Twentieth Century Fox - International Television
THE X-FILES
"UNDERNEATH"
Season 9 - Ep. # 9ABX09
ACT ONE
TEASER
EXT. BROOKLYN STREET - NIGHT
(A VAN PULLS UP TO A HOUSE IN BROOKLYN.)
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO

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BEARDED MAN: (os) Get going. CONTINUE

BOB: Please.
BEARDED MAN: (os) Do your damn job.

JANET: You can't think
Milli Vanilli is cool. I would disown you.

You are unbelievable.

Okay, I may puke, but I have to ask. 

Which one do you
intend to marry? Rob or Fab?

MOTHER: Janet, get that.

JANET: Hang on. I'm like the
servant around here.

JANET: (CONT'D) Yeah?
BOB: Triboro Cable.

JANET: What do you want?

BOB: Your cable's out.

JANET: Is it? I don't think so.

BOB: Okay, I'm sorry.

JANET: Wait a sec. 

Maybe my dad called you. 
You'd better... come in.

JANET: The TV's in here. (calling to Dad)
Dad? Cable guy's here.

DAD: Can I help you?

BOB: There's a problem with your cable?

DAD: I was just watchin' the game
upstairs.

I think you got the
wrong house, buddy.

DAD: Is... that your work order?

Who called it in?

DUKE: Police! Don't move! 

Oh god, almighty.  

Face the wall. 
Face the wall! 

Johnny, check the other rooms!

DOGGETT: They're all dead!

DOGGETT: Got you. 

Got you, you bastard.

THE X - FILES

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

THE UNSEEN WORLD

GOVERNMENT DENIES KNOWLEDGE

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

UNDERNEATH

INT. FBI CORRIDOR - DAY
(REYES WALKS TO THE X-FILES OFFICE, HEARING DOGGETT SCREAMING TO SOMEONE ON THE PHONE.)

DOGGETT: D-O-G-G-E-T-T.
Two "G's" and two "T's". 

I was the
arresting officer. You're makin' a
huge mistake.

DOGGETT: I don't care what it shows!! 

I appreciate that. But I don't care
what it shows. It's wrong! 

I was there! We got the right guy!

REYES: An X-File?

HEADLINE READS: DNA Clears Screwdriver Killer
Innocent Man Jailed Thirteen Years

DOGGETT: (os) (into phone) I'm tellin' you,
you let this guy go, more people are
gonna die.

REYES: (os) Was that (on camera) the D.A.
on the case?

DOGGETT: (os) Assistant (on camera) D.A.
Some jack-off who was probably in
ninth grade when this happened.

REYES: What is it exactly you want 'em to do?

DOGGETT: Keep the bastard locked up where he
belongs! Did you read that? 

My partner and I busted this guy,
Fassl, when I was a beat cop
thirteen years ago. 

He killed seven
people. Now they want to let him go
so he can kill again.

REYES: (os) It says here (on camera) the
DNA evidence proves he's innocent.

DOGGETT: It's wrong. It's some lab mistake.
(os) Simple as that. (on camera)

My partner, Duke and I, we
catch this nine-one-one. (os)

Neighbors hearing screaming coming
from this house on Flatbush Avenue.

We get there. Teenage
girl, mother, father, all dead.

There's blood... (beat) 

I can still remember the sound of the blood
squishing under my shoes. 

This guy, Fassl's, just standing there.

REYES: So you... didn't actually catch him
in the act?

DOGGETT: Ten seconds earlier through the door
and we would have.

DOGGETT: (CONT'D) (to Scully) Tell me you've got good
news.

SCULLY: I have combed through every detail
of this M.E.'s report. 

I have read
and re-read it. 

And I am sorry,
Agent Doggett, 

but the DNA
fingerprinting does indeed exonerate this man.

DOGGETT: You're tellin' me there's no way?

There's not even a million-to-one
chance that these DNA tests are wrong?

SCULLY: Actually, a hundred million.

DOGGETT: I need the reports run again. 
I need you to do it yourself.

SCULLY: Agent Doggett, you don't... (sigh)

It'd take at least 48 hours.
DOGGETT: That's too long.

