[Man] God's love will set us free.
And I believe...
if I pray for that love,
if I get down on my knees...
and allow God to enter my hardened, lonely, miserable heart...
and change me through and through,
that miracle... will come.
Now, who here believes that with me?
Do you?
- Do you? - Yes, sir, I believe it.
Do you?
Well, believe, because God's love is not just some slogan.
It's a promise...
straight to you from the Lord Almighty himself.
A promise paid for with the blood of His only begotten Son,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
All you have to do is believe.
- [All] Amen! - God's love will set you free.
Now doesn't that just lift up your heart...
and make you want to say, Glory! Amen!
Join with me. Allow the spirit ofJesus Christ...
to show you the way up to our Heavenly Father.
- Glory! Amen! - Glory! Amen!
Let God's love free you from your prison...
and deliver you to His side in heaven.
- Glory! Amen! - Glory! Amen!
Praise His name. Praise His holy love.
- Glory! Amen! - Glory! Amen!
[Man] Glory! Amen!
Do you believe that, Donny? That God loves a sack of crap like you?
- The Bible says. - The Bible says you kill women, cut their pinkies,
you get to burn in hell.
- Glory. Amen. Glory. Amen. - You listening to me?
God's got a place for you, all right, you sick puke.
Then where's that leave you?
Sorry. It's not good enough for the Illinois penal system.
[Man Screams]
My hands! My hands!
[Wind Gusting]
[Man] Life without chance of parole...
for the premeditated and sadistic sexual murders...
of five Twin Cities women in 1994.
Donald Addy Faster.
You two put this man away.
Yeah. Someone forgot to throw away the key.
That's another story.
Right now we have to apprehend this man.
We'd use all the help you can give us in understanding exactly who it is we're after.
Donny Faster is a death fetishist...
a collector of bone and dead flesh, of toenails and hair.
It's what floats his boat, gets him off.
- He's a sick man. - Sick would describe him.
We found women's fingers in his freezer. He liked to eat them with his peas and carrots.
- So it's just women he's after. - Just women.
Been five years in here thinkin' about only that. I'm sure he's worked up quite an appetite.
I happen to know you two agents have a particular forte,
a thing for... what is it called... the supernatural?
Now, the circumstances of the escape...
I promise you there is nothing supernatural about this man.
Donny Faster is just plain evil.
? [Don't Look Any Further]
[Mulder] Case closed.
You didn't look at the file, did you?
A man escaped from prison.
Not a man. Donny Faster.
He didn't just escape. He walked out.
He walked out of a maximum security facility and no one seems to know how he did it.
- Isn't that why we're here? - That's why I'm here.
I don't know about you. Why are you here?
- Go home, Scully. - Mulder, this case doesn't bother me.
The man abducted you.
Donny Faster did a number on your head like I've never seen.
And it's okay to... walk away.
Mulder, that man does things to people that no one should ever have to think about.
It's not a question of if I should stay. I don't have a choice.
So let's get to work.
Well, this isn't the first incident.
Two prisoners have escaped from maximum security facilities...
in neighboring states over the past year.
At 6:06 this morning, Donny Faster made it three.
6:06?
And what's so supernatural about that?
Dozens of witnesses, guards and staff and no one seems to remember anything.
For a while they didn't even know these guys were missing.
- Have they been apprehended? - Neither of the men have ever been seen again.
I'm a Christian, man.
Then I know you'll tell me the truth.
Yeah. But I got no idea about Donny Faster...
or how he broke out.
You and Donny Faster were in the garment shop at or about the time he disappeared.
Well, it wasn't just me. There was a lot of us in the shop.
Yeah, but you had something happen. You had an incident.
Yeah, something like that.
You cried out to the guards that you'd cut your hands.
My fingers, man. I saw them all cut off.
- Others saw them too. - No, but I felt them cut off.
How do you explain that?
God works in mysterious ways, brother.
- Glory. Amen. - [Foot Taps]
Glory. Amen.
Glory.
Amen.
Posthypnotic suggestion. Did you see him?
You mean did I see him raise his foot? Yes, I saw that.
Programmed behavior prompted and manifested by suggestion.
In this case, a rhythmic motion of the hands...
producing an unconscious act in a conscious state.
It doesn't work on you.
- I know what hypnosis is, Mulder. - Group hypnosis.
If you're suggesting that Donny Faster escaped from prison...
using a technique from a Vegas lounge act, I'd think again.
Messmer was able to hypnotize and command entire audiences.
So, how would Donny have acquired this amazing ability?
- I'm not saying that it was Donny. - Well, then who?
Three inmates are missing from three separate prisons.
One man has had possible contact with each of those cons.
The prison chaplain. Glory. Amen.
-? [Don't Look Any Further] - Not God. The chaplain.
Scully, what?
That song, can you hear that?
Barely.
I haven't heard that song since high school. That's the second time I've heard it in the hour.
Well, I think if it was a make-out song, I think it'd be ruined forever now, huh?
? Oh, girl, don't look any further?
Looking for something to eat?
Me?
How 'bout... today's special?
- You aren't a narc, are you? - No.
- You're looking at my hands. - You need a buff and polish.
What are you, a freak?
L-I just got out of prison.
Hey, missy, leave the customers alone!
I'll do it for free.
You just got out of prison and you wanna give me a manicure?
I'll even do your cuticles.
[Chaplain] You receive the Lord's grace, and this is your thanks.
- What? - Who do you think got you out of prison?
I don't care. I'm busy right now.
The grace of God got you out.
And it's the only thing that will keep you out.
- I thought you were kidding. - He's chosen you, Donny.
Later.
- You called them on me. - No.
Then do something.
I have a car.
- We aren't going to make it to the car. - It's within his power.
Glory. Amen.
- Glory. Amen. - [Woman Screaming]
[Car Engine Revving]
- Is he here? - Well, uh...
We're trying to determine that.
Did you see him?
Well, that's a good question. We thought we saw something, but apparently we didn't.
We got a call about a possible sighting of the suspect.
- Something happened here, huh? - [Waitress] Guy got hit by a car.
Prison chaplain, it turns out.
- [Hands Paper] - A Reverend Orison.
Paramedics took him to the hospital. He's in pretty bad shape.
? [Radio: Don't Look Any Further]
Excuse me. Could you turn that up, please?
- Yeah. - #What you need is a lover ♪
♪ Someone to take over ♪
? Oh, girl Don't look any further
#And it's strange ♪
? W hen you think of the chances?
You're lucky to be alive, Rev. Orison.
- Who are you? - Special Agent Dana Scully.
Believe in the Lord, Agent Scully. He believes in you.
That's nice. But my partner and I are more concerned...
with several disappearances from maximum security facilities that seem to involve you.
Don't be concerned. God has them.
What do you mean?
- Reverend? - You're a believer, aren't you?
- This has nothing to do with me, sir. - Has everything to do with you.
You have faith. Have had faith.
You hear Him calling you,
but you're unsure of what to do.
It's not exactly a long shot, sir.
You stand as you do now,
neither here nor there, longing,
but afraid, waiting for a sign.
Well, the signs are everywhere.
What happened to the inmates, sir?
Everything has a reason, Scout...
everything on God's earth.
Every moment of every day...
the devil waits for but an instant.
As it is, it has always been,
the devil's instant is our eternity.
[Door Opens]
The good reverend. How do you do?
Or maybe I should say, how do you do it?
His is the word.
I am but the messenger who delivers it.
- Well, this delivery arrived a little late. - [Opening Envelope]
A little late and a little cold,
as a matter of fact.
I thought you'd want to see it.
What is this?
Blood of the lamb, Reverend.
The handiwork of Mr. Donny Faster.
- Ayoung girl he picked up at the bus stop. - Oh, Lord.
Where is he, Reverend?
He took my car.
She wasn't supposed to die.
No, Donny was supposed to die.
You were supposed to kill him.
That's why you freed him.
God knows you're capable of it.
Rev. Orison is really Robert Gailen Orison,
convicted in 1959 of first degree murder.
Served 22 years in Solidad.
God spoke to me.
He told me to look after Donny.
When God spoke to you, Reverend,
did He happen to mention where Donny was headed?
- Where are you going, Mulder? - To prove that man's a liar.
How do you prove that somebody isn't being directed by God?
You don't believe that it happened?
God is a spectator, Scully. He just reads the box scores.
- I don't believe that. - You think God directs that man, directs him to kill?
