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TEASER
Nora Pearce sits and talks with her late husband Ray’s friend, Curtis Delario after his funeral. He tries to comfort her. She thinks that Ray died of Gulf War Syndrome.

Curt drives away in his car. He starts to light his cigarette, when suddenly he sees a man standing in the road before him. He hits the breaks, but it’s too late.

Instead of the expected impact, the car is split in two around the unharmed man standing there. The driver of the car is badly  hurt, but not dead. He looks up towards the man and sees that it is Ray.

Ray grabs Curt by the face and pulls him through the windshield of the car.

ACT ONE
MUNCIE, INDIANA
8:07 AM
Scully and Doggett arrive at the crime scene. Doggett tells Scully that so far Delario has been unreachable.

Doggett says that calculations were ran and based on the distance traveled and the length of the skid marks, they estimate that the car was going at least forty when it impacted the object, which according to their math would require something forty-three hundred times the density of steel, with the cause of damage they are looking at.

As a crane pulls the car away, shoeprints are revealed. Scully says that from the size and shape they look like men’s shoes.  Doggett says that he hopes she’s not suggesting that what the car hit was a man, because it’s impossible. She tells him that the prints in the asphalt look pretty fresh. He tells her that he admits to the coincidence, but they both know that if a man was hit from there he’d be splattered everywhere, and there is no evidence of that. She agrees with him, but says that that is suspicious in and of itself. The car definitely hit something, but the only evidence that they have are the two prints.

Doggett tells her to stop and examine the evidence. If a man were standing in front of the car, the driver would have stopped. Scully tells him that it looks like he tried to. Doggett asks that even so, if a man were in the middle of the road with a car coming, wouldn’t he try to move? Scully says he would unless he wanted to stop the car. He agrees but says that if nothing less than a block of steel could stop the car, then there couldn’t have been a man standing in the street the night before. Scully just says that certainly an ordinary man couldn’t have been.

Scully turns and walks away.

Nora is there yelling that she wants to see Curtis. Doggett asks how she knows him, and she says that he was her husband’s friend, and the two of them worked together in the salvage yard.

Doggett tells her to calm down, and that they aren’t even sure if he was driving the car the night before. She tells him that he was. She says that he came over after her husband’s funeral and then he left.

Scully calls Doggett over.

Scully has found Delario’s body in the trashcan. She tells Doggett that she guesses he won’t be much help in clearing things up.

Scully is performing the autopsy on Delario when Doggett comes in. She tells him that Delario wasn’t killed by the crash.  He was badly injured, but clearly still alive when his body was pulled through the windshield of the car. The five deep puncture marks on his face match five fingers of one hand.

DOGGETT: You mean, someone just reached right in…?
SCULLY: Like a bowling ball.

He tells her that that seems humanly impossible, and she tells him that it does for an ordinary man. Doggett tells her that from the evidence he gathered, the man is actually less than ordinary. He was able to reconstruct a section of the windshield and lift a print from the glass, that of Raymond Pearce.

Doggett hands Scully the file.

He tells her that Ray is the husband of Nora, the woman he spoke to at the crime scene. He adds that he is “her recently deceased husband.” Scully just says that if he was recently deceased, then it must have been an old print. He tells her that that is what you would think, but along with the prints there was evidence of fresh blood, belonging to Pearce.

ST. CLARE’S HALFWAY HOUSE
9:41 AM
Ray is lying in bed. He turns and sees blood on his pillow. The side of his face appears to be all scratched up. He gets up and goes into the bathroom to look in the mirror. He takes out clippers and cuts the metal “hairs” from his face.

Doggett goes to see Nora Pearce. Harry O’Dell, the owner of the salvage yard, is there as well.

Nora is confused because before he wanted to talk about Curt and now he wants to talk about Ray.

Doggett asks her what Ray and Curt’s relationship outside of work was. She says that she knows what their relationship is now: they’re both dead. Doggett tells her that he went through her husband’s medical records, and it said that he died after a long, debilitating illness. She tells him that her husband had Gulf War Syndrome, and she aims to prove it and put the blame where it belongs. Doggett tells her that he’s having trouble proving something himself. He says that she signed a form to have her husband’s body cremated, but it appears it never happened. She’s confused. They gave her the ashes, and they were at the funeral. He says that he can’t find a record of Ray’s body ever being at the crematorium, and asks if it’s possible that her husband is still alive, because they have the evidence to suggest that he was maybe involved in the death of Delario.  The owner of the salvage yard asks if he’s saying that Ray faked his death. He tells him that they found Ray’s fingerprints and blood and Curt’s car.

Nora tells him that she watched him die. She nursed him when he was sick. She says that what he’s saying is impossible.  He couldn’t even walk or lift his head at the end.

O’Dell tells Doggett that Ray worked for him for nine years and he was a good man, and he never raised a hand to anyone.

At the halfway house a woman, Lorena, talks to Ray while he is eating. She tells him that she helps out around there, and if he has any questions to ask. She is concerned for him, but he just yells at her to leave, and she does.

