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Audrey Pauley

Episode: 9X13
Airdate: 03/17/02
Written by: Steven Maeda
Directed by: Kim Manners
Starring: Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Robert Patrick as John Doggett, Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes, and Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner

IMAGES FROM "AUDREY PAULEY" COMING SOON!

TEASER
FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA
Reyes and Doggett are sitting in her car outside of Doggett's apartment.

Reyes thanks him for the drink and he thanks her for the lift. Reyes asks him if he's doing anything big for the weekend, and he says huge - microwave pizza and satellite TV. She then thanks him for making her life seem exciting.

She tells him that maybe they both need pets - they say people with pets live longer. He tells her that he was thinking about getting a cat. She tells him that there's dog people and cat person, he's a dog person. He asks her how she figures that, and she tells him that he is faithful, dependable, without guile, and very comfortable to be around.

Reyes and Doggett look at each other for a second, and then Reyes asks him why he would choose a cat. He tells her that they're low maintenance and don't expect a lot from you, so you can't let them down. She tells him that she doesn't see him ever disappointing anyone.

The two look at each other in silence like they want to kiss, but then Doggett tells her that he will see her on Monday. She agrees, and then he gets out of the car.

Reyes drives off, saying his name to herself. Suddenly a car comes speeding onto the road and runs right into her. Her car is thrown off the road and crashes.

At the hospital, Reyes is lifted from a gurney onto a hospital bed.

The doctor asks Reyes how she is feeling and if she is with them, and then shines a light in her eye.

Meanwhile, the scene tinted blue, Reyes sits up from her bed. Her head is bleeding. She looks around the room - it is completely empty and all of the machines have been turned off. She touches the cut on her head, and then stands up and starts to look around some more.

She walks out of the room, calling out to see if anyone is there. There is no one anywhere.

She opens the doors to outside and looks out. There is nothing outside or below the hospital but a dark sky.

The camera pans away and the hospital is suspended in space.

ACT ONE
Reyes stands looking at her reflection in the paper towel dispenser in the bathroom, wiping the blood from her face.

Some one comes up behind her. She turns around and the man tells her that it's okay, he was a little freaked out in the beginning too. He tells her that he is Stephen Murdoch, but he doesn't know if it even matters anymore.

MURDOCH: Did you just look outside?
REYES nods
MURDOCH: Yeah. Don't do that

Stephen leads her out of the room.

REYES: Where did everybody go?
MURDOCH: I think the question is, "Where did we go?"

He asks her if she was in an accident. She tells him that she thinks that she was hit by a car. He tells her that he came in with chest pains.

Stephen yells out to Mr. Barreiro that there is someone new.

He leads Reyes to another man who he found wandering around the halls like her, who fell from a construction site. There is a large gash on his head that has been stitched where his hair is missing.

Reyes turns back to Stephen and guesses that he thinks that they are dead. She turns back to Barreiro and tells him that she doesn't believe that. He asks her if she has ever been dead before. If she hasn't, then how does she know that they aren't?

Reyes turns around and runs down the hall.

Scully comes into the hospital and finds Doggett sitting in the waiting room. He wipes his eyes. He tells Scully that they stopped after work and Reyes had a beer. Scully tells him that the man who hit her had fifteen. She tells him not to do that to himself.

Scully reads Reyes's medical charts. She tells Doggett that it's true - Reyes is gone. He tells her that he doesn't accept that. He tells her that she is breathing and her heart is still beating - there's got to be hope.

Scully tells him that there's no measurable electric activity in her brain. Brain death is indeed death. She tells him that she is sorry. He just looks at Reyes lying there.

Reyes walks up behind the window of the room they are in, but in a different reality.

Reyes takes a chart from the desk and opens it to read it. Everything is nonsense. Steven walks up and tells her that it's actually not that bad once you get used to the idea. He has looked at the report before. She tells Murdoch that there isn't a single sign on any wall, and asks him why. Reyes comments that he thinks they're dead, and asks him if it seems like Heaven to him - a big deserted Catholic hospital. He tells her that he didn't say it was Heaven, for all he knows it's Hell. He doesn't know anything for sure - maybe it's a way station - a stop on the way for whatever is next.

Reyes starts to walk away and he asks her where she is going. She tells him that she is finding a way out.

Reyes walks over to the doors and looks out. She turns back around and walks back over and picks up a coffee mug. She stands at the doorway and lets go. The mug falls so far and then crackles with sparks and disappears.

Back in the real world, Reyes's doctor, Jack Preijers, comes in and introduces himself to Scully and Doggett. He tells them that he is sorry for their loss. He then tells them that Reyes had a living will and signed an organ donor card.

Doggett tells him that Reyes is in one piece and there are no fractures or damage to her skull. Doggett asks if that adds up. Scully just tells him that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It doesn't change the diagnosis or the prognosis.

The doctor tells him that in this situation, time is of the essence. There's a woman in Minnesota who can be saved by his friend's heart - in a way she will live on.

Reyes is walking down the hall when she sees a woman. She runs after her and tells her to stop. The woman stands there for a second, but looks frightened. She runs off. Reyes chases her around the corner, but it's a dead end and the woman is gone.

Suddenly Murdoch yells for her. She runs over. Barreiro is flashing and crackling like the mug was. He is in pain. Murdoch asks her what is happening. Suddenly Barreiro disappears.

The camera pans through the window of a room in the real world. There is a loud long beep of a flat line on the heart monitor coming from the room.

Dr. Preijers turns off Barreiro's monitor. He tells his family that he is sorry for their loss.

The camera pans away to show the woman that Reyes saw, Audrey Pauley, watching at the doorway. She continues on, pushing her flower cart.

ACT TWO
Scully has looked at a brain scan.

Doggett comes in and tells her that they are burning up the phones, arranging with all the other hospitals how to divvy up Monica. He tells her that they say that they can do it as early as tomorrow. He asks if there is anything at all that she found.

Scully tells him that she did notice some minor swelling in the left anterior of her brain, which is consistent with subdural hematoma. She tells him that she doesn't know if that means anything - it's not like there is an exact formula for how much damage equals death.

Doggett picks up the printout of Reyes's heart activity from the heart monitor. It shows that suddenly it just stopped at 8:11. If they can learn what that is, maybe they can reverse it.

Reyes and Murdoch talk about Audrey disappearing. He asks if she disappeared like Mr. Barreiro did, but she tells him that it was different.

Murdoch wants to talk about one thing at a time. He asks her what happened to Barreiro. She tells him that in her opinion, he died. She says that you can't die if you are already dead, which backs up her theory that they are alive. He asks her that if he is dead, and they aren't, then where are they?

Doggett shows Dr. Preijers the papers and tells him that he wants to see any information that he has. He wants to know if there was any change in Reyes's condition that lead up to her heart stopping. The doctor thinks that he is trying to get him for malpractice, but he assures him that he isn't. He just wants to see what happened.

Preijers has the nurse, Whitney, get Doggett the code notes.

Doggett tells the doctor that Reyes had a seatbelt on and there was an airbag. The paramedics told him that she was conscious at the scene - he thinks that there is something that they are missing.

He gives Doggett the notes.

Audrey is sitting at Reyes's bedside when Doggett comes in. She gets nervous and gets up. Doggett tells her that it's all right, and asks if she works there. She tells him that she is a patient aide. She delivers the flowers mostly.

AUDREY: Are you her husband?
DOGGETT nods
AUDREY: You love her, though (this is a statement, not a question).
AUDREY walks to the door
AUDREY: She's not gone. Not her soul.
DOGGETT: I wish I could talk to her. I wish I could tell her…Guess I wish a lot of things.

Doggett walks back over to Reyes's bed as Audrey leaves.

Audrey takes the elevator down to the basement of the hospital.

In her room is a model of the hospital.

She walks over and looks through the window.

The scene changes to show Reyes and Murdoch walking through the hall. Murdoch tells Reyes that she shouldn't be giving up.

