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Lord of the Flies

Episode: 9X06
Airdate: 12/16/01
Written by: Thomas Schnauz
Directed by: Kim Manners
Starring: Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Robert Patrick as John Doggett, and Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes
Guest Starring: Hank Harris, Samaire Armstrong, Michael Wiseman, Jane Lynch, Aaron Paul, Branden Williams, Erik Avare, and Aeryk Egan


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TEASER
Winky is filming his friend, Bill, also known as Captain dare, for the “Dumb Ass Show.”

Bill stands with helmet on, waiting for a baseball to hit him. It hits him in the crotch and he falls over in pain. However, he gets up ready for the next stunt.

Next, Bill gets into a Porto potty (sorry, no flukes here), and a car moves, pulling it by a rope. The Porto potty falls over, but Bill gets out unscathed.

For the next stunt, Bill is going to get into a grocery cart and roll down the hill over his girlfriend who will lay on the ground with a sparkler in her mouth.

Natalie doesn’t want to do it. The other kids around talk her into it.

Bill starts towards her, but the cart goes sideways and falls over.

When he doesn’t move, Natalie and Winky run over to him. Winky doesn’t think anything is wrong. They pull his helmet off and Natalie starts to scream and cry.
The one side of Bill’s head is completely crushed in.

ACT ONE
MEDICAL EXAMINER’S UNIT
OCEAN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
Doggett and Reyes are called in by the pathologist, Dr. Fountain. As they head to the morgue, he asks them that they are the experts. They are confused. Reyes
tells him that they work on the “X-Files,” where their area of expertise is the unexplained. Doggett says that they were told that there was an unexplained death
there. Dr. Fountain just says that they are the experts and for them to tell him.

When they ask him what happened he just tells them that they’re the experts. Reyes questions that he can’t tell them anything. He tell them that he would prefer not
to go on record. He says that the boys parents are suing everybody—the county because the street was too steep, the makers of the helmet Bill wore, and the
grocery store that they stole the cart from.

Doggett lifts the sheet from the body. The one side of Bill’s face is completely sunken in. Doggett asks the doctor what the shopping cart has to do with his death.

Dr. Fountain tells them about Bill being filmed for the “Dumb Ass Show.” Doggett asks if he means that it is an accident, but he again doesn’t want to say what he
thinks.

Reyes notices Bill’s eyelid moving. Since obviously the medical examiner isn’t doing anything, she gets tweezers and lifts it open.

Hundreds of flies emerge from the boy’s eye.

Scully walks back in with Doggett and Reyes. Dr. Fountain asks if she is the expert.

Scully starts examining the body. The doctor asks her what she has found, and she just says that she’s never seen anything quite like it before.

Dr. Fountain looks to Reyes and Doggett, and they look to each other.

Dr. Fountain leaves.

Doggett says that something had to have killed him. Scully says that judging by the amount of insect feces in his ear and nasal cavities, that it appears that the insects
fed at such a furious rate that they caused his skull to collapse.

Scully tells them that the helmet protected his head. There was no impact trauma.

Reyes asks if she means that the flies killed him. Doggett asks why out of all the people there they the flies chose him. Reyes tells him that maybe they were
attracted to him for reasons that they’re not seeing.

DOGGETT: What if somebody put something in his helmet—insect pheromone? You know, “Spanish Fly,” that stuff you see advertised in the back of magazines
that guys use to attract girls?
REYES gives him a look
DOGGETT: I glance at ‘em for amusement.

Scully tells them that she will have to brush up on her “Spanish Fly,” but that she doesn’t think science works quite that way. Before they start looking for the M.O.
she wants to find out what kind of fly would act that aggressive.

Dr. Rocky Bronzino comes in. He tells that the Musca Vetustissia Walker would. It’s an Australian fly that needs protein so much that it will crawl into someone’s
open nose, ears, mouth, or even eyes to feed on nutritious blood and moisture.

