and SCULLY enters.)
MULDER: Oh, hey, Scully. How you doing? (Laces his fingers together smoothly to hide the row of pencils.) How are you feeling? Rested?
SCULLY: I feel fine.
(SCULLY is focused on the I Want to Believe Poster behind MULDER.)
MULDER: What?
SCULLY: That poster … Where’d you get it?
MULDER: Oh, I got it down on 'M' Street at some head shop about five years ago.
SCULLY: Hmm.
MULDER: Why?
SCULLY: No. I just … wanted to send one to somebody.
MULDER: You do?
SCULLY: Mm-hmm.
MULDER: Who?
(As SCULLY passes him, MULDER opens his desk drawer and coughs to cover the sound of the pencils being pushed into the drawer and the drawer being closed.)
MULDER: Who?
SCULLY: Oh, just … some guy. (pause) Jack. 'M' Street?
MULDER: Yeah. Hey, does this have something to do with that case you were working on?
SCULLY: What case? Uh, yeah. Yes it does.
MULDER: Did you solve it?
SCULLY: Me? No. No. I was, uh, I was on vacation. Just … getting out of my own head for a few days. What about you? Did you, uh, did you get anything done while I was gone?
MULDER: Oh, God. It’s amazing what I can accomplish without incessant meddling or questioning into everything I do. It’s just …
(MULDER is interrupted by a pencil dropping down on him. He looks up and another falls on him. SCULLY slowly raises her eyes to the ceiling. About thirty pencils are stuck into the ceiling tiles above MULDER’S desk.)
MULDER: (embarrassed, but charming) There’s … got to be an explanation.
SCULLY: Oh, I don’t know. I think some things are better left unexplained.
(Another pencil falls and hits MULDER on the top of the head. He looks innocently at SCULLY. She looks at him with exasperation.)
SCENE 20 (Night. Fishing boat in Maine. Fisherman pulls a lobster out of a trap.)
FISHERMAN: Ah.
(He pulls the burned doll out of the trap. Doll’s eyes open.)
DOLL: I want to play.
The End US Airdate: February 8, 1998
writers: Stephen King and Chris Carter director: Kim Manners
STARRING: David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast: Susannah Hoffman as Melissa Turner
Jenny Lynn Hutcheson as Polly Turner
Carolyn Tweedle as Jane Froelich
Gordon Tipple as Assistant Manager
Harrison R. Coe as Dave the Butcher
Larry Musser as Jack Bonsaint
William MacDonald as Buddy Riggs
Dean Wray as Rich Turner