As Ray clutches his sandwich, the camera pans down to show that the backs of his hands are bleeding.

SOUTHSIDE SALVAGE
10:12 PM
At the salvage yard, O’Dell spray paints over something on a blue barrel.

He then starts putting some papers into a shredder.

Suddenly Ray comes in, surprising O’Dell. He tells Ray that everyone is looking for him and they blame him for killing Curt. O’Dell says that he can’t blame it on them; they didn’t do it.

O’Dell quickly grabs a gun from his drawer and points it at Ray. He says, “You stay dead,” and shoots him. Ray falls backwards through the window.

Ray walks outside through the broken window, still carrying his gun. On the ground he sees Ray’s arm that has been blown off. He takes a closer look as the fingers move. Metallic “veins” come out of the end of the arm as it starts to regrow.

Ray walks out and towards O’Dell. He pushes his fingers into his face, as he did to Curt.

ACT TWO
At the crime scene, Doggett notices that O’Dell’s fingernails have some blue on them. He calls Scully at the morgue and asks her if she found anything to go with the holes in Delario’s head, such as blue paint on his hands and nails. She looks and doesn’t find any. She asks him if it is significant, but he doesn’t know. 

He tells her that Harry O’Dell has been busy and must have left Nora’s house right after he saw him – right after he learned that Ray Pearce might still be alive. Scully asks what he went to do, and he tells her that O’Dell was shredding papers in his office when he was surprised by someone. She asks if he thinks it was Ray. He tells her that someone took a blast. There is blood everywhere. Scully points out to him that the man with the gun is dead. He says that he saw guys take hits in the war that kept right on fighting holding their insides in their hands. He knows it’s not impossible, but to do this to a man head after
taking two barrels of buckshot is extreme. Scully adds about the man being hit by a car as well. He doesn’t see how a man could possibly to it. Scully tells him that maybe the question isn’t how, but rather, why. She asks that if Ray did kill O’Dell, what his reason would be. Doggett isn’t sure, but he says that he knows where to start looking. He then hangs up his cell
phone.

Doggett goes into O’Dell’s office and finds the shredder. The top of the one paper is intact. It is an invoice from Chamber Technologies.

Ray cleans up his blood in the bathroom. The whole one side of his face and his one arm has turned to metal.

Lorena comes into his bedroom wanting to talk to him. He comes out of the bathroom with a hood over his head. She asks if he is all right, she saw all the blood on his clothes. She tells him that she knows it never does any good to call the cops. He yells at her again to leave.

CHAMBER TECHNOLOGIES
10:23 AM
Doggett goes to Chamber Technologies. A man shows him some designs on the computer, but tells him that they are only conceptualizations so far. They are trying to make metal built with alloys of molecular memory. They would be indestructible and are designed to rebuild themselves into their original forms.

Doggett tells him that he wants to talk to Dr. David Clifton, whose employee number was on the top of the invoice. The man he is talking to is the successor of Clifton. He tells Doggett that Clifton is no longer at the company.

Doggett asks if he ever has dealt Harry O’Dell or the business Southside Salvage. He tells him that he doesn’t deal with materials, nor did Clifton. The work there is all theoretical. They have an environmental manager there who is in charge of waste management, but disposal is done at TST facilities, definitely not city salvage yards.

Doggett thanks him and leaves. On the way out he call Scully.

Scully asks him if he found Dr. Clifton. He tells her that he is no longer with the company, but his successor says that his work there was entirely conceptual and everything is done on computers. He then explains to Scully about the metals.

Scully tells Doggett that she’s read Pearce’s medical records. She tells him that what his wife was calling Gulf War Syndrome is nothing of the kind. His entire cellular makeup was affected by exposure to some nonidentifable metal contaminant.

DOGGETT: What are you saying? Ray Pearce has become some kind of metal man? ‘Cause that only happens in the movies, Agent Scully.
SCULLY: Does it, Agent Doggett?

He tells her that he will press the guy there some more on the issue. Scully tells him that there may be a reason he is not being perfectly forthcoming. 

Lorena sees Ray on the news and in the paper. She calls his wife.

Scully meets Doggett. She tells him that she just got the blood test back on Ray Pearce, and it was indeed the same Ray Pearce that was pronounced dead three days ago. She also tells him that by all medical standards he should still be dead.  His blood has enough metal alloy in it to poison an elephant. 

Doggett tells her that he’s still a man and he’s going to act and think like one even if he is more powerful than a locomotive.  Scully says that then the question is, “why kill his friends?” She wonders that f he was wronged some how, wouldn’t he go to them for solace, at least to his wife. Doggett says that he’s asked himself the same question. He tells her that Ray was an outpatient at the VA and had a history of substance abuse. He came clean, got married in 1991 and completely turned his life around. He overcame adversity and made a life for himself. Scully adds that that was true until three days ago. He says that Pearce doesn’t fit the profile of a murderer. Scully tells him that the man they are talking about withstood impact from a speeding car and two shotgun blasts from short-range.

