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'''Season 3, Episode 19:'''
!Hell Money
!Hell Money
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!Hell Money
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!!![[AC:Recaps]]: [[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E03DPO 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E04ClydeBruckmansFinalRepose 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E05TheList 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E06TwoShy 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E07TheWalk 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E08Oubliette 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E09Nisei 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E11Revelations 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E12WarOfTheCoprophages 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E13Syzygy 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E14Grotesque 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E15PiperMaru 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E16Apocrypha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos 18]] | '''19''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E21Avatar 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E23Wetwired 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E24TalithaCumi 24]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LotteryOfDoom "Okay, who will it be today?"]]'']]
'''Season 3, Episode 19:'''
!Hell Money
->Written by Jeffrey Vlaming\\
Directed by Tucker Gates
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LotteryOfDoom "Okay, who will it be today?"]]'']]
'''Season 3, Episode 19:'''
!Hell Money
->Written by Jeffrey Vlaming\\
Directed by Tucker Gates
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->''"In my belief, death is nothing to be feared. It's merely a stage of transition but life without hope-- now, that's living hell."''
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->''"You see, on the 15th day of the seventh moon in the Chinese calendar it's believed the gates of hell are opened and the ghosts of unwanted souls roam the earth. Now, believers protect themselves by leaving gifts of food and [[TitleDrop hell money]] outside their homes to appease the ghosts. To keep them from coming inside and causing trouble."''
-->-- '''Glen Chao'''
-->-- '''Glen Chao'''
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* BittersweetEnding: More bitter than sweet. Kim is added to a donor recipient list, while Chao redeems himself and narrowly saves Hsin's life. However, he fails to kill the doctor performing the procedures, who makes it clear that the game isn't over. The Hard-Faced Man, completely unrepentant, will likely get away with his crimes, the club's members having enforced a policy of silence. The episode ends with Chao burning to death in a crematorium, the Chinese word for "ghost" once again looming nearby.
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* BittersweetEnding: More bitter than sweet. Kim is added to a donor recipient list, while Chao redeems himself and narrowly saves Hsin's life. However, he fails to kill the doctor performing the procedures, who makes it clear that the game isn't over. The Hard-Faced Man, completely unrepentant, will likely get away with his crimes, the club's members having enforced a policy of silence. The episode ends with Chao burning to death in a crematorium, the Chinese word for "ghost" once again looming nearby.
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* BittersweetEnding: More bitter than sweet. Kim is added to a donor recipient list, while Chao redeems himself and narrowly saves Hsin's life. However, he fails to kill the doctor performing the procedures, who makes it clear that the game isn't over. The Hard-Faced Man, completely unrepentant, will likely get away with his crimes, the club's members having enforced a policy of silence. The episode ends with Chao burning to death in crematorium, the Chinese word for "ghost" once again looming nearby.
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Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths in San Francisco's Chinatown that turn out to be linked to a gambling ring where losers have to forfeit their own body parts for organ transplantation.
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* EyeScream: The plot revolves around an Asian gambling ring where losers have to forfeit their own body parts for organ transplantation. We don't see the actual surgeries, but one of the men who is questioned has a fresh gauze-pad on his face, indicating that he's just forfeited an eye.
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