1 00:00:25,194 --> 00:00:27,779 (footsteps) 2 00:01:26,171 --> 00:01:27,965 (lift bell dings) 3 00:02:34,197 --> 00:02:36,283 (gasping and grunting) 4 00:02:47,377 --> 00:02:49,588 (shouting) 5 00:02:51,590 --> 00:02:54,593 (screaming) 6 00:03:04,061 --> 00:03:06,646 (screaming continues) 7 00:03:06,855 --> 00:03:09,691 (Crash) 8 00:03:17,824 --> 00:03:19,701 (camera flash charging) 9 00:04:05,205 --> 00:04:07,499 Just a routine background check. 10 00:04:07,582 --> 00:04:12,629 Now, to the best of your knowledge, has Mr Wisnowski ever used any illegal drugs? 11 00:04:12,712 --> 00:04:14,214 Which illegal drugs? 12 00:04:14,339 --> 00:04:18,260 Yeah. In the time that you worked with Ms Ermentrout, 13 00:04:18,343 --> 00:04:22,180 did you find her to be a trustworthy person? 14 00:04:24,266 --> 00:04:27,436 Punctual, huh? Punctual... is good. 15 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:31,314 No. No, ma'am. This is just a routine background check. 16 00:04:31,398 --> 00:04:35,777 Mr Garber is not in any legal trouble whatsoever. 17 00:04:37,446 --> 00:04:40,490 Yeah. OK. Thanks for your time. 18 00:04:42,784 --> 00:04:46,580 Maybe if we get lucky, next time they'll let us clean toilet bowls. 19 00:04:46,663 --> 00:04:48,540 - Are you ready to quit? - No. 20 00:04:48,623 --> 00:04:52,294 That would make way too many people way too happy. 21 00:04:53,170 --> 00:04:54,671 (phone rings) 22 00:04:54,754 --> 00:04:56,089 Scully. 23 00:04:58,091 --> 00:04:59,968 I'm on my way. 24 00:05:02,429 --> 00:05:06,183 (whispers) Called into Kersh's office. Just me. 25 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,477 JUSt you? 26 00:05:10,812 --> 00:05:12,814 Don't forget your toilet brush! 27 00:05:12,898 --> 00:05:15,567 No. No, ma'am, not you. 28 00:05:18,612 --> 00:05:19,863 (knock on door) 29 00:05:21,656 --> 00:05:23,658 - Agent. - Sir. 30 00:05:25,327 --> 00:05:29,998 Dana Scully, this is Agent Peyton Ritter with the Bureau's New York office. 31 00:05:30,081 --> 00:05:31,625 - Agent Ritter. - Hi. 32 00:05:33,919 --> 00:05:35,253 Show her what you have. 33 00:05:35,337 --> 00:05:38,715 Our office is currently updating its case filing system. 34 00:05:38,798 --> 00:05:40,842 While I was involved in this project, 35 00:05:40,926 --> 00:05:45,639 scanning old crime-scene photographs into the computer, I came across this. 36 00:05:50,727 --> 00:05:52,771 Margareta Stoller. Age: 57. 37 00:05:52,854 --> 00:05:55,315 Cause of death: an overdose of nitraz... 38 00:05:57,859 --> 00:06:00,195 Take a look at when they found her. 39 00:06:00,278 --> 00:06:03,114 A neighbour called the police at 11:14pm. 40 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,034 Right. So, what's wrong with that picture? 41 00:06:09,829 --> 00:06:13,959 The clock says that it's 45 minutes earlier. A clock can be wrong. 42 00:06:14,125 --> 00:06:17,671 They certainly can. So I checked the Post from the following clay. 43 00:06:17,754 --> 00:06:20,257 These are straight from their photo files. 44 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,178 Hmm. Almost an hour and a half later. 45 00:06:25,887 --> 00:06:28,557 Two different negatives, same photographer. 46 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,559 The guy's name is Alfred Fellig. 47 00:06:30,642 --> 00:06:32,978 He's rattled around Manhattan for years, 48 00:06:33,061 --> 00:06:37,482 apparently a stringer for the wire services and an on-call guy for NYPD. 49 00:06:37,566 --> 00:06:41,987 And you suspect this man Fellig? You think that Mrs Stoller wasn't a suicide? 50 00:06:42,904 --> 00:06:45,490 This guy's into takin' pictures, right? 51 00:06:46,741 --> 00:06:50,370 So I'mthinkin': what if he poisons this woman, 52 00:06:50,495 --> 00:06:52,914 then snaps a few of her dead body, 53 00:06:52,998 --> 00:06:56,209 then winds up back in the same apartment an hour later 54 00:06:56,334 --> 00:06:59,170 after Midtown North calls him over to do the job? 55 00:07:00,297 --> 00:07:01,798 That's quite a theory. 56 00:07:01,881 --> 00:07:05,635 Yeah. The thing is, he might have done it on more than one occasion. 57 00:07:05,719 --> 00:07:08,930 I've sifted through probably 2,000 of his police photos. 58 00:07:09,014 --> 00:07:11,808 These three have measurable solar shadows. 59 00:07:11,891 --> 00:07:15,687 - Since we know each location... - You know the time of day by the shadows. 60 00:07:15,770 --> 00:07:20,191 Right. And with it, these three are looking every bit as hinky. 