 1970, but still no original. 105 00:11:34,194 --> 00:11:36,238 I think I've got it. 106 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,283 1964. 107 00:11:39,449 --> 00:11:41,660 (Whistles) Old-timer. 108 00:11:41,785 --> 00:11:44,246 - Anything interesting? - Maybe. 109 00:12:00,888 --> 00:12:03,640 - What are you doing? - Take a look at this. 110 00:12:06,727 --> 00:12:08,395 1996... 111 00:12:09,479 --> 00:12:13,483 '87... '85... '73... 112 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,531 (Sighs) 113 00:12:20,324 --> 00:12:22,326 The guy's a regular dick Clark. 114 00:12:23,327 --> 00:12:24,661 I don't know what to say. 115 00:12:24,745 --> 00:12:29,333 Other than the fact that he's always been a geezer, this looks like a dead end. 116 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,800 Help! Help! Somebody call the police! 117 00:12:38,884 --> 00:12:41,553 - What do you want? Are you crazy? - (Car honking) 118 00:12:41,678 --> 00:12:44,973 Please help me! Lady, please! Help me! 119 00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:52,356 Man, what do you want from me, man?! Oh, man, no! 120 00:12:52,522 --> 00:12:54,524 (Yelling) 121 00:13:02,574 --> 00:13:04,159 (Camera clicks) 122 00:13:05,869 --> 00:13:08,121 (Camera clicking) 123 00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:22,552 (Camera flash charging) 124 00:13:29,810 --> 00:13:31,478 (Switchblade clicks open) 125 00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:39,027 (Grunting) 126 00:14:01,425 --> 00:14:04,052 (Gasping) 127 00:14:36,084 --> 00:14:37,919 (Siren approaching) 128 00:14:38,003 --> 00:14:40,088 The prints are Alfred fellig's. 129 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:44,259 Positive match - right off his 1964 background check. 130 00:14:44,342 --> 00:14:46,970 I slipped them into the safis database. 131 00:14:47,054 --> 00:14:49,890 First thing this morning - boom - up they came. 132 00:14:49,973 --> 00:14:52,350 You're thinking this is fellig's work? 133 00:14:52,434 --> 00:14:55,145 The wound measurements match with the knife. 134 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:58,648 - He got pretty sloppy in his old age. - What's this? 135 00:14:58,774 --> 00:15:01,860 - A whole lot of blood. - Yeah, I got that. 136 00:15:03,695 --> 00:15:07,657 - It's pretty clear he took a second victim. - Where's the second body? 137 00:15:08,658 --> 00:15:10,368 - They found fellig. - Where? 138 00:15:10,452 --> 00:15:13,455 Home, watchin' TV. They're bringin' him in now. 139 00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:17,959 Check, check... 140 00:15:18,043 --> 00:15:20,712 January 4th, 11:36am. 141 00:15:20,837 --> 00:15:23,590 15th precinct, Manhattan. 142 00:15:23,673 --> 00:15:26,760 Agents present: Dana Scully and Peyton ritter. 143 00:15:26,843 --> 00:15:29,805 - Initial interview with... - (Door opens) 144 00:15:29,888 --> 00:15:31,890 Alfred fellig. 145 00:15:43,151 --> 00:15:44,694 Hello. 146 00:15:46,947 --> 00:15:49,199 You're a photographer. 147 00:15:50,408 --> 00:15:56,164 I've seen some of your work. You specialise in some pretty dark subject matter. 148 00:15:57,165 --> 00:16:02,045 You're around death a lot. It must fascinate you. 149 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:06,424 Am I boring you, mr fellig? 150 00:16:06,508 --> 00:16:08,093 Ask me a question already. 151 00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:10,971 All right. 152 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:15,308 Why are you always Johnny-on-the-spot every time somebody dies? 153 00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:18,436 You're always there to take the picture. How? 154 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,274 I have a... a nose for news. 155 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,405 Mr fellig, your fingerprints were found on a murder weapon at a crime scene. 156 00:16:28,488 --> 00:16:32,492 Could you give us a full accounting of your activities last night? 157 00:16:32,576 --> 00:16:36,037 The Bronx. I was on a job. 158 00:16:36,121 --> 00:16:40,292 I saw some jibone stealin' a kid's tennis shoes. 159 00:16:40,375 --> 00:16:43,044 He chased me. Ran off. 160 00:16:43,128 --> 00:16:45,213 He ran off? 161 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:47,591 Some unidentified murderer? 