REYES: Where are you going?
DOGGETT: New York. 

I can't just sit here and
wait for this guy to kill again.

DOGGETT: Look, I get it. 

Enough people tell
you you're drunk, it's time to lie
down. (os) But I know what I know.

(on camera) I could really use your help.

SING SING CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
OSSINING, NEW YORK

GUARD: It's time to go.

GUARD: Congratulations, Bob. 

Best of luck to you.. BOA SORTE

REPORTER #1: How does it feel to be a free man?
REPORTER #2: (os) What are doing in New York?

Are you gonna sue the police?
REPORTER #1: What do you think you'll do next?

KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

JANA: I think it goes without saying that
my client is happy once more to be a
free man. 

I, myself, am overjoyed.
I think today is a day to
celebrate. (os) 

But tomorrow, we
will be looking (on camera) very
closely at the reasons why Bob was
falsely accused and incarcerated.

Thirteen years of his life were
stolen from him. 

We'll be looking.
at the Brooklyn D.A.'s office, and
the New York City Police Department.

JANA: (os) Bob? (on camera) Let's get you
out of here. (os) (to reporters) Thank you.

REPORTERS: (os) (walla) How do you feel?
JANA: (os) Thank you.

REPORTERS: (os) (walla) Did you ever feel like
givin' up, Bob? Bob?

JANA: (os) JÁ CHEGA Thank you.

DOGGETT: (vo) [Wait a minute.]
DOGGETT: (CONT'D) (os) On top of (on camera) springin'
loose a murderer, 

you're tellin' me
the city of New York is gonna pay
him off?

KAILER: Hell yes. And count ourselves
lucky. 

We didn't spring a murderer.
We sprang an innocent man. 

Or maybe you didn't glean that from our
previous conversation.

SCULLY: Mr. Kailer, on the off chance that
that's not true, 

what would be the
harm in letting us look through your
documents pertaining to this case?

I mean, who knows. Maybe we can
save the city some settlement money.

KAILER: Or maybe it gets me in an even
bigger jackpot when Jana Fain starts
crying "police vendetta", (os)

yelling at the papers about the
disgruntled former (on camera) cop
who's out to get her client?

DOGGETT: Somebody committed these murders,
right? (os) 

And now that you've
sprung Mr. (on camera) Bob Fassl,

(os) the victims' families are gonna
start askin' who. (on camera) 

How you gonna answer 'em?

SCULLY: There's a lot of material here.

Where should we start?

DOGGETT: Right there. 
The original arrest report.

SCULLY: "Arresting Officer John Doggett."

Must have been a career maker.

DOGGETT: Well, it didn't hurt when I put in
for detective. 

The murders had been
front page news for weeks. 

The sense of relief everybody felt when
we caught Fassl, it was...

SCULLY: You know, John? 

Whatever we find
here, sometimes... 

sometimes even
good cops make mistakes.

DOGGETT: Yeah. And I've made more 
than I can count. But this wasn't one of 'em.

Whatever you think, 

I'm not here
tryin' to cover my ass.

SCULLY: That's not what I think. (os) It's
not. I just... (on camera) 

I just worry that maybe this is about you
feeling guilty.

DOGGETT: I feel guilty? (os) 

Like what, subconsciously? (on camera) 

Like I
was told I set an innocent man to
prison, only I refuse to accept it?

A cop I know, a man I
respect deeply, he told me one
time... 

"You don't clock out at the
end of your shift unless you know
you did everything you could."

That's what this is about. (os) 
Me not clockin' out.

FAIN RESIDENCE
LITTLE NECK, NEW YORK

INT. FAIN RESIDENCE - CONTINUOUS
(JANA AND BOB ENTER.)

JANA: Bob, I just want you to make
yourself at home while you're here.
Just relax. 

Mrs. Dowdy, this is Bob Fassl. 
He'll be staying with us for a while.

MRS. DOWDY: Oh, I have your room all made up. 
I hope you'll be quite comfortable.

JANA: (beat) Uh, thank you very much, (os)
Mrs. Dowdy.

BOB: You're rich.

JANA: Well, my parents were. 
I inherited this when they died. 

