3.7 The Walk
US Airdate: November 10, 1995
writer: John Shiban
director: Rob Bowman
STARRING:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Guest Cast:
Frances Callahan ...... Andrea Barclay
Quinton "Roach" Freely ...... Willie Garson
Army Doctor ...... Deryl Hayes
General Thomas Callahan ...... Thomas Kopache
Trevor Callahan ..... Brennan Kotowich
Amputee ..... Rob Lee
Ward Nurse ...... Paula Shaw
Captain Janet Draper ..... Nancy Sorel
Lt. Colonel Victor Stans ...... Don Thompson
Leonard "Rappo" Trimble ..... Ian Tracey
Burly Nurse ..... Beatrice Zeilinger
SOLDIERS IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ARE TORMENTED BY AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE THAT ATTACKS THEIR LOVED ONES AND TAUNTS THEM BY THWARTING THEIR SUICIDE ATTEMPTS.
Several inmates at a veteran's hospital have attempted suicide recently, with varying degrees of success. Mulder and Scully come into the case on the strength of Mulder's curiosity about the latest effort, prevented, so the inmate says, by an invisible man. The men, all veterans of the Gulf War, are afraid of something that walks where no man can walk, that sees them no matter where they hide, and seems to know all their secrets. Mulder and Scully's investigation uncovers
tragedies hidden from the official record, a General more afraid of the truth than of war, and the bizarre retribution of a man whose spirit is larger than his body.
Notes
The title refers to the "phantom soldier" and its "walk", created by the mind of Leonard 'Rappo' Trimble, a Gulf War veteran quadraplegic.
Actor Ian Tracey is NOT a quadraplegic, his legs and arms were removed digitally with special
effects. Believable looking though, very...
Quotes
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Mulder: "What? We didn't sign in at the front desk?"
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Scully: "Tell him (the General) that it's *our* protocol."
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Scully: "You never know when he might try and kill himself again."
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Leonard: "You got that... 'I'm freakin out' look on your face...What's the matter?"
Roach: "It's nothing."
Leonard: "Bull. I spent 2 years with your sorry ass in a gun turret, I think I know when you got something on your mind. C'mon Private, make your report!"
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Mulder: "No, what I can't figure out is why a man who's so deliberately and methodically set out to commit suicide would leave the one entrance to the room unsecured. But then again I obviously have a feeble grasp of army protocol and procedure."
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(Mulder is playing the answering machine tape)
Scully: "Find anything?"
Mulder: "No, but I'm really beginning to like the tune..."
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Mulder: "Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity."
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Mulder: "Leonard Trimble?"
Leonard: (motioning to TV) "No, it's Fred Astaire."
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Leonard: "How's that? Oh, he's only the guy that turned me into second base by getting my arms and legs blown off. Other than that he was a real good guy."
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Leonard: "...I'd like to get a little shuteye."
Mulder: "No sleep-walking."
Leonard: "That's good. I haven't heard that one yet. Har de har har."
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