TEASER

The episode starts with a woman making her rounds, putting mail in people’s slots. She notices a man following her. She keeps going, faster and faster, trying to get away without him noticing. She gets in the elevator, but his hand stops it and he gets in.

The man sees not only her, but also all of the passengers in black and white.

The man gets off at an earlier floor leaving her there. However, he runs to the stairwell and runs down to beat the elevator.

Inside the elevator the passengers become frightened. The elevator is making creaking noises and starts to rock and shake. The cords holding it up snap and the elevator car plunges to the ground

Outside the elevator, the man waits until it opens, his camera ready. It opens and he starts flashing pictures. A dark substance flows – obviously blood even though it is in black and white.

Scully’s phone rings – it’s A.D. Kersh. He wants to see Scully right away, but only Scully. Mulder wonders what’s going on as Scully leaves to see Kersh.

In the office, Kersh introduces her to Peyton Ritter, from the New York office, who tells Scully about the investigation going on. It seems that a man, Alfred Fellig, a crime scene photographer, always seems to show up at the crime scenes before the police. Ritter found out about the pictures when he was scanning crime scene photos into the computer. He shows her a picture of the man, he is the same man from the teaser, and he looks to be about 65. He shows her a picture of one of the scenes, a dead woman. The clock in the picture reads about 10:30, but the police didn’t arrive until 11:14. They had the clock checked and the time wasn’t wrong. Ridder says that he checked the posts from the following day, and found more pictures from the photo files. In the new picture, the clock reads 11:52. They were two different negatives from the same photographer. In all the pictures because the locations are known, they can tell by the shadows what time of day the pictures were taken, again, before the police arrived. He thinks it’s possible Fellig is taking victims in order to get pictures.

Ridder wants Scully’s help on the case. Kersh excuses Agent Ritter to talk to Scully in private. He says that Ritter is a good agent, as she used to be. He tells her she is to work on the case with Ritter. Scully tells Kersh that she and Mulder will leave shortly. He tells her that Mulder is a lost cause.

Up above Fellig starts to take pictures of the dead man. The attacker sees him and leaves. However, when Fellig gets down, the man is there waiting for him. He stabs Fellig in the back repeatedly, until he thinks he is dead, and then runs off.

Fellig pulls the knife out of his back and leaves, letting the knife fall to the ground.

ACT TWO

At the crime scene Ridder shows Scully the knife, and tells her that they lifted Fellig’s prints off of it, right from the 1964 background check.

They see the blood on the ground (where Fellig was stabbed). Ridder thinks there was a second victim but doesn’t know where the body would be.

A cop comes over and tells them that they brought Fellig in.

Ridder and Scully question Fellig. He tells them he saw the murder take place, and finally admits that the knife had his fingerprints on it because he was scratched. Scully looks at his back. The marks look like stab wounds, but like they’ve mostly healed, now just scratches.

Scully tells him about them letting Fellig go. Mulder wants to know why, and asks about the stabbing. Scully asks him how he knows about that, and Mulder tells her, like he told her before, he’s nosy.

Scully decides to go pay Fellig a visit. He lets her in and she starts asking him about the murderers, and he says he’s not a murderer. He tells her he’ll show her what he does.

Fellig drives her around the town, waiting and searching. He tells Scully this is what he does every night.

Finally he sees the next person who is going to die. Scully looks skeptical. He tells her that he can only tell when someone is going to die, not how, that’s always a surprise. He gets his camera out and is ready.

A man comes over to the girl and starts yelling at her. Scully pulls out her gun and heads over to the two of them, leaving Fellig in the car.

She grabs the man and handcuffs him. She finds a gun and he’s says that it isn’t his and calls her ‘Red.’ She slaps his face! The girl takes off.

Suddenly out of nowhere, a truck comes and runs over the girl.

Scully looks back to Fellig, and he drives away.

ACT THREE

Back at the precinct, Ridder starts yelling at Scully wanting to know why she left the stakeout. She tells him that Fellig says he can tell who’s going to die. She tells him that they’re not going to get him for murder. He tells her she’s wrong and shows her a suspect they have in custody, it’s Wiggins. Ridder tells her that Wiggins said that Fellig attacked him, and that Fellig was the one that killed the kid, he just happened to be there. Scully tells him that Wiggins is half Fellig’s age. Ridder tells her that Wiggins said he would have come there on his own, but he didn’t think they would believe him. She says that he was right, and asks him if Wiggins had help concocting that story. Ridder says that Fellig is a murderer, whether or not he committed this one. He doesn’t care, as long as he can buy sometime with Fellig in jail. Scully tells him that no judge will issue a warrant based on that. He thinks that the judge will.

At Fellig’s, Scully is waiting for him when he comes home. She tells him that he’s going to be arrested for murder. He responds that he showed her what he does – he just takes pictures. Scully tells him that what he showed her, was that he shows no compassion for human beings. He asks her if she wants him to cry, to feel sorry for them, because he doesn’t. He thinks every one of them is lucky. He tells her that he’s just there to take the shot, he doesn’t kill them, "he" does. Scully asks who "he" is.