I've been very fortunate, 

so I try and use my family's resources
to help where I can.

BOB: You do good things. 
You're a good person.

JANA: I guess it takes one to know one.

I know some business people who are...
JANA: (CONT'D) (on camera) ... sympathetic to your
situation, 

and when you're ready,
we'll setup some job interviews.

JANA: (CONT'D) (beat) I can only imagine what you
must be feeling right now. 

I'm so sorry for everything you've been
through.

And I'm so happy for you now.

KILL HER

KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE
5:35 PM

DOGGETT: (os) Hey, buddy! (on camera) 
You steal that car?

DUKE: (laughs) If it ain't the FBI!

DOGGETT: Duke Tomasick. Lookin' good.

DUKE: (laugh) Well, hell yeah. I was
always the pretty one. (laughs)

DOGGETT: Not that I'd steal you away from
even one minute of retirement, 

but I gotta get another viewpoint on this
case from someone who was there that
night. 

Duke, I'm rackin' my brain on
this thing, 

and I'm comin' at it
from every possible angle. 

Was there somethin' we missed?
DUKE: Well yeah, we arrested the wrong
man.

Ah, I'm sorry, John. I've been torn up
about this since I read it in the
paper. 

But unless there's somethin'
that you know that I don't? 

Then it looks like, uh, we're just gonna
have to face facts.

DOGGETT: Duke, you were there that night.

Fassl was the only one in the house.
He killed those people.

DUKE: John, wise up, will ya? Drop this thing.

DOGGETT: What did you always tell me about
bein' a good cop? 

You said never to clock out.

DUKE: I got another lesson for ya.

Keep after this thing, it's
gonna bite you in your ass.

10:12 PM

JANA: I'm sorry. I just wanted to see how
you were settling in, and... 
I should have knocked. 

I read in your file that you had once
attended the seminary, that you
studied to be a priest?  

I think it's wonderful that all
you've been through hasn't
diminished your faith.

BOB: I pray all the time. 

I pray even
when it looks like I'm not praying.

JANA: I know someone's listening, Bob. 
Goodnight.

BOB: No. Don't. 

Please don't hurt her. (os) Please!

ACT TWO

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - MORNING

SCULLY: Were you here all night?

DOGGETT: There's gotta be somethin' here the
prosecution overlooked. I overlooked. 

Somethin' I can hang
this guy with, DNA or no.

SCULLY: speaking of DNA.

DOGGETT: Ah, come on.

SCULLY: The re-tests of the typing confirm
the original results, 

that the hair samples do, 
indeed, belong to
someone other than Robert Fassl.

DOGGETT: So what do we do, we just go home?
This is wrong. This is...

SCULLY: John, there is 
something else. 

Something
that explains why 13 years ago, the."THE X-FILES - UNDERNEATH" #9ABX09 (21)
science of the day 

identified the
hair as Fassl's. (os) 

I spoke to
the forensic examiner who ran the tests, 

(on camera) and he found a
match in 12 of the 13 key genes.

DOGGETT: What does that mean?

SCULLY: It means (on camera) that the
mitochondrial DNA in the hair sample
is genetically similar to Fassl's.

In fact, it is remarkably similar. 

It is so similar that it must be from a blood
relative.

DOGGETT: Wait a minute. 
Fassl's an only child. 

His parents died when he was
13. He's got nobody.

SCULLY: I know.
DOGGETT: You know. 

And you know that what
you're sayin's impossible.

SCULLY: And yet, somehow it's true.

INT. BOB'S ROOM - MORNING

JANA: Would you get dressed and come on
downstairs, please?

JANA: Bob? 

This morning I noticed something 
that I have to talk to you about. 

The dresser drawers in
my bedroom had been opened 

and somebody had been
through my things. MEXEU

BOB: You weren't home last night?
JANA: I think you know that I wasn't.

As it happens, I was called
down to County Lockup on behalf of
another client. 

If you're going to
stay here, then you (on camera) have
to respect me, 

my privacy, my possessions. 

You're a free man now. 
And with freedom
comes responsibility. (heavy sigh) 

I am late for a deposition. (os)

help yourself to breakfast. 
Mrs. Dowdy seems to be
running late this morning.

