The X-Files (TV Series)

Tooms (1994)

Henry Beckman: Detective Frank Briggs

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• [Scully asks Briggs if anything about Tooms's earlier crimes felt wrong to him] 

  Detective Frank Briggs : There is one thing that never did sit quite right with me. When I investigated the killings in 1963, all five of the victims were found at the crime scene - all five.

  Dana Scully : As with the four most recent murders.

  Detective Frank Briggs : When I investigated the original Powhatan Mil killings in 1933, only four of the victims were found at the crime scene. However, there was a fifth person who was missing but never found. But this...

  [He opens his old file box and lifts out a jar with a piece of a human liver] 

  Detective Frank Briggs : This was discovered at the Ruxton Chemical Plant while it was under construction, but it doesn't belong to any of the other victims.

  Dana Scully : That doesn't prove it belonged to a person murdered by Tooms.

  Detective Frank Briggs : I am positive that Tooms hid this particular victim because there was something about the body that could prove he was the killer.

  Dana Scully : How do you know?

  Detective Frank Briggs : A hunch. A good, old-fashioned hunch. You've got to be able to trust your instincts.

  Dana Scully : And where do your instincts tell you Tooms buried the body?

  Detective Frank Briggs : In the concrete where they poured the foundation of the chemical plant.

• [reading a news article on Tooms's release, Briggs crumples it into a ball and tosses it away in disgust] 

  Detective Frank Briggs : [to Scully]  If he gets away now, the next time he kills... you'll be nearly my age.

• [at the Ruxton Chemical Plant] 

  Dana Scully : Ground-penetrating radar. It bounces signals off of objects or cavities.

  Detective Frank Briggs : Tells you where the body is.

  Dana Scully : Well, it signals if something inordinate is present. An experienced operator attempts to differentiate if the signal is a body or is stone or a hole in the ground.

  Detective Frank Briggs : Differentiate?

  Dana Scully : Mm-hmm.

  Detective Frank Briggs : You mean, he guesses.

  Dana Scully : Well... it's an educated guess.

  Detective Frank Briggs : Mm-hmm.

• Dana Scully : How are we doing?

  Radar Operator : Well, it's really hard to tell. There are some possibilities... very few places...

  [Briggs wheels himself out of sight, entering a shadowed portion of the chemical plant. After a few moments, he senses something about the atmosphere of the room...] 

  Detective Frank Briggs : It's here... here!

  Radar Operator : What is it?

  Detective Frank Briggs : It's here!

  [points urgently at the floor] 

  Detective Frank Briggs : It's *right here*!