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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E03DPO 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E04ClydeBruckmansFinalRepose 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E05TheList 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E06TwoShy 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E07TheWalk 7]] | '''8''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E09Nisei 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E11Revelations 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E12WarOfTheCoprophages 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E13Syzygy 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E14Grotesque 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E15PiperMaru 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E16Apocrypha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E19HellMoney 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E21Avatar 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E23Wetwired 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E24TalithaCumi 24]]]]-]]]
'''Season 3, Episode 08:'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why else would you come back here if not for Amy? You’re sharing her pain."'']]
->Written by Charles Grant Craig\\
Directed by Kim Manners
->'''Mulder:''' What don’t I see?\\
'''Scully:''' The extreme rationalization that’s going on. Your personal identification with the victim, or in this case, the suspect. You’re becoming an empath yourself, Mulder. You are so sympathetic to Lucy as a victim like ''your sister'', that you can’t see her as a person who’s capable of committing this crime.
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E03DPO 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E04ClydeBruckmansFinalRepose 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E05TheList 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E06TwoShy 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E07TheWalk 7]] | '''8''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E09Nisei 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E11Revelations 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E12WarOfTheCoprophages 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E13Syzygy 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E14Grotesque 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E15PiperMaru 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E16Apocrypha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E19HellMoney 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E21Avatar 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E23Wetwired 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E24TalithaCumi 24]]]]-]]]
'''Season 3, Episode 08:'''
!Oubliette
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why else would you come back here if not for Amy? You’re sharing her pain."'']]
->Written by Charles Grant Craig\\
Directed by Kim Manners
->'''Mulder:''' What don’t I see?\\
'''Scully:''' The extreme rationalization that’s going on. Your personal identification with the victim, or in this case, the suspect. You’re becoming an empath yourself, Mulder. You are so sympathetic to Lucy as a victim like ''your sister'', that you can’t see her as a person who’s capable of committing this crime.
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* BittersweetEnding: On the sweet side the child molester is killed and his victim is saved from drowning. On the bitter side it requires Lucy sacrificing her life in exchange for the girl's.
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* BittersweetEnding: On the sweet side side, the child molester is killed and his victim is saved from drowning. On the bitter side side, it requires Lucy sacrificing her life in exchange for the girl's.girl's, which Mulder does not take well.
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->''"Finally, the only way she could outrun Carl Wade."''
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Scully is dubious towards Mulder's claim that the weird happenings around Lucy stems from her having formed a strong emphatic link with Amy. She is, however, willing to buy the sheriff's theory that Lucy is somehow in cahoots with Wade based on Amy's blood being found in Lucy's nosebleed... despite this theory requires that one accepts that Amy's blood ''somehow'' teleported 20 miles and ended up in Lucy's nose.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Scully is particularly stubborn and difficult in this episode. She is dubious towards Mulder's claim that the weird happenings around Lucy stems from her having formed a strong emphatic link with Amy. She is, however, willing to buy the sheriff's theory that Lucy is somehow in cahoots with Wade based on Amy's blood being found in Lucy's nosebleed... despite this theory requires that one accepts that Amy's blood ''somehow'' teleported 20 miles and ended up in Lucy's nose.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creepy basement. The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile pedophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creepy basement. The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Lucy gives her life to save Amy's in the end, taking her death for her.
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When a young teenage girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.
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When a young teenage girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker (Tracey Ellis) miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creppy basement. The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creppy creepy basement. The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, cries over her body at the end of the episode.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, story, cries over her body at the end of the episode.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, cries over her death at the end of the episode.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, cries over her death body at the end of the episode.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, relating to her experiences in part over the loss of his sister, cries over her death at the end of the episode.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, relating to her experiences in part over the loss of his sister, cries over her death at the end of the episode.
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* BittersweetEnding: On the sweet side the child molester is killed and his victim is saved from drowning. On the bitter side it requires Lucy sacrificing her life in exchange for the girl's.
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* ManlyTears: Mulder, having bonded with Lucy over the course of the episode, relating to her experiences in part over the loss of his sister, cries over her death at the end of the episode.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creppy basement. Word The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* BunkerWoman: The peadophile was abducting young girls and held them hostage in a creppy basement. Word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years.
