"The X Files" Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (1995)

User Rating:

9.2/10   

Director:

David Nutter

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Darin Morgan (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

13 October 1995 (Season 3, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Several local psychics in St. Paul, MN are found dead in their stores with no real evidence left behind...

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Peter Boyle	...	Clyde Bruckman
Stuart Charno	...	Puppet (as Stu Charno)
Frank Cassini	...	Cline
Dwight McFee	...	Havez
Alex Diakun	...	Tarot Dealer
Karin Konoval	...	Zelma
Ken Roberts	...	The Clerk
Jaap Broeker	...	The Stupendous Yappi
David MacKay	...	Young Husband
Greg Anderson	...	The Photographer

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

USA:TV-PG | Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

In this episode Clyde Bruckman is going through evidence trying to get psychic visions, and when he is holding a blue piece of cloth he says, "I got it! This is yours. This is from your New York Knicks t-shirt!" He was wrong, however in "The X Files: Beyond the Sea (#1.12)" (1994) Luther Lee Boggs gets a psychic vision from a similar blue piece of cloth, and after Mulder says "I tore this off my New York Knicks t-shirt. It has nothing to do with the crime."

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The eponymous psychic says that the death of The Big Bopper made him psychic because The Big Bopper had won a coin toss to get a seat on Buddy Holly's ill-fated plane. However, it was Ritchie Valens who won the toss. The Big Bopper was on Buddy Holly's plane because he had the flu and didn't feel comfortable on the bus.

Quotes:

Dana Scully: There's something you haven't explained. Can you see your own end?
Clyde Bruckman: I see our end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I don't mean to offend you or scare you, but not here, not this bed. I just mean I see us quite clearly in bed together. You're holding my hand very tenderly, and you're looking at me with such compassion and I feel - tears are streaming down my face - I feel so grateful because it's just a very special moment neither of us will ever forget.
Dana Scully: Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Features The Bullfighters (1945)

Brilliant

Mulder and Scully playing "straightmen" to Peter Boyle is priceless. The quote above about auto-erotic asphyxiation after Mulder has asked the psychic Peter Boyle how he will die is worthy of a T-shirt slogan. Are these quotes copyright protected?

I love the X-Files, but sometimes they can be a bit Poe-faced. This episode added just the right amount of humour, plus a bitter-sweet ending.

Young Frankenstein is one of my favourite films, and Peter Boyle's role here equals the one he had in that film and also acts as a model for his role in Everybody Loves Raymond. Mulder and Scully quite rightly just kept in the background acting as Peter's foils.