Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

"I'm sorry, but you're a fortune teller.
You should have seen this coming."

Mulder and Scully make a psychic friend as they investigate a series of gruesome mutilation
homicides among St. Paul's fortune tellers. In short order, a palmist and a doll collector who reads
tea leaves on the side are murdered by a bland young man with a badly receding chin.
Local police, baffled, bring in the Stupendous Yappi, a television psychic who
provides them with grimaces and generalities, but little hard evidence.

The palmist's body is found by Clyde Bruckman, a life insurance salesman
who peddles potential clients details about their impending deaths.
Mulder and Scully, suspicious that Bruckman is able to reveal
aspects of the murder that have not been
made public, take him to
the crime scene.

Visibly distraught by what he "sees," Bruckman says they will find the body in a local lake,
next to the "fat little white Nazi storm trooper." The next day the body is found in the lake,
next to a large propane tank that even the skeptical Scully is forced to admit bears a
resemblance to Sgt. Schultz. Touching a key chain found on one of the bodies, he announces that
its owner has been murdered and takes them to the woods to find the body.

Later, Bruckman shows the agents a threatening letter he
has received from the killer, predicting a meeting.
He also tells them of a vision he has seen through
the killer's eyes: Mulder, stepping in a pie
(maybe lemon meringue,
but probably banana cream),
will have his throat
cut by the killer.
Mov or Avi (1.6Mb)

The trip is not initially a success: Mulder irritates Bruckman by demanding details
of how his psychic ability works and Bruckman hits back , "There are worse ways to go, but I can't
think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation," leaving Mulder rather self-conscious.
Scully loses patience when Bruckman, unable to find the body, tells them how his obsession with the
death of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper (of Chantilly Lace fame) caused him to develop his
unwanted gift. The corpse is discovered beneath their parked car.

For his safety, Scully takes Bruckman to a hotel, where he tells her of a
Mov or Avi (1.9Mb) vision of them in bed together (she is tactfully amused).
When Scully and Mulder are called away to the scene of another murder,
a distracted Bruckman lets the bellhop into the room and discovers that he is the killer.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, the maniac killsthe agent left with Bruckman. Scully
remembers seeing the bellhop in the curious crowds around the other murders
and she and Mulder race back to the hotel. Mulder chases the murderer into the kitchen,
steps in the pie (banana cream after all) and nearly plays out Bruckman's
bloody vision until Scully lands a clean shot to the bellhop's belly.

They find Bruckman back at his apartment, an apparent suicide.
As Scully sits on the bed, holding the corpse's hand, she realizes that
this is the scene he had predicted to her earlier.
The episode ends with a television commercial
for the services of the Stupendous Yappi that
Scully terminates with a flying cell phone.


			"I'm sorry, but you're a fortune teller. You should have seen this coming."

Mulder and Scully make a psychic friend as they investigate a series of gruesome mutilation homicides among St. Paul's fortune tellers. In short order, a palmist and a doll collector who reads tea leaves on the side are murdered by a bland young man with a badly receding chin. Local police, baffled, bring in the Stupendous Yappi, a television psychic who provides them with grimaces and generalities, but little hard evidence.



	The palmist's body is found by Clyde Bruckman, a life insurance salesman who peddles potential clients details about their impending deaths. Mulder and Scully, suspicious that Bruckman is able to reveal aspects of the murder that have not been made public, take him to the crime scene.

Visibly distraught by what he "sees," Bruckman says they will find the body in a local lake, next to the "fat little white Nazi storm trooper." The next day the body is found in the lake, next to a large propane tank that even the skeptical Scully is forced to admit bears a resemblance to Sgt. Schultz. Touching a key chain found on one of the bodies, he announces that its owner has been murdered and takes them to the woods to find the body.

Later, Bruckman shows the agents a threatening letter he has received from the killer, predicting a meeting. He also tells them of a vision he has seen through the killer's eyes: Mulder, stepping in a pie (maybe lemon meringue, but probably banana cream), will have his throat cut by the killer. Mov or Avi (1.6Mb)



The trip is not initially a success: Mulder irritates Bruckman by demanding details of how his psychic ability works and Bruckman hits back , "There are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation," leaving Mulder rather self-conscious. Scully loses patience when Bruckman, unable to find the body, tells them how his obsession with the death of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper (of Chantilly Lace fame) caused him to develop his unwanted gift. The corpse is discovered beneath their parked car.

For his safety, Scully takes Bruckman to a hotel, where he tells her of a Mov or Avi (1.9Mb) vision of them in bed together (she is tactfully amused). When Scully and Mulder are called away to the scene of another murder, a distracted Bruckman lets the bellhop into the room and discovers that he is the killer. After exchanging a few pleasantries, the maniac killsthe agent left with Bruckman. Scully remembers seeing the bellhop in the curious crowds around the other murders and she and Mulder race back to the hotel. Mulder chases the murderer into the kitchen, steps in the pie (banana cream after all) and nearly plays out Bruckman's bloody vision until Scully lands a clean shot to the bellhop's belly.

		They find Bruckman back at his apartment, an apparent suicide. As Scully sits on the bed, holding the corpse's hand, she realizes that this is the scene he had predicted to her earlier. The episode ends with a television commercial for the services of the Stupendous Yappi that Scully terminates with a flying cell phone.