Scully follows him into the dark room where he *flicks on the lights.*

Fellig shows Scully a picture from the elevator death, and what he believes is a glimpse of death itself. It was closer than he’d gotten in so many years he couldn’t even count them. Scully realizes that this is the shot he spoke of, what he is trying to get. He confirms this. Scully looks at the picture and says:

SCULLY: I know that you know more about photography than I do, but this is just a lense flare.
FELLIG: You’re right, I do know more about photography than you do.

Scully asks that for sake of argument if it were true why he bothers. Why would he take a picture of death? He tells her so he can look into his face. So he can die. He tells her that he’s tried everything – pills, razors, bridges - and nothing works. He got left behind and doesn’t want to be there anymore. He can’t remember a time when he did. This is all he knows how to do.

SCULLY: You know I don’t believe you.
FELLIG: Yes you do. That’s why you’re here.

She asks him how he knows people are going to die. He says that if you chase it long enough, you pick up the sense.

Scully looks down at an old picture. It’s signed by Louis Brady. Scully excuses herself to the bathroom.

Scully calls Mulder and asks if Louis Brady could have been one of Fellig’s aliases. He doesn’t know for sure because there is a gap before 1939. She asks him to check for her and to let her know what he finds out.

Scully comes out of the bathroom and goes back into the dark room again. The lights are off. Fellig bumps into Scully, when in reality he is taking her cell phone, which he turns off and sets on a shelf. *He flicks the light switch on again.*

FBI ARCHIVES
9:52 A.M.
Mulder is walking through the archives, looking for anything important. He finds a book that has information on Fellig. It says that he is a wanted felon for the crime of a double murder in 1929.

Mulder calls Ridder. Ridder can’t get a hold of Scully either. Mulder found out her phone had been turned off. Mulder tells Ridder that he was right, Fellig is a murderer. He suffocated two patients when he was in a Connecticut hospital. Ridder is confused that it was in 1929, but Mulder tells him just to go find Scully. Ridder assures Mulder he will.

Scully tells Fellig that most people want to live forever, and he responds that most people are idiots, which is one of the reasons he doesn’t. Scully tells him that he is wrong, and asks him how you can have too much life. She says that there is too much to learn, to experience.

He tells her that 75 years is long enough. He says that if you live forever, you soon start to think about what you are missing that everyone else has gotten to find out about. Scully asks him, "What about love?" He asks if she means forever. He tells her that four years ago he went to the Hall of Records because he couldn’t remember his wife’s name.

FELLIG: Love lasts 75 years if you’re lucky. You don’t wanna be around when it’s gone.

Scully closes her eyes and sighs. (She’s probably thinking about Mulder!;)

Fellig looks at Scully and sees her in black and white. He tells her to count her blessings.

ACT FOUR

Scully wants to know why he is the way he is. If it’s true, she wants him to give her some scientific proof. He tells her that it’s not scientific. He says that someone took his place. He tells her how he had yellow fever, and everyone around him in the hospital was dying. He saw death coming, but he didn’t want to die. The nurse was holding his hand and talking to him when death came near. He thought that if he didn’t look at death, he couldn’t die. He closed his eyes and looked away. He didn’t tell the nurse not to look, though. He wanted her to, instead of him.

He said that when he awoke, his fever had broken. He saw people carrying the nurse away, rapped in a yellow sheet.

He tells Scully that since that time, he realized that you gotta be careful what you wish for. He missed his chance.

He looks to Scully, still seeing her in black and white. He tells her she’s lucky. Scully asks him what he means, but he turns away.

She starts yelling at him, wanting him to explain what he meant. She wants to know if he meant she was lucky like the others. If he wanted her to believe she was going to die.

He tells her that he just wants to take the picture.

She tells him that he took a picture of her that night before, and asks if that was why. He says that it wasn’t why, it was different.

Scully tells him she’s not gonna die, and tries to make him turn his camera off. He won’t, so finally she handcuffs him. She realizes he took her phone and wants to know why. What he doesn’t want her to know. He doesn’t answer, he just tells her that he’s coming, and that she should make peace with herself. Scully won’t listen.

Ridder comes into the room with his gun pointed at Fellig. He fires.

The bullet hits its target, going right through Fellig’s camera into him.

As Fellig falls, we realize he was not the only thing the bullet hit. It went all the way through him and into Scully. She slumps to the floor, blood everywhere.

Ridder rushes over to her in shock and tries to make her stomach stop bleeding. She can’t talk.

Ridder goes for help.

Fellig reaches up for another camera and goes to take a picture of Scully until he sees her expression. He asks her if she sees him. She can’t answer him. He tells her not to look, to close her eyes. She does both.

Fellig takes Scully’s hand and looks around. The black and white coloring travels into his arm. He looks up and suddenly falls backwards.

NYU MEDICAL CENTER
ONE WEEK LATER
Ridder is in Scully’s hospital room talking to her. When he comes out, Mulder comes over and goes in her room.

Mulder takes Scully’s hand and squeezes it, not letting go. He tells Scully that the autopsy showed that Fellig died from a single gunshot wound, and that was all that it said.

SCULLY: I don’t even know how I entertained the thought. People don’t live forever.

MULDER: No, no, I think he would have. I just think that death only looks for you once you seek its opposite.

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