1 00:00:02,769 --> 00:00:06,762 &&[ Organ ] 2 00:00:14,714 --> 00:00:18,707 & Have yourself a merry little Christmas & 3 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:24,413 & Let yourself be light & 4 00:00:24,657 --> 00:00:28,650 &From now on our troubles will be out of sight & 5 00:00:29,329 --> 00:00:32,032 - I almost gave up on you. - Sorry. 6 00:00:32,032 --> 00:00:35,535 Checkout lines were worse than rush hour on the 95. 7 00:00:35,535 --> 00:00:39,528 If I heard ""Silent Night'' one more time, I was gonna start taking hostages. 8 00:00:40,306 --> 00:00:43,043 - What are we doing here? - Stakeout. 9 00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:45,345 - On Christmas Eve? - It's an important date. 10 00:00:45,345 --> 00:00:47,614 - No kidding. - Important to why we're here. 11 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:50,417 Turn off your car and I'll fill you in on the details. 12 00:00:50,417 --> 00:00:52,485 Mulder, I've got wrapping to do. 13 00:00:52,485 --> 00:00:56,222 It's the night before Christmas. 14 00:00:56,222 --> 00:00:59,059 Oh. 15 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:03,052 &Happy golden days of yore && 16 00:01:09,269 --> 00:01:13,106 Let's hear it. Give me the details. 17 00:01:13,106 --> 00:01:15,442 Look, if you've got Christmas stuff to do, I don't want to, you know-- 18 00:01:15,442 --> 00:01:19,112 I drove out here. I might as well know why, right? 19 00:01:19,112 --> 00:01:22,649 I just thought you'd be more... curious. 20 00:01:22,649 --> 00:01:25,318 - Who lives in the house? - No one. 21 00:01:25,318 --> 00:01:27,520 - Then who are we staking out? - The former occupants. 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,513 - They've come back? - That's the story. 23 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:35,784 I see. The dark, gothic manor. 24 00:01:36,362 --> 00:01:38,698 The omnipresent low fog, 25 00:01:38,698 --> 00:01:42,635 hugging the thicket of overgrowth. 26 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:46,628 Wait. Is that a hound I hear baying out in the moors? 27 00:01:46,906 --> 00:01:50,443 No. Actually, that was a left cheek sneak. 28 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:52,846 Mulder, tell me you didn't call me out here on Christmas Eve... 29 00:01:52,846 --> 00:01:55,915 - to go ghostbusting with you. - Technically speaking, they're called apparitions. 30 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:59,419 Mulder, call it what you want. I've got holiday cheer to spread. 31 00:01:59,419 --> 00:02:03,412 I've got a family roll call under the tree at 6:00 a.m. 32 00:02:03,656 --> 00:02:07,160 I'll make it fast. I'll just give you the details. 33 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,562 - Okay. - Christmas, 1 91 7. 34 00:02:09,562 --> 00:02:12,365 It was a time of dark, dark despair. 35 00:02:12,365 --> 00:02:15,902 American soldiers were dying at an ungodly rate in a war-torn Europe, 36 00:02:15,902 --> 00:02:19,606 while at home, a deadly flu virus attacked young and old alike. 37 00:02:19,606 --> 00:02:22,408 Tragedy was a visitor on every doorstep, 38 00:02:22,408 --> 00:02:25,445 while a creeping hopelessness set in with every man, woman and child. 39 00:02:25,445 --> 00:02:27,714 It was a time of dark, dark despair. 40 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:29,716 You said that. 41 00:02:29,716 --> 00:02:32,218 But here at 1 501 Larkspur Lane, 42 00:02:32,218 --> 00:02:34,220 for a pair of star-crossed lovers, 43 00:02:34,220 --> 00:02:36,222 tragedy came not from war or pestilence, 44 00:02:36,222 --> 00:02:38,658 not by the boot heel or the bombardier, 45 00:02:38,658 --> 00:02:42,651 but by their own innocent hand. 46 00:02:43,596 --> 00:02:45,598 - Go on. - His name was Maurice. 47 00:02:45,598 --> 00:02:48,601 He was a brooding but heroic young man... 48 00:02:48,601 --> 00:02:52,594 beloved of Lyda, a beauty with a light that followed her wherever she went. 49 00:02:53,306 --> 00:02:55,742 They were likened to two angels descended from heaven, 50 00:02:55,742 --> 00:02:57,777 whom the gods could not protect from the horrors... 51 00:02:57,777 --> 00:03:01,614 being visited upon this cold, gray earth. 52 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:03,583 And what happened to them? 53 00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:05,652 Driven by a tragic fear of separation, 54 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:08,421 they forged a lovers' pact... 55 00:03:08,421 --> 00:03:10,924 so that they might spend eternity together... 56 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:13,526 and not spend one precious Christmas apart. 57 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:16,396 They killed themselves? 58 00:03:16,396 --> 00:03:20,389 And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve. 59 00:03:21,668 --> 00:03:23,636 I just gave myself chills. 60 00:03:23,636 --> 00:03:26,406 It's a good story, Mulder, 61 00:03:26,406 --> 00:03:28,608 and very well told, but I don't believe it. 62 00:03:28,608 --> 00:03:31,544 - You don't believe in ghosts? - That surprises you? 63 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:35,381 Well, yeah. I thought everybody believed in ghosts. 64 00:03:35,381 --> 00:03:39,018 Mulder, if it were any other night, I might let you talk me into it, 65 00:03:39,018 --> 00:03:43,011 but the halls are decked, and I got to go. 66 00:03:46,359 --> 00:03:50,352 - My best to the family. - What are you doing? 67 00:03:51,698 --> 00:03:55,691 - Mulder, don't you have somewhere to be? -Just gonna take a look. 68 00:04:02,442 --> 00:04:06,435 I'm not going to do it. My New Year's resolution. 