Bronzino introduces himself and shakes Scully’s hand. He’s an entomologist that graduated from Rutgers University.

Scully says that they don’t live here and asks if he means foreign insects came and killed Bill. He holds up a jar of the collected flies and tells her that they are a
garden variety and are harmless.

Doggett asks what he is saying happened. He says that he doesn’t know. Dr. Fountain called him in for his scientific expertise. He then leers at Scully and says that
he’s glad that he did.

GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
MANAHAWKIN NEW JERSEY
Natalie Gordon sits alone at the lunch table. She looks upset.

Winky and his brother come over and videotape her asking her to say something for their memorial for Captain Dare. She gets really angry and tells them to leave
her alone. When they don’t she finally yells at him that he and his brother are jerks for making Bill do the stunts. Winky tells her that he died doing what he loved.
He starts to call her a name, but he notices that Dylan, who was sitting a few tables away, has stood up.

Winky walks over to him and Dylan tells him to leave her alone. Winky calls him Freaky Deaky and asks if he wants to be on “Dumb Ass.” He picks up a plate of
food and dumps it on Dylan’s head.

The principal sees this and calls Winky into her office. She tells Dylan to come too.

Winky makes fun of Dylan and calls him a mama’s boy.

Doggett and Reyes are in the principle’s office watching the video of Bill’s death.

DOGGETT: I think I just solved this case. This kid had crap for brains and flies couldn’t resist.
REYES: Oh, and you were such a choirboy growing up?
DOGGETT: We did some stupid stuff, but we didn’t know it was stupid at the time. This isn’t just stupid, this is glorification of stupid. These kids take enormous
pride in being sub-mentals.
REYES: That’s why they call it “Dumb Ass.”

Winky (actually short for Winkle) is brought into the office by the principle (his mother). She leaves.

DOGGETT (meaning the video): That’s very entertaining, Sky Pilot.
WINKY: Sky Commander if you don’t mind.
DOGGETT: And you can call me Sheriff John when I haul your dumb ass off to jail, Winky.
WINKY: What are you talking about?
REYES: We obtained a copy of a recent e-mail you sent, offering to sell the video of your friend’s death to the Fox Network.
WINKY: What? No, no, no. I wrote all the networks. Fox was the only one who had any interest in it.

He realizes that they think that maybe he killed Bill, but he tells him that he didn’t.

Winky suddenly stands up and squirms, scratching at his back. Doggett tells him to stop but he tells him that he can’t. It’s happening to him now.

Winky pulls his shirt off. On his back were bug bites that were arranged to spell out “Dumb Ass.”

Winky comes home and his mother asks where he was. She made food for him but he’s not hungry. She tells him to sit down until he is hungry, but he ignores her,
going up to his room and shutting the door.

She continues to call him.

The camera pans across his room. There are some posters on his wall, one of which sticks out. It’s for Barrett from Pink Floyd. On the poster are pictures of
insects.

He lays down on his bed and clutches a picture of Natalie and starts to cry.

It gets dark as the camera pans to show his windows are starting to become completely covered with flies.

ACT TWO
Scully looks in a microscope at a fly as Reyes and Doggett watch her. She tells Reyes that she thinks they found their first real break—all of the flies are female.
Scully asks them what the chances are that they would all be female. Reyes asks if she means that the absence of males suggests the reason they attacked, that it
was something behavioral. She just says that something is going on in biology, whether or not it’s hormonal or chemical, something caused the flies to attack.

Doggett adds that they might have had a need to express themselves. He tells Scully that they were interviewing Winky when it happened. He shows Scully pictures
of Winky’s back. It was caused by body lice. She tells him that lice is not that uncommon in a school environment. He tells her that they are, except for the fact
that they are better spellers than most of the kids at the school.

