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The X-Files :: Paper Clip (3) (03x02)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: Paper Clip (3)
Episode #: 03x02
Production Number: 3X02
Original Airdate: Friday September 29th, 1995
10/10 (2 Votes cast)
Episode Crew
Director: Rob Bowman (1)
Writer: Chris Carter (1)
 
Episode Summary
 
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Mulder and Scully are reunited once again. However, Scully's sister, Melissa, has been shot by the men responsible for Mulder's father's death. A meeting with the Lone Gunmen sends the agents to find Victor Klemper, a patriated Nazi who worked for the same group Mulder's father worked for. Meanwhile, Skinner negotiates with the Cigarette Smoking Man for Mulder and Scully's lives.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Bruce HarwoodplayedByersRecurring (6th appearance)
Dean HaglundplayedLanglyRecurring (5th appearance)
Floyd "Red Crow" WestermanplayedAlbert HosteenRecurring (third appearance)
John NevilleplayedWell-Manicured ManRecurring (second appearance)
Melinda McGrawplayedMelissa ScullyRecurring (third appearance)
Nicholas Lea (1)playedAlex KrycekRecurring (7th appearance)
Sheila LarkenplayedMargaret ScullyRecurring (5th appearance)
Tom BraidwoodplayedFrohikeRecurring (7th appearance)
William B. Davis (3)playedCigarette-Smoking ManRecurring (12th appearance)
Walter GotellplayedVictor Klemper 
Co-Guest Stars
Don S. Williams (1)playedElder #1Recurring (second appearance)
Lenno BritosplayedHispanic Man aka Luis CardinalRecurring (third appearance)
Rebecca ToolanplayedMrs. Teena MulderRecurring (third appearance)
Robert Lewis (4)playedE.R. DoctorRecurring (third appearance)
Uncredited
John Moore (1)playedElder #3Recurring (second appearance)
Martin EvansplayedMajor DomoRecurring (second appearance)
Stanley WalshplayedElder #2Recurring (second appearance)
Peta BrookstoneplayedI.C.U. Nurse 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Skinner: Drop your weapon! Put it down, Scully!
Scully: No way.
Skinner: I said put it down!
Scully: I said no! You're setting me up!
Skinner: I'm trying to help you.
Scully: Then put your weapon down and sit down.
Skinner: Not a chance.
Scully: You said you weren't here to kill me, Skinner, now prove it.
Skinner: I didn't come here to have a gun shoved in my face either.
Scully: Damn it, Skinner!
 
Scully: I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now all I want are the answers.
 
 
Episode Goofs
 
Just before Mulder tells Scully to take Skinner's gun from him, he asks her if she's all right. When she is shown, she has both hands on her weapon. When Mulder tells her to take Skinner's gun, she is then shown bringing her left arm up from her side when not enough time had elapsed for her left arm to drop to her side in the first place.
 
In the episode "Conduit", Mulder's sister name in the X-File was Samantha T. Mulder, but here the medical file lists her as Samantha Ann Mulder.
 
The date of birth of Mulder's sister in the episode "Conduit" was shown as 1/22/64, but now in this episode it is shown as 11/21/65.
 
Why would a top secret secured mountain complex have a coded entrance for the front door and an unlocked, clap-trap wooden back door?
 
If Albert Hosteen memorized all the tape's contents, why doesn't he just relay the information of its contents to Mulder and Scully?
 
Real-life Nazi scientest Wernher von Braun was identified as one of the doctors allowed to escape to the USA after World War II in exchange for their research knowledge (a secret alliance code named Operation Paper Clip). Braun, though, defected before the end of the war.
 
Why would Alex Krycek's accomplices let him have the digital audio tape when they planned on killing him with a car bomb?
 
The Well-Manicured Man gives Mulder and Scully a hint to the complex's access code by asking, "Do you know what Napier's constant is?" Scully knows that it is the basis for all natural logarithms: 2.71828.

So why did the agents enter 27828 as the pin to access the doors?
 
When Mulder runs outside to see the hovering spacecraft, he leaves the door open. Judging by his hair, there is no wind. However, the door is closed when Mulder walks back into the compound.
 
 
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