SING SING CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
OSSINING, NEW YORK

HUTCHINSON: Agent Reyes. I'm Brian Hutchinson,
Superintendent.

REYES: I appreciate you seeing me on such
short notice.

HUTCHINSON: Anything I can do to help.
REYES: Great. 

I'm reviewing evidence
pertinent to the Fassl case.

HUTCHINSON: Whatever I can do to ensure he gets
locked back up again. 

By all means,
tell me what you need.

REYES: thank you. That's an
extremely helpful attitude. 
What's your reason for it?

HUTCHINSON: I just don't think the system
should've let him go.

REYES: Why, exactly? The court says he's
innocent.

HUTCHINSON: Maybe. 

But there's another murder
they don't know about. (vo) 

[Bob Fassl's cellmate...]
was a biker named Spud Jennings, 

a real bad ass. 
Or at least he thought he was.

REYES: Jennings was murdered?
HUTCHINSON: (os) Oh yeah. (on camera) 

We found
him in a hallway that Bob Fassl had
been mopping. 

He was lying ten feet
from Bob Fassl's mop bucket. 

Fassl nowhere to be found.

REYES: And Fassl killed him?

HUTCHINSON: The murderer was caught on a
security camera once he turned the
corner. 

This is a videograph. 
A pretty clear one. You can see the
blood on his hand.

REYES: (os) One (on camera) problem. 
This isn't Fassl.

HUTCHINSON: This isn't anybody. (os) 

This man doesn't (on camera) fit the
description of any inmate currently
incarcerated here. (os) 

We haven't
been able to find him since. (on
camera) 

Don't ask me to explain it.

We couldn't charge Fassl with it, either. 

But I sure as hell know he
had something to do with it.

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER

KAILER: Agent Doggett? 

A word, please?

KAILER:DON'T you have something to tell me,
Agent Doggett?

DOGGETT: What do you mean?
KAILER: The DNA retests. 

I understand you
received the results this morning.

Mr. Fassl has been exonerated. Again.

DOGGETT: The results aren't that simple. 

The DNA is similar to Fassl's to a
degree we haven't quite made sense of yet.

KAILER: (os) Look, (on camera) I just spoke
to the D.A. He's authorized a
settlement offer, 

which I intend to
deliver to Mr. Fassl's counsel, (os)
post haste. (on camera) 

I'll send
the bailiffs down to retrieve the
case files. 

Have a nice flight back to D.C.

DOGGETT: We need more time to get to the
truth!

KAILER: This isn't about the truth. (os)

This is about getting a conviction,
Agent Doggett. (on camera) 

And if we can't get a conviction, (os) 

then the truth doesn't matter.

REYES: John. 

I may have a break in this case. (os) 

A suspect.

DOGGETT: A suspect? Not Fassl?

REYES: You really need to see this.

DOGGETT: (os) So who is he?
REYES: (os) I'm wondering more along the
line of (on camera) what is he. 

I ran him through the Known Offender
Database Facial Recognition, 

came up with nothing. 
It's like he has no identity. (os) 

Yet somehow, (on
camera) this person materialized
inside a maximum security prison,

killed an inmate, and then vanished
into thin air.

DOGGETT: Materialized how, like Casper the
Friendly Ghost? (os) 

When Duke and
I entered that house back in '89,

(on camera) we didn't find ZZ Top here. 

We found Bob Fassl. End of story.

REYES: Yeah, but what if the two were
somehow connected?

DOGGETT: Monica, for god sakes, this is not
an X-File. Don't try to turn it into one.

REYES: In prison, this being, this person,
whatever you want to call him, 

he acted as if he were protecting Bob Fassl.

DOGGETT: Protecting? How, by getting him
locked up in prison in the first place?

REYES: So either he's doing Fassl's
bidding, or Fassl's doing his.

However you slice it, I'm thinking
this bearded man 

was the one who
committed the other seven murders.

I think we can prove it. 

DNA (on camera) evidence in the Sing
Sing murder (os) 

was gathered and
filed by the prison authorities.

(on camera) All we have to do is
compare it to the DNA from the 1989
murders.

