Paper Hearts
- Episode aired Dec 15, 1996
- TV-14
- 45m
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8.7/10
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An incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.An incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.An incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.
John Dadey
- Local Agent
- (uncredited)
Mark Gibbon
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson
- Addie Sparks
- (uncredited)
Karen Kruper
- FBI Female Tech
- (uncredited)
Sonia Norris
- Marleen Ross
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaWriter Vince Gilligan and Director Rob Bowman assert that David Duchovny's successful basketball shot was filmed in just one take--without special effects.
- GoofsScully claims the address of the "Mad Hatter" (Roche) to be 9809 Alice Road, apartment number 6, but when they go to the apartment it is apartment number 5.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: Trust No 1 (2002)
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I'll start by saying I think this is a pretty good episode. I like Tom Noonan as a character actor (love him in Hell on Wheels). There's a fun wink wink line in here about his role as the serial killer in Manhunter that I find fun. But like other reviewers have said Mulder's behavior in this episode is a little hard to square with his other beliefs and what he's already seen about his sister (but he's nowhere near as out of character as in Field Where I Died). Now you could say he was maybe playing the long game against Tom Noonan the whole time, but if that's true the show definitely made no efforts to let us in on that. I'd say my biggest gripe is just that this episode somewhat rehashes the ideas in Beyond the Sea but with a far less compelling plot and, nothing against Tom Noonan, but he's no Brad Dourif. Obviously there are some differences between the two, but in terms of "the team is caught in a tricky investigation and a convicted serial killer seems to be their only hope" they're pretty similar. I watched Season 1 about 2 months ago and I feel like that episode is much crisper in my mind, Dourif's scene command and menace much more captivating, and it's mystery more satisfying yet just as unexplained as this episode.
I don't think it's a bad episode, I just think this is another case of X-Files failing to one up itself on its own concept. We've run into that already and based on some episode synopses it looks like I'll be seeing it again in other episodes.
I don't think it's a bad episode, I just think this is another case of X-Files failing to one up itself on its own concept. We've run into that already and based on some episode synopses it looks like I'll be seeing it again in other episodes.
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