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* ButtMonkey: Poor Lucy and Amy.
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* AdultFear: Child kidnapping as a plot pointpoint. A child molester who kidnaps little pre-teen and teen girls and keeps them locked in a creepy basement. Amy, his latest victim, tries to escape but he catches her and drags her back, and then denies her even water as punishment. She cries and begs him to let her go home to her mother. Finally, when he realizes he can't have her, he tries to drown her in a river.
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* {{Synchronization}}: Lucy suffers injuries inflicted upon her abductor's new victim.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Scully is dubious towards Mulder's claim that Lucy has formed strong an emphatic link with Amy. She is, however, willing to buy the sheriff's theory that Lucy is somehow in cahoots with Wade based on Amy's blood being found in Lucy's nosebleed... despite this theory requires that one accepts that Amy's blood ''somehow'' teleported 20 miles and ended up in Lucy's nose.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Scully is dubious towards Mulder's claim that the weird happenings around Lucy has stems from her having formed a strong an emphatic link with Amy. She is, however, willing to buy the sheriff's theory that Lucy is somehow in cahoots with Wade based on Amy's blood being found in Lucy's nosebleed... despite this theory requires that one accepts that Amy's blood ''somehow'' teleported 20 miles and ended up in Lucy's nose.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Scully is dubious towards Mulder's claim that Lucy has formed strong an emphatic link with Amy. She is, however, willing to buy the sheriff's theory that Lucy is somehow in cahoots with Wade based on Amy's blood being found in Lucy's nosebleed... despite this theory requires that one accepts that Amy's blood ''somehow'' teleported 20 miles and ended up in Lucy's nose.
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally because of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally because of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.simplifying.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl!]]: [[Creator/JewelStaite Kaylee]]!
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally because of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally because of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl!]]: [[JewelStaite Kaylee]]!
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl!]]: [[JewelStaite [[Creator/JewelStaite Kaylee]]!
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: {{Subverted}} over and over again in the climax. [[spoiler:Mulder performs CPR on Amy, but it doesn't work. He does the typical keep-trying-even-when-it's-hopeless thing, but it still doesn't work. But then suddenly it ''does'' work... BUT only because Lucy mystically took on Amy's death, sacrificing herself to save the girl and end her own torment.]]
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally becuase of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
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* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally becuase because of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
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* ButtMonkey: Poor Lucy and Amy.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl!]]: [[JewelStaite Kaylee]]!
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* {{Paedohunt}}: A creepy child molester kidnapping little girls and keeping them locked up.
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* {{Paedohunt}}: A creepy child molester kidnapping little girls and keeping them locked up.
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* PsychicNosebleed: Lucy gets a very big nosebleed very quickly at the beginning of her first psychic episode. A bit of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in that the PsychicLink only gave Lucy a nosebleed because Amy had a regular, non-psychic nosebleed at the time.
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* PsychicNosebleed: Lucy gets a very big nosebleed very quickly at the beginning of her first psychic episode. A bit of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in that the PsychicLink only gave Lucy a nosebleed because Amy had a regular, non-psychic nosebleed at the time. But some of the blood that came out of Lucy's nose was Amy's blood.
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* PsychicNosebleed: Lucy gets a very big nosebleed very quickly at the beginning of her first psychic episode. A bit of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in that the PsychicLink only gave Lucy a nosebleed because Amy had a regular, non-psychic nosebleed at the time.
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* PsychicLink CreepyBasement: Where Lucy and Amy were locked up.
* PsychicLink: Lucy feels what Amy is going through.
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* SingleIssuePsychology Samantha versus Lucy{{Paedohunt}}: A creepy child molester kidnapping little girls and Amy. YMMV whether this is played straight or deconstructed.keeping them locked up.
* SingleIssuePsychology: Scully suggests Mulder that he takes the case personally becuase of Samantha. Mulder defends himself that it's way too simplifying.
* PsychicLink: Lucy feels what Amy is going through.
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* SingleIssuePsychology Samantha versus Lucy
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* Pedophilia Is A Special Kind Of Evil or Pedophile Villain{{Paedohunt}}
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