SCULLY: No. (os) Unfortunately, that's not
gonna work. (on camera) 

The 1989 evidence has to be thrown out.
DOGGETT: What are you talkin' about?

SCULLY: (os) The hair (on camera) samples
logged to your crime scene, Agent
Doggett, 

were not there on the day
the crimes were committed.

DOGGETT: Are you accusing me? Are you
accusing me of planting evidence?

SCULLY: I am simply stating the facts, okay?

The DNA evidence 
that was used to convict Bob
Fassl... was planted.

(BOB OPENS THE DOOR TO KAILER.)

KAILER: Fassl? I'm Damon Kailer. KAYLOR

I need to speak with your attorney.
Is she here?

BOB: You were at my hearing.

KAILER: I'm the Assistant District Attorney.
Is...  Jana home?

BOB: She's not here.

KAILER: Mr. Fassl, I came to make a
settlement offer on your case. 

There's no reason to be
upset. This is good
news for you. 

Tell her to call me.
We'll work it out.

BOB: I want to go back.

KAILER: I'm sorry?
BOB: Please send me back to prison.

KAILER: Oh listen, Mr. Fassl, 
I shouldn't even be discussing this
with you without your attorney present.

BOB: But it's my fault.
KAILER: I-I... I can't be hearing this.

BOB: It's the truth.
KAILER: That's not my concern.

ACT THREE
INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER

PROPERTY LOG

DUKE: I'm sorry, John.
DOGGETT: You framed Fassl.

DUKE: You saw how it was goin' down. 

we arrested him at the scene.
But he... he left no prints, no
hair, no fiber. 

Nothin' to
actually tie him to the murders.

DOGGETT: How did you do it?

DUKE: I took, uh, part of a hair sample
that was found at a... at a previous
murder, 

and put it in with the
evidence from our crime scene.

DUKE: Johnny, it was the
one and only time I ever did
anything like that. 

I was scared Fassl would walk, and... and

I couldn't let that happen. 
Not when I knew that... 

that he was guilty. 
Oh, god almighty.

DOGGETT: You know this is gonna come out. 

No one's gonna hear it from me, but...

but I can't put Agent Scully on the
spot. I can't ask her to lie.

DUKE: I don't want you to.

DOGGETT: Duke, you son of a bitch! 
This is a felony!! 

I don't know how I can
forgive you for this! 

You break my heart.

SCULLY: Excuse me. Agent Doggett?

A.D.A. Kailer. I assume you
haven't seen him?

DOGGETT: No. Why?

SCULLY: Apparently nobody has.

REYES: Mr. Fassl, when was 
the last time you saw Damon Kailer?

JANA: Two days ago at
his release hearing. 

My client had
nothing to do with Mr. Kailer's disappearance.

REYES: No direct involvement?
JANA: None.

REYES: I think we can accept that. 

We're also prepared 
to accept that Mr. Fassl had no direct
involvement 

in the seven murders he
was previously convicted of.

JANA: How magnanimous of you. 

It's too bad you're thirteen years too late.

Is that it?
REYES: No. 

Actually, we believe this
person committed the murders.

REYES: What do you think? 

Do you recognize this man?

JANA: we're
here as a courtesy. 

Which is
something the police and the
prosecution never showed Bob once.

SCULLY: Are you a Catholic, Bob?

So am I. 

I remember times in my life when my
Rosary was a great comfort to me. 

Comfort in times of tribulation.  

And watching you now, 
I get the feeling... 

that this is a tribulation for you.

SCULLY: This man. 

Is it that he won't leave
you alone, Bob? 

Is it  that you just want him to go away? 

Tell us about him. 

Tell us so we can help make
him go away.

JANA: No more mind games. 

We're done.

DOGGETT: What the hell was that?

REYES: I don't know about you, but that was
me changing my theory.

DOGGETT: What, no more ghosts?
REYES: Nope. Just Fassl. 

What if a
man of profound faith, a
devout Catholic, 

was incapable of contrition?

SCULLY: As in he couldn't admit his own sins?

REYES: Or even that he had a sinful side to
him, as we all do. 

What if he
were so frightened by it 
that he couldn't even admit it to himself. 

