9X14 Improbable
At a casino bar sits Mr Burt, casually playing solitaire with a pack of cards, he nonchalantly says to the bartender, ‘Seven seven, pack of Morleys’. Another patron approaches the bar and orders exactly that. Mr Burt strikes up a one way conversation with Mad Wayne, who is watching a woman on the slot machines. She goes to the toilet and Mad Wayne gets up to follow, Mr Burt cautions him not to do what he is about to do. A few minutes later a lady comes screaming from the bathroom that a woman has been murdered. At the bar Mr Burt turns over a card to reveal the Ace of Spades, the death card.
In the X-files basement office Reyes reads about the casino murder in the paper when Scully enters. She shows Scully details of the victim and of two other murder cases, which she has linked using numerology. Although Scully dismisses numerology as child’s game, she notices each victim has the same faint mark on their bodies.
Mad Wayne dresses in his apartment and notices Mr Burt outside working a three-card Monte scam. He accosts Mr Burt threatening him to stop following him, though Mr Burt dismisses this telling him it does not fit his pattern. He warns Mad Wayne to choose better.
The FBI are pleased with Reyes on cracking the serial killer case, however her insistence on the case revolving around numerology and her use of the services of a numerologist, Vicki Burdick who becomes Mad Wayne’s latest victim, causes friction with the head of the behavioural science office agent Fordyce. Reyes theory is given more credence when Scully discovers the mark on the victims are from a ring with 666 on it and Doggett notices on a map that the path of the murders forms the number 6. But what is Mr Burt’s part in all this.
Noteworthy Quote
Scully: "I presume you mean the so-called "Unified Theory?" What physicists
often refer to as the Theory of Everything? An equation so simple, they say
that it might be printed on a t-shirt. It's a Holy Grail in the world of
science. Potentially, the most important question that mankind has ever asked.
But that such a complex calculation is even possible is the subject of enormous
controversy."
Credits
| Writer: |
Chris Carter |
| Director: |
Chris Carter |
Cast:
| Gillian Anderson |
Special Agent Dana Scully |
| Robert Patrick |
Special Agent John Doggett |
| Annabeth Gish |
Special Agent Monica Reyes |
Guest Cast:
| Burt Reynolds |
Mr Burt |
| Ray McKinnon |
Mad Wayne |
| John Kapelos |
Agent Fordyce |
| Amy D'Allessandro |
Amy |
| Nick De Marinis |
Pizza Man |
| Ernesto Gasco |
Heavy Italian Man |
| Ellen Greene |
Vicki Louise Burdick |
| Benito Prezia |
Old Italian Man |
| Larry Udy |
Middle Aged Man |
| Beth Watson |
Woman |
| Angelo Vacco |
Bartender |
| Travis Riker |
Baby William |
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