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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

On Xfiles: Paper Clip

When Mulder and Scully, in the episode "Paper clip", go to the mining facility in west virginia and find all those medical records in what Mulder refers to as a "mountain vault", Scully makes a comment about the tissue sample boxes from 1955 being "old".

Having been abducted in 1994, her own medical records are on file, but with a newer tissue sample box made of plastic. She refers to the sample as having been taken "recently", judging by the tissue sample box, cementing the fact that it couldn't have been instated very long ago.

Now... When they check Samantha Mulders file, the tissue sample box is also a newer. Mulder was born in 1961, and Samantha was abducted when he was 12, meaning she was abducted in 1973.

18 years passed from 1955 to Samanthas abduction, and 21 years passed from Samanthas abduction to Scullys abduction. Either 21 years prior to her own abduction is "recent", according to Scully, or... they were keeping recent tissue samples of Samantha.

I was sure Fox Mulder would've noticed it this time, but he never does.

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