61 00:07:20,317 --> 00:07:23,737 You have another suicide, a heart attack, and an obvious murder 62 00:07:23,820 --> 00:07:26,448 for which another man was convicted. 63 00:07:26,531 --> 00:07:28,366 There's no consistent MO. 64 00:07:28,450 --> 00:07:30,452 There's no consistent anything. 65 00:07:33,038 --> 00:07:35,415 I could sure use your help. 66 00:07:38,251 --> 00:07:40,670 Agent, could you step outside, please? 67 00:07:40,754 --> 00:07:42,130 Sure. 68 00:07:50,972 --> 00:07:53,600 I'd say he has a promising career ahead of him. 69 00:07:54,559 --> 00:07:57,354 So did you... at one time. 70 00:08:00,482 --> 00:08:05,362 With your expertise in forensic pathology, you'd be an asset to this investigation. 71 00:08:05,445 --> 00:08:08,531 It would be more challenging than running background checks. 72 00:08:08,615 --> 00:08:10,867 Agent Mulder and I will begin immediately. 73 00:08:10,950 --> 00:08:14,621 Agent Mulder's a lost cause. I'm taking the chance you're not. 74 00:08:14,704 --> 00:08:16,456 It's you and Ritter. 75 00:08:16,581 --> 00:08:18,375 Do not let me down. 76 00:09:12,637 --> 00:09:14,389 (panting) 77 00:09:14,472 --> 00:09:16,766 (grunting/groaning) 78 00:09:18,768 --> 00:09:20,520 (cries out) 79 00:09:29,696 --> 00:09:31,698 (camera flash charging) 80 00:09:32,949 --> 00:09:35,702 (panting/gasping) 81 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:52,761 - Mulder? - Hmm? 82 00:09:56,765 --> 00:09:58,767 - What are you doing? - Bein' nosy. 83 00:09:59,684 --> 00:10:02,270 Eatin' my heart out. You're going on an X-File. 84 00:10:02,353 --> 00:10:04,981 - It's not an X-File. - That's not what I read. 85 00:10:05,064 --> 00:10:08,651 Murder by telekinesis? Maybe a shamanistic "death touch"? 86 00:10:08,735 --> 00:10:12,739 The Muslim superstition that to photograph someone is to steal their soul? 87 00:10:12,822 --> 00:10:15,158 Thank you. All very helpful. 88 00:10:16,534 --> 00:10:18,369 So they're splitting us up, huh? 89 00:10:19,162 --> 00:10:21,998 No. This is a one-time thing. 90 00:10:22,081 --> 00:10:25,960 Who told you that? If you do a good job, they won't stick you back here. 91 00:10:28,546 --> 00:10:30,089 Right? 92 00:10:36,012 --> 00:10:38,139 Agent Scully, we're all set. 93 00:10:38,223 --> 00:10:40,475 Peyton Ritter, this is Fox Mulder. 94 00:10:40,558 --> 00:10:44,646 - It's a pleasure to meet you, Fox. - Pleasure to meet you, Peyton. 95 00:10:45,772 --> 00:10:48,399 - We should get going. - Off to New York. 96 00:10:59,202 --> 00:11:02,163 Alfred Fellig. What can you tell us about him? 97 00:11:03,581 --> 00:11:08,419 What's to tell? He's one of 10,000 people here who have a licence to piss people off. 98 00:11:08,545 --> 00:11:11,714 He doubles as a crime-scene photographer for your precinct. 99 00:11:11,798 --> 00:11:14,342 Yeah, he comes in, snaps the picture. 100 00:11:14,425 --> 00:11:15,969 Keeps to himself. 101 00:11:16,052 --> 00:11:19,055 There's not much personal information there. 102 00:11:19,138 --> 00:11:22,267 There's not supposed to be. It's just a yearly renewal form. 103 00:11:22,350 --> 00:11:26,604 Would you happen to know when the original background check was done? 104 00:11:28,106 --> 00:11:34,112 Here he is again. Yearly renewal dating back to January 1970, but still no original. 105 00:11:34,195 --> 00:11:36,239 I think I've got it. 106 00:11:37,031 --> 00:11:39,284 1964. 107 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:41,661 (whistles) Old-timer. 108 00:11:41,786 --> 00:11:44,247 - Anything interesting? - Maybe. 109 00:12:00,889 --> 00:12:03,641 - What are you doing? - Take a look at this. 110 00:12:06,728 --> 00:12:08,396 1996... 111 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,484 '87... '85... '73... 112 00:12:18,281 --> 00:12:19,532 (sighs) 113 00:12:20,325 --> 00:12:22,327 The guy's a regular Dick Clark. 114 00:12:23,328 --> 00:12:24,662 I don't know what to say. 115 00:12:24,746 --> 00:12:29,334 Other than the fact that he's always been a geezer, this looks like a dead end. 116 00:12:34,881 --> 00:12:38,801 Help! Help! Somebody call the police! 117 00:12:38,885 --> 00:12:41,554 - What do you want? Are you crazy? - (car honking) 118 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,974 Please help me! Lady, please! Help me! 119 00:12:49,437 --> 00:12:52,357 Man, what do you want from me, man?! Oh, man, no! 120 00:12:52,523 --> 00:12:54,525 (yelling) 121 00:13:02,575 --> 00:13:04,160 (camera clicks) 122 00:13:05,870 --> 00:13:08,122 (camera clicking) 123 00:13:19,717 --> 00:13:22,553 (camera flash charging) 124 00:13:29,811 --> 00:13:31,479 (switchblade clicks open) 125 00:13:37,026 --> 00:13:39,028 (grunting) 126 00:14:01,426 --> 00:14:04,053 (gasping) 127 00:14:36,085 --> 00:14:37,920 (siren approaching) 128 00:14:38,004 --> 00:14:40,089 The prints are Alfred Fellig's. 129 00:14:40,965 --> 00:14:44,260 Positive match - right off his 1964 background check. 130 00:14:44,343 --> 00:14:46,971 I slipped them into the SAFIS database. 131 00:14:47,055 --> 00:14:49,891 First thing this morning - boom - up they came. 132 00:14:49,974 --> 00:14:52,351 You're thinking this is Fellig's work? 133 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:55,146 The wound measurements match with the knife. 134 00:14:55,229 --> 00:14:58,649 - He got pretty sloppy in his old age. - What's this? 135 00:14:58,775 --> 00:15:01,861 - A whole lot of blood. - Yeah, I got that. 136 00:15:03,696 --> 00:15:07,658 - It's pretty clear he took a second victim. - Where's the second body? 137 00:15:08,659 --> 00:15:10,369 - They found Fellig. - Where? 138 00:15:10,453 --> 00:15:13,456 Home, watchin' TV. They're bringin' him in now. 139 00:15:16,417 --> 00:15:17,960 Check, check... 140 00:15:18,044 --> 00:15:20,713 January 4th, 11:36am. 141 00:15:20,838 --> 00:15:23,591 15th Precinct, Manhattan. 142 00:15:23,674 --> 00:15:26,761 Agents present: Dana Scully and Peyton Ritter. 143 00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:29,806 - Initial interview with... - (door opens) 144 00:15:29,889 --> 00:15:31,891 ...Alfred Fellig. 145 00:15:43,152 --> 00:15:44,695 Hello. 146 00:15:46,948 --> 00:15:49,200 You're a photographer. 147 00:15:50,409 --> 00:15:56,165 I've seen some of your work. You specialise in some pretty dark subject matter. 148 00:15:57,166 --> 00:16:02,046 You're around death a lot. It must fascinate you. 149 00:16:03,631 --> 00:16:06,425 Am I boring you, Mr Fellig? 150 00:16:06,509 --> 00:16:08,094 Ask me a question already. 151 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:10,972 All right. 152 00:16:11,055 --> 00:16:15,309 Why are you always Johnny-on-the-spot every time somebody dies? 153 00:16:15,393 --> 00:16:18,437 You're always there to take the picture. How? 154 00:16:18,521 --> 00:16:22,275 I have a... a nose for news. 155 00:16:23,401 --> 00:16:28,406 Mr Fellig, your fingerprints were found on a murder weapon at a crime scene. 156 00:16:28,489 --> 00:16:32,493 Could you give us a full accounting of your activities last night? 157 00:16:32,577 --> 00:16:36,038 The Bronx. I was on a job. 158 00:16:36,122 --> 00:16:40,293 I saw some jibone stealin' a kid's tennis shoes. 159 00:16:40,376 --> 00:16:43,045 He chased me. Ran off. 160 00:16:43,129 --> 00:16:45,214 He ran off? 161 00:16:45,756 --> 00:16:47,592 Some unidentified murderer? 162 00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:50,219 I guess I could identify him. 163 00:16:50,303 --> 00:16:53,431 Your fingerprints were found on the knife. 164 00:16:53,514 --> 00:16:56,267 - (grunts) - How did they get there? 165 00:17:00,605 --> 00:17:05,610 He left the knife behind. I guess I touched it... briefly. 166 00:17:05,693 --> 00:17:07,778 Why would you do that? 167 00:17:12,116 --> 00:17:14,327 Were you injured, Mr Fellig? 168 00:17:16,454 --> 00:17:19,373 You seem to be in pain. 169 00:17:19,457 --> 00:17:22,418 Were you attacked? 170 00:17:23,044 --> 00:17:25,755 We found other blood at the crime scene, 171 00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:27,882 and, when we have it tested, 172 00:17:27,965 --> 00:17:31,886 I'm wondering if we're gonna learn that it's yours. 173 00:17:31,969 --> 00:17:35,473 - I got cut some. - May we see? 174 00:17:36,849 --> 00:17:38,976 (groaning) 175 00:17:43,856 --> 00:17:45,983 May I help you? 176 00:18:00,456 --> 00:18:01,958 Hey. 177 00:18:02,041 --> 00:18:05,169 Hey. Take Mr Fellig to get his blood drawn. 178 00:18:05,962 --> 00:18:08,422 And photograph his back, too. 179 00:18:16,973 --> 00:18:21,894 Hey, I'm confused. I thought we were tryin' to bust him, not look for reasons to let him go. 180 00:18:22,019 --> 00:18:24,563 I thought we were looking for the truth. 181 00:18:31,779 --> 00:18:33,864 (ringing tone) 182 00:18:33,990 --> 00:18:36,701 - Scully. - Hi. My name is Fox Mulder. 183 00:18:36,867 --> 00:18:39,203 We used to sit next to each other at the FBI. 184 00:18:40,997 --> 00:18:42,623 How's your X-File 00min'? 