Donny Faster isn't dead and we don't know the other inmates who escaped are dead either.
So, what? You think God directs him to...
let the prisoners out to kill?
No, but I believe that the reverend believes what's he's saying...
that it's God working through him.
Well, plenty of nut bags do.
Has He ever spoken to you?
I'm trying not to take offense.
What did He say?
Mulder, I have heard that song three times now.
That may not mean anything to you, but it means something to me.
- What does it mean? - I never thought about it before.
It never meant anything to me until yesterday when it made me remember something.
What?
When I was 13, my father was stationed in San Diego.
I was listening to the radio to that song...
when my mother came in and told me that my Sunday schoolteacher had been killed.
- Mmm. - He'd been murdered in his front yard.
And that's the first time I ever felt there was real evil in the world.
Mulder, Rev. Orison called me Scout.
That's the same name my Sunday schoolteacher called me.
Donny Faster escaped from prison at 6:06 a.m.
That's exactly the same time that I woke up yesterday morning when my power went out.
So, what do you think that God is telling you?
Yeah, all right. Come with me, Scout. I'll show you how the reverend talks to God.
[Reporter Over Radio] Police are involved in a four-state manhunt...
for a prisoner who escaped maximum security in Marion, Illinois.
He was last seen driving a green 1970...
Chevrolet Impala with a black landau top.
He is described as six feet tall, medium build...
[Mulder] It's a cerebral edema.
A swelling of the brain.
A trauma not uncommon with this kind of head injury or accident.
Except this isn't accidental.
The cause, in fact, as it was stated to me, is self-inflicted.
There's a small hole here in the skull...
which allows oxygen into the brain cavity.
The result of which is the Rev. Orison has three times the normal blood volume...
pumping through his brain.
- And he did this himself? - Yeah.
My guess is he probably did it when he first got into prison...
when he first learned how to use its powers.
- Its powers? - There's a theory...
that at this point in human evolution our mental capabilities...
are limited only by inadequate blood supply.
In fact, centuries ago in the Peruvian Andes,
holy men used to physically remove parts of their skull in order to increase blood volume,
or drill small holes.
So this hole in his head enables Rev. Orison to help these prisoners escape?
Yeah. The practitioners of this...
found that they could perform certain mental tricks.
One of which they called stopping the world.
Nobody can stop the world. I don't care how many holes they have in their head.
But maybe they can alter perception of it,
creating a disparate version of reality which they can then project through hypnosis.
But why? I mean, even if you could, why?
Donny Faster is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.
That's the final judgment as far as society is concerned, but not in the eyes of God...
or in the eyes of a man who thinks he's God's tool.
Well, then if Rev. Orison meant to kill Donny Faster,
then why is he still alive?
I don't know. Maybe he unleashed something that he couldn't control.
Maybe he thought he was opening the door of perception,
but then unwittingly he... opened the gates of hell.
[Beeping]
What?
Glory. Amen. Glory. Amen.
- [Beeping Slows] - Glory. Amen.
[Knocking]
Are you Donald?
Yes.
I'm from Tip Top Gentlemen Service.
This isn't your place, is it?
- No. Why? - 'Cause I was coming up the stairs...
and got stopped by the landlord, like it's any of his business.
He told me some Rev. Orison lives here.
- Now, you ain't no preacher, are you? - No.
Good. They always like the weirdest things.
You know what I mean?
- You okay? - Yes.
Something you wanna say?
Love your hair.
[Door Opens]
What are you doin'?
Is your hair chemically treated?
My hair?
I don't know which product to use.
Look, you're not usin' no product. I'm clean, my hair's clean.
- If you're gonna be that weird about it, I ought to just leave. - I'm being a gentleman.
Well, be a gentleman and get me a towel. I'm gonna get out of here.
It's a wig.
They lied to me.
You lied to me!
- Where'd he go? - Marshal?
- What?
The prisoner, the man you were guarding in this room, what happened to him?
He's gone, Scully. So is the marshal's gun.
You didn't see him?
Let's go, Scully.
- [Mulder] What is it? - What does this mean?
- Did you tell him? - No, I only told you.
He must have, uh, overheard us when we were talking in the hallway.
I didn't mention the name of the song.