Scully asks them if they think that it is another “Dumb Ass” stunt. Reyes tells her that that is what she thought at first, but he seemed too freaked out about it. She
tells Scully that while she thinks that it was a matter of biology, maybe it was that someone was directing the biology. Scully asks how someone would direct bugs.
She doesn’t know, but there were witnesses.

Reyes shows her the pictures of Dylan Lokensgard. He was present at all of the “Dumb Ass” stunts and had a run-in with Winky prior to his attack by the lice.

Dylan is in his room looking in his mirror when the doorbell rings. He starts downstairs and stops when he sees his mother answer the door. It’s Natalie. His
mother tells her that it’s not a good time and he can’t see her right now.

Dylan runs back up to his room and shuts the door. His mother calls to him repeatedly but he doesn’t answer her.

Dylan climbs out of his window, only to be met by his mother. She asks him where he is going, and he just responds that he is going to school. She tells him that
they need to talk. She says that he can’t see Natalie anymore. He tells her that he and Natalie have been friends since they were kids. She just tells him that they
aren’t kids anymore. She adds that his body is going through changes.

Dylan gets really angry, telling her that she doesn’t understand, and that he wished that his father were there.

Dylan then gets on his bike and leaves.

Rocky is alone with Scully. They are outside, and he has a machine hooked up to detect pheromones.

Rocky tells her that there are so many flowers, so little time. He explains that pheromones are heaving in the air. They are nature’s natural attraction and are driving
the insect world to go forth and pollinate.

Scully tells him that she is aware how pheromones work, and according to his device there are no insect ones there.

He checks the machine and tells her that he made it extra sensitive and they should get a reading. Scully asks him why he thinks that pheromones would cause
normal flies to attack humans so violently. He tells her that bugs are small-minded and therefore predictable creatures. They don’t have moods per se. They react
to circumstances and stimuli as they have been for millennia. She asks him what he thinks they are attractive to out there.

Rocky leans even closer to her and tells her that it may be that the bugs are somehow being driven crazy with desire.

ROCKY: You know, they say humans respond to pheromones too.

Scully tells him that she tends to agree with that, but it’s obvious that she is discussed with him.

Rocky then tells her about “women’s dormitory syndrome,” and how pheromones are the reason that women that live together start to share the same menstrual
cycle. Scully just says simply “fascinating.”

ROCKY: You know, when the male and female calliphorid mate, they stay connected for one and one half hours…One and one half hours, doctor.
SCULLY: You know, Rocky, I’m a mother.
ROCKY: Mothers are women too.

Just then the machine starts to beep faster. He looks at the readings and says that there is a high concentration of incoming bug pheromones. The two of them look
at the sky, not seeing anything, as they miss Dylan riding by on his bike.

Natalie pulls up in her car at the school, and Dylan comes up on his bike and crashes into a bush. He opts to leave his bike there.

Natalie comes up to him and tells him that she wanted to apologize for what happened in the cafeteria, and that Winky can be a jerk sometimes. He just tells her that
he was just worried about her. She stops and he asks her what he said. She just says “nothing” and continues.

She tells him that no one understands. Her parents keep telling her that what she is feeling about Bill will go away. She says that she wishes she could just turn back
time and start all over again.

Dylan suggests a time in the past when they were kids playing “hide and go seek” and hiding in the trees. They are both enjoying the memory. He tells her that their
names are still carved on the tree.

She fidgets and tells him that she is going to be marked late. She leaves.

Reyes and Doggett are standing not that far off. Reyes calls Dylan over.

Doggett and Reyes sit in the principal’s office, showing Dylan the tape. He is sweating really bad and wipes sweat from his forehead.

Reyes asks him what he thinks. He asks if she means about the “Dumb Ass Show.” Doggett says that they mean that, and the people who make it. They ask if he
knows them or had any contact with Bill and he says “no” to both. Reyes asks him if he thinks that it’s strange that Bill was attacked and killed by insects. He just
asks her “Who wouldn’t?”