185 00:18:42,707 --> 00:18:44,959 Mulder, it's not... 186 00:18:45,042 --> 00:18:46,460 (sighs) 187 00:18:49,046 --> 00:18:51,173 We haven't made much headway. 188 00:18:51,257 --> 00:18:54,510 We arrested Alfred Fellig, and we just released him. 189 00:18:54,593 --> 00:18:57,722 - What about the stabbing? - How do you know about that? 190 00:18:57,888 --> 00:19:00,474 I told ya, I'm nosy. Why are you lettin' him go? 191 00:19:00,558 --> 00:19:03,561 We pulled another set of prints off of the knife. 192 00:19:03,644 --> 00:19:07,064 They belong to a convicted murderer named Malcolm Wiggins. 193 00:19:08,482 --> 00:19:14,030 And the fact that Fellig's blood was found at the crime scene tells me his story checks out. 194 00:19:14,113 --> 00:19:17,408 At least, that particular story, anyway. 195 00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:20,036 But you still think Fellig's a murderer? 196 00:19:20,661 --> 00:19:22,747 I don't know what to think. 197 00:19:25,666 --> 00:19:27,626 He's, uh... 198 00:19:29,378 --> 00:19:30,629 unusual 199 00:19:30,713 --> 00:19:34,091 As in, he plugs up like a cork when you stab him? 200 00:19:34,175 --> 00:19:35,968 Where are you getting this stuff? 201 00:19:36,093 --> 00:19:39,347 Ritter's been sending progress reports to Kersh. 202 00:19:39,430 --> 00:19:42,266 My computer inadvertently intercepted a few. 203 00:19:42,350 --> 00:19:46,979 He's got nice things to say about you, though... mostly. 204 00:19:48,939 --> 00:19:52,109 Why don't you let me do a background check on Fellig? 205 00:19:52,193 --> 00:19:55,696 - Mulder... - It's what I do now. I'm gettin' good at it. 206 00:20:21,597 --> 00:20:23,682 I'm parked around the block. 207 00:20:26,602 --> 00:20:30,481 Fellig's asleep. I haven't seen him move in over four hours. 208 00:20:33,651 --> 00:20:35,736 Have a lovely evening. 209 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:11,188 (camera clicking) 210 00:21:19,029 --> 00:21:21,866 (pounding on door) Mr Fellig, open up, please. 211 00:21:24,368 --> 00:21:26,203 Explain this. 212 00:21:26,871 --> 00:21:27,872 What? 213 00:21:27,955 --> 00:21:30,791 You took that photo an hour before police arrived. 214 00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:34,753 You then covered up that fact by photographing the scene again. 215 00:21:34,837 --> 00:21:37,423 I don't think I remember that one. 216 00:21:37,506 --> 00:21:43,345 You have a long and uncanny history of being the first person at the scene of a death. 217 00:21:43,429 --> 00:21:47,224 You also have a history of covering up that fact. Why? 218 00:21:47,308 --> 00:21:49,560 Am I under arrest... again? 219 00:21:49,643 --> 00:21:51,729 Are you a murderer? 220 00:21:53,314 --> 00:21:55,399 Then explain yourself, sir. 221 00:21:55,483 --> 00:21:59,278 Because I promise, until you do, you will not get a moment's peace. 222 00:22:07,495 --> 00:22:10,247 You want to take a ride with me? 223 00:22:11,207 --> 00:22:14,001 You come with me. I'll show you. 224 00:22:22,426 --> 00:22:24,303 It's been an hour. 225 00:22:24,428 --> 00:22:29,016 - Are we gonna drive around all night? - Yeah. This is it. 226 00:22:29,099 --> 00:22:31,602 This is what I do. 227 00:22:31,685 --> 00:22:33,854 Lookin' for the shot. 228 00:22:34,605 --> 00:22:37,107 - What shot? - The shot. 229 00:22:46,867 --> 00:22:48,285 Her. 230 00:22:49,286 --> 00:22:51,747 She's about to die. 231 00:22:54,333 --> 00:22:55,960 What are you talking about? 232 00:22:56,043 --> 00:23:01,840 Could happen in the next minute, in the next hour, but it'll happen, just as plain as day. 233 00:23:03,467 --> 00:23:05,135 Look, Mr... 234 00:23:05,886 --> 00:23:08,722 Fellig, I don't know what you're planning, 235 00:23:08,806 --> 00:23:10,683 but nobody here's gonna die. 236 00:23:11,141 --> 00:23:13,811 I'm not planning anything. 237 00:23:13,894 --> 00:23:17,481 I'm just here to tell you what's gonna happen. 238 00:23:20,192 --> 00:23:22,653 That that woman there is gonna be murdered? 239 00:23:22,736 --> 00:23:25,906 I didn't say "murdered". 240 00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:28,409 She's a smoker. She might die of lung cancer. 241 00:23:28,492 --> 00:23:31,579 The "how" is always a surprise. 242 00:23:32,621 --> 00:23:34,665 I just always know when. 243 00:23:35,332 --> 00:23:37,376 You want me to believe that? 244 00:23:41,088 --> 00:23:43,507 (man) What are you doin' out here, huh? 245 00:23:45,718 --> 00:23:48,470 It's so cold out, huh? 246 00:23:48,554 --> 00:23:52,182 (continues speaking indistinctly) 247 00:23:53,684 --> 00:23:57,521 - (man) All right? - Get out of my face! Get off me! 248 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,817 (man and woman arguing) 249 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:03,444 (camera flash charging) 250 00:24:03,527 --> 00:24:06,196 I don't want your money! 