speaking of the X-Files...

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any X-Files experts in the house?

I have this scene from an episode in my head and I don't know which episode it was in.

Mulder is interrogating someone, possibly a religious fanatic. He suspects brainwashing or conditioning so he says something and raises his hand. The suspect then smiles benevolently and raises one foot. He repeats the result for Scully(?) with the same result.

It doesn't sound like one I've seen so it's probably not a season 1 or 2 episode. Could this be it?

http://xfiles.wearehere.net/episodes/3x11.htm

Are you trying to perfect your Jedi mind tricks cuz it won't work.

/me raises foot.

Stop that!

I'm just such an XF tattooed freak you might be looking for.

The episode is 'Orison', seventh episode out of season seven.

Brigham: "I already told the Warden everything I know... everything I saw that day."
Mulder: "Yes, but I'm still a little confused. Maybe you could go over it again."
Brigham: "I'm a Christian man."
Mulder: "Then I know you'll tell me the truth."
Brigham: "Yeah, but I got no idea about Donnie Pfaster..." [to Scully] "...or how he broke out."
Mulder: "You and Donnie Pfaster were in the garment shop at or about the time he disappeared."
Brigham: "Well, it wasn't just me. I mean, there was a lot of us in the shop."
Mulder: "Yeah, but you had something happen. You had an incident."
Brigham: "Yeah. Something like that."
Mulder: "You cried out to the guards that you'd cut your hands."
Brigham: "My fingers, man. I saw them all cut off." [He holds up his intact hands]
Mulder: "Others saw them, too."
Brigham: "No, but I felt them cut off."
Mulder: "How do you explain that?"
Brigham: "God works in mysterious ways, brother." [Mulder raises and lowers his outstretched palm] "Glory. Amen." [As Mulder raises and lowers his hand, Brigham raises and lowers his foot, his face alight with a rapturous smile] "Glory. Amen. Glory. Amen."
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Mulder: "Post-hypnotic suggestion. Did you see him?"
Scully: "You mean, did I see him raise his foot? Yes, I saw that."
Mulder: "A programmed behaviour prompted and manifested by suggestion in this case, a rhythmic motion of the hands producing a unconscious act in a conscious state." [He raises and lowers his hand in front of Scully] "Doesn't work on you."
Scully: "I know what hypnosis is, Mulder."
Mulder: "Group hypnosis."
Scully: "If you're suggesting that Donnie Pfaster escaped from prison using a technique from a Vegas lounge act I'd think again."
Mulder: "Mesmer was able to hypnotise and command entire audiences."
Scully: "So, how would Donnie have acquired this amazing ability?"
Mulder: "I'm not saying that it was Donnie."
Scully: "Well, then, who?"
Mulder: "Three inmates are missing from three separate prisons. One man has had possible contact with each of those cons. The prison chaplain. Glory. Amen. Not god, the chaplain. Scully, what?"
Scully: "That song — can you hear that?"
Mulder: "Barely."
Scully: "I haven't heard that song since high school. That's the second time I've heard it in the last hour."
Mulder: "Well, I think if it was a make out song I think it'd be ruined forever now, huh?"


*sigh* I really love this show.

you rock out loud, sir.

Umm.. I'm a girl. But thanks. It's nice to know my skills can still be of some use. lol

ma'am...