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* TorsoWithAView: Lyda has a see-through hole on her stomach, and Maurice has one on his head, which they show to Scully to make her [[{{Fainting}} faint]].
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* TorsoWithAView: Lyda has a see-through hole on her stomach, and Maurice has one on his head, which they show to Scully to make her [[{{Fainting}} faint]].FaintInShock.
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->'''Mulder:''' His name was Maurice. He was a... a brooding but heroic young man beloved of Lyda, a sublime beauty with a light that seemed to follow her wherever she went. They were likened to two angels descended from heaven whom the gods could not protect from the horrors being visited upon this cold, grey earth.\\
'''Scully:''' And what happened to them?\\
'''Mulder:''' Driven by a tragic fear of separation they forged a lovers' pact so that they might spend eternity together and not spend one precious Christmas apart.\\
'''Scully:''' They killed themselves?\\
'''Mulder:''' And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve.
'''Scully:''' And what happened to them?\\
'''Mulder:''' Driven by a tragic fear of separation they forged a lovers' pact so that they might spend eternity together and not spend one precious Christmas apart.\\
'''Scully:''' They killed themselves?\\
'''Mulder:''' And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve.
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'''Mulder:''' No one lives here.\\
'''Scully:'''
'''Mulder:''' Driven by a tragic fear of separation they forged a lovers' pact so that they might spend eternity together
'''Scully:''' They killed themselves?\\
'''Mulder:''' And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve.
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->Written and directed by Creator/ChrisCarter
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E01TheBeginning 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E02Drive 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E03Triangle 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E04Dreamland 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E05DreamlandII 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E07TermsOfEndearment 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E08TheRainKing 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E09SR819 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E10Tithonus 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E11TwoFathers 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E12OneSon 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E13AguaMala 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E14Monday 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E15Arcadia 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E16Alpha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E17Trevor 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E18Milagro 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E19TheUnnatural 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E20ThreeOfAKind 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E21FieldTrip 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E22Biogenesis 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 6, Episode 06:'''
!How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
->'''Mulder:''' His name was Maurice. He was a... a brooding but heroic young man beloved of Lyda, a sublime beauty with a light that seemed to follow her wherever she went. They were likened to two angels descended from heaven whom the gods could not protect from the horrors being visited upon this cold, grey earth.\\
'''Scully:''' And what happened to them?\\
'''Mulder:''' Driven by a tragic fear of separation they forged a lovers' pact so that they might spend eternity together and not spend one precious Christmas apart.\\
'''Scully:''' They killed themselves?\\
'''Mulder:''' And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve.
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E01TheBeginning 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E02Drive 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E03Triangle 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E04Dreamland 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E05DreamlandII 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E07TermsOfEndearment 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E08TheRainKing 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E09SR819 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E10Tithonus 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E11TwoFathers 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E12OneSon 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E13AguaMala 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E14Monday 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E15Arcadia 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E16Alpha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E17Trevor 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E18Milagro 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E19TheUnnatural 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E20ThreeOfAKind 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E21FieldTrip 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E22Biogenesis 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 6, Episode 06:'''
!How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
->'''Mulder:''' His name was Maurice. He was a... a brooding but heroic young man beloved of Lyda, a sublime beauty with a light that seemed to follow her wherever she went. They were likened to two angels descended from heaven whom the gods could not protect from the horrors being visited upon this cold, grey earth.\\
'''Scully:''' And what happened to them?\\
'''Mulder:''' Driven by a tragic fear of separation they forged a lovers' pact so that they might spend eternity together and not spend one precious Christmas apart.\\
'''Scully:''' They killed themselves?\\
'''Mulder:''' And their ghosts haunt this house every Christmas Eve.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They've aged since their deaths, and can assume a corporeal form to physically interact with the agents. They seem to possess some prescience; Maurice's critique of Mulder's life and motivations is far too specific to be a shot in the dark. They're astoundingly ''human'' ghosts, ruefully lamenting how their legend has faded and left them unable to affect the world outside of Christmas Eve. They're almost mischievous in their malevolence, metaphorically shrugging their shoulders and spending the last minutes of their yearly manifestation as a happy couple when their EvilPlan doesn't pan out.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They've aged since their deaths, and can assume a corporeal form to physically interact with the agents. They seem to possess some prescience; unique insight into their victims' psyches; Maurice's critique of Mulder's life and motivations is far too specific to be a shot in the dark. They're astoundingly ''human'' ghosts, ruefully lamenting how their legend has faded and left them unable to affect the world outside of Christmas Eve. They're almost mischievous in their malevolence, metaphorically shrugging their shoulders and spending the last minutes of their yearly manifestation as a happy couple when their EvilPlan doesn't pan out.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Lyda and Maurice actually consider this approach to be unsatisfying and anticlimactic; they prefer their victims to succumb to madness and murder after the long con. Apparently, thanks to public awareness of their story fading over time, their ability to materialise outside of Christmas Eve has waned and left them no choice but to rush things before midnight strikes.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They've aged since their deaths, and can assume a corporeal form to physically interact with the agents. They seem to possess some prescience; Maurice's critique of Mulder's life and motivations is far too specific to be a shot in the dark. They're astoundingly ''human'' ghosts, ruefully lamenting how their legend has faded and left them unable to affect the world outside of Christmas Eve. They're almost mischievous in their malevolence, metaphorically shrugging their shoulders and spending the last minutes of their yearly manifestation as a happy couple when their EvilPlan doesn't pan out.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Maurice and Lyda deliver pretty brutal ones to Mulder and Scully respectively, using some otherworldly insight into their personal lives and a very cynical interpretation of their relationship dynamic.
