The X-files
Oubliette
Episode: 3X08
First aired:11/17/95
Written by: Charles Grant Craig
Directed by: kim Manners
A very cool episode!
Teenagers are having their
picture taken for the
local high school. The assistant looks intently at one of the girls, Amy, and takes many pictures. That night he comes into her room, clamping his hand over her mouth saying "Nobody's gonna spoil us." At this exact time, a
waitress,
Lucy suddenly has a
nose bleed and falls to the floor saying "Nobody's gonna spoil us."
Mulder arrives at the girl's house expressing
sympathy to the
mother. Since his
sister was taken from him, he knows how she feels. Mulder wants to talk to Lucy since he has heard that she was speaking the
kidnapper's last lines (heard from Amy's sister).
Mulder finds that Lucy was
kidnapped and was missing for five years before she
escaped. Her
abductor was never caught.
Lucy has been taken to the
hospital and insists she knows nothing about the girl and is eager to leave. The kidnapper, Carl Wade, gets a
flat tire and chases away a tow truck with a
metal pipe, Amy is in the trunk. Two
blood types are lifted off Lucy's work clothes, hers and Amy's. Lucy has a
criminal record which prompts
suspicion amoung the other
agents but Mulder maintains she is a victim.
At a halfway house, Lucy shivers uncontrollably saying that it's dark and she can't see anything. She makes
scratches on her face that
mirror those on Amy's face, who we see huddling in a cold, dark room.
Mulder takes Lucy to
dinner and asks her if she feels better than Amy does. Mulder believes that she can see and feel what the girl does and asks Lucy to help them. In the cold room, Wade snaps
flashing photos of Amy who is incredibly scared.
Mulder and
Scully watch a
video of Lucy shot just after he escape from her captor,
exhibiting the
damage caused by her
ordeal. They find that Amy's pictures are missing and the assistant, Wade, has been fired. Lucy identifies Wade as her abductor.
Alone, Amy pries a
board loose, escaping
into the woods as Wade returns. He pursues her and Lucy runs too and falls as Amy does. Lucy sobs into Mulder's arms and says that it feels like it is happening all over again.
Scully arrives with two other agents who have come to
arrest Lucy because of the
DNA on her clothes. When they return, however, Lucy is gone. Mulder suggests that there must have been some kind of
empathatic transferance with the two girls so that Lucy bled Amy's blood.
Scully says that Lucy could be working with Wade and warns Mulder that he may be too close to the case because of his sister. The
tow truck guy reports that he saw Wade near where Lucy was found 17 years earlier.
They find the
house empty except for Lucy, who is cowering in the corner of the
basement. Mulder asks again for her strength in helping. Lucy feels cold and wet and Mulder realizes Wade is dragging Amy through the
river. Hearing the
sirens, Wade forces Amy
under water. Mulder shoots Wade and begins
CPR on the girl. When they thought it has been too late, Amy suddenly
coughs and breathes as Lucy dies.
Mulder rushes back to find Lucy dead. Lucy has, apparently
drowned.
Important Quotes:
Scully -- "That's
spooky."
Mulder -- "That's my name."
Scully -- "I hate to say this Mulder, but I think you just ran out of
credibility."
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