3x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - The X-Files Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x04

Episode: 03x04
Title: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 3X04
First Aired: Oct. 13, 1995

Season 3 » Episode #04 - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

The X-Files - 03x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Summary: In the course of tracking a serial killer preying upon fortune tellers, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man whom Mulder believes to have the ability to foresee how people will die. The psychic has visions of Mulder's death.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Clyde Bruckman	played by Peter Boyle
Puppet	played by Stuart Charno
Cline	played by Frank Cassini
Havez	played by Dwight McFee
Tarot Dealer	played by Alex Diakun
Zelma	played by Karin Konoval
The Clerk	played by Ken Roberts
The Stupendous Yappi	played by Jaap Broeker
Young Husband	played by David MacKay

Season 3 / Episode 4: - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Clyde Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Mulder: Why are you telling me that?
Clyde Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business.

Season 3 / Episode 4: - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Dana Scully: There's something you haven't explained. Can you see your own end?
Clyde Bruckman: I see our end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I don't mean to offend you or scare you, but not here, not this bed. I just mean I see us quite clearly in bed together. You're holding my hand very tenderly, and you're looking at me with such compassion and I feel - tears are streaming down my face - I feel so grateful because it's just a very special moment neither of us will ever forget.
Dana Scully: Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses.
Clyde Bruckman: I just call them as I see them.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

CHAR: The eponymous psychic says that the death of The Big Bopper made him psychic because The Big Bopper had won a coin toss to get a seat on Buddy Holly's ill-fated plane. However, it was Ritchie Valens who won the toss. The Big Bopper was on Buddy Holly's plane because he had the flu and didn't feel comfortable on the bus.
CONT: Bruckman begins describing his own death and he says he sees himself lying naked in a field of red tulips. The shot then fades into a scene of Bruckman's body. However, he's not naked; he's wearing a white T-shirt.

TRIVIA

In this episode Clyde Bruckman is going through evidence trying to get psychic visions, and when he is holding a blue piece of cloth he says, "I got it! This is yours. This is from your New York Knicks t-shirt!" He was wrong, however in "The X Files" (1993) {Beyond the Sea (#1.12)} Luther Lee Boggs gets a psychic vision from a similar blue piece of cloth, and after Mulder says "I tore this off my New York Knicks t-shirt. It has nothing to do with the crime."
There is a scene where Clyde Bruckman is playing cards with Scully. The camera briefly shows his cards - the two black aces and the ace of hearts, and the two black eights. That hand is a variation on the so-called Dead Man's Hand that Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot in the back of the head in 1876 while playing poker. Four of the five cards in Hickok's hand were the two black aces and the two black eights.
Peter Boyle (I)'s character, Clyde Bruckman, has the same name as a famous Hollywood writer and director of the 20's, 30's and 40's who fell on hard times and committed suicide in 1955.
Each of the winning lottery numbers announced on the radio are one number off of the numbers on Clyde Bruckman's ticket.