69 00:04:38,845 --> 00:04:40,947 - [ Thunder Crashing ] - Mulder? 70 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:44,050 - Change your mind? - Did you take my car keys? 71 00:04:44,050 --> 00:04:46,886 - No. - Come on, Mulder. Don't kid around. 72 00:04:46,886 --> 00:04:50,879 - Why would I take your car keys? - Maybe you, uh-- 73 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,393 Maybe you grabbed them by mistake. 74 00:04:53,393 --> 00:04:55,928 Maybe it was a ghost. 75 00:04:55,928 --> 00:04:59,921 [ Thumping ] 76 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:05,794 [ Clock Chiming ] 77 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:10,310 [ Wind Howling ] 78 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:12,312 Cold wind. 79 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:15,581 There must be a window open upstairs. 80 00:05:15,581 --> 00:05:18,418 The weather report said that there was an 80% chance of rain. 81 00:05:18,418 --> 00:05:22,411 Maybe even a-- Maybe even a white Christmas. 82 00:05:22,488 --> 00:05:26,481 [ Thunderclap ] 83 00:06:21,381 --> 00:06:25,374 [ Thunder Crashing ] 84 00:06:29,989 --> 00:06:32,959 I think the spirits are among us. 85 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:35,895 Quit trying to scare me and help me get these doors open. 86 00:06:35,895 --> 00:06:38,731 Sounds like there's somebody walking around upstairs. 87 00:06:38,731 --> 00:06:42,068 - [ Thump ] - There. You hear that? 88 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:44,103 Mulder, I really have to go. 89 00:06:44,103 --> 00:06:48,040 - There's nothing to be afraid of. - I'm not afraid, okay? 90 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,042 Ghosts are benevolent entities. 91 00:06:50,042 --> 00:06:54,035 - [ Thumping Continues ] - Mostly. 92 00:06:55,581 --> 00:06:59,574 You are not scaring me, Mulder. 93 00:07:06,926 --> 00:07:10,919 Look, I really have to get home. 94 00:07:10,997 --> 00:07:14,990 [ Thunderclap ] 95 00:07:19,806 --> 00:07:21,841 - Mulder-- - Shh! 96 00:07:21,841 --> 00:07:25,834 - What was that? - These are tricks that the mind plays. 97 00:07:26,179 --> 00:07:30,172 They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. 98 00:07:30,249 --> 00:07:32,485 When we hear a sound, we get a chill. 99 00:07:32,485 --> 00:07:35,121 We see a shadow, and we allow ourselves to imagine something... 100 00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:39,114 that an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. 101 00:07:41,194 --> 00:07:43,696 The whole-- Mulder? 102 00:07:43,696 --> 00:07:47,600 The whole idea of a benevolent entity fits perfectly with what I'm saying. 103 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,770 That a spirit would materialize or return... 104 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:54,240 for no other purpose than to show itself is silly and ridiculous. 105 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,577 What it really shows is how silly and ridiculous we have become... 106 00:07:57,577 --> 00:07:59,645 in believing such things. 107 00:07:59,645 --> 00:08:03,638 I mean, that we can ignore all natural laws about the corporeal body, 108 00:08:04,016 --> 00:08:08,009 that we witness these spirits clad in their own shabby outfits, 109 00:08:08,855 --> 00:08:11,958 with the same old haircuts and hairstyles, 110 00:08:11,958 --> 00:08:15,795 never aging, never in search of more comfortable surroundings. 111 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:19,788 It actually ends up saying more about the living than it does about the dead. 112 00:08:20,132 --> 00:08:23,536 Mulder, it doesn't take an advanced degree in psychology to understand... 113 00:08:23,536 --> 00:08:27,529 the unconscious yearnings that these imaginings satisfy. 114 00:08:28,007 --> 00:08:31,143 You know, the longing for immortality, 115 00:08:31,143 --> 00:08:34,547 the hope that there is something beyond this mortal coil, 116 00:08:34,547 --> 00:08:36,983 that we might never belong without our loved ones. 117 00:08:36,983 --> 00:08:39,852 These are powerful, powerful desires. 118 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:43,845 I mean, they're the very essence of what make us human. 119 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:46,692 The very essence of Christmas, actually. 120 00:08:46,692 --> 00:08:50,685 [ Door Creaks Open ] 121 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:54,333 Tell me you're not afraid. 122 00:08:54,333 --> 00:08:56,869 All right. I'm afraid. 123 00:08:56,869 --> 00:09:00,862 - But it's an irrational fear. - [ Thunderclap ] 124 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:13,909 - I got your back. - Thank you. 125 00:09:27,767 --> 00:09:30,269 Mulder, did it occur to you that there aren't ghosts here, 126 00:09:30,269 --> 00:09:34,073 - but that somebody actually might be living in this house? - No one lives here. 127 00:09:34,073 --> 00:09:38,066 But when you and I were sitting out in the car, there was not a light on, 128 00:09:39,111 --> 00:09:43,104 and look at this. 129 00:10:01,667 --> 00:10:05,660 [ Thunder Crashing ] 130 00:10:10,042 --> 00:10:12,712 Must have been some kind of electrical surge. 131 00:10:12,712 --> 00:10:16,705 Mulder, did you happen to notice the clock downstairs is keeping perfect time? 132 00:10:17,249 --> 00:10:19,251 Is it? 133 00:10:19,251 --> 00:10:23,244 And how do you explain that? 134 00:10:35,434 --> 00:10:38,437 This fire has just gone out. 135 00:10:38,437 --> 00:10:40,439 Yeah. 136 00:10:40,439 --> 00:10:42,842 Don't look so disappointed. 137 00:10:42,842 --> 00:10:45,044 Why would anyone want to live in a cursed house? 