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* BulletproofVest: Scully & Mulder wear them going into the hospital, but Mulder removes his under Pusher's control, off screen.
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* BulletproofVest: Scully & and Mulder wear them going into the hospital, but Mulder removes his under Pusher's control, off screen.
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* CallBack: When he realizes agents are surrounding him in a supermarket at the beginning of the episode, Modell says, "Let's get this show on the road," and pulls down a flap on an agent's windbreaker to expose his FBI insignia. At the end, when Mulder is about to go into the hospital to confront Modell, Mulder says the same thing.
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* IShallTauntYou: After Modell beats an evidentiary hearing by compelling the judge to let him go, he encounters the agents in the hall outside. Mulder says, "Hey, your shoe's untied." When Modell glances down, Mulder says, ''"Made you look."''
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** When Modell enters the FBI offices, he calls Skinner [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow ''Mel Cooley."]]
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* NotAfraidToDie: Model claims this, and claims that it makes him unbeatable. But his smug grin dissolves into a look of terror when Scully breaks his hold over Mulder, who takes aim at his chest at point-blank range.
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* DramaticIrony: As well as trying to become a special forces soldier, Modell also applied to become an FBI agent. * It's implied his feud with Mulder and Scully is partly a TakeThat to the organisation that rejected him.
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* DramaticIrony: As well as trying to become a special forces soldier, Modell also applied to become an FBI agent. * It's implied his feud with Mulder and Scully is partly a TakeThat to the organisation that rejected him.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Very memorable one.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Very A very memorable one.
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* PhoneTraceRacePhoneTraceRace: Modell ends up in one of these, lingering on the phone long enough to cause Agent Burst a heart attack. Downplayed when he then tells Mulder where he is anyway, pausing only to do some EvilGloating over Burst's death.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Frank Burst is one, according to Pusher.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Frank Burst is one, according to Pusher.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: When Modell applied to the FBI, he invented ''"a dozen self-aggrandizing lies", including that he had been trained by ninjas in Japan. He seemed to think that he could fake it if he read enough Eastern Philosophy books.
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* DoNotGoGentle: As Mulder points out, the only reason Modell confessed to 14 murders that he'd already gotten away with is because he's dying, and prefers not to go quietly.
* DramaticIrony: As well as trying to become a special forces soldier, Modell also applied to become an FBI agent. * It's implied his feud with Mulder and Scully is partly a TakeThat to the organisation that rejectedhim.him.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: InUniverse. When Modell first enlisted in the military, his first choice was to be a Navy SEAL, or, failing that, a Green Beret, but he quickly washed out of both selection programs. He applied to the FBI for the same reason - he had only the vaguest idea what these organizations actually do, and cared even less; he just wanted the kind of authority and prestige that he could rub in other people's faces.
* DramaticIrony: As well as trying to become a special forces soldier, Modell also applied to become an FBI agent. * It's implied his feud with Mulder and Scully is partly a TakeThat to the organisation that rejected
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: InUniverse. When Modell first enlisted in the military, his first choice was to be a Navy SEAL, or, failing that, a Green Beret, but he quickly washed out of both selection programs. He applied to the FBI for the same reason - he had only the vaguest idea what these organizations actually do, and cared even less; he just wanted the kind of authority and prestige that he could rub in other people's faces.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted. Modell brags about how his study of Japanese philosophy has erased his fear of death. When playing RussianRoulette with Mulder, he takes the first trigger pull without flinching, and calls it ''"[a] piece of cake."'' But when Scully pulls the fire alarm and breaks Modell's control, Mulder swings the gun from Scully back to Modell, whose smug expression dissolves an instant before Mulder fires.
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* LastDisrespects: Downplayed. While looking at Modell, who is in a coma and not expected to regain consciousness before he dies, Mulder tells Scully that everything Modell did, was because he was, as Scully said, ''"a little man who wishes he were someone big."'' Scully takes his hand and declares, ''"I say we don't let him take up another minute of our time."''
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* TheMunchausen: One of several reasons Modell was turned down by the FBI was that ''"the screener caught him in a dozen [[LifeEmbellished self-aggrandizing lies]]"'', including claiming to have been trained by Gurkha commandos in Nepal and ninjas in Japan, when a rudimentary background check proved that he had never traveled outside the U.S.
