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3	'''Season 7, Episode 14:'''
4	!Theef
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilestheef.png]]
6	[[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."'']]
7	->Written by Creator/VinceGilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz\
8	Directed by Kim Manners
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10	->''"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."''
11	-->-- '''Dr. Robert Wieder'''
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13	A doctor's family start dying in mysterious circumstances, done by a hoodoo man (Creator/BillyDrago) enacting his revenge for mysterious reasons.
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15	!!Tropes:
16	* ArcWords: "You always keep me guessing."
17	* BerserkButton: Wieder telling Peattie that he 'wasn't there' when his daughter was dying. This causes Peattie to immediately try to kill Wieder through his poppet.
18	* BigDamnHeroes: Mulder arrives and severs the link between Scully and one of Peattie's poppets (restoring her eyesight) just in time to allow her to shoot Peattie before he kills Dr. Wieder.
19	* BondOneLiner: After Nan Wieder's death by microwave: "All done."
20	* CATTrap: With Wieder's wife.
21	* EyeScream: Scully's temporarily blinded by Peattie when he sticks two nails through a poppet's eyes.
22	* 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]].
23	* InheritedIlliteracyTitle: "Theef" is how Peattie spells "thief".
24	* HollywoodVoodoo: The episode averts the usual trappings of the trope by pointing out that what Peattie is doing is not really related to voodoo, but more to Celtic and Native American folklore.
25	* 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.
26	* MonsterOfTheWeek
27	* PetTheDog: Peattie's friendly relationship with his landlady starts this way. Then he kills her after she discovers his secret.
28	* {{Revenge}}: Peattie's motivation.
29	* RevengeByProxy: He focuses primarily on Wieder's friends and family before going after the physician himself.
30	* ThatOneCase: Dr. Wieder is haunted by what happened with Peattie's daughter, more so that he never knew her name.
31	* TragicVillain: Peattie.
32	* VoodooDoll: Or "[[InsistentTerminology poppets]]", which is actually a more historically accurate term for them.
33	* 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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