Página PrincipalInternal dating: Marti's mug shot is taken on March 6, 1998 after the first murder. The case largely takes place in the 48 hours that follow. No date is given for the final scene.
Suddenly, Marti has a vision. Through another's eyes, Marti can see an angry man walking from a motel bedroom to the bathroom. The vision startles Marti. Another vision shows through the other person's eyes a briefcase full of drugs. That person walks into the bathroom carrying a knife and kills the angry man.
At 10:49pm, two police cruisers arrive at the Paradise Motel on Highway 13. Two uniformed officers enter Motel Room 10. A man is found lying dead in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor. Marti Glenn is found hiding in the shower, fully clothed with a bloody sponge.
The arresting officer notices Marti is blind.
The Credits Roll: The Truth is out There.
Back in the basement, Scully reviews the Wilmington Police Department's case. Twice convicted drug dealer Paco "Little Monster" Ordonez was found murdered in room 10 of the Paradise Motel with a "C" shaped stab wound in his kidneys. He bled to death within seconds. Mulder assumes the killer knew what he was doing and doesn't have a "C" as an initial, despite the wound.
Detective Pennock, a large African-American man, tells Mulder he is correct about most of his assumption, except the suspect is Marti Glenn. Mulder sees the notes about her blindness in Marti's files. Pennock points out that Marti's files also state she has a record -- fraud, assault. Scully found out Marti's juvenile record includes a bust for drug possession and possession with intent to sell.
Mulder sees a huge flaw in the idea that a blind woman could kill a hardened drug dealer with surgical precision.
Scully tells Mulder that Marti took a $60.00 cab ride to the Paradise Motel and had the driver point her to room 10 in particular. Detective Pennock pipes in with his own theory. Mulder is interested. Pennock thinks Marti has a "sixth sense" that lets her see in the dark. Mulder and Scully are not so sure but agree to help Pennock. They are working against the clock since without a murder weapon, they can only hold Marti for 48 hours.
In her jail cell, Marti knows Pennock is there before he announces himself. Pennock tells Mulder and Scully this is proof of Marti's "sixth sense". Marti says no, its proof of his lousy cologne. Mulder chuckles, tipping her off to his presence. She also knows there is a woman with them. Mulder and Scully introduce themselves.
As Marti is taken to an interview room, she turns on Mulder and asks him what is he staring at.
"An innocent woman, I hope", Mulder replies.
Scully takes the lead in the interrogation after Marti proclaims that she's "all ears". Scully reminds her she can have a lawyer, but Marti doesn't think she needs one. Scully asks what Marti was doing at the motel room. Marti replies that she was putting a mint on the pillow. Scully continues -- the cab driver puts Marti at the scene of the crime at the time of Paco's death. Marti tells Scully that being at a crime scene isn't a crime and that she isn't much of an "eyewitness".
Frustrated, Scully asks if Marti planned to buy drugs from Paco. Marti doesn't answer. Scully asks if she killed Paco. Marti wonders if it wasn't really Paco's time to die. If a stab wound didn't kill Paco, would his cholesterol kill him.
Mulder finally joins the interview, asking Marti how she knew that it was just one stab wound that killed Paco. Marti tells him its a lucky guess. She also tells Mulder, Scully and Detective Pennock, who she calls "Stinky" as he watches behind a two way mirror, that they don't have a murder weapon and its driving them crazy. She taunts them saying she "fed it to my seeing eye dog."
Mulder tries another track. "If you didn't kill him", Mulder says in a calm voice, "then why were you at the crime scene cleaning up and doing such a piss-poor job of it. Why don't we just stop playing games here. You probably don't know the difference between a feather duster and a duck's ass do you?."
Scully watches Mulder continue his bad cop routine.
Still in the same calm voice, Mulder continues "Its ridiculous. You're a blind woman for God's sake. So why don't you just tell us who did kill Paco Ordonez and Agent Scully and I can go arrest him. And then you can go home and work on your angry young blind girl comedy routine." Mulder calmly grabs a glass and a pitcher of water, "Or we can just stay here for the next 48 hours..", Mulder starts to pour the water into a the glass but Marti knocks the glass away telling Mulder to go to hell.
Later, Mulder talks to Pennock about Marti with Scully present. Mulder thinks Marti is a woman who deals admirably with her blindness. Looking at Scully, he says Marti needs to prove she is strong and independent.