251 00:24:07,406 --> 00:24:10,200 You creep! Get off of me! Let go of me! 252 00:24:10,326 --> 00:24:12,828 (arguing continues) 253 00:24:18,542 --> 00:24:20,586 FBI! Don't move! 254 00:24:20,669 --> 00:24:23,213 - Where'd you come from? - Shut up! 255 00:24:24,214 --> 00:24:26,342 Get down! Back up! 256 00:24:26,425 --> 00:24:29,053 (woman) You're not such a big man now! 257 00:24:37,728 --> 00:24:39,730 That gun ain't mine, Red. 258 00:24:42,232 --> 00:24:44,234 - You all right? - I'm outta here. 259 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,403 (honking) 260 00:25:12,179 --> 00:25:14,807 Dana, what the hell is goin' on? 261 00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:18,644 Assault and possession of an unregistered handgun. 262 00:25:18,727 --> 00:25:21,438 - Why didn't you call me sooner? - I apologise. 263 00:25:22,272 --> 00:25:24,191 You blew off the surveillance? 264 00:25:28,278 --> 00:25:31,031 The surveillance was blown before I got there. 265 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,827 You blew off the surveillance and took a little joyride with him? 266 00:25:34,910 --> 00:25:39,832 I questioned Fellig about his involvement in the deaths that he photographed. 267 00:25:39,915 --> 00:25:41,583 - Is that OK? - What did he say? 268 00:25:41,667 --> 00:25:45,212 He said that he can tell when people are about to die. 269 00:25:45,295 --> 00:25:48,424 If New York passes a Good Samaritan law, we might nail him. 270 00:25:48,507 --> 00:25:51,051 Other than that, we won't get him for murder. 271 00:25:51,135 --> 00:25:53,303 Wrong. Let me show you something. 272 00:25:58,475 --> 00:26:03,021 They picked up Mr Wiggins last night. He says Fellig killed that kid, not him. 273 00:26:03,105 --> 00:26:07,776 - He said he just happened along. - A convicted murderer half Fellig's age. 274 00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:11,363 He would've come in, but he was afraid we wouldn't have believed him. 275 00:26:11,488 --> 00:26:12,990 He's right. 276 00:26:13,073 --> 00:26:16,243 Tell me, did he have any help concocting that story? 277 00:26:16,326 --> 00:26:19,163 Look. Fellig is a murderer. 278 00:26:19,246 --> 00:26:21,290 Whether he did this one, I don't care. 279 00:26:21,373 --> 00:26:23,959 Not if it buys me a few days in the box with him. 280 00:26:24,042 --> 00:26:28,922 - No judge will issue a warrant based on this. - I know the judge. We'll have it by noon. 281 00:26:32,259 --> 00:26:35,679 - You know, Kersh warned me about you. - He did? 282 00:26:35,763 --> 00:26:40,100 You and your partner - his reputation precedes him, so I should've seen it comin'. 283 00:26:40,184 --> 00:26:44,813 You muck up my case, and Kersh'll hear about it. Are we clear, Dana? 284 00:26:44,897 --> 00:26:46,565 - Scully. - (cellphone rings) 285 00:26:46,690 --> 00:26:49,526 And we're done with this conversation. 286 00:26:52,613 --> 00:26:54,698 - Yeah. - (Mulder) Hey, Scully. 287 00:26:54,782 --> 00:26:58,202 How's that X-File? And before you tell me it's not an X-File... 288 00:26:58,368 --> 00:27:01,205 - It is. - What happened? 289 00:27:01,288 --> 00:27:04,625 Alfred Fellig seems to know an awful lot about death. 290 00:27:04,708 --> 00:27:10,214 Yeah? Well, that's not surprising, given that he's reached the ripe old age of 149. 291 00:27:10,714 --> 00:27:14,009 - Excuse me? - I did a low-tech background check on him. 292 00:27:14,092 --> 00:27:17,012 This stuff is so old, they don't keep it on computer. 293 00:27:17,095 --> 00:27:22,434 But Alfred Fellig doesn't exist before 1964, but one Henry Strand does. 294 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:26,772 He applied for a press pass from the Jersey City Police in 1939 at age 53. 295 00:27:26,855 --> 00:27:29,107 His prints match Fellig's. 296 00:27:29,191 --> 00:27:31,485 But there must be some kind of a mistake. 297 00:27:31,568 --> 00:27:36,365 You think? Because this Henry Strand does not exist before 1939. 298 00:27:36,448 --> 00:27:40,410 However, one LH Rice is on record 299 00:27:40,536 --> 00:27:43,747 as having sat for the New York State Civil Service Exam. 300 00:27:43,831 --> 00:27:46,333 The records don't show whether he passed. 