SCULLY: Even if we can find him, who’s to say we can stop him?

CHAMBER TECHNOLOGIES
9:52 PM
The employee is working on the computer when he hears something. He gets up to check it out.

Ray is there. Hiding, the worker lures Ray with a light into a small four-inch thick metal chamber. He then seals the door shut.

Scully, Doggett, and other FBI agents rush in. Ray starts pounding on the metal and leaves thick dents. Suddenly he stops. 

Doggett orders for the employee to open it up.

When the door is open, they can see the large gaping hole in the back where he tore through the wall.

ACT THREE
Scull and Doggett are afraid that he will come back for the employee, so they take him to a safer place. He keeps saying that it’s not his fault.

Scully looks closely at the hole and notices some blood on the edge of the ripped wall, but it slowly turns into metal.

As Doggett walks out he stops for a second to look at the blue barrels with the Chamber Technologies company logo.

ST. CLARE’S HALFWAY HOUSE
11:08 PM
Ray walks into his room to find Nora. He tells her that she shouldn’t have come. She is happy that he is alive, but is still scared of him. She asks him why he didn’t come to her, and he tells her it’ because, “I’m not me.” He shows her what he looks like and goes to leave. Telling him not to go, she grabs his arm, and is cut. She still wants to help him and he tells her that they’ve all got to pay for it.

SOUTHSIDE SALVAGE
11:34 PM
Doggett looks around the salvage yard and finds the barrel that was painted over. On the top of the barrel are hand imprints that look as if someone were trying to get out. He kicks the barrel over so it falls open. Inside are some liquid metal and a dead metal body, frozen in a look of terror.

The Chamber Technologies employee is brought in complaining. He wants to know what is going on and why he is being treated like a criminal. He then looks up and sees the metal corpse.

The worker admits that it is David Clifton. He explains that Clifton wanted to push forward what they were doing, but he started getting sick. The metal poisoned him. They immediately shut down the project, but it was too late. He wanted to leave them to continue the science.

Doggett adds that he left him to ship the barrel and his body to Southside Salvage where it infected somebody else. He tells him that he doesn’t know how that happened. It was all an accident. The barrel was supposed to go to a designated site.

Scully tells Doggett that she wants to talk to him a second. Privately Scully tells him that she thinks that the man is telling the truth.

Suddenly Doggett sees Nora in the hall. He wonders what she’s doing there. They follow her.

Nora is in an office going through files, looking for the name of the person responsible. She is dialing someone when they walk in. Doggett asks her who she called.

Police come to the halfway house to find Ray.

Ray runs into Lorena and covers her mouth. She tries to scream but suddenly stops. He uncovers her mouth. Her face is punctured. She slumps to the floor.

The police start knocking on his door. He looks around, trying to decide what to do.

ACT FOUR
Scully and Doggett talk to Nora. They tell her about Lorena’s murder. She knew that Lorena was worried about Ray and didn’t do anything to hurt him. They have police stationed at her house for a twenty-four hour watch..

PEARCE RESIDENCE
2:17 AM
When Nora gets home, Ray is already in the house. He forces the name of the man responsible from her.

She runs outside and yells that he is in the house. She tells the cops to tell Scully and Doggett that he forced her to tell him the name of the man responsible – Owen Harris.

Ray goes after Harris, who turns out to be an accountant who sent the barrel containing Clifton to the salvage yard where Ray was poisoned by it.

Harris is driving with his wife and son in the car. He is changing the radio when suddenly she sees Ray standing in front of him. He tries to stop but doesn’t have enough time. Ray puts out his hands and brings the car to a stop. Harris looks at Ray, his body now almost completely composed of metal. Ray breaks the window and pulls Harris out.

Ray has Harris on the ground and is about to kill him. Harris pleads for his life. He doesn’t know what Ray is talking about and what he is blaming him for.

Ray turns and sees the man’s son screaming and crying at what he is doing. The last thread of human in him realizes what he is doing and spares the man’s life. He gets up and runs away.

Doggett can’t figure out why Ray didn’t kill the man responsible. Scully says that Ray wasn’t really human any longer, but rather a machine. Maybe a little of the humanity in him that wanted revenge was still left in him, which is what made him spare the man’s life.

Doggett ask Scully that if Harris is the man that Ray held responsible why he let him live. She tells him that she thinks Nora was right. Her husband died, or at least his body did. Whatever killed the people was an abomination of a man – a machine. Doggett tells her that a machine doesn’t know blame. Scully adds that it doesn’t know mercy either.

DOGGETT: Come on. A machine doesn’t know blame, Agent Scully.
SCULLY: Nor mercy. Unless what drove Ray to kill is also what saved those people. Some flicker of humanity.

At the salvage yard cars are being compacted. Underneath is Ray.

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Overall Rating : 7
*Shippy Rating: 0
*Note: Shippiness will ALWAYS be based on MULDER and SCULLY. The scale is 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, all above the scale])*


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