Suddenly Audrey is there. Reyes tells her not to run and asks who she is. She tells her and says that she works at the hospital. Reyes tells her that they just want to get out of there, and asks if she will show them the way out. She tells them that she can't help them. Murdoch asks her why not.

AUDREY: I came to tell you your friend…loves you very much.
REYES: My friend? Did you talk to John? Does he know where I am?
AUDREY: They all think you're dead.
REYES and MURDOCH look at each other. AUDREY starts to leave but REYES stops her
REYES: Wait! Give him my friend a message. Tell him he's a dog person.

Audrey walks away. Reyes follows, but she is gone.

Dr. Preijers is at his desk when Whitney walks in. She tells him that he should review the emergency room notes. She saw him give Reyes an injection. She assumes it was epinephrine, but that's the kind of details that lawyers love to find.

The doctor tells her that he doesn't know what she is talking about. He then injects her with something and she falls to the floor.

ACT THREE
Doggett sits, ready to cry, thinking about Reyes and his conversation in the car. He imagines them leaning over to kiss each other. Just as their lips touch in his mind, he hears a scream and is jolted out of his thoughts.

Nurses run to where the scream came from. They found Whitney's body.

Doggett talks to Scully in the morgue as he looks at Whitney. Scully asks him what he is thinking. He tells her that he was asking the nurse questions about what happened in the trauma bay, and she conveniently dropped dead. He thinks that she was murdered to cover something up.

Doggett asks Scully that if it were her, how would she go about it, to make it look like natural causes. She tells him that she would use a fast-acting barbiturate like Pentobarbital in a small-bore needle, to make it next to impossible to find an injection mark.

Doggett tells Scully that that's why she's perfect for the job, and that she should probably test her blood too. She tells him that she is happy to do it for her, but not to kid himself that it will somehow bring her back.

Doggett stands at Monica's bedside, stroking the side of her face.

Audrey comes into the room. She tells Doggett that Reyes has a message for you.

AUDREY: She says you're a dog person.

Audrey turns and walks away.

Doggett looks back to Reyes and then follows Audrey and asks her who said that. She tells him, that she already told him that she's not gone.

Reyes looks over the chart again. Stephen tells her it is just nonsense and won't help. She tells him that maybe in itself it's a clue. She says that the hospital looks pretty complete at first glance, but really it's not. There's so much missing - words, details. She motions to the pop machine that has no labels. She then says that it's like a set-a movie set, but like it was built by someone who couldn't quite grasp what it was that they were recreating.

Suddenly Stephen starts to choke like he's having a heart attack. He collapses and asks what is happening to him.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Dr. Preijers has turned off Stephen's ventilator. He tells his wife that it's now just a matter of time.

Audrey takes Doggett into her room. She tells him that the nuns let her stay there - she wanted to be a nurse and they let her help, but she can't do much.

Doggett notices the model. He comments that it is the hospital. He asks if she made it, and then asks why. She tells him that she likes to visit it. She sort of goes inside her head. He questions that she goes into the model. She tells him that she likes it there - it's quiet. She used to have it all to herself, but then some people showed up - hospital patients, including Reyes. He questions again that she goes in the model. She tells him it's not so much like tiny people in a model, but inside her head. She's not sure exactly where it is. She thinks that he doesn't believe her.

He tells her that she said that she saw other patients there, and asks her who they are.

Reyes leans over Murdoch. He tells her that there's so much that he'd do differently. She asks him what, and he just says, "life."

Doggett walks up to Scully. She tells him that Reyes's parents are on their way from Mexico City to come tell her goodbye. Doggett tells her that they can say hello instead - no one's shutting off her life support system, not with what he's got.

He gives her the patient files of Murdoch and Barreiro and tells her that they were both declared brain dead, and both also have Dr. Preijers as their physicians. Doggett says that he must be some kind of "Doctor Death" that gets off on pulling his patients' plugs. He pulled the plug on Barreiro. Scully tells him that it was at the request of his family. Doggett suggests he might have poisoned them in the first place, and a tox screen will prove it. She asks him how he came up with the two names, and he tells her that if he tells her that she will think that he's crazy, but that Reyes and Murdoch are alive and they have to help them to get back.