162 00:16:47,757 --> 00:16:50,218 I guess I could identify him. 163 00:16:50,302 --> 00:16:53,430 Your fingerprints were found on the knife. 164 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:56,266 -@mm$ - how did they get there? 165 00:17:00,604 --> 00:17:05,609 He left the knife behind. I guess I touched it... briefly. 166 00:17:05,692 --> 00:17:07,777 Why would you do that? 167 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:14,326 Were you injured, mr fellig? 168 00:17:16,453 --> 00:17:19,372 You seem to be in pain. 169 00:17:19,456 --> 00:17:22,417 Were you attacked? 170 00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:25,754 We found other blood at the crime scene, 171 00:17:25,837 --> 00:17:27,881 and, when we have it tested, 172 00:17:27,964 --> 00:17:31,885 I'm wondering if we're gonna learn that it's yours. 173 00:17:31,968 --> 00:17:35,472 - I got cut some. - May we see? 174 00:17:36,848 --> 00:17:38,975 (Groaning) 175 00:17:43,855 --> 00:17:45,982 May I help you? 176 00:18:00,455 --> 00:18:01,957 Hey. 177 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,168 Hey. Take mr fellig to get his blood drawn. 178 00:18:05,961 --> 00:18:08,421 And photograph his back, too. 179 00:18:16,972 --> 00:18:21,893 Hey, I'm confused. I thought we were tryin' to bust him, not look for reasons to let him go. 180 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:24,562 I thought we were looking for the truth. 181 00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:33,863 (Ringing tone) 182 00:18:33,989 --> 00:18:36,700 - Scully. - Hi. My name is fox mulder. 183 00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:39,202 We used to sit next to each other at the FBI. 184 00:18:40,996 --> 00:18:42,622 How's your x-file comin'? 185 00:18:42,706 --> 00:18:44,958 Mulder, it's not... 186 00:18:45,041 --> 00:18:46,459 (Sighs) 187 00:18:49,045 --> 00:18:51,172 We haven't made much headway. 188 00:18:51,256 --> 00:18:54,509 We arrested Alfred fellig, and we just released him. 189 00:18:54,592 --> 00:18:57,721 - What about the stabbing? - How do you know about that? 190 00:18:57,887 --> 00:19:00,473 I told ya, I'm nosy. Why are you iettin' him go? 191 00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:03,560 We pulled another set of prints off of the knife. 192 00:19:03,643 --> 00:19:07,063 They belong to a convicted murderer named Malcolm wiggins. 193 00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:14,029 And the fact that fellig's blood was found at the crime scene tells me his story checks out. 194 00:19:14,112 --> 00:19:17,407 At least, that particular story, anyway. 195 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:20,035 But you still think fellig's a murderer? 196 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:22,746 I don't know what to think. 197 00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:27,625 He's, uh... 198 00:19:29,377 --> 00:19:30,628 Unusua! 199 00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:34,090 As in, he plugs up like a cork when you stab him? 200 00:19:34,174 --> 00:19:35,967 Where are you getting this stuff? 201 00:19:36,092 --> 00:19:39,346 Ritter's been sending progress reports to kersh. 202 00:19:39,429 --> 00:19:42,265 My computer inadvertently intercepted a few. 203 00:19:42,349 --> 00:19:46,978 He's got nice things to say about you, though... mostly. 204 00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:52,108 Why don't you let me do a background check on fellig? 205 00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:55,695 - Mulder... - It's what I do now. I'm gettin' good at it. 206 00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:23,681 I'm parked around the block. 207 00:20:26,601 --> 00:20:30,480 Fellig's asleep. I haven't seen him move in over four hours. 208 00:20:33,650 --> 00:20:35,735 Have a lovely evening. 209 00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:11,187 (Camera clicking) 210 00:21:19,028 --> 00:21:21,865 (Pounding on door) Mr fellig, open up, please. 211 00:21:24,367 --> 00:21:26,202 Explain this. 212 00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:27,871 What? 213 00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:30,790 You took that photo an hour before police arrived. 214 00:21:30,874 --> 00:21:34,752 You then covered up that fact by photographing the scene again. 215 00:21:34,836 --> 00:21:37,422 I don't think I remember that one. 216 00:21:37,505 --> 00:21:43,344 You have a long and uncanny history of being the first person at the scene of a death. 