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'''Season 3, Episode 09:'''
!Nisei
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I think I'm entitled to a few more answers, don't you think?"'']]
->Written by Creator/ChrisCarter, Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Creator/DavidNutter

->'''Matheson:''' Several weeks ago in Knoxville, Tennessee, four Japanese nationals were murdered. All prominent doctors apparently engaged in a highly classified project.\\
'''Mulder:''' What kind of project? The autopsy of an extraterrestrial lifeform, was that part of it?

Mulder's investigation of an alien autopsy video leads to a secret project with connections to unethical experiments done by Japanese scientists during World War II. Meanwhile, Scully learns more about what happened during her alien abduction.
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!!Tropes:
* AlienAutopsy: Mulder acquires videotape of one such autopsy. Scully suspects it of being a fake, only it turns out that there's some truth to it.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Scully dismisses an AlienAutopsy Video as "even hokier than the one they aired on the FOX network".
* CallBack: Scully's subplot is clearly following the events set during her abduction in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry Duane Barry]]" and "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E06Ascension Ascension]]".
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Despite Scully's protests, Mulder jumps onto train 82517 as it speeds away. In the process, he drops his phone, meaning that he's alone to find out what lies in this vehicle.
* DangerTakesABackseat: Sakurai is garroted by the Red-Haired Man as he's driven away from the Japanese consulate.
* DiplomaticImpunity: Played straight, then averted: Sakurai is released from custody despite murdering someone, only to be assassinated soon afterwards.
* LampshadeHanging: Mulder very often drops his gun at a fight. He pulls a back-up pistol out of his ankle holster this time.
-->'''Mulder:''' I got tired of losing my gun.
* LanguageBarrier: Mulder catches and arrests a Japanese spy who is part of TheConspiracy. It's not clear whether he could speak English, but he was only yelling at Mulder in Japanese. Mulder also doesn't understand his notes which frustrates him.
* MythArc
* PornStash: Scully expects Mulder to be watching porn instead of the alien autopsy video.
-->'''Scully:''' That's not your usual brand of entertainment.
* TruthInTelevision: As in "Paper Clip," the episode's historical background is based on reality: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Unit 731]] was a Japanese army unit which experimented with chemical and biological warfare in occupied Manchuria during World War II, directly killing at least 10,000 people (mostly Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners of war) and releasing plague-infected fleas and other bioweapons into China. Shiro Zama is loosely based on Unit 731's real-life commander, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii Shiro Ishii]], who was granted postwar immunity by the United States in exchange for his research.
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->''[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne "Mulder, don't get on the train. Mulder. Mulder!]]"''