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TEASER
On December 8th, a man, Martin Wells, is lying on a cot in a jail cell, looking up. The camera comes to focus to show a spider on its web above him.

A guard tells Wells that it is time. He escorts him down the hall until they meet Scully and Doggett. Wells already knows Doggett, enough to call him by his first name. Doggett does not answer him, but rather talks to the guards. He says that they heard he was being transferred. He says that “it’s like Woodstock out there.” Scully tells the guards that they should hold off until the crowd disperses. The one guard says that they will camp out all night, so they are going to transfer him anyway.

The four of them walk through the crowd of people outside, Doggett and Scully trying to hold them off.

Suddenly Wells sees someone he knows, Al. He yells to him, and Al pulls a gun. Doggett tries to stop him, but the man shoots Wells.

Scully leans over Wells, and yells for someone to call a medic.

Time seems to slow down for Wells. He is looking at Scully’s watch, it is around 8:20. Suddenly the hands stop, and he closes his eyes. The camera pans back to the watch. After a pause, the hands move in reverse.

ACT ONE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
8:23 A.M.
Wells wakes up in the morning. He starts feeling around his head and chest, confused that he’s not shot. He notices the spider on the floor.

Scully and Doggett come into his cell. Scully is holding up a key card from an apartment building, asking if he’s seen it before.  He tells her that it’s to the hotel, and it could have been his. She tells him that it is.

The card was found in his dumpster behind the hotel he was staying at. They think he through it away so it would look like it was stolen, and like he spent the whole night in his room, watching Pay-per-View while the murder took place. Wells doesn’t know anything about what they are talking about. He doesn’t remember. Doggett is screaming at him. He asks Scully about the murder. Before she can answer, Doggett holds up pictures of his wife, Vicky’s dead body. Wells starts to cry. He says twice, most likely as an injoke to Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, “This is not happening.”

It’s time for him to go to court.

BALTIMORE CIRCUIT COURT
10:12 A.M.
Wells is escorted into the courtroom. All of his colleagues stare at him.

Wells’s attorney, Janet Wilson, talks to him, telling him what to do. He knows the judge, which she thinks is good.

He sees Al, and says that he shot him. She has no idea what he’s talking about.

The bailiff tells everyone to rise when the judge comes in. Wells is confused when the bailiff says that it is Thursday, December 7th. He tells her that yesterday was Friday, and it should be Saturday. His attorney just tells him to be quiet and asks if he is all right.

The judge announces that it is case number 8ABX03 (which is an obvious injoke -- that is the episode’s number -- season eight, episode three).

His attorney tries to get him bail. She tells the judge that his kids need him. The prosecutor says sarcastically that it’s because their mother isn’t around. The judge warns Miss Carter (another injoke:) for saying that.

The judge denies Wells bail, as he says that he knows Wells, as a prosecutor, would have done if it were a different case. He says that he will however move him to a more secure facility for his safety.

Wells gets out of his seat and goes to the judge, telling him that he can’t be transferred because he will be killed by Al the next morning. The judge hits his mallet and the officers take him away.

Wells is sitting in his cell Scully and Doggett come in. Scully asked what he wanted to talk to them about. He asks if she is Doggett’s partner. He starts to get mad and tells Wells that he knew that, because he met her yesterday, on Wednesday.

Scully questions if he’s saying that he doesn’t remember, and then asks him what the last thing he does remember is.

He tells her the last thing he remembers is being shot by his father-in-law.

Doggett gets angry, saying that he’s wasting their time, and starts to walk away. Scully is still listening. Doggett waits after Wells asks him to.

Wells tells her that he doesn’t know what he experienced, but asks what if it was a premonition, a glimpse of the future. Still confused, he says that you do hear about these things. Scully tells him that she has heard of them. She pulls up a chair. She asks him if shooting aside, he remembers anything else.

He does not remember anything between three days ago, when he was in the hotel, and the present. 

