S3 E23
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Season 3  "Wetwired"  3x23

Aired 28 years ago - May 10, 1996

After a man kills three people and his wife because he mistook them for a ruthless middle eastern dictator, Mulder and Scully discover a test involving mind control using television signals that make people's worst fears become real in any form.

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- [ Indistinct ] - Yeah.
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I don't have any obligation or desire to give you any answers. I'm not one of your sources.
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Sorry. I would've got here sooner, but the Beltway was a parking lot.
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Heavy thorazine, but it only seemed to knock him back a notch.
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[Tape Ejects]
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So you think that because Patnik saw this war criminal on television,
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go out and kill five people thinking they're all the same guy.
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Yeah. I'll be right there.
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Nothing.
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So this woman killed her husband because she thought he was cheating on her ?
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I don't care what anybody says--
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Hey!
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- Mulder, what are you doing ? - I'm coming down.
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- Well, what does it do ? - Glad you asked.
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- You know the way TV works. - Yeah, you click it on, you get a picture--
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Where are you ?
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- [ Clicking Continues ] - There. That noise.
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I hate to do this to you, but I gotta hang up on you right now.
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[ Sighs ] Do you have any proof of this ?
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- Mulder. - We pulled something off that videotape in Scully's room.
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Bring it home, boys.
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-[Phone Ringing] - But why design a color-dependent signal?
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We already tried. We weren't able to reach her.
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I told you, Mom. He's here to kill me.
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Now you know how I feel most of the time.
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I was sure that I saw the two of you sitting in your car in the motel parking lot.
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- Well, that didn't seem to be the case last night. - No, it wasn't.
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But with all the excitement, I don't blame him.
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- He said he'd be here. - He'll be here.
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because you didn't have the courage to reveal the truth yourself.
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