301 00:27:46,416 --> 00:27:49,169 But his thumbprint? Fellig's. 302 00:27:51,088 --> 00:27:53,924 Want to know what LH Rice's birthday is? 303 00:27:54,007 --> 00:27:56,844 April 4th, 1849. 304 00:27:56,927 --> 00:28:01,014 I'm not good at math, but that's a whole lot of candles on the cake. 305 00:28:01,098 --> 00:28:05,978 I have spent time with this man, and he can't be more than 65 years old. 306 00:28:06,061 --> 00:28:08,438 I think that's what he wants you to think. 307 00:28:08,981 --> 00:28:13,610 He's a guy for whom the phrase "life in prison" carries some weighty connotations. 308 00:28:13,694 --> 00:28:17,281 You should get to him before he vanishes and becomes someone else. 309 00:28:22,911 --> 00:28:24,454 (car honks) 310 00:28:43,682 --> 00:28:45,684 (police radio scanner) 311 00:28:47,978 --> 00:28:51,690 You are going to be arrested, Mr Fellig, in two hours. 312 00:28:52,983 --> 00:28:54,735 Charged with murder. 313 00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:58,322 And this time you won't be able to just change your name. 314 00:28:58,405 --> 00:29:02,618 I showed you what I do last night. Just take the pictures. 315 00:29:02,701 --> 00:29:09,041 What you showed me was a contemptible lack of compassion for another human being. 316 00:29:09,124 --> 00:29:12,127 You showed me that you profit off of people's deaths. 317 00:29:12,961 --> 00:29:15,464 Now, why shouldn't you go to prison? 318 00:29:15,547 --> 00:29:18,008 You want me to cry for them? 319 00:29:18,091 --> 00:29:21,553 You want me to make like I feel sorry for them? 320 00:29:21,678 --> 00:29:23,722 I don't. 321 00:29:24,723 --> 00:29:26,725 Lucky bastards. 322 00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:31,063 - Every one of 'em. - Lucky? 323 00:29:32,272 --> 00:29:34,358 I'm just there to get the shot. 324 00:29:34,441 --> 00:29:37,361 I don't take those people. He does. 325 00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:39,529 Who's "he"? 326 00:30:11,895 --> 00:30:14,147 That's him. 327 00:30:14,231 --> 00:30:16,316 He's the one who takes them. 328 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,820 You're saying this is a photograph of death itself? 329 00:30:19,903 --> 00:30:22,614 It's a glimpse. Just a glimpse. 330 00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:25,909 But it's closer than I've gotten in... 331 00:30:25,993 --> 00:30:28,704 I can't even count the years. 332 00:30:28,787 --> 00:30:31,790 And this is the shot that you spoke of. This is... 333 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,836 - what you try and get. - Mm-hm. 334 00:30:39,756 --> 00:30:44,803 Mr Fellig, I know... that you know more about photography than I do. 335 00:30:46,513 --> 00:30:49,683 But this is just a lens flare. 336 00:30:49,766 --> 00:30:53,520 You're right. I do know more about photography than you do. 337 00:30:58,859 --> 00:31:00,944 OK. I, um... 338 00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:08,160 For the sake of argument, why bother? 339 00:31:08,243 --> 00:31:12,289 I mean, why take a picture of death? 340 00:31:12,372 --> 00:31:15,834 So I can look into his face. 341 00:31:15,959 --> 00:31:18,170 So I can die. 342 00:31:19,046 --> 00:31:21,131 Pills don't work. 343 00:31:23,050 --> 00:31:25,844 Razors, gas, bridges... 344 00:31:25,969 --> 00:31:30,432 I can't tell ya how many bridges I've jumped off of. All I get is wet. 345 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,188 I got left behind. 346 00:31:36,271 --> 00:31:38,398 I don't want to be here any more. 347 00:31:38,482 --> 00:31:41,359 I can't even remember a time when I did. 348 00:31:43,487 --> 00:31:45,655 This is... 349 00:31:46,239 --> 00:31:49,493 This is all I know... to do. 350 00:31:52,704 --> 00:31:54,414 You know I don't believe you. 351 00:31:54,498 --> 00:31:56,041 Yes, you do. 352 00:31:57,876 --> 00:32:00,378 It's why you're here. 353 00:32:22,025 --> 00:32:26,071 How is it you know when people are about to die? 354 00:32:27,864 --> 00:32:29,407 Oh... 355 00:32:30,534 --> 00:32:33,411 You chase it long enough, you pick it up. 356 00:32:45,173 --> 00:32:46,716 Excuse me. 357 00:33:02,983 --> 00:33:04,901 - (phone rings) - Mulder. 358 00:33:04,985 --> 00:33:06,570 - Mulder, it's me. - Hi. 359 00:33:06,736 --> 00:33:11,158 Those other two names that you said that Fellig went by - Strand and Rice? 360 00:33:11,867 --> 00:33:14,077 Yeah. Henry Strand and LH Rice. 361 00:33:14,161 --> 00:33:16,663 What about Louis Brady? 