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Editor\u2019s Note: This piece on The X-Files episode \u201cClyde Bruckman’s Final Repose\u201d was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn\u2019t exist.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Given that it\u2019s an episode of The X-Files<\/em>, one of the most striking things about \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d is the lack of ambiguity it presents with regard to Bruckman\u2019s (Peter Boyle) psychic abilities. Throughout the episode, he shows himself to know things about people\u2019s deaths with a specificity that would be hard, if not impossible, to explain otherwise. And indeed, by the end of the hour it\u2019s strongly implied that even Scully<\/a> (Gillian Anderson) has come to view him as legit.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Bruckman, his power to predict the future seems to be limited to death. He can\u2019t win the lottery, for example, and doesn\u2019t know why he keeps playing. And he views the future as immutable to where it doesn\u2019t make sense to him to try to use his abilities to prevent murders. He doesn\u2019t believe he can. The fact that he helps Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully anyway would seem to boil down more to him knowing that he\u2019s going to help them than to anything he conceives of as a free choice.<\/p>\n

Clyde Bruckman is a sad figure, resigned to both his own fate and that of others, but there is ambiguity in \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d as to whether he\u2019s right about that.<\/p>\n

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This is where I\u2019d locate the twist that Darin Morgan puts on the X-Files<\/em> formula with this episode. It\u2019s clear that both Bruckman and the murderer our friends are chasing (Stuart Charno, credited as The Puppet) can see the future, and both are resigned to it. The Puppet has premonitions of himself committing murder and wonders why he\u2019ll do such terrible things, in contrast to Bruckman, who\u2019s an incredibly kind fellow, but neither thinks they can change what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n

Yet, when Bruckman prognosticates Mulder\u2019s final showdown with the man (complete with banana cream pie), his vision apparently has The Puppet slitting Mulder\u2019s throat, even if he decides not to relay this detail. This is not what ultimately happens, as Mulder manages to grab hold of his would-be killer\u2019s arm and they struggle, until Scully arrives and shoots The Puppet dead. He laments that this isn\u2019t how it was supposed to go.<\/p>\n

The ultimate ambiguity, then, is whether the future is set, or if it can be changed, and if we can change ourselves.<\/p>\n

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When The Puppet confronts Bruckman in his hotel room with his usual question as to why he\u2019s killing people, Clyde is quite calm in explaining that it\u2019s because he\u2019s a homicidal maniac. It\u2019s one of the funniest moments of the episode, as the man is clearly relieved at finally having an explanation for his actions that really makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t push him to change his behavior, but of course Bruckman doesn\u2019t think he can do that either. This is what\u2019s going to happen, and that\u2019s just how it is.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s crucial that \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d calls that into question in its climax, without rejecting it entirely. Bruckman\u2019s ennui largely feels justified, as does our own in the real world. At least, you can\u2019t argue<\/em> against it. You can\u2019t definitively prove that what we do matters—or even that we\u2019re free to decide what to do with ourselves as opposed to being determined entirely by inscrutable forces beyond our control—but you can find openings, cracks in the edifice of determinism that at least present the possibility that life has meaning we can pursue. You can choose to believe it matters.<\/p>\n

Clyde Bruckman\u2019s end is sad, because he\u2019s given in, or given up on that possibility. Did he foresee his death, as he had that of others?<\/p>\n

He tells Scully, as they sit in a hotel room together earlier in the episode, what their last moment together will be like. He predicts the compassion she\u2019ll be showing him, which she does indeed show, but we can\u2019t ignore the fact that his death is a suicide.<\/p>\n

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There are other ambiguities with regard to Bruckman\u2019s powers when we ask what role his personality plays in what he says. When he suggests that Mulder will die of auto-erotic asphyxiation, for example, is that a real prediction, or is he just messing with him? We don\u2019t know how Fox Mulder dies.<\/p>\n

When Scully asks Clyde how she dies, he says she doesn\u2019t. This could mean that Scully is immortal, or that Bruckman can only see the deaths of people who will die before he does, or that he simply can\u2019t see this one, or that he can see it but he likes Scully and doesn\u2019t want to tell her. There\u2019s really no way of knowing.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s another level of ambiguity that \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d explores throughout its course that I haven\u2019t hit on yet. The Puppet\u2019s victims are purported psychics, who may or may not have had real abilities in this fictional world where at least a couple of people do.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s The Stupendous Yappi (Jaap Broeker), who has a 900 hotline complete with classic \u201890s late night TV commercial, and whose act at the crime scene at the beginning of the episode is so over the top that Mulder rightly scoffs at it.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s right to note that everything Yappi says is too vague to be legitimately helpful, while at the same time it might feel true in retrospect. This is the traditional structure of confirmation bias<\/a> that real world fortune tellers play on. Our minds tend to forget those parts of the prediction that didn\u2019t land while remembering and reading into the bits that did, interpreting vague prognostications in light of only evidence that makes them feel true.<\/p>\n

In short, \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d presents us with both real psychics and fake ones. The real ones suffer, while a fraud like Yappi prospers. It\u2019s no wonder Scully throws a portable phone at the TV during his ad to close the episode.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that Jaap Broeker, who portrayed The Stupendous Yappi in this episode, had a long career as an actor, but mostly in very small (and often uncredited) roles or as a stand-in<\/a>. His role as Yappi vis-\u00e0-vis Bruckman has him as something of a stand-in in an inverse way, as he fills the space in public consciousness where psychics would go, but thereby keeps the real ones from being seen.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m stretching with that one.<\/p>\n

Regardless, \u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d is rightly regarded as a standout episode of The X-Files<\/em>. It\u2019s the second<\/a> written by Darin Morgan, and I hope you\u2019ll join me again next week as I look at the third: “War of the Coprophages.”<\/p>\n

See you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: This piece on The X-Files episode \u201cClyde Bruckman’s Final Repose\u201d was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn\u2019t exist. 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