Pennock thinks Marti is taunting them. Scully points out that she was at the crime scene and Pennock points out that Mulder caught her slip about the stab wound. While Scully joins Pennock for a field trip to the crime scene, Mulder decides to follow up with Marti.
Mulder has Marti -- actually Martell Frances Glenn -- take a lie detector test. After giving the tester a hard time, Marti easily passes questions about the killing. When the tester mentions "seeing" the murderer, however, he rephrases, thinking her bad response had to do with being offended by that word. Mulder disagrees and writes a question "Did you see the murder?" on a legal pad. Marti hears him write it and demands Mulder ask his question. It is the only question Marti fails on the lie detector test.
At the hotel, Scully looks at the crimes scene when her phone rings. Mulder tells Scully about the test. Scully reminds him that the test is no good in court. Mulder thinks that it does prove that Marti has some sort of special vision. "Like Batvision?" Scully asks before hanging up. Scully notices an old razor blade disposal in the wall. When she removes it from the wall, she finds a pair of bloody gloves.
In her cell, Marti sees through another's eyes again. This time, the person is harassing a red haired woman at a bar. Marti demands a phone to call her lawyer. Instead of calling a lawyer, however, she calls the Blarney Stone bar and asks for the man hitting on the red haired woman. The bartender gives an older, white, bald man the phone. Marti warns the man to leave the woman alone, she's watching him. The older man is freaked.
Back in the interview room, Scully gives Marti the bloody gloves in an evidence bag. Wearing a pair of rubber gloves on her hands, Marti sits as Detective Pennock puts the bloody gloves on Marti. They fit. "Somewhere Marcia Clark weeps," Marti quips, "but you still haven't got a weapon."
Scully meets up with Mulder, who watched the glove scene from behind the two way mirror. "If the glove do fit, you can still acquit", Mulder jokes. Scully thinks Marti is arrogant, knowing her handicap makes her the unconvictable criminal.
Mulder disagrees -- its not arrogance but pride that has Marti behaving that way. He shows her social service records. Despite being qualified for all sorts of financial aid, she lives in poverty. Mulder thinks she's not willing to tolerate or accept anything that doesn't make here seem whole.
Scully has an idea -- maybe Marti isn't really blind. She's isn't faking it, Scully believes, but she may have a disorder that allows her to see but her mind doesn't know what its seeing. Scully thinks that why Marti never applied for aid -- she'd fail the vision test.
The man from the bar is in the Wilmington bus depot arranging a drug deal on a pay phone. He still has the briefcase full of drugs from the deal with Paco. His connection puts the deal on hold for a while, causing the man to stash the drugs in a locker. The man decides to take care of some business.
Marti is tested. She is truly blind. Just as the exam ends, however, she has a vision, causing the equipment to react as if she could see. She sees through the man's eye as he walks into the Blarney Stone. Mulder gently tries to get Marti to explain what she sees but Pennock interrupts.
Leaving Marti in the doctor's office, Pennock introduces Mulder and Scully to ADA Costas. The ADA explains that he won't indite a "blind girl" without a murder weapon. While Mulder believes Marti isn't the typical "blind girl", he also admits he doesn't believe Marti's the killer.
Marti is freed. Mulder watches her walk out of the station. Scully tells Mulder she is going to DC to personally supervise the PCR screens on the gloves. The blood types match Marti's and Paco's. Mulder tells Scully he doesn't think Marti is capable of murder. Scully tells him the PCR tests will tell all.
Marti is several block from the station when the visions return. The man from the bar is killing the red haired woman in an alleyway. Marti gets some help to the alleyway from a Good Samaritan. Once alone, Marti finds the bloody body of the red haired woman in a dumpster.
With blood on her hands, Marti returns to the police station and confesses to both murders.
Back in the interview room, Mulder tells Marti he is puzzled by why she killed Paco or Susan Forrester -- the woman in the alley. Marti tells Mulder to leave her alone.
"I like you Marti", Mulder tells her, "I admire you and I don't want to see you confess to crimes you didn't commit."
"You just feel sorry for me."
"No I don't, not in the way you think I do", Mulder replies.
Marti tells Mulder that she confessed, she told them things only someone at the crime scene could know. Mulder believes she was at the crime scene, but not physically. Marti tells Mulder he's crazy. Mulder is convinced that the killings will continue and only Marti can stop them if she would just stop covering for the killer. Marti demands to be returned to her cell.