138 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:48,080 Mulder, it's not enough that it's haunted, it has to be cursed? 139 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,850 Every couple that's ever lived here has met a tragic end. 140 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:54,843 Three double murders in the last 80 years, all on Christmas Eve. 141 00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:58,858 - [ Hinge Creaking ] - [ Thunder Crashing ] 142 00:10:58,858 --> 00:11:01,694 - [ Hinge Creaking ] - [ Thunder Crashing ] 143 00:11:01,694 --> 00:11:04,330 - Whoa. - [ Thumping ] 144 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:06,332 There's that sound again. 145 00:11:06,332 --> 00:11:10,325 [ Thumping Continues ] 146 00:11:38,431 --> 00:11:42,424 Mulder? 147 00:11:50,409 --> 00:11:52,278 [ Screams ] 148 00:11:52,278 --> 00:11:54,313 - [ Laughs ] - That's not funny! 149 00:11:54,313 --> 00:11:57,049 I think there's a hiding space under the floorboards. 150 00:11:57,049 --> 00:11:59,952 What are you going to do? 151 00:11:59,952 --> 00:12:02,755 - There may be somebody trapped. I got to get them out. - Mulder, don't. 152 00:12:02,755 --> 00:12:04,957 - Not now. - Hey, you have a gun, right? 153 00:12:04,957 --> 00:12:08,950 Rationally, you've been in much more dangerous situations. 154 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:26,345 Well, I was half right. 155 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:30,338 Oh, my God. 156 00:12:39,425 --> 00:12:43,418 Hey, Scully. 157 00:12:43,529 --> 00:12:47,522 Look at this. 158 00:12:49,535 --> 00:12:53,528 It's a woman. 159 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,433 Mulder, it looks like they were shot to death. 160 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:03,349 - You know what's weird? - What? 161 00:13:03,349 --> 00:13:07,342 Mulder, she's wearing my outfit. 162 00:13:09,922 --> 00:13:12,825 How embarrassing. 163 00:13:12,825 --> 00:13:16,818 Yeah, well, you know what? He's wearing yours. 164 00:13:23,269 --> 00:13:26,005 Oh, Scully. 165 00:13:26,005 --> 00:13:29,998 That's us. 166 00:13:37,349 --> 00:13:40,085 Hey, Scully. 167 00:13:40,085 --> 00:13:44,078 This is the same room. 168 00:14:12,384 --> 00:14:14,386 All right. 169 00:14:14,386 --> 00:14:17,656 - I'm beginning to get this. - Yeah. 170 00:14:17,656 --> 00:14:20,492 You go through that door, and I-- 171 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:24,485 - I should come out this door. - Right. 172 00:14:47,586 --> 00:14:51,579 - Mulder? - Scully! 173 00:15:12,344 --> 00:15:16,337 Scully! 174 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:28,383 Hey, Scully! 175 00:15:28,627 --> 00:15:32,620 Scully, can you hear me? 176 00:15:49,315 --> 00:15:53,308 [ Man ] Hey! 177 00:15:56,088 --> 00:15:58,657 - Who are you? - That's a question I should be asking, 178 00:15:58,657 --> 00:16:02,650 being this is my house you're standing in. 179 00:16:04,563 --> 00:16:07,666 This isn't one of those home invasions, is it? 180 00:16:07,666 --> 00:16:09,401 - No. - Good. 181 00:16:09,401 --> 00:16:12,171 Would you like me to show you the door? 182 00:16:12,171 --> 00:16:15,674 - That's very funny. - I wasn't making a joke. 183 00:16:15,674 --> 00:16:19,044 - Have you looked at the door? - Uh-huh. I'm looking at it now. 184 00:16:19,044 --> 00:16:23,037 - Tell me what you see. - I see a door with the lock shot off it. 185 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:27,753 You gonna pay for that? 186 00:16:27,753 --> 00:16:31,323 That's a door with a brick wall behind it. 187 00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:33,726 Okay, sure. 188 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:36,528 You're playing tricks on me. 189 00:16:36,528 --> 00:16:40,199 If I am, I'm sorry, but I don't know any tricks. 190 00:16:40,199 --> 00:16:42,501 Yeah? That's a trick in itself, isn't it? 191 00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:44,803 You've been playing tricks on us since we got here. 192 00:16:44,803 --> 00:16:47,606 Am I to take it we're not alone? 193 00:16:47,606 --> 00:16:49,708 [ Laughs ] 194 00:16:49,708 --> 00:16:53,178 That's very funny, coming from a ghost. 195 00:16:53,178 --> 00:16:57,171 [ Laughing ] Yeah, yeah! 196 00:16:57,516 --> 00:17:01,509 Oh, the gun fooled me a little at first. 197 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:04,456 You're a ghost hunter, huh? 198 00:17:04,456 --> 00:17:08,260 And-- And you think I'm a ghost, huh? 199 00:17:08,260 --> 00:17:11,697 I've seen a lot of strange folks come around here... 200 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:13,832 with a lot of strange equipment, 201 00:17:13,832 --> 00:17:17,825 but I think you must be the first I've seen come armed. 202 00:17:18,170 --> 00:17:20,339 - Strange folks? - Mm-hmm. 203 00:17:20,339 --> 00:17:24,332 Like those folks under the floor-- 204 00:17:28,447 --> 00:17:32,418 - How did you do that? - I didn't do anything. 205 00:17:32,418 --> 00:17:36,411 There were corpses here. Bodies buried in the floorboards. 206 00:17:39,191 --> 00:17:43,184 Why don't you have a seat, son? 207 00:17:51,503 --> 00:17:54,073 - You drink? Take drugs? - No. No. 208 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:56,108 - Get high? - No. 209 00:17:56,108 --> 00:18:00,101 Are you overcome by the impulse to make everyone believe you? 210 00:18:05,384 --> 00:18:07,419 I'm in the field of mental health. 211 00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:10,656 I specialize in disorders and manias... 212 00:18:10,656 --> 00:18:14,649 related to pathological behavior as it pertains to the paranormal. 