“It does not matter where that phone call came from.
What matters is that there is a little girl who needs my help.”
SCENE 1
US NAVAL STATION
SAN DIEGO, CA
DECEMBER 21
BILL SCULLY'S HOUSE
(A hand reaches to a manger scene and adjusts the baby Jesus. The hand pulls back and caresses her baby in her body. It is Bill's wife, Tara, very pregnant. She takes a Christmas card from a table and puts it on another table. We hear Scully in the distance.)
SCULLY:
Hello? Merry Christmas!
TARA:
Hello! (She smiles and goes to greet Scully and Mrs. Scully at the door.)
MARGARET:
Oh, my God.
Look at you. (She hugs Tara)
TARA:
Can you believe it?
MARGARET:
How am I going to get my arms around you?
(Bill is behind Scully with suitcases. Mrs. Scully walks into the living room.)
SCULLY:
You're huge.
(They hug.)
TARA:
Oh, I know.
Welcome. Welcome.
(Kisses Bill.)
Oh, hi, Sweetie.
BILL:
Let's get you two settled. Sorry about the digs, Mom.
I know you hoped like hell you didn't have to spend another night in base housing.
(Scully walks into the living room.)
MARGARET:
Are you kidding?
This is wonderful.
SCULLY:
This is the exact same layout as our old house.
BILL:
That's the Navy for ya.
TARA:
Yeah. Bill tells me, Mom, that you'll be staying in your old room.
And the nursery is going to be in Dana and Melissa's room.
BILL:
That's right.
(He struggles with the suitcases up the stairs.)
TARA:
I got it. Bill!
(She takes a suitcase from him)
BILL:
Thanks.
(He goes upstairs. Tara behind him. Margaret looks at the tree. Scully joins her.)
SCULLY:
Mom? You okay?
MARGARET:
oh, yeah.
I was just thinking about your Dad...
and Melissa...
and how much I miss them.
(She walks past Scully to the stairs. Scully is about to follow her when the phone rings. She looks upstairs.)
SCULLY:
Bill?
(No answer, the phone rings again. She answers it.)
Scully residence...
WOMAN:
Dana?
(Pause, it sounds like Melissa)
SCULLY:
Yes, sorry, who is this?
WOMAN:
Dana...
She needs your help.
She needs you, Dana.
Go to her.
SCULLY:
Who... who is this?
(She hangs up. Dana hangs up and calls a number.)
MAN ON PHONE:
FBI, San Diego.
SCULLY:
This is Special Agent, Dana Scully.
My badge number is 2317616.
Can you transfer me to your sound agent, please?
I would like to trace the last number that was dialed into this phone.
SCENE 2
SIM'S HOUSE
(They have a pleasant home. There are people mingling and an ambulance parked outside. Bill and Dana drive up. Scully shows her badge to a cop and walks into the house. A photographer is taking pictures of a phone off the hook. Scully walks upstairs. She walks past the photographer to the bathroom where there are policemen)
KRESGE:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who are you?
SCULLY:
Scully, FBI.
Can you tell me what's going on here?
KRESGE:
Well, no offense, Scully, FBI,
but what's it to you?
SCULLY:
I received a phone call from this address.
It was a woman's voice.
She said that somebody here needed help.
KRESGE:
When was this?
SCULLY:
About 20 minutes ago.
KRESGE:
I've been here 30 minutes.
Guarantee you no one's called out to you or anyone else. Phone's off the hook.
(Scully is confused. She looks to the bathroom.)
SCULLY:
Please, can you tell me what happened here?
(Kresge brings her into the bathroom. A photographer is taking pictures of the crime scene. Kresge allows Scully to pass to the body. A woman in a bathtub. Wrists slashed, blood pooled on the floor and in the tub)
KRESGE:
This is Mrs. Roberta Sim.
Age 40. Suicide.
She's been dead at least three hours.
If you got a call from her, she must have dialed 1-800-the great beyond.
SCENE 3
OUTSIDE
(Scully leaves the house. There is still a lot of activity. Scully walks to Bill on the porch.)
BILL:
Dana, what's going on?
They're joking that you got a call from a dead woman.
SCULLY:
I thought it was a dead woman,
just not the one in there.
BILL:
What are you talking about?
SCULLY:
I know it's not possible, Bill,
but it sounded just like her.
BILL:
Who?
SCULLY:
Our sister... Melissa.
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