217 00:21:43,428 --> 00:21:47,223 You also have a history of covering up that fact. Why? 218 00:21:47,307 --> 00:21:49,559 Am I under arrest... again? 219 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,728 Are you a murderer? 220 00:21:53,313 --> 00:21:55,398 Then eprain yourself, sir. 221 00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:59,277 Because I promise, until you do, you will not get a moment's peace. 222 00:22:07,494 --> 00:22:10,246 You want to take a ride with me? 223 00:22:11,206 --> 00:22:14,000 You come with me. I'll show you. 224 00:22:22,425 --> 00:22:24,302 It's been an hour. 225 00:22:24,427 --> 00:22:29,015 - Are we gonna drive around all night? - Yeah. This is it. 226 00:22:29,098 --> 00:22:31,601 This is what I do. 227 00:22:31,684 --> 00:22:33,853 Lookin' for the shot. 228 00:22:34,604 --> 00:22:37,106 - What shot? - The shot. 229 00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:48,284 Her. 230 00:22:49,285 --> 00:22:51,746 She's about to die. 231 00:22:54,332 --> 00:22:55,959 What are you talking about? 232 00:22:56,042 --> 00:23:01,839 Could happen in the next minute, in the next hour, but it'll happen, just as plain as day. 233 00:23:03,466 --> 00:23:05,134 Look, Mr... 234 00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:08,721 Fellig, I don't know what you're planning, 235 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:10,682 but nobody here's gonna die. 236 00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:13,810 I'm not planning anything. 237 00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:17,480 I'm just here to tell you what's gonna happen. 238 00:23:20,191 --> 00:23:22,652 That that woman there is gonna be murdered? 239 00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:25,905 I didn't say "murdered". 240 00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:28,408 She's a smoker. She might die of lung cancer. 241 00:23:28,491 --> 00:23:31,578 The "how" is always a surprise. 242 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,664 I just always know when. 243 00:23:35,331 --> 00:23:37,375 You want me to believe that? 244 00:23:41,087 --> 00:23:43,506 (Man) What are you doin' out here, huh? 245 00:23:45,717 --> 00:23:48,469 It's so cold out, huh? 246 00:23:48,553 --> 00:23:52,181 (Continues speaking indistinctly) 247 00:23:53,683 --> 00:23:57,520 - (Man) All right? - Get out of my face! Get off me! 248 00:23:59,439 --> 00:24:01,816 (Man and woman arguing) 249 00:24:01,899 --> 00:24:03,443 (Camera flash charging) 250 00:24:03,526 --> 00:24:06,195 I don't want your money! 251 00:24:07,405 --> 00:24:10,199 You creep! Get off of me! Let go of me! 252 00:24:10,325 --> 00:24:12,827 (Arguing continues) 253 00:24:18,541 --> 00:24:20,585 FBI! Don't move! 254 00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:23,212 - Where'd you come from? - Shut up! 255 00:24:24,213 --> 00:24:26,341 Get down! Back up! 256 00:24:26,424 --> 00:24:29,052 (Woman) You're not such a big man now! 257 00:24:37,727 --> 00:24:39,729 That gun ain't mine, red. 258 00:24:42,231 --> 00:24:44,233 - You all right? - I'm outta here. 259 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,402 (Honking) 260 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:14,806 Dana, what the hell is goin' on? 261 00:25:14,889 --> 00:25:18,643 Assault and possession of an unregistered handgun. 262 00:25:18,726 --> 00:25:21,437 - Why didn't you call me sooner? - I apologise. 263 00:25:22,271 --> 00:25:24,190 You blew off the surveillance? 264 00:25:28,277 --> 00:25:31,030 The surveillance was blown before I got there. 265 00:25:31,114 --> 00:25:34,826 You blew off the surveillance and took a little joyride with him? 266 00:25:34,909 --> 00:25:39,831 I questioned fellig about his involvement in the deaths that he photographed. 267 00:25:39,914 --> 00:25:41,582 - Is that ok? - What did he say? 268 00:25:41,666 --> 00:25:45,211 He said that he can tell when people are about to die. 269 00:25:45,294 --> 00:25:48,423 If New York passes a good samaritan law, we might nail him. 270 00:25:48,506 --> 00:25:51,050 Other than that, we won't get him for murder. 271 00:25:51,134 --> 00:25:53,302 Wrong. Let me show you something. 