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* TragicVillain: Duane, so very much. He is noted to have been an exemplary FBI agent before a brain injury sustained in the line of duty [[FallenHero left him a violent psychotic]] and wrecked his life. And, oh yeah, he was also abducted and subjected to torturous experiments by aliens. ''Repeatedly''.
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* ActorAllusion: The episode begins with Duane Barry's actor Creator/SteveRailsback announcing "not again" as an alien craft abducts him through an energy beam. Railsback's 1985 film ''{{Film/Lifeforce}}'' ends with his character being taken onto an alien ship via an energy beam.
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* ActorAllusion: The episode begins with Duane Barry's actor Creator/SteveRailsback announcing "not again" as an alien craft abducts him through an energy beam. Railsback's 1985 film ''{{Film/Lifeforce}}'' ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' ends with his character being taken onto an alien ship via an energy beam.
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* TakenDuringTheEnding: Scully herself is taken in the final moments of the episode by the titular person of interest.
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* AbsurdlyBrightLight: In the prologue, Duane's house is flooded with light as he's being abducted by aliens.
* ActorAllusion: The episode begins with Duane Barry's actor Creator/SteveRailsback announcing "not again" as an alien craft abducts him through an energy beam. Railsback's 1985 film ''{{Film/Lifeforce}}'' ends with his character being taken onto an alien ship via an energybeam.beam.
* BangingForHelp: A BoundAndGagged Scully bangs to attract the attention of a police officer when locked in the trunk of Duane Barry's car who kidnapped her. Unfortunately, this leads to the cop being distracted enough that Duane can shoot and kill him.
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* BangingForHelp: A BoundAndGagged Scully bangs to attract the attention of a police officer when locked in the trunk of Duane Barry's car who kidnapped her. Unfortunately, this leads to the cop being distracted enough that Duane can shoot and kill him.
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* BoundAndGagged: After capturing Scully, Duane bounds and gags her, then locks her into the truck of his car.
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* OminousVisualGlitch: The TV at Duane's place goes out and static fills the screen. The room is flooded with light and Duane starts to levitate. There is a flying saucer above his house and he's abducted.
* SaveTheVillain: Played straight and then quickly undone. Mulder calls Duane over to safety when he notices a sniper's laser taking aim. When his next conversation with Duane manages to incite him to rage and hysteria, though, Mulder manipulates him into [[GoodIsNotDumb stepping right back into the sniper's line of fire]].
* SaveTheVillain: Played straight and then quickly undone. Mulder calls Duane over to safety when he notices a sniper's laser taking aim. When his next conversation with Duane manages to incite him to rage and hysteria, though, Mulder manipulates him into [[GoodIsNotDumb stepping right back into the sniper's line of fire]].
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* OminousVisualGlitch: The TV at Duane's place goes out and static fills the screen. The room is flooded with light AbsurdlyBrightLight and Duane starts to levitate. There is a flying saucer above his house and he's abducted.
* SaveTheVillain: Played straight and then quickly undone. Mulder calls Duane over to safety when he notices a [[LaserSight sniper's laser takingaim. aim]]. When his next conversation with Duane manages to incite him to rage and hysteria, though, Mulder manipulates him into [[GoodIsNotDumb stepping right back into the sniper's line of fire]].fire]].
* SexySurfacingShot: Mulder gets a shot climbing out of the pool in a tiny speedo when Krycek interrupts him.
* SaveTheVillain: Played straight and then quickly undone. Mulder calls Duane over to safety when he notices a [[LaserSight sniper's laser taking
* SexySurfacingShot: Mulder gets a shot climbing out of the pool in a tiny speedo when Krycek interrupts him.
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* ActorAllusion: The episode begins with Duane Barry's actor Steve Railsback Creator/SteveRailsback announcing "not again" as an alien craft abducts him through an energy beam. Railsback's 1985 film ''{{Film/Lifeforce}}'' ends with his character being taken onto an alien ship via energy beam.
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'''Season 2, Episode 05:'''
!Duane Barry
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I know you're scared, Duane, and that you'd like to see this all come out right."'']]
->Written and directed by Creator/ChrisCarter
->''" I'm not going to hurt you, Doc. Because this time, you're going with [[TitleDrop Duane Barry]] so you can see what it's like... that it's real!"''
-->-- '''Duane Barry'''
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E01LittleGreenMen 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E03Blood 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E04Sleepless 4]] | '''5''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E06Ascension 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E07Three 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E09Firewalker 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E10RedMuseum 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E11ExcelsisDei 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E12Aubrey 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E13Irresistible 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E14DieHandDieVerletzt 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E15FreshBones 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E16Colony 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E17EndGame 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E18FearfulSymmetry 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E19DodKalm 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E20Humbug 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E21TheCalusari 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E22FEmasculata 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E23SoftLight 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E24OurTown 24]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E25Anasazi 25]]]]-]]]
'''Season 2, Episode 05:'''
!Duane Barry
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I know you're scared, Duane, and that you'd like to see this all come out right."'']]
->Written and directed by Creator/ChrisCarter
->''" I'm not going to hurt you, Doc. Because this time, you're going with [[TitleDrop Duane Barry]] so you can see what it's like... that it's real!"''
-->-- '''Duane Barry'''
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: After incapacitating and hospitalising Duane, Scully intercepts a piece of metal found inside the man. By scanning it at a supermarket, it awakens Duane, who escapes the hospital and kidnaps Scully in the process. Her cries for Mulder end the episode.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: After incapacitating and hospitalising Duane, Scully intercepts a piece of metal found inside the man. By scanning it at a supermarket, it awakens Duane, who escapes the hospital and kidnaps Scully in the process. Her cries for Mulder end the episode.
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* CorruptTheCutie: The terrified younger female hostage is heavily affected by her ordeal, displaying unresponsiveness and heavy anxiety throughout. However, she is enraptured by Duane's retelling of his abductions and listens intently. When Duane agrees to let the women go, she stops in front of him and delivers her one line of dialogue: "I just want to say that I believe you."
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* CorruptTheCutie: The terrified younger female hostage is heavily affected by her ordeal, displaying unresponsiveness and heavy anxiety throughout. However, she is enraptured by Duane's retelling of his abductions and listens intently. When Duane agrees to let the women go, she stops in front of him and delivers her one line of dialogue: "I ''"I just want to say that I believe you."you"''.
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* WorkoutFanservice: Mulder is doing laps in the swimming pool and is wearing only red speedos.
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* TrackingDevice: One possible answer to what the piece of metal they pull out of Duane Barry might be.
be. When Scully finds lines on it and holds it near a supermarket's barcode scanner, it activates, sending aliens on the poor man's trail.
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two-parter, and the very first example of this in the entire show.
* WorkoutFanservice: Mulder is doing laps in the swimming pool and is wearing only a redspeedos.speedo.
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* SaveTheVillain: Played straight and then quickly undone. Mulder calls Duane over to safety when he notices a sniper's laser taking aim. When his next conversation with Duane manages to incite him to rage and hysteria, though, Mulder manipulates him into [[GoodIsNotDumb stepping right back into the sniper's line of fire]].
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* CorruptTheCutie: The terrified younger female hostage is heavily affected by her ordeal, displaying unresponsiveness and heavy anxiety throughout. However, she is enraptured by Duane's retelling of his abductions and listens intently. When Duane agrees to let the women go, she stops in front of him and delivers her one line of dialogue: "I just want to say that I believe you."
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Mulder, along with his new partner Krycek, is called in to help negotiate [[HostageSituation a hostage situation]] being pulled by one Duane Barry, a man claiming to be a multiple-time [[AlienAbduction alien abductee.]] Mulder uses his sister's abduction to build common ground - but is it Duane Barry who is being manipulated, or is he in fact doing the manipulating? And when Scully discovers that Duane Barry is a pathological liar, in addition to a former FBI agent, Mulder turns out to be in as great a danger as the hostages. Or is it possible that Duane Barry was telling the truth all along?
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Mulder, along with his new partner Krycek, is called in to help negotiate [[HostageSituation a hostage situation]] being pulled by one Duane Barry, a man claiming to be a multiple-time [[AlienAbduction alien abductee.]] Mulder uses his sister's abduction to build common ground - but ground—but is it Duane Barry who is being manipulated, or is he in fact doing the manipulating? And when Scully discovers that Duane Barry is a pathological liar, in addition to a former FBI agent, Mulder turns out to be in as great a danger as the hostages. Or is it possible that Duane Barry was telling the truth all along?
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Mulder, along with his new partner Krycek, is called in to help negotiate [[HostageSituation a hostage situation]] being pulled by one Duane Barry, a man claiming to be a multiple-time [[AlienAbduction alien abductee.]] Mulder uses his sister's abduction to build common ground - but is it Duane Barry who is being manipulated, or is he in fact doing the manipulating? And when Scully discovers that Duane Barry is a pathalogical pathological liar, in addition to a former FBI agent, Mulder turns out to be in as great a danger as the hostages. Or is it possible that Duane Barry was telling the truth all along?
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Hey Its That Guy is Trivia trope and should\'n be listed on Recap page.
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* WorkoutFanservice: Mulder is doing laps in the swimming pool and is wearing only red speedos.
* YouGetMeCoffee:KrycekAgent Kazdin sends Krycek for cappuccino.
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