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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Mulder could have had the soul eater use his power to cure him of his alien related disease, but chooses not to, to spare him from further agony.
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* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. He has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.
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* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. He has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it him take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.him.
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* KarmaHoudini: The entire town gets away with torturing the soul eater for years because Doggett can't write a report without also implicating Scully in the process.
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* KarmaHoudini: The entire town gets away with torturing the soul eater for years because Doggett can't write a report without also implicating Scully in the process. The only comeuppance they get is that they can no longer receive the soul eater's healing.
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* WhamShot: The ColdOpen features a mysterious man shooting something, while his face is always obscured by the setting or the camera. When he gets back into his car, the camera pans up... and it turns out to be ''Mulder''.
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* WhamShot: The ColdOpen features a mysterious man shooting something, something inside a house, while his face is always obscured by the setting or the camera. When he gets back into his car, the camera pans up... and it turns out to be ''Mulder''.
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* WhamLine: Doggett finally puts together why Mulder chose to become involved in the "soul eater" case.
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* InTheBack: When Doggett refuses to give up the soul eater to the police, they shoot him with a shotgun while his back is turned.
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->''" Three shots were fired in a house where Mulder investigated a case last May. He never filed a report on the case or the discharge of his weapon. Do you know any reason why?"''
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* WhamLine: Doggett finally puts together why Mulder chose to become involved in the "soul eater" case.
-->''"Mulder came to see you last year. Not to save Marie Hangemuhl. To save himself."''
* WhamShot: The ColdOpen features a mysterious man shooting something, while his face is always obscured by the setting or the camera. When he gets back into his car, the camera pans up... and it turns out to be ''Mulder''.
-->''"Mulder came to see you last year. Not to save Marie Hangemuhl. To save himself."''
* WhamShot: The ColdOpen features a mysterious man shooting something, while his face is always obscured by the setting or the camera. When he gets back into his car, the camera pans up... and it turns out to be ''Mulder''.
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->''" Three shots were fired in a house where Mulder investigated a case last May. He never filed a report on the case or the discharge of his weapon. Do you know any reason why?"''
-->-- '''John Doggett'''
-->-- '''John Doggett'''
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->''"You and I both know what happened out there, Agent Doggett. No one else needs to."''
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* HeroicSacrifice: Doggett pulls one trying to save the soul eater from the townspeople, and the soul eater returns it in kind by bringing the agent back for the dead in exchange for his own life.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Doggett pulls one trying to save the soul eater from the townspeople, and the soul eater returns it in kind by bringing the agent back for from the dead in exchange for his own life.
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Following up one of Mulder's old cases in the hoping of learning what happened to him, Doggett discovers a town hiding a creature that can eat illness.
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Following up one of Mulder's old cases in the hoping of learning what happened to him, Doggett discovers a town hiding a creature (Jordan Marder) that can eat illness.
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Mulder is unable to go through with inflicting the soul eater to the agony of his own illness, and leaves the town. A week before his abduction, knowing what the town was doing to him, Mulder drove back to the town to perform a MercyKill on the suffering soul eater.
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Mulder is unable to go through with inflicting upon the soul eater to the agony of his own illness, and leaves the town. A week before his abduction, knowing what the town was doing to him, Mulder drove back to the town to perform a MercyKill on the suffering soul eater.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Doggett pulls one trying to save the soul eater from the townspeople, and the soul eater returns it in kind by bringing the agent back for the dead in exchange for his own life.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leaving him in constant agony from all the illnesses he absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it him to cure their sicknesses, leaving him in constant agony from all the illnesses he absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
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* WrittenInAbsence: The episode was written as Doggett-centric, with Scully hardly appearing (and said appearance is only in flashback stock-footage), to give Gillian Anderson time off to visit her family.
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* WrittenInAbsence: The episode was written as Doggett-centric, Doggett and Mulder-centric, with Scully hardly appearing (and said appearance is only in flashback stock-footage), to give Gillian Anderson time off to visit her family.
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* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his constant torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.
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* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his constant torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice justice, without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.is.
* BlessedWithSuck: The soul eater can cure any disease, but in the process takes it into himself to suffer for whoever he cures.
* BlessedWithSuck: The soul eater can cure any disease, but in the process takes it into himself to suffer for whoever he cures.
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* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his everlasting torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.
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* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his everlasting constant torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.
* ImagineSpot: At the end Doggett imagines Mulder in the office standing before his desk looking at him, after coming closer to understanding the man he is searching for.
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* MercyKill: What Mulder tried to do to the soul eater seeing its immense pain. Ultimately, the creature killed itself by taking away Doggett's death and freed itself from the evil townsfolk.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leaving it in constant agaony from all the illnesses it absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leaving it in constant agaony from all the illnesses it absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.
