Writers: Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz
Director: Peter Markle
Original Broadcast: AU: 18.03.1998 US: 07.12.1997
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US
Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny
Guest Cast:
First Dark Suited Man · Eric Breker
Young Melissa Scully · Rebecca Codling
Susan Chambliss · Patricia Dahlquist
Young William Scully Jr · Ryan DeBoer
Emily Christine Sim · Lauren Diewold
Marshall Sim · Rob Freeman
Margaret Scully · Sheila Larken
Melissa Scully · Melinda McGraw
Pathologist · Walter Marsh
Second Dark Suited Man · Stephen Mendel
Dr Calderon · Gerard Plunkett
Detective John Kresge · John Pyper-Ferguson
Young Dana Scully · Jody Shea
William Scully Jr · Pat Skipper
Tara Scully · Karri Turner
Home for the holidays, Scully is haunted by dreams which hint at a strange connection to a murdered woman's daughter.
Part one of two
Scully: [to Tara Scully] "You're huge!"
Bill Scully Jr: "Well let's get you two settled. Sorry about the digs, Mom. I know you hoped like hell you'd never have to spend another night in Base housing."
Margaret Scully: "Are you kidding. This is wonderful."
Scully: "It's the exact same layout as our old house."
Bill Scully Jr: "That's the Navy for you."
[Scully answers her brother's phone]
Scully: "Scully residence."
Unknown Caller: "Dana."
Scully: "Yes. I'm sorry. Who is this?"
Unknown Caller: "Dana. She needs your help. She needs you, Dana. Go to her."
Scully: "Who... who is this?"
[Scully enters the crime scene at the Sim residence and Detective Kresge ushers her out]
Detective Kresge: "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who are you?"
Scully: "Scully. FBI. [flashing badge] Can you tell me what's going on here?"
Detective Kresge: "Well, no offence Scully FBI, 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."
Detective Kresge: "When was this?"
Scully: "About 20 minutes ago."
Detective Kresge: "I've been here 30 minutes. I guarantee you no one's called out, to you or anyone else. The phone's off the hook."
Scully: "Please can you tell me what happened here?"
[Detective Kresge takes Scully through to the bathroom]
Detective Kresge: "This is Mrs Roberta Sim. Age 40. Suicide. She's been dead at least three hours. You got a call from her, she must've dialled 1-800-THE-GREAT-BEYOND."
Bill Scully Jr: "What's going on? They're... they're joking about you getting a call from a dead woman."
Scully: "I thought it was a dead woman, just not the one in there."
Bill Scully Jr: "What are you talking about?"
Scully: "I know it's not possible, Bill. But it sounded just like her."
Bill Scully Jr: "Who?"
Scully: "Our sister. Melissa."
Tara Scully: "Oh! Oh, that was a good one!"
Bill Scully Jr: "What? Is he kicking?"
Tara Scully: "Oh, he's kicking! He's kick-boxing! Well you had boys and girls, so which one kicked more?"
Margaret Scully: "Oh I had some pretty tough little girls."
Scully: [answering mobile phone] "Scully."
Unknown Caller: "She needs your help."
Scully: "Who is this? Why are you doing this?"
Unknown Caller: "Go to her."
Detective Kresge: "Scully FBI. What can I do for you at this ungodly hour?"
Scully: "I'd like to see everything you have on the Roberta Sim case."
Detective Kresge: "The Roberta Sim case?" [Scully nods] "There is no Roberta Sim case, it's a simple suicide. We sort of went through this before, you and I, didn't we?"
Scully: "Whatever you wish to call it, I'd appreciate seeing everything that you have. In the spirit of the season?"
Scully: "Says here that your precinct visited the Sim's before, two weeks ago. A domestic disturbance."
Detective Kresge: "We sent a unit cause the neighbours were complaining. They were screaming at each other. Wasn't a happy household. Happy people don't kill themselves."
Bill Scully Jr: "Is this where you stayed the night?" [Asleep at her computer]
Scully: "Yeah... Some of it."
[Scully walks into Detective Kresge's office to order an autopsy on Roberta Sim]
Detective Kresge: "Agent Scully. It's been — what? — four hours. I was getting worried."
Margaret Scully: "Dana! Are you all right? It's 2 o'clock in the morning. Where have you been all day? We were expecting you for lunch."
Scully: "Mom. Sit down. The woman who committed suicide has an adopted daughter, a three year old named Emily. I got a sample of Emily's blood and I had the lab run a test on her DNA. It's called a PCR test. This is Emily's, [slides Emily's PCR results across] this is Melissa's, [slides Melissa's PCR results across] which we ran during her murder investigation. They match."
Margaret Scully: "What does it mean they match?"
Scully: "It means... that this little girl Emily... is Melissa's daughter."
[A young Dana and Melissa Scully rush down to the Christmas tree before anyone else is up and inspect the presents]
Scully: "This has got to be it! It's got to be 'Hotel California'!"
Bill Scully Jr: "You really think Melissa had a baby?"
Scully: "Yes. I do."
Bill Scully Jr: "She called you from beyond the grave to tell you that? Sounds like something that partner of yours would say."
Melissa Scully: "So, you worried about Quantico or... who gets the most presents this year?"
Melissa Scully: "There is no right or wrong. Life is just a path. You follow your heart and it'll take you where you're supposed to go."
Scully: "God, you sound like a greeting card."
[Scully has fallen asleep on the couch]
Tara Scully: "Hey! Good morning. Hey, sleepyhead! Merry Christmas!"
Bill Scully Jr: "Did Santa come?"
Tara Scully: "Santa's still here."
Bill Scully Jr: "She always had to be the first up on Christmas. Couldn't wait to open those presents."
Margaret Scully: "What is it?"
Scully: "It's the DNA test on Emily Sim's blood."
Bill Scully Jr: "What does it say?"
Scully: "It says definitively that Melissa is not Emily's mother. But that they found striking genetic similarities between Emily and Melissa. So many that they... ran a test against another sample that they already had."
Margaret Scully: "What sample?"
Bill Scully Jr: "What are you trying to say?"
Scully: "According to this... I am Emily's mother."