DOLL: Let’s have fun.
(MELISSA sees her own image in the window, a hammer stuck in her bloody forehead.)
MELISSA’S IMAGE: Help me …
MELISSA: Everything’s going to be all right, Sweetie. Just go back to bed.
(Outside, BONSAINT and SCULLY drive up. They see a car parked close by.)
BONSAINT: That’s Buddy’s car.
(Inside, MELISSA closes the door to POLLY’S bedroom. She puts the hammer back in the cabinet and padlocks it. Then she goes to the kitchen and tips a portable heater over, spilling kerosene on the floor next to the dead body of BUDDY RIGGS. She gets a box of matches then hears BONSAINT and SCULLY outside knocking.)
BONSAINT: Melissa!
(SCULLY looks in a window.)
BONSAINT: You see anything?
SCULLY: Unh-uh.
BONSAINT: (knocking) Melissa.
(Inside, Melissa tries to strike a match. She is shaking. Finally, the third match lights)
BONSAINT: (outside) Melissa!
POLLY: (watching MELISSA, frightened) Mommy?!
(Doll’s eyes open. Match goes out.)
DOLL: Don’t play with matches.
MELISSA: (crying, and trying to strike another match) You go back to bed, Polly!
(MELISSA strikes more matches. They each get blown out.)
BONSAINT: (outside knocking) Melissa?!
MELISSA: Go on now.
(Outside, SCULLY sees the nails holding the door closed. As BONSAINT continues to knock on the door, SCULLY looks in the window again and sees MELISSA striking matches. SCULLY begins knocking on the window.)
SCULLY: Melissa? Melissa? Bonsaint!
(MELISSA gives up on the matches and begins trying to open drawers. They snap back closed.)
DOLL: Don’t play with knives.
POLLY: Mommy!
SCULLY: (outside) She’s got the door nailed shut. She’s trying to kill herself.
(BONSAINT begins breaking down the door. SCULLY keeps knocking on the window.)
SCULLY: Melissa! Melissa!
POLLY: Mommy! Mommy, no more pounding!
(Hardware cabinet bursts open on its own.)
DOLL: Let’s play with the hammer.
(SCULLY and BONSAINT take turns hitting the door.)
SCULLY: Melissa!
(Door finally crashes open. BONSAINT and SCULLY enter. MELISSA is holding the hammer in front of her face.)
MELISSA: Get away from me!
SCULLY: Put it down, Melissa.
DOLL: I don’t like you anymore.
(MELISSA hits herself on the forehead with the hammer.)
SCULLY: (kneels next to POLLY.) Give me the doll, Polly.
DOLL: I want to play.
(POLLY shakes her head and holds onto the doll. MELISSA hits herself again. Her head is now bloody.)
SCULLY: Polly, give me the doll.
DOLL: I want to play.
(MELISSA hits herself again. POLLY watches in horror. SCULLY takes the doll which keeps repeating 'I want to play.' She takes it down to the kitchen and stuffs the doll into the microwave and turns it on. Doll catches fire. Must be one of those oxygenated microwaves. POLLY walks over to MELISSA who is bloody and crying. SCULLY and BONSAINT watch the doll burn.)
SCENE 19 (X-Files office. Mulder finishes sharpening a pencil in an electric sharpener, and delicately blows the dust off the tip. He places it on the desk and carefully lines it up with about 20 more sharpened pencils. Door opens