Suddenly his mother comes into her office and she is really angry. She tells them that they have no write to talk to him in her office without her knowledge. Doggett
starts to argue, but then they see Dylan.

Dylan is sitting in his chair and is completely covered in flies.

ACT THREE
Doggett is walking out of the building when the exterminators are going in. He tells them that all of the bugs are gone and they are too late, but they ignore him.

Doggett walks over to Reyes and asks her about Dylan. She tells him that he is unhurt apparently and has no bites whatsoever.

Dylan and his mother walk past. Doggett yells to her that they aren’t done talking to him, but she tells them that they are. They’re going home.

DOGGETT: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the whole reason this case is attracting flies is because somebody is full of crap.

Reyes thinks that Dylan directed the flies himself to make him look like a victim. Doggett asks if she thinks that he is a horse whisperer for bugs. She tells him that
she doesn’t know, but she may know how to find out.

Scully comes into the lab with Doggett and Reyes carrying Dylan’s sweaty Kleenex on a tray.

When they enter the room, Rocky’s readings go up. He tells them that they’ve got pheromones coming out the yin-yang. He asks where the specimen came from,
and Scully tells him it is Dylan’s sweat.

He says that a boy secreting bug pheromone is impossible and preposterous. Doggett tells him that he is the expert and asks him how else he can explain it.

ROCKY: A boy is a boy; a bug is a bug. You can’t have it both ways.

Scully says that Dylan is going through puberty, and that maybe his body chemistry is going crazy, and that raging teenage hormones are attracted to him. Reyes
asks what if it was more than that—more than biology. She asks what if it is also a way for him to act out. Scully asks her what she means, and Reyes tells her that
they saw him talking to a girl. Doggett adds that the girl was the one from the video—Captain Dare’s girlfriend.

Natalie is outside Dylan’s house. She wants to talk to him and tells him that she is coming up. She climbs in through the window.

She tells him that it has been so long since she was in his room. He tells her that it was in fourth grade after school on a Wednesday in April.

Dylan tells her about Syd Barrett and how he was brilliant but no one understood him. She asks if he means like him.

She tells him that she never told him that she was sorry when his father disappeared. She never told him a lot of things, but she wants to say them now. She tells him
that she knows that he’s cared about her. They grew apart but she never forgot him, and he is special to her.

Dylan interjects that he can’t believe it.

She continues to tell him that after talking to him that morning, she realized how important it was to have someone understand you.

Natalie then leans in and gently kisses him on the lips. He tells her that it was amazing, and they go to kiss again. This time she pulls back in pain.

Natalie’s mouth is filled with blood. She mumbles about his mouth and tongue and yells that there is something wrong with him. She tells him she is leaving and he
tries to stop her, but he can’t.

When Natalie drives away, Winky and his brother pull up. Winky calls him “Bug Boy.” He tells them to get in and that they need to take a buzz around the block.

After driving for a few minutes, Winky asks him how he did it—how he killed Bill. Dylan says that he thought bugs killed Bill. Winky just says that they are bugs
that do what he says.

Dylan tells him that he will tell them if they want to know, but they better get their camera ready. Winky questions this. Dylan tells them that all he has to do is open
his mouth.

Dylan tilts back his head and opens his mouth wide. A “tongue” similar to an insect proboscis comes out. A string of web comes out and starts to cover them.

The car goes out of control and crashes.

ACT FOUR
Scully and Rocky enter Dylan’s house. They call for him or his mother, but no one answers.

When they are all the way in, looking at his machine, Rocky tells her that he is getting a reading or trace levels. She sarcastically tells him that she guesses that that’s
probable cause.

Scully starts to ascend the stairs. She turns back towards him when he speaks.

ROCKY: Dr. Scully? This is so exciting! I’ve never had a partner before.
SCULLY: I have.

Scully starts to climb the stairs again.

He tells her that he thinks of it as a hymenopteran relationship. They are two scientists using their special knowledge together to reach higher than they could alone.

