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* VoodooDoll: Or "[[InsistentTerminology poppets]]." (Which is actually a more historically accurate term for them.)
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* MisplacedRetribution: Wieder shaved off maybe twenty minutes of Peattie's daughter's life, to ease her pain in her final moments. For this, Peattie has vowed to kill (nearly) everyone close to him. It is implied if he had got to his daughter in time he might have been able to save her with his magic.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E01TheSixthExtinction 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E02TheSixthExtinctionIIAmorFati 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E05Rush 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E06TheGoldbergVariation 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E07Orison 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E08TheAmazingMaleeni 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E09SignsAndWonders 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E10SeinUndZeit 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E11Closure 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E13FirstPersonShooter 13]] | '''14''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E15EnAmi 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E16Chimera 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E22Requiem 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 7, Episode 14:'''
!Theef
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TitleDrop 'Theef']]? Are you asking if my Dad's a thief? He saves people's lives. He's a good man."'']]
->Written by Creator/VinceGilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Kim Manners
->''"So... modern medicine, and all it encompasses - artificial hearts, laser surgery gene therapy, to name a few - all of that arrayed against a pile of magic dirt... and you tell me I'll lose."''
-->-- '''Dr. Robert Wieder'''
A doctor's family start dying in mysterious circumstances,the revenge of done by a hoodoo man whose daughter died in the doctor's care.enacting his revenge for mysterious reasons.
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E01TheSixthExtinction 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E02TheSixthExtinctionIIAmorFati 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E05Rush 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E06TheGoldbergVariation 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E07Orison 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E08TheAmazingMaleeni 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E09SignsAndWonders 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E10SeinUndZeit 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E11Closure 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E13FirstPersonShooter 13]] | '''14''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E15EnAmi 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E16Chimera 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E22Requiem 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 7, Episode 14:'''
!Theef
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TitleDrop 'Theef']]? Are you asking if my Dad's a thief? He saves people's lives. He's a good man."'']]
->Written by Creator/VinceGilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Kim Manners
->''"So... modern medicine, and all it encompasses - artificial hearts, laser surgery gene therapy, to name a few - all of that arrayed against a pile of magic dirt... and you tell me I'll lose."''
-->-- '''Dr. Robert Wieder'''
A doctor's family start dying in mysterious circumstances,
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->''[[RunningGag "You do keep me guessing."]]''
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* WouldHurtAChild: Averted; When Dr. Wieder believes that Peattie is going to kill his daughter as revenge for the death of his own, Peattie denies that is the case. He might have been perfectly willing to target the Wieder family's adult members and Wieder himself, but he is going to hurt his child.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Averted; When Dr. Wieder believes that Peattie is going to kill his daughter as revenge for the death of his own, Peattie denies that is the case. He might have been perfectly willing to target the Wieder family's adult members and Wieder himself, but he is not going to hurt his child.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: The episode averts the usual trappings trope but pointing that what Peattie is doing is not really related to voodoo, but more to Cletic and Native American folklore.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: The episode averts the usual trappings of the trope but by pointing that what Peattie is doing is not really related to voodoo, but more to Cletic and Native American folklore.
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* IdiotSavant: Peattie is an illiterate hick who's nonetheless versed in esoteric, complex voodoo magic. Some scenes might indicate that he's [[ObfuscatingStupidity playing up just how dim he actually is]].
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* MisplacedRetribution: Wieder shaved off maybe twenty minutes of Peattie's daughter's life, to ease her pain in her final moments. For this, Peattie has vowed to kill (nearly) everyone close to him.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Mulder arrives just in time to sever the link between Scully and one of Peattie's poppets, allowing her to regain her vision and shoot Peattie before he kills Dr. Wieder.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Mulder arrives just in time to sever and severs the link between Scully and one of Peattie's poppets, allowing poppets (restoring her eyesight) just in time to allow her to regain her vision and shoot Peattie before he kills Dr. Wieder.
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* TragicVillain: Peattie.
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* BondOneLiner: After Nan Wieder's [[spoiler:death death by microwave]]: microwave: "All done."
* CATTrap: With[[spoiler:Wieder's wife]].
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* ArcWords: "You always keep me guessing."
* CATTrap: With [[spoiler:Wieder's wife]].
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* PetTheDog: Peattie's friendly relationship with his landlady starts this way. [[spoiler:Then he kills her after she discovers his secret.]]
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* VoodooDoll: Or "[[InsistentTerminology poppets]]."
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* {{Revenge}}: Peattie's motivation.
* ThatOneCase: Dr. Wieder is haunted by [[spoiler:what happened with Peattie's daughter, more so that he never knew her name]].
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