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* ItsPersonal: For both Mulder and Barnett. Mulder hates Barnett for killing Agent Wallenberg and has never gotten over [[MyGreatestFailure failing]] to shoot the man in time to stop him, while Barnett swore revenge against Mulder over this and threatened to "get" him at his trial. He kills Mulder's old friend and partner Purdue and later tries to kill Scully, with the intent of making Mulder suffer.

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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Downplayed. Ridley says Barnett is the only one of his test subjects (Ridley himself included) who did not succumb to a genetic disease and on whom Ridley's rejuvenating techniques have been completely successful - none of which blinds Ridley to the fact that Barnett is a murderous psychopath.
-->'''Dr. Joe Ridley''': If I didn't so personally despise the man, I might call him my one triumph.



* ItsAllMyFault: Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agent.

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* IShouldHaveBeenBetter / ItsAllMyFault: Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agent.

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* AnArmAndALeg: In the ColdOpen, Dr. Ridley deliberately amputates John Barnett's hand in pursuit of his experiment to grow him a new one using salamander cells.



* HerrDoktor: Joe Ridley's former colleague at the NIH tells Mulder and Scully that the other scientists called Ridley "[[UsefulNotes/JosefMengele Doktor Mengele]]" behind his back.



* HoistWithHisOwnPetard: Joe Ridley used his rejuvenation techniques on himself, but doing so increased his susceptibility to certain genetic diseases that afflict children with progeria, as it did all of his other test subjects besides Barnett. As a result, he is a man in his 50's who looks no older than 30, but has less than a month to live.



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to de-age Barnett, giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Joe Ridley, meeting Mulder and Scully in the 1990's, appears ''younger'' than he did in the film footage they saw at the NIH taken from the 1970's. He tells them his appearance is deceptive, he is actually dying from a cerebral vascular disease.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to de-age graft a new hand onto Barnett, giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.
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->Written by Creator/ScottKaufer & Creator/ChrisCarter\\
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E07GhostInTheMachine 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | '''16''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E19Shapes 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]]]-]]]

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'''Mulder:''' Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. I pull that trigger two seconds earlier and Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

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'''Mulder:''' Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. I pull that trigger two seconds earlier and Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I got some dead man robbing jewelry jewellery stores and sending me haikus.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], Barnett, giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The man who owns the fountain of youth controls the world."'']]



'''Mulder:''' Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. If I had pulled the trigger two seconds earlier, Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

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'''Mulder:''' Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. If I had pulled the pull that trigger two seconds earlier, earlier and Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.



-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewellery stores and sending me haikus.

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-->'''Mulder''': -->'''Mulder:''' I got some dead man robbing jewellery stores and sending me haikus.

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!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E05TheJerseyDevil 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E06Shadows 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E07GhostInTheMachine 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E09Space 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E15Lazarus 15]] | '''16''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E18MiracleMan 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E19Shapes 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E20DarknessFalls 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E21Tooms 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask 24]]
'''Season 1, Episode 16:'''
!Young at Heart
->Written by Scott Kaufer & Creator/ChrisCarter\\
Directed by Michael Lange

->'''Scully:''' You did the right thing, Mulder.\\
'''Mulder:''' Did I? Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. If I had pulled the trigger two seconds earlier, Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.




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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.process.
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->'''Scully:''' Mulder, I know what you did wasn't by the book.\\
'''Mulder:''' Tells you a lot about the book, doesn't it?
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* HistoryRepeats: Although, Barnett didn't quite pick up on just how far Mulder's regard for the rule book had fallen since their last encounter.


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* KarmaHoudini: Discussed by Mulder and Deep Throat. Mulder is disturbed at the prospect of this murderer being courted by the government because the information he has is too valuable to lose.

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He's only ever referred to as John Barnett throughout the episode and the time his middle comes up is when Mulder reads his death certificate.