213 00:18:16,261 --> 00:18:20,199 Wow. I didn't know such a thing existed. 214 00:18:20,199 --> 00:18:24,192 [ Chuckles ] My specialty is in what I call ""soul prospectors.'' 215 00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:28,863 A cross axial classification I've codified... 216 00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:33,234 by extensive interaction with visitors like yourself. 217 00:18:33,645 --> 00:18:37,638 I've found you all tend to fall into pretty much the same category. 218 00:18:39,351 --> 00:18:41,286 What category is that? 219 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:45,279 Narcissistic, overzealous, self-righteous egomaniac. 220 00:18:46,158 --> 00:18:48,660 Wow. That's a category? 221 00:18:48,660 --> 00:18:52,131 You kindly think of yourself as single-minded, 222 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:55,267 but you're prone to obsessive compulsiveness, 223 00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:58,804 workaholism, antisocialism. 224 00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:02,641 Fertile fields for the descent into... 225 00:19:02,641 --> 00:19:05,210 total wacko breakdown. 226 00:19:05,210 --> 00:19:07,779 I don't think that pegs me, exactly. 227 00:19:07,779 --> 00:19:11,772 Oh, really? Waving a gun around my house, huh? 228 00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:17,211 Raving like a lunatic about some imaginary brick wall? 229 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:24,752 You've probably convinced yourself you've seen aliens. 230 00:19:26,865 --> 00:19:30,858 You know why you think you see the things you do? 231 00:19:32,471 --> 00:19:35,741 Because I have seen them? 232 00:19:35,741 --> 00:19:37,876 'Cause you're a lonely man. 233 00:19:37,876 --> 00:19:40,679 A lonely man... 234 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:44,672 chasing paramasturbatory illusions... 235 00:19:44,783 --> 00:19:48,287 that you believe will give your life meaning and significance, 236 00:19:48,287 --> 00:19:50,822 which your pathetic social maladjustment... 237 00:19:50,822 --> 00:19:54,815 makes impossible for you to find elsewhere. 238 00:19:55,794 --> 00:19:58,597 You probably consider yourself... 239 00:19:58,597 --> 00:20:02,590 passionate, serious, misunderstood, am I right? 240 00:20:04,736 --> 00:20:06,905 Paramasturbatory? 241 00:20:06,905 --> 00:20:10,898 Most people would rather stick their fingers in a wall socket than spend a minute with you. 242 00:20:11,343 --> 00:20:14,446 All right, now, just back off for a second. 243 00:20:14,446 --> 00:20:17,683 - You spend every Christmas this way-- alone? - I'm not alone. 244 00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:20,319 More self-delusion. 245 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:23,322 No, I came here with my partner. She's somewhere in the house. 246 00:20:23,322 --> 00:20:26,225 Behind a brick wall? 247 00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:30,218 How'd you get her to come with you? Steal her car keys? 248 00:20:31,663 --> 00:20:33,865 You know why you do it-- 249 00:20:33,865 --> 00:20:37,858 listen endlessly to her droning rationalizations. 250 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:40,572 'Cause you're afraid. 251 00:20:40,572 --> 00:20:44,443 Afraid of the loneliness. 252 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:48,436 Am I right? 253 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:54,353 I'd just like to find my partner. 254 00:20:54,353 --> 00:20:58,346 Good. Easy. 255 00:20:58,957 --> 00:21:02,950 Piece of cake. 256 00:21:08,967 --> 00:21:12,504 Brick wall... 257 00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:15,307 or brick wall? 258 00:21:15,307 --> 00:21:19,300 Go ahead, change your life. 259 00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:32,424 [ Thunder Crashing ] 260 00:21:32,424 --> 00:21:36,417 Mulder? 261 00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:48,974 - [ Screaming ] - [ Screaming ] 262 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:52,611 - No! I won't hurt you. - I'm a federal agent! I'm armed! 263 00:21:52,611 --> 00:21:55,981 - You're what? - I'm armed. I'm armed! 264 00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:59,084 - You're a federal agent? - Please, I'm a little on edge. 265 00:21:59,084 --> 00:22:02,921 Don't come any closer. My name is Special Agent Dana Scully. 266 00:22:02,921 --> 00:22:06,892 And, uh, I can-- 267 00:22:06,892 --> 00:22:10,395 - I can show you my I.D. - My goodness. 268 00:22:10,395 --> 00:22:14,388 - I thought you were a ghost. - I can assure you that I'm not. 269 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,668 I got stuck in this room looking for my partner. 270 00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:20,072 Oh, the gangly fellow with the distinguished profile. 271 00:22:20,072 --> 00:22:22,808 - You've seen him? - With you in the foyer. 272 00:22:22,808 --> 00:22:25,077 I thought he was a ghost too. 273 00:22:25,077 --> 00:22:28,547 Oh. That was you. 274 00:22:28,547 --> 00:22:31,483 I sleepwalk sometimes. I thought maybe I'd dreamed it. 275 00:22:31,483 --> 00:22:33,485 But then here you were again. 276 00:22:33,485 --> 00:22:37,478 I am sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. 277 00:22:37,923 --> 00:22:39,558 I, uh-- 278 00:22:39,558 --> 00:22:41,960 It's just that we found bodies. 279 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,995 Bodies? Where? 280 00:22:43,995 --> 00:22:47,988 Right-- 281 00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:55,407 You look like you saw a ghost. 