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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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[summerglowinglight]

[ruubesz-draws]

Shimo is probably super old...

BUT STILL BE KICKIN'!!!🤸‍♂️

(Remember to be nice to your elders)

Inspired by this

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I’m glad that we’re acknowledging that while house is fucked up, there is something deeply wrong with Wilson

[wasyago]

oh man you're so lucky to be the chosen one, i would give everything to have what you had, you should be grateful--

[feykrorovaan]

Some of you have never climbed the 7,000 steps to get to High Hrothgar and it shows.

[haneys]

vape toriel walked so joint ralsei could run. know your herstory.

[theunemployedrogue]

[t00thpasteface]

based on this

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

No, no, you misunderstood me. The best trope isn't the villain gets the girl, the best trope is the girl gets the villain.

The Last Dragonborn, after getting Miraak from Apocrypha, probably

[thana-topsy]

Everyone loves a good book!

[all-eyes-lead-to-the-truth]

All Eyes Lead to the Truth | 731 (3x10)

He sits back as comfortably as possible into the vinyl seat of the helicopter, waiting for landing. The roar of the propellers is loud and irksome, the tops of the vast expanse of West Virginia trees drift below him. It’s nauseating. He doesn’t generally enjoy flying, nor doing any sort of dirty work himself, really, but this one he must champion. He is the one who makes decisions, after all. And the problem that is Fox Mulder has been a perpetual thorn in his side for years.

He’d been told by Spender time and time again that “the Mulder problem” wasn’t actually a problem; that every time the young agent involved himself or inched closer to the truth, it would only help their cause. For a while, they all believed this to be true, himself included. 

But ever since Mulder found himself a new partner, they’ve come much too close for comfort. In more ways than one.

The Elder readjusts himself in the uncomfortable seat, quietly seething. His intelligence has informed him Dana Scully is down there somewhere at the Hansen’s Disease Research Facility poking around, having stumbled upon a secret that should have been kept better hidden. And now he needs to sell her a story; one she will believe, one she will then tell her partner. 

One that will put them off the Syndicate’s trail for good.

He goes over it in his mind: all the information they’ve gathered about Dana Katherine Scully since they’d hardwired her thoughts back during her abduction. What can he use, what memory can he manipulate to make her believe his lies?

Her fear of clowns, her fear of failure. Her fear of rejection.

Her love for Agent Mulder.

No… it’s too soon for that card to be played, much too soon. 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. And perhaps if he can put that to rest in her mind, she will be satisfied that they've arrived at a dead end.

Neither Mulder nor Scully need to know that the dead end they’ve reached is very much alive.

He lands, a bit unbalanced, and pulls the Dramamine from his pocket. Then he waits for Dana Scully to be brought to him. When she is, they regard each other with a dubious mutual respect, but offer no pleasantries.

“Who are you? What is this place?” she asks.

“This was one of the most frightening places on the earth,” the Elder tells her, spinning his tale. “A place where society sent its monsters to live in shame and isolation. Now their disease is all but conquered. Science has eliminated thousands of years of misery.”

“I've seen your methods of elimination,” Dana Scully spits. There’s a fire in her that he’s always liked. It will be a shame when, one day, they will find a need to extinguish it. “What happened to the man who was with me? What about the people who were in this room?”

“They had been exposed,” the Elder replies.

“Exposed to what?”

Alien technology.

“The same thing all these people have been exposed to. Victims of an inhuman project run by a man named Zama.” He keeps it vague. It’s a lucky thing she does not have the power over her thoughts that he has over hers.

“You mean Ishimaru. You hid him here after the war.”

“He stayed here and he continued his experiments,” he explains. And then he eyes her meaningfully. “The ruler of the world isn't the country with the greatest soldiers, but the greatest scientists.” 

Her expression drops at this, and he knows he has her. If there’s one thing he’s learned about Dana Scully over the years, it’s that science will always win her over.

“Unfortunately, Ishimaru began to conduct his work in secret, not sharing with those who'd risked much in giving him his asylum.”

“What was he exposing these people to?” 

“Terrible things.” He doesn’t have to say it for her to believe the lie. She’s already halfway there herself.

“What kinds of things?”

The Elder looks down, knowing what he plans to tell her will be false, a lie they have carefully chosen: hemorrhagic fever. She will believe it, because when someone isn’t willing to believe the truth, they will inevitably stop searching when they arrive at an acceptable lie.

“Have I been exposed?” she asks.

“I don't know.”

Fear of the unknown.

“Who knows?”

“Please, I'd like to show you something that will give you your answers.”

He will be required to show her the boxcar, the one in which she was experimented upon. He will be required to inform her of the consequences of allowing that bomb to detonate in a populated area.

But he will not tell her everything. She will not get all of her answers.

A lie is most convincingly hidden between two truths.

Just as they use Mulder to spread the stories needed to cover up their atrocities, they will use Scully to convince him those stories are fiction. To keep the lie alive.

“Follow me, Miss Scully,” he gestures, leading the way. But she pierces him with a stare that unnerves him, something he is not used to. Perhaps he’s sold this one short. 

The motion sickness resurfaces as they walk. He is unsteady on his feet.

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[summerglowinglight]

[mimimonart]

loftwing faces are hard to draw

[onionrimgs]

literally the best genre of oblivionposting

[falmerbrook]

Happy Autism Month to these two specifically