Doggett says that he has no evidence to prove that. He tells him that he is his friend, and he will listen to him, but he will not be lied to. Wells tells him he’s talking to him about key cards, and he’s in a jail cell and doesn’t understand any of it, but he did not kill his wife.

SCULLY: If you truly don’t remember, then how can you be certain that you didn’t.

Back in his cell, Wells has gets a glimpse of what happened. He sees glass that had broken being pulled back together and a knife covered in blood, stabbing his wife. It is in reverse.

Wells notices the spider web. In anger, he pulls it away, throws it on the floor, and stomps on it.

Some time later, the nanny, Trina, brings his kids in to see him. They are really upset. Trina tells him that they want to know when he’s coming home. He tells them he has some very important things that he has to do, but then he will be home. The one child tells him that their grandfather said that they won’t let him come home. He just hugs them.

While hugging his girls, he has another vision in reverse. He sees the broken glass moving again and then his wife gets up from falling onto a glass-topped table. He sees fallen pearls from her broken necklace lifting into the air, and then he sees her screaming.

Wells thinks of something. He tells Trina that he wants her to bring something from the girls bedroom to him.

Later his attorney comes in, holding a stuffed bear. He pulls a nanny cam out of it. She tells him that if they use it as evidence, she will have to show it to the prosecution. He says that she thinks he’s guilty. He wants to clear it up. He plays the tape through the camera. Between the last time his wife was on camera and the police arriving on the scene, the only one on film is him.

ACT TWO
The next morning, Martin wakes up to see the spider crawling on its web, unharmed.

The guard comes to his jail cell. He asks him not to transfer him, or he will be killed. He tells him that he doesn’t plan to. His lawyers want to see him.

There is another man, and the female attorney from before. The man starts to introduce Wells, but he says that they already met. He starts telling her that he’s been thinking that she doesn’t have to give the tape to the prosecution. He says that he obviously gave her the tape to show his innocence, not as an admission of guilt.

She is very confused and tells him that they’ve never met before.

The man asks him what tape he is talking about, and he tells him it’s from the nanny cam. He thinks that’s why the man is there. He tells Wells that he’s there to introduce him to his attorney.

Martin turns to Wilson and tells her that they met the day before at the bail hearing, and asks if she doesn’t remember. The man tells him that the bail hearing is set for tomorrow.

Wells asks what day of the week it is. The man tells him it is Wednesday the 6th. He tells his attorney that yesterday she told him it was Thursday, and the day before that it was Friday. He realizes what is going on, and says out loud that everything is going backwards.

The man tells him that he should speak to someone; he is under a lot of stress. Wilson tells him that they can have him out of there by tomorrow afternoon. The prosecution’s case is weak. They have no physical evidence tying him to the crime scene.  The man adds that they also don’t have the key card that was used to access his apartment building. She says that without it they have nothing.

Wells is outside of the prison. He sees a man lifting weights.

Another man comes over to him. Wells asks if he knows him. He tells him that he doesn’t but he put him in jail. He remembers that it was for possession with content and a concealed weapon. He tells her that the weapon was a pipe wrench.  He was on the way to his baby’s mother’s house to unstick the Pepsi caps from her garbage disposal, but he already told him that. Concealed weapon added six months to his sentence. He asks Wells if he remembers his name. He doesn’t, and that all he needs to know is that he broke the law. He says then that he guesses that makes Wells “wife killer esquire.”

Wells walks away. Someone pushes him so he falls into a domino game. They yell at him to pick them up. He starts to. He sees someone approach him. He looks up to see the man who was lifting weights. He has a spider web tattoo on his hand.  The man proceeds to slice his face with something. On the ground, he grabs the side of his bleeding face in pain.

Wells is in his cell when Scully and Doggett come to see him. He says that he appreciates them coming, and that he especially wants to talk to Scully. They haven’t met yet.

He says that something is happening to him that he needs to try to explain to the both of them. He says that he’s moving backwards in time. Every morning he wakes up, it’s the day before. For him, yesterday was Thursday, and the day before that was Friday. Only, it’s all new to him every single morning he wakes up, because he can only remember what’s happened the following day.