362 00:33:16,746 --> 00:33:21,960 Uh... no. But there's a big gap before 1939. 363 00:33:22,586 --> 00:33:25,088 (Scully) Will you check it out for me? 364 00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:28,800 I'm sticking here to make sure he doesn't bolt. 365 00:33:29,551 --> 00:33:31,595 Louis Brady, Mulder. 366 00:33:31,761 --> 00:33:33,763 Tell me what you find out. 367 00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:37,100 (hangs up ph0ne) 368 00:33:49,821 --> 00:33:51,948 Mr Fellig? 369 00:33:55,202 --> 00:34:00,248 Oops. Excuse me. I have a film out. Hold on a second. 370 00:34:53,593 --> 00:34:55,178 (cellphone rings) 371 00:34:56,054 --> 00:34:58,139 - Ritter. - It's Agent Mulder. 372 00:34:58,223 --> 00:35:02,519 - Is Agent Scully there with you? - No. Nor do I seem to be able to find her. 373 00:35:02,602 --> 00:35:05,397 DC Cellular says her phone is turned off. 374 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,316 - What can I do for you? - You can find her for me. 375 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,195 Listen, Agent Mulder, I'm on my way to arrest Alfred Fellig. 376 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,989 That's where I think she is. 377 00:35:14,072 --> 00:35:17,534 And you were right. Fellig is a murderer - under the name Louis Brady. 378 00:35:17,617 --> 00:35:22,330 He suffocated two patients in a hospital. He says he meant to catch up with death. 379 00:35:22,414 --> 00:35:25,417 After one year in prison, he walked off a work detail. 380 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:27,711 The manhunt never officially ceased. 381 00:35:27,877 --> 00:35:30,130 - When was this? - 1929. 382 00:35:30,213 --> 00:35:31,715 Whoa-whoa-whoa. When? 383 00:35:31,798 --> 00:35:34,509 Look, Ritter, don't sweat the math. It's him. 384 00:35:34,592 --> 00:35:38,430 - Just get there and find Agent Scully. - All right, I'm on it. 385 00:35:43,476 --> 00:35:46,396 You know, most people want to live for ever. 386 00:35:46,479 --> 00:35:48,606 Most people are idiots. 387 00:35:49,649 --> 00:35:51,651 Which is one of the reasons I don't. 388 00:35:51,735 --> 00:35:53,737 I think you're wrong. 389 00:35:55,530 --> 00:35:57,949 How can you have too much life? 390 00:36:00,076 --> 00:36:03,121 There's too much to learn, to experience. 391 00:36:03,246 --> 00:36:06,541 75 years... is enough. 392 00:36:07,834 --> 00:36:10,545 Take my word for it. 393 00:36:10,628 --> 00:36:15,216 You live for ever, you start to think about the big thing you're missing 394 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:19,262 and that everybody else gets to find out about but you. 395 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:21,890 What about love? 396 00:36:21,973 --> 00:36:24,059 What, does that last for ever? 397 00:36:26,186 --> 00:36:31,649 40 years ago, I drove down to the city hall, 398 00:36:31,733 --> 00:36:33,777 down to the hall of records. 399 00:36:33,860 --> 00:36:39,074 Record archives, or whatever they call it. I wanted to... look up my wife. 400 00:36:39,157 --> 00:36:44,287 It... bothered me I couldn't remember her name. 401 00:36:46,664 --> 00:36:51,711 Love lasts... 75 years, if you're lucky. 402 00:36:53,088 --> 00:36:56,132 You don't want to be around when it's gone. 403 00:37:12,607 --> 00:37:15,110 Count your blessings. 404 00:37:28,748 --> 00:37:31,042 Why are you this way? 405 00:37:32,544 --> 00:37:37,465 I mean, if this is true, give me something in the way of proof. 406 00:37:38,466 --> 00:37:41,553 Help me find some science that I can hang this on. 407 00:37:41,636 --> 00:37:44,681 It has nothing to do with science. 408 00:37:44,764 --> 00:37:48,518 - Someone took my place. - Took your place? 409 00:37:49,602 --> 00:37:51,688 I don't know her name. 410 00:37:53,189 --> 00:37:55,650 I don't think I ever knew it. 411 00:37:55,733 --> 00:38:01,197 I had yellow fever, way the hell back then when it killed half of New York. 412 00:38:03,867 --> 00:38:07,954 Washington Square Park was a common grave, they had so many bodies. 413 00:38:09,038 --> 00:38:11,124 They'd bury them shallow. 414 00:38:11,207 --> 00:38:13,668 They wrapped them in yellow sheets, 415 00:38:13,751 --> 00:38:16,671 and the yellow sheets would stick up through the mud. 416 00:38:16,754 --> 00:38:20,258 I was in a city-run contagion ward. 417 00:38:20,383 --> 00:38:24,596 I was out of my head with fever, out of my mind. Then I saw him. 418 00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:26,681 Saw Death. 