A violent bank robbery is committed by a perpetrator whose M.O matches that of John Irvin Barnett, a sociopathic criminal who Mulder helped capture in his early years at the Bureau. When the criminal starts leaving taunting notes and messages to Mulder about their shared past and threatening his friends, Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett has returned to get his revenge. One problem -- Barnett apparently died four years ago...

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A violent bank robbery is committed by a perpetrator whose M.O matches that of John Irvin Barnett, a sociopathic criminal who Mulder helped capture in his early years at the Bureau. When the criminal starts leaving taunting notes and messages to Mulder about their shared past and threatening his friends, Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett has returned to get his revenge. One problem -- Barnett apparently died four years ago...



* GunmanWithThreeNames: John Irvin Barnett is one of the many monsters of the week with impressive name.
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A violent bank robbery is committed by a perpetrator whose M.O matches that of John Irvin Barnett, a sociopathic criminal who Mulder helped capture in his early years at the Bureau. When the criminal starts leaving taunting notes and messages to Mulder about their shared past and threatening his friends, Mulder becomes convinced that Barnett has returned to get his revenge. One problem -- Barnett apparently died four years ago...
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* GovernmentConspiracy: It turns out the US government financed Dr. Ridley's research into reversing the ageing process and is trying to negotiate with Barnett to acquire Ridley's research. At the end, after Barnett's been shot and is bleeding out in hospital, the man we'll come to know as the Cigarette Smoking Man shows up desperately trying to get him to reveal where it is.


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* HarassingPhoneCall: In addition to his CallingCard notes, Barnett also likes phoning up Mulder and delivering creepy threatening monologues to him from a dark and shadowy room.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: Barnett's blue eyes are glassy and glazed over, and they appear dead. Even the pupils are blueish. They definitely fall into the creepy blue eyes variety.
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* GunmanWithThreeNames: John Irvin Barnett is one of the many monster of the week with impressive name.

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* FakingTheDead: Issuing a false death certificate for Barnett.

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* FakingTheDead: Issuing DeathFakedForYou: Ridley issued a false death certificate for Barnett.

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-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

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-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry jewellery stores and sending me haikus.haikus.
* FakingTheDead: Issuing a false death certificate for Barnett.

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-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.t

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-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.t



* ItsAllMyFault: Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agen
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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* GunmanWithThreeNames: John Irvin Barnett is one of the many monster of the week with impressive name.
* ItsAllMyFault: Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agen
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.

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* BulletProofVest: Scully's wearing one when Barnett shoots her. Of course, the audience doesn't know this, so we're supposed to believe [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt she's been fatally wounded.]]



-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.
* ItsAllMyFault - Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agent
* ForScience - Ridley's experiments. The government is interested in his work, but he mostly just seems to enjoy it.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent - Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.
* BulletProofVest - Scully's wearing one when Barnett shoots her. Of course, the audience doesn't know this, so we're supposed to believe [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt she's been fatally wounded.]]

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-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.
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* ItsAllMyFault - Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agent
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ForScience: Ridley's experiments. The government is interested in his work, but he mostly just seems to enjoy it.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent:
Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.
* BulletProofVest - Scully's wearing one when Barnett shoots her. Of course, the audience doesn't know this, so we're supposed to believe [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt she's been fatally wounded.]]
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* CriminalMindGames: John Barnett plays them with Mulder. His notes read as follows: "Fox can't guard the chicken coop," "A hunted Fox eventually dies," "Funerals for Fox's friends -- then for Fox."
-->'''Mulder''': I got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

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* ForScience - Ridley's experiments on kids with progeria

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* ForScience - Ridley's experiments on kids with progeriaexperiments. The government is interested in his work, but he mostly just seems to enjoy it.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent - Ridley uses salamander cells to [[spoiler: de-age Barnett]], giving him a horrifying reptilian hand in the process.
* BulletProofVest - Scully's wearing one when Barnett shoots her. Of course, the audience doesn't know this, so we're supposed to believe [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt she's been fatally wounded.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault - Mulder, regarding the deaths of Barnett's hostage and a fellow FBI agent
* ForScience - Ridley's experiments on kids with progeria

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