4.8 Paper Hearts
US Airdate: December 15, 1996
writer: Vince Gilligan
director: Rob Bowman
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
MITCH PILEGGI as Assistant Director Skinner
TOM NOONAN as John Lee Roche
REBECCA TOOLAN as Mrs. Mulder
BYRNE PIVEN as Robert Sparks
VANESSA MORELY as Samantha Mulder
SONIA NORRIS as the young mother
CARLY MCKILLIP as Caitlin Ross
PAUL BITTANTE as the local cop
JOHN DADEY as the local agent
AGENT MULDER IS HAUNTED BY AN OLD CASE
A serial killer imprisoned by Agent Mulder exerts a strange influence over him.
Notes
The title refers to the hearts that Roche cuts out of his victims' clothing. Not exactly "paper" though.
Or, as I like to call this ep, "Mulder's Adventures In Wonderland". Besides the book itself ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll ) being a major clue, a posting on the newsgroup by Chris Tweney alerts us that "Wonderland" is the last stop on Boston's Blue Line (the subway that serves Revere, Roche's home in 1973). Also, numerous postings noted the similarities between the book and the plot, such as: the book starting with Alice sleeping in the park, seeing the odd White Rabbit, following him, and then falling down the rabbit hole, while in the ep Mulder is sleeping, sees a strange red light, follows it to the park, and then sees a girl sinking into the ground. The light's "Follow Me" message was also similar to the novel's "Drink Me" message. And not forgetting the obvious, the hearts themselves seem to be a ref to the Queen of Hearts in the book.
Quotes
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Scully: "Are you saying you're out here because of something you saw in a dream?"
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Scully: "You said it once yourself. Once you said that a dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask yet. You do good work Mulder."
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(after telling Sparks about finding his daughter's body)
Sparks: "You do this full-time, telling people this kind of news?"
Scully: "No sir, not full-time."
Mulder: "It's not a good job."
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Scully: "Don't you think the car would have been searched at least once already?"
Mulder: "Not by me."
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Mulder: "16 victims John! How come you said there were only 13?"
Roche: "I don't know...13 sounds more mystical, you know?"
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Roche: "I understand you take this very personally Mulder."
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Roche: "Did you bring me my hearts?"
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Roche: "This man hit me."
Guard: "I didn't see it."
Scully: "I did."
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Mulder: "You heard him in there, he knew something...he mentioned being on Martha's Vineyard!"
Scully: "Is it a state secret that you lived in Martha's Vineyard?"
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Scully: "But on the net Mulder he can find out practically anything about you."
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Mulder: "Scully, do you believe that my sister Samantha was abducted by aliens?"
Scully: (shoulders droop, eyes drop)
Mulder: "Have you ever believed that?....No."
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Mulder: (to his mother, miraculously cured from that nasty coma!) "Dad never bought you a vaccuum cleaner did he?"
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Skinner: (to Mulder) "You're lucky I don't have your ass in a sling!"
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Skinner: "Tread very lightly. (to Scully) You see that he does."
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(as Mulder begins to dig for what might be his sister's body)
Scully: "Mulder let's get a team out here. Let somebody else do this."
Mulder: "Help me Scully." (she starts digging)
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Scully: "You're right, it's not a match. It's not her."
Mulder: "But it's somebody."
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Roche: "It's your sister."
Mulder: "If that's true, tell me where."
Roche: "You wanna know a lot more than that don't you? You wanna know everything right? The big mystery revealed."
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Mulder: "You just want to get out of here."
Roche: "You're damn right I do! If only for a day or two, I'm realistic. And more than that I......I can't wait to see your face."
Scully: "You're gonna see the inside of your cell instead! You're gonna rot there!"
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Scully: "And I would hope that you'd appreciate the uniqueness of this situation and it's effect on Agent Mulder."
Skinner: "Oh I fully understand the effect it has on him Agent Scully as I recall, that was the sum and total of my last words to you on the subject! You let me down. Let's clean up this mess before it gets completely out of hand."
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Mulder: "That's exactly how it happened? Right here in this room?"
Roche: "Yeah."
Mulder: "Wrong house."
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Mulder: "You screwed up, you were never here, you didn't take Samantha!"
Roche: "Wishful thinking."
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Roche: "You're just resisting me."
Mulder: "And you're in the wrong house, you stupid son of a bitch!"
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Rosche: "I'm beginning to believe we do share that..nexus that you spoke of? You always seem to find me."
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(regarding last paper heart)
Roche: "How sure are you that it's not Samantha? Huh? How will you know?"(Mulder shoots him as the counting reaches 19 and Roches' finger twitches)
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Scully: "Why don't you go on home and get some sleep?"
Mulder: (laughs at what she said...she smiles...he puts his arms around her waist...she pats his head....she leaves...he puts heart in his desk drawer....)
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