ROCKY: And if I may say so, Doctor, you complete me.
SCULLY: I got the upstairs, you take down.

Doggett and Reyes are at the crime scene. The car is upside-down.

They look inside the car. The kids are covered in a web but alive.

DOGGETT: David Winkle?
DOGGETT realizes he’s right
DOGGETT: Now that’s a dumb ass.

Winky tells him that it is not a stunt. Dylan attacked them and chewed his way outside through the back of the car.

Doggett calls Scully. She tells him that she is with Rocky at Dylan’s house. Doggett tells her where he is at and tells her that she needs to see it for herself.

Scully comes down the stairs as Rocky heads up. He tells her that there are readings up there. She tells him that Dylan’s bedroom is up there, but unfortunately
Dylan isn’t in it.

She starts to leave and he asks her where she’s going. She tells him that Dylan went on a rampage.

SCULLY (giving Rocky a thumbs up): You got my number, partner.

Reyes finds Natalie at her house and talks to her. Natalie is reluctant to talk, but Reyes tells her that they need her help—she could be the key to this. She tells
Reyes that Dylan is a freak. She thought that he was the normal one. Reyes tells her that she thinks that he was normal until he started changing. Natalie tells her
that he kissed her. Reyes tells her that that is probably what he is living for and why he lost control and attack Winky and his brother. She tells her to come with her
so they can stop him from hurting anyone else.

Suddenly Dylan is in the room. He asks Natalie why she ran away from him. She asks him what’s wrong with him. He says that she’s different and that’s what he
thought that she wanted—someone different. She yells that he killed Bill. He tells her that he only killed him to keep her from being killed. He tells her that she’s
coming with her.

Back at Dylan’s, Rocky’s machine starts beeping again. Suddenly Dylan’s mother is there, and she opens her mouth and sprays a web on him.

Dylan comes into his house with Natalie. He tells his mother not to stop him. Their talk will have to wait. He says that he is not a kid anymore and he’s different.
She tells him that she knows what his is and how he is changing. She’s been trying to tell him, and to save him from what he is about to do. These are things she
couldn’t tell him before—things she couldn’t tell his father. She tells him that he’s not like other kids and never will be.

Doggett comes into Natalie’s house. He finds Reyes wrapped in a web and helps her out. She tells him that he took Natalie to his house. Doggett tells her that that
is where Scully is, and she’s lost phone contact with Rocky.

Scully enters Dylan’s apartment pointing her gun. Inside she finds Natalie sitting in a chair, terrified. She asks Natalie where he is, but she doesn’t answer, she just
points.

Scully walks over to find a web. She hears someone calling “Help me.”

Scully breaks open the web to find Rocky. She starts to help him out.

When Doggett and Reyes come in Scully is giving Rocky CPR. After a second he turns his head towards the camera and a smile forms on his face.

The scene changes to show bodies in webs in the attic.

In voiceover, Scully starts explaining something. She says that four more bodies were found in their attic, including Michael, Dylan’s father, who had been long
missing.

The camera closes in on Michael’s body.

She continues that it appears that he, like the others, fell victim to Dylan’s mother, who in Rocky’s opinion was not human or insect, but something in between. She
says that they are biological anomalies who are different from humanity and can’t hide for long. However strong Dylan’s yearnings to fit in, win acceptance, and to
love and to be loved, could not defeat unseen forces which direct behavior.

The scene changes to show Natalie sitting up in her bed thinking about Dylan.

SCULLY (Voice Over): In the struggle of our desire to determine who and what we will be and the identity which biology defines for us, there can only be one
outcome. But even in victory there are forces biology cannot defeat—the stirrings of the soul, the mysteries of desire. The simple truth that the heart wants what the
heart wants.

Natalie looks out the window and sees fireflies that form the shape of the words “I Love You.” She smiles as the scene ends.

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Overall Rating : 8
*Shippy Rating: 1(sort of--the partner thing)
*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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