- I'm sure you did. - No, I'm sure I didn't, Mulder.
Well, maybe this was meant for you.
Don't look any further.
[Grunts]
Whosoever sheddeth man's blood,
by man shall his blood be shed.
What are you doing?
Taking you home.
The wicked will be punished.
Pray for God's love, Donny.
Find the humility in yourself to allow God into your heart.
All you have to do is believe.
Repent.
You'll feel God's love come to show you the way to His heavenly kingdom.
[Whimpering]
Are you sorry for what you've done?
You... [Mumbling]
What did you say?
Never... No...
No...
- Why are you crying? - I can't... [Whimpering]
Beg His forgiveness for what you did to those girls,
for what you did to all those poor helpless girls.
My violence is always waiting for an instant...
for when His back is turned.
You can see it now.
Are you crying for your sins... or for yourself?
No, Reverend.
I cry for you.
Because you cannot kill me.
You know, it's funny. When all is said and done, there's...
not much mystery in murder.
And for that, I owe you an apology, Mulder.
- What do you mean? - Well, you were right.
I was looking too hard for connections that weren't there.
Orison was a murderer, plain and simple.
He liberated those prisoners so he could bring them out here and pass judgment on them.
I guess in his own twisted way he was making good with his God.
Glory. Amen. Let's go home, Scully.
Donny Faster placed the call to the police that led us out here.
It's almost like he's begging us to hunt him down.
This X-File is over. Lying dead there in a grave he dug himself.
Let's let the U.S. Marshals take over from here.
Don't look any further, Scully.
- [Ringing] - This is Fox Mulder. Leave a message after the...
- [Machine Beeps] - Agent Mulder, MarshalJoe Danno in Marion.
I just talked to a call girl who I.D.'d Donny Faster as an attacker.
Claims Faster got real upset when she was wearing a red wig...
upset she wasn't a redhead.
This mean anything to you? I'd appreciate a call back.
[Grunts]
[Screams]
[Grunting]
Go back to hell! [Grunts]
- Who does your nails, girly girl? - Let me go!
The only reason why you're alive is because I asked the judge for life!
The only reason why you're alive is because we didn't kill you when we could!
You're the one that got away.
- You're all I think about. - I'm a federal agent.
You do anything to me and they will not give you a break this time.
I'm going to run you a bath.
♪ [Don't Look Any Further]
♪ [Stops]
♪ [Resumes]
♪ Don't look any further ♪
♪ [Scatting]
Now, be good and don't cause me any problems.
[Water Running]
[Phone Ringing]
[Ringing Continues]
- [Ringing Continues] ♪ [Don't Look Any Further]
[Line Ringing]
[Muffled Grunting]
? [Man Singing Indistinctly]
? Someone to count on?
? In a world ever changing?
? Here I am Stop where you're standing?
? W hat you need is a lover?
? Someone to take over?
- [Grunting] - ? Oh, girl, don't look any further?
? A nd it's strange?
? [Continues Indistinctly]
? Oh, baby?
? Don't look any further?
[Woman] ? Tonight?
? W e're gonna take it?
[Man] ? All night long, baby, daylight?
? Daylight?
? I 'll still be lookin' in your heavenly eyes?
? A nd we'll go on and on?
? [Scatting]
? Don't look any further?
? [Scatting]
? Don't look any further?
? Someone to count on?
? In a world ever changing?
? Here I am, baby?
? Stop right where you're standing?
? W hat you need is a lover?
? Someone to take over?
? Here I am, baby Don't look any further?
? Further?
♪ [Stops]
[No Audible Dialogue]
[Gunshot]
[Door Opens]
- Excuse me. - [Man] Yeah, sure.
[Door Opens]
If you want to pack some things, we can get out of here.
- You can't judge yourself. - [Scoffs]
Maybe I don't have to.
The Bible allows for vengeance.
But the law doesn't.
The way I see it, he didn't give you a choice.
And my report will reflect that,
in case you're worried.
Donny Faster would have surely killed again if given the chance.
He was evil, Mulder.
I'm sure about that without a doubt.
But there's one thing that I'm not sure of.
What's that?
Who was at work in me?
Or what?
What made me...
What made me pull the trigger?
You mean if it was God?
I mean, what if it wasn't?
[Child] I made this!