The X-Files (TV Series)

Familiar (2018)

Alex Carter: Chief Strong

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• Fox Mulder : You closed the case because you didn't want it looked into further. You knew there was salt on that young boy's body, but you hid that fact, a fact you knew would reveal that someone was practicing witchcraft.

  Dana Scully : Mulder

  Chief Strong : No, it's It's okay. He's right.

  Officer Sean : You ought to take a beat, Chief, before you say anything else.

  Dana Scully : Did you kill those children?

  Chief Strong : I have let the devil into my soul and I have sinned against God, broken a sacred commandment, but I did not kill anyone, especially not Emily.

  Fox Mulder : Then what's your part in all this?

  Chief Strong : I am a lustful man. An adulterer. She wanted to end the relationship, but I wouldn't let her; I kept pushing and pushing. I was on the phone with her when Andrew went missing.And now my own daughter. God. What have I done? See, I'm being punished. I've opened the gates of hell. Oh, God.

  Officer Sean : Let's all give him some room.

  Dana Scully : How did you know, Mulder?

  Fox Mulder : I did not see that coming.

  Dana Scully : But you knew something.

  Fox Mulder : Yeah. In his library, there are all these books on the town's history folklore, witchcraft.

  Dana Scully : Well, that's circumstantial at best. I'm sure lots of libraries in this town have those books.

  Fox Mulder : Yes, but he would have known about magic salt circles and familiars and hellhounds.

  Dana Scully : So you think Chief Strong unleashed something?

  Fox Mulder : I think someone has put a curse on this town, Scully, and maybe unwittingly opened the gates of hell.

• Chief Strong : But, uh let me ask you, what's the FBI doing here?

  Fox Mulder : The FBI has jurisdiction over the killing of the immediate family of a law enforcement officer.

  Chief Strong : Wait - You think that this was a murder?

  Dana Scully : I don't rule it out.

  Officer Wentworth : What makes you say that?

  Dana Scully : I know this is a small town, and probably very close-knit, and I'm sure that you don't want to hear this. But if a man did this and it would typically be a man he would be emboldened by escaping detection - and would likely kill again.

  Officer Wentworth : The evidence - doesn't support that.

  Dana Scully : Well, the broken neck supports that. And the bite marks that you see might be postmortem animal predation.

  Chief Strong : You can't just walk in here making assumptions that we've already dismissed.

  Fox Mulder : These aren't just careless assumptions. Agent Scully's also a medical doctor, and damn good at her job.

  Dana Scully : You'd be looking at a male, age 19 to 42, with a criminal record. And probably lives near and frequents the park. Would know the boy's play schedule. And most disturbingly, these types of killers get aroused at the suffering of their victims.

  Fox Mulder : We were hoping we could see the body.

  Dana Scully : Thanks for backing me up out there.

  Fox Mulder : Yeah. You're my homie.

• Chief Strong : Seeing the body change your mind?

  Dana Scully : But there's something that you should know. As hard as it is to contemplate

  Chief Strong : Don't go there, Agent Scully.

  Dana Scully : When the child is under the age of five, the majority of assailants are in fact...

  Chief Strong : Rick Eggers did not kill his son.

  Dana Scully : Most of the time, friends and family can't even contemplate that the suspect is capable of these crimes because they carry out their fantasies in private. I

  Chief Strong : I think I've heard about enough.

  Chief Strong : I want to rule him out as a suspect.

  Chief Strong : Officer Eggers loved Andrew. He's a decent, honorable man, - a good cop.

  Dana Scully : But I need your help.

  Dana Scully : When the suspects are confronted, they have a tendency to become violent towards themselves.

  Chief Strong : I would confront him myself, but I don't have to. He was working his shift when Andrew was attacked.

  Dana Scully : With you or out on his own?

  Chief Strong : Why don't you ask him yourself? Hey. Where's Eggers?

  Officer Wentworth : He just ran out of here, Chief. Almost knocked me over.

• Anna Strong : Why why does the FBI need to speak to Emily? She's just a little girl.

  Chief Strong : Look, we need to cooperate with them. We've got nothing to hide. They just want to ask her some questions. Anna, just play nice.

  Anna Strong : But I was there. We didn't see anything.

  Chief Strong : I'm getting it from all sides. They're trying to turn a tragedy into a damn murder investigation.

  Anna Strong : But what does that have to do with Emily?

  Chief Strong : Just let them talk to her. Okay?