282 00:22:55,407 --> 00:22:59,400 There are ghosts in this house, you know. 283 00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:03,115 [ Thunder Rumbling ] 284 00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:05,717 Who are you? 285 00:23:05,717 --> 00:23:08,954 I live here, thank you very much. 286 00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:12,947 - Where's my partner? - Why are you pointing that gun? 287 00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:17,062 There were corpses right there underneath the floor! 288 00:23:17,062 --> 00:23:21,055 [ Chuckling ] 289 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:23,969 I think maybe the ghosts have been playing tricks on you. 290 00:23:23,969 --> 00:23:27,962 I don't believe in ghosts. 291 00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:33,845 Then what are you doing here? 292 00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:37,082 It's my partner. 293 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:41,075 - He believes in ghosts? - Yeah. 294 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,855 Oh, you poor child. 295 00:23:43,855 --> 00:23:46,858 You must have an awful small life, 296 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:49,161 spending your Christmas Eve with him... 297 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:52,497 and running around chasing things you don't even believe in. 298 00:23:52,497 --> 00:23:54,699 Don't come any closer. 299 00:23:54,699 --> 00:23:57,068 I can see it in your face: the fear, 300 00:23:57,068 --> 00:23:59,738 the conflicted yearnings, 301 00:23:59,738 --> 00:24:03,731 a subconscious desire to find fulfillment through another. 302 00:24:03,975 --> 00:24:06,178 Intimacy through codependency. 303 00:24:06,178 --> 00:24:07,879 What? 304 00:24:07,879 --> 00:24:10,549 Maybe you repress the truth about why you're really here, 305 00:24:10,549 --> 00:24:14,085 pretending it's out of duty or loyalty, 306 00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:16,154 unable to admit your dirty little secret. 307 00:24:16,154 --> 00:24:19,558 Your only joy in life is proving him wrong. 308 00:24:19,558 --> 00:24:22,461 You don't know me. 309 00:24:22,461 --> 00:24:25,464 And you don't live here. This isn't your house. 310 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:27,732 You wouldn't think so, the way I'm being treated. 311 00:24:27,732 --> 00:24:31,470 - Well, then why is all the furniture covered? - We're having the house painted. 312 00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:34,539 - Where's your Christmas tree? - We'reJewish. Boo! 313 00:24:34,539 --> 00:24:35,173 [ Door Opens ] 314 00:24:35,173 --> 00:24:36,074 [ Door Opens ] 315 00:24:36,074 --> 00:24:39,244 Hold it right there! Don't make me shoot you! 316 00:24:39,244 --> 00:24:41,746 Just stay where you are! 317 00:24:41,746 --> 00:24:45,116 - We really attract them, don't we? - [ Chuckling ] 318 00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:47,786 - Where's Mulder? - Mulder? Is that his name? 319 00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:51,779 - Where is he? - He'll be along. 320 00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:55,594 Move over there. Both of you, move. 321 00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:59,587 Move over there. Move over there! 322 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:02,801 This violates our civil rights. 323 00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:05,303 I have friends at the ACLU. 324 00:25:05,303 --> 00:25:09,296 Put your hands up. 325 00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,744 You see what we've resorted to? 326 00:25:45,744 --> 00:25:48,313 Gimmicks and cheap tricks. 327 00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:50,348 We used to be so good at this. 328 00:25:50,348 --> 00:25:54,341 We used to have years to drive them mad. Now we get one night. 329 00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,922 This pop psychology approach is crap. 330 00:25:56,922 --> 00:25:58,957 All it does is annoy them. 331 00:25:58,957 --> 00:26:00,992 When's the last time we actually haunted anyone? 332 00:26:00,992 --> 00:26:03,028 When was the last time we had a good double murder? 333 00:26:03,028 --> 00:26:05,130 Not since the house was condemned. 334 00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:09,034 This is embarrassing. Amateur kid stuff. 335 00:26:09,034 --> 00:26:11,169 Look, if we let our reputations slip, 336 00:26:11,169 --> 00:26:14,172 they're going to take us off the tourist literature. 337 00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:16,942 - Last year no one even showed up. - Oh-- 338 00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:20,935 Of all days, why did you pick Christmas? Why not Halloween? 339 00:26:21,212 --> 00:26:25,205 Now, who is filled with hopelessness and futility on Halloween? 340 00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:29,854 Christmas comes but once a year. 341 00:26:29,854 --> 00:26:32,791 You're right. 342 00:26:32,791 --> 00:26:36,595 And these two do seem pretty miserable. 343 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:40,588 We need to show them just how lonely Christmas can be. 344 00:26:42,334 --> 00:26:45,971 - Now that's the old Yuletide spirit. - [ Chuckles ] 345 00:26:45,971 --> 00:26:49,964 [ Thunder Crashing ] 346 00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:53,411 [ Laughing ] 347 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:57,404 [ Laughing ] 348 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:19,671 - Are you Agent Mulder? - Who are you, now? 349 00:27:19,671 --> 00:27:22,140 What are you doing using my chair for a ladder? 