#Bill Patterson

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Eight Nights of Mulder: Day 7, Latkes

Pre-S1 Mulder smells a blast from the past.

*****

Mulder stopped mid-signature, holidays at his grandparent’s house slamming into focus as Agent… as one of the agents swept by with a wide smile and a plateful of food. She was chattering away-- holiday, extra, c’mon ‘course you can try-- while flitting around the bullpen depositing little pancakes, for all the world a Charlie Bucket’s Candy Man come to life. 

Echoes of the afternoons spent with the Kuipers watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory over and over with Samantha-- there’d been no other grandkids or cousins or second-cousins to battle for the remote with-- while the “old” people chattered over and fattened up the odd little Mulder children between fleeting breaks of endless rewatches. The afternoons stopped before Samantha was taken; and he’d never gotten a reason why. Perhaps he’d never know.  

He shuffled, drawn towards the food but uncertain if Agent Agent was only passing it around to friends. A brief glance at the clock-- five minutes before Bill Patterson had his head-- reminded Mulder that the paperwork needed to be finished. “Put your name here, sir,” he’d been told. Why couldn’t he focus on anything other than the building urge to walk over, announce himself, and make a grab--  

The latkes were gone. Agent Agent was smiling ear to ear and correcting pronunciations from the more enthusiastic coworkers and Mulder was trying to tear his riveted eyes from the empty plate. The minutes were ticking away in his head and all he could think about was that so much had been lost with Samantha, so much had been transformed and so much would likely never be recovered. His Kuiper mother had buried her mother’s traditions in the basement with her children’s photos and baby things and any reminders of the past she didn’t want to remember.  

Mulder slashed his name-- tearing a small hole right before ‘Fox’-- and dashed off, the whiff of latkes fading into the dingy smell of paperwork and heinous felonies and “Spooky Mulder, the Golden Boy.”

*****

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Season Three Master Post

We’ve come to the conclusion of a momentous season! From some of the most iconic episodes to some of the most beloved characters, season three was full of intense chapters!

Check out this thread to see all the characters we got to meet!

3x01 | The Blessing Way - The Well-Manicured Man (@fridaysat9

They were all living on the precipice of the end of the human race, but they were only concerned with jobs, school assignments, and playdates.

Life, as it should be.

3x02 | Paper Clip - Victor Klemper (@monikafilefan)

The offspring of a rebel syndicate member unearthing truths Victor has spent decades trying to bury beneath buttercups and begonias has marked him for certain death.

3x03 | D.P.O. - Darin Peter Oswald (@gaycrouton)

His friend was scared of him, and it made Darin feel powerful.

3x04 | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - Clyde Bruckman (@fridaysat9)

A funny thing happens when you see your own death. At first you try to make sense of it– what could it mean, why the tears, why her? Then you try to change it.

3x05 | The List - Dr. Juan Ullrich (@monikafilefan)

Juan fidgets with an evidence bag, trying not to blatantly stare at the agents holding an entire conversation with their eyes while systematically categorizing every sway of their bodies, every touch of her hands.

3x06 | 2Shy - Lauren MacKalvey (@gaycrouton)

2SHY > You have no idea how beautiful I think you are. I must confess… I feel inextricably drawn to you. I can’t stop thinking about what you said the other day… You don’t deserve to feel lonely, Lauren.

3x07 | The Walk - Leonard 'Rappo' Trimble (@admiralty-xfd)

Every night, he walks again. And every morning he wakes in the same bed with the same phantom pain. Every day he wishes he’d just died; that explosion that didn’t quite kill him cost him his life, anyway.

3x08 | Oubliette - Lucy Householder (@monikafilefan)

She has to go. It’s all so clear now. She has to go back. Through the woods, through the house — into the dark. Maybe she was never meant to leave it at all.

3x09 | Nisei - Penny Northern (@gaycrouton)

It was the strength of these women that got her through those experiences, and it was the strength of these women that would help her embark on this dark path they were all destined to walk.