272 00:25:58,474 --> 00:26:03,020 They picked up mr wiggins last night. He says fellig killed that kid, not him. 273 00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:07,775 - He said he just happened along. - A convicted murderer half fellig's age. 274 00:26:07,859 --> 00:26:11,362 He would've come in, but he was afraid we wouldn't have believed him. 275 00:26:11,487 --> 00:26:12,989 He's right. 276 00:26:13,072 --> 00:26:16,242 Tell me, did he have any help concocting that story? 277 00:26:16,325 --> 00:26:19,162 Look. Fellig is a murderer. 278 00:26:19,245 --> 00:26:21,289 Whether he did this one, I don't care. 279 00:26:21,372 --> 00:26:23,958 Not if it buys me a few days in the box with him. 280 00:26:24,041 --> 00:26:28,921 - No judge will issue a warrant based on this. - I know the judge. We'll have it by noon. 281 00:26:32,258 --> 00:26:35,678 - You know, kersh warned me about you. - He did? 282 00:26:35,762 --> 00:26:40,099 You and your partner - his reputation precedes him, so I should've seen it comin'. 283 00:26:40,183 --> 00:26:44,812 You muck up my case, and kersh'ii hear about it. Are we clear, Dana? 284 00:26:44,896 --> 00:26:46,564 - Scully. - (Cellphone rings) 285 00:26:46,689 --> 00:26:49,525 And we're done with this conversation. 286 00:26:52,612 --> 00:26:54,697 - Yeah. - (Mulder) Hey, Scully. 287 00:26:54,781 --> 00:26:58,201 How's that x-file? And before you tell me it's not an x-file... 288 00:26:58,367 --> 00:27:01,204 - It is. - What happened? 289 00:27:01,287 --> 00:27:04,624 Alfred fellig seems to know an awful lot about death. 290 00:27:04,707 --> 00:27:10,213 Yeah? Well, that's not surprising, given that he's reached the ripe old age of 149. 291 00:27:10,713 --> 00:27:14,008 - Excuse me? - I did a low-tech background check on him. 292 00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:17,011 This stuff is so old, they don't keep it on computer. 293 00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:22,433 But Alfred fellig doesn't exist before 1964, but one Henry strand does. 294 00:27:22,558 --> 00:27:26,771 He applied for a press pass from the Jersey city police in 1939 at age 53. 295 00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:29,106 His prints match fellig's. 296 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:31,484 But there must be some kind of a mistake. 297 00:27:31,567 --> 00:27:36,364 You think? Because this Henry strand does not exist before 1939. 298 00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:40,409 However, one lh rice is on record 299 00:27:40,535 --> 00:27:43,746 as having sat for the New York state civil service exam. 300 00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:46,332 The records don't show whether he passed. 301 00:27:46,415 --> 00:27:49,168 But his thumbprint? Fellig's. 302 00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:53,923 Want to know what lh rice's birthday is? 303 00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:56,843 April 4th, 1849. 304 00:27:56,926 --> 00:28:01,013 I'm not good at math, but that's a whole lot of candles on the cake. 305 00:28:01,097 --> 00:28:05,977 I have spent time with this man, and he can't be more than 65 years old. 306 00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:08,437 I think that's what he wants you to think. 307 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:13,609 He's a guy for whom the phrase "life in prison" carries some weighty connotations. 308 00:28:13,693 --> 00:28:17,280 You should get to him before he vanishes and becomes someone else. 309 00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:24,453 (Car honks) 310 00:28:43,681 --> 00:28:45,683 (Police radio scanner) 311 00:28:47,977 --> 00:28:51,689 You are going to be arrested, mr fellig, in two hours. 312 00:28:52,982 --> 00:28:54,734 Charged with murder. 313 00:28:54,817 --> 00:28:58,321 And this time you won't be able to just change your name. 314 00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:02,617 I showed you what I do last night. Just take the pictures. 315 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:09,040 What you showed me was a contemptible lack of compassion for another human being. 316 00:29:09,123 --> 00:29:12,126 You showed me that you profit off of people's deaths. 317 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,463 Now, why shouldn't you go to prison? 318 00:29:15,546 --> 00:29:18,007 You want me to cry for them? 319 00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:21,552 You want me to make like I feel sorry for them? 320 00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:23,721 I don't. 321 00:29:24,722 --> 00:29:26,724 Lucky bastards. 