350 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:25,243 - I'm trying to get out of this room. - Trying to get out? 351 00:27:25,243 --> 00:27:29,236 - Excuse me. - No, no. You can't get out that way. 352 00:27:38,456 --> 00:27:42,449 - Masher. - Frump. 353 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:47,365 I don't know who you're calling a frump, but I don't appreciate that, 354 00:27:47,365 --> 00:27:49,367 being manhandled or called names. 355 00:27:49,367 --> 00:27:53,371 - Certainly not at this hour. - You're a ghost. 356 00:27:53,371 --> 00:27:57,364 More names! 357 00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:00,712 What happened to the star-crossed lovers? 358 00:28:00,712 --> 00:28:04,705 Let me tell you, the romance is the first thing to go. 359 00:28:04,883 --> 00:28:08,119 It's you. 360 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,990 You're Lyda, and that was Maurice. 361 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:13,992 But you've... aged. 362 00:28:13,992 --> 00:28:17,985 I hope your partner finds you a lot more charming than I do. 363 00:28:18,096 --> 00:28:22,089 [ Thunderclap ] 364 00:28:23,268 --> 00:28:26,471 Let's see. Where is it? 365 00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:29,274 No, no, no, no, no, no, 366 00:28:29,274 --> 00:28:32,711 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 367 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:36,704 no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no. 368 00:28:36,781 --> 00:28:40,774 [ Gasps ] There it is. 369 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:46,213 I was young and beautiful once, just like your partner. 370 00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:58,225 Look at us. Maurice was so handsome. 371 00:29:01,473 --> 00:29:05,466 He didn't have a gut. 372 00:29:07,812 --> 00:29:11,805 I hope you're not expecting any great advantages to all this. 373 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:13,752 To all what? 374 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:16,054 I'm assuming you came here with similar misconceptions. 375 00:29:16,054 --> 00:29:18,890 - We came here looking for you. - Oh,yeah? 376 00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:21,960 You didn't come here to be together for eternity? 377 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,529 No. 378 00:29:24,529 --> 00:29:28,133 Because you're filled with despair and woeful Christmas melancholy? 379 00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:29,868 Why? 380 00:29:29,868 --> 00:29:33,338 [ Sighs ] Maybe it was your partner, then. 381 00:29:33,338 --> 00:29:35,073 What about her? 382 00:29:35,073 --> 00:29:38,943 - You knew this house was haunted. - Yeah. 383 00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:42,580 Maybe you two should've discussed your real feelings before you came out here. 384 00:29:42,580 --> 00:29:45,016 I'm speaking from experience. 385 00:29:45,016 --> 00:29:49,009 - What experience? - I'm not gonna get into semantics. 386 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,823 A murder-suicide is all about trust. 387 00:29:51,823 --> 00:29:54,292 - I thought you had a lovers' pact. - [ Laughs ] 388 00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:58,296 Poetic illusions aside, the outcome, Mulder, is pretty much the same. 389 00:29:58,296 --> 00:30:01,833 Ohh! 390 00:30:01,833 --> 00:30:05,503 - I don't show my hole to just anyone. - Why are you showing it to me? 391 00:30:05,503 --> 00:30:09,496 It isn't like you're gonna be eating any Christmas ham, is it? 392 00:30:10,008 --> 00:30:13,011 Oh, you're trying to tell me that Scully's going to shoot me. 393 00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:15,513 Scully is not going to shoot me. 394 00:30:15,513 --> 00:30:18,817 Suit yourself, but if you shoot first, 395 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:21,452 - for her, the rest is an act of faith. - I wouldn't shoot her. 396 00:30:21,452 --> 00:30:21,553 - for her, the rest is an act of faith. - I wouldn't shoot her. 397 00:30:21,553 --> 00:30:25,546 - Maybe she shoots herself. - I wouldn't let her. 398 00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,593 The bodies under the floor, 399 00:30:28,593 --> 00:30:32,586 maybe that was just some kind ofJungian symbolism. 400 00:30:33,031 --> 00:30:36,601 Or maybe there's a secret lovers' pact. 401 00:30:36,601 --> 00:30:39,170 [ Sighs ] We're not lovers. 402 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:42,574 And this isn't a pure science. 403 00:30:42,574 --> 00:30:46,344 But you're both so attractive, 404 00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:49,547 and there'll be a lot of time to work that out. 405 00:30:49,547 --> 00:30:51,549 Go ahead, take it. 406 00:30:51,549 --> 00:30:55,053 - Take it. - [ Thunderclap ] 407 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:59,046 Think of it as the last Christmas you'll ever spend alone. 408 00:31:33,291 --> 00:31:37,295 [ Rattles Doorknob ] 409 00:31:37,295 --> 00:31:41,288 I locked it. 410 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:45,003 - For your protection. - Stay away from me. 411 00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:47,538 Look, I want you to get me out of here. 412 00:31:47,538 --> 00:31:50,608 I am quite capable of pulling this trigger. 413 00:31:50,608 --> 00:31:53,444 Glad to hear it. You may well have to defend yourself... 414 00:31:53,444 --> 00:31:56,014 against that crazy partner of yours. 