3x10 | 731 - First Elder (The Well-Fed Man) (@admiralty-xfd)

The one thing that can be manipulated more effectively than any other is her fear of the unknown… of what happened to her last year.

3x11 | Revelations - Owen Lee Jarvis (@fridaysat9)

He gave of himself, abandoning what little life he’d had, to honor God’s words and do as he had been called.

3x12 | War of the Coprohages - Dr. Bambi Berenbaum (@gaycrouton)

Bambi felt a flush spread across her chest as his hypothesis brought a smile to her face. Hearing that he hadn’t been merely indulging her earlier was a refreshing change of pace.

3x13 | Syzygy - Detective Angela White (@admiralty-xfd)

Detective White stops as Agent Scully finally glances over at her, somewhat defensively. And then she gets it. Everything about the way she’s been treated since the agents arrived makes perfect sense.

3x14 | Grotesque - Agent Bill Patterson (@fridaysat9)

Patterson figured that Mulder might have a theory about a potential copycat killer, but no; he’d been researching gargoyles and goblins. Monsters recorded in dusty old tomes pulled from the library shelves.

3x15 | Piper Maru - Kimberly (@monikafilefan)

Kimberly Cook is good at her secretarial job. So when the man she’s been working closely with for two years is troubled, she refuses to let him file the feeling away like some confidential case in his cabinet.

3x16 | Apocrypha - Luis Cardinal (@admiralty-xfd)

The Scully woman is not simply angry, she’s unhinged. And there’s a small part of him that understands; it’s the part of him that, prior to working for the Smoker, had never been asked to shoot an innocent woman before.

3x17 | Pusher - Agent Frank Burst (@fridaysat9)

Frank doesn’t care if he has to tell him his mother’s maiden name and his favorite breakfast cereal if it means getting his location.

3x18 | Teso Dos Bichos - Officer (@monikafilefan)

He doesn’t get paid enough for this shit.

3x19 | Hell Money - Hsin Shuyang (@gaycrouton)

The gods might not be listening, but the devil was waiting for him down the street, ready to play a game with all the men whose American dreams had turned into nightmares.

3x20 | Jose Chung's From Outer Space - Detective Manners (@fridaysat9)

That's a bleepin' dead alien body, if I ever bleepin' saw one.

3x21 | Avatar - Carina Sayles (@monikafilefan)

She can tell he doesn’t do this. Doesn’t drink alone in a bar, letting a stranger slowly seduce him.

3x22 | Quagmire - Queequeg (@gaycrouton)

Queequeg was loved.

3x23 | Wetwired - 'Doctor' Stroman (@admiralty-xfd)

Another town, another test, another shitty motel room… but always the same boss.

3x24 | Talitha Cumi - Teena Mulder (@monikafilefan)

If only Bill had known back then that the untrustworthy person he was referring to would sleep with his wife and father his son.

Stay tuned for more perspectives coming in Season Four!

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Some are headcanons and some are canon but all are fun 😂

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Trailer: “House of the Dragon: Season 2" (2024)

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The truth about Peeing Calvin

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Smiley's People - BBC Two - September 20, 1982 - October 25, 1982

Spy Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time: 360 minutes Total

Stars:

