The X-Files - 3.

French title: Corps Astral
translation: Astral Body

Italian title: Fuori dal corpo

US Airdate: November 10, 1995

writer: John Shiban

director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Frances Callahan ...... Andrea Barclay

Quinton "Roach" Freely ...... Willie Garson

Army Doctor ...... Deryl Hayes

General Thomas Callahan ...... Thomas Kopache

Trevor Callahan ..... Brennan Kotowich

Amputee ..... Rob Lee

Ward Nurse ...... Paula Shaw

Captain Janet Draper ..... Nancy Sorel

Lt. Colonel Victor Stans ...... Don Thompson

Leonard "Rappo" Trimble ..... Ian Tracey

Burly Nurse ..... Beatrice Zeilinger

SOLDIERS IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ARE TORMENTED BY AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE THAT ATTACKS THEIR LOVED ONES AND TAUNTS THEM BY THWARTING THEIR SUICIDE ATTEMPTS.

Several inmates at a veteran's hospital have attempted suicide recently, with varying degrees of success. Mulder and Scully come into the case on the strength of Mulder's curiosity about the latest effort, prevented, so the inmate says, by an invisible man. The men, all veterans of the Gulf War, are afraid of something that walks where no man can walk, that sees them no matter where they hide, and seems to know all their secrets. Mulder and Scully's investigation uncovers tragedies hidden from the official record, a General more afraid of the truth than of war, and the bizarre retribution of a man whose spirit is larger than his body.

Actor Ian Tracey is NOT a quadraplegic, his legs and arms were removed digitally with special effects. Believable looking though, very...

Mulder: "What? We didn't sign in at the front desk?"

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Scully: "Tell him (the General) that it's *our* protocol."

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Scully: "You never know when he might try and kill himself again."

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Leonard: "You got that... 'I'm freakin out' look on your face...What's the matter?"

Roach: "It's nothing."

Leonard: "Bull. I spent 2 years with your sorry ass in a gun turret, I think I know when you got something on your mind. C'mon Private, make your report!"

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Mulder: "No, what I can't figure out is why a man who's so deliberately and methodically set out to commit suicide would leave the one entrance to the room unsecured. But then again I obviously have a feeble grasp of army protocol and procedure."

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(Mulder is playing the answering machine tape)

Scully: "Find anything?"

Mulder: "No, but I'm really beginning to like the tune..."

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Mulder: "Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity."

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Mulder: "Leonard Trimble?"

Leonard: (motioning to TV) "No, it's Fred Astaire."

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Leonard: "How's that? Oh, he's only the guy that turned me into second base by getting my arms and legs blown off. Other than that he was a real good guy."

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Leonard: "...I'd like to get a little shuteye."

Mulder: "No sleep-walking."