322 00:29:28,059 --> 00:29:31,062 - Every one of 'em. - Lucky? 323 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,357 I'm just there to get the shot. 324 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,360 I don't take those people. He does. 325 00:29:37,443 --> 00:29:39,528 Who's "he"? 326 00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:14,146 That's him. 327 00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:16,315 He's the one who takes them. 328 00:30:16,899 --> 00:30:19,819 You're saying this is a photograph of death itself? 329 00:30:19,902 --> 00:30:22,613 It's a glimpse. Just a glimpse. 330 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,908 But it's closer than I've gotten in... 331 00:30:25,992 --> 00:30:28,703 I can't even count the years. 332 00:30:28,786 --> 00:30:31,789 And this is the shot that you spoke of. This is... 333 00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:35,835 - What you try and get. - Mm-hm. 334 00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:44,802 Mr fellig, I know... that you know more about photography than I do. 335 00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:49,682 But this is just a lens flare. 336 00:30:49,765 --> 00:30:53,519 You're right. I do know more about photography than you do. 337 00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:00,943 Ok. I, um... 338 00:31:03,779 --> 00:31:08,159 For the sake of argument, why bother? 339 00:31:08,242 --> 00:31:12,288 I mean, why take a picture of death? 340 00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:15,833 So I can look into his face. 341 00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:18,169 So I can die. 342 00:31:19,045 --> 00:31:21,130 Pills don't work. 343 00:31:23,049 --> 00:31:25,843 Razors, gas, Bridges... 344 00:31:25,968 --> 00:31:30,431 I can't tell ya how many Bridges I've jumped off of. All I get is wet. 345 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:36,187 I got left behind. 346 00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:38,397 I don't want to be here any more. 347 00:31:38,481 --> 00:31:41,358 I can't even remember a time when I did. 348 00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:45,654 This is... 349 00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:49,492 This is all I know... to do. 350 00:31:52,703 --> 00:31:54,413 You know I don't believe you. 351 00:31:54,497 --> 00:31:56,040 Yes, you do. 352 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,377 It's why you're here. 353 00:32:22,024 --> 00:32:26,070 How is it you know when people are about to die? 354 00:32:30,533 --> 00:32:33,410 You chase it long enough, you pick it up. 355 00:32:45,172 --> 00:32:46,715 Excuse me. 356 00:33:02,982 --> 00:33:04,900 - (Phone rings) - Mulder. 357 00:33:04,984 --> 00:33:06,569 - Mulder, it's me. - Hi. 358 00:33:06,735 --> 00:33:11,157 Those other two names that you said that fellig went by - strand and rice? 359 00:33:11,866 --> 00:33:14,076 Yeah. Henry strand and lh rice. 360 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,662 What about Louis Brady? 361 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:21,959 Uh... no. But there's a big gap before 1939. 362 00:33:22,585 --> 00:33:25,087 (Scully) Will you check it out for me? 363 00:33:25,671 --> 00:33:28,799 I'm sticking here to make sure he doesn't bolt. 364 00:33:29,550 --> 00:33:31,594 Louis Brady, mulder. 365 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,762 Tell me what you find out. 366 00:33:35,389 --> 00:33:37,099 (Hangs up phone) 367 00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:51,947 Mr fellig? 368 00:33:55,201 --> 00:34:00,247 Oops. Excuse me. I have a film out. Hold on a second. 369 00:34:53,592 --> 00:34:55,177 (Cellphone rings) 370 00:34:56,053 --> 00:34:58,138 - Ritter. - It's agent mulder. 371 00:34:58,222 --> 00:35:02,518 - Is agent Scully there with you? - No. Nor do I seem to be able to find her. 372 00:35:02,601 --> 00:35:05,396 DC cellular says her phone is turned off. 373 00:35:05,479 --> 00:35:08,315 - What can I do for you? - You can find her for me. 374 00:35:08,399 --> 00:35:12,194 Listen, agent mulder, I'm on my way to arrest Alfred fellig. 