Alec Guinness as George Smiley

Eileen Atkins as Madame Ostrakova

Michael Byrne as Peter Guillam

Bernard Hepton as Toby Esterhase

Anthony Bate as Sir Oliver Lacon

Barry Foster as Sir Saul Enderby

Michael Lonsdale as Anton Grigoriev

Beryl Reid as Connie Sachs

Bill Paterson as Lauder Strickland

Siân Phillips as Ann Smiley

Mario Adorf as Claus Kretschmar

Tessy Kuhls as Frau Kretzschmar

Patrick Stewart as Karla

Curd Jürgens as Gen. Vladimir

Vladek Sheybal as Otto Leipzig

Rosalie Crutchley as Mother Felicity

Maureen Lipman as Stella Craven

Dudley Sutton as Oleg Kirov

Michael Gough as Mikhel

Michael Elphick as Detective Chief Superintendent

Paul Herzberg as Villem Craven

Stephen Riddle as Nigel Mostyn

Tusse Silberg as Alexandra/Tatiana

Norma West as Hilary

Ingrid Pitt as Elvira

Lucy Fleming as Molly Meakin

Andrew Bradford as Ferguson

Joe Praml as Paul Skordeno

Alan Rickman as Mr Brownlow

Tanya Rees as Beckie Craven

Alex Jennings as PC Hall

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Bill Tilden II, American champion of the Davis Cup match, is shown during action against Gerald Patterson of Australia (background), September 2, 1922 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. Tilden won the championship.

Photo: Associated Press

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Top 10 Sports Figures 2024

#10. Sir Alex Ferguson

#9. Mike McCarthy

#8. Barry Hinson

#7. Chip Kelly

#6. Jimmy Johnson

#5. Bill Belichick

#4. Sonny Dykes

#3. Mack Brown

#2. Terry Bowden

#1. Gary Patterson

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Favourite Patterson Moments from Blindspot Season 4.

(originally posted for the Blindspot 30 Day Appreciation Challenge)

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Blindspot Rewatch ~ S03E20 ~

The team meeting Bill Nye aka Patterson's dad

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Love Sarah

Erscheinungsjahr 2020

103 min

Regie: Eliza Schroeder

Darsteller: Shelley Conn, Shannon Tarbet, Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry- Jones, Candice Brown, Bill Patterson

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Mulder Did Not “Lose Himself” in His Early VCU Days

I recently watched Grotesque, and it helped to clarify a common misconception I see in meta/fics covering Mulder’s VCU days:

Mulder did not lose himself in his cases at all before Grotesque.

Bill Patterson invented his “method acting” technique, was lauded for it, and taught it religiously as an instructor. In fact, the primary antagonism in the episode was because Golden Boy Mulder was so gifted that he “got into” and out of a criminal’s head effortlessly, earning him the nickname of “Spooky” (before it was turned into a derogatory term when he re-opened the X-Files.)

The episode spent so much time tailing Mulder and his process because it was a first for him, a trial-by-fire, if you will. He dug deep into the mire-- literally-- of psychosis to “show” Patterson that he wasn’t a wash out, almost losing his sanity in another bid to win someone’s approval. (Thankfully, Mulder found he was able to retain his sanity *spoiler* unlike his former mentor.)

Of course, haunted VCU Mulder discussions are enjoyable; but not in character, since Mulder always warned and guided Scully with his senior experience and never lost his grip on himself even when he empathized too closely with cases (excepting Paper Hearts, which was a failure and a reckoning for his own faulty actions.)

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Grotesque (3x14)

“So what is it, Mulder? Little green men, evil spirits, hounds of Hell?”

Patterson may have asked him to be here, but only because three years was too long to be searching for a killer. He needed to close this case, as much as he hated tucking his tail between his legs and admitting he needed help. 

At least A.D. Skinner had been willing to keep all that from Mulder. 

“Scully, this is Bill Patterson,” Mulder said to the small female agent at his side. His partner, he assumed. “He runs the Investigative Support Unit out of Quantico.”

“Yes, I know,” the woman, Scully, said. “Behavioral Science. You wrote the book. It's an honor, sir.”

It seemed his reputation preceded him, but he didn’t have time for pleasantries. Not with a killer on the loose. 

“Is that what you think, too?” he asked, assuming that if someone were willing to work with Spooky Mulder, they must be fairly unhinged themselves. “That the suspect is possessed by some dark spirit?”

“No, not at all, sir.”

Surprising. He looked to Mulder as he answered her. “Funny company you keep, then.”

****

“To know an artist, you have to look at his art.” Patterson looked out at the room of students. They were eager, young. Every single one of them looking at him like the wisdom he would impart would turn them into the best agents the FBI had ever seen. 

Little did they know, half of them wouldn’t even make it through the academy. 

“In the same way that a student of the arts would visit museums and study the works of the masters,” he continued, “a criminal profiler must get into the mind of the suspect he is pursuing.” 

A hand raised in the back of the room. He squinted until he could make out who it belonged to: Fox Mulder. Patterson braced himself as he pointed and nodded his head. 

“What if the mind of the suspect defies the logic that we as humans have accepted to be true?”

Patterson heard some murmurs around the room, but asked the Mulder kid to continue, despite himself. As much as this student irked him, he also intrigued him. 

“Humans operate under the pretense that our world has certain rules that are nonnegotiable. Gravity pulls things down, we need oxygen to breathe.” He paused, glancing around the room before continuing. “Part of our sense-making process is to accept these truths so we can live our lives. My question is, what if the suspect, the monster, that we seek doesn’t play by the rules that we have collectively agreed upon? How can we get in the mind of someone… or something, so foreign to us that they’re almost… otherworldly?”

Patterson kept his eyes locked on the student, before slowly turning his back to the class. There was some validity to his question, were it not for the peculiar interests Patterson had heard rumors about. Spooky Mulder, indeed. Hee had a sinking suspicion of what he was pushing at. 

“Everyone can be profiled, Mr. Mulder,” he said, facing the class, “Be it Charles Manson, or a monster, as you said… Bigfoot, for example.”  

The class laughed and Patterson continued his lecture, a smirk creeping across his face. 

****

Asleep on a stack of library books. Patterson Nudged Mulder awake and found he had nothing useful to say. Mulder’s profiling skills were unmatched, if he actually put them to good use. He figured he might have a theory about the accomplice or a potential copycat killer, but no; he’d been researching gargoyles and goblins. Monsters recorded in dusty old tomes pulled from the library shelves. 

Patterson grabbed a sketch from the table. “This is nothing but the scrawling of a mad man.”

“He said that this thing wants to see his own reflection.” Mulder pointed at the sketch and looked at him with naivete that someone with far fewer years under his belt than he actually had. 

“Mostow has said everything but what I need to hear,” Patterson said, feeling frustrated. “The name of his accomplice.”

“Unless he's telling the truth.”

And there it was. The persistent flaw in Agent Fox Mulder. That belief in the paranormal. 

“About being possessed?” he asked, waiting for an answer that he didn’t receive. “I have to tell you, I'm really disappointed in you.”

Mulder leaned back in his chair. “Well, I wouldn't want to disappoint you by not disappointing you.”

“After all this time I thought you finally put your feet back on the ground.” If not for his own betterment, then at least to help him close this case. “Clearly, I was mistaken.”

****

“Little green men,” Patterson said in complete disbelief. “You’re telling me that rather than work to catch real criminals, you are going to spend your time at the FBI looking for spaceships.” 

“Unexplained cases,” Mulder corrected, though it was just splitting hairs to Patterson. “The cases that the rest of the bureau has given up on.” 

“And how many of those cases are reports of mothmen or the Loch Ness monster?”

Mulder pulled his mouth into a tight line and sighed. Patterson knew he wasn’t going to change his mind. 

“You want to tank your career? Go right ahead,” Patterson said, turning to leave. “Hope you enjoy your days in the basement.” 

Patterson shook his head and walked away. Mulder could have been something great. He could have made a name for himself in the FBI with the profiling mind he had, but couldn’t get his goddamned head out of the clouds long enough to put in the work. 

Monsters. All that talent wasted on something that didn’t even exist. 

****

Patterson clutched the bars of the jail cell, pressing his face against the cold metal. “Are you listening to me? For God's sakes! Is someone listening to me? I didn't do it!”

It was a monster. Not him. The monster was real. They had to believe him.

“It wasn't me! I didn't kill them! Please!”

Read the rest of All Eyes Lead to the Truth on Ao3!

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Day 116

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Trailer: “House of the Dragon: Season Two” (2024)