History Recap / TheXFilesS02E03Blood

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-->-- [[spoiler:[[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]]]]

* {{Double Entendre}}: Mulder is sprayed with an experimental chemical that is shown to cause subliminal effects to its target and sees an attractive woman on TV advertising a fitness center. The words on her shirt? "DO IT."
* DownerEnding: The spree killings are over after Mulder captures Funsch, but only because whoever was behind them decided to stop sending the subliminal messages that caused them, something that only Mulder knows because he receives a message of his own in the end ("All done. Bye bye.")
* ElvisLives: Mulder's line:
-->''"He's probably one of those people that thinks Elvis is dead."''

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: All the perpetrators are phobic and the exposure to the insecticide heightened their already existing phobia to an unbearable level. One killer was claustrophobic (Why did it have to be a crowded elevator?), another one had a paranoia about rape (Why did it have to be a mechanic in a garage at night?) and the last one was AfraidOfBlood (Why did it have to be blood?).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Mulder is sprayed with an experimental chemical that is shown to cause subliminal effects to its target and sees an attractive woman on TV advertising a fitness center. The words on her shirt? "DO IT."

BYE BYE''

* DownerEnding: The spree killings are over after Mulder captures Funsch, but only because whoever is behind them decides to stop sending the subliminal messages that cause them, something that only Mulder knows because he receives a message of his own in the end ("All done. Bye bye.")

* HauntedTechnology: "Blood" has machines telling people to kill. Subverted -- perhaps it was the government, using chemicals to cause mass paranoia in a controlled experiment and perhaps some people were actually sending the messages.

* SubliminalSeduction: The spree killers are driven to the deed by messages that appear on computer and digital screens, which play with their fears and insist to "kill 'em all" to provoke a survivalistic response.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: All the perpetrators are phobic and the exposure to insecticide heightened their already existing phobia to an unbearable level. One killer was claustrophobic (Why did it have to be a crowded elevator?), another one had a paranoia about rape (Why did it have to be a mechanic in a garage at night?) and the last one was AfraidOfBlood (Why did it have to be blood?).

->Written by Creator/DarinMorgan (Story), Creator/GlenMorgan (Teleplay) & Creator/JamesWong (Teleplay)\\

->Written by Darin Morgan (Story), Glen Morgan (Teleplay) & James Wong (Teleplay)\\
Directed by David Nutter

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The spree killings are over after Mulder captures Funsch, but only because whoever is behind them decides to stop sending the subliminal messages that cause them, something that only Mulder knows because he receives a message of his own in the end ("All done. Bye bye.")]]

[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E01LittleGreenMen 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost 2]] | '''3''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E04Sleepless 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry 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]]]]-]]]

-->''ALL DONE\\

->''KILL 'EM''
->''KILL 'EM ALL''

--> He's probably one of those people that thinks Elvis is dead.

-->''ALL DONE''\\
''BYE BYE''

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: All the perpetrators are phobic and the exposure to insecticide heightened their already existing phobia to an unbearable level. One killer was claustrophobic (Why did it have to be a crowded elevator?), another one had a paranoia about rape (Why did it have to be a mechanic in a garage at night?) and the last one was AfraidOfBlood (Why did it have to be blood?).

* AfraidOfBlood: Funsch is afraid of blood, and the subliminal messages play with this fear by goading him to attack a blood drive.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The spree killings stop, but only because whoever is behind them decides to stop sending the subliminal messages, something that only Mulder knows because he receives a message of his own in the end ("All done. Bye bye.")]]
* SubliminalSeduction: The spree killers are driven to the deed by messages that appear on computer and digital screens, which play with their fears and insist to "kill 'em all".

* AfraidOfBlood
* SubliminalSeduction
* SuicideByCop: Referred to by name as how most of the killers met their ends
* UnusualEuphemism: This line

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes
* TheWoobie: Ed. As WebSite/SFDebris points out, the guy is just impossible not to feel utter pity for.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The hemophobic postal worker is Larry from ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', as well as [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].

* TheWoobie: Ed. As SFDebris points out, the guy is just impossible not to feel utter pity for.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The hemophobic postal worker is Larry from {{Newhart}}, as well as [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes

* HeyItsThatGuy: The hemophobic postal worker is Larry from {{Newhart}}, as well as [[BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: The hemophobic postal worker is Larry from {{Newhart}}