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Tropes:

• Animal Assassin: The school Python.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: As Mulder asks, "Did you really think you could call up the Devil and ask him to behave?"
• Evil Teacher: Mrs. Paddock.
• False Memories: Shannon Ausbury's memories of abuse.
• Foreign Language Title
• Gratuitous German: The title means "The hand that wounds".
• Hellish Pupils: Paddock again.
• Hollywood Satanism
• Primal Fear
  • Eye Scream
  • Snakes
• Satan: Mrs. Paddock is an incarnation of Azazel.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit