Tithonus

by TheRatRulz

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  • The woman delivered mail to offices, one had the label "PUBLIC RELATIONS" on it, the other had "MORGAN MAXWELL".
  • When Fellig entered the elevator, "10" and "13" were already pushed. He pressed "17".
  • The other F.B.I. agent was doing a background check on Mr. Winsnowski for use of any illegal drugs. The answer was apparently yes.
  • Mulder was finding out whether as Miss Ermentrout was considered a trustworthy person
  • Scully was reassuring the person on the other line that Mr. Garber is not in any legal trouble and this was just a routine background check.
  • Kersh was looking at Scully's FBI profile when she entered. Note: the picture used in the FBI profile is oddly glamourous. That's because it's the XF promo pic. Her thumbprint is next to the picture.
  • An agent Peyton Ritter with the Burearu's New York office was standing by with Kersh.
  • Ritter shows Scully a file with a photograph of a dead woman. The woman is Margareta Stoller, age 57. Cause of death: overdose on Nitraz. The neighbors called the police at 11: 14 PM but the photograph says 10: 29. Scully notes that clocks can be wrong, but Ritter shows her another photograph from The Post (presumably The New York Post), which indicates the clock to be 11: 52.
  • Alfred Fellig is described by Ritter as "a stringer for wire services and on call guy for N.Y.P.D."
  • Ritter sifted through 2000 of Fellig's photos and found three with measurable solar shadows. And since they knew where the body was found, they could determine the time of day. The victims in the photos separately died of a suicide, a heart attack and a murder for which another man was already convicted.
  • On Pacific Street, Brooklyn, Fellig follows a man off a bus. The bus is going to Atlantic Avenue and the bus number is 7354
  • At the 15th precinct in Manhatten, an officer shows Ritter and Scully a file on Fellig. It contains a photo of him with the words "Application For Press Pass - 1998" across it.
  • In the storage room, Ritter found that Fellig's yearly renewal forms dates back to January 1970. Scully found the original from 1964. She spreads out all the files for Ritter to see. The years on the files are 96, 92, 87, 71, 67 and 64 according to the caption, but Scully says 96, 87, 85, 73. Fellig looks the same in all the photographs except in 1973 when he had a mustache.
  • Jerome Avenue, The Bronx, 2: 19 AM. A murderer kills a kid and also stabs Fellig. We see Fellig stabbed three times in the back and the knife is left in his back. But he stands up, pulls the knife out and walks away.
  • The prints on the knife matches Fellig's 1964 background check. Ritter had sent it to S.A.F.I.S.
  • In the same alley, we see a poster that says "Reebok Coca Cola Celebrity Charity Basketball Jam III"
  • Fellig is found and picked up at his home, where he was watching TV.
  • It is January 4th, 11: 36 AM according to Ritter's tape recorder check when he interrogates Fellig.
  • There are 6 scars on Fellig's back, though we only saw him get stabbed 3 times.
  • A second set of prints were pulled off the knife and they belong to Malcolm Wiggins, a convicted murderer. Mulder enters "Wiggins, Malcolm" into the FBI database and comes up with a picture and a dossier of Wiggins. According to the police photo, Wiggins is arrested on March 18, 1992 and he's case number 92 7483507
  • Fellig lives on Dean Street in Brooklyn. Scully arrives at the surveillance car at 1: 53 AM. The license plate of the surveillance car is RFD 960. Ritter says that Fellig is asleep and that he haven't seen him move in over 4 hours. Ritter dumps his coffee out of the car and tells Scully to "have a LOVELY evening".
  • Fellig and Scully drives around the city for an hour until stopping at a corner where Fellig points Scully out to a hooker who's about to die. Fellig says he doesn't know how she'll die. He guesses that she's a smoker and she might die of lung cancer, but he only knows when.
  • Scully searches a small silver gun out of the man who hasseled the hooker. When the man says "that gun ain't mine, red", she lightly slaps him. Later, she charges him with "assault and possession of an unregistered handgun."
  • The hooker gets run over by a truck. The license plate appears to be CTB 695 but I can't be sure.
  • Mulder calls Scully and tells her that Fellig is 149 years old and didn't exist before 1964, but Henry Strand does. Strand applied for a press pass from Jersey City Police in 1939 at the age of 53 and their prints match.
  • Before 1939 Strand didn't exist, but L.H. Rice, whose prints also match, sat for the New York State Civil Service Exam and he is born on April 4, 1849. Scully tells Mulder that she has spent time with Fellig and that he can't be over 65 years old.
  • Fellig has a police scanner, which we see when Scully follows him into his apartment and he sets his bag down.
  • Fellig shows Scully a photograph of a dead woman in which appears to be another elevator crash and points out what looks like a lens flare to Scully and claims that it's death.
  • Scully spots an old picture of a dead woman. At the bottom, handwritten and in white, are the words "Louis Brady Photography 1926". Scully excuses herself to the bathroom and calls Mulder from there. Mulder says there's nothing he knows about Louis Brady but says that there's a big gap before 1939 and agrees to check it out for Scully. All this time Fellig is listening outside the bathroom.
  • When Scully exits, Fellig "accidentally" bumps into Scully and in the process, takes her cellphone. He tells her that he has film out and secretly puts her cellphone on a shelf before turning on the light.
  • At the FBI archives, 9: 32 AM, Mulder finds an old file on Louis Brady. The file is handwritting in script and difficult to read. Brady's full name is Louis Robert Grady, Burearu Case number 30-02261 and the case status is open. His age is 56, hair color gray and height looks like 5'5". He is wanted for a double murder on July 2, 1929 and was arrested August 2, 1929.
  • Mulder is busy stuffing files into his briefcase when he calls Ritter, who is on his way to arrest Fellig. It's interesting to note that there's a beat up coke can blatantly placed on Mulder's desk. Mulder tells Ritter that D.C. Cellular service says that Scully's cellphone is turned off. He also tells Ritter that Brady has suffocated two patients in a conneticut hospital. Fellig had meant "to catch up with death".
  • Fellig tells Scully that love lasts 75 years if they're lucky and 75 years of life is enough. He also tells her that to "count her blessings" and that she's lucky. Scully realizes what she's implying and tells him to turn off his camera and that she's not going to die. She handcuffs him to a table when Fellig refuses to turn off the camera. She nervously looks at her watch and pats her pocket- then realizes that Fellig had taken her cellphone.
  • Ritter shoots and shatters Fellig's camera, the bullet penetrates Fellig and shoots Scully too. Ritter runs for help and Fellig takes Scully's hand, telling her not to look at Death. The camera pans to their hands and we see Scully's hand regain color while Fellig's turn black and white.
  • One week later, at the NYU medical center, Ritter exits Scully's hospital room. Mulder says "You're a lucky man." Ritter doesn't respond and just walks away. Mulder enters Scully's room, holds her hand warmly. The final dialogue:
    MULDER: Coroner's report came back on Fellig. Says he died of a single gunshot wound. That's all it said. (sits on the bed beside her) Well, I, uh... talked to your doctor and... he says you're doing great. You're making the fastest recovery he's ever seen.
    SCULLY: Yeah, Mulder, I don't even know how I entertained the thought. People don't live forever.
    MULDER: No, no, I-I... I think he would have. I-I just think that … that death only looks for you... once you seek its opposite.
    They look at each other for a long time. End.

Marita's Comment: Seems like Clyde Bruckman was right in saying Scully never dies. Thank you sooo much, TheRatRulz!

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