419 00:38:26,764 --> 00:38:28,808 I wish I'd had a camera then. 420 00:38:28,892 --> 00:38:34,772 At first, I... I just saw him out of the corner of my eye. 421 00:38:34,856 --> 00:38:38,401 Then he got bolder and he started flitting around the room, 422 00:38:38,485 --> 00:38:41,571 and he'd take this person, then he'd take that person. 423 00:38:41,696 --> 00:38:44,991 And I never saw his face. I didn't want to see his face. 424 00:38:45,074 --> 00:38:48,745 I figured if I saw it, he'd take me too. 425 00:38:50,413 --> 00:38:52,582 - But he didn't. - No. 426 00:38:52,665 --> 00:38:55,418 There was a nurse. 427 00:38:55,502 --> 00:38:57,921 She did the best she could. 428 00:38:58,004 --> 00:39:00,173 Back then... 429 00:39:00,256 --> 00:39:02,509 medical science was... 430 00:39:03,426 --> 00:39:06,054 They couldn't find their ass with both hands. 431 00:39:06,137 --> 00:39:11,726 But she did the best she could. She sat with me and held my hand and... 432 00:39:11,809 --> 00:39:14,687 I was on my deathbed. 433 00:39:14,771 --> 00:39:18,149 Then he came for me. I didn't look at him. 434 00:39:18,274 --> 00:39:21,402 Closed my eyes and turned my head. 435 00:39:21,486 --> 00:39:25,406 I didn't tell her not to look at him. I wanted her to look at him. 436 00:39:25,490 --> 00:39:29,827 I wanted her to look at him, instead of me. 437 00:39:32,121 --> 00:39:34,916 And then I came to, and the fever broke. 438 00:39:36,376 --> 00:39:39,963 They were carrying her out, wrapped up in a yellow sheet. 439 00:39:42,173 --> 00:39:46,135 Since that time, I realised you gotta be careful what you wish for. 440 00:39:47,470 --> 00:39:50,056 I missed my chance. 441 00:39:50,932 --> 00:39:53,726 You're very lucky, you know that? 442 00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:56,062 What do you mean? 443 00:39:59,941 --> 00:40:01,484 Wait a minute. 444 00:40:03,611 --> 00:40:07,574 Say what's on your mind. You mean "lucky" like the others? 445 00:40:07,657 --> 00:40:09,867 You want me to believe I'm about to die? 446 00:40:09,951 --> 00:40:12,453 I just want to take the picture. 447 00:40:12,537 --> 00:40:14,747 You took my picture last night. 448 00:40:14,831 --> 00:40:17,000 - Is this why? - That was different. 449 00:40:17,083 --> 00:40:19,419 I'm not gonna die! 450 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,089 - (camera flash charging) - Turn that off. 451 00:40:23,172 --> 00:40:26,092 - No. - Turn it off right now! Put it down! 452 00:40:26,175 --> 00:40:28,344 There's nothing to be done for it. 453 00:40:40,815 --> 00:40:45,236 - You took my phone. Why? - Please. Just give me a chance. 454 00:40:45,361 --> 00:40:48,698 - What don't you want me to know? - He's coming. 455 00:40:48,781 --> 00:40:51,618 - And you should just make your peace. - Shut up! 456 00:40:53,369 --> 00:40:55,997 (Crash) 457 00:40:56,581 --> 00:40:58,249 He's here. 458 00:40:58,374 --> 00:40:59,917 (camera flash charging) 459 00:41:21,564 --> 00:41:23,650 Agent? 460 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:34,410 Oh God. No, no, no. 461 00:41:34,494 --> 00:41:38,081 No.No.No.No.No.No. 462 00:41:40,458 --> 00:41:42,919 Come on. Come on, dammit. 463 00:41:43,294 --> 00:41:44,921 (gasping) 464 00:41:45,463 --> 00:41:48,091 I'll get help. We need some help in here! 465 00:42:25,002 --> 00:42:27,088 Do you see him? 466 00:42:29,132 --> 00:42:31,342 Do you see him? 467 00:42:35,054 --> 00:42:37,140 Don't look. 468 00:42:38,099 --> 00:42:39,934 Close your eyes. 469 00:43:38,034 --> 00:43:40,536 You're a lucky man. 470 00:43:56,052 --> 00:44:00,890 The coroner's report came back on Fellig. It says he died of a single gunshot wound. 471 00:44:00,973 --> 00:44:03,392 That's all it said. 472 00:44:04,769 --> 00:44:09,899 I... talked to your doctor and he says you're doin' great. 473 00:44:09,982 --> 00:44:13,110 You're makin' the fastest recovery he's ever seen. 474 00:44:15,112 --> 00:44:19,116 You know, Mulder, I don't even know how I entertained the thought. 475 00:44:21,577 --> 00:44:23,621 People don't live for ever. 476 00:44:23,746 --> 00:44:26,749 No, no. I think he would have. 477 00:44:27,583 --> 00:44:30,753 I just think that death only looks for you... 478 00:44:32,547 --> 00:44:35,258 once you seek its opposite. 479 00:44:59,782 --> 00:45:01,450 Visiontext Subtitles: Tram Nguyen Zelniker 480 00:45:20,219 --> 00:45:21,846 (Child) I made this! 481 00:45:23,139 --> 00:45:25,141 ENGLISH SDH