375 00:35:12,319 --> 00:35:13,988 That's where I think she is. 376 00:35:14,071 --> 00:35:17,533 And you were right. Fellig is a murderer - under the name Louis Brady. 377 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:22,329 He suffocated two patients in a hospital. He says he meant to catch up with death. 378 00:35:22,413 --> 00:35:25,416 After one year in prison, he walked off a work detail. 379 00:35:25,499 --> 00:35:27,710 The manhunt never officially ceased. 380 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:30,129 - When was this? - 1929. 381 00:35:30,212 --> 00:35:31,714 Whoa-whoa-whoa. When? 382 00:35:31,797 --> 00:35:34,508 Look, ritter, don't sweat the math. It's him. 383 00:35:34,591 --> 00:35:38,429 - Just get there and find agent Scully. - All right, I'm on it. 384 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:46,395 You know, most people want to live for ever. 385 00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:48,605 Most people are idiots. 386 00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:51,650 Which is one of the reasons I don't. 387 00:35:51,734 --> 00:35:53,736 I think you're wrong. 388 00:35:55,529 --> 00:35:57,948 How can you have too much life? 389 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,120 There's too much to learn, to experience. 390 00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:06,540 75 years... is enough. 391 00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:10,544 Take my word for it. 392 00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:15,215 You live for ever, you start to think about the big thing you're missing 393 00:36:15,299 --> 00:36:19,261 and that everybody else gets to find out about but you. 394 00:36:20,429 --> 00:36:21,889 What about love? 395 00:36:21,972 --> 00:36:24,058 What, does that last for ever? 396 00:36:26,185 --> 00:36:31,648 40 years ago, I drove down to the city hall, 397 00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:33,776 down to the hall of records. 398 00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:39,073 Record archives, or whatever they call it. I wanted to... look up my wife. 399 00:36:39,156 --> 00:36:44,286 It... bothered me I couldn't remember her name. 400 00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:51,710 Love lasts... 75 years, if you're lucky. 401 00:36:53,087 --> 00:36:56,131 You don't want to be around when it's gone. 402 00:37:12,606 --> 00:37:15,109 Count your blessings. 403 00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:31,041 Why are you this way? 404 00:37:32,543 --> 00:37:37,464 I mean, if this is true, give me something in the way of proof. 405 00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:41,552 Help me find some science that I can hang this on. 406 00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:44,680 It has nothing to do with science. 407 00:37:44,763 --> 00:37:48,517 - Someone took my place. - Took your place? 408 00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:51,687 I don't know her name. 409 00:37:53,188 --> 00:37:55,649 I don't think I ever knew it. 410 00:37:55,732 --> 00:38:01,196 I had yellow fever, way the hell back then when it killed half of New York. 411 00:38:03,866 --> 00:38:07,953 Washington square park was a common grave, they had so many bodies. 412 00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:11,123 They'd Bury them shallow. 413 00:38:11,206 --> 00:38:13,667 They wrapped them in yellow sheets, 414 00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,670 and the yellow sheets would stick up through the mud. 415 00:38:16,753 --> 00:38:20,257 I was in a city-run contagion ward. 416 00:38:20,382 --> 00:38:24,595 I was out of my head with fever, out of my mind. Then I saw him. 417 00:38:24,678 --> 00:38:26,680 Saw death. 418 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:28,807 I wish I'd had a camera then. 419 00:38:28,891 --> 00:38:34,771 At first, I... I just saw him out of the corner of my eye. 420 00:38:34,855 --> 00:38:38,400 Then he got bolder and he started flitting around the room, 421 00:38:38,484 --> 00:38:41,570 and he'd take this person, then he'd take that person. 422 00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:44,990 And I never saw his face. I didn't want to see his face. 423 00:38:45,073 --> 00:38:48,744 I figured if I saw it, he'd take me too. 424 00:38:50,412 --> 00:38:52,581 - But he didn't. - No. 425 00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:55,417 There was a nurse. 