415 00:31:56,014 --> 00:31:58,182 What have you done with him? 416 00:31:58,182 --> 00:32:01,419 Kept him safe from his own mad devices, at least for now. 417 00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:05,412 Do you have any idea why he brought you here to this house? 418 00:32:06,057 --> 00:32:10,050 Look, all I know is this is just some bad dream. This is all in my head. 419 00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:13,731 Yet here you are waving a gun at me, like your partner. 420 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:17,035 - [ Banging On Door ] - [ Mulder ] Scully! 421 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:21,028 Do you realize how seriously disturbed that man is? 422 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,275 How dark and lonely? 423 00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:28,268 - What he's capable of? - Scully! 424 00:32:28,479 --> 00:32:31,616 - Mulder! - Want your car keys? 425 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,986 [ Thunderclap ] 426 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:38,979 - Where did you get those? - He's got nowhere to go this Christmas. 427 00:32:39,257 --> 00:32:42,060 No one to go with. 428 00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:46,053 Did he happen to mention a story about a lovers' pact? 429 00:32:47,365 --> 00:32:49,367 Where did you get those keys? 430 00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:52,370 The man is acting out an unconscious yearning. 431 00:32:52,370 --> 00:32:56,363 The deep-seated terror of being alone. 432 00:32:58,409 --> 00:33:02,013 - [ Banging On Door ] - [ Mulder ] Scully! 433 00:33:02,013 --> 00:33:04,415 - Scully, are you there? - I'm here, Mulder! 434 00:33:04,415 --> 00:33:08,408 - Open the door, Scully! - [ Doorknob Rattling ] 435 00:33:09,687 --> 00:33:13,680 Open the door. 436 00:33:25,370 --> 00:33:29,363 I've seen it happen too many times in this house. 437 00:33:29,707 --> 00:33:33,700 I don't believe you. Just open the door. 438 00:33:34,078 --> 00:33:38,071 Open the door! 439 00:33:46,758 --> 00:33:50,751 - Where's Scully? - Mulder. 440 00:33:57,835 --> 00:34:01,439 Mulder, what are you doing? 441 00:34:01,439 --> 00:34:04,175 Mulder! 442 00:34:04,175 --> 00:34:08,168 There's no getting out of here, Scully. There's no way home. 443 00:34:09,747 --> 00:34:11,749 Mulder, come on. 444 00:34:11,749 --> 00:34:14,585 Mulder, don't come any closer. You're scaring me. 445 00:34:14,585 --> 00:34:17,055 - Put the gun down! - You gonna shoot me? 446 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:20,558 I'm not gonna shoot you! I don't want to shoot you! 447 00:34:20,558 --> 00:34:24,551 It's me or you. You or me. One of us has to do it. 448 00:34:25,329 --> 00:34:28,166 Mulder, look, we don't have to do this. 449 00:34:28,166 --> 00:34:30,401 - Oh,yes, we do! - We can get out of here. 450 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:34,394 Even if we could, what's waiting for us? More loneliness! 451 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:38,810 And then 365 more shopping days till even more loneliness! 452 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:42,803 I don't believe what you're saying. I don't believe a word of it. 453 00:35:25,590 --> 00:35:29,583 Merry Christmas, Scully. 454 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:39,226 And a happy New Year. 455 00:35:41,405 --> 00:35:43,407 Let me go! 456 00:35:43,407 --> 00:35:46,677 - Let me go! - Come on back! 457 00:35:46,677 --> 00:35:50,670 Let me go! 458 00:35:51,182 --> 00:35:52,917 [ Mulder ] Let me go! 459 00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:56,910 Scully! 460 00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,561 Hey, Scully. 461 00:36:03,561 --> 00:36:05,463 Mulder. 462 00:36:05,463 --> 00:36:09,433 Is that you? 463 00:36:09,433 --> 00:36:13,426 - What did you do? - I didn't believe it, Mulder. 464 00:36:13,804 --> 00:36:16,240 You didn't believe what? 465 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,410 I didn't believe that you'd do it. 466 00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:23,403 That I would-- 467 00:36:24,348 --> 00:36:26,717 Merry Christmas, Mulder. 468 00:36:26,717 --> 00:36:30,710 - What are you doing? - [ Gunshot ] 469 00:36:37,628 --> 00:36:41,621 Scu-- Scul-- 470 00:36:50,441 --> 00:36:54,434 [ Laughing ] 471 00:36:57,615 --> 00:37:01,608 && 472 00:37:12,863 --> 00:37:16,856 &Have yourself a merry little Christmas & 473 00:37:19,403 --> 00:37:23,274 &Let yourself be light & 474 00:37:23,274 --> 00:37:27,267 &From now on your troubles will be out of sight & 475 00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:33,551 [ Groans ] 476 00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:37,544 &Have yourself a merry little Christmas & 477 00:37:38,689 --> 00:37:42,682 &Make the Yuletide gay & 478 00:37:42,994 --> 00:37:46,987 &From now on our troubles will be miles away & 479 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,703 [ Thunderclap ] 480 00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:56,374 &Here we are as in olden days & 481 00:37:56,374 --> 00:38:00,367 - Scully? - &Happy golden days of yore & 482 00:38:02,913 --> 00:38:06,906 &Faithful friends who are dear to us & 483 00:38:06,984 --> 00:38:09,353 & Gather near to us & 484 00:38:09,353 --> 00:38:13,346 - Scully! - & Once more & 485 00:38:13,424 --> 00:38:17,417 & Through the years we all will be together & 486 00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:26,660 - & Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow & - I'm not gonna make it. 487 00:38:29,106 --> 00:38:31,575 No, you're not. 488 00:38:31,575 --> 00:38:33,611 Not without me, you're not. 489 00:38:33,611 --> 00:38:37,604 Are you afraid, Mulder? 