The man from the bar is trying to move his drugs, but his connection won't bite. The connection tells the man that he got a phone call the night before. Marti warned the connection about the killer.
Mulder learns from Marti's records that her mother was murdered when she was pregnant the same way Susan and Paco were killed. Pennock tells Mulder that Marti signed her confession and told him where Paco's drug stash was. That's why, Marti claims, she killed Paco.
Mulder and Pennock find the drugs in the locker at the bus station. Pennock says this seals Marti's fate. Mulder disagrees, saying the drugs are not necessarily connected to Marti. Pennock tells Mulder that the biggest surprise on this case was how "skeptical" Mulder was.
Amazed, Mulder tells Pennock "I've been called a lot of things, skeptical is not one."
Mulder's phone rings as he still muses on "skeptical". It is Scully. The PCR screens clear Marti.
Pennock walks out of the depot with the drugs. He passes the killer who watched the whole recovery. He follows Pennock.
In her cell, Mulder tells Marti that she knows who Marti is protecting -- her mother's killer. Marti's mother died from massive blood loss after being stabbed. Marti was born, barely, despite her mother's fatal injury. The lack of blood caused Marti's blindness.
Mulder thinks Marti and the killer became connected -- Marti can see through the killer's eyes. Mulder also feels that Marti is taking the blame for what she saw.
Pennock arrives to transport Marti from local to state jail. As she is walked to the prison van, the killer watches Marti. Marti sees the killer watching her.
In the Women's Detention Center in Fairview, Delaware, Mulder visit an annoyed Marti. Mulder tells Marti that Pennock is arranging her release. Marti wants to stay -- she confessed. Mulder tells her that her confession is a lie, and therefore useless.
The locker, Mulder tells Marti, was covered with the prints of a Charles Wesley Gotts. A convicted felon, Gotts was just paroled after 28 years in jail for assault. The PCR screens prove he is the killer. They also prove he is Marti's father. That is their connection.
Marti is amazed. Mulder tries to give her a minute to absorb all she learned, but Pennock walks in. Pennock has agreed to drop aiding and abetting charges if Marti helps them capture Gotts. She agrees, if she can be protected from Gotts. Pennock promises to do that job himself.
Mulder joins the Wilmington Police Department as they wait to find Gotts at the Blarney Stone. Scully arrives to join in on the arrest. Mulder explains that Gotts has been in jail all of Marti's life, seeing the same scene every day. When he was paroled, he saw new things and Marti's life changed forever. Scully states that three weeks ago was when the killings began. Mulder wonders if Marti wants to live with the changes Gotts rearrest would bring.
At her apartment, Marti packs with Pennock watching. Marti confesses that Gotts has been watching Pennock for a day. Pennock is confused, but Marti tells him that Gotts is in the lobby, looking for her name on the mail box.
Gotts is in fact in the lobby checking names.
Marti hits Pennock on the head with her tea pot. He's out like a light. Marti takes his gun, opens her front door and waits for Gotts.
Mulder and Scully leave the Blarney Stone without Gotts. Mulder is trying to contact Pennock on his cell phone, but can't. Scully can't understand why Marti would send them to the wrong place in the wrong side of town. Mulder knows -- if Gotts goes back to prison, Marti goes with him.
Gotts finds an unconscious Pennock on the floor. Searching Marti's apartment, he finds her in the kitchen. With Pennock's gun pointed at his head, Marti tells Gotts, "I hate the way you see me." and shoots him right between the eyes.
When Mulder and Scully arrive, Gotts is dead and Pennock is handcuffing Marti.
Mulder visits Marti after her trial. She is in a small, lifeless but clean cell. She tells Mulder she knows he was at her hearing.
"Is it my cologne?", he asks, hold her hand through the bars. Marti tells Mulder she just knew he'd be there. Mulder wants to speak to the judge on her behalf, but Marti won't let him. Mulder was able to find Gotts's apartment, a hotel room in Atlantic City on the water.
Marti tells Mulder that she never saw the ocean until Gotts went to Atlantic City. Now it is all she sees and she is very grateful for that. Mulder jokes that she should also be grateful that Gotts never went to the Ice Capades.
As "Lights Out" is announced, Mulder and Marti hold hands for a few minutes more until the guard shoos Mulder away. Marti returns to her bed.
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