CENE 16

(SCULLY and BONSAINT are getting back in the car.

SCULLY'S phone rings.)

SCULLY: (on phone) Scully.

MULDER: (on phone) Hey. I thought you weren't answering your

cell phone.

(MULDER, tie undone, is sitting at a desk <SCULLY'S?!> which has an upside down map of Ken-tucky behind it. He is playing with the phone cord. Still bored.)

SCULLY: (on phone) Then why'd you call?

MULDER: (on phone) I, uh, I had a new thought about this case

you're on. There's a viral infection that's spread by simple touch ...

SCULLY: (on phone) Mulder, are there any references in occult literature to objects that have the power to direct human behavior?

(BONSAINT gives SCULLY an odd look.)

MULDER: (on phone) What types of objects?

SCULLY: (on phone) Um, like a doll, for instance.

MULDER: (on phone) You mean like Chuckie?

SCULLY: (on phone) Yeah, kind of like that.

(MULDER gets up and crosses to his desk)

MULDER: (on phone) Yeah, the talking doll myth is well established in literature, especially in New England. The-the fetish or Juju is believed to pass on magical powers onto its possessor. Some of the early witches were condemned for little more than proclaiming that these objects ex-isted. The supposed witch having premonitory visions and things .... Why do you ask?

SCULLY: (on phone) I was just curious.

MULDER: (on phone) You didn't find a talking doll, did you,

Scully?

SCULLY: (on phone) No, no. Of course not.

MULDER: (on phone) I would suggest that you check the back

of the doll for a - a plastic ring with a string on it.

(SCULLY shakes her head and hangs up.)

MULDER: (on phone) That would be my first .... Hello?

SCULLY: Let's go talk to Melissa Turner.

SCENE 17

(Turner house. Sound of metal scraping.)

POLLY: (in her room, yelling) Where's my popcorn?!

(MELISSA is in the kitchen making popcorn on the stove.

She is very upset.)

MELISSA: It's coming, Polly.

(Camera shows that OFFICER BUDDY RIGGS is dead.

In his hand is his bloody nightstick.)

POLLY: Where's my popcorn?!

MELISSA: (crying) It's coming.

(Commercial 3.)