4X06 Sanguinarium
Writers: Valerie Mayhew & Vivian Mayhew
Director: Kim Manners
Original Broadcast: AU: 12.03.1997 US: 10.11.1996
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US
Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny
Guest Cast:
Attorney · Andrew Airlie
ER Doctor · Norman Armour
Dr Jack Franklyn · Richard Beymer
Dr Hartman · Martin Evans
Nurse Rebecca Waite · O-Lan Jones
Dr Harrison Lloyd · John Juliani
Dr Shannon · Arlene Mazerolle
Dr Eric Ilaqua · Paul Raskin
Dr Sally Stanford · Marie Stillin
Doctor · Gregory Thirloway
Bizarre murders in a hospital's plastic surgery unit lead Mulder and Scully to suspect a supernatural force may be responsible.
Nurse Waite: "Dr Lloyd!"
Doctor Lloyd: "I think this patient... is finished." [Dr Lloyd has just killed a patient during a liposuction procedure]
Scully: "Well, he started taking the drug five years ago and he went through... ooh, he took a lot of it. Nineteen 100-tablet refills."
Mulder: "Wow."
Scully: "Yeah. You know that's more than a pill a day."
Mulder: "An addiction in other words."
Scully: "You're missing my point here, Mulder. This place is a veritable factory. Cosmetic surgery is the boom industry of the medical world and ASU wards like this are a gold mine."
Mulder: "Everybody's doing it. Or so I hear."
Scully: "And a brand new state-of-the-art facility like this can support an entire hospital."
Mulder: "What do you suppose these are?"
Scully: "What?"
Mulder: "These five marks on your brand new state-of-the-art floor."
Scully: "They look like they were made by the coasters from an OR table or some kind of equipment."
Mulder: "No. They look to me like they were burned or scorched." [Mulder connects the marks with the spilled blood and a tongue depressor] "The shape of a pentagram."
Scully: "Mulder, if you want to connect the dots here, you should look at the facts. Iatrogenic deaths or death due to doctor error are upwards of 80,000 a year. Doctor Lloyd was pushing his limits, he was an accident waiting to happen."
Mulder: "I'm not a doctor, Scully, but you got to be pushing pretty hard to mistake a beer belly for a bald head. Not to mention door number three." [Each operating room is clearly marked]
Mulder: "It's amazing that no-one saw him in time to stop him." [Each OR has a video screens above the door]
Scully: "Maybe they were all possessed."
Mulder: "I don't think this is just a simple possession, Scully. I think it's more like sorcery or black magic or something like that."
Mulder: "Are you aware that Dr Lloyd is claiming that he was possessed during the incident?"
Nurse Waite: "I guess it's cheaper than malpractice insurance."
Scully: "There's magic going on here. Only it's being done with silicone, collagen and a well-placed scalpel."
Scully: "Well if it's that simple, why don't you put out an APB for someone riding a broom and wearing a tall black hat?"
Mulder: "You jest, Scully."
Mulder: "Probable cause." [Noticing the broom at the door]
Scully: "On the suspicion of being a witch?"
Scully: "What could she have been doing in here?" [The room is full of candles and ritual offerings]
Mulder: "Probably not tax returns."
Mulder: "Looks like she took a pretty good shot at you."
Doctor Franklyn: "Yes. Apparently."
Mulder: "Nothing that a little plastic surgery won't fix up though, huh?"
Scully: "But if she swallowed..." [The straight pins]
Mulder: "...Then she would have died long before she yakked them up on the driveway."
Scully: "What are you thinking, Mulder? That Dr Cox murdered these patients ten years ago and then became Dr Franklyn?"
Mulder: "Scully, I think he murdered those patients so that he could become Dr Franklyn."
Scully: "This kind of transformation is medically impossible."
Mulder: "Its not medicine, Scully, it's blood sacrifice."
Scully: "Blood sacrifice?"
Mulder: "The most potent offering in black magic. What if this man, having reached the limits of medical miracles, decided to stage a miracle all his own?"
Scully: "So this man committed these murders in order to make himself beautiful?"
Mulder: "Everybody wants to be beautiful, Scully."
Doctor Franklyn: "I hope that those instruments were properly sterilised." [After magically placing them in Dr Shannon's stomach]
Doctor Hartman: "I like to say whoever god didn't get around to creating in his own image it's our job to recreate in ours."
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