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* MercyKill: What Mulder tried to do to the soul eater seeing its his immense pain. pain, what the town was doing to him. He managed to survive though and recover. Ultimately, the creature being killed itself himself by taking away Doggett's death and freed itself himself from the evil townsfolk.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leavingit him in constant agaony agony from all the illnesses it he absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure.It He has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leaving
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* BackFromTheDead: Doggett gets killed by the corrupt sheriff and evil townsfolk to keep the soul eater. The soul eater then digs him up and consumes his mortal wounds to kill itself saving Doggett.
* EmpathicHealer: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with them itself. This includes going as far as to cure death in exchange for dying itself.
* EmpathicHealer: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with them itself. This includes going as far as to cure death in exchange for dying itself.
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* BackFromTheDead: Doggett gets killed by the corrupt sheriff and evil townsfolk to keep the soul eater. The soul eater then digs him up and consumes his mortal wounds to kill itself himself saving Doggett.
* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his everlasting torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Mulder is unable to go through with inflicting the soul eater to the agony of his own illness, and leaves the town. A week before his abduction, knowing what the town was doing to him, Mulder drove back to the town to perform a MercyKill on the suffering soul eater.
* EmpathicHealer: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with themitself. himself. This includes going as far as to cure death in exchange for dying itself.himself.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Ultimately Doggett and Skinner are unable to bring the truth about this case to light, without potentially endangering Scully's career.
* ItIsDehumanizing: The townspeople always refer to the soul eater as an 'it' to keep from feeling any guilt about what they are doing, where Doggett in response defiantly refers to him as a man.
* KarmaHoudini: The entire town gets away with torturing the soul eater for years because Doggett can't write a report without also implicating Scully in the process.
* BittersweetEnding: Agent Doggett is killed by the townspeople but resurrected by the soul eater, in exchange for his own life, ending his everlasting torment at last. Doggett is unable to bring the truth to light about the suffering the town inflicted on the soul eater, bringing them to justice without also implicating Scully, allowing them to get away with their crimes. And Doggett now has more insight into Mulder's mind and the kind of person he is.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Mulder is unable to go through with inflicting the soul eater to the agony of his own illness, and leaves the town. A week before his abduction, knowing what the town was doing to him, Mulder drove back to the town to perform a MercyKill on the suffering soul eater.
* EmpathicHealer: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with them
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Ultimately Doggett and Skinner are unable to bring the truth about this case to light, without potentially endangering Scully's career.
* ItIsDehumanizing: The townspeople always refer to the soul eater as an 'it' to keep from feeling any guilt about what they are doing, where Doggett in response defiantly refers to him as a man.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The town has been torturing a soul eater for years, forcing it to cure their sicknesses, leaving it in constant agaony from all the illnesses it absorbed. Even willing to resort to murder of an FBI Agent to keep their secret.
* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However,it he consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain.pain. Because of this Mulder is unable to let it take his own illness, and later comes back to MercyKill it.
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E01Within 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E02Without 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E03Patience 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E04Roadrunners 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E05Invocation 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E06Redrum 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E07ViaNegativa 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E08Surekill 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E09Salvage 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E10Badlaa 10]] | '''11''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E12Medusa 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E13PerManum 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E14ThisIsNotHappening 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E15Deadalive 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E16ThreeWords 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E17Empedocles 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E18Vienen 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E19Alone 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E20Essence 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E21Existence 21]]]]-]]]
'''Season 8, Episode 11:'''
!The Gift
->Written by Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Kim Manners
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'''Season 8, Episode 11:'''
!The Gift
->Written by Frank Spotnitz\\
Directed by Kim Manners
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* BackFromTheDead: Doggett gets killed by the corrupt sheriff and evil townsfolk to keep the soul eater. The soul eater then digs him up and consumes its death his mortal wounds to kill itself saving Doggett.
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Following up one of Mulder's old cases in the hoping of learning what happened to him, Doggett discovers a town hiding a creature that can eat illness.
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* LiquidAssets: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with them itself. [[spoiler:This includes going as far as to cure death in exchange for dying itself.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: What Mulder tried to do to the soul eater seeing it's immense pain. Ultimately, the creature killed itself by taking away Doggett's death and freed itself from the evil townsfolk.]]
* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, it consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain.
* LiquidAssets: The soul eater can consume conditions to cure them from people in exchange for being afflicted with them itself. [[spoiler:This includes going as far as to cure death in exchange for dying itself.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: What Mulder tried to do to the soul eater seeing it's immense pain. Ultimately, the creature killed itself by taking away Doggett's death and freed itself from the evil townsfolk.]]
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* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, it consumes the disease itself and is in constantpain.pain.
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* TragicMonster: The soul eater is a grotesque but very pitiable figure. It has the ability to eat the unhealthy organ of any human and cure it. However, it consumes the disease itself and is in constant pain.