Doggett asks Scully if she’d mind taking a closer look at his injuries, and maybe check his scalp.

Wells tells them that he knows it all sounds crazy, but he’s telling them the truth. He uses the cut on his face as an example. He says that it was on his cheek when he woke up yesterday, but when he woke up that morning, it wasn’t. However, this afternoon he got cut. He killed a spider in his cell the previous day, but first thing that morning, it was back again, because it happened the day before. He hasn’t actually killed it yet.

Scully asks him if he’s saying that he doesn’t remember the day his wife was murdered -- two days ago, on Monday. He says that he doesn’t remember it, because for him, it hasn’t happened yet.

She asks him if he realizes that he won’t be able to prove it. If tomorrow is really the day before today, then they won’t have had the conversation.

Doggett gets annoyed and starts to walk out. Scully tells Wells that that means he’s going to have to tell them all over again.

DOGGETT: Yeah, well, uh, make sure I skip that freakin’ meeting.

After Doggett leaves, Scully asks Wells, that if it is true, why does he think it’s happening. He says that he doesn’t know, but there has to be a reason. She asks him what reason, and he tells her that maybe there’s something that he is meant to understand, although, he doesn’t know what it could be.

SCULLY: Maybe you already have the answer within you.

Scully leaves.

Wells is slipped a package through his cell. His attorney tells him that she would really like to stay with him while he goes through it. She could talk him through the chain of evidence. He tells her that he’s done it before. She leaves.

The inmate that talked to him before and accused him of sending him to jail when he didn’t have a weapon, walks up to his cell while he mops the floor. He tells Wells that he’s looking for some loophole -- a technicality that he can get out on. He tells him that he is trying to find out the truth. The man tells him that he better stick to the technicalities. He tells Wells that the truth is going to keep him in there. Laughing, he finally walks away.

Wells starts to look through the file. He pulls out some photos of his wife’s body and starts to cry.

Suddenly, he has another vision. First he sees the glass again, then her body, bleeding lying on the floor. Next he sees the bloody knife, but this time, he sees the hand that is holding it. It’s covered with a spider web tattoo.

WELLS: I know who did it.

ACT THREE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
8:42 A.M.
Wells awakens the next morning on the couch in someone’s house. He notices that the television is on, and he watches the news. They are saying that the police aren’t saying if he’s a suspect, but he must be hiding in seclusion at a friend’s house.  However, they are focusing the investigation on the whereabouts of a key card. The card was used by the killer to enter Wells’s apartment.

As the news goes on, the owner of the house walks in. It turns out, his friend, is Doggett. (Note that Doggett’s apartment seems to be Mulder’s redone.)

Wells tells Doggett that he knows who killed his wife. He does not know the man’s name, only his description. Doggett calls lockup, but there is no prisoner has been processed by that description in the last thirty-six hours. Wells says that he must not be in jail quite yet. He must have been arrested later that day, on Tuesday, to be with him in lockup on Wednesday.

Doggett is confused. He tells Wells that if he is trying to admit something to him, or to himself, he wants him to just come out
and say it. 

WELLS: There is a reason all this is happening. (Thinking) Maybe I already have the answer.

Doggett questions him. Wells says that there is something in his apartment that he needs to see.

CALVERT HOUSE APARTMENTS
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
11:18 A.M.
At his apartment he shows Doggett the nanny cam, but how only he is in the video. Doggett tells him that that shows that he’s innocent, not guilty. His wife was killed before sunrise, but it is obvious from the reflection in the mirror on the video that Wells came into the room after she was murdered. Wells says that no one except them knew about the nanny cam to stop the tape.  Then he thinks of Trina, the nanny.

TRINA GALVEZ RESIDENCE
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
12:36 P.M.
They arrive at Trina’s house. Wells accuses her of knowing about the camera, telling the killer about it, and giving him his key card. Distressed, she says that she wasn’t even there that night. Doggett tells her that the first thing she’s supposed to say is “What nanny cam?”