Meanwhile, Steven starts sparkling and crackling, but he doesn't seem to be in pain, and he smiles at Reyes before he disappears.

Doggett and Scully go to Barreiro's room, only to find Dr. Preijers covering his body.

He sees them watching.

ACT FOUR
Audrey sits in her room when Doggett knocks. He tells her that he needs her help. He tells her that both of the men are dead, and that inside an hour the hospital is planning on cutting off Reyes's life support. She tells him that she can't do anything - she only delivers the flowers and can't do anything else. Getting more and more upset, he tells her that she can. He says that he needs her to talk to Reyes and tell her what's going on and that they are going to pull the plug. Now starting to cry, he tells her that he needs to tell her to fight, and to give them some kind of sign that she's in there.

DOGGETT: I need her to understand. I don't know what the hell else to do.

Doggett continues to cry and then gets up and leaves.

Dr. Preijers is standing in a doorway, watching Doggett as he walks out of the room.

Reyes is still sitting on the floor when Audrey comes in. Audrey tells her that Doggett wanted her to tell her something. She tells her that she doesn't have very long and needs to give them a sign. Audrey tells her that she's sorry, and Reyes asks if she's really going to leave her there to die. Starting to cry, Audrey again says that she can't do anything. She tells Reyes that there is something wrong with head and she can't help anyone. All that she can do is deliver the flowers, and she even needs help with that because she can't read what's on the cards.

Reyes questions that she can't read, and Audrey tells her that she sees it all jumbled up. Reyes realizes suddenly what is going on. She looks again at the chart and tells Audrey that they are in her hospital - she created it. She says that the place is all her and that means that she can make the rules work any way that she wants them too, and she can help her escape.

Audrey disappears.

In the real world, Dr. Preijers walks into the room. He tells her that he is being accused of things - terrible things to do with his patients. He pulls out a needle and shows it to her

PREIJERS: You're not going to yell out, are you Audrey?

Reyes walks around looking for Audrey. Suddenly the air starts to sort of wave, and Audrey appears again. This time she is tinted blue as well.

Reyes asks Audrey what's happening, and she tells her that she has to go.

Audrey leads Reyes to the doors to the hospital, which lead out to the abyss. Reyes tells her that if she jumps she will burn up and die. Audrey tells her that she won't, but she has to hurry. She finally realizes who told her to build the model.

Reyes looks over the edge, and after a few moments she lets herself fall forward. She falls down and down.

Back in the real world, Doggett is with Reyes when Scully walks in. She tells him that the transplant teams are in place. Doggett says that they're not cutting her up. Scully tells him that she's still waiting for his argument, and that if he has something to convince her and the doctors that she's still alive…

Behind Scully the scene now shows that Reyes's heart monitor shows a rhythm.

REYES: John?

They turn and Doggett goes over to her. He holds Reyes's hand. She starts asking about Audrey.

The doctor closes the door, putting the syringe in his pocket. Doggett slams him against the wall.

DOGGETT: Where you going, doctor?

Doggett opens the door to find Audrey dead on the floor.

3 DAYS LATER
Doggett pulls up in front of Reyes's apartment. He walks around and opens her door. They tell each other goodnight and look at each other, again seeming to want to kiss, but they don't. She goes inside, and Doggett watches her with a sad look on his face.

IMAGES FROM "AUDREY PAULEY" COMING SOON!


Overall Rating : 9
*Shippy Rating: 0
MR/JD Shippiness: 9
*Note: OK a new note. Ratings will be completely different now because of the absence of Mulder, and therefore most likely of most of the shippiness. The ratings for this season are not equally comparable to that of previous seasons, so they will more or less be rated on their own scale, with me (trying to) disregard the fact that DD is not in it as a component in the rating. Shippiness still (if any) will ALWAYS be based on MULDER and SCULLY (unless I decide to do MR/JD or something later). The shippy scale is still 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, and Requiem a 12.5 all above the scale])*


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