426 00:38:55,501 --> 00:38:57,920 She did the best she could. 427 00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,172 Back then... 428 00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:02,508 Medical science was... 429 00:39:03,425 --> 00:39:06,053 They couldn't find their ass with both hands. 430 00:39:06,136 --> 00:39:11,725 But she did the best she could. She sat with me and held my hand and... 431 00:39:11,808 --> 00:39:14,686 I was on my deathbed. 432 00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:18,148 Then he came for me. I didn't look at him. 433 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:21,401 Closed my eyes and turned my head. 434 00:39:21,485 --> 00:39:25,405 I didn't tell her not to look at him. I wanted her to look at him. 435 00:39:25,489 --> 00:39:29,826 I wanted her to look at him, instead of me. 436 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,915 And then I came to, and the fever broke. 437 00:39:36,375 --> 00:39:39,962 They were carrying her out, wrapped up in a yellow sheet. 438 00:39:42,172 --> 00:39:46,134 Since that time, I realised you gotta be careful what you wish for. 439 00:39:47,469 --> 00:39:50,055 I missed my chance. 440 00:39:50,931 --> 00:39:53,725 You're very lucky, you know that? 441 00:39:53,809 --> 00:39:56,061 What do you mean? 442 00:39:59,940 --> 00:40:01,483 Wait a minute. 443 00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:07,573 Say what's on your mind. You mean "lucky" like the others? 444 00:40:07,656 --> 00:40:09,866 You want me to believe I'm about to die? 445 00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:12,452 I just want to take the picture. 446 00:40:12,536 --> 00:40:14,746 You took my picture last night. 447 00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:16,999 - Is this why? - That was different. 448 00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:19,418 I'm not gonna die! 449 00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:23,088 - (Camera flash charging) - Turn that off. 450 00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:26,091 - No. - Turn it off right now! Put it down! 451 00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:28,343 There's nothing to be done for it. 452 00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:45,235 - You took my phone. Why? - Please. Just give me a chance. 453 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,697 - What don't you want me to know? - He's coming. 454 00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:51,617 - And you should just make your peace. - Shut up! 455 00:40:53,368 --> 00:40:55,996 (Crash) 456 00:40:56,580 --> 00:40:58,248 He's here. 457 00:40:58,373 --> 00:40:59,916 (Camera flash charging) 458 00:41:21,563 --> 00:41:23,649 Agent? 459 00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:34,409 Oh god. No, no, no. 460 00:41:34,493 --> 00:41:38,080 No.no.no.no.no.no. 461 00:41:40,457 --> 00:41:42,918 Come on. Come on, dammit. 462 00:41:43,293 --> 00:41:44,920 (Gasping) 463 00:41:45,462 --> 00:41:48,090 I'll get help. We need some help in here! 464 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:27,087 Do you see him? 465 00:42:29,131 --> 00:42:31,341 Do you see him? 466 00:42:35,053 --> 00:42:37,139 Don't look. 467 00:42:38,098 --> 00:42:39,933 Close your eyes. 468 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:40,535 You're a lucky man. 469 00:43:56,051 --> 00:44:00,889 The coroner's report came back on fellig. It says he died of a single gunshot wound. 470 00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:03,391 That's all it said. 471 00:44:04,768 --> 00:44:09,898 I... talked to your doctor and he says you're doin' great. 472 00:44:09,981 --> 00:44:13,109 You're makin' the fastest recovery he's ever seen. 473 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:19,115 You know, mulder, I don't even know how I entertained the thought. 474 00:44:21,576 --> 00:44:23,620 People don't live for ever. 475 00:44:23,745 --> 00:44:26,748 No, no. I think he would have. 476 00:44:27,582 --> 00:44:30,752 I just think that death only looks for you... 477 00:44:32,546 --> 00:44:35,257 Once you seek its opposite. 478 00:44:59,781 --> 00:45:01,461 Visiontext subtitles: Tram Nguyen zelniker 479 00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:21,845 (Child) I made this! 480 00:45:23,138 --> 00:45:25,140 English sdh