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3	'''Season 8, Episode 05:'''
4	!Invocation
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesinvocation.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Did anybody notice this? This symbol?"'']]
7	->Written by David Amann\
8	Directed by Richard Compton
9
10	->''"Yes, he's a kid, Agent Doggett, you're right. He's a kid who materialized out of thin air, unaged. Do you not somehow recognize how strange this is?"''
11	-->-- '''Dana Scully'''
12
13	Scully and Doggett investigate when a child reappears ten years after going missing, not looking a day older.
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15	!!Tropes:
16	* ActorAllusion: Doggett (Played by Creator/RobertPatrick) [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay determinedly chasing down a fleeing car on foot]].
17	* AgentMulder: Scully is particularly exasperated in this episode by Doggett's stubborn refusal to acknowledge how strange the entire case is.
18	* AgentScully: Doggett to a ridiculous degree, dismissing a professional psychic who somehow knew about his dead son and had a seizure from coming in contact with Billy. When Scully asks him about the symbol that appeared on the woman's head from thin air he dismisses it as a 'damn good trick'. To say nothing of how much he dismisses how strange everything is, like a boy not aging after ten years.
19	* ArcSymbol: Five lines pointing to the vertexes of a pentagon.
20	* CowboyCop: Doggett has shades of this in the episode, due to the personal nature of child abduction to him.
21	* CreepyChild: Billy Underwood. He may not even be a child but a spirit trying to help the cops find his killer.
22	* EvilDetectingDog: Sparky the family German Shepherd knows there's something deeply wrong with Billy.
23	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
24	** The first shot is this, showing the rotating ArcSymbol on moving horses at a fair. It turns out the person who kidnapped Billy was the person in charge of the horses attraction on that day.
25	** Doggett's involvement in this case is being driven by [[DarkAndTroubledPast his own son's kidnapping and murder]].
26	* NiceGuy: Despite his tough exterior Doggett reveals this side of himself in dealing with Billy and when he realizes Ronnie was a victim instead of the perpetrator.
27	* {{Paedohunt}}: It is implied that Cal Jeppy (Creator/JimCodyWilliams) has at least molested Ronnie Purnell and Billy Underwood and killed Billy. He also almost gets to Billy's brother Josh but fails.
28	* PapaWolf: What Doggett is revealed to be in this case, child abduction being especially personal towards him from experience.
29	* WrongGenreSavvy: Averted. Doggett insists on treating Billy Underwood's reappearance as a standard child kidnapping, even though Scully keeps pointing out the strangeness of the case. Doggett, however, succeeds in resolving the case.
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31	->'''Doggett:''' Agent Scully, don't ask me to believe that this is some kind of justice from beyond the grave.\

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