Doggett breaks down the door. The murderer is in the room. Trina tells Wells that she is sorry, but he threatened her family and made her give him his key card.

Doggett arrests the man and brings him in for questioning.

Doggett tells Wells that the man has been arrested for narcotics before, and knows the drill. Wells says that they have Trina’s testimony, but Doggett tells him that they may not because the man scared her so bad, that they can’t count on her.

Wells talks to the man. He asks him why he killed his wife. He tells Wells that it was revenge. He put his brother in jail for a crime that he didn’t commit. It made his third strike, and Wells sent him to prison for life. He tells him that Wells knew he was innocent. The stolen goods were found in a jacket pocket that was sitting at the bar beside his brother, that wasn’t his. Wells tells him that he will see about reducing his brother’s sentence if he admits on record that he committed the murder. The man tells him that his brother hung himself about a couple of weeks ago in prison.

Doggett calls Wells out. He says to him that he’s sorry but they think they have a case. The other cops arrest him.

ACT FOUR
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
STRAND HOTEL
WASHINGTON D.C.
2:07 A.M.
When Wells wakes up on Monday, he’s at the hotel. He looks at the clock and realizes what time it is. It’s about two hours before his wife will be murdered.

He calls his wife, but she doesn’t answer. He leaves an urgent message to get out of the house. 

Wells runs to Doggett’s house to tell him that his wife is going to be killed. He called the police but he doesn’t know if they believed him so he needs him to call for him. Doggett hasn’t seen him in three years and wants something more to go on. He tells him that he’s been given a second chance. He tells Doggett how he suppressed evidence and sent an innocent man to jail.  Doggett tells him that if he tells him anymore that he knows he could be put in jail. He tells him that at least his wife wouldn’t be killed. Doggett tells him to hold on a minute and picks up the phone. Wells leaves and starts to drive to his apartment.

The cops are already at his apartment, but all is clear. They all leave, but tell him that they are a phone call away.

Wells tries calling his father-in-law, but his wife is not there.

Suddenly, Wells hears someone wiggle the doorknob, so he hangs up on Al. He turns behind him and sees a knife set. He grabs one and goes to the door.

He stands at the door ready. When the door opens, he goes to attack, but realizes it’s his wife, and drops the knife. He hugs her. After seeing the doorknob turn again, he pushes her into a room and tells her to call the cops, lock the door and not come out.

When Wells goes to the door, it’s open. The killer is already inside. Wells looks around. The man jumps up behind him and knocks him down. He punches and hurts Wells. Wells’s wife comes out screaming. The man grabs her. He cuts her pearl necklace off, and the pearls fall to the ground, as in Wells visions. She is pushed backwards onto the glass-topped table. The murder goes to cut his wife’s throat, as Wells watches but can do nothing. He puts a knife to her neck as Wells pleads with
him.

Right before the cut, the man is shot by Doggett.

Wells grabs his wife and they embrace.

Scully and Doggett come into the room. Scully checks the murderer and shakes her head. He’s dead.

Doggett says that Wells said something about a second chance. He asks him if this was it. Wells nods.

Wells looks to Scully’s watch. The hands have stopped. After a beat, they move forward once again.

MARYLAND STATE PENITENTIARY
THREE MONTHS LATER
Wells sits in a prison cell.

WELLS (voice over): The passage of time imprisons us not in a cell of brick and mortar, but in one of hopes dashed and tragedies unoverted. How precious then, the chance to go back. Only to discover that in facing the past you must face up to yourself. But exiting the prison of time doesn’t free you from the prison of your own character. One from which there is no escape.

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Overall Rating : 8
*Shippy Rating: 0 (again, no Mulder mention)
*Note: Shippiness will ALWAYS be based on MULDER and SCULLY. The scale is based on the Redux II scale (1-10, as Redux II being a 10 [now with Triangle being an 11, All Things being an 11.5, and Millennium being a 12, all above the scale])*


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