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* HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas: The episode title is a TropeName example, but the plot has nothing in common with the TropeNamer.
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* SnowMeansLove: Mulder and Scully start unwrapping their presents to one another, just as the snow starts falling. They live in the Washington-Metropolitan area, where snow doesn't usually fall until mid-January, so it's especially meaningful.
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* GenreBlindness: Maurice laments that they don't get to scare people on Halloween. Lyda immediately counters that by saying people love being scared on Halloween and how it's much easier to play on a person's regrets during Christmas.
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* GhostButler: Doors in the open and close by themselves several times around Mulder and Scully.
* HauntedHouse: The ghost live in one. Some of the tricks are really good. The lights switch on and off, the old clock chime, the furniture is appropriately covered with dust, brick walls keep appearing in places where doors are supposed to be; there are missing stairs and ladders in the big library room, corpses under the floor, mind-screwing multiplied rooms, Christmas music keeps playing... Really quite good.
* HauntedHouse: The ghost live in one. Some of the tricks are really good. The lights switch on and off, the old clock chime, the furniture is appropriately covered with dust, brick walls keep appearing in places where doors are supposed to be; there are missing stairs and ladders in the big library room, corpses under the floor, mind-screwing multiplied rooms, Christmas music keeps playing... Really quite good.
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* HauntedHouse: Theghost ghosts live in one. Some of the tricks are really good.one. The lights switch on and off, the old clock chime, the furniture is appropriately covered with dust, brick walls keep appearing in places where doors are supposed to be; there are missing stairs and ladders in the big library room, corpses under the floor, mind-screwing multiplied rooms, Christmas music keeps playing... Really quite good.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Frank Sinatra's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is featured heavily in the episode.
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* GenreBlindness / GenreSavvy: Maurice laments that they don't get to scare people on Halloween. Lyda immediately counters that by saying people love being scared on Halloween and how it's much easier to play on a person's regrets during Christmas.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The ghosts can only come back one day a year. Maurice wanted the day to be Halloween, but Lyda preferred Christmas because it makes it so much easier to gnaw away at lonely people's self-worth and drive them to kill.
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* SelfDeprecation: Scully initially derides the sights in the house as standard clichés. Later on, Maurice laments the stunts they pull and that their pop psychology lines run the risk of being more annoying than anything else.
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* HauntedHouse
HauntedHouse: The ghost live in one. Some of the tricks are really good. The lights switch on and off, the old clock chime, the furniture is appropriately covered with dust, brick walls keep appearing in places where doors are supposed to be; there are missing stairs and ladders in the big library room, corpses under the floor, mind-screwing multiplied rooms, Christmas music keeps playing... Really quite good.
* NewYearsResolution: Scully has a good one. It's something like not to follow Mulder on his crazy quests all the time.
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ScaryFlashlightFace: Mulder tries it on Scully. Her nerves are taut, so it works.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Lyda and Maurice. They were together when they were alive, but they were afraid that one of them might die and leave the other alone.
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** The ghosts tries to get Mulder and Scully re-enact their deaths. They invoke the illusion of the bodies lying together with corpses that remind Mulder and Scully under the floorboards.
** It is implied that the ghosts drove other couples to suicide. They were people who lived in their Haunted House.
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** The ghosts tries to get Mulder and Scully re-enact their deaths. They invoke the illusion of the bodies lying together with corpses that remind Mulder and Scully under the floorboards.
** It is implied that the ghosts drove other couples to suicide. They were people who lived in their Haunted House.
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* BottleEpisode
* ChristmasEpisode
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "I don't show my hole to just anyone."
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* TheStakeout
* SuicidePact
* BottleEpisode
* ChristmasEpisode
* DressesTheSame: Played with.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "I don't show my hole to just anyone."
* HauntedHouse
* TheStakeout
* SuicidePact