490 00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:42,676 [ Groans ] 491 00:38:43,020 --> 00:38:47,013 I am. 492 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:51,985 I am too. 493 00:38:52,596 --> 00:38:56,589 &Faithful friends who are dear to us & 494 00:38:56,867 --> 00:38:59,403 & Gather near to us & 495 00:38:59,403 --> 00:39:01,539 You should have thought of this. 496 00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:04,575 - You should have. - You shot me first! 497 00:39:04,575 --> 00:39:08,446 I didn't shoot you. You shot me. 498 00:39:08,446 --> 00:39:12,439 &If the fates allow & 499 00:39:12,717 --> 00:39:16,710 & Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow & 500 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:21,792 [ Thunderclap ] 501 00:39:21,792 --> 00:39:23,894 Scully. 502 00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:27,887 What? [ Coughs ] 503 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,470 Get up. 504 00:39:32,470 --> 00:39:34,638 I can't. 505 00:39:34,638 --> 00:39:38,631 Get up. You're not shot. 506 00:39:38,709 --> 00:39:40,177 What? 507 00:39:40,177 --> 00:39:43,180 Come on. It's a trick. It's all in your head. 508 00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:46,584 &Faithful friends who are dear to us & 509 00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:50,577 & Gather near to us once more & 510 00:39:52,022 --> 00:39:56,015 & Through the years we all will be together & 511 00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:02,389 &If the fates allow & 512 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,793 &Hang a shining star upon the highest bough & 513 00:40:10,941 --> 00:40:14,879 - &And have yourself & - [ Engine Starts ] 514 00:40:14,879 --> 00:40:18,872 - &A merry little Christmas & - [ Chiming ] 515 00:40:22,853 --> 00:40:26,457 - &Now && - You hear that? It's Christmas. 516 00:40:26,457 --> 00:40:28,959 One for the books. 517 00:40:28,959 --> 00:40:31,595 - We almost had those two, didn't we? - [ Chuckles ] 518 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,131 Almost had 'em. 519 00:40:34,131 --> 00:40:36,801 Two such lonely souls. 520 00:40:36,801 --> 00:40:40,538 Can't let our failures haunt us. 521 00:40:40,538 --> 00:40:43,774 You wonder what they were really out here looking for. 522 00:40:43,774 --> 00:40:47,478 Hard to say. People now, 523 00:40:47,478 --> 00:40:51,215 this is just another joyless day of the year. 524 00:40:51,215 --> 00:40:54,585 - Not for us. - No. 525 00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:58,578 We haven't forgotten the meaning of Christmas. 526 00:41:05,963 --> 00:41:08,599 [ Man Chuckling ] 527 00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:12,592 [ Continues Chuckling ] 528 00:41:14,004 --> 00:41:17,997 I don't deserve to be so happy. 529 00:41:19,944 --> 00:41:23,937 I can't help it. [ Chuckling ] 530 00:41:24,281 --> 00:41:27,151 I just can't help it. 531 00:41:27,151 --> 00:41:30,254 Scrooge was better than his word. 532 00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:33,824 - [ Knock On Door ] - He became as good a friend, as good a master... 533 00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:36,093 - and as good a man as the good old city ever knew, - [ Knocking Continues ] 534 00:41:36,093 --> 00:41:39,697 or any other good old city, town or borough in the good old world. 535 00:41:39,697 --> 00:41:43,690 And to Tiny Tim-- 536 00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:53,911 I, uh-- I couldn't sleep. 537 00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:56,981 I was, um-- 538 00:41:56,981 --> 00:41:58,983 - Can I come in? - Yeah. 539 00:41:58,983 --> 00:42:02,653 Aren't you supposed to be opening Christmas gifts with your family? 540 00:42:02,653 --> 00:42:05,222 Mulder, 541 00:42:05,222 --> 00:42:08,792 none of that really happened out there tonight. 542 00:42:08,792 --> 00:42:12,785 That was all in our heads, right? 543 00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:17,023 It must have been. 544 00:42:21,305 --> 00:42:25,209 Not that my only joy in life is proving you wrong. 545 00:42:25,209 --> 00:42:29,202 When have you proved me wrong? 546 00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:35,052 Well, why else would you want me out there with you? 547 00:42:35,052 --> 00:42:39,045 You didn't want to be there? 548 00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:42,660 Oh, that's, um, 549 00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,563 self-righteous and... 550 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:48,265 narcissistic of me to say, isn't it? 551 00:42:48,265 --> 00:42:50,801 No, I mean, 552 00:42:50,801 --> 00:42:54,794 maybe I did want to be out there with you. 553 00:42:58,175 --> 00:43:01,245 You know, 554 00:43:01,245 --> 00:43:05,238 I know we said that we weren't going to exchange gifts, but, uh, 555 00:43:07,051 --> 00:43:11,044 I got you a little something. 556 00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:16,316 - Mulder. - Merry Christmas. 557 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,353 Well, I got you a little something too. 558 00:43:26,737 --> 00:43:29,640 &And have yourself & 559 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,633 &A merry little Christmas & 560 00:43:37,348 --> 00:43:41,341 &Now && 561 00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:23,027 [ Child ] I made this! 562 00:44:23,027 --> 00:44:27,020 [ Child ] I made this! 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net