- [last lines]
- Dana Scully: [voiceover, typing addendum to her case report] For truly to pursue monsters, we must understand them. We must venture into their minds. Only in doing so, do we risk letting them venture into ours?
- Fox Mulder: [interrogating Gerald Schnauz] Do you want to tell us about the first time you were arrested, Gerry?
- Dana Scully: In 1980 you attacked your father with an ax handle. You beat him so severely that he spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair.
- Gerry Schnauz: I was not jailed, I was institutionalized. I had a kind of... chemical imbalance.
- Fox Mulder: Yeah,
- [reading from folder]
- Fox Mulder: 'Gerald Thomas Schnauz diagnosed and treated for a paranoid schizophrenic disorder. Six years in Melvoyne Psychiatic Hospital. Released 1986.' So what have you been up to since 1986, Gerry?
- Gerry Schnauz: Taking care of my father. Looking after him 24 hours a day. Making amends. He, uh... passed away in January.
- Fox Mulder: How did you feel about that?
- Gerry Schnauz: Sad.
- Fox Mulder: It says here you have a sister. Where is your sister, Gerry?
- Gerry Schnauz: She passed.
- Fox Mulder: Actually, it says here she committed suicide in 1980. God, that was a bad year. What else happened in 1980, Gerry?
- Gerry Schnauz: [agitated, almost indignant] Well, John Lennon got shot.