Might not someone like
that manifest a second personality?

DOGGETT: But it wouldn't
explain the DNA evidence.

REYES: it would if
he physically became that other personality.

DOGGETT: So what, we've moved on from Casper
the Friendly Ghost to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

REYES: There is a precedent in the Catholic
Canon itself. Transubstantiation.

The manipulation of matter and energy.

SCULLY: You mean water into wine?

REYES: Or the Communion
wafer into the body of Christ.

DOGGETT: Well Monica, I've slept through my
share of Sunday Schools, 

but I never
heard the story about the guy
becoming another guy.

REYES: It's the one explanation that makes sense. 

It explains what
happened thirteen years ago,

and it explains what's happening now.

SCULLY: So what you're
saying 

is because this man won't
face himself, won't face his own sins, 

that he is forced to become
someone else? 

A killer.

DOGGETT: So how does someone go about
catching a killer who hides inside
an innocent man?

INT. BOB'S BATHROOM - NIGHT

KILL HER

BEARDED MAN: Do it!

BOB: I don't want to hurt her!

JANA: [Bob, are you okay?

BEARDED MAN: Kill her.

JANA: Oh, my god.

JANA: What happened?

BOB: I, uh... I-I fell. 

JANA: I'll fix you up. You'll be okay.

ACT FOUR

INT. DOGGETT'S CAR - NIGHT

REYES: I'll take the next couple of hours.

You should get some shut-eye.

John, give yourself a break. 
You haven't slept in 48 hours.

DOGGETT: I'll sleep once we make sure this
guy, Fassl, never kills again.

Fassl or this... Charlie
Manson sidekick.

REYES: They're one in the same person.
DOGGETT: Monica, I don't want to hear...

REYES: but I just need to hear
another theory that makes sense.

DOGGETT: That theory doesn't make any sense.

How the hell to you does that make sense? 

Meat and potatoes police
work is what busted this guy
thirteen years ago. 

And it's what's gonna bust him again. 
And that's enough. 

And the day that's not enough? 

Then I don't know what to tell ya. 

'Cause I got nothin' else.

DOGGETT: check it out, the front door.

DOGGETT: Jana Fain! Check on her!

JANA: Oh my god, he was here! He was
here, the man in your photo!

REYES: The Bearded Man. 

Where's Bob Fassl?
JANA: Oh, he-he was right there, 

and then he wasn't. I don't... I don't know where.

DOGGETT: [Agent Reyes!!
REYES: Call the police!

DOGGETT: Agent Reyes!

DOGGETT: Cable access. 
Fassl worked for Triboro Cable.

DOGGETT: The trail ends here.

REYES: Blood. 

He could've gone either way.

DOGGETT: You okay?

DOGGETT: Come on. VAMOS

REYES: I'll take this way. IREI POR AQUI

REYES: Let him go, you hear me? Let him go!

DOGGETT: Don't waste your breath. 
Just shoot the bastard!

REYES: Bob Fassl, I'm talking to you.

I know you're in there,  Bob. 

There's some small part of you
in there that couldn't kill Jana
Fain when you had the chance.

BEARDED MAN: I'll kill him!!

REYES: I believe you, Bob. 
Because you're a murderer.

BEARDED MAN: Shut up!! I'm not him.

REYES: You're not just a murderer, you're a sinner!

BEARDED MAN: Shut up!! Shut up!! Shut up!!

JANA: My housekeeper, Mrs. Dowdy,
can I see her?

SCULLY: It's better that you don't.

JANA: And the District Attorney?

SCULLY: There are a lot of bodies in there.

SCULLY: There are many more victims than
anyone ever knew.

JANA: I saw a Bearded Man. 

I know what I saw. 

SCULLY: Ms. Fain, I think we'd better get you home.

DOGGETT: I've been 48 hours without sleep. 

I found out my ex-partner's a liar, a felon. 

Don't ask me to explain how this could be.

REYES: So what happened tonight, 

that was just you seeing things?

DOGGETT: I can't accept this. If you can,
God love ya, 

but it's not the way my mind works.

REYES: You closed this case. 

This time around, that was enough.

DOGGETT: What happens next time?

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