Peter Boyle passed away last night. The actor was beloved to X-Philes for his
Emmy-winning turn as the tragic but courageous psychic Clyde Bruckman in the
third-season, Darin Morgan-penned favorite, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose."

More information on his passing and his life are here:


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/13/entertainment/e085140S86\
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Here as a tribute are some of his best lines from the episode...

Bruckman: (looking at Mulder badge) -- "I'm supposed to believe that's a real
name?"

Mulder: "What is it? What do you see?"
Bruckman: "He's having sex with her...there."
Scully: "Is he raping her?"
Bruckman: "Oh no, no, no, no, not at all, in fact, she's instigating the whole
thing."
Mulder: "Then what's wrong?"
Bruckman: "Oh, sometimes it... it just seems that everyone's having sex except
for me."

Bruckman: "How could I see the future if it didn't already exist?"
Mulder: "But if the future is written then why bother to do anything?"
Bruckman: "Now you're catching on."
Mulder: "Mr. Bruckman I believe in your ability, but not your attitude. I
can't stand by and watch people die without doing everything in my, albeit
unsupernatural, power to interfere with that fate."
Bruckman: "Well, you see that's another reason I can't help you catch this
guy, I might adversely affect the fate of the future. I mean, his next victim
might be the mother of the daughter whose son invents the time machine. And the
son goes back in time and changes world history. And then Columbus never
discovers America, man never lands on the moon, the US never invades Grenada,
or something less significant, resulting in the fact that my father never meets
my mother and consequently, I'm never born....so when do we start?"
Bruckman: "You know, I can think of more dignified ways to die than autoerotic
asphyxiation."
Mulder: "Why are you telling me that?"
Bruckman: "Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business."

Scully: "All right. So how do I die?"
Bruckman: "You don't."

Bruckman: "Why does anyone do the things they do?"

Bruckman: "Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life,
but in everyone else's, to arrange it so that on that particular night, the Big
Bopper would be in a position to live or die depending on a flipping coin. I
became so obsessed with that idea, that I gradually became capable of seeing
the specifics of everybody's deaths."
Scully: "You know Mr. Bruckman, I'm not one who readily believes in that kind
of thing, and if I was I wouldn't believe *that* story."
Bruckman: "I know it sounds crazy, but I swear it's true, I was a bigger fan
of the Big Bopper than Buddy Holly."
Scully: (exasperated) "Where's the body?"
Mulder: "Yeah Mr Bruckman, I don't understand how you can know that this is
the exact area, but you can't pinpoint the exact spot?"
Bruckman: (looks around at the trees) "I guess I can't see the forest for the
trees."

And finally...
Scully: "That's something you haven't explained yet. Can you see your own
end?"
Bruckman: "I see *our* end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry, I shouldn't
have said that, I don't mean to offend you or scare you, but not here, not this
bed. I just meant I see us quite clearly...in bed together...you're holding my
hand...very tenderly...and then you're looking at me with such compassion...and
I feel...tears are streaming down my face...I feel so grateful. It's just a
very special moment neither of us will ever forget."
And for those of